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"My exterior should scare you, but if you stick around...
my heart will welcome you"
-Roxanne Phyllis
ROXANNE IS BACK! I've been developing an entire storyline based on her and Arabella and my new character, Naomi. Pretty excited about this being my first self portrait in Oregon.
i waited until sunday to take june's picture because i wanted a shot of her in the blue water of the pool where we go to play and practice dockdogs. but we were having so much fun at the pool that i didn't want to ruin it by watching it all through the lens. so when we got home, i took a few shots against the gorgeous blue sky on such a pretty fall evening. june was nomming on some tasty weeds... for some reason, all of the dogs go to the hill in our field to eat grass. i guess it tastes better because there is better drainage? who knows!
[may 5, 2013]
i filmed kaya's last acapella concert today. obligatory photo of 5th ave from kimmel 10th floor longue. unf.
A 1938 Grumman F3F-2 "Flying Barrel". Predecessor of the Grumman F4F Wildcat.
The Grumman F3F is a biplane fighter aircraft produced by the Grumman aircraft for the United States Navy during the mid-1930s. Designed as an improvement on the F2F, it entered service in 1936 as the last biplane to be delivered to any American military air arm. It was retired from front line squadrons at the end of 1941 before it could serve in World War II, and replaced by the Brewster F2A Buffalo. The F3F, which inherited the Leroy Grumman-designed retractable main landing gear configuration first used on the Grumman FF, served as the basis for a biplane design ultimately developed into the much more successful F4F Wildcat that succeeded the subpar Buffalo.
Grumman, wanting to take advantage of the powerful new 950 hp (708 kW) Wright R-1820 supercharged radial engine, began work on the F3F-2 without a contract; the order for 81 aircraft was not placed until 25 July 1936, two days before the type's first flight.The engine's larger diameter changed the cowling's appearance, making the aircraft look even more like a barrel, though top speed increased to 255 mph (410 km/h) at 12,000 ft (3,700 m).
The entire F3F-2 production series was delivered in between 1937 and 1938; when deliveries ended, all seven Navy and Marine Corps pursuit squadrons were equipped with Grumman single-seat fighters. Further aerodynamic improvements were made to an F3F-2 (BuNo 1031) based on wind tunnel studies in the NACA Langley 30' x 60' full-scale wind tunnel and became the XF3F-3. It featured a larger-diameter propeller, and a complete revision of the fuselage skinning forward of the aft cabane strut in order to improve aerodynamics and reduce carbon monoxide intrusion. On 21 June 1938, the Navy ordered 27 F3F-3s, as new monoplane fighters like the Brewster F2A and Grumman's own F4F Wildcat were taking longer to develop than had been planned.
We went to a (very) short hike up Mt Davidson where tons of beautiful pictures of San Francisco rolling fog is taken. The view was as beautiful as photos I've seen, but I sighed wishing for wide angle lens. Since I couldn't take the view home, I took this flower home.
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Another one from Singapore. This time from the famous Little India. I saw this really colourful house and pulled out the wide angle 14mm and shot... capturing the pigeon in mid-flight was one of those one in a lifetime flukes. More soon.
"We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white."
(Eric Hoffer)
38 2267 in front of the Bochum Dahlhausen Railroad Museum roundhouse making it's way on to the turntable. Nikkor-Q C 200mm 1:4.
thursday 23rd july;
so today wasn't all that good, again. my dad woke me up at 12pm telling me he had booked an appoitment at the doctors for 5:10pm. joy!
just got back from the doctors. i have the early stages of psoriasis. more joy!
although its either that or a symptom of something far far worse. which i hope its not. please please please i hope its not :'(
i have no inspiration! and i want a tripod. >_<