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Our late winter break in Tenerife was a bit different this year. The weather was forecast to break the day we arrived – and it did! Rain wasn’t the problem it was gale force winds – the same winds that caused the dust storms in Africa that caused the pollution and sand in the UK. We have witnessed gales in Tenerife before but this was worse than we’d seen it in the past . The palm trees were bending, the sand drifting like snow and the sea was raging. We usually walk around 150 miles on a ten day break but for five days we just walked with a brief spell on the beach, then the gales came back. We covered 22 miles some days and totalled 192 miles, not bad for a beach holiday. In some of the photos it looks stunning but look at the tops of the palm trees, like inside out umbrellas, the beach beds are empty and the waves were up to ten feet high and smashing thirty feet in the air. For five days everyone stood taking photos of the sea. For two days all boats stayed in harbour, only the big ferries sailed, there wasn’t a thing at sea, not even the surfers, we’ve never known that happen before. To add to this jellyfish in their hundred were washing up on shore and there was a severe risk of a burn from them. Even when red flags were flying and flags warning about the jellyfish were up the occasional nutter would go in the water and some people took staggering risks with their children including one couple with a baby, dangling it over the waves, just to get a photo, playing chicken as monster waves crashed in.
One day I had to catch my club sandwich as it went flying from my plate in the wind, empty glasses slid off the table and seat cushions went cartwheeling down the pavement. A couple of days were dull and cool but the menacing clouds made impressive photos, the sea was like a boiling cauldron. We did have days of beautiful weather as well, the second half of the holiday was normal sunny Tenerife. I haven’t hired a car for ages on Tenerife, it adds a degree of hassle to – what is supposed to be – a sun and relax holiday so again we didn’t go up El Teide. Next time perhaps. I took my racing bike once just to cycle from sea level to 8000 feet nonstop – twice! it’s a seventy mile round trip and a long drag to the top. On the way home we had to make an emergency landing in Dublin, fire tenders with foam jets pointing at us, unfortunately I was facing the setting sun and couldn’t take photos as the sun was shining straight through the window. Seven and a half hours on the plane, not much fun.
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The problem with America -- at least from my experiences on a few road trips -- is that almost all lake- and ocean-front land is privately owned. This makes it very hard to actually get down to the waterfront to take photos -- and nearly every lake is ringed with trees, so you really do want to get as close to the water as possible.
In this case, we turned off the main road, skidded down a snowy track, and stumbled across a tiny shack. An old lady lived there with her dog. We knocked on her door and asked if we could go down to the water and take some photos. This is one of them. (I have a lot...) We're meant to send her some photos, when I'm done sorting through them.
Check out how still the water is. It's easy to see why the nearby Lake Placid is named thus. The other thing worth noting is that it was COMPLETELY silent. No wind, no bird song, nothing. If I held my breath, there was a complete cessation of noise. Very weird.
This is Piesco Lake.
BLE #904 South holds short of the grade crossing at Waldo with U-797. The radio control switch at Waldo would not clear and the conductor tried for 20 minutes to get it to clear to no avail. After the dispatcher talked them through the red, the crew was able to complete their run down the hill into Two Harbors.
Hamburg has a „refugee problem“? No, Hamburg has a housing problem. For decades real estate developers and politicians have treated our cities as if mainly high earners inhabited them, as if people with low income and the homeless had no right to the city – and as if the worldwide flows of forced migration weren’t able to reach Europe. The arrival of more than one million refugees fleeing war, poverty and terror has clearified that this way of city-planning is irresponsible. Suddenly it becomes clear that a policy that has constantly feared „ghettoisation“ when it comes to social housing will fail to cope with the historic challenges of our time. The neoliberal city has been unable to develop concepts for good, affordable and sustainable housing, it has turned the social housing scheme into a subsidy-scheme for investors – and all this lapses have come back to bite. Now it’s high time to talk about new ways to continue building our cities.
Thus, on May 28 we call for a parade of choreographed blocks, leading into a public hearing under the motto „A different planning is possible“. We will start at Karolinenplatz / Messehallen, following a suggestion of the Hamburg Chamber of Architects: Why does Hamburg need an exhibition center, unused for most of the year, in such a central location? How about moving it to outskirts and reusing the exhibition site? We end our parade at the square in front of the empty Axel Springer-house – a former editorial building of 90.000 square meter that would make a perfect example for a different kind of planning, the right place for a public hearing to debate on a city in which ‚higher and more’ does not only benefit those who can afford it.
What we need is a planning that includes platforms of access and mediation and brings together the new neighbourhoods, a planning which organises a sustainable form of social housing by bringing cooperatives and new forms of communalisation
into the game – instead of encouraging privatisation of public space for the benefit of the real estate sector under the premise of building new housing for refugees. Last but not least, we need a perspective on housing, where origin and status do not matter.
