Dale, the host of the Cosmic Photo Challenge, has challenged us to post a few images of Repetition for this week’s challenge. For this week’s challenge I needed to scour through my archives to see what I could find on this week’s theme. When I read Dale’s words that images didn’t necessarily need to conform to recognisable patterns, symmetry, or tessellations, but could be photographs that contained more than one of something it made it more likely that I’d find a few images that I’d like to use. Thank you Dale for the challenge.
Here’s what I found to share …
Looking at Earth in a Planetarium’s show .,,
On to more down to Earth, a look at the sky over Murrells Inlet with flocks of European Starlings flying past a Daytime Moon …
The next image is a combination of two images sent from my daughter. The one image downloaded on my iPhone as a “negative” type image & I combined it with a regular photo image for this unique view of The St. Simons Island Lighthouse …
Now to look at more personal images, first a view of Coleman’s creation using Learning Resources STEM Explorers Pixel Art Challenge …
STEM Explorers
Pixel Art Challenge
And lastly, a blast from the past from my dad’s files and digitally uploaded to my computer files. This shows actual World War II fuel oil coupons (Form OPA R-1107 A). These coupons were explicitly issued for “Fuel Oil”, not gasoline for an automobile. They were used to buy oil for home heating furnaces, water heaters, and kerosene for cooking stoves.
There were strict controls for the use of these coupons; Each coupon allowed a family to purchase exactly one (1) gallon of heating oil. During the war, civilian homes had their heat strictly rationed to ensure the military had enough fuel. Families were told to lower their thermostats to 65 degrees during the day (and even lower at night) to stretch their coupons further.
Coupons belonging to
my dad’s family.
I’m not sure why all of these were not used, however, possible reasons were my dad’s family practiced strict conservation to save money and stretch their supply. [The coupons were the maximum legal limit the family was allowed to buy, but they still had to pay real money for the actual fuel.] Fuel Oil and gasoline rationing ended almost immediately once World War II ended. At that time they no longer needed the coupons and many families stuck them in desk drawers.
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Cosmic Photo Challenge (#CosPhoChal)-Repetition
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