Minolta XE-1 + MD Rokkor 50/1.2

Kodak Portra 400

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Afternoon stroll in the countryside.

U02A03 - Storytelling: A Walk in the Countryside

This is near my house, which for someone who spent 40 years in East London, still is amazing I’ve got this walking distance from my house, more used to stolen mopeds than horses lol.

I tried to do this just before work, which meant I only had 45 minutes, though I realise it isn’t an excuse and will try to plan my photo exercises better and have more time to think about what I’m doing.

I don’t think I done the place justice or captured the storytelling, it just seems like some random snaps, but it’s made me think and I’ll try to do better as it does on, having young children and going on days out, this is one area I’d love to improve on tbh.

I would’ve liked to get closer to the horses, but was a bit scared, if they went crazy, I don’t reckon I could beat them to the fence lol

I’ve straightened and cropped the photos, but no editing.

One thing I need to work on is over clicking, I take far many pictures of the same exact thing and it’s becomes a chore to cull/edit.

Walk-in closet

freedomRail walk-in closet with double hang Oboxes, cubbies and shoe shelves in Driftwood Live.

Walk in Pulderbos and around.

26/4/12***NO REPRO FEE***Brent Pope, Alan Quinlan & RTE Radio 1.s John Murray braved the weather for Walk in My Shoes Day at Dublin.s IFSC. Walk in My Shoes is raising funds to allow young adults free access to mental health services at St. Patrick.s University Hospital. For more information www.walkinmyshoes.ie Pic:Marc O'Sullivan

Walking with Camera

A walk in the woods at Two Dales Derbyshire.

A Walk in Central Park

The columns throughout Monasterio Santa Catalina cast striking shadows through all the passageways.

El Prado Park - Sevilla

Spaziergang im Hafen von Muscat.

Walk in London

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Unfortunately I did not have a flash on my camera .....

MOUNT Gambier’s abandoned and vandalised old hospital site.

I was passing with a coworker and took a few snaps. The Hospital has just sold and the new owner is cleaning up.

The scap metal merchants invited us in for a closer look. We got rock star access to the entire site.

The 4.9ha property has been closed to the general public for about 13 years.

The ugly and derelict old Mount Gambier Hospital occupies a prime location with views in both directions

The empty shell of the hospital and the surrounding land was originally on-sold to Sky Towers Mount Gambier P/L . They've done little to the site in recent years, despite calls for the building to be demolished or redeveloped. Now it has a new owner.

The plan originally included demolition of part of the old hospital, and turning the remains of the building into luxury apartments. In a controversial move, they also hoped to build a six storey retirement village on the site and subdivide some of the land for a future housing blocks.

The old hospital had been private property since 1998

It is a magnet for vandalism, drug making, squatters and potential death. The Lake Terrace address was opened around 1969/1970 and closed about 1997.

Walking about the grounds, you find doors that open onto overgrowth, the paths are gone and literally you can't use the door.

We found Steam-driven sterilizer's (Smith and Co Steam driven sterilizer - made in Bromptom) - h.l. smith & co pty ltd

We also found Johns Perry Lifts. (This was a company that started out as Johns & Waygood, became Johns Perry, was purchased by Boral and then sold to Otis who shut it down to remove their major local competitor).

We also saw the remains of lift shafts, piping, dumb waiters and much more.

The building is still solid (Although the gaping holes to the floors many meters below are unsafe) and there has been calls for ghost tours.

One can only imagine the births, deaths, pain and joy the walls has seen.

On the lower ground floor you can still walk the maintenance tunnels following the huge pipes that feed the building.

You can climb to the very top of the structure and overlook Mt Gambier.

The floor stairwells are heavily graffitied. You can walk the doctors car pack, the ambulance bay and even look at the big furnace.

There might not be much to look at soon.

Whilst we had "Rock star" access, we had permission to be onsite that we could not abuse. I can't recommend you jump the fence for a look. The site is very dangerous and we did this on our own back without insurance.

