Bailing out – Daily Photo

Bailing out – Daily Photo
A man uses a small pan to bail water out of a ditch or to water plants growing above the ditch. In the foreground are recently harvested rice paddies while in the background are the karst limestone hills familiar of the area around Guilin, China.

Does one 'bale out' or 'bail out'? In this case, the man in the photo is bailing out as in he is using a pan to move water from a…

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Pump It – Daily Photo

Pump It – Daily Photo
A long time exposure of a nodding donkey oil pump at High Island, Texas, shows the mechanics in motion.

Pump It, not the song by the Black Eyed Peas, but oil. When I was looking at this photo that song was running through my mind, though. Oil closed above…

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History is Myth – Daily Photo

History is Myth – Daily Photo
History is Myth mural (Venice Reconstituted) Venice Beach, Los Angeles.

'History is Myth', proclaims this mural from the mid-1990s. Officially the mural was called, 'Venice Reconstituted' and was painted in 1989. The full mural (this is full height but only…

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The Silver Lining – Daily Photo

The Silver Lining – Daily Photo
Sailors shopping for rings at The Silver Lining, San Diego

The Silver Lining was a jewelry cart in the Westfield Horton Plaza in San Diego. In this photo, three sailors peruse rings. Well, two of them do. The other seems…

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