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Truck : Scania R420 TL (SK) with glass semi-trailer
Company : Glass Partners Transports from B-5190 JEMEPPE-SUR-SAMBRE
Date : 27/04/2011
Location : motorway A 6 (France)
Kamila and her partner were visiting Glastonbury Tor, from Bridgwater. I picked up a bit of a foreign accent and asked where Kamila had come from before that. Fifteen years ago, Kamila had come from Poland; the land of my father.
When photographing Kamila, the light was quite bright. She worried that it might draw attention to wrinkles on her face. I did nothing to reassure her when I told her that I was using a good lens and it would bring out every line. “Oh, great!”, she said, with good humoured sarcasm. Or something like that.
At first Kamila didn’t seem sure about taking part in my strangers project. She asked her partner a couple times what he thought. He had no problem with Kamila taking part. He later declined, when I offered to make a portrait of the couple together.
We talked a little of the weather. It had been quite a chilly start to the day but had warmed up nicely once the sun came out.
Thank you Kamila, for being part of my project. It was good to meet you today.
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French rock musician Matthieu Chedid (who has the stage name of -M-) and Fatoumata Diawara performing with Lamomali at the WOMAD Festival in July.
I had permission to shoot all of this gig. It was SO much fun.
Lamomali are currently on tour in France. The tour ends with two gigs at a 20,000 seat arena in Paris next week. I now have confirmed photo passes for both gigs. Woo-Hoo! 😎
Lamomali is a single album collaboration (rather than a band), between M, Toumani and Siddiki Diabaté and Fatoumata Diawara.
You can see videos of songs from the album at these links:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7q5CXiwsME
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0fKM2XMgpE
You can buy the album here: www.amazon.co.uk/LAMOMALI-Lamomali/dp/B01LTIBMLM/
You can see my WOMAD 2017 shots here: WOMAD 2017
You can see my WOMAD 2016 shots here: WOMAD 2016
You can see my WOMAD 2015 shots here: WOMAD 2015
You can see my WOMAD 2014 shots here: WOMAD 2014
You can see my WOMAD 2013 shots here: WOMAD 2013
You can see my WOMAD 2012 shots here: WOMAD 2012
You can see my WOMAD 2011 shots here: WOMAD 2011
You can see my WOMAD 2010 shots here: WOMAD 2010
You can see my WOMAD 2009 shots here: WOMAD 2009
My thanks are due to Dee McCourt of Borkowski PR for arranging my photo pass.
The Hub
Tokyo Disneyland
The fine gentleman at the ISO5571 podcast just had me on to talk about the Tokyo Disneyland Resort. We covered a lot, including travel and photography tips, Tony Solaroni, the amazing quality of Tokyo DisneySea, and the subtle differences between the American parks such as (I think) mentioning how Tokyo Disneyland's hub is absolutely massive, with a different location for the Partners statue. If you're familiar with how this arrangement works in the Magic Kingdom in Florida, you'll immediately notice how distant the two are in Tokyo, as well as other small difference like the Japanese inscription.
This was a quickie shot I took to remind myself to come back at some point and take a proper shot of the statue when it was less crowded. Of course I was so overwhelmed trying to see the rest of Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea I never did get back, so this shot will have to do for now.
Website: Consumer Machine
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Tokyo DisneySea in Photographs eBook: available in both iPad and PDF editions.
Found this old photo of Petey and ....
I always wanted to win the Stilson canoe race
As a young kid I was so impressed with the winners
the great rivalries that formed
Who was going to win this year ?
New records ....
Essentially the race is in fact quite short
2.5 miles of flat water padling
Balls to the wall paddling I may add
Followed by a 1500m portage on a flat lumber road ( Wide for passing )
Then putting in for a final 1 mile paddle where we finished under a a small bridge
Spectators were numerous and many ran along the portage or waited at the canoe put in to see who would crest the hill first and be first team at the end of the portage ( usually the winning team )
The CBC made a film documentary one year
The guys producing must have done the race !
:-))
They had to censor some of the swear words heard during the race
:-))
From the age of 16 on I attempted to win that race
Came close but never won ( 5 years )
I trained year round to better my physical condition
Had 4 different partners
At the age of 16 I was the youngest ever to participate
We were 13th at the beginning of the portage
3rd at the end
My reputation was made as the fastest single canoe portager
Canoes weighed 90 - 100 lbs
I weighed 147 lbs at 16
But I could run with a canoe
Fast !
Unfortunately my partner Paul Laurier ( Sir Wilfrid Laurier's grandson ) and I dumped on the way in at the canoe put in
We finished last
But I had passed a lot of my heroes on the portage
Stu Lang wide reciever for the Edmonton Eskimos football team and a host of others
The bug was set ...
I needed to win that race
One year after a summer long canoe trip where I made the decision to leave the bow and reinvent myself as a sterns man
( back of canoe )
I modified the sternstroke during training all of Quetico canoe trip in anticipation of the upcoming race.
Decided to use a bowman's paddle ( pulls more water )
The J stroke was transformed into a short flick of the wrist without prying off the canoe gunnels
Essentially the J stroke is a steering stroke
It is also a stopping motion
The less you J
The faster you go ! ( Paddle like a bowman )
Well Peter snuck up on me two weeks before the race just before dinner one evening after my summer long canoe trip (where I always was in training ) and asked Guy ....
Wanna do the race ?
