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Mississippi College Lady Choctaws softball coach Brooke O'Hair joins members of her team and friends for a picture. The group attended Thursday evening's MC athletics dinner featuring former Choctaws football star Fred McAfee as the guest speaker. Fred is a New Orleans Saints Hall of Famer and director of player personnel for the NFL team.
Stellar option from Svend Madsen in mint condition, with two 12 inch leafs with stow smartly under the table. This one is perfect for space challenged Chicagoans, and the smal- to-big flexibility, along with the Svend Madsen pedigree make this a no-brainer scoop. Measurements 45 inches round. Fully extended 70 inches.
These three towers at Hotel Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles not far from Staples Center have athletes of all kinds painted on them. Used Bleach Bypass filter from Color Efex Pro 3.0.
I wish they had more of these in other downtown areas -- would certainly limit the need for those eyesore surface parking lots that so many old buildings are torn down for.
Ottoman also reclines with a side lever that allows you to kick back in style. Lower the lever to keet the ottoman flat. Again, your choice.
i shot three rolls through my Mamiya while visiting the tulip festival, one ektar, one portra 160 and this portra 400. i don't like the portra 400 shots... they look washed out and the sky is blown out. maybe it has to do with shooting them later in the day when the sun wasn't so bright or even out. anyway, it's interesting to compare them.
sb800 cam right straw snooted diffused with copy paper, by adjusting the distance of paper to knife, able to control the family of angles to get the diffused direct reflection of the knife. also another sb600 cam left also snooted and diffused as above, to get subtle highlight on the knifes' blade. sb800 1/4 power, sb600 1/18, at 250 synch speed. triggered via CLS with the D200 set as commander.
This tree stands out beautifully against the hills of the gorge south of the Akosombo Dam, Volta Region, Ghana
Paul Duke, head coach for the Mississippi College Lady Choctaws joins senior standout Alexus Stirgus of Vicksburg. The pair united at the annual MC Sports Hall of Fame banquet on April 26. Stirgus averaged 12.2 points per game and 4.1 rebounds. She was among three MC players named to All-ASC women's basketball teams this year.
***UPDATE*** 5/5/13 Scott and Katherine came in yesterday on a tightly focused mission to find a desk chair, a coffee table, and also a lounge chair. This one made the cut. Nice!
I am going full steam seven nights a week, including all weekends (as this late Friday night update will confirm). Classic Acclaim coffee table in extra tasty condition... and mercy.. looks like Erik Buck is making a cameo. Mercy!
The launch of the magazine the Standout at University House on the University of the Fraser Valley's Abbotsford campus today.
Rick Collins Photographer - UFV
Remove the cushions revealing a stellar upholstered frame. Extremely comfortable chair with generous proportions.
UPDATE-- 12/2/12 This one is off to North Carolina. Everything always finds it way to right place, and Mira & family were really determined to nab this one. The reward? You now have even more Milo B. Bravo.
MC Lady Choctaws soccer players are in good spirits after MC defeated Montevallo 3-1 in Clinton on Saturday. Members of the team later traveled to Jackson to cheer on the Choctaws at the MC-Belhaven football game at Newell Field.
The launch of the magazine the Standout at University House on the University of the Fraser Valley's Abbotsford campus today.
Rick Collins Photographer - UFV
MUST BE VIEWED IN STEREO TO FULLY APPRECIATE!
A 3D (stereo) crosseye view.
TO SEE THIS IN 3D, there's a tutorial here:
Although all the rooms of the Rone - Empire installation exhibition are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study is one of them. It features walls of books covered with a portrait of Lily Sullivan, and the entire room is partially submerged in a lake of black water with the occasional red oak leaf floating across its glassy surface.
Melbourne based street artist Rone (Tyrone Wright) used the decaying glory of the 1933 Harry Norris designed Streamline Moderne mansion, Burnham Beeches in the Dandenong Ranges' Sherbrooke, between March the 6th and April 22nd to create an immersive hybrid art space for his latest installation exhibition; "Empire".
