Heavy going. Source: bestanimations.com>gifs>Boat-in-stormSpice up your Christmas decorations! Source: vixensden.tumblr.com.Source: sabinerondissime.tumblr.com.Marilyn Monroe in one of her last photoshoots, at Santa Monica Beach in 1962, with photographer George Barris. Marilyn died of a barbiturates overdose on 5 August 1962. Source: stringofpearls.tumblr.com.NSU motorcycle made in Neckarsulm, Germany in 1905 by a company that started as a manufacturer of knitting machines (Neckarsulmer Strickmaschinen Union). It featured a single cylinder engine of 330 cc capacity (about 2.5-3.0 horsepower) and was very popular because it was one of the first motorcycles to offer a 2-speed transmission. The pedals were mainly to assist with starting. Source: wetsteve.tumblr.com.Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre in Italy at night. Source: littleredridingcrop1.tumblr.com.Two ships tied up to the wrecked and submerged hull of SS Guvernoren, a Norwegian whale oil tanker that ran aground in November 1921 near Cape Carysfort in the Falkland Islands. The photo is said to have been taken from above the Dutch tall ship Europa (on right) which was in the Falklands in November 2017. Source: wrecksite.eu>wreck.Celebrating beautiful bodies. Source: sabinerondissime.tumblr.comSource: flashme03.tumblr.com (not really safe for work).Source: thebeautyiseek.tumblr.com.Source: tumblrgallery.xyz>gallerySource: 4crot.com>albumnudist-couples-11891738Source: naked-outdoornudism.tumblr.com.1937 Indian Chief. 1210 cc capacity V2. Source: Motos Classicas Brasil via wetsteve.tumblr.com.Two muddy riders wrestle a bike into submission. Source: guzzigazz.tumblr.com.Riding against body shaming. Source: blithe-spirit.tumblr.com.Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere falls in our high summer. We will all be heading back to the beach. Source: sunshine people.tumblr.com.Relaxing! Source: guzzigazz.tumblr.com.Emilia Clarke, actor, born 1986 in London. Source: littleredridinghood2.tumblr.com.President Carter. Source: slipperytoad.tumblr.com.
Source: apanelofanalysts.tumblr.comCLS4 is moored at the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour, Sydney, one of 2 unpowered lightships in Australia named “Carpentaria” that were in service from 1917 to 1985. Both were built at the Cockatoo Island dockyard and both spent a considerable portion of their service in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Sister ship CSL2 is displayed at the Queensland Maritime Museum near the Brisbane River. Source: Image by Vyacheslav Frolov via lighthouse-in-a-storm.tumblr.com.The back of the boat. Source: Image by Steve Deer via lighthouse-in-a-storm.tumblr.com.Source: sabinerondissime.tumblr.com.Yacht Galatea in 1886. Galatea was a gaff cutter of 31.22 m (102.4 feet) built in 1885 for Lt. William Henn RN of the Royal Northern Yacht Club in Scotland. She was of all-metal construction on a steel frame. She campaigned in the September 1886 America’s Cup in New York against defender Mayflower but Galatea lost both challenge races. She was scrapped in January 1912. Source: yachtmasters.tumblr.com.Growing old together. Source: tumblrgallery.xyz>galleryAmerican model Hunter McGrady (b. 1993, California) photographed in November 2016 for Treats Magazine. Source: xhamster2.com>hunter-mcgrady-8741770.If you’ve got it, flaunt it! Source: xhamster.com.1930’s beauty. Source: vintageclassicporn.com.Purported to be an image of Marilyn Monroe and her third husband Arthur Miller. It is by Jeffery Yarber, an American photographer who specialised in creating sexy images of celebrities. But this photograph is NOT of either Marilyn or Arthur, although it is often accepted as genuine. Source: chopped-peace-collection.tumblr.com.Cartoon by Michael Leunig (b.1945). Leunig is a long-time Australian poet, artist and cultural commentator and, until recently, regular cartoonist for The Age newspaper. Source: leunig.com.au>works>cartoons.American actor and director Joaquin Phoenix (b.1974) photographed in 1996 in Croatia by German-Australian photographer, Helmut Newton (1920-2004). Source: stringofpearls.tumblr.com.Singer/songwriter Amy Whitehouse was born in London in 1983. Amy was influenced by soul music, rhythm and blues, reggae and particularly jazz, and her 2006 album Back to Black was very successful. Tragically Amy died in 2011 at age 27 of accidental alcoholic poisoning. Source: tumblr.com>tagged>idk.Source: kiltypleasure.tumblr.com.Woody Harrelson in a 2009 interview for Playboy. Source: yes-slipperytoad.tumblr.com.
