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Project365 Nr 17.
"Aspatats" (foil wrapped sweet potatoes cooking in hot ash) on the go while waiting for the fire to burn down to coals.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
~Edmund Burke
I learned today that AGFA produced color film in Germany as early as 1936.
I was also reminded today, that one and a half million children perished during the Holocaust. Six million Jewish people lost their lives. And to this day, people, many of whom are children, still live amidst war, poverty and famine...
Shan and I went to the Sydney Jewish Museum. The last time we went there was in High School and I remember meeting an elderly lady, a Holocaust survivor, her name was Babbette. She told us her story and I've never cried so much in a public place until I met her.
The place is just as solemn as I remembered. I can't even begin to imagine how frightening and painful it must have been, to live through WWI & WWII. All I keep asking myself is: "How could something so horrific happen?"
How can any human being be so destructive, evil, terrifying?
But many live in hope, that we have the capacity to forgive and redeem ourselves. Today's visit was a lucid reminder of my fortunate existence.
I took a walk around the East Village neighborhood this morning and snapped some photos of the more interesting business signs. This is a great store for bath and home products, plus I've always liked their clean and simple signage. Check them out at web.me.com/teamlasttoenter/Site_2/home.html
"Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin." ~Ned Rorem
Laughter is the best medicine, apparently... I guess, lately, I've been laughing inwardly.
According to old superstitious beliefs, you shouldn't laugh too much, or you'll start crying. Are there really such things as tears of happiness?
:o) Hope you've had a happy weekend dear friends...
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I guess I am preparing my sons to live through married life someday without being shot as I get them familliar with washing and drying! What a good Mom I am!
Skimming stones. Connor skims stones on the beach at Berwick upon Tweed.
Day 2
Berwick upon Tweed to Edinburgh
A Morning spent in Berwick upon Tweed, walking up on the walls that formed the town’s defences followed by a long walk around to the lighthouse. More stone skimming on the beach before a walk around the southern part of the wall earning a stop for a filled baguette.
The drive into Edinburgh was made complicated by not being to find the park and ride, luckily the alternative to Ferrytoll was recognized by the Sat-Nav. Found the Travel Lodge without too many problems and after a cup of tea Jane and I went out for an hour and half to look around the city whilst Connor stayed in the room.
Fell foul of restrictions in Wetherspoons where children aren’t allowed in pubs after eight so found a good Italian instead.
It's been almost a month since I replaced my Time Manager personal management system with the Midori traveller's notebook.
The Midori is much more compact than the TMI binder. There are inserts where I slot in my passport and boarding cards. My receipts are safely stored in the sealable plastic envelope insert. I'm pleased I made the move to Midori.
Preparing for a meeting in Paris and realised I'd forgotten to get some Euro's. Managed to find some left over from my last trip abroad.
Tonights Project365 photo is another laneway in Ballarat.
This is Hancock Lane which is between Lydiard and Armstrong Street.
I took several shots here in drizzling rain, but this was the one that had the least amount of lens flare from the drops on the lens.
10 Things I like about Domo. #2. The eyes have it. Set to the outer corners of his face, these seemingly lifeless dark orbs have the ability to exhude emotion.
Project365 photo for 24 feb, 2009. Went to Cracker Barrel with my wife for breakfast. This was in a shadow box/display case next to our table. The box reads: "De Luxe/ Two Speed/ Electric Vibrator/ Both Medium and High/ Satisfying all members of the family".
It's week-end and next week is also winter holiday week in Denmark, so it’s time to hit the sofa, light the fire, open a bottle of red wine and find a good book that will offer you a bit of well deserved escapism.
The book was placed on black paper a lit with a SB-600 flash reflected from a white piece of carton right over the book so it is only the two pages that are lit.
In PS the photo was converted to monochrome and various layers and dodging (the heart) was applied to achieve the "old book" look.
- what's that ?
- hmmm ... grass, I think
- really ?
- ... yeah
- but it look so ...
- ... green ?
- yeah ... it's so much ...
- ... greener ?
- yeah
Acer Aspire One. The boy has been working loads and treated himself.
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Ok, maybe not THAT old. This was, quite obiously, done with A LOT of post-processing. That is why I'm posting this one today instead of yesterday, as I should have. Well, those things happen, but I did take it on the correct day! I have a problem, however, and that is the fact that I should be on day 6 but already took day 7's photo... Well, I don't know what to do. I think I'm gonna just leave this one and do another one tomorrow. It seems better to correct the timeline error caused by my eagerness right now. I kinda feel stupid saying it, but I must say that this weird mistake was just me counting wrongly. God, this Coffee-free day is killing me. Anyay, saturday makes one week. Small milestone, but a milestone still.
Lighting Setup:
As the catchlights give away, I used the "beauty shot" type setup; the diference is I used two Softboxes instead of Two beauty dishes. The beauty setup consists of one light from above and another one directly below the first one, both in the same angle of the camera. (Seriously, watch the catchlights in my eyes. They can explain it better than I can :P). Anyway, the bottom Softbox was gelled with a 1/2 CTO gel and the top one was bare. Why? Mostly, lazyness. It's also because I decided that the light combination gave the image a nice warm tint without getting to the "etremely warm/faint orange" look. So, that' pretty much that.