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My good wife gifted me with a new golf bag and a new electric golf cart for my Christmas ... wasn't I lucky!! Anyway, getting my bag in order and obviously I have to put new balls in my golf bag!!
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Bye, bye as I am leaving for my holidays today. I do not even know where I will be going exactly but you know the saying that good holidays change you for the better. We will see.
Neo Getter rocks! The figure comes packed with awesome extras that are perfect for battle poses. Great articulation and mobility.
Every time Stacy and I go back to Antelope we see and feel something different. He has probably been there 8-10 times and the facination is never lost.
USFWS Environmental Contaminants Biologisit Micah Miller with Harlequin Ducks
Credit: Katharine Studholme / USFWS
The Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge is a United States National Wildlife Refuge in the Kodiak Archipelago in southwestern Alaska, United States.
The Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge includes the southwestern two-thirds of Kodiak Island, Uganik Island, the Red Peaks area of Afognak Island and all of Ban Island in the archipelago. It encompasses 1,990,418 acres (8,054.94 km2).[2] The refuge is administered from offices in Kodiak.
The refuge contains seven major rivers and about 100 streams. It is a spawning ground for all six species of Pacific Ocean salmon, trout and several other fish species, as well as a nesting ground for 250 species of bird, many of which feed on salmon. The refuge has only six native species of mammals: Kodiak brown bear, red fox, river otter, ermine, little brown bat and tundra vole. The non-native mammals Sitka deer, mountain goat, Roosevelt elk, snowshoe hare and beaver were introduced to the archipelago between the 1920s and 1950s and are now hunted and trapped.
The climate of the refuge is that of southern Alaska, mild and rainy. Many areas in the refuge are densely forested with Sitka Spruce at lower elevations. There are grasslands in drier areas and at higher elevations. The refuge contains several small glaciers.
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Sign on the door read:
"There is nothing left to steal!!!
You've stolen it all!!! Get off this property!
No Trespassing!"
Cotton Picking
Somewhere, Georgia
Is anyone watching "Hidden Kingdoms" on BBC One?
How amazing is it? I'd love to be part of something like that!!
Jill suggested I either did the following :
1.) You have done a few animal shots - how about trying one more? You can take the pic in color or black & white.
2.) How about doing something with HDR or with some processing. I know you've done some of these, but I'd like to see more - maybe something pretty wild.
Since I had already captured some birds for the last round,
I chose to process 2 pics with a HDR treatment via PIcasa,
after saturating the dynamic colors a bit via Photoshop Elements.
Hope you like the result !
DJ playing music on Sunday afternoon in the halls of OPEK,
during the Trash Deluxe echibition in Leuven City
Found this new SD70ACe sitting by the yard office in Burlington, Ia, so I braved the rain to grab a shot. The unit behind it is the 9647, the former "vomitbonnet".
...on 99 miles of pure heaven, well, the last phrase is from a write up of this book made in none other than the Midhurst and Petworth Observer.
Pieter and Rita Boogaart are a Dutch couple who drive to and around Britain quite often and this is an updated version of the original. They seem to be accomplished travel authors as they also produced the title 'Curiosities of Bedfordshire', and apparently Pieter was once on Newsnight.
Oh, and Pieter is also the European Secretary of the Folly Fellowship.
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Petworth, West Sussex
16th August 2016
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MONROVIA, Liberia February 4, 2015
A little girl prepares to get her final round of adolescent shots at the Star of the Sea clinic --a medical facility operated by Catholic Relief Services with the support of USAID. Despite the Liberian Health Ministry’s recommendation that all children under the age of one get several crucial vaccines, many hospital and clinics were too overwhelmed during the Ebola crisis to provide immunization services. Now that the number of Ebola cases is steadily dropping, routine health services are returning and ensuring that Liberia’s next generation will grow up well protected against preventable diseases.
