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We made our annual trip to London in November. We travel down by coach from Slaithwaite and stay at The Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch. It’s actually a weekend ladies shopping trip that is run as a fundraiser for Slaithwaite Brass Band – I’m the only bloke that goes every year! We decided ( the two of us) to stay down in London until Thursday this time as we wanted to see weekday London and be able to explore a bit further afield on foot. We covered up to 16 miles a day, which is tough going on crowded pavements with hundreds of busy roads to cross. I photographed anything that looked interesting but I bent a contact in the CF card slot, fortunately I had quite a few SD cards with me and the 5D has dual slots so I was able to carry on using it. It’s currently at Lehmann’s getting fixed.
With it being close to Christmas the decorations are up everywhere so there was plenty of colour at night. In Hyde Park the Winter Wonderland was in full swing, we’ve never bothered going to it before but I went twice at night this time. It is massive this year, I couldn’t get over how big it is and the quality of some of the attractions. The cost and effort involved must be phenomenal – it was quite expensive though. It was very difficult to photograph, with extremes of light (LED’s) and darkness and fast moving rides into the bargain. I think I have some decent usable stuff but at the time of writing I am only part way through the editing process so I don’t know for sure.
We set off at around 8.15 am every day and stayed out for at least 12 hours. The weather was poor for a day and a half with drizzle and very dull grey conditions, fortunately we had some pleasant weather (and light) along the way as well. Being based at the end of Oxford Street – Europe’s busiest shopping street – meant that I did quite a bit of night shooting on there. Although I carried a tripod everywhere I only used it once and that was during the day! Because there is always a moving element in almost every shot it seemed pointless using a tripod. I would have got some shots free of movement – or I could have gone for ultra-long exposures to eliminate people and traffic but it would have been problematic I felt. In the end I wound the ISO up and hand held – fingers crossed.
We walked out to Camden Market and Locks but it had been raining and we were a bit early as many were only just setting up for the day. We tried to follow routes that we hadn’t used before and visit new places. We paid a fortune to get in St Pauls but you can’t use cameras. This something that I fail to see the point of, ban flash if you want but if you are going to encourage tourism why ban cameras when there is nothing in particular happening in there. It’s a rule that seems to be applied arbitrarily in cities around the world. Fortunately we could take photos from the outside of the dome, which was real reason for visiting, and we had some great light. Expensive compared with a couple of euros in some famous cathedrals. I’ve wanted to walk to Canary Wharf for a number of years and this year we did. We crisscrossed the Thames a few times and tried to follow the Thames path at other times. We covered around ten miles but it was an interesting day. It was also very quiet for the last four or five miles. We got there about 12.00 and managed to get a sandwich in a café in the shopping centre at the foot of the high rise office blocks before tens of thousands of office workers descended from above. It was mayhem, packed, with snaking queues for anywhere that sold food. We crossed to the other side of The Isle of Dogs and looked across to the O2 Arena and the cable car, unfortunately there isn’t a way across for pedestrians and it was around 3.00 pm. With darkness falling at around 4.30 we decide it was too late to bother. We made our way back to the Thames Clipper pier to check the sailing times. They sail every twenty minutes so we had a couple of glasses of wine and a rest before catching the Clipper. Sailing on the Thames was a first in 15 trips to London. The Clipper is fast and smooth, the lights had come on in the city and there was a fantastic moon rise. It was nigh on impossible to get good shots at the speed we were traveling though and there were times that I wished I could be suspended motionless above the boat. Again, hopefully I will have some usable shots.
We felt that the shopping streets were a little quieter, following the Paris massacre it was to be expected, I might be wrong as we were out and about at later times than previous trips. I think I have heard that footfall is down though. It was good to get into some of the quieter backstreets and conversely to be stuck in the city business district – The Square Mile- at home time. A mass exodus of people running and speed walking to bus stops and the rail and tube stations. It was difficult to move against or across the flow of bodies rushing home.
Whilst the Northern(manufacturing) economy is collapsing, London is a giant development site, it must be the tower crane capital of Europe at the moment. It was difficult to take a shot of any landmark free of cranes, it was easier to make the cranes a feature of the photo. It’s easy to see where the wealth is concentrated – not that there was ever any doubt about it. The morons with too much money are still driving their Lambo’s and Ferraris etc. like clowns in streets that are packed with cars , cyclists and pedestrians, accelerating viciously and noisily for 50 yards. They are just sad attention seekers. From Battersea to Canary Wharf we walked the Thames Embankment, the difference between high and low tide on the river is massive, but the water was the colour of mud – brown! Not very attractive in colour. We caught a Virgin Train from Kings Cross for £14.00 each – a bargain!. We had quite a bit of time to kill around midday at Kings Cross so I checked with security that I was OK to wander around taking photos, without fear of getting jumped by armed security, and set off to photograph the station and St Pancras International Station across the road. I haven’t even looked at the results as I type this but I’ll find out if they are any good shortly. Talking of security, following Paris, there was certainly plenty of private security at most attractions, I don’t know if it was terrorism related though, I can’t say I noticed an increased police presence on the streets. It took us three hours and five minutes from Kings Cross to being back home, not bad for a journey of 200 miles. I can’t imagine that spending countless billions on HS2 or HS3 is going to make a meaningful (cost effective) difference to our journey. Improving what we have, a little faster, would be good. There are some bumpy bits along the route for a mainline and Wakefield to Huddersfield is the equivalent of a cart track – and takes over 30 minutes – it’s only a stone’s throw.
