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I don't think he's an albino tree frog, since his eyes aren't red. But when resting on the light gray concrete patio floor, he was nearly invisible. Got a shot of him facing the other way and then one as he made his escape.
This photo was chosen as a PCWorld "Hot Pic of the Week" contest winner. See the other winners here.
Vista desde el mirador de la Molatica de la serrana localidad albaceteña de Letur. El paisaje que desde tan privilegiado emplazamiento puede contemplarse es realmente evocador de legendarios y épicos pasados tiempos, en los que el emplazamiento de los lugares de habitación atendían, en buena medida, a criterios de fácil defensa. A la vista del paisaje que desde La Molatica se contempla, uno no puede dejar de evocar los tiempos en que las tierras de la comarca de La Sierra del Segura fueron frontera entre los dominios cristianos y musulmanes, y cuanto tal hecho determinó a través de la Historia, los modos de vida y costumbres, algunos de ellos aún hoy día perceptibles, de sus gentes.
Incluyo un enlace que lleva hacia el relato de la leyenda de Letur, amablemente referido en uno de sus comentarios por maese Geoorgesf, al que por ello quedo en verdad agradecido:
www.entrepueblos.com/articulo-7710-letur/historia-letur.html
Pulsad "L" o sobre la foto si deseáis verla a mayor tamaño y en caja de luz sobre fondo negro.
Fotografía conmemorativa a la elección entre las 12 fotografías del año 2012 en Flickr de la primera versión del mismo letureño paisaje:
www.flickr.com/photos/recesvintus/6856493296/
Enlace a la página de Yahoo Noticias con las 12 mejores fotos del año 2012
Enlace a la galería de Prensa Yahoo España con las 12 mejores fotos del año 2012 en Flickr.
Enlaces a páginas web de revistas y diarios que se hacen eco de la selección de las 12 mejores fotos del año 2012 en Flickr España:
ABC
www.abc.es/medios-redes/20121207/abci-flickr-mejores-foto...
LA TRIBUNA DE ALBACETE:
www.latribunadealbacete.es/noticia/ZD97228BD-DBC5-10BA-F2...
LA VERDAD DE ALBACETE:
www.laverdad.es/albacete/v/20121222/provincia/imagen-letu...
DEIA
www.deia.com/2012/12/07/ocio-y-cultura/internet/flickr-se...
EL CONFIDENCIAL
www.elconfidencial.com/multimedia/album/ciencia/2012/12/0...
EUROPA PRESS
www.europapress.es/portaltic/internet/noticia-12-mejores-...
TELECINCO
www.telecinco.es/informativos/tecnologia/mejores-fotograf...
QUO
www.quo.es/ciencia/hombre/las_12_mejores_fotos_del_ano_en...
PC WORLD
www.idg.es/pcworld/Las-12-mejores-imagenes-de-2012,-segun...
UNIVERSO CANARIO
www.universocanario.com/general/flickr/yahoo/las-mejores-...
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Fotografía elegida entre las 12 mejores fotos del año 2012 de Flickr España por Yahoo!
Enlace a la página de Yahoo Noticias con las 12 mejores fotos del año 2012
Enlace a la galería de Prensa Yahoo España con las 12 mejores fotos del año 2012 en Flickr.
Vista desde el mirador de la Molatica de la muy noble y serrana albaceteña localidad de Letur. El paisaje que desde tan privilegiado mirador puede contemplarse, es en verdad evocador de legendarios y épicos pasados tiempos, en los que el emplazamiento de los lugares de habitación atendían, en buena medida, a criterios de fácil defensa. A la vista del sugestivo paisaje que desde La Molatica contemplar se puede, uno no deja de rememorar los procelosos tiempos en que las tierras de la comarca de La Sierra del Segura fueron frontera entre los dominios cristianos y musulmanes, y cuanto tal hecho determinó a través de la Historia, los modos de vida y costumbres, algunos de ellos aún hoy día perceptibles, de las suyas gentes.
Incluyo un enlace que lleva hacia el relato de la leyenda de Letur, amablemente referido en uno de sus comentarios por maese Geoorgesf, al que por ello quedo en verdad agradecido:
www.entrepueblos.com/articulo-7710-letur/historia-letur.html
Enlaces a páginas web de revistas y diarios que se hacen eco de la selección de las 12 mejores fotografías del año en Flickr España, entre las que figura ésta:
ABC
www.abc.es/medios-redes/20121207/abci-flickr-mejores-foto...
