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@dailyshoot 2011/02/01: Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today. #ds443
Conrad knew exactly where she would be. One did not need to be a gypsy psychic to know where to find Lori.
Pushing open the creaky wood door of The Sportsman Lodge, he held back his usual musing abot the utter ridiculuous name of this clap trap townie bar- as if it was the one and only place in the universe to find a sportsman.
And around these parts, the sport was not a game, it was a war of psychology. It was battle of the most subtle kind, with tactics committed under the guise of smiles and false friendliness.
"Good afternoon, Connie," creaked Debbie, the cigarette charred through voice of the bartender that ruled the pace with the glare of her offset eye, the 38 tucked away under the cash register, and the word baseball bat she had used more than once to break up a brawl.
The smoke hung low, and there was barely 3 empty seats, all quality signs of prosperity that the bar was full on a Thursday afternoon.
Not even needing to look, Conrad knew the rising and falling of loud conversation on the back corner near the dart board meant Lori was holding court.
He could wait.
No he could not. Skipping his usually bourbon and coke, Conrad idled up to the table, nodding and gently backslapping the locals. It did not surprise him how easy it is to quickly engrain one into the social hub of country burgs like this.
Lori's howling laugh was in full swing, her red hair neatly organized in a worn bandana, swung back wildl;y as she led the usual rounds of gossip.
Barely nodding an eye blank, she cleared her throat spotting the denim package under Conrad's arm.
"Sorry boys and girls, but me and The Con need to do some business..." she announced with her best tease voice, setting off a whole new wave of clucking and snickering among the followers of her crowd.
"Not here," Conrad muttered. He had a plan.
So did Lori. He knew that. And she knew that he knew it. They were par at their game, and the game within the game.
"Your place then?" she asked, not even needing to ask since it was within stumbling distance from the Lodge.
Conrad cracked open a fresh bopttle of Bushmills. Lori never went for the cheap stuff. Save the Jack and the Beam for the townies.
They small talked, The bottle volume decreased. The package sat on the table, the denim elephant in the room. She spun the glasses. He took hers.
She mentioned the gig. It was old news for them, be it the Rag or the Swith or the Peruvian Blunder.
Damn if she did not take the last of the scotch, her cackly laugh and waving mane of red hair covering her arm motion over his glass, the gold powder spilling cleanly out of her sleeve.
Conrad had lost his attention. And, too busy thinking of the next round in the game, he made the cardinal con mistake of following the head fake, and missed that he was about to lose this round as he emptied his last glass.
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The Daily Shoot #ds443 - "Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today."
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The single subject is not just books, not just writing books, but writing books that bridge the gap. Some of these books have sat on various shelves of mine for 30 years, and some of them are hopelessly out of date, while other hold up surprisingly well. They have filled my shelves, and filled my mind and my life as well.
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In case you're wondering what this is, here the bigger picture:
I absolutely love this house i first tried this in black and white it didn't show as much power as it does in sephia. This is my favorite architecture picture that I've taken so far. The view across the road is the Atlantic ocean and some cliffs its so breathtaking. If you drive up the seacoast it is just stunning house after house multi-million dollar homes. Sharpened up a little bit. Processed using Photoshop CS5.
Nikon D5000
Exposure: 1/350
Aperture :f/4.5
Iso: 100
Lenght: 100mm
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Created for The Daily Shoot on February 01, 2011 #DS443:
Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today.
A (headache causing) wooden puzzle I received from a friend some ages ago. if you look at the splinters in the wood, you can see how "easy" this was to put together.
Taken during a twilight walk, this is the tip of a flower that had closed up for the night.
"Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today."
#ds443 2/1/11
Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today.
What could be better for supper on a cold snowy day than chicken pot pie?
This one is an easy version... it uses a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store! I used a Pillsbury ready-made pie crust for the topping (and one for the bottom crust, too), instead of the biscuits.
I found the recipe, with photos, here:
thecuttingedgeofordinary.blogspot.com/2009/09/biscuit-top...
