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Paris puts on a magic show at night! Love walking along the Seine with its shining reflections of city lights. On this chilly winter day I was exploring the Ile St. Louis and came across this exquisite ancient bridge, glowing golden during the blue hour. The Pont Marie, named after the 17th century engineer who designed it, is one of the oldest bridges of Paris, completed in 1635 and connecting the Ile St Louis to the right bank.
About the Pont Marie: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_Marie
The following links are a great resource on the BRIDGES OF PARIS with old postcards and etchings showing the changes they went through as Paris grew and evolved.
Very fun if you like history!
lefildutemps.free.fr/paris/index.htm wonderful site with old photos (photos et historique des ponts)
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_ponts_de_Paris from wikipedia (en francais) in French but you can see all the bridges and passarels listed, with information on each.
Tres bonne histoire du pont ici: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_Marie , lefildutemps.free.fr/paris/pont_marie.htm et ici: www.insecula.com/salle/MS00800.html :
Here is a link to a wonderful series of old maps of the historic center of Paris, showing the development around the Ile de la Cite and Ile St. Louis from the 1400's to the 1800's.
Earlier this week I visited the National Zoo in Washington, DC; I had not been in several years. I strongly prefer photographing birds/animals in a natural setting, but I wanted to check out their recently opened "Bird House" and the zoo in general. The best I could tell, all of the birds in the Bird House were local species that a dedicated birder could see here in the area. I only saw a couple species I've not photographed elsewhere. Additionally, outside they have some larger exotic species not native to this area. I'll post a few shots in my Photostream and put the rest in a dedicated album for anyone wanting to see more of what to expect at the zoo.
For the record, the zoo appears to be very well managed and would be a delight for most. They get about 2-million visitors a year. You can read more about the Bird House here: nationalzoo.si.edu/news/bird-house-reopens-smithsonians-n...
Follow this link to see several more photos from the National Zoo: flic.kr/s/aHBqjAChzm
Back at Site 39N (Chapter 7/4)
Kayla slipped away from the helicopter, as the soldiers disembarked. In particular she wanted to put some distance between her and the reptilian that had sensed her presence during the flight. She knew as long as she was between dimensions she was safe, but she didn’t want to cause them to be on the alert.
The soldiers filed into waiting trucks. Kayla watched them vanish down a dirt road veined with tire tracks.
Activity stirred in the direction they’d gone, so she followed on foot, her boots crunching against gravel. Regret bloomed with each step—she should’ve stowed away in one of those trucks.
A mound rose ahead, unnatural in shape and scale. Around it sprawled a perimeter of massive mobile missile launchers and clusters of smaller armaments, all pointed upward.
The helicopters she’d arrived on roared overhead departing in the direction they came. She watched them into the distance. She wasn’t sure but it didn’t seem the site was cloaked.
Whatever lay buried in that mound demanded a lot of protection. The mound entrance was recessed into the mound’s flank, which on examination, was made of concrete. Kayla circled the site, ears tuned to soldier chatter. Most were human, but reptilians moved among them—silent, commanding presences. One, larger than the rest, conferred with officers. The phrase “the event” surfaced again and again, like a prophecy.
Kayla quickly programmed coordinates into her VDD for later then turned her attention to the entrance.
The gate embedded at the mound’s entrance groaned open at intervals, swallowing trucks to come and go into its depths.
Kayla crept toward the checkpoint. As she scaled the rocky terrain above the fencing, her foot dislodged a cluster of stones. A miniature landslide tumbled down.
She froze.
Guards emerged, scanning the slope. One stared directly at her position. But their eyes couldn’t pierce the dimensional veil. After a tense pause, they retreated into their outpost.
Kayla exhaled and moved with greater care, slipping down inside the perimeter. She waited, crouched in silence.
When the gate opened to admit a truck, she darted forward, gliding through the entrance behind it—just before the massive steel gates clamped shut.
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Motion blur of Autumn Foliage inspired by Thomas Schoeller www.flickr.com/photos/saddletrampimages
With that said, I need a lot of practice and his are far better. ;-) Thanks for the inspiration my friend Thomas!
Since this type of photography is all new to me, if this is a flop feel free to critique. I always enjoy feedback! With that said, I personally don't love white skies but here at least in my opinion it worked and looks like white paint streaking through the shot. ;-)
I have been on the hunt and driving all week looking for Autumn foliage and there is just not much, just a sprinkle here and there around the state when it should be peak foliage by now. We have a pretty extreme drought as well. Our lakes, rivers, and waterfalls are dried up. So photographing has been a challenge over the last several days.
I got my ND filter and went out yesterday and used it. OMG, Too funny! So here is an idea! Photograph as if you are a blind man! LOL All my photos were blurry, that is the ones I shot with the ND filter. Ok, so it is not blond proof and next time I will focus the camera before I put the ND filter on. LOL
I was kind of distracted in a good way though. I met a new friend that is learning photography that is visiting in Connecticut from Europe. I helped him out to give him some advice about settings. Though, he is absolutely a natural! He was so very kind too! He gave me an Amber necklace when he took a quick run home to get his tripod. He is a jazz musician and he also gave me his CD! It is amazing! Most of all, I enjoyed the company and meeting a great guy and a new friend!
‘Vase of hope’. Full of gloom outdoors this morning so I decided to use Jill’s daffodils for todays shot, I put a sheet of hand made paper against the window as a backdrop - simple & effective. After lunch we went to town for a few Groceries then couldn’t believe our eyes at the checkout - about 2’' of snow had fallen in next to no time!! In fact we had to do a U turn & detour to get home as the hill was blocked with cars!! Alan:-)….
366 - I’ve decided to do this to force me to pick up a camera other than when we are away on our travels (they will be posted as normal) - I will be interested to see what transpires, they will be varied I’m sure so we’ll see where inspiration takes me over the course of the year, hopefully at the end of it I will be a better photographer. Feel free to critique as you see fit, but please don’t feel obliged, I anticipate they will not be to all tastes. Have a great year and if you also have embarked on a 365 project then good luck in seeing it through, Alan:-)
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The State Fair of Texas is an annual state fair held in Dallas at historic Fair Park. The fair has taken place every year since 1886 except for varying periods during World War I and World War II. It usually begins the last Friday in September and ends 24 days later. The fair claims an annual attendance of over two million visitors through ticket scanning. The State Fair of Texas is considered one of the best in America as well as Dallas' signature event despite its troubled history.
Seen above is the Midway Entrance which puts you right into the Midway, the Kidway, and the Funway. Also found in this area is the Children's Museum, Neon Tex (photograph featured earlier in my photostream), and the Texas State Ferris Wheel (seen in the photograph above and also featured earlier in my photostream). Additionally, immediately adjacent to the Midway entrance is the famous Cotton Bowl Stadium (also previously featured in my photostream)...home of the Red River Rivalry, which is the centerpiece of the fair and the annual college football game between the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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View eastwards towards the Great Sugarloaf from the Boardwalk on White Hiill, part of the Wicklow Way, Ireland.
The title should be obvious except for the Loaves bit so heres the true story;
I must have been 4 or 5 when my Dad told me he was working near the Sugarloaf mountain. He had told me at one time that sugary loafs came from there.Of course I remembered, so I kept pestering him to bring me home some. The poor man! Every evening for a month, he brought me back 2 sugary iced loaves in a brown paper bag and I would be excitedly waiting for him to come in. I often wondered where he actually got them but I do know there was once a little grocery shop in the Rocky Valley which is near the Sugarloaf.