We will not leave the city to the Not-in-my-Backyard-citizens, who instinctively demonise the planned arrival-quarters as „ghettos“. Furthermore, we don’t believe that the deportation campaign, promoted by the governing Social Democratic and
Green Party – affecting hundreds of people every month – produces any relief. Instead, it is a cruel attempt, doomed to failure, to appease right-wing sentiments. Therefore, we also call for the manifestation „Migration is a Right! Deportation is a Crime!“ that takes place on May 14.
We believe that city has no upper limits. Newcomers don’t remain strange in cities.
Densification is the essence of the city – it produces spaces, provides chances and makes us all smarter.
Right to the City Network & Never Mind the Papers
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Girls already cooling their feet in the Vancouver Art Gallery water fountain have bottle pointed out to them by their friend, sitting down.
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"La Integración, tarea de todos".
El Partido Popular de Navarra, concienciado con la sociedad navarra y con los problemas actuales que le afectan, y las distintas sensibilidades que viven en Navarra, organizó el 31 de mayo de 2010 una jornada sobre Inmigración, en la que contó con la inestimable colaboración de la Federación Casa de las Naciones, que aglutina a la mayoría de colectivos y nacionalidades que viven en nuestra Comunidad.
La jornada se dividó en dos mesas redondas, una bajo el punto de vista del inmigrante que llega a nuestra comunidad, los problemas que encuentra y sus experiencias, y la otra desde el punto de vista de la comunidad de acogida, en este caso Navarra.
En la primera mesa redonda, ‘La mirada del que llega, sensaciones y sentimientos’,
estuvieron inmigrantes procedentes de diferentes partes del mundo:
- Mustapha Hdidane, mediador intercultural del Magreb;
- Evelyn Trujillo, presidenta de la Federación Casa de las Naciones, de Latinoamérica;
- Fimber Ugorji, representante de la Comunidad Nigeriana en Navarra, de África;
- Ciprian Artene, presidente de la Asociación de Rumanos ‘Roman Unitiva’, de Europa del Este;
- y Víctor Sáez, presidente de la FERINE, en representación de la Inmigración Estatal.
La mesa fue moderada por Javier Trigo, concejal del PPN en el Valle de Egüés.
La segunda mesa, ‘Claves para la convivencia, derechos y deberes’, estuvo Rafael Hernando, portavoz de inmigración del Partido Popular en el Congreso de los Diputados; María Jesús Vicente, de la Oficina de Atención al Inmigrante; Miguel Laparra, experto en temas migratorios de la UPNA y un representante de la Policía de Extranjería. La moderadora será Liliana Ruiz, de la Federación Casa de las Naciones.
A continuación habrá un coloquio y después se servirá un aperitivo.
La jornada, que tuvo en el Salón Social de la Ciudad Deportiva de Sarriguren, fue organizada por la Junta Local del PPN en el Valle de Egüés, y la Federación Casa de las Naciones, y cuenta también con la colaboración del Ayuntamiento del Valle de Egüés y Renfe.
Lugar: Sarriguren, Valle de Egüés (Navarra)
Charging towards Chicago under the cover of darkness, one of the two P42's developed some engine problems while traversing the Rockies. As a result, a third locomotive had to be added in Denver. Whilst leaving the station, the newly added locomotive put on an incredible smokeshow.
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Hard to tell if the dog is dark blue or black, even looking at the nose and eyes doesn't help in this photo. This male American Pit Bull Terrier is suffering from mange, either demodectic or scabies.
This dog has three days to be claimed by owner or a valid 501c3 rescue or it will be killed/euthanized as this Houston facility does not adopt pit bulls or pit bull mixes to the public.
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Soon before my twenty-first birthday, I quit my job with the cable company. It was the first full-time work I'd ever had, and for three years up to that point, I'd woken up every morning a little lower on a steady downward spiral. I came home from that last day with no income, no prospects, no transportation, and barely enough hope to get out of bed in the morning. I'd never left my childhood home; still sleeping in the same room as always, and feeling like I was walking backwards to a basement with one bare bulb finally burned out. Claiming I was fasting for spiritual reasons, I didn't eat for days at a time – and ended up more than twenty pounds underweight. That's a lot for a skinny guy. I showered sporadically, and took only the most minimal care of me. The summer of 2008 was the darkest of my life.
