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on our way home from eating sushi we picked up a nice pack of Ben & Jerry's … for later, on the couch. yum!
Great Expectations is one of my favorite books and upon rereading it recently, I was inspired by the very unique character of Miss Havisham. She is a wealthy, mysterious woman who invites the main character Pip to her mansion to play with her daughter. When Pip meets her, she is sitting amongst rotting wedding decorations, including a cake covered in cobwebs and spiders. He later learns that she was stood up before her wedding many years ago. Nothing in the room has moved since, symbolic of Miss Havisham's inability to move on after her heart was broken. This cake shows the transformation of her wedding cake over time, from an elegant white cake to a yellow, moldy, decaying one. Each side has different flavors to further reflect the transformation - on the left is a light lemon and lavender cake and on the right is a dark chocolate and espresso cake.
Este es mi primer trabajo serio con personas, es una nueva fasceta que hace tiempo he querido experimentar y bueno, este último tiempo se me ha dado la oportunidad de realizar. Doy las gracias a Sofía y a Claudio quienes me ayudarón. Espero les guste =)
Model: Sofía Page
Photo: Silvio Morales.
10 Years .- Don't fight it
A City drawn on Arms keeps us Hoping and Awake.
8/365 November 2nd, 2010 [Parents Birthday]
Today was lame. I went on a tour/informational tour of my college i'm attending next fall. I hung with Bash most of the day. I'm hungry and i have a stomach ache, i need more chocolate ice cream. I will watch Fantastic Mr. Fox with undone homework and a new heated blanket. Today...was lame.
This rather fun piece of public art is located in Barcelona Harbour.
You can see more pics of the city in my Barcelona set.
Great Expectations is one of my favorite books and upon rereading it recently, I was inspired by the very unique character of Miss Havisham. She is a wealthy, mysterious woman who invites the main character Pip to her mansion to play with her daughter. When Pip meets her, she is sitting amongst rotting wedding decorations, including a cake covered in cobwebs and spiders. He later learns that she was stood up before her wedding many years ago. Nothing in the room has moved since, symbolic of Miss Havisham's inability to move on after her heart was broken. This cake shows the transformation of her wedding cake over time, from an elegant white cake to a yellow, moldy, decaying one. Each side has different flavors to further reflect the transformation - on the left is a light lemon and lavender cake and on the right is a dark chocolate and espresso cake.
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we're both
metaphors
for wild bulls
and rings through
broken noses
all the hope
of pounding hooves
the heart's opposing forces
the slow arrival left behind
turned your reverence to rapture
the moment that you took the best
and left what didn't matter
you said again
but changed the words
in a tune gone to the birds
a girl that you can't ply with passion
woke up with the nameless beasts
and sung into creation
we're both
metaphors
for matadors
subversive expectations
a tongue that tried
to leave the truth where it lies
(word to the dying wise)
making claims of being born again
an overdue guest
at the checkout desk
no less dead
than the rest
~ ~ ~
June 17, 2022
Round Hill, Nova Scotia
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Yay, 2014! I know, this is an old meme...but it just seems right.
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I adjusted the image slightly from original.
I didn't have my own image that was good for this, so I searched for creative commons licensed images. A real disappointment all on its own, since flickr has a search that is by any account, horrible. I think this image works well.
LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 21: (EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION IN UK TABLOID NEWSPAPERS UNTIL 48 HOURS AFTER CREATE DATE AND TIME. MANDATORY CREDIT PHOTO BY DAVE M. BENETT/WIREIMAGE REQUIRED) (L to R) Cast and Crew of 'Great Expectations' including Olly Alexander, Joe Jameson, Jason Flemyng, Ewen Bremner, director Mike Newell, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, writer David Nicholls, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Jeremy Irvine and younger brother Toby Irvine, Holliday Grainger, Helena Barlow, David Walliams, Charlie Callaghan, and producers Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen attend the Gala Premiere of 'Great Expectations' which closes the 56th BFI London Film Festival
Had laser eye surgery this week, unfortunately is hasn't enabled me to fire lasers from my eyes
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430ex Camera left through 42" shoot-through umbrella
430exII Camera right through 42" shoot-through umbrella
Triggered by 7d built in wireless ettl
My write up on photographing the new Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas here
On the weekend of November 20-21, 2010, I was invited to photograph the new Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas prior to their opening December 15, 2010 in Las Vegas NV.
This set of images represents my efforts that weekend to showcase this newest resort property opening up on the Las Vegas Strip. Thanks to David Scherer from The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas for showing me around, to Miiko Mentz at Katalyst Films for helping to arrange the shoot, and to my wife for modeling for me.
To learn more about The Cosmpolitan of Las Vegas, check out their website here or their Facebook page here.
HM Government Emergency Food Package. I am in the Sheltered group in respect of COVID-19 Coronavirus. Consequently, I was eligible for assistance to stay fully isolated. I am suitable impressed by the kindness shown by these food packages. It is beyond my expectations. I am humbled by the state generosity and feel sorry for those less privileged.
From the MLB website:
Tigers manager Jim Leyland set the expectations before Justin Verlander had arrived at Comerica Park on Monday.
"Hopefully, this is one of those games where your ace is an ace," Leyland said beforehand, referring to his short bullpen.
