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You can see this guy feeding at the roadside below. As I was shooting, a car came along, forcing him to fly for cover.. Luckily for me, I had the camera trained on him so shooting the flight was easier than usual and the light was perfect to show his incredible plummage.
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Day by day my life gets colder
My eyes close thin, as I get older
Peace in pieces, bloody and bruised
I feel so helpless and confused
Cuz I hear screamin on the left
yellin on the right
I’m sitting in the middle tryin to live my life
Cuz I cant stop the war
Shelter homeless, feed the poor
I can’t walk on water
I can’t save your sons and daughters
I can’t change the world and make things fair
The least that I can do
The least that I can do
The least that I can do is care
Lyrics by Kid Rock
Italien / Südtirol - Marmolata
seen from Pralongià High Plateau
gesehen von der Pralongià
Marmolada (Ladin: Marmolèda; German: Marmolata, pronounced [maʁmoˈlaːta]) is a mountain in northeastern Italy and the highest mountain of the Dolomites (a section of the Alps). It lies between the borders of Trentino and Veneto. The Marmolada is an ultra-prominent peak (Ultra), known as the "Queen of the Dolomites".
Geography
The mountain is located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north-northwest of Venice, from which it can be seen on a clear day. It consists of a ridge running west to east. Towards the south it breaks suddenly into sheer cliffs, forming a rock face several kilometres long. On the north side there is a comparatively flat glacier, the only large glacier in the Dolomites (the Marmolada Glacier, Ghiacciaio della Marmolada).
The ridge is composed of several summits, decreasing in altitude from west to east: Punta Penia 3,343 metres (10,968 ft), Punta Rocca 3,309 metres (10,856 ft), Punta Ombretta 3,230 metres (10,600 ft), Monte Serauta 3,069 metres (10,069 ft), and Pizzo Serauta 3,035 metres (9,957 ft). An aerial tramway goes to the top of Punta Rocca. During the ski season the Marmolada's main ski run is opened for skiers and snowboarders alike, making it possible to ski down into the valley.
History
Paul Grohmann made the first ascent in 1864, along the north route. The south face was climbed for the first time in 1901 by Beatrice Tomasson, Michele Bettega and Bartolo Zagonel.
Until the end of World War I the border between Austria-Hungary and Italy ran over Marmolada, so it formed part of the front line during that conflict. Austro-Hungarian soldiers were quartered in deep tunnels bored into the northern face's glacier, and Italian soldiers were quartered on the south face's rocky precipices. It was also the site of fierce mine warfare on the Italian Front. As glaciers retreat, soldiers' remains and belongings are occasionally discovered.
On July 3, 2022, a serac collapsed which led to the sliding downstream of over 200 000 m3 of ice and debris, killing eleven people and wounding eight more.
(Wikipedia)
Die Marmolata (italienisch Marmolada, ladinisch Marmoleda, der Name soll von der Ähnlichkeit des Felsens mit Marmor herrühren) ist der höchste Berg der Dolomiten und Teil der Marmolatagruppe. Die Marmolata ist ein westöstlich verlaufender Gratrücken, der von der Punta Penia (3343 m s.l.m.) über die Punta Rocca (3309 m s.l.m.) und die Punta Ombretta (3230 m s.l.m.) zum Pizzo Serauta (3035 m s.l.m.) und der Punta Serauta (3069 m s.l.m.) führt. Dieser Gratrücken bricht nach Süden in einer geschlossenen, zwei Kilometer breiten und bis zu 800 Meter hohen Steilwand ins Ombrettatal ab. Die auf der Nordseite zum Passo Fedaia vergleichsweise sanft abfallende Flanke trägt den einzigen größeren Gletscher der Dolomiten (Ghiacciaio della Marmolada).
Zur Geschichte der Marmolata
Die Sage vom Marmolatagletscher
Eine Südtiroler Sage erklärt (ätiologisch) den Ursprung des Marmolatagletschers so: Ursprünglich gab es auf der Marmolata kein Eis und Schnee, sondern fruchtbare Almen und Wiesen. Vor einem Marienfeiertag im August unterbrachen die Bauern wie üblich die Heuernte und gingen ins Tal, um in die Kirche zu gehen. Doch zweien war die gebotene Feiertagsruhe gleichgültig, sie arbeiteten den ganzen Feiertag durch, um ihr Heu noch trocken in die Heuschober zu bringen. Tatsächlich fing es auch gleich an zu schneien. Doch es schneite immer weiter und hörte gar nicht mehr auf, bis schließlich die ganze Marmolata von einem Gletscher bedeckt war. Eine andere Version berichtet von einer gottlosen Gräfin, welche die Bauern zur Heuarbeit gezwungen hatte. Während sich die Bauern retten konnten, wurde die Gräfin samt Gesinde von den Schneemassen begraben.
Die Besteigungsgeschichte bis 1914
Am 3. August 1802 erreichen drei Priester (Don Giovanni Costadedòi, Don Giuseppe Terza, Don Tommaso Pezzei), ein Chirurg (Hauser) und ein bischöflicher Richter (Peristi) vom Passo Fedaia aus den Höhenkamm bei der Punta Rocca. Beim Abstieg verliert die Gruppe Don Giuseppe Terza vermutlich durch Spaltensturz. Es ist ein Unfall, der dem Aberglauben neue Nahrung gab, was dazu beigetragen haben mag, dass erst 50 Jahre später ein neuer Besteigungsversuch unternommen wurde. Diesmal waren es drei Priester aus dem Bereich Agordo (Don Pietro Munga, Don Alessio Marmolada, Don Lorenzo Nikolai) und der 17-jährige Adelsspross Gian Antonio De Manzoni. Als Führer der Gruppe wird der bergerfahrene „Führer“ Pellegrino Pellegrini engagiert, der den Gämsjäger Gasparo de Pian mitnimmt. Diese Sechsergruppe steigt am 25. August 1856 vom Passo Fedaia, mit einfachen Steigeisen ausgerüstet, über den Gletscher zum Grat an und bezeichnet sich als Erstbesteiger, obwohl ihr Bericht keinen Nachweis enthält, dass man die Punta Rocca tatsächlich bestiegen hat.
1860 bezeichnet sich John Ball (mit dem Führer Victor Tairraz und John Birkbeck) ebenfalls als Erstersteiger der Marmolata, was jedoch widerlegt wurde.
Tatsächlich wurde die Punta Rocca erst im Juli 1862 vom Wiener Bergsteiger und Gründungsmitglied des Österreichischen Alpenvereins Paul Grohmann auf der Nordroute bestiegen. Er fand weder auf dem kurzen, schwierigen Gipfelgrat, noch auf dem Gipfel Besteigungsspuren. Die um 35 Meter höhere Punta Penia wird am 28. September 1864 ebenfalls von Paul Grohmann gemeinsam mit den beiden Bergführern Angelo und Fulgenzio Dimai bestiegen. In den 1880er Jahren nimmt das Dolomitenbergsteigen einen gewaltigen Aufschwung, was zur Errichtung von Schutzhütten am Fedaiasattel (Alpenvereinssektion Bamberg) und beim Ombrettapass (Contrinhaus der Alpenvereinssektion Nürnberg) führt. Die Sektion Nürnberg bemühte sich auch um einen relativ einfach zu begehenden Weg auf die Punta Penia und finanziert die Versicherung des Westgrates, der von Hans Seyffert, Eugen Dittmann mit Führer Luigi Rizzi am 21. Juli 1898 erstbestiegen wurde. Der sehr beliebte, exponierte Klettersteig wurde am 5. August 1903 eröffnet.
Den ersten Weg durch die Südwand (Schwierigkeitsgrad II) fanden die Bergführer Cesare Tomè, Santo De Toni und ihr Begleiter Luigi Farenza am 21. August 1897 mit Hilfe einer Schlucht. Den Grat erreichten sie allerdings zwei Kilometer östlich des Hauptgipfels. Die erste Südwandroute auf die Punta Penia, die heute als „Via Classica“ (IV) bekannt ist, wurde am 1. Juni 1901 von den Bergführern Michele Bettega, Bortolo Zagonel und der Britin Beatrice Tomasson eröffnet.
Die Marmolata und der Erste Weltkrieg
Die Marmolata war im Ersten Weltkrieg als Grenzberg zwischen Österreich-Ungarn und Italien Frontgebiet. Die österreichischen Stellungen verliefen vom Passo Fedaia über den Sasso Undici zur Forcella Serauta und weiter entlang des Kammes nach Westen. Die italienischen Stellungen befanden sich ostwärts bzw. südlich davon. Die Italiener bemühten sich vor allem entlang des Grates Richtung Punta Rocca vorzudringen, was jedoch auch unter Einsatz von Sprengstollen nicht gelang. Um den Nachschub zu den Stellungen am Kamm sicherzustellen, gruben bzw. sprengten die Österreicher Stollen in den Gletscher, die neben der Versorgung auch Unterkunftszwecken dienten, was zur Errichtung einer regelrechten „Eisstadt“ führte. In Zusammenhang mit diesen Kampfhandlungen steht auch das größte Lawinenunglück der Alpingeschichte. Am 13. Dezember 1916 verschüttete eine Nassschneelawine das westlich des Fedaiapasses gelegene österreichische Reservelager Gran Poz, wobei an die 300 Soldaten ums Leben kamen (→ Lawinenkatastrophe vom 13. Dezember 1916).
