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i've been in the hospital for the last 4 days - with raging high fever and horrible pain...i was diagnosed with both pneumonia and cellulitius . Cellulitus is a nasty bright red skin rash caused by a bacterial blood infection. i had 4 different antibiotics flowing through 7 different IVs (my veins kept blowing, rolling whatever they do)
so they let me come home today with orders for three days bedrest, lots more antibiotics, and then more bloodwork on monday when i see my doctor.
thanks for the flowers, gifts, cards, and visits.....i treasure them all.
i've missed my life and i've missed flickr. lots of catching up to do,
Comparison showing Mars decreasing in size and Earth moves further away from Mars in its orbit. Meade 12" LX200, ASI174MM
Keep moving, keep pressing forth.
Eyes forward ! Learn from the past but no looking back.
Stay present and connected to your
motivated heart.
No matter what happen or how long it takes., never give up.!!:-)
Exploring a local beach spot in the my city. I was surpised just how busy the location was that early on the in morning, not only was I competing with other photographers but morning swimmers (braver people then me swimming at -4 conditions). The shot wasn't all the inspiring due do conditions but, I hope perserverance paid off.
Another overlay.
A few of you seemed to like this one so I thought I'd upload it on its own.
Plus, I'm going to milk this pro account until it expires.
Which reminds me, I just realized, I won't have my stats anymore when it expires.
Poop.
I like my stats. ):
"-It was a strange feeling.
One she had not expected to have anytime soon.
For the longest time it had been out of sight, out of reach.
Just a tasteless dream that she would conjure up in her worst moments
to find her way back to the warmth of serenity.
-Sometimes she would lose herself in her memory,
struggling to find stories of a different time.
A time when things were opposite.
Smiles belonging to her peers, friends, family and herself
graced her mind with happier thoughts.
It was times like this that she was granted with another dose
of strength. perserverance. courage. and determination.
-When she heard the ring, the sound she had been waiting for,
the call she had been longing for, her breath caught.
It was hard to wrap her mind around something she thought would never come.
Her shoulders folded down in relief as a sigh escaped past her lips.
This was it.
This was her moment, her time, her freedom."
^ Poorly written, I know. But that came from my heart, and my own experience.
I want people to know, that no matter how far down in a rut you are,
no matter how hard life gets, no matter how much crap you have to go through
or deal with, freedom will always be there for you.
Things will get better. If it takes a week, a month, a year or two.
There is only one way to go from down, and that is up.
Freedom is always there. Sometimes you just have to fight a little harder for it.
Part of Day 1 in San Diego, taken from Coronado Island.
Sick as hell and still semi wet from La Jolla beach. Me and my buddy soldiered on to Coronado to shoot more pics. I think our perserverance paid off as we got some nice ones this night. Played with different tones and kinda like how this image came out.
Secret Thirteen: I don't really know anything about photography. Not the technical crap, anyway. I couldn't tell you what an f-stop is to save my life. But I'm learning. See, I'll prove it:
A few of the various things I've learnt photography wise this year:
- RAW is better. Except when dealing with chicken.
- ISO is all about sensitivity. And noise. The higher the number, the bigger the noise. Just like on the stereo.
- Shutter Speed is all about... quick shutter.
- When shooting in the garden, watch out for ants.
- Fill Flash is helpful. But it almost never helps carry things i.
- Zoom with care. Wider is better. Mostly.
- Neighbours laugh. Keep that in mind at all times. Especially when singing and shooting wattle.
- Light matters. In many ways. But mostly in the way of if you don't have it you can't shoot.
- Be careful when shooting into the sun. If you're not, you'll put your eyes out.
- Shooting by a window makes your skin look pretty. No, trust me. Go see. We'll wait.
- Don't rest the camera on a tall pile of books. Ever.
- Don't allow your brother to use the camera. Ever.
- The best way to annoy people is to use a flash. Repeatedly. Up close. While laughing. Manically.
- Spinning is fun.
- Reverse Lens is fun, but kind of sucks for the lens. And the sensor. And your back.
- Trial and error is the ONLY way.
- When shooting while walking, a bra is a good and handy place to keep the lenscap. Also your iPod, keys and a fiver. When there are no other options, of course.
- White Balance is fun.
- Depth of field is all well and good but clarity is also well and good.
- Good, sweepy music is a must.
- Don't take your photos from your camera. Use a doohickey.
- Water photography is fun. And wet. And colourful. And fun. I mentioned the fun, right? All it takes is practice and perserverance. Don't argue. I know what I'm talkin' 'bout.
- Eyes open at all times. See everything.
- You need to keep your sense of humour. You aren't all that. Even when you are.
