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Something's been stripped, it's memories I think, it's moments built and brought down to boards, never replaced with new ones. Every house has that skeleton potential, built up from bones until it looks like home again. All the lath has lost her plaster, but you can still see signs of heart. Someone chose this bright lime green, and ringed the doors with it. They said: "This will make me happy when the job's all done," then sat back and didn't even mind watching it dry. These are slow, slow rooms, with a fast, blurred world gone rushing outside. The spin of the sun a thousand times over, each passing car at pavement speed, no slowing. What's new in here, not at all – nothing doing and in no hurry at it. Sometimes I think there's countless reasons why all good things should last forever. But if we were immortal, we'd be bored by now, and out of space besides. History has value because we lose 99% of it, so you won't catch me complaining what goes. I only inhabit a moment, on my own way out of the picture.
October 13, 2021
Digby County, Nova Scotia
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On April 8, 2024 the United Sates will once again have the potential of witnessing another Total Solar Eclipse (TSE). Arguably one of the most incredible astronomical events a person can witness, weather permitting, millions of folks are within the path of totality and as such it may become the most watched celestial event in history.
With the path of totality in the US stretching from Texas to Maine, along the way it passes over several large cities.
Weather permitting those outside the path of totality will witness a partial solar eclipse however those within it will experience an event like none other. For several precious minutes, as the Moon completely covers the visible surface of the Sun, the effects are simply spectacular!
The images in attached composite illustrate some of these effects, from the Sun's corona & steamers shown at left to the Bailey's Beads and the reddish chromosphere with it's massive solar prominences at right.
The last time the US experienced such an event was on August 21, 2017. In that case the path went from the northwest to the southeast and so some of my friends and I travelled to the Snake River Plain in the high desserts of Idaho. Although many areas in that part of the country were affected by the smoke of the terrible wildfires at the time, we were fortunate to experience perfectly clear skies at our location.
Utilizing a Star Adventurer tracking mount to carry an Orion ED80T CF Triplet Apochromatic Refractor connected to a Canon 700D DSLR whose exposure sequence was controlled by a windows laptop, we were able to enjoy the eclipse visually while the imaging rig took dozens of images, including those attached. The right hand image is a single frame, while that at left is an HDR composite of a sequence of exposures of various lengths. Created using a variety of processes in PixInsight & PaintShopPro; as presented here the attached composite has been resized down to HD resolution and the bit depth has been reduced to 8 bits per channel.
Additional images of this and other eclipses, including a time lapse of the 2017 TSE, can be found in the album at the link attached here:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/albums/7215760575...
Although the weather in this part of the US during April is far from ideal, since the path of totality for the 2024 TSE passes with an hour of my home here in upstate, NY I'm hoping it will be a repeat of today's forecasts, bringing us perfectly clear skies the entire day !
Wishing clear skies & happy eclipse chasing to all !
I saw this very beautiful young woman at a wedding reception and instantly snapped a picture of her. She has this amazing beauty on her as you can see ;-)
"Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being."
- Charles Dudley Warner
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The view that a salesperson would have from inside this branch of a well-known mobile phone vendor, here at Bristol's Cabot Circus shopping centre on Sunday 19th July 2015.
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Arriving at the lake for a couple of days, we unpacked while thunderstorms just missed us. I had to take pictures of the amazing clouds, of course.
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There weren't any actual tornodos that day, but the tiny fingers of clouds spreading out from the bottom of this storm are what usually form into twisters.
Katepwa Lake, Saskatchewan
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Looks like some of these clouds have space ship potential, but not quite up to the standard of those up in Nairnshire.
“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'” - George Bernard Shaw
[This image depicts very much how I've been feeling lately. Which is to say like I've been pushing myself harder than ever in this past...six...nine? months or so--to really reach for the potential I feel is there. I'll jump, soar, crawl, shimmy, and dance my way to where I want to be as an artist.
Have I mentioned how much fun I've been having lately? If not, it's a lot. A lot of fun!]
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Macquarie St, Liverpool not the city!
A quick shot from Liverpool. I know this shot has potential. Fog / mist would set it off.
