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10/2/2012
I decided to try something different today ^_^
I used these resources:
- Floating Orbs and Planets Tutorial
- 5 scrapbook scans - S18 (Background Dot Pattern)
This is for the Our Daily Challenge Group
Today's theme is "Beginning"
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I am thinking this is a better crop.
For Angel & Dixie... The light in your lives has touched me deeply. God is walking with you today... hand in hand.
I got new lens for my Kiev-60 after selling the Biometar 120mmF2.8.
"Carl Zeiss Jena MC Sonnar 180mmF2.8"
It`s deadly heavy and huge one, but Kiev-60 with this lens almost weigh as Helios40 85mm + 5D2 , lol.
My conclusion : Definitely I love this
Kiev-60 + MC Sonnar 180mmF2.8
/ Fuji Reala Ace
- selfdeveloping Naniwa Color Kit S (1:1)
- vuescan & GT-X970
ODC2 - Beginning with G
14/07/11
G is for Girl. This didn't really turn out the way I wanted. it's zoomed in a bit too close I wish I had some more room on the sides for her dress to show, BUT have you ever tried to tell a nerly 3 year old to sit still for more then a millisecond...lol she's also getting really grumpy so to speak when she doesn't get what she wants.haha so this is the best of the many I took of Ella today.
The whole world's broke and it ain't worth fixing
It's time to start all over, make a new beginning
There's too much pain, too much suffering
Let's resolve to start all over make a new beginning
Now don't get me wrong I love life and living
But when you wake up and look around at everything that's going down
All wrong
You see we need to change it now, this world with too few happy endings
We can resolve to start all over make a new beginning
~ ~ Tracy Chapman - New Beginning ~ ~
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Bud Break in Napa Valley, California.
This photo was shot from a Kowa/SIX medium format camera with a KOWA LENS-S 1:3.5/150mm lens using Kodak Portra 400 film, scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
A glitch. Failure. The beginning of a new beginning, brings you closer to the most primal of all instincts. It creeps in slowly, chewing up what you think you know. You wait in vain, till you lose it all. Such is life.
Photography/Art Direction - Me
Talent - 未來
Make-up - Vicky Hue
Props - Me, Carolyn Chon, Kupih
"Part of the process of beginning anew, or changing directions is to know where you want to go. I know this sounds simplistic and easy, but this is one of the most difficult of choices to make with clarity."
- Byron Pulsifer, May Is Not Just For Flowers
It starts with hellos, it ends with goodbyes
In every ending, there will be a new beginning
it's just your body that has gone
But the memories of you will be lasting
Rest in peace Mr. James Martin
My deep condolence for Martin's Family. Renee's father passed away on last saturday afternoon. Even though i never meet him for real before but I feel the sadness. I was thinking what if this happened to me? Renee is my best friend over seas. I hope i were there, hugged her, and cheered her up.
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1. I supposed to add text but i don't have any fit words to be put on. I was kinda blank.
2.Thanks for flickr buddies tagged me a bunch of nice pictures. I'll reply soon.
3.I'll catch every body's photo stream later.
4.Aw my back hurts.
Belfast (/ˈbɛl.fɑːst/ or /ˈbɛl.fæst/; from Irish: Béal Feirste, meaning "mouth of the sandbanks") is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, on the River Lagan. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 286,000. Belfast was granted city status in 1888.
Belfast was a centre of the Irish linen, tobacco processing, rope-making and shipbuilding industries: in the early 20th century, Harland and Wolff, which built the RMS Titanic, was the biggest and most productive shipyard in the world. Belfast played a key role in the Industrial Revolution, and was a global industrial centre until the latter half of the 20th century. Industrialisation and the inward migration it brought made Belfast the biggest city in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century, and industrial and economic success was cited by unionist opponents of Home Rule as a reason why Ulster should fight to resist it.
Today, Belfast remains a centre for industry, as well as the arts, higher education, business, and law, and is the economic engine of Northern Ireland. The city suffered greatly during the period of conflict called "the Troubles", but latterly has undergone a sustained period of calm, free from the intense political violence of former years, and substantial economic and commercial growth. Additionally, Belfast city centre has undergone considerable expansion and regeneration in recent years, notably around Victoria Square.
Belfast is served by two airports: George Best Belfast City Airport in the city, and Belfast International Airport 15 miles (24 km) west of the city. Belfast is a major port, with commercial and industrial docks dominating the Belfast Lough shoreline, including the Harland and Wolff shipyard, and is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city.
Name
The name Belfast is derived from the Irish Béal Feirsde, which was later spelled Béal Feirste. The word béal means "mouth" or "rivermouth" while feirsde/feirste is the genitive singular of fearsaid and refers to a sandbar or tidal fordacross a river's mouth. The name would thus translate literally as "(river) mouth of the sandbar" or "(river) mouth of the ford". This sandbar was formed at the confluence of two rivers at what is now Donegall Quay: the Lagan, which flows into Belfast Lough, and its tributary the Farset. This area was the hub around which the original settlement developed. The Irish name Béal Feirste is shared by a townland in County Mayo, whose name has been anglicised as Belfarsad.
An alternative interpretation of the name is "mouth of [the river] of the sandbar", an allusion to the River Farset, which flows into the Lagan where the sandbar was located. This interpretation was favoured by Edmund Hoganand John O'Donovan. It seems clear, however, that the river itself was named after the tidal crossing.