Update 8 Nov

Mount Gambier council buys old hospital

SEAN MCCOMISH

08 Nov, 2011 05:04 PM

www.borderwatch.com.au/news/local/news/general/mount-gamb...

THE Mount Gambier City Council is now the proud owner of the dilapidated old hospital and wants the community to decide on the future of the site.

Mayor Steve Perryman yesterday confirmed that council clinched a $1.4m deal on Monday to secure the property, which was sold by receivers after former owners Boots and Partners experienced challenges with the site.

Mr Perryman said the Local Government body was "relieved" at finalising the purchase.

"All of council is relieved and excited - it hasn't been an easy path," he said.

"It has been a cause of frustration for council over many years - senior staff and council members have borne the brunt of community criticism over the site even though we haven't owned it."

Mr Perryman would not be drawn into commenting on any plans for the site, saying the future of the building was in the community's hands following a period of consultation.

"I want to make it very clear that council has no view at this point in time on what the future of the site will be," Mr Perryman said.

"From here we will work to seek the views of the community on the options of the site - it's fair to say there is a fair amount of research, investigation and discussion to be had on the options."

A decision on the site's future is expected to be reached in the first half of next year.

"I know a number of individual members of council are saying they've got an open mind and they really don't know," Mr Perryman said.

The abandoned site has been an ongoing saga for 13 years after the State Government sold the complex to private hands.

Mr Perryman assured the million dollar purchase would not lead to a rise in council rates.

"It's within councils finances to make the purchase and that's why it's important we have a thorough investigation in terms of the options that are available," he said, adding the deal was done without state or federal government assistance.

Other council projects such as the redevelopment of the rail land would be unaffected by the sale, Mr Perryman said.

Canon EOS 5D, 24-70 L series

2011

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momma kitty

on a sunny day

Selected Writing.

by bpNichol;

edited by Jack David & bpNichol.

Vancouver, Talonbooks, october 198o. ISBN o-88922-176-6.

5-3/16 x 8-1/4, 72 sheets tan wove newsprint perfectbound in glossy PVC white card wrappers, all except inside covers & 3 pp (2, 8, 32) printed black offset with 3-colour process additions to front cover.

cover photograph by Kim Ondaatje.

other contributors:

David Aylward, Matsuo Basho, Barbara Caruso, Gaius Catullus, Wayne Clifford, Co-Accident, Jack David, Vivien Halas, Kirby Malone, Chris Mason, Steve McCaffery, Libby Oughton, Marshall Reese, Karl Siegler, Toronto Research Group.

includes:

i) Y (p.33; poem)

ii) H (an alphhabet), lettered by Barbara Caruso (p.34; visual poem)

iii) from 'ABC: the aleph beth book' (p.35; visual poem (ie poem for "Q", "WE MUST PUT THE POEM IN OUR LIVE"))

iv) Blues, typeset by Vivien Halas (p.36; concrete poem)

v) "arrow worra worra arrow" (p.37; concrete poem)

vi) The End of the Affair (p.38; concrete poem)

vii) The Complete Works (p.39; visual poem, revised)

viii) Allegory No. 6 (p.4o; visual poem)

ix) Aleph Unit, drawn by Barbara Caruso (pp.41-48; visual poem in 8 parts, titles not here given:

–1. [Aleph Unit Closed] (p.41)

–2. [Aleph Unit Opened] (p.42)

–3. [Aleph Unit Distance] (p.43)

–4. [Aleph Unit Surface] (p.44)

–5. [Aleph Unit Observed] (p.45)

–6. [Aleph Unit Enigmatic] (p.46)

–7. [Aleph Unit in Transit] (p.47)

–8. [Aleph Unit Not] (p.48))

x) Cycle No. 22 (p.49; concrete poem)

xi) NOT WHAT THE SIREN SANG BUT WHAT THE FRAG MENT (pp.5o-51; concrete/sound poem)

xii) Dada Lama (pp.52-56; sound poem in 6 parts:

