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Since I've been stuck inside a lot lately, overstressed from virus paranoia, and now, literally prevented from going to my day job, I've been messing around using graphics editing software to make better graphics for my Etsy shop.
I've been using a combination of GIMP and Autodesk Sketchbook to make interesting and attractive thumbnail photos for things for sale in my shop.
It's quite relaxing and I'm quickly becoming more adept at using the software.
SInce 1965, the Trail of Lights at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas, has been a major part of the Christmas festivities. Made up of over 300,000 lights, as well as mechanical installations and illuminated figures, it runs from early December to the day before Christmas Eve.
Ever since I first saw Steve McCurry's iconic photograph, "Afghan Girl", I've always been fascinated by his work in photojournalism. I love how the majority of his images are taken internationally and highlight the daily lives of people around the world that we wouldn't otherwise see. I really like this particular image because of its composition and framing. Even though it's centered in the middle, I like that the man is slightly off to the side. The reflection of the water is so crisp and sharp and I love how the value of the image goes from light to dark, from top to bottom respectively.
Since the pictures of the Phyllodesma laciniata wasn't the best we decided to go back to the crag and try again. More pictures are on their way.
Muzsla-tó, Western Mátra, Hungary.
This is a shot of the hi-tech Meikai 4351 SSN with Leica f5.6 50mm Plastic lens .... or as referred to by me .... "The ShitCam"
You will notice the addition of the very ergonomic grip designed for amazing handling and built in camera shake correction to optimize image performance as illustrated in my recent posts!!!
My Canon 40D at +5 frames per second has a hard time keeping up with this Bad Boy!!!
Roeser's Bakery, 3216 W. North, Chicago. The coffee is now Intelligentsia, and the TV is playing footage from one of the times this place has been featured on the Food Network (they have a championship cake decorator! I'm trying to find the link to that episode, but haven't yet)
Since I forgot to shoot the figure before I started destroying it, I took this shot from the producer's website.
Since the 1990s, a more active and open civil society sector has developed across the Russian Federation. While civil society institutions and civic engagement in Russia are not new, the growth of the sector in recent years created hopes that Russian civil society could become the voice for a more effective democratic system, more efficient social services, and a check against corruption and centralized power. At the same time, the increasing interconnectivity between Russian and international civil society institutions created a sense of optimism that an interconnected “Euro-Atlantic civil society” could make positive contributions to difficult geo-political challenges.
Of late, however, these hopes have largely been put on hold. Russian civil society institutions are facing a variety of political and social pressures, and are becoming less connected to international partners. Geo-political relations between Russia and the Euro-Atlantic community have worsened, and international civil society groups and donors have become the object of suspicion as instruments of external interference. At a political level, prior optimism about a “re-set” in Russia-Euro-Atlantic relations has faltered, however, with implications for support for civil society institutions.
There is an urgent need to rebuild bridges and to reestablish a serious dialogue about the role of Russian civil society and relations between diverse civic actors domestically, as well as between Russian organizations and international partners. In cooperation with, and with the generous support of, the Yeltsin Presidential Center and Yeltsin Foundation, this Symposium will address the challenges and opportunities currently facing civil society in Russia as a means to understand the needs and perspective of Russian civil society groups and to consider new approaches to international civil society engagement with Russia.
Since Sylvester's sunflowers had not bloomed yet, we walked over to his neighbor's garden for this splendid look at a garden full of sunflowers.
Lacombe, Alberta, Canada
Photograph by Jeffrey Bass -- All Rights Reserved
Presumeably for the Simpson Lumber Company whose founder lived near Coos Bay, Oregon. As seen at an old siding just east of the Tillamook Air Museum and just southeast of Tillamook, Oregon.
Since March, my family has participated in a few community events. First, we made blankets for retirement facilities in the area through Heartland Hospice in Frankfort, IL. Second, we made cards for Smith Senior Crossing (senior living community in Orland Park, IL). Third, we did a book exchange in our neighborhood during the time the libraries were closed.
