In a week when we have learnt that the population of England and Wales has risen by 3.7 million since 2001 (Census results 2011), an increase of 7.1%, there is only on interpretation I can put on this week's picture prompt.
More than half of that 7.1% increase has been driven by immigration, two-thirds from non EU countries.
It seems to me that the featured kiss is of someone saying farewell. That makes the lady an emigrant.
The Emigrant - Artist: Gyula Kardos - 1858
The farewell kiss before one or other boards the waiting ship.
There must have been many such kisses in Sweden before my next ship sailed.
Farewell to home - Göteborg, 1905
These emigrants were bound for England or America on a steamer. (ex Library of Congress)
I don't have the destination of the ship from Sweden, but not all immigrants landed at Ellis Island.
Emigrant arrival at Constitution Wharf, Boston
It seems that there would have been kisses of welcome here for some. Others weren't so lucky.
"Friends" meeting an emigrant girl at dock.
Girls travelling alone were at risk from "friends" offering to look after them - but really they were 'recruiting officers' for the white slave trade.
Has much changed over the centuries? I guess that there would even have been a trade in slaves back in the days of these two lovers.
Erastes & Eromenos
Detail from the red tondo of a red-figure Atticup, c480BC
Artist - Briseis; Canino Collection, Louvre Museum
Photo by Jostrow (2006)
Even I can't profess to remember that far back, but I do remember this from the 1970s; I hope you will too.
If not, perhaps you should take a buss over to Sepia-Saturday-156 to see how others have performed.
The theme of 'Shadows' is one of those that you can meet by accident or design. Many of my previous posts would be fine here also, but I try not to repeat photos I have shown before.
Boat waiting for transport
In this shot it would have been impossible to shoot the boat without incorporating its shadow. However other shadows have been included as well.
When shooting dogs (not literally) you sometimes do not have time to think about shadowy effects.
Gem on her way to the house
The shadow in the next shot enhances a view on a Michigan golf course.
Oxford Hills Golf Course - looking back from 10th tee
You may be able to make out the shadow of a golf cart too.
Then there are times when the shot has been taken deliberately to catch the subject in shade.
Blind Sam smells his way home
In the next shot I was more concerned about framing the road with the trees; the shadows turned out to be a bonus.
Oakwood Road, MI
When it comes to old ruins, no not me, shadows can add a dramatic effect.
Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire
But enough of my shadowy past, it's time for you to check out other shades at Carmi's Thematic-photographic-225
Congratulations to Viridian for hosting Sunday Stamps 100 times.
To find something appropriate for this I have chosen the Centenary of County Cricket in 1973.
Great Britain - County Cricket
These are two from the set of three; I do not have the 3p stamp.
The sketches are of WG Grace, the famous English cricketer, who scored 126 centuries in his career.(According to Wisdens, the cricketers' bible) His first was in his tenth game when he scored not one hundred but two in a total of 224.
Grace was the first to score 100 hundreds in his career; currently he lies 11th in the list of cricketers who have achieved this feat.
Now that Sunday Stamps has reached 100; how long will it be before it matches Grace's highest score?
During my working days I wore overalls of various sorts and colours but not the bib and brace design depicted in Alan's prompt.
Bib and brace overalls were considered hazardous as there was a risk of protrusions getting caught on the shoulder straps. I was disappointed to find that I had no shots of me in green or orange overalls that fitted my form. In fact in the only shot I have of me I am not wearing overalls at all.
Statfjord B Topsides ready to sail away from Rosenberg Verft
You can see that the photographer had not focussed on me on 28 March1981 when the Statfjord B deck left Stavanger to be mated with the Gravity Base Stucture (GBS) legs.
I do have a shot of work going on showing a number of men in overalls watching a deck being lowered inside a leg of the GBS during construction and outfitting.
Statfjord B GBS - equipment deck being lowered.
To give you some idea of scale, the inside diameter of the leg at this point was 23metres. The eventual height of each of the four legs was 175 metres. As a leg narrowed and became a conical shape higher up, decks had to be lowered in halves and lifted over 100 metres before lowering could begin,
Had overalls not been free issue perhaps I would have had to visit a place like this.
Old Advertising Sign - York Rise, Bellgate Mews, NW5
If you strain your eyes a bit you will find it reads, I think: K&M Larn, Fancy Works, Overalls, Blouses etc.
I would be unlucky now if I visited a Coventry purveyor of overalls, footwear for working and walking.
Lynes Stores, Well Street, Coventry - 2009
Lynes Stores are a bit overshadowed by that huge office block. Lynes and the other building in the foreground have been demolished.
I even found a building in Belfast showing off blue overalls.
Mosaic - Transport House, Belfast - 2009
But back in 1939, Albert T Palmer was wearing 'bib & brace' while welding.
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