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Los Angeles, CA - The Bradbury Building
The Bradbury Building is the oldest commercial building remaining in the central city and one of Los Angeles’ unique treasures.
Behind its modest exterior lies a magical light-filled Victorian court that rises almost fifty feet with open cage elevators, marble stairs, and ornate iron railings. The design of the building was influenced by the 1887 science fiction book Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, which described a utopian society in 2000. In Bellamy's book, the average commercial building was described as a "vast hall full of light, received not alone from the windows on all sides, but from the dome, the point of which was a hundred feet above..."
The identity of the building’s final architect is a subject of debate. Lewis Bradbury, a mining and real estate millionaire, commissioned Sumner Hunt to create a spectacular office building. Hunt turned in completed designs but was replaced soon after by George H. Wyman, who supervised construction.
The Bradbury Building is featured prominently as a setting in films, television, and literature – particularly in the science fiction genre.Most notably, the building is the setting for both the climactic rooftop scene of Blade Runner (1982), as well as the location of J. F. Sebastian's apartment.It has also appeared in the movies D.O.A. (1950); I, The Jury (1953); Marlowe (1969); The Night Strangler (1972); Chinatown (1974); Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) and The Artist (2011). On television it has been featured in the 1964 The Outer Limits episode "Demon with a Glass Hand" as well as episodes of Pushing Daisies, Mission: Impossible, Quantum Leap and CSI NY. Authors Max Allan Collins, Simon R. Green, Michael Connelly and Philip Jose Farmer have all used the Bradbury Building as a setting in their novels.
~Time To Eat~
Wikipedia...
The California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi), is a common and easily observed ground squirrel of the western United States and the Baja California Peninsula; it is common in Oregon and California and its range has relatively recently extended into Washington and northwestern Nevada.
The squirrel's upper parts are mottled, the fur containing a mixture of gray, light brown and dusky hairs; the underside is lighter, buff or grayish yellow. The fur around the eyes is whitish, while that around the ears is black. Head and body are about 30 cm (12 in) long and the tail an additional 15 cm (5.9 in). They can weigh from 280-738 g(9.87-26.01 oz).[6] The tail is relatively bushy for a ground squirrel, and at a quick glance the squirrel might be mistaken for a fox squirrel.
As is typical for ground squirrels, California ground squirrels live in burrows which they excavate themselves. Some burrows are occupied communally but each individual squirrel has its own entrance. Although they readily become tame in areas used by humans, and quickly learn to take food left or offered by picnickers, they spend most of their time within 25 m (82 ft) of their burrow, and rarely go further than 50 m (160 ft) from it.
In the colder parts of their range, California ground squirrels hibernate for several months, but in areas where winters have no snow, most squirrels are active year-round. In those parts where the summers are hot they may also festivate for periods of a few days.
California ground squirrels are often regarded as a pest in gardens and parks, since they will eat ornamental plants and trees. They commonly feed on seeds, such as oats, but also eat insects such as crickets and grasshoppers as well as various fruits.
California ground squirrels are frequently preyed on by rattlesnakes. They are also preyed on by eagles, raccoons, foxes, badgers, and weasels. Interdisciplinary research at the University of California, Davis, since the 1970s has shown that the squirrels use a variety of techniques to reduce rattlesnake predation. Some populations of California ground squirrels have varying levels of resistance to rattlesnake venom as adults. Female squirrels with pups also chew on the skins shed by rattlesnakes and then lick themselves and their pups (who are never resistant to venom before one month of age) to disguise their scent. Sand-kicking and other forms of harassment provoke the snake to rattle its tail, which allows a squirrel to assess the size and activity level (dependent on blood temperature) of the snake.
Another strategy is for a squirrel to super-heat and swish around its tail. When hunting, rattlesnakes primarily rely on their pit organ, which detects infrared radiation. The hot-tail-swishing appears to convey the message "I am not a threat, but I am too big and swift-moving for it to be worth trying to hunt me." These two confrontational techniques also distract the snake from any nearby squirrel burrows containing pups.
The swishing of the tail from side to side is called tail-waving. This tail-waving helps the squirrel to deter a snake attack. It was shown that the snakes attacked the squirrels that exhibited the tail-waving at a shorter distance than those that did not and majority of those tail-waving squirrels successfully dodged these attacks. This successful dodging, along with the fact that the adult squirrels are larger than the young ones, helps to deter the predators, as studies have found that the rattlesnakes are 1.6 times more likely to be deterred from attacking an area after an encounter with an adult squirrel. In 30 out of 45 interactions with snakes, the tail-waving behavior of the squirrels stopped the snake in its tracks and the snake attempted to wait for the squirrel to leave before it would consider attacking again, showing that the behavior does deter predatory attacks by the rattlesnakes. This is due to the adult squirrels being vigilant and looking more threatening and also that they are able to more successfully dodge attacks. They also can use their tail-waving to signal to other ground squirrels in the area that a rattlesnake or other predator has recently been spotted. Though the ground squirrels have been found to also exhibit this tail-waving behavior when there is no predator present, they wave their tail faster and for a longer amount of time when they spot a predator or in an area where a predator has recently been spotted.
