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This is a shot I took, before I took the first "Partners" photo i posted. I think I went a little to electric with the HDR process on this compared to the first, I've been experimenting with some filters.
Please, I would love some constructive criticism. So leave some feedback.
Truck : Daf XF 95 SC (B) with glass semi-trailer
Company : Glass Partners Transports from B-5190 Jemeppe-sur-Sambre
Date : 27/04/2011
Location : motorway A 6 (France)
I had trouble deciding on which version to use,but I do like this one with the old Ford tractor in the background.
But you don't see an orange car too often...
I have a love/hate relationship with rainy days at Walt Disney World. I hate them, because I feel like I could be doing something more productive. I love them, because it gives me a break from sweating through my underwear.
Really love the sky in this photo. On a side note, I'm planning on booking another trip sometime soon and need the help of Flickr and Disney Geeks alike. Should I make a fifth trip to the World, my first to Disneyland, or a land and sea combo with a Disney Cruise?
Thanks, for clicking.
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Magic Kingdom
Mickey Mouse
HDR
Orlando, FL
...after the hairstylist :-)
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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.
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This composition was deliberately done but it wasn't the intention if you can follow me. I've been chasing my 'Partners' shot for a couple of trips now and I still haven't really got it. I like some elements of this, but I once read some advice from Susan (Kiki FL) that you should get the whole subject in and not crop their legs off. I think this is sound advice and thats what I wanted to do. But I suppose when you try to shoot this in the afternoon during Christmas season, you're always going to get people in it. I got one that was close with the exception of a womans head, so in the end, I'm posting this one.
What I do like is the DoF and the sunlight on Walt and Mickey. The close composition gives it a more personal feel too. But I promise you - I'm still after this shot and don't even mention the night version, lol.
Truck : Volvo FH 2 GL (B) with glass semi-trailer
Company : Glass Partners Transports from B-5190 JEMEPPE-SUR-SAMBRE
Date : 31/08/2006
Location : motorway A 6 (France)
Shot after closing, this is another HDR that I tried to not make "HDR", and I think that went rather well. I shot this using my gorillapod, so the camera is like 6 inches off the ground. I think people walking by didnt even realize I was standing around for a reason as my camera was basically out of sight. I had hoped to take one more exposure, around 5 minutes, but was interupted by Disneyland Security around 12:35am. Apparently I was standing in their meeting spot and got shooed away so they could discuss whatever it is that nighttime security discusses.
This one is a composite of seven shots, with the brightest one being an exposure boosted RAW. This HDR was then merged with the photo that had my favorite color of sky for a proper photo. I toned down the warm a little bit so the castle would stand out more, and cropped it down to bring the benches and castle into focus.
This photo has also been submitted to KarmaCritic (which links back to my flickr page), I would encourage anyone here that wants more feedback on their photos to submit their work there: www.karmacritic.com/content/partners-night
I took this Christmas morning, we were sure to be in the Magic Kingdom at opening (7 am) and I was able to snap this one as we headed to New Fantasyland. Thanks for looking.
Dear partner! This is my miniquilt top I made for you. It is almost done and I hope you like it somehow....The light frame is natural colored linen- the foto is not to good - in day light it looks much better.
Sept. 27, 2015
New York City, NY
The USAID Signature Event highlighted the strategic and transformational partnerships through which the global community can end extreme poverty, complete the unfinished business of the MDGs, and achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Complemented by a “Marketplace for Entrepreneurs and Innovators,” the event featured presentations from USAID partners who have achieved ground-breaking results (or who have shown the potential to achieve transformational results) and individuals who have benefited from these partnerships.
