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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric Hoffer
" The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent. "
..........Sophocles ... ( 497 - 406 BC )
.....Greek tragedian.
..........' Antigone '.
Люди как Боги
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Schönheit ist Vollkommenheit, das heißt ein Maximum des stets Erwarteten und Gewünschten.
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Aus: "Menschen wie Götter" von Sergej Alexandrowitsch Snegow
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Beauty is perfection, which means, a maximum of the always expected and desired.
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From: "People like gods" by Sergej Alexandrowitsch Snegow
Whilst this photo isn't particularly spectacular, (I do love the colours though), there was a degree of expectation attached to the moment which made it special. The four of us have a chequered history when it comes to whale watching. Up until this point, I was the only one who had ever seen one in its natural environment and that was nearly 20 years ago off the coast of Cape Cod, USA. Since then we'd been on numerous trips but had come away with a big fat zero sightings. We were beginning to think we were fated never to see any which was one of the prime reasons we went to Iceland.
Nestled on the edge of Shaky Bay in north Iceland, the town of Húsavík is globally recognised as one of the best locations in the world from which to watch whales. In fact, there is a higher chance of seeing whales in Húsavík than any other place in Iceland. Surely we would break our whale watching duck!
A small armada of boats like this one were lined up on the quayside waiting to ferry tourists to the mouth of the bay some 5-10 miles away, their sole aim being to try and spot the gentle giants. To be continued!!
Jpeg with post processing in camera raw and photoshop. Shot handheld using a Fuji X-T2 & 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 @ 100mm (effective 150mm), aperture f7.1, exposure 1/2500 second, ISO 800
Vad väntar vid regnbågens slut?? Detta är mitt bidrag till Fotosöndags tema "Förväntan".
What awaits at the end of the rainbow?? This is my contribution to Photo Sunday´s theme Expectation.
Bu ne biçim Postacı
Üç defa çalıyor kapıyı
Bu ne biçim kel
Hem merhemi var
Hem sürmüyor başına
Bu ne biçim biçimler
İstediğiniz kadar çoğaltılabilir
Memleket çok müsait buna
Örneğin yeni bir komşu taşındı karşıya
Bir baktım Fahriye Abla!
Kırk yıllık bir rötar yapmış
Erzincan Treni
Ben gelmişim şu yaşıma
O ise şiirdeki yaşından gün almamış daha
Benimki ne biçim hayat
Uymuyor ne gördüklerime
ne duyduklarıma
ne okuduklarıma
Ben ne biçim benim
Ne kendime benziyorum
Ne başkalarına
M. Mungan
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A cab driver taught me a million dollar lesson in customer satisfaction and expectation. Motivational speakers charge thousands of dollars to impart his kind of training to corporate executives and staff. It cost me a $12 taxi ride.
I had flown into Dallas for the sole purpose of calling on a client. Time was of the essence and my plan included a quick turnaround trip from and back to the airport. A spotless cab pulled up.
The driver rushed to open the passenger door for me and made sure I was comfortably seated before he closed the door. As he got in the driver's seat, he mentioned that the neatly folded Wall Street Journal next to me for my use. He then showed me several tapes and asked me what type of music I would enjoy.
Well! I looked around for a "Candid Camera!" Wouldn't you? I could not believe the service I was receiving! I took the opportunity to say, "Obviously you take great pride in your work. You must have a story to tell."
"You bet," he replied, "I used to be in Corporate America. But I got tired of thinking my best would never be good enough. I decided to find my niche in life where I could feel proud of being the best I could be.
I knew I would never be a rocket scientist, but I love driving cars, being of service and feeling like I have done a full day's work and done it well. I evaluate my personal assets and... wham! I became a cab driver.
One thing I know for sure, to be good in my business I could simply just meet the expectations of my passengers. But, to be GREAT in my business, I have to EXCEED the customer's expectations! I like both the sound and the return of being 'great' better than just getting by on 'average'"
Did I tip him big time? You bet! Corporate America's loss is the traveling folk's friend!
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Lessons:
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Go an Extra Mile when providing any Service to others.
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The is no good or bad job. You can make any job good.
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Good service always brings good return.
Art is constant experimentation without expectation.
When creating, I consciously remind myself of this statement, because only once my mind is empty of goals, can I express thoughts genuinely through my art.
It's really easy to set out an entire vision for what you want to create but unless these ideals are held very loosely, it can be destructive to art.
I'm currently experimenting with bokeh and split toning (two primary colours) to express my current feelings for adventure.
Camera Sony DSLR-A200
Exposure 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture f/6.3
Focal Length 180 mm
ISO Speed 400
quality RAW
My expectation was EDPO would arrive before the sunset but that didn't happen... the train had a few manifest cars but a whooping 90 Eimskip containers. Today also marked an announcement with Pan Am launching a new service from Ayer, MA to Saint John, NB to connect into the recent port developments. For today, 90 COFCs isn't a common sight, but who knows what may be coming our way in the coming days...
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Esta fotografía y otras mas, en mi Album: Selectivo/Cut out
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Having left early in the expectation of having the best weather for a misty sunrise after a rainy day. The last remaining clouds in the west reduced the light, just in time I swiveled from panoramas that I had in mind to macros. Half hidden behind the blade of grass, the sun hides forth, while in the dew-drenched blossom an insect still slumbers.
