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Woo, got my Olympus OM-D E-M1 yesterday so time has been going with learning the ins and outs of the camera.
Compared to the old big 4/3 E-5 body the E-M1 is so much lighter! I don't have the additional battery grip yet but I like the handling of the E-5 better even with the heavier weight. The basic grip of the E-M1 is somewhat small and my right hand cannot support the body as well as with the E-5. Maybe it just needs getting used to it.
I've really liked the old Oly in-body image stabilization system. It helped in many places. The new feels even better: I can use even slower exposure times. For example this photo was taken hand-held + some additional support from the bridge at time of 1/4 sec. Not bad with 27@54mm focal length! with the old one I probably could've used something like 1/10 sec or faster...
Getting used to the EVF will take time but it's really good! Especially manual focusing will be so much easier with the help of focus peaking. Olympus has finally delivered what it promised the 4/3 is all about, small size and ease of use!
I've been using the big 12-60mm f2.8-4 for many years (bought it soon after they started selling those) and I really like that lens.
I don't have yet the 43->m43 adapter so I have to survice with the new 12-40mm f2.8 or use E-5 with the big lenses. Hope that'll change in the near future. The new 12-40 feels really robust lens. It's reach is not as long as the 12-60 but otherwise the compactness and constant aperture makes it amazing lens. Also I really like the new pull AF-ring to manual focus system.
So in short I'm now happy camera gear geek, let's hope this will improve my photography also =)
The Daily Shoot #ds382
Make a photo today that features a hand in a creative way.
Not too artistic but snapshot of day with grandchildren off school because of snow!
The human hand in gentle repose, visible all the flesh and bones.
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♫♪What would you think if I sang out of tune,
Would you stand up and walk out on me.
Lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a song,
And I’ll try not to sing out of key.
I get by with a little help from my friends,
I get high with a little help from my friends,
Going to try with a little help from my friends...♫♪
Candid shot at a local wedding.
Skilled hands, showing the wear and tear and grime of use.
The continental system of guilds and merchants arrived in England after the Norman Conquest, with incorporated societies of merchants in each town or city holding exclusive rights of doing business there. In many cases they became the governing body of a town. For example, London's Guildhall became the seat of the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation, the world’s oldest continuously elected local government whose members to this day must be Freemen of the City. (The Freedom of the City , from the Middle Ages until 1835, meant the right to trade which was only bestowed upon members of a Guild or Livery)
Trade guilds arose in the 14th century as craftsmen united to protect their common interest.
These hands of a carpenter hae seen a lot of action over the years. They even paid the ultimate price...
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festering - my hands are an enigma!
itchy - oozy - dry - flaky - sore - tight
all words to describe my hands. evil i tell ya.
i'm trying to show you without totally grossing you out. it's bad.
some things have helped in some ways, but the end result is still a festering, sore, hard to use hands.
on the up side, i'm slowly getting healthier. :) i bought a juicer - the Jack La Lanne's Power Juicer (the Juice Man) of corse. :) and found out the Apple Cider Vinegar i'm drinking in my 100% grape juice, is good for blood pressure as well.
maybe i'll become a nutritionist. :)
who knows... anyway, i'm not happy about my hand condition but, there's good to come out of it damn it! i'm determined.
Finger hand shaking.
I know, bad focus on the monkey's face, but I just had a new lens at that time, and wasn't used to it yet. the aperture was too low. At least my hand is in focus :D
La gente indigena cultiva el poroto (Phaseolus vulgaris) como un alimento comun.
Common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) is cultivated by indigenous people as a foodstuff.
Indiaanlased kasvatavad tavalisi ubasid (Phaseolus vulgaris) kui toiduandi.
Mon employeur est intéressé par cette photo pour son site internet ... je dois voir ce que je dois en faire.
Je suis content.
Mural with a hand by Jeff Zimmerman on a building at 30 East Balbo in the Wabash Arts Corridor of Chicago, Illinois.
Taken on the Wednesday GPC walk in Guildford. Looking through a shop window I was attracted by the shapes in the negative space.
