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While planning my trip to Lassen Volcanic National Park, I found that nearly all resources recommended visiting Bumpass Hell. I added it to my must-see list, but not for photography. I wanted to go with my daughter because it's a truly unique place and to introduce her to it. As we finalized our plans, I realized the hike was about 4 miles long, which could be quite challenging for a six-year-old. Most guides suggested a more moderate, easier trail, so I was willing to try, but it turned out not so moderate, with some steep sections. Making the hike a little strenuous, especially under the midday Sun.
The only silver lining was that the trail was well-shaded. My daughter handled the trail remarkably well. I believe having engaging things to look at is a great way to keep six-year-olds interested in hiking. Interestingly, it also works as a surprisingly good spot for photography, even under the midday sun. I took this photo from one of the initial overlooks. From there, we viewed the area known as Bumpass Hell. It exceeded my expectations; the colors were vibrant under the bright sun. Some clouds provided softer, diffused light, and the trees framing this strikingly scarred landscape just added to the scene. This is one of the classic viewpoints of Bumpass Hell and my favorite photo from the area.
Pigmy or Dwarf Green Stripe Bamboo, Pleioblastus viridistriatus
This is such and interesting plant. It has a lot of texture, so it does not give off a shine because it doesn't have a smooth finish. So it has a kind of matte effect, soft watercolor effect naturally. The lucent leaf edges give off light.The leaves are textured with vertical translucent veins that add to the luminous quality of the plant. Between each vertical line, all the up and down the leaf, are tiny hairs that result in a look of flag-shaped rectangles. The entire effect of this texture is that is that it has the look of a woven textile. The genteel green stripes and shadings look like they have been lovingly brushed on to each leaf. Finally, easily overlooked are the very cute tiny pink tips. The growth habit is random with the leaves criss-crossing. The wind was blowing them around. In a grouping they have a delightful chaotic appearance. A joyous sight, I couldn't take myself away from them.
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Wheal Coates was busier than I’d have liked it to be. It is the start of half term I suppose, and on the previous day I’d already witnessed the evidence of a massed cavalcade of fun seekers heading along the A30 towards our far flung corner of the country as I’d tried to make my own short journey east towards a wet and windy Ladock Wood. The approach to Wheal Coates entails a stretch of single lane tarmac where it’s normal to have to pull in for the odd passing car and exchange of the quintessentially British “thank you” waves as you make your way along it. Even in summer I generally only have to stop a couple of times. Yesterday no less than ten cars decided to travel in the opposite direction as I tried to make progress along it. I even had to reverse twice. One of the beneficiaries of my generosity didn’t even bother to wave. Quietly unimpressed I continued.
When I arrived in the small car park it seemed even more full than at any time I saw it in July or August. A father chided his son for unidentifiable reasons as they approached the car right next to where I had parked. I decided to stay put until their squabble was done and they were on the way to wherever they were going as the latest of the bands of rains that had been passing throughout the day came straight over us. At least the light looked promising. Finally deciding it was safe to leave the car without involuntarily joining anyone else’s domestic troubles I headed down the main path, taking a right hand turn to a place where I fancied I’d find some space to myself.
Unfortunately, the spot I settled on for my composition guaranteed that the isolation I always look for wasn’t going to happen. Wheal Coates always attracts both locals and visitors along its web of clifftop paths, and I’d set my tripod up next to the South West Coast Path itself. I’d arrived with the intention of looking for some strong foreground interest to work with my wide angle lens, but was immediately drawn to the spray drifting over huge rocks in the sea a few miles along the coast, which found me reaching for the telephoto instead. Within moments the light changed for the better and the girl in the wellies, accompanied by an older companion with a dog yards behind her strolled into the scene. As the opportunity to catch a moment thudded somewhere between my ears it struck me that I only wanted a single figure in the foreground, and with the camera off the tripod I had to go for a quick, handheld composition before the rest of the party joined her. I soon forgot the shot as the light intensified with a dark bluish cloud complementing the sunlit orange tones in the foreground heather – that almost sounds as if I know what I’m on about.
The stream of humans continued, a young chap engaging me on the subject of art and photography before racing off to find his easel so he could paint St Agnes Beacon. Later I was joined by another local photographer, who asked if he could set up next to me. I learned to my surprise that he was a dairy farmer with a herd of 400 cows and lived next to Ladock Wood, the scene of my previous photo taken a day earlier. I was amazed that he found time for any hobbies at all. I think he was too. Sadly for him he’d missed the best of the light, the sun sinking behind a bank of ominous slate grey cumulus and with no apparent intention of reappearing for the rest of the evening.
And so I returned home to review my images, deciding that this one with the sea spray spreading over the cliffs was the one to share with you. The trouble was that it wasn’t level – I often struggle with horizons – and when I tried to straighten it the girl in the wellies ended up right at the edge of the frame. So I had to move her. Not bodily you understand – we hadn’t been properly introduced and there’s a pandemic on as you’re probably aware. I’d never tried this before and in truth my Photoshop skills are more or less non-existent. But somehow I blundered my way through yet another hack and lifted her up and moved her five yards along the path. I’d rather not have done this, but very occasionally you just have to. It doesn’t seem to be that much of an untruth when some people routinely use sky replacement tools in their final images – although I should add there’s nothing wrong with that if it’s what works for you. It's all about choice - it's just that I won't be doing it because to me, photos are about moments, memories and feelings.
Content that she was now more comfortably positioned I looked closer into the image and saw people everywhere. Usually I prefer to cull unwanted participants in my images, but as I was about to hit the content aware fill command on the first group I hesitated. They were part of the story after all, I reasoned. And so they’ve stayed just where I found them - enjoying a Sunday stroll on a wind blown Cornish clifftop.
