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Note that these images were essentially duplicated from slides shot a good 20 years ago, so the camera and exposure information shown does not reflect that from when the image was originally captured.
FYI; This was one of my favorite slides, so I went back and cleaned the slide and did it over. The other one looks a bit better. Don’t know how to link to it here...
First view:
"From row 16 backward / the prices are USD 60 / and it is advised / to bring binoculars / to see the pianist strike / the chords. // It should be memorized / that Strawinski Igor, / once played the piano / though only three notes."
Second view:
"These words were found on a have digested sheet of paper: 'In a forlorn barnyard / I found some conserved wooden boards / that by adjustment with my jigsaw / delivered dozens of identical elements. // By repetitive fixing on iron threads / these small bats / via parts of felt / can hit other woven metal threads.
The whole assemblage / I feel can be used to play minimal musix. Preliminary name is a pianola'.
With some difficulty, I think the signature reads Carl Bechstein"
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“with successive blind windows as my objects of research, my travelling companions, my signposts.”
Peter Handke, Repetition (Ralph Manheim trans. (1988) of Die Wiederholung (1986))
A recent shot from a Wedding of mine. Liking the look of the bride in the mirror, reading the note her future husband left her.
BLUE NOTE Uncut
Technical Details
Aged: Four years
Product Type: Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Mash Bill: 70% corn, 21% rye, and 9% malted barley
Proof & Filtration: Variable Proof, unfiltered
Availability: Limited
Crafted in Memphis
www.bluenotebourbon.com/juke-joint-uncut
Cheers to Friday and the weekend ahead!
Whiskey night, 12/30/2022, Nashville, TN
Canon EOS-1DS
EF 85.0 mm + Kenko extension tube
ƒ/2.0 85.0 mm 1/40 400
Creating a little special atmosphere around my grand piano... hope you all like it my friends =)
(Very dramatic on black)
'The Last of our Kind'
First Leeds YJ07 LVU 19026
Fleet: 19026
Reg: YJ07 LVU
Operator: First Leeds
Route: 72 - Bradford (Hyperlink)
Depot: Bramley
Livery: 72 Hyperlink
Type: Wright Streetcar/ Volvo B7LA
Location: Leeds Eastgate
Notes: The FTR dream team is no more! After today (22/07/16) the 72 goes 100% Streetdeck and these boys split up. The future of them is uncertain. It is rumoured that some are going down to the Eden Project to work as Shuttles and that the rest are to be scrapped. I hope to see them again in Leeds one day, I'm sure some would hate that!
4 of them are parked up at the Halifax depot and more at Bradford. Some may be still inside Cherry Row but only the Secret Service know that info!
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West Yorkshire Bus Spotter, WYBS
1. Goals - I believe it is important to always have goals in life, even if you just have one. My current goals are: Breast feed for 6 months, drive on the highway, get in good shape, pay off car, receive associates degree, fix my teeth.
2. Car Payments - I have to keep track of our car payments to make sure we make them on time.
3. College Grades - I strive to make all A's. This section helps me get an overview of my grades.
4. Weight loss - Track my weight & gym time
5. Bible Study - I write down how many chapters I read in a day.
An upclose picture I originally took of some piano music, I photoshopped it to make it look more dramatic.
This is dedicated to my friend BossBob50. Check out his CD cover set: www.flickr.com/photos/bossbob50/sets/72157607782882854/
AND don't miss this take off on my pic above:
www.flickr.com/photos/bossbob50/5997870813/
I suppose this could be the cover of a Blue Note issue, one of those classic jazz albums produced by the creative people at Blue Note Records back in the hard bop days. At least that's what it reminded me of when I was getting into this. Perhaps something by their main tenor man Hank Mobley or their brilliant trumpeter Lee Morgan ... ?
The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!~ Philip James Bailey
Sunday muzak anyone?
OR...........
Little Wing =)
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Oct 31, 2015."
I made the choice because of factors that had little to do with the photo itself - the subject here is indeed a beautiful young woman, and I think she looks great in the photo, but that wasn't the point...
First: it's relatively rare, for me, that I can take a photo of someone who isn't moving, or smiling stupidly, or somehow changing their expression because they know the camera is aimed at them. The woman here was sound asleep, sitting across from me in the Acela train, so she had no idea I was aiming my innocent-looking camera phone at her. (Indeed, I doubt that she would have noticed even if she was awake, but that's another story...)
