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That's what you get for waking up in Vegas.
WOW. It's been a long time since I've posted anything. I'm really sorry for dropping out on you guys! I had another sort of medical emergency thing, I'd rather not get into it, everything is good now and I'm fine. Unfortunately I have to start my 365days project over. I really hate that I had to quit a second time. But I guess third time's a charm right? I hope so. I plan on starting on the first of October, just to make things easier on me. I had alot of trouble with keeping my days and dates straight and I have learned that EXIF data is your friend and I will set the date on my camera every time I use it. I don't understand why I have to set the date EVERY time though. Do any of you guys' camera's keep track of the days for you or do you have to reset it everytime you change the batteries or turn it on or off? Maybe I need to read my instruction manual.
Anyway.
It's been really nice having a break from taking self portraits! I've been busy making jewelry to sell in my Etsy shop, which has been kind of fun and sort of relaxing. I REALLY need money, I need to have some sort of an income and I just can't work even a part time job with my back being all messed up and hurty the way it is right now. So I'm hoping selling some jewelry will bring in a little money. I'm also working on getting some prints of my photos up for sale too.
That's about it really. I just figured I should check in and let you guys know where I'd run off to. October isn't too far away and I'll try to post a shot of something every day, even if it isn't a self portrait. Maybe I'll go back in the archives and dig up some old shots you guys haven't seen.
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大國魂神社の巫女さんです。
初詣の準備で忙しそうにしてました。
髪の毛を入れている和紙の筒が珍しいです。
Many people visit a shrine and pray in a new year in Japan.
A witch is a female staff of a shrine. In many cases, a witch is female university student's part-time job.
Taken while still living in Japan...and remarkably, one of the first self portraits with my dslr. Almost three years ago, and I still love that underestimated little Pentax.
You may notice I've let my pro account expire, mostly due to ignorance and minor laziness. Now I'm wondering if I should even bother renewing. I barely find the time or motivation to post new material and I rarely update sets or utilize groups. So maybe it's for the best. But I do like that little 'pro' next to my name. Call me vain.
Dilemma.
Edit: Dilemma no more. A very dear friend has just made the decision for me, and I thank him. (Thank you.) And now, maybe he will be kind enough to decide upon a career for me...or a part-time job, that works too....I'd probably even settle for a hair colour.
Astro-nuts on the Moon Ocean's Floor -
From the mouth that meets daylight, they climbed down with Tarzan level agility. Advancing along the tongue, now they are pacing into my belly. Where their dots of brightness touched, my dark sides are scorched. They keep up with combing not knowing I was right in front watching.
The torchbearer turned around and said with undisguised relish, “We will leave no turn unstoned.”
“It’s no unturned stones,” revised his ally.
Did astral-ordinary levity plunge down? Does peace grows between grooves? Is it a fried dough elephant ear implanted in my tummy they are going to find? I am perplexed much and resume to observe the two entities before me.
Being standing on two feet but fading out in opaque, this one gripping a beam with single hand, his cookery fingers know how to bake bread with snow. The other huddling under the zone of clear light on the right analyzes with Sony winking eye my physical entirety as if there’s so much history beneath her feet. What about her? She’s got a new part-time job making high heels for centipedes, and it’s voluntary.
After seven minutes in search, she breathed a sigh. “Nothing but debris from a previous flood accumulated on the bed. A large denominational Kuwaiti dinar caught in the gills of a blind fish would be a better find for me.”
Adventure lies always just around the bend. And so the figures are set once more on the path that they trod with intent. I stay put as they voyaged the distance away in seek of who knows.
Here we go! On time this week, and I really kind of like it. This week has been b-u-s-y. My part time job went full time for this week only and I’ve also suddenly got a lot of photography work which is truly brilliant. I really did think that this week’s photo was going to be a bit of a bust but all at once I had a bit of free time and a little idea and *poof* the image was created.
What this photo means to me is cutting the ties of things that have held you back. I feel like I’m starting to really figure out this whole anxiety thing. It’s been years and years of being held back but over the last few weeks I’ve been trying something new and it’s really working. I feel like I’m setting myself free from a vice like grip and getting much more freedom....
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I am a firm believer that the universe always sends someone or some thing, sometimes that someone is yourself and sometimes that some thing is courage but a lot of the times it’s another person almost always a stranger, for me it was this man here, his name is Bill we met in Orlando Florida I was a young person without a vehicle and a part-time job in the corona 2020 era with nothing but a camera and a bicycle ( with it much else) and he help me, and help me move from one place to another place, financially, but most importantly just with his friendship and his love I like to take pictures of mountains and trees and beaches and oceans but sometimes the most beautiful thing you can take a picture of is a person. Here’s to a mighty fine Firework on The Fourth 2020
This is the second photo I loved from the session I shot for Invincible Vacuum Cleaner Company.
Also I need to let my followers and flickr family know that I am working one full time and one part time job to make ends meet. Therefore my postings will be much more sporadic than usual. With that said, I thank all of you for taking the time to follow me, leave comments and so forth. I have seen all of you grow so much as photographers and continue to enjoy your posts.
ひさしぶりにこっちのカフェで待機ｗ
SIMに人がいない。。。(´-∀-｀；)
そろそろ冬景色に変わるかなぁ。
A cafe of another part-time job.
Does a lost child come over today?
I wait only a minute =D
It seems to become the snow scene soon.
For :*tHe VeNt* the 5 senses: vision.
Ouch that shit hurt so bad it knocked my glasses off!
Just kidding.. I’m okay!
I find myself being an assfuck full of contradictions in this shot. Converse sneakers worn with a dress up button down shirt? Torn jeans that were BOUGHT that way (new!). Fucked up broken sunglasses (R.I.P. aviators) worn with black dress socks. An unseen belt buckle with the word “WEREWOLF” on it to go with my “saddened” look doesn’t really make any sense either.
Nor does the fact that I am sitting on an apparatus with the words “HIGH VOLTAGE” written on it that could I guess potentially kill me at any given moment.
All in the name of day 146.
But this all said, I still find my life becoming increasingly more routine everyday. I guess it’s always been this way. But as much as I love this project, it’s made my life even MORE routine rather than less. You have to be in a routine to be able to bang out what I hope is a killer shot everyday and write about it.
My 365 project has turned into a part-time job!
Every – single – mother – fucking – day.
Not that I’m whining about it, I love it! But add that to everything else that is in my life, you have to perfectly juggle it all. I guess you’re going to need “routine” if I’m expected to go to my fulltime paying job (my work), attending to my fulltime non-paying job (my daughters), and keeping up with life in general.
But if I had it my way? My life would be a little more chaotic.
Maybe chaotic isn’t quite the term I want to coin it. But I’d love to just travel around with my kids going from country to country to world to planet to universe to the cosmos and back – like, hmmm… on the weekends? To spice things up?
Someone get me a goddamn spaceship… pleeeeeeeease?
April 30th, 2009
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Forty years ago I was a student rushing back and forth to class and my part time jobs in the Back Bay. Today, I don't see this much activity looking out the window where I live in a month. Times change.
Name: Vrek Klilarn
Age: 20’s
Species: Trandoshan
Bio: During an early age, Vrek was fascinated with Jedi legends and stories of the Ghost crew, which he claimed his family has met Ahoska and Hera Syndulla as a kid. He didn’t really believe in the Scorekeeper and Jagannath points, but ironically, he still became a bounty hunter like most of his species and his family wanted him to do so.
