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This loveseat was positioned to perfectly view the sunrise coming over the Salton Sea. The sunrises over the sea can be incredibly stunning. It's an eerie feeling to be hit by intense pinks and blues bouncing off the mountains and into the water as trailers very slowly decay next to you. It kind of makes it more perfect for me. In nature's reclamation, we must have decay. It defines beauty and rebirth. All those moments happen simultaneously here.
-western shore, Salton Sea, CA
My friend hosted a surprise party for her parents 62nd wedding anniversary. Her and her three sisters were able to arrange family and friends to be at her house for the big day. I am so honored to have been asked to photograph it for her.
Ave Maria University (AMU) is a private Catholic liberal arts university located in the master-planned town of Ave Maria, Florida, roughly 17 miles east of Naples. Founded in 2003 by philanthropist and Domino's Pizza creator Tom Monaghan, the university emphasizes a classical liberal arts curriculum faithful to the Catholic magisterium.
Key Statistics
Enrollment: Approximately 1,423 total students (1,301 undergraduates and 122 graduate students).
Student-Faculty Ratio: 12:1, allowing for smaller, community-focused class sizes.
Acceptance Rate: Moderately selective, sitting around 40% to 45%.
Tuition & Fees: Direct base tuition is roughly $31,766 to $33,298 per year, before financial aid and housing costs.
Academics & Campus Life
Core Curriculum: The university is widely known for its rigorous classical liberal arts program, including heavily integrated studies in theology, philosophy, mathematics, and science. Popular specialized programs include Nursing, Business Administration, Psychology, and Biology.
Spiritual Environment: Over 80% of the student body identifies as Catholic. Campus culture is highly active in the sacraments, offering daily Mass, confessions, and ministry trips. It is recognized by the Cardinal Newman Society for its commitment to a faithful Catholic identity.
Athletics: Operating as the Gyrenes, AMU competes nationally in the NAIA, field teams across more than 20 varsity sports, including football, baseball, track and field, and lacrosse.
Admissions Process
The university utilizes a test-optional application model and does not require an application fee for its standard online form. Prospective students are required to submit high school transcripts and complete an informal interview with an admissions counselor.
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Hey hey everyone, if you like this photo, would ya help a brother out and vote over here at JPGMag.com? I'd really appreciate it. Not asking for sympathy votes, only if you really dig it, okay?
Thanks for checking it out!
Vote Here! by October 2, 2007
If you aren't familiar with this website/publication, let me just say, the magazine itself is amazing. Excellent quality, thick matte finished pages, always great artwork within with minimal advertising. Some great articles and stories inside too, from various JPG members. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about photography or just deepening your appreciation for it--give it a shot.
She was overseeing the attractive library room in a seniors’ complex in Tucson Arizona. She stood out with her stylish hat among the Christmas-decorated library. It was a beautifully-appointed room, conveniently located near the entrance to the dining room which made it very visible and accessible to the residence who passed it before and after meals. She had a friendly response to my interest and proudly showed me the library which is her volunteer commitment to the complex where she lives. Meet Grace.
As we chatted, I learned that Grace is 87 years old, proud of the library she oversees, and very optimistic about life. She was interested in my Human Family project and happy to participate, even though she said she doesn’t usually photograph well. I asked her to let me worry about that.
Grace explained that she is originally from Oklahoma and her father attended Haskell Indian School in Kansas. Between her origins in Oklahoma and her current retirement in Arizona, she has not only traveled the world but has lived in many countries along the way. She and her husband were teachers which proved to be a ticket to travel. Her husband was a chemist in the petroleum industry but always had a desire to teach. He and she took advantage of state funding to get degrees in education and soon found themselves in demand overseas. She earned a Masters degree in Counselling and Guidance. She and her husband lived and worked in New Delhi for two years. She noted that in “those days” women were usually paid much less than men who were viewed as “the head of the household.” Grace proudly told me that her husband was progressive and took a stand that he would not take a job where his wife’s pay was less than his.