Die Erschließung ab 1918
Nach dem Krieg schreiben vom 8. bis 9. September 1929 Luigi Micheluzzi, Roberto Perathoner und Demetrio Christomannos mit der Ersteigung des Südpfeilers der Punta Penia (VI) Alpingeschichte. Sie hatten lediglich ein Hanfseil mit und schlugen ganze sieben Haken. Bezüglich der korrekten Besteigung tauchten allerdings Zweifel auf. Jedenfalls bezeichneten einige Nachbegeher (Fritz Kasparek, Hans Steger) diesen Weg als den schwierigsten ihrer Kletterlaufbahn, vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wird er lediglich sieben Mal begangen. Mit der Südwestwand der Punta Penia (VI+) durch Gino Soldà und Umberto Conforto und vor allem mit der ebenfalls 1936 durch die von Batista Vinatzer und Ettore Castiglioni erstiegenen Südwand der Punta di Rocca (VI+) kamen noch vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg hervorragende Routen dazu. Die Vinatzerführe trug lange Zeit den Ruf der schwierigsten Dolomitenführe. Nach dem Krieg trugen sich mit Armando Aste, Toni Egger, Claudio Barbier, Walter Philipp und Georges Livanos Spitzen des Nachkriegsbergsteigens in die Liste der Erstbegeher ein. In den 1980er Jahren sollte sich zeigen, dass die schon beendet erschienene Erschließung durch die Freikletterbewegung neue Impulse erhielt. Eine neue Generation eroberte die Silberplatten, wobei vor allem Heinz Mariacher Pionierarbeit leistete. Bekannt wurde auch der Weg durch den Fisch (IX-), den tschechische Bergsteiger erstbegingen.
Tourismus heute
Über die Westseite des Gletschers verläuft der anspruchsvollste Teil des sogenannten Dolomiten-Höhenweges Nr. 2. Auf die Punta Penia führt ein Klettersteig mit der Schwierigkeits-Bewertung B vom Contrinhaus auf der Südseite via Marmolatascharte und Westgrat (daher der Name Westgrat-Klettersteig). Der Klettersteig trägt auch den Namen Hans-Seyffert-Weg. Eine sehr eindrucksvolle Bergtour führt am Fuß der Marmolata-Südwand von Malga Ciapela über den Passo Ombretta und das Contrinhaus nach Alba bei Canazei.
Auf die Marmolata führt auch eine Seilbahn;[3] die in den Jahren 2004 und 2005 erneuerte Anlage führt in drei Abschnitten von Malga Ciapela (1467 m s.l.m.) über die Stationen Banc/Coston d'Antermoia (2350 m) und Serauta (2950 m) auf die Punta Rocca genannte Bergstation (3265 m), von der man den Marmolata-Nebengipfel Punta Rocca (3309 m) in einer halben Stunde erreichen kann. Das in die Seilbahnstation Serauta integrierte Gebirgskriegsmuseum in 2950 m Seehöhe ist das wohl höchstgelegene Museum Europas. Von der Bergstation Punta Rocca lässt sich durch einen Stollen unschwer das kleine Felsheiligtum Madonna della Neve erreichen, das Papst Johannes Paul II. bei einem Besuch persönlich konsekriert hat.
Eine der längsten Skiabfahrten der Alpen, die Bellunese, ist ca. 12 km lang. Sie führt von der Punta Rocca 1900 Höhenmeter bergab über den Passo Fedaia nach Malga Ciapela.
Bis etwa 2000 fand auf dem Marmolata-Gletscher Sommerskifahren mit einigen Schleppliften statt. Dieses Angebot wurde danach seltener und 2005 – auch auf Druck von Umweltschutzverbänden – komplett gestrichen. Bis zum Jahr 2008 gab es eine weitere Liftkette von der Passhöhe des Fedaiapasses zur Punta Serauta. 2008 wurde der Schlepplift stillgelegt; 2012 brannte die Talstation der Sesselbahn auf der Passhöhe nieder und wurde seitdem nicht wieder aufgebaut. Die hierdurch stark verminderte Kapazität und der große Andrang führen oft zu langen Wartezeiten (eine Stunde und mehr) bei der Talstation der nun einzigen Seilbahn auf die Marmolata in Malga Ciapela.
Gletschersturz 2022
Am 3. Juli 2022 kam es zu einem Gletschersturz am Gipfelgletscher der Punta Rocca. Wohl aufgrund außergewöhnlich hoher Temperaturen und eindringenden Wassers riss ein Eisblock auf etwa 200 Meter Breite ab, die Eis- und Gesteinsmassen stürzten auf die darunterliegende Normalroute zur Punta Penia, auf der zu diesem Zeitpunkt mehrere Seilschaften unterwegs waren. Zahlreiche Tote und Vermisste waren die Folge. Als Auslöser wurde der Klimawandel gesehen: Nach einem warmen und niederschlagsarmen Winter habe sich im folgenden Sommer Schmelzwasser unter dem Gletschereis gesammelt und dessen Haftung reduziert.
Schutzhütten im Marmolata-Gebiet
Rifugio Contrin (2016 m, A.N.A., traditionsreiches Haus südwestlich der Marmolata-Südwand)
Rifugio Falier (2074 m, CAI, am Fuß der Marmolata-Südwand im Val Ombretta)
Bivacco Marco Dal Bianco (2727 m, Biwakschachtel am Passo Ombretta)
Capanna Punta Penia (3340 m, privat, kleine Schutzhütte in Gipfelnähe)
(Wikipedia)
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The other day I shot a couple getting engaged, great surprise by the boyfriend, and I also took pictures of the family at dinner at the Signature Room. I did not have time to shoot the city, which made me want to go back and revisit when I last headed up there to shoot about a year ago. This is a re-edit of one of the shots. Just another reminder why I love this city!
Well I am off to Italy tomorrow and in prep a new blog post: Travel Photography: What's in the Bag?
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Solitary fisherman in the Pantanal wetlands, Rio Piraím, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
The Pantanal, man and the environment, is one of the themes of Photography Month 2012:
mesdafotografia.blogspot.com.br/p/exposicao-encontro-com-...
De Ponte Vecchio (Italiaans: oude brug), is een beroemde middeleeuwse brug over de rivier de Arno in Florence, Italië. De brug is vooral bekend door de winkeltjes (vooral juweliers) die zich op de brug bevinden en de Corridoio Vasariano, de gang die zich een niveau hoger op de brug bevindt, zodat de adel zonder zich met het normale publiek te mengen toch de oversteek kon maken.
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It's not easy using this ultra wide angle Sigma 12-24mm.
Did I already tell you it has a viewing angle of 122 degrees? Hehe. ;-)
For example, people have no clue they're in my picture while standing next to me at 3 or 5 meters distance! (10 to 15 ft) I already had my own shoes in my picture, my shadow, my tripod... argh!
But... I love this glass to bits, I just gotta get used to it! Ta!
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Date: Taken on January 6, 2012 at 18:22 h / 6.22pm CET
Exif data
Camera Nikon D700
Exposure 62 seconds
Aperture f/16.0
Focal Length 12 mm (Sigma 12-24mm f/4.5 - f/5.6 DG HSM)
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias 0 EV
This is what greets you at the head of the Elowah Falls trail. I don’t know if this small aging water tower serves a purpose anymore other than for people to say “Hey, look at the cool water tower” and then continue on their journey to the falls. I could not find information online and I didn’t notice any outlets other than the spigot at the top of the tower and the opening on the bottom. It is a cool water tower, though. =)
I’m going to be away from Flickr until after the holidays so I’d like to take this moment to thank all of my friends and contacts for a fun 2012. May you all have a safe, healthy, and prosperous 2013. See you next year.
This is the third Fender Telecaster I have owned. The first was a 1960's vintage, bought new, that was stolen along with my Fender Concert Amp. How I miss that amp. The second Tele, was a 1957, that I bought used, in the '70s, for $175. Why did I ever sell that guitar....doh!!!
Update 2/27/2012: I purchased a used '59 Reissue Fender Bassman Amp in excellent condition. The Tele sounds great through that amp. A great replacement for the stolen Concert Amp, both have four 10 inch speakers.
Lighting: Small strobe bank left as main light, background light on seamless paper backdrop, light bounced off white wall behind camera for fill. All strobe heads 200WS. Camera f19 @ 180th sec.
7/5/2012: Replaced original image after reworking brightness/contrast in photoshop. I am continually disappointed that I cannot seem to get the contrast I want in my images, shooting digitally, without resorting to photoshop. I have never had that problem shooting film. I was dissatisfied with the flatness of the original image I posted, and the way it looked on my Mac. While digital is certainly convenient, it has its negatives. I have also noticed that what looks good on my Mac, may or may not look good when viewed on a PC.
