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You want freerange chickens? Come to Kauai.
Legal or not, cockfighting and gambling have been favorite pastimes in Hawaii for many decades. So chicken breeders are everywhere. But two hurricanes in the 1980s and 1990s wrecked many of the outdoor cages, releasing the chickens to live wild and breed. On Kauai, there are few natural predators, and the place is overrun. Not as many on Oahu, where mongoose probably eat a lot of their eggs.
I was in need of a business card for my scientific and technical illustration work, and needed it quickly. And so this drawing was completed in under an hour and I never anticipated it would be so very well received. Thanks for all the encouraging words and kind comments!! :)
(Original: Artists collection)
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An unexpected surgery had me "resting" this last week. The longest time I have been kept from the fields. The sparrows are calling me to join them soon.....at least I caught up a bit with my backlog of pictures :)
Yes, we have one of those nosy photographers here, disturbing the peace. What should I do, take him in?
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Urban impressions, captured with my Nikon Df and a Nikkor D 85mm Æ’1:1.8, post processed with Silver Efex Pro2.
I need a sign to let me know you're here
'Cause my TV set just keeps it all from being clear
I want a reason for the way things have to be
I need a hand to help build up some kind of hope inside of me
Mark Di Suvero's 40-foot sculpture, The Calling, has sat at this location in downtown Milwaukee since 1982. It has been fraught with controversy, was anonymously donated and is unloved by much of the community. It sits at the foot of Milwaukee's main commercial street, Wisconsin Avenue, atop a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan.
This photo was an exercise in perspective control. Nothing is more difficult, at least for me, than to photograph a group of buildings while getting all the lines straight and preserving a sense of depth and "rightness." Oh, and I've always loved this sculpture. What's not to love about a sunrise, even one of steel i-beams?
photo by Mark Adsit
Claire: Wooooo, BREATHE two, three, OUT two, three, ...
Super-fit trainer led a work-out session non-stop for half an hour. The rest found it hard to keep up.
Promoting Virgin Blue's Virgin Active Health Club, opening at Mid City Centre on 29 October.
Martin Place, Sydney, Australia (Monday 18 October 2010 @ 1:32pm).
The Clash "London calling"
YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK-WX2pa8c
Lyrics:
London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared, and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look to us
Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing
[Chorus 1:]
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river
London calling to the imitation zone
Forget it, brother, you can go it alone
London calling to the zombies of death
Quit holding out, and draw another breath
London calling, and I don't wanna shout
But while we were talking, I saw you nodding out
London calling, see we ain't got no high
Except for that one with the yellowy eyes
[Chorus 2: x2]
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river
Now get this
London calling, yes, I was there, too
An' you know what they said? Well, some of it was true!
London calling at the top of the dial
After all this, won't you give me a smile?
London calling
I never felt so much alike [fading] alike alike alike
London calling, yes, I was there, too
An' you know what they said? Well, some of it was true!
London calling at the top of the dial
After all this, won't you give me a smile?
London calling...
Lyrics from the song "London Calling" by The Clash.
YEAH!, We were in London a couple of weeks ago and of course we took some pictures. Lets start a new set!!.
Como ya es costumbre, nuevo set de las vacaciones estivales de la pareja. Londres en este caso, y como siempre, esperamos que os guste. ;D
In a city with no roads, such as Venice, Italy, the police travel by boat. The Polizia Penitenziaria run the Italian prison system. The corrections officers are responsible for transporting prisoners.
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After photographing CPKC train 248 with a KCS Southern Bell leading (flic.kr/p/2pZZn3e) at Kellogg, I continued my trip north checking out more possible locations to shoot CP 2816.
As I headed north on US-61 the rain subsided, and eventually came to a end as I approached Red Wing and eventually Hastings, MN. Other then what I believe was the I70 out of Wabasha switching in Hastings, CPKC trains were nonexistent, and I eventually arrived in St. Paul.
Having never been to the area before, trains were plenty, but I was lost. In the two and a half hours in the area between St. Paul Union Depot and Newport, I must have seen 15 to 20 trains. I unsuccessfully tried to find the view looking over Pig's Eye Yard from Dayton's Bluff. Eventually settling on parking in the cement plant lot, along with other "fan's".
After the fustrutation of watching multiple trains pass by and not knowing where to be, I decided to head back towards Red Wing, where I had my hotel booked for the night. As I headed south, the clouds compleatly disappeared and plentiful sunshine came out.
After arriving in Red Wing, I checked into the hotel and decided to cross over the river to Wisconsin with hopes that the BNSF St. Croix Subdivision, would be hopping more than CPKC's River Sub was, and get me out of my St. Paul funk.
I have always loved mountain railroading with the mountain tops in the background, and massive rock cuts. I knew through the years and the drive up, that the bluffs along the Mississippi River definitely gave the impression of "mountain" railroading.
With that in mind I started driving north from Hagar City, on Wisconsin St. Rt. 35, and did not have to go very far to find the location I was looking for with sandstone bluffs in the background. Just two miles north of town I found Trenton Bluffs just across St. Rt. 35 from C.P. 3929 on the St. Croix Sub.
With the scanner listening for trains heading my way, the wait began around 16:00 CST. Around a hour later and my stomach telling me that it's been awhile since the last time I ate, I kept the watch. Around the hour mark, the scanner picked up a broken conservation about some train waiting at the end of double track for a train heading the way of La Crosse.
Not long after hearing this conservation the eastbound signal on main two popped up with a clear signal for a eastbound at C.P. 3929. The wait for the train was broke up with a visit from a carload of railfans also out checking out the action. Forty-five minutes, later the other "fans" had left, and about this time with long shadows encroaching on the right of way, and my stomach reminding me more and more it was time to go find food, I found BNSF was calling my bluff.
Thankfully two hours after parking, and a hour after the signal appeared off in the distance from the west a headlight approached my location and autorack train VPTSLAW passed by. Unfortunately I needed a westbound train for the good light shining on the bluffs.
Finally 15 minutes after the passing of the autorack train, the westbound I had heard a hour ago waiting that was waiting at the end of double track appeared in the distance. Coming through the interlocking at C.P. 3929 and passing in front of the bluffs BNSF 6692 and 5178 lead a unknown double stack train into the setting sun, allowing me to photograph what I had been waiting for.
After the passing of the double stack train I headed back to Red Wing and grabbed some food at a great mexican restaurant, next to my hotel called Rancho Loco Grill & Bar. After the short walk back to the hotel room, I sat down and deciphered the info I gathered from the day to put together what I thought was my final game plan, for the start of the chase the following morning.
As most people know though, the best laid plans of mice and men, it almost blew up in my face.
Sudbury, Massachusetts
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I don't know who she is, but she was playing with this phone right in front of this light...and it was all too perfect.
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I have a project for college that I need help with. The project is to make or remake a specific device for someone who is disabled in some way. I chose to remake the Lego picker upper thing shown here, under my newest creation "Happy Lion". The purpose is to allow someone who has a broken arm/hand, or is missing an arm/hand, to pick up a mass amount of Lego elements easier.
So if you are a Lego builder who has to pick up mass amounts of Lego elements off the floor constantly, or if you've ever used this Lego picker upper, then I need your help. Over the next few weeks I'll just have to consult you on a few topics and ask a few questions.
Please message me if you're interested.