Grace said that she and her husband loved India but that proved to be just the start of a globe-spanning career in which they lived and taught in many countries, including Iran, Hong Kong, Brazil, and Singapore. She said each was a wonderful experience and she felt lucky to have had a chance to not only see the world but to experience it by living in so many different places with so many different cultures. “You might be surprised” she told me “that we never applied for a job. Jobs just seemed to come to us in the form of invitations from different countries to move there and teach. I guess you could call our careers a ‘calling’ in that sense.” She summarized “Oh, I’ve had a wonderful life.” I think the expression "A life well-lived" describes Grace perfectly. Her vitality, good will, and energy to remain very involved impressed me greatly.
Grace is very active at the seniors’ complex where she lives and explained that I would not have met her in the library but for chance. She was scheduled for a session with the bridge club but when another card-player showed up as a fourth, she gave up her seat at the table and came to the library to see if anything needed doing. A resident had dropped off a donation of a few books to be included in the library so they needed to be logged and incorporated into the collection. One book had a post-it note attached, explaining that the book had some “pretty racy sections,” suggesting that it would be up to Grace to decide if it was appropriate for the library. With a twinkle in her eye and a raised eyebrow, Grace said that the note intrigued her so she was perusing the book more carefully for evaluation.
I could understand why Grace was proud of the one-room library. In browsing the shelves I saw many books I would have found interesting and they were nicely organized among the Christmas decorations accenting the room. As Grace and I chatted and took photos, several residents came and went, all exchanging a friendly greeting with Grace.
Grace’s message for the project was “Our biases and prejudices are so destructive. We are all just people - equals despite the differences in our skin color or religion. She proceeded to tell me some stories about how the Native Americans have been brutally treated. With her own roots as an Indian, I could tell that Grace felt this issue deeply.
Thank you Grace, for the friendly chat and for participating in my photography project. You are my 573rd submission to The Human Family Group on Flicker.
You can view more street portraits and stories by visiting The Human Family.
commitments are keeping me away from the forest during the day, and shorter daylight hours rob me of that precious dawn and dusk oppotunity, missing these guys
CN SD60 5438 and a CP GEVO sit in the yard in Joliet, IL next to the sign which has some nice motivational statement on it.
“ He told me he was afraid of commitment with thirteen tattoos on his body."
photoshoot edits of Billy and Mandy in style of a magazine spread hahaha lol.
(I suck, and I went to school for this too lol)
What can I say... I am in love with this Limhwa body...
she is so curvy and healthy(?) looking compared to the supia old body...
but I still love the supia body...
I need to find some time to make her cute dresses... ugh.
The clothes I ordered from Alice's collection came,
and boy, do they fit him like a glove!
He looks perfect in that outfit <3
ANNNNNNNNNNNND the long overdue(?) couple shot Nang been asking for. THERE YA GO!
By juggling some commitments I was able to spend late afternoon/early evening at Ham Wall. At one point I noticed this bittern venturing out of cover and was able to get a couple of shots into the sun - by using manual focus I was able to get the bird sharp, what an artist I know, despite the foreground reeds. I quite like the effect of the light and the bird still half hidden by its reedbed home - there was no-one else in the hide at the time.
Loads of Great White Egret activity, a handful of Marsh Harrier sightings and an Osprey was seen, not by me though, fishing and then being given what for by a buzzard and marsh harrier.
Large in Lightbox - even clicking on the image to go Large works as the bird is pretty sharp.
These words are taken from my good friend Rosy C which are profound:
Our voice, and that of our children, must serve not to forget and not to accept with indifference and resignation, the renewed massacres of innocents. We must lift the cloak of indifference that covers the pain of the martyrs! My commitment in this regard is a duty towards my parents, my grandfather, and all my uncles. It 'a duty to the millions of Jews' past the chimney', gypsies, children of a thousand homelands and no, homosexuals and from a thousand flowers raped, trampled and sacrificed to the wind of the absurd; is a duty towards all those stars in the universe that the evil of the world wanted to turn off ... Young free should know, we have to help them understand that everything that has been the story, is the story today, you are fearfully repeating.