In English:
At Stripa mines have been broken iron ore since the Middle ages. The earliest written records come from the 1440's.
Stripa, the name comes from the non-magnetic, quarter-striped and striped bloodstone ore hematite, which has been the dominant deposit. But also significant amounts of black magnetite ore, which is magnetic has been broken over the centuries.
Strips are also a unifying name for all small mines in the area who all have separate names.
Stripa mine is since 2006 a protected historic building and is the only surviving complete iron ore mine of its kind.
The area around the mine covers 70 hectares. It houses the oldest mining area with its many open and deep pits, the newer facility which became operational at the beginning of 1900, ore storage and treatment ponds to the enrichment plant
The original owners of the mines were powerful men in the mining industry and over the years they split up in two mining team.
The competing Ottesgruvelaget and Stripagruvelaget. They were later merged in 1806 to a mining company which in 1868 became a company called Great Stripa Grufebolag. Among the company's stakeholders included Dahlkarlshytte and Guldsmedshytte Mill. The mining company was sold 1939 to Stripa Mining AB with Ställbergs Mining AB as the largest shareholder.
The production at the mine stopped in 1977 and at that time the mine had a depth of approximately 450 meters. Most of the plant was taken over by Stripa Mineral AB, which devote themselves to crushing and milling of external recycling products. Underground portion was bought by Stripa mine AB they let experts research and do experiments on the future storage of used nuclear fuel. Since 2007 Stripa mine is owned by Stripa Culture and Development Corporation in Lindesbergs municipality. The intention is to preserve and display it as a unique attraction and experience facility.
In Stripa you are able to follow the course of history throughout the mining period from medieval to modern times. That is why this mine is especially appropriate and important from a pedagogical point of view of teaching and research.
The restoration of the mining buildings began in autumn 2006 and is expected to take many years. Parts of the enrichment plant facade, windows and roofs have been fixed. The mining company's name-plate the S-mark, that stands for Ställbergs Mining AB. It has been restored with new neon lighting and sits on top of the new renovated mine-hoist. The year 2008 began an attempt with a type of recycling production in the enrichment-plants machinery. If the experiment succeeds, the visitors will see the enrichment-plant in production eventually.
The old mining area will be made available by hiking trails and protecting prevention devices around the many mining holes and other things from earlier mining periods.
7-28-2008
The owner of this house died in 1988 and it has been abandoned since. You can tell it really has fell into a state of disrepair with many of the windows broken. It actually is a large farmhouse and was probably one of the nicer ones in the rural area at the time it was built in the 1890's.
Prayers to the Divine Child Jesus
Divine Child Jesus, we believe in You; We adore You; and we love You; have mercy on us sinners.
We’ve come to this Temple in response to your love. We’ve come in response to your mercy and grace. We are here because You invited us to come before You and to pour out the cares of our hearts to You since You deeply care for each of us.
We remember Your words to the disciples: “Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door shall be opened.” Trusting in your infinite goodness and trusting that You always keep your promise, we now ask this intention which we pray in the silence of our hearts…(silently mention the request).
Thank you, Divine Child Jesus, for listening attentively to our prayers all the time. We hope that You will ask this before Our Heavenly Father. And, if what we ask for may not be good for our salvation and sanctification, we trust that you will grant us instead what we truly need, so that one day we may be with You for all eternity enjoying that ultimate happiness of Heaven.
Divine Child Jesus, bless and protect us.
Divine Child Jesus, bless and lead us.
Divine Child Jesus, bless and provide for us.
All this we ask through the intercession of your Holy Mother, Mary, and in Your powerful and Most Holy Name, Jesus. Amen
If you like my work and wanna show it by inviting me to one of your groups, you are very welcome to do that, but please do not leave any graphic logos! I'll delete them.
i've found it on the street the other day on my way back from work and thought i might find a good place for "her" in my living room:)
it's still there...
Since I went digital, I've used auto-focus lenses. I've just bought three (very cheap) manual focus lenses from China: to see if I could learn to do without auto-focus. I'm pleased with this attempt.
