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A replica of a life-sized, bronze sculpture in lower Mahattan. This piece, by Seward Johnson, has an interesting story, involving the destruction of the World Trade Center. (See next photo)
Mistakes were made: I don't know why I shot at ISO 12,800. I was shooting manual shutter and aperture, and checking my histogram to to judge exposure, but I somehow left the camera in auto ISO. I thought I did a no-flash exposure to make sure there was no natural light, but on reviewing my shots from the day, I can't find it.
I was working through a bad sinus headache, but I should’ve known and done better. Hopefully these are lessons learned.
Strobist info: Godox Xpro wireless trigger firing an AD600 at 1/128 power front left and slightly above the subject and an AD200 at 1/64 power behind right and slightly above the subject. Both were in a no-name 30 inch square softbox.
Frog-legged Leaf Beetle (Sagra femorata, Chrysomelidae)
Pu'er, Yunnan, China
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I’m sure that I’ve mentioned that one of Texas A&M Aggie Ring’s favorite Blues/Rock bands is Little Feat.
Anyway, Aggie Ring and I went out to check for our mail at the UPS store and Aggie Ring was gobsmacked when we opened our mailbox and found a 2-CD Little Feat album from a live performance at the Orpheum Theater in Boston, MA recorded on October 31, 1975!
Before we could even get back out to the car, Aggie Ring was spinning all around and asking me, “Does it have Dixie Chicken on it? Does it have Dixie Chicken????” I checked and like almost all Little Feat live albums, of course it did! Aggie Ring couldn’t wait until we could get it home and put it on the home music server.
I lived directly across the street from the Dixie Chicken bar (which had live rattlesnakes in cages) in Hotard Hall for a freshman semester. Needless to say that with the drinking age at 18, the grades weren’t real high. I suppose that’s to be expected when you go to the bar and start drinking with all of your fish buddies at noon every day. We used to run into a fellow Aggie named “Lyle Lovett” there. I think he plays the guitar. Perhaps some of you have heard of him. I think he has a good job.
Years later when my grades were much better, and I received Aggie Ring, we’d both go to the “Chicken” and have a few beers and a couple of bourbons and tease the rattlesnakes by knocking Aggie Ring on the glass of their cage. Texas A&M Aggie Ring has different memories of the Dixie Chicken from mine. He claims he and his Aggie Ring brothers suffered much physical abuse by being “dunked” into pitchers of Shiner Bock beer by “ring dunkers” who all knew that Aggie Rings can’t swim! To this day, Aggie Ring still shivers a bit whenever we’re in a Jersey Shore bar that serves Shiner beer and he sees the Shiner sign.
About 5 or 6 years ago, the band Little Feat came to the Jersey Shore to perform. Aggie Ring and I went to the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey to see them. They were great! They performed a long version of “Dixie Chicken” that had to have lasted at least 25 minutes! And, before you ask, Yes… there was a certain substance in a hand-rolled paper being passed all up and down the isles while “Dixie Chicken” was playing. The Aggie Ring saw this and yelled out, “Hey! Don’t Bogart that Joint!”
Aggie Ring says, “The road rolls on forever and the party never ends!”
But then! The Aggie Ring began to sing,”
If you'll be my Dixie chicken I'll be your Tennessee lamb
And we can walk together down in Dixieland
Down in Dixieland”
Snow, part II: at Mt Evans on a day trip snowshoe adventure. Using my lightest camera, a Petri35. I am terrible at zone focusing, and it shows. So have to continue to practice. Couldn't operate the camera without taking the gloves off so that added to the challenge. But nonetheless I learned about the limitations of the point and shoot, the film, and my own abilities at 9000+ feet elevation. Thanks again to the community that is flickr for sharing their awesome images!
On a walk around the city catching on progress. Christchurch April 3, 2016 New Zealand.
Christchurch is ranked alongside New York, Barcelona, Berlin and London as one of the street art capitals of the world in a new Lonely Planet book.
The book names Christchurch as one of 39 cities around the world with a rich street art scene.
It credits the birth of the Christchurch street art scene with the 2011 Canterbury earthquakes and the RISE street art festival and exhibition in 2013.
For more Info and photos of Street Art: i.stuff.co.nz/travel/90284773/christchurch-ranked-as-a-gl...
A Cumberland Motor Services all-Leyland PD2-12 "Titan" is seen at an unknown location on a bright day.
Ten of these (LRM102-11) were new to CMS in mid'1952. They received fleet numbers 328-37.
As our bus wears the number 393 this picture post-dates November 1961 when the ten were re-numbered 390-9.
All were withdrawn by 1970.
An incarnation of service 17 existed when I commenced my employment with CMS' successor, Stagecoach North West and linked Whitehaven with Frizington via Hensingham. That service is now the 31A.
The Seattle Public Library's Central Library is the flagship library of The Seattle Public Library system. The 11-story (185 feet or 56.9 meters high) glass and steel building in downtown Seattle, Washington was opened to the public on Sunday, May 23, 2004.
The 362,987 square feet (33,722.6 m2) public library can hold about 1.45 million books and other materials, features underground public parking for 143 vehicles, and includes over 400 computers open to the public. Over 2 million individuals visited the new library in its first year.
It is the third Seattle Central Library building to be located on the same site at 1000 Fourth Avenue, the block bounded by Fourth and Fifth Avenues and Madison and Spring Streets. The library has a unique, striking appearance, consisting of several discrete "floating platforms" seemingly wrapped in a large steel net around glass skin. Architectural tours of the building began in June 2004.
In 2007, the building was voted #108 on the American Institute of Architects' list of Americans' 150 favorite structures in the US.[4] It was one of two Seattle buildings included on the list of 150 structures, the other being Safeco Field.
Gary checking rice; Bak Maregdek, Siberut, Mentawi Islands, Sumatra, Indonesia; photo scanned from prints from friends
HIFK U20's Valtteri Lemmetty checking Jokerit U20's Samu Tuomisto in tonights Helsinki Derby at Elisa Areena.
Alesha Jamaican Model Black and White Check Minidress Petticoat Lane Sunday Street Market Fashion Photo Shoot Shoreditch Studio London
check my little interview on Nope Fun nopefun.com/post/101818000643/interview-427-alina-trifan