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just thinking about sensitvity and how words and actions affect others. sometimes i just wonder if it is me, and i am too sensitive, or if others are insensitive.
this was taken late last night after work when the rain had just started.
this is my picture for february 25, 2011
My beautiful old lady. I met her at a busy day on the old market. She wore a tie, a grey raincoat, big round glasses and a round hat. And she was sensitive and shy like a little girl.
She moved with small steps from the one bench to the other and her look was full of curiosity. A feminist she was and an intellectual. Now, she keeps on moving on the streets, admiring small moments and discussing with small traders about the weather and the fruits and the vegetables she wishes to taste. All is interesting. All is new to her. All her life everything was new to her.
Did I scare her? I wouldn’t know. But then she didn’t say anything to me. She just saw me and froze. Was it because of fear? I believe it was because of shyness. Her hands reached one another, her eyes questioned me. She felt insecure. This kind lady just seemed new in this old world. For her qualities do not fit those of many.
My beautiful old lady with her round glasses and the round hat.
I can see her now young and beautiful, different from all the rest of the girls. Dressed like a boy. True to her emotions and thoughts. True to her first love. Didn’t compromise, she stayed strong and faithful to herself. Because, after all, she was a shy and sensitive girl.
And that is what kept her young in all these long years. Her young soul is evident to all. In her old face, there is something young and new. All is visible now for everyone to see. A strong soul, no evil left its scars in there.
Réalisée le 2 novembre 2014 au Hornbill's Camp près de Thakkedy, Western Ghats, Inde du sud.
Made on November, 2nd / 2014 near the Hornbill's Camp, near Thakkedy, Western Ghats, southern India.
I gatti, misteriosi e sensibili, non ubbidiscono nemmeno al buon Dio, che ne sorride. (Francis Jammes)
Cats, mysterious and sensitive, do not obey even the good Lord, who smiles. (Francis Jammes)
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Specifications
Engine
• VR-series twin-turbocharged 3.8-liter V6.
• 480 hp @ 6,800 rpm. 430 lb-ft torque @ 3,200–5,200 rpm.
• Dual overhead camshafts with variable intake-valve timing.
• Cast aluminum cylinder block with high-endurance/low-friction plasma-sprayed bores.
• IHI twin turbochargers, one per cylinder bank.
• Pressurized lubrication system with thermostatically controlled cooling.
Drivetrain
• ATTESA ET-S All-Wheel Drive (AWD) with independent rear-mounted transaxle integrating transmission, differential and AWD transfer case.
• Rigid, lightweight carbon-composite driveshaft between engine and transaxle.
• Electronic traction control plus 1.5-way mechanically locking rear differential.
• Vehicle Dynamics Control (VDC-R) with three driver-selectable settings: Normal (for daily driving, controls brakes and engine output), R-Mode (for ultimate performance, utilizes AWD torque distribution for additional vehicle stability) and Off (driver does not want the help of the system).
• Hill Start Assist prevents rollback when starting on an incline.
DisclaimerVDC-R cannot prevent accidents due to abrupt steering, carelessness, or dangerous driving techniques. Always drive safely.
Transmission
• 6-speed Dual Clutch Transmission with three driver-selectable modes: Normal (for maximum smoothness and efficiency), Snow (for gentler starting and shifting on slippery surfaces), and R mode (for maximum performance with fastest shifts).
• Fully automatic shifting or full sequential manual control via gearshift or steering wheel-mounted paddle shifters.
• Dual clutch design changes gears in less than 0.5 second (0.2 second in R mode).
• Downshift Rev Matching (DRM).
• Predictive pre-shift control (in R mode) based on throttle position, vehicle speed, braking and other information.
Wheels and Tires
• 20 x 9.5" (front) and 20 x 10.5" (rear) super-lightweight forged-aluminum wheels with Gunmetal Gray finish.
• Exclusively developed nitrogen-filled Bridgestone® RE070A high-capacity run-flat summer tires, 255/40R20 front and 285/35R20 rear.
• Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS).
• Optional exclusively developed nitrogen-filled Dunlop® run-flat all-season tires, 255/40R20 front and 285/35R20 rear (includes Bright Silver wheels).
Brakes
• Brembo® 4-wheel disc brakes with 4-wheel Antilock Braking System (ABS), Brake Assist, Electronic Brakeforce Distribution and Preview Braking.
• Two-piece floating-rotor 15-inch front and rear discs with diamond-pattern internal ventilation.
• 6-piston front/4-piston rear monoblock calipers.
Steering
• Rack-and-pinion steering with vehicle-speed-sensitive power assist.
• 2.6 steering-wheel turns lock-to-lock.
Suspension
• 4-wheel independent suspension with Bilstein® DampTronic system with three driver-selectable modes: Normal/Sport (for automatic electronic control of damping), Comfort (for maximum ride comfort), and R mode (engages maximum damping rate for high-performance cornering).
