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I can hear little clicks inside my dream.
Night drips its silver tap
down the back.
At 4 A.M. I wake. Thinking
- Anne Carson, The Glass Essay
On this one,I was testing my Sigma 150-600mm using a EF-RF adapter that I modified to attach it to the RF 2X Extender,I think it was worth trying! It was overcast and foggy so ISO up to 16000.
Sur celui-ci, je testais ma Sigma 150-600mm à l'aide d'un adaptateur EF-RF que j'ai modifié pour le fixer au RF 2X Extender, je pense que ça valait le coup d'essayer ! Le temps était couvert et brumeux donc ISO jusqu'à 16 000.
NS 1700 leads Conrail OI-16 off NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line and onto the Amboy Secondary at ESSAY in South Amboy. ESSAY Tower may soon be torn down with the construction of the new Raritan Bay Draw Bridge.
Invisible Cities: Essay of Desire by Debora Kaz, the September installation @ Nitroglobus main hall
In case you missed the (btw great) opening party yesterday, no problem you can visit the awesome installation by Debora for the coming weeks.
Please also read the review which were written about this installation by Inara Pey and Susann DeCuir.
Inara's review:
modemworld.me/2023/09/04/invisible-cities-an-essay-in-des...
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Susann's review:
mein-zweites-leben.blogspot.com/2023/09/ausstellungstipp-...
Thanks so much Inara and Susann!
LM to Nitroglobus: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunshine%20Homestead/38/22...
Only when we cease searching will we find that which we seek.
Two raspberries enjoying each other's company.
Photo essay: 4 of 4
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Strobist info:
The scene was illuminated by two Nikon SB900 speedlights placed at 9-o'clock CL and one-o'clock CR and fired through Neewer 24" x 24" soft boxes @ 1⁄8 power (CL) and 1⁄16 power (CR), respectively.
The SB900s were triggered by three PocketWizard Plus X triggers.
Lens: Helios 44M-4 f2/58mm with 20mm and 12mm extension tubes attached.
...my dear new crush.
A pair of needle nose pliers embracing a delicate raspberry.
Photo essay: 2 of 4
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Strobist/technical info:
The scene is a 19- image focus stack composite. It was illuminated by two Nikon SB900 speedlights positioned 90° CL/CR, one-foot above and two-feet away from the subject and fired in Manual mode @ ½ - power through Neewer 24" x 24" soft boxes.
The SB900s were triggered by three PocketWizard Plus X triggers.
Lens: Tokina AT - X M100 AF PRO D (AF 100mm f / 2.8 Macro) with 12mm and 20-mm extension tubes attached.
Doug Harrop Photography • Emory, Utah • February 19, 1978
Essay courtesy Mark W. Hemphill . . .
Doug’s “Kansas City” coal trains were symboled RIUE or a URUE. These trains loaded on the Utah Railway, at Mohrland, Wattis, and Hiawatha, and were destined to Union Electric generating stations in Missouri via the Rock Island or the Frisco. The “Kansas City” referred to UP hand-off to the delivering carrier, which occurred at Kansas City.
The RIUE went to Union Electric’s four-unit, 2,400-MW Labadie Power Plant, west of St. Louis on the Missouri River’s south bank. Union built Labadie in the early 1970s to burn Illinois Basin coal. Because that was high-sulfur coal, in the late 1970s the power plant began blending Western low-sulfur coal to comply with the Clean Air Act, which in 1977 began limiting sulfur dioxide emissions. The RIUE’s routing was Utah-UP-Rock Island, via Kansas City. Rock Island’s route across Missouri was nearly air-line, but in poor condition. After the Rock Island’s 1980 bankruptcy, the routing changed to Utah-UP-Missouri Pacific to St. Louis, then westward on a stub of the Rock Island to Labadie, purchased by the Cotton Belt. The RIUE’s empty return train was symboled RIUW.
From about May 1978 to July 1979, the Labadie Power Plant set used 70-ton Rock Island hoppers painted blue in the new “ROCK” scheme. This trainset also ran via UP from Provo to Kansas City.
The URUE went to Union Electric’s two-unit, 1,250-MW Rush Island Power Plant, 47 miles south of St. Louis on the Mississippi River’s west bank. Union built in the mid-1970s to burn Illinois Basin coal. Similarly, in 1977 it had to begin blending Western low-sulfur coal to comply with new CAA regulations. The URUE’s routing was Utah-UP-Frisco, via Kansas City. The Frisco route was circuitous via Springfield, in southwest Missouri. Its empty return train symbol was URUW.