During one of Corran Tamok’s travels, he encountered Vrek, who was looking for fresh kills and seeking money. Both fought over a canyon, but the fight resulted in stalemate. Corran convinced Vrek to stop hunting and pursue what he wanted, to which he agreed. Soon the two became fast friends and eventually, both developed a brotherly rivalry that led each other to sparring.
After Corran left, Vrek did bounty hunting as a part time job while he mainly focused on scrapping parts, recovering Jedi artifacts and traveling planets. He would eventually join Corran and his other friends on a quest.
Powers and abilities: As a Trandoshan, Vrek has infrared range which allows him to see distances thanks to his eyes, as well as being able to regenerate limbs and skin. He also has claws that enabled him to climb and fight better, notably beating five Wookies in combat weaponless. Due to his encounter with Corran and specific adventures, it is possible that Vrek is Force-sensitive as he was able to levitate a small rock to save a child, and also has a ability to repair lightsabers. Other than that, Vrek is a skilled sniper, gunslinger and combatant.
Equipment: A white discarded, slightly damaged Stormtrooper armour, which he gets mistaken as a First Order/Empire soldier a few times, protective clothing and garb, including baggy trousers. He carries two small black blaster pistols, which also functions as a whip. Also has a jetpack that he uses sometimes, various weapons.
Must be one of the most scenic abandoned cars around! It had a fairly massive in growth of plants in the interior, looks to have been here a fair while. Seen whilst doing a part time job as a courier, during this COVID-19 pandemic. I hope everyone is doing well.
I've been wanting to capture an image like this for a long time, but never had the chance until the first time I camped in Yellowstone a week ago.
Yes, I've been home for a week now, with a HUGE cold (or something): sore throat, phlegmy cough that just won't stop, congested head, stuffy nose, general malaise, absolutely no sense of smell or taste (still suffering through that and it's been a week). I originally thought this was nothing more than a raw throat caused by breathing in a large lungful of sulfur steam at one of the hydrothermal features, but once I got home, that turned out not to be the case.
I'm not surprised, really, because the summer crowds were still there, seeing the sights and doing stupid stuff (more about that in a later post).
Anyway, I didn't really start to feel bad until my last day in Yellowstone, and part of that I attribute to total exhaustion, since it was go-go-go with my cameras from the day I arrived.
Camping was pretty cool, both figuratively and literally. At Grant Campground, it got down into the 20s (Fahrenheit). Nothing I could do would keep me warm. Quite a switch from the 90+ degrees F we have in Central WA.
At one point, just a few minutes before midnight, I awoke to hear the wolves howl. Oh my, what a beautiful, haunting, reverby song that was. It went off and on for about 15 minutes. I fell back asleep to be awakened at about 2:40 a.m by the chorus of coyotes. Their howls and yips are decidedly different from the wolves and easy to tell apart.
So, I got up, lit the tent with my lanterns, set up tripod and camera, and captured some starry, lit-up tent shots.
I used a regular ISO of 250 and a medium-sized aperture with a bit of a lengthy shutter speed. The trick was to try and not blow out the brightly-lit tent but to still capture the starry sky. Turned out better than I thought it would.
I'll try to be better at posting. I have a part-time job, plus the regular housework, plus working on the thousands of photos I captured during this past 8-day trip to Yellowstone.
Here's a piece of advice for you if you are planning to visit this amazing national park: If you go during the summer, make sure you get to whatever spot you wish to see EARLY in the morning. That way, you are assured a parking spot and you'll have the view to yourself for awhile before the crowds begin arriving sometime around 8 a.m.
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Today I need to keep my mind off the fact that I'm either getting a call back for a part time job I want, or it just wasn't meant to be. Either way, I feel positive about going on an interview, (1st one in 4 years), and I feel like I made a good impression.
I need to remind myself of ant medicine: "Ant people have a knowing about the sweet victory at the end of the line. There is never a concern about "going without" if they are late for the opening of a sale. If what they want is sold out, they are sure that something equal or better is available. If you have Ant medicine, you eat slowly and deliberately and are content in knowing that "what is yours will come to you." This knowing is good medicine. It shows a trust in the Universe to provide."
On Explore #295, June 23, 2009
This is my son Curtis, doing what he does best. His part time job is at the largest skateboard shop in the city and when he isn't in school or working this is how you will find him.
Yesterday was Father's Day and Curtis took me to lunch, and yes he paid the tab.....:-)))
I took these shots last night. We stopped by the high school lot, it was fitting for a few last shots as today Curtis graduates high school......they grow up fast....:-)))
Today I stopped and had my lunch along the waterfront trail on King Street before heading to my afternoon part time job from my morning part time job. It was so nice to sit and enjoy the surrounding view. This beauty home was across the road from my bench.
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Happy Mother's Day to all of the amazing Moms. I hope you all have a wonderful day.
My daughter gave this sweet figurine last year for Mother's Day which she bought with her own money she earned just soon after she started her first part-time job. For the past year I had it in my mind that I would use it for my photo for this year. ♥
Today my family is coming to my house to celebrate this day with us. Nothing is better than spending time with the ones you love. :)
I’m a member of the Oakland Raiders House Band. So, during the football season the band is featured at all of the home games! It’s a pleasure to be a member of this ensemble led by trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader, David Perrico.
About a minute and a half of south Eastern freeway traffic. About 1 hour after sunset.
Taken from a bridge over the freeway near Mt Barker.
There is also a pedestrian footpath on the bridge.
I have some standard Hi vis clothing, with reflective tape on arms and body, from a part time job I did years ago that came in real handy.
Today I stopped and had my lunch along the waterfront trail on King Street before heading to my afternoon part time job from my morning part time job. It was so nice to sit and enjoy the surrounding view.
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For 52 Weeks for Dogs -- 52/52
Well, we've done it. We made a post every week and had a lot of fun getting there. The last two months have been tough due to outside forces, but spending a little time taking pictures with Bunny really helped to relieve some of the stress. We thought about handing over the reins next year to Flattery, but I'm not entirely certain she's ready yet, and I also worry that in another year Bunny might be less enthusiastic about being in front of the camera all the time, so we've worked out a compromise and are hoping to let Flattery appear in 12 Months for Dogs. When Bunny heard that Flattery was getting a part time job of her own, she decided to try to give her a few tips, but Flattery, well, let's just say she knows her own mind, even though nobody else does. We'll see how it goes.
You can read more about Bunny and Flattery at TalesAndTails.com.
So in an unexpected turn of events I got a completely new and different job I had almost jokingly applied for. So while I'm getting used to my new daily grind I'm probably going to become inactive for a while. I'll try to get back into things as quick as possible, but I went from a 30 hr/wk part time job to a 40+ hr/wk full time one. I'm going to try to do legos as much as I can on my days off, but I can't promise anything.
Alias: Ophidian
Real Name: Lysander Maddox Thain
Gender: Male
Allegiance: Hero
Powers: powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Snake_Physiology
Backstory: Having the name Lysander makes it really easy to get picked on. So even though he started to call himself Zander, the bullying was prevalent throughout elementary and middle school. This is when his interest in reptiles began, more specifically snakes. He would research everything there is to know about snakes. In high school, he would get a part time job at the Cardinal City Zoo. It was also during this time when he volunteered to a Genetech experiment. Genetech infused him with the DNA of a rough green snake. The experimental procedure worked, and he now had various abilities/traits of a snake. He's able to break even the strongest metals with his bite. He can create a scale like armor, as a sort of defense mechanism, increasing the damage he can withstand. That's not even considering the enhanced strength, smell, flexibility, agility, and lung capacity. Since snakes as a species are only seen as pure evil, Lysander decided to try and change that stigma, by becoming the hero Ophidian.
