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Packing up the propellant and the new rocket builds for the desert. The pink Crayon piggy bank now sports an aluminum nozzle on the rear… and the minimum diameter 38mm bird will test the latest "mellow" and "pink" propellant from Cesaroni Aerospace Canada, eh! Those will be first flights for the girls.
The 3D-printer has been running every night to churn out fin cans for six young boys who will be launching rockets for the first time. I also have a 4"-diameter fin can there that I need to simulate as it pushes the limits of the Makerbot, and the fins are a bit stubby.
I have a boatload of night and day launches to pull off. The propellant alone includes a N5800, M3000, and a dozen L, K, H, and I motors. Each letter grade is a doubling of total impulse, and the M motor class is the largest that's legal in California. Hello Nevada!
Here's a fun video of the large bird I'll be focusing on...
For long range cruise and low-speed flight, the wings can be spread. On my model the wings are interconnected such that they sweep simultaneously.
I'm really, really bad with strangers and it usually takes me several encounters before I can open up ever so slightly.
I decided to participate in the 100 Strangers project some two months ago, after following Neil Winch for quite some time.
In other words, it took me two months to finally get out there and try it.
Today was the day!
I chose Zürich for my first time because there's thousands of people to encounter and I was sure that I would easily find someone there. aha..ha..
After entering the Bahnhofstrasse I was slightly overwhelmed by the shear masses of people passing by.
Countless interesting, beautiful people one could talk to if one had the balls..
I grabbed my DSLR tightly and stood there like a lost boy waiting for his mum.
After what felt like an eternity, I decided to sit on a bench and jump at the next passer-by that didn't seem too busy or dangerous.
They suddenly all looked terribly frightening and busy and after almost an hour I was about to give up when...
...this guy sits down next to me, making a phone call. He talks about filming and opportunities and that's when I decided that this had to be a sign.
I patiently waited for him to hang up, gave him a few more seconds to check some messages and then I finally got to talk to someone.
Meet Pascal
I explained my dire situation to him and he instantly nodded and told me how hard HE had it when he first started out with street photography, where for him the hardest part was aproaching people aswell.
How lucky can one get with the first time?
Pascal works in sales most of the time, making some money in filming and photography besides. He aspires to go full-time professional soon and I wish him all the best, should he happen to stumble upon this picture.
I asked for his permission to publish the picture on flickr and will e-mail him a few of the keepers.
There weren't many, though..
I only ever used the lens once with a student and shaking all over my body (from the cold) I couldn't get the focus most of the time.
I wanted to have the tattoo visible with a buttery background and some spots of warmth coming from the lights.
However, I totally missed that stupid sign in the background, which I had to burn by almost one stop so it wouldn't distract too much from the subject.
So, this was my first time and I can only hope that it won't be another 2 months till I get my shite together to get out there again, now that I'm kinda stoked about my "success".
Maybe, sometime in 2015 I will even manage to aproach a girl.. there's still time...
This picture is #1 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
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Time for a little Halloween fun. Creepy enough for ya?
While walking around the grounds of the medieval German church shown in Here's the Church; It is in Stiepel, we stumbled upon a rather startling art installation tucked away in a corner of the property. All of the heads seem to be looking directly at the church. I've done a bit of research into the installation, but came up with nothing to explain this curious expression of creativity.
The fact that the installation is not far away from some ancient headstones makes it all the more oogie.
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HDR processed from three hand-held exposures, processed with a combination of Nik/Google's Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, and Viveza.
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Athletic Goddess! Nikon D810 Photos Pretty Swimsuit Bikini Fitness Model Goddess: Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM Art Lens for Nikon Cameras!
