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straight up to the ceiling of Dar Saada, a 'palace' restaurant where we had lunch once. decent fare, shockingly kitch paintings on the wall i failed to photograph.
Kat had many dares throughout the night of her bachelorette party. My dare of course was to get her to ask a band to let her perform. We found an irish pub by the end of the night. Straight up by Paula Abdul is always a crowd pleaser.
Yes, it really is a cocktail where the famous bitters are the principal ingredient. The menu says "schloads" of Angostura (which amounts to a full 1.5 oz. shot), but there's also lime, simple syrup, and an egg white, all shaken like crazy before being strained and topped with a few more drops of bitters.
It's incredible, and the lime juice particularly does something to highlight the spices in the Angostura. Highly recommended if you make it over to Heritage.
on a stroll near sunset in the town of boumalne dadès, morocco, i ignored a warning of danger to bring you this image
"Pity Laughs: A Tale of Two Gays" from Straightup was yet another show on my original list of possibles that I didn't manage to fit in. :-(
This is my 12th strangers for the www.100strangers.com project..
Alternately titled "what not to do"... I saw Bobby waiting on a friend outside the local grocery store and immediately approached him because i love white walls and i loved the way he was leaning back on it waiting.
but why my F-Stop was set at 1/5??????? and why wasnt i paying attention? also the annoying line of the window at the top of his head...grrrr..
another thing, Bobby's friend had come out and i felt very rushed because i didnt wanna hold them up and Bobby looked anxious to be done lol...
sooooooooooo, many mistakes on my part..
(no your's bobby)
I do like the lines though..and his rather straightup stance plays off the geometry here so i suppose that works...
but im posting it up anyway, even though its not so good because, hey he was a stranger and it was a learning experience.
Prompted by the wave of cute clothing/shopping on Flickr as well as a fantastic 30% off coupon for Old Navy/Gap/Banana Republic, I decided to take a little shopping expedition myself. I was considering a coat purchase at Old Navy but ended up with mostly tanks and a fleece workout jacket. I did find this super cute boyfriend blazer at the Gap though so all was not lost! (Although Mr.P just asked me why I was wearing a business suit in the picture because it looked so formal. Le sigh.)
On a side note, I'm rather proud that the focus turned out halfway ok on this considering I was guesstimating with my 28mm which doesn't AF with my camera.
11-13-09
Despite taking an SP every day for two and a half years, I'm not entirely comfortable with the truly straight-up SP.
It requires a million shots to find one I'm halfway satisfied with. I really like this one, though!
You can see all the spots where they sawed off the branches and dead limbs.
This one is over the parking area; I took this standing right next to my Suburban, looking straight up.
I should've taken a "before" photo... it was sooo scraggly and scary-looking. Every time one of our (brief but violent) summer storms comes through, I watch out our window to see if one of the branches is going to come crashing down on either our vehicles or our yard.
So glad the owners had the trees trimmed. Plus, much less of a fire hazard... especially given this area's propensity for lightning. Last year, one of the trees across the street caught on fire from lightning, only a few days after an apartment building on the same side caught fire and burnt up a good deal of the structure - also from lightning.
"Pity Laughs: A Tale of Two Gays" from Straightup was yet another show on my original list of possibles that I didn't manage to fit in. :-(
this pic of a friend’s daughter in her unicorn themed birthday party makes me howl; I’m going to hell
While taking a road trip across Hokkaido, we spotted this on the way to Sapporo. I didn't have a chance to get a photo. I made sure to snap one on your return trip, even it was shitty. Not sure what this was all about.
RANDOM
Hokkaido, Japan
When the museum has relatively few visitors, I can crouch unselfconsciously below the beautiful chandeliers taking pictures until I get one aligned straight up.