Status: Traveling with the Five Wonders team, helping those that need it along the way.
So, I have just passed my two year anniversary at my “new job”… the one that I was told I would have to work every weekend for the FIRST year…. Which apparently has turned into… I will have to work EVERY (freaking) weekend for the REST OF MY LIFE… but let’s not go there (oops… I guess we just did). Anyway, I was thinking it was time to request a weekend off and go on an adventure, so I found a group photo shoot for last weekend and called my shooting partner (pretty the only one that will go on these adventures with me anymore… and you will soon find out why…) and it was, as usual (Thank God!) easy to convince her to join me. The location of the shoot was to be revealed 5 days prior to the shoot… which came in an email about 2 days before hand, with the instructions… we will meet in a Wawa parking lot (and please DO NOT reveal the location of the Wawa). We were to look for a black van. This, of course, led to yet another lecture from my co-workers instructing me to take a cell phone photo of the license plate of said black van, along with a picture of the driver, letting him know that I will be sending these pictures to friends and family. This was not the first time that I have been given this advice. I didn’t do it…. I figure…. What’s the worse that could happen. I mean, after all… we are in a group!!! But, I did tell my partner that we should expect the possibility of having bags thrown over our heads and being thrown in to the back of the black van to be released after we have reached to location so that we will never be able to find our way there again, or share the location with others. (Honesty is the best policy… some surprises are not ones to be looked forward to! I felt she should be prepared!)
I told her that I would pick her up at 5:45 am. She is not a morning person. I was late (I’m always late). When she finished packing my car (best to be prepared!) I told her that I’m afraid that we will be late. The GPS was saying that our ETA is 8:39 and we were told to meet the mysterious black van in a Wawa parking lot at 8:30 SHARP. So, I was worried about making up time, or being left behind. As we got closer to our destination, it occurred to me, that the GPS was telling me that it would take an awfully long time to get to this location in South Jersey. And that’s when I realized… I never changed my car clock. So… was my GPS basing my ETA on real time, or my car clock time, which was an hour ahead of the rest of the world? That’s when I announced that we were either going to be a few minutes late… or more likely… almost an hour early. An hour early it was!!! (and then I remembered doing the exact same thing 2 years ago… some people never learn!) Yes, some people may have been upset about being picked up an hour earlier than necessary, losing an extra hour of precious sleep…. But no, we slipped quickly to Plan B…. BREAKFAST!! It just so happened that as I was making this realization, we were driving past a Cracker Barrel…. Abrupt right hand turn into the parking lot, where I proceeded to tell my friend (and yes, it is Susan) why I am going to propose that rather than cooking this year… my family meet in a Cracker Barrel for Christmas dinner…. We had this discussion at work… think about it… the place will be festively decorated, everyone gets to choose whatever they want to eat, and while we are waiting for our meals to be served… we can do our Christmas shopping right there…. No stress, no mess. It’s the perfect solution. Right? Not to mention that they serve breakfast all day long, which everyone knows is my favorite meal.(I'll let you know how well that suggestion will be received..I have a pretty good idea, already.)
After breakfast, we arrived at our photo shoot meet up point… met the man in the black van… who goes by an alias (of course he does, why not... which lead to another discussion about aliases. I've chosen mine... Susan is still working on hers) and had us sign many pages of papers saying we would not share this location with anyone, we would not try to come back to this site on our own, when posting photos, we would not include the location, etc…etc…. The photo shoot was great… a fun day. Going home, the adventure continued as we shopped for our Thanksgiving meals… well, Susan did… I bought tubs of ginger snaps and little chocolate chip cookies and pepperoni pizza mac and cheese. Then, in an effort to avoid driving home on a boring highway, we (well… I) drove in circles until, finally on a dark back road, I looked at Susan and asked… do you have any clue where we are…. Because I don’t. And she didn’t … and rather than be annoyed with me and my total lack of any sense of direction, she laughed. And that is pretty much why she is about the only one that will go out to shoot with me anymore! Thank you Susan … and to the man in the black van with the alias that set this all up. And I’d like to tell you that you really should go check this place out…. But I can’t. Ever.
But I can tell you that now I seriously want to drive a car with tail fins and a big gawdy hood ornament... and I want to create a new identity under an alias.
I have been missing in action for over a week now as the crazy retail season is upon is and I kept my part time job at Kohls and have basically been spending all of my time working two jobs. So, did I make up for it with an extra long story…. Or did I lose you several paragraphs ago?!!
Oh… the photoshoot was in a scrap yard/junk yard… and that’s about all I have to say about that!! LOL!
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Atsuko got a part-time job. She's a little nervous tho, I wonder why?
(Credit for this supercute idea goes to dal!)
Today I am grateful that I was able to spend most of the morning with my daughter. With her University, a part time job and a boyfriend, its hard to find time to get together.
Another thing that I am grateful for is my 50mm lens, got it out with the macro filters the other day and haven't put it down since, I love the DOF it gives, its nearly as good as the macro lens.
Here is my favourite flower at the moment, they reseed themselves all over the garden every year.
[Note: This was a conversation I had months before COVID-19. I'm not connecting with anyone during this time].
Tanya had the most beautiful smile. She was on the State Street bridge by Wacker. Her smile reflected her joy and optimism for life. On the weekends, she works at a handicapped facility and helps take care of them. She makes enough to rent a room, but she needs more money to survive, so that's why she comes out here. She's been out here for about four years. She said, "I'm doing a lot better than what I was" (before she had a part-time job). The most powerful thing she said was, "don't judge a book by it's cover--you've got to read it! Not all homeless people are drug addicts". She feels like people don't really know homeless people. She says if people are down or depressed, just "trust in God". "Any day you wake up is a good day!" Then I left, basking in the glow of her radiant smile.
Didn't mean to disclose about my part time job: A free-lance photographer for the National Geographic XD
I know i haven't been consistent, I was busy taking photos for my twin sisters engagement...I will do my best with what I have...
This picture is definitely explains how I'm feeling...Oh I have another one now..that I'm writing...Looking for a job, even a part-time job or temp work is the most restless thing I have ever experienced. I never even thought that after college life would be this hard, and thats not even about me..that goes for everybody else.
the two chairs represent loneliness, and me in the middle surrounded by emptiness...Oh how much I want to scream..but will anybody hear me....
Patience, patience, patience...that all that im hearing in a world of emptiness, I want to enroll for school..but I know if I get the job, I would have to do school and the Academy...so Im waiting...
Awkward Silence..................
Strobist: sb80 snooted on my left, set @ 1/4
I still have plenty of photos to sort through from the D80. My personal work, or whatever you want to call it, has become less of a priority lately. I'm busy with shooting and editing some freelance, commercial work on top of two part-time jobs. I used to try to upload about one photo a day to flickr. These days, I seem to be averaging 1-2 a week. Like all social networks, flickr seems to have run its course. I just don't have the motivation to be that active on this site anymore. I seem to be more active on my facebook page lately, if you want to follow me there. I think eventually i'll just be posting there and updating my website. With that said, I appreciate everyone who comments on my work here and I have been lucky to meet so many great photographers through this site.
I have also neglected google+. I mean, do people still use that? I think there's a point where social media is just overwhelming. I may like your work, but seeing the same image posted on four social networks is a bit overkill.
Pemaquid Point Lighthouse - 3115 Bristol Road, Pemaquid, Maine
Not bad 'digs' for a part-time job!
And in this case the light-keepers could have a decent social life, since they weren't isolated on a rock or island.