The only thing keeping me going was my daily journal. I'd started out a few months earlier, in November 2007, when I began to write and photograph this reflection of my everyday life. At the time, I felt so clearly that it was the only meaningful thing I'd ever accomplished. Even if all I managed to write was some short poem or a couple quick lines of prose – or if my only photo was from the woods out back – putting another link in the unbroken chain kept me convinced that I wasn't a waste. I had established a tiny online audience of dozens at best, which barely grew for years to come. But the gratitude I have for their kindness is beyond my capacity to explain. Wherever they all went, I wish them the best. They saved my life.
I never had the confidence to explain my state of mind when I was younger. There are countless reasons why someone might want to be an artist, but mine were all about one thing – learning how to get the darkness across. Like most families, mine never really took to talking about mental illness. If you were still functional despite your struggles, you'd be labelled a complainer for bringing it up. If things were bad enough to leave you at rock bottom, you'd end up as a project or a problem to solve. I'd seen both among my relatives, and wasn't eager to be either. I lost a lot of pride to be seen as lazy or useless while I pulled myself up off the floor, but I couldn't handle being a victim in anyone's eyes. If you sort all my writing by the most common words used, near the top would be "hope". That just about says it all.
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This Home Depot was closed in 2008. One problem this Home Depot had was that it was built right next to the local Lowe's. So instead of people going and shopping at Home Depot people just continued to go to Lowe's which was not any farther. Big R moved into the space in 2010. Big R is a Tractor Supply like store.
Marissa was one of my problem models - the problem being is she is just so photogenic it was very hard trying to decide what photos to post here!
We shot with Marissa during one of our group photo shoots at the Alaska Botanical Garden in Anchorage, Alaska in July 2010. This is a great place to shoot - especially when everything is green.
Marissa is a budding model and college student. I was more nervous than her at the beginning of the shoot but got over it. She is a blast to shoot with - a little bit on the quiet side but very creative, extremely photogenic, and she had some lovely outfits with her. This was a very good shoot and we followed it up with another one the following week - life is good!
A moment of stillness in a universe of chaos. The Three-Body Problem tells us that stability is an illusion—every system is one small perturbation away from unpredictability.
Encountered the first problem last week; a quick tailpiece-to-headstock assemby (to rough-check the alignment) resulted in the head of one of the machine head screws shearing off. Not impressed. Of course efforts to drill out the screw only made things worse. Oh well. I'm going to leave it and crack on.
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I got a speck of dust INSIDE the front element of the lens. Any help in clearing it out would be helpful indeed!!!!
F/22, Uped the contrast in Aperture to spot the dust.
EDIT: www.pbase.com/rcicala/1755_is_surgery explains how to remove the front element from the lens.
Leeds & Liverpool Canal
10 August 2012
Narrow Boat 'hung-up' sinking.
'scars' where the Bottom Plate 'hung-up'
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A sizeable handlebar bag looks horrible with normal barcon housing. It pushes the housing out of the way, making the bag look like an afterthought. No bueno
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We decided to go for a city break rather than sun in Tenerife again this September. Other than a few days in the North East we haven’t been away since last March and wanted a change and hopefully some sun. The problem is getting flights from the north of England to the places we want to go to. We chose Valencia as we could fly from East Midlands – which was still a pain to get to as it involved the most notorious stretch of the M1 at five in the morning. In the end we had a fairly good journey, the new Ryanair business class pre-booked scheme worked quite well and bang on time as usual. It was dull when we landed with storms forecast all week, the sky was bright grey – the kiss of death to the photography I had in mind. I was full of cold and wishing I was at work. It did rain but it was overnight on our first night and didn’t affect us. There has been a drought for eleven months apparently and it rained on our first day there! The forecast storms didn’t materialise in Valencia but they got it elsewhere.
Over the course of a Monday to Sunday week we covered 75 miles on foot and saw most of the best of Valencia – The City of Bell Towers. The Old City covers a pretty large area in a very confusing layout. There was a lot of referring to maps – even compass readings! – a first in a city for us. The problem with photography in Valencia is that most of the famous and attractive building are closely built around, some have poor quality housing built on to them. Most photographs have to be taken from an extreme angle looking up. There are no high points as it is pan flat, there are a small number of buildings where you can pay to go up on to the roof for a better view and we went up them – more than once!
The modern buildings of The City of Arts and Sciences – ( Ciutat de Las Arts I de les Ciencies ) are what the city has more recently become famous for, with tourists arriving by the coachload all day until late at night. They must be photographed millions of times a month. We went during the day and stayed till dark one evening, I gave it my best shot but a first time visit is always a compromise between ambition and realism, time dictates that we have to move on to the next destination. I travelled with a full size tripod – another first – I forgot to take it with me to TCoAaS! so It was time to wind up the ISO, again! Needless to say I never used the tripod.