Photo by Adam Parr, USAID
For the full story of Varbah Dolley, visit USAID’s storytelling hub: stories.usaid.gov/facing-death-six-days-a-week/
I’ve been wanting to take a city break in summer, rather than in the cold months for a while, so rather than heading for the Lake District for a week of toil on the fells when Jayne could get a week off, we took off from Liverpool for Paris. Flight times were nice and sociable but it meant we were on the M62 car park at a busy time in both directions – it’s a shambles! I’ve stopped over in Paris a dozen times – on my way to cycling in the Etape du Tour in the Alps or Pyrenees – and had a few nights out there. Come to think about it and we’ve spent the day on the Champs Elysees watching the final day of the Tour de France with Mark Cavendish winning. We hadn’t been for a holiday there though and it was a bit of a spur of the moment decision. Six nights gave us five and a half days to explore Paris on foot. I had a good selection of (heavy) kit with me, not wanting to make the usual mistake of leaving something behind and regretting it. In the end I carried the kit in my backpack – an ordinary rucksack – to keep the weight down, for 103 miles, all recorded on the cycling Garmin – and took 3500 photos. The little Garmin is light and will do about 15 hours, it expired towards the end of a couple of 16 hour days but I had the info I wanted by then. This also keeps the phone battery free for research and route finding – I managed to flatten that once though.
What can I say – Paris was fantastic! The weather varied from OK to fantastic, windy for a few days, the dreaded grey white dullness for a while but I couldn’t complain really. We were out around 8.30 in shorts and tee shirt, which I would swap for a vest when it warmed up, hitting 30 degrees at times, we stayed out until around midnight most nights. It was a pretty full on trip. The security at some destinations could have been a problem as there is a bag size limit to save room in the lifts etc. I found the French to be very pragmatic about it, a bag search was a cursory glance, accepting that I was lugging camera gear, not bombs around, and they weren’t going to stop a paying customer from passing because his bag was a bit over size.
We didn’t have a plan, as usual we made it up as we went along, a loose itinerary for the day would always end up changing owing to discoveries along the way. Many times we would visit something a few times, weighing the crowds and light etc. up and deciding to come back later. I waited patiently to go up the Eiffel Tower, we arrived on Tuesday and finally went up on Friday evening. It was a late decision but the weather was good, the light was good and importantly I reckoned that we would get a sunset. Previous evenings the sun had just slid behind distant westerly clouds without any golden glory. It was a good choice. We went up the steps at 7.30 pm, short queue and cheaper – and just to say that we had. The steps are at an easy angle and were nowhere near as bad as expected, even with the heavy pack. We stayed up there, on a mad and busy Friday night, until 11.30, the light changed a lot and once we had stayed a couple of hours we decided to wait for the lights to come on. This was a downside to travelling at this time of year, to do any night photography we had to stay out late as it was light until 10.30. The Eiffel Tower is incredible and very well run, they are quite efficient at moving people around it from level to level. It was still buzzing at midnight with thousands of people around. The sunset on Saturday was probably better but we spent the evening around the base of the Tower, watching the light change, people watching and soaking the party atmosphere up.
Some days our first destination was five miles away, this is a lot of road junctions in a city, the roads in Paris are wide so you generally have to wait for the green man to cross. This made progress steady but when you are on holiday it doesn’t matter too much. Needless to say we walked through some dodgy places, with graffiti on anything that stays still long enough. We were ultra-cautious with our belongings having heard the pickpocket horror stories. At every Café/bar stop the bags were clipped to the table leg out of sight and never left alone. I carried the camera in my hand all day and everywhere I went, I only popped it in my bag to eat. I would guess that there were easier people to rob than us, some people were openly careless with phones and wallets.
We didn’t enter the big attractions, it was too nice to be in a museum or church and quite a few have a photography ban. These bans make me laugh, they are totally ignored by many ( Japanese particularly) people. Having travelled around the world to see something, no one is going to stop them getting their selfies. Selfies? Everywhere people pointed their cameras at their own face, walking around videoing – their self! I do like to have a few photos of us for posterity but these people are self-obsessed.
