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A CSX local crosses westbound over the Genesee River's High Falls in the City of Rochester. This was actually my first visit to the falls...and after a very long wait I was eventually treated to three CSX westbounds. None of the other trains would have CSX power, or a caboose for that matter! If only the geeps were still wearing Conrail blue...
CSXT 4418 GP40-2 (ex-CR 3321)
CSXT 2740 GP38-2 (ex-CR 8107)
A letter written on a Friday evening by the author Gustave Flaubert to his Louise Colet in 1846:
"You tell me, my angel, that I have not initiated you into my inner life, into my most secret thoughts. Do you know what is most intimate, most hidden in my heart, and what is most authentically myself? Two or three modest ideas about art, lovingly brooded over, that is all. The greatest events of my life have been a few thoughts, a few books, certain sunsets on a beach at Trouville, and talks five or six hours long with a friend now married and lost to me. I have always seen life differently from others, and the result has been that I've always isolated myself (but not sufficiently, alas!) in a state of harsh unsociability, with no exit. I suffered so many humiliations, I shocked people and made them indignant, that I long ago came to realize that in order to live in peace one must live alone and seal one's windows lest air of the world seep in. in spite of myself I still retain something of this habit. That is why I deliberately avoided the company of women for several years. I wanted no hindrance to my innate moral precept. I wanted no yoke, no influence. In the end I no longer desired woman's company at all. Stirrings of the flesh, throbbings of the heart, were absent from my life, and I was not even conscience of my sex. As I told you, I had an overwhelming passion when I was little more than a child. When it ended I decided to divide my life in two parts: to put on one side my soul, which I reserved for Art, and on the other my body, which was to live as best I could. Then you came along and upset all that. So here I am, returning to a human existence!
You have awakened all that was slumbering, or perhaps decaying, within me! I have been loved before, and intensely, though I'm one of those who are quickly forgotten and more apt to kindle emotion than to keep it alive. The love I arouse is always that felt for something a little strange. Love, after all, is only a superior kind of curiosity, an appetite for the unknown that makes you bare your breast and plunge headlong into the storm.
As I said, I have been loved before but never the way you loved me; nor has there ever been between a woman and myself the bond that exists between us two. I have never felt for any woman so deep a devotion, so irresistible an attraction; never has there been such complete communion. Why do you keep saying that I love the tinselly, the showy, the flashy? 'Poet of form!' That is the favourite term of abuse hurled by utilitarian's at true artists. For my part, until someone comes along and separates for me the form and the substance of a given sentence, I shall continue to maintain that that distinction is meaningless. Every beautiful thought has a beautiful form, and vice versa. In the world of Art, beauty is a by-product of form. just as in our world temptation is a by-product of love. Just as you cannot remove from a physical body the qualities that constitute it - colour, extension, solidity - without reducing it to hollow abstraction, without destroying it, so you cannot remove the form from the Idea, because the Idea exists only by virtue of its form. Imagine an idea that has no form - such a thing is as impossible as a form that expresses no idea. Such are the stupidities on which criticism feeds. Good stylist are reproached for neglecting the Idea, the moral goal; as though the goal of the doctor were not to heal, the goal of the painter to paint, the goal of the nightingale to sing, as though the goal of Art were not and foremost, Beauty!"
A family has walked up from Seaford Head and is now enjoying this spectacular view of The Seven Sisters.
Sethi has a home with several cat beds, a sofa, lots of blankets and cushions but like many cats he prefers to sleep in the most uncomfortable places. Yesterday I found him in a wooden planter in the garden, in fact it was Fynn who found him (see photo in the comments). The grape ivy grows in this planter but I have pruned it recently and the planter offers enough room for a cat now. I suppose that I will soon find Fynn there too as he now knows what a great place for a nap this planter is.
a cloudy sunset over the abandoned fairground at southport
Explere highest position -:- 16 on Thursday, October 9, 2008
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This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “anything on wheels” was chosen by Phunny, phunnyfotos.
I don’t drive, and I’m not really into cars, so at first I was a little stumped with this week’s theme, until I suddenly remembered that I had a little sterling silver rickshaw in my collection of miniatures. I bought this little rickshaw in a box of odds and ends at an auction many years ago, so I don’t know any of its provenance, other than it is marked silver and also has Japanese characters stamped into it, so it must have been made in Japan. It is one centimetre in height and only marginally longer, and it has fully functioning wheels!
