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Taken at dusk in Yellowstone National Park.
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"Well I started out down a dirty road
Started out all alone
And the sun went down as I crossed the hill
And the town lit up, the world got still
I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
Coming down is the hardest thing
Well the good ol' days may not return
And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn
I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
Coming down is the hardest thing
Well some say life will beat you down
Break your heart, steal your crown
So I've started out, for God knows where
I guess I'll know when I get there
I'm learning to fly, around the clouds,
But what goes up must come down
I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
Coming down is the hardest thing"
Tom Petty/Jeff Lynne
Learning to Fly
Three Cravens Class 105 2-car units were converted to become 'Route Learning Saloons' in 1983 and here is one passing Arpley Junction box in February 1985 touring lines in the Liverpool and Manchester Divisions.
* Tech note: although I was a Kodachrome man in this period I did dabble occasionally with other films. This is a badly faded Agfa 200 slide that I went to lengths to restore. Colours seem to fade at different rates with Agfa and not the sharpest of films.
The only and only Nathan Ramone Wilson loving life north of 60.
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Lighting info: this one's light by one Elinchrom studio head, camera left, and bounced into a silver reflector. Background underexposed by about two-thirds of a stop.
Learning to stay afloat across the Westhafen.
Agfa Isolette III and its Agfa Solinar 1:3.5 /75, Kentmere 100 in Rodinal 1+50 for 12min @ 20°C and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.
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…I assume this is a forerunner of sailing and a good place to start and learn how to harness the wind. Missing the sea already - I want to go back, this was taken at Coverack on the Lizard in Cornwall. Have a great week folks, Alan:-)…..
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My first attempt at one of these architectural, B&W long exposures. I'm not going to tell you how many kajillion trillion hours* I spent creating manual selections to try and get the contrast the way I wanted it. Or how much time I spent trying to fix the botched job I made of certain edges.
This is the Glasgow University Library building on Gilmorehill, just off University Avenue. A fairly ugly building if you ask me. I remember my first visits to the library, back in olden days when I was a student. Surfing the early internet on steam-powered computers using Netscape Navigator, and just generally not studying or doing anything remotely academic. Good times.
*may be an exaggeration
Mountain Goat kid and its buddy, a yearling, on the edge of their world atop Mount Evans, Colorado. The yearling seemed like a good buddy to all the kids in this group, playing with them and watching them while the nanny goats foraged.
One more from April. One of the eaglets watching and learning how to fly with confidence.
Thanks all for your wonderful comments sent my way from yesterday's post and words. After writing about the eagles in the morning, sharing it on Flickr, we headed out to the eagle's nest. To my surprise and delight, for the first time this year, the Mom and Dad Eagle (Lucy and Ricky) were feeding a newly hatched eaglet or two.
Happy Happy New Year.
Un-Learning Lockdown ist ein DIY Youtube Format und Audio Podcast zur Lage der Künstler*innen und Kulturschaffenden in München nach Lockdown und Lockerungen 2020, vor dem Corona-Winter 2020/21.
Mit:
Katrin Habenschaden (Zweite Bürgermeisterin München, Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen)
Dr. Daniela Stöppel (Kunsthistorikerin an der LMU, Kuratorin Kunstraum München)
Michael Zirnstein (Journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung)
Gabi Blum (Künstlerin, Aktivistin, Kuratorin)
Moderiert von Peter Arun Pfaff
Gefördert vom Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München
Videotechnik crushed eyes media
“People will not always understand you.
Dare to be different.
People will not always believe in you.
Prepare to work harder.
People will not always do right by you.
Let them go.
People will not always love like you.
Keep loving harder.
Nobody’s opinion of you will matter when you know who you are.
Love Thy Self enough to walk in your own light.. down your own path.. and accept that sometimes we grow apart from people.
Sometimes we lose a lot of the people around us because they were only placed in our lives to help teach us something about ourselves.
Be open to learning.
Be welcoming to change.
Find yourself.
Be yourself.
Love yourself.”
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“I’m sure the man is becoming slower and more uncertain with every occasion he has to use that picture taking thingy with three legs.” Said Posh Bear smiling as he watched the picture taker set up.
“Yes, Posh, it will be a relief when I don’t do this ever again.” Said Sky.
“Are you going to refuse then, Sky, when he does this next time?” Asked Barnaby in awe.
“No, Barnaby, but I probably won’t be here. I have been talking to Ellie and she was telling me that I should get myself “edicated”. So, that is what I might just do.”
“I think you mean educated, Sky.” Said Posh Bear.
“That as well, I think. I want to be so clever that I can talk to the buzzy things.”