Actually behaving quite well during a large family gathering for a grandchildren photo shoot, four lights white sheet = high key.
... I think this is the producer's favorite segment of Love Actually and I have to admit while I was more enchanted by Jamie and Aurelia, I thoroughly enjoyed Billy Mack.
This from Wikipedia ...
Billy Mack and Joe ...
With the help of his longtime manager Joe (Gregor Fisher), aging rock and roll legend Billy Mack (Bill Nighy) records a Christmas variation of The Troggs' classic hit "Love Is All Around." Despite his honest admission that it is a "festering turd of a record," the singer promotes the release in the hope it will become the Christmas number one single. During his publicity tour, Billy repeatedly causes Joe grief by pulling stunts such as defacing a poster of rival musicians Blue with a speech bubble reading, "We've got little pricks." He also promises to perform his song naked on television should it hit the top spot. The song does go to number one and Mack keeps his word-albeit while wearing boots and holding a strategically placed guitar. After briefly celebrating his victory at a party hosted by Sir Elton John, Billy unexpectedly arrives at Joe's flat and explains that Christmas is a time to be with the people you love, and that he had just realized that "the people I love... is you", despite simultaneously hitting Joe with insulting comments about his weight. He reminds Joe that "We have had a wonderful ride" touring around the world together over the years. He suggests that the two celebrate Christmas by getting drunk and watching porn.
Here's the link to Love Actually on Wikipedia ...
Actually, today we have been invited to my professor's house to see my junior, Tini wearing hakama (Japanese traditional wear- they wearing hakama ONLY on graduation day). I have no chance to wear it on my grad day, cause too expensive to rent it! Huhu...
But then, I was surprised that Mrs Miyamoto (my prof's wife) had rented a kid's kimono special for Rafiqh. So lucky my baby... For Japanese, they believed that taking a photo of 3months old baby in kimono will leads him/her to live healthy...
Tapi sayang seribu kali sayang, Rafiqh yang dah mula kenal orang memang refused untuk di"siap", hmmm. Tambahan pula, dia dah ngantuk. Sesi bergambar jadi ala-kadar, sungguh tak menarik. Mrs Miyamoto kata, tunggu Rafiqh besar sikit, dan bijak sikit, kita ambil lagi gambar ok. Next time, Rafiqh akan bergaya ala2 samurai/ninja gitu, heee tak sabarnya nak tengok baby mama jadi ultraman, opss samurai laa, hehe...
Thank you so much Mrs Miyamoto! \(^v^)/
Actually, this is the Sunwapta River, a major tributary of the Athabasca, which flows along the Icefields Parkway (Highway 93) between Jasper and the Athabasca Glacier. Here we are about a third of the way between Jasper and Banff, quite near the Athabasca Glacier, which is the main source of water for the river. The gorgeous mountain to the left of the road is called Tangle Ridge.
The Athabasca River including the Sunwapta has its headwaters in the Columbia ice field located just behind the mountains in front and to the right in this photograph. I will show photos and talk about the Columbia ice field later in this set, but now I would like to say something about the river itself. The Athabasca is one of Canada's most beautiful rivers, especially in its upper reaches, because it flows through one of the country's most scenic regions, the Rocky Mountains. It is also one of the most threatened of the entire world. This is the same Athabasca River that flows pass Fort McMurray and through the oil sand region of Alberta, about 1,000 km downstream from here, before it empties into Lake Athabasca in the far north of the province. All Canadians are well aware of the mega controversy surrounding the oil sands. Because of the oil sands, Canada can claim to have the second largest proven oil reserves in the world (at 179 bbl of which 170 bbl are in the oil sands). But exploiting those reserves is proving to be extremely detrimental to the ecology, most notably to the lower Athabasca River basin.
actually this is not a fog. this is the smoke from burning peatbogs in moscow suburbia. it filled up whole city in august 2002...
camera: Zenit ET with MC Jupiter-9 lense
I actually live at Henrietta Place off Henrietta Street and for more than twenty years I have been depressed by the condition of the area but there have been massive improvements in the last few years especially at No. 14 [now a museum] and No. 3 [now a top class Aparthotel]
Henrietta Street is the earliest Georgian Street in Dublin, and at the forefront Dublin's later Georgian streetscapes. Construction on the street started in the mid-1720s, on land bought by the Gardiner family in 1721. Construction was still taking place in the 1750s. Gardiner had a mansion, designed by Richard Cassels, built for his own use around 1730.