BTW, that's Bailey headin' for the rocky shoreline so she can run around on the rocks like a crazed mountain goat!
FYI - While in Bristol, we didn't see any kids, so we were unable to confirm that they "are sharp as a pistol", though it can't be denied that "Bristol" does indeed rhyme with "pistol".
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during my time in LA, i've been chaotically busy with being a full-time student, working 2 part-time jobs, maintaining a social life, with-holding extra curricular activities and attempting to keep my hobby alive all at once. so in other words, i haven't had time to organize a photo session that is personal to me--or more like something that i, personally,have been envisioning. in tribute to my first day of winter break, i was inspired by the overcast and i decided to use it as part of my image.
a part of me tells me that i should have gave this photo a different tone, but i wanted to compliment the clouds utilizing a "horror" blue--along with the wind and the environment entirety.
It was one of those photo walks when I hesitated in approaching the first couple of potential subjects and this usually sets up a bit of a “block” which inhibits me from reaching out. It’s a strange phenomenon but I know I’m not alone in this. I have to be in a positive and outgoing mood for the project and although I don’t know what got in the way, it just wasn’t happening this morning as I strolled Toronto’s Kensington Market area.
I scouted out a couple of graffiti laneways as possible locations and continued walking my bicycle along the small streets as the market area was just getting woken up with shops opening. That’s when I noticed her, walking the other way across the narrow street with her partner. True to this morning’s uncertain mood, I let her get away, even though she had a great smile and I knew her face and head scarf would be great for a project photo. As I prepared to pack away my camera a few minutes later and ride to another location nearer my noon-hour class, she and her partner came walking back toward me and this time I nudged myself to step forward and make my request. She and her partner listened with interest in their eyes and smiles on their faces and she readily said “Sure. I’d be glad to.” There. How difficult was that? Meet Montina, a beautiful name for a beautiful Stranger.
Montina and Mark followed me across the street into the laneway and I explained the position I wanted and told her she could smile or not, mentioning that sometimes when naturally smiley subjects try to adopt a more neutral expression for me they end up looking grumpy. Montina was exceptionally comfortable as she looked into my lens and tipped her head this way, then that, asking me if this was what I wanted. I clicked a few frames, reviewed them, and showed her. I knew my morning had taken a very positive turn. I couldn’t resist a few extra frames and asked her if she had modeled before and she said “A bit.” Ok, how lucky was that?
Just then a truck appeared from nowhere in the bowels of this narrow laneway and needed to get by. I was scrambling to get my camera around my neck and retrieve my bike which was leaning against the wall. I didn’t have an extra hand for my helmet which I tripped over in my scramble to clear the way for the truck. Montina kindly picked it up for me and we exited the alley.
We chatted a bit on the sidewalk and I learned that Montina and her partner Mark were going for a stroll and a coffee before she started work at a restaurant in the Market. It’s a part-time job which helps support her while she goes through school at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD). She’s an artist and grew up in Goderich Ontario west of Toronto on the shore of Lake Huron – a beautiful town which has been voted Ontario’s prettiest town. She’s 25 and not only is she beautiful and creative, but she has great taste - she told me she owns a mirrorless Olympus camera just like mine.
My clumsy exit from the laneway with a truck on my heels was followed by my fumbling with my bicycle and phone as I tried to take down a few notes on our encounter. I made a joke about it being my klutzy day (which it was – I’d tumbled off my bicycle in the street on my way here) but Montina and Mark were really kind and were helping me not drop my bike or phone. Fortunately, my clumsiness didn’t carry into the picture-taking and I am really pleased with all the photos – thanks partly to my improving photography skills but also to having such an attractive and experienced model in a great setting with good, soft, indirect light.
Before parting I asked Montina if she had any “words of wisdom” to share with my fellow project photographers and she and Mark said “That’s a great question.” Her reply was “Dreams are destiny.” “If you can imagine it, it can happen.” “Perfect” I said. “Spoken like an artist.”
Thank you Montina and Mark for participating in 100 Strangers. Maribel, you are now Stranger #490 in Round 5 of my project. I hope you had an easy day at the restaurant.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
To browse Round 1 of my 100 Strangers project click here: www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcbowen/sets/72157633145986224/
To browse Round 2 of my 100 Strangers project click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcbowen/sets/72157634422850489/
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I had an idea for this week, but we had wind storms this weekend and lost power, and it's been nothing but rain today. We'll try again next week.
** Sorry for the inconsistent group participation this year. It has been a wonderful year for me in that I have opportunities to photograph events for amazingly supportive groups and families, but that has meant that I haven't had as much time for my own projects. With a full-time job and a couple of part-time jobs as an Occupational Therapist as well...balance has been difficult to find. That said, I wouldn't give up this group for the world and I know how lucky I am to see the work you guys put out here on Flickr and to get to know all of you through our dogs. Dogs inspire connections wherever they go.
Something green today?
During the experimental detonation of a gamma bomb, scientist Robert Bruce Banner saves teenager Rick Jones who has driven onto the testing field; Banner pushes Jones into a trench to save him, but is hit with the blast, absorbing massive amounts of gamma radiation.
He awakens later seemingly unscathed, but that night transforms into a lumbering grey form. A pursuing soldier dubs the creature a "hulk". Originally, it was believed that Banner's transformations into the Hulk were caused by sunset and undone at sunrise, but later, after Rick witnessed Banner turn into Hulk at daytime following a failed attempt by Ross' men to shoot the Hulk into space, it was discovered to be caused by anger. Banner was cured, but chose to restore Hulk's powers with Banner's intelligence.
The gamma-ray machine needed to affect the transformation-induced side effects that made Banner temporarily sick and weak when returned to his normal state.
In September 1963, the Hulk became a founding member of the the Avengers, who would go on to become the premiere superhero team in the Marvel universe.
Soon, however, overuse of the gamma-ray machine rendered the Hulk as an uncontrollable, rampaging monster, subject to spontaneous changing.
In September 1964 the Hulk appeared as an antagonist for Giant-Man. It was established that stress was the trigger for Banner turning into the Hulk and vice versa.
It was during this time that the Hulk developed a more savage and childlike identity, shifting away from his original portrayal as a brutish but not entirely unintelligent figure.
Also, his memory, both long-term and short-term, would now become markedly impaired in his Hulk state. Tales to Astonish #64 (February 1965) was the last Hulk story to feature him speaking in complete sentences. In Tales to Astonish #77 (March 1966), Banner's and the Hulk's dual identity became publicly known when Rick Jones, mistakenly convinced that Banner was dead (when he actually had been catapulted into the future), told Major Glenn Talbot, a rival to Banner for the affections of Betsy Ross, the truth.
Consequently, Glenn informed his superiors and that turned Banner into a wanted fugitive upon returning to the present.
The 1970s saw Banner and Betty nearly marry in The Incredible Hulk #124 (February 1970). Betty ultimately married Talbot in issue #158 (Dec. 1972). The Hulk also traveled to other dimensions, one of which had him meet empress Jarella, who used magic to bring Banner's intelligence to the Hulk, and came to love him. The Hulk helped to form the Defenders.
In the 1980s, Banner once again gained control over the Hulk, and gained amnesty for his past rampages; however, due to the manipulations of supernatural character Nightmare, Banner eventually lost control over the Hulk.
It was also established that Banner had serious mental problems even before he became the Hulk, having suffered childhood traumas that engendered Bruce's repressed rage.
Banner comes to terms with his issues for a time, and the Hulk and Banner were physically separated by Doc Samson.