This tree scares me. It towers right above my parents' garage... growing up right beside it. I really don't like this tree. It is super-tall, and there aren't any others around to form a windbreak. Like so many other trees in the Pacific Northwest (Washington in particular) this is top-heavy. It has virtually no branches until about halfway up... and then you see this - a huge head of heavy pine-needle-laden branches, reaching out over the roof of the garage, part of the side yard, and part of the neighbor's yard.
I have been trying to get my parents to cut it down for ever. My biggest fear is that it will get blown over in one of our notorious fall windstorms... and that it will land directly on the house, the trunk probably falling diagonally into the garage, living room, and my parents' bedroom... with the branches engulfing the rest of the house.
There are a few other trees around their house as well, one of which is directly in front of the room I used to have, before I got married. But this one has so far caused the most problems. Every single year, this thing decides to shed some of its heavy arms, and sometimes they land in the street, sometimes in the driveway - but there have been times (too many for my comfort) that large branches, as long as (or longer than) 5 ft long have fallen onto the roof itself. One particularly memorable occasion was when I was visiting with my son, in the wintertime. The snow was particularly heavy on said branches, and small chunks of it fell off every now and then, in the occasional breezes. My little boy (about 3 or 4 at the time) and I were having a good ol' time, playing in the somewhat deep snow in the driveway. I was down the slope a little bit (their driveway is short, about 2 cars long, but steep) and my son was up in front of the garage door. We played around, throwing bits of snow at each other and giggling up a storm... when all of a sudden, it happened. A loud creaking sound, like a step on an old wooden board... then CRACK, BOOM!! a huuuuuge branch broke away from the tree and plummeted towards the earth.
It landed on the very edge of the gutter/garage roof... right above where my son was standing. It landed lengthwise, but at an angle, so that about half ended up extended over the edge. To this day, I believe angels kept that limb from falling right on the head of my boy. I'm not sure he would've been killed had it landed on him, but he would definitely have been seriously wounded... I shudder to think of it.
As you can see, the tree is still there... and we are now heading right into the midst of our windy season. Soon we will be seeing the streets littered with needles, leaves, and parts of trees... rain will soak the ground, leaving it unstable; and some trees will crack and break from the extended autumn blasts, while others will rob us of our electricity when they lean too hard on the powerlines along the roadway. And this tree will shed more of it's branches... hopefully none too big, and none too close. And maybe someday, my parents will listen, and get rid of it altogether. :)
Looking up at a plane and the rain cloud filled sky through the wires above. Typical winter skyscape on Seattle's Capitol Hill. This is a color photo, and a true example of our winter gray. The blue neon of Victrola Coffee's sign spells out the antidote of choice to seasonal affective disorder. It's only a matter of time before they start fortifying the local java with vitimin D like they do milk :-).
Oscar is sporting his Batman costume for his Halloween Ride on 11/1.
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420EX shot into white umbrella for main light right.
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Well, I suppose the title doesn't make much sense unless you know that I was sitting in front of that GAP store, waiting for my wife and her mother to re-appear! At least it was a good place for taking random photos...
I had a real hard time taking this photo. Trying to stand with your phone pointed straight up over your face, at a spinning ceiling fan (going fast because it's frikkin' hot) and centering it so that you're directly underneath...
I almost lost my balance, quite honestly. ;) I wasn't able to center it in-frame, obviously, but I like it a bit offset anyway. :)
Some art installation at the Virgin Terminal at London Heathrow, seen when looking straight up towards the ceiling.
Gotische Deckenkonstruktion in der Landshuter Sankt-Martinskirche.
Das Mittelschiff von St. Martin besteht aus neun Jochen auf querrechteckigem Grundriss. Ihnen entsprechen jeweils neun quadratische Jochräume in den beiden Seitenschiffen; diese sind durch Spitzbogendurchgänge zu den Einsatzkapellen beziehungsweise den seitlichen Portalvorhallen hin geöffnet.
Reich profilierte Dienste mit Kämpfern und Blattkapitellen spannen an den schlanken, achteckigen Mittelschiffpfeilern im Mittelschiff ein durchlaufendes Netzgewölbe auf.