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The I Have To Shoot What?! Challenge for Week 46: Valued Item
This week, I took the liberty of putting just a few items together that may not mean much monetarily (if anything at all) but signify much meaning in my heart. On the left is one of many heart-shaped rocks that Greg finds for me whenever we go to the beach or anywhere there are rocks on the ground... On the right is the perfume we purchased on our honeymoon in Bermuda. And in the background is a scarf that belonged to my mother's mother, who I never had the chance to meet as she passed when my mother was just 19...
This is another image I came across that I took back in 2009 but never processed or posted. It has been collecting digital dust ever since. This was taken using an 8 megapixel bridge camera, Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30 which, by today’s values, would seem to be significantly lacking in capability. In response to a comment about the suitability of a recent Canon DSLR mode for producing images to print about 40cm wide, I processed this image with a large print in mind. My conclusion: it should quite easily print at 60+ cm wide so if you can’t get a good print from a recent model camera, look into your technique. As for the image, memory fails for the exact location, but looking over the frames around this one, it would be around Toronto City Hall. It shows a tight-ish angled, in-camera crop of some red posters featuring vintage 8mm movie cameras, likely promoting some type of Canadian film festival, stuck to a plywood protective barrier at a construction site of the time. - JW
Date Taken: 2009-03-23
Date PP: 2025-04-11
(c) Copyright 2009, 2025 JW Vraets
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Tech Details:
Taken using hand-held Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30 8 megapixel bridge camera fitted with an 12x zoom lense set to 18mm, ISO80 (base ISO), daylight WB, Matrix metering, Program Mode, f/5.6 1/250 sec . PP in free Open Source GIMP: scale JPEG image to 8000px wide, use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool slightly boost the overall saturation, duplicate the image to a new layer and add a black/transparent layer mask and paint the duller right portion of the frame with white/opaque paint followed by boosting that area’s saturation and contrast, use the Curves tool to pull up/brighten the mid-tones, sharpen, save, scale to 6000 px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px wide for posting online, sharpen, save.
Workshop chaired by Tim Haywood, Group Finance Director and Head of Sustainability at Interserve featuring Anna Laycock, Lead Strategist, Finance Innovation Lab; Ben Wielgus, Associate Director Sustainability Services, KPMG and John Hitchin, Deputy Chief Executive, Renaisi
Photos by Andy Sillett, On Sight Photographic
"outstanding service in the coolest Riad"
Thoroughly enjoyed our 3 night stay. The staff treated us brilliantly. For example, the owner insisted on calling his family doctor, who did a house call to the Riad to care for my wife who suffered a bee sting. The staff also spent an hour setting up the Ireland/France world cup qualifier on the TV (although unfortunately couldn't influence the result!) The rooms were spotless and decorated in a very trendy African theme. We had two dinners there, both scrumptious, and we got great recommendations from the owner on the things to see in Marrakech (incl. a fun cooking class). All in all, the Riad is a wonderful balance to an often hectic city and I will certainly be directing friends and family this way
TIANJIN/CHINA, 28SEPT08 - Participants at the Rapidly Building Value session in the Tianjin WorkSpace 2008 at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2008 in Tianjin, China.
Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org)/Photo by Liu Ying
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We live in a hyper-technological society in which family life is failing, a world where we can learn anything except how to be parents; how to raise children with values and limits, how to say No more often, how to discipline them.
It is said that we must raise children in freedom. No demands on them. Let them dictate their own rules and do as they please. These are well-intentioned mistakes whose consequences we are paying for daily: children and adolescents who run away, commit suicide, kill and drug themselves.
The absence of the mother in the home and the weakening of fatherly authority have become a central issue of a daily reality that threatens to destroy the family as an institution. Alone, in front of a computer our children grow up in a state of emotional emptiness. Consequently, they do not grow up. Christina Balinotti provides an enlightening handbook designed to show mothers (and fathers) how to lead and strengthen the family. It is a defense of the most important and significant event of human experience: parenthood.
Christina Balinotti is an Argentine author and lecturer. She holds a bachelor’s degree in the social sciences with graduate studies in Psychology including three years of special studies in Philosophy and Literature in her native Buenos Aires. She also has ample knowledge in the field of quantum physics.
She has resided in Miami since the year 2000, where she works as an international analyst on TV and Radio, investigating the crimes and suicides of our young people and their relationship to maternal absence during a child’s early years in this and in other developed societies.
Through her Foundation, Holistic Femininity, Christina Balinotti organizes conferences and annual workshops at several Florida universities (FIU, UM, SUAGM) as well as in important venues in Miami for the purpose of educating women in the essential recovery of family values and in the pathways of holistic femininity, all free of charge.
In 2013 she hosted a radio show at Radio Nova Internacional as well as a weekly TV Show at Telemiami in which she, together with other professionals, including sociologists, historians and psychologists, analyzed the role of women in Western cultures. Proud mother and grandmother.
Great Value Brand Walmart Ranch Salad Dressing Display, Pics by Mike Mozart instagram.com/MikeMozart
Kuala Lumpur, 16.03.2009 - Going through final notes before filming the videos on 8 Values of 1Malaysia.
Great Value Brand Walmart Ranch Salad Dressing Display, Pics by Mike Mozart instagram.com/MikeMozart
"Smile! It increases your face value" . ~Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias
CWC - 125 B Sunday - Saidapet
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Value City Furniture #151 (47,500 square feet)
5500 Buckeystown Pike, Francis Scott Key Mall, Frederick, MD
This location opened in 2008; it was originally part of a Gee Bee, which opened in 1978. It became a Value City in 1992, which closed in 2008.
Groovy 70s fashions have replaced the normal club-kid styles at Clobba for the filming of "Milk" in the Castro. THe Gus Van Sant film stars Sean Penn in the title roll of Harvey Milk, San Francisco's first openly gay district supervisor who was assassinated in 1978
Value City Furniture #100 (51,000 square feet)
1260 Smallwood Drive West, St. Charles Towne Plaza, Waldorf, MD
Nkosana D. Moyo, Founder and Executive Chair, Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS), South Africa; Global Agenda Council on Population Growth at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2013. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Value City Furniture #109 (55,800 square feet)
12149 Jefferson Avenue, Jefferson Plaza, Newport News, VA
This location opened on April 11th, 2002; it was originally part of an HQ, which opened on September 1st, 1994 (originally located here) and closed in December 1999. Outside signage was replaced in March 2018.