Biscuit Topped Chicken Stew
Meat from 1 rotisserie chicken
1 small onion, chopped
10oz (1 pkg) baby bella mushrooms
Extra vegetables of your choice
2 cans (10oz) cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2-cup cheddar cheese, shredded (divided)
2-6oz. cans Pillsbury Homestyle biscuits (6 count, small tube)
Remove all the meat from your rotisserie chicken.
Place it in a big bowl and set it aside.
You can use any kind of veggies that float your boat for this recipe. I always raid the fridge and freezer and see what I have.
If you are using any fresh veggies such as broccoli or carrots you should steam them a bit first. Make sure you cut any of the bigger pieces into bite size ones, and don’t steam them to death, remember they will all be going back into the oven to cook. Add the veggies to the bowl of chicken.
I put approximately a tablespoon of olive oil back into the same pan and added a small chopped onion. I let the onion get tender and then I threw the mushrooms in. I used one package of baby bellas. I cut all the mushrooms in half. Once the mushrooms have cooked down, add them to the bowl. My favorite carrots to use in a pot pie are Le Sueur Whole Baby Carrots (15oz, in the silver can). They are perfect size for pot pie and you don't have to do any cutting or chopping, just throw the whole can it. I usually throw a good handful of frozen peas into the mix right before it goes into the oven. No need to defrost them.
The last veggie I used a large potato. I boiled it until I could stick a knife in it easily, then let it cool, peeled and chopped it into a small dice. Into the big bowl it goes.
Now for the glue that holds all those veggies together. I use 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup and milk. You can use any of the “cream of’s” that you like, but I find the cream of chicken is too chickeny for this recipe and the cream of celery really doesn’t do anything for it. Pour the soups into a bowl and mix it with the milk. Add in 1 cup of shredded cheese and mix well. Pour this over your chicken & veggies. Mix well, and pour into a lightly greased casserole dish. I used a nice deep dish. A bit smaller and deeper than a 9 x13.
Topping *
Remove your biscuits from the cans and place them on a sheet of parchment or wax paper. Cut each biscuit into 8 little triangular pieces (cut it in half, then cut in each half in half again, got it? You should have 8 pieces from each biscuit.) Place the biscuit pieces on top of your chicken mixture covering as much of the top as you can. Sprinkle the remaining ½ cup of shredded cheddar.
Bake for 25 minutes or until the biscuits are browned and cooked through. Cover with foil to prevent the biscuits from browning too much. Bake an additional 15 - 20 minutes, or until the filling is hot and bubbly. Let stand for 15 minutes before you cut into that bad-boy.
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Olive branch, torch, oak branch; magnified roughly 4.25x life-size.
Canon New FD 50mm f/3.5 Macro on FD25 extension tube, fully extended Bellows FL, and Macro Lens Mount Converter FD-EOS. Exposure: f/11 at 1/160. Flash camera right, 1/8, 105mm. Post-processing adjustments to improve contrast.
...of a photograph with a single subject today."
The era of playing solo within business, teaching, learning... is over. This is my conclusion after liveblogging through a number of national seminars in Finland within the before mentioned fields. All the referred seminars can be crystallized:
People blame each other. The air is full of extreme complaining. Researches have been completed to explain how nothing works in Finland. -No-one ever suggest a solution.
Yesterday there was a glimpse of light in the discussion: We must educate people to understand the architecture as a whole - instead of playing solo. It doesn't help a bit how good a solo player you are, it you actually are a member of an orchestra.
Link to yesterday's collaborative multimedia liveblog (in Finnish): Qaiku
For understanding what we'll be learning for at least tor he next decade - here are two great posts by Tom Graves:
Modelling people in enterprise-architecture weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2011/01/31/modelling-peopl...
Power, people and enterprise-architecture weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2011/02/01/power-people-an...
Daily Shoot 443: Photograph with a single subject. This is a paper crane with a cloth outer skin that a pen pal sent me a few years back. It has a mate of a different pattern as well as a little baby folded out of a magazine.
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Having an Ice Storm here in Indy today...took 2 steps out the door and this was it!
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Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today.
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I wish I had a real lens like this :)
Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens Nikon 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6
Flash: Nikon SB900 fired camera right at 1/4 from Octobox
C&C welcome.