Elisa Springer, The Silence of the Living
I have taken the liberty of using Rosy's translation into Italian for those who it will help:
Colonna sonora - La vita è bella.
La nostra voce, e quella dei nostri figli, devono servire a non dimenticare e a non accettare con indifferenza e rassegnazione, le rinnovate stragi di innocenti. Bisogna sollevare quel manto di indifferenza che copre il dolore dei martiri! Il mio impegno in questo senso è un dovere verso i miei genitori, mio nonno, e tutti i miei zii. E’ un dovere verso i milioni di ebrei ‘passati per il camino ‘, gli zingari, figli di mille patrie e di nessuna, gli omosessuali e verso i mille e mille fiori violentati, calpestati e immolati al vento dell’assurdo; è un dovere verso tutte quelle stelle dell’universo che il male del mondo ha voluto spegnere… I giovani liberi devono sapere, dobbiamo aiutarli a capire che tutto ciò che è stato storia, è la storia oggi, si sta paurosamente ripetendo.
As Elina's concentration span is as short as a New Year gym commitment, here she is trying to decide what chaos to start next.
Solidaridad
Fraternidad, entendimiento, acuerdo, conformidad, armonía, avenencia, unidad, unanimidad, paz, consenso ,asenso, cordialidad, concierto, convenio, pacto, amistad, simpatía, concordancia, coincidencia, compañerismo, familiaridad, confianza, camaradería, adhesión, respaldo, reciprocidad, inteligencia, conciliación, comprensión, indulgencia, tolerancia
Solidarity
Fraternity, understanding, agreement, conformity, harmony, compromise, unity, consensus, peace, consensus, consent, cordiality, concert, convention, compact, friendship, sympathy, consistency, coincidence, camaraderie, familiarity, trust, camaraderie, commitment, backup reciprocity, understanding, reconciliation, understanding, forgiveness, tolerance.
[esta foto es solo una parte de la serie.No se entienden igual en solitario]
[This photo is only a part of the series.It doesn´t means the same in solitary]
Red or green...just can't commit totally to going with Case International or John Deere for a complete combine
A residential pool is a commitment to maintain for life. Water is heavy and expensive to filter daily. The only alternative is to remove the entire pool. How much do you think that would cost?
Fatima has invested earnings in small business selling groceries and clothes.
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I am running low on new subject material due to the longstanding inclement and unpredictable wet weather on top of work commitments, so for the next few days I will do some reposts recognizing the Top 30 Most 'Interesting' images in my photostream as deemed by Flickr's Magic Donkey algorithm (in reverse order in batches of five to build the suspense).
As if the males of this genus were not strange enough to look at, males and females are worlds apart in terms of appearance (see comments for female image).
Pu'er, Yunnan, China
(6971 views / 52 favourites / 23 comments)
While moving from Chicago to Jacksonville, I spared some time for a “Traincation” out west with some must-have shots in mind. Watching Amtrak’s southbound Coast Starlight surf the Pacific from Jalama Beach could not have been left out. Even devoting nearly a full day of precious vacation time for the shot was well worth it.
March 6, 2022
Lompoc, California
Some dear friends of mine. I really feel like this image celebrates love and the calm soft moments it fosters.
Strobist: SB-80DX bounce into umbrella above center.
Nikon D90 | Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 D | 1/200 sec | f/2 | ISO 200
GET YOUR KNEE OFF OUR NECKS Commitment March Rally at Lincoln Memorial North Elm Walkway, NW, Washington DC on Friday morning, 28 August 2020 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Visit Commitment March website at nationalactionnetwork.net/commitment-march-on-washington-dc/
Elvert Barnes 57th Anniversary of 1963 March on Washington COMMITMENT MARCH docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/57MOW2020
Now.. M just gliding... whose original name is missing.. Now TEL ME :P
as per commitment image is uploaded...
