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Walk to GET YOUR KNEE OFF OUR NECKS Commitment March Rally along 17th between D and E Street, 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
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.
The symbolic meaning of the dahlia in the Victorian language of flowers has survived. When given as a gift, the dahlia flower expresses sentiments of dignity and elegance. It is also the symbol of a commitment and bond that lasts forever. The dahlia flower is still used today in gardens and flower arrangements to celebrate love and marriage.
I guess my Koi will love me for it:-)))
I have 5 of these in different areas, 2 of them are planted by the front entrance,
and five plants with red colors the same size,
CORAL SEA (July 22, 2021) JS Makinami (DD 112) steams in formation alongside partner nations and allies during Talisman Sabre (TS) 21. This is the ninth iteration of Talisman Sabre, a large-scale, bilateral military exercise between Australia and the U.S. involving more than 17,000 participants from seven nations. The month-long multi-domain exercise consists of a series of training events that reinforce the strong U.S./Australian alliance and demonstrate the U.S. Military’s unwavering commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Desmond Parks)
Another day, another candid encounter in Stockbridge. This gent cuts a determined figure: #WiredIn with over-ear headphones, square-jawed concentration, and a purposeful gait that says “don’t interrupt the mission.”
The hoodie signals team loyalty (St. Louis Blues, no less), while those low-slung camouflage cargo trousers suggest readiness for whatever the day — or night — might throw his way. Is he heading to the gym, the garage, or someone’s flat with takeaway and intent? We don’t know. But he’s carrying it all like a man with a plan.
And just to add fuel to the fantasy: those deep cargo pockets may be full, but the tote bag says sensitive multitasker with reusable values. Camouflage and contradictions — just how we like them.
What can I say?
It is what it is ...
A farewell...
Sadness...
Melancholy ...
Attachment ...
Solidarity ...
Commitment ...
Warmth ...
Closeness ...
Friendship ...
It is what it is ...
Bittersweet
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}
I'm sure there are dozens of great analogies comparing kids and their fleeting interests in activities but Tae Kwon Do really does seem to be sticking, and we couldn't be happier. It's a great physical activity, teaches them discipline, and doesn't seem to pose much of any risk for concussion. Well, the turkey's just committed to two more years and to getting their black belts!
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!
Olympus OM10/ 50mm f1.8
Fujifilm Superia 200
Evening hangout at Nasi Kandar Haji Ali. The taste of the rice with friend chicken poured with varieties of spicy kuah(soup) just made my evening. Nyum!
This person on the beach took a pose that immediately struck me as taking a stand, making firm commitment, and being strong. Qualities I believe are important in life.
Imagine leaving home in daylight and using public transport to attend your specialist festival on the seafront. Much Respect given.
REFORD GARDENS | LES JARDINS DE METIS
Beautiful flowers at Reford Gardens.
Visit : www.refordgardens.com/
FROM THE PLAQUE:
CYCLOPS, 2016
Craig Chapple
Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
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 255 8-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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Visit : www.refordgardens.com/
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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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Once a squirrel locates something to eat, it really shows commitment to get it. This is Hazel doing some stretching :) I squeezed a walnut in this crotch. Not very hard - she was able to get it within seconds (Squirrels-2019-6391.jpg)
Mt Somers vs Methven Senior B Rugby.
Methven won 27-7?
My daughter Sara and friend Justine took the photos using my camera as I don't like the cold
Before anything can get done in regards to this camera, I first need to get things out of the way, the big one being grad school apps.
That's UP's scanning electron microscope, for failure analysis and metalography research. It also has a Polaroid 545 attachment, which makes it super cool.
Polaroid TLR, FP 100C, f/3.5, 1/30s
GET YOUR KNEE OFF OUR NECKS Commitment March Rally at Lincoln Memorial Lower Steps in 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
BASICS: Nevada Youth Training Center, Elko, NV. Rated at 110 beds. At time of visit there were 91 kids there, all male. NYTC is a rural facility, with 30-25 acres next to the highway. Average length of stay is 6.5 months. Levels are defined by uniforms. The kids are taken out to clear trails in Lemoille canyon. The director, Joe Payne, says they love it.
Have been so busy with work commitments and also traveling to post new photos, not to mention poor internet connection as we are on an island in the middle of the ocean! But am finally back again!
