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A few weeks ago I tried a rental kayak on the Kickapoo River and enjoyed it immensely.
I heard about a new kayak adventure on the back waters of the Mississippi and decided to try it.
The set up for this kayak was far superior to the one I rented wees ago and the scenery was nothing I'd ever experience either.
I've live 30 miles from the Mississippi River for nearly 30 years. I worked next to the river for 11 years.
I've never been on the river.
Yesterday I changed all that.
I will do it again and I seriously thought about what it would be like to spend the day just watching
the eagles
the turtles
egrets
snakes
and other wild life.
Not to mention the incredible scenery.
I could seriously become a River Rat.
Does our bodies shape our minds? Is the modern world scaled to the average size person? Do right-handed people see things differently than left-handed people? As a photographer all my cameras are designed for right-handed people and that sucks.
The sunlight came peeking over the trees and hit the frosted grass . As the frost began to melt from the suns rays, there were rainbow like sparkles in the grass. Like little diamonds.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the government, which is The Hague. Amsterdam has a population of 851,373 within the city proper, 1,351,587 in the urban area and 2,410,960 in the metropolitan area. The city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country but is not its capital, which is Haarlem. The metropolitan area comprises much of the northern part of the Randstad, one of the larger conurbations in Europe, with a population of approximately 8 million.
Amsterdam's name derives from Amstelredamme, indicative of the city's origin around a dam in the river Amstel. Originating as a small fishing village in the late 12th century, Amsterdam became one of the most important ports in the world during the Dutch Golden Age (17th century), as a result of its innovative developments in trade. During that time, the city was the leading centre for finance and diamonds. In the 19th and 20th centuries the city expanded, and many new neighbourhoods and suburbs were planned and built. The 17th-century canals of Amsterdam and the 19–20th century Defence Line of Amsterdam are on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Since the annexation of the municipality of Sloten in 1921 by the municipality of Amsterdam, the oldest historic part of the city lies in Sloten (9th century).
As the commercial capital of the Netherlands and one of the top financial centres in Europe, Amsterdam is considered an alpha world city by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) study group. The city is also the cultural capital of the Netherlands. Many large Dutch institutions have their headquarters there, including Philips, AkzoNobel, TomTom and ING. Also, many of the world's largest companies are based in Amsterdam or established their European headquarters in the city, such as leading technology companies Uber, Netflix and Tesla. In 2012, Amsterdam was ranked the second best city to live in by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and 12th globally on quality of living for environment and infrastructure by Mercer. The city was ranked 3rd in innovation by Australian innovation agency 2thinknow in their Innovation Cities Index 2009. The Port of Amsterdam to this day remains the second in the country, and the fifth largest seaport in Europe. Famous Amsterdam residents include the diarist Anne Frank, artists Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh, and philosopher Baruch Spinoza.
The Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the oldest stock exchange in the world, is located in the city centre. Amsterdam's main attractions include its historic canals, the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, Hermitage Amsterdam, the Anne Frank House, the Scheepvaartmuseum, the Amsterdam Museum, the Heineken Experience, the Royal Palace of Amsterdam, Natura Artis Magistra, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, NEMO, the red-light district and many cannabis coffee shops. They draw more than 5 million international visitors annually. The city is also well known for its nightlife and festival activity; several of its nightclubs (Melkweg, Paradiso) are among the world's most famous. It is also one of the world's most multicultural cities, with at least 177 nationalities represented.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heineken_Experience
The Heineken Experience, located in Amsterdam, is a historic brewery and corporate visitor center for the internationally distributed Dutch pilsner, Heineken beer.
The industrial facility was built as the first Heineken brewery in 1867, serving as the company's primary brewing facility until 1988 when a more modern, larger facility was constructed on the outskirts of the city.
The information architect Peter Morville claims that User Experience contains seven elements: findable, accessible, usable, desirable, useful, credible and valuable. He captures these values in a user experience honeycomb (Peter Morville's UX honeycomb). My diagram is based on this honeycomb by Peter Morville and illustrates six elements of User Experience.
