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...a further attempt
Botanical Gardens of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
VINTAGE CAMERA LENSES
Meyer-Optik Görlitz Domiplan 2.8/50
7-13-2009
When I was in Northwood, ND for a few days helping my daughter I took two of my grandchildren for lunch and a long afternoon walk. We stopped and visited a lady with a beautiful flower bed. Next week Jenny will have her eighth chemo treatment which will put two-thirds of the treatments behind her. Each treatment is becoming more of a struggle to rebound but she doesn't have any choice, she needs to finish all twelve which will be in the middle of September. These flowers are for Jenny.
This was a really tough picture to take, mostly the people using the elevator lol, would have looked better if I had a wide angle lens, but I did my best. This past weekend after getting hit by a big snow storm, I decided to do a winter photo shoot in central park with a friend of mine from college. Before going there I decided to take an interior shot of this awesome looking building (apple retail store-fifth ave). I took this pic while being inside the elevator and placing my camera on the ground, people didn't mind, so I kept trying till I got this pic hahaha. I will continue to post the winter pics as I work on them, gona take some time, so many of them : p . Once again I want to thank everyone for the wonderful and encouraging comments, wish you all a great week! : D
Galicia
A Casa das Corredoiras Padrón
Restaurante A Casa das Corredoiras. Número de teléfono, calle, web, horario y mas información de A Casa das Corredoiras en Padrón. Carnes, pescado, pulpo y mariscos, parrilladas, Comidas para llevar.
A Stranger - 30 Seconds Project
All about the idea of this project can be read here:
Carl Zeiss Interview - English
Carl Zeiss Interview - German
f5.6 − 1/60 - ISO200 - No Flash - Nikon D850 - Nikon 105mm F2 D DC
I was sorting some images when I found this one of a pair of courting grebes I saw on my way home from my North Island trip at the end of last year. I noticed the "heart' shape formed by their necks and bills so thought it approriate, being Valentine's Day tomorrow.
a) i wanted to post a pic titled "my empire". i shot a couple, two weeks ago, spent lushious six minutes processing them, saved them to disk; there was just a tiny, unrelevant fragment of me and clouds for miles on end to be seen. the classical window shot, which i'm sure is already a reason for nausea, somewhere else and between the lines; and there's always a but, here more than elsewhere;
b) the but being: there is no empire to be shown. as history books go, the winner buried a citadel under ruins and crumble, the loser is inhabiting aforementioned ruins in the fashion of lizards;
c) and there's a lot to be said about lizards: i'm typing at full speed, there's no time at all, i'll leave you with just a couple of post-hypnotic suggestions, in the hope that sometimes in the past you have been hypnotized, and said cues would start singing: and the cues are: sewn eyes, hypotermal state, hiss. i should drop something about the tail growing anew, but i think it's unasked for;
d) on friday night i could hear myself uttering the words: i'm ready, even willing to accept that my sickness has psychosomatic roots. i could grab binoculars and look all the way into the past and actually pinpoint the exact wheres and hows; but despite all of my efforts - and i did many, believe me, and i'm successful at most of my hacks, 'cos i've skimmed as many crap as i could in order to gain simplicity of motion and effectiveness of gesture, so to speak - i'm practically unable to act a reverse engineering of it. practically, completely unable. where should i begin?
e) i'll stress it again: there's no empire, and i doubt that one has ever been. the governor has been hanged on the county's highest tree, the peasant are bacchus-drunk and riotous still, the book of laws is just ashes and cinders flying all over the place. i've officially stopped logging as /root in my head since years. there is no masterplan, no place to go: since everything became hallucinatory everybody stopped hallucinating and a blueprint to make the days crisper is nowhere to be found.
f) there is no empire and this is just a Flashdance remake. wearing a presumptuos imitation of Jennifer Beals rags the protagonist is perpetually auctioning for a role in the ballet; perpetually stuck in the frame that sees him, or her for that matter, jumping at the top, just below the celing, Irene Papas singing What a feeling enthusiastically in an endlessly pitched down droning sample. unable to rise any higher or to drastically drop down.
