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An old shop still in use in the heritage area of Malacca. From the materials seen here, it looks like the shop of a lantern maker.
Dinner will not be long!!
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It's been a few months since baseball ended and I'm ready for it to return...Spring Training games start in a little over a week from now and regular season about a month after that. Bring on baseball...
This photo was taken last fall in Johnson City, Tennessee at a Johnson City Cardinals game against the Elizabethton Twins. These team are apart of the Appalachian Rookie League with affiliations to Major League Baseball teams. Last year, the JC Cardinals won the league championship.
Technical Information:
Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
ISO – 320
Aperture – f/5.6
Exposure – 1/125 second
Focal Length – 300mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
- Canon 25mm extension tube
- Canon TS-E 24/3.5 L
- Canon 35/1.4 L
- Canon 17-40/4 L
- Canon 24-105/4 IS L
- Canon 135/2 L
- Canon 70-200/4 IS L
- Canon 40D + grip
- Canon 5D + grip
- Canon Speedlite 580ex2
- 4x Canon Speedlite 430ex
Panorama of 11 shots taken with the following strobist setup:
- 430EX through umbrella camera left
- 430EX through umbrella camera right
- 430EX through stofen behind subject to light background
Setup shot: www.flickr.com/photos/
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I wouldn't be able to take photos without a camera and I have to say the Nikon technology is fabulous!
Getting a couple of potatoes ready for dinner!
Flickr Lounge - Weekly Theme (Week 44) ~ Tools of The Trade ....
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I walked past Champs Barbers in Riding House Street, W1 I noticed the scenario playing out. I couldn't help but take an image. I shall have to do more to cut out reflections next time.
March 27th. Love Health (get pushed) for the 365 and shadows for the 52 (get in!)
Tool of the trade which has seen much better days.
Mind you with the advent of technology, so have the amazing listening ears of the cardiologist. There used to be text books written about cardiac noises - how the position, loudness and character of the noise or murmur would enable the astute to make an anatomical diagnosis. Nowadays you whack on technology and you can see where and what the problem is. This is true of all areas of medicine, where technology is changing the face of diagnostics. this is of course a good thing - diagnosis is reached quicker and often more correctly. however, a problem still needs to be suspected to ensure the right test is done. And that requires listening and thought. How long I wonder until technology replaces the enquiring mind?
Mid Afternoon at the Entrance to Chili Paradise. Old National Road (40 Highway) Independence, Missouri USA
Today’s daily grind, to the vet we go to get nails trimmed for the furry things I call Fritz and Ava. This reminded me of an old school doctors office set up.
Couldn't resist this face-off.
Behemoth series...
These giant wheeled bulldozers move the snow in the various area parking lots during the winter season. As Springtime approaches, they are a curious sight, parked side by side as the signs of the new season sprout around them
...see first Comment for link to the Behemoth series.
On retiring from the teaching profession I brought home my essentials kit, some of which you see here. Most things can be used at home but I'm not so sure about the staple remover!
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In the vernacular of disaster survival this is the bug-out-bag term for getting out of urban buildings. And having picked up some tips since photographing my car bag, I added a few items to what I already carry—dollar bills for vending machines, ear plugs in an Altoids box (along with toothbrush and toothpaste) and goggles. Regular safety goggles are too big so I came up with the brilliant idea to throw in my swim goggles, partly because they will look perfectly silly (and you could have had your gym bag with you so not out and out weird), but also because they will seal better. The ear plugs were suggested because disasters are very noisy with sirens and blocking out some of the noise will offer respite. (I forgot to lay down my hearing aids which I had in my pocket during photo session.)
Disaster bag enthusiasts tend to veer towards the militaristic or vigilante. There was a comment/suggestion on one site about the psychological advantages of having sunglasses to hide your eyes with the warning that this would also hide your humanity. So what's the advantage I wanted to know, unless to intimidate. (At 5'3" it be better if I had my ninja outfit on too).
Since this is my everyday bag it is really a get there on time, get work done and get paid bag.
seen in Explore Jan. 10,2014 www.flickr.com/photos/julesoso_jjw/11868723704/in/explore...