LA TRIBUNA DE ALBACETE:
www.latribunadealbacete.es/noticia/ZD97228BD-DBC5-10BA-F2...
LA VERDAD DE ALBACETE
www.laverdad.es/albacete/v/20121222/provincia/imagen-letu...
DEIA
www.deia.com/2012/12/07/ocio-y-cultura/internet/flickr-se...
EL CONFIDENCIAL
www.elconfidencial.com/multimedia/album/ciencia/2012/12/0...
EUROPA PRESS
www.europapress.es/portaltic/internet/noticia-12-mejores-...
TELECINCO
www.telecinco.es/informativos/tecnologia/mejores-fotograf...
QUO
www.quo.es/ciencia/hombre/las_12_mejores_fotos_del_ano_en...
PC WORLD
www.idg.es/pcworld/Las-12-mejores-imagenes-de-2012,-segun...
UNIVERSO CANARIO
www.universocanario.com/general/flickr/yahoo/las-mejores-...
Pulsad "L" o sobre la foto si deseáis verla a mayor tamaño y en caja de luz sobre fondo negro.
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The enormous Radio Store in Akihabara’s “Electric Town” in Tokyo closed last Saturday.
This image, from my from March 2011 visit, shows one of the dozens of stalls in the building.
I've just completed a commissioned build of some retail park units using the Kingsway Models RPU kit. Using two kits has produced two half relief units and one full depth unit.
Each unit has two store fronts.
The two kits provide two car park areas which are joined together here.
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I managed to take these from my hotel room. I've always wanted to try
to capture a good lightning shot. And when I finally do, I realize
that I left my Compact Flash Reader at home! Argh. A quick run to a
local PCWorld store in the rain just to get these uploaded. It was
worth it.
I've just completed a commissioned build of some retail park units using the Kingsway Models RPU kit. Using two kits has produced two half relief units and one full depth unit.
Each unit has two store fronts.
The two kits provide two car park areas which are joined together here.
© Ray Skwire
For those who are interested in learning how to shoot lightning, you can read a pretty good and easy to understand tutorial here.
Snow today - and rain! Took a snap shot of the Ochils from the top of my road on the way to PC World to check out the iMac everyone is talking about. I can't imagine what my photos look like enlarged on a big IMac screen! And I don't mean good!!!
I've just completed a commissioned build of some retail park units using the Kingsway Models RPU kit. Using two kits has produced two half relief units and one full depth unit.
Each unit has two store fronts.
The two kits provide two car park areas which are joined together here.
I've just completed a commissioned build of some retail park units using the Kingsway Models RPU kit. Using two kits has produced two half relief units and one full depth unit.
This is the rear of the full depth unit showing the loading doors.
"I will make sure you will never be able to place an order on the internet again." "I'm an attorney, I will sue you." "I will call the CEO of your company and play him the tape of this phone call." "I'm going to call your local police and have two officers come over and arrest you." "You'd better get this through your thick skull." "You have no idea who you are dealing with."
These are all direct threats that I received today from an individual who identified himself as Steve Phillips, the manager of PriceRitePhoto in Brooklyn, New York when I called to inquire about my order with them. My crime? Telling him that I planned to write an article about my unfortunate experience with his company regarding the camera order I had placed with him yesterday.
How are these people able to stay in business?
I suppose I should have been duly warned based on PC World's Camera Confidential expose written a few years back about unscrupulous camera operators operating out of New York, but I have never been so utterly offended by a retailer in my life. I guess in some ways this is my own fault, or as Steve Phillips reminded me, you're a "professional photographer you should know better than to buy things on the internet this way."
I have been keeping track of The new Canon EOS 5D for a while. As those of you who visit this site regularly know, photography is a passionate hobby of mine. I've told myself that I'd pick up a 5D as soon as the price dropped below $3,000. I've been regularly checking both Yahoo! Shopping and PriceGrabber for a while waiting for one to drop. Well yesterday for the first time I saw that the 5D was for sale for $2,899 at PriceRitePhoto. I placed an order online and this is where my trouble began. The order went through and was confirmed and is shown below.