e) and this moment, believe me, was no different at all. i wrote i sailed off on a tangent of body stretch or something to that effect 'cos intentions might be ideas and ideas might be bulletproof but anyway both insist in the habit of flying away at the dimmest murmur of breeze, the dimmest murmur of a big grey gland trapped inside a bone cage, gasping for air and light, in the span of an eternity lasting exactly ten autoshoot seconds. i ended up looking like a damn scarecrow, laughing my arse off when i looked at the shot on the tiny one inch and a half visor.
f) the next scene, i guess, is entirely up to you.
the protagonist might finally be unleashing its mutant powers over the land, a krakatoa fandango of flying lava and brimstones and shrieking cracking thunderbolts preceded by rumbles so low your same bones would start hissing as lizards and reptiles do when they are nervous or mating or plainly enjoying a stroll in the park;
or he might be finally uttering his last senseless sentence, that would go perpetually unheard as most of those do.
then with a simple careless jump he might just be flying away.
Canon EOS 5D MK III
Sigma 35mm f/1.4 ART
TV 1/2000
AV 1.4
ISO 100
Post - Production with Lightroom and Photoshop
Segita Hunter, Dekaron Photographer: A.Z.Production Cosplay Photography (www.facebook.com/azproductioncosp) Cosplayer: Ináste (www.facebook.com/nagsar.inaste/)
Setup: Main: Godox AD360 with Phottix Para-Pro 1.5m;
The Lego Question Block I built recently has proven to be rather popular, and since it's quite small, I figured it would be a good build to offer as a Build-It-Yourself project! Cost direct from Lego is about $12, and instructions and part lists can be found at chrismcveigh.com.
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A much more shy individual, happy to stay hidden in his anemone!
Unlike his colleague which savagely attacked me!
Chassis n° SCFCV81V8JTL12611
Bonhams
Les Grandes Marques du Monde à Paris
The Grand Palais Éphémère
Place Joffre
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2023
Estimated : € 200.000 - 300.000
Sold for € 391.000
"People who buy the Vantage will do so in the first place for its performance, and they will not be disappointed. The figures speak for themselves. But they should take extra heart because it is one of the easiest true high performance cars to drive well: and it has been given brakes to match. In comfort too, it has much to offer, and there is a great deal of what is best in the British tradition of designing and building sports cars in its making." - Autocar.
The performance figures Autocar referred to were a 0-60mph time of 5.4 seconds and an estimated top speed of 170mph, figures comparable with those achievable by a Ferrari Daytona or Lamborghini Miura.
With the introduction of the Vantage in 1977, Aston Martin's V8 was thrust back into the supercar league. Its superior performance aside, the Vantage was readily distinguishable from the standard product by virtue of its blocked-off bonnet scoop, blanked air intake, front chin spoiler and lip on the boot lid.
ZF five-speed manual transmission was standard equipment, though a handful of Vantages were built with the Torqueflite automatic gearbox. With either transmission performance was shattering, the Vantage's 0-100mph time of 12.7 seconds making it the world's fastest accelerating production car at that time. For those with a yen for even greater performance, there was the factory's optional 'X-Pack' engine (like this example's) which, depending on the state of tune, had up to 432bhp available.
As the Vantage's mechanical specification progressed so did the coachwork, with wheel arches flaring to accommodate wider rims, increasing the overall width by 2", and 16"-diameter wheels being introduced. Unlike the V8 saloon, which reverted to fuel injection in 1986, the V8 Vantage kept its 48IDF Weber carburettors to the end of production in December 1989, by which time 361 cars had been built.
Copy documents on file reveal that this particular Vantage was built to West German specification and delivered via Merz & Pabst. The car was finished in Salisbury Blue with grey leather interior; unusually, the specified dark blue piping was applied to the front seats and armrests only, the rest of the piping being grey. Other 'extras' consisted of dash top roll and steering wheel in dark blue, rear valance in body colour and a Blaupunkt Bremen radio cassette player. The Vantage subsequently moved to the UK where it was first registered on 1st August 1998 as 'E149 BKM'.
The current vendor purchased the Aston from The Old Racing Car Company of Richmond-on-Thames, UK on 28th June 2008, since when it has been kept in storage. Re-commissioning will be required before the car returns to the road.
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Where: Sweden, Östergötland, Bjärka säby. google maps
When: 20101125
How and why: Because less is more, and then next to nothing must be a whole lot!
Editing: Minor.
And what? Well a snowy hill under a snow-cloudy sky.
Shot from Singapore border on looking Malaysia. The two countries are separated by a small waterbody.