He really did put him self out for me. He used to call me the" White Haired Boy" { Buachaill na gruaige ban } and I was definitely that to him and just as he was so special to me and always will be.
You can still get the iced loaves today and I still like them but somehow the dont taste nearly as nice as the ones my Dad used to bring home to me, from Sugarloaf mountain, all those years ago. They couldnt possibly anyway, could they!
Id better stop now and have a cup of tea as Im filling up again like an idiot, but Im glad I am really.
I do hope you will like this photo and my little story.
P@t.
I normally approach this place by lovely route that no one uses and its always deserted. I park on the road on the far side of the pine wood thats running parallel to the mountain and follow the forest track. It eventually peters out and I go through a small boggy area which leads to a fence and a style over it.. Crossing the stream, of which there are many, rising on the top of the hill I follow a zig zag deer trail that can be seen as grassy tracks in the photo. Eventually it leads past a mountain spring that bursts out from under a rock. The water is so cold and pure and tastes like cream.
Eventually I join the boardwalk which is part of the Wicklow Way and head I south for a mile before heading down by another wood and more streams and complete a circuit leading back to the style.
The takes takes about 3 hours so its a lovely walk and is becoming one of my faves. There are lots of deer around and Im normally accompanied by a few pairs of ravens, or kestrels or the skylarks and meadow pipits who keep flying off and landing just ahead of you as though playing a game.
For me its just very special and so good for the body and soul. Id recommend it highly!!! My Dad carried me to the top of Sugarloaf on his shoulders befoe I could even walk and I have misty memories of it. So really, you should all come and stay! You would love it!
You are all special too you know!
Hope your day is great and thank you my friends!
Hugs, P@t.
www.wicklowway.com/trail-description/knockree-roundwood.php
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicklow_Way
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I havent put this photo in any groups as Ive had some pretty nasty experiences lately with rude administrators. I dont accept that type of behaviour in the least and neither should anyone else! The only reason I am in any groups is for the benefit of my great artistic and sensitive friends on here that are in them, and who dont deserve to be treated in this appalling fashion either. Artistic people dont do smart with others ever and dont need heavy handed bullying idiots!
None of the administrators from the groups that I have removed myself from have contacted me and asked me why!
People who are smart and bullying with others always hide when they are confronted and I know this to be 100% true. Indeed looking at there photographs they are far from talented which begs the question! We are away above all that rubbish, thankfully!
Im am here for me and the wonderful sensitive and talented photographers who are my friends and who who continually open my mind and amaze and inspire me. I try in my own way to do the same.
Billy Connolly; "The very fact that someone wants to be come a politician should automatically ban them from ever becoming one!"
It could equally apply to many administrators!
P@t.
One for Switcher Sunday: What I believe is properly noted with the reporting marks PGVX 2012, an SW8, lets out a little bit carbon as it shoves on a set of 4 loaded hoppers at the site of the former Dubuque Junction.
I got lucky on this particular Friday afternoon and happened to be in the area of the Viterra operation here when I noticed activity with someone on the railcars. My best guess given what I saw and the very rusty condition of these former SOO Line Hoppers is that what the crew was transferring out of the barges in the upper center with a crane and loading these four hoppers was salt. With that job apparently complete, they were pulled slowly through the loading house (I assume it has a scale) and then eventually up to this spot to clear a switch. With a belch the crew is now shoving back where they'll deposit these 4 loads on one of the spurs just above the engine, for the CN yard/local crew to pick up soon. Since they are SOO cars, I wonder if they went to the CPKC interchange for forwarding to a customer on their railroad? The two road still swap cars via a spur off the main near the CN yard.
This is a scene loaded with so much neat history the more you look, and there's lots of layers. If you're curious here is a (admittedly somewhat long winded) description of some of it...
The most obvious is the diamond at front at center: This is the site of the former Dubuque Junction, once linking together the Chicago Great Western and the Illinois Central. The IC still is in operation with the mainline at right, and the track in the lower center is what is used to connect to this facility. The other former CGW main was originally abandoned west of Dubuque in the 1980s. A segment of the line here was still used until somewhere in the early 2010s though to service another nearby Cargill Complex - around 2012 I still saw the occasional set of cars being moved by a different SW1 assigned there. But it has since been severed and the track the 2012 is on is just a stub that ends a few more car lengths behind the camera. There was once a tower here at Dubuque Junction directly under the camera: see this neat Lance Wales photo showing off the spot in Chicago Central days looking in the opposite direction from my view: www.flickr.com/photos/wales23/11921296805/
The name Dubuque Junction is still used today for what is now the connection between the CN and CPKC a short distance to the west.
The second more obvious neat bit of history is the stone tower at upper right - that's the Shot Tower. Built in 1856, it is a holdout of the history of this tri-state area of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois in the lead mining industry that was really important around here for many years. Lead mining allowed for the production of lead shot for weapons in these towers, where the molten lead could be poured and the round shot formed as the material fell and cooled.
The industry here has been there far shorter than the tower, but it has changed over time too. The PGVX reporting marks of the 2012 would reflect Peavy Grain, a previous owner that then became Gavillon Grain before that company was bought in 2023 by current owner Viterra. The little complex here once had more buildings but some of them were torn down in the last few years, supposedly with the intent of creating a new facility although the Viterra purchase may have put a pause on some of those plans. There's still a number of tracks and loadouts for transferring bult products to and from trucks and barges, and the SW8 is stored inside the load out shed under the bins but can occasionally be found out and about.
This little blue switch engine also has a neat history: the best records I can find is that it was built in 1951 for the US Army, with the same number. That fits with a story told to me by the operations manager, that he once a number of years back had a group of Veterans stop in and want to see the engine. If I remember right, they had operated it during their time in the army as support for the Korean War! For now at least this 73 year old engine is still earning it's keep in what would seem to be a low-stress retirement job, moving the occasional cut of cars here on the banks of the mighty Mississippi.
(By the way, If anybody else has older photos of this junction in it's heyday beyond the handful on railpictures.net, I'd love to see 'em!)
"Yeah, keep saying stuff
The boy linked up with Sway and stuff
C8 to the UK and stuff
Got 'em all on the floor like a praying monk
What's the tempo, what's the tempo?
Cut from the same cloth, what we do with info?
And we ain't gonna wait for no invitation
Before we get involved
See, I'm never gonna suffer, put 'em on a sound wave
All over the earth we can make the ground shake
Ever since birth it was word to the
Just wanted to rap and make the crowd say
We got information, information
We're the realest out here, no imitation
Been all around the world, no immigration
And we getting in without an invitation"
Refuge - Ren Lantern.
DAPPA - Vesper Tattoo.
:LeGene: Lily lipstick - Catwa
Fast and light, the Photon Chaser is built to get in, perforate some hulls, and get away fast. With minimal armor, it can't take much return fire, but it is fast enough for that to not matter much. While not as heavily armed as some beefier fighters, its dual 5-barreled cannons can still do some damage.
Built for Nnovvember 2020, this is my first ever Vic Viper. This actually started in late October with one of the wings as a vertical fin on another ship I was working. After messing with that for a while and getting nowhere, I realized that what I really had was a Vic Viper wing, and since Novvember was coming up, I ran with it. That other ship may still make an appearance at some point, but now that I've used the wings for this I'm going to do something different with that build.
For most of my MOCs I've built dark, featureless display stands that are supposed to melt into the background and not distract from the rest of the build when it's photographed or displayed against a black backdrop. For this one, though, a black background wouldn't have worked due to all the black around the edges of the ship. Since the stand was going to be a prominent feature when this thing is displayed, I took a couple of additional days of building to make it pretty. I was going for a vaguely Alien look.
