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A simple exercise for refocusing on your positive purpose
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Long Exposure Fireworks - refocus during exposure. Taken during Philippines' performance at the Grands Feux du Lac Leamy, Gatineau. August 17, 2013.
ECHO Director of Operations, Jean-Louis de Brouwer, UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Kyung-wha Kang, and theUN Special
Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Dr Chaloka Beyani.
Photo Credit: Laurent Saillard EU/ECHO, CAR, February 2015
Business Card for Tramps Abroad (they're a travel agency).
This is in CMYK (print) mode, so the colors look funky.
Don't fret.
© 2008 Tramps Abroad/Refocus Design.
I was busy photographing a Snowy and spotted this little Juvenile Gull Billed Tern sitting with an adult. But by the time I tried to refocus and reset on them, the adult, already in winter plumage, had taken flight. Less then ideal conditions but an unusual find!
and why interesting:
"The gull-billed tern is not abundant in any parts of its North American range and is now included in the USFWS list of Birds of Conservation Concern (2002, 2008), which identifies species that, without additional conservation actions, are likely to become candidates for listing under the Endangered Species Act of 1973."
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In 2010, I listened to more new music and saw more live shows than any year ever. On that basis alone, this year has been a rousing success. In a year that veered wildly off the tracks at times, there was always someone or something there to help refocus my head; the simplest, quickest, most easily accessible trick to change a moment from angst to its opposite was to simply cue up a good song. I spent a lot of time with my iPod in 2010.
Top 5 Things I Heard this year:
Dawes, North Hills. One random day in February, I met a friend at Iota in Clarendon to see two performers I hadn't heard of a week before: Dawes, and Cory Chisel. Technically, they were co-headlining, but Dawes came first. By the time their set ended, I felt bad for Chisel, who had to come out and follow a bunch of guys who left everything they had onstage (he did just fine). In the hour they played, I watched a room full of people convert from passive listeners to rabid fans, all of them aware that they were seeing a band at the cusp of something truly great. I was lucky enough to interview the band this summer and to hear lead singer Taylor Goldsmith describe that very moment when the band knows they have won over the room.
I enjoyed the Dawes show in February so much that when I heard they were playing in New York City in May, I figured what the hell, I might as well go up to see them. They were opening for some guy named Josh Ritter, who was touring in support of his latest album, “So Runs The World Away.” The album contains so many perfect lines, like this one from "Lantern": “So throw away those lamentations, we both know them all too well/If there's a book of jubilations, we'll have to write it for ourselves.” It comes about two-thirds of the way through the song, most of which he has spent lamenting the difficulties of life. What I love about Ritter is that you can hear the joy in his voice every time he sings, and he can barely contain himself as he races to the most joyful part of the song. The iPod shuffle I go running with is loaded with nothing but Ritter albums.
Sometimes, music is just about having a damn good time. The Delta Spirit show at 9:30 Club in early July was like that. It was hot, it was crowded, it went late, and I don't think a single person left that club disappointed. Same with the Drive-By Truckers at the end of July: a hot night, a sold-out crowd, people out for nothing more complicated than a good night with good music and good friends.
And then sometimes, you're not interested in partying, and you're not interested in the words of a lovelorn (if talented) boy with a guitar and a fountain pen. That's where Spoon came in: "Transference" came out in mid-January, and I dutifully downloaded it and took a few turns through its tracks. I liked what I heard, but, well, the year got busy and I moved on. And then a funny thing happened: You know that iPhone app Shazam? You hold it up to whatever song is playing, and it tells you the name and the artist. I did that four times in two weeks for songs from this album, twice for "Mystery Zone" alone. The album kept creeping up on me, and it kept being exactly what I wanted to hear.
What I love about music--and about this year--is that this list could have easily been 10 times longer. Old 97s had a new album this year, and so did the Truckers. Jim Bryson and the Weakerthans put out a disc together, and holy hell, the new Gaslight Anthem is incredible, and so is the one from The National. I discovered Owl City this year, and Cory Chisel up there made an album I could not stop listening to. Delta Spirit and Alejandro Escovedo both had new albums, too, and both got played into the double digits. 2010 pretty much rocked.
Long Exposure Fireworks - refocus during exposure. Taken during Philippines' performance at the Grands Feux du Lac Leamy, Gatineau. August 17, 2013.
Double Exposure using Xenotar lens shutter (controlled by the LensControl S) on the X-Act2. A7R was set to 30 seconds exposure, but the actual exposure was 2x 1s shots with a refocus between them
Long Exposure Fireworks - refocus during exposure. Taken during Philippines' performance at the Grands Feux du Lac Leamy, Gatineau. August 17, 2013.
"This telescope is focused on Keck I and Keck II at the summit of Mauna Kea
"(Please do not move or attempt to refocus the telescope)
"On a clear day through the eyepiece of this telescope you can see atop Mauna Kea the twin domes of the Keck telescopes, the world's largest. Keck I and II, unlike this telescope, do not have eyepieces. They collect information about our universe using solid-state detectors (SSDs), some of which are similar to--but much more sensitive than--those in your video camera. Various SSDs, which are sensitive to ultraviolet, visible or infrared light, together with a number of specialized instruments that attach to the telescope, and a complex system of computer hardware and software, combine to "see" into the outer regions of space. Astronomers spend their nights sitting in front of a bank of computer monitors because the SSDs gather data in digital form via computer control.
"The telescope you are looking through is a Newtonian reflector. Isaac Newton designed and constructed the first reflecting telescope in 1672, using a spherical mirror instead of lenses used in earlier refracting telescopes; however, the resulting spherical aberration (the same aberration that plagued the Hubble telescope in its early days) made it unusable. In 1723, John Hadley improve the technology by using a parabolic mirror, which alleviated the spherical aberration, and the reflector telescope became the most popular type telescope used. Today, each of the Keck telescopes uses a very large mirror (10 m wide) comprised of 36 mirror segments, which work together with the instruments and their SSDs, to gather astronomers' data."
My water was tasting warmer than the air, which, as I've pointed out, was reasonably warm today. Plus, I had a tailwind all the way up from the Bridge, which I'm normally not opposed to enjoying, but in this case it meant not much convection cooling was occurring. So, I eased it into the liquor store and bought an icey gatorade and some "high energy" fruit mix. Resoaked my cap and tried to cool down a bit.