Cultural Icons -- Post your country's cultural icons

[David Hughes]

Lovely David. I understand the problem as you can't have your Bara Brith and photograph it! Proper food.

Thanks.

Would you believe I have the same problem with Selkirk Bannocks, Tea Cakes, Scones and Balm Brack? They just don't last five minutes and then there's bread pudding...

Regards, David

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

You had to mention bread pudding, and at this hour.

I too suffer similarly, with the addition of lardy cake, one of the lightest and healthiest of treats. And, of course, the saffron bun, which I hope to have when in Cornwall tomorrow.

 

[David Hughes]

The real problem is smugglng them into England...


Regards, David

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Daibutsu (Great Buddha)
Kamakura, Japan - March 2016

Height, including the pedestal is 13.4 meters. Weight is 121 tons.
This Buddha is visited daily by tourist from around the world.

Now you see him...

...now you don't! Well, maybe you can see him playing peek-a-boo with the stone lantern.

Mike

 

[filmtwit]

 

[peterm1]

Though I was born in Australia I am half Hungarian and from that side I am claiming the right to post a few old scanned film images from a trip there in the late 1990's to show the cultural icon that is Budapest and the Danube. 🙂

 

[dmr]

(New E100. Sucky day, though!)

 

[Out to Lunch]

Nationaal Archief / Spaarnestad Photo, SFA005002392

Customers eating herring in the traditional Dutch way. The Netherlands, Rotterdam, 1937
Collectie Spaarnestad

 

[Greg Maslak]

Montreal's "Schwartz's Deli" home of the city's iconic smoked meat sandwich

 

[TVR]

HMS Victory
HMS Victory 2 copy by tvr1973, on Flickr


Queen Mary
Queen Mary by tvr1973, on Flickr


John Lennon`s Rolls

Scan-150831-0010_original by tvr1973, on Flickr

 

[TVR]

Ottawa..........circa 1966
Canadian Cuards

e010976089-v8 by tvr1973, on Flickr
e010776901-v8 by tvr1973, on Flickr

 

[Rick Waldroup]

(New E100. Sucky day, though!)

Very cool. When was this shot? Is The Stone Pony still open?

 

[Greg Maslak]

Ontario, Canada's flower, "The Woodland Tillium". A delicate rhizome, picking the flower can kill the plant or leave it dormant for years. As kids, we were taught to look but not touch. This one's from across the continent in British Columbia.

New Mamiya 6/75mm ,Delta 100

 

[kuuan]

"Marterl", typical wayside shrine on fields in Austria


Untitled by andreas, on Flickr, C.V. Snapshot Skopar, Sony NEX5n, Austria 2017

 

[kuuan]

"Steyr Traktor" - Austrian made Traktor


Steyr 8140 by andreas, on Flickr, C.V. Heliar f4.5/15mm, Ricoh GXR M, Austria 2017

 

[dmr]

Very cool. When was this shot? Is The Stone Pony still open?

This was a couple of weeks ago when I was in the area on business. It was a sucky day, the only afternoon I had free. Yes, I assume it's still open. I know the arcade across the street and the Wonder Bar up the street are.

This was, BTW, shot on the new Ektachrome, but I did not toot my horn about it because of the dreary look. I had the remainder of the roll from a photo walk I took in better weather a few days before.

 

[Rick Waldroup]

This was a couple of weeks ago when I was in the area on business. It was a sucky day, the only afternoon I had free. Yes, I assume it's still open. I know the arcade across the street and the Wonder Bar up the street are.

This was, BTW, shot on the new Ektachrome, but I did not toot my horn about it because of the dreary look. I had the remainder of the roll from a photo walk I took in better weather a few days before.

Thanks for the info. 🙂

 

[jmilkins]

Australia - Riding on the Sheep's Back aka an old shearing shed.
XPAN 45mm

[/url]Shearing's done, Mia Mia by john m, on Flickr[/IMG]

Part of the school curriculum.https://dl.nfsa.gov.au/module/1592/

 

[citizen99]

A cultural icon shared with Genoa, England, and Canada. Replica of the Matthew in which Giovanni Caboto sailed from Bristol,England to North America on commission from Henry VII.


A snowier December, 2010. The Matthew, Bristol. by John Hancock, on Flickr

 

[citizen99]

Two for the price of one:- Tower Bridge,London from HMS Belfast.


HMS Belfast, London, 1975 by John Hancock, on Flickr