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Autostadt (CarCity) is a delivery center for new cars and an amusement park of Volkswagen (VW) in Wolfsburg.
Ice fishing at Mitchell's Bay.
It's consistently cold enough to do so for the first time in recent memory.
This is a rescue from my On This Date files. The bright sun created snow glare which required use of chrome and all the sliders to bring out details. HSS
Light caroms off the closely set walls of upper Paria Canyon, and brings out striking colors and textures from the facets of Slide Rock Arch, Paria Canyon Wilderness, Utah; day 1 of 3-generation backpacking venture. It is difficult to appreciate the scale here, but full-grown people can readily pass through the arch walking abreast.
The day started out auspiciously enough, with a great deal of racing about in the water by my 7 year-old. I had stocked him up with a large packet of gummy bears that was meant to last him the entire 5 days, and we had decided to store those precious sugary bears in his hip belt pocket on his pack, for easy access. However, as it transpired, he decided to leave the zipper on the pocket open, apparently because it 'just takes too long' to have to unzip when you're jonesing for a piece of gummy foodstuffs (he cracks me up, really). Combined with his energetic navigation of the shallow river channel, it was really no surprise, at least not to me, when he discovered that the bears were no longer in his pocket at all, and had gained the freedom of the river channel, probably deciding to swim for it, rather than risk a pocket-bound journey with my son as their overseer.
At this point, we had probably hiked only a mile and a half or so from the car, and the look of sadness on his face was so profound that I hastily dropped my pack in a willow thicket by the side of the canyon, and decided to run back up the channel in search of silty gummy bears. As it happened, I didn't see them on the way up, and ran all the way back to the trailhead, as the noon temperatures began their crescendo. Of course, I didn't bring any water with me, since I foolishly thought I'd find the bears before I made it back this far. So, I turned around, and began the hot jog back to my pack, eyes still scanning the channel that stubbornly refused to reveal its gummy foods - the silty water makes this a somewhat easy feat, really. But lo! There they were just coming out of a deep pool in which Kieran had been exuberantly splashing some 45 minutes previously. Ah sweet success. Sweet silty success. As they took on water, the bears also took on silt and sand, and this had fused them into one giant mineral-rich, sugary, gelatinous mass. I hoped Kieran would be happy, but I didn't hold out high hopes.
Upon returning to my pack, I gratefully grabbed a water bottle and drank a liter. It was then I discovered that the willows in which I'd stowed my pack had also played host to a dead animal at some relatively recent point in the past, and the putrescine had been strong enough to infuse my water bottle spout with eau d'mort. But damn, I was thirsty, so I had to fight through that wonderful sensation. So that's what kind of day it was going to be, then, eh? But no, all these tribulations ceased once the afternoon light began to play on the red sculpted walls.
One of the last series of photos my Samsung Grand Prime cellphone would ever take. The last useable feature, the camera, finally failed this past Friday. :0(
Happy Sliders Sunday.
Today consists of fresh squeezed oranges, baby rack ribs on the smoker and Green Bay Packers game. We wish them good wishes from Michigan.
Beardies Paddy & Rab C sliding in the woods
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Another from the park on a misty Sunday morning. I am still amazed how sharp the Nikon 80-200mm f2.8 is wide open!
A couple enjoy the ride
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Antique edit of all that's left of a gas station & restaurant in Cedar Springs which I frequented in days gone by..
Happy Sliders Sunday!
Men Without Hats - Pop Goes The World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zUUtf7gOe8&ab_channel=MenWit...
Pinery Antique Flea Market, Grand Bend Ontario...cartoon edit slider...photo from 2016.
I met some friends at a Chinese restaurant and saw these two warriors at the entrance. I wasn't sure how I would use there images because of all the noise in the backdrop. Luckily we have slider Sunday..:) I used Topaz to change the backdrop and than I layered the warriors back over the image so they would stand out
This slide is from my very early days in television. . .1975. I was directing a show called "On Stage". We tried to feature local performers of all types. This show featured a local magician who owned a very cool store called The Emporium. We did a 30 minute show with the magician performing a number of his best tricks and illusions. I took this shot as we were adjusting the lighting before recording the interview segment of the show. I asked the host, who was covered in balloons, to give me a smile. . .And this is what I got. He was a fun guy who actually did the "weather" segment on our newscasts. He wasn't a meteorologist, he was a "performer" who did the weather. Sort of like David Letterman who did the weather on a local station when he first started out. The man on the right is the magician. After we finished taping this show it was time for the 10 O'Clock News, so the host "magically" turned back into a "weatherman". I wish I had a recording of this show so I could watch it today and see what I think of it 48 years later!
Year: 1975
Film: Ektachrome 64
Camera: Nikon Nikkormat EL
Lens: Nikkor 105mm 2.5
A fun time and capture of my great niece in Florida showing here uncle how to have a great time at a local park in Florida.
Some red flat processing for this fun Happy Sliders Sunday.
Or: The battle of the adapters.
It's not hard. You just have to make sure the slide is not tilted. Then you point the slide at a uniformly bright light source, such as a brightly lit white wall or a window with the sun shining in through a white curtain.
Then you focus with LiveView. Then you stop down to f/8 or so, switch to manual and try out different exposure times until you find the one that looks best. Long exposure times are not a problem as everything is mounted on a tripod and firmly fixed together so vibration is not an issue.