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An afternoon at an Alabama fleamarket
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:12 pm    Post subject: An afternoon at an Alabama fleamarket Reply with quote

The road is crowded between rows of vendors



Shopping for grave decorations





Take your pick



Resting in the shade



PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like last one , great capture!


PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Find any lenses? Smile My favorite is the two old men.

Where abouts in Bama is this?


PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tannehill State Park in tuscaloosa County, right next to Jefferson County, where I live. It is about as 35-mile scooter drive from where we live on the Warrior River.
This market is called Trade Days, and happens once a month for nine months of the year. No cameras or lenses ... Evil or Very Mad


PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fish4570 wrote:
Tannehill State Park in tuscaloosa County, right next to Jefferson County, where I live. It is about as 35-mile scooter drive from where we live on the Warrior River.
This market is called Trade Days, and happens once a month for nine months of the year. No cameras or lenses ... Evil or Very Mad


Be happy .. on first shoot young a bit heavy lady wasn't so happy about you ... next time if she catch you ... Laughing One year should enough to forget it. Laughing


PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've had some good times in the city of Tuscaloosa. Awesome college town! Smile


PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The lady didn't mind at all ... Very Happy


PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice shoot and nice weather. (it's 18'C and rainy in Taiwan this Sat).

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, Mike. 75F and hard thunderstorms here today ...


PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's amazing to see that the "extremes" are very common in the states: you find extremely sporty people and many really ... well ... "big" ones.


PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's where those gigantic University of Alabama football linemen come from ... Shocked


PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's where those gigantic University of Alabama football linemen come from ...

Except for the ones that come from over here in Georgia!


PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 6:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's right, Scott! you know what I'm talking about. Grits and vienna sausages grow 'em BIG ... Shocked


PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sadly that's what drew my eye.. the simply huge people in many of the shots, who so often contrast with the overly thin (usually teenage girls..)

Obesity seems to be the new smoking - likely to contribute to this generation being a lot shorter-lived than the former? Sad

I've lived in both Colorado and Portland v Detroit and Dallas and the contrast is amazing...

What is even more amazing is the 'reason' so often given, that it is 'genetic' or 'glandular' when I don't see any great difference between either the genes or the glands of while Alabama / Dallas residents and those from Colorado or Portland?

Hmmm

What is interesting is that much cheap / junk food which gets eaten in greater proportion by people on limited incomes, has High Fructose Corn Syrup in it, and the graphs for obesity and the use of this stuff seem to match very closely?

Doug


LucisPictor wrote:
It's amazing to see that the "extremes" are very common in the states: you find extremely sporty people and many really ... well ... "big" ones.


PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 6:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Doug,
Too many obese people eat way too often at the local fast food restaurants whichever they may be....That coupled with not enough physical activity are the main causes. I remember living back up North that the people that came from the rural areas of the state, tended to be bigger overall than those from the more urban areas. I always attributed it to "country cooking" more so than high fructose corn syrup


PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Portions are HUGE in most franchise restaurants here; and you know the calorie counts for fast-food places. My theory is that the burgeoning of two-income families led to much of this. There is little time for either parent to plan and cook meals. So what you get is cafe or fast food, with salty and sweet snacks for breakfast and for treats at home at night. It is a weighty combination, largely confined to rural areas and inner-cities ... Shocked


PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There were many beautiful teen-age girls and trim younger men at this flea market. They just did not happen to be walking by when I shot. The legs you see in the background of the shoe picture belonged to a casually well-dressed, trim young couple ...


PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 7:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lol - my wife hates these shoes - I'm going to call her in to see this! Laughing



PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LOL that was fun!
Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing


PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I suppose you don't care to quote her? Laughing Laughing Laughing