–1. "hweeeee" (p.52)

–2. "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" (p.53)

–3. "oudoo doan doanna" (pp.53-54)

–4. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" (p.54)

–5. "tlic" (p.55)

–6. "wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww" (p.56))

xii) Lament (p.57; concrete poem, revised to a single page)

xiii) from 'Trans-Continental' (pp.58-59; poetry, parts 1-4 (of 49):

–1. "an h moves past an m" (p.58)

–2. "x d" (p.58)

–3. "z" (p.59)

–4. "a d in a cloudbank" (p.59))

xiv) after hokusai (p.6o; poem)

xv) COLD MOUNTAIN (pp.61-62; poem (revision of concrete poetry object) in 2 parts:

–1. "GO" (p.61)

–2. "RETURN" (p.62))

xvi) to the memory of su t'ung po (p.63; poem)

[(xvii)-(xx) under section title 4 poems from 'Still Water']

xvii) "2 leaves touch" (p.64; poem)

xviii) "blob", translation of Matsuo Basho (p.65; concrete poem)

xix) "em ty" (p.66; concrete poem)

xx) "moon (p.67; poem)

xxi) the other side of the room (p.68; poem)

xxii) 1335 COMOX AVENUE (pp.69-7o; poem)

xxiii) Chapter 7 (pp.71-73; poetry (fromThe Captain Poetry Poems) with 2 works embedded in full:

–1. bpNichol, "Dear Rex:" (correspondence)

–2. Rex Allen, "Dear Barrie:" (correspondence))

xxiv) from 'The Plunkett Papers' (p.74; poem, "we rode the train back west in 54")

xxv) two sections from 'Mono Tones' (pp.75-76; poetry in 2 parts:

–13. "terra" (p.75)

–5o) "walk in the woods" (p.76))

xxvi) Coda: Mid-Initial Sequence (pp.77-86; poetry in 11 parts with 1o drawings of clouds by Libby Oughton:

–1. "faint edge of sleep" (p.77)

–2. "orange" (pp.77-78)

–3. "last note" (pp.78-79)

–4. "bushes" (p.79)

–5. "there is no desire for speech" (p.8o)

–6. "in vocation" (p.81)

–7. "within the difference" (p.81)

–8. (variation on a line by H.D. – in memoriam) (p.82)

–9. "whatever dies" (pp.82-83)

–1o. "11 years since i first conceived myself a writer" (pp.83-84)

–11. "'dogma i am god'" (pp.84-85))

xxvi) Scraptures: seventh sequence (pp.87-89; prose in 8 parts:

–1. "green yellow dog up. I have not. I am. green red cat" (p.87)

–2. "insect. incest. c'est in. infant. in fonts. onts. onts. ptonts." (p.87)

–3. "liturgical turge dirge dinta krak kree fintab latlina santa" (p.88)

–4. "an infinite statement. a finite statement. a statement of" (p.88)

–5. "grewat small lovers move home. red the church caught us" (p.88)

–6. "halo. hello. i cover red my sentiment. blankets return the" (p.89)

–7. "il y a là lever la lune. l'amour est le ridicule of a life sont" (p.89)

–8. "au revoir. le réveille sounds up the coach. les pieds de le" (p.89))

xxvii) from 'Andy' (pp.9o-93; prose in 1o parts:

–1. August 27, 1944 (p.9o)

–2. August 28, 1944 (p.9o)

–3. August 29, 1944 (p.9o)

–4. August 30, 1944 (p.9o)

–5. August 31, 1944 (pp.9o-91)

–6. September 2, 1944 (p.91)

–7. September 3, 1944 (p.91)

–8. September 4, 1944 (p.92)

–9. September 7, 1944 (p.92)

–1o. September 10, 1944 (pp.92-93; includes:

––a. "Received your letter & poem today. I think I will write wool-", by Andy Phillips (prose correspondence)))

xxviii) Gorg, a detective story (p.94; prose)

xxix) TWO HEROES (pp.95-99; in 11 numbered parts:

