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This is one of 15 or so old postcards of Bellerive FCJ Convent and School - now named Bellerive FCJ Catholic College - which I'm putting up on Flickr. Its history is among the most interesting among the Liverpool schools. A Liverpool FCJ school was established in 1844 as part of a mission begun by the founder of the religious order of the Faithful Companions of Jesus (FCJ), the young French widow, Marie Madeleine d"Houët. Central to her mission was service to the underprivileged, and to girls and women.
The postcards here show the physical environment of the school on the Princes Park site as it was in the first three decades of the 20th century. However, when the Liverpool FCJ school first opened as a boarding establishment for the poor of the city, it was located at 3 St George's Square. In 1896 the order bought Bellerive in Princes Park and this building became the hub around which other large houses on the Park were taken over by the order as the school expanded. Culmore was bought in 1906 and Silvermere in 1922, to accommodate flourishing Junior and Senior departments. The school continued its physical expansion in the second half of the last century, buying other buildings and investing in new ones. But this period isn't covered by these cards.
Today the school continues as a RC girls' school, with some boys admitted to the sixth form. It has special expertise in the Science, Maths, Computing and Applied Learning curriculum areas and delivers good academic results overall.
Happy Fourth of July, Everyone! I saved this image taken on a photo stroll in June, for the moment I got it I thought right away that this would be a photo as American as can be. Passing the young couple, I stopped to ask if they'd mind a photo because the light was so right and they said yes. Then as I got my camera up to focus, they suddenly kissed. Woohoo!
The bridge over Tempe Town Lake is featured in many previous photos of my stream, and the young man's belt buckle too, ha ha! Couldn't believe that just at that moment the flag furled out so classic, so this was a photo moment meant to be. A set for the images is in "Tempe Time".
I have a vase full of these lilies. I set them outside in the rain so I could get some waterdrop shots.
According to the owner of this produce farm, who is present in this image, there are only a few days left to pick these wonderful strawberries. He says this has been one of his best years for strawberries---but, pick-your-own numbers were down.
I was over at the farm at 6:00 am on this Saturday and people were frantically loading up berries and vegetables for the three area farm markets. Later three more trucks came and loaded up for sites in three nearby cities. These people work well together to get everything loaded and on its way.
At least four ethnic groups were represented in the 20 people picking for the owner on this day. The ages ran from teens to senior citizens. I took many portraits of the workers and had great cooperation and acceptance. The portraits are quick snaps---hey, they are working.
This is an HDR image made from five images. This helped me get the exposure that I needed.
Camera/Processing: I used my Pentax K5 and Pentax 18-135 lens to make this image. Aperture 3 and NIK Efex Pro 2 were used to post process.
Camera Settings: ISO 400, aperture f/9, shutter varied on five images, focal length 18mm
cartons of strawberries
picked by hard working people
for local markets
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
It is true. I have made the decision that I am leaving the wonderful world of flickr. Things are so busy that I don't have time to keep up with it - and so I am removing my images and letting my account expire.
Not to worry - if you want to stay in touch, I would love that! Please feel free to join the fun on facebook and see my latest work before anyone else : www.facebook.com/UncontainedPhotography and of course my website and blog are at : www.uncontainedphotography.com
Thank you all for an incredible experience. You will be missed.
Basics of reduced functionality:
Infinite zooming windows fill all available bandwidth. I used to browse 5 peoples' favorites all at once - i always open the favorites of anyone who favorites any of my photos. If you do that now, each window takes up 10X more bandwidth, because they are a bunch of hi-res pics instead of thumbnails.
Previously i could click the next 2 pages of someone's favorites (next 6 if it's page 1), and have it preloaded in another tab. Basically, I had an unending, uninterrupted stream of images to my eyes. Which is THE POINT of a photo site.
If something was interesting, I would click on it.
Now? Nope, no preview. You have to load the full size of everything. And if you want to preload the next page, you have to go to the bottom of the page to click that. Except you can't, because ajax requests will fill the page up with new full-size-bandwidth-sucking images.
Nevermind that when you finally get to the bottom of page 1, it always says you are on page 2.
The net result is - by the time i cycle through to a tab, maybe 5 or 10 more images have loaded.
More intensive means harder. Doesn't matter if someone is 56kbps or 100Mbps. Using more bandwidth than you want to use is always a bad thing. My bandwidth is often tight due to use patterns here.
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That's just one of many examples.
How about the crowded page? If I'm in another application, and click back to chrome (because I left a favorites page in mid-load, becuase it takes forever), I need to scroll. Previously I could click on the whitespace to change my focus. Now I need to be extra careful and only click on the scrollbar, or on the TINY TINy whitespace between pictures. Smaller click targets are harder by definition.
And the penalty for missing? You have to re-load the HUGE UNENDING PAGE again. And if you were near the bottom? It might take 5 minutes to load the pictures to get back to where you were. Back button is no longer sufficient like in the past.
Same thing if you accidentally close a tab. You can re-open it ("undo tab close") ... But your connection will be servered, and you generally won't be able to scroll down any further. So if you want to pick up where you've left off, you have to reload all the huge, full-size, neverending pictures up to the point where you were. Which will always, always take more time and bandwidth than with the old flickr.
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I have meaningful titles and captions written for all my photos. When you went to my page, you would see them. That was part of what I was building every day for 8 years.