Source: photografya.tumblr.com.The beautiful Italian model and actor, Monica Bellucci, in Rome in 1991, at the age of 27. Source: vanityfair.fr.Monica Bellucci photographed by Sebastian Fame for Vogue Italia in November 2020. Source: solitaryfossil.tumblr.com.Ellie photographed by Matt Duke. Source: thenaughtymatriarch.tumblr.com.Just relaxing. Source: bittersweet-sin.tumblr.com.Source: unabashedlygrandwinner via carrie63.tumblr.com.In 1934, Margaret Bourke-White, a photographer for LIFE Magazine, takes photographs from the 61st floor of the Chrysler Building in New York City. Source: theatlantic.com.Source: babesbaconandbooze.tumblr.com.Source: kiltypleasures.tumblr.comSwimmers at Bondi Beach in 1939, photographed by the legendary Australian photographer Max Dupain (1911-1992). Source: pinterest.comSource: tumblr.com.Skinnydipping at Lake Pedder, Tasmania. In 1972, the Sepentine and Huon rivers were damed by the State’s Hydro Electric Commission with the result that the original Lake Pedder was submerged. The lake now has a surface area of 242 square kilometres, making it the second-largest lake in Tasmania (after Lake Gordon). Source: naturalswimmingspirit.tumblr.com.Source: curveynblueeyes.tumblr.comWooden boat Eva built in 1905, moored in the harbour at Antibes. Source: aboatwithahole.tumblr.com.The Sydney Opera House at dawn. Source: journeyofthefree.tumblr.com.Dana in the kitchen. Source: fr.xhamster.com>apron-angels.Source: balmoralist.tumblr.com.Hungarian dancer Elizaveta “Lila” Nikolska dancing at the Parthenon in 1929. Photographed by Elli Seraidari (Nelly’s). Source: imagekind.com.A couple modelling swimwear on a “sea bathing machine” in about 1900.The boxes were popular in the 1800’s in Britain, the United States, France and Germany, particularly with women, who were able to change clothes and swim from the bathing box protected from the prying eyes of the public on the beach. Source: 2000-lightyearsfromhome.tumblr.com.Sled dogs look on as Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, is trapped and crushed by ice in the Weddell Sea in Antartica in 1911. Shackelton pulled off a miraculous rescue of his entire crew.
The photograph was taken by Australian photographer Frank Hurley who went on to document the Australian campaign in Europe during World War 1. Source: coolantarctica.comSource: menunderthesun.tumblr.com.Two brave ladies model beautiful tattoos applied after the effects of breast reconstruction. Source: facebook.com >boobtattoos >photos.Another beach beauty. Source: soldohawai.tumblr.com.300 years before Jesus, the Greek philosophers were grappling with the question of why there is evil and suffering in the world. Why would a loving and all-powerful God allow evil and agony to continue?
Read Bart.D.Ehrman (James A.Grey Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina) on suffering and a loving God. Source: erhmanblog.org/the-kind-of-suffering-that-is-a-problem.Source: recklesslyinfatuated.tumblr.com.