Banner is recruited by the U.S. government to create the Hulkbusters, a government team dedicated to catching the Hulk. Banner finally married Betty in The Incredible Hulk #319 (May 1986) following Talbot's death in 1981.
Banner and the Hulk were reunited in The Incredible Hulk #323 (Sep. 1986) and with issue #324, returned the Hulk to his grey coloration, with his transformations once again occurring at night, regardless of Banner's emotional state.
In issue #347 the grey Hulk persona "Joe Fixit" was introduced, a morally ambiguous Las Vegas enforcer and tough guy. Banner remained repressed in the Hulk's mind for months, but slowly began to reappear.
The 1990s saw the Green Hulk return. In issue #377 (Jan. 1991), the Hulk was revamped in a storyline that saw the various dissociative identities of Banner, Fixit, and Savage confront Banner's past abuse at the hands of his father Brian and a new "Guilt" identity.
Overcoming the trauma, the intelligent Banner, cunning Fixit, and powerful Savage identities merge into a new single entity possessing the traits of all three.
The Hulk also joined the Pantheon, a secretive organization of superpowered individuals. His tenure with the organization brought the Hulk into conflict with a tyrannical alternate future version of himself called the Maestro in the 1993 Future Imperfect miniseries, who rules over a world where many heroes are dead.
In 2000, Banner and the three Hulks (Savage, Fixit, and the "Merged Hulk", now considered a separate identity and referred to as the Professor) become able to mentally interact with one another, each identity taking over the shared body as Banner began to weaken due to his suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.
During this, the four identities (including Banner) confronted yet another submerged identity, a sadistic "Devil" intent on attacking the world and attempting to break out of Banner's fracturing psyche, but the Devil was eventually locked away again when the Leader was able to devise a cure for the disease using genes taken from the corpse of Brian Banner.
In 2005, it is revealed that the Nightmare has manipulated the Hulk for years, and it is implied that some or all of the Hulk's adventures written by Bruce Jones may have been just an illusion.
In 2006, the Illuminati decide the Hulk is too dangerous to remain on Earth and send him away by rocket ship which crashes on Planet Sakaar ushering in the "Planet Hulk" storyline that saw the Hulk find allies in the Warbound, and marry alien queen Caiera, a relationship that was later revealed to have born him two sons: Skaar and Hiro-Kala.
After the Illuminati's ship explodes and kills Caiera, the Hulk returns to Earth with his superhero group Warbound and declares war on the planet in World War Hulk (2007).
However, after learning that Miek, one of the Warbound, had actually been responsible for the destruction, the Hulk allows himself to be defeated, with Banner subsequently redeeming himself as a hero as he works with and against the new Red Hulk to defeat the new supervillain team the Intelligencia.
In the 2010s, Hiro-Kala traveled to Earth to destroy the OldStrong Power wielded by Skaar, forcing Skaar and the Hulk to defeat and imprison him within his home planet.
During the 2011 Fear Itself storyline, the Hulk finds one of the Serpent's magical hammers associated with the Worthy and becomes Nul: Breaker of Worlds. As he starts to transform, the Hulk tells the Red She-Hulk to run far away from him.
Rampaging through South and Central America, Nul was eventually transported to New York City where he began battling Thor, with aid of the Thing, who was transformed into Angrir: Breaker of Souls.
After defeating the Thing, Thor stated that he never could beat the Hulk, and instead removed him from the battle by launching him into Earth orbit, after which Thor collapsed from exhaustion.
Landing in Romania, Nul immediately began heading for the base of the vampire-king Dracula. Opposed by Dracula's forces, including a legion of monsters, Nul was seemingly unstoppable.
Only after the intervention of Raizo Kodo's Forgiven was Nul briefly slowed. Ultimately, Nul makes his way to Dracula's castle where the timely arrival of Kodo and Forgiven member Inka, disguised as Betty Ross, is able to throw off the effects of the Nul possession. Throwing aside the hammer, the Hulk regains control, and promptly leaves upon realizing "Betty's" true nature.
With the crisis concluded, the Hulk contacted Doctor Doom for help separating him and Banner for good in return for an unspecified favor. Doom proceeded to perform brain surgery on the Hulk, extracting the uniquely Banner elements from the Hulk's brain and cloning a new body for Banner.
When Doctor Doom demands to keep Banner for his own purposes, the Hulk reneges on the deal and flees with Banner's body, leaving his alter ego in the desert where he was created to ensure that Doctor Doom cannot use Banner's intellect.
When Banner goes insane due to his separation from the Hulk, irradiating an entire tropical island trying to recreate his transformation- something he cannot do as the cloned body lacks the genetic elements of Banner that allowed him to process the gamma radiation- the Hulk is forced to destroy his other side by letting him be disintegrated by a gamma bomb, prompting the Hulk to accuse Doom of tampering with Banner's mind, only for Doom to observe that what was witnessed was simply Banner without the Hulk to use as a scapegoat for his problems.
Initially assuming that Banner is dead, the Hulk soon realizes that Banner was somehow "re-combined" with him when the gamma bomb disintegrated Banner's body, resulting in the Hulk finding himself waking up in various strange locations, including helping the Punisher confront a drug cartel run by a mutated dog, hunting sasquatches with Kraven the Hunter, and being forced to face Wolverine and the Thing in an old SHIELD base.
Banner eventually leaves a video message for the Hulk in which he apologizes for his actions while they were separate, having come to recognize that he is a better person with the Hulk than without, the two joining forces to thwart the Doombots' attempt to use the animals on Banner's irradiated island as the basis for a new gamma army using a one-of-a-kind gamma cure Banner had created to turn all the animals back to normal.
Following this, Bruce willingly joined the spy organization S.H.I.E.L.D., allowing them to use the Hulk as a weapon in exchange for providing him with the means and funding to create a lasting legacy for himself.
After the Hulk had suffered brain damage upon being shot in the head by the Order of the Shield- the assassin having been carefully trained to target Bruce at just the right part of the brain to incapacitate him without triggering a transformation- Iron Man used the Extremis to cure the Hulk.
This procedure also increased Banner's mental capacity, which gave him the intelligence to tweak the Extremis virus within him and unleash a new persona for the Hulk: the super-intelligent Doc Green.
During the 2014 "Original Sin" storyline, Bruce Banner confronted by the eye of the murdered Uatu the Watcher. Bruce temporarily experienced some of Tony Stark's memories of their first meeting before either of them became the Hulk or Iron Man. During this vision, Bruce witnessed Tony modifying the gamma bomb to be more effective prompting Bruce to realize that Tony was essentially responsible for him becoming the Hulk in the first place.
Subsequent research reveals that Tony's tampering had actually refined the bomb's explosive potential so that it would not disintegrate everyone within the blast radius, with the result that Tony's actions had actually saved Bruce's life.
In the 2014 "AXIS" storyline, when a mistake made by the Scarlet Witch causes various heroes and villains to experience a moral inversion, Bruce Banner attended a meeting between Nick Fury Jr. and Maria Hill of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers who refused to turn over Red Skull.
Later when he sided with Edwin Jarvis and tried to prevent his teammates from executing the Red Skull, the Hulk was thrown aside by Luke Cage.
The Hulk's sorrow at his friends' betrayal awakened a new persona known as the bloodthirsty Kluh (described as the Hulk's Hulk, being the ruthless part of himself that even the Hulk repressed) with this new version easily defeating the Avengers, sneering that the Hulk they knew was nothing more than a "sad piece of 'Doc Green's' ID." Kluh then leaves to wreak havoc, with Nova attempting to stop him after witnessing his rampage with the remaining good heroes.
