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We were away on vacation at a resort down south last week. Using the resort's clock we were able to keep up with our busy schedule of activities.
This clock is in our living room. On the hour it makes the sound of the bird for that hour. Many of these birds live around us. I am constantly hearing the 7 o’clock bird outside.
I took my little camera and recorded each of the bird sounds. You can hear each one by clicking the note on the photo. They are all low quality files but at least you can get an idea what they sound like.
The little piece of tape that is at 12 o’clock is to slightly block the light on the light sensor. This sensor controls how loud the bird sounds are. In a completely dark room you don’t hear it at all. That little piece of tape has the effect of lowering the volume.
Genuine vintage collectable made by Westclox, in perfect working MINT condition. The font used for the numbers is really beautiful.
Thunbergia erecta is a herbaceous perennial climbing plant. Common names include clockvine, king's-mantle and potato bush.
Time passes, like clouds in the sky. Weeks and months go by as if they were a single day. Summer fades to fall, winter yields to spring, different minutes of the same hour.”
Martel, Yann
about time - for our daily challenge
Wie oft seid ihr schon „zu spät“ gekommen?
Mit der richtigen Zeitanzeige hätte es geklappt.
Mein Beitrag zur Happy Shooting Aufgabe "Zu Spät"
This is the Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower, on the southern shore of Kowloon in Hong Kong. It is a well-known landmark, and is all that remains of the former Kowloon Station terminus of the Kowloon-Canton railway. The tower is now surrounded by gardens, water features and modern buildings, one of which features the sloping wall on the left. I liked its juxtaposition with the pure verticals of the clock tower.
Maddie: "This is our Mantle Clock but it needs to go to the clock doctor to get fixed."
When it is working it chimes - it can be set to do the full Westminster tune but we usually have it set to just chime the number of the hour. Because it sits on top of my piano it resonates through the piano and is very loud. The next-door neighbour had lived there for almost 2yrs before his partner told him that what he heard every hour was NOT the Town Hall clock! :-)
object against black background.
Taken in natural light. Light source from window at left. Reflectorused to balance shadows.
Nikon D80, 50mm prime lens.
Aperture Priority F3.2
Speed 1/125
ISO 400
Exposure Bias -1EV
Centre Weighted metering
WB - cloudy
I found this very difficult to take and not blow out the shiny bits.
A few years ago I got the idea to put together a book of my travel photos...then forgot about it. A few weeks ago I started working on the list again, and also typed a retrospective trip journal of my Europe 2008 trip. During that process, it dawned on me that there were some things about my Europe 2008 trip that I really don't have any evidence for (like what we did on August 31st, 2008, since I only have one picture from that day). But I knew that I only posted 300-ish pictures from that trip on Flickr, out of 2,089 in total. So I decided to get my old eMac from storage and see if I could find all 2,089 pictures there. This is all because the external hard drive that I backed up those pictures to in 2008-ish crapped out at the end of 2010/beginning of 2011.
Anyway, I retrieved the eMac and bought a new power cord last week, and reactivated my 2003 eMac after 9 years dormant. It worked! And with no problem, either!
However, to my chagrin, I had deleted the vast majority of my pictures on that computer, years ago, in order to make space.
However, I did find some unedited pics from Paris, and some edited and unedited pics from Venice and Barcelona that for some reason didn't make it to Flickr when I posted the trip photos back in 2009-2011-ish.
So naturally, I've decided to dig into the archives and post some forgotten pics from my Europe 2008 trip! Mainly to my own delight, but I hope you enjoy them, too.
I took this picture walking across the Pont de l'Archevêché after Dad and I had walked around Notre Dame de Paris.
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Imitation antique clock hanging on the wall in my kitchen
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