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Driving this car, I had some pretty high expectations, especially considering the good reviews I've read about it. That said, on track performance and on-the-road performance seems to be grossly different. I felt that this car was too big, too heavy, and I felt very uneasy chucking it into corners.
Still, who can say that the Bee doesn't look good? I'd be lying if I said I didn't like its exterior looks...
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Rachel's bedroom had 5 big windows like the one you see in the photo. I opened the curtains on all of the windows and used them as giant softboxes.
For Christmas.
As I am very much a night person, I was inspired in the middle of the night, suddenly sat up in bed and had the PERFECT image in front of my mind's eye.
I consider pregnancy a very beautiful natural event, but also private, so that's why she's in silhouette.
Everybody who knows her, immediately recognises her profile.
Prepared the studio and lights, with Paul's help, in she came, I gave her one of my Japanese house-kimonos, she took the pose with total ease.
Took a couple of polaroids, to check the angle of the lights to perfection, then I took THE SHOT, not 2 or 3, no, just the ONE!
Most people say, it's like she is looking into a 'crystal' ball, what will the future bring?
I wish you all the very best, and thanx for all your kind words, time, comments and likes. Very much appreciated.
M, (*_*)
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Newly re-located and weak in local knowledge, I'm not sure what this was. It is close to the opencast coal site at Cwmbargoed, near Merthyr Tydfil. Perhaps it is an abandoned part of that operation, but the framework of a signboard (Carpetland? ...Heads of the Valleys Tyre & Exhaust?) suggests some enterprise, inaugurated amid high hopes, but now, alas, as one with Nineveh and Tyre.
I've been using a new developer ...new to me that is. This was from the second film I'd developed in Kodak XTOL. I've been pleased with both. The first had been Ilford Delta 400; this was the same manufacturer's HP5+. XTOL is one of those two-part powdered developers. Of course, you can't whack the one-shot liquids for convenience. These two-part powders have to be mixed and stored. I store mine in brown-glass beer bottles, filled to the top to exclude "ullage" and sealed with crown caps by the capping machine I use for home brewing. The only other powdered developer I've tried is the market leader, Kodak's D76. This too was excellent. It's only laziness that makes me use the liquids.
Some people prefer digital, but I found it very uninteresting.
Hugh Comstock built this cottage just outside Carmel-by-the Sea's city limits. The owner was home when I knocked on the door and graciously allowed me to take photos of her cottage and cottage garden
Gente de l'Atelier Junio 2011:
Tengo GRANDES expectativas con ustedes.
Les deseo todo lo bonito, especialmente mucha suerte, inspiración y pasión.
Gracias !
(No desaparezcan porque los busco y los traigo de la oreja como a Pablo)
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f/2 1/125, ISO 100, 50mm, Canon 7D
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Ilford 3200, Barcelona.
This is my first film developed in a dark room, unfortunately later my cat damaged it...
Thanks to Andrea of the association Piccolo Formato from Bologna www.piccoloformato.it/
Who am I going to converse with today? What interesting people am I going to encounter? Will I get compliments (I hope!)?
The thing is, I never know beforehand, but it is always interesting.
I spent most of yesterday trying to figure out a pattern from scratch for a baby hat (for Lucy). It takes a lot more planning than I always think to make a pattern that is the right size, yarn weight and needle size AND meets your expectations for the design.
Testing a new-to-me KMZ 50mm f1.4 Jupiter 3 in St. Augustine, Florida.
Camera: Cosina Voigtlander Bessa R3M
Lens: KMZ Jupiter 3 50mm f1.5 Soviet-era lens.
Film: Ultrafine 100
Developer: Xtol
Scanner: Epson V600
Photoshop: Curves, Healing Brush (spotting)
Cropping: None
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hey guys,
so this is day nine, and i just wanted to take a little time to thank everyone on flickr who has given me even the smallest smidge of support. i stand by the assumption that you can find the nicest people in the entire world on flickr, and i'm sure most of you have had the same experience. i try and reply to every single comment and return the favor for every favorite i get just because i know how much it can improve your day to know someone is inspired by you. i think it's unbearably important to remember the people who were rooting for you at the start, so i hope you all take that into consideration within your own streams, too. thanks again, everyone.