The street was popularly referred to as Primate's Hill, as one of the houses was owned by the Archbishop of Armagh, although this house, along with two others, was demolished to make way for the Law Library of King's Inns.
The street fell into disrepair during the 19th and 20th centuries, with the houses being used as tenements. While the houses on Henrietta Street had been home to a small number of wealthy residents in the 18th century, these were given-over to tenement use during the 19th century, and by 1911 there were 835 people living in poverty in just 15 houses. A number of houses on the street remained in use as tenements until the 1970s. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the street has been subject to restoration efforts.
The street has been used as a period-location for film and TV companies, with productions filmed including Albert Nobbs, Inspector George Gently and Foyle's War.
The street is a cul-de-sac, with the Law Library of King's Inns facing onto its western end. As of 2017, there are 13 houses on the street. One of these houses, 14 Henrietta Street, was opened as a museum in late 2018. 14 Henrietta Street tells the story of the building and of the lives of the people who lived there.
We made our annual trip to London in November. We travel down by coach from Slaithwaite and stay at The Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch. It’s actually a weekend ladies shopping trip that is run as a fundraiser for Slaithwaite Brass Band – I’m the only bloke that goes every year! We decided ( the two of us) to stay down in London until Thursday this time as we wanted to see weekday London and be able to explore a bit further afield on foot. We covered up to 16 miles a day, which is tough going on crowded pavements with hundreds of busy roads to cross. I photographed anything that looked interesting but I bent a contact in the CF card slot, fortunately I had quite a few SD cards with me and the 5D has dual slots so I was able to carry on using it. It’s currently at Lehmann’s getting fixed.
With it being close to Christmas the decorations are up everywhere so there was plenty of colour at night. In Hyde Park the Winter Wonderland was in full swing, we’ve never bothered going to it before but I went twice at night this time. It is massive this year, I couldn’t get over how big it is and the quality of some of the attractions. The cost and effort involved must be phenomenal – it was quite expensive though. It was very difficult to photograph, with extremes of light (LED’s) and darkness and fast moving rides into the bargain. I think I have some decent usable stuff but at the time of writing I am only part way through the editing process so I don’t know for sure.
We set off at around 8.15 am every day and stayed out for at least 12 hours. The weather was poor for a day and a half with drizzle and very dull grey conditions, fortunately we had some pleasant weather (and light) along the way as well. Being based at the end of Oxford Street – Europe’s busiest shopping street – meant that I did quite a bit of night shooting on there. Although I carried a tripod everywhere I only used it once and that was during the day! Because there is always a moving element in almost every shot it seemed pointless using a tripod. I would have got some shots free of movement – or I could have gone for ultra-long exposures to eliminate people and traffic but it would have been problematic I felt. In the end I wound the ISO up and hand held – fingers crossed.
We walked out to Camden Market and Locks but it had been raining and we were a bit early as many were only just setting up for the day. We tried to follow routes that we hadn’t used before and visit new places. We paid a fortune to get in St Pauls but you can’t use cameras. This something that I fail to see the point of, ban flash if you want but if you are going to encourage tourism why ban cameras when there is nothing in particular happening in there. It’s a rule that seems to be applied arbitrarily in cities around the world. Fortunately we could take photos from the outside of the dome, which was real reason for visiting, and we had some great light. Expensive compared with a couple of euros in some famous cathedrals. I’ve wanted to walk to Canary Wharf for a number of years and this year we did. We crisscrossed the Thames a few times and tried to follow the Thames path at other times. We covered around ten miles but it was an interesting day. It was also very quiet for the last four or five miles. We got there about 12.00 and managed to get a sandwich in a café in the shopping centre at the foot of the high rise office blocks before tens of thousands of office workers descended from above. It was mayhem, packed, with snaking queues for anywhere that sold food. We crossed to the other side of The Isle of Dogs and looked across to the O2 Arena and the cable car, unfortunately there isn’t a way across for pedestrians and it was around 3.00 pm. With darkness falling at around 4.30 we decide it was too late to bother. We made our way back to the Thames Clipper pier to check the sailing times. They sail every twenty minutes so we had a couple of glasses of wine and a rest before catching the Clipper. Sailing on the Thames was a first in 15 trips to London. The Clipper is fast and smooth, the lights had come on in the city and there was a fantastic moon rise. It was nigh on impossible to get good shots at the speed we were traveling though and there were times that I wished I could be suspended motionless above the boat. Again, hopefully I will have some usable shots.
We felt that the shopping streets were a little quieter, following the Paris massacre it was to be expected, I might be wrong as we were out and about at later times than previous trips. I think I have heard that footfall is down though. It was good to get into some of the quieter backstreets and conversely to be stuck in the city business district – The Square Mile- at home time. A mass exodus of people running and speed walking to bus stops and the rail and tube stations. It was difficult to move against or across the flow of bodies rushing home.