- Flickr people are awesome. Every last one of them. Except for the ones that suck. I hate those guys.
Interestingness: December 30th, 2007 (204)
Taken from Coronado Island
Part of Day 1 in San Diego, sick as hell and still semi wet from La Jolla beach. Me and my buddy soldiered on to Coronado to shoot more pics. I think our perserverance paid off as we got some nice ones this night.
NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than planned. While the helicopter remains upright and in communication with ground controllers, imagery of its Jan. 18 flight sent to Earth this week indicates one or more of its rotor blades sustained damage during landing, and it is no longer capable of flight.
Originally designed as a technology demonstration to perform up to five experimental test flights over 30 days, the first aircraft on another world operated from the Martian surface for almost three years, performed 72 flights, and flew more than 14 times farther than planned while logging more than two hours of total flight time.
This enhanced color view of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was generated using data collected by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard the agency's Perseverance Mars rover on Aug. 2, 2023, the 871st Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The image was taken a day before the rotorcraft's 54th flight.
Image credit: NASA
#NASAMarshall #Perserverance #Mars2020Rover #Mars #Ingenuity #planet #MarsHelicopter
of course, when odin is visiting his finnish relatives in the upper penninsula of michigan, we're obligated to have odin wear his sisu shirt at least once, since sisu is a finnish word that means "stamina, perserverance, courage, and determination held in reserve for hard times".
at one point during the day odin enjoys having a very emotive "conversation" with his great aunt dolly.
he starts by wildly gesticulating about something that is obviously quite important and continues with a series of expressions make it hard not to imagine that he's having a grand time expressing himself.
Finally, I get this Volvo Citibus. On my 3 previous outings here, I was done by cloud twice, and the other time it did not show. However, perserverance pays off, and It is seen leaving Rhosili Road, Brackmills, Northampton. 11th February 2016
BV23 NUM, the second of the new pair to enter service did so on the 4th July, which was a gloomy old day.
The 5th was better, though after finishing work the clouds were challenging and several attempts failed, then cars bowled me when I did get a sunny break!
(The joys of photography!)
Perserverance won through, and I was fortunate enough to get NUP leapfrogging NUM on Cabell Road in decent sun.
Check out the sequel 'Attack of the killer lensbaby lomo spiderlings'
Legend has it that Robert the bruce* was inspired by the courage and perserverance of a spider spinning his web...
Should i take this discovery as the 'sign' i was recently asking for?
*although many people think thats a load of old b*llox and i even got the wrong Robbie when i first posted the pic... :)
These guys made their home on the numberplate of my car, their colouring is perfectly adapted for life there, feel free to adopt one
View Large On Black.... if you like
And once again, anyone know the ID?
*just added to the 'ID please' group
- Location: the isle of wight on the south coast of England
- Habitat: My car
There be wolves! Spent some time this morning watching no less than four of these magnificent wee beasties; reaffirmed the need for perserverance and the satisfaction of using manual focus even whilst handholding. Yay, go me! You can see why they got their name of Wolf spider though, as it was thought they hunted in packs; you never seem to find just one at a time.
Mars on October 23rd seeing was much better being slightly above average with average transparency to start which gradually worsened during the session. Still lots of dew to deal with. North is up and East is on the right in the image. Mare Sirenum is the prominent dark surface feature across the middle with Solis Lacus (The Eye of Mars) at 8 o'clock. Visible in this image at 9 o'clock just rotating out of view is Valles Marineris (Mariner Valley). Olympus Mons is visible in the north almost center. Not many clouds visible over Tharsis and the Tharsis volcanoes as on the 22nd. Clouds are also visible along the eastern and northern borders. Meade 12" LX200, ZWO ASI174MM
nicked from mr boast, tried something from the new book of irek on this, again outline colour too light for the fill n was the first time in trying this new direction...perserverance is key me thinks!
Since owning a DSLR ive been to this spot more than anywhere else i can think of but ive never really caught the river with a great reflection as the conditions were never right. Infact one time i witnessed an amazingly glassy river BUT it was when i was with Claire at a party in the Baltic :/
Anyway a few weeks ago i arranged to meet up with Dru, Mike & Allan to head up to the viewing platform at The Baltic then shoot around the quay but i was struck down with Man Flu so had to swap the quay for the sofa :[ That night they were served up with a river made from in the words of Dru 'Black Ice' and their photos were immense!
Fast forward 2 weeks and another jaunt was arranged but cancelled due to impending bad weather but at the last minute put back on... Unfortunately due to crossed wires only myself and Simon Lowe ended up making it and as i drove through the traffic i got a message saying hurry up, the rivers like a mirror!! Eventually i got theres and after a few shots near Pitcher & Piano we headed up to this spot so i could yet again attempt some shots from here, mainly the bridges shot which ive failed at a fair few times lol
In this shot i took 3 30 sec exposures which i stitched in CS6 Photomerge. After straightening i used Jimmy Mcintyre's Luminance Mask Actions to selectively adjust various parts of the scene such as the brightness of the lights and neon signs.