In Ulster Scots the name of the city is Bilfawst or Bilfaust, although "Belfast" is also used.
History
The site of Belfast has been occupied since the Bronze Age. The Giant's Ring, a 5,000-year-old henge, is located near the city, and the remains of Iron Age hill forts can still be seen in the surrounding hills. Belfast remained a small settlement of little importance during the Middle Ages. John de Courcy built a castle on what is now Castle Street in the city centre in the 12th century, but this was on a lesser scale and not as strategically important as Carrickfergus Castle to the north, which was built by de Courcy in 1177. The O'Neill clan had a presence in the area.
In the 14th century, Cloinne Aodha Buidhe, descendants of Aodh Buidhe O'Neill built Grey Castle at Castlereagh, now in the east of the city. Conn O'Neill of the Clannaboy O'Neills owned vast lands in the area and was the last inhabitant of Grey Castle, one remaining link being the Conn's Water river flowing through east Belfast.
Belfast became a substantial settlement in the 17th century after being established as a town by Sir Arthur Chichester, which was initially settled by Protestant English and Scottish migrants at the time of the Plantation of Ulster. (Belfast and County Antrim, however, did not form part of this particular Plantation scheme as they were privately colonised.) In 1791, the Society of United Irishmen was founded in Belfast, after Henry Joy McCracken and other prominent Presbyterians from the city invited Theobald Wolfe Tone and Thomas Russell to a meeting, after having read Tone's "Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland". Evidence of this period of Belfast's growth can still be seen in the oldest areas of the city, known as the Entries.
Belfast blossomed as a commercial and industrial centre in the 18th and 19th centuries and became Ireland's pre-eminent industrial city. Industries thrived, including linen, rope-making, tobacco, heavy engineering and shipbuilding, and at the end of the 19th century, Belfast briefly overtook Dublin as the largest city in Ireland. The Harland and Wolff shipyards became one of the largest shipbuilders in the world, employing up to 35,000 workers. In 1886 the city suffered intense riots over the issue of home rule, which had divided the city.
In 1920–22, Belfast became the capital of the new entity of Northern Ireland as the island of Ireland was partitioned. The accompanying conflict (the Irish War of Independence) cost up to 500 lives in Belfast, the bloodiest sectarian strife in the city until the Troubles of the late 1960s onwards.
The Troubles
Belfast has been the capital of Northern Ireland since its establishment in 1921 following the Government of Ireland Act 1920. It had been the scene of various episodes of sectarian conflict between its Catholic and Protestant populations. These opposing groups in this conflict are now often termed republican and loyalist respectively, although they are also referred to as 'nationalist' and 'unionist'. The most recent example of this conflict was known as the Troubles – a civil conflict that raged from around 1969 to 1998.
Belfast saw some of the worst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, particularly in the 1970s, with rival paramilitary groups formed on both sides. Bombing, assassination and street violence formed a backdrop to life throughout the Troubles. The Provisional IRA detonated 22 bombs within the confines of Belfast city centre in 1972, on what is known as "Bloody Friday", killing eleven people. Loyalist paramilitaries including the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) claimed that the killings they carried out were in retaliation for the IRA campaign. Most of their victims were Catholics with no links to the Provisional IRA. A particularly notorious group, based on the Shankill Road in the mid-1970s, became known as the Shankill Butchers.
In all, over 1,600 people were killed in political violence in the city between 1969 and 2001. Sporadic violent events continue as of 2015, although not supported by the previous antagonists who had reached political agreement in 1998.
have a lovely new week everyone ~
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A depiction of the Charles' bridge (Karluv Most) during its construction ... shot in Charles' bridge museum, Prague.
"In the beginning, before the creation of the world, the earth was completely covered by a vast ocean and the sky was all gray clouds. The cloud kingdom was ruled by the great Sha-lana. Sha-lana's Chief servant was Raven."
"One day Raven enraged his master and was cast out into the ocean world. He flew over the ocean for a long period of time until he became weary. Unable to find a place to rest, Raven became angry. He began to beat his wings upon the water until the water rose up and touched the clouds around him."
"When the water receded back into the ocean there appeared rocks upon which Raven rested. These rocks grew and stretched across the ocean. The rocks turned into sand and after a short period of time trees began to grow on the sand. After many moons the sand had turned into beautiful islands, which we know today as the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii)."
"Raven enjoyed his kingdom, yet he became bored and lonely. He decided he needed someone to help him. So one day he gathered two large piles of clam shells upon the beach and transformed them into two human females. These two women complained saying that they should not have both been created as women. So to make them happy Raven threw limpet shells at one and turned her into a man, creating the Haida Gwaii people."
Clark, E., Indian Legends of Canada, McClelland and Stewart: Toronto, 1991.
royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
This photo was taken 600km south of Haida Gwaii in the Coast Salish territory in British Columbia, Canada.
Morning light during the first part of our hike to the top of the Rano Kao. The sky was putting on a good show, battling the sun.
We're Here! visiting Back of the Head(s)
Here's a shot from earlier today; a ferry ride across Lake Champlain. This was the beginning of our long trek home today.
well, could not resist. It is going to go on pause, because of busy time, but Will get back to this at the end of November...
A Great Blue Heron sees lunch, and begins its slow, deliberate stalk of its prey.
Short set is here.