“Anyone can talk to the buzzy things, Sky, it is just a shame they don’t seem to understand what bears say.” Added Bertie, yawning at the thought of all that learning.
“How do you think you are going to do that, Sky? I mean, learn things like talking to buzzy things.” Asked Barnaby.
“It is very easy actually, Barnaby, you just need to know where to go and what sort of things you want to learn.”
“Interesting, so, where do you go, Sky?”
“Ellie says it is a big place lots of walks away and is called a universal, I think, and there you can get all the leans that you want.”
“Wowsers, Sky, that sounds very good. So, you only need to ask them for learns on buzzy things and they give them to you and you come back edicated?” said Barnaby.
“Not quite, Barnaby, but very close. Ellie was saying that this place has lots and lots of learns, so whatever you wanted to learn you just press one of those buttons the man has on his picture viewing thingy and all the learns you want come tumbling down before you. I think.”
“Wowsers and double Wowsers, Sky, that sounds amazing.” Said Bertie getting excited.
“Doesn’t it just.” Replied Posh Bear smiling.
“What do you do with all these learns once you have them, Sky? I mean you can’t just carry them around with you in a bag and if you did, well, how you would find the one you need when you wanted it?” Asked Barnaby scratching his head with his paw. “And, how would you know what you needed if you didn’t know what the learn was about in the first place?”
“Simple, Barnaby, when I get the learns about buzzy things, I’ll also look for a button thingy that shows one how to store them and find them again. These places don’t just have learns about buzzy things; you know?”
“You’re so clever, Sky, I wish I was clever like you.” Said Barnaby full of admiration of his best friend.
“Thank you, Barnaby, and soon I’ll be even more cleverer and then ever cleverer still on top of that.”
“Sky, it doesn’t quite work out like that. I think that Ellie got it slightly wrong.” Said Posh Bear softly.
“What do you mean, Posh? Ellie said she knew.” Replied Sky looking slightly worried.
“The places are called Universities and are for hoomans, not us bears. Also, hoomans are taught what they wish to know by other hoomans called professors who in turn were taught all they know many sleeps before. It isn’t instant, these things take lots and lots of sleeps and is often a total waste of time, because after all that learning the hooman doesn’t put it to use.”
“So, how do us bears get learns, so we can be clever?” Asked Barnaby.
“We use life to learn things, Barnaby, like Sky just now for he has learned a big lesson in who to learn from. Elephants are very clever at elephant things but they don’t understand bear things. If you want to know bear things then you should always ask an older bear.”
Sky looked sad as he thought about what Posh had said but then he quickly brightened up.
“Posh, as an old bear, can you teach me how to speak with the buzzy things please?”
“No Sky, but I can tell you this, watch the buzzy things and learn what they do and then we’ll all be the wiser for what you learn. In the meantime, everyone should try and smile and then we can share that big jar of honey that I have put by, for after the man is finished.”
“Think honey.” Whispered Sky to Bertie and Barnaby and they both forced a smile.
Come ariete immaginario
apro un varco nelle mura.
Abbandono la città;
me ne vado alla ventura.
Cerco isole deserte
dove covano i gabbiani,
là per ore starò inerte
senza l'ansia del domani......
(Baroncini)
Found this young Tri-colored Heron learning the ropes on Horsepen Bayou. He was busy foraging at the water’s edge. I don’t see many birds on this small bypass on the backside of one of the horseshoe bends and usually don’t paddle this area.
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UK designer Thomas Heatherwick masterpiece at Nanyang Technology University in Singapore.
Resembling a cluster of elongated bee hives, the Learning Hub at Nanyang Technology University explores new ways of teaching at a time when computers and the internet are challenging the rationale of learning institutions.
The hub’s form is dictated by its function, and brings together 55 tutorial rooms into a structure without conventional corridors, which have traditionally created social separation and isolation. The learning hub has no one door, it is porous. Students can enter from 360 degrees around into a large central space which links all the separate towers together. Each tower is made up of a stack of classrooms which build up gradually, with gardens on selected floors.*
*https://www.dezeen.com/2013/07/19/heatherwick-learning-hub-nanyang-university/
Taken with a tilt shift camera to control the vertical distortion, 3 images were stitched together. The 2 students at the bottom of the image forms a focal point in an otherwise empty space.
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For MacroMondays theme "Heritage"
Both my parents work with education, my mother is a teacher and my father is a professor at the university, so even though I didn't choose their profession, I've inherited their curiosity about new things.
Didn't know how to make an image about learning, so this pen (and the decoration, which is on the other end of the pen) gets to represent learning. I think making notes or writing essays is part of studying.
Happy MM!