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WEEK 53 – Cordova Super Target Final Day, Set VI
Our look at the left-side entrance to the store shows even more boarded-up glass (almost apocalyptic, no?), and removed signage. Not even much of a labelscar on this side, at least not when you compare it to the previous two pics. Of course, it’s also possible my phone simply didn’t capture it that well.
The building still has a very nice design, and as I wrote earlier in this album, I always liked its architecture. But seeing it in this state is just sorta surreal. The boards threw me for a loop; I was not expecting that. I don’t know about you, but for me they immediately change the tone of this scene, and not for the better. :(
(c) 2020 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Memorable Quotes From Oliver Twist
Workhouse Boy: [Woken by boy pacing back an forth] Tom, give it a rest will ya? We're trying to sleep.
Hungry Boy: Can't sleep. Too hungry.
Workhouse Boy: We're all hungry.
Hungry Boy: Yeah, but I'm scared.
Workhouse Boy: Scared? Of What?
Hungry Boy: I'm so hungry I'm scared I might eat the boy that sleeps next to me.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread - Charles Dickens
Another from a beautiful maternity session a couple weeks ago. Just about everything went right for this session and we were so happy to come away with so many gorgeous images. See the entire shoot at our website, www.am-photography.smugmug.com.
... Even if time is running short and you'd widen it
and in the meantime the fog spread
and you'd have lived by the sea
and also the stars are falling down
some of them both inside and outside
and for a wish that you express
hundred others of them stay out ...
Have no fear . You can see the moon even from here .
"Niente Paura " Ligabue
This photo is part of my "Single in December 2013" Collection. The complete set can be found at www.flickr.com/photos/rensehaveman/sets/72157638246242726...
In the Netherlands, we celebrate the name day of St. Nicolas, on the 6th of December. The fifth is 'pakjesavond', where we give gifts, accompanied by silly poems about the good, and bad!, side of the receiver... St. Nicolas is the somehow more serious 'ancestor' of Senile Santa....
We’ll be entering the store on the left-hand side this time (as before). This is my attempt at an extreme close-up of the “Expect more. Pay less.” tagline above the corresponding vestibule. I wasn’t happy that it came out off-center like this, so I didn’t post it before. But it wound up being the only such close-up I got, so here it is :P
SuperTarget (now closed) // 475 N Germantown Parkway, Cordova, TN 38018
(c) 2019 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
You can not cross the sea by simply looking at the water. Do not delude yourselve with vain hopes.
(Rabindranath Tagore Indian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature 1913).
Δεν μπορείς να διασχίσεις τη θάλασσα αν απλώς κοιτάς το νερό.Μην βαυκαλίζεσαι με μάταιες ελπίδες.
(Rabindranath Tagore Ινδός ποιητής και θεατρικός συγγραφέας, Νόμπελ Λογοτεχνίας 1913)
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I took this picture of Aura when we were doing a small trip with a train some time ago. Aura definitely has a passion for climbing things and while she have climbed into trees and playground gadgets she doesn't give it a rest even in a train. For her age (turning four soon) she is pretty skillful and it usually doesn't go unnoticed when she does her stunts as there is almost always some new adult who admires her skills. Sometimes things even get uneasy when other adults get scared that some accident might happen (luckily we had very little of those). But I let her play and climb even in unconventional places (like in train) because I feel climbing has given her so much healthy confidence for her own skills and it belongs to untamed childhood, and as a father I'm of course very proud of her skills.
If you have noticed I haven't used (or shared pictures from) the Zeiss Loxia 2/35 as much as some other lenses in my kit. To be honest, this is because the Loxia 2/35 isn't the most straight forward lens to approach. If you have followed the development of camera lenses in recent years, you probably already know that today's customers are basically waiting for 'perfect lenses' which have no compromises or weak corners - and manufacturers are delivering them as good as they can. The Loxia 2/35 is different in this regard. Instead of being superb already from wide open (like most of the current lenses at the market), it introduces a certain veil on the image when shot at f/2. When I noticed this at first time I thought that Zeiss has produced a mediocre lens which has a very obvious weak corner in it. To be clear the fore mentioned veil at f/2 is not always there, but it becomes very visible with a high contrast subject and one could say that the famous Zeiss micro contrast just isn't there at wide open. So, in some ways this put me off at the start because I had developed a certain expectations which came from the standards of the current lens manufacturing. I was a bit baffled by this lens and the question that I had in my mind was 'why did people at Zeiss decided to release this particular lens for the Loxia family when it clearly doesn't satisfy the expectations'.