• Electronically controlled variable-rate shock absorbers. High-accuracy progressive-rate coil springs.
• Front double-wishbone/rear multi-link configuration with aluminum members and rigid aluminum subframes.
• Hollow front and rear stabilizer bars.
Body/Chassis
• Exclusive Premium Midship platform with jig-welded hybrid unibody.
• Aluminum hood, trunk and door skins. Die-cast aluminum door structures.
• Carbon-reinforced front crossmember/radiator support.
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Exterior
• Wide-beam headlights with High Intensity Discharge (HID) low beams.
• LED taillights and brake lights.
• Dual heated power mirrors.
• Flush-mounted aluminum door handles.
• Body-color rear spoiler with integrated center high-mounted stop light.
• UV-reducing tinted glass.
Audio/Navigation/Performance Monitor
• Digital Bose® audio system with AM/FM/in-dash 6-CD changer and 11 speakers including dual subwoofers.
• HDD Music Box system, including hard drive with 9.4 GB for audio storage.
• MP3, WMA and DVD audio capable. In-dash Compact Flash card reader.
• HDD-based GPS navigation with touch screen.
• Driver-configurable performance monitor, developed with Sony® Polyphony, with graphical readouts of vehicle data and driving data displayed on a total of 11 screens.
• 7-inch WVGA high-resolution color-LCD display for audio, navigation and performance monitor.
Interior
• Automatic Temperature Control (ATC).
• Electronic analog instrument cluster with multi-function trip computer and digital gear indicator.
• Power front windows with one-touch auto-up/down feature.
• Intelligent Key system with pushbutton start. Power door locks.
• Cruise control.
• Tilt/telescoping steering column.
• Bluetooth® Hands-free phone system with voice recognition.
Seating/Appointments
• Leather upholstered front seats with perforated Alcantara inserts.
• 8-way power front seats with entry/exit switch for rear-seat passengers.
• Driver-shaped bucket seat.
• Dual individual rear seats.
• Heated front seats.
• Leather-wrapped steering wheel and shift knob.
• Drilled aluminum pedals.
Safety/Security
• Nissan Advanced Air Bag System (AABS) with dual-stage supplemental front air bags, seat belt sensors and occupant-classification sensor.
• Driver and front-passenger side-impact supplemental air bags and roof-mounted curtain supplemental air bags.
• Front seat belts with pretensioners and load limiters.
• Nissan Vehicle Immobilizer System.
• Vehicle Security System.
Unperforated blue sensitive, yellow base, microfilm in a Canon EOS 10 camera.
Shot at 25iso and developed in Rodinal at 1:150 (2ml in 300ml of water) for 2 hours Stand Development
As this film has no anti halation layer, the highlights can 'bloom' as can be clearly seen in some of the shots. Not as extreme as Kodak 5069 but worth using.
Quickly assembled before breaking it down and boxing it up- I have a plane to catch! Test ride pedals and all.
I'm off for a bit of bike riding and adventure, but I'll be checking my email periodically for anything time sensitive. I will be back in the shop by the 19th of July.
This is a picture I wish I would never have had the opportunity to take... I've done a lot of thinking about it since yesterday when I took it. As sad as this is, it is nature and the alligator is doing what he has to do to survive..And there is nothing we can or should do about it.
What I find much sadder, is the human behavior I have seen in the last few months. Bobcat hunting and trapping is legal in many places, but not in this specific wildlife area. A while back a poacher was suspected of going into this area at night to get the bobcats. The wildlife authorities were spending nights there trying to catch them. Yet there are people right here on Flickr posting address information on where these gentle bobcats are located so that poachers searching the Internet can easily find a whole family of easy target bobcats in one place. As well as find the hours the park is open. (So they can be alone after hours).
I've been writing to many of the people who had posted this information and most are the nicest people you'd ever want to meet...After hearing about the situation, and knowing the risk is small but real, they immediately removed the exact location. Those people have my undying respect and admiration. They are the photographers I look up to as great examples of humankind and what a nature photographer should be. Then there are those who even after hearing about the problem, refuse to remove the information. Now THAT is sad... Much, much sadder than a gator eating to live.... Seeing photographers who care more about promoting their photos or being found in a Flickr search than possibility being responsible for the horrid fate of a trapped bobcat to be made into a fur coat or shot simply for the "sport" of it, is REALLY upsetting to me... A hundred times more upsetting than a gator eating to live.