The first thing that happened was I received a call from an individual who identified himself as Joseph telling me that there was a "problem" with my order. He said he needed to "verify" the security code on my American Express. Although I had given that security code in the order I gave him this code again. He then tried to explain to me that I was going to need some accessories with this camera. For starters I was going to need a new memory card. When I told him that I already had a memory card he became somewhat insistent that mine was not good enough. After I wouldn't buy his memory card he said I'd need new batteries for the camera. Again I told him that I already had two batteries at home and would not be needing to purchase these from him. He then thanked me for my time confirmed my order verbally, said that it would be shipping out in the next few days and hung up.
So today I checked on my order online again and saw that it had not been routed to shipping and called the company back again. Four times I was put on hold for a substantial amount of time and had to hang up and call the company again. Finally I was able to connect with an individual who said his name was Steve Phillips. Steve Phillips abruptly told me that the camera was out of stock. When I protested and told him that it was confirmed online yesterday and verbally by his sales rep he refused to budge. When I told him that even right now as we speak the camera was still showing online at that price on his website,(see below with today's date) he still insisted that he did not have the camera.
At this point I thanked him and informed him that I would be writing an article about my experience with his company. It was at this point that he went ballistic. He first told me that if I did this that he would not cancel my order but just never fill it. If I cancelled it he said he'd charge me a 15% restocking fee. When I told him that that would be unethical he went nuts. He accused me of trying to "extort" him and said that he was going to have two local police officers come over and arrest me. He then went on to say that as a "professional photographer" I should have known better than to try and buy a camera this way and that he was an attorney and would sue me if I wrote an article about my experience.
He told me that I had no idea who I was dealing with and that as he had my work contact info that he was going to call both my immediate supervisor and the CEO of my company and tell them that I was trying to extort him.
"I will take this very personally," he said. He claimed to have recorded our phone call and said that he would make sure that I would "never be able to order anything on the internet again."
Of course these threats only served to agitate me more. After about 20 minutes of this abuse I told him that I had to go and he refused to get off the line. He said that if I hung up that he would just charge me for the whole camera and never ship it. I hung up and he called me back. I left for my meeting and he called back asking to speak with my boss.
This is by far the most abusive situation I have ever encountered with any retailer on the internet.
One of the things that troubles me the most about this situation is that I found this retailer through Yahoo! shopping and they were perceived to have positive feedback. Is the feedback mechanism for Yahoo! Shopping broken? How could this horrible retailer have a four star rating with 858 ratings. I'm convinced that there is a possibility that many of the "reviews" for this company could be fake. I should though have sorted through the reviews to the worst to see that many others had fallen prey to similar fraud by this company.
How is this company still allowed to offer their products through Yahoo! Shopping?
PriceRitePhoto may also be doing business as C&A Marketing and TheCameraMall.com
Below are some examples from other users:
"very bad place for shoppping. Ordered a TV a week ago. when checking out, the shipping price was higher than displayed by Yahoo. That is ok. Called customer service 2 days later to make sure the order was ok. The guy from customer service tried to sell other things to me, and promised the item will come in 2 days. After 3 days, called again, I was told they over sold the item, and my order was cancelled. what a joke! Don't buy thing from this merchant!!!"
"In all the years I've done business with online stores(and I've done plenty), this is by far the ABSOLUTE WORST company I've conducted business with yet. They're customer service is almost completely inaccessible despite their 24/7 365 claim, they don't deliver on anything they say they will, they're rude and pushy, and any information that IS sent back is usually filled with vague half-answers that do nothing to solve any problems. This is just an awful business experience. Case in point: They claim to be open on Sundays over the phone from 10AM to 4PM EDT. Well, what they really mean is that the sales department is open, but customer service(who will place you on hold forever during the week) is closed, as is billing. STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY. And warn your friends. ..."
"I gave this store an overall rating of 1. That is because Yahoo does not allow me to rate it any lower. I cannot stress enough how poor the customer service from the wretched excuse of a store. First off, they stress 'we ship in less than 24 hours'. That is a blatant lie. An hour after placing the order, I received a call to confirm that I had indeed purchased a camera, and that the delivery address was correct. So far, so good. I returned the call, and informed them that yes I had indeed purchased a camera, and yes, the information was correct. The next day, I received another phone call to confirm the shipping address, and did I also want to purchase an extended warranty? Yes, the address is correct, and no, I don't want your warranty. They assured me my camera would be shipped that day. Three days later, I again received a phone call to confirm the shipping address, which had now been done 3 times, and did I want to purchase the extended warranty? Yes, the information is correct, no I don't want your stupid warranty, I was assured the camera would be shipped that day. It is, in my opinion unconscionable to delay shipping an order for over a week, just so a company can try a high pressure sales job, on a warranty a customer has already told them, repeatedly, that they don't want. It has now been ten days since the date of purchase, and still no camera. My experience with this store is one I will never repeat, nor would I wish it upon my worst enemy!!"