Peter is 5ft 5 inches tall
165 Lb of pure muscle
All torso
Short but powerful legs
As a rugby player he was recruited by the Toronto Argonauts football team
We tried to do the course and see how compatible we would be
The minute he put his back easily into the stroke
I felt a whoooosh
Pure power without the effort
Imagine the day of the race
I always goosebumps remembering the magic of that first stroke
It was as if we had been a team for 20 years
Well my first time with Pete we set a course record of 28.48
Two more years we set a new record each time
The record we set in 1978 still stands 28.08
They have shortened the course by 30-45 seconds
Still holds !
I used to have a bet with Pete that i was a faster runner with the canoe than him with the paddles
We would literally race one another
The competition was too far behind
That is how records are set
It was a close race
6 minutes17 seconds for slightly over 1500 meters of portaging
Now they use the two man canoe portaging technique
In this Stilson era the winner's times are about 2 minutes slower ?
Maybe they do not train as hard
Or the partners are a portaging unit
We were too busy racing one another
Pete reminded me that he was always the winner
That I was always 2nd
He is the bowman ( Front of the canoe )
He set the records cuz he was under the bridge first
:-))
g
Montreal
Two pictures of the canoe racing author can be seen in the evolution set
From a photo project I did with Ewoudt Boonstra of Banana & Associates in Amsterdam.
For more info on this project, visit:
Kibati camp is between the government forces postions and the CNDP rebels, about a kilometer separates them.
Through our implementing partner Solidarites we started the distribution of plastic sheets, blankets, jerrycans, soap, and cooking sets to thousands in Kibati; these are essential survival items that will ward off diseases such as malaria, respiratory infections, cholera, diarrhea, etc. We aim to serve 3,000 families.
At the same time we had measles vaccinations continue for 13,000 children in Kibati; like cholera, measles risks spreading rapidly during large population movement and is a major child killer
With our partner Save the Children we working on reuniting children with their families; 152 children separated from their families identified in Kibati since Oct 27th. Our partner Mercy corps was trucking water for tens of thousands of displaced; hundreds of latrines constructed; and hygiene practices promoted; all these interventions are critical to containing the spread of cholera and diarrhea epidemics.
I believe our local dealer is the only one in the UK who sells these.
Has anyone seen them up country?
KLAX (Los Angeles International Airport) - 12 SEP 2014
Wave Equity Partners LLC 2004 Raytheon 390 Premier I N535CD on short final to RWY 25L.
Architects: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, 2008.
Some architectural projects are given birth in unfortunate circumstances around them and are not able to shake these off throughout their existence. We may be witnessing this phenomenon in case of Oxley Woods.
An award winning prefabricated scheme with affordable energy measures built-in, was announced with a lot of political fanfare and now seems to be heading towards choppy seas of litigations and a triumph for “I told you so” army.
Taylor Wimpey, one of the largest house builders are hardly known for their cutting edge architectural and design led offerings. Perhaps the modernity surrounding Milton Keynes recent birth yet to celebrate its first half century encouraged them to take this rare trail blazing route. Perhaps they imagined an unbroken production line of flat packed profitable houses covering acres of green fields and selling like hot cakes all over the country.
For spectators on the side lines this was quite an amazing start but the mismatch of developers name and past portfolio with a scheme upsetting all rules of British taste of acceptability for millions living in their beloved ‘castles’ was hardly going to avoid ‘Legoland’ jibes.
This was bound to upset many proud owners who chose to live in the mutual security of near identical brand new replicas of ‘Tudor and Village Green’ houses up and down the country. The weirdo architects proposing alien designs and misguided people living in them and liking these monstrosities needed thrashing to bring them to their senses.
More photos here.
Regular partners at the time,37038+029 pass Wistanstow with Pathfinders "Settle & Carlisle Line" 1Z43 0812 Llandrindod Wells- Carlisle charter on Bank holiday Monday ,7th May 01....37038 was still showing its patchwork paint job after recently being rescued from Wigan CRDC,proof that there was life after a trip to Spings Branch......and this loco is still active today
Once again, it is time for the yearly edition of Pumpkin Partners during Halloween Time at Disneyland...A challenge each year to photograph it in a different manner from years before, and realizing that, it is what it is...
I usually have a few opportunities to try different things, such as this time when Matthew Cooper was visiting Disneyland and the skies were dramatically cloudy, so I shot an extra exposure in bulb mode for 45 seconds to capture the clouds as they stretched overhead, and used it in creating this HDR image.
Also, I was not happy with a 3x2 crop because of my position along the railing and the associated background on the right, which was ruining the composition of the Partners statue and Sleeping Beauty Castle. Sometimes, when security is pushing me out the gate, I have to take what I get...
A 8x10 crop worked nicely for this image.
The Partners Statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle in the Hub at Disneyland.
We all wonder what Walt would think of Disneyland today. Would he be happy with everything, perhaps not. I do thing he would have been happy with the 60th celebration though.
My sister, and partner in crime, is visiting me again for the winter holidays. She’s up for any adventure, will eat almost anything, and takes nice photos. Unfortunately, she’s camera shy, so I don’t have a picture of her yet. I’ll try to catch her unawares on New Year’s Eve.
Vest, Deb. Sweater, thrifted. Skirt, Mossimo. Leggings, We Love Colors. Boots, Style & Co (thrifted). Sunglasses, Girlprops. Scarf, Canvas Boutique. Bag, Charming Charlie. Rings, vintage, heirloom, and/or thrifted.