Paris has obviously got a problem with homeless (mostly) migrants. Walk a distance along the River Seine and you will find tented villages, there is a powerful smell of urine in every corner, with the no alcohol restrictions ignored, empty cans and bottles stacked around the bins as evidence. There are families, woman living on mattresses with as many as four small children, on the main boulevards. They beg by day and at midnight they are all huddled asleep on the pavement. The men in the tents seem to be selling plastic Eiffel Tower models to the tourists or bottled water – even bottles of wine. Love locks and selfy sticks were also top sellers. There must be millions of locks fastened to railings around the city, mostly brass, so removing them will be self-funding as brass is £2.20 a kilo.
As for the sights we saw, well if it was on the map we tried to walk to it. We crossed the Periphique ring road to get to the outer reaches of Paris. La Defense – the financial area with dozens of modern office blocks – was impressive, and still expanding. The Bois de Boulogne park, with the horse racing track and the Louis Vuitton Centre was part of a 20 mile loop that day. Another day saw us in the north east. We had the dome of the Sacre Couer to ourselves, with thousands of tourists wandering below us oblivious of the entrance and ticket office under the church. Again the light was fantastic for us. We read that Pere Lachaise Cemetery or Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise was one of the most visited destinations, a five mile walk but we went. It is massive, you need a map, but for me one massive tomb is much the same as another, it does have highlights but we didn’t stay long. Fortunately we were now closer to the Canal St Martin which would lead us to Parc de la Villette. This was a Sunday and everywhere was both buzzing and chilled at the same time. Where ever we went people were sat watching the world go by, socializing and picnicking, soaking the sun up. As ever I wanted to go up on the roof of anything I could as I love taking cityscapes. Most of these were expensive compared with many places we’ve been to before but up we went. The Tour Montparnasse, a single tower block with 59 floors, 690 foot high and extremely fast lifts has incredible views although it was a touch hazy on our ascent. The Arc de Triomphe was just up the road from our hotel, we went up it within hours of arriving, well worth the visit.
At the time of writing I have no idea how many images will make the cut but it will be a lot. If I have ten subtly different shots of something, I find it hard to consign nine to the dark depths of my hard drive never to be seen again – and I’m not very good at ruthless selection – so if the photo is OK it will get uploaded. My view is that it’s my photostream, I like to be able to browse my own work at my leisure at a later date, it’s more or less free and stats tell me these images will get looked at. I’m not aiming for single stunning shots, more of a comprehensive overview of an interesting place, presented to the best of my current capabilities. I am my own biggest critic, another reason for looking at my older stuff is to critique it and look to improve on previous mistakes. I do get regular requests from both individuals and organisations to use images and I’m obliging unless someone is taking the piss. I’m not bothered about work being published (with my permission) but it is reassuringly nice to be asked. The manipulation of Flickr favourites and views through adding thousands of contacts doesn’t interest me and I do sometimes question the whole point of the Flickr exercise. I do like having access to my own back catalogue though and it gives family and friends the chance to read about the trip and view the photos at their leisure so for the time being I’m sticking with it. I do have over 15 million views at the moment which is a far cry from showing a few people an album, let’s face it, there’s an oversupply of images, many of them superb but all being devalued by the sheer quantity available.
Don’t think that it was all walking and photography, we had a great break and spent plenty of time in pavement bistros having a glass of wine and people watching. I can certainly understand why Paris is top of the travellers list of destinations
Yourbus are finally getting an entry in my fleet of Nottingham based model buses, with one of their Dennis Darts as used on the Hucknall and Chilwell services among others.
Opposite it is one of NCT's early Scania Omnicities branded for the Go2 green services. Since it was already an NCT model to begin with it already has the ticket machine and window lettering in place.
Both models are getting there but are still waiting for the finishing touches on the lights, grilles etc and the stuff I do on paper for them like number plates and logos.
I stopped to fill up my Ford Explorer, to use my Giant Eagle fuel perks at Get-Go on Route 51, and I-70, in Belle Vernon, PA. I took the opportunity to photograph the Get-Go tanker re-filling the tanks as a big ole Petercar waits for the light across the street on 51. Get Go, Source One Trucking, Mack CXU613 #318, Belle Vernon, PA. 8/14/2015