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Vouni palace is 9 km west of Gemikonağı in Northern Cyprus and 250 m above sea level on a cliff top.
Its origins are not known with certainty but it is thought to have been built during the Persian occupation in the 5th century B.C. The palace was burnt down by a fire in 330 B.C. In a later document it was found that its foundations were destroyed by the soli inhabitants. Its original name is unknown.The moderin meaning of it in Greek is “mountain”.
A Swedish expedition excavated Vouni at the same time they excavated nearby soli. It is one of the most important and unusual sites on the island of Cyprus. The site comprises a small township grouped on the steep slopes of a conical hill a few miles west of the ancient city of Soli There is a ruined Temple of Alhena perched on the precipitous edge of the hill on the landward south side and a superb palace site on the summit of the hill facing the sea and the north. Only the palace site and the temple site have been fully excavated and both are open to visitors.
The palace was evidently a building of great wealth and luxury and during the excavations a group of sculptures and works of art were discovered along with treasure consisting of silver coins and two superb gold bracelets of the finest known examples of Persian gold work. The palace contained elaborate hot baths supplied by a water system from numerous deep and efficient wells. The living rooms of the palace were grouped round a central atrium which was surrounded by a colonnade. A " Royal road " led from the lower township into the palace.
St Mary-at-Hill has served in the Parish of Billingsgate for nearly a thousand years. An ‘ancient church’ on this site is mentioned in a legal document dated 1177, so we can conjecture with some certainty that a church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin has stood here since at least the end of the 11th Century. Billingsgate Quay was an important harbour in the 10th and 11th centuries. The route north into the old city would have led past the church. The steep rise of the way up from the river gave it the name of St Mary at or on the Hill. The original church was no doubt smaller than the present building which has been extended, altered and renovated throughout its history. The Churchwardens’ accounts from the C15th inform us that by then it had side chapels dedicated to St Stephen, St Katherine, St Ann and St Christopher.
Burials within the Church and in the Chapels were for the wealthy, as they were charged at 16s 8d, while internment in the Great Churchyard to the North cost just 8d. This is now a pretty courtyard garden. It was closed for burials in May 1846 and all human remains were carefully removed to West Norwood cemetery. The church crypt and vaults were similarly emptied of human remains (some 3,000 in all) between 1892-94. Some slabs and memorials remain, but there are no skeletons below. Museum of London excavations have found traces of much earlier graves on the site, confirming that the area was part of the Roman city as well as the later Anglo-Saxon settlement.
The Church Bells of the tower and steeple (replaced in 1787-9 by Gwilt’s square brick tower) were rung for the crowning of Henry VIII in 1509. During the later years of Henry’s reign, the English Church renounced the primacy of Rome. The Civil War raged between 1642-51 and six years after the Restoration of the Monarchy, with the City still reeling from losing 1 in 5 of its inhabitants to the Plague, the Great Fire of London (1666) started in Pudding Lane, a stone’s throw away from St Mary-at-Hill.
The overall plans for restoring the City churches were famously orchestrated by Dr (later Sir) Christopher Wren, but it may have been the somewhat overlooked genius, Robert Hooke, who supervised the rebuilding of St Mary’s while Wren was concentrating on St Paul’s. It is a matter of record that Hooke was responsible for building the internal wall under the tower, at the west end. The Fire had consumed the interior of the church leaving only parts of the walls and the brick work of the tower. Utilising the previous fabric as far as possible, the original north and south walls were reconstructed, but the building was extended a little to the east. An ornate main frontage of exposed stone was built on St Mary at Hill. There were three windows – mullioned and transomed. (The central window was blocked in 1767). The North and South windows were restored in Gothic style and doors retained in both walls. St Mary-at-Hill was one of the first churches rebuilt after the Fire, and was completed in 1677 at a cost of £3,980.
A small number of pairs of eagle owls are known to breed in Britain. While the origin of these birds is difficult to prove with certainty, there is no evidence that birds other than from released stock, or their offspring, have bred in Britain in recent times.
As a probable introduced species, eagle owls have been the subject of a government risk assessment to determine their likely impacts on economic interests, society and the conservation status of native wildlife.
The risk assessment concluded that an increasing population of eagle owls in Great Britain may pose a significant threat to species of conservation concern, such as hen harriers. Eagle owls are not the reason that hen harriers are absent from large parts of the UK’s uplands – that is due to sustained persecution over decades – but they do occur in places where hen harriers are hanging on.