Also on Instagram.
What is Bruny Island today and how did it get that way?
It's a hopeless situation trying to tell a story about a place, its history, character and natural beauty on Flickr. But I'll do it just the same. Most people (for whatever reason) can't be bothered viewing or reading the description on the third photo each day. That's probably because from the statistical information Flickr provides us, the vast majority of people never actually open our home page or photostream and usually fave or comment from their own activities feed (and often Flickr will not link to that third photo or neglect to even offer a feed in the first place).
But I've made it very clear in my profile what I do on my page. I'll choose pictures to tell a story, even if they are not the best photos I have. And I research the background and put into context every photograph I post. I won't apologise for that. The one thing we lack in our contemporary world is any effort to understand proper historical context.
Yes there'll be enough scenic nature shots in coming weeks if that's what people want. But for now it is more important for me to tell you something about Bruny Island as a community. The real history of this place is ancient and complex. It is also one of the most tragic chapters in the annals of human colonisation. But I'll save that for a bit yet because it is so really dark.
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Bruny Island however, is the rural character of the place. Small farm allotments dominate the landscape of North Bruny and even the northern parts of South Bruny. The rest is a spectacular National Park. But that can wait for now.
Just 600 people live permanently in this community, and as we'll see they really stress the importance of commun-ity. They depend upon each other and do their best to make their lives as attractive as possible. Like this bus shelter for instance. Even the rain can't put a dampener on the bright colours that greet the visitor to Ashdale Farm. And they even provide a little library book exchange on the side of the shelter.
PLEASE READ 23-3-2018
I RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE ON THIS PHOTO;
FROM PADMACARA, ADMIN OF 60+SENIORS SHOOTING GROUP [opt out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ]
" Would you please not re submit this blurred landscape to the 60+ etc etc again. you got it in 178 other groups but your not going to get it in to ours!
If you do resubmit it I will remove you from the group "
PADMA.
This individual admits that he is no photographer yet he sees himself somehow qualified to judge others as an administrator.He should be blocked! His group has 597 members. My photo has more views and actually more Faves than the majority of photos in his pathetic little group!
I would advise that you avoid this "person" and his group.
Just as well hes in Austrailia! By the way" its" name "Padma" is a rascist slur on Irish people! Id love to see him use it here in Ireland!
Within 5 minutes of this I received another message from another administrator who moaned at me about people who put photos in wrong sections of groups. I have not got a clue what they are talking about.
I then received another unsolicited message from another opt out group founder member who proceed to instruct me on how to take a landscape photo! His ones are manafactured on a computer, by the way!
I have responded to these 3 abonoxious, grossly ignorant fools and so far there has been no response.
I wish to thank the 5369 people who looked at this photo,
The 327 who have Faved it, and the 42 people who commented
and finaly 177 groups that found this photo perfectly acceptable.
P@t.
The Holy Ground
" I was born on the holy ground,
A running boy in fields of clover,
Living in the grandeur of,
My fathers land ".
" For I could not stay where the city streets,
Prounced so loudly mans endeavour,
Though music is a pretty thing,
In fine company "
" By the side of a swirling sea
I spend my days in childhood wonder
I held the rocks in my young hands,
I never felt them slip away "
Andy Irvine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLb_yqCx7Q.
Ive had this selection of photos on my computer for a year and a half and Ive only put them up here lately. I do like them but being "green" I thought there was too much brown in them. Ive been proved wrong though as apparently brown is ok too!! I should thank Van "the man" Morrison really!
It takes me about 20 minutes to drive to a parking spot on the Roundwood road, at Glasnamullan wood where I start this walk up White Hill [620m] on the Wicklow Way. There is a holy well close by where I park, but it was sealed years ago because of health and safety. megalithomania.net/show/site/51/Glassnamullen.htm Its a pity as the old stile and stone steps leading to it by the small river. Its a very pretty place to sit and its below the road so its very quiet. Ive found the position of the well and Id love to open it and have a look. Of course, these wells would probably be pagan in origin and would have been places of pigrimage for the ancient Celts untill the Christian Church wiped out all traces of our culture, or tried to! There are always cures associated with these places and all sorts of aiments could be cured such as warts and rhumatism or notions about being a good photographer!!! Some were dedicated to the godess " Sheela Na Gig " who was an ancient fertility godess and women used to use the water in the hope of becoming pregnant. There is a Sheelas well in Delgany but its now also sealed.
Heres a link; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheela_na_gig
I always walk up through the wood as an approach to White Hill. Its full of red deer and Ive seen red squirrels there as well but they are very shy creatures.I heard my first greater spotted woodpecker in Ireland there about two years ago.
Eventually it comes to a fence which I climb and it brings me out of the wood which you can see in the photo. Its pretty boggy but once I get across the small stream, its easy to follow the deers trails which criss cross the place and can be seen as green tracks in the pic. I do a circular route that takes about 2 hours. The photo is taken looking east, at the start of the climb, towards the Sugarloaf and the Irish sea. However there is a lot more to it as when I took this I was living in Greystones beside the sea. I have now moved 6 miles s/w and further inland. The large hill on the extreme right, is Mount Kennedy and Im now living just below it to the left, in Newtownmountkennedy. Small place with a big heart and a huge name!
If you zoom in on the left hand side you can see the Scots ridge way pines which were used by the RAF and Luftwaffe during the war as direction and location reference points as they can be seen 30 miles out to sea off the coast of Wales, UK. They are heros and my favourites!! See my Scots Pines album [They Also Serve] for the story.
Sat, 17th March is St. Patricks Day and Im planning a bit of a celebration. Im going to Dublin to the parade which is truly something. Lots of people come here for it. The majority would be German followed by English,American, Asian and Australian. Its a great party and everbodys Irish for the day, and I love that!! Anyway I lived in England for 20 years,An uncle was in the NY fire brigade, another one married Gretel who was a German lady and Sean O Brien, an ancestor was sent to Austtralia in 1846 for sheep stealing. There were rumours though and I have my own theory!!! Lol!!! Behave!!!
So I hope you like the photo and if you want too know anything about the place Id love to tell you.
And here is a link to where I lived, am now and the mountains.
www.kilcoole.ie/walks/mass-path/
Keep her steady my friends and I hope you got the tee shirt!!!.
P@t.
I'm not sure if anyone will be interested, but I've decided to do a print giveaway.
Prints will most likely be printed a4 size.
But if you are interested leave a comment and put the link of which photo in my stream you would like.
And here are some outtakes/photos I haven't uploaded to flickr, so if you want one of those instead comment with the number.
I'll pick 6 people at random on Thursday 22nd. Probably about 8pm UK time
Please don't steal.
to my beloved flickr friends, i'm really sorry i have to put "please don't steal" blah blah blah everytime i post from now on. i just found out yesterday morning, one of my friends here told me that she saw one of my photos on some girl's friendster profile and ugh she even put her WATERMARK on the photo. ISN'T THAT ANNYOING? i've always been annoyed w/ those people who kept stealing my contacts photos, but it's even more irritating when it happens to you. anyway, i've sent her a nice message already & told her about copyright infringement and etc etc etc, i hope she takes it down, maybe she didn't really mean to steal and hers was just a bad case of ignorance (dream on, anne, the watermark says otherwise). well, we'll see.
you can find my original photo - here
update : i deleted the link to her account coz (yay) she removed it, and i don't think it's fair to still leave her link here... so thank you..
to everyone, thank you so much for the kind words and support xoxoxo =)
thank you, pai.
