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Having been in Monaco last weekend by sheer luck, I got the opportunity to see bits of the arrival of the Rallye de Monte-Carlo.
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A little bit later than I would like, but school's been a killer. :)
This was a blast to build. I thought the architecture turned out pretty well, and I love the boulder on the left.
My main complaint is that I messed up on the photography. See, I had taken pictures of the build without the minifigures, but they didn't all turn out very well. It was a week or two until I could re-take pictures, and by that time I had added a few vines. You can guess the rest. Some of the extra photos have more vines than other pictures. Sorry about that. I don't feel like taking more pictures, though, because I'm kind of ready to just post this.
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This was my first time making the oreo pops. Everyone always mixes the oreo cookies together with the cream cheese, making one black mess of oreos. I thought the whole essence of an oreo was that it has the cream in the center... so to stay true to the nature of the oreo, these pops have the cookie outer layer and the creamy center, with a thin chocolate coating.
adapted from Bakerella's recipe here:http://www.bakerella.com/grocery-item-goes-gourmet/
I followed it exactly, except I scraped off the cream from each cookie and kept it separate. I rolled the cream into half inch balls, wiping my fingers after each one so they didn't get sticky. I would then take a bit of the cookie mixture and flatten it in a circle in my hand. I'd place a cream ball in the center, and then press the cookie mixture around it, forming a ball about 1 inch wide. They were definitely cracked and crumbly looking, but I set them in the freezer for about 20 minutes and then took about 6 at a time to dip in the chocolate. With these, I also made fondant eyes before the dipping process. I used an edible ink pen to draw the pupil, and then a toothpick and wilton green dye to make the pattern. I blotted my finger all over it until I reached the desired effect. Once the truffles were dipped and hardened, I used a dot of melted chocolate to press on the eyes.
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There is always a bit of adjustment for me when I come home from a big trip. I go back to my normal sketchbook (A5 Stillman and Birn Alpha) and for some reason in the last 6 months this every day book has now become a lot more casual. It is more about recording my first impressions or experiments and less about creating 'good sketches'. More of a working book and less as a finished work of art.
This morning visit to Balmoral was all about casing the joint for my upcoming class in Mosman. First week - this coming Wednesday we will be here at Balmoral - please contact me if you would like to join for one week or all four weeks. We will be covering similar content to what we did in my Manly sketching class in May/June but this time in a different suburb. I can't wait- I am sure it will be lots of fun!
I started my short 2,5 hour visit with morning tea (late breakfast) at Bathers Pavilion ( very nice but don't normally eat at fancy ($) places like this on a regular basis) and then went outside and onto the beach on a lovely winters day- 24C!
The little island between Balmoral and Edwards Beach, called Rocky Point, has some special significance for me - I designed my first year university architecture project here (it was a little house for myself right on the point and was inspired by the rocks) and when I worked in Mosman (for 9 years) I used to escape at lunchtime here (either walk down and up the big hill or drive down) I wasn't trying to do a definitive sketch of it today but rather just making a few visual notes. As you can see I did a lot of quick sketches today. The larger sketchbook is an old Jasart Premium Sketchbook which I want to use up and is my 'class sketchbook'. Used to use this type of sketchbook all the time - 150 gsm cartridge…but just don't like the paper anymore. Sand was being blown into my sketch and water/paint blown off my brush at times!
Ah! It was so good to great out for a little sketching today and even better to be able to take my winter boots off and get my feet in the sand and the water and soak up some sun at the beach! Why oh why, don't I do it more often????
A view of London from the top of Parliament Hill in Hampstead Heath. Please add notes for any buildings you recognise. (I had lots of notes but Flickr removed the excellent notes facility.)
On 28 July 2013, Hertfordshire GOC repeated its 9 February 2013 walk in Hampstead, London, for the summer. I took the opportunity to fill in some of the sights I missed last time. It was also interesting to see all the gardens in flower, and the route also changed somewhat to include more grass and less hardstanding. The original walk set is here, and the rest of this walk is here. Alternatively, to see my collections, go here: www.flickr.com/photos/anemoneprojectors/collections/.