Potentially not an official conversion! This was re-registered in 1991 so carries a newer reg mark, possibly due to it moving to an owner in a new region at that time.
Day 1 of 365 babe-a-licious photos!
Yesterday during this photo shoot, a homeless man approached me and asked for change. Personally I’d rather give a homeless person food or clothing more willingly than potential drug money. But in this case it didn’t matter because I didn’t have any change anyway.
So when dude asks for change. I tell him,
“I just threw all my change in the wishing well down the street man”.
Now why I said that I don’t know. Because I didn’t have change when he asked and I didn’t have change when the babe asked 10 minutes prior when we were actually at the wishing well. I should have just said, “no” to this guy.
But for some reason I think I owe this dude an explanation of my “no” answer. Come to think of it, I think I explain my yes or no answers more than I should in my life in general. I need to stop doing that. If an explanation is needed, they can just fucking ask.
At any rate as I’m walking away from dude with my superfluous lying excuse for leaving him changeless, Chloe blurts responds to my blurb with,
“Daddy you didn’t put your change in the wishing well at all!”
Of course making me look like a total lying cheap asshole.
February 14th, 2010
Harley Davidson motorcycle shot using Leica M3, Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm ZM, Ilford FP4+ and developed in Ilfotec HC 31-1 8min
...Druimuachdar done. The summit reached and the "Cathedrals Explorer" heading for Inverness on 10th May 2014. (Please view F11 in lightbox for intended best.)
Meet Wiseacres Starkissed Tuna — a stunning traditional seal bicolor Ragdoll kitten for sale with show-stopping looks and a heart full of charm.
This handsome boy loves to be the center of attention and is already showing the confidence of a rising star! Starkissed has striking blue eyes, beautifully balanced markings, and a gentle, affectionate personality that makes him an ideal family companion.
His impressive pedigree includes his grandfather, our exceptional Swedish import, Lil’ Magics Sabaton. Show-quality potential.
Just North of Benavente on the side of Motorway A-6 there is a huge scrap yard complex. Waiting for to be scrapped or for a buyer who allows a (partial) second live: thousands of trucks, vans, cars, sand trucks, cranes, agriculture machinery etc etc. are lined up in the dry and sandy countryside.
I've never seen such a big area of inactive vehicles.
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I found this view on Google Earth View. It gives you an impression of the gigantic dimensions of this scrap yard site.
San Cristóbal de Entreviñas (Zamora, Sp.), North of Benavente, Carretera N-VI, Summer 2018.
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Looking southwards across Peppermint Bay near Woodbridge, south of Hobart, Tasmania. A handy site for aurora viewing.
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Walking over the roaches and this old house caught my eye, in this shot im standing with my back to a telephone post! which i can say was a pain every angle i wanted it was in the way.
I'm in the middle of a food tour of Italy, in the Piemonte region, right now, and have not had a chance to post any photos with all the wonderful treks and activities we've been doing.
We're staying in the middle of the region where they grow nebboilo grapes for my favorite wine - Barolo! It takes a few years before a Barolo can be released, and aging it even longer makes it even better! A fine wine for cellaring!
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You know it's a tragedy when you use to write paragraphs on how you feel because it was all so somewhat manageable, going from that to not knowing where to start because you feel too much at once is extremely unsettling for me.
Unrealized Potential
Tonight's sunset had the opportunity to be something special but it backed out at the last minute.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, Foreign, no. 1522/2, 1927-1928. Photo: Paramount / Parufamet. Publicity still for The Freshman (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1925).
American actor, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer Harold Lloyd (1893-1971) is best known for his silent comedies. He ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the three most popular and influential comedians of silent film. Between 1914 and 1947, Lloyd made nearly 200 comedies, often as a bespectacled 'Glass' character, a resourceful, success-seeking go-getter who was perfectly in tune with the 1920s-era United States. His films frequently contained 'thrill sequences' of extended chase scenes and daredevil physical feats. A classic is Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street in Safety Last! (1923).