Photos by Ellie Van Houtte, USAID
Built in 1912-1913, this Arts and Crafts-style hotel was designed by Fred Loring Seeley for Edwin Wiley Grove, and is known as the Grove Park Inn. Edwin Wiley Grove, whom had made his fortune selling Grove's Chill Tonic, used to help relieve symptoms brought on by malaria that was then endemic to the southern and midwestern United States, manufactured by his company, the Paris Medicine Company, which originated in Paris, Tennessee, before moving its operations to the larger city of St. Louis, Missouri. Grove had a summer house in Asheville, built circa 1897, prior to the construction of the inn, with Fred Loring Seeley, his son-in-law and business partner, having spent extensive time in the area with Grove and his wife, Evelyn Grove Seeley. The land upon which the hotel and nearby Kimberly Avenue neighborhood was later built was purchased by Grove in 1910, acquiring land all the way to the top of Sunset Mountain, as well as several tuberculosis sanatariums that Grove closed and demolished in order to change the reputation of Asheville’s health-focused resorts. Part of the land, atop Sunset Mountain, later became home to Seeley’s Castle, a large, Tudor Revival-style castle-like mansion built similarly of rough stone, and also designed by Seeley, but featuring more medieval appearance. The hotel went through several designs by various professional architects before Grove settled upon a design by Fred Loring Seeley, which featured a simple facade clad in rough granite stones, with a shingled cotswold cottage-style roof with dormers and curved edges, casement windows, and an all-concrete interior structure. The interior of the building was outfitted with Arts and Crafts furnishings and finishes designed and built by Roycrofters, a firm based in East Aurora, New York, and was opened in a ceremony with William Jennings Bryan as the keynote speaker. The hotel featured a large dining room in the northwest wing, with a tile floor and simple plaster walls, which sat next to the hotel’s original service wing, which housed the kitchen, laundry, and other service areas, a large Great Hall, serving as a lobby and lounge, in the center wing, with stone columns and massive stone fireplaces, a plaster ceiling, and a tile floor, and guest rooms on the upper floors, with a large atrium, known as the Palm Court, directly above the Great Hall, and four stories in height, crowned with a large skylight. The hotel was marketed as a health-conscious retreat for wealthy visitors. The hotel has hosted former United States Presidents William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama in its over century-long history. The hotel was utilized during World War II to house diplomats from the Axis Powers, and later by the US Navy as a rest and rehabilitation center for returning sailors, and in 1944-45, as a US Army Redistribution Station, where soldiers rested before being assigned duties in other parts of the army. Following World War II, contingency plans in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States involved moving the US Supreme Court to the Hotel, as Asheville sat far inland in the midst of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a far more defensible location than many major cities, and had very little strategic value compared to most cities of its size. In 1955, the hotel was purchased by Sammons Enterprises, owned by Charles Sammons, and underwent a modernization, seeing the stone columns in the lobby stripped and clad in aqua-colored vinyl wallpaper, the addition of a pool to the southeast terrace, a large two-story concrete motel structure that sat southeast of the hotel along the hillside, and later, the addition of a wing to the southwest, which appears to have only lasted about a decade and a half before being demolished. In 1976, the Sammons family purchased the adjacent Asheville Country Club and Golf Course, before embarking on a major renovation and expansion of the hotel between 1982 and 1988, with the addition of the massive Vanderbilt Wing and Sammons Wing on the south facade of the building, obscuring the original service wing, northwest wing, and heavily altering the hotel’s appearance with their white EIFS-clad facades, postmodern rooflines based on the original hotel, bands of horizontal and vertical black-tinted glass curtain walls, and minimal usage of rough stone. The Sammons Wing contains conference spaces, a parking garage, and service areas for the hotel, with guest rooms along the southern and western edges of the building, with the Vanderbilt Wing containing hotel rooms along the southern and eastern edges of the building, wrapping around a central parking garage, and also containing a large multi-story atrium and restaurants. The original wing of the hotel was restored as part of this project, with the columns in the lobby being clad in oak surrounds, the stonework and roof being repaired, the palm court being brought back to its original appearance, and furnishings from the period of significance for the hotel being re-introduced to the interior. Around the turn of the millennium, the grounds in front of the historic inn and between the two modern wings was re-landscaped with waterfalls, terraces, and gardens, with a new Spa building being constructed below the hotel, partially underground, between the two wings, with the two previous swimming pools on the hotel grounds being closed at this time. In 2012, the hotel was purchased by KSL Resorts for $120 million, whom subsequently sold it to Omni Hotels in 2013, with the hotel being rebranded as The Omni Grove Park Inn. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, though this would not have been possible following the massive alterations the building underwent in the 1980s, as the renovations have significantly and irreversibly altered the historic hotel, and have removed several character-defining features, though this is understandable in that it was done to keep the hotel economically viable in the modern age of larger resorts and economies of scale, which made the hotel in its previous form no longer economically viable.
Partners statue at Magic Kingdom on an Early Magic Hours entrance. Framed and hung this picture in my baby daughters room.
Commissioned in March 1995 as part of a three-phase upgrade of existing facilities. By Sir Norman Foster and Partners, 1997. Upgrade completed in 30 months at a cost of £38 million. External appearance is said to derive from internal planning, which 'wraps' accommodation in a series of layers around the auditorium. Roof form consists of eight aluminium-clad shells. Accommodates 3,029 conference delegates on three tiered levels. Covered using 10,600 square metres of aluminium standing seam roofing sheets, laid to natural curve of 38 metres radius. The 0.9mm gauge sheets made from a stucco embossed and clad aluminium alloy. Uses KAL-ZIP aluminium roofing from Hoogovens, whereby sheets are installed using concealed fixing clips, then 'zipped' together by a seam-rolling machine.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (July 7, 2022) - A Royal Australian Navy diver jumps out of an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC-21) at a helicopter rope suspension technique (HRST)/cast training event during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022 in Southern California. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, four submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Benjamin Lewis) 220707-N-TR141-1104
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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.