I don't know if this will work, because I put the photo with the exif in a private folder.
Please let me know if you can see it:
www.flickr.com/gp/ruipalha/22k87g
and for certain people that insist to credit Cartier-Bresson here is a link where they can learn something more
Back around 12 years ago, the Montreal Maine & Atlantic was still in operation and exchanged some healthy cut of cars with CN at their St-Jean interchange.
CN, always in a search to save a few bucks, abolished the St-Jean roadswitcher job and gived the interchange duties to the daily Montreal - St.Albans, VT trains 324/323.
Here we are, aboard CN 324 power, after loosing about an hour of wait for the crew of MMA job 210 to came and pull our cars secured clear of the "banana switch" and add them to their Farnham-bound train, sitting on the diamond crossing in front of us. The one's delivered will be taken on our way back as 323 later in the day.
At least the wait permitted to hear and watch those two former Santa Fe GE B23-7 units, working the grade at this location.
The Mégantic accident ended any exchange of cars in the "banana" as your truly pulled the last cars from there on the morning of July 6, 2013, a few hours after the drama, and a few hours before MMA were officially banned for operation in Canada.
Trackage was removed around 2017 and only ballast and a few ties help remembering where the "banana" once stand.
Of course, CN management put back the roadswitcher job for St-Jean and now CP trains cross the St-Jean diamond as CP buy back their former mainline to reach the Port of St-Johns.
And why the "banana" ?
Simply because the grade in the track linking the two railroads had a banana shape !
CN M32421-29
5727 2115
Milepost 23.2 Rouses Point subdivision
St-Jean-sur-le-Richelieu,QC
April 29, 2011
…I’ve just picked today's veg - broad beans, new potatoes & the first runners this year to have with roast pork & all the trimmings. Tomorrows lunch will be meat balls with the left overs & fresh courgettes also from the garden! A batch of home-made vegetable soup is already made for suppers with Spelt bread, yummy. Our neighbours have already had tomatoes, marrows & courgettes off the 'FREE' table we put outside. Wishing everyone on Flickr a super sharing Sunday, Alan;-)……
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Like the Chicago Rail Link, the Chicago Heights Terminal Transfer is another rail operation people disregard because of mundane power. Sure, it would be nice to get these guys in their own locomotives with their own paint scheme, but the UP looks fine to me. Especially, considering the beyond-plethora of sweet angles to be had.
That puts us here, on 17th street. This crew (several work at one time) has two RP20BD genshits for power - UPY 909 and 908, as they slide their way down one of the many tough grades to slip over to the wye on one of the north-south connecting branches.
Chicago Heights is easily the saddest city I've ever been to. like this picture shows, what was once a well-filled street with businesses and houses alike has been reduced to one car, one liveable household. Much like the isolation we've felt with this Corona thing going on, those feelings couldn't help but be exemplified in a place like this:
No one.
I'll hide behind a smile and understanding eyes
And I'll tell you things that you already know so you can say:
I really identify with you, so much
And all the time that youre needing me is just the time
That Im bleeding you, dont you get it yet?
I'll come to you like an affliction then Ill leave you like an addiction
You'll never forget me... wou wanna know why?
cause Im a liar, yeah, I'm a liar
I'll tear (rip) your mind up, I'll burn your soul
I'll turn you into me, I'll turn you into me
cause I'm a liar, a liar, a liar, a liar...
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Tōeizan Kan'ei-ji Endon-in (東叡山寛永寺円頓院) (also spelled Kan'eiji or Kaneiji) is a Tendai Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1625 during the Kan'ei era by Tenkai, in an attempt to emulate the powerful religious center Enryaku-ji, in Kyoto. The main object of worship is Yakushirurikō Nyorai (薬師瑠璃光如来).
It was named in a reference both to the Enryaku-ji's location atop Mount Hiei (Tōeizan means "Mount Hiei of the East"), and also after the era during which it was erected, like Enryaku-ji (named after the Enryaku year period). Because it was one of the two Tokugawa bodaiji (funeral temple; the other was Zōjō-ji) and because it was destroyed in the closing days of the war that put an end to the Tokugawa shogunate, it is inextricably linked to the Tokugawa shōguns.
Once a great complex, it used to occupy the entire heights north and east of Shinobazu Pond and the plains where Ueno Station now stands. It had immense wealth, power and prestige, and it once consisted of over 30 buildings. Of the 15 Tokugawa shōguns, six are buried here.
Many temple structures were destroyed in the great Meireki fire of 1657. A new hall was constructed inside the enclosure of Kan'ei-ji in 1698. The temple and its numerous annexes were almost completely destroyed during the Boshin War's Battle of Ueno and never restored. Much of the site where it once stood was confiscated and is now occupied by Ueno Park.
What is today the temple's main hall was taken from Kita-in in Kawagoe (Saitama Prefecture) and transferred to the site of a former Kan'ei-ji subtemple. Kan'ei-ji's five-story pagoda and the Ueno Tōshō-gū shrine were amongst the gems of the old temple enclosure. Both stand undisturbed by the passage of years since the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
The Shinobazu Pond itself and the Bentendō Temple which stands on its island used to be an integral part of Kan'ei-ji. Tenkai, liking Lake Biwa, had Benten Island built in imitation of Chikubushima, and then the Bentendō on it. At the time the island was accessible only by boat, but later a stone bridge was added on the east, making it possible to walk to it. The Bentendō Temple was destroyed during World War II, and the present one is a reconstruction.
Kan'ei-ji - Wikipedia
Tōeizan Kan'ei-ji Endon-in (東 叡 山 寛 永 寺 円 頓 院) (también escrito Kan'eiji o Kaneiji) es un templo budista Tendai en Tokio, Japón, fundado en 1625 durante la era Kan'ei por Tenkai, en un intento de emular al poderoso centro religioso Enryaku-ji, en Kioto. El principal objeto de adoración es Yakushirurikō Nyorai (薬 師 瑠 璃 光 如 来).
Se nombró en referencia tanto a la ubicación de Enryaku-ji en la cima del monte Hiei (Tōeizan significa "Monte Hiei del este"), y también después de la era durante la cual se erigió, como Enryaku-ji (llamado así por el período del año Enryaku ). Debido a que fue uno de los dos Tokugawa bodaiji (templo funerario; el otro fue Zōjō-ji) y debido a que fue destruido en los últimos días de la guerra que puso fin al shogunato Tokugawa, está indisolublemente ligado a los shōguns Tokugawa.
Una vez fue un gran complejo, solía ocupar todas las alturas al norte y al este del estanque Shinobazu y las llanuras donde ahora se encuentra la estación Ueno. Tenía una inmensa riqueza, poder y prestigio, y estuvo formado por más de 30 edificios. De los 15 shōguns Tokugawa, seis están enterrados aquí.
Muchas estructuras de templos fueron destruidas en el gran incendio de Meireki de 1657. Se construyó una nueva sala dentro del recinto de Kan'ei-ji en 1698. El templo y sus numerosos anexos fueron destruidos casi por completo durante la batalla de Ueno durante la Guerra Boshin y nunca fueron restaurados. . Gran parte del sitio donde una vez estuvo fue confiscado y ahora está ocupado por el Parque Ueno.
Lo que es hoy el salón principal del templo fue tomado de Kita-in en Kawagoe (Prefectura de Saitama) y trasladado al sitio de un antiguo subtemplo de Kan'ei-ji. La pagoda de cinco pisos de Kan'ei-ji y el santuario Ueno Tōshō-gū se encontraban entre las gemas del antiguo recinto del templo. Ambos permanecen impasibles por el paso de los años desde el fin del shogunato Tokugawa.