Vigilant behavior in squirrels is also a defense mechanism to avoid predation. In addition to the tail-waving, the squirrels have been found to be more vigilant and on alert if there had recently been a predator in the area than they were if there had been no predator detected. If the ground squirrels are aware that they are in an area where the rattlesnakes have recently been, the ground squirrels devote more time to being alert and searching for the predators than to hunting and foraging than in an environment where they do not believe there are predators.[9] These vigilant squirrels were found to have a faster reaction time to a stimuli from a predator and jump higher and further away than a squirrel who was not as vigilant. In a simulated environment study, 60% of squirrels that were in an environment with a recent snake encounter exhibited an evasive leap behavior, which propels them father away from their attackers. 20% of squirrels exhibited this behavior in a primary encounter with a snake and roughly 5% of squirrels exhibited this behavior when there was no snake present and no threat detected. This shows that the squirrels are more alert, vigilant, and ready for an attacker after one has been recently seen.
Bath Time. The local wildlife seem to appreciate the shallow water dish out on the patio, for drinking and bathing. Mostly the Sparrows, but also Starlings, Magpies and as here, a Robin. The local cats and Foxes also visit for drinks.
Picture taken through the back window.
Leer es amoblar tu propio departamento interior.
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It turns out that taking a macro shot of your watch is one good way of seeing if it needs cleaning!
Notice that I am not trying to sell my watch, otherwise I would have set the hands to 10:09:36 or similar!
Marishka: Hum... então isso é uma bomba de chocolate? Nada mal, mas prefiro os bolinhos de limão da minha época... Enfim, já que só tem bombinhas vou comer só mais uma (ou duas...ou três...)
- Da série: Família que come unida, engorda unida!
Marishka: Mas eu não posso engordar, posso? O.o
Dei uma empacada no projeto... Tenho as idéias, só não consigo fazer.
E tem uma menina nova a caminho!!! Só que ela está há 5 dias vindo pra Brasília e até agora nada.
Deve estar vindo a pé, só pode! XD
Tomara que chegue logo, to ficando ansiosa... =/
Inspiration came from just randomly observing photos on 'Camera Finder'.
Book: The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
Imagine for a moment, that there is a bank account that credits you with £86,400 every morning. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening, whatever you have failed to use is deleted. What would you do? Draw out every penny of course! Each of us has such a bank. It is called time. Every morning, you are credited with 86,400 seconds and every night, whatever you have failed to put to good use is written off. It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft.
You must live in the present on todays deposits. Invest it wisely and reap the rewards because you never know when your account could close. Make the most of today.12/11/2012
WRESTLING.
I'd forgotten the thrill of watching wrestling. This was the first time I'd seen wrestling entertainment like this, this being "Lucha Future" at the Brighton Dome. It was a load of fun, the crowd really got into it and some of the moves you get to see are mesmerizing.
Totally took the wrong lens. I wasn't expecting to actually take any photos. Going to this reminded me that one of the reasons I love photography is catching those perfect moments. I've recently been spending a lot of time trying to construct images in my own way, images that I feel have a little bit of me in them. But there is something special about going to an event and a lot of those things falling into place so easily and just being able to focus on catching that one little moment, be it a handshake, a glare on someones face or that perfect shot where the stage lights shine through the smoke and backlight the band you're shooting.
An HDR time lapse of the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.
Took 1 group of bracketed shots every 10 minutes for roughly 1 hour, merged into HDR with CS5, then put them together, exported the image as EXR and tone-mapped it with Luminance HDR (Mantiuk'06 with default parameters except saturation which I set to 1.2)
Would probably work better with more shots, e.g. once every 2 minutes so I might try again soon. Unfortunately the Nikon D5000 cannot do AE bracketing with the timer option, so I will be sitting in front of the tripod for a while.
Tech Data:
Camera: Nikon D5000
Lens: 18-55 @ 18mm , f/5, iso 100
PP: Photoshop CS5 + Luminance HDR
Great Horned Owlet napping on it's second day out of the nest.
If you look closely you can see that he is actually sitting on his butt.
Taken in La Crosse, WI.