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Actually it is little more than a jeep track, but Google maps likes to call it a road.
No HDR used, just a little Lightroom burn and dodge on a RAW file.
Actually I have no idea if that is Bellerophon. But heck, its his winged horse ain't it? So it must be him.
Actually taking a turn on Coastliner duties today is Volvo B7TL Wright Eclipse Gemini YK55ATY - running a service 844 to Leeds, leaving York rail station.
I'm suprised these are still here now as the Coastliner summer timetable is now in full operation, which requires more vehicles at Malton depot.
I am actually on the Shibuya crossing now- I had to get to the other side anyway, so decided to take this short video while walking. Notes about the Shibuya (scramble) crossing appeared earlier in this album. (see previous pictures) (Tokyo, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)
my latest entry at www.okewlus.com. A copy of my notes:
Not many pictures I shot at Christmas Eve (or Christmas day). I did fill the flash card but honestly I think I was busy having good time. And I filled the card a little too soon. Right after it was over and before I realized that I didn't bring a spare there was a shot that would make a day. That is if I managed to have it in focus and at the right moment, which could very well not happen ;) Note to self: for kids and parties, RAW is not your friend.
Speaking of RAW... 5D writes some new RAW format (with CR2 extension). Picasa couldn't handle it until I upgraded from build 27.54 to 27.66 ("Check for upgrades online" was not useful here - it said I am up to date but upgrade actually helped).
RAW pictures from 5D offer some new fun (but you pay for it - 13 meg files are not faster). The camera's picture modes (Standard, Landscape, Portrait, etc.) can be applied at conversion time. I find the settings sensible - quite similar to different brands of slide film. Like having a time machine to choose film for pictures already made...
The picture: I think I had the lens on manual focus for a few shots. But the result was interesting here (I think)... So far EXIF data is lost in conversion from RAW so:
ISO 3200
Lens: EF 50mm/1.8
F 2.0
1/50s
Actually, this is a light painting image taken by panning across the night-lit Eiffel Tower in Paris, while the rapid strobing "twinkly" lights were firing. They're so quick, they appear as point sources against the trails of the fixed lights.
actually, it's the tree outside my window. It just so happened that I had the camera ready when I saw it in a special light.
Actually, it was Kurt's gag visor with fake hair, but it suited Uncle Jim so much more!
2016 Bowley Family Reunion and Potluck, Sundre AB.
This is a self portrait I painted about four years ago during my first semester at UNO. It's about 3' X 3' in acrylic.
Actually taken back in September 2009, but I havn't published them untill now.
Location: Långholmen, Stockholm
My girlfriend's construction art here. Though it looked great, because it was inspired by Citizen Kane. And actually not the real location. Its just the Rosebudd location was at the "Colorado Lode", so just making fun. I am actually from Minnesota.
Actually, a recreation for the set of the James Cameron film "Titanic", featured inth exhibit "Titanic: 100 Year Obsession".
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actually 3 strobes (1xsb800, 2xsb26): one from camera left, lighting the face; one camera left lighting pants (shadow right wall), and finally one lighting the bunny in the back.
Actually I wanted to quilt it with my sewing machine: straight lines that spare the little-people-blocks. But my attempt turned out really ugly: the stitches weren´t the same length and the layers shifted. My proper colorlines began to look a little bit "zigzaged" , because I changed the sewing directions. Do you know what I mean? So I decided to unravel about 11 metres and change technique and design. Now I started handquilting it in circles :-)
based on a pattern from Elisabeth Hartmann / www.ohfransson.com _with a few changes.
Actually, they didn't turn into this driveway, they were from further up the road. I don't know exactly where, I passed them soon as I could.
I actually do have one!
A bag of uncooked rice. Uncooked dried beans or peas work just as well. Fill it as much as you want, squeeze out the air and seal. Also, if you're feeling adventurous, you can sew a bag yourself and fill it with plastic beads from a craft store.
This acts as a tripod of sorts. If you have no place to set up a tripod or its uneven or whatever reason, you can throw down this bag and set your camera on it and fire the timer off. I've used it a few times myself. The bag fits in a pocket or camera bag and if you end up ruining it, who cares, its a bag of rice.
I used to work in a small warehouse called "Peca Products". One of my duties- which varied from packing boxes with lens cleaning kits to silk-screening things- was to silk-screen print the instructions on "the Pillow pod". It was a thick denim or canvas rectangle that they then sewed up and filled with plastic beans. If you want to, you can Google "The Pillow Pod, Peca Products" and buy one yourself.
Or you can fill a zipper bag with dry rice or beans yourself. I like this method because I can make it as big or as small as I want and the plastic bag also helps if the ground or whatnot is wet.
Today's theme for We're Here! is "photography tips"... and this is mine.
We hadn't sealed it earlier...so it tends to blacken in places where there is no overhang above during the monsoons. A pain it was to clean and seal - took 3 guys 6 days (there is more of it than in this picture)!
Actually the tradition in Palermo is to fill half of the glass with lemon granita and then add another half of iced tea (with no ice!).
Refreshing!
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Shot on Canon 550D, light with Yongnuo YN560II from below. Edit in Lightroom Classic CC.
actually its just the reflexion of my face on the window of a train in the direction of south ouest of France.
you can see the difference with the original one, kymberlee used photoshop! great job isn't it?
Actually Santa Cruz, 1975- I was an extra for a TV movie shot there with Jack Lemmon, Ray Bolger and Tyne Daly called The Entertainer.
I actually have this unexplainable weakness for all things Kirby. There's just something so pure and innocent about his design, and truthfully, unless you screw it up royally, it's pretty hard to get a bad Character Good of the guy.
A few years back, the Nendoroid line introduced Kirby into it's lineup. There's been several releases in the line, including at least 3 different Kirby, a special Kirby with his Robobattle suit, a Waddle Dee, a Metaknight, and a King Dedede.
I've got maybe half of these, with the Robobattle set being the highlight.
So for the 30th Anniversary of the franchise, there was a special Nendoroid release of the base Kirtby with a special base, and different faces/accessories. Technically the Star Wand has made an appearance in the first set, but this one is coated with glitter, so there!
Like pretty much all other Nendoroids, Kirby requires his base to stand and pose. What makes this line of Nendoroids unique is that the body is basically one giant metal shell, and the limbs are magnets. So basically you can pose the arms and feet anywhere you want on the body. Like with the Windwaker Link, it was like the Nendoroid line was created just so a product like this could exist.. everything just works out so well.
Of the new expressions, it's hard to pick an absolute favourite, though it is nice admittedly nice to finally get a classic Kirby face into the mix. But in terms of sheer comedic value, you gotta give it to the the surprised face. It's really odd that this Kirby dfidn't come with an inhaling face, but I guess if they did that they wouldn't have included the dizzy face, or they'd have had to increase the price. Understandable, but unfortunate you'd have to own the first release to get that face when this is a special anniversary set.
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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.
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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. His email address is posted in the chapter page (the last page or the first page).
(Updated April 7B, 2015)