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The final stages of the removal of "Unconditional Surrender" at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
The arm of the "Unconditional Surrender" statue is lifted at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
The final stages of the removal of "Unconditional Surrender" at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
Fritz, a standard schnauzer less than a year old, was surrendered to HFL with Minnie, a miniature schnauzer, and Jack, a rat terrier mix. All three suffered terrible abuse in their Northern Minnesota home. Fritz, a spirited puppy, suffered the brunt of the abuse.
All three dogs belonged to a couple whose lives had degenerated into drug and alcohol abuse. Perhaps at one time they had cherished their pets, but they hadn't shown the animals love for quite a while. Their "mom" suffered the effects of drug use and lost the capacity to look after her dogs. Her partner apparently had a sadistic streak, which he demonstrated towards the dogs, especially Fritz, when he took over their care. The wife seemed unwilling or unable to intervene to stop the abuse.
The dogs were kept in a small, outdoor dog run with no shelter. When HFL learned of the situation, it was the middle of a typically brutal Northern Minnesota winter. The run was completely covered in frozen dog feces and urine. The man fed the dogs one small fish once a day. He watched as the three competed for the tiny meal.
The man was particularly cruel to Fritz and beat him when he saw him go to the bathroom in the kennel. Sometimes, he abused Fritz for no obvious reason at all. All three dogs were severely underweight and had long, matted, filthy hair. They would cuddle together to try to keep warm. It was obvious that the man was cruelly sending them to a slow and painful death by exposure, dehydration and starvation.
Finally, a witness could not stand the situation any longer. Not a dog lover himself, he still felt the need to take action. He called Zoë, a friend of our supporter Sabra. Zoë asked the person to see if the couple would voluntarily surrender the dogs that they clearly did not care about anymore. Amazingly, they agreed.
Officially unreported as abusers, it is sad that these people are still free to adopt and abuse another pet if the whim takes them. Still, at least Fritz, Jack, and Minnie were headed to warmth and security! As our friend Sabra noted, these three dogs never have to be at risk again.
All three dogs bear scars from their mistreatment, particularly the schnauzers. Fritz is still a submissive wetter who trembles and panics if he leaves the sanctuary for any reason. Minnie and Jack had enjoyed decent care early in their lives and were able to rebound somewhat.
Minnie is still shy and wary of new situations. She seldom leaves Jack’s side. Jack, a sensitive rat terrier, is quiet and watchful, but eager to put his past behind him. He thoroughly enjoys all aspects of life at the sanctuary and loves to visit nursing homes with our volunteers.
During a French counterattack the trench can be occupied once more.
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The upper portion of "Unconditional Surrender"is removed at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
37181 slows at Park Junction, Newport on a trip working from Machen Quarry with ballast in dogfish and sealion hoppers, 25/9/86
A construction crane prepares to place the upper portion of "Unconditional Surrender" on the ground at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
The upper portion of "Unconditional Surrender" is strapped for removal at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
September 1, 2012
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After the first week of classes were over, my friends and I headed to Virginia Beach. While they were all asleep on the beach, I went and watched Cheap Trick perform at the Verizon Wireless Music Festival. I captured this photo while they were performing "Surrender" for their finishing piece.
Tuna Harbor Park visitors take pictures of the upper half of "Unconditional Surrender." (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
Crews begin dismantling "Unconditional Surrender" at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
The "Unconditional Surrender" is dismantled into three pieces at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
The final stages of the removal of "Unconditional Surrender" at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
Has anyone seen the new "Oba the Last Samurai" movie? Any thoughts? It was a movie and not a documentary so many parts didn't make sense. This picture was given to me by my friend Al Sando who was stationed here when the event took place.
A family takes a final snapshot of the upper portion of "Unconditional Surrender" at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
Relinquishing everything else and all ideas of righteousness surrender unto me exclusively.
I will deliver you from all sins, do not despair.
- Gita
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Yeah, it's back in Sarasota. 'It' being J. Seward Johnson's 25-foot-tall statue depicting the kiss in Times Square taken by the late Alfred Eisenstaedt on August 14, 1945 (VJ Day). I guess this was on display in Times Square as part of some 60th anniversary of the end of WWII celebration. It left New York and spent some time in Sarasota in 2005, apparently. Then it went to San Diego, where I first saw it while attending Comic-Con in 2007. Now it's back. A massive PDA. In this scale you pretty much can't help looking up her skirt. It always seems like a work that should be part of a miniature golf course or something.
The D700 is a remarkable camera, BTW. A much better tool than I am a tradesman. But in a way that everyone kind of deserves to have when they take a photograph. That roll of Ektachrome when you'd been used to Kodacolor kind of thing. It becomes an invisible friend that makes you feel more affectionate towards the way your camera saw the light. Hard to go back to Kodacolor after that, you know? Chips and pipelines like this will be all over the place before you know it, though.
Tonight I shot in really contrasty lighting at night. I wasn't overjoyed with what I got, but it was OK. I didn't look at it and sigh. Or at least not because of the way the camera saw the light I presented to it. Nikon may have used toying around with creatively clipping the blacks or any other number of things to make the D700 more forgiving in terms of apparent latitude and ISO response. I honestly don't know. It may be a terrible technical camera for your precision industrial or astrophotographic needs, but as something to shoot non-precision photographs it's got a way of rendering images that seems very pleasant to me.
Things seem to be much less electronic/video-y in the way contrast transitions are handled. I'm sure the curves I'm using are responsible, too. Overall the "unprocessed" RAW images are the least offensive aesthetically that I've dealt with. I don't have any idea how it is to work with digital medium format or scanning backs, though.