"Empire" combined a mixture of many different elements including art, sound, light, scent, found objects, botanic designs, objects from nature and music especially composed for the project by Nick Batterham. The Burnham Beeches project re-imagines and re-interprets the spirit of one of Victoria’s landmark mansions, seldom seen by the public and not accessed since the mid 1980s. According to Rone - Empire website; "viewers are invited to consider what remains - the unseen cultural, social, artistic and spiritual heritage which produces intangible meaning."
Rone was invited by the current owner of Burnham Beeches, restaurateur Shannon Bennett, to exhibit "Empire" during a six week interim period before renovations commence to convert the heritage listed mansion into a select six star hotel.
Rone initially imagined the mansion to be in a state of dereliction, but found instead that it was a stripped back blank canvas for him to create his own version of how he thought it should look. Therefore, almost all the decay is in fact of Rone's creation from grasses in the Games Room which 'grow' next to a rotting billiards table, to the damp patches, water staining and smoke damage on the ceilings. Nests of leaves fill some spaces, whilst tree branches and in one case an entire avenue of boughs sprout from walls and ceilings. Especially designed Art Deco wallpaper created in Rone's studio has been installed on the walls before being distressed and damaged. The rooms have been adorned with furnishings and objects that might once have graced the twelve original rooms of Burnham Beeches: bulbulous club sofas, half round Art Deco tables, tarnished silverware and their canteen, mirrored smoke stands of chrome and Bakelite, glass lamps, English dinner services, a glass drinks trolley, photos of people long forgotten in time, walnut veneer dressing tables reflecting the installation sometimes in triplicate, old wire beadsteads, luggage, shelves of books, an Underwood typewriter, a John Broadwood and Sons of London grand piano and even a Kriesler radiogramme. All these objects were then covered in a thick sheet or light sprinkling of 'dust' made of many different things including coffee grinds and talcum powder, creating a sensation for the senses. Burnham Beeches resonated with a ghostly sense of its former grandeur, with a whiff of bittersweet romance.
Throughout the twelve rooms, magnificent and beautifully haunting floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall portraits of Australian actress Lily Sullivan, star of the Foxtel re-make of Picnic at Hanging Rock, appear. Larger than life, each portrait is created in different colours, helping to create seasonal shifts as you move from room to room.
Although all the rooms are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study is one. The Dining Room features two long tables covered in a Miss Havisham like feast of a trove of dinner table objects from silverware and glassware to empty oyster shells and vases of grasses and feathers.
The Dining Room installation I found especially confronting. In 1982, I visited Burnham Beeches when it was a smart and select hotel and had Devonshire tea in the dining room at a table alongside the full length windows overlooking the terraces below. I was shocked to see a room I remember appointed with thick carpets and tables covered in gleaming silver and white napery, strewn with dust and leaves, and adorned with Miss Havisham's feast of found dining objects.
I feel very honoured and privileged to be amongst the far too few people fortunate enough to have seen Rone's "Empire", as like the seasons, it is ephemeral, and it will already have been dismantled. Rone's idea is that, like his street art, things he creates don't last forever, and that made the project exciting. I hope that my photographs do justice to, and adequately share as much as is possible of this amazing installation with you.
Cuban standout Erislandy Lara throws a right hand at Delvin Rodriguez during their June 12, 2015 Premier Boxing Champmions Super welterweight bout. Lara went on to win by 12 round decision and improved to 21-2-2 (12 KOs). Rodriguez dropped to 28-8-4 (16 KOs).
Great show last night with The Beatlegs at CSI Club Southport. These guys are the real deal, full of life and laughter on stage - and they had the full house on the dance floor from the first strum of the first song.
Listening to songs like "Hey Jude" and "She Loves You, Yea, Yea Yea" was great but the standout song for me again was "A Day In The Life".