UP’s unit train symbols at that time were not uniform. Most were four-letter symbols, some were three. Coal train symbols ended in UE or UW, UE standing for Unit East and UW standing for Unit West, regardless of which direction the train was loaded or empty. For most trains, the first one or two letters attempted to designate the coal’s consignee, e.g., KUW for Kaiser Unit West, from the D&RGW at Sunnyside, Utah, to Kaiser Steel at Fontana, California. For consignees with multiple power plants with UP unit trains – Union Electric had five – that methodology didn’t fully align. One could surmise that the RI in RIUE stood for Rock Island, and the UR in URUE stood for Union Electric-Rush Island.
Sublime Essay.
Modo dicitur infinitum dissimilium partium aquae demonstrationes immobilem intermedia absurdas rationes animadverti mutationes,
попередні аргументи вниз напрямки труднощі регіони необхідні пересування довільні місця розумні позиції особливих величин чіткі лінії,
le divisioni percepiscono modi diversi di ostacolare le distinzioni che possiedono conseguenze che ruotano i sistemi all'interno delle parti simultanee del confine,
la légèreté infinie suppose que les masses tiennent grandes les grands poids proportionnels du raisonnement proportions inverses temps égal temps continuellement décroissant,
vernietigbare referenties toegepaste woorden predikeren moeilijkheden evenredige afmetingen maximale toepassingen mogelijke kwantiteit overwegingen,
発言位置の確認は世界の高度な制限障害アカウントセンターは自然な場所で異議を唱えます無関心な四肢は作家の重い事実を想定重い事実.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Epistolary Essay.
Rebel vitae determinationibus praecipitem effecerit cogens habet imaginem rerum artifex, discordiis determinationes iura praeclara,
εκδηλώσεις μυστικά επικίνδυνα δικαστήρια που ασκούν νόμους υπέροχες δηλώσεις μετρημένα ποιήματα εμπιστευτική φιγούρα φιλελεύθερη μεταρρύθμιση,
espião aventureiro escapando liberdades guilhotinas rápidas traduções coloquiais dividindo ruas verdadeiras escandalosas altas esticando paixões,
telynau mentrus siambrau pedal tywyllwch meddwl tybiedig dieithryn bwerau ennobled celf cymryd rhan yn aros i gyfrif dilemâu ffolineb anghynaladwy,
ambiții amabile explorând taverne intoxicații atenții interacțiuni intelectuale zile de investigație concepute superstiții dogme iluministe,
ראיות משכנעות תלונות נבל זיופים בוגדים מסקרנים הצעות יתרונות אדישים אדם חשוכת מרפא,
職業献身的な観光地優勝計画告白者の目仙人の思い出崩壊しつつある交渉想像された行書かれた通信文句やけど.
Steve.D.Hammond.
The first month of 2025 has been an essay in how cold we can get! Although we are on the same latitude as Moscow, we do have the warming influence of an ocean around Scotland's shores. So we probably shouldn't complain, but of course we do 😊
-16c was the lowest we managed - and snow a foot deep. So we were quite home-centred, and shooting, even in the garden, was quite an adventure. After keeping ourselves warm, we spent a lot of time trying to ensure our garden birds survived too. Icy weather for a few days is not too bad - but when it extends to 2 or 3 weeks, they were suffering. Both water and food froze solid so quickly!
So there are a lot of white images in the monthly collage! I used one snow bokeh image as the background for the collage. Happily the group challenges gave me inspiration for indoor and tabletop still life shots, as we felt the memories of 'lockdown' returning 😊
February is beginning with the same sub-zero world, though much of the snow has gone. But we are looking forward to a very early and very warm Spring! Well - we can dream!
As ever - many thanks to everyone who has visited my photostream and for the comments and faves.
All my collages are collected here: At a Glance
I'm still making my images using an old and simple 2009 version of photo manager software produced by ACDSee. And during the last two decades I've used it to produce 37,538 original image variations, only 4589 of which appear on Flickr - the rest sit on my hard-drive and now serve as an almost endless source of raw material for new abstracts. Not sure what to do about using AI to produce artwork. This old guy may just continue to use his 2009 copy of ACDSee. Cheers. H
This cute red house from 1852 that looks like a ski lodge gets a brief mention in the Society of Architectural Historians overview of Coudersport.