–1. "In the back garden two men sit. They are talking with one another" (p.95)

–2. "Once a long time ago they talked more easily. Once a long time" (p.95)

–3. "When the fight was over & Riel was dead & Dumont had fled into" (pp.95-96)

–4. "Time passed. No one heard much from either of them. In GRIP" (p.96)

–5. "There are some say Billy the Kid never died the story began." (pp.96-97)

–6. "Billy was in love with machines. He loved the smooth click of the" (p.97)

–7. "It was a good story as stories go. Most of their friends when" (p.97)

–8. "The problem with Africa was it was kind of damp & there was no" (p.98)

–9. "When Billy the Kid awoke the clockwork man was very still. There" (p.98)

–1o. "There are strange tales told of Billy the Kid, of what happened" (p.99)

–11. "One year the two men returned. They were both grayer & quiet." (p.99))

xxx) Twins – a history (pp.1oo-1o1; prose)

xxxi) from 'Journal' (pp.1o2-1o6; prose, part III:2, "some days i want to talk to you mommy some days i")

xxxii) Two Words: A Wedding (pp.1o7-1o8; prose)

xxxiii) Lust (a little play) (p.1o9; script)

xxxiv) Naming 3 (p.11o; concrete poem)

xxxv) probable systems 9 (pp.111-112; nonfiction in 2 parts:

–1. "problem: find [the square root of] logic to the nearest whole letter" (p.111)

–2. commentary (pp.111-112))

xxxvi) probable systems 21 (pp.113-115; nonfiction in 2 parts:

–1. the weight of speech (pp.113-114; prose with 2 graphics:

––a. "(variable member of human speech community)" (p.113)

––b. "(speech funnel)" (p.114))

–2. commentary (p.115))

xxxvi) from Catullus poem XXVIII (pp.116-117; poem in 2 parts:

–1. "Pisonis comites, cohors inanis,", by Gaius Catullus (p.116)

–2. "Piss on his committees, cohorts in inanities," (p.117))

xxxvii) The Words – Montagnais Indian (pp.118-119; sound poem)

xxxviii) Chant to the Fire-Fly (p.12o; sound poem in 2 parts:

–1. TEXT

–2. TRANSLATION)

xxxix) Translating Apollinaire (p.121; poem)

xl) Translating Translating Apollinaire 32 / Negatives 4 (p.122; poem)

xli) a poem by bill bissett (pp.123-124; poem)

[(xlii)-(xliv) under heading Three Found Poems]

xlii) "from Jacques Barzun's 'Tomorrow's Illiterates'", with David Aylward (p.125; concrete poem)

xliii) Turner's Golden Vision, with David Aylward (p.125; poem)

xliv) Puzzle, with David Aylward (p.126; poem)

xlv) from 'A Collaboration', with Wayne Clifford (pp.127-131; poem, part II:5 of Theseus ("In the garden speech continues"))

xlvi) from 'In England Now That Spring', with Steve McCaffery (p.132; poem, part 6 ("Above Ambleside the water falls"))

xlvii) Particular Music (pp.133-135; sound poetry score)

xlviii) from 'Sorrow Laid As This One', with Co-Accident & Toronto Research Group [ie Kirby Malone, Chris Mason, Steve McCaffery, Nichol, Marshall Reese] (p.136; sound poetry score, panel "in the corridor")

il) from 'The Body: In Darkness, with Steve McCaffery (p.137; sound poetry score, panel "A A")

l) Maps (pp.138-139; poem in 3 parts:

–1. 'a day' (p.138)

–2. "i don't need the framework" (pp.138-139)

–3. "the moment doesn't come" (p.139))

li) Bibliography (pp.14o-143; list of 98 titles in 1o parts:

–1. books (p.14o; 17 titles)

–2. pamphlets (pp.14o-142; 6o titles)

–3. editor (p.142; 5 titles)