This was the third time I have seen this group in the past three years and definitely look forward to seeing them again when next they are in town.
Photos taken with a Sony a6000 + Sony 18-105mm f4 G lens and a Sony SLT a77ii + Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 lens.
Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (Thursday, May 12, 2011) – The Asp 3-Star Islas Canarias Santa Pro Junior, Event nº3 of 7 on the Asp Europe Men’s Pro Junior Series ran through to complete Round Two with standout surfers Dimitri Ouvre (BRB) 19, and Tom Cloarec (FRA) 17, leading the remaining Top Seeds through stormy on-shore conditions in peaky 3-4ft waves at La Cicer.
Surfers competing at the Islas Canarias Santa Pro Junior are out to claim the valuable ranking points on offer at this 3-Star rated event and place themselves in the race for the overall European Pro Junior title and the chance to compete in the Asp World Junior Series starting in Bali, Indonesia on October 3, 2011.
Ouvre, who won last week’s Somo Pro Junior, continued his run of form opening his account with a solid ride to control the heat. With minutes remaining Ouvre tore apart a peeling left wall with three critical snaps in the pocket to lock in an 8.57 out of 10, the highest single-wave score of the event.
“It is really hard out there today. There are some fun set waves but you have to wait for the good ones and sometimes it is difficult because you see so many waves coming through. You have to wait for the bigger ones to get the good scores but at the same time it is hard too.”
Ouvre’s surfing and his relaxed approach to competitive surfing has shown positive results so far this year and the current leader on the Asp European Men’s Pro Junior series looks set to put in a big performance on the Pro Junior rankings in 2011.
“I have no pressure on me and I want to take it heat after heat. It is ok if I lose but I want to win for sure another Pro Junior. I want to surf and I am feeling confident but not too much which is good.”
“This is a good place to make a contest,” explained Ouvre about La Cicer. “Sure there are waves in Canarias which are better but here is good for a contest because there are many waves and you are not going to lose because you can’t get any waves. You take your waves for sure and you are going to have your two scores.”
Tom Cloarec (FRA) 17, ignited in his early morning heat as he destroyed a long left with fully committed fins-free forehand snaps to claim an 8.43 out of 10. Cloarec showed loads of speed and flow to highlight his performance in the tough conditions on offer to advance through to Round Three ahead of Ethan Egiguren (EUK) who placed second.
“In the beginning of the heat I didn’t get any good waves but then that left came in and I surfed it well and I got an 8. It is a fun wave to surf if you can catch the good one.”
“I prefer to surf the lefts,” continued Cloarec. “I saw that they would be better during my heat so my plan was to try and find them. I want to get a result here but I am trying not to think about it too much and just concentrate on my surfing.”
Kieren Bulard (REU) 19, impressed in the tricky conditions with flowing rail turns despite the battering winds and face chop on the shifting peaks. Building on his initial scores, Bulard finished with the modest total of 9.17 out of 20 to take out a low scoring encounter.
“It is smaller today and I caught a couple of mushy waves but I am happy because in the end I got through my heat. I got a 5-point ride and then after that I tried to catch a good wave to build on my scores but I didn’t find a better wave. It was ok because no one else found another good wave either. I wasn’t nervous because I saw that the others were scoring low, getting 2 or 3 point rides.”
Bulard, ranked nº17 on the Asp European rankings, is concentrating on the higher rated Pro Junior events for his 2011 campaign and made his first appearance after his 9th place finish on home soil in Reunion Island last month.
“This is my second event after the Reunion Island Pro Junior. I arrived in France one month ago to do my practical studies as a coach and I have been surfing and training in Seignosse.”
Pierre-Valentin Laborde (Hossegor, FRA) 19, one of Europe’s most experience campaigners, showed his talents on the moving peaks with a powerful display of forehand gouges and committed close-out turns to cruise through to the next Round.
