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Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design
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Yes, there's a leopard in that acacia tree. It's pretty easy to sport, actually. Photo made with an iPhone 15 Pro Max well after sunset in Kenya's northern Mara. ©2025 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1.com
This past weekend the girls took center stage as they competed in the Surfer Girl Pro annual competition at Oceanside. Perfect waves and weather for the event.
Established in 2007 as a showcase for women in action sports, the Super Girl Pro Series is the only large-scale all-women’s action sports, esports and lifestyle series in the world. Developed as a celebration of female strength and empowerment, the platform has grown into a series of five incredible festivals centered around providing social, athletic, cultural, educational, business, and entertainment opportunities for young women in areas where they are traditionally underrepresented.
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Every lens has its potential and its limitations. This is particularly true for the Samyang telephoto (mirror) lens with a range that is on my Fuji X-Pro1 the equivalent of 450 mm. Like every very long lens, this one does compress the perspective and shows quite nicely that my village, Markyate, is situated in a valley and is surrounded by hills. This is the region of the Chilterns, a limestone plateau into which rivers have cut their beds. The village lies along the bed of the River Ver and we are looking from one side of the valley to the other. The problem with this lens is that when set to infinity, its resolution power is weak (as you can see). And that is why I prefer to use this lens for "close-ups", anything away by two to twenty meters. And for that purpose the lens is just fine.
Tower Bridge, London
"Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894. The bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and has become an iconic symbol of London. [...] Tower Bridge is one of five London bridges now owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust overseen by the City of London Corporation. It is the only one of the Trust's bridges not to connect the City of London directly to the Southwark bank, as its northern landfall is in Tower Hamlets.
The bridge consists of two bridge towers tied together at the upper level by two horizontal walkways, designed to withstand the horizontal tension forces exerted by the suspended sections of the bridge on the landward sides of the towers. The vertical components of the forces in the suspended sections and the vertical reactions of the two walkways are carried by the two robust towers. The bascule pivots and operating machinery are housed in the base of each tower. Before its restoration in the 2010s, the bridge's colour scheme dated from 1977, when it was painted red, white and blue for Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee. Its colours were subsequently restored to blue and white.
The bridge deck is freely accessible to both vehicles and pedestrians, whereas the bridge's twin towers, high-level walkways and Victorian engine rooms form part of the Tower Bridge Exhibition, for which an admission charge is made. [...]"
(Wikipedia)