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29.12.2023 - Jednostka ČD Cargo z ładownymi wagonami Sggmrrs jedzie szlakiem Zábřeh na Moravě - Hoštejn.
The skywalk leads into private businesses and sometimes it's hard to tell when you're on private property. I loved the light flowing in from this skylight but I soon had a security guard asking me to move along.
Catalog #: 01_00085797
Title: Mitsubishi, G4M-2, Betty
Corporation Name: Mitsubishi
Official Nickname: Betty
Additional Information: Japan
Designation: G4M-2
Tags: Mitsubishi, G4M-2, Betty
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
2014: 365-2 REFLECTION: Four years ago I made a new year's resolution that I was going to meet new friends and follow where God led me. I was looking to meet some "girl" friends as all my friends that are girls live far away. On January 2nd four years ago, I decided to go on a photo walk with some other photographers. Not knowing that any guys would be on this walk. I remember clearly seeing Brian walk up and thinking sarcastically "Great what is this guy doing here?" I didn't think anymore of it as I moved through the museum taking pictures. I was standing in one room looking at a picture and I heard a voice audibly saying "IT'S HIM! HE'S HERE!" I looked around and no one was even near me... I was hearing things in my head. Again I heard a voice audibly saying "IT'S HIM! HE'S HERE!" I turned a full 360 degrees and the only other person in the room was Brian. I shook it off and walked away clearly avoiding HIM.
Later that day as we were walking the downtown streets I stopped to take a picture, Brian said something to me about a setting on my camera. He reached out to grab my camera and I was literally transported back in time. Like a movie reel playing out in black and white, I was sitting on a porch in the western days watching HIM (Brian) get off a horse and walk toward me. This vision back in time lasted less than a split second It was enough to shake me and I yanked my hand back, thanked him kindly and skedaddled away from him.
I truly believe it was our souls connecting. I just wasn't willing to listen that closely at that time. Fast forward 5-6 months later and Brian and I were comparing stories and he told the same story of a flashback to the same time, only from his perspective... He was walking toward me in my prairie dress sitting on a porch in a rocking chair.
This is the ongoing story of us and our intertwined lives...stay tuned for more of the story...
Sometimes I shoot on an 80mm lens to help viewers of my photographs feel the moments as I experienced them. Caches of micro-minutiae. Stolen moments amplified in real time with sounds, light and stored away in my mind.
Kanaval is many things.
A crash course of colonial history, ancient religion and modern culture.
Kanaval is hot, sweaty, overwhelming.
It is also beautiful, exciting and vibrant.
I hope you can experience it at least once.
Amazing.
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Haiti has a unique traditional carnival, Rara, that is separate from the main pre-Lent Kanaval celebrations. Rara processions take place during the day and sometimes at night during Lent, then culminate in a week-long celebration that takes place at the end of Lent, during the Catholic 'Holy Week', which includes the Easter holiday. Rara has its roots in Haiti's an deyò areas, the rural areas around Port-au-Prince. It is based on peasant Easter celebration customs. Rara celebrations include parades with musicians playing drums, tin trumpets, bamboo horns called vaksens, and other instruments. Parades also include dancers and costumed characters such as Queens (called renns), Presidents, Colonels, and other representatives of a complex rara band hierarchy, similar to the krewe organization of New Orleans Mardi Gras bands.
Kanaval celebrations end on Mardi Gras, which is French for 'Fat Tuesday', also known as Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before the Roman Catholic holiday known as Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a somber period of fasting and penance that precedes Easter for Catholics.
I sketched these two lovely young women last night at a premier at Grauman's Chinese Theater. Moving targets quickly sketched...
Tui (a bird native to NZ) in Zealandia a bird sanctuary in Karori,Wellington, NZ. It's a great facility where they fence out all the rats that can kill native birds. This is really important as NZ doesn't have any native land mammals, as a result native birds don't always have defense systems against these mammals.