Whilst the Northern(manufacturing) economy is collapsing, London is a giant development site, it must be the tower crane capital of Europe at the moment. It was difficult to take a shot of any landmark free of cranes, it was easier to make the cranes a feature of the photo. It’s easy to see where the wealth is concentrated – not that there was ever any doubt about it. The morons with too much money are still driving their Lambo’s and Ferraris etc. like clowns in streets that are packed with cars , cyclists and pedestrians, accelerating viciously and noisily for 50 yards. They are just sad attention seekers. From Battersea to Canary Wharf we walked the Thames Embankment, the difference between high and low tide on the river is massive, but the water was the colour of mud – brown! Not very attractive in colour. We caught a Virgin Train from Kings Cross for £14.00 each – a bargain!. We had quite a bit of time to kill around midday at Kings Cross so I checked with security that I was OK to wander around taking photos, without fear of getting jumped by armed security, and set off to photograph the station and St Pancras International Station across the road. I haven’t even looked at the results as I type this but I’ll find out if they are any good shortly. Talking of security, following Paris, there was certainly plenty of private security at most attractions, I don’t know if it was terrorism related though, I can’t say I noticed an increased police presence on the streets. It took us three hours and five minutes from Kings Cross to being back home, not bad for a journey of 200 miles. I can’t imagine that spending countless billions on HS2 or HS3 is going to make a meaningful (cost effective) difference to our journey. Improving what we have, a little faster, would be good. There are some bumpy bits along the route for a mainline and Wakefield to Huddersfield is the equivalent of a cart track – and takes over 30 minutes – it’s only a stone’s throw. Time to get back to editing.
In the twentieth century there were two people who were especially instrumental in recognising the source of the Danube to be in Furtwangen; the teacher, Dr. Franz Burgert and the geologist Irma Öhrlein and latterly taken over by her husband Prof. Dr. Ludwig Öhrlein. With scientific meticulousness Prof. Dr. Ludwig Öhrlein has applied himself to the research on the origin of the Danube for decades and has thus completed his wife's life work. It was Irma Öhrlein who discovered the genuine source of the Breg in the area of the Martinskapelle on 17th July 1954 after there had been doubts on this matter for a long period of time and after the source was previously presumed to be in the area called "Briglirain". Colour tests were carried out, measurements were taken based on over 600 readings all confirming that the source of the Breg and therefore also the origin of the Danube i.e. the actual source of the Danube is to be found near the Martinskapelle. But it shouldn't go unmentioned that as long ago as 1949 the former teacher of the 'Furtwanger Bürgerschule' Franz Burgert also discovered the genuine source of the Breg and made a report (although he didn't scientifically prove his discovery).
Roman historians, scientists and famous people have been to see the origin of the Danube. The most famous guest was the world-renowned marine scientist Jacques Ives Cousteau ( see picture) who together with his film crew visited the origin of the Danube for a week in 1987 in order to make a documentary on the greatest river in the western world. The source of the Danube and also the quarrel with the town of Donaueschingen about the real spring of the Danube, has kept newspapers and magazines around the world occupied and has also been documented in literary works. Claudio Magris for example wrote a book called "Danube - the biography of a river". The argument with the neighbouring town of Donaueschingen about the source of the Danube also became a political issue. The minister in charge of agriculture and forestry representing the government of Baden Württemberg wrote a letter to Prof. Dr. Ludwig Öhrlein in 1982 stating : 'Referring to the question of the origin of the Danube I can again confirm that the so called source of the Danube in Donaueschingen is certainly not the actual source from a hydrological and geographical point of view.... The Breg is in fact the main source of the Danube.'
The Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus americanus) of Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York – This unique sea-dwelling rabbit, which is actually a close relative of the sea lion, was officially discovered and investigated by Henry Hudson when he first visited this land to colonize the area by order of the Dutch government. It was named New Amsterdam -- today’s New York City. This island was named after he saw the beach covered with strange swimming wild rabbits. The word “Coney Island” means “wild rabbit island” in Dutch (originally Conyne Eylandt, or Konijneneiland in modern Dutch spelling). Sea rabbits were also referred mermaid rabbit, merrabbit, rabbit fish or seal rabbit in the natural history documents in the 17th century. The current conservation status, or risk of extinction, of the sea rabbit is Extinct in the Wild.
This website features two species of sea rabbits, which have been taken care of by Dr. Takeshi Yamada (山田武司) at the Coney Island Sea Rabbit Repopulation Center, which is a part of the Marine biology department of the Coney Island University in Brooklyn, New York. They are – Coney Island Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus americanus) called “Seara” and Coney Island Tiger-striped Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus konjinicus) called “Stripes”.
The photographs and videos featured in this website chronicle adventures of the Coney Island sea rabbits and the world as seen by them. This article also documented efforts of Dr. Takeshi Yamada for bringing back the nearly extinct sea rabbits to Coney Island in the City of New York and beyond. Dr. Yamada produced a series of public lectures, workshops, original public live interactive fine art performances and fine art exhibitions about sea rabbits at a variety of occasions and institutions in the City of New York and beyond. Dr. Yamada is an internationally active educator, book author, wildlife conservationist and high profile artist, who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Sea Rabbit
Other Common Names: Coney Island Sea Rabbit, Beach Rabbit, Seal Rabbit, mer-rabbit, merrabbit, Atlantic Sea Rabbit.
Latin Name: Monafluffchus americanus
Origin: Atlantic coast of the United States
Description of the specimen: In the early 17th century’s European fur craze drove the fleet of Dutch ships to the eastern costal area of America. Then Holland was the center of the world just like the Italy was in the previous century. New York City was once called New Amsterdam when Dutch merchants landed and established colonies. Among them, Henry Hudson is probably the most recognized individual in the history of New York City today. “This small island is inhabited by two major creatures which we do not have in our homeland. The one creature is a large arthropod made of three body segments: the frontal segment resembles a horseshoe, the middle segment resembles a spiny crab and its tail resembles a sharp sword. Although they gather beaches here in great numbers, they are not edible due to their extremely offensive odor. Another creature which is abundant here, has the head of wild rabbit. This animal of great swimming ability has frontal legs resemble the webbed feet of a duck. The bottom half of the body resembles that of a seal. This docile rabbit of the sea is easy to catch as it does not fear people. The larger male sea rabbits control harems of 20 to 25 females. The meat of the sea rabbit is very tender and tasty.” This is what Hadson wrote in his personal journal in 1609 about the horseshoe crab and the sea rabbit in today’s Coney Island area of Brooklyn, New York. Sadly, just like the Dodo bird and the Thylacine, the sea rabbit was driven to extinction by the European settlers’ greed. When Dutch merchants and traders arrived here, sea rabbits were one of the first animals they hunted down to bring their furs to homeland to satisfy the fur craze of the time. To increase the shipment volume of furs of sea rabbit and beavers from New Amsterdam, Dutch merchants also started using wampum (beads made of special clam shells) as the first official currency of this country.
At the North Eastern shores of the United States, two species of sea rabbits were commonly found. They are Coney Island Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus americanus) and Coney Island Tiger-striped Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus konjinicus). Sadly, due to their over harvesting in the previous centuries, their conservation status became “Extinct in the Wild” (ET) in the Red List Endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Currently, these sea rabbits are only found at breeding centers at selected zoos and universities such as Coney Island Aquarium and Coney Island University in Brooklyn, New York. The one shown in this photograph was named "Seara" and has been cared by Dr. Takeshi Yamada at Coney Island University.
The sea rabbit is one of the families of the Pinniped order. Pinnipeds (from Latin penna = flat and pes/pedis = foot) are sea-mammals: they are homeothermic (i.e having high and regulated inner temperature), lung-breathing (i.e dependant on atmospheric oxygen) animals having come back to semi aquatic life. As soon as they arrive ashore, females are caught by the nearest adult male. Males can maintain harems of about 20 females on average. Several hours to several days after arriving ashore, pregnant females give birth to eight to ten pups with a dark brown fur. As soon as birth occurs, the mother’s special smell and calls help her pups bond specifically to her. The mother stays ashore with her pup for about one week during which the pup gains weight. During the first week spent with her newborn, the mother becomes receptive. She will be impregnated by the bull, which control the harem. Implantation of the embryo will occur 3 months later, in March-April. During the reproductive period, the best males copulate with several tens females. To do so, males have to stay ashore without feeding in order to keep their territory and their harem. In mid-January, when the last females have been fecundated, males leave at sea to feed. Some of them will come back later in March-April for the moult. The other ones will stay at sea and will come back on Coney Island only in next November. After fecundation, the mother goes at sea for her first meal. At sea, mothers feed on clams, crabs, shrimps, fish (herring, anchovy, Pollock, capelin etc.) and squids. When she is back, the mother recovers her pups at the beach she left them. Suckling occurs after auditive and olfactory recognition had occured. In March-April, the dark brown fur is totally replaced by an adult-like light brownish grey fur during the moult that lasts 1-2 months. This new fur is composed by 2 layers. Externally, the guard fur is composed by flat hairs that recover themselves when wet. By doing so, they make a water-proof barrier for the under fur. The underfur retains air when the seal is dry. Because of isolating properties of the air, the underfur is the insulating system of the fur. In March-April, the fur of adults is partially replaced. First reproduction occurs at 1-yr old in females. Males are physiologically matures at 1 year old but socially matures at +2 years old.
NOTE: The name of Coney Island is commonly thought to be derived from the Dutch Konijn Eylandt or Rabbit Island as apparently the 17th century European settlers noted many rabbits running amuck on the island.
www.takeshiyamada.weebly.com/performances.html
www.takeshiyamada.weebly.com/sea-rabbit-center.html
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For any questions, please email contact Takeshi Yamada, Art & Rogue Taxidermy, Museum of World Wonders, official website. www.takeshiyamada.weebly.com/
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For any questions, please contact Dr. Takeshi Yamada via his official art website.