Har waaday par nazar.. [:D] Day 1 [:P]
V first time i utilzed Macro option with 4x Optical Zoom. I was almost lying on my road. My neighbours were curiously seeing me. Ahh they don't know about my photography Passion.. :P
Had a night in London to go and see the stage version of one of my. Favourite films....the commitments. This morning we had a bit of time spare before the train back to the caravan at Northampton so why the other half had a lazy morning I popped along to the London transport museum in Covent garden.One exhibit this 1932 London trolley bus EXV253.Photo taken 29/10/15
Vessel NS IONA (IMO: 9657636, MMSI: 319060600) is an offshore tug/supply ship built in 2014 and currently sailing under the flag of Cayman Islands. NS IONA has 97m length overall and beam of 20m. Her gross tonnage is 5165 tons.
BP celebrated the official naming of its two new, purpose-built platform support vessels (‘PSVs’) at a ceremony in Aberdeen on Friday 27 June.
The vessels will be used to support the oil company’s operations west of Shetland.
NS Elida, which has been operating in the Region since January, and NS Iona were both commissioned by BP for an exclusive 15-year bareboat term charter. The NS Iona, which set sail from the Hyundai Mipo Dockland in Ulsan, South Korea, in late April and arrived in Aberdeen early June, will enter service this week
At the Aberdeen harbour ceremony the vessels were officially christened with good luck bestowed upon them and all who sails on them.
Mark Hardie, BP’s UK Logistics and Infrastructure Manager said: “The delivery of these two vessels completes our long term marine strategy. The PSVs – together with other redeployed vessels – will be used west of Shetland to support cargo delivery, rescue and recovery operations, oil spill response and collision risk management in the area. The capability and flexibility these vessels offer, which is not currently available from the market, is a critical component of our wider marine strategy.”
The vessels, which will be based and maintained in Aberdeen, will also bring a number of business and local benefits to the UK and Norway, with nearly 80% of the total project and operating costs being spent there. The operating and maintenance work will be locally supplied, and officers and crew will be UK and Norwegian qualified mariners.
Both vessels also have special tanks to transport chemicals required for the planned enhanced oil recovery (EOR) schemes at Schiehallion and Clair.
Trevor Garlick, Regional President for BP’s North Sea business said: “Our long term commitment to the region gives us the confidence to make major investments in vital support services. These new vessels provide us with a number of safety and commercial benefits, but also allow for the greater deployment of technology, improving our capability to recover more oil from our reservoirs – which is crucial to the future of the North Sea.”
July 02, 2014
It's Cast Member Saturday where I pay tribute to all the great Cast Members that make Disneyland what it is.
Today, once again, I pay tribute to Ernie who shows more commitment to his job and honoring those who serve than anyone. He's a true hero and gentleman.
Technical ability aside, the difference is commitment. Some people look at whatever they do as a job and then they want to be good craftsmen. Then there are people who do it as a passion. They really care about it., and it shows in their photographs.
~ Mike Morse, Associated Press Guide to Photojournalism (Associated Press Handbooks) by Brian Horton , ISBN: 0071363874 , Page: 14
P.S. Non-HDR-processed / Non-GND-filtered ● Black Card Technique 黑卡作品
La vida es pura circunstancia.No tengo ninguna duda de ello.
Enamorado quedo,Florencia.
Vuelvo en un rato. ;)
Recomiendo : View On White
Goal: {illustrate teamwork/commitment}
Audience: {church members on a Wednesday night}
Direction: {"I need this today"}
Project: {sermon title to display on screens during message}
Other important info: {gratefully used 7ulio's "Magic" for hue/saturation layers & grid texture}
{Finished work}
Is there anything that says ‘hot rod’ more than flames? Well perhaps pinstriping speaks volumes, but what about flames AND pinstripe?
One thing you’ve got to appreciate is the craftsmanship that goes into creating a paint job like this. primer, basecoat, masking candy yellow, orange, – a dash of red, clear, pinstripe blue and then anoher dozen coats of clear…this is commitment!