Loved shooting the awesome Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM Art Lens for Nikon Cameras! It was a bit tough sometimes to achieve optimum focus at F1.4 due to the shallow depth of field, but hey--not every eyelash has to be perfectly sharp! I could do it if I and the model were perfectly still, or F1.8 or F2.0 did the trick too. Kept switching it up! We had fun and she loves the photos! :)
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Modeling the new black & gold & "Gold 45 Revolver" Gold'N'Virtue swimsuits with the main equation to Dynamic Dimensions Theory on the swimsuits: dx4/dt=ic. Yes I have a Ph.D. in physics! :) You can read more about my research and Hero's Odyssey Physics here:
herosodysseyphysics.wordpress.com/ MDT PROOF#2: Einstein (1912 Man. on Rel.) and Minkowski wrote x4=ict. Ergo dx4/dt=ic--the foundational equation of all time and motion which is on all the shirts and swimsuits. Every photon that hits my Nikon D800e's sensor does it by surfing the fourth expanding dimension, which is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions, or dx4/dt=ic!
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After looking through my work,what do you think about Nikon vs. Sony? Do you prefer the Nikon D810 and Nikkor / Tamron / Sigma lenses /glass, or the Sony A7r and Sony Sonnar Carl Zeiss e-mount glass/lenses? I love them both! And I am so excited about the Sony A7rII !
Feel free to ask me any questions! Always love sharing tech talk and insights! :)
And all the best on Your Epic Hero's Odyssey!
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Buying Girl Scout cookies helps support a fine organization, and in today's mad world, it can also be a political act. WTF? Because GSA believes in diversity (including LGBT), a Right Wing Nut Job excuse for a bishop in St. Louis has asked his parishes to dump sponsorship of the Girl Scouts. I hope Pope Francis removes him for lack of Christian charity and setting a poor example.
The last time I tried their famous chocolate mints and peanut butter sandwich cookies, they weren't as good as past versions. However; their shortbread cookies shown here are still good, and I've gotten some on each of my last three grocery shopping trips. Many stores like HEB and Kroger allow the Girl Scouts to set up their cookie displays outside in front of the store or inside the entrance. The stores won't lose any business but will gain community goodwill. except among the Right Wing Nut Jobs. It takes a really mean-spirited person to hate the Girl Scouts. Of course, some of them are running for President / Fuehrer.
The girls selling them weren't all Anglo either. There was a nice diverse mix of girls including several of their mothers wearing clothes from several Asian countries. That means today's assortment of Girl Scouts will be tomorrow's American women doing all kinds of things, especially filling leadership roles. If there are enough Girl Scouts, our country will be in good hands.
A blank 'For Rent' sign on a blue painted cinder block wall.
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For the most fun things to do in Niagara Falls this summer 2014, visit Nightmares Fear Factory, the scariest and best haunted house. One block east of the top of Clifton Hill and close to many Falls Attractions, Hotels, and Restaurants. We have paid supervised parking too!
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Reception Day for the Class of 2015 began early June 27 with new cadets beginning the transformation from civilian to West Point cadet. Photo by Mike Strasser, West Point Public Affairs
Ticket was for having no parking clock set but the clock is clearly visible top corner of windscreen
Last month, I decided to set up a Christmas scene in my kitchen diorama and wanted to add the family room next to it. I’ve been wanting to put together a family room dio for awhile now, but just haven’t been able to. I used a hodge podge of furniture and bare walls, and did one anyway, lol. I haven’t posted the photo set here yet. but doing that photo shoot motivated me to work on the family room now and I finished the doll afghan last night. The couch is from MinInteriors on Etsy and the blue starburst throw pillows are from Ronda Vallejo’s Etsy shop, Miniaturesfromavalon.
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I’m a registered nurse.
In 2009 I had to go to Texas to be with my father who had been admitted to one or our nations ‘esteemed’ health care facilities. It was not a nursing home, this was a hospital. He died eventually, having never been able to get the hell away from the hospital. I could only enforce handwashing so many times by his nurses and CNA’s that worked with him. He was immunocompromised from his medicines and they were lazy. (honestly, I know the difference between lazy and busy-keep in mind that I’m a nurse). They finally gave him an infection that killed him. That was the final cause of death, but also listed on the death certificate was malnutrition. I took this and wrote it back then, but it seems like the whole episode should be revisited from time to time.
Feel free to check out the set ‘Goodbye America’ as well as the set about Texas. The whole dying process was recorded there in Texas-as well as some attempts (bad ones) of mine to get some artistic shots…couldn’t focus on them very well...