Now that I've used the Loxia 2/35 a bit more, I've found myself coming back to it again and again because there is something particular in the way it renders. Stopping it down to f/2.8 clears the veil and image becomes very sharp with great contrast, but this kind of technical stuff isn't my point (stop it to f/4 and suddenly becomes a modern performer). Beyond technical attributes this lens has a certain character that I find very pleasing. It's a kind of 'classic look' that has a great three dimensional separation in some circumstances. Bokeh, even if it's a bit nervous in some situations, has a kind of timeless quality from time to time when subject is at favourable distance. What is causing all this is beyond me, but all I know is that it's there and I like it. I could go even so far to say that this lens has a kind of character that makes me re-evaluate the other lenses. In some ways it has 'that something' that isn't there with the other lenses (except the Loxia 2/50 perhaps).
So to answer my own question 'why did Zeiss decided to release this particular lens even with distinct weak corner with its wide open behavior', I believe they knew that this particular lens had a character that produces beautiful images even if it doesn't follow the norm of how lens should perform today. They had to trust in this particular lens design which was borrowed from their own ZM-series, otherwise they could have just design it from the ground up to satisfy the expectations of the current audience. In short, the Loxia 2/35 is different, not only from the rendering's point of view, but also as product since it doesn't follow the norm of lens to today is expected to be. This is what makes it interesting to me and it kind of fits into philosophy of the Loxia family since offering manual focusing lenses for perhaps the most innovative camera system of today is certainly a bold move from Zeiss. So, it's unique and definitely a keeper.
Days of Zeiss: www.daysofzeiss.com
The Christchurch coat of arms, adorning a rusty grate in the CBD. [www.ccc.govt.nz/culture-and-community/heritage/council-hi...]
Another of my information photos. We were walking out from bridge fishing and two men were just getting to the bridge. Each was carrying one of these rod and reels over their solders.
I have never seen ones this large so requested to lift one and was amazed at the weight.
My wife wanted her photo taken with them , but had to stand by them, because she could not lift them off the ground.
I assume they were going to shark fish on the bridge.
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. ~Bruce Lee
Secrets should either be forgotten or remain unspoken of. To pull it out of someone will hurt one or another.
...of banana bread
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Shakespeare said :
“ I always feel happy ..
You know why ?!
Because I don't expect anything
from anyone ..
Expectations always hurt ..!! "
...to life!
...to love!
...to peace!
...to family!
...to friendship!
...to me!
...to you!
...to us!
...to hope!
...to change!
...to the year!
...to the future!
Every time I think I have found a "trick" to get a chickadee to perch for morfe than two seconds, I'm wrong. Yet, after seven years of getting fairly good shots of the Chestnut-backed chickadee, I find that it's all luck with a small amount of information. Yesterday, I found that the Japanese Maple tree in the foothills had started to sprout new branches and leaves at the same time it was dropping old ones. What I found was that this chickadee (the only one in California) will peck at new leaves, then fly away. All I have to do is focus, set the aperture, cross my fingers, compose, and shoot four or five in burst mode. It worked ... once. It was a great four days, coming out with four decent shots! But as I said yesterday, past success only leads to future expectations and that usually leads to disappointment. So, we'll leave it at this: I had four really good days and didn't spend a penny on film or processing!
“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Belonging to the Devils Creek waterstream and the Columbia River watershead, this seasonally massive tiered-plunged waterfall knows how to capture one's very own eye, heart, and soul while traversing through this historically and geologically special region of Eastern Washington. Maxing out at a height of a little over 400 feet, this majestic gem feeds Banks Lake with the mysterious beauty of Steamboat Rock nearby.
Photo of Martin Falls captured via Minolta MD W.Rokkor-X 24mm F/2.8 Lens alongside State Route 155 (the Coulee Corridor National Scenic Byway). Devil's Punchbowl Area. Upper Grand Coulee Region. Columbia Plateau Region. Grant County, Washington. Early February 2018.
Exposure Time: 15 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None * Filter: Vü Sion Filter ND-10 * Color Temperature: 2750 K * Film Plug-In: Kodak Portra 160 NC
Flight Lieutenant Hunter reckons he's a pretty good musician, and could probably make a career of it. Flying Officer Cooper (L) and Flight Lieutenant Murphy (R), DON'T share this opinion.