Artemis I will be the first integrated flight test of NASA’s deep space exploration system: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground systems at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will be an uncrewed flight that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration, and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond. During this flight, the uncrewed Orion spacecraft will launch on the most powerful rocket in the world and travel thousands of miles beyond the Moon, farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown, over the course of about a three-week mission.
Image credit: NASA/Liam Yanulis
These belong to Steph, my future daughter-in-law and I thought her high, high heels to be perfect for today's challenge ..... commit, yes you either commit pain on yourself or must have great dedication to wear them!! Can't wait to see the bridal shoes - they are reportedly higher!!
Off to the wedding rehearsal - back later!!!
Our Daily Challenge ~ COMMIT .....
Thanks, in advance, to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... thanks to you all.
Beautiful flowers at Reford Gardens.
CYCLOPS, 2016
Craig Chapple
Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
From the plaque:
Formerly trained as an architect at Yale University but with a deep commitment to creating art, Craig Chapple has pursued both architecture and the visual arts simultaneously throughout his career. Craig’s work is born from the synergy of these two disciplines, producing work that focuses on the overlap of the line, pattern, texture and process. He works in analog and digital practices in drawing, painting and sculpture.
Cyclops is a singular object on the landscape as well as a singular frame of the landscape. Made up of 25508-meter long tapering planks held in the shape of an inverted cone around a central opening for the user to occupy . These planks are fastened to each other at the innermost diameter and held upright by a 150 mm steal ring beam at the outer diameter.
At first approach, Cyclops is an object on the landscape, seen as a clear , platonic form. Through its transparency and porosity, however, it is an object one that is also dynamic and changing, blending with the environment.
By entering the central 1.5 m opening at the bottom of the cone, the user enters into a different relationship with the object and the landscape. By experiencing it from the inside-out, the object acts to frame the surrounding landscape and sky for the viewer in this same dynamic , temporal way by blending the man-made, platonic clarity of the frame with the organic and natural.
The viewer plays the central role of the work in rediscovering the relationship between the object, the frame and the natural landscape.
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From Wikipedia:
Elsie Stephen Meighen - born January 22, 1872, Perth, Ontario - and Robert Wilson Reford - born in 1867, Montreal - got married on June 12, 1894.
Elsie Reford was a pioneer of Canadian horticulture, creating one of the largest private gardens in Canada on her estate, Estevan Lodge in eastern Québec. Located in Grand-Métis on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, her gardens have been open to the public since 1962 and operate under the name Les Jardins de Métis and Reford Gardens.
Born January 22, 1872 at Perth, Ontario, Elsie Reford was the eldest of three children born to Robert Meighen and Elsie Stephen. Coming from modest backgrounds themselves, Elsie’s parents ensured that their children received a good education. After being educated in Montreal, she was sent to finishing school in Dresden and Paris, returning to Montreal fluent in both German and French, and ready to take her place in society.
She married Robert Wilson Reford on June 12, 1894. She gave birth to two sons, Bruce in 1895 and Eric in 1900. Robert and Elsie Reford were, by many accounts, an ideal couple. In 1902, they built a house on Drummond Street in Montreal. They both loved the outdoors and they spend several weeks a year in a log cabin they built at Lac Caribou, south of Rimouski. In the autumn they hunted for caribou, deer, and ducks. They returned in winter to ski and snowshoe. Elsie Reford also liked to ride. She had learned as a girl and spent many hours riding on the slopes of Mount Royal. And of course, there was salmon-fishing – a sport at which she excelled.
In her day, she was known for her civic, social, and political activism. She was engaged in philanthropic activities, particularly for the Montreal Maternity Hospital and she was also the moving force behind the creation of the Women’s Canadian Club of Montreal, the first women club in Canada. She believed it important that the women become involved in debates over the great issues of the day, « something beyond the local gossip of the hour ». Her acquaintance with Lord Grey, the Governor-General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, led to her involvement in organizing, in 1908, Québec City’s tercentennial celebrations. The event was one of many to which she devoted herself in building bridges with French-Canadian community.