(Updated May 26, 2015)
Actually, as you can see in the EXIF, it was a while after Christmas...the Christmas decoration was still there however, complete with golden reindeers...the works.
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Actually you schould give theese women some cuc (cuban money) when you want to get some pictures but i catched the moment befor they realized what is happening
It's the first time to see such a catarpillar with blue and yellow.
But, but,,, I'm sorry you're tough to deal with.
Originally taken by D70, photoshopped and then created with fd's Flickr Toys.
Actually, most of the buildings inside the Kremlin walls are quite old, mostly 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. One exception is this modern-looking concrete structure on the left, the State Kremlin Palace, commissioned by Nikita Khrushchev in 1959 to hold the Communist Party Congresses and other large meetings. The main auditorium holds 6000 people and there are well over 800 individual rooms in the Palace. Nearly half of the building (17 metres) was constructed below ground level.
Now there are no more Communist Party Congresses, so the place is used mostly for classical performances and popular concerts. In the latter category, Tina Turner and Cher have both held concerts here, as did Canadian poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. The Bolshoi troupe also performed in the State Kremlin Palace from 2005 to 2011 while their building was being renovated.
The onion-domed building on the right is called the Amusement Palace because it was built (1652) essentially to stage theatrical performances to amuse the family of the tsar and his court. Later, it took on other functions but the name Amusement Palace stuck.
i haven't done a black and white photo in awhile
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i know you all love my huge ass nose(;
We made our annual trip to London in November. We travel down by coach from Slaithwaite and stay at The Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch. It’s actually a weekend ladies shopping trip that is run as a fundraiser for Slaithwaite Brass Band – I’m the only bloke that goes every year! We decided ( the two of us) to stay down in London until Thursday this time as we wanted to see weekday London and be able to explore a bit further afield on foot. We covered up to 16 miles a day, which is tough going on crowded pavements with hundreds of busy roads to cross. I photographed anything that looked interesting but I bent a contact in the CF card slot, fortunately I had quite a few SD cards with me and the 5D has dual slots so I was able to carry on using it. It’s currently at Lehmann’s getting fixed.
With it being close to Christmas the decorations are up everywhere so there was plenty of colour at night. In Hyde Park the Winter Wonderland was in full swing, we’ve never bothered going to it before but I went twice at night this time. It is massive this year, I couldn’t get over how big it is and the quality of some of the attractions. The cost and effort involved must be phenomenal – it was quite expensive though. It was very difficult to photograph, with extremes of light (LED’s) and darkness and fast moving rides into the bargain. I think I have some decent usable stuff but at the time of writing I am only part way through the editing process so I don’t know for sure.
We set off at around 8.15 am every day and stayed out for at least 12 hours. The weather was poor for a day and a half with drizzle and very dull grey conditions, fortunately we had some pleasant weather (and light) along the way as well. Being based at the end of Oxford Street – Europe’s busiest shopping street – meant that I did quite a bit of night shooting on there. Although I carried a tripod everywhere I only used it once and that was during the day! Because there is always a moving element in almost every shot it seemed pointless using a tripod. I would have got some shots free of movement – or I could have gone for ultra-long exposures to eliminate people and traffic but it would have been problematic I felt. In the end I wound the ISO up and hand held – fingers crossed.
We walked out to Camden Market and Locks but it had been raining and we were a bit early as many were only just setting up for the day. We tried to follow routes that we hadn’t used before and visit new places. We paid a fortune to get in St Pauls but you can’t use cameras. This something that I fail to see the point of, ban flash if you want but if you are going to encourage tourism why ban cameras when there is nothing in particular happening in there. It’s a rule that seems to be applied arbitrarily in cities around the world. Fortunately we could take photos from the outside of the dome, which was real reason for visiting, and we had some great light. Expensive compared with a couple of euros in some famous cathedrals. I’ve wanted to walk to Canary Wharf for a number of years and this year we did. We crisscrossed the Thames a few times and tried to follow the Thames path at other times. We covered around ten miles but it was an interesting day. It was also very quiet for the last four or five miles. We got there about 12.00 and managed to get a sandwich in a café in the shopping centre at the foot of the high rise office blocks before tens of thousands of office workers descended from above. It was mayhem, packed, with snaking queues for anywhere that sold food. We crossed to the other side of The Isle of Dogs and looked across to the O2 Arena and the cable car, unfortunately there isn’t a way across for pedestrians and it was around 3.00 pm. With darkness falling at around 4.30 we decide it was too late to bother. We made our way back to the Thames Clipper pier to check the sailing times. They sail every twenty minutes so we had a couple of glasses of wine and a rest before catching the Clipper. Sailing on the Thames was a first in 15 trips to London. The Clipper is fast and smooth, the lights had come on in the city and there was a fantastic moon rise. It was nigh on impossible to get good shots at the speed we were traveling though and there were times that I wished I could be suspended motionless above the boat. Again, hopefully I will have some usable shots.
We felt that the shopping streets were a little quieter, following the Paris massacre it was to be expected, I might be wrong as we were out and about at later times than previous trips. I think I have heard that footfall is down though. It was good to get into some of the quieter backstreets and conversely to be stuck in the city business district – The Square Mile- at home time. A mass exodus of people running and speed walking to bus stops and the rail and tube stations. It was difficult to move against or across the flow of bodies rushing home.
Whilst the Northern(manufacturing) economy is collapsing, London is a giant development site, it must be the tower crane capital of Europe at the moment. It was difficult to take a shot of any landmark free of cranes, it was easier to make the cranes a feature of the photo. It’s easy to see where the wealth is concentrated – not that there was ever any doubt about it. The morons with too much money are still driving their Lambo’s and Ferraris etc. like clowns in streets that are packed with cars , cyclists and pedestrians, accelerating viciously and noisily for 50 yards. They are just sad attention seekers. From Battersea to Canary Wharf we walked the Thames Embankment, the difference between high and low tide on the river is massive, but the water was the colour of mud – brown! Not very attractive in colour. We caught a Virgin Train from Kings Cross for £14.00 each – a bargain!. We had quite a bit of time to kill around midday at Kings Cross so I checked with security that I was OK to wander around taking photos, without fear of getting jumped by armed security, and set off to photograph the station and St Pancras International Station across the road. I haven’t even looked at the results as I type this but I’ll find out if they are any good shortly. Talking of security, following Paris, there was certainly plenty of private security at most attractions, I don’t know if it was terrorism related though, I can’t say I noticed an increased police presence on the streets. It took us three hours and five minutes from Kings Cross to being back home, not bad for a journey of 200 miles. I can’t imagine that spending countless billions on HS2 or HS3 is going to make a meaningful (cost effective) difference to our journey. Improving what we have, a little faster, would be good. There are some bumpy bits along the route for a mainline and Wakefield to Huddersfield is the equivalent of a cart track – and takes over 30 minutes – it’s only a stone’s throw. Time to get back to editing.
so, i paid a visit to the remember me set today and it was actually quite worthwhile
i got to watch them filming for about 2 hours... maybe a little more
the crew was actually very nice, let everyone stand across the street, provided the fans moved into washington sq park so as not to be in the shot as the filmed
basically, this morning/afternoon, they filmed a shot where rob and the guy who plays his friend in the movie are saying goodbye and parting ways
of course, they filmed it over and over and over
unfortunately, when they broke for lunch, a bunch of fans went way out of control.
i promise you, i was not one of them. in fact, when they broke loose and took off, chasing rob and his bodyguards out of his trailer and around the block, i turned around and went around the corner in the OTHER direction
but, then, i re-encountered the angry mob when i rounded the corner
obviously, i'm a little nuts... i stood at a movie set all day... and, you know i've done other kooky things.
but, i could never, would never, will never RUN after someone
and, these people took it one step beyond that, they actually grabbed at him while they chased.
and, many of them were NOT kids
i have no idea how anyone thinks that's okay.
anyhow, hope poor rob wasn't too emotionally scarred from the first day on the nyc set
i am busy tomorrow with work... so, i won't get to go back
but, even if i don't catch another glimpse for the rest of the summer, i'm content
i was about 10 ft away for several hours and that's good enough!
:-)
Actually, while Out Run 2006: Coast 2 Coast does indeed have a Ferrari 250 included in the game, it's the longer and sleeker Ferrari 250 GTO, not the classic 250GT California Spider, as "seen" in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (in replica form), which I am holding in front of the TV screen.
Actually, it's just the same ole' Albertsons meat & seafood counter with the Schnucks crap removed, and painted orangish-brown with a new Kroger 2012 decor sign bolted over the top of it all! But I'm just fine with that.
And the good news here is some of the Albertsons decor may not be lost! While the nice Albertsons deli wall tile is long gone, and all the bakery decor is probably going away as I write this, the back wall tile here at the meat and seafood counter (now re dubbed "meat & fish") looks to be staying! Hope I'm right: if so, it's very cool of Kroger to keep this tile up as a tribute to the store's Seessel's by Albertsons past.
This page shows this same counter after Kroger stripped the Schncuks decor away (flic.kr/p/fQp31z), and see the comment on that page for further comparison photo links.
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Kroger, (1997-1998) built (as Seessel's), Goodman Rd. at Horn Lake Rd., Horn Lake MS
My first ever location shoot!
I finally had the courage, willpower and discipline to actually DO it. This may seem like a no-brainer to most photogs but for me, it took a lot of mental and psychological preparation. I've been struggling to do some Strobist work out in the open because I still felt very *gulp* insecure about my capability to deliver quality photographs, at the very least sense of the phrase. I've imagined so much lighting set-ups, hard with soft, color for/against color, ambient with flashes which I've tried to execute these past couple of weeks, all of which to little or no avail. More often than not, I forget several elements of the equation like White Balance, perspective, time, people skills, and even the ability to anticipate, ultimately ruining the session. In short, I was experiencing Creative Constipation.