The RSPB welcomes the publication of this risk assessment. We await Government’s response, and believe it should consult interested groups on its recommendations.
Me and Jeffrey from Burn Notice. When he first saw us there the first thing that came out of his moth was :how did you guys know I was going to be here?" haha he was so charming and sweet :D check out my instagram and twitter @mayracansigno
Mit Sicherheit eine Aloe, wahrscheinlich eine Rotrandige Aloe. Gesehen in der Wilhelma in Stuttgart.
Januar 2013
Certainty an aloe, probably a Aloe striata. Seen in Wilhelma in Stuttgart.
January, 2013
The mentally ill commit crimes on television that diabetics do not. Think. Has an episode of Law and Order ever focused, front and center, on a defendant's irritable bowel syndrome? Or has a raging sinus infection ever been a mitigating factor?
Nope and nope....
Bipolar Disorder is not an identity, or an excuse or a reason to feel sorry for me, it is a chronic illness. And I'm a person. Not an illness with a person hanging off of it. It hurts me in a way I can't express that I can pick a random police drama and, with reasonable certainty, see someone with the same diagnosis on trial for a heinous crime because.... apparently.... the mentally ill commit crimes on TV that people with carpel tunnel syndrome do not.
The portrayal of mental illness in the media is endless generalizations; generalization upon generalization upon generalization... Until any kernel of truth is lost.
We see creepy, scary folks that eat bugs. The homeless. The stalkers. The people who pee in doorways while reciting the Gettysburg address and make you want to take another way home. (And yes, I want to walk home another way, too.) There are also those that are news worthy when they run naked at major sporting events.. And the movies with fun-loving inpatients who your kids would love to hang with...
I don't know what's worse; stigma or sideshow over-fascination... although I lean towards stigma. Sideshow over-fascination is at least socially acceptable and usually Oscar worthy. Despite the media's portrayal, we are not all bug-eating doorway peeing naked streakers or hopelessly hip inpatients. There is a middle ground to live with bipolar disorder and most of us are there; boring as hell.
Stigma is about shame. Stigma can only go on in the dark so I try to answer questions people ask me:
"It's called Bipolar Disorder, rapid cycling with mixed episodes. Uh-huh. That is a mouthful. Yes, I've hallucinated. No, not often. It's been years, I think.... The funniest one? Well-It's hard to classify the psychotic as amusing but I suppose the funniest one was when the linguine with clam sauce was talking. It did too! No, I swear. Well. What it was saying is a hard one. No matter how close I moved my ear to the plate I still couldn't tell what they were saying. I ultimately decided the clams weren't talking to me but amongst themselves."
I am willing to talk openly about my meds:
"There are a lot of drugs. Mood stabilizers like anti-consultants that epileptics use. (I feel on safe ground here because a drug used for epilepsy doesn't pack the drooling-stigma-punch of Thorazine.) There are drugs for depression. Oh, and the anti-anxiety drugs, the sleeping pills and anti-psychotics are used (The last one can be a bit tricky. While people say they want information, I lose a lot of folks on anti-psychotics.)"
The drug side effects:
"Some make me tired. Confused. Liver failure. Acne. Hair loss, except of course on your chin. Where it grows. Weight gain. No, this one didn't make me gain weight but I gained 80 pounds on a different one. Yes, that was a lot of weight. No, your right. Haven't lost it all."
When people ask if I see and hear things "like TV crazy-people do," maybe they don't want to know. "I'm just like you, silly! No one really has those kinds of thoughts." Well, no one they know. No one with a son in their kid's school. No one behind them in the 10 items or less grocery aisle...Or shops for shampoo at the same drugstore. Or waits on line behind them at the ATM.
I hope that being open and comfortable about myself will lessen stigma over time even if it makes my world a little uncomfortable for a moment or two. Or nine. Granted, copping to hearing clams speak amongst themselves isn't something most people are ready for but most people aren't ready to change their minds about anything without a little push.
About ten years ago, I went to a seminar with a speaker who couldn't make a strong point without swearing. And he made a lot of points. After about an hour, a proper-looking woman got up and said she wasn't accustomed to hearing that kind of language. The speaker bolted to within an inch of her face and let loose a string of expletives with ferocity unequaled to anything since the big bang. The audience held its collective breath and after a minute, the speaker screamed at the now pale woman, "Are you f-ing accustomed to it yet?"