My father couldn’t use his right arm due to a previous fracture (created when they removed the tumor that had been in the bone for 5 years and had gone undiagnosed-the doctor never looked at the xrays he had ordered)
He could not sit up without assistance due to weakness and malnutrition. See where this table is in relationship to where he is? His meal is on that table.
Probably a good thing because at least 12 times during my time in Texas they served him food that is forbidden for dialysis patients (yes, food that could have killed him). Everyone including the case manager and charge nurse just giggled when I asked them ‘WHY?’ They rolled their eyes and said, ‘Oh, we go around and around with dietary all the time’. I said again, “Why?” They had no answer. Attempts to go up the chain of command in the hospital were equally as futile and infuriating.
I wondered when I initially got to Texas how he gotten so skinny…I wondered why he was so weak. He wasn’t in the hospital that long before I got there and he was able care for himself completely prior to admission. I wondered why the nurses hadn’t told me he was back on dialysis in my frequent phone converations with them. I wondered why they had failed to mention that he was curled in a fetal position covered with scabies and non verbal…(this was the state I found him in when I arrived-at the time of the above photo he had improved slightly and I had treated him myself several times for the scabies)
Also on that table: his dentures, glasses, and phone and call light. (about two weeks later they completely lost his dentures and said it was ‘impossible’ to have a dentist come fit him and make a new pair. They also lost his glasses and hearing aids.)
How long before you would go crazy? How long before you’d die? How long would you be able to fight for yourself despite being ill and trying to ‘heal'? Why should I feel terrible because I couldn’t stay at the hospital 24-7? Aren’t they responsible for ANYTHING? (Actually they forced me to leave during the night times.)
He had great insurance. His bills are paid. And there were a LOT of them. Staggering amounts of money were thrown into this miserable team of idiots that was meant to help him improve. Healthcare has officially now become wealthcare.
I will never have anything elective done in this country. I will go overseas again and again. (I had a hip replacement a year after my father died-in India…and I had an amazingly good outcome AND experience and it cost less than a fifth of what they would have tried to bill me here in this ‘land of the free’.)
If I ever end up a victim of health care, I hope to die quickly before they can steal my dignity and slowly and inhumanely snuff out MY fire.
For some reason I decided that it would be a good idea to watch The Star Wars Holiday Special at 6:00 in the morning
For the first day of our backpacking trip, it was pouring rain all the way through the night. Finally, on the second day, the rain let up. We dried our gear (to an extent), and went on a day hike. When we got back at around sunset, the sky was looking very clear, so we decided to sleep on top of Indian Head itself. This was the resulting image. It's actually 492 images combined, which is all part of a much larger 900 picture video clip that I created as well.
Chikan Embroidery of Lucknow.
Lucknow was and is the centre of chikan embroidery, renowned for its timeless grace and its gossamer delicacy, a skill more than 200 years old. In fact, the craft is alive and struggling to regain some of its former beauty and elegance. Chikan embroidery is done on fine cotton fabric. The garments are first stitched and then embroidered, whereas skirts, saris, and table linen are first embroidered and then finished. A study of the origin of chikan reveals that this form of embroidery had come to India from Persia with Noor Jehan, the queen of the Mughal Emperor Jehangir. The word chikan is a derivative from the Persian word 'chikaan' meaning drapery. Some, however, insist that the craft migrated from Bengal. What we know is that chikankari came to Oudh when Mughal power declined in Bengal and the artisans moved to the Oudh durbars, seeking employment and patronage.
Dhobi Ghat at the bank of river Gomti.
“Dhobi” means a special community specialized in washing clothes, and “Ghat” means a place at the bank of a river or water pool where people take their bath or wash clothes. The Dilliwal Shaikh are a community of Muslim Dhobis, who are found in the cities of Lucknow, Kanpur and Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, India. They are said to have migrated from Delhi, some three centuries ago. They are specialize in washing the “chikan cloth”, a special type of fabric found in the Awadh region, Lucknow.
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For years I pulled this plant out of my yard as a fast growing weed! But recently I discovered it growing in the wild and feel in love with it. Its rosy beauty. Its delicacy. And then learned its name... Rouge Plant.
