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Picture 8 out of 30. My sister and I decided to go out for a night on the town and take pictures. We wanted to go to this one old theatre, but of course we chose the night that someone famous was playing.. And by someone famous, I'm talking about Kevin Costner. Random, right? So we did our best and this is what came out of it. I used the Brenizer Method (expanding) to make it. It was very difficult piecing together, but I think it turned out alright! I hope you like it! Comments appreciated.
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This was taken on Eastbourne seafront, after we'd finished shooting for a photography competition up on the downs. I liked the visual combination of the out-of-costume clown and the empty beach.
Big thanks to Damon for being such a patient and enthusiastic clown.
Thanks for looking at my photos.
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As the busy Hostess of the best DIY Postcard Swap in the World (ahem...) I grant myself the right to send my cards a bit late - but now they are on their merry little way. Yay!
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... by a million or so years. This is a model made by a fossil and paleontology enthusiast of an unknown dinosaur. I do not know the type of creature, but the bizarre nature of it stopped me in my tracks. This model is in the Fossil show at the Inn Suites venue of the Tucson Rock and Gem Show. The next image shows a macro view of just the eye area of this strange-looking creature.
Galloway arrived today at her new mommy's house. So I'll upload my very last photo I took of her. So sad. I find it ironic that I chose this one because she's washed out colorwise like she's already fading from my life. So very sad!!!!!! Enjoy her Kirsten!
I love how Jason Varitek goes into his catcher's crouch when he has to hang out at a base. Here he's chatting with Placido Polanco.
Fall Out Boy at The Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham, UK - Tuesday 6th October 2015
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In the fourth inning of yesterday's Giants/Marlins game in San Francisco, Miami's Adeiny Hechavarria tries unsuccessfully to steal second base and is tagged by Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford.
This photo of Milo & me was taken at Christmastime 2005, our last one together, so it turned out. He was an amazing little dog....
Milo came into our family when he was 7 weeks old. I had no intentions of having a Jack Russell Terrier...I guess because it seemed to be the trendy or typical thing to do if you were an equestrian and I don't usually follow the crowd. My blacksmith told me one day when he was shoeing my horse, that his mother-in-law's JRT was due to have pups soon and he gave me her number to call. Not understanding why he insisted even after I told him I didn't want a pup...I held onto the number anyway.
So of course I called her eventually, when the pups were around 3 weeks old. There were 5 puppies, all of them mostly white with black markings on their heads/faces, except the largest one, who had beautiful caramel markings on his head/face and on his body. I brought my son Josh with me to see the puppies and he actually chose that one pup out of the 5 to be the one we would take, if we should decide to get one. The dogs' owner took note and tentatively held him for us in case we decided to add a JRT to our menagerie. A couple weeks later we went back to visit the pups again and the owner told us that another person wanted the same pup and offered her double the amount of money for him but she had refused the offer because she had been saving him for us. Good thing, because we had already fallen in love with him.
He was originally named "Frasier" by the breeder but Josh and I decided he should be either "Mickey" or "Milo". At that time there had recently been a movie released titled "The Adventures of Milo & Otis" which is how he thought of it, even though it was actually the cat in that film named Milo. It was shortly thereafter that someone brought to our attention the movie "The Mask" that had a JRT named Milo in it. No matter, most of our Milo's movie references were to "Wishbone" anyway. I'd no idea how popular the Jack Russell Terrier breed had become until then.
The next couple of weeks were hard to get through as we waited eagerly for the time to come and bring our new baby home. There, we had 2 horses, a Blue-Tick Coonhound, a cat, a guinea pig, a couple of chinchillas, a bird, and probably some other critters like mice or fish at the time. We always had pets of different sorts. Adding a puppy would surely be a challenge but wouldn't make that much difference in the scheme of things. Or so I thought.
Milo was from the start, a most endearing character. Full of life, personality, sense of humor, charisma, energy, loyalty, and compassion. I'd never known a dog so smart or so tuned in to the people around it before he came along. Our family went through a lot of major life changes during his lifetime. We moved far away from our home state, then again twice more. The kids grew up and left home, and he was with me through my empty nest syndrome. He really was my best friend. Ever the muse, he was the topic of a popular informative entertaining website "Magnificent Milo's Doghouse" for a few years and developed an online presence that brought him a bit of 'celebrity' status in real life dog circles.
When he was 9, he had his first grand mal seizure. I had told our local veterinarian a year prior to this event that Milo seemed to be acting 'off'. His head was tilting to the right, he was oddly twitching occasionally, his gait had become abnormal and he sometimes acted as if he had headaches. The vet didn't believe in my theory that he may have a brain tumor so he ignored it, even after that first seizure occurred. He said that it is highly unusual for a dog to have a brain tumor and that we should just wait it out and not go "chasing zebras".