A cafe in Paris using giant teddy bears to ensure social distancing in the aftermath of the COVID-19 lockdown. Source: Reblogged from solitaryfossil.tumblr.com.The McCurdy-Rhodes 48 “Carina” (Rives Potts, USA) passes Fastnet Rock, the most southerly point of Ireland, during the Rolex Fastnet race in 2011. Photo by Daniel Forster.In January 1973, the newly-formed Eldfell volcano in Iceland erupted destroying several hundred homes in the nearby village of Vestmannaeyjar. Fortunately all residents were safely evacuated and most returned the following year to rebuild. Source: theatlantic.com Lago di Braies in the Dolomites of northern Italy. Source: travelgurus.tumblr.comIn 1923, sculptor Gutzon Borglum and his superintendent inspect sculpting work on the face of George Washington at Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. The Lakota Sioux consider the Black Hills area to be sacred ground. Photo credit: Library of Congress.The classic sailing yacht “Marigold” moored in half-light at the Ile de Porquerolles Classic Regatta (France) in 2007. Source: pinterest.com.au.Morning coffee. Reblogged from guavaballs.tumblr.comWillie Nelson, at his home in 1993 (aged 60). Photo by Leonard Freed.American model and actor, Brandi Brandt for Playboy, October 1987.Relaxing on the farm. Source: 4crot.comSource: Reblogged from mia-down-under.Model Victoria Paschold for Playboy Germany, November 2013. Source: plabogerm.bplaced.net>victoria-paschold.Source: Reblogged from fabforgottennobility.tumblr.comThe beauty of Triumph mechanicals. Source: Reblogged from guzzigazz.tumblr.com.Formula 1 legend, Australian Jack Brabham (1926-2014), winning the Grand Prix in March 1970 in South Africa, in his own car. Source: Eurosport.com>formula-1.The beautiful Ferrari 330 P4. This Ferrari was a mid-engined, V12 endurance racer which won the 1000 km Monza in 1967. Only 4 cars were ever made. Source: Reblogged by cavemanfeet.tumblr.comThe Allegory of Hearing, painted in 1618 by Jan Brueghel the elder (collaborating with Peter Reubens, for the figures). Venus plays the lyre and sings, accompanied by cupid. Many other musical instruments and song birds are included in the painting, including a sulphur-crested cockatoo at Venus’ right shoulder. How did a bird native to Australia get to be included in a Flemish/Dutch painting in the early 1600’s? Original painting held at Museo del Prado, Madrid. Photo Credit: commons.wikimedia.org.
Source: joyreactor.comCourage and power. Reblogged from guzzigazz.tumblr.comPhotoshoot for ReVeal Crochet by photographer Aleksandr Mavin, in Athens. Models: Viki Odintcova and Theodor. Source: instagram.com/a_MAVIN.Making the run to shore. Source: fav.ink.Source: tumblrgallery.comSource: pinterest.com.auA Gartside 10 foot traditional clinker dinghy on the beach at Dove Lake in Tasmania. The Gartside 10 is hand-crafted by the team at Denman Marine in Kettering. The iconic Cradle Mountain is in the background of this photo. Source: denmanmarine.com.auPhoto by Frederica Erra, a young photographer from Milan, Italy, who specialises in capturing emotion in portraiture. Source: flickr.comTime out for mango. Source: tumblr.com1930 Alfa Romero race car. The Alfa Romero P2 was powered by a straight 8, twin supercharged engine of 1987 cc producing 140-155 bhp. The P2 won 15 major victories in Europe in the period 1925-1930. Photo Credit: Reblogged from guzzigazz.tumblr.com Boats at the Wooden Boat Festival in Hobart, Tasmania, which has been held every second year in Hobart (in pre-COVID times). The festival planned for January 2021 has been cancelled until further notice. Source: grandoldduke.com.auA red-headed beauty. Source: freexcafe.comA resort beach at Cape d’Agde in the south of France in high-summer. Source: tumblrgallery.com>tumblrblog>gallery Source: reblogged from mia-down-under.tumblr.comIn 1515, a live rhinoceros arrived