El estanque Shinobazu y el templo Bentendō que se encuentra en su isla solían ser una parte integral de Kan'ei-ji. Tenkai, al igual que el lago Biwa, hizo construir la isla Benten a imitación de Chikubushima, y luego el Bentendō en ella. En ese momento, solo se podía acceder a la isla en barco, pero más tarde se agregó un puente de piedra en el este, lo que permitió caminar hasta ella. El templo de Bentendō fue destruido durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y el actual es una reconstrucción.
AAW April 21 - 28: Let The Music Guide You
WIT: I thought I'd take a photo of me showing my emotions while listening to a piece of music. I often do this in the privacy of my room, lol! I put on a great piece of music, and conduct the music as I listen. This is a classical piece, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. In particular, it is the last movement, where the famous "Ode To Joy" is sung, so a choir and soloists are behind the orchestra. I was fortunate enough to have been part of a choir that took part in this symphony while I was studying in university, with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. What a fabulous experience. So now I love to listen and conduct as I do so.
Here is the link to YouTube of the recording that I listen to, one of the best:
Did a new fine art photo. Let me know what you think!
Woo!! We've put together the rest of the information about the LA workshop!
This one is meant to be nice and low-key, and generally an awesome time!
We will be in Tongva park for the beginning/morning, the afternoon editing and then we'll head over to the beach for sunset! Bring your gear and your questions. It's going to be so exciting to meet everyone!! But seriously, we've already had a lot of interest and are certain the seats will fill up quickly. Here's the link with more information:
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It was 5am. This morning. I lay there trying to get back to sleep…
I’d already done the usual and decided not to put anything into Macro Mondays this week. Just too busy. Real Life was, after all, more important. Right?
I guess the mistake was thinking about what I would have done for the Double Exposure theme. I thought of objects linked by association: watches and bits of clocks came to mind. I thought of complementary images of the same thing: a flower perhaps.
And then it happened. Something I should have feared...
I had a Clever Idea.
Oh groan… From a lifetime of sorry experience I know most of my Clever Ideas eventually become Bad Ideas, but only after I have devoted several hours of my life trying to make them good. And I really, really, was too busy :)
So here we have it: a study in the third type, of incongruity, of the juxtaposition of the impossible. Not having a whole week to spend on it I didn’t even attempt an in-camera multiple exposure.
Photographing the ice cube proved relatively easy, save that it melted lopsidedly and kept sliding about on the black tile. I should though, I think, have tried distilled water to improve the transparent clarity of the ice cube: there was a lot of air trapped in the ice.
The flaming match? Now that turned out to be a real pain. Who would have thought? Eventually I left the darkened bedroom, choking with smoke, and with only a few possibles on the camera’s card.
The ice cube is 1.5 inches wide so within the group limit. Yey!
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image as I am sure I shall enjoy seeing everyone else's take on the theme. HMM :)
[Ice cube on glazed tile with black card background. Tripod mount; lit by LED penlight torch.
Processed in LR: dropped colour temperature to make it look… kinda cool. Darkened blacks and shadows to make it look more transparent. In Photo: tweaked in Topaz Clarity and only a little in Topaz Detail to bring out the ice texture.
Match handheld (the match that is), lit by… er… the side of the matchbox (I’m confused if even if you’re not lol). Saturation increased and temp increased to make it kinda less cool :)
For the match masked out the black background. Rotated to make it look frozen. Duplicated the match layer and flipped the duplicate vertically, reducing the opacity to 50% to produce the reflection.
The two match layers were sandwiched between two copies of the icecube layer; this was to try and get the match to look like it was more inside the ice. The top ice layer was blended in screen mode at 88% opacity.
(I tried all sorts of variations - it was difficult to get anything like convincing a result.)
Finally I added two filter layers in Photo to the overall image: a Clarity layer to make the ice icier and more transparent and then a Lighting layer to add two lights to the right of each match, pointing left, to increase the sense that the light was coming from the match. Had a cup of tea (I really felt like a glass of wine though!). Perhaps next time I should just say "and then magic happened" :) Have a great evening!]
Shortly after I arrived at work this morning, Commissioner Myra Harris of the Maricopa County Superior Court called my office and left a message for me. In a pleasant and cheerful voice, she instructed me to come see her in her chambers, where an unspecified surprise awaited me. I walked over right away and learned that the surprise in question was the pillow you see here. It measures about 12x12 inches, and Commissioner Harris made it herself. She had wanted to give it to me on the evening I performed the bolero with Angie, but she was sick all that week and therefore unable to attend the event. I said that was fine, because the award of the gift was in close enough proximity to the dance performance that we could consider them to be linked.
I was absolutely delighted with this thoughtful little gift, which obviously required some loving effort on the part of its giver. Commissioner Harris told me that the lady in this stitched profile was Angie, who, unfortunately, might not be able to recognize herself in it. The man, obviously, was meant to be me. The Commissioner's clerk, who was present during this exchange, quipped that the picture was perforce inaccurate because the pens were missing from my pocket; I responded that on the contrary, this made it all the more accurate, because Angie would have confiscated any and all pens from my pocket long before we even got around to forming a dance frame together.
(That deserves an explanation. Like the nerd I freely admit being, I routinely carry several pens in my shirt pocket, usually at least three and sometimes as many as half a dozen. For the past several months, whenever I have shown up for a dance lesson with those pens in my pocket and my Superior Court employee badge hanging around my neck, Angie has confiscated pens and badge from me at the beginning of the lesson and placed them on a nearby table for the duration. She claims they throw me off balance, but I believe she really does it to amuse and entertain me and make me smile -- and in that case, what can I say? It works! So I play along with the little ritual, and occasionally add a twist of my own, such as the time I proudly informed her that I had intentionally put on an Angie-proof shirt that morning. She looked me over and asked what that meant, and I pointed out that it was a long-sleeve pullover shirt with no breast pocket, and therefore no pens available for her to confiscate. Then I said "nya-nya!" to her, at which she expressed great indignation to the studio manager and the owner, both of whom happened to be passing by at the moment. She did not appear to get a great deal of sympathy from them, by the way.)
The Commissioner told me I should use this pillow to support my back during my conferences, but I quickly decided otherwise, at least for the time being. The legend sewn into the pillow got me to thinking that if real men can dance, then it logically follows that John Wayne, Jack Palance, Gary Cooper, and Charles Bronson, along with others of their kind, must have been terrific dancers, because they definitely were real men themselves. So I decided to place the pillow next to my computer screen, in full view of the litigants who attend my conferences, in order to allow them to see it and be made aware of who and what they are dealing with. Let them mess with me, and I am liable to break into a foxtrot, or perhaps a bolero!
Speaking of which, the notes you see taped to my wall were the subject of this photo a couple of weeks ago. I placed them there on the day of the performance so I could glance at them from time to time throughout my workday as I thought through the routine. I have left them there because the performance ended up being such a happy experience for me, notwithstanding my initial impression that it had been a disaster. But as things turned out, it was a true case of mourning being turned into joy. (See Jeremiah 31:13.)
for 365 and February's Alphabet Fun.
This was WAY different in my head.
Also, I sort of cheated and used my voice activated remote (i.e. 6yo son).
Texture was downloaded from flickr a long time ago and I wish I could remember who it's from..... if I figure it out, I'll put the link here.
Today's Random Fact: Today's high was 82 degrees. It's 74 now and all of my doors and windows are open. We had a picnic at the park. I*love*the*desert!