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Tools of the Trade
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Last leg of my trip...Chincoteague and Assateague Islands. Chincoteague is a combination fishing town, vacation homes and businesses and wildlife preserve. Didn't have time to linger but wanted to take a drive through and take a look to plan for a future return visit.
Birds, grasses and water, water, water - a bird photographer's heaven.
Assateague, completely a national park with a great visitor and learning center. Access to this island is only at the north end.
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My husband has used his tools rather a lot recently.
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When we first moved to Ithaca the vet we saw introduced us to this gadget. It's a "tick removal" tool and works like a charm. We've used it many times due to the concentration of ticks in our area.
I took this picture a few weeks ago, but apparently I never noticed it until now. I was scanning through a file with some recent pictures that I had taken, and came across this gem!
I love the texture and focus of the shot.
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Old tools sit out retirement in an antique shop.
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I went up early to the Grand Canyon South Rim for a big backpacking trip and visited several of the tourist destinations. I was very fortunate to be invited on a rare and special tour of the Kolb Residence with Ranger Marna Bastian. The NPS is considering having more of these tours in 2012 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Kolb Brothers rafting & photography expedition of the Colorado River.
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3/8/2011 15:27
Peeking into Kolb Studio's past
House suspended below rim home to history and Grand Canyon legend
Clara Beard Williams - Grand Canyon News Reporter
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A Hoosier Cabinet Silver Edition, circa 1900, sits in the kitchen once used by the Kolb brothers.
GRAND CANYON, Ariz. - How many of the Grand Canyon's 5 million yearly visitors experience a sunrise peering through the window of a home built precariously on the edge of the South Rim?
A handful at the most, which is one of the reasons local resident Bill Brookins counts himself fortunate to be one of the few.
Kolb Studio, a well-known and popular attraction and art exhibit location at Grand Canyon, houses five stories and 23 rooms of curiosities, which visitors to the upstairs gift shop rarely realize lie beneath their feet. Last week, Grand Canyon resident Bill Brookins generously offered the News an insider's look, where we discovered just how special Kolb Studio is.
Natives to Philadelphia, the Kolb brothers, Ellsworth and Emery, decided to make the Grand Canyon their home in 1902, 17 years before the establishment of Grand Canyon National Park. Avid photographers and river rafters, the Kolbs were the first to document a boat trip down the Colorado River with a movie camera, shown to park visitors from 1915 until 1956, making it the longest film showing in history. The 35mm projector used is available to view in the gift shop.
The Kolb brothers were passionate about photography, and the majority of their photos were sold to visitors meandering up the Bright Angel Trail on the backs of mules. According to Brookins, developing film was a journey in itself.
"When they were doing their photos up here, they didn't have any access to fresh water. It wasn't a park yet, and the person that had control over the water was Fred Harvey," he said. "The Kolb brothers weren't going to give anything to him since they were in competition with each other, so what they would do is take the pictures of people riding the mules down the trail, and then they would take the negatives in glass plates, put them in a back pack and run down to the only available source for fresh water. It was four and a half miles down and four and a half miles back up. That's a long way. And Emery must have done that a couple times a day."
Walking into the sitting room, Brookins brought out reproductions of photo scenes from their famous movie, 'Floating Down The River,' as well as actual furniture owned by the family.
"Emery Kolb had all sorts of interesting guests - John Muir, Albert Einstein the list goes on and on," he said. "I like to sit in here and think about, 'Well geez, what were they talking about or what did they have for dinner,' my little pea brain just goes crazy thinking about all those folks that were in here."
Heading into what could only be described as a sun porch, it is hard not to notice how startlingly close the structure is to the edge. Only a period window separates visitors from the bottom of the Colorado River. There, the brothers watched the stars and wildlife from the comfort of their brown wicker chairs.
"Can you imagine just sitting here every day, and looking out here? To take in the full experience here you just have to sit and relax and just take it all in," Brookins said. "The longer you sit here, the more you will notice things. During the summer there is always some kind of wildlife walking by, whether it is a deer of a bobcat, it is like a Disney moment."
Just sitting in silence is spectacular. The majesty of the Canyon changes every time you look, Brookins said.
Sitting so close to the edge is an incredible feeling, and Brookins added how difficult it is to imagine how people lived in the building prior to its structural stability assessment.