There is an often-repeated adage in the photography biz (from Robert Capa, I think) that "if your pictures aren't good enough, then you're not close enough." And in most of the photography classes that I take, the instructor tells everyone (especially me, it seems) to put away our telephoto lens, use a normal-length (50mm) or wide-angle lens (28mm or 35mm) lens, and get closer to the subject we're photographing. Okay, so maybe I should pay more attention to that advice ... though I am not yet convinced that the results would be worth the effort, if the subject was actually awake.
As for the photo itself: it's obviously "soft," which is a polite way of saying that it's not really "tack sharp." Maybe that's because the iPhone shoots everything at an aperture of f/2.2 so you get a certain amount of blurring with the shallow DoF, whereas you probably wouldn't notice it with an aperture of f/8, or even f/5.6.
But it also means, as a practical matter, that you have to be much more careful about focusing the camera precisely on the subject that you're photographing ... which I often forget to do. I generally rely on the auto-focus feature of whatever camera I happen to be using, and it generally does a pretty good job. With the the iPhone, you can touch the screen lightly to get the camera to focus on whatever part of the image you're concerned with ... but if you then move the camera/phone, the focusing will change. I've read up on this a little more carefully now, and realize that I have to "press hard" on the relevant portion of the displayed image, in order to tell the camera that I want to "lock" the focus (and the exposure) on a specific part of the displayed image.
What I've been doing, in most cases, is simply holding down the shutter-button for several seconds, in order to get a continuous "burst" of shots, from which the iPhone camera-mechanism will automatically choose the one (or ones) that it thinks are sharpest. That doesn't necessarily mean that it chooses the best image, but at least it should get rid of most of the blurry ones. I thought that was particularly relevant in this case, because we were on a moving train that was rocking, jiggling, and bumping in unpredictable ways ... so I couldn't be sure of getting a "steady" shot, no matter how hard I tried.
Of course, what I could have done -- and probably should have done, since the subject here was sound asleep for about half an hour -- was to put my iPhone away, and retrieve one of my other cameras, which would have allowed me to change the aperture to something like f/8.
Maybe next time ...
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As I reported in a separate Flickr album a couple months ago, most of my business trips have involved air travel from New York City; I’ve seen the insides of more airports and more airplanes than I care to remember.
But most of my trips along the eastern corridor of the U.S. have involved trains, and I find them to be a very relaxing and enjoyable contrast. These trips almost always start with a subway ride to Penn Station, rather than a taxi ride to JFK or LGA or EWR; and they are followed by a relatively pleasant journey along the East Coast on an Amtrak Acela train that has a much greater chance of departing and arriving on time than most of my airplane journeys.
I took a recent trip to Philadelphia in August 2015 and then another one (for a different client) in October 2015. In both cases, my journey began with a subway ride from 96th Street to Penn Station; and then a train trip from the Amtrak terminal in NYC’s Penn Station to the architecturally interesting Amtrak station in Philadelphia, before reaching my client’s office for a day-long meeting. At the end of the day, the journey reversed itself, and I was back home shortly after dinner.
I took a few photos and videos along the way; the ones I’ve uploaded here are representative of the trip...
170 520 heads 1K11 10.52 Birmingham New Street to Leicester approaching the foot crossing at Water Orton. Certain crossings, such as this one, have been a real focus of late due to the high number of fatalities occuring at them; they have just a warning sign, to pedestrians, and a Whistle Board, for the train. I was quite surprised to see a Network Rail notice proclaiming 'Trains DO NOT sound their horn when approaching the crossing'. I'll let them off for not using the term 'Whistle' but surely an audable warning of a trains approach, from the train, is a cost effective method of warning persons crossing; especially if they happen to be slightly visually impared.
The cardinal is the one bright note in our late-winter landscape here in New York. He is a very welcome sight at the busy bird feeder. Here, he is patientoy waitng his turn, perched in a large bush.
A digitally-painted photograph.
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I made this card using the Simon Says Stamp Handwritten Floral Greetings and MFT Horizontal Stitched Strips. I used gold embossing powder and vellum for the leaves. I made this for the latest SSS flickr challenge #51
Most of today has been spent making notes. Zoom meetings, phone calls, reading student work, planning for further socially distanced course delivery and drafting sections of a paper that I should have had finished *ages* ago. I'm still one for old-fashioned pen and paper. I'm also quite OCD when it comes to pens and notebooks. For example - in this particular work notebook I have to use a fountain pen with a specific blue ink. Yeah, I know. Weird.