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Esmail and crew made the rounds to all the I.E. Active locations on Black Friday morning to serve hot chocolate and giveaway some free Mugs. Went to Active Rancho, Chino, Chino Hills, Corona, Temecula, and Riverside. Overall the shops did successful that day!
Active Weekly Assignment for October1 - Anthropomorism - A visitor from Elliott Bay or Puget Sound to the Great Wheel dock in Seattle
Heading home to Ladner from Victoria (on Vancouver Island (Canada)) today, there was enough fog that a lookout was posted at the front of the ferry. I spent the first half of the trip with a 180mm lens capturing the wonderful bleakness/richness of the fog. It is the long weekend, so there were a lot of small craft about, livening up our trip.
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Shot for Active Assignment Weekly, September 2012 theme "My local Mountain.
WIT
It will take your imagination. We do not have mountains in The Netherlands. None. Not even a small one. There is, however, a committee of mountain-loving people that are raising funds to build a mountain. It will be around 3000 meters high, in the center of the country. So I took my picture of Amsterdam and blurred the background of office buildings to mimic a mountain ridge.
Can you imagine? Skiing in the Dutch Mountains?
There is already a song about the Dutch Mountains....
Esmail and crew made the rounds to all the I.E. Active locations on Black Friday morning to serve hot chocolate and giveaway some free Mugs. Went to Active Rancho, Chino, Chino Hills, Corona, Temecula, and Riverside. Overall the shops did successful that day!
The Chamber welcomes new member Active Living Chiropractic. Chiropractors Matt Arnio and Bob McIntosh have a broad diagnostic background with training in therapeutic and rehabilitative exercises, as well as nutritional and healthy lifestyle counseling. Chiropractic physicians focus on drug-free and nonsurgical treatments for disorders of the neuromusculoskeletal system (brain, spinal cord, and skeletal system), and their effects on general health in adults, infants and children. The clinic provides active rehab, chiropractic care and massage. Stop in at 110 E. Lakeway Rd. or call (307) 670-9426 for more information. Monday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Tuesday, noon-8 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 a.m.-2 p.m.; Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Visit www.activelivinggillette.com or www.facebook.com/activeliving.chiropractor.
This stretch of pavement was always a mess and unwelcoming to all users. It is however nice and wide. These works are part of a wider scheme further down the road.
Build it and they shall come...
Tangkuban Perahu, is an active volcano 30 km north of the city of Bandung, the provincial capital of West Java, Indonesia. It is a popular tourist attraction where tourists can hike or ride to the edge of the crater to view the hot water springs upclose, and buy eggs cooked on its hot surface. This stratovolcano is on the island of Java and last erupted in 1983. Together with Mount Burangrang and Bukit Tunggul, those are remnants of the ancient Mount Sunda after the plinian eruption caused the Caldera to collapse.
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Since the 1990s, a more active and open civil society sector has developed across the Russian Federation. While civil society institutions and civic engagement in Russia are not new, the growth of the sector in recent years created hopes that Russian civil society could become the voice for a more effective democratic system, more efficient social services, and a check against corruption and centralized power. At the same time, the increasing interconnectivity between Russian and international civil society institutions created a sense of optimism that an interconnected “Euro-Atlantic civil society” could make positive contributions to difficult geo-political challenges.
Of late, however, these hopes have largely been put on hold. Russian civil society institutions are facing a variety of political and social pressures, and are becoming less connected to international partners. Geo-political relations between Russia and the Euro-Atlantic community have worsened, and international civil society groups and donors have become the object of suspicion as instruments of external interference. At a political level, prior optimism about a “re-set” in Russia-Euro-Atlantic relations has faltered, however, with implications for support for civil society institutions.
There is an urgent need to rebuild bridges and to reestablish a serious dialogue about the role of Russian civil society and relations between diverse civic actors domestically, as well as between Russian organizations and international partners. In cooperation with, and with the generous support of, the Yeltsin Presidential Center and Yeltsin Foundation, this Symposium will address the challenges and opportunities currently facing civil society in Russia as a means to understand the needs and perspective of Russian civil society groups and to consider new approaches to international civil society engagement with Russia.
An active shooter exercise was held on May 28 at the Camp Zama Community Activity Center. All buildings on the Camp Zama and Sagamihara Family Housing Area installations, gates and facilities were closed as part of the exercise. (U.S. Army photos by Yuichi Imada)
Madame Alexander, 18 inches tall, 1954 only. All original. Lots of extra joints: elbows,wrists, knees. All hard plastic, and is a head turning walker.
Active Assignment Weekly: Liquid in Motion
The Assignment:
For those of you who don’t like set-up, this will challenge you a bit, but I promise it’ll be fun and hopefully a good learning experience that will stretch your photography journey. I first learned about the relationship between lighting conditions, flash, aperture, and shutter speed when trying to shoot my son’s baseball games. Those learnings then extended to shooting water movement whether it was a water fight or shooting one of those cool water splash shots.
The Assignment : Shoot a picture that captures liquid of any type frozen in motion. It can be taken indoors or outdoors. The liquid amount can be a drop or a wave-full and the movement can be accompanied by any object or living being. Depending on the speed of your lens (i.e. shutter speed at a given aperture or vice versa) and availability of flash, you may consider taking the shot in outdoor lighting. Using a tripod will help immensely.
Restrictions: None, except no fabrication of liquid movement in post processing.
Dare: If you have not tried a water splash type shot before, I dare you to get that under your belt.
WIT: After reading of the hours you folks had spent on yours, the heckling neighbors, the broken flashes, even the wife driving full speed at the photographer, I decided to play it safe and go with what I knew. So, after assuring that the toilet was exceedingly clean, I flushed. I did use a tripod and shot in shutter priority...both outside of my norm. I also learned how to perform continuous burst shooting and played around with a halogen work light to adjust lighting. Then in PSE, I played with levels (on color...also new to me) and chrome filters, blue filters, and finally, a violet filter. The norm: adjust contrast, sharpness, and saturation. I applaud you splashers! It's been fun to see what you all presented! Maybe next time for me!
Esmail and crew made the rounds to all the I.E. Active locations on Black Friday morning to serve hot chocolate and giveaway some free Mugs. Went to Active Rancho, Chino, Chino Hills, Corona, Temecula, and Riverside. Overall the shops did successful that day!
this aisle had all sorts of party games and outdoor stuff plus licensed costumes such as Bluey, Moana, LOL Surprises and other brands and shows
Active Assignment Weekly - soft focus.
ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION
Your assignment this week is to capture your images using a technique called "Soft focus". There are a number of different ways to achieve soft focus; including manual de-focusing, stretching a nylon stocking over your lens, using a diffusion filter, or post processing. The idea being that your image is soft and pleasing to look at. I know I imediately delete any shot thats not fully in focus, and this will be a challenge. Can't wait to see what you come up with!
WIT: One clear bowl of water, one CD in the bottom, and a few drops of vegetable oil... the autofocus wasn't picking up the oil drops (and neither were my aging eyes), so this was an outtake on an experiment that I want to try again in natural light. Shot under tungstun lights, 0.4 sec, f/2.8, ISO 800, curves adjustment and vibrancy addition in CS4, noise reduction, and sharpening (though I don't think that did a thing).