Ms. Essay In the ladies room for a final hair and dress check before attending the January 2017 meeting of the St. Louis Gender Foundation (StLGF).
Raw + ACR + texture
Thanks to my friend Kerstin Frank for the beautiful texture:
www.flickr.com/photos/kerstinfrank-design/
I love shooting still lifes incomplete ... simple, for catch your eye and then your thinking ..... leave space so you can create your dreams ...
Pardon de ne pas avoir posté de photo depuis celles de mon voyage aux Etats-Unis. J'ai tenté la photo du ciel de nuit et j'ai essayé d'avoir un rendu pas trop horrible mais ce n'est pas encore ça, haha ! C'est quand même un début. Si jamais, je vous informe que la photo rend bien mieux sur grand écran (ordi plutôt que téléphone).
Hasselblad 500 c/m
80mm Planar lens f/2.8
Kodak Portra 400VC
I think I found my next photo essay. Interesting cars with my hasselblad. A very easy target though. This will be a work in progress.
Somewhere in Hamburg, Germany.
www.daniel-koehler.net/essays/2014/06/at-the-end/
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On January 21, 2021, Ms. Essay, as a member of the Missouri Historical Society’s advisory committee for the Missouri History Museum’s “Gateway to Pride” exhibition, participated in an event on Zoom to launch the “virtual” on-line availability of the exhibits to the public.
The “Gateway to Pride” virtual exhibits can be found at the following link:
gtp.mhs.yourcultureconnect.com/e/home
Even for the “virtual” Zoom gathering, the age-old question remained of, “What to wear”?
So, for this event, Ms. Essay chose a cold-shoulder, black sweater dress with white stripes. This collage shows Ms. Essay earlier wearing the selected dress in December 2019 soon after she purchased it.
Back in September of 2022, Ms. Essay was invited to a dinner-for-four that included an individual whom Essay had not previously met who was then soon to undergo surgery for pancreatic cancer. Five (5) photos of the little blue dress Ms. Essay wore to that September dinner can be seen in her Flickr album titled, “2022”.
At the March 2023 luncheon organized by the St. Louis Gender Foundation, Ms. Essay was informed that the individual who had undergone the surgical procedure back in September passed away in February. Essay was invited by the other attendees of the September dinner to reconvene at the same restaurant to commemorate the life of the deceased one.
For this mid-March midweek dinner, Ms. Essay chose to wear a beige velour puffy cap-sleeve Calvin Klein dress that had not been previously worn to any public venue. This pose was captured with the use of a selfie-stick in front of the floor-standing dressing mirror located in 2nd floor front bedroom of Ms. Essay’s condo townhome
Ensaio...
Vale do Sorraia - Coruche - Portugal
Pentax K-1 Marck II + Sigma EX DG 28mm f1:1.8 Aspherical
1. lichen in hand, 2. yellow lichen on tree, 3. lichen in the snow, 4. lichen on hummingbird nest, 5. lichen on fence post, 6. lichen on old water tower, 7. lichen at green lane, 8. lichen on rock, 9. wet lichen
Ms. Essay captured this selfie in the stairway descending to her living room just prior to the start of the June 17th first meeting via Zoom of the 2022 Transgender Spectrum Conference organizing committee. Essay was invited to participate with this committee based, in part, from her prior work with the conference in the three most recent convened years (2017, 2018 and 2019).
The Transgender Spectrum Conference is evolving into a more well-known St. Louis institution that started in 2014 on the campus of the University of Missouri – St. Louis (UMSL) and subsequently gathered there in 2015 and 2018. For the years 2016, 2017 and 2019 the Transgender Spectrum Conference convened on the campus of Washington University at St. Louis (Wash U.). Due to the COVID pandemic and other challenges, the conference could not take place in 2020 or 2021.
In all those prior years, the Transgender Spectrum Conference has been a two-day conference with a focus largely, but not exclusively, on insightful transgender-related academic research from recent thesis, dissertation and post-doctoral work. The research topics spanned many interests including: advocacy, cis-gender allyship, history, identity, inclusion, legal aspects, medical treatments and procedures, mental health, parenting, religion, sexuality, peer support, transitioning, the workplace, housing, aging, children /youth and more.
Portions of each conferences’ agenda had also been reserved for the sharing of the lived experiences of transgender individuals themselves as well as sessions uplifting the relevant supportive work conducted by advocates, attorneys, social workers, therapists, psychologists, physicians, and parents.