Harold Clayton Lloyd was born in 1893 in Burchard, Nebraska, the son of James Darsie Lloyd and Sarah Elisabeth Fraser. In 1910, after his father had several business ventures fail, Lloyd's parents divorced and his father moved with his son to San Diego, California. Lloyd had acted in theatre since a child, and in San Diego, he received his stage training at the School of Dramatic Art and began acting in one-reel film comedies around 1912. Lloyd worked with Thomas Edison's motion picture company, and his first role was a bit part as a Yaqui Indian in The Old Monk's Tale (J. Searle Dawley, 1913). At the age of 20, Lloyd moved to Los Angeles and took up roles in several Keystone comedies. He was also hired by Universal Studios as an extra . Lloyd began collaborating with his friend Hal Roach who had formed his own studio in 1913. They created Will E. Work and then Lonesome Luke, variations of Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp character. In 1914, Lloyd hired Bebe Daniels as a supporting actress. The two were involved romantically and were known as The Boy and The Girl. In 1919, she left him after it became apparent he was unable to make a commitment, and she pursued her dramatic aspirations. Later that year, Lloyd replaced Daniels with Mildred Davis, whom he would marry in 1923. By 1918, Lloyd and Roach had begun to develop a new character beyond an imitation of his contemporaries. Harold Lloyd would move away from tragicomic personas, and portray an everyman with unwavering confidence and optimism. The persona Lloyd referred to as his 'Glass' character was a much more mature comedy character with greater potential for sympathy and emotional depth and was easy for audiences of the time to identify with. To create his new character Lloyd donned a pair of lensless horn-rimmed eyeglasses but wore normal clothing. Previously, he had worn a fake moustache and ill-fitting clothes as the Chaplinesque Lonesome Luke. In August 1919, while posing for some promotional still photographs in the Los Angeles Witzel Photography Studio, he was seriously injured holding a prop bomb thought merely to be a smoke pot. It exploded and mangled his right hand, causing him to lose a thumb and forefinger. The blast was severe enough that the cameraman and prop director nearby were also seriously injured. Lloyd was in the act of lighting a cigarette from the fuse of the bomb when it exploded, also badly burning his face and chest and injuring his eye. Despite the proximity of the blast to his face, he retained his sight.
Beginning in 1921, Harold Lloyd and Hal Roach moved from shorts to feature-length comedies. These included the acclaimed Grandma's Boy, which pioneered the combination of complex character development and film comedy, and the highly popular Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1923), which cemented Lloyd's stardom, and Why Worry? (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1923). Lloyd and Roach parted ways in 1924, and Lloyd became the independent producer of his own films. These included his most accomplished mature features Girl Shy (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1924), The Freshman (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1925) - his highest-grossing silent feature, The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe, 1927), and Speedy (Ted Wilde, 1928), his final silent film. Welcome Danger (Clyde Bruckman, 1929) was originally a silent film but Lloyd decided late in the production to remake it with dialogue. All of these films were enormously successful and profitable, and Lloyd would eventually become the highest-paid film performer of the 1920s. Although Lloyd's individual films were not as commercially successful as Chaplin's on average, he was far more prolific (releasing 12 feature films in the 1920s while Chaplin released just four) and made more money overall ($15.7 million than Chaplin's $10.5 million). The huge financial success of Welcome Danger proved that audiences were eager to hear Lloyd's voice on film. Lloyd's rate of film releases, which had been one or two a year in the 1920s, slowed to about one every two years until 1938. The films released during this period were: Feet First (Clyde Bruckman, 1930), with a similar scenario to Safety Last which found him clinging to a skyscraper at the climax; Movie Crazy (Clyde Bruckman, 1932) with Constance Cummings; The Cat's-Paw (Sam Taylor, 1934), which was a dark political comedy and a big departure for Lloyd; and The Milky Way (Leo McCarey, 1936), which was Lloyd's only attempt at the fashionable genre of the screwball comedy film. However, his go-getting screen character was out of touch with the Great Depression movie audiences of the 1930s. As the length of time between his film releases increased, his popularity declined, as did the fortunes of his production company. His final film of the decade, Professor Beware (Elliott Nugent, 1938), was made by the Paramount staff, with Lloyd functioning only as actor and partial financier.