It was a point well taken, with me anyway. People live at their own comfort level until they are challenged. Being that in your face does have a place but it isn't usually necessary. Just living visibly in the bipolar middle ground can be enough. Even if people seem a bit queasy at first about talking shellfish, perhaps living openly will widen the middle ground and give me a bigger place to live over time.
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One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.
~Sophocles
Program Director and Assistant Professor of Peace and Global Studies Joanna Swanger delivers the Baccalaureate Address, entitled "The Tyranny of Certainty," to the Class of 2010 at Chase Stage. Following tradition, the seniors select an Earlham faculty member to give this culminating speech.
certainty not my illustration! but I heard the news that Voyager 1 is on the doorstep of interstellar space. I thought that was so awe inspiring & cool that I copied this from the Voyager mission page @ Nasa.
*looks up in the sky, waves bye*
The Poet Says Goodbye to the Birds
A provincial poet and birder,
I come and go about the world,
unarmed,
just whistle my way along,
submit
to the sun and its certainty,
to the rain’s violin voice,
to the wind’s cold syllable.
In the course
of past lives
and preterit disinterments,
I’ve been a creature of the elements
and keep on being a corpse in the city:
I cannot abide the niche,
prefer woodlands with startled
pigeons, mud, a branch of
chattering parakeets,
the citadel of the condor, captive
of its implacable heights,
the primordial ooze of the ravines adorned with slipperworts.
Yes yes yes yes yes yes,
I’m an incorrigible birder,
cannot reform my ways -
though the birds
do not invite me
to the treetops,
to the ocean
or the sky,
to their conversation, their banquet,
I invite myself,
watch them
without missing a thing:
yellow-rumped siskins,
dark fishing cormorants
or metallic cowbirds,
nightingales,
vibrant hummingbirds,
quail,
eagles native
to the mountains of Chile,
meadowlarks with pure
and bloody breasts,
wrathful condors
and thrushes,
hovering hawks, hanging from the sky,
finches that taught me their trill
nectar birds and foragers,
blue velvet and white birds,
birds crowned by foam
or simply dressed in sand,
pensive birds that question
the earth and peck at its secret
or attack the giant’s bark
and lay open the wood’s heart
or build with straw, clay, and rain
the fragrant love nest
or join thousands of their kind
forming body to body, wing to wing,
a river of unity and movement,
solitary
severe birds among the rocky crags,
ardent, fleeting,
lusty, erotic birds,
inaccessible in the solitude
of snow and mist,
in the hirsute hostility
of windswept wastes,
or gentle gardeners
or robbers
or blue inventors of music
or tacit witnesses of dawn.
A people’s poet,
provincial and birder,
I’ve wandered the world in search of life:
bird by bird I’ve come to know the earth:
discovered where fire flames aloft:
the expenditure of energy
and my disinterestedness were rewarded,
even though no one paid me for it,
because I received those wings in my soul
and immobility never held me down.
— Pablo Neruda
translated by Jack Schmitt,
University of Texas Press, 1989
"More importantly, it is hard because I do not really know the answers in any final way. I am not blessed to be one of those people who have had such profound personal experiences that there is no question of doubt of any sort, the kind of person who, as a result of some altered-state experience such as a near-death experience, knows at an extremely deep level what the meaning of life is about. I have had some little hints here and there, but I do not write from that space of doubt-free knowing, although I respect and try to learn from such people. At times I wish I did know, at other times I am glad that I have to live my life without the possible fetters of apparent certainty."
- Charles T. Tart
Another quick snapshot of an out-of-price car, we are speaking here of a Mercedes CLK (again, no certainties). Saw it while strolling in Montreal.
The whole shot took about 20 seconds. Post-processing include cropping, light & contrast, vibrance, sharpness... I think there is a bit too much sharpness but then, most people don't view the picture from up close, so it give a nice effect on a small version. Quality has, once again, been toned down to allow an easier transfert toward flickr. The shot is also published on blog.pacharest.com.
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Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 35 mm (on 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5)
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“In black and white you suggest, in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but the statement demands certainty… absolute certainty.” – Paul Outerbridge
The Hornberg shooting is the event that has spawned the phrase "that goes like the Hornberg shooting". The phrase is used when an affair is announced with great fanfare but then nothing emerges from it at all and it ends without result.
Origin
Historians disagree as to whether the following events and explanations really underlie the known phrase. As with any etymological meaning that cannot be clarified with any certainty there are with the Hornberg shooting numerous legends about this phrase, the two below ones in relevant works being the most widespread. However, neither of these stories is historically accurate.
Duke visit
Cannon on the cobbles as an advertisement for the theater
In Hornberg anno 1564 Duke Christoph of Württemberg had announced himself. This one should be received with gun salute and full honors. When everything was ready, approached from afar a large cloud of dust. All cheered and the cannons roared like there was no tomorrow. But from the cloud of dust emerged only as a stagecoach. The same was happening then as a grocer carts and still much later a herd of cattle came towards the town. The lookout had given each time a false alarm and all the powder was fired when the Duke finally came. Some Hornberger tried to imitate the cannon by bellowing. Some reports even put the Duke visit on the end of the 17th century.
This version is regularly performed in summer on the outdoor stage in Hornberg as a folk theater.
Attack on Hornberg
According to the second version of the explanation the proverb refers to an event from 1519 when the city was attacked by the neighboring Villinger (Villingen, a city in the Black Forest not that far away). The Hornberger are said to have fired their ammunition in a short time so that the attacker just had to wait for the end of the cannonade to conquer Hornberg subsequently. This explanation goes back to the pastor Konrad Kaltenbach who describes it in paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of Heimatklänge (Echoes of home) from ancient and modern times, a supplement to the Freiburger daily mail from 1915 and relies on historical sources (Villinger Chronicle 1495-1533 ).
Other versions
Early 18th century should have been in a free shooting in Hornberg such inconsistencies regarding the operation that gradually all the shooters left the festival and the planned shooting finally was dropped.
Use in the literature
Already Friedrich Schiller writes in his book The Robber (first edition 1781) in the first act: There it ended like the shooting at Hornberg and they had to withdraw with disappointed faces. Thomas Mann formulated in his narrative Man and His Dog (1918): "However, it may also be that the whole thing, after all the events and fussinesses, ends as the Hornberg shooting and comes to nothing." Hannah Arendt used the phrase in her book power and violence (1970): "However, this situation does not have to lead to revolution. It can first end with counter-revolution, the establishment of dictatorships and it can secondly end as the Hornberg shooting, it needs nothing to be happening".
Das Hornberger Schießen ist das Ereignis, das die Redewendung „das geht aus wie das Hornberger Schießen“ hervorgebracht hat. Die Wendung wird gebraucht, wenn eine Angelegenheit mit großem Getöse angekündigt wird, aber dann nichts dabei herauskommt und sie ohne Ergebnis endet.
Entstehung
Die Historiker sind sich nicht darüber einig, ob die folgenden Begebenheiten und Erklärungsversuche wirklich der bekannten Redewendung zugrunde liegen. Wie bei jeder nicht mit Sicherheit zu klärenden etymologischen Bedeutung ranken sich auch beim Hornberger Schießen zahlreiche Legenden um diese Redewendung, wobei die beiden nachstehenden in einschlägigen Werken als die am weitesten verbreiteten gelten. Allerdings ist keine der beiden Erzählungen historisch verbürgt.
Herzogsbesuch
Kanone auf den Pflastersteinen als Werbung für das Theater
In Hornberg hatte sich anno 1564 der Herzog Christoph von Württemberg angesagt. Dieser sollte mit Salutschüssen und allen Ehren empfangen werden. Als alles bereit war, näherte sich aus der Ferne eine große Staubwolke. Alle jubelten und die Kanonen donnerten, was das Zeug hielt. Doch die Staubwolke entpuppte sich nur als eine Postkutsche. Selbiges geschah dann, als ein Krämerkarren und noch einiges später eine Rinderherde auf die Stadt zukam. Der Ausguck hatte jedes Mal falschen Alarm gegeben, und alles Pulver war verschossen, als der Herzog endlich kam. Einige Hornberger versuchten, durch Brüllen den Kanonendonner nachzuahmen. Manche Berichte legen den Herzogsbesuch auch auf das Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts.
Diese Version wird regelmäßig im Sommer auf der Freilichtbühne in Hornberg als volkstümliches Theaterstück aufgeführt.
Angriff auf Hornberg
Der zweiten Version der Erklärung nach soll sich das Sprichwort auf ein Ereignis aus dem Jahr 1519 beziehen, als die Stadt von den benachbarten Villingern angegriffen wurde. Die Hornberger sollen in kurzer Zeit ihre Munition verschossen haben, so dass die Angreifer nur das Ende der Kanonade abwarten mussten, um anschließend Hornberg erobern zu können. Diese Erklärung geht zurück auf den Pfarrer Konrad Kaltenbach, der sie in den Nummern 3, 4 und 5 der Heimatklänge aus alter und neuer Zeit, einer Beilage zur Freiburger Tagespost aus dem Jahr 1915 beschreibt und sich auf historische Quellen beruft (Villinger Chronik 1495–1533).
Andere Versionen
Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts soll es bei einem Freischießen in Hornberg derartige Unstimmigkeiten über den Ablauf gegeben haben, dass nach und nach alle Schützen das Fest verließen und das geplante Schießen schließlich entfiel.
Verwendung in der Literatur
Bereits Friedrich Schiller schreibt in seinem Werk Die Räuber (Erstausgabe 1781) im ersten Akt: Da ging's aus wie’s Schießen zu Hornberg und mussten abziehen mit langer Nase. Thomas Mann formuliert in seiner Erzählung Herr und Hund (1918): „Es kann aber auch sein, daß das Ganze, nach allen Veranstaltungen und Umständlichkeiten, ausgeht wie das Hornberger Schießen und still im Sande verläuft.“ Hannah Arendt verwendet die Redensart in ihrem Buch Macht und Gewalt (1970): „Dennoch braucht diese Situation nicht zur Revolution zu führen. Sie kann erstens mit Konterrevolution, der Errichtung von Diktaturen enden und sie kann zweitens ausgehen wie das Hornberger Schießen: es braucht überhaupt nichts zu geschehen.“
Photo from Trevor Webb. Trevor (a National Serviceman) served with the Australian Army in South Vietnam from 12/4/1967 until 30/1/1968. He was attached to 2 Composite Ordnance Depot/2AOD and based at Vung Tau.
The painter Bonnard said “Make little lies to tell a great truth”. Use that as your inspiration.
— Chloe Dewe Mathews
What is the truth? This is something I have struggled to define all week. Everyone will have their own definition, their own interpretation, which has made this task tricky. I decided to choose to the subject of death this week, its a certainty for all of us - a Truth if you will. Look closely at the photograph and you will see the little lie which tells my Truth.
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I cannot remember with certainty but I think this was taken over in the Transit Hill or Valley of Shadows area.
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Even with the certainty of inevitable Spring, a lonely bench along the Lake Ontario boardwalk in Toronto beckons, unheeded, in mid-Winter...
I've long lived with the philosophy of: "Whatever you believe, you might be wrong." I grew up around a lot of extreme thinkers, who'd quickly trade one certainty for another. They saw no value in a "maybe, maybe not" mindset. That was too wishy-washy, and true believers would hold it against them. So I watched them rush from faithless to faithful with dizzying speed – the middle space of skepticism was dangerous ground, hot coals to sprint across. For the duration they resisted a notion, an unshakable stubbornness seemed to hold them back. But then, suddenly and unexpectedly, they swapped positions.
Every belief system recognizes and defines that swift, unexplained switch. In my religious community, it was referred to as experiencing a "revelation" or a "witness". Insiders are aware that it's tenuous at first, being an abrupt about-face from previous thought processes. So they set about quickly providing purpose to remain with your new in-group, and arguments against the calls of outsiders. Conversion is easy; retention takes effort. Part of the process is convincing you that change came for a greater purpose, and random emotion was not the main motivation. You had your revelation – now you need a reason.
The individual belief systems don't differ much in approach. Take your pick of the current mix. Could be religions, politics, or heck, even the geometric shape of the planet these days. They all offer community, but with the caveat that you must think as they do to belong. Sure, there's a little wiggle room within the framework, but a singular qualifier walls it in. You must at least accept that this being is the one true God, this figurehead should rule the county, or that the Earth is shaped like a triangle – whatever. They each have independence-terminating borders to stop you drifting too far from an accepted norm.
Around a decade ago, I wrote this line in a poem: "I'm looking for reasons but falling for causes." At the time, I was in the midst of my own internal extrication, trying to delineate my actual beliefs from the ones I'd been raised with. I made a promise to pursue honesty with the same vigor I was taught to defend the faith. Believing right is the great distraction, as it's often shifting and owes the believer nothing. But living right – there's the ultimate challenge. For me, that's defined by valuing individual stories, personal memories, emotional resonance.
I have a wide enough audience to know that some deeply divisive people are reading this now and nodding their heads, never thinking for a second that it applies to them. They probably fill at least one position in life that's valued, either as a worker, spouse, parent, or friend. But rather than finding a way to be more wonderful in that field, they lose value with each butt of the head. Every extremist I've known falls to ultimate unkindness, placing the cause as king over love. If you find the thing that you do best (and I sure hope I've found mine), you may learn that doing it well is the greatest faith to follow. Hold fast.
January 17, 2025
Outram, Nova Scotia
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While you are decked out nice, the globe takes notice. This can have you feeling well informed and happy to socialize. Becoming fashionable is ways to increase your life. Please read on for several really easy tips on how to look your greatest and dress with certainty.
On an easy fashion solution, go with a good belt. Belts may be found in every shape, size and color, creating an infinite string of possibilities. Include a fluorescent, thin belt to the skinny jeans and also be popular, or work with a patent leather belt for the sophisticated look.
Try and build up your own unique look. A lot of people keep to the trends set by others, but truly original fashionistas develop their own personal style. You need to have a definite form of personality to drag off fashion forward unique style, but by trying it, you may bask in multiple compliments as being different.
Don't carry a huge amount of makeup inside of your makeup bag. Only opt for the goods that happen to be in the colours which are well with the skin. Consider your expections for day and evening applications. Makeup, like all kinds of other products, could go bad once open. Worse, this makeup which has been sitting around can be harboring germs, so don't use any makeup which has been unused for months.
Drying by using a towel can create additional frizz with your hair. This will only exacerbate your problem. You are just gonna would like to cover it by using a towel and push down to get moisture off. When you're happy with the results, you may unwrap it and comb it.
Fashion isn't about perfection. Nothing in the world is perfect. Second, if you aim for perfection people will think you will be going overboard. Counterintuitively, having a noticeable "problem" with the appearance, for example unkempt hair, unbuttoned clothing, or mismatched items, can actually make the whole package look better.
Never follow a fashion trend simply because it is "in" at the moment. You are different than other folks therefore, what looks good on you may not look really good on someone else. Use your own taste like a guideline instead of blindly following fashion magazines. Your instincts must be trusted in these decisions. Following your inner voice will assist you to develop a personal style.
Dressing to impress can be something that everyone wishes they could do. However, not everyone is ready to put the effort in to make it happen. Apply what you've just learned, and also be comfortable with your sense of fashion. shopin.us
February 18, 2009
"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
-Vincent Van Gogh-
153/365
This is how I can picture the constant dilemma exists even amid certainty. Guarantee is just an illusion.
Scientific Name: Linum medium (Planch.) Britt. var. texanum (Planch.) Fern.
Common Name: Stiff Yellow Flax
Certainty: positive (notes)
Location: Central Appalachians; George Washington NF; Shenandoah Mt
Date: 20060730
A sign says the fruits and vegetables for sale are organic, but what does that really mean and according to whom?
The BC government is answering those questions by requiring all food and beverage products marketed as “organic” in BC to be certified under either a provincial or national certification program.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2015AGRI0061-001557
L-R: Carmen Wakeling, co-chair of Certified Organic Assn. of BC (COABC) and owner of Eatmore Sprouts & Greens, Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick.
It is with 100% certainty that I can state that Wifeliciousness looks much lovelier than I do when sleeping.
The best yet with my home-made 20x24 camera. There are faults here too of course, but I feel I can identify them all this time with some degree of certainty and fix them for the next shoot some time soonish.
Home-made 20x24 camera. Home-made lens: consisting of an 1250mm achromatic doublet, a space of about 4cm, a paper aperture about 11mm diameter, and a +1 close-up lens. Lens is approximately 450mm focal length and this aperture is about f/45. The subject was focused, resulting in a lens-to-film distance of about 700mm, making the effective aperture f/64. Light conditions: 1/40s f/5.6 measured at 100ISO. Film: Red-sensitive Agfa Lith film, cut from a large roll, which I am estimating is 16-20ISO. Exposure: 16s exposure
Developed in home-brew Caffenol-LC-C (a weak and slightly more alkaline form of coffee developer) for 14 minutes at 20C.
Contact print made onto Kodak20x24 RC paper using my DeVere enlarger.
"Scanned" by photographing the photograph with my E-420 DSLR. This is certainly the weakest part of the process: the image is much better in printed form, but I cannot scan this size. Also, as the paper is reflective I couldn't use flash, and it was raining (of course) so I couldn't go outside. So the light was poor for this and I needed to have the camera at 800ISO and underexpose. Some post-processing was needed to compensate for this. I might do a better scan later, but it won't (can't) be great.
Detail of a 4x5 section scanned on a proper flat bed scanner here: www.flickr.com/photos/richard314159/5962093676/