On a day when rain was forecast but it stayed fine, albeit a bit dull, we went to the Bioparc north west of the city, a zoo by another name. There are many claims made for this place, were you can appear to walk alongside some very large animals, including, elephants, lions, giraffe, rhino, gorillas and many types of monkey to name a few. It is laid out in different geographical regions and there is very little between you and the animals, in some cases there is nothing, you enter the enclosure through a double door arrangement and the monkeys are around you. It gets rave reviews and we stayed for most of the day. The animals it has to be said gave the appearance of extreme boredom and frustration and I felt quite sorry for them.
The course of The River Turia was altered after a major flood in the 50’s. The new river runs west of the city flanked by a motorway. The old river, which is massive, deep and very wide between ancient walls, I can’t imagine how it flooded, has been turned into a park that is five miles long. There is an athletics track, football pitches, cycle paths, restaurants, numerous kids parks, ponds, fountains, loads of bridges, historic and modern. At the western end closest to the sea sits The City of Arts and Sciences – in the river bed. Where it meets the sea there is Valencia’s urban Formula One racetrack finishing in the massive marina built for The Americas Cup. The race track is in use as roadways complete with fully removable street furniture, kerbs, bollards, lights, islands and crossings, everything is just sat on the surface ready to be moved.
We found the beach almost by accident, we were desperate for food after putting in a lot of miles and the afternoon was ticking by. What a beach, 100’s of metres wide and stretching as far as the eye could see with a massive promenade. The hard thing was choosing, out of the dozens of restaurants, all next door to each other, all serving traditional Paella – rabbit and chicken – as well as seafood, we don’t eat seafood and it constituted 90% of the menu in most places. Every restaurant does a fixed price dish of the day, with a few choices, three courses and a drink. Some times this was our only meal besides making the most of the continental breakfast at the hotel. We had a fair few bar stops with the local wine being cheap and pleasant it would have been a shame not to, there would have been a one woman riot – or strike!
On our final day, a Sunday, we were out of bed and down for breakfast at 7.45 as usual, the place was deserted barring a waiter. We walked out of the door at 8.30 – in to the middle of a mass road race with many thousands of runners, one of a series that take place in Valencia – apparently! We struggled to find out the distance, possibly 10km. The finish was just around the corner so off we went with the camera gear, taking photos of random runners and groups. There was a TV crew filming it and some local celebrity (I think) commentating. Next we came across some sort of wandering religious and musical event. Some sort of ritual was played out over the course of Sunday morning in various locations, it involved catholic priests and religious buildings and another film crew. The Catholic tourists and locals were filling the (many) churches for Sunday mass. Amongst all of this we had seen men walking around in Arab style dress – the ones in black looked like the ones from ISIS currently beheading people – all carrying guns. A bit disconcerting. We assumed that there had been some sort of battle enactment. We were wrong, it hadn’t happened yet. A while later, about 11.30 we could hear banging, fireworks? No it was our friends with the guns. We were caught up in total mayhem, around 60 men randomly firing muskets with some sort of blank rounds, the noise, smoke and flames from the muzzles were incredible. We were about to climb the Torres de Serranos which is where, unbeknown to us, the grand, and deafening, finale was going to be. We could feel the blast in our faces on top of the tower. Yet again there was a film camera in attendance. I couldn’t get close ups but I got a good overview and shot my first video with the 5D, my first in 5 years of owning a DLSR with the capability. I usually use my phone ( I used my phone as well). Later in the day there was a bullfight taking place, the ring was almost next to our hotel, in the end we had other things to do and gave it a miss, it was certainly a busy Sunday in the city centre, whether it’s the norm or not I don’t know.
There is a tram system in Valencia but it goes from the port area into the newer part of the city on the north side, it wouldn’t be feasible to serve the historic old city really. A quick internet search told me that there are 55,000 university students in the city, a pretty big number. I think a lot of the campus is on the north side and served by the tram although there is a massive fleet of buses as well. There is a massive, very impressive market building , with 100’s of stalls that would make a photo project on its own, beautiful on the inside and out but very difficult to get decent photos of the exterior other than detail shots owing to the closeness of other buildings and the sheer size of it. Across town, another market has been beautifully renovated and is full of bars and restaurants and a bit of a destination in its own right.
A downside was the all too typical shafting by the taxi drivers who use every trick in the book to side step the official tariffs and rob you. The taxi from the airport had a “broken” meter and on the way home we were driven 22 km instead of the nine that is the actual distance. Some of them seem to view tourists as cash cows to be robbed at all costs. I emailed the Marriot hotel as they ordered the taxi, needless to say no answer from Marriot – they’ve had their money. We didn’t get the rip off treatment in the bars etc. that we experienced in Rome, prices are very fair on most things, certainly considering the city location.
All in all we had a good trip and can highly recommend Valencia.