Locks of Looks Kara, Yes I am a huge So In Style doll fan so had to add this lovely girl to my collection she came with her original outfit and shoes but none of her accessories or her little sister, who can resist the mbili facemold! lol
Pajama Fun Skipper doll, I got her nude so immediately put her in the Barbie I can be Career Aviator Pilot and Flight Attendant Fashion which I bought on a recent trip, I love the Teen Skipper, I remember seeing catalogues of her but never actually owned one! Yay!
Barbie Basics Lara No 2 Model 3 Collection Red doll, I love love love this doll, Lara has always been one of my fav facemolds! And of course after seeing the adventures of Connie on Cessendras photo series! Loved her even more! She came wearing one of the TIm Gunn outfits, except for the scarf which is from the Barbie Basics swim suit range.
Barbie Basics Mbili No 8 Jeans Collection 002 doll, am a big fan of the Mbili fan so immediately had to add this gal to my collection, love her short hair, she came wearing another Tim Gunn outfit.
GET YOUR KNEE OFF OUR NECKS Commitment March Rally at Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool North Pathway, 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
This is inside a very old church in Fremont , Mission San Jose Church. I really love the flow of bokeh on the left ( the alter)
***HBW***
Digital image taken with a Lumix GX7 fronted with an Olympus M. Zuiko 25mm f/1.8 lens
Editing done via Photoshop Elements 12 with Topaz Labs plug ins
Found and admired during the All Corvette Car Show at Calvary Church in St. Peters, Missouri, USA
Cabernet Sauvignon vintage - Cabernet Sauvignon reserva
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Casa Mariol is a family-owned winery that has been elaborating wines in Terra Alta (Spain) for over one hundred years. They have confidence in their agricultural model and consider their environmental commitment as something natural and deeply rooted in their everyday activity, therefore there is no need to reflect it on the graphic identity. Casa Mariol defends what is natural in the broadest sense of the word and is not at ease with the luxury that often goes together with the wine industry. For example, the bottles clearly call a spade a spade, by their grape variety and their age avoiding romantic cheesy names. Mariol makes homemade wines and even the design has also been resolved using homemade tools such as Wordart, Excel and Cliparts.
Hope you like it :)
Cheers!
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Casa Mariol es una familia de vinaters de Terra Alta con más de 100 años de experiencia. Están orgullosos de sus tierras así como de su modelo agrario, pero entienden que el compromiso con el medio es hoy un imperativo moral y que por tanto, no tiene porque quedar reflejado en la imagen. Casa Mariol defiende aquello natural en el sentido más amplio de la palabra y han decidido que el lujo que a menudo envuelve las botellas de vino no va con ellos. Así por ejemplo, los vinos se llaman por su nombre, es decir, por su variedad y edad, nada de nombres tipo “viñas de seda”. Son vinos hechos en casa y el diseño se ha resuelto con recursos igualmente caseros: Wordart, Excel, Cliparts…
Esperamos que os guste :)
Salud!
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Fotos: Marçal Vaquer
Sometimes when I look back at the pictures on my photostream, I feel a distinct lack of satisfaction. There may be some good ones, but there are more mediocre ones and also some bad ones. It's notable that there are hardly any great ones.
Compared to many months ago when I first bought my 5DMKII, I have been very lazy in taking pictures in these past few months. The last time I had a photography session was at the last HK Walk in the middle of January. The Walk however was more about an occasion to meet up with good flickr friends than shooting. Most of the weekends I have other commitments (yes, sleeping and playing PS3 at home are my commitments too) which made it difficult for me to go out and take pictures.
Perhaps I should spend more time wandering in the street with my camera in an attempt to get some good pictures or even great ones. But it's easier said than done!
Maybe a flickr break will do me good?!
Entrance Walk to GET YOUR KNEE OFF OUR NECKS Commitment March Rally at Constitution Gardens along 17th Street near Constitution Avenue, 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
Walk to GET YOUR KNEE OFF OUR NECKS COMMITMENT MARCH RALLY along 17th Street at Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC on Friday morning, 28 August 2020 by Elvert Barnes Photography
US Secret Service Bike Patrol
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
No school due to snow...check
Boys down for a nap...check
Ginger at school working out...check
OK, turn on the soundtrack to The Commitments, it's time to dance!
(I'm not allowed to dance in front of Ginger...she finds it embarrassing...)
Entrance Walk to GET YOUR KNEE OFF OUR NECKS Commitment March Rally at Constitution Gardens on Lawn between Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and 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