These six elements are divided into an inner & outer circle. Desirable, credible, & valuable are more internal or intrinsic elements. Findable, Accessible, & Usable are more external or extrinsic.
Alone in the night,
Alone on my rock,
I leave this world,
ready for the last flight,
to madness,
in the next world...
During my sister's wedding reception- high on a hilltop overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Sayulita, Mexico, the sun descended to the horizon and within the span on one or two minutes the sky changed from what I'd describe as merely "pretty" to this. The entire town was bathed in a magical Golden-Amber light. I never experienced anything like it and I doubt I will ever again.
Incidentally, this was a multi-shot panorama and NO color adjustments were made to this shot.
The subjective experience of "beauty" often involves the interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of attraction and emotional well-being. (Source: Wikipedia)
More pictures of Marta here.
Experience: Culture, Cognition, and the Common Sense.
Edited by Caroline A. Jones, David Mather and Rebecca Uchill
Photo by Mariam Dembele
Last week I planned to make some nice sunset shots at the Herbstmäss Basel. Well, before turning dark it actually turned foggy, so I did not bring heavy camera equipment along. Even more happy I am what you can achieve nowadays with a mobile phone even at dusk. The free fall tower this year going through the roof of the Messe building Basel. Very spooky.
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This B&W conversion was taken in late day bright sunlight. I used Topaz Adjust for dynamic range adjustment on the original color RAW file, then converted to B&W using a high-contrast red filter.
It seems we can see the whole universe inside a single dandelion.
I take my title from the French philosopher and author of controversial literature Georges Bataille. I read a lot of his work in university. Fascinating writer with truly challenging ideas.
I am taking a hands on photography class and this weeks homework was to experience the "P" Program Mode using different lighting and focal points. Learned a lot!! First, I don't like the "P" Mode!!!!
T7109 / G-AOIM leads DE971 / G-OOSY over Bicester Heritage at the end of a Finest Hour Experiences' Formation Experience Flight: www.finesthourexperiences.co.uk/flight-experiences/tiger-...
Picture by Ken Brannen / Oxonimages
Common pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) often startle me in the field. This time, however, it was the other way around—I almost bumped into this little fellow
The June 4, 2016 Grand Classic of the CCCA Museum on the Gilmore Car Museum campus in Hickory Corners, Michigan. The Grand Classic is a smaller show on the Saturday preceding the Sunday Experience.
All of my classic car photos can be found here: Car Collections
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Photographed June 3, 2017 at the Gull Lake Country Club in
Richland, Michigan. The Classic Car Club of America had their countryside tour on this Saturday preceding the Grand Experience at the Gilmore Car Museum. Their lunch stop was here at the country club.
All of my classic car photos can be found here: Car Collections
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I undertook a post graduate in Unix at St. Patrick’s College about fifteen years ago and it was an interesting experience. A few days after completing the course the company that I worked for was purchased by Banta and I was made redundant as the new owners did not require Unix expertise. The post-graduate which was very expensive was sponsored and paid for by the EU and at the time I had believed that I was attending Maynooth University rather than St. Patrick’s because I did not know that they were not the same.
St Patrick's College is the "National Seminary for Ireland" (a Roman Catholic college), and a Pontifical University, located in the village of Maynooth, 24 km from Dublin, Ireland. In 2015-16 there were approximately 80 men studying for the priesthood at Maynooth, 60 resident seminarians and approximately 20 non residents. The college and seminary are often referred to as Maynooth College. The college was officially established as the Royal College of St Patrick by an Act of Grattan's Parliament in 1795. Thomas Pelham, the Secretary of State, introduced his Bill for the foundation of a Catholic college, and this was enacted by Parliament.
Degrees are awarded by the Pontifical University at Maynooth, which was established by a Pontifical Charter of 1896. The Pontifical Charter entitles the university to grant degrees in canon law, philosophy and theology. The college is associated with the separate Maynooth University.