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If you take from nature, please give something back.
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This is where I go to ponder the mysteries of life..should I stay or should I go? This indecisions bugging me....well you can just listen to the song stuck in my head
The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
I am thinking ... a dangerous game I play with myself and oh yeah, I have to go to work and I am grateful to have a job so don't get me wrong! I may be late in returning comments...but I will my friends, as always.
Have a wonderful day my friends and thank you for your visits!
I think we all agree that time is the most valuable commodity we have and yet humans have this incredible ability to waste not only their own time, but to waste those of others.
We should consider how we spend this gift and how our actions can hinder or help those around us. Giving our time to someone is the most valuable gift we can give of ourselves. We can make more money, but time that has been spent is gone..
Let's hope more of us spend the time we have left wisely, compassionately and with good intent.
Ever listened to the lyrics of Pink Floyd? time
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Been wanting to try photographing water drops without much hi tech equipment. Today morning got to play around a bit with a plastic bag, my speedlight and some borrowed dishes. Not very happy about the results, but it has been a learning process. I propose to devote some time for this genre in the near future.
could have just sat here by the pond today, wrapped in a blanket and watched the world go by....
been under the weather... quite unimpressed about it all... trying to make my videos for the 'skinny' with laryngitis is a little frustrating.
even though i have a fever, andy (my beagle) would hear nothing of missing his walk.... off to the trail we went...
but happy i did... i got my 365 done.
'sigh'
happy thursday... i will catch up... i will... :)
When my brother passed away, I suffered chest pains and as a result I had to visit a heart specialist. All of my tests have come back okay, but he recommended that I undergo a sleep study to rule out sleep apnea. Last night I had to wear this contraption for the sleep study. My daughter and granddaughter were supposed to come over for dinner, but I messaged my daughter to say that I looked like a monster and maybe it was better if Ella didn't see me looking like this.
It started out well - I fell asleep without much trouble, but the machine was timed to come on at 11.30 p.m. and when it did it began flashing with a bright green light which woke me with a start. I then couldn't go back to sleep and every time I turned over in bed it began flashing green again. I had to get up at around 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and the machine in the middle of my chest dropped out of the holder and I struggled to get it back on. I had wires attached to my chin and twice one came off and I found it on my neck. To say that the sleep study didn't go well is an understatement LOL.
I don´t know about you, but I am getting very tired of shooting people sporting Anonymus masks who do not communicate any political statement. Those two clowns (sad cnts) moved when you chucked a coin in their bowl.
"Danbo's impressive new installation Danbo et les sables du temps - Tate Modern Mar 2015 to Oct 2016 - sees the metallic auteur grappling with his inner-self and exploring conflicting ideas of existentialism and examining the futility of mortality within the context of his time here on earth. It's a powerful exposé of humanity and humility in robot form. An unmitigated triumph. Five stars." - Waldemar Januszczak.
744 stills, interval of 2.5s, 60 fps, TriggerTrap on Time Lapse. Sequence to assemble. iMovie for PP.
Obviously, The Moreton Bay Regional Council neglects its responsibility and duty to provide proper information for its residents.
Photograph in Deception Bay, Queensland.
really i use this stuff every day (in the morning, at work, before the dates, being late, etc.) exept the notebook which were bought in Los-ANGELES. i decided to include it here just for showing off :D
Zeit ist keine feste Größe.
Zeit kann man nicht sparen, verschwenden, haben oder totschlagen.
Time is not a fixed quantity.
You cant have it, save it or waste it.
I'M OFF THE FLOOR!
Moving out of the Plano boxes into the Stack-On drawers.
I'm really digging this new system, the plates are arranged on a grid system so I can easily locate the needed element and color.
oh, and my back doesn't hurt nearly as much.
i should know. i do it non-stop. my stomach hurts and I think i have cancer. my kid has a headache and i think it's a tumor. my boss is in a weird mood and i think i am getting fired. i worry about earthquakes, the baby deer, money, my family...literally EVERYTHING.
last week, my mom said this to me, "I have spent my whole life worrying about things that NEVER HAPPENED. Please don't waste your time doing that. "
I want to tattoo that on my forehead. but it would have to be really small letters.
i know some things are worth worrying about and that stuff you just have to let happen because you can't do much else. but really - think about how much we worry about stuff that never ends up happening. or a bad thing that ends up being a good thing?
this is the end of my positive thought for the day.
don't worry. be happy. as cliches as it is.
now go listen to this. it's happy.
I find that the more effort and time I put into taking a photo, the more it turns out to be a complete and utter WASTE of my time! Especially if it involves lighting (indoor lighting in particular). With me, there's an inverse correlation between the level of effort and the result of the photograph. If you don't believe me, check out my greatest ever photograph from 2009.
Lesson learned. You're either good at this stuff, or you're frustrated like me. You either have a lot of time on your hands to get good at it, or you don't. I think I'm the latter in both categories.
The whole idea of this was JUST to have a shot of a glass ball crashing on the floor (no glass no bottles, etc.). When lighting alone failed throughout the day, that's when I just said "screw it" and did the drop of the ball on the glass itself. Got lucky to time it right via handheld remote (no, I'm not one of those GEEKS with sound detecting triggers! I'm broke, remember?) Basically I was standing on a stool, dropped it, and snapped the remote. It was weird that the hook managed to wind up in the glass like that. I didn't plan for that and it wasn't hung there after the crash.
I did not at all plan on a composite. But when you take frame after frame of the same thing in the same spot (incredibly boring), it was already sorta set.
The wine bottles pouring was just me messing around for no good reason. The in-tact ball? That was also from a prior shot (sans glass) where the ball bounced and did not break. The splash came from the next shot where the ball actually hit.
So basically, the main shot is the broken ball and the glass with the wine splash only.
Mash it all together for no good reason and this is the silly, jumbled, junkie shot you get. It's not good. Just posting it.
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580EXII 2' left of glass through white umbrella. Sunpak 444D with homemade cereal box snoot 3' right of glass, lowest power. RF-602 triggered. Plexiglass atop white foam board and white cardboard curved up against a wall (not so seamlessly, as you can tell). No processing on anything other than layering and masking. WB and exposure are soc.
Don't you just love it when you have an idea in your head for a photo? Then you finally get around to doing it. Spending a shit load of time getting everything setup. You know, cover the bottom of the tub with a black sheet, mount camera over tub, fill tub with lukewarm water, add a bunch of instant coffee to make the water dark. Then you sit down in the water take a bunch of shots, the water gets cold, you quickly lose interest in the shot and you say fuck it, it's good. Then you have to clean everything up so you don't get your ass chewed for making a mess. When you finally get to sit down and look at the shots you realize...they all suck and you end up using one of the first shots you took because it sucks the least. Ahh...the joys of a 366 project.
Random Fact: It's gonna be 3 weeks till I see the neurosurgeon....crap.
It states specifically on apple's website that all MacBook pros can drive the 30 inch Apple Cinema Display. Well, I beg to differ.
The above photo shows what happens when I connect the aforementioned expensive as hell pieces of equipment. I've probably wasted 3-6 hours on this already wiping ram, installing updates, arguing on the phone, even taking my laptop into the apple store. All they said was that it's a known issue and are working on a fix. Kiss my ass and gimme my money back.
*update:
After talking to Apple's technical support line [for 2.5 hours] the conclusion that this is a problem that has never been seen before, and no one knows what it is was reached. Great, just my luck that I get the freakish guinea pig technical problem.
*resolution:
The MBP came back. According to the little invoice that comes with it the technicians replaced the motherboard. It now operates properly with the monitor.