I could never get sick of the Quayside, so much to shoot there and even the same spot can yield so many different results.
Mars on Friday morning. with north up. The prominent feature in this image is Syrtis Major in the center pointing up. Mare Tyrrhenum is the dark feature to the left with Sinus Sabeaus on the right. The bright area with dark markings in it located below Syrtis Major is the Hellas Basin. It is one of the largest impact craters in the solar system. It is believed to have happened during the heavy bombardment period of the solar system and was either a protoplanet or large asteroid that hit. Clouds are visible on the left and northern edge. Meade 12" LX200, ZWO ASI174MM
BV23 NUM, the second of the new pair to enter service did so on the 4th July, which was a gloomy grey day. The 5th was better, though the clouds were challenging and several attempts failed, then some cars intervened when I finally got a sunny break!
(The joys of photography!)
Perserverance won through, and I eventually captured NUM on Cabell Road in decent sun.
Further attempts on the 6th also failed due to cloud, the 7th was a glorious cloudless day - but NUM took the day off!!
For some reason I struggled a lot with this image, just getting it level on the day was a nightmare. But I bit of perserverance paid off I think. Looking down the Cathedral from the main door to the organ. I wanted to get as much of this amazing roof in as possible.
Mars on October 1st 2020. Seeing was poor with average transparency, but I was able to resolve some surface features. The main feature visible on the planet is what looks like a check mark right in the center. The area in the "check mark" on the left is Sinus Meridiani and on the right is SInus Sabeaus. On the upper left edge of SInus Meridiani is where the rover Opportunity landed in 2004. On the left edge going up to the northern hood are bluish/white clouds. The bluish color comes from tiny ice crystals. Niliacus Lacus is rotating into view bottom left with Mare Erthyraeum top left. Meade 12" LX200, ZWO ASI174MM
Using an image of Mars that I captured on 2020-09-04 0911 UTC, I have marked the site of this afternoon's Perseverance landing.
ZWO ASI290MM
Meade LX850 (12" f/16)
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A Sequel to this image.
In this image, I wished to demonstrate the art of patience.
The model within this image appears trapped within a building, silently watching the balloons fly by, free. Yet by her very posture one may notice that she is calm, relaxed. Not at all worried by the very glass window by which she sits, keeping her captive, restricting her. Patience is a vital virtue, lacked by many. It is the very key to remaining steadfast, showing perseverance, and remaining strong in times of difficulty. Even when tasks seem never ending, stress becomes overloading and pressure becomes overbearing, patience is what keeps us going.
365 Project - Day 57
This photo was taken during the Saturday practice run of the 2013 Mavericks Invitational Surf Competition. The surfer in the photo is Jeff Clark, one of the men behind the magic of this competition, as he paddle surfs one of the Mavericks out at Pillar Point.
Thank you Jeff Clark for letting me come on this trip. And thank you flickr members, all who view.
Mars on Friday morning. This is the same as the other image on the same day but with south up to give a different perspective. The prominent feature in this image is Syrtis Major in the center pointing down. Mare Tyrrhenum is the dark feature to the right with Sinus Sabeaus on the left. The bright area with dark markings in it located above Syrtis Major is the Hellas Basin. It is one of the largest impact craters in the solar system. It is believed to have happened during the heavy bombardment period of the solar system and was either a protoplanet or large asteroid that hit. Clouds are visible on the left and northern edge. Meade 12" LX200, ZWO ASI174MM
The Great Famine or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. It is sometimes referred to, mostly outside Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine, because about two-fifths of the population was solely reliant on this cheap crop for a number of historical reasons. During the famine, approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%.
'Famine' (1997) was commissioned by Norma Smurfit and presented to the City of Dublin in 1997. The sculpture is a commemorative work dedicated to those Irish people forced to emigrate during the 19th century Irish Famine. The bronze sculptures were designed and crafted by Dublin sculptor Rowan Gillespie and are located on Custom House Quay in Dublin's Docklands.
This location is a particularly appropriate and historic as one of the first voyages of the Famine period was on the 'Perserverance' which sailed from Custom House Quay on St. Patrick's Day 1846. Captain William Scott, a native of the Shetland Isles, was a veteran of the Atlantic crossing, gave up his office job in New Brunswick to take the 'Perserverance' out of Dublin. He was 74 years old. The Steerage fare on the ship was £3 and 210 passengers made the historical journey. They landed in New York on the 18th May 1846. All passengers and crew survived the journey.