After a long morning of exploring around Death Valley, a day that had commenced with a 5:45 a.m. arrival at Zabriskie Point, we pulled off onto the side of the road on the one-way Artist's Drive, unpacked our cooler from the trunk and had a lunch of ice-cold water, crisp green apples, cheddar cheese and crackers. It was unbelievably quiet and only 1 or 2 cars passed by the entire time. I highly recommend this as a picnic spot, because you're sure not going to find a place with trees and shade !
High clouds were gathering, and eventually turned into a very windy sandstorm the next day.
Although it may not look it, this is a perfectly level view of one-way Artist's Drive which meanders through the hills above the Badwater Basin. The Canon EOS 7D has a built-in level which I use a lot :)
© 2012 Jill Clardy
Whilst the Sun was very harsh at midday by the Laguna Blanca, Bolivia when this was captured, I thought that the multiple highlights from the fractured ice made a good, textural scene and the simplicity of this melting area cutting into the ice from one side suited what is essentially an image about surface texture rather than shape. That said, I like the inverted letter C too :-)
I've uploaded the full size version as this is way better viewed as large as possible.
UP 1983 leads the a Operation Lifesaver train northbound on the Santa Barbara Subdivision at CP CO395 approaching the Ash St crossing ~ Ventura, CA
Explore: 13 August 2012 - # 454
Note 1 - UP 1983 [ex-UP 8383] is an EMD SD70ACe locomotive owned by Union Pacific Railroad. She is one of UP's locomotives painted in the scheme of a predecessor railroad. UP 1983 is painted in Western Pacific Railroad colours. The locomotive was unveiled together with number 1982 [painted in honor of Missouri Pacific Railroad] in a private ceremony on July 30, 2005, in Omaha, Nebraska, after which she entered regular revenue service.
Note 2 - This is my 2nd time photographing UP 1983, I photographed her on 10/20/11 in Guadalupe, CA.
Waiting for christmas and waiting for the release in january 2012 of the official video of LUA, first single taken from their debut EP, they decided to upload this christmas cover with an unpretentious and funny video.
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Recorded by Andrea De Bernardi in Busto Arsizio (VA) Italy.
Filming Davide Leto Barone, Matteo Mugerli.
Editing Davide Leto Barone
Taken with a Bilora Bella camera which takes 8 exposures on a roll of 127 film.
The film was Kodacolor Gold 200, which expired in 1995, I processed it with the Tetenal C41 kit, and there is plenty of evidence of age related deterioration in image quality.
2012 is the centenary of the introduction of the 127 film format by Kodak in 1912. To mark this anniversary, I will be using as many 127 cameras as I can this year.
There is also a blog:
and my ongoing 52 cameras project:
Sincere good wishes for the New Year to all my many friends, I hope it brings you peace, happiness & prosperity, and may the light always be with you!
I have not been so active on Flickr recently, but my little "holiday" has made me realise that I have spent sufficient time playing with different cameras, films, & developers, and it is better for me to spend more time taking photographs! Accordingly, I have decided to use only one camera, one film, & one developer, for 2013.
The choices are agonising,of course, whatever I decide will mean sacrificing many old friends & bad habits, at least for a while! I don't really take that many photos in a year, so I might as well use the biggest practical sized negatives, 6X9. I like to travel fairly light, so a folder seems the way to go, and of the many 6x9 folders I have used, or own, my all time favourite is the Kodak Tourist 620, and since I have converted mine to use 120 straight out of the box, it fits the bill nicely.
That was easy, films & developer less so. I start the year with a lot of Shanghai GP3, quite a few rolls of Foma, in various speeds, and a few assorted Rollei films also, so I'll use them up first, but what to choose as a "standard" for the future is difficult. I am tempted to try Foma 200 again, it was my favourite film before the catastrophic re-launch, but I had some bad results with it after, but it seems they might have got it right now, otherwise, I may return to Tri-X 400, a film I used almost exclusively for nearly thirty years, so it's like an old friend, - tolerant, forgiving, and always predictable!
As for developers, I like Caffenol a lot, I like divided D23 the same, and Thornton's Two Bath, but I am again tempted to return to old friends, either Diafine, or D76H, (which is D76 without the hydroquinone, which is not healthy for the good guys who live in the septic tank!) In truth, the jury is still out on this one, and I'd be interested to hear other peoples ideas!
Oh, the picture, I almost forgot, - taken on 620 day 2012, the little station at Parsac-Gouzon, on the cross country line between Gueret & Montluçon, in Central France, not surprisingly, with the Tourist!
1948 Kodak Tourist I, f4.5/105mm Anaston lens, x2 yellow filter. Shanghai GP3 in Divided D23, 5+5 mins @21C. Scanned @1200dpi on Epson 500
Hi! So I've seen many doing this tag game, so I will make one, I I will use questions you have and see if I will come up with other questions! =)
1. Your name : Henrik (Alexanteri Laalo) Norrgård *() my middle name and my mum's surname. My dad's surname is Norrgård.
2. Are you named after someone or something? : Not that I remember, but I know that my dad choosed my name!
3. The last time you cried? : Yesterday.
4. Age? : 17, turning 18 17th of June!
5. Sexuality? :
6. Do you use sarcasm alot? : Actually yes really often, It's fun with sarcasm! xP
7. Eye colour? : Brown around the pupil and then it becomes greenish.
8. Height? : Last week I was around 1.93 meters.. I don't like to be tall.. ._.
9. Favourite smells? : Haha have some weird like petrol, new shoes, and some otherls like expensive perfumes (I've smelled some cheap and yuk!) And omg I love the smell of the beach! <3
10. Scary movie or Comedy? : Scary movies, more like disaster movies like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, well I also love scary movies (mostly asian!)
11. Summer or Winter? : None, I love the autum the most! Next comes the spring then summer and last winter, I like all the 4 times of the year so! ^^
12. Tv or Comuter? : Computer, 24/7, swedish television sucks.. Not to sound mean or negative but they only show american comedyshows or reality shows.. Not my type, actually I don't like to watch tv at all only movies or korean dramas.
13. Piercings or tattoos? : No, but I want a snakebite!
14. Born? To be exactly! Västerås BB in Sweden! =P
15. The longest you've been from your home? : Haha I've never travelled outside scandinavia, but the longest I've been is to Helsinki in Finland, but who knows how the future will be!
16. Describe yourself : Shy, but really fun to be with when you get to know me, If you have same intrests like me, I'm sure we will become good friends, since I don't have a single friend that likes the stuff I like, and I'm also a very caring person, and I've noticed that when I talk to people I always end up talking about myself.. Gotta stop doin' that! D=
17. Special talents? : Does sound like a little girl count as a special talent then yes.. xP
18. Hobbies? : Kpop, kdramas, movies,shopping, dolls, photo.
19. Own any pets? : Yes 2 cats for now!
20. Fave movie : I've seen so much I don't really know, but I guess I would choose Spirited Away (god can't stop the tears from falling when I watch that movie.. T___T)
21. Style? : I would see myself as a mixture of cozy/street/kpop. xP
22. Siblings : Yes.. Tons of them 7 with me included.. Fun fact : I am the middle child so.. Yeah awesome I know.. :3
23. Fave colur : Purple, Pink, or Blue!
24. Lucky number : 8, because it's not an uneven number and if you turn the 8 it looks like the infinity symbol (witch i usually see as unlimited happines and love) <3
25. If you could meet anyone from the earth? : My god! All the members of SNSD and EXO and 9 Muses! <3 My life would be completed then!! </3
26. Allergies? : Nope!
27. Addiction? :.. Kpop/Korean dramas and dolls! Lol!
28. Fave social media? : Facebook, Flickr and Instagram! Can't live without these 3!
29. Ever stole anything? : Yes.. Not proud of it..
30. What do you like about yourself? : Oh.. Hard.. Nothing actually, hate my face, hate my voice, hate my body.. The ONLY thing I like (sometimes) is my hair, when it wants to cooperate with me.. D:
31. Smoke or drinking? : No but I have tried both a few times.. Under age but it's normal in this age.. Sad but true..
32. Videogames? : My god yes! Like GTA, COD, sometimes Minecraft and zombie games, but most The Sims! <3
33. Broken any bones? : Yes, my toe got broken when I played "floorball"? without my shoes.. Ah.. the pain!..
34. Fave toy as a kid? : I was going to say Barbie, but we didn't have so much barbies since I started to grow up when I got my first real sister, but my fave toy was my HUUGE teddy bear which was blue and cute! <3
35. Like cheese? : My god yes! Love it, on everything.. Lol jk.. =P
36. Favourite tv show? : Since I am that person that don't like and have the time to watch tv shows, and I actually started to watch tv shows last year, so the only show that i actually really love is "The Heirs" kdrama and ofc Simpsons! ;3
37. Fave song? : Right now, the 24th of February 2014, my fave song is Mr. Mr. by Girls' Generation! <3
38. Dream vacation : I would love to travel around China, Korea and Japan with car, especially Korean and Japan together with ma best friends!
39. Favourite sentence? : I love to say the sentence : Sorry not sorry! Sound so good! And ofc everytime i cross the road I always shout out YOLO! So yeah!