Since stringing it months ago, I've left the string on to tie it up. There's also a giant clip & the paper/duct tape chain to decorate it. I may fasten it, I may not.
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Well, I haven't uploaded in a few weeks since I've been very busy lately, however, I figured I would start my first new upload of 2025 off with a bang.
Southern California doesn't see very many new Albertsons Cos. store openings (although I am holding on hope we'll see more in the next few years), and the last new Albertsons Cos. store opening was the new Sherman Oaks Pavilions back in 2021, a replacement for a previous small Pavilions. Today, I decided since this doesn't happen very often, I would make the drive to see the first new Vons in nearly a decade on its grand opening day. The land site of this new store sits on a former Kmart, which it's no longer existent building was demolished and it's foundation ripped out of the ground in order to make way for construction of a brand sparkling new Vons. This new Vons replaces a smaller older Vons in the same shopping center, which I have posted before.
According to liquor licenses, it appears this Vons now has a new store number, 3431, replacing the store number 1672 of the previous store.
This Vons was very busy for its grand opening. It is very interesting to see a Vons opened with an Albertsons layout. It looks completely different from any Vons in existence since it is the only one so far that has opened under their ownership. The open ceilings makes this Vons feel much larger and open than most stores. It also has a walk in beer cooler which is an Albertsons feature. I have never seen in a Vons before.
This store does not have a pharmacy, and I think Albertsons likely didn't add a pharmacy because the CVS in the center has pharmaceutical rights for the whole center. An expanded beer/wine/liquor department takes the space where a pharmacy and health department would normally be located in today's Albertsons new-builds, with the walk in beer cooler likely being the space where a pharmacy would be. I speculate potentially the store being designed so a pharmacy could be added in the future with a walk in beer cooler taking that space for now.
I believe in early designs of this store there were meant to be two entrances, one main entrance, and one entrance where the pharmacy would be, or in this stores case, the liquor department. However, designs changed at some point so now that entrance is a drive up order entrance.
I imagine the Vons Express being constructed with this store will open in the coming months. It is still under construction, but looks like it could wrap up very soon.
Overall beautiful store. I hope there are more to come in the future.
St Bride, Fleet Street, London
It's forty years since I first set foot in St Bride's. A schoolfriend and I were exploring London, taking cheap day returns down from Cambridge to wander backstreets and stumble upon wonders. He'd found St Bride's a week or so before, and hauled me off of Fleet Street into it. First, the polished, varnished interior, still relatively new then, and then the surprise of the crypt with its history of London, particularly of the Great Fire and the Blitz. I thought it was wonderful, and still do.
But in those days Fleet Street was a hive of newspaper activity, with a sense that this really was the beating heart of the nation's intellectual life. Now, the newspapers have gone, and Fleet Street is nothing but a dull shopping thoroughfare linking Westminster with St Paul's Cathedral. But St Bride's survives, and thrives.
The medieval church was destroyed in the Great Fire, and the new church by Sir Christopher Wren is architecturally perhaps the best of all his churches, the spire his most famous, as well as being the tallest, a tiered wedding cake punctuating the space between St Paul's and the Inns of Court. The church is shoehorned into a gap behind the shops and offices of Fleet Street and New Bridge Street, and can be approached along a number of passageways, some of which come up to it from below.
St Bride was completely gutted in the firestorm on the night of 29th December 1940. Only the tower and parts of the outside walls survived. The rebuilding took nearly three years under the hand of Geoffrey Allen, reopening in 1957. Although much of the refurnishing is Wren-like in style, Allen took the decision not to rebuild the galleries. The replacement stalls face inwards in the style of a college chapel. At the east end is a rather alarming reredos, undoubtedly made in the language of Wren but so quirky that it is hard to say what it is actually trying to do. The stalls and sanctuary are enclosed in wooden screening, creating a large open area at the west end. The acoustics are rather wonderful.
You can go down into the crypt which was excavated after the Blitz, and still plays host to the exhibition, as well as two little chapels, one remembering the War dead of Fleet Street. It is all fascinating and moving, and for a moment you get a sense of the intimate life of central London before International Finance and Information Technology changed it forever.
