Yonmei
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Yonmei
United Kingdom
484 creative works found
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An old railway bridge in Edinburgh. The footpath under the bridge has been flooded due to heavy rain. The logs are intended to allow people to carefully traverse the flood dryshod. The photograph was taken at the beginning of July 2007.
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“Can I just wait right here? My mum might call me.”
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One of a breeding pair of mute swans by a steep grassy bank of the Water of Leith in Edinburgh.
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Reflections in the Water of Leith, Edinburgh
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Taken from the bridge between Bernard Street and Commercial Street, looking up the Water of Leith towards Sandport Place.
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I can love Mondays / if I have enough coffee.
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A young tree in Leith, after heavy rain; puddle and cobblestones.
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A car parked in Bernard Street, Leith, Edinburgh, reflecting the buildings and the sky above.
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A door that isn’t there in Leith: it was once the entrance to a wine and spirit merchant’s storeroom.
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A view of Edinburgh Castle from Princes Street.
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In 1703, Edinburgh saw the first recorded attempt to form a fire-fighting organisation in the city, which makes Edinburgh Fire Brigade the oldest muncipal fire service in the world. In 1703, water was available only from wells and wooden mains, carried to the scene of a fire in leather buckets by the Town Guard: but the fire service also used creels of muck and horse dung. In 1824 the Police Commissioners took over the job of fire protection over, and recruited and trained a body of 80 firemen, with new firefighting appliances bought with £1400 contributed by insurance companies and police funds. This new brigade was known as the Edinburgh Fire Engine Establishment till 1870, and thereafter as the Edinburgh Fire Brigade. Between 1897-1901, the City of Edinburgh built the Central Fire Station at Lauriston Place for the Edinburgh Fire Brigade. / This building remained an operational fire station until 1988, when it was replaced as the Lothian and Borders Fire Brigade Headquarters by a modern fire station in Tollcross. It now houses the Edinburgh Museum of Fire, run by the Brigade’s Community Education Department. / The Museum of Fire has a range of fire engines from 1806 to the present day, as well as the old leather buckets and creels. See other photographs of buildings around Edinburgh
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Mixed Moss
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Douglas the baker’s has been at 105 Leith Walk for decades: a small survivor of the old independent Scottish bakers’ tradition. I used to live just off Leith Walk, and it was my boast that within ten minutes walk I could buy bread of six different nationalities: Italian, Sicilian, Polish, Bangladeshi, and Chinese, and Scottish, of course, from Douglas. For other photos of the Douglas bakery.
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Douglas the baker’s has been at 105 Leith Walk for decades: a small survivor of the old independent Scottish bakers’ tradition. I used to live just off Leith Walk, and it was my boast that within ten minutes walk I could buy bread of six different nationalities: Italian, Sicilian, Polish, Bangladeshi, and Chinese, and Scottish, of course, from Douglas. For other photos of the Douglas bakery
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A vicuna having an elegant nibble. Edinburgh Zoo has a small herd of vicuna, which are the wild species of camel from which the alpaca was domesticated. (The South American camels – vicuna, alpaca, guanaco – don’t have a visible hump, as bactrians and dromedaries do.) Vicunas have very fine, thick fur, for which they were hunted nearly to extinction by the 1970s. But anti-poaching efforts in Peru, Chile, and Argentina, have led to a comeback, and the species has made a remarkable comeback in its native mountains. “Vicunas represent the Andes, the ancient cultures and grace of all wild creatures. The world would not be the same without the beauty of vicunas.” – Alfonso Martinez, president of Consejo Nacional de Camelidos Sudamericano
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Ocean Mist
by YonmeiThis steamer was built ninety years ago by George Brown & Co, Greenock. When begun she was named ‘Samuel Green’ and was intended for the Royal Navy: but she was completed in 1919, and launched as “Ocean Mist”. For 60 years “Ocean Mist” served as a trawler, mine sweeper and pleasure yacht: when owned by the Guinness family, she ferried racing cars to France and Italy. She retired about 1980 and was brought to Leith, where the Ocean Mist was a floating bar for nearly 20 years. She was derelict for a while, but freshly painted and renamed, The Cruz is now a floating restaurant. It’s amazing what a ship will do.
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A rare example of the sneaker-wearing plastosaurus, whose natural habitat is the window-box. Spotted in Broughton Street.
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“British artist Roger Hiorns makes exceptional use of unlikely materials: detergent, disinfectant, perfume, fire and copper sulphate crystals. Transforming steel poles, car engines and cardboard architectural models into crystalline forms, Hiorns effects surprising, physical and aesthetic transformations on found objects.” – Artangel
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Copper Sulphate Seizure, by Roger Hiorns
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Copper Sulphate Seizure, by Roger Hiorns
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