One day when I was up in Gainesville, Florida to visit my daughter, I had driven by the Veterinary College there and got an idea to call them to ask for advice. I spoke to a neurologist there who after hearing me describe his symptoms for only a minute that she suspected Milo had a meningioma of his right forebrain. She told me that they could do an MRI to find out and if that he did have a meningioma that they could do a procedure called Stereotactic Cyberknife Brain Surgery to treat it. People also get meningiomas and have them treated this way but it was something new to offer it for treatment in animals.
The MRI proved her theory correct and we set him up for the pioneering treatment protocol that had only been used on about 60 animals in the world thus far. He had to go in for a CT scan as well pre treatment to set alignments on the equipment for the Cyberknife surgery. There were no incisions made. The procedure consisted of anesthesia so that Milo would not move during the treatment. The procedure is essentially a series of multiple thin and pointed rays of radiation that aim directly at the center of the tumor so that the radiation does not destroy any healthy, neighboring brain tissue.
Milo was given a timeline of 6 months' to 3 years' extension on his lifespan. He gained 9 more months. Even though meningiomas are not considered malignant, they can cause death because they put pressure on the brain, causing many other problems. A tumor on the meninges (which is the membrane around the brain that holds the cerebrospinal fluid in) grows in a spider legs like fashion which makes it difficult to eradicate completely. The thin extensions (legs) cannot be radiated successfully without damaging the meningeal tissue itself. Therefore, those parts of the tumor remain and enable the tumor to regrow after treatment.
Some patients are good candidates for secondary treatments of meningiomas but Milo was not. Even though he had the surgery, he had to remain on anti seizure meds. He had been on Phenobarbital for over a year to control his seizures and the medicine was taking its toll on his liver. The doctors switched him over to Potassium Bromide as an alternative method to control seizures, but this medicine gets processed through the kidneys. Milo had a mild chronic kidney disease since he was 2 that deteriorated further as he aged. He started on a special diet for his kidneys when he was 8, which helped him tremendously. However, the Potassium Bromide could only be a short term treatment for the seizures because of its ill effect on his kidneys. The only other option for the seizures was going back on Phenobarbital, despite the damage it had done to his liver. My hope is that there will one day be more options for treatment of seizures. Sadly, we ran out of choices for keeping Milo healthy and had to euthanize him during his last, fateful seizure.
Multiple organ failure due to the effects of the tumor as well as the medicines is what essentially claimed his physical being. But, it is his undying presence in spirit that keeps him alive in my heart. I feel so fortunate to have been blessed with him in my life for the time he could be here. He did have some times in his last year when he was not feeling well, but amazingly, considering his circumstances, he led a very active and happy life despite it all. He loved going for rides in the car, the dog parks, playing tennis, doing agility, walking, doing tricks, and having his photo taken. This photo is not the best quality, technically speaking and he wasn't giving his typical 'smile'...... but it is priceless in that Milo insisted on me picking him up to be in the photograph, even though I didn't want to on account of being in a hurry, and my dressy outfit. We were on our way out to see the Imperial Symphony Orchestra in their Christmas production when we decided to quickly snap a few photos of all of us in our fancy attire. I remember telling Milo to 'wait' while we got through the first images and then I caved in to his persistence, swept him up into my arms and got this memorable shot, thankfully.
I say, just enjoy every little aspect that you possibly can of each situation. It is true, you really never know what tomorrow brings. Don't be afraid to love completely, to give unselfishly, to be as true and real as you may be, to abandon your guard courageously, to "feel" honestly, or to be as human as maybe even your own little dog exemplifies. Life, for what it brings is perhaps bittersweet at times, but so worthy of the living! May you all be blessed at some point in your life with a grand friend like Milo :)
A frame grab from my new GoPro HD boardcam. It's a fun little addition to a surf; check out some of the footage at my blog.
Testing out the new softbox.
Thankfully my daughters were fun and willing models.
Strobist:
SB 600 in 50" Wescott Appolo Softbox Camera left
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Dairy Workers National Secretary James Ritchie gives a $10,000 cheque to striking Ports of Auckland stevedore Ken Ziegler. Ken is a delegate and executive member of Maritime Union of New Zealand Local 13.
More than 300 Ports of Auckland workers started the first day of a twenty-one day strike today, Friday 24 February 2012. The workers have taken the action to stop the port's plans to casualise and contract out their work. Workers have been negotiating since September last year and have taken smaller strike actions in that time.
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As I told Kate, I should have focused on Elnore instead of Caraline, but I just really like Caraline/Anna. What can I say. Next time I'll be less "omg my favorite doll(s)!"
Caraline:
wig: Mellow Melon in bright blue
eyes: Ruddy Peach dark brown
Elnore:
wig: Iplehouse, Sienna color
eyes: Dollmore Glass HA04
While walking around Palmyra Cove Nature Center yesterday, I went through a long spate of almost nothing to see. As I was leaving, I finally saw some activity in the form of a bunch of Brown Creepers and this friendly white-breasted nuthatch. He actually watched me as I inched closer to get this shot.
The lighting wasn't the greatest, but I actually light how the colors turned out in this shot with the faded sepia tree in the background and more stark, vivid colors in the foreground. And of course, a very attractive bird.