“When you get a wave you don’t know if it will be a good one or not so I tried to do at least one big turn to try and build up some scores. I have some good boards here with me but it is so difficult to surf out there because it is so mushy so I used a normal board and it went good in today’s conditions.”
“This is my last year as a junior,” stated Laborde. “I did the Reunion Pro Junior and came fifth there so I am pretty confident at the moment and I want to be in the race for the European title.”
Charly Termeau (Hossegor, FRA) 14, one of the youngest competitors in the Islas Canarias Santa Pro Junior, advanced in second place behind Laborde in a tight battle over Pedro Berasaluce (EUK) and local Kai Garcia (CNY). Termeau clinched his place in the next Round with a series of flowing forehand snaps to secure a 5.17 out of 10.
“I am happy with the result because I was against guys who are older than me and it is not easy for me to pass heats. The right I caught was probably the best of the heat but it was not the perfect wave so it is difficult to surf out there. I got through to Round Three in Somo last week and I want to do better here again.”
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Upcoming Islas Canarias Santa Pro Junior Round Three Matchups
Heat 1: Gaspard Larsonneur (FRA), Ander Mendiguren (EUK), Vasco Ribeiro (PRT), Joao Kopke (PRT)
Heat 2: Ramzi Boukhiam (MAR), Diodo Appleton (PRT), Jose Ferreira (PRT), Hugo Debosc (REU)
Heat 3: Medi Veminardi (REU), Alex Gironi (EUK), Tristan Guilbaud (FRA) , Pablo Pola (FRA)
Heat 4: Leonardo Fioravanti (ITA), Miguel Blanco (PRT), Nelson Cloarec (FRA), Ian Fontaine (FRA)
Heat 5: Tom Cloarec (FRA), Kieren Bulard (REU), Remi Petersen (NLD), Borja Agote (EUK)
Heat 6: Ethan Egiguren (EUK), Francisco Alves (PRT), Dimitri Ouvre (BRB), Jules Thomet (FRA)
Heat 7: William Aliotti (FRA), Angelo Bonomelli (ITA), Charly Termeau (FRA), Luis Eyre (GBR)
Heat 8: Stuart Campbell (GBR), Hugo Palmarini (REU), Pierre-Valentin Laborde (FRA), Frederico Morais (PRT)
Remaining Islas Canarias Santa Pro Junior Round Two Results
Heat 9: Tom Cloarec (FRA) 13.03, Ethan Egiguren (EUK) 9.84, Imanol Yeregi (EUK) 6.16, Jose De Armas (CNY) 3.37
Heat 10: Kieren Bulard (REU) 9.17, Francisco Alves (PRT) 7.23, Pedro Correia (PRT) 6.73, Tim Latte (SWE) 6.63
Heat 11: Dimitri Ouvre (BRB) 14.64, Remi Petersen (NLD) 8.20, Ugo Robin (FRA) 7.30, Manix Bikuna (EUK) 6.43
Heat 12: Jules Thomet (FRA) 11.17, Borja Agote (EUK) 10.16, Gil Keren (ISR) 8.43, Luca Dioguardi (CYN) 4.50
Heat 13: William Aliotti (FRA) 8.17, Stuart Campbell (GBR) 7.63, Roberto Letemendia (EUK) 7.30, Juan Fernandez (ESP) 6.10
Heat 14: Angelo Bonomelli (ITA) 9.67, Hugo Palmarini (REU) 9.56, Miguel Villalba (ESP) 4.27, Lewis Leadbetter (CNY) 3.83
Heat 15: Pierre-Valentin Laborde (FRA) 11.00, Charly Termeau (FRA) 8.74, Pedro Berasaluce (EUK) 7.80, Kai Garcia (CNY) 3.47
Heat 16: Frederico Morais (PRT) 13.73, Luis Eyre (GBR) 10.00, Ivan Gonzalez (ESP) 6.00, Nico Aguirre (CNY) 4.56
I find myself more and more only wanting to take photos that involve bokeh/DoF/light. I guess shooting mainly with prime lenses tends to do that; I have become obsessed with my 50mm.