Blume & Sonnenaufgang
Früh aufgebrochen in der Erwartung nach einem regnerischen Tag beste Bedignungen für einen nebelreichen Sonnenaufgang zu haben. Letzte Restwolken im Westen reduzierten das Licht, gerade noch rechtzeitig schwenkte ich von Panoramen, die ich im Kopf hatte, um auf Makros. Halb hinter dem Grashalm versteckt glunst die Sonne hervor, während in der mit vielen Tautropfen übersäten Blüte noch ein Insekt schlummert.
This was taken on Chrystie St., between Broome & Grand St., on the lower East Side of Manhattan.
Is this a couple? Definitely!
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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.
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 time for a recap!!! Well I’m gonna be blunt. This event didn’t really live up to my expectation compared to last year’s oh-so-amazing Gloss Convention. I know Integrity Toys tried their hardest to pull out a great event and for a 20th Anniversary celebration we, the attendees, expected so much more. Although there were some disappointments, we did have a lot of fun. I’m personally glad to see friends that I’ve met last year and I’m happy to meet new ones. I’m happy to see the designers and see familiar faces again. We have a huge haul, everyone’s full, and everyone’s happy. That’s all that matters. The moment the Convention theme was announced, I knew this wasn’t gonna be for me. But looking at all of them together, we do have a spectacular collection here. So let’s start with Fashion Royalty!
Reigning Grace Eugenia 2015 Cinematic Convention Upgrade Doll - The moment her promo pics were revealed, I started to get worried. Based on the fact that she has an older face screening previously used for Diamond Society Eugenia I knew that some of them will have old screening as well. She turned out to be stunning, but I don’t know how long I’m going to keep her. We have a mostly black & white collection here with a sprinkle of red. Have you noticed?
Feminine Perspective Agnes Mini-Gift Set - I’ve kind of predicted what fashions she’s going to have in this gift-set. I did think about a lingerie set but I didn’t really think about a tuxedo and a top hat. I’m definitely all about that tuxedo! It’s a well thought out set, but again, it all boils down to whether I like the face up or not. I love the hair color and the lips which somehow reminds me of that one-of-a-kind DIFFA charity auction Maggie Rizer doll. But I’m not a fan of the older screening which I think is The Royal Weiss Agnes face design that they’ve used for her. I’m not sure if it’s exactly the same but what I do know is that they made adjustments to the screening based on comparison. She’s very lovely in hand but at this point in my ever growing collection I have to be selective of who goes and who stays. If she had Poesie Enchantee/Regal Estate face screening I would be all over her but that’s not the case.
Idol Worship Kyori IT Direct Sales Room Exclusive - What a lovely doll! But black hair and red lips again? Why? I really think she would look gorgeous with a lip color that matches the nude color of her dress and I would get her in a heartbeat! Can we please change her up? Again, it’s Kyori’s slow evolution. No drastic change here from the last Convention. Can we darken her skin tone a little bit with ash blonde hair and neutral make-up palette? Come on IT! I know you can do it. Just don’t give her the Hungarian skin tone and everything will be fine. That hair is gorgeous though. I would still love to have her, I just run out of shopping money.
Star Power Vanessa - Beautiful! As always. But another blonde Vanessa with red lips? I guess in reference to the movie Gentlemen Prefers Blondes they decided to go with that color palette again. A stereotypical Marilyn Monroe look basically. It actually didn’t matter to me. I love her face screening, I love her hair but I’m not sure if I like her dress and cape yet.
Inner Spark Natalia - If you have noticed, the dolls with older face sculpts gets an older face screening used from 7 or so years ago while dolls with newer face sculpts gets new(er) face screening. I love everything about this doll. The make-up palette is to-die-for! But I’m not a fan of the Hot Property eyes. If she had the Heat Seeker/Pewter/Power Game eyes I’d be getting her at the sales room in an instant. It's such a shame.
Stage Presence Veronique W Club Luncheon Exclusive Centerpiece - If this was the Main Convention Souvenir doll I’d be ecstatic but I think the reason why she is not is because this is not the Fashion Royalty Anniversary. This is the Integrity Toys Anniversary! It could be anyone really. This Veronique is so gorgeous and they used the Haute Societe/Sweet Smell of Success face screening again which is a favorite of mine. While I’m tired of the blonde hair and red lips, this Vero turned out to be perfection. Royal Treatment who??? If only I had extra dollars to spend I would have bought her… Wish me luck at the lottery. I’m entering if I have the money for sure.
Time and Again Adele Official Table Centerpiece - Well time and again I am underwhelmed. I don’t love Adele as much as I used too. I’m not mad at the styling. I love the Jackie O kind of look for her but again, it’s all about the face. She’s just a different character for me all together. Adele has left the building! I’m dying to have her refreshed again to look like her old self or just have her revert back to 2.0 that would be great.
Starlet Elyse Official Table Centerpiece - To me she’s the Main Convention doll. She saved the entire convention from sinking! The make-up palette is very refreshing! She’s definitely glowing! That dress is very interesting too with the pockets and the sheer skirt but that hair is huge! That hive is waaay too tall! I’m definitely restyling her and hopefully she has long hair under there.
In a New Year of promise and expectation we have the old reliable Robert French of Lawrence Photography to start us off. Here is Lynch's Castle, Shop Street in Galway on what must have been a quiet day. Today, even early in the morning this street seems to hum with life, those up early, those going home late, those that have little to do but stand around and, inevitably, the music and life of the city!
To all a Happy New Year from all at Library Towers and the Three Marys!
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: c.1880-1900 (though possibly later than c.1900, given apparent electric street lighting)
NLI Ref: L_ROY_00881
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie