Blast From The Past no. 43

Pretty Flamingo 

Blasts From the Past 

This is the first one that I can't tie down to a month and a year or even a location.
It came from an unmarked slide-box with nothing written on the slide-frame itself either. It may have been taken at Flamingo World in Yorkshire during a holiday there. But, hey! That's not the only place I've seen flamingoes.


Having said that though the slides were in perfect condition and scanned really easily, as the original below demonstrates.

 

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