Although all the rooms of the Rone - Empire installation exhibition are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Dining Room is one. As a well proportioned and elegant space, it runs over half of the original Burnham Beeches floor plan. It features two long tables covered in a Miss Havisham like feast of a trove of found dinner table objects from silverware and glassware to empty oyster shells and vases of grasses and feathers.
The Dining Room installation I personally found especially confronting. In 1982, I visited Burnham Beeches when it was a smart and select hotel and had Devonshire tea in the dining room at a table alongside the full length windows overlooking the terraces below. I was shocked to see a room I remember appointed with thick carpets and tables covered in gleaming silver and white napery, strewn with dust and leaves, and adorned with Miss Havisham's feast of found dining objects.
Melbourne based street artist Rone (Tyrone Wright) used the decaying glory of the 1933 Harry Norris designed Streamline Moderne mansion, Burnham Beeches in the Dandenong Ranges' Sherbrooke, between March the 6th and April 22nd to create an immersive hybrid art space for his latest installation exhibition; "Empire".
"Empire" combined a mixture of many different elements including art, sound, light, scent, found objects, botanic designs, objects from nature and music especially composed for the project by Nick Batterham. The Burnham Beeches project re-imagines and re-interprets the spirit of one of Victoria’s landmark mansions, seldom seen by the public and not accessed since the mid 1980s. According to Rone - Empire website; "viewers are invited to consider what remains - the unseen cultural, social, artistic and spiritual heritage which produces intangible meaning."
Rone was invited by the current owner of Burnham Beeches, restaurateur Shannon Bennett, to exhibit "Empire" during a six week interim period before renovations commence to convert the heritage listed mansion into a select six star hotel.
Rone initially imagined the mansion to be in a state of dereliction, but found instead that it was a stripped back blank canvas for him to create his own version of how he thought it should look. Therefore, almost all the decay is in fact of Rone's creation from grasses in the Games Room which 'grow' next to a rotting billiards table, to the damp patches, water staining and smoke damage on the ceilings. Nests of leaves fill some spaces, whilst tree branches and in one case an entire avenue of boughs sprout from walls and ceilings. Especially designed Art Deco wallpaper created in Rone's studio has been installed on the walls before being distressed and damaged. The rooms have been adorned with furnishings and objects that might once have graced the twelve original rooms of Burnham Beeches: bulbulous club sofas, half round Art Deco tables, tarnished silverware and their canteen, mirrored smoke stands of chrome and Bakelite, glass lamps, English dinner services, a glass drinks trolley, photos of people long forgotten in time, walnut veneer dressing tables reflecting the installation sometimes in triplicate, old wire beadsteads, luggage, shelves of books, an Underwood typewriter, a John Broadwood and Sons of London grand piano and even a Kriesler radiogramme. All these objects were then covered in a thick sheet or light sprinkling of 'dust' made of many different things including coffee grinds and talcum powder, creating a sensation for the senses. Burnham Beeches resonated with a ghostly sense of its former grandeur, with a whiff of bittersweet romance.
Throughout the twelve rooms, magnificent and beautifully haunting floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall portraits of Australian actress Lily Sullivan, star of the Foxtel re-make of Picnic at Hanging Rock, appear. Larger than life, each portrait is created in different colours, helping to create seasonal shifts as you move from room to room.
Although all the rooms are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Dining Room is one. The Study is the other. It features walls of books covered with a portrait of Lily Sullivan, and the entire room is partially submerged in a lake of black water with the occasional red oak leaf floating across its glassy surface.
I feel very honoured and privileged to be amongst the far too few people fortunate enough to have seen Rone's "Empire", as like the seasons, it is ephemeral, and it will already have been dismantled. Rone's idea is that, like his street art, things he creates don't last forever, and that made the project exciting. I hope that my photographs do justice to, and adequately share as much as is possible of this amazing installation with you.