The OR nurse just about killed me inserting the needle in my hand. I asked her to use Lidocain first, but she didn't get it injected right and/or wait for it to work, then rolled the vein after getting it inserted. Felt like someone stabbed through my hand with a knife. She had to take it out & the anesthesiologist put one in my left hand & I didn't feel a thing. Once I was out they put one in my right wrist & another in my right hand. Needle crazy people. Gross scar pics to follow on Tuesday when I get to take the bandages off my stomach & back LOL.
Xenia of St. Petersburg (Russian: Святая блаженная Ксения Петербургская, born as Xenia Grigoryevna Petrova (Russian: Ксения Григорьевна Петрова), c. 1719–1730 – c. 1803) is a patron saint of St. Petersburg, who according to tradition, gave all her possessions to the poor after her husband died.
Her husband had been Colonel Andrey Fyodorovich Petrov, a chanter at the Saint Andrew Cathedral. After his death, Xenia became a "fool-for-Christ" and for 45 years wandered around the streets of St. Petersburg, usually wearing her late husband's military uniform.
Xenia's grave is in the Smolensky Cemetery of St. Petersburg. It has been marked by an ornate chapel since 1902. She was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia on September 24, 1978 (O. S. September 11, 1978) in the Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign in New York, USA and by the Russian Orthodox Church on June 6, 1988, during the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church. Her feast day in the Old Style Calendar is January 24, which is February 6 in the New Calendar. In July 2020, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church also resolved to include Xenia of St. Petersburg in its calendar on January 24.
As a saint, she is noted for her intercessions in helping those with employment, marriage, the homeless, for fires, for missing children, and for a spouse. She is venerated in several countries. There are about 40 churches and chapels built in her name.
Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (Russian: Александр Ярославич Невский; monastic name: Aleksiy; 13 May 1221 – 14 November 1263) was Prince of Novgorod (1236–1240; 1241–1256; 1258–1259), Grand Prince of Kiev (1249–1263), and Grand Prince of Vladimir (1252–1263).
Commonly regarded as a key figure in medieval Russian history, Alexander was a grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest and rose to legendary status on account of his military victories in northwestern Russia over Swedish invaders in the 1240 Battle of the Neva, as well as German crusaders in the 1242 Battle on the Ice. He preserved Eastern Orthodoxy, agreeing to pay tribute to the powerful Golden Horde. Metropolitan Macarius of Moscow canonized Alexander Nevsky as a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1547.
The veneration of Alexander began almost immediately after his burial, when he reportedly extended his hand for the prayer of absolution. According to Orthodox tradition, Alexander foresaw his death and before this took strict Orthodox Christian monastic vows, called Great Schema, and took the name Alexey.[citation needed]
In 1380, Alexander's remains were uncovered in response to a vision before the Battle of Kulikovo and found to be incorrupt. The relics were then placed in a shrine in the church. Alexander was canonized as a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church by Metropolitan Macarius in 1547.
In 1695, a new wooden reliquary was made in Moscow, and the relics were placed in it in 1697. By order of Peter the Great, the relics were then removed from Vladimir on 11 August 1723 and transported to Shlisselburg, arriving there on 20 September. There they were kept until 1724, when they were brought to Saint Petersburg and installed in the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra on 30 August.
In 1753, a silver shrine with sarcophagus for the relics, made from 90 pounds of silver, was donated by Empress Elizabeth of Russia. With the completion of the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in 1790, the shrine and relics were translated there at its consecration on 30 August, one of the saint's feast days.
In May 1922, during the general confiscation of Russian Orthodox Church property, the sarcophagus was opened and the relics removed;[better source needed] and the elaborate silver shrine was transferred to the Hermitage Museum. The relics were put into storage at the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism, before being returned to Holy Trinity Cathedral in 1989. On 10 May 2023, the Hermitage Museum and Alexander Nevsky Lavra signed a contract for the transfer of the shrine to Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra for a period of 49 years. On 12 September 2023, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow placed the relics back into the silver sarcophagus.
Alexander's principal feast day is 23 November. A secondary feast day was instituted on 30 August in commemoration of his relics being placed in the Annunciation Church. He is jointly commemorated with other saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl on 23 May.