Category Archives: Photography

My Building Museum

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Stan Flouride

After my HASF posters post I received several requests for views of the rest of the building. Since I became manager in the 1990s I have turned it into a museum of San Francisco & California memorabilia. The tour starts … Continue reading →

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Pageant of Pulchritude: 1927 

Posted on May 22, 2019 by Stan Flouride

(click on photo to enlarge and zoom)             Source: Shorpy Historic Picture Archive :: Pageant of Pulchritude: 1927 high-resolution photo

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Wonderful Idea for Bus Drivers to Learn What it Feels Like to Be a Bicyclist

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Stan Flouride

In Cariacica, Brazil, part of the bus driver training is to have the drivers ride on a stationary bike while a bus zooms by them at top speed, to give them a sense of how cyclists feel. What a brilliant … Continue reading →

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The 12,400km by 200m Nature Preserve

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Stan Flouride

The European Green Belt initiative is a grassroots movement for nature conservation and sustainable development along the corridor of the former Iron Curtain. The term refers to both an environmental initiative as well as the area it concerns. The initiative is carried out under … Continue reading →

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ABC Scrap Books

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Stan Flouride

A few years ago I went to New York City for my daughter Aurora’s graduation from NYU and during my stay in there I created this alphabet of collected images.  (the ‘C’ is a link of chain, not dog feces, honest)   … Continue reading →

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DON’T Look Down!

Posted on March 19, 2017 by Stan Flouride

Oleg Sherstyachenko is clearly missing the part of his brain that in the rest of us keeps us, if not earthbound, certainly well away from the edge of precipices that might mean our doom. I was unable to watch any … Continue reading →

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Never-before-seen gatherings of hundreds of humpback whales

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Stan Flouride

In a mysterious change to their normal behaviour, humpback whales are forming massive groups of up to 200 animals.Humpbacks aren’t normally considered to be terribly social. They are mostly found alone, in pairs, or sometimes in small groups that disband … Continue reading →

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“I Hate Love!” by Stanley Kubrick, 1950

Posted on February 14, 2017 by Stan Flouride

  Kubrick’s 1950 still of a young woman, with her back to the camera, holding a lipstick with which she has written “I HATE LOVE” on a white fence. If captured on the wing, would it be more of a … Continue reading →

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