40. Jealous of something? Many stuff, I am a geography nerd and about countries, I am super jealous of Norweigans, Germans, Swiss, Korean and Japanese people, most because their countries are among the best in the world, even is Sweden is in the same "leauge" as them, I don't know, I have always been jealous of them! xD
And ofc of all the ones here that have many dolls or accessories that I want!
Finally done! Hope you enjoyed this looong list! I enjoyed the ones I have read so! =) I love this kind of tag games, It is making us flickr friend come closer to each other! ^^
And see yourself as tagged when you see this! =)
Soviet aviation memories from a collection of some 80 slides of Soviet-built aircraft that I've had scanned from my archives. Hope they will provide some enjoyment and nostalgia from a bygone age.
Catching the western sun, DM-SCX makes a fine sight on an evening arrival (at sundown) at London Gatwick on the weekly charter that operated at the time 😎 :)
My trusty log book gives the flight number as IF7200.
Interflug at Gatwick Back in the early 1980s, I remember well waiting each Saturday afternoon (and often into the evening!) for the Interflug Tu-134A charter flight to arrive. Eventually we worked out there was an old computer terminal (green screen :) down on one of the airline desks that had the registrations appear around an hour before arrival was due - and often traipsed down there to see if the reg was up to save waiting around if not a 'cop'!
Checking the calendar, this was in fact a Sunday - so either an extra flight or running a day late!
Interflug I only bagged a handful registered as country prefix DM in the summer of 1980, and when the 1981 season started they had all been re-registered as DDR-
This was a bit of a surprise, as nearly all airlines at the time either had single or double letter prefixes.
DDR of course stood for Deutsche Demokratische Republik )(otherwise known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
DM-SCX c/n 48320 - Tupolev Tu-134A delivered new to Interflug in April 1976, and flew with the airline as such until May 1981 when renumbered as DDR-SCX. The aircraft continued into the post-Eastern Bloc era as D-AOBL from 1990 to 1991, and was then sold back to Russia as CCCP-65621 with Komiavia and then Harco Air. Around 1996 converted to a Tu-134A-3 and flew with Aeroflot as such. To Komiinteravia in 2001, and then TyumenAviaTrans (UTAir Aviation) in 2002. The aircraft remained in service until around 2012, only being retired after an astonishing 36 years of service! Believed to have been broken up around May 2014.
Interflug Tu-134(A)s - the airline operated one of the largest fleets of Tupolev Tu-134s and the larger Tu-134As in Europe, around 30 aircraft between 1968 and German unification in 1990. Here is a list of the fleet:
Tu-134
DM-SCA 1968-1972 - damaged on landing at Dresden 30/5/72 and sold to Aeroflot - since scrapped.
DM-SCB 1968-1986 - wfu and used as a restaurant cafe at Oschersleben, Germany until 2004 - since preserved at Flughafen Magdeburg.
DM-SCD 1969-1975 - w/o on landing at Leipzig - Halle 1/9/75
DM-SCE 1969-1985 - 175 East German Air Force, then Interflug 3/74, DDR-SCE in 4/81, wfu 5/85, presume scrapped
DM-SCF 1969-1986 - 178 East German Air Force, then Interflug 6/74, DDR-SCF in 7/81, wfu 6/86, and used as fire fighting trainer at at Leipzig, scrapped 5/13
DM-SCG 1969-1985 - 179 East German Air Force, then Interflug 2/74, DDR-SCG in 7/81, wfu 8/85, and used as fire fighting trainer at at Erfurt , since scrapped
DM-SCH 1969-1984 - DDR-SCH in 7/81, wfu 1/84, preserved on display Latuftfahrthistorische Sammlung, Finow
DM-SCZ 1969-1986 - 177 East German Air Force, then Interflug 12/75, DDR-SCZ in 7/81, wfu 6/86, preserved since 6/01 at Luftfahrt und Technik Museum, Merseburg
Tu-134A
DM-SCI 1973-1990 - DDR-SCI in 4/81, became D-AOBA 10/90, then sold to Aeroflot as CCCP-65611 2/92, then RA-65611 - wfu by 2012, presume scrapped
DM-SCK 1971-1990 - East German Air Force, then Interflug 11/79, DDR-SCK in 7/81 - wfu 9/90, moved by 6/94 to Hermeskeil Museum and preserved
DM-SCL 1971-1990 - 182 East German Air Force, then Interflug 5/77, DDR-SCL in 5/81 - wfu 3/90, purchased and preserved by HYDRO Gerätebau GmbH at Biberach, Germany
DM-SCM 1973-1977 - damaged on landing at Berlin Schönefeld 22/11/77 - broken up for parts
DM-SCN 1973-1990 - 170 East German Air Force, then Interflug 7/77, DDR-SCN in 4/81, became D-AOBC 10/90, then sold to Aeroflot as CCCP-65612 9/91, then RA-65612 - wfu 9/04 at Berlin Schönefeld, used for firefighting practice, broken up 8/10
DM-SCO 1973-1990 - 171 East German Air Force, then Interflug 5/79, DDR-SCO in 4/81, became D-AOBD 10/90, then sold to Aeroflot as CCCP-65613 10/91, then RA-65613 - wfu 2006, presume scrapped
DM-SCP 1974-1990 - East German Air Force, then Interflug 10/78, DDR-SCP in 7/81, became D-AOBE 10/90, then sold to Komiinteravia as CCCP-65615 10/91, then RA-65615 - wfu 2008, presume scrapped
DM-SCR 1974-1990 - 176 East German Air Force, then Interflug 5/77, DDR-SCR in 4/81, became D-AOBF 10/90, then sold to Syktyvkar Avia as RA-65616 10/91 - wfu 2008, presume scrapped
DM-SCS 1974-1990 - East German Air Force, then Interflug 5/79, DDR-SCS in 4/81, became D-AOBG 10/90, then sold to Aeroflot as CCCP-65614 10/91, then RA-65614 - wfu 2008, presume scrapped
DM-SCT 1974-1990 - DDR-SCT in 5/81, became D-AOBH 10/90, then sold to Komiaviatrans 8/91 as RA-65617 10/91, damaged 24/6/95 landing at Kaduna, Nigeria and broken up
DM-SCU 1974-1990 - DDR-SCU in 7/81, became D-AOBI 10/90, then sold to Syktyvkar Avia as CCCP-65605 12/90, then EW-65605 Belair (Belarus), then RA-65605 - wfu 2005, presume scrapped
DM-SCV 1974-1990 - DDR-SCV in 4/81, became D-AOBJ 10/90, then sold to Aeroflot as CCCP-65618 10/91, then RA-65618 - wfu 2005, presume scrapped
DM-SCW 1975-1990 - East German Air Force, DDR-SCW in 10/81, then Interflug 5/82, became D-AOBK 10/90, then sold to Aeroflot as CCCP-65619 10/91, then RA-65619, then UN-65619 with Atyrau Airways, Kazakhstan, then UP-T3405 with Kazakhstan Air Force - seen stored in 2018
DM-SCX 1976-1990 - DDR-SCX in 5/81, became D-AOBL 10/90, then sold to Aeroflot as CCCP-65621 10/91, then RA-65621 - wfu by 2012 and broken up 2014
DM-SCY 1978-1990 - DDR-SCY in 4/81, became D-AOBM 10/90, then sold to Aeroflot as CCCP-65622 10/90, then RA-65622 - wfu by 2012 and broken up 2013
DM-SDC 1974-1990 - 181 East German Air Force, then Interflug 3/82 as DDR-SDC, became D-AOBN 10/90, then sold to Aeroflot as CCCP-65620 10/91, then RA-65620 - wfu by 2014 and broken up at Syktyvkar, Russia 11/14
DM-SDE 1975-1990 - 183 East German Air Force, then Interflug 3/85 as DDR-SDE, became D-AOBO 10/90, then sold to Syktyvkar Avia as CCCP-65608 9/91, then RA-65608 - wfu by 2014 and broken up at Syktyvkar, Russia 1/15
DM-SDF 1975-1990 - 185 East German Air Force, then Interflug 7/84 as DDR-SDF, became D-AOBP 10/90, then sold to Syktyvkar Avia as CCCP-65610 9/91, then RA-65610, then UN-65610 with Atyrau Airways, Kazakhstan, then UP-T3406 with Kazakhstan Air Force - seen stored in 2018
DM-SDG 1976-1990 - 186 East German Air Force, then Interflug 2/88 as DDR-SDG, became D-AOBQ 10/90, then sold to Aeroflot as CCCP-65609 9/91, then RA-65609, then UN-65610 with UTAir Express, wfu 2014 and broken up
DM-SDH 1976-1990 - DDR-SDH in 6/81, became D-AOBR 10/90, then sold to Aeroflot as CCCP-65606 10/90, then RA-65606 - wfu by 2004 and transferred to Tupolev Design Bureau - converted to Tu-134A-3 - still current!