During the First World War, she joined her two sons in England and did volunteer work at the War Office, translating documents from German into English. After the war, she was active in the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Montreal Council of Social Agencies, and the National Association of Conservative Women.
In 1925 at the age of 53 years, Elsie Reford was operated for appendicitis and during her convalescence, her doctor counselled against fishing, fearing that she did not have the strength to return to the river.”Why not take up gardening?” he said, thinking this a more suitable pastime for a convalescent woman of a certain age. That is why she began laying out the gardens and supervising their construction. The gardens would take ten years to build, and would extend over more than twenty acres.
Elsie Reford had to overcome many difficulties in bringing her garden to life. First among them were the allergies that sometimes left her bedridden for days on end. The second obstacle was the property itself. Estevan was first and foremost a fishing lodge. The site was chosen because of its proximity to a salmon river and its dramatic views – not for the quality of the soil.
To counter-act nature’s deficiencies, she created soil for each of the plants she had selected, bringing peat and sand from nearby farms. This exchange was fortuitous to the local farmers, suffering through the Great Depression. Then, as now, the gardens provided much-needed work to an area with high unemployment. Elsie Reford’s genius as a gardener was born of the knowledge she developed of the needs of plants. Over the course of her long life, she became an expert plantsman. By the end of her life, Elsie Reford was able to counsel other gardeners, writing in the journals of the Royal Horticultural Society and the North American Lily Society. Elsie Reford was not a landscape architect and had no training of any kind as a garden designer. While she collected and appreciated art, she claimed no talents as an artist.
Elsie Stephen Reford died at her Drummond Street home on November 8, 1967 in her ninety-sixth year.
In 1995, the Reford Gardens ("Jardins de Métis") in Grand-Métis were designated a National Historic Site of Canada, as being an excellent Canadian example of the English-inspired garden.(Wikipedia)
Visit : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_Reford
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LES JARDINS DE MÉTIS
Créés par Elsie Reford de 1926 à 1958, ces jardins témoignent de façon remarquable de l’art paysager à l’anglaise. Disposés dans un cadre naturel, un ensemble de jardins exhibent fleurs vivaces, arbres et arbustes. Le jardin des pommetiers, les rocailles et l’Allée royale évoquent l’œuvre de cette dame passionnée d’horticulture. Agrémenté d’un ruisseau et de sentiers sinueux, ce site jouit d’un microclimat favorable à la croissance d’espèces uniques au Canada. Les pavots bleus et les lis, privilégiés par Mme Reford, y fleurissent toujours et contribuent , avec d’autres plantes exotiques et indigènes, à l’harmonie de ces lieux.
Created by Elsie Reford between 1926 and 1958, these gardens are an inspired example of the English art of the garden. Woven into a natural setting, a series of gardens display perennials, trees and shrubs. A crab-apple orchard, a rock garden, and the Long Walk are also the legacy of this dedicated horticulturist. A microclimate favours the growth of species found nowhere else in Canada, while the stream and winding paths add to the charm. Elsie Reford’s beloved blue poppies and lilies still bloom and contribute, with other exotic and indigenous plants, to the harmony of the site.
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Gouvernement du Canada – Government of Canada
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With work and life commitments debarring me from much for the next couple of weeks, this will probably be my last photo from the 2024 RHTT season.
Using my opportunity wisely and blessed with some glorious weather, I took a leisurely stroll through the Sussex countryside to Cooks Pond Viaduct, near Dormansland.
Here we see 69002 and 69005 crossing the aforementioned viaduct some 29L, working 3W90 0430 Tonbridge West Yard Gbrf to Tonbridge West Yard Gbrf.
The old saying "going out with a bang" almost applied quite literally here, my drone was already beginning its mandatory self descent due to low battery as the shutter clicked!