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"Never speak to a woman about her defects; many a lover has had occasion to congratulate himself on having observed this very profitable reticence. The wingèd-footed hero, Perseus, never found fault with Andromeda for her swarthy skin. Andromache was, in everyone's opinion, far too tall; Hector was the only one who considered her of the average height. Accustom yourself to the things you don't like; you'll learn to put up with them; habit makes a lot of things acceptable. At first, Love will be put off by the merest trifle. A freshly-grafted branch that is just beginning to draw the sap.
from the green bark will fall off if the slightest breath of wind disturbs it; but if you give it time to grow strong, it will soon resist the winds and, developing into a sturdy branch, enrich the tree that bears it with its alien fruit. Time effaces everything, even bodily defects, and what we once looked upon as blemishes will one day cease to seem so. At first, our nostrils cannot bear the smell of the hides of bulls; they grow used to it in time and bear it without distress.
Moreover, there are words you can employ to palliate defects. If a woman's skin is blacker than Illyrian pitch, tell her she's a brunette. If she squints a little, tell her she's like Venus. If she's carroty, tell her she's like Minerva. If she's so skinny you would think she was at death's door, tell her she has a graceful figure. If she's short, so much the better, she's all the lighter. If she's thick-waisted, why she's just agreeably plump. Similarly, you must disguise every defect under the name of its nearest quality. Never ask her how old she is, or who was consul when she was born. Leave it to the Censor to perform that uncomfortable duty, especially if she has passed the flower of her youth, if the summer of her days is over, and if she is already compelled to pull out her grey hairs. My young friends, that age, and even an older one than that, is not without its pleasures. It is a field that you should sow and one day You will reap your harvest. Labour while your strength and your youth allow. All too soon tottering eld, with noiseless tread, will be upon you. Cleave the waters of the ocean with your oar, or the glebe with your slough; wield with warlike arm the deadly sword, or devote to women your vigour and your care. ’Tis but another kind of military service, and in it, too, rich trophies may be won.
Nor should it be forgotten that women, who are getting on in years, have experience, and it is only experience that sets the seal of perfection on our natural."
Unfortunately this english translation of Ovid's ars amandi by y J. Lewis May in year 1930 is very victorian, epurated of every reference to sex. Here he talks about woman's defects instead of translating it "Believe me you must not accelerate to get the extreme pleasure". Mr. Puritan lives just in another world! Here the link to his translation www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/lboo/
The Webcam is not working right - I'll replace it soon but . . . I just put this here to share this film. One of my all-time favourites.
So here is Maria's Lovers
Enjoy ;)
As the temperatures start to cool, two bumblebees (Bombus Impatiens) share a Calendula flower for the night. One even has an arm stretched out "embracing" the other! ;-)
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Al, my resident backyard hummer, put on his Santa suit for this shot.
Allen's Hummingbird
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One of my favorite aircraft still flying today, Spitfire Mk IX MH434 is an original, 1943 beauty which I had the joy of seeing at the Flying Legends Airshow, Duxford England. Here she is taxiing for her part in the show, with a P-51D Mustang behind her running it's engine.
Christofer Nolan's superb film Dunkirk features lots of great Spitfire action (although they are eariler versions of course, Mk Is and IIs). It has some of the most realistic air combat ever put to film, and I highly recommend seeing the movie.
For more information on this wonderful old warbird, MH434 of The Old Flying Machine Company has it's own website here.
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I haven't forgotten you. . .just doing lots of stuff right now. I made a slideshow for a friend who loves pink, and I thought it was appropriate for this month. I added the link to it here (you can turn the sparkles and stuff on and off). Or you can see the complete set "Put You in the Pink". Hope you like it! View On Black
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"As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love."
"This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ~Jesus~
John 15:9, 12
You got to help me out here. I took three slightly different pictures some days ago. I have a fave and my wife a different one. Life have thought me time and time again (some never learn!) to listen to my wife. So this time I put up her choice as the main picture. My prefered version is one of the others. I don't expect you to lie, but if at least one of you could agree with me I would feel a bit better. But that would be in a perfect world I guess.....
I have been away a few days. I went to Oslo to see my daugther and to go to a consert with the Boston based Celtic punkband Dropkick Murphys. It was really a fantastic consert!!! I have put up this link before with little reaction, but I try again. This is a song from their new album and I admitt it is not typical for them. But if you are afraid of a celtic punkband then listen to this song and skip the other harder songs. I am pretty sure you will like it if you like hand played music with an Irish folk connection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d8SzG4FPyM I also got a tips about them doing a very nice version of "The Green Fields of France" and I agree, it is very good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_G4eq9Fudc
The Fields of France is a pretty strong song about the terror young men lived through in muddy trenches in western Europe 100 years ago next year. And as so often, the Irish wrote the sadest and most touching songs.
Oh how do you do, young Willy McBride
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside
And rest for a while in the warm summer sun
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done
And I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the great falling in 1916
Well I hope you died quick
And I hope you died clean
Or Willy McBride, was is it slow and obscene
Did they beat the drums slowly
Did they play the fife lowly
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down
Did the band play the last post and chorus
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined
And though you died back in 1916
To that loyal heart you're forever nineteen
Or are you a stranger without even a name
Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane
In an old photograph torn, tattered, and stained
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame
Did they beat the drums slowly
Did they play the fife lowly
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down
Did the band play the last post and chorus
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest
The sun shining down on these green fields of France
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
The trenches have vanished long under the plow
No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now
But here in this graveyard that's still no mans land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation were butchered and damned
Did they beat the drums slowly
Did they play the fife lowly
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down
Did the band play the last post and chorus
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest
And I can't help but wonder oh Willy McBride
Do all those who lie here know why they died
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause
Did you really believe that this war would end wars
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing and dying it was all done in vain
Oh Willy McBride it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again
Did they beat the drums slowly
Did they play the fife lowly
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down
Did the band play the last post and chorus
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest
Here are another two works that I have revamped and put up on my website. This image shows them in my A4 portfolio where I have designed and printed out my own work. These two images appeared early on when I first joined Flickr, but without poetry, and I always wanted to write or extend the words I had written. I hope you enjoy reading them!
The poems are called:
“Revelations”, a powerful invocation to St. John. And this work can be found on this page of my website, just scroll to the end of the page.
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“In Gold”, reminds us of what is truly precious in this world. And this work can be found on this page of my website, again just scroll down to the end of the page.
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62004 was new to Stagecoach Fife in 2019 as 62009.
She is seen here at Edinburgh Park.
In 2019, Stagecoach Fife ordered 4 new Autonomous Buses, which drive on their own without the need of a driver, these were numbered 62001-62004.
These buses were new in the Stagecoach Beachball livery, but have since been repainted and wrapped into the Autonomous Bus livery.
They will include a "captain" on the bus as well as a safety driver. To pay for your ticket, you take a seat, put on your seatbelt and you pay for a ticket using the device.
These buses also have perks such as Wireless Charging, Seatbelts, etc. Wearing a seatbelt is compulsory.
This is phase 1 of the 2 year trial for Service AB1, which currently runs between Edinburgh Park on the edge of Hermiston Gait to Ferrytoll Park and Ride.
Currently, the only parts of the route that drive in autonomous mode are the motorways.
Phase 2 will involve the full service to be in autonomous mode and an extension to Dunfermline.
These buses are based on the "Enviro 200 MMC" with a robotic twist. For more info on the service, please check out the Stagecoach Website linked below!
www.stagecoachbus.com/routes/east-scotland/ab1/ferrytoll-...