I FORGOT I WAS TAGGED. [ten things you want to say to ten people]
1. My very being would have no purpose if it weren't for you.
2. Being friends with you has basically built the personality i have today, you have no idea how much i appreciate our friendship.
3. Do you even realize how intelligent you are? stop wasting your time with stupid girls, you deserve a masterpiece.
4. You are so strong. you are my sister, and i know you can get through this!
5. I think about you every minute of the day. you are one of the most incredible people to have walked in and out of my life.
6. Thank you for being yourself, i'm sorry it wasn't enough for me. you're the shit.
7. You remind me that all good things must come to an end. you are the most relate able and down to earth chick i have ever met, and you have a good head on your shoulders. you're beautiful inside and out, i can't wait to watch your indie films at sundance someday.
8. Thanks for giving me the comfortable life i didn't even know i deserved.
9. You are my best friend, and you can't even speak english or walk on two legs. i'm going to be lost without you next year.
10. I miss you, other half.
oops
"When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end"
All I can say is, I'm glad I hadn't driven for hours to capture a sunset. At 5.00 this evening the sky from my kitchen window looked as though it was about to throw up a dramatic and stupendous sunset. Fifteen minutes later and I was parking my car at Ogmore-by-Sea, but sadly the sky failed to perform for me this evening. It was also high tide, but not high enough to reach the little inlets at my favourite shooting spot, so had to make-do with being a bit lower down the beach.
Sorry folks, the best I could come up with this evening, nearly all the others I've already deleted!
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Obama Popular Despite Challenges
By David Zussman (*)
The United States is a great sporting nation and, as a result, Americans like keeping score and handicapping most public events. The performance of their presidents is no exception and, since the early days of the Roosevelt presidency, the media have marked the first 100 days by providing a report card based on their performance.
It is generally acknowledged that no other U.S. president has arrived in office with higher expectations than Barack Obama, and more difficult problems. It is, therefore, not surprising that he has been subjected to a steeper learning curve than his predecessors.
By the time Obama was sworn in on Jan. 20, the U.S. financial system was in freefall, the credit markets were becoming unglued, house prices were tumbling, and a half-dozen foreign hotspots required presidential attention. It is difficult to imagine how it could have been more challenging.
Since the 100-day mark is an artificial marker, the White House staff was reluctant to join in on the rating game but their efforts proved futile.
Once they realized that it was going to be impossible to blunt the media's interest in rating the administration's performance, some senior staff tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to lower the public's expectations regarding Obama's early accomplishments by assigning themselves a B-plus. And finally, the White House embraced the 100-day anniversary, with the president appearing at last month's 100-day town hall celebration in St. Louis.
At this point, given all of the challenges and difficulties encountered by Obama, he remains a very popular political leader. In fact, according to the Pew Foundation, his personal popularity is higher than the ratings for his individual programs.
However, there is a very wide gap in the perceptions of Democrats and Republicans, suggesting that he might be one of the most polarizing presidents when compared with his predecessors. This may foreshadow future political tensions in the United States.
While not popular with Republicans, Obama appears to have precipitated a dramatic shift in attitude in favour of a greater role for government in the United States and may be giving a new name to the notion of activism.
Most observers attribute the positive rankings to Obama's personal style. He offers calm leadership that is heavily dependent on teamwork.
It is generally acknowledged that his eclectic team of advisers has two characteristics. First, they represent a wide range of ideological beliefs that appears to have broad appeal, and they seek a consensus among key decision makers before they act. In addition, he prefers to signal his intentions and his overall policy direction, but is reluctant to dictate how the policy will be implemented. At this point, he is perfectly willing to allow Congress to sort out how his policies will be implemented.
