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A young woman with a perfect, feminine bush naked on the rocks

#fluffy muff #full bush #golden triangle

1951, so I guess not *technically* Art Deco, but I get no International Style vibes off this, either. Originally the Niles & Moser Cigar Company occupied this building from 1951 through 1968. Denver, Colorado in the Golden Triangle Neighborhood. 📸:me/10/23/2025 Glad they didn't tear it down with all the explosive development going on in the immediate area.

#art deco #denver #colorado #Golden Triangle

MacGyver 1985 || Assorted Episodes

Just hanging around

#MacGyver #MacGyver 1985 #richard dean anderson #rda #I made this #pilot #golden triangle #and some others

A headcanon.

#gravity falls #the book of bill #bill cipher #bill cipher parents #fanart #artists on tumblr #ibispaint art #doritos #golden triangle #headcanon #baby bill cipher

"Tell the truth, then duck."

In the previous biography I made mention of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ); in this entry we celebrate the life of one of its original founders, Les Payne. Born in 1941 Alabama, Payne grew up hyper-aware of the immediate and constant threat posed by the Ku Klux Klan and other forms of looming racial violence. To get away from that intimidation, Payne's parents eventually moved the family to Hartford, Connecticut (not that this constituted any real improvement in race relations, to be sure, but at least the threat of immediate violence was somewhat mitigated.). Payne eventually graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1964 and then joined the U.S. Army, where he not only became a Ranger and attained the rank of Captain, but also became a military journalist (er, excuse me, that's Information Officer); at one point even covering Gen. William Westmoreland at the height of the Vietnam war. Journalism remained his passion after returning to civilian life, and in 1969 (on the recommendation of none other than Bill Moyers), joined the staff of Newsday, where --unusual for most journalism careers-- he would remain for the next 39 years.

He became an assistant managing editor in the 1990s, and then deputy managing editor in 2001. Over the course of his career he covered (much like his colleague Earl Caldwell) the immediate aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination and a behind-the-scenes look at the Black Panthers Party. He also shone unwelcome light on redlining, school segregation, migrant prison camps, and the Attica Prison rebellion, and conducted some contentious interviews with figures such as New York Mayor Ed Koch and the Rev. Al Sharpton. He also covered the Soweto uprising in South Africa (for which he received a Pulitzer nomination, though not the actual award); controversially Payne observed of apartheid that "South Africa is learning this from the Americans;" that "you don't have to have signs --drinking fountain signs and such-- to segregate people. I think America is the most successful experiment in the world for apartheid. It's done with subtlety but unerring certainty."

Perhaps one of Payne's most pivotal accomplishments was his work on The Heroin Trail (PDF file), a 1974 project that exposed, in 33 installments, a veritable "farm-to-table" tale. It traced international flow of heroin from the poppy fields of Turkey, all the way to New York City's drug addicts, and all the disquieting steps along the way --while this series would ultimately win Payne a Pulitzer, it certainly didn't come without danger; at one point he and two colleagues were captured in Corsica by one of the world's then-most notorious drug lords, Marcel Francisci.

Payne retired from Newsday in 2006. He had been working on an examination of the life of Malcolm X at the time of his death, in March of 2018. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, was published posthumously in 2020, with assistance from his daughter Tamara Payne.

#black history #black journalism #newsday #golden triangle #french connection #the heroin trail #soweto uprising #symbionese liberation army #redlining #les payne #teachtruth #showup #dothework

Dawn and Golden Hour

This is what I set out to do two weeks ago, but the fog had other ideas.

I got to Downtown and the West End Overlook about an hour before sunrise, or the start of dawn. TIL there's three different dawns. I'm starting to take photos at the beginning of 'astronomical dawn.'

This one is wallpapered for your enjoyment.

And a few more. I swapped out between the 28-70mm f/2.8D and the 80-200mm f/2.8D here. I decided today's challenge would be to level the camera, keep the fountain center of the shot, and compose just wit the zoom.

Moving on to the Duquesne Incline overlook as dawn shifts to sunrise and the beginning of the Golden Hour. The 80-200mm lens isn't all that viable if I want to get the traditional DOWNTOWN shot. These are all the 28-70mm.

Again, camera is level, composing with just zoom and pan.

As previously, the autofocus started misbehaving again. I may need to have that lens serviced. So this last one at this spot is with the nifty 50mm f/1.8D.

FYI: everything to this point has been on the tripod at aperture priority f/5.6, ISO 200.

And finally, I move to the Grandview Ave. overlook. I've got the 80-200mm back on, and gone freehand at f/2.8, auto ISO with a minimum shutter speed of 1/125. That's about as slow as my 55 year old hands can do without camera shake. We're now well into Golden Hour.