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If nothing else please see The Trimontium Museum at Melrose, “Discover the fort at the heart of Roman Scotland with Trimontium Museum!” Not just the link listed below, but rather go see. The Trimontium Museum at Melrose Scotland.
Here is the best brief guide that I can supply for this ridiculous post.
1. After this list find details on Minolta AF 70-210mm F4 the so called Beercan Lens as it approximates the dimensions of a Beercan whilst performing usually excellent well giving great results as a photographic lens.
2. If you have not seen all of the bad edits No.14 shows several in a single image.
3. Footnote gives direct quotes about Spatula potential.
4. Go see The Trimontium Museum at Melrose Scotland.
Thank you, I am struggling to get anything right, wrong and other as I type, it will get better when I have completed this.
There are three pictures here from The Minolta AF 70-210mm F4, the so called Beercan, A-mount lens, this is not either a Review, or a Test.
It is possible that you can take comparable / better / much better pictures with your Smart Phone.
Sony A7C and Minolta AF 70-210mm F4 (beercan) A-mount lens here were in darkened museum conditions taking pictures through display cases.
I liked both the shooting and the results, even though it might be that I feel that I left better pictures untaken. I relied on Auto Focus, my haste was not rewarded. Not bad, but I think that resolution was lost with precise focus and with camera shake by the shaking operator. These are opportunistic exposures and quick edits that should have been initially longer and better edits to complete the task better, much better. Whilst backing up to fit the longer sword in the camera frame I realised, without dreadful disaster in backing up further and further and further, that I could not take a single picture. So I decided to take three and combine them. I had no idea how complicated this would become, it was an easier task that I have thoroughly complicated in several unnecessary ways, manners and methods.
I need to return to The Trimontium Museum in Melrose and I need to try with more time to not rush and to avoid uncalled for shake and to trust to other than autofocus to enjoy exact critical focus when such is preferably desired.
It may not be catchy, but, “I need to try with more time to not rush and to avoid uncalled for shake and to trust to other than autofocus to enjoy exact critical focus when such is preferably desired,” is my current goal in life.
If I die dreaming of these rushed pictures and bad edits please put, “I need to try with more time to not rush and to avoid uncalled for shake and to trust to other than autofocus to enjoy exact critical focus when such is preferably desired,” on a ‘Past it Note’ on my plastic jar of ashes before scattering charred lumps and bumps of me and recycle the ‘Past it Note’ and Jar to fullest extent possible.
If as once thought the body intact is required for resurrection please note that I will be a happy pile of detritus, or possibly, hopefully a wandering whirlwind and maybe even a travelling sign reading, “I need to try with more time to not rush and to avoid uncalled for shake and to trust to other than autofocus to enjoy exact critical focus when such is preferably desired.”
Wherever next we meet I hope to have lived up to my signage and not be a wasted, failed and puerile T-shirt slogan in action.
If it is not immediately apparent then let me please assure you that I am joyous at my failings and that they involved an outing to The Trimontium Museum is a great part of this joyous state of self scrutiny.
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Trimontium Museum, Melrose,
Discover the fort at the heart of Roman Scotland with Trimontium Museum!
Spatha
“The spatha was a type of straight and long sword, measuring…”
“Archaeologically many instances of the spatha have been found in Britain and Germany. It was used extensively by Germanic warriors. It is unclear whether it came from the gladius or the longer Celtic swords, or whether it served as a model for the various arming swords and Viking swords of Europe. The spatha remained popular throughout the Migration Period. It evolved into the knightly sword of the High Middle Ages by the 12th century.”
“It is likely that spatha is the romanization of the Doric Greek word σπάθα (spáthā)… The English word spatula comes from Latin spat(h)ula, the diminutive of spatha. English spade, from Old English spadu or spædu, is the Germanic cognate, derived from a Common Germanic *spadō, ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European stem *sph2-dh-.”
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The second in a series of images created for the two-person challenge put to me by Paul B0udreau. We're calling our challenge "The King Crimson Series - Frame by Frame" after one of the band's songs on their seminal 1981 album "Discipline".
"The Sheltering Sky" is the title of Paul Bowles' classic novel about the ultimate clash and destruction of two foolish young Americans colliding horribly with Arabic culture in Northern Africa. It was the inspiration for his haunting instrumental piece.
My inspiration here was the musical piece although I've read and love the Bowles novel.
Depicted is the main campus building of OCAD University, an esteemed Art School with a long and colourful history. When I went there it was simply called "The Ontario College of Art" ( OCA ). Eventually it became the "Ontario College of Art and Design University". Shown is the Rosalie Sharp pavilion, a fantastic, signature piece of Toronto architecture. It's held up by a series of stylized giant "pencils".
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Music Link: "The Sheltering Sky" - King Crimson, from their album "Discipline". This is a band that doesn't have a lot of big, corporate music business money behind it so it's hard to find super HD versions of their work or perfectly recorded videos. There are also lots of convoluted copyright and ownership issues that keep studio versions of their pieces from the internet. However, this a wonderful 1982 live performance of the piece if one is really interested the "Discipline album is well worth hunting down.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c2H5TkR5Vk
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The Frogmore Cotton Gin (previously known as the Piazza Gin Building) is a two-story frame building constructed sometime before about 1880 (due to the use of square nails), but its exact date cannot be determined. The present equipment is later than the building, but it is impossible to know exactly when it was manufactured and installed. Much of it bears patent dates of 1883 and 1884. The Munger double box press has to have been made and installed after 1890, because it has Birmingham stamped on it, and the company did not open a plant in that city until 1890.
Representing a major technological innovation called "system ginning," the Piazza gin was state-of-the-art for its period. Cotton was sucked from wagons via a circular tin duct into a wooden Munger separator which is high above the surrounding machinery. The suction process was actuated by a fan within the duct system which was powered from the drive shaft on the lower floor. Cotton was being transported through the flow of air, and the purpose of the separator was to remove the excess air and force the cotton into the separator's hopper-like bottom. The cotton fed from the bottom of the separator into a two-tier system of conveyor belts with a wooden housing. The belts swept the cotton along into a pair of Gullett gin stands. The conveyor mechanism made it possible to regulate the amount of cotton going into each stand. Each stand is fabricated of magnolia wood and iron and is a two-stage boxy affair. The upper portion, or feeder, encases a large wooden roller featuring rows of iron spikes. These removed leaves and other foreign objects from the cotton and forced it into the ginning mechanism below. Here a series of circular saw blades with iron ribs between removed the seeds. The teeth of the saw blades literally tore shreds of cotton away from the seeds. The seeds then fell to the floor. The seedless cotton, now called lint, was forced from the two gin stands into a pair of tin battery condensers. The condensers are essentially large ducts that channel the cotton to the baling stage which was centered around a pair of deep wooden boxes mounted on a circular platform set at one end of the gin house. The platform is set flush with the ginning floor and is supported by a central iron post which allows it to rotate. It is almost as wide as the building, and when stationary, one large cotton box is on each side of the building. The box on the south side was fed lint from the condenser via a special feeder known as a tamper which "tamped" the cotton into the box. When the box was full, the platform was rotated 180 degrees, which brought the filled box on top of a screw thread press located in the floor below. It also brought the empty box from the other side of the gin underneath the tamper, for the filling process to begin again. The lint in each successive box was compressed upward into a normal size bale, which once complete, was released from the box using latches. The press was powered from the drive shaft on the ground floor, while the platform itself was rotated manually. A signature feature of the gin building is a pair of large rooftop ventilators (seen painted in red in the photograph above) which extend several feet above the roofline. These functioned to release exhaust from the separator and the tamper.