Verlander was all of that in Monday's 7-2 win over the Yankees, in part because he had set the expectations himself five days earlier.
"The last couple of starts, I've just been a bit inconsistent," Verlander said after his second loss in as many starts, last Tuesday in Boston. "I've got to work to get it back. I have some work to do."
Verlander got it back, all right. As a result, the Tigers (59-50) moved nine games over .500 for the first time all season.
When Verlander reared back for a 100-mph fastball on his 130th pitch as Ichiro Suzuki stood in the batter's box, trying to avoid a third strikeout on the night, Verlander had it, and he put it where he wanted. Ichiro fouled it back, but it was a brief reprieve, because when Verlander wanted his curveball two pitches later, he had that, too.
"That last curveball that he threw him, I don't know too many guys that are hitting that," catcher Alex Avila said. "I had a hard time trying to catch it."
When Ichiro swung meekly and missed it, Verlander had his 14th strikeout of the night to tie his career high, set last June against Arizona. It came on his 132nd pitch of the night, also tying his career high. It also broke this season's American League high of 13, set by Verlander on April 16 in Kansas City.
No Tigers pitcher had struck out 14 Yankees in a game since Jim Bunning did it on June 20, 1958. The only other Detroit pitcher since 1918 to do it was another Hall of Famer, Hal Newhouser, on May 27, 1943.
Verlander did it against a Yankees team that ranked eighth in the AL in strikeouts entering the night. Unlike the other two, he did it with a designated hitter in the opposing lineup.
"I thought I had a decent amount," Verlander said, "but I didn't really know until the eighth inning. I kind of looked back and saw 11 or 12. I think after I struck out one guy, I saw 12 or something."
Verlander didn't know how many strikeouts he had, but he knew why he got as many as he had. The work he put in between starts got him there.
"Today felt night-and-day different from my last couple of starts," Verlander said. "Me and Jeff Jones, our pitching coach, looked at some video and changed some things, and thankfully I was able to make the adjustments quickly. I really felt much more in sync from the get-go today.
"Those adjustments are what allowed me to pitch the way I wanted to, whereas the last couple games, I kept falling behind guys and wasn't really hitting my spots."
Never mind that it's the two-thirds mark of the season and Verlander's innings are piling up. What makes him so dominant isn't just the physical endurance to throw so many pitches consistently and still be at his strongest near the end of a start, nor is it the perfectionist streak that allows him to work on his game tirelessly with precision. It's the ability to do both at the same time during stretches like this.
"To go from having a rough outing like he had in Boston to this doesn't surprise me at all," Avila said. "I don't think it should surprise anybody. He's just that kind of a competitor. He works that hard at what he does and strives to be as good as he can be. He can be like he was today every single time. Stuff like that doesn't surprise our team like that anymore."
It wasn't a mechanical overhaul, just fine-tuning a couple of things, Verlander said. It was also a more deliberate tempo from a pitcher who has hurried up too much with his delivery a few times this year. He wasn't happy with his fastball, first and foremost, coming out of his rain-shortened five-inning start at Boston and his runaway seventh inning five nights earlier in Cleveland. He took the loss in both.
"Two starts in a row, one inning hurt me, and I wasn't able to make my pitches I wanted," Verlander said. "I just felt like I was letting the team down and needed to pitch better. I think every start if I don't win, I'm a little bit upset with myself. But two in a row with big innings, teams stringing together hits, that's not like me. I knew there needed to be something changed."
Out of 132 pitches, Verlander threw 96 for strikes, the third-highest total for a Major League pitcher in the last 10 years. Brandon Morrow threw 97 out of 137 pitches for strikes in his 17-strikeout one-hitter against the Rays on Aug. 8, 2010. Randy Johnson threw 102 strikes out of 149 pitches on July 31, 2002. Neither had as good of a ball-strike ratio as Verlander, who was throwing strikes on 75 percent of his pitches at one point on Monday. He settled for 72.7 percent.
Verlander struck out Mark Teixeira looking at three straight curveballs after back-to-back RBI singles tied the game, the fifth inning having been extended by Verlander's errant drop at first base. He struck out the last three batters he faced after a leadoff walk in the eighth.
Verlander struck out so many batters that he overshadowed an estimated 454-foot drive by Miguel Cabrera into the center-field shrubs for the game's second run.
"A lot of times, great pitchers get a little nastier when they have guys on base," said Derek Jeter, one of just two Yankees Verlander didn't strike out. "They seem to bear down a little bit. He did that today. There's a reason why he's one of the best in the game."
Participants discuss the responsibilities of membership during a UU101 class at the UU Church of Delaware County in Media, Pennsylvania, a Unitarian Universalist Association "Breakthrough Congregation."
“I find that when you set the bar high and are clear and honest about expectations, people rise to meet and exceed them,” the Rev. Peter Friedrichs says, and this is what is happening at the UU Church of Delaware County right now. “It feels like we are firing on all cylinders,” he adds. “People sense the excitement and energy and want to be a part of it.”
See "An Upward Spiral" by Tina Porter, UU World (Spring 2016), pages 8–10. Photograph © 2016 Maura B. McConnell.
I pretty much wiped-out a concord grape bush in my front yard; way too dominant. But the regrowth is pretty. Camarillo, California