DM-SDI 1976-1990 - DDR-SDI in 4/81, became D-AOBS 10/90, then sold to Aeroflot as CCCP-65607 10/90, then RA-65607 - wfu by 2014 and broken up 2016
DM-SDO 1979-1990 118 East German Air Force, DDR-SDO in 8/81, then Interflug 8/81, then sold to Vietnam Airlines as VN-A130 6/90 - wfu 1997 and broken up at Hanoi, Noibai International airport around 2004
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith E camera and 300mm lens. From an original slide, scanned with minimal restoration.
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/
This pretty little Michigan waterfall is hidden in the Beaver Basin Wilderness , PRNL. If you like brook trout fishing there are lots of them in here. Sorry I've been a lame contact here on flickr , lots of irons in the fire lately!
Camera - Nikon D700
Lens - Nikon16-35mm
Exposure -..1/5 sec
Focal length -26mm
Aperture - f/8
ISO Speed -200
Quality - raw processed in capture NX2
© Copyright 2012 John McCormick , All Rights Reserved
A new route for the 2019 summer season operated by Stagecoach Devon is the 222, operating hourly between Dawlish Warren-Teignmouth, the route is supposed to be open top operated, but apart from the first few days of the season it has been run by closed tope buses due to an issue with overhanging branches.
15800-WA61KZL is pictured heading past the Smugglers Inn at Holcombe bound for Teignmouth. You may be wondering where the third 2 has gone on the display, I assume unlike the more regularly uses Tridents these Scanias have yet to have the 222 displays programmed, so made do with one of the route 22 displays instead, which given it's not open top operated ironically makes more sense!
Company: Stagecoach Devon
Registration: WA61KZL
Fleet Number: 15800
New: 2012
Chassis: Scania N230UD
Bodywork: Enviro 400 H75F
Route: 222 (Dawlish Warren, Bach Road-Teignmouth, WH Smith)
Location: A379, Holcombe, Teignmouth
Exposure: 1/500 @ f8 200ISO
Lens: Pentax M 50mm F1.7
Date: 22 June 2019
Meus amigos, tentei postar aqui um vídeo dedicado a todos vocês, mas o tempo não foi suficiente para rodá-lo inteiro... Aqui está o link da mensagem dedicada a cada um que esteve comigo em 2011 e com quem eu conto estar em 2012!
anapitteri.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/boas-festas/
My friends, I tried to post here a video dedicated to all of you, but it was not possible ... Here is the link of the message dedicated to each one of you, who was with me in 2011
Seen by my Yashica-Mat TLR. I used an orange filter and Fomapan 400 iso film.
Please take a look at my most interesting photos Or take a look at my entire portfolio
Explored #461, 25/08/2012
"In classical music, the violin can be the most important instrument because it has a very distinct melody and sound than other instruments of the orchestra. In fact, most orchestra are dedicated to violins where the melody and the harmony are both played by the violinists.
Not just for the romantics, violin soloists often have the ability to translate their talent and skills to change an emotion for their audience." ~Tomitheos
Copyright © 2011 - 2012 Tomitheos Photography - All Rights Reserved
Inset Pic: Max Scheinin - Violinist
Location: Ben Navaee Gallery - Toronto
Date: April 30, 2011
New!! ~ Challenge 161.0 ~ September Days ~ The Award Tree www.flickr.com/groups/awardtree/discuss/72157684718180762/
Vertigo is a 1958 American film noir psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on the 1954 novel D'entre les morts (From Among the Dead) by Boileau-Narcejac. The screenplay was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor.
The film stars James Stewart as former police detective John "Scottie" Ferguson. Scottie is forced into early retirement because an incident in the line of duty has caused him to develop acrophobia (an extreme fear of heights) and vertigo (a false sense of rotational movement). Scottie is hired by an acquaintance, Gavin Elster, as a private investigator to follow Gavin's wife Madeleine (Kim Novak), who is behaving strangely.
The film was shot on location in San Francisco, California, and at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. It is the first film to use the dolly zoom, an in-camera effect that distorts perspective to create disorientation, to convey Scottie's acrophobia. As a result of its use in this film, the effect is often referred to as "the Vertigo effect".
Vertigo received mixed reviews upon initial release, but is now often cited as a classic Hitchcock film and one of the defining works of his career. Attracting significant scholarly criticism, it replaced Citizen Kane (1941) as the best film ever made in the 2012 British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics' poll.[2] In 1996, the film underwent a major restoration to create a new 70mm print and DTS soundtrack. It has appeared repeatedly in polls of the best films by the American Film Institute,[3] including a 2007 ranking as the ninth-greatest American movie of all time.
All my congrats Ladies !!!!!!
Names coming in any particular order.
Mila Battitude
Vivienne Darcy
Linnda Scofield
Giuls Scarpulla
Angels Milena
dreamlove resident
Sienna Bellios
Shena Neox
Di Hoorenbeek
Natzuka Miliandrovic
② FINAL :
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═ Sunday November 4 th. at 1 PM ═
You will create either two or three looks for the jury:
You will create one look by mixing and matching parts from different Fellini gowns. You may also use parts of other designer outfits as well for this look.
You will create a second look from one Fellini Couture gown (the same gown will be passed to each semi-finalist).
The judges will then select 5 finalists and each finalist will create one final look by selecting and styling a Fellini Couture gown of her choice. This will be your last opportunity to impress the judges!
➩ One Muse
➩ 1st runner up
➩ 2nd runner up will be elected.
Winners will be announced just after the show. We will just need time to count votes.
✰The Jury✰
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* Joy Fellini
Fellini Couture & Lingerie Designer, Photographer.
* Carilynn OHare
Fellini Couture Muse 2010, MV♛ Miss Ireland 2011
* Anna Sapphire
Fellini Muse 2012 MV♛ 2012
Y siguiendo con la serie que inicié el otro día de Artesanos de Cádiz, hoy os traigo a mi amigo Juan Rivera.
Juan es Joyero. Más de 40 años de andadura a sus espaldas entre sopletes, limas y moldes. Como él mismo suele decir: "Llevo toda mi vida dedicada al placer de trabajar con metales nobles... y si tuviese otra, me dedicaría a lo mismo". Juan es de esos que aman lo que hacen, y ahí sigue en su taller de la calle Beato Diego desde 1969.
Aparte de lo típico que se puede encontrar en cualquier joyería, Juan se ha especializado en realizar réplicas de lugares y monumentos de Cádiz adaptados a piezas de joyería. Conocida es su réplica exacta del anillo Fenicio que se encontró en la excavación de la Casa del Obispo.
Lo más curioso que pudimos ver con él, es como de la simple cáscara de un choco (sepia), era capaz de sacar un molde para sus creaciones. Un trabajo que podéis ver en su web en uno de los vídeos que tiene publicados. Aquí os pongo el enlace a su web:
www.riverajoyero.blogspot.com.es/
Mucha suerte, Juan.
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So rich in tones, for years I 'experimented' in the studio, to get that Flemish painter's light? Well, I was born in Flanders, it must be in my blood? LOL.
I love Ranunculus, especially the red ones, rare, less densely layered, however this bloom opened beautifully, not always evident, their stems are extremely delicate and do tend to just collapse before the bud can open into a gorgeous voluptuous bloom...
I am the original creator of these photos!
Giving my flowers SOUL? My Soul Flowers on youtube and Studio Flowers 2011 THIS IS THE LATEST!!! NEW:
Why not take a few minutes, click on the links, sit back and relax, enjoy the beauty, you'll feel replenished?
With love to you and thanK you for ALL your faves and comments, M, (* _ *)
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The demolition of the dissused Steetley magnesite works has begun.....
The derelict Steetley Magnesite works at Hartlepool looking like a grand gladiators coliseum. I cant quite expalin what the strange attraction to this place really is, its like a scene from Mad Max. You walk through a tunnel from a regular street scene & into this surreal place of industrial dereliction & decay, hidden from view by a high embankment.
Archive pictures of the works when it was in full swing courtesy of Mark >>> www.flickr.com/photos/beamishmuseum/sets/7215762610554866...
© 2012 Michael Ridley
Images may not be used without prior permission
"I Get So Emotional", combined with "I Want to Dance with Somebody (who loves me)" and five other number one hits to set a record of 7 consecutive Number One hits--beating a record previously held by the Beatles and the Bee Gees. The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin is her Godmother, her cousin is Dionne Warwick and her mother is Cissy Houston--so musical stardom was a natural step from fashion model for this New Jersey native, Whitney Houston.
Her turbulent personal life, hounded by drama from her marriage to Bobby (It's my Perogative') Brown, concerns over drug abuse and anorexia--have cast a shadow over her career, but none doubt her great talent, beauty and incredible voice. It's so sad to loose such a bright star so early in her life, (age 48), as Whitney is found dead in Los Angeles, in her hotel room, one night prior to a scheduled performance at the 2012 Grammy awards.
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BLYTHE A DAY: flickr group
SEPTEMBER 2018
DAY 9: "DOLLHOUSE"
THAT is all you really need to *know* :) :)
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[Another dissertation follows; no need to read through it ... I am recording some facts, ala "History Book" style ... ]
WHO got THE MOST ICONIC Doll House ever?
WE DID!!!