The Piazza Gin had been abandoned for years in its former location and was moved in 1997 from Rodney, Mississippi to its present location (seen above) on the Frogmore Cotton Plantation. The new setting is historically appropriate because Frogmore is a historic cotton plantation which once had a similar gin. The second floor of the gin building and the ginning/pressing equipment were moved intact. The roof had to be removed for the move, and the first floor structure was removed due to severe deterioration. Its drive shaft was removed intact, as were the steam engine and gristmill. Once on site, the roof and first floor were rebuilt, the drive shaft put back in place, and the steam engine and gristmill positioned where they had been originally.
Early gins are so rare, virtually non-existent, because continuing technological improvements rendered them obsolete. The Piazza cotton gin is of regional significance within the South as an extremely rare surviving historic cotton gin. More specifically, as an example of "system ginning," it represents the remarkable technological improvements made in cotton ginning in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Because of its rarity and significance, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on January 27, 1999. All of the information above, and much more, was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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This past Sunday the New York Mets or Metropolitans fell in what the some of the local NY papers & sports radio hosts referred to as the Sunday Massacre to the Kansas City Royals in the 2015 edition of Major League Baseball’s World Series, losing the series in five games in the best of seven. Yes, I’m one of those NY Yankee fans who also root for the NY Mets, let’s face it, the Yankees made the playoff in 2015, but were in all of what, three hours before being eliminated by the Houston Astros in the American League Wildcard elimination game.
So back to the Mets, they had their ace Matt Harvey who got recognized as National League Comeback Player today after missing last season with Tommy John surgery on the mound Sunday, he gave them 8 fantastic innings, came out to pitch the 9th, that’s when the wheels came off and the Royals tied up the game, extra innings….then the Royals…well the Sunday Massacre. In reality, the Metropolitans over-achieved this year, by making it to the World Series for the first time since 2000 and for the first time in their relatively new ball park CitiFIELD in Flushing Meadow Queens which replaced Shea Stadium which was also at this location in 2009.
The Mets can trace their origins back to 1959, when a third major league was announced, the Continental League that would have professional major league clubs in the USA and Canada. It was the concept of attorney William Shea. New York City prior to 1957 had 3 professional major league baseball teams, the NY Yankees, the NY Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Giants and Dodgers both National League teams. Then the western exodus of the Giants to San Francisco and the Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 left the largest market in the United States with one team. NYC Mayor Wagner put together a four man committee to officially bring a National League Club to New York City. The new league was formed with Branch Rickey the former Dodgers president who had a hand in bringing up Jackie Robinson to major league as the president of the Dodgers. The Continental League announced opening day would be April 18, 1961. To counter the formation of this new rogue league, the existing leagues, the American and the National counter attacked, proposing expansion clubs in 4 cities. The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club Inc. was received as a member of the National League in 1961. William Shea got what many suspect he was truly after a NL club in New York and promptly stopped pushing for the Continental League and the end result was the Continental League disbanded without ever having played a game. The original stadium that was opened here in Flushing Meadows whose opening coincided with the 1964-1965 World’s Fair was named after William Shea, Shea Stadium. The Mets played there until 2009 when CitiFIELD was built in the parking lot of Shea Stadium and then Shea was torn down. Here is a link to a post I have a Shea Stadium [ flic.kr/p/ei1g3i ].
Taken with an Olympus E -5 with Olympus Digital Zuiko 14-42MM F3.5-5.6 lens, processed in Adobe Lightroom.
I created this look based on Ahri from League of Legends. I also Made these whiskers cause I couldn't find any that I liked for sale so... I put those up on my mp store! There are two versions (Red and White) and they're Copy and Mod so you can make as many for yourself in as many colors as your heart desires! Only 20$L
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Follow my blog link for the poem I wrote called Inked Fever...https://wordpress.com/post/jasperjacemirror.home.blog/59
Inked Fever.... By Jasper Mirror
This fever
Has caught me strong on the let
down
trying to hold onto the rain
Falling through fingers to the ground
I’ve buckled on less and
now here I am once again
down on nothingness here
on my knees
Something about you surrounds me here
I want this heat in the
open air to take me there
I will hold your
Head up as the water falls
Down around us
Holding onto a chance that is
Lost and confined in the depths where we hide
Captured and pulled from your embrace
Don’t let me go through life inside of the marry-go-round
Flying from the ground
Caught in these hurricanes
Inside of the eye of our storms
Put me inside of your world
let me show
This piece of me
Standing here
waiting for your heart
the ocean of fear caging us in
tearing us apart
soaking in the water of tears from
hearts easily torn apart
When you reach your shore
Let me hold your fear with my heart
My hands want to show you
Around this wilderness that is me
Our barriers fight against us
If I could keep things here
If I could
Hold you
Until our endless depths find a way
To accept the blackout
The way we are
The night might wake up with the dark
In our hearts
Wake up and feel
the sting
feel the bruise
our hearts awakened in darkness yet
hold onto the rain falling
from our hands
a two-sided emotion-filled midnight in
the wilderness that I found
in your arms
Hold onto promises of what could be
In the moments when we feel the implosion in your heart
Take me out of this black ink well,
mark your song all around me
Tattoo the notes in my heart
Keep the black
rewrite it because we are
more than our blackened hearts
By Jasper Mirror
“Oh, how can I put into words the joys of a walk over country such as this;
the scenes that delight the eyes, the blessed peace of mind, the sheer exuberance which fills your soul as you tread the firm turf?
This is something to be lived, not read about.“
- Alfred Wainwright (who preferred to be known as A. Wainwright or A.W., was a British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator)
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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Another set of characters I made some time ago. Wanted to play around with some Ninjago elements and stickers. I think the combination came out quite well. You can find a tutorial for them on the channel (I’d put a link here, but I now find myself in the airport posting this. It’ll be up later. Otherwise, go to my YouTube channel. Can’t wait to be back home where the timezones make sense for posting).
One of the smaller species of hoverflies (family Syrphidae) one can find around here. Not sure about the exact species though - perhaps Toxomerus marginatus? Let me know in the comments if you agree or disagree. :)
I observed this pollen-ladden couple at the Parc-nature de l'Île-de-la-Visitation in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Pentax D-FA 100mm F/2.8 WR Macro plus HD DA 1.4X AW tele-converter and Raynox DCR-250, with off-camera diffused Godox V850ii flash. The wind really made it difficult to shoot this couple, but I did manage this, a two-frame handheld focus stack, not quite at MFD, which I'm very happy with. Only a very slight crop here.
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Well Christmas has taken it's toll on me and given me very little time over the past week! :( however, with the little time I did manage to get I have been getting to know my Off Camera Flash and trying to perfect the art of "Stop Action" photography, I completed all my theory in my lunch hours last week and was desperate to put it to the test, I had an hour with the birds today and this is the result...I'm getting there! :)
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Canon 70D | f/11 | 1/200 sec | ISO-320 | Canon 430 EX II | Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L IS USM
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As you can see from the settings used, its the Flash that stops the action, Not a fast shutter speed as you would normally need in bright daylight, a couple of key points to remember when using this technique (unless you have specialised gear) is that you need low ambient light and a low flash setting (below 1/2 power on the 430 EX), this coupled with the above settings will create a nice dark background which illuminates only the bird and stops the action in its tracks, I had the camera on a tripod and the flash gun was positioned a few feet away at about 90 degrees to the camera, using three wireless remotes enabled me to trigger the flash and camera from a reasonable distance...and that is about it! :) hope some of you find the info useful or of interest, if so then please leave a comment to let me know :)
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