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“i am sure
you've all heard
the old wives' tale
that no hypnotized subject
may be forced to do
that which is repellant
to his or her moral nature,
whatever that may be.
nonsense, of course.”
Dr. Yen Lo
in "The Manchurian Candidate"
Of course I'm registered to boat.....Anime girls are not all sailors, but we should all boat!..... Simply go to the boater registration office, which may or may not be where you actually cast your boat, within the proper time frame, well before boating season, but after the purging of the non-boaters from the previous elections boater registry, meet citizenship requirements, have your birth certificate, two forms of photo ID, proof of address, a current bank statement, social security card, and no prior felony convictions, fill out the boating application forms,wait to receive your boater ID in the mail, return the conformation receipt to the official registrars collection point and you're done. Easy peasy!
Except in Texas where just a firearm permit will suffice! Although since you don't need permits to carry weapons in Texas now, I guess if you just show up to the polls with your AR15 assault rifle and you're good to go!
.....Stereotyping is sooo offensive!
Howdy this is our local private golf course and I was asked to take pictures of the 27 womens teams and I loved every min of it.. It was green this time and so beautiful thought that you might enjoy it also.. I don't play golf but love to take pictures ... Hey thanks for your awesome support and so good to see you....
Luss Highland Games 2023
The participants start the race seated facing the opposite direction of travel
Three more from winter walks at Warwick race course. In spite of the sun being so low in the sky, it was probably only about 2.30 in the afternoon.
This was taken on Greenwich Ave & W 12th.
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
Oh, one last thing: I've created a customized Google Map to show the precise details of each day's photo-walk. I'll be updating it each day, and the most recent part of my every-block journey will be marked in red, to differentiate it from all of the older segments of the journey, which will be shown in blue. You can see the map, and peek at it each day to see where I've been, by clicking on this link
URL link to Ed's every-block progress through Manhattan
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
It's taken a pandemic and lockdown (now into our third) to make us explore things closer to home, including Warwick race course and St Mary's Lands in the middle of the course. There has been racing here since 1707, though like everything else, it's cancelled at the moment. This is the home straight, probably taken at about three o'clock, with the sun already very low in the sky.
Greedo: "Of course Han shot first. It was in the script. The whole Mos Eisley cantina sequence introduced Han as a shady character that Luke (or the viewer) couldn't be sure was trustworthy. A "scoundrel", like Leia called him in that next movie. Sure, Han evolved into a good guy, but that intro made his character development more interesting."
Hanako: "So why did they change the film later?"
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Star Wars Red Carpet Event begins here and continues here.
The shore near Dunstanburgh Castle
Picture taken on the Northumberland Landscape Course run by Ross Hoddinott and Adam Burton on 25/02/2016
On the Bord na Mona peat railways, Blackwater system, the track quality often leaves something to be desired. This section on the approach to Kilgarvan caught my eye.
February 18, 2017
Suggestions under the cap of a Trader Joe's "Green Flash" Fearless Fifty Saison.
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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Zwift has three courses so far. Yesterday was the one in Richmond Virginia. This was the site of the 2015 UCI cycling world championships. Some great cobblestone hill climbing. The lime-green line is the course I followed.
SONY Alpha a7 (Alpha 7), New FD24mm f/1.4L, 2014/12/3, Toda-shi, Saitama Prefecture Prefecture, Japan
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This is my tribute to ~Phamster~ , who's work I really admire. When we were shooting the standard bride and groom photos the bride set her flowers down on the course for a minute and I instantly got this idea which came from remembering some of Phamster's wedding ring shots. All natural light here.
Another version here.
With this photo let me know what you think of it, you see other six photos that I took today on my website at this link www.thebrewstop.co.uk/october-2022-day-gallery/27thoctobe...
Soldiers on the Urban Operation course conduct tactical breaching to include the use of ballistic breaching with Remington 12-gauge shotguns, transition drills between rifle and pistol as well as modified firing positions, at the Infantry School Combat Training Center, 5th Canadian Division Support Base (5 CDSB) Gagetown, New Brunswick, on 8 April 2022.
Please credit: Cpl Dave Michaud, Infantry School CTC, Canadian Armed Forces photo
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Des soldats participant au cours d’opérations urbaines effectuent des ouvertures de brèches tactiques, notamment en utilisant la technique d’ouverture de brèche balistique au moyen de fusils de chasse Remington de calibre 12, en exécutant des exercices de transition entre le fusil et le pistolet, ainsi qu’en adoptant des positions de tir modifiées, à l’École d’infanterie du Centre d’instruction au combat, situé à la Base de soutien de la 5e Division du Canada (BS 5 Div CA) Gagetown, au Nouveau-Brunswick, le 8 avril 2022.
Photo : Cpl Dave Michaud, École d’infanterie, CIC, Forces armées canadiennes