For those interested to learn more about the Transgender Spectrum Conference, both UMSL and Wash U. have much information, including prior years’ program booklets, at these web sites:
www.umsl.edu/lgbtq/Transgender%20Spectrum%20Conference%20...
Transgender Spectrum Conference web site - UMSL Link
sites.wustl.edu/transgenderspectrumconference/
Transgender Spectrum Conference web site– Wash U Link
For 2022, the Transgender Spectrum Conference is re-locating to the campus of Saint Louis University (SLU), a Jesuit institution, and a college that is competitive in intercollegiate athletics at the NCAA Division I level. With the support of university leadership at SLU, the Campus Ministry is taking the lead in working with the Transgender Spectrum Conference organizing committee to make the 2022 conference a success. Such an innovative relationship marks a major step forward for the transgender community to achieve greater understanding and inclusion within mainstream society.
On the cold November Fall evening scheduled for the monthly dinner gathering of the St. Louis Gender Foundation (StLGF), Ms. Essay chose to wear to the event her black half-sleeve sweater dress detailed with white horizontal bands on the skirting and sleeves.
To further prepare herself to handle the cold parking lot walk from her car to the restaurant’s entry door, Ms. Essay chose to wear her gray wool bell-sleeve coat over her sweater dress.
For $200 I enrolled in a photography class called Photo Essays hoping to get inspired to photograph something other than my cats and with some sort of purpose or objective in mind. It seems that "photo essay", according to my teacher, is just a bunch of pictures with the same theme. After looking at some of my pictures he told me that my passion was clearly my cats. My assignment? The project I'm supposed to work on for eight weeks? Take pictures of my cats.
Below in the comments is an example of why I don't have more pictures of Ella in my photostream. She gets all coy whenever I pull out my camera.
1. sunrise, 2. sunrise 2, 3. wildlife photographer, 4. dunes 2, 5. dunes, 6. american holly, 7. pitch pine, 8. beach heather, 9. red fox
Missouri Ozarks
My daughter-in-law wrote a lyric essay regarding this photo:
He hides in winter clouds, in long winter nights. He hides in dark earth and silent trees, close to the moon, close to the wild heart of the world.
We have not heard His voice or seen His face all these years and the wind has the sting of judgment.
We get in our cars and drive through cities and towns, toward neon lights, streetlights, traffic lights, glowing, shining lights of screens—bright aisles of grocery stores—dim aisles of bookstores—where we feel the angel with the flaming sword, guarding the entrance to Paradise.
The fathers have thistles and thorns that prick them in their waking hours. The mothers have pain in childbearing – muffled, smothered pain in the night.
But most of us are wandering children, full of blasphemy and gaping wounds.
The human race has a nine to five job, stacking days end to end like logs, frittering away years like sawdust, locking away lifetimes in filing cabinets.
We open and close our doors softly, like therapists. We sit on padded couches and talk razor blades.
We slide into church and sit in wooden pews, while the preacher prays with half-closed eyes and the congregants hibernate like bears.
We think we are looking for God. But we are hiding from Him.
We hide from Him in floating axioms, in inspirational paperbacks, in calendar-driven lives, in plastic nativity scenes.
We hide from Him in libraries, in government bureaus.
We hide in our CVS and our McDonald's drive thrus with their pharmacies and broken milkshake machines--
And we hide in houses or apartments, large and small, as we straighten them up and fill them with trash, over and over again.
He doesn't follow us there, into our distant lands. He lets us go. He stands afar off. He stands on his porch and watches.
And when I saw this I cried, tiny grains of faith with my sorrow.
We perceive Him as a trace—in the grief of nature—in the movement of conscience and consciousness—in fragile souls that sway like reeds.
We perceive Him in a trace—a faint line of serendipity-- a shadow on the page of history where He hides between in its lines—the First Cause of everything—the Grand Silent Mover.
We perceive Him in children when they are born into the world—when we wish to preserve for them something of Original Goodness.
And when I see the star in my rearview mirror, all he pop stars on the radio sing “Gloria.”
And every book on every shelf sings “Hosanna,” every government bureau bends the knee, and the plastic magi bring gifts, and all the harlots and rioters and politicians sing “hallelujah” and “He shall reign forever and ever.”
And the bare, empty branches of winter trees are full of latent life.
--Jessamyn Rains