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Those are not paint imperfections, those are my greasy finger prints!, I'll take better pictures later after I calm down
Hearts and Tails fundraiser event for the Fashion For Paws (Washington Humane Society) cause. Held at Skye Lounge, Washington DC, Feb 12, 2009.
Nightlife PR
Model: Allison Shelby
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July Milwaukee Stobist meetup. Many thanks to Cory and Kevin and the folks at
Direct Supply, Inc. for letting us use the space. But mostly thanks to Allison for the time. I think you will all agree she makes quite a muse.
Strobist info: large monoblocs with a large softbox in the vertical position . The light power I am unclear on exactly but it was more than I originally wanted, maybe 1/8. 1/100 @ f/3.5
This was originally an outtake.
Those are the other members of our sailboat on shore, completely unaware of the bear fishing below them. We were on the boat trying to figure out how to mime "bear" in case they looked over at us. They say they were further away than it appears.
Night of Excellence celebrated excellence in athletics and the arts as we honored these four groups of students for their exemplary accomplishments.
Marching Band
Elizabeth Public Schools is dedicated to recognizing the excellence of those who continually contribute to the district’s vision of becoming one of the best school systems in America. The Night of Excellence Ceremony was created to honor students who have performed at a prestigious level through demonstrating exceptional dedication, determination, and perseverance.
The next group of talented, dedicated young men and women and the professionals who lead them in their high caliber performances have achieved not only a State championship title but also a National championship title. They are now the three-time defending state and national champions in US Bands Group 5A after winning the state and national championships in 2013! They have also gone undefeated in three consecutive seasons!
If that isn’t excellent enough, they were also the only high school group to be selected to perform at Super Bowl 48 here in New Jersey this past February. How big of a deal was it for this group to perform at the Media Day and Gameday events for Super Bowl 48? The game was watched by 112.2 million people in the United States, the largest television audience in United States history.
Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy
The next group of students are part of the school that was ranked among the best high schools in New Jersey and America by The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report. This school was ranked Number 11 in New Jersey and Number 613 in America by The Washington Post and Number 30 in New Jersey and Number 836 in America by U.S. News & World Report. In its performance on state assessments, the school attained the rankings of ‘Very High Performing’ in Academic Achievement in a peer comparison and ‘High Performing’ in a statewide comparison, while achieving a ‘High Performing’ ranking in College and Career readiness when compared to its peer schools.
Elizabeth High School
Next, we want to recognize another one of our high schools that was ranked among the best in New Jersey and America by The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report. This school was ranked Number 1 in New Jersey and Number 34 in America by The Washington Post and Number 11 in New Jersey and Number 221 in America by U.S. News & World Report. This school has a 96% graduation rate with a total enrollment of 769 students and it has attained an impressive 99% proficiency or advanced proficiency on the High School Proficiency Assessment. Lastly, this school was recently identified by the State of New Jersey as ‘Very High Performing’ in the category of Academic Achievement in both peer and statewide comparisons.
Terence C. Reilly School No. 7
Last, but not least, is a school that was one of 59 throughout the country to be nationally recognized as a National Title I Distinguished School for exceptional student achievement in 2013. This designation is awarded in honor of the efforts of schools across the country in making significant improvements for their students. The program has been in place since 1996, highlighting the success of hundreds of schools in the categories of exceptional student performance for two or more consecutive years and closing the achievement gap between students.
Klechka the Amur Tiger saw something that caught his eye ! Taken at Clevealand Metroparks Zoo on 3/22/12.
Girls Think Tank in collaboration with Embrace, two non-profit organizations volunteering time and effort to help veterans in San Diego. Passing out 'Winter Survival Pack' and hot food to those who served our country.
It was that day. The day my nice niece Paige turned two!
Guess where we had the party at?
MCDONALDS!!! Hahah.
What's even funnier is that we celebrated last year's party at a different fast food joint. (Try Jollibee.)
Hope you like it :)
My grandpa and Kissinger, both donning those retro Nixon-era glasses, look admirably at one another.
My grandfather, Xu Jiayu, came to the US to visit the White House and several medical schools in the 1970's with a small Chinese medical delegation, which was considered politically neutral. The visit was one of the first times the Chinese set foot in America after the Communist victory over the Nationalists in 1949.
My grandfather was chosen as a delegate because of his fluency in English and medical experience. He, having attended St. John's University in Shanghai, was one of the few people in China at the time with a formal English education, and was the head of the department of Gastroenterology at Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai.
Those aren't seedlings. They're actually cakes baked in flower pots for Emma's botany mystery birthday party.
My sister. This was taken while it wasn't snowy here... sometime in the fall. I edited a while back, but I've decided to put it on flickr.
This garland is for those of us who are intrigued by astronomy—the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere:
A handful of smiling moons and planetary diagrams framed with black crepe fringe join Urania—the Greek muse of astronomy who is able to foretell the future by the arrangement of the stars—and a lovely witchy French astronomer who directs our attention to Saturn. A band of space-age silver glitter surrounds a beautiful vintage black and white image of the moon framed by black crepe fringe and golden yellow lace ribbon.
Garland measures approx. 50" long.
Please see my profile for more info.
Per the NGA Sculpture Garden website:
"David Smith worked as a welder in a car factory as a young man. Later, he emerged as a sculptor within the context of the New York School in the 1940s and 1950s, and applied his industrial skills to his art-making practice. He said of his preferred medium, welded steel: "The metal itself possesses little art history. What associations it possesses are those of this century: power, structure, movement, progress, suspension, brutality."
Smith most often created works in series, culminating in the 1960s with his celebrated 'Cubis' sculptures, his only series made of stainless steel.
After finding it time-consuming to weld his new material, and not getting exactly the results he wanted, he ordered hollow cubic and cylindrical units from Ryerson Steel, a fabricator.
His assistants helped assemble and weld the sculpture, but most of the burnishing was done by the artist himself with the help of just one assistant. "I depend a great deal on the reflective power of light," he said.
Dimensions of Cubi XXVI -- 119 7/16 x 150 15/16 x 25 13/16 in."
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