As with the other inverted Avengers and X-Men, Kluh was restored to Hulk when Brother Voodoo was summoned back to life by Doctor Doom so that Daniel Drumm's ghost can possess the Scarlet Witch and undo the inversion.
With his newfound intellect, Doc Green came to the conclusion that the world was in danger by Gamma Mutates and thus needed to be depowered. He developed a serum made from Adamantium nanobites that absorbed gamma energy.
He used these to depower Red Leader, Red She-Hulk, Red Hulk, Skaar, Gamma Corps, and A-Bomb, but decided to 'spare' She-Hulk as he concluded that she was the one gamma mutation whose life had been legitimately improved by her mutation. At the close of the storyline, Doc Green discovered that he was beginning to disappear as the result of the Extremis serum wearing off. He ultimately allowed himself to fade away, returning to his normal Hulk form, as he feared that remaining at his current intellectual level would lead to him becoming the Maestro.
During the 2015 "Secret Wars" storyline, the Hulk took part in the incursion between Earth-616 and Earth-1610. The Hulk used the "Fastball Special" with Colossus to destroy the Triskelion.
As part of the 2015–2018 All-New, All-Different Marvel branding, Amadeus Cho becomes the new Hulk. Flashbacks reveal that the Hulk had absorbed a dangerous new type of radiation while helping Iron Man and the Black Panther deal with a massive accident on Kiber Island. Fearing the Hulk's meltdown would kill countless innocents, Cho was able to use special nanites to absorb the Hulk from Banner and take it into himself to become his own version of the Hulk, leaving Banner normal and free from the Hulk.
He is then rescued from a bar fight by Amadeus, who tells him that he is cured. Having confirmed that he can no longer transform or sense the Hulk, Bruce spends some time traveling across America taking various risks such as driving at high speeds, running away from a bear, or gambling in Las Vegas, until he is confronted by Tony Stark out of concern that Bruce has a death wish. Bruce instead acknowledges that he still harbors guilt and rage over how so many of the Hulk's rampages were provoked by various agencies refusing to leave him alone.
During the 2016 "Civil War II" storyline, the vision of the Inhuman Ulysses shows a rampaging Hulk standing over the corpses of the superheroes. Meanwhile, Bruce Banner is shown to have set up a laboratory in Alpine, Utah, where he is approached by Captain Marvel, followed by Tony Stark, the rest of the Avengers, the X-Men, and the Inhumans.
The confrontation leads to the Beast hacking into Banner's work servers and the revelation that he had been injecting himself with dead gamma-irradiated cells. S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Maria Hill places him under arrest. Banner gets infuriated at all these events, when suddenly, Hawkeye shoots Banner with an arrow to the head and then to the heart, apparently killing him, much to the dismay and horror of the superheroes, especially Tony Stark.
At an Avengers-presided tribunal, Hawkeye states that Bruce Banner had approached him and ordered him to kill him if he ever showed signs of turning into the Hulk again. At the funeral, Korg of the Warbound stated how Hulk wanted to be left alone and how his allies that he made along the way have become his family. In his video will, Bruce leaves various items to other heroes and his allies including leaving Doctor Strange his notes on the Hulk's ability to perceive ghosts and an egg-timer for the various former/current other Hulks (based on one of Bruce's more successful attempts to control himself as he would sit down for three minutes doing nothing before making a particularly big decision and then decide if he still wanted to do it).
Following the funeral of Bruce Banner, the Hand in allegiance with Daniel Drumm's ghost steal Bruce Banner's body in order to use the dead to bolster their ranks. When the reassembled Uncanny Avengers went to Japan and attempted to enlist Elektra for help in stopping the Hand, the ritual that the Hand performed has been completed as the Uncanny Avengers are attacked by a revived Hulk who is wearing samurai armor.
The Uncanny Avengers were able to contain Hulk's rampage and sever his mystical link to the Beast of the Hand. Afterward, Hulk regressed back to Bruce Banner and returned to the dead.[93]
During the 2017 "Secret Empire" storyline, Arnim Zola used an unknown method to temporarily revive Bruce Banner, and the Hydra Supreme version of Captain America persuades his Hulk side to attack the Underground's hideout called the Vault. He fought Thing and Giant-Man's A.I.Vengers until the temporary revival started to wear off and caused Hulk to die again.
During the "No Surrender" arc, the exiled Elder of the Universe Challenger revives Hulk to be his ace in the hole during a contest between his Black Order and Grandmaster's Lethal Legion.
Hulk participated since he knew that Earth will be destroyed either way while his Bruce Banner suspects that Hulk's revivals were a manifestation of Hulk's immortality. While defeating Cannonball and Living Lightning, breaking Vision, and draining the gamma energy out of Robert Maverick's Hulk Plug-In, Wonder Man successfully reasoned with him as Hulk destroyed the Pyarmoid in Voyager's possession. After feeling remorse for what happened, Bruce Banner became Hulk and faced off against Challenger. After Challenger sent Hulk into Earth's orbit, Hulk was pleased that he managed to hurt Challenger.
While maintaining a low profile, Bruce Banner was shot by Tommy Hill of the Dogs of Hell biker gang during a robbery that also claimed the lives of Sandy Brockhurst and Josh Alfaro. He came back to life and turned into Hulk where he badly beat up Tommy Hill. The witnesses in the Dogs of Hell told Detective Gloria Mayes of the attacker as she and reporter Jackie McGee have a suspicion that it was Hulk even though Banner is believed to be dead.
During the events of "Absolute Carnage," the Venom Symbiote takes Bruce as its host to fight Carnage. Inside of Bruce's mind, Bruce converses with the Venom Symbiote as the other Hulk identities such as Joe Fixit and Savage add their opinions about their current situation.
Devil (in his more traditional-looking reptilian form) is against the symbiote's presence in Bruce and says it should be removed immediately, saying they have more important matters to deal with. In the end, Bruce, Fixit, and Savage agree to collaborate with the Venom Symbiote and Devil storms off, saying they are making a mistake. As Bruce states that the vote is three to one with two abstentions, he welcomes the Venom symbiote to the family.
Powers and abilities
Bruce Banner
Considered to be one of the greatest scientific minds on Earth, Banner possesses "a mind so brilliant it cannot be measured on any known intelligence test."
Norman Osborn estimates that he is the fourth most-intelligent person on Earth. Banner holds expertise in biology, chemistry, engineering, medicine, physiology, and nuclear physics.
Using this knowledge, he creates advanced technology dubbed "Bannertech", which is on par with technological development from Tony Stark or Doctor Doom. Some of these technologies include a force field that can protect him from the attacks of Hulk-level entities, and a teleporter.
After becoming a fugitive from the law, Banner is forced to go on the run and over the years learns various skills in order to both survive and remain under radar of those who are hunting him.
Banner’s most frequent method of travel includes hitchhiking, train hopping or simply just walking as he is unable to travel legally via planes, passenger ships or buses due to being in several travel watchlists.
Banner is generally on the move and rarely ever stays in one place for very long and only does so if there’s a possibility of curing himself. He will only ever stay in one place for an extended period of time if it provides him with complete solitude and privacy where the Hulk can do little to no harm.
To avoid being tracked, Banner does not use cell phones, debit or credit cards and will only use payphone’s or cash. He will often use fake identities when staying at motels or working jobs that require identification.
Having been on the run for years, Banner can normally tell when he is being followed and will generally make a run for it when he is discovered. Having traveled across the globe, Banner is able to sneak over borders without being detected and can get by, by either knowing or learning the local language. Often traveling light, Banner has little to no possessions that he carries in either a satchel or backpack.
