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Big softbox with grid from right in front of model (triggered by Elinchrome Skyports), sunbounce from left, second flash from left (through snoot?) to her face triggered optically. SB-26 for background.
Treatment with Capture NX 2.
Whip, my yorkie, aka my son. Those eyes are so captivating. Whip does not sit still, and I'm not talking like any normal dog. The little guy wakes up sprinting if I move an inch. He's so full of energy!
The Jeremiah Dashiell House, at 515 Villita Street, was built around 1850 by contractor J.H. Kampmann. The raised cottage takes advantage of its sloping site: the upper level captures breezes while the lower level enjoys natural cooling. It is built of limestone. The facade is handsomely designed with French doors and flanking windows.
Colonel Jeremiah Y. Dashiell, a physician who served as paymaster in the U.S.-Mexico War, bought this land on the San Antonio River in 1849. Dashiell was stationed in South Carolina in 1856, when he sent his wife and daughter money and instructions for construction of this house to replace an older structure on the site. A boat ferrying Army payroll funds sank while under Dashiell's command, and he was held responsible. As a result of that accident, he was forced to sell the house in order to settle his debt to the government. Augustine Morrisset owned the house from 1860 to 1910, and he and subsequent owners rented it out. The house was severely damaged in the flood of 1921. In 1942, prominent local attorney C.A. Goeth sold the house to the San Antonio Conservation Society, which has maintained offices at “Casa Villita” since then.
La Villita (The Little Village), currently occupying one square block off the south bank of the River Walk, was one of San Antonio's first neighborhoods. The site was originally a Coahuiltecan Indian village and later settled by soldiers and their families after the founding of Mission San Antonio de Valero. Many of the early brush huts were washed away with a flood in 1819 and replaced by more substantial adobe houses. European immigrants arriving in the mid and late 19th century brought their customs and architectural style to the neighborhood, which would devolved into a slum by the early 20th century. Following the River Walk project funded by the WPA, it became home to a community of artists in the 1930s and 1940s. Today, the La Villita has been restored and the buildings, many of which have been continuously occupied for 200 years, host a number of artisan craft shops and local retailers.
La Villita Recorded Texas Historic Landmark #3006
La Villita Historic District National Register #72001350 (1972)
St James' Church at Cooling in North Kent is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It dates from the late 1200s but may replace an earlier Saxon church on the same site. The nave, chancel and the lower part of the tower were built 1280 to 1320AD but the tower did not reach full height until about 1400AD.
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Its fame comes from the Victorian period when novelist Charles Dickens lived at nearby Gads Hill. The church is believed to be the inspiration for the churchyard scene in Great Expectations where young Pip meets the convict Magwitch. The 13 child graves near the church door are also believed to be the inspiration for the five graves of Pip's siblings in the same book. These have since become known as 'Pip's Graves'.
Internally the 40-foot long chancel is almost the same length as the 50-foot nave. There is sign of various 19th century restorations while the wooden medieval north door is still hanging on its hinges but the doorway behind is blocked solid. The font is 13th century and probably the oldest item inside the church. The pulpit is made of 18th century material recut in the 19th century. In the chancel the south wall has a sedilia and a rare double piscina. The double piscina dates this area to 1272-1307AD.
A unique feature at Cooling is the vestry wall which is decorated with hundreds of cockle shells. This is probably Victorian and may refer to the scallop shell emblem of St James the Great. An unusual wall memorial on the wall behind the pulpit records the drowning of a seaman who fell overboard off Rio in 1852.
Icy cold waters of North Fork Stanislaus River at Boards Crossing, glowing in late afternoon sunlight on a summer day.
Who says first aid can't be cool? This cadet from Oriole Division decided his "Actar" needed a better sense of style during CPR training at Acadia July 22. (Capt. Wendy Patterson photo)
Really weird...Not knowing about this picture... www.flickr.com/photos/d47/2206945085/
From DEE. I took this in my Brita pitcher this morning. I was using the pitcher so my camera wouldn't get wet. Not the same exactly but the concept...I do like her's much better.