I have wanted this since 1965 ... when my "well off" friend up the street had one. Neither of my 3 sisters or I, had such luxuries!
Since 2012, when I discovered BLYTHE, I have even been eyeballing getting a used one on eBay, in the best condition I could find ... which were quite pricey! (I have folders FULL of research, but never made the purchase.)
Fast forward ... MATTEL made a REPRODUCTION!!!
WHAT???
Yes, yes they did! It is EXACTLY THE SAME ... exterior, interior, ALL the furniture is the same; (the only difference is ... the stereo 'albums' are all "Barbie", and not actual LPs that were included in the original.
I LOVE IT!
And WHO wouldda thunk ...
PICTURED:
THIS is my FIRST Grandson, Abel. He is using his FIRST camera (he LOVES photography!). The Blythe doll in the scene is ... you guessed it ... HIS first Blythe doll! (He was so interested in the mechanical workings of the different parts. I showed him my Blythe storeroom ... box of scalps; different face plates; bag full of bodies; rubbermaid tubs full of fashions ... and he was fascinated with the changing eyes, of course! So, he asked if he could "make one", and I let him choose everything from head to toe. (He WANTED a Mimi 'full figure' body ... and I could not understand WHY ... until, the more I though about it ... his Mommy, my Daughter-In-Law, is pregnant with Grandchild #4 ... and ABEL is my FIRST GRANDCHILD ... so he has seen the process of his two younger siblings, and how his Mommy's body resembles the Mimi-body ... for most of his life! hehe ...
He has such an uncanny interest in photography ... he goes around taking photos of "the way things are today" ... for his archives! Like a little historian (which, by the way, my Dad, his Great-Grandpa had ... even though they never met! Genes, people ... GENES!)
So, admittedly, he doesn't really "play" with her ... she just sits around as his photographic muse! ;)
Our FIRST BARBIE DOLL HOUSE!
Our FIRST GRANDSON!
His FIRST CAMERA!
His FIRST BLYTHE!
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I have tried to do this shot a few times in the past and never really managed to nail it. I had problems with getting the exposure right, getting the orientation correct and always ended up fixing and cropping things in post. This time armed with a new android app called “DSLR Controller” and a bit of practice with this kind of shot, I aimed to get it right.
DSLR Controller is an app that runs on my Samsung Galaxy S2 android phone and connects via a USB “On The Go” cable to the standard USB cable that came with my Canon 5D Mark II (it does work with many other Canon cameras). The two key features that helped with a shot like this are:
1) Being able to use the phone screen in “Live View” mode (helped with alignment)
2) Being able to take more than 3 exposures in Auto Exposure Bracketing mode (helped to capture the massive dynamic range here).
The image above doesn’t show it but the conditions for this type of shot where not ideal. It was taken just before 5pm on a very bright sunny day and the sun was shining in through the windows. Any other “normal” non HDR shot would have been completely blown out and unusable.
The shot here was actually a 17 exposure HDR image with the camera set to RAW, f5.6, ISO 100 and the bracketed shots went from 1/8000sec (-8 EV) to 8 seconds (+8 EV). The resultant images where imported into Lightroom and then exported to Photomatix to generate the HDR. No cropping of the final image was done.
I have tried generating a couple of HDR images using a smaller number of the 17 images captured but it does become noticeable around the windows that there is detail missing. I am not sure if I’ll be making a habit of this as one major issue with this number of shots for one image is that it uses around 600Mb of disk space for the 17 x raw files and the exported Photomatix TIFF file!
For more information about DSLR Controller see the links:
Play:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.dslrco...
Website:
UPDATE 9th Aug 2012:
This image was submitted and came 2nd for Martin Baileys assignment "Geometry", for more information see the links:
"Δεν γεννιέσαι γυναίκα, γίνεσαι.
Καμιά βιολογική, ψυχολογική ή οικονομική μοίρα δεν προσδιορίζει τη μορφή
με την οποία η γυναίκα παρουσιάζεται στην κοινωνία.
Είναι ο πολιτισμός στο σύνολό του που παράγει αυτό το πλάσμα
που είναι ανάμεσα στον αρσενικό και τον ευνούχο
και που περιγράφεται σαν θηλυκό."
Σιμόν ντε Μποβουάρ, Το δεύτερο φύλο
March, 8th - International Woman's Day
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God."
- 1 John 4:7 (ESV)
Hello All,
Exactly a year ago, I was blessed to meet Sean and Steph Mayo at Brickfair 2011. Since that time, they have become very close friends of mine. Of all the things that God has done for me in the LEGO world, introducing me to Sean and Steph was the best gift of all.
I am finding it quite hard to put into words the appreciation and love that I have for these two. God has richly blessed them and the blessings seem to overflow from their life and into mine. As a "thank you" and a token of my love for them, I surprised them with this mosaic at Brickfair 2012 where it won Best Mosaic in the mosaic category.
God bless you, Sean and Steph.
The challenge in this mosaic was that it only has 2 colors. It was a technique that I saw last year at Brickfair, but I didn't think it was very well achieved so I wanted to play around with it. I had this idea for about 8 months, and began working on the build about 6 months ago. I ran out of trans plates but Sean managed to pick some up at the LEGO Store and shipped them up to me (this is just an example of the sacrifice and love that they are willing to go through for somebody like me).
I chose this technique for the greyscale because it gave me a much larger palette and therefore much more space for detail. If I were to rely just on the LEGO grey palette I would essentially have 4 colors (black, both greys, and white). Those of you who know mosaics know that the less colors you have, you generally have less room for detail. I chose this technique, then, because it gave me up to 12 different shades (9 of them were actually used).
Altogether, the mosaic uses close to 4000 pieces and took about 20 hours to construct.
Enjoy!
SOLI DEO GLORIA!
-Blake
The Shard, London.
The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 95-storey skyscraper in London. Its construction began in March 2009; it was topped out on 30 March 2012 and inaugurated on 5 July 2012. It opened to the public on 1 February 2013. Standing 309.6 metres (1,016 ft) high, the Shard is the tallest building in the European Union, and the second-tallest in Europe, after the Mercury City Tower in Moscow. The Shard is also the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the concrete tower at the Emley Moor transmitting station.
The Shard replaced Southwark Towers, a 24-storey office block built on the site in Southwark in 1975. Renzo Piano, the Shard's architect, worked with the architectural firm Broadway Malyan during the planning stage. The glass-clad pyramidal tower has 72 habitable floors, with a viewing gallery and open-air observation deck – the UK's highest – on the 72nd floor, at a height of 245 metres (804 ft).
Similar to my first car. This one is fitted with a 250cc twin cylinder Villiers engine, as were two other Mark Gs at the rally. The car was also available with a 250cc single. The latter were more common as they were cheaper to buy and the engines tended to be more reliable and were much more economical.
I've got mixed memories of mine. It was my first car; something always fondly remembered by a car enthusiast. Objectively though, it was an unreliable, slow, and very noisy heap. The driving chain kept coming off. I could put it back on pretty quickly, but that wasn't much fun on a cold, wet night, with traffic edging round you. It needed replacement sprockets which would have cost more than the car was worth and I, being still at school, couldn't really afford.
This car only has an MOT history since 2012 and only covers a few hundred miles each year. I love the simplicity of it.
On June 26, 1970, the provincial legislature passed Bill 2012, An Act to Establish The Regional Municipality, and York County became York Region on January 1, 1971. York Region continued to meet at 62 Bayview Parkway until the new Administrative Centre was built on 17250 Yonge St. in 1994.
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We saved this little Mole from our cats' paws. Despite to the cats, she was fine and so we brought her in a field not far from the woods. She has now a new (and safer) home!
See it on Fluidr.
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I went out to Missouri last week to give a talk about Woodstock to a college class. I was gonna go to Round Top, Texas to buy photographs, but I was worried about my sister in North Carolina (but that's better now, a bit --- i'm not so worried now, and I'm gonna help her and her friends (she has a few) are gonna help her and it's gonna be all right, I hope) and so I decided to come on back to North Carolina early. I was already a bit bummed out, because this is also the weekend of the New York Photo Show, and there was this party I was invited to, where all the Big-Time Vernacular Photo Collectors from around the country were invited, Nicholas Osborn and Robert Flynn Johnson and Robert Jackson and Peter Cohen and John Boring (Jack Mord of flickr fame) Erin Waters and Stacy Waldman and a host of others, and, well, I've got an ego, and I'd kinda like to be seen as being a player, like those guys and girls are players. I mean, I may not be Lou Gehrig or Grover Cleveland Alexander, and I'm certainly not Babe Ruth, but I'd like to think I could at least sit on the bench in the clubhouse while those guys are up taking their swings.
So anyway, I didn't go to Texas, and I didn't go to New York City, and I was feeling a little sorry for myself. I was going to miss out on being seen as a Big-Time Cheese in the Vernacular Photo Collecting World. I decided to at least take a leisurely drive back to North Carolina, by way of some Missouri River towns, where I might find some photos, and Kentucky and Tennessee and Georgia. I knew I would find a few photos in Georgia, because I was going somewhere where somebody had some saved up for me to look at. But that would be like shooting fish in a barrel, so that didn't count.