Often losing everything he owns after transforming into the Hulk, Banner avoids keeping anything of personal value to him so that he can easily replace the items and clothes that were lost or destroyed.
To support himself financially, Banner will work quick part time jobs and will only accept payments in cash. These jobs have varied from simply working in low pay diners to working as local doctor.
Banner’s work ethic as well as his vast knowledge and skillset in science, medicine and engineering often help him get hired rather quickly. Unless desperate, Banner will generally avoid jobs that are high stress due to the potential danger of transforming into the Hulk.
During his travels, Banner has developed several different techniques to help suppress or control his transformations when he becomes a little angry or upset.
Among the techniques he’s learned over the years include meditation and hypnotherapy. While they have helped him to better understand and suppress his transformations, none of techniques Banner has learned have helped him to gain full control over the Hulk.
The Hulk possesses the potential for seemingly limitless physical strength that is influenced by his emotional state, particularly his anger.
This has been reflected in the repeated comment "The madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets." The cosmically powerful entity known as the Beyonder once analyzed the Hulk's physiology, and claimed that the Hulk's potential strength had "no finite element inside."
Hulk's strength has been depicted as sometimes limited by Banner's subconscious influence; when Jean Grey psionically "shut Banner off", Hulk became strong enough to overpower and destroy the physical form of the villain Onslaught.
Writer Greg Pak described the Worldbreaker Hulk shown during World War Hulk as having a level of physical power where "Hulk was stronger than any mortal—and most immortals—who ever walked the Earth" and depicted the character as powerful enough to completely destroy entire planets.
His strength allows him to leap into lower Earth orbit or across continents, and he has displayed superhuman speed.
Exposure to radiation has also been shown to make the Hulk stronger. It is unknown how he gains biomass during transformation but it may be linked to subatomic black matter.
His durability, regeneration, and endurance also increase in proportion to his temper. Hulk is resistant to injury or damage, though the degree to which varies between interpretations, but he has withstood the equivalent of solar temperatures, nuclear explosions, and planet-shattering impacts.
Despite his remarkable resiliency, continuous barrages of high-caliber gunfire can hinder his movement to some degree while he can be temporarily subdued by intense attacks with chemical weapons such as anesthetic gases, although any interruption of such dosages will allow him to quickly recover.
He has been shown to have both regenerative and adaptive healing abilities, including growing tissues to allow him to breathe underwater, surviving unprotected in space for extended periods, and when injured, healing from most wounds within seconds, including, on one occasion, the complete destruction of most of his body mass.
His future self, the "Maestro", was even eventually able to recover from being blown to pieces. As an effect, he has an extremely prolonged lifespan.
He also possesses less commonly described powers, including abilities allowing him to "home in" to his place of origin in New Mexico; resist psychic control, or unwilling transformation; grow stronger from radiation or dark magic; punch his way between separate temporal or spatial dimensions; and to see and interact with astral forms.
Some of these abilities were in later years explained as being related; his ability to home in on the New Mexico bomb site was due to his latent ability to sense astral forms and spirits, since the bomb site was also the place where the Maestro's skeleton was and the Maestro's spirit was calling out to him in order to absorb his radiation.
He is also shown to have a separate memory to Bruce Banner - when Spider-Man has the knowledge of his secret identity erased during Spider-Man: One More Day, the Hulk later asks how Peter is doing, not Spider-Man; upon questioning, he enigmatically states "Banner forgot. But I don't forget."
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: Robert Bruce Banner
Publisher: Marvel
First appearance: The Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962)
Created by: Stan Lee (Writer)
Jack Kirby (Artist)
Rick was standing outside the door of the 7-11, on the north side of Lake Street, just east of Michigan Avenue. He was opening the door for people as they came in and out of the store. "I've been out here two months", he said. "I'm working part time jobs to make money". One of the first things he asked me was if I knew of any job openings anywhere. (I gave him some information). Hearing him talk, he was so passionate and motivated. He was renting a place to sleep from a guy, but he was taking advantage of him financially, so right now, he sleeps on the train. He's been robbed and beat up on the train before, so he can only get a few hours of sleep at a time. Sometimes he's been so tired, he's slept through the time that he needs to be at work. He got fired from one of his dish-washing jobs because he was eating scraps of food off the plates. When he's not working, he's out here trying to make whatever he can. What does he want people to know about him? "Family comes first!"
Today I stopped and had my lunch along the waterfront trail on King Street before heading to my afternoon part time job from my morning part time job. It was so nice to sit and enjoy the surrounding view
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Name: Mac Gargan
Villain: Mercenary with Allegiance / Minor Crime Boss
Universe Details: Mac Gargan was once your average Joe. He once worked for the Daily Bugle though eventually the low rates and high expenses caught up to him and forced him to take on a life of crime in addition to his part-time job at the Bugle. It was simple crimes at first, but eventually, he worked his way up into the ranks of Willaim Fisk, better known as the Kingpin. To be repaid for his loyalty, Gargan was given this suit equipped with a bionic tail.
Notes:
-Ties to Kingpin
Name: Phoebe Lynn Moore
Age: 19
Height: 5'9"
Current Job: Teacher's Assistant
Current Home: Narooma, Australia
Nationality: Australian
When Phoebe was young she did pageants and mini modeling competitions. Her mom and dad supported her 100%,helping her put make-up on, purchasing the dresses, buying fake teeth etc., but that all had to come to a stop when her dad passed away in a serious motorcycle accident. Her mom immediately pulled her out of any competition and sent her away to boarding school. After boarding school and high school Phoebe landed a part-time job as a teacher's assistant. Ever since the accident Phoebe has wished to go back to modeling. Her mom happily agrees to the Bratz Next High Fashion Model competition and can't wait to see her daughter thrive.
What She Can Bring To This Competition:
A fresh, new wave of fashion and excitement to the Bratz fashion world and a new definition to the word "clothes". She will work to succeed her dream at becoming a high fashion model for herself and her dad who believed in her so much.
Sorry I have been missing, I have a part time job now ! That is good news for us, just not on flickr as much...Will catch up soon with everyone :)
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Letsatsi (meaning 'day' or 'sun')
The white lion is occasionally found in wildlife reserves in South Africa and is a rare color mutation of the Kruger subspecies of lion (Panthera leo krugeri). It has been perpetuated by selective breeding in zoos around the world. White lions are not a separate subspecies and they have never been common in the wild. Regarded as divine by locals, white lions first came to public attention in the 1970s in Chris McBride's book The White Lions of Timbavati. The greatest population of white lions is in zoos where they are deliberately bred for color. The population of the white lion is unknown but the most recent count was in 2004 and 30 were alive. White lions are not albino lions. Instead, the white color is caused by a recessive gene known as chinchilla or color inhibitor. They vary from blonde through to near white, however some can also be red. This coloration gives white lions a distinct disadvantage in nature because they are highly visible. This gives them away to their prey and makes them an attractive target for hunters. According to Linda Tucker, in "Mystery of the White Lions - Children of the Sun God" they are bred in camps in South Africa as trophies for canned hunts.
White lions were first recorded in 1928 and in the early 1940s. In 1959, a pride with two white cubs was seen near Tshokwane in Kruger National Park, but later vanished. Albino lions had been recorded in the area according to David Alder ton's book "Wild Cats Of The World". In 1974, a light Grey lion cub was born at Birmingham Zoo, Alabama.