In 1937, Harold Lloyd sold the land of his studio, Harold Lloyd Motion Picture Company, to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The location is now the site of the Los Angeles California Temple. Lloyd produced two comedies for RKO, A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (Richard Wallace, 1941) with Lucille Ball, and a Kay Kyser vehicle, My Favorite Spy (Tay Garnett, 1942) which must have looked good on paper but went nowhere at the box office. He retired from the screen until an additional starring appearance in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (Preston Sturges, 1947), an ill-fated homage to Lloyd's career, financed by Howard Hughes. This film had the inspired idea of following Harold's Jazz Age, the optimistic character from The Freshman into the Great Depression years. Diddlebock opened with footage from The Freshman (for which Lloyd was paid a royalty of $50,000, matching his actor's fee) and Lloyd was sufficiently youthful-looking to match the older scenes quite well. Lloyd and Sturges had different conceptions of the material and fought frequently during the shoot. The finished film was released briefly in 1947, then shelved by producer Hughes. Hughes issued a recut version of the film in 1951 through RKO under the title Mad Wednesday. Lloyd sued Howard Hughes, the California Corporation and RKO for damages to his reputation "as an outstanding motion picture star and personality", eventually accepting a $30,000 settlement. In October 1944, Lloyd emerged as the director and host of The Old Gold Comedy Theater, an NBC radio anthology series, after Preston Sturges, who had turned the job down, recommended him for it. The show presented half-hour radio adaptations of recently successful film comedies, beginning with Palm Beach Story with Claudette Colbert and Robert Young and ending in June 1945 with an adaptation of Tom, Dick and Harry, featuring June Allyson. The show was not renewed for the following season.
Harold Lloyd remained involved in a number of other interests, including civic and charity work. He appeared as himself on several television shows during his retirement, such as Ed Sullivan's variety show Toast of the Town (1949 and 1958). He appeared as the Mystery Guest on What's My Line? (1953), and twice on This Is Your Life: in 1954 for Mack Sennett, and again in 1955, on his own episode. In 1953, Lloyd received an Academy Honorary Award for being a "master comedian and good citizen". He studied colours and microscopy, and was very involved with photography, including 3D photography and colour film experiments. He became known for his nude photographs of models, such as Bettie Page and stripper Dixie Evans, for a number of men's magazines. He also took photos of Marilyn Monroe lounging at his pool in a bathing suit, which were published after her death. In 2004, his granddaughter Suzanne produced a book of selections from his photographs, Harold Lloyd's Hollywood Nudes in 3D! Lloyd also provided encouragement and support for a number of younger actors, such as Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner, and particularly Jack Lemmon, whom Harold declared as his own choice to play him in a movie of his life and work. In the early 1960s, Lloyd produced two compilation films, featuring scenes from his old comedies, Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy (Harold Lloyd, 1962) and The Funny Side of Life (Harry Kerwin, 1963). The first film was premiered at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, where Lloyd was fêted as a major rediscovery. The renewed interest in Lloyd helped restore his status among film historians. Lloyd and Mildred Davis had two children together: Gloria Lloyd (1923–2012) and Harold Clayton Lloyd Jr. (1931–1971). They also adopted Gloria Freeman (1924–1986) in 1930, whom they renamed Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd but was known as Peggy for most of her life. Lloyd discouraged Davis from continuing her acting career. He later relented but by that time her career momentum was lost. Davis died from a heart attack in 1969, two years before Lloyd died at age 77 from prostate cancer, at his Greenacres home in Beverly Hills, California. He was interred in a crypt in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. In 1990, Kevin Brownlow and David Gill produced the documentary, Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius. Composer Carl Davis wrote a new score for Safety Last! which he performed live during a showing of the film with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to great acclaim in 1993. The Brownlow and Gill documentary created a renewed interest in Lloyd's work in the United States, but the films were largely unavailable. Criterion Collection has since acquired the home video rights to the Lloyd Library, and has released Safety Last!, The Freshman, and Speedy.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
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I just can't seem to stay awake tonight.... I'll get to your photos tomorrow :)