Anyway, I left Kansas City on Thursday morning, March 29th, 2012, headed for Rocheport, Missouri, and then points east. I had a hotel room reserved in a (proved to be) somewhat seedy roadside motel in Marion, Illinois. I hoped to find a few photos along the way. I wanted to go to Rocheport because it was in Rocheport that I met a fellow named Richard Saunders, twelve or fifteen years ago, and it was out of the mouth of Richard Saunders that I first heard the word "Brimfield," and Brimfield has been rich in my photo-collecting life, where I have bought great photographs, and met wonderful people, and been happy, and, uh, parted with more than a little of my heard unearned geld.
But anyway, when I got to Rocheport, well, things happened, and it wasn't that long after I got there that I was sitting in this woman's living room, the woman who's a young girl in this little photobooth, Mary Louise (she probably wouldn't mind if I told you her last name --- it's Irish, like O'Connell or O'Malley or O'Ketchup, something like that. But not one of those. And she's not that much Irish. She's "three-fourths French." She told me that four or five times.) She wouldn't mind if I told you, but I told her I wouldn't tell you, so I won't tell you. But if you go to Rocheport and tell people you're looking for Mary Louise people will point you down the street to her house, and probably in no time you'll be sitting on a couch in her living room (might help to tell her you're a friend of mine), looking at some of her family photos. I don't know if she'll give you a glass of iced tea. She didn't give me a glass of iced tea, but I think we were too excited, looking at her photographs. She said she was busy and she had things to do and maybe she was trying to get me to leave, voluntarily, but we must have looked at a couple of thousand photographs more after she said that. I think she went and got some more. When I was leaving, she said she hadn't made supper, so she couldn't feed me. She gave me a devil's food chocolate cupcake with some German chocolate icing on top. Maybe she'll give you a cupcake.
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Well on Friday evening I thought I would wander out and pay my first visit to Pew Tor, unfortunately more people turned up which scuppered my plans for the composition I wanted, rather than come home empty handed I thought I would find a less popular spot to try my first attempt at a Timelapse, I brought an intervalometer quite some time ago now and have been meaning to have a go ever since, so here it is...
I setup on the other side of the hill to where the sun was setting and had some lovey slow moving cloud to photograph, approximately 45 mins and 730 frames later I had just over 30 seconds of video at 24 frames per second, having put all the theory into practice I learnt a lot on the first shoot and figure I should be able to do a little better next time round given the right location and conditions, I have some Ideas floating around that I would like to try so watch this space :)
The biggest Issue for me was the processing, my poor Laptop was working overtime importing and rendering the files so If I do much more of this then I think I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and build myself a Custom pc to speed up the whole process!.
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Dover (/ˈdoʊvər/; French: Douvres) is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France across the strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury; east of Kent's county town Maidstone; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings. The town is the administrative centre of the Dover District and home of the Dover Calais ferry through the Port of Dover. The surrounding chalk cliffs are known as the White Cliffs of Dover.
Its strategic position has been evident throughout its history: archaeological finds have revealed that the area has always been a focus for peoples entering and leaving Britain. The name of the town derives from the name of the river that flows through it, the River Dour. The town has been inhabited since the Stone Age according to archaeological finds, and Dover is one of only a few places in Britain – London, Edinburgh, and Cornwall being other examples – to have a corresponding name in the French language, Douvres.
There was a military barracks in Dover, which was closed in 2007.[3] Although many of the former ferry services have declined, services related to the Port of Dover provide a great deal of the town’s employment, as does tourism. The prospect of privatising the sale of the Port of Dover to create increased cash flow for the government was given a recent ironic twist due to the rejection of a possible bid from the town of Calais in France after opposition in Dover against any sale forced the government to withdraw the Port from the market. Local residents had clubbed together to propose buying it for the community, more than 12,000 people have bought a £10 share in the People's Port Trust.
Etymology
First recorded in its Latinised form of Portus Dubris, the name derives from the Brythonic word for waters (dwfr in Middle Welsh). The same element is present in the towns French (Douvres) and Modern Welsh (Dofr) forms, as well as the name of the river Dour and is evident in other English towns such as Wendover.
A 2013 study [4] suggested the name may come from an ancient word for 'double bank' referring to the shingle spit(s) that formed across the harbour entrance, for which a word dover is still used in the Isle of Wight. Subsequent name forms included Doverre;[5]
The current name was in use at least by the time of Shakespeare's King Lear (between 1603 and 1606), in which the town and its cliffs play a prominent role. The sight of the white cliffs when approaching Dover may have given the island of Britain its ancient name of Albion.
History
Dover’s history, because of its proximity to France, has always been of great strategic importance to Britain. Archaeological finds have shown that there were Stone Age people in the area; and that by the Bronze Age the maritime influence was already strong. Some Iron Age finds exist also, but the coming of the Romans made Dover part of their communications network. Like Lemanis (Lympne) and Rutupiae (Richborough) Dover was connected by road to Canterbury and Watling Street; and it became Portus Dubris, a fortified port. Forts were built above the port; lighthouses were constructed to guide passing ships; and one of the best-preserved Roman villas in Britain is here.
Dover figured largely in the Domesday Book as an important borough. It also served as a bastion against various attackers: notably the French during the Napoleonic Wars; and against Germany during the Second World War. It was the capital of the Cinque Ports during medieval times.[6]
Geography and climate
Dover is near the extreme south-east corner of Britain between Deal and Folkestone. At South Foreland, the nearest point to the continent, Cap Gris Nez near Calais is 34 kilometres (21 mi) away, across the Strait of Dover - because of this, the town is strongly associated with France[7]
The site of its original settlement lies in the valley of the River Dour, making it an ideal place for a port, sheltered from the prevailing south-westerly winds. This led to the silting up of the river mouth by the action of longshore drift; the town was then forced into making artificial breakwaters to keep the port in being. These breakwaters have been extended and adapted so that the port lies almost entirely on reclaimed land.
The higher land on either side of the valley – the Western Heights and the eastern high point on which Dover Castle stands – has been adapted to perform the function of protection against invaders. The town has gradually extended up the river valley, encompassing several villages in doing so. Little growth is possible along the coast, since the cliffs are on the sea’s edge. The railway, being tunnelled and embanked, skirts the foot of the cliffs.
Dover has an oceanic climate (Koppen classification Cfb) similar to the rest of the United Kingdom with mild temperatures year-round and a light amount of rainfall each month. The warmest recorded temperature was 31 °C (88 °F) and the coldest was −8 °C (18 °F), but the temperature is usually between 3 °C (37 °F) and 21.1 °C (70.0 °F). There is evidence that the sea is coldest in February; the warmest recorded temperature for February was only 13 °C (55 °F), compared with 16 °C (61 °F) in January.
Demography
In 1800, the year before Britain's first national census, Edward Hasted (1732–1812) reported that the town had a population of almost 10,000 people.[10]
At the 2001 census, the town of Dover had 28,156 inhabitants, while the population of the whole urban area of Dover, as calculated by the Office for National Statistics, was 39,078 inhabitants.[11]
With the expansion of Dover, many of the outlying ancient villages have been incorporated into the town. Originally the parishes of Dover St. Mary's and Dover St. James, since 1836 Buckland and Charlton have become part Dover, and Maxton (a hamlet to the west), River, Kearsney, Temple Ewell, and Whitfield, all to the north of the town centre, are within its conurbation.
Economy
Shipping
The Dover Harbour Board[12] is the responsible authority for the running of the Port of Dover. The English Channel, here at its narrowest point in the Straits of Dover, is the busiest shipping lane in the world. Ferries crossing between here and the Continent have to negotiate their way through the constant stream of shipping crossing their path. The Dover Strait Traffic Separation Scheme allots ships separate lanes when passing through the Strait. The Scheme is controlled by the Channel Navigation Information Service based at Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre Dover. MRCC Dover is also charged with co-ordination of civil maritime search and rescue within these waters.[13]
The Port of Dover is also used by cruise ships. The old Dover Marine railway station building houses one passenger terminal, together with a car park. A second, purpose built, terminal is located further out along the pier.[14]
The ferry lines using the port are (number of daily sailings in parentheses):
to Calais: P&O Ferries (25), DFDS Seaways (10).
to Dunkirk: DFDS Seaways (11).
These services have been cut in recent years:
P&O Ferries sailings to Boulogne (5 daily) were withdrawn in 1993 and Zeebrugge (4 daily) in 2002.
SNCF withdrew their three train ferry sailings on the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
Regie voor Maritiem Transport[15][16] moved their Ostend service of three sailings daily to Ramsgate in 1994; this route was operated by TransEuropa Ferries until April 2013.
Stena Line merged their 20 Calais sailings into the current P&O operation in 1998.
Hoverspeed ceased operations in 2005 and withdrew their 8 daily sailings.
SpeedFerries ceased operations in 2008 and withdrew their 5 daily sailings.
LD Lines ceased the Dover-Dieppe service on 29 June 2009 and Dover-Boulogne 5 September 2010.