(c) Simon Knott, December 2015
Since every Flicr person photographed this free zip line during the Vancouver Olympics, I decided to post it too. The waiting time was 2-4 hours, I had no patience to line up for that long so I just photographed them zipping down over my head. People beside me tried to photograph them too, and they were surprised that I captured the action. It was easy. Usually they came in pair.
Since my last visit, the library had redone the toilet block, taking it 'upmarket'. This piqued the retailer in me to grab the snap (no flash) of the amenities block.
Neon never looked so inviting when "nature called" on a chilly market day!
I used to live a 5-minute walk from the Rotterdam library.
Since getting the Canon G11 (replacing 350D) I've been amazed by this little cameras potential. Many would say that its not exactly pocketable (I agree) however, for me its brought back a new spark of interest in photography which I lost with a DSLR. I've been taking the G11 with me everywhere, including to work (for lunch breaks) and taking all sorts of photos. IMHO, its well worth the 'downgrade'
Classic bacon & eggs with grilled tomatos, what a perfect start to the day.
The property on the left, the Dairymans Cottage was demolished in the1950s, a property called 'The Old Farm', built in the 1990s, now occupies the site.
since I have an unwanted (human) frequent visitor on friday nights ... Logan took his position right behind the curtain to get him!
I really hope it's too cold tonight otherwise Logan will finally have some fun -.-
btw - first time I used the camera flash for the smartphone ... well - could be worse ... and looks like a night shot so I left it that way
Since this is my 3rd trip to India I figured I had to squeeze in a visit to the Taj this time. Glad I made it, it really is spectacular, even with the crazy crowds. And I'm happy with this picture to round off an action-packed but very fun month.
Since the Louvre was not opened yet, we went to a quaint little cafe across from it to have our first breakfast. I really liked the lamps there and the effect the mirrors gave.
since anne was coming home, and she had requested it, mom made this dish. the chicken wings were steamed. it is similar to the ribs in black bean sauce you find at dim sum.
Tanqueray's Spot the: cops, hot dog vendor, Dan's legs. By the way, they can be quite proud of that since 1989. Bars do not last long here.
I've always loved photos of Americana, but, in San Francisco I've thus far failed to get any decent shots of it. Here it is :)
Taken with plungercam mini.
Since I'm from Puerto Rico, my school decided to have a week dedicated to our culture, and my class had to dance plena to the school.
Start Zomercarnaval 2018
Since 2013, the Summer Carnival is part of the multi-day festival Rotterdam Unlimited, which is all about dance, music, art and poetry. The Caribean Summer Carnival is one of the highlights of this festival a and it attracts nearly one million visitors every single year! Every summer the streets in Rotterdam come alive with the Latin-American sounds and smells. This colourful and musical event is an offshoot of the Carnival in Latin-America the participants are a melting pot of various cultures, but especially from the Netherlands Antilles and Cape Verde. The Caribbean music will make you swing your hips for sure, especially during the Street Parade closing event with thousands of dancers from many different countries! The best thing is: the Rotterdam Summer Carnival is for free!
Since the summer of 2009 I have been keeping myself busy with small artistic projects that involve minimal financial outlay.
While my era of Airfix model making was influenced by the phenomenal artwork of Roy Cross (1960/70s), I have found that replicating the Type 2 (T2) Header Cards from a previous generation (1950/60s) is both therapeutic and ideally suited to my level of PhotoShop competency. I also find these header cards both attractive and their ironical 1950s style very true of the period.
The original Type 2 Header Cards were secured on eBay or scanned ‘n’ emailed by kind and generous enthusiasts.
While I try and remain true to the original, I don’t mind adding detail, as my recreations were enlarged with printing in mind. I also see these images as very much work in progress – with individual header cards constantly being improved upon.
Since 1950s Zetor produced tractors in this industrial area (see en.zetor.com/history for more details). In December 2015 the old brownfield is gradually being demolished.