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"You are where you are right now in your life because of the choices you have made and the actions you have taken. If you want to change your life, remember that change starts with you."
~ Jeffrey Keller ~
cross your fingers &
hope things can change.
changing the world starts with
changing yourself.
this is for holly.skye's Change Project
( www.flickr.com/photos/pepsi11295/3661011452/page3/?addedc... )
I've been putting it off for a while, but i finally have it done!
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explored!
Things Change. East Coast livery consigned to history and coal trains heading the same way (though heading in the opposite direction here!) 43277, leading 1E08, the 0930 Edinburgh - Kings Cross, meets 66951 heading 4S21, the 06:57 York-Leith South coal empties on the Royal Border Bridge on 1 February 2011.
I met this old lady at a department picnic while she was taking care of her cattle. Faces like hers are always so intriguing.
I chose 'Changing Times' as one of my final Open University T189 EMA panel of images as I was under strict instructions to only take three pictures by the Morcoccan shop owner in return for a small donation. That, and due to the souks low light and bustling environment made it a pressured shot.
I was reluctant to use the flash so I decided on a slow shutter speed of 1/30 secs, I changed the ISO up to 200 and took at the widest angle of 18mm to gain a wide perspective of the area I had mentally composed. I was conscious that the wooden frames holding the clocks and the lighters, and the hanging cameras on the right sat perfectly along the thirds.
My objective with this image was to capture it as I saw it therefore I spent some time making post-shutter adjustments mainly in the shadows. For example, the upside down camera in the top left corner had limited detail and I have used the dodge tool to lighten up the shadows. I also used the dodge tool in Photoshop subtly on the black mask in the bottom right corner.
I like the strong influence of red as it compliments the warm tones throughout. Given the low light conditions and the dominance of shadows and midtones I am happy that this image is technically strong although I appreciate I would have achieved a sharper and stronger image by using a tripod.
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So little time try to understand that I'm,
Trying to make a move just to stay in the game ahh,
I try to stay awake and remember my name ahh,
But everybody's changing and I don't feel the same.
okay i think i'm late?
this is a really failed attempt for holly.skye's 'change' project .
i should have used marker or something instead of that stupid eyeliner , but i wanted something that washes away easily . oh well , sigh.
i'm hopeless with make-up.
oh and it took me some time to write it right because i was facing the mirror and stuff . gah.
p.s oh and i tried doing something like this www.flickr.com/photos/rowenar/3734657481/ before taking this picture , but failed.
Attempt #2 at putting this great quote with an image, as requested here: georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/1500
Photo credit: Ann Truss
Toronto's ever changing skyline. To the left - AURA, Canada's tallest condominium at 78 storeys high punctuates the skyline. Top floor Penthouses from $2.4M to $3.7M. To the right - on the former grounds of Sam the Record Man store is the new Ryerson Student Learning Centre.
test roll with my snazzy red Konica C35EF3 zone focus camera using not yet expired Konica VX400 film.
As they say "nothing will change IMMEDIATELY"--remains to be seen what changes are in the offing, however, for surely there will be some.
I have admired SmugMug in the past, but never joined. Maybe, just maybe, this will be an improvement? Fingers crossed. . . . . .
The time change is not for me! I'm not a morning person at all and to loose an hour in the morning is complete torture for me, but the sunrises are worth it!
It's time to go look for a job. I haven't worked for anyone in 17 years. I haven't interviewed for a job for 22 years.
Lego minifigures
Galdar has service 100 from Las Palmas, which speeds things up getting there. Not having paid attention on a previous visit I didn't realise that there was a 3+ hour break with these from 1045 on. The arrival of 1474 to work the 1015 back made for an earlier departure than planned. I have a bit of a soft spot for these, so hopped on. One thing that did strike me, the lack of leg space. The seats must be around 150mm closer together than those experienced on other fleet members, a touch of Ryanair about them. Still, they are still pretty nippy in the hands of a keen driver. (d22-2234f)
We stayed at our friend's cottage on Bear Lake, about 45 mins northwest of Huntsville, Ontario, Canada. We were hoping to witness the splendour of the changing leaves. Unfortunately we were a little too early. I did find this one lone leaf on the dirt road....so I guess this will have to do! : )
People gather at the #ClimateMarch rally on the beach to demand the world leaders to take a stand on climate change and the future of the planet. PHOTO CREDIT: Anne Ackerman
A trip to the beach this morning in the hope of giving the new Camdiox ND1000 filter a try out.
Thankfully the light was much better this time and I was able to give it a good test.
Then the sky started to change, the wind blowing away the rosy clouds of sunrise and introducing a nice bit of blue, what a great way to see what the colour balance is like :~)
Day three on the island.
And if all goes well, just five hours work, and time to do some exploring.
Here's hoping.
After two splendid days of warm, sunny and fine weather, it was on the change today, with high cloud above, and the sea already beginning to be disturbed.