Yup -- its a bit of a mess, but this is the rig we use for recording all our podcasts (Cache-A-Maniacs, Cachers of the Round Table, and Geocaching Podcast), or at least the side at which I sit. This is most of the hardware hauled out (for the live recording of the Cachers of the Round Table Ep. 10), but the gear changes based on the recording. Most of the time the iPod and MacBook (and its MAudio interface) aren't there, nor is the Telos One Desktop. We usually have just the mixer and the rack case with the microphones and the monitor with keyboard and mouse. The Telos One Desktop is used to get a third POTS phone line into the system while the MacBook is connected for Gizmo Project. The iPod serves up the bumpers and voicemail as neccessary (uncommon for most recordings -- its typically for live shows). But this all ends up in the dining room of our small apartment so we set-up for a couple days, then tear down to restore the apartment to normal.
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Bits and pieces of Lady Gaga's "Speechless".
"Speechless"
sung by: Lady Gaga
I cant belive what you said to me
Last night when we were alone
You threw your hands up
Baby you gave up, you gave up
Could we fix you if you broke?
And is your punch line just a joke?
Ill never talk again
Oh boy youve left me speechless
Youve left me speechless, so speechless
Ill never talk again
Oh boy youve left me speechless
You've left me speechless so speechless
I'll never love again,
Oh friend you've left me speechless
You've left me speechless, so speechless
Haaaa-oooo-wow?
H-ooow?
Wow
And after all the drinks and bars that we've been to
Would you give it all up?
Could I give it all up for you?
And after all the boys and girls that we've been through
Would you give it all up?
Could you give it all up?
If I promise to you boy
That I'll never talk again
And I'll never love again
I'll never write a song
Won't even sing along
I'll never love again
So speechless
You left me speechless, so speechless
Why you so speechless, so speechless?
Will you ever talk again?
Oh boy, why you so speechless?
You've left me speechless
Some men may follow me
But you choose death and company
Why you so speechless? Oh oh oh.
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Bit of a rubbish photo, but this is the first flower that I have been able to find in our garden this year!
I’ve been wanting to take a city break in summer, rather than in the cold months for a while, so rather than heading for the Lake District for a week of toil on the fells when Jayne could get a week off, we took off from Liverpool for Paris. Flight times were nice and sociable but it meant we were on the M62 car park at a busy time in both directions – it’s a shambles! I’ve stopped over in Paris a dozen times – on my way to cycling in the Etape du Tour in the Alps or Pyrenees – and had a few nights out there. Come to think about it and we’ve spent the day on the Champs Elysees watching the final day of the Tour de France with Mark Cavendish winning. We hadn’t been for a holiday there though and it was a bit of a spur of the moment decision. Six nights gave us five and a half days to explore Paris on foot. I had a good selection of (heavy) kit with me, not wanting to make the usual mistake of leaving something behind and regretting it. In the end I carried the kit in my backpack – an ordinary rucksack – to keep the weight down, for 103 miles, all recorded on the cycling Garmin – and took 3500 photos. The little Garmin is light and will do about 15 hours, it expired towards the end of a couple of 16 hour days but I had the info I wanted by then. This also keeps the phone battery free for research and route finding – I managed to flatten that once though.
What can I say – Paris was fantastic! The weather varied from OK to fantastic, windy for a few days, the dreaded grey white dullness for a while but I couldn’t complain really. We were out around 8.30 in shorts and tee shirt, which I would swap for a vest when it warmed up, hitting 30 degrees at times, we stayed out until around midnight most nights. It was a pretty full on trip. The security at some destinations could have been a problem as there is a bag size limit to save room in the lifts etc. I found the French to be very pragmatic about it, a bag search was a cursory glance, accepting that I was lugging camera gear, not bombs around, and they weren’t going to stop a paying customer from passing because his bag was a bit over size.