in Lisbon as a gift to King Manuel I of Portugal from Sultan Muzafar II of Gujarat in western India. When the rhino died shortly after arrival, Albrecht Durer in Nuremberg drew this image from a brief sketch and description included in a letter from Lisbon. He never saw the animal either alive or dead. The image was widely circulated throughout Europe as a woodcut print. Durer gave it many of the armour pieces worn by contemporary German knights, but surprisingly not unlike the Indian rhinoceros of the time. Source: The Boilerplate Rhino, Essays by David Quammen, 2000. Photo Credit: pinterest.com.South Solitary Island Lighthouse off the coast of New South Wales, Australia. The island is about 15 kilometres north-east of Coffs Harbour and the lighthouse is a cylindrical concrete tower 20 metres high (66 feet) which was finished in 1880. For a large part of its life the light was powered by kerosene, then in August 1975 it was converted to 12 volt solar power, still managing an output of 38,000 candela. At night, it flashes a white light every 5 seconds. Source: southsolitaryisland.com.auDesign plans for the construction of South Solitary Island Lighthouse, from 1878. It includes a spiral cast-iron staircase and a store room at ground level. Source: pinterest.comSource: Reblogged from cavemanfeet.tumblr.com.
In 1932, workers re-paint the Eiffel Tower. Built in 1887-1889 for the World’s fair, the tower has been completely repainted at least 19 times since its completion. A team of about 25 painters (now in full safety equipment) clean, rust-proof and hand-paint the structure using 60 tonnes of paint each time. To get the job, painters are still required to be “completely unaffected by vertigo”. Photo Credit: Reblogged from solitaryfossil.tumblr.comThe skyline of Paris taken in 1957 by the legendary French photographer Willy Ronis (1910-2009). Ronis is renowned as a photographer of ordinary life in Paris and Provence. Photo credit: Willy Ronis 1957.Passengers wearing masks get on and off a tram in Sydney during the Spanish Flu epidemic in Australia in 1919. Police ensured all travellers wore a mask. Source: theaustralian.com1912 Indian board track racer. This one is fitted with a 61 cubic inch (about 1000 cc) v-twin motor which propelled the machine around a banked wooden track at speeds in excess of 100 mph (160 km/h). The bikes had no suspension and no brakes. The pedals were to assist with starting. Source: From an article by Ben Branch in silodrome.com. Photo by Mecum.A unique DIY wood-fired backyard hot tub. Photo by @jacobwitzling and @saraunderwood. Source: #timeouthomes.pinterest.com.auPhoto Credit: @festivalchicks.facebook.comSource: lushstories.comSource: maturewomenpictures.netThe wings of an angel. Source: MAMY girl.facebook.comFour ladies enjoy a day at the beach. Photo probably taken the 1940’s.Source: satin doll.tumbral.comTu-Bardh Stormcrow Wilson, drummer in the Clanadonia Tribal Highland Band, a Celt and Pict-inspired drum and bagpipes band. Photo by Brad.T Riley. Source: Reblogged from guzzigazz.tumblr.comBathurst Lighthouse on Rottnest Island in Western Australia. The former lighthouse staff quarters are in the front left. Built in 1900, the lighthouse is a conical limestone tower 19.2 metres high (63 feet) and provides an important navigation aide to ships leaving from Fremantle. At night, the light flashes a white light 4 times every 16 seconds. Photo credit: theaustralian.comQuokkas at Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Also known as the short-tailed scrub wallaby, quokkas are small native marsupials who are herbivorous and mainly nocturnal (although often seen during the day). In 1696, a Dutch sea captain, Willem de Vlamingh, mistook these animals for giant rats and named the island “Rat’s Nest Island (translated from the Dutch).Source: Photo reblogged from Mia-down-under.tumblr.com