Now? You don't see them. The curative info I worked hard to create is now buried past a click.
Same thing with privacy settings. Previously you could see which pictures were public/private by the color next to it. But they removed those summaries. If I want to go change the status, I first have to get to the picture on the neverending hi-res large-bandwidth page (which itself can be a problem if it's 300 down), and click into it... Just to find out something I could find out before.
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Same thing with views. I would look at my first few pages and see the view counts. Now I can't do that. Unless I click into every damn image.
Do I need to explain the concept that having more user interactions to get to user information is a bad thing? I'm a web developer myself, and even with my 10 years experience, I know better.
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Same thing with when a photo was uploaded. When going through someone's photostream, I often only want to go back to see their most recent (say, 2 months) images. So I would browse back until I saw a date of 2 months ago. Except now that date is buried. There's no way to know. Yay for hiding photo information from a photo view on a photo viewing website!
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They took away browser zoom when viewing individual photos. Previously I would use browser zoom to zoom into the picture. Sometimes I want it 50% larger than my screen to look at a detail. This applies to preview resolution AND full resolution.
Now they override that, removing a basic browser functionality, and making it harder to control the size of the image I'm viewing. On an image viewing website. Genius.
Ironically, they still allow browser zoom during the neverending-highres vomit view... And that's the one place you DON'T want it, because you're suddenly resizing 400 images at once, throwing yourself onto a totally different part of the page. THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF HOW IT SHOULD BE ON BOTH COUNTS!
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Now I'm going to grab some popcorn a wait for the inevitable No True Scotsman and Ad Hominem responses.
**I posted this in ABCs and 123s**
This is the "Punch" end of the buffet table . . . the floating apples are frozen. These are used instead of ice or a frozen punch ring (hard to make as far as *I* am concerned - I quit doing it years ago and use apples of "seasonal" colors - - - green and yellow in the spring, and red or green (depending on what color the punch is) for Christmas, yellow or red for fall, etc. I used green in the white-cranberry-grape-juice punch for my daughter's wedding. (Picture of THAT punch bowl is in the first comment below . . . it wouldn't "stick" here!
My mom taught me this trick and people love it. The apples can be "trash apples" - things you don't particularly enjoy eating . . . small ones, etc., as long as they are good and clean without bruises or "bad" places since they get quite mushy when they thaw out over several hours time.
They're festive and they make WONDERFUL "ice cubes" - - - keep it very cold without diluting the punch at *all*!!!!
In the immortal words of Mikey, the Life Cereal kid, "Try it! You'll LIKE it!" :)
Flickr Friday-Pure Beauty
Thanks everyone for your great comments and for Flickr Friday making it a favourite :)
The Flickr Uploader is a Konfabulator widget that allows you to upload images to the Flickr photo-sharing service. This is a BETA (testing) release and I would appreciate your help by reporting any errors you may encounter. Go here for discussion, support, and feature requests.
This now takes over as my favourite house photographed so far....that is, the house I'd buy :)
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Far bedroom bounced off one of the walls.
That middle space was all ambient and was windowed on both side so was really bright.
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Bounced off ceiling above camera then a second exposure with the flash bounced off ceiling at the other end of this room and hand blended in to give some nice shadows etc.
I'm not 100% happy with the ceiling, I tried using a ambient frame but it just looked wrong...
At my mom's wedding. My daughter, Chloe and I. #flybywedding September 12, 2015 at 11:49AM flic.kr/p/y4YWro
The prehistoric fish part is a Lightling; the background is an undetermined part of a Rainting. I'm posting 2 versions of this. Which one, if either one, do you like the best? If you don't like either version; that is OK. I have over 36,000 other pictures you can look at.
This is Version 2.
ABOUT RAINTINGS
Rainting is a word I coined describing a painterly effect, achieved by photographing the subject through glass that is being rained on, like a windshield or other. It achieves an oftentimes pretty or soft flowing effect, and sometimes other-worldly. It is usually creative, fun, and fluid, seldom harsh in my opinion. I have an album of them on Flickr. Rainting is already in "The Urban Dictionary" but I would like it to also be in a more sophisticated/educational type of dictionary. I started a public Flickr group of Raintings on New Year's Day 2020.
The more collegiate type of dictionaries say that the word has to actually be used by people before they're likely to publish it. So if you like the word and my idea, say it loud and say it clear and take a few Raintings and post them to my new group. Using my word and trying my new group are not inclusive of one another.
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This particular image has what I call a Faux Rainting effect. It wasn't actually raining; just a spray bottle of water on my truck window. I'll put it in my new Raintings group, but eventually I'll try to label the ones that didn't actually use *real* rain. The majority will be real rain, as that is what I used to take my beginning "Raintings" when hadn't yet thought of a name for what I described above. And that is why I rhymed my word of Rainting with Painting. My State of Oregon USA is known for lots of rain; so I shouldn't have to resort to Faux Rainting too often (grin).
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ABOUT LIGHTLINGS
Lightling is an even newer word I coined to name the odd little sort of anthropomorphic characters that sometimes appear in my images when doing a Rainting. They come in many sizes, shapes and colors and often times have what appear to be various facial expressions. In school we may have learned that a square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not a square. Well Raintings can exist without Lightlings in the scene, but Lightlings cannot exist without a Rainting.
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