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best viewed large! ;)
my mom went to the market and bought a lot of peas!!!! she's addicted to veggies. and i helped her take the peas out the pods.. hmmmm... actually, i didn't help her, it was me doing all the work! LOL at some point i thought about flickr (actually i think of flickr every 5 minutes) LOL again! LOL! it took me a while to manage to split the pods so the peas wouldn't break from the pod, but i finally had enough to take this shot! hope you like it!! ;)
published in the may 2007 issue of NZ Gardener Magazine, New Zeeland's top selling gardening magazine!
flickr.com/photos/bitzi/664711372/
shown in the Musée de l'Elysée's exhibit ‘We are all photographers now!’
flickr.com/photos/bitzi/403710000/
Winner of the PhotoStockPlus Contest (Food theme) on the 31st of January 2007:
www.photostockplus.com/contest.php?action=last :))))
-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as my best of 2006.
and from a different angle:
The drinking straw is a device used for sucking up a liquid - usually a drink. A thin tube of plastic (especially polystyrene) or other material, straight or with an accordion-like living hinge, it is employed by being held with one end in the mouth and another end in the drink. Muscular action reduces air pressure in the mouth, whereupon atmospheric pressure forces the drink up the straw.
The first straws were made by the Sumerians, and used for drinking beer (as to avoid the solid byproducts of fermentation). Argentinians use a similar device called bombilla that acts as both a straw and sieve for drinking mate tea. The modern drinking straw was patented in 1888.
In 1888, Marvin Stone patented the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws. Stone was already a producer of paper cigarette holders. His idea was to make paper drinking straws. Before his straws, beverage drinkers were using the natural rye grass straws.
Stone made his prototype straw by winding strips of paper around a pencil and gluing it together. He then experimented with paraffin-coated manila paper, so the straws would not become soggy while someone was drinking. Marvin Stone decided the ideal straw was 8 1/2-inches long with a diameter just wide enough to prevent things like lemon seeds from being lodged in the tube.
(text source: wikipedia)
sometimes i'm really stupid! and i'm gonna repeat this to all the photos from the kylie concert, because this time i was really stupid!
let me explain:
we are not allowed to bring with us photo/video cameras to concerts.. at least not professional ones...
long story short: i was able to sneak in my canon eos to this concert! when i wanted to start shooting i realised how stupid i was: i forgot my battery at home in the charger!!
so, now, all i have are these crappy photos taken with my old ixus.
stupid stupid stupid
i'll be i was late for work today because this shot took much more time than expected.. :)
i need to clarify a few things: it seems that most of you think that my inspiration came from the Pale Man character from Pan's Labyrinth (i didn't even see that movie, and yes, i know i should see it!). Well, I'm sorry to shatter that thought, but my inspiration came from an on-stage performance of Soan from the french talent show La Nouvelle Star.
i drew the eye on my left hand, and then cloned it on my right, because i couldn't draw a decent one with my left
“Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.”
Erma Bombeck
(see large)
at the kew gardens in london
these holidays were exhausing. i think i'll be resting for a while. :)
Happy New Year to Everyone!
shown at the Musée de l'Elysée's exhibit ‘We are all photographers now!’
flickr.com/photos/bitzi/403710000/
here is a link to a different variation: www.flickr.com/photos/bitzi/3681508234/
it is only a matter of how you see beer! ;)
TOP 20 beer drinking countries
1 Czech Republic 156.9 Liters/Year/Person
2 Ireland 131.1 Liters/Year/Person
3 Germany 115.8 Liters/Year/Person
4 Australia 109.9 Liters/Year/Person ***
5 Austria 108.3 Liters/Year/Person
6 United Kingdom 99.0 Liters/Year/Person
7 Belgium 93.0 Liters/Year/Person
8 Denmark 89.9 Liters/Year/Person
9 Finland 85.0 Liters/Year/Person
10 Luxembourg 84.4 Liters/Year/Person
11 Slovakia 84.1 Liters/Year/Person
12 Spain 83.8 Liters/Year/Person
13 U.S.A. 81.6 Liters/Year/Person
14 Croatia 81.2 Liters/Year/Person
15 Netherlands 79.0 Liters/Year/Person
16 New Zealand 77.0 Liters/Year/Person
17 Hungary 75.3 Liters/Year/Person
18 Poland 69.1 Liters/Year/Person
19 Canada 68.3 Liters/Year/Person
20 Estonia 62.7 Liters/Year/Person
*** Note that Darwin, Australia, has the highest beer consumption of any city in the world at 230 Liters/Year/Person.
this is something i didn't know, from wikipedia:
a general approach is that lighter coloured beers, such as pale lagers, are usually enjoyed cold (40-45F/4-7C), while dark, strong beers such as Imperial Stouts are often enjoyed at cellar temperature (54-60F/12-16C) and then allowed to warm up in the room to individual taste.
this one is a present for ruxy's birthday! ;)
the background is the sky, and the sun is behing the rose.. (best viewed large)
double pastry, filled with caramelised onion, bacon, carrot and cheese... delicious......... mmmmmmmm..... :))
odeon theatre, in bucharest (the one in the middle)
my very first fisheye :) larger is better, trust me
heavily processed in photoshop, because the weather was terrible, the sky was completely gray, no cloud in sight... (bokeh and grunge textures added, the first in multiply mode, the latter in overlay)
photo taken with a canon 450d
lens: tokina fisheye 10-17
(both borrowed from a friend)