Wheels - Trivia Image Thread

Trivia 2: Michelin

I HAVEN'T ADDED THE POINTS YET FROM THE LAST ONE AS IM ACTUALLY STILL IN BED, WORKING ON A TABLET. I'LL ADD SOON

That's dedication Abbie :)
Good Morning :)


Hope a "Big Wheel" is Ok....




A view of The London Eye, River Thames and Westminster Bridge on a winter afternoon. Digital art image edited from a photograph.

 

Trivia 3: Thomas Hancock, English self-taught manufacturing engineer who founded the British rubber industry.

G'mornin' Abbie  :)

Time traveling via a legacy of family photos.

Trivia 4: 1934

Nostalgia -- Old wooden cartwheel:



Perfect Farm House Decor :-)

2013 Chevy Camaro Z/28, which had massive 305/30ZR-19 at all corners. copied from Google :-)

These are the wheels from an old caboose that has been sidelined. They are covered with dirt and rust and years of memories.

Thanks Matthias, your image reminded me I have this one.



A taste of the "wild west". Bodie ghost town, California. I loved our visit to Bodie. Somewhere I could really feel the ghosts of the past.

Train "wheels" just before take off.



https://fineartamerica.com/featured/taking-off-sharon-popek.html

A wagon wheel on a trash pile on a farm in central Alberta. This was one of my first attempts with hdr and it really brought out the detail in the wood.
One can find beauty even in trash.
I would guess this is a circular composition with a wheel as the subject matter.

The poor man's burden, with wheels.

Wheels of citibikes in NYC

from a museum train near Lake Constance

An acrylic painting of a cool car I saw in Cuba. One of the best parts of my Cuba trip was seeing all the different cars.

Wheel of a Ford GT.

Wagon wheel shop from Greenfield Village in Dearborn Michigan.

My bike has two of ém :o)

The Kawasaki Versys 1000 cc. A sports adventure tourer (adv) and my new motorcycle.
A real beauty in white/black i think.

The name Versys comes from Versatile and system.

Originally " iL Postino" was a 3d copper sculpture I made and now it has evolved into this digital version "The Mailman"

Jeep Wrangler Art Print from an Original Watercolor Painting. Dark forest green with a tan convertible top, muddy & happy! This model vehicle, having been off road & covered in mud, earns a high score on the "Jeep Wave Hierarchy".

Are you familiar with the Jeep Wave? More points are scored for the dirtier your Jeep is & the less protected the occupants are from the elements. Points may be subtracted for Jeeps that are sparkling clean & look brand-new.

When jeeps cross paths, the driver with the fewest points initiates the wave, lifting a few fingers from the hand on the steering wheel. The driver in the other jeep returns the wave. It's a Jeep thing!

This was a commission painting, a wife's gift to her husband to memorialize his favorite car.

Model A with a spare

Big Wheels Psychedelic by Floyd Snyder

When you visit Monterey California in your yacht, you usually do not tow a car behind you like the motorhome people do. You rent a slip for overnight or for however long you are staying.

Then you are kind of stuck for transportation. You can rent a car, take taxi cabs everywhere or you can rent a bicycle right there on the dock.

Here's a paddle wheeler.

A steamboat replica cruises the Savannah River.

1959 corvet steering wheel and instrument panel. This car belongs to gentleman in Nipomo, California. Nipomo is located in San Luis Obispo country just north of Santa Maria and south of the city of San Luis Obispo.

The interesting thing about this is he sister has an almost identical car!

I caught them as they were just getting back from driving them in the Elks Rodeo Parade in Santa Maria and they were kind of in a hurry so I was only able to capture a shot or two.

Rust covered train wheels at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Bikes Abstract Small by Floyd Snyder

When you visit Monterey California in your yacht, you usually do not tow a car behind you like the motorhome people do. You rent a slip for overnight or for how ever long you are staying.

Then you are kind of stuck for transportation. You can rent a car, take taxi cabs everywhere or you can rent a bicycle right there on the dock.

I had someone comment on a photo of Atlanta's Skyview, saying he always parked near the wheel so he could find his car easily. I replied by warning him to be careful where he parked. I took this shot at the same spot and time I took the photo he commented on...

BIG wheel

The harvester slaughtering innocent cerials :o)

A Ferris wheel, named after George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., (sometimes called a big wheel, observation wheel, or, in the case of the very tallest examples, giant wheel) is a nonbuilding structure consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, capsules, gondolas, or pods) attached to the rim in such a way that as the wheel turns, they are kept upright, usually by gravity.