In 1975, two white cubs were seen at Timberland Game Reserve, adjacent to Kruger National Park. Their story is detailed by Chris McBride in his book "The White Lions of Timbavati". The two cubs, Temba (Zulu for "hope") and Tombi ("girl") had a tawny brother called Vela ('surprise'). In 1975, a white female cub called Phuma ("to be out of the ordinary") was sighted in the Timberland pride.
A few months later Temba, Tombi, and Vela (who carried the recessive white mutation) were taken to the National Zoo in Pretoria, South Africa. Temba sired several cubs. Tombi had a white cub in 1981, it was low in health but survived. Vela sired a litter, they grew up to be strong unusually one out of the 4 cubs was white while the rest were almost blond. The white lions in the Ouwehands Dierenpark (Netherlands) and a private South African Zoo appear to be from Temba, or possibly Vela, lines. A few other white or blond cubs were born in Timberland after Temba, Tombi, and Vela were removed. Another white lion bloodline, possibly part of the Timbavati bloodline, comes from a white male captured in the Timberland area in the late 1980s and kept by a private reserve.
Temba has left descendants in captivity. A heterozygous tawny lion at Pretoria Zoo carries the mutation and most likely pass this on to his offspring. Two heterozygous tawny males from the Cincinnati Zoo are now at a private reserve in Africa. A white female and a heterozygous tawny male were sent to the Zoological Animal Reproduction Center in Indiana, USA. A second female was put together with another but didn't get along so they were separated for some time until they were comfortable in their surroundings.
In 2003, the Global White Lion Protection Trust (WLT) initiated the first ever reintroduction of white lions to their natural endemic range - the Greater Timbavati region in South Africa. Preliminary results have shown that the hunting success of the white lion pride was comparable to or higher than the wild prides ('normal' coloured / tawny) of the Timbavati itself (Turner 2005, Turner in prep.). This pride of "all" white lions has shattered the misperception that white lions cannot hunt successfully (within their natural endemic habitat) due to a perceived lack of camouflage. The long-term objective of the WLT is to restore the natural balance by reintroducing an integrated pride/s of white and tawny lions within their endemic range. White lions are a unique contribution to the biodiversity of the region and are revered by the local communities that hold them sacred.
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Michelle Faul
Broederstroom - Each year, lions are raised in captivity in South Africa and then set loose in enclosed areas where hunters, many from the United States, gun them down. The toll in what one filmmaker calls slaughter, not sport: About 1 000 lions each year.
Kevin Richardson hopes a new movie White Lion, which opens in a few US cities on Friday, will give people second-thoughts about participating in such hunts.
No hope
"I just can't understand how anyone would want to shoot a lion that is clearly confined to a finite space with absolutely no hope in hell of ever escaping the so-called hunter," said Richardson, a self-taught "Lion Whisperer" and first-time film producer. "Canned lion hunting, in my opinion, is likened to fishing with dynamite in a pond and then calling yourself a fisherman."
White Lion is about a rare white lion, who as a cub is cast out of his pride because of his colour. He is near starvation when he befriends an older lion who teaches him the ways of the wild. John Kani, a Tony Award-winning actor and playwright, is the storyteller. A young man helps the lion, whose name is Letsatsi, because his Shangaan tribal tradition says a white lion is God's messenger and must be protected. Tension builds as Gisani becomes a tracker on a game farm where he and a foreign hunter encounter Letsatsi.
Revenue source
Trophy hunting is big business in South Africa, worth $91.2m a year, according to the Professional Hunters Association of South Africa. Foreign tourists pay up to $40 000 to shoot a lion.
The government promotes hunting as a revenue source and calls it a "sustainable utilisation of natural resources". Provincial governments sell permits allowing hunters to kill rhinos, elephants - even giraffes. Hunters killed 1 050 lions in 2008, the last year for which figures are available, according to the South African Predator Breeders Association.
The hunters' association says 16,394 foreign hunters - more than half from the United States - killed more than 46,000 animals in the year ending September 2007.
Bred in captivity
Almost all lions hunted under permit in South Africa are bred in captivity. But a new report by Animal Rights Africa says animals that wander out of the huge Kruger National Park into neighbouring private reserves have become fair game.
About 3 600 lions were kept in breeding facilities in 2009, to be sold to zoos, safari farms and for hunting on game farms, said Albi Modise, spokesperson for South Africa's Department of Environment.
Animal Rights Africa says trophy hunting is incompatible with South Africa's push into ecotourism, noting that ad campaigns promoting tourism and game viewing showcase the same species that are offered up to be hunted. The government in 2007 introduced legislation that would reduce the financial incentive to breed lions for the hunt but the Predator Breeders Association challenged the laws and earlier this year won an appeal.
Filming limited
Richardson, the movie's producer, first befriended a pair of lion cubs at the Lion Park outside Johannesburg 12 years ago, when the cubs were 6 months and he was 23. He began shortening his hours as a therapist in postoperative rehabilitation to play with his new friends. Soon, park owner Rodney Fuhr offered him a part-time job which became full time.
Today, Richardson cares for 39 lions at his 800-hectare Kingdom of the White Lion in Broederstroom, an hour and a half drive from Johannesburg, where the film was shot to include tawny gold lions as well as those born white because of a recessive gene.
Lions are nocturnal and spend most of the day sleeping, so filming was limited to a couple of hours in the morning and perhaps another couple in the afternoon - if the cats were willing. Letsatsi was portrayed by several different lions over the four years it took to make the movie. A cuddly cub filmed in the summer of 2006 might be sprouting a mohawk-style tuft of hair the following year, the precursor to a mane.
Richardson said he breaks every rule in the book in handling lions. On a recent morning, the lions welcomed Richardson with rumbling purrs. One shut his eyes in ecstasy and rolled onto his back as Richardson scratched his chin. Another licked Richardson's hand, the tongue as rough as sandpaper. Too many licks can cause bleeding.
Attacked twice
Two 180kg lions wrestled him to the ground and a lioness jumped on his back, covering Richardson for a tense minute. He emerged from a tangle of furry blond limbs, face red. One lion threw a casual paw on Richardson's shoulder.
"Ugh, no claws you naughty boy!" he admonished, slapping away a paw larger than his face.
He's been attacked by his lions twice. Once during filming, a lion named Thor grabbed Richardson's arm and pinned him against the cage holding the camera crews, who looked on terrified and unable to help.
"I thought: There goes my arm, and it's my own fault. I was provoking him to get a fight sequence that we needed," Richardson said. The lion stared him in the eyes for what seemed five minutes but couldn't have lasted more than a few seconds, before releasing him, he recalled.
"Lions are 99% chill and & lethal," Richardson said.
- SAPA
This is Joseline Garcia. She had attended University of California at Santa Barbara when the mass shootings took place there several years ago. However, she was not on campus, but rather at her part-time job at In-N-Out Burger when it happened. She told us that her personal belongings and phone were in the locker, and she didn't know what happened until the end of her shift at night. She said she was "smelling like French fries and hamburgers" when she checked her phone to find a flurry of texts addressed at her. They were from friends, wondering if she was still alive. Joseline could only answer so many texts at a time, but she let her friends know she was okay, because she was working and not even on the school grounds.
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I met Rebecca in a local homeware/gift shop. We got chatting and Rebecca told me she had been working in corporate sales for the last twenty years before deciding to give it up for a less stressful life. She now loves her part time job in the shop where her friendly, bubbly personality shines. I asked Rebecca if she would take part in the stranger project and I'm pleased to say she was happy to.
I took a couple of shots where Rebecca was smiling and without her glasses, but we both preferred the 'Miss Moneypenny' look.
This picture is #75 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page