Over this weekend I had a larger-than-usual dose of very inspiring Flickr entries, giving me that boost to GOYA (Get off your ["my" in this case] ass) and plan a shoot that will have enough preparation to merit an output. Not going into the details, All I'm going to say is that it wasn't exactly the perfect photo shoot but it was absolutely exhilarating to finally get it done. Whatever I thought I was going to do went out the window as soon as I got to the place, but what's different this time is, I KNOW that's okay! Even though I did a whole lot of chimping, I KNOW that's okay as well! I didn't panic in moments of supposed dead-ends but instead I did what I had to do to adapt to the situation. I felt so free and victorious to finally conquer this bothersome "monster". Of course I still felt the tension I usually feel leading to the usual gear drop, (just a radio receiver, whew!) but I know the whole experience was a very high point of my life as a Photographic Artist.
To everyone who's given any encouragement or criticism: Thank you SO much. There will be more to come, so please do continue to support my work.
More importantly, I have to thank my very supportive girlfriend who had so much to do with my joy to this art. I Love You Ate!
Strobist:
Key: SB-800 w/ small beauty dish attachment high camera right @ 1/4th. Rim: SB-800 feathered behind her camera left at 1/16th. PP: Removed blemishes and reduced noise levels.
Actually it is the plastic cover for a diamond saw blade made by Dico Inc. I put it between two crossed polarizing filters and set the whole thing on a light table. The colors come about because the plastic is birefringent which is a fancy way of saying birefractent. Meaning the plastic has two different indices of refraction. When polarized light travels through the plastic, one wave is delayed relative to the other. When the waves meet at the surface they combine slightly out of phase and the resulting interference causes various colors.
I'm sure the real explanation involves quantum mechanics so I'll never understand what's really going on.
Cheers.
Actually, it's a feeding frenzy. I threw in a handful of cat food and they went wild!
Video to follow.
Figures of the study "Actually European!? 2023 - Citizen Expectations towards German EU Policy in the Context of Crisis and Transformation.
Link to the study and all results: www.boell.de/en/actually-european-2023
I was soaking wet actually. It had rained while I was swinging at the park a few feet away. The flash made it look bright outside, and also gave it that flare/coloring. I haven't slept in two days, I've had realizations too tall for the roof of my house. So by the time five this mornin' came around, I flew the coop and watched the sunrise. I made an unforgiving promise, that I will keep. Life is mine to have and to hold. Summer has such a strange way of letting me know my problems, and September helps me through them.
I met a girl while I was swinging and the rain had stopped, she was 10 and the best judge of character I have ever known. Her name was Amber and she loved dragons, she's unique and she told me so. I love how God brings people to me, so they can just talk about everything they want to, that normally is kept inside. Self-portrait (I am much less morose than I look in this picture. )
Actually, this aircraft was set up as a KA-6 tanker. Squadron is VA-155 Silver Foxes, part of CVW-2. At sea aboard USS Ranger, Dependents' Cruise, 1992. Film converted to digital.
realizing that i didn't have the dosh required to cut my hair with the amazing sheryl this month - but needing a cut badly since my last one was in june (!!!!) - i took myself to the aveda school in union square for the price of a single Jackson.
blown-dry, it looks a little too choppy and thin, but i also don't love the way he blew it dry (all sleek! no volume!) so i will reserve judgement until i get home and wash it and let my curl flag fly. my hopes aren't wicked high though.
good thing i'm too busy these days to be particularly vain.
Actually, Blue Triangle 888 (PN09 ENF) on Route EL1, Barking Town Centre with A4 paper displays instead of blinds.
Actually from the event "Cinnamon Rolls with Dad" at my son's school. Makes me want to do a series of photos of food trays.
Actually I took some biometric passport photograph for my friend Chris, this is what came out after some fooling around with PS :D
--> don`t take it too serious ;)
I would be only too pleased to see the face of the public servant, when you hand him out a pic like this.
Light:
- Canon 430EXii, little right, 32" softbox
- Nikon Sb-24, left behind, through umbrella
Lens:
- Canon 70-200 4L@: 75mm, f7.1, 1/160, ISO 100
Shock! We actually bought this (from Bunnings at that) instead of making it ourselves, since we didn’t have appropriate salvaged materials and you need a cover anyway. So here is a simple $40 thing we assembled in five minutes today, that we actually couldn’t have done cheaper ourselves, let alone in five minutes. Sue is very happy to have her seedling trays wind-sheltered and off the slater-infested ground, and is expecting far better germination for difficult seedlings now. The patio is neatened up to boot. Just one “greenhouse” tray with a fitted clear lid is $20, so this is excellent value as it fits eight trays plus extra pots. Tomatoes, capsicums and eggplants will be happy to start in here this month and be large and vigorous when planted out in late spring - the head start we need in our climate.
Actually I only collect toys from the 60s-70s, but this original 30s 40s Steiff wooden toy was too cute (and as a matter of fact too cheap) to leave it behind in the thrift store....