It would only get rougher through the day.
I went down for breakfast at twenty past seven, had my usual of fruit followed by sausage and bacon butty and a whole pot of coffee, while watching the ferries come and go out in the Solent.
And as I had a pass card to get in the factory, I could leave when I wanted to be there for half eight and the opening meeting.
Traffic into Newport was worse, but I was in no hurry, and I arrived at twenty past eight, clocked in and made myself at hoem in the conference room.
Eyes down!
We worked through the morning, and then I had unch of sandwiches, crisps and chocolate. It was like a birthday party, really.
We had the closing meeting, I presented my findings, and we all said thanks. And I was done. Now, I had planned two days, but we covered everything, so I had some two hours to explore.
So, my first target was Godshill.
The modern village looks unpromising, but up Church Hill to the older part: and wow.
A semi-circle of thatched hobbit-style houses, with the tower of All Saints above the thatched roof line. Shame about the parked cars, otherwise it would be picture box perfect.
I found a place to park, and took lots of shots, and walked towards the church, where I found two couples looking round, getting in the way of my pictures!
Oh no.
But they moved and I got my shots, the tombs, the rood screen (a replica) and everything else. And then walking out and the houses spread out below as a large party of ramblers rambled past.
My interior shots make it seem crowded with icons, statues, lecterns and such, but that's not how I remember it. Nice wall tomb, and a fine funerary mantle over a tomb cut into the wall between the Chancel and south chapel.
In the north chapel, behind a full length curtain, and beyond what doubles as the vestry, was a family memorial that reached to the ceiling, and busts of the couple looked out, mournfully.
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Here people have worshipped for about a millennium. Before that it was a major pagan holy site, perhaps going back further thousands of years. The island was the last part of England to be converted to Christianity (C7) and we know a stone church was built here in the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042-66). Legend tells how the builders started to erect a church at the bottom of the hill only to find the stones repeatedly miraculously transported to the top. This it seemed was where God wanted the church and so that is where they built it. After the Norman invasion in 1066 the church was rebuilt and the building you are in is the fourth on the site. It dates to the middle of the fourteenth century, around the time of the Black Death, and is in Perpendicular style. A piscina (for washing Mass vessels) from the original Saxon church is incorporated into the wall to the right of the South altar.
One of the features of this church is that, as you can see, it is a double church. The north church belonged to the parish; the southern church was for the workers at nearby Appuldurcombe Priory. In the middle arches are slots where a wooden partition separated the two. The priest’s door, usually in the south wall, is therefore in the north wall. The door through which you entered dates back to the Cl4 church. The roof beams are mostly original (and resemble overturned ships), as are the windows, but not the stained glass. The lovely C20 stained glass window in the north wall was created by William Morris’ studio.
In the chapel on the South side is a most precious wall painting of Christ crucified, not on a wooden cross, but a lily branch. Known as the Lily Cross it is unique in this country. It was painted circa 1450 by an unknown Renaissance artist, possibly Italian. At that time the whole interior of the church would have been brightly painted with religious scenes (traces have been found on other walls). In the Cl6 and C17 Puritans ensured that these works of art were scrubbed off and church interiors lime-washed white. It is probable that the Lily Cross survived because it was carefully covered over to hide it. lt was rediscovered in 1842. The rood beam across the south church, with the figures of Jesus on the cross, Mary his mother and St John, is a replica of what would have been there in the Middle Ages.
Appuldurcombe Priory was “acquired” by Henry Vlll and rented to the Leigh family. On the tomb between the altars, the figures of Sir John and his wife Agnes have their feet, not on the usual dogs, but on boars (the cause of his death). The monks on the bottom of their shoes are praying for their souls (soles get it?).T he memorial on the north wall shows their daughter Anne and her husband, Sir James Worsley, at He had been Henry Vlll’s whipping boy, taking his punishments for him. (For this reason he was given the Appuldurcombe estate on his marriage to Anne.) The helmet has been recently dated to the C14 and was worn in battle by a Leigh, perhaps in the Hundred Years War against France. The church is full of the Worsley family memorials. One by the altar commemorates two young sons killed in a gunpowder accident at Appuldurcombe. The memorial to Richard Worsley (famous for suing his wife’s lover and getting only one shilling damages) is so grandiose and ostentatious that it has been hidden behind the organ; it is known locally as the bath tub. The St George statue commemorates a Godshill nineteen year old soldier killed in 1944. The latest memorial, right of the door, is for Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord in WW ll. In the churchyard, on the left as you leave, is the CWGC maintained grave of an Irish soldier, a casualty in WW1, who died of wounds in the parish.
So when it's hard to see
The forest through the trees
Sometimes, well, I will pray
Yes I'll pray
That someday, it's gonna change
It's gonna change
So don't give up and don't give in
When there's a choice to sink or swim
Cause in the end, I hope you stand
Knowing you've become a better man...
--Brooke White (Album 'The Attic')