Ironically, some observers have noted that his approach to governing is the one used by Ronald Reagan more than a generation ago.
Former Clinton labour secretary, Robert Reich, may have captured best Obama's "cool" approach to governing when he described the president as being "the serene centre of the cyclone -- exuding calm when most Americans are petrified."
While management style is obviously an important factor, America has also changed its attitudes since George W. Bush was first elected in 2000. The American population is aging and appears more predisposed to accept an increased role for government.
Given the obvious failure of the Bush administration to buffer Americans from the impact of unfettered markets, it is not surprising that Obama has been very effective in changing the conversation with Americans and bringing in a new paradigm about governing that includes a broader role for government.
The swine flu epidemic that is sweeping across the world is a good example of how events can upset the best plans of newly elected governments. The American political system replaces its senior managers after each change of administration but this time it has been severely handicapped during this crisis period.
More significant, the epidemic has also exposed the weaknesses of the American transition process that requires it to replace the top 7,000 public servants.
The complex vetting procedures in addition to the generally cumbersome appointment process has created a backlog of appointments that is undermining the government's ability to respond to its various challenges.
For example, at this point, the Obama administration has still to fill around 15 senior executive health jobs, with a similar number of vacancies at the Treasury department.
One observer noted that "we're setting up a system where the only people who qualify to work in government are the ones who never actually left government."
Trapped between retaining the former Bush-appointed administrators or following a lengthy search process to find suitable replacements, the government remains leaderless in too many important departments.
While the first 100 days are not a very good predictor of what's to come, it's clear that the public is currently content with Obama's performance.
He has introduced a new vocabulary and style to governing and he evidently understands Prof. Drew Westen's observation that citizens want to hear values-based and emotionally compelling narratives from their political leaders.
As in Canada, Americans want to be reassured that their leadership can feel their pain and is working in their interests.
(*) David Zussman holds the Jarislowsky Chair in Public Sector Management in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa.
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Elections at the capital, Buenos Aires.
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A business trip brought me to the Finnish capital. Great people, yet weather in January as expected ;)
Olympus EM5
Panasonic Vario 12-32mm
Just before the sun went down, temperature dropped and we had last look at Sandy bay before we went home to have glass of wine.
With Ronel my friend, taken in Hout bay dunes.
On the Saturday, I decided only a vest would suffice for keeping me cool on my upper body. My lower body isn't a problem usually, and so I used it as an opportunity to just try on a new pleated skirt that had been delivered.
As is the case with online purchases that are sourced from China, I wasn't sure what to expect, but the skirt surpassed my expectations and I'm extremely pleased with it :-)
This, of course, is the beautiful Moraine Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta.
As mentioned in one of my other pics of Moraine I really made a point of going there a few times on my 2013 Autumn Photography trip because I wanted to get a nicer than average shot of this iconic location.
On this particular chilly morning I really thought there was a good chance of getting the full enchilada; orange glow on the peaks along with some great colour in the skies, and so I stood there anticipating something grand.
When that didn't happen I was a little bit disappointed but now that some time has passed by and as I was looking at these images this morning I can't help to be grateful that I got some nice colour in the skies on that particular morning and so I guess that I can't complain............. but I will be back and I will get my full enchilada some day!!!!!!!
The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.
-- Elbert Hubbard
The next few months are filled with great expectations for me as I head off to Chattanooga to pursue an M.A. in English Literature. Change will bring challenges, but I look forward to the opportunity to grow.
With this image, I felt that it was time for me to "get back to basics," the style that I began my Flickr journey with months ago. Props to Joel Robison for the inspiration!
Also, for The Teleidoscope Week 28: Monochrome!
Taken during a dress rehearsal of Great Expectations produced by Ashton Hayes Theatre Club on 28th Jan 2018. More information about Ashton Hayes Theatre Club see:
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For tickets see:
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