We didn’t have a plan, as usual we made it up as we went along, a loose itinerary for the day would always end up changing owing to discoveries along the way. Many times we would visit something a few times, weighing the crowds and light etc. up and deciding to come back later. I waited patiently to go up the Eiffel Tower, we arrived on Tuesday and finally went up on Friday evening. It was a late decision but the weather was good, the light was good and importantly I reckoned that we would get a sunset. Previous evenings the sun had just slid behind distant westerly clouds without any golden glory. It was a good choice. We went up the steps at 7.30 pm, short queue and cheaper – and just to say that we had. The steps are at an easy angle and were nowhere near as bad as expected, even with the heavy pack. We stayed up there, on a mad and busy Friday night, until 11.30, the light changed a lot and once we had stayed a couple of hours we decided to wait for the lights to come on. This was a downside to travelling at this time of year, to do any night photography we had to stay out late as it was light until 10.30. The Eiffel Tower is incredible and very well run, they are quite efficient at moving people around it from level to level. It was still buzzing at midnight with thousands of people around. The sunset on Saturday was probably better but we spent the evening around the base of the Tower, watching the light change, people watching and soaking the party atmosphere up.
Some days our first destination was five miles away, this is a lot of road junctions in a city, the roads in Paris are wide so you generally have to wait for the green man to cross. This made progress steady but when you are on holiday it doesn’t matter too much. Needless to say we walked through some dodgy places, with graffiti on anything that stays still long enough. We were ultra-cautious with our belongings having heard the pickpocket horror stories. At every Café/bar stop the bags were clipped to the table leg out of sight and never left alone. I carried the camera in my hand all day and everywhere I went, I only popped it in my bag to eat. I would guess that there were easier people to rob than us, some people were openly careless with phones and wallets.
We didn’t enter the big attractions, it was too nice to be in a museum or church and quite a few have a photography ban. These bans make me laugh, they are totally ignored by many ( Japanese particularly) people. Having travelled around the world to see something, no one is going to stop them getting their selfies. Selfies? Everywhere people pointed their cameras at their own face, walking around videoing – their self! I do like to have a few photos of us for posterity but these people are self-obsessed.
Paris has obviously got a problem with homeless (mostly) migrants. Walk a distance along the River Seine and you will find tented villages, there is a powerful smell of urine in every corner, with the no alcohol restrictions ignored, empty cans and bottles stacked around the bins as evidence. There are families, woman living on mattresses with as many as four small children, on the main boulevards. They beg by day and at midnight they are all huddled asleep on the pavement. The men in the tents seem to be selling plastic Eiffel Tower models to the tourists or bottled water – even bottles of wine. Love locks and selfy sticks were also top sellers. There must be millions of locks fastened to railings around the city, mostly brass, so removing them will be self-funding as brass is £2.20 a kilo.
As for the sights we saw, well if it was on the map we tried to walk to it. We crossed the Periphique ring road to get to the outer reaches of Paris. La Defense – the financial area with dozens of modern office blocks – was impressive, and still expanding. The Bois de Boulogne park, with the horse racing track and the Louis Vuitton Centre was part of a 20 mile loop that day. Another day saw us in the north east. We had the dome of the Sacre Couer to ourselves, with thousands of tourists wandering below us oblivious of the entrance and ticket office under the church. Again the light was fantastic for us. We read that Pere Lachaise Cemetery or Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise was one of the most visited destinations, a five mile walk but we went. It is massive, you need a map, but for me one massive tomb is much the same as another, it does have highlights but we didn’t stay long. Fortunately we were now closer to the Canal St Martin which would lead us to Parc de la Villette. This was a Sunday and everywhere was both buzzing and chilled at the same time. Where ever we went people were sat watching the world go by, socializing and picnicking, soaking the sun up. As ever I wanted to go up on the roof of anything I could as I love taking cityscapes. Most of these were expensive compared with many places we’ve been to before but up we went. The Tour Montparnasse, a single tower block with 59 floors, 690 foot high and extremely fast lifts has incredible views although it was a touch hazy on our ascent. The Arc de Triomphe was just up the road from our hotel, we went up it within hours of arriving, well worth the visit.