The original Ferris Wheel was designed and constructed by George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. as a landmark for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The term Ferris wheel is used generically for all such structures, which are now the most common type of amusement ride at state fairs in the United States.

Since the original 1893 Chicago Ferris Wheel, there have been nine world's tallest-ever Ferris wheels. The current record holder is the 167.6-metre (550 ft) High Roller in Las Vegas, US, which opened to the public in March 2014.

This capture was made at a local carnival in Pasadena, Maryland. I digitally added the moon for composition and artistic enhancement.

2 hr bump...

Rockland Grist/Cotton Mill (built c. 1806-1830) 2201 Old Court Road, Brooklandville

The town of Rockland grew up on the side of the Falls Turnpike, which opened in 1806. Rockland included a general store, a tavern, a blacksmith shop, a carriage house, several log buildings, a group of stone row houses, a mill, and an 18th century dwelling.

Rockland Mill was constructed by the Johnson family as a grist mill to grind farmers' grain sometime between 1806 and 1830. It was converted to milling cotton in 1830, and a stone dye house was also erected. In 1836, the Maryland Print Works Company was incorporated there to print 1-, 2- and 3-color calicos. This was an innovative process for the time, though not a financial success.

Following a fire in 1857, numerous firms and individuals owned the Rockland Mill, and it has been rebuilt several times. In 1927, William Fell Johnson bought the property, bringing it back into the Johnson family. It is now used as office space for small businesses (Rivoire, Miller).

Perhaps its most famous occupant was actress Dorothy Lamour, who during the late 1950s and early 1960s operated Lifetime Inc., manufacturers of a food preservation additive, with her husband William Ross Howard. She also operated Dorothy Lamour Enterprises Ltd. Products, which produced Dorothy Lamour Bread and a jewelry-cleaning solution from the mill.

(built c. 1806-1830) 2201 Old Court Road, Brooklandville
The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and underwent restoration in 1982.

This is a photograph from the Yulee sugar mill plantation in Homosassa Florida.

A digitally manipulated view of a boat steering console at CBMM (Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum) on Maryland's Eastern Shore town of Saint Michaels. I added the view outside the windows and enhanced the red light in the window as well as textures and vignetting for a more artistic depiction.

Wheels on an old tractor I shot several years ago

Spare wheel on the side of an old Truck

The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific 938 on display at the Illinois Railway Museum.

A wooden wagon wheel mounted on the support of the blacksmith shop in Historic Jerusalem - Kingsville Maryland. Blacksmith Shop circa 1800 - Items such as iron parts for the mill, farm utensils, and horseshoes were made here. Today, a cadre of local blacksmiths demonstrate their skills and hand forged items are available for purchase in the Gift Shop located in McCourtney's Store.

Pulleys / wheels on an old tbar on Mt Agamenticus in southern Maine

An OOF (Out Of Frame), also known as OOB (Out Of Bounds) image of Williston Mill and grist wheels in Denton, Maryland.

Days of Discontent

I visited Antietam National Battlefield, scene of the bloodiest battle in our Civil War, in October of 2016 .. I've been here before. Years ago I was a parent chaperone for one of my son's high school field trips. That was my first visit, or so the rational side of me said. Something else in my heart said differently.

Lois Bryan

When our Feral Coots have WHEELS, they can't be stopped

Steering wheel in the interior of a 1937 LaSalle Classic automobile, on display at the annual Flower Mart at Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore, Maryland.

Just found this on my hard drive. I feel like the lower angle shows the wheels a little better, all ten of them on this 2-8-0 steam locomotive

Since steering wheels seem to be acceptable, the steering wheel of the 1909 ALCO Black Beast race car.

I am always attracted to scenes and objects with strong geometric elements. In this old, battered trailer I saw rectangles, triangles, arcs, and, of course, circles upon circles.

Skyview Freight Wagon by Barbara Snyder

This old wagon sits alongside the road on the way to the top of the hill where you will find the Skyview Motel. It is located just a little more than halfway between the cities of Santa Maria and Santa Barbara in the central coast area Santa Barbara County, California in the unincorporated city of Los Alamos.

Situated in the heart of the Santa Ynez wine country, the motel is aptly named as it offers fantastic mountain and vineyard views.

Here is how the owners describe the motel.

Since 1959 -
Skyview - an iconic roadside motel turned boutique luxury, offers 33 guest rooms, a full-service restaurant, a heated pool, and a working vineyard. Perched on a hillside overlooking Santa Ynez wine country, the 5-acre outpost merges mid-century style with modern rustic chic

Enjoy! Floyd Snyder, FASGallery.com