–4. prints (p.142; 2 titles)

–5. radio serials (p.142; 1 title)

–6. records (pp.142-143; 4 titles)

–7. tapes (p.143; 1 title)

–8. publications as part of the Four Horsemen (p.143; 7 titles)

–9. translations (p.143; 1 title)

–1o. "has also adapted science fiction & fairy tales for the comic book" (p.143))

lii) acknowledgements (p.144; prose)

also includes:

liii) "H", by Kim Ondaatje (front cover; photograph)

liv) Introduction, by Jack David (pp.9-31; prose in 6 parts:

–1. "In 1975 I had an idea for a book: a selection of poetry from" (pp.9-12)

–2. "The writing included in this book has been chosen from Nichol's" (pp.12-13)

–3. "Nichol has said, at readings, that his favourite letter is H; in 'H" (pp.13-28)

–4. "Five years ago, I began the last paragraph of an essay entitled" (pp.28-29)

–5. A Brief Note on the Flux (p.29)

–6. Footnotes (pp.3o-31))

lv) SELECTED WRITING, by [Karl Siegler?] (rear cover; assemblage of quotes from:

–1. Douglas Barbour, This courageous poet stalks trail of saints

–2. Frank Davey, bpNichol

–3. George Woodcock, Poetry)

lvi) [untitled portrait of bpNichol], by Andy Phillips (rear cover; reduced version of the "Robert Planet Look-Alike" portrait)

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She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that’s best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

Thus mellowed to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

A heart whose love is innocent!

-- George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Beautiful Marietta Tartaglia, captured by me during a photoshoot at the Mesa Arts Center, in which I was assisted by fellow Flickr member cobalt123. This is a candid shot, and Marietta was unaware that I had taken the photo until I showed it to her later on my camera's LCD screen, at which time she said she liked it. We were moving to a new location for picture-taking, and I took three photos of Marietta as she followed cobalt to the new spot we had chosen. She carries herself with the grace and dignity of a trained dancer, which caught my attention, and which I hope I have successfully captured here.

Marietta is shown here carrying my tripod in her hand. This is a "new" Vivitar tripod for which I paid $5.00 at a garage sale earlier this year. It is quite sturdy and easy to use, but I had never actually used it for photography when I decided to take it along for this shoot. I ended up not using it that day, either, not because I didn't want to, but because it just wasn't needed. Marietta graciously offered to carry the rather heavy tripod for me because I already had my hands full with my camera, backpack, reflectors, two books about portraiture, and a separate bag containing my 85mm lens and a few assorted odds and ends. (I used my Nikkor 55-200mm VR lens for all of the pictures I took during this photoshoot.)

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freedomRail walk-in closet in espresso wood veneer with Obox Drawers and Shoe Cubbies.

Long before the 1970′s and the platform shoes, Japanese maiko (apprentice geisha) had been wearing Okobo sandals or clogs. The reason for wearing these very high platform shoes was not solely for fashion, but also for very practical reasons. If you are wearing a very expensive kimono that hangs all the way to your feet, you do not want to get mud on it when you walk outside. Okobo are made of one piece of solid wood forming the sole. Usually the wood has a very natural finish, or no varnish at all. But during the summer, maiko will wear black lacquered Okobo. The hight of Okobo shoes generally measures at 5 1/2 inches (14 cm), and the wood sole is carved hollow, giving them a very distinctive sound when one walks in them. In fact, the word Okobo is an onomatopoeia, that is it represents the sound of walking in them. A V-shaped thong of cloth forms the upper part of the sandal. The color of the cloth depends on the status of the maiko. For instance, a new maiko will wear red, while one who has nearly finished her apprenticeship will wear yellow.

長居植物園, 大阪市

Nagai Botanical Garden, Osaka, Japan

Custom master walk-in closet with vanity area. Vanity area includes a laminate counter-top, drawers for make-up storage, drawers for jewelry storage and also drawers for storing under garments.