A Native Florida shrub it grows to near 6 feet, with only the base becoming woody. The leaves are alternate with distinctly wavy margins. It grows inconspicuously till it produces wonderful clusters of pinkish-white flowers which bloom throughout the year And are followed by brilliant bright red berries.
It is self seeding but is not aggressive. Easy to remove if you choose. No nasty roots to fight. It. Grows in sun or shade, woods or hammocks.
Honey bee, Apis mellifera
Rouge Plant, blood berry, bloodberry, rougeberry
Rivina humilis L., Petiveriaceae
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For many years I wanted to rebuild the container ship in the 7994-1 City Harbour to something a little bit more realistic, it was to be a main feature of my dream Legodtenstein layout., alas that dream is no longer. One of the things that had held me back was how to stow the lifeboats and launch them, I had made a couple of different Davit types for my former LCGS fleet but needed something different for a commercial vessel. I had looked at A Frame Davits and a number of other types but never took up the challenge. I had told a regular customer of mine about the 7994-1 set and he was keen to purchase it, I told him what I wanted to do with the set and he said okay lets go with that, with that as an incentive I then decided to go ahead with the plan.
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So after borrowing the Harlot for a photoshoot meetup event at my studio I was invited to do a feature shoot of the bike for Show Class magazine. The magazine is a dedicated subscription monthly book about the chopper world. Die hards know about it, the average magazine rack at your local store does not. This was exciting because of the credibility that is involved with getting your bike featured in such a mag, so when Eric the owner contacted me and asked if I would shoot for it, I jumped at the chance.
Rather than doing the typical portraits of a chopper amongst an auto shop, or near some industrial estate, I thought we could do something a bit different. Lots of the back alleys and old houses in the neighborhood nearby offered an "off the mainstream path" sort of depiction without getting out of the city. Neighborhoods where these enthusiasts tinker in their small garages, simply because they love the craft and art of these bikes. Seeing the dirt, overgrowth, and alike, meant that this isn't some poser show bike; it's a bike that gets to ride and be seen. We decided on almost 20 images for the article, but these two I've included I thought really captured the vibe of the day, and the rest were detail shots that showcase the build of the bike.
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"BREAKING NEWS!
PRN forces have been attacking the MLF's forces all over the Philippines. "We will not let these Ungrateful idiots take our land! The MLF is weak! We will be victorious! Fight for the motherland, fight for the PRN!"-President Cochran
The PRN also has said that immediately a bombing campaign of the MLF has begun. The PRN is asking all allies to help destroy the MLF and to leave no survivors. This has been channel 4 news!
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I'm pretty friken pissed off right now! I made this to show I invaded him but nooooo my sister had to be a jerk and not let me on the laptop! >.>
Also I'm pissed because he's invading just because he wants the Philippines becasue he lives there.... >.< ALSO....If you fave please comment. it means more to me. :)
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***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on May 4th 2015
CREATIVE RF gty.im/553035189 MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**
This photograph became my 634th frame to be selected for inclusion and sale in the Getty Images 'Moment' collection and I am very grateful to them for such a wonderful oportunity.
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Photograph taken at 18:59pm on Wednesday 25th May 2013 off Marine Drive and Botany Road, in the centre of the famous chalk cliffs at the centre of Botany Bay, the Northern most of seven bays in Broadstairs, Kent, England.
The seven bays are (from south to north) Dumpton Gap, Louisa Bay, Viking Bay, Stone Bay, Joss Bay, Kingsgate Bay and Botany Bay. This frame is taken on the edge of Botany Bay by the tide carved cliff archway, looking over towards Kingsgate Bay.
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Nikon D800 14mm 1/200s f/11.0 iso200 RAW (14 bit) AF-S single point focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.
Nikkor AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8G ED IF. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL15 batteries. Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod. Manfrotto 327RC2 Grip action ball head. Manfrotto quick release plate 200PL-14. Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap. My memory 32GB class 10 20MB/s SDHC. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release.
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RAW (TIFF) FILE: 103.00MB
PROCESSED FILE: 21.93MB
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PROCESSING POWER:
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 8.1. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon VIEWNX2 Version 2.10.3 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit