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Testing the Panasonic 12-35mm f.2.8 on a couple of chess players. The lens is well behaved, well made, the focusing ring and zoom ring is well damped. I think I got a good copy of this lens :)
I found this poem after I took this image. I was going for a more romantic feel with the Queen protecting her King from the white Queen, but I could not pass up sharing this poem.
Meet me then, within this grid,
this little wooden battlefield as equals,
as we forget our bodies to inhabit these pieces,
control these spaces, trade threats and responses,
send our thoughts out into possible positions, our eyes
imagining nothing but sweet forks and lancing fianchettoes.
We chessplayers, pretend enemies, bound to our miniature war
inexplicably & inescapably: when did we find ourselves so obsessed,
insidiously seduced to advances and exchanges, lost inside
this abyss of infinite moves, willing servants of it's rules?
- Rael
chess players in Hyde Park, Sydney, spring 2018. Leica IIIf rangefinder, Cosina-Voigtlander 35mm f/2.5 Color-Skopar LTM, Ilford FP4+ in XTOL developer. V700 scan.
GM Bator Sambuev at the Toronto Open Chess tournament: Hart House, University of Toronto, April 2-4, 2010. This photo was published in Canadian Chess News, the official publication of the Chess Federation of Canada. More in my chess photoset.
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Exceptionally nice park, oasis of rest in the busy city...
Lots of Dutch people there last week - crisis? what crisis? ;-)
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1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, or simply Expo 86, was a World's Fair.
False Creek, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Marostica is a small town located in the province of Vicenza in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. It is known as the "City of Chess" for its elaborate, spectacular live chess game played by hundreds of people dressed in medieval costumes: ladies, knights on horseback, chess figures, dancers, jugglers, musicians and comedians.
The show is a reenactment of a story written in 1923 by Mirko Vucetich and Francesco Pozza, set in the year 1454.
Taddeo Parisio, who was the lord of Marostica, had a beautiful daughter named Lionora. She had won the affection of two knights in Taddeo's service who were also both family friends, Rinaldo D’Angarano and Vieri da Vallonara. Their rivalry for her love was so intense that they challenged each other to a duel.
Lord Parisio did not want to lose either of his knights (or to cause too much drama among the families) , so he came up with a different idea: a game of chess would determine who would have his daughter's hand in marriage.
The winner of the match would marry Lionora, while the loser would still become part of the family by marrying the lord's sister, Oldrada.
while ignorant chessplayers abandon their horses to the enemy.
though the queen owns a very sharp sword.
The first in a series I am going to do on patrons of the Frontier restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Frontier is an Albuquerque institution located on Central Avenue across from the UNM campus. They serve basic New Mexican food cooked just right and they do it fast. Orders are made at any of several registers and then the food is pushed out on cafeteria style trays from a large serving window. Employees all wear hats and aprons that hearken back to the seventies, which is when the restaurant opened. The food is hot, cheap and plentiful, the booths have slatted wood seats, John Wayne art adorns the walls, the building is somewhat ramshackle and the place is always crowded. It is the absolute best place in Albuquerque to people watch. It is the most (small d) democratic place in the city and the customers range from millionaire ranchers to college professors to starving students to homeless unfortunates and everything in between. Besides the hot sticky buns and excellent green chile it is the clientele that makes the experience memorable and unique. This is the best dining and cultural experience in Albuquerque and is not to be missed.
my creative take on this real urban life chess game I watched and photographed in Granada :) Sorry can't do a fresh image for Sliders Sunday since I am on the road. So this one from last Thursday must do. Happy Sliders Sunday!
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Cuadro Seleccionado entre los finalistas en el Concurso de Pintura EXPOCHESS de Vitoria-Gasteiz. Partidas en Campeonatos de Ajedrez en las que las protagonistas son las Mujeres que aplican su intuición y sus estrategias en el Juego. Pinturas del artista Pintor ERNEST DESCALS con los asuntos ajedrecistas y sus amplias posibilidades plásticas. Obra al oleo sobre lienzo de 89 x 116 centímetros expuesta en el Gran Hotel Lakua.