SeaFrance ceased operations in 2012 of their Dover-Calais service which was their only service.
Transport
Dover’s main communications artery, the A2 road replicates two former routes, connecting the town with Canterbury. The Roman road was followed for centuries until, in the late 18th century, it became a toll road. Stagecoaches were operating: one description stated that the journey took all day to reach London, from 4am to being "in time for supper".[17]
The other main roads, travelling west and east, are the A20 to Folkestone and thence to London and the A258 through Deal to Sandwich.
The railway reached Dover from two directions: the South Eastern Railway's main line connected with Folkestone in 1844, and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway opened its line from Canterbury in 1861. Trains run from Dover Priory to London Charing Cross, London Victoria or London St Pancras International stations in London, and Ramsgate or Sandwich in Kent. Trains from Dover Priory are run by Southeastern (train operating company).
A tram system operated in the town from 1897 to 1936.
Dover has two long distance footpaths: the Saxon Shore Way and the North Downs Way. Two National Cycle Network routes begin their journey at the town.
The Port of Dover is a 20 minute walk from Dover Priory railway station.
The Dover to Dunkirk ferry route was originally operated by ferry operator Norfolkline. This company was later acquired by the pan European operator DFDS Seaways in July 2010.[18] The crossing time is approximately two hours.[19] Due to this route not being as well known as Dover to Calais, prices are often cheaper.[20] The location of Dunkirk is also more convenient for those travelling by road transport on to countries in Northern Europe including Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and further afield.
Stagecoach in East Kent provide local bus services. Dover is on the Stagecoach Diamond network providing links to Canterbury and Deal. The Western Docks at the port of Dover are served from the Town Centre as well as Canterbury and Deal. Dover is the start of The Wave network to New Romney via Folkestone, Hythe and Dymchurch. There are services to Lydd via Lydd Airport, with one continuing from Lydd on to Hastings via Camber and Rye. There is a link to Sandwich and Ramsgate. Buses run from Dover to Canterbury via Aylesham.
National Express runs coaches from Dover to other towns in Kent including Canterbury, Folkestone, Ashford, Kent, Maidstone, Gillingham at Hempsted Valley shopping centre and Greenhithe at Bluewater Shopping Centre for Dartford to London including Bexleyheath, Eltham, Walworth, Canary Wharf, Elephant & Castle, The City (The City of London) and to Victoria Coach Station
All buses serve Pencester Road except route 68 to Maxton operated by Regent Coaches.[citation needed]
Retail
The town's main shopping streets are the High Street and Biggin Street. The Castleton Retail Park is to the north-west of the town centre.
There are plans to open a 6 screen Cineworld Cinema and leisure element ( Restaurants) at St James but not until 2017. It has been recently announced that Marks and Spencer will relocate to St James Development and that the current M&S general store will close. The new 16,000 sq feet store at St James will be an M&S Simply Food with café only and will not sell clothing or homeware unlike the current store which will shut in 2016. Simmonds Jeweller's will close their Dover branch after 40 years in January 2014.[citation needed] The M&S general store and Simmonds branch in nearby Deal will remain open.[citation needed]
Independent stores continue to grow in Dover,[citation needed] but the main town centre of Dover remains in decline compared to other towns like Deal (Telegraph High Street of the Year 2013), Canterbury, Westwood Cross and Ashford who continue to take trade away from Dover.[citation needed]
RNLI
The Dover lifeboat is a Severn class lifeboat based in the Western Docks.[21] Dover Lifeboat station is based at crosswall quay in Dover Harbour. There is a Severn-class lifeboat, which is the biggest in the fleet. It belongs to the RNLI which covers all of Great Britain. The lifeboat number is 17-09 and has a lot of emergencies in the Channel. The Severn class is designed to lay afloat. Built from fibre reinforced composite (FRC) the boat is lightweight yet very strong and is designed to right itself in the event of a capsize.
Education
There are nine secondary level schools, 16 primary schools and two schools for special education.
Non-selective secondary schools include Astor College, St Edmund's Catholic School and Dover Christ Church Academy. Dover Grammar School for Boys and Dover Grammar School for Girls are the main grammar schools for the town.
Astor College for the Arts federated with St Radigunds Primary School (then renamed White Cliffs Primary College for the Arts) to form the Dover Federation for the Arts (DFA). Subsequently, Barton Junior School and Shatterlocks Nursery and Infant School joined the DFA. Two schools have been rated by OFSTED as Outstanding and two Good with outstanding features. In 2014 the Dover Federation for the Arts was warned by the Department for Education about "unacceptably low standards of performance of pupils ".[22]
The Duke of York's Royal Military School, England's only military boarding school for children of service personnel (co-ed ages 11–18), is also located in Dover, next to the former site of Connaught Barracks.
Dover College, a public school was founded in 1871 by a group of local business men.[23]
Public services
Dover has one hospital, Buckland Hospital[24] built in 2015 and located just along from its previous location ( A former Victorian workhouse) on Coombe Valley Road. The town once had four hospitals, Buckland, Royal Victoria, Isolation and the Eye Hospitals located at various points across the town.
Local media
Television
Dover was the home to television studios and production offices of Southern Television Ltd, the company which operated the ITV franchise for South and South East England from 1958-1981. The studios were located on Russell Street and were home to programmes like 'Scene South East', 'Scene Midweek', 'Southern News', 'Farm Progress' and the nightly epilogue, 'Guideline'. The studios were operated by TVS in 1982 and home to 'Coast to Coast', however they closed a year later when the company moved their operations to the newly complete Television Centre in Maidstone.
Newspapers
Dover has two paid for newspapers, the Dover Express (published by Kent Regional News and Media) and the Dover Mercury (published by the KM Group). Free newspapers for the town include the Dover and Deal Extra, part of the KM Group; and yourdover, part of KOS Media.
Radio
Dover has one local commercial radio station, KMFM Shepway and White Cliffs Country, broadcasting to Dover on 106.8FM. The station was founded in Dover as Neptune Radio in September 1997 but moved to Folkestone in 2003 and was consequently rebranded after a takeover by the KM Group. Dover is also served by the county-wide stations Heart, Gold and BBC Radio Kent.
The Gateway Hospital Broadcasting Service, in Buckland Hospital radio, closed at the end of 2006. It was the oldest hospital radio station in East Kent being founded in 1968.[25]
Dover Community Radio (DCR) currently offer internet programming and podcasts on local events and organisations on their website. The online station of the same name launched on 30 July 2011 offering local programmes, music and news for Dover and district.[26]
Culture
There are three museums: the main Dover Museum,[27] the Dover Transport Museum[28] and the Roman Painted House.
International relations
Twin towns / Sister cities
Dover has three twin towns:
France Calais, France
United States Huber Heights, Ohio, United States
Croatia Split, Croatia
Sports
Dover Leisure Centre on Townwall Street, is operated by Your Leisure, a not for profit charitable trust,[32] which caters for sports and includes a swimming pool.
There are sports clubs, amongst them (Dover Athletic F.C.) who play in the conference Premier league; rugby; swimming; water polo and netball (Dover and District Netball League).[33]
Dover Rowing Club is the oldest coastal rowing club in Britain and has a rich history, at one time becoming the best club on the south coast. More information can be found on the history page of the club's website.[34]
One event which gets media attention is that of swimming the English Channel.[35]
Sea fishing, from the beach, pier or out at sea, is carried out here.[36] The so-called Dover sole (solea solea) is found all over European waters.
Places of interest
Blériot memorial: the outline of Louis Blériot's aircraft, marked with granite setts, at the exact spot where Blériot landed after the first cross-Channel flight, 1909[37]
Dover Castle
White Cliffs of Dover
Dover Western Heights
Dover Museum
Roman Painted House Museum
Dover Transport Museum
Samphire Hoe
Seafront promenade
South Foreland Lighthouse
Pines Garden
St Edmund's Chapel
Connaught Park
Kearsney Abbey
Russel Gardens & Bushy Ruff
St Mary's Church
St James' Church: preserved as a "tidy ruin"
Dover Priory Railway Station
Notable people[edit]
Further information: List of people from Dover
In literature
M.R. James used the Dover landmark, the Lord Warden Hotel, as a location in his short ghost story "Casting the Runes", first published in More Ghost Stories in 1911.
During my recent business trips I went to Keukenhof with two great colleagues. i took a number of great shots of the blooms, and ever since two shots kept reminding me of the US flag. Thus, I couldn't help myself. It felt like the 4th of July, Dutch style.
Tower Transit route 23: Liverpool Street - Westbourne Park
Burwood Place (EK)
Once upon a time ... I make myself sound old. Around five years ago, I'm sure these used to be allocated to Westbourne Park (X) routes 23 and 295 until was teefed by the outstation of Atlas Road (AS) for route 328 back in October 2012 (which seems not so long ago to me), around the same time First London were testing newer vehicles on their Atlas Road (AS) Volvo B7TL allocated routes. Ever since allocation to route 328, I have seen these reappear on the 23 from time to time. Clock maddaman attempting a rude finger gesture at the camera - bait man out quick time!
©London Bus Breh 2014.