I have been very busy this past month, but I did find the time to photograph my favorite deer herd. On this day, I was privileged to photograph this mama with her three triplets. It has not been easy getting all of them together, but I finally did!
London 2008
Shall be posting an Image a day for the next year, 365 (or 366 if it is a Leap year...not checked!!).
The Format will be different...some images have been shown before, some are new...... At the moment I am now starting a "New" Project.....Well it is "New" for me, although it has been done before by many, many People too!!!.
I will follow the direction I have chosen but there is plenty of room for me to chop and change at a later date...I guess it depends how I feel about it at a later date.
This Project will now give me the time to work with other ideas I am playing with. There will still be months in which I post other pics too from themes I have worked with in the past......I have just made a little more time and space available to me.
So hope you like the changes.......
A detail from the backside of the sculpture below. The sculpture was displayed in the castle garden. Much better View On Black
Explore : # 210, june 6
A handheld multiple exposure blended image shot with a Nikon D70 and blended with Photomatix software.
As with all high dynamic range imaging, this is much better when viewed at the larger sizes.
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Western green lizard
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window : The Window 2 by CausticStock
sea : photohouse.deviantart.com/art/Sea-Star-2-103929867
candles : myhazeyclarity-stock.deviantart.com/art/Candle-Stock-12-1...
viel :
moon : grace-stock.deviantart.com/art/Moon-Stock-XII-63537934
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A few days ago I went for a stroll to the flea market in Barrio Lastarria, one of my favourite neighbourhoods in Santiago. I stumbled upon this one stand selling all sorts of used artifacts, among which there were a bunch of crystal balls, and I couldn’t help buying one. For just a few bucks, this may very well have become my new favourite “lens”!
A few days later I went up to Paranal Observatory for an observing shift, and I decided to test the crystal ball as an astrophotography lens. I placed it on the handrails of one of the entrance corridors to the Paranal residencia, and put my tripod and camera below it, at an angle such that the Milky Way was visible through the ball.
Then I chose which lens to attach to the camera. The focal length doesn’t change what you see within the ball, but it does affect the background behind it. So I picked a 24 mm lens to get a large enough view of the Milky Way as a backdrop.
Once I nailed the focus on the stars within the ball, I had to decide which aperture to use, and after a few attempts I chose f/4. Smaller f-numbers yielded a too shallow depth of field: the edge of the ball was too blurry, and the bokeh of the background stars was too large, making it hard to discern the Milky Way. Larger f-numbers allowed very little light through, and also made the bokeh in the background smaller than I wanted.
I hope you like the final image! If you have the chance to buy one of these cheap crystal balls, I totally recommend it. They’re really fun to use, and they can add a very original spin to your photography. I already have a few crazy ideas in mind for future images. Stay tuned!
Canon 6D + Rokinon 24mm f/4, 30 sec, ISO6400
On a recent visit to MLK shoreline we lucked out and ran into a small group of folks watching a shy Virginia Rail hiding in the marshes. A secretive bird of freshwater marshes, the Virginia Rail is often spotted hiding in dense vegetation. It possesses many adaptations for moving through its habitat, including a laterally compressed body, long toes, and flexible vertebrae. Because they are reclusive birds and quick runners, Virginia Rails are rarely seen and many of their characteristics and behaviors have not been documented.
A fleeting shaft of light illuminates trees on the south bank of Loch Shieldaig contrasting with the dark darks over the mountains of Torridon beyond.
A northbound train to Mangonia Park throttles up to track speed after making a station stop at Boca Raton.
I had driving pass so many villages at Faroe Islands. No matter how small the village is, so small that it doesn't even have grocery shop such as the one in this picture. But each village all has its own church, beautiful and unique!
Pat's Travelogue asked me to render his raw file in HDR. This is one difficult task because Pat has one of the best images in HDR on flickr.
He also sent a gift of love assisting me and my family save our home. I'm very honored to do this one for him.
You may now order prints of KK Art. Thank you to everyone who sent their orders and most especially friends and contacts who helped me in so many ways. I will be shipping the first batch of prints ordered last week. Again, my deepest gratitude. I'm rich with true friends.
PRINT Pricing of Kris Kros Art
Allow me to appeal again for HELP. For the past two days, order for KK prints were not placed as desired. If you could assist me and my family in our time of needs by ordering prints of my artworks. We will be grateful. For more info, click HERE. Thank you so much.