and yet another review I found on the company:
"I placed an order with TheCameraMall.com (aka PriceRitePhoto aka C&A
Marketing) on June 9, 2005 for a Sony DSR-PD170 camcorder. At the time
the price advertised on-line was very low, which should have raised a
warning flag, but a call to the company confirmed the item was in stock
ready to be shipped, that it was a US model, the user's manual was in
English, and the salesman (Joseph) seemed helpful. There was some
pressure to add unwanted items like a tripod, extra battery, etc, but they
were declined. An offer to add insurance was offered, and initially I
declined but then agreed after being told that otherwise if the product
arrived and was non-functional I would be taking full risk. Before the
product could be shipped I was asked to sign and fax a form, appended
below, that indicated that if I wrote any negative feedback I would agree
to have my credit card charged $100, and that I also agreed to waive my
right to chargeback to the credit card company, and that product could not
be returned for any reason. I signed and returned this form with the
understanding that the company would send the item I ordered. However
after a week there was no indication of a product even having been
shipped, and the customer service contact indicated that only the
salesperson could give me order status, so after several tried I reached
Joseph again, and now he indicated that he couldn't ship the product
unless I faxed him a copy of my credit-card!!! This I refused to do, and
have never, ever had to do for a transaction. I sent email to the company
requesting cancelation of the order, and received yet another email asked
me to sign and fax back a form indicating that I would not post negative
feedback and if I did I was authorizing my credit card to be charged
$100. I refused to sign this.
I did post feedback to
the feedback links provided by the customer describing the details of the
transaction, including the forms I had been sent.
The day after posting the feedback describing my attempt to buy the video
camera from PriceRitePhoto/CameraMall, I received a call from a "John
Hancock", claiming to be the owner of the camera companies, and demanding
that I remove the feedback I posted. He said that he would charge my
credit card for the amount of the camera and and additional $250 for each
posting. He also said that he was shipping a Malaysian version of the
camera, without a lens, to me, and that he would make money on the deal,
and I couldn't stop the shipment, or dispute the charge. My credit card
company confirmed that a pending charge had been placed by PriceRite, but
the charge was not yet posted, and once it was posted, I could dispute.
The next day, July 6, I received several calls from "John Hancock",
demanding again that I remove the feedback I had posted, and when I agreed
that I would remove anything that he felt was not accurate, but if he
could not indicate any inaccuracy, then the feedback would remain. He
screamed and swore at me over the phone, and said that he would post my
credit card number on the internet if I didn't comply.
On July 8 a charge was posted to my credit card for $2139.99 and a second
charge was posted for $100.00. I called my credit card company and
initiated the dispute process. The security department of BankOne Credit
strongly suggested that I cancel my credit card, and complete an internet
fraud report.
Description of how you were defrauded:
My credit card has been charged $2238.99 for an cancelled order.
I've been threatened with additional multiple charges against my
credit card unless I change feedback posted to the Internet, and I've
been threatened with having my credit card number posted to the
Internet. I've had to cancel my credit card on the advice of my
credit card provider."
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This very nice Volvo was down at Llaneli PCWorld car park this morning.Unusual livery though very smart tooI think....
Ovvero, "Gli uomini sono piccole cose".
Making of a short in the project "Il Sud raccontato dal cinema" at my school
He and his mouse recently got into an argument about which website to make their homepage: the computer wants pcworld.com and the mouse (somewhat ironically) wants lolcats.com.
Now they are not speaking to each other.
(See more Tiny Things on my blog! )
Tucked away behind a PC World store in a retail park in Culverhouse Cross, Cardiff, is a piece of railway history – or at least the signs of it. This unimposing concrete building (in PC World house colours!) houses a ventilation shaft which forms part of the Wenvoe railway tunnel. Opened by the Barry Railway Company in 1898, the tunnel formed part of that company’s route between Trehafod in the south Wales Valleys, Cadoxtan and Barry, which closed in 1964.
