Storm ahead.

SS Fitzroy River off the queensland coast in Australia. Tropical storm up ahead with water spouts.

Photos of Wales 19-20 centuries.

Motorcycle racing in Rhayader on the old road to Aberystwyth.


Clun market place.


Sheep-dipping New-Radnor.


"The smithy" Chapel Lawn.


Tom Hamer, butcher and Mr Jones, Swan Hotel, Builth Wells, with by-election candidate.


Out for the night.


Caban Coch dam, Elan Valley.


Miners at Pumsaint gold mine.


Two ladies with golf clubs standing beside a table on which is a cup.


Floods at Builth Wells, Mrs Gwen Ashton standing on a wall holding on to a pillar.


Turkeys crossing a road in front of a car.

via Flickr

Alcatraz.

Here is the photos of one of the most legendary and famous prisons in the world - Alcatraz.


Plan of the prison.


Alcatraz - 1895.


Alcatraz nowdays.




Control Room - Main Prison.


Alcatraz dinning hall.


Al Capone's Alcatraz Cell B-181.

Evacuation of water on the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station.

Beginning.


Evacuation of water in progress.

Storm at the Barents Sea.

This photos was received from one of my friends - he is a sailor. Photos was taken from deck-cabin of one of the vessels.

Life in the U.S. during period from 1939 to 1969

Dinner.


Childrens.


Childrens at the wall.


Fishing.


At the street.


At the field.


Farmers.


Farmer's family.


Funerals.


Fruits.


Cars and haystack.


The main street of some town.




Independence Day.


Schoolhouse.


Trucks.


Building of the dam.


Railcars.


Railway worker.

Interesting comparison.

Photo, taken be me in Pripyat, Ukraine (see this post).


Screenshot from Infinity Ward's game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, episode Pripyat.

Good work, Infinity Ward :-)

Color photos of WW II - Part 3

British Forces:


Valentine tank and troops.


American troops to a ship, in a British port during preparations for the Normandy invasion, circa May-June 1944. Note British Sailors in the boat's conning station.


So that's why they call it the spitfire!


British Paratroopers.




Prisoners captured in fighting in the El Alamein area; 1942.


Fiat G.55s taken in early 1945.


General Bernard L. Montgomery watches his tanks move up. North Africa, November 1942.


Battle of Normandy: summer 1944: British of the personnel of beach with three mini tracked tactical vehicles.


British soldiers searching a house in colle, a village on Monte Camino.


Les Siviter, (Front row far right) was part of 131 Field Ambulance, left behind at by the BEF to tend the wounded, captured and marched through France and eventually entrained first to Stalag 20A and then transferred to 20B in Poland.


The ground staff pushing a giant Stirling, largest four-engined bomber in the world, out for overhaul.


US Navy: American unloading in Normandy: Unloading of a British unit since a LCA. Sight the quality of the camera angle, it probably acts of a exercise, since the soldiers wear the very common shorts to Africa, but not very frequent in Normandy.

Part 1 - Canadian forces.
Part 2 - Soviet army.