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Race for the cure....bokeh style!
Better yet..... View On White
My first dippy-ity do-da with my best best friend, the ever-so-popular and talented Cortni to raise awareness and support all the women and their families dealing with breast cancer. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and we're hoping someday there is a cure!!!
Bella Cosa. Sounds a bit like some kind of mundane pasta chain - but turns out to be a pretty mind-blowing place for Italian fine dining (which is a thing I have just recently become exposed to). Itâs also a pizzeria. Whatâs the score? Two floors, two different offerings. Upstairs lives the restaurant, with a glass front that offers sky facing views of the city. Here you shall find fascinating things - The Wine Room: which sits 14 and does exactly what it says on the label. If I ran this place Iâd call in âThe Wine Porn Roomâ, but as you can tell, nobodyâs let me run a fine dining restaurant yet (and they have their reasons...). On the subject of wine, you probably wouldnât expect it, but Iâm gonna put it out there and say that Bella Cosa have one of THE most comprehensive Italian wine lists in the city - each of Italyâs 21 winemaking regions is represented to one extent or another. They also have an extensive selection of grappa, including an amarone grappa which is, without a doubt, the best grappa I have ever tried.
Downstairs is where you find the pizzeria (with its stone ovens) and the central bar. Thereâs a bit theyâre calling âThe Chefâs Isleâ where you can watch Bella Cosaâs chefs doing their thing in the open kitchen. Kinda like Benihana but I suppose with less culinary theatre. Downstairs stays open a little later than upstairs, closing at 23:00 Monday to Sunday - last orders on dinner upstairs are at 22:00. As you can see, theyâve taken to celebrating alcohol in its many forms by using old Italian beer glasses as vases for flowers, and enshrining expensive bottles of cognac and champagne on the walls. Downstairs also has a âliving wallâ - made up of what looks like ivy or something related to it. Green walls are the shit, in this writerâs humble opinion. Another thing I should probably mention is that if youâre interested in the Italian craft beer movement, these guys have a very large and exciting selection. Head back upstairs to the âartisan beer cornerâ to see what I mean.
One last thing to mention is Bella Cosaâs head chef Kentaro Torii (who by, all accounts, is a pretty talented guy) has had his say on everything from the interior design of the building (though the actual design can be credited to a chap called Francesco Pizza) and the style of the plates used with each dish. Is that a Japanese name you hear? Yes indeed it is. Kentaro was born in Yokohama, but early on developed an obsession with Italian culture and food that saw him emigrate to Florence, where he absorbed the language, the culture and the cooking. He later moved to Sardinia and focused on seafood, before stints in other parts of Italy, and eventually the Micronesian island of Saipan (yup). What do you get with this guy? Presumably, Italian soul and Japanese efficiency. And now heâs in Canary Wharfâs South Quay and weâre very happy to have him...
Karen also sent these extras. The one on the left is a mandala which she made. It is just gorgeous, and I have been playing with it for the last hour. And I can't wait to use the other little bits in my next mosaics. Are these glass bees? My hubby thinks they are turtles, but I think he needs new glasses!
Thanks again Karen you are sooo generous
Looking a bit sad here. It had been moved from Canterbury in 1987 to Mold, North Wales and then back again to Kent in 1996. Here it's in too dry a position partly caused by a Eucalyptus nearby and partly by the climate in the SE of England. I didn't take it to the cottage but it had 'done it's porridge' as they say. Over 40 years ... bravo !
We went out for a bit of range practice. Range, in this case, meant pulling over someplace far away from people. We shot for a while, and packed up.
The surrounding terrain was completely barren. It all looks like what you see, nothing except rocks. If you'd have asked me if there were people nearby, I'd have said no.
Within *seconds* of starting to put the guns away there were a half dozen kids at our feet. They were picking up our brass. To refill with bullets.
At no point during the shooting did I notice a single one of them. They probably could have killed me with a knife while I stood there shooting the automatic assault rifle.
No way would I want to be on the wrong side of an insurgency against these kids.
Possibly French, 16th Century.
Okay, before anyone gets excited about animal cruelty, the spikes are to keep a foot soldier from grabbing the bit. The bit is at the very top, with loops for the halter straps. The spiky part would hang below the horse's jaw, and the reins would attach to the pieces at the very bottom, like this .
I spotted this Robin from the other side of the churchyard and quickly started filming. It was zoomed in quite a lot hence the wobbles. We put this tray on top of the water butt for the birds and I was delighted to see this. Holy Trinity Churchyard, Rayleigh, Essex.
a bit of a camouflage
"There's an old Mexican tale that tells of how Santa Claus got so very busy looking out for the good children that he had to hire some help to look out for the bad children. So he hired Pedro. And Santa Claus gave him a list with all the names of all the bad children. And Pedro would come every night to check them out. And the people, the little kids that were misbehaving, that were not saying their prayers and stealing street art., Pedro would leave a little toy donkey on their window. A little burro. And he would come back, and if the children were still misbehaving, Pedro would take them away, and nobody would ever see them again." Felix in Collateral, 2004
A bit obsessed with the graphics used in iOS and Android for weather forecasts, I tried to make one of the similar style from scratch in Photoshop. The outcome is quite nice, personally the clouds are the most realistic part of the graphics. Hope I get a chance to write a tutorial about it some time soon.