The tunnel is intact and runs directly under the road interchange at Culverhouse Cross. The ventilation shaft (which helped disperse smoke and steam from locomotives) is located roughly halfway along the tunnel which is just over a mile long. A water main runs through the tunnel, but the tracks are long gone …
For an excellent account of a journey through the tunnel on foot – by Roger Newberry, see rogernewberry.com/2014/06/24/adventure-is-out-there-the-w...
The tunnel was featured as part of the 'Hidden Cardiff' programme on BBC One Wales with Will Millard (available to watch for a limited period at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08t3qcj
I've just completed a commissioned build of some retail park units using the Kingsway Models RPU kit. Using two kits has produced two half relief units and one full depth unit.
Each unit has two store fronts - this is the completed full depth unit.
I took this shot a couple weeks ago while working on an article for PCWorld. I've really come to like it. It was shot with a single flash pointing right and a red piece of paper held above it to control the reflections on the mirrored surface of the die.
The inevitable fusion of man and his information appliances is well on its way. Real-time connectivity to information and augmented reality systems are already available via smartphone and headmounted display. How will we cope with our changing abilty to perceive and understand the world, as these systems rapidly become less expensive, more capable, and more essential? I suspect not everyone will go along quietly.
just slightly rusty
just seen I'm in here
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I don't think I've ever been in a pc world so not advertising this - just an interesting view on flickr
At around 12:45, the GBRf is given the green signal for moves off the Yard line and onto the GCR's main line through to Rotherham Central, Aldwarke Junction and then, unlike earlier, to proceed on back to whence it came, Doncaster Roberts Road Shed; the last working of this, and all other days. It sis seen passing the GCR's Goods Shed, amazingly still in one piece but with graffiti here and there and weeds also making the situation look worse. The grey asbestos roof will have to be removed, safely, at some stage and the land will undoubtedly be found a new use, twixt canal and GCR metals. For now all is quiet as the Supertram and Tram/Train rattle past over on the right, the steel trains makes its way back and forth along the line to the right of 66777 and other odds-and-sods come and go along the main line. Traffic into Tinsley still continues with the Bardon stone train coming in most days along the other, south-west connection into the Yard. Moves into and out of the SIRTF and Outokumpu still happen, some DBC shunting of wagons also persists in the last remnant of the YArd at the side of the two aircraft-hangar type buildings, leased in recent times by M&S. The temporary diversion of Container traffic into the Yard may hold promise for future moves though Tinsley lost out to Doncaster when the new iPort was being built, and its a wonder that the Container traffic didn't get diverted to there, especially as the north-south moves are routed through Doncaster anyway, only to come back south to here. So. this week has seen Route Learner light engine loco moves into and out of the Yard, pending the brief traffic which Newell and Wright Container Services will re-direct into here for the next few week or so until track replacement work at the MAsbrough Freight De[pot is complete. From then on, who knows what will happen to the Yard; the Sheffield 'Streets Ahead' road refurbishment program is nearing completion and once that is finished, what will 'Amey' then do with their facilities at the north-eats end of the Yard... Tinsley YArd may well have a short reprieves but its long term future must be in some doubt...
This is another window seat photo taken a couple of weeks ago as we coasted into Heathrow Airport.
Covering some 14 square miles, this is just the northern, inland area of the natural harbour. Once again I have added some geographical notes including a couple of historical interest. They can be seen by hovering your mouse over the photo.
You can see two railway lines crossing the harbour. We would be on that train line some six hours later!
By Yardena Arar, PCWorld
Today's mobile phones can already send e-mail, browse the Web, and keep you in touch with friends and colleagues via voice or text message. Tomorrow's handsets will add even more to the menu, morphing (as needed) into always-connected portable game consoles, full-featured TVs, and credit cards. Here's a quick look at what's coming:
Networks: In the next few years, cell phone networks will move data at several megabits per second, and will coexist with WiMax, Wi-Fi, and, for TV, DVB-H or MediaFLO. IMS will let them work together.
Handsets: Look for sleek designs (such as Frog Design's Ubik), better battery life, e-payment support, and graphics muscle for true TV and console-style video gaming.
Cameras: Expect not just high resolutions (8 megapixels and beyond), but also the same image-processing capabilities found in current digital still and video cameras.