To see what a horrible fate a trapped bobcat goes through, do a Flickr search for 'trapped bobcat'... Born Free has some undercover photos of trapped animals when the trapper finally returns... Lets just say that if the animal has not already died a long slow death, they are about to. They have undercover footage of a trapper who does not like to waste money on bullets when they can stomp it death for free. And like I said, it's all perfectly legal, in the right places. Check out the huge stacks of dead bobcats this man is proud to have trapped. He claims over a hundred every year. bobcatlureandbait.com/?cat=3 Bobcats are the highest priced furs on the US market. Some pelts go for upwards of 1,500. $6,500 for a bobcat fur coat.. www.usafoxx.com/index.php?route=product/product&produ... and the popularity of bobcat fur coats has increased in the last several years... Making them a highly sought after commodity.
Please read this short page: www.bigwildlife.org/front_animal_page.php?page=17
I would think in this day and age people would have evolved past the point where we do not need to cause so much suffering to animals to make ourselves feel more beautiful or rich by wearing their fur. Or feel more like 'a man' because we can conquer some poor innocent animal with steel traps, bullets or bow and arrow to make a few dollars. And I have barely touched on the subject of hunting for "sport". Which is a huge industry, and may actually be an even bigger threat.
Shame on those photographers who know about this problem and yet care more about themselves and getting some imaginary attention for their photography, than the actual nature they photograph. It's very sad.
An endangered Florida Panther was just shot and killed in the Everglades by a poacher in early 2014. Many endangered whooping cranes are poached every year. Two half-tame deer at another local nature center, (in a large fenced in area) were shot with bow and arrow a while back. The deer had to be dismembered, taken over the fence and carted away in pieces. Yet those poachers boldly carried out their mission, one mile from a Sheriff station, in the night when no one was around. A bobcat could easily be carried away. Poaching happens everywhere in the USA. " Wildlife officials say that legal hunters kill tens of millions of animals every year. For each of those animals, another is killed illegally, perhaps on closed land or out of season, leaving orphaned young to starve. Few poachers are caught or punished."
www.humanesociety.org/issues/poaching/?credit=web_id86162658
Another threat is irrational fear from people living in nearby communities. When these people see photos posted with a location close to their home, it stirs them into action. I hear of many bobcats caught by trappers every year. According to Big Cat Rescue most Florida bobcats cannot be legally relocated. But if they are, either they or the bobcat whose territory it's released onto will die. This is a very important article to read especially the beginning and end : bigcatrescue.org/relocating-bobcats-and-cougars/
And as I have come to realize, photographers themselves can pose the BIGGEST threat to wildlife of all. The crowds caused by posting location online, can be a serious problem in themselves. I have seen mob mentality overpower otherwise rational people. I've seen it many times.
Photographers PLEASE don't post location information of sensitive species on the internet. Especially to those places where wildlife has lost its fear of man. Not all people on the internet are animal lovers.
To see more photos: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280450/Curiosity-kills-...
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So it was earlier this week that I posted this and I was quite taken aback by the heartfelt responses.
Being a hyper-sensitive person can be quite overwhelming at times. I felt like I had backed myself into a corner and was living out (not literally!) that common dream of standing naked in front of hundreds of people. Sensitivity can often be a gift, having your senses permanently turned up to 11 can be wonderful but when they get out of kilter it can be extremely stressful.
Land art and hill walking are my solace, my place to escape from the noise of the world and the noise inside my head. To feel nature close up and to let the beauty and wonder fill your senses and mind, there is nothing else that comes close.
And yet my art ceased to become my solace, I struggled with it and found no peace. Self-imposed pressure meant that my creativity dried up and with it the space to be and to think. My art did not flow out of me like it once did and I lost my ability to escape. The search for peace and solitude came first and my art appeared out of that. It doesn't work to try and find peace through forcing myself to create. It needs to be the other way around.
And so all of this came to a head when the abusive emails started to arrive and those were the final straw. I felt completely raw and exposed to anything and everything anyone had to say with no place to escape.
So I went for a walk. And another. And another. And another...
The fog was starting to clear.
So today I went out to create something with no intention of sharing it with anyone. Perhaps someone will chance upon it whilst walking and it will brighten their day. Making it brightened mine and I felt relieved to have found an escape again, to make something only for fun and because I want to.
I think I will need to this for a while to find my inner voice once again, but I will surely be back and firing on all cylinders again.
I don't think I will ever grow a thicker skin, I have always been this way and I expect I will always take criticism badly but I wouldn't change my sensitivty for the world as it presents me with many great gifts on so many occasions even if it can be a bind at other times.
Ironically, after the ****storm on Reddit and the resultant nasty emails my stats went through the roof. But weirdly it had nothing to do with the picture that made it on to Reddit.com. Completely coincidentally a Korean website posted my 'Stack'' and 'Balance' sets the day after and since then I have had 40,000 hits one day and 16,000 the two days following. The Equilibrium Stack then made it onto Reddit and the comments are much more kind: "I'll bet he uses glue" and "Nah, they are really easy to make - it's not proper rock balancing." I can cope with that, not so happy being called a ***** as I was on the other one but being called Andy Bronzeworthy did raise a smile!
