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-I wonder which one is the salt...
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-The black ones are probably pepper.
-What's taking so long?
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- That's enough! Let's get out of here. The service in this restaurant is terrible.
-Yes, you're right!
-Mate! The check please!
-Yes, The check, mate!
note:
This was not at all a restaurant but someone's apartment...
Haida Filter ~ Test 1.
12 stops of ND Haida filter at Tessellated pavement. No discernible colour caste at all. Extremely impressed.
Nikon D810, Nikkor 14-24mm @ 14mm, 70s, f/11, ISO 64, Haida NanPro 3.0 ND plus Haida NanPro 0.6 ND
Seria demasiado fácil colocar un espejo y sacar una foto a unas piezas de ajedrez, por eso lo hemos complicado un poco. En primer lugar es una rotación de 180º , lo que conlleva volver a colocar todas las piezas en orden invertido y en la misma posición para que la ilusión sea creíble. y para rizar el rizo las piezas de "abajo" son negras. No hace falta decir la cantidad de repeticiones que necesitamos para hacer esta foto, unas 13. La única edición que tiene es pasarla a blanco y negro, creemos que así queda mas chula. Como siempre en una sola toma.
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It had taken the crew somewhat longer to finish cleaning up. The scrimmage had caused more
damage than usual. It would take a few more hours to remove the stains off the carpet. She would write the damage report to Veronica after the cigarette.
The crisp air felt refreshing against her face. She tossed her toothpick carelessly on the ground. There were more where those came from. Right now, she needed the reassurance of that focused inhale and exhale.
Something weighed heavy on her mind. She felt slightly guilty for slapping Sonya. She was a good kid but how could she be so careless? So irresponsible… We pay for our recklessness. We pay for not understanding the rules of the game.
Her time in French army taught her that lesson very well. Those in power will use it,
regardless of its nature. It could be someone of a higher rank, it could be someone stronger than you. Even the disposable ones, who shared her fears, misery and despair in red painted sands of a foreign land… even they weren’t an exception to the rule. She thought they were brothers… brothers in arms and brothers in death…
So naive.
Her cold metal tags pressing into her chest, a rough hand over her mouth, a pungent smell of stale sweat, a deep sense of shame…
So naive of her…
She solemnly puffed the smoke into a night sky. You could barely see the stars. There the sky was pitch black and stars were glowing with detached indignation at what was happening behind the shattered barracks, in the red stained sand.
What do you do? Resent? It’s of no use…
She was not the same person as then…
Her bunk mate had introduced her to chess. Much like life, every figure had their role. Predicting one’s move became easier once she understood the rules of the game. In reality, humans were very simple… predictable… stereotypical…
He’s dead now. His bones covered in the relentless never-ending sand. Just sand, all around them. Sand and the gleaming sun…
She put out whatever was left of her cigarette with her boot. Another toothpick returned to its
rightful place. The dry taste of wood would take her back there every time. It was a reminder… of fleetingness of human life. And unfaltering beauty of human soul.
She would have to speak with Sonya soon. Buy her a drink. Teach her how to play chess.
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We are having lunch in a very nice cafe in Cystal Palace with our daughter and my wife decided to move the salt and pepper at the exact moment I took the picture. Photography is fun.
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Checkerboard Mesa, a 6,520 foot-tall sandstone summit in Zion National Park. The recent snow covered up the mesa's distinctive lines that resemble a checkers game board.
“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro
An Entry for the Art of War contest.
14 January 2019 - 015/365
The plan was to take a cool chess piece shot and tell a nice story about how I'm teaching 4 to play on my grandad's old chess board since we'd been playing that day.
But it got late, my external flash wouldn't work and I ended up taking this miserable effort!
"Don't look at me!"
Yo Flickr friends, I'm back from a week of vacation! I didn't do much photography during those days but I can probably share some that I took in Indianapolis, IN and Chicago, IL
For now, enjoy (I hope so :)) the Transformer chessboard I took at my friend's house while I am busy visiting your streams...
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