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Today I found a nice ±1955 Exakta VX with a Meritar 50mm F2:9 (E Ludwig) lens. All in working condition.
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"He doesn't know it's a damn show! He thinks it's a damn fight !"
('Rocky Balboa' and 'Apollo Creed' by NECA)
Diorama by RK
Went out today with a stencil of the queen scoffing her own mug and looked for somewhere nice to put it up.... I found this amazing disused building.
The locals seemed to appreciate the sentiment. : )
Sorry for the bad pics.... the light was fading.
FP45 5944 leads Super C through my hometown of Coal City, IL in June of 1972. He's running lefthanded to get around a slower freight that passed through several minutes earlier. Santa Fe always made good use of its TCS (Santa Fe's term for CTC).
Notice the jointed rail and muddy joints. Even the best maintained roads like the Santa Fe looked like this in the early 70's. With the big welded rail and well surfaced track on the mainlines of today, we sometimes forget what even the best track of the 70's and early 80's looked like when we see a yard or secondary track with a few low joints and remark that it's really bad track.
Also visible by the depot is the front end of my Mom's 1970 Ford Torino that was one of the fastest cars in town with its stock 351 Cleveland engine. Pssst...don't tell her that...she still doesn't know.
Nice bit of blur on the bat and ball here as I slowed the shutter speed right down due to lack of sunlight!
Mio Akiyama, the left-handed bassist of the band Hokago Tea Time, arrived. I have started watching the K-ON! anime and, as a former band kid, can appreciate the musical challenges in the story line.
Looking forward to future photos with Mio backing up Miku Hatsune's vocals.
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[The "spotlight" was created by cutting out the bottom of a foam coffee cup and shining an LED reading light through it. The brick wall is from Hobby Lobby and I want to paint it to look more worn and "urban". And yes, this photo was taken in a hotel room.]
Water-soluble/miscible umber oil paint on canva-paper (that sorta shiny stuff that comes in a pad)
~13 X 19 inches
Dizzyingly freehand from life and photos
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
Chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I pick up all the pieces and make an island
Might even raise just a little sand
'Cause I'm a voodoo child
Lord knows I'm a voodoo child"
("Voodoo Chile", The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1968)
('Jimi Hendrix' by McFarlane Toys)
Strobist: One Elinchrom T4 Strip softbox bounced off white paper into setup at the rear, white polyboards each side, mirrors and various white cards for fill
C&NW westbound coal empties leave the double track to enter single track CTC here, behind an SD40, UP SD40-2 (924-UP3383.) The C&NW removed the second main (being the westbound here, in this double track, lefthanded, ATC/current of traffic territory) from West Denison to East Missouri Valley, 36.1 miles. The Union Pacific has since replaced it (and installed CTC as well.) Many NorthWestern fans and others will recognize that the lead unit is of Chicago Great Western heritage. They bought nine of them and equipped them with dynamic brakes and nose-mounted headlights, which were either gyra-lights or mars lights (I don't recall seeing them in use.) After the CGW became part of the C&NW in 1968, these dynamic brake units were oddities in their new home at that time. The red light was intended to warn an oncoming train - usually on double track territory - that the train behind the engine has experienced an emergency application of the brakes and an oncoming train must proceed expecting their track to be blocked or fouled by derailed cars or debris.
"Your nose is broken."
"How does it look ?"
"Ah, it's an improvement."
('Rocky Balboa' and 'Apollo Creed' by NECA)
Diorama by RK
Nadaam is the summer festival in Mongolia, and this woman is competing. The bow is hand-made, of horn and sinew. The targets are 50 m. away. And, yes, she shoots lefthanded.
After a morning of picking daisies, a cute girl smokes a cigarette while sitting on a park bench, enjoying the day. Back in the eighties the female models who appeared in foreign cigarette advertising were often cuter and looked like they were actually smoking more than in US ads. Fine print along the lower left side of the ad even indicates that the picture was taken in Hamburg in March 1986.
Before German reunification, and before huge warnings appeared on the front and back of the packs. Just fine print along the bottom of the ad warning of the consequences of smoking along with the tar and nicotine ratings.
"Ain't gonna be no rematch."
"Don't want one."
('Rocky Balboa' and 'Apollo Creed' by NECA)
Diorama by RK
"Apollo Creed meets the Italian Stallion. Now that sounds like a damn monster movie."
('Rocky Balboa' and 'Apollo Creed' by NECA)
Diorama by RK
Never went in.
Found it on my walk and thought it looked so intriquing.
Couldn't resist taking a picture, nor could I stop thinking about it for the better part of the evening.
What is behind "ivy doors"?....
318/366
Explore, Jun 19, 2009 #366
Various water-soluble pencils and crayons on paper.
From life / observation / mirror
26 X 20 inches
Started as left and right handed together, but after the first 10 minutes, converted to strictly left-handed with right-handed erasing.
Day 01 - 01/18 - 30 m - red oxide. Left & a little right.
Day 02 - 01/19 - 70 m - deep rose. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 03 - 01/21 - 30 m - leaf green. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 04 - 01/22 - 30 m - payne's gray. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 05 - 01/23 - 36 m - dark purple. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 06 - 01/24 - 30 m - thistle. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 07 - 01/25 - 35 m - dusky purple. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 08 - 02/05 - 30 m - prussian blue. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 09 - 02/07 - 35 m - prussian blue & indian red. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
~5.5 hours... so far.
OK, broke with my conceit and repeated the previous day's color of prussian blue as well as introducing a new one. It's at the point now where pulling the piece together is more important than having the order in which it was made completely visible.
And if you're getting sick of seeing this in my stream, imagine how I feel! :)
While utilising the reliable Victorian technology of a sturdy iron lamppost this left-handed Minehead fisherman holds the new electronic world in his hand.
The old tech is over a hundred years old, I guess the new might last about a hundred weeks!
click on image to enlarge
A left handed clock. Its surprisingly easy to read if you don't think too hard about it. A larger view of the puzzle posted earlier.
Black 'woody' water-soluble crayon on paper, and water.
Freehand from a photo
7.5 X 9 inches
Right handed
< 5 minutes
Portrait of Arturo for JKPP.
Arturo's own fantastic work: www.flickr.com/photos/espinosa_rosique/
Photos and portraits of Arturo: www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/7215762548661...
I *was* looking at a photo of Arturo but I think this has as much of me (or how I paint myself) as him. Well, we do have some traits in common such as the not quite parallel worry lines radiating up from the bridge of the nose.
I think this was canson mi-teintes paper which really was too thin for the amount of water I threw at it, but then again it did spread the crayon around nicely.
Water-soluble pencils and crayons on paper, and water on Stonehenge paper
22 X 30 inches
Freehand from a photo, left and right handed.