This morning on the news they said that this spring is going to be a belter. Due to the very cold weather we have had everything is going to sprout at once. The daffodils are late, crocusses are just starting to appear and it seems we may see everything coming to life at once.
This episode, then, will hopefully be just a blip (like all my 'episodes') as I get lost in the majesty of spring and find myself by losing myself once again.
I also hope that I can't start writing something funny again, I am sure you are wishing that too!
Spanish postcard by EFB, no. A-17.
American actor George O'Brien (1899-1985) was a muscular, barrel-chested, yet sensitively talented leading man of classic silent films, like John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924) and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927). He became a different kind of star as a cowboy in B-Westerns during the sound era.
George O'Brien was born in San Francisco, California, in 1899. He was the oldest son of Daniel J. and Margaret L. (née Donahue) O'Brien. O'Brien's father later became the Chief of Police for the City of San Francisco and ordered the arrest of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in September 1921 at the scandalous Labor Day party held by Arbuckle. After his retirement from that office, Dan was the Director of Penology for the State of California. In 1917, George enlisted in the United States Navy to fight in World War I, serving on a submarine chaser. He volunteered to act as a stretcher-bearer for wounded Marines and was decorated for bravery. After the war, O'Brien became Light-Heavyweight boxing champion of the Pacific Fleet. O'Brien came to Hollywood in his early twenties hoping to become a cameraman and worked as an assistant cameraman for a while, for both Tom Mix and Buck Jones. He began his acting career in bit parts and as a stuntman. One of his earliest roles was in the drama Moran of the Lady Letty (George Melford, 1922), most notable for starring Rudolph Valentino. In 1924, O'Brien received his first starring role in the drama The Man Who Came Back (Emmett J. Flynn, 1924) opposite the English actress Dorothy Mackaill. That same year he was chosen by the famed film director John Ford to star in The Iron Horse (1924) opposite Madge Bellamy. The film was an immense success at the box-office and O'Brien made nine more films for Ford. The athletic O'Brien was truly Hollywood's first perfect male physique. In 1927, he starred in the F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) opposite Janet Gaynor, which won three major Academy Awards and remains his most famous film. He also played the lead in the New York City epic East Side, West Side (Allan Dwan, 1927) opposite Virginia Valli. O'Brien often starred in action and adventure roles alongside such popular actresses of the era as Alma Rubens, Anita Stewart, Dolores Costello, Madge Bellamy, Olive Borden (with whom he was linked romantically during the 1920s), and Janet Gaynor. With the advent of sound, his popularity was sliding. Tony Fontana at IMDb: "With his rugged looks and physical size, he was soon a Western Cowboy Star. He was in some of the best stories ever written, Riders of the Purple Sage (Hamilton MacFadden, 1931), and in some of the worst." So, throughout the 1930s, O'Brien was a consistent Top Ten box-office draw appearing in scores of Westerns, often atop his horse named Mike. He would appear in a few films outside the horse set, such as Ever Since Eve (George Marshall, 1934) with Mary Brian, but those roles would be few.
During World War II, George O'Brien re-enlisted in the United States Navy, where he served as a beachmaster in the Pacific and was decorated several times. He left service with the rank of commander. He later joined the United States Naval Reserve and retired with the rank of captain in 1962, having four times been recommended for the rank of admiral. Following his service in World War II, O'Brien would occasionally take featured parts in films directed by his old friend and mentor John Ford, including Fort Apache (1948), starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964), starring Richard Widmark and Carroll Baker. O'Brien's last leading role was in Gold Raiders (Edward Bernds, 1951), with top-billed O'Brien handling the action and the Three Stooges (Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, and Moe Howard) doing comedy routines in a feature film more or less evenly dividing screen time between O'Brien and the Stooges. While serving in the Naval Reserve, O'Brien took on a project for the Department of Defense as part of President Eisenhower's "People to People" program. He was project officer for a series of orientation films on three Asian countries. One of these films, on Korea, was directed by his old friend, John Ford. The other two countries covered were Formosa (Taiwan) and the Philippines. In the 1920s, O'Brien dated actress Olive Borden for many years, and most thought they would marry. For some reason (some say his family did not approve of Olive) they ended their relationship and he eventually married actress Marguerite Churchill in 1933. Their first child, Brian, died 10 days after his birth. Daughter Orin O'Brien became a double bassist for the New York Philharmonic. Their youngest child Darcy O'Brien was a successful writer and college professor. George and Marguerite divorced in 1948. O'Brien suffered a stroke in 1981 and was bedridden the last four years of his life. He died in 1985 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. He was 86. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Brien was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6201 Hollywood Blvd., in Los Angeles, California.
Sources: Tony Fontana (IMDb), Find-A-Grave, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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