In June 2007, a second series of famine sculptures by Rowan Gillespie, was unveiled by President Mary McAleese on the quayside in Toronto's Ireland Park to remember the arrival of these refugees in Canada.
GB Railfreight Class 73 Nos. 73204 'Janice' and 73136 [E6043] 'Perserverance' arrive at Clapham Yard
I never realized the amount of effort it takes to play Nintendo Switch AND eat a banana at the same time. No wonder athletes get paid so much!
Coyote in snow, Yosemite NP, CA, USA
This animal belonged to a pack of four coyotes that I photographed extensively during the winter and spring of 1994. I called this one Ben. How he got his name is a long story—too long for this space—but Ben was my favorite coyote of this group.
One snowy winter day, after fetching my three-year-old son from preschool, I found coyote tracks in my driveway. I left my son with his mother, grabbed my camera gear, and followed the tracks, eventually finding Ben and one of the pack’s females curled up in the snow in Cook’s Meadow. Ben was lying on top of a log, and, being accustomed to my presence, barely looked up at my approach. After about half an hour he finally stood up, shook off the snow that had covered him, sat back down, and then stared at me briefly while I snapped this image. He and the female then trotted off through the snow.
Mars 0n September 13th. Dark features visible are Mare Cimmerium, Sinus Gomer (Looks like two fingers and is where the Mars lander Curiosity is located) and Mare Sirenum. On the edge at 2:30 position the volcano Olympus Mons is visible. South of that at 3:15 a cloud (also seen in the blue channel image) is visible over the volcano Arsia Mons. Some clouds also appear to be visible just south of Sinus Gomer at the 9:00 position. Just a little north and to the left of the south polar cap there appears to be some dust clouds visible. Meade 12" LX200, ASI174MM.
'Famine' (1997) was commissioned by Norma Smurfit and presented to the City of Dublin in 1997. The sculpture is a commemorative work dedicated to those Irish people forced to emigrate during the 19th century Irish Famine. The bronze sculptures were designed and crafted by Dublin sculptor Rowan Gillespie and are located on Custom House Quay in Dublin's Docklands.
This location is a particularly appropriate and historic as one of the first voyages of the Famine period was on the 'Perserverance' which sailed from Custom House Quay on St. Patrick's Day 1846. Captain William Scott, a native of the Shetland Isles, was a veteran of the Atlantic crossing, gave up his office job in New Brunswick to take the 'Perserverance' out of Dublin. He was 74 years old. The Steerage fare on the ship was £3 and 210 passengers made the historical journey. They landed in New York on the 18th May 1846. All passengers and crew survived the journey.
In June 2007, a second series of famine sculptures by Rowan Gillespie, was unveiled by President Mary McAleese on the quayside in Toronto's Ireland Park to remember the arrival of these refugees in Canada.
Students chant, “Go Perseverance!” during an event to announce the official name of the Mars 2020 rover, Thursday, March 5, 2020, at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Va. The final selection of the new name, Perseverance, was made by Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, following a nationwide naming contest conducted in 2019 that drew more than 28,000 essays by K-12 students from every U.S. state and territory. The rover is currently at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida being prepared for launch this summer.
Image credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
Junipers grow right out of the rock here and survive to fairly ancient age, in spite of the elemental forces arrayed against them - the epitome of perserverance in the face of adversity. One can sit in near one and breath the long, slow thoughts...
This is sort of an homage to Herr Summicron2020, someone who knows the value of a good midtone, for example: this and this.
Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic, Super-Takumar 1:1.8 55mm, Fuji 400 film. He tries, this little flower. The title could probably apply to film photography too. 😉
Steady persistence in adhering to a course of action, a belief, or a purpose
*Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other”
~Walter Elliot
Monday Photo Challenges and Thursday Retreads ~ This week"s challenge:
"shoot something commemorating, honoring or promoting Breast Cancer Awareness Month", in other words "Think Pink"!
For our daughters, sisters, mothers & women everywhere to stay the course & continue the vigilance. For more photos in this photo challenge group: www.flickr.com/groups/1091826@N21/pool/
One of my favorite pieces, I made it for my shop - www.sakuradancer.etsy.com.
The graceful koi represents perserverance in adversity and strength of purpose. In Japanese lore, the strongest koi swims upstream until it reaches the final waterfall, where it vaults into the mists and becomes a water dragon.
Bring the grace of koi into your life with this amazing one of a kind piece!
-- Design --
Over a hundred red and white petals are folded together in the traditional tsumami ("pinching") fashion to create this elegant koi. A glittering swarovski crystal eye is perched atop silver cord.