Thanks for viewing.
I managed to change my riding lesson to 5:30 today so I could go straight after work. It is miles better as it means I can get home and eat at a sensible time. I had a lunge lesson on Puzzle and I felt like an acrobat at the circus riding round stood up in my stirrups with my hands out to the sides!
It is the first of Feb today and it really felt like spring is on its way. It got off to a bit of a dodgy start with grey sky and rain, but by the afternoon it was lovely and sunny. You can really notice that the days are getting longer now, it was still light(ish) when I left work today. I can't wait for the summer to come!
Macro of gnarly brown seed from a tree in my street. I picked it up during my evening walk and photographed it when I got home. The young version of this seed is a light orange and is both fluffy and prickly, as seen here.
Taken with iPhone 3GS with a home-made macro lens from a disposable camera.
Entry for Daily Shoot 443: "Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today."
There I was, in line at the gas station, looking high and low for some lens-worthy subject.
My random snapping garnered the attention of the fuel purveyor who walked over and asked, "Um...is everything OK?"
As luck and proximity would have it, I spied the OK sign on the gas pump at nearly the exact moment that the fuel purveyor uttered the words.
Serendipity?
Maybe.
A chance to get gas AND capture an interesting photo?
Definitely!
Thanks, Gas Man.
Today's DailyShoot assignment: Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today.
#ds443
This is for Daily Shoot's Single Subject.
I know it doesn't really completely fill up the frame but I like the water flowing past the camera :)
#443 Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today.
My son lit with a single 580EX II in a lumiquest III softbox on manual
I hadn't planned on cropping or doing anything.. but he's getting over a cold, and for the sake of viewers I cropped out the snotty nose and other cold related detritus.
@dailyshoot Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today. #ds443
Today's "object" was a cluster of Energizer rechargeable batteries which I'd charged up ready to feed my two hungry strobes :D
32/365. A photo a day for a year.
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I used to be the queen of 'fill the frame' and I'm realizing that I don't do as much of it as I used to. Hmm. I had trouble finding subjects tonight. This was completely spur of the moment - I was shooting other things and my son announced that he couldn't finish his grapefruit. I kind of like the mangled slice. I actually pulled out the speedlight again (!), fired remotely with a poverty wizard.
Signs like these have served no purpose in NYC for a month or more. Alternate side parking rules have been perpetually suspended due to the snow, and parking spots are a premium due to snow piles everywhere clogging up spots. Our streets may never get cleaned again.
Today’s Daily Shoot assignment is:
Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today.
Get out there, take a photograph, upload it, and tweet a link to @dailyshoot with the hashtag: #ds443
Alt. title: "Hell in a hand basket"
(aka day 397-730)
The Daily Shoot assignment for 2011/02/01 was : Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today.
Challenge 50-200mm
Camera info: Pentax K200D - 50-200mm @200mm – f/5,6 - ISO 100 – 1/180s
Handheld – GIMP
Comments & tips are welcomed. Thanks.
@Dailyshoot #ds443 Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today.
Not sure of the origin of this plate, and it's seen better days, but looks nice on the shelf.
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#ds443 Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today
We love doing puzzles in our high school library. I have watched friendships develop over the puzzle table. I have seen people unwind and get lost in the puzzle work. This puzzle is uplifting as a winter blizzard is taking place outside our windows to the world!
Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today. #ds443
Airing our the cairn. OK, last night it was bitter cold, and this tough terrier unearthed a skunk and got a face full of eau de ... I have never heard of a dog getting sprayed in sub-zero temperatures. Not a pleasant evening.
The Daily Shoot #ds443 - Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today.
There is a huge excavator in the middle of what used to be a nice sidewalk for commuting. Now it's a very large mud pit.
I wanted to start doing the Daily Shoot yesterday, but I didn't have a camera yet. For today's photo, I decided to combine the theme of filling the photo with yesterday's theme, which was repetition. Toying around with the macro feature on the digital camera I was using made me want to try to fill the frame with something smaller, instead of trying to find something big enough to fill the picture. I also wanted to incorporate perspective into the picture, which would be harder with a smaller object. This stop-sign pole helped all of it come together.