"When the Grand Canyon Association (GCA) decided to restore the building, they hired a structural engineer, he came down here and said, 'Well, the first thing you need to do is to attach the building to the wall,'" Brookins said.
Leaving the sun porch and stepping into the kitchen, the eye first lands on the brothers' Hoosier kitchen cabinet, which Brookins said has a unique story.
"The GCA got this cabinet back when Helen (Ranney, director of outreach and public relations, Grand Canyon Association) was trekking in Nepal," Brookins said. "They were talking to a park ranger who used to be at the Canyon and he said, 'Hey, I've got this Hoosier kitchen cabinet that I bought after Emery died. It is just sitting in my garage.'"
Donated to the GCA and restored, the cabinet sits prominently upright in the small kitchen, complete with a flour shifter and sugar bin built inside, which makes it an upgraded model according to Brookins.
"There is a packing list on each one of the pieces that says 'Ship to Mrs. Emery C. Kolb, Box 12, Grand Canyon,' so that makes it priceless," he said.
Traveling down into the dark room, which still holds the lingering smell of chemicals, Emery Kolb's hand-made photography stands and fascinating make shift tools still reside, which at one time helped to generate the photos that are famous in the park today.
"He made all of this, he didn't go to Wal-mart and buy any of it," Brookins said.
Kolb Studio is just one example of history sitting in the shadows of the Grand Canyon, and the people who helped shape its future.
"The more time you spend here, the more you see it isn't just all about the Canyon," Brookins said.
For more information on Kolb Studio and its rotating exhibits, visit www.grandcanyon.org.
explorethecanyon.com/grand-canyon-photography-and-movie-h...
Grand Canyon Photography and Movie History
Ellsworth and Emery Kolb, brothers who founded a photography studio at the Bright Angel trailhead, gained their notoriety as the first men to make a motion picture of the Colorado River amid its entire course through the Grand Canyon.
Seeking a life of adventure, Ellsworth arrived at the Grand Canyon in 1901 and worked as a bellhop at the Bright Angel Hotel. At his brother’s request, Emery made his way to the Canyon a year later with hopes for landing a mining job. When he arrived, though, the mine was closed.
Searching for another endeavor, Emery found a photography business for sale. Since he had experience in the field, he bought the business and moved it to the Grand Canyon, where the Kolb brothers opened a studio in 1903 photographing visitors who rode the Fred Harvey mule trains down the Bright Angel Trail.
Initially, the studio was housed in a small cave in the side of a canyon wall. The brothers placed a blanket over the entrance so they would have a makeshift darkroom. A year later, they built a two-story wooden structure on a rock shelf blasted out of the canyon wall.
In 1912, the Kolb brothers embarked on a historic boat trip down the Colorado River. They were the first individuals to record their exploits with a movie camera. The adventure started in Green River, Wyoming where John Wesley Powell’s famous expedition departed in 1869. The journey took two months and saw the brothers traverse the Green River to the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. The trip ended in Needles, Calif.
After completing the adventure and finalizing their movie, they toured the world promoting the film and then returned to the Grand Canyon. In 1915, they started showing the movie daily in an auditorium they built at their studio. It was part of a three-story addition (including living quarters). Ellsworth lost interest in the business and headed west for Los Angeles in 1924, but Emery operated the film daily until his death in 1976.
Today, historic Kolb Studio is open year-round. It features an exhibit venue, bookstore, and information center operated by the Grand Canyon Association, a nonprofit organization. Proceeds from sales at the bookstore are used for the continuing restoration and care of the building. Fully remodeled in 2004 for the Kolb Studio Centennial, the bookstore now contains a tribute to the Kolbs’ photography of mule riders at the Grand Canyon.
grandcanyonhistory.clas.asu.edu/sites_southrim_kolbstudio...
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THE CLASSIC BUNDT PAN - BAKE AND MAKE MUSIC TOO:
This image is an abstract composite design and homage to the Classic Bundt Pan.
Beyond the baking and the kitchen, a visual treat, the arches and curves of a Bundt Pan makes one want to hold it, touch its sculptural contours and admire its form.
The Bundt Pan is also wonderful as a musical instrument used as a bell or gong. It even has a built in handle. Hold the fluted inner shape and tap the edges with a rubber mallet or a thick spatula and you have a beautiful gong-like instrument.
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