I picked up artist Indigo Kelleigh's awesome 8-bit Tarot recently. It's a faithful reimagining of the classic Rider-Waite deck, illustrated in retro 8-bit graphics.
It comes with a button also! :-)
last episode of stories (recorded yesterday) is emphasizing emptiness. it's usually not a feeling im very familiar with or like for that matter. but tonight.. i have my battery for my camera, tripod, time, empty(!) memory card and... nothing i really wanna shoot..
I know these are a bit naff, but I was shocked I'd had all these in Explore at some point. Yet weirdly not one of these are my most popular photos...
1. quiff, 2. oxford circus, 3. executioners last songs, 4. gloucester rd, 5. westminster, 6. angel inn, 7. dogwalker, 8. horseless,
9. the kills, 10. bananas, 11. deco style head, 12. lower marsh, 13. cafe, 14. robot, 15. tate modern, 16. Untitled,
17. oops, 18. sandmen, 19. magic sweet, 20. james smith & sons, 21. Untitled, 22. Untitled, 23. fish&chips, 24. ilosone,
25. toy guitar, 26. red balloon, 27. steve's, 28. sunday papers, 29. Untitled, 30. 100 club, 31. Three, 32. my new wellingtons,
33. 999, 34. just like honey..., 35. jesus & mary chain, 36. goodbye, piccadilly, 37. roy, 38. camden town, 39. 47 Union St, 40. pirate punch-up,
41. gatwick, 42. happy jack, 43. cone, 44. picasso, 45. in case of emergency, 46. yellow blue, 47. elephant, 48. underground,
49. donuts, 50. Buffalo Bill and Davy Crockett, 51. traffic warden, 52. mariachi band, 53. algerian coffee store interior, 54. regency cafe interior 2, 55. barber's window, 56. Uncle's Cafe,
57. dirty beach, 58. strand station, 59. face on the underground, 60. crépe-à -porter, 61. Gerry's wines & spirits, 62. bike, wall, sunset, 63. twiggy, 64. Joe,
65. Syd Barrett, 66. dummyworks 2
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
A bit of an odd dog in the Nikon line, the FG was designed as the replacement for the EM, compact, light, but boasting full auto and aperture priority metering it's a great way for someone to get into manual focus 35mm who is afraid of setting exposure.
Read the full review online
www.alexluyckx.com/blog/index.php/2015/08/05/ccr-review-1...
Strobist:
1 Nikon SB-600 M 1/4 with Shoot-Thru Umbrella overhead
Trigger: Elinchrom Skyports
Bit whimsical - decided to mess about with this quite pretty though undoubtedly 'soft' shot of a tree in the mist and then turn it into a mosaic.
Went out to Chatsworth early the other morning - no-one about, deer running away, mist rising from the river, bloody cold for August (but it was 530am). Police van driving past no doubt wondering what I was planning...
GE DIGToday I did a little bit of trespassing and explored where once the houses of our neighbours stood.
Most of the houses in my old street are being destroyed, just because some investor didn't keep his promise to renovate them, neglected them long enough for politicians to let him do as he always wanted, destroy it all and replace it with ugly modern buildings.
The money grabbing builder promises to restore the houses.... then takes so much time the buildings fall apart and then a politician quickly sneaks permission by the council to demolish the lot.
I bet that that was what they wanted all along.
Luckily my mother refused to be bought and is staying in her house, or that would now be going as well.
Highly depressing to see my childhood neighbourhood destroyed, even though architects, investors, politicians and city planners have been raping and destroying one of the last original Victorian Station-neighbourhoods since the 1970s, it is still a shame to see some of the last visions of that past go.
Responsible for this crime against history are the Geste company and politician Norder, one being the money grabbing criminal, the other the negligent politician.ITAL CAMERA
GBRf shed 66701 heads an engineers train eastwards through Uttoxeter on 6G57, one of 4 scheduled Congleton to Doncaster Belmont Down Yard workings coming through Uttoxeter today. It's quite rare to see a morning eastbound freight - which allows a loco face into the sun shot.
Evening Doncaster Belmont Down Yard to Congleton and return workings have been happening since last Tuesday, with currently no train services between Stoke and Manchester via Congleton, due to line upgrades in the Stockport area.
Uttoxeter station is dominated by the large pedestrian overbridge, and looking back through old Flickr photos, this was built around 2014 and replaced a man-operated foot crossing at the western end of the station.