At the time of writing I have no idea how many images will make the cut but it will be a lot. If I have ten subtly different shots of something, I find it hard to consign nine to the dark depths of my hard drive never to be seen again – and I’m not very good at ruthless selection – so if the photo is OK it will get uploaded. My view is that it’s my photostream, I like to be able to browse my own work at my leisure at a later date, it’s more or less free and stats tell me these images will get looked at. I’m not aiming for single stunning shots, more of a comprehensive overview of an interesting place, presented to the best of my current capabilities. I am my own biggest critic, another reason for looking at my older stuff is to critique it and look to improve on previous mistakes. I do get regular requests from both individuals and organisations to use images and I’m obliging unless someone is taking the piss. I’m not bothered about work being published (with my permission) but it is reassuringly nice to be asked. The manipulation of Flickr favourites and views through adding thousands of contacts doesn’t interest me and I do sometimes question the whole point of the Flickr exercise. I do like having access to my own back catalogue though and it gives family and friends the chance to read about the trip and view the photos at their leisure so for the time being I’m sticking with it. I do have over 15 million views at the moment which is a far cry from showing a few people an album, let’s face it, there’s an oversupply of images, many of them superb but all being devalued by the sheer quantity available.
Don’t think that it was all walking and photography, we had a great break and spent plenty of time in pavement bistros having a glass of wine and people watching. I can certainly understand why Paris is top of the travellers list of destinations.
Remains of 60651 chucked in the back of the pick up after it slid down Brook Hill and ripped the back end off in the Snow 2010.
Bit of fun with my entry for the Beatles Songs challenge,
Stained glass, mille , beads and seed beads on mesh.Oh yeah.. and a jar ...by the door:)
Bit of a change of pace today.
Back to flash as I was demonstrating the Pringles tube striplight to a friend. Yup, still managed to give Pringles a plug :)
I thought this bike would make a nice challenging subject and it proved ideal for showing how a quick shot could be set up. It probably took me longer to clear the space than to get the shot :)
Just to make clear, this is not intended as a catalogue quality shot, more the kind of thing for an ebay type listing, which I think it would work well for.
The model for anybody that might be interested, is a 1/24th scale 1960's BSA DBD34 Gold Star. I always dreamt of having one of these when I was a kid, but never got to own one. Probably a good thing really, I probably wouldn't be here now, they could be considered as lethal weapons :)
Lighting supplied by a single Yongnuo YN460 set at 1/4 power and fitted with the Pringles tube striplight. Fired by a Blazzeo SLT-4 radio trigger and mounted on a small tripod on the table.
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mmm, a little bit of poke, a little bit of tuck, and a whole lot of stretch what a perfect combination. The sweet CCW's are a very nice touch as well. Taken at the Dubnutz Fall Grillout 11/14/2010 at Eisenhower Park.
D700, 85mm f/1.4 @ f/1.8, iso 200, cp filter.
This is a bit of a story so hang in here with me... I swung by my fave bird photography place, Aullwood Audubon Center, yesterday to see how denuded were the trees. I typically don't photograph birds until the trees are clear of leaves during Autumn.
When I got there and had surveyed the spots I tend to utilize I noticed this Cooper's hawk hanging about on a pile of trimmed branches. He just seemed content to sit there and watch the other tinier birds flitter by and listen to their songs and screeches.
After a few minutes one of those John Deere Gators rolled by being driven by an employee. He passed within maybe 10-feet of the hawk, who did not move. Didn't even flinch.
"Pretty weird," I thought. So I elected to go outside and see how close I might get to him. Eventually, I managed to get in front of him perhaps only 10-12 feet away.
Mesmerized by his cooperative nature I completely forgot I had a camera in the car. Duh. I beat slow retreat and grabbed my camera in hopes he hadn't yet taken off.
On my return I found him to still be there doing whatever it was he was doing. I started off snapping some pics with my old 40D from about 20-feet away, but continued to slowly and quietly move closer and closer to this wonderful bird.
Eventually I wound up about 6-feet away. Can you believe it?! 6-feet away from this gorgeous Cooper's hawk, who continued to sit there quietly, while making occasional eye contact with me.
I managed maybe 80 or so shots before he finally decided I was annoying and jumped up onto a low tree branch about 4-feet further away.
I figured he had given me enough so I elected to leave him alone and departed.
I'm not the sort who typically has that "right place at the right time" sort of luck, but yesterday I had it in spades.
those of you with kids know this face. at least i got eye contact, even if it's squinty.
this is so him when i make him do something he doesn't want to. i admit though, i love how feisty (that's an understatement really ;)) he is, it makes him him.