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Technical Details:
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
Exposure: 100 seconds
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal Length: 40 mm
ISO Speed: 50
Filter: B+W ND110
Processing Tool: CS5
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I love engaging interesting folks and asking them if I can make a quick "street portrait". This fellow was just walking down the street with a book for a hat. Nice guy, too.
Pentax, SV/55 auto Takumar; Ilford FP4/Rodinal
The current difficulty of engaging in international travel as made me to look more locally for breaks away from my work. And I’m (re)discovering that I live in a land of little gems. Admittedly, there are few jaw-dropping vistas of Victoria Falls proportions, but there are hundreds and hundreds of beautiful little nooks, each parcelling its own small perfection. And, here is best part, they are often overlooked by the masses. Being the antisocial kinda guy that I am, I truly revel in the enjoy of discovering and experiencing these bijou photographers’ delights. Of course, to locate each micro-jewel, I’m exploiting that brilliant invention – t’interweb (apparently is has other uses beyond porn, gambling and buying stuff you probably don’t need. Who knew?). This leads to the inherent contradiction… Google is available to everyone, which means these clandestine spots will soon be overrun by the very people I’m trying to avoid. Doh!
So good people, if you are similar to me and want to live in a land of semi-secret gems, please encourage all your acquittances to limit the usage of their browser to ogling Ms Whiplash and throwing their savings at a nag running in the 3.30 at Haydock. Oh, and buying tat from Amazon.
Love 'em both....but I'm partial to the airbrush look of Engaging's eyes...
Skintones (thanks Matt xoxo)
1) Engaging = Cream
2) J'Adore = FR WHite (Caucasian)
3) Montaigne = Japan
"Living World Series Gentlemen" Ju Ming 1996~2003 Bronze on cast bronze plinth - located in downtown Chicago
216b 5 - _TAC4756 - lr-ps
Airventure 2019 F-22 performance. He's flying through his own exhaust and caused all the edges to blur. The photo is in focus...really.
Starship warp engine engaging at warp 6 for the Sliders Sunday Group. Base image created with a Canon 7D and processed using Photoshop, Redfield Fractalius and Quad Pencil.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
DESIGNATION: Protector-018
NICKNAME: Galaar
RANK: ARC Captain Grade 1
UNIT: Vornskr, First Regiment, "Bralor's First", 253rd Elite Clone Legion
"The flak from the monasteries guns was intense, explosions rocking the gunship as it flew through Teth's hazy sky. Bralor's Mandalorian scouts had been right, any assault made by General Skywalker on the Separatist held Temple a few klicks west would be all but impossible as long as these guns were operational. Unable to land in the monasteries courtyard or conduct a proper air assault the gunship pilots had been instructed to fly past the structure and land in the jungle at it's base, where the clones of the 253rd Legion would be able to stage and prepare for the next phase of the operation outside the range of the enemy guns.
Stepping out of the LAATi and into the gloomy jungle Galaar peered up at the monaster. It sat atop a massive mountain of stone, it's walls supplemented by a several kilometer tall sheer rock face, a dauting climb for the troopers who had been unable to procure jetpacks. Galaar could already make out tiny white dots moving up the cliff face, the first wave had already begun their ascent. Checking the locks on his jetpack, Galaar began to lead his squad to the base of the cliff, motioning for them to extend their packs wings and ignite their thruster the moment they cleared the canopy. Vornskr shot up the side of the cliff, flying past squads of troopers as the struggled to make their way from outcrop to outcrop using ascension cables. Galaar made it to the top of the monasteries wall right as the first squads using ascension cables were scrambling over the side and engaging the defending B1 battle droids. Swooping past them, Galaar fired at the droids from above, destroying several and giving the troopers enough cover so that they could establish a footing and help their brothers over the wall. So far everything was going to plan, the 253rd had established a footing at the monastery and soon would have in under their control. There was only one thing left to do, silence that kriffing ion cannon so that General Skywalker could begin his assault."
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Winter break and finally some time to build. I'm quite happy with how this came out and I just want to should out all the 253rd group members who helped inspire this build. I'm a little out of practice with the log, but I figured it would be best to make an attempt rather than not include one. I've got two weeks until school starts up so I'm hoping I'll be able to get at least another build up, most likely something for WiD. Anyway thanks for stopping by and merry Christmas!
This photo appeared in this week's North Hawaii News, which was published this morning.
This was the first assignment where I was both the story writer and photographer. The article I wrote is found below this photo's byline, seen here:
BILL ADAMS | NORTH HAWAII NEWS
2008 Grammy Award nominee Donald Kauli'a, left, prepares to begin a slack key guitar lesson for five students from Cornell University's Earth and Environmental Systems (EES) Field Program.
The students pictured are, from front-row-top, Kourtney Reynolds, a senior from San Diego, California, Hannah Kubica, a junior from Little Falls, New York, Keisuke Irie, a senior from Bergen County, New Jersey, Matt Connelly, a sophomore from Syracuse, New York, and Tyler Huth, a sophomore from Boston, Massachusetts. In the rear is EES Field Program Director and Professor, Dr. Alexandra Moore.
The session was held at the Waimea Music Exchange store in the Parker Ranch Center this past Saturday.
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Studies In The Art Of The Slack Key
by Bill Adams
The Waimea Music Exchange store at Parker Center was filled with the beautiful sounds of Hawaiian music this past Saturday morning as a group of students from Cornell University participated in a slack key guitar lesson taught by the Big Island's own Don Kauli'a, whose album "Sweet Wahine" was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award.
The students are enrolled in Cornell's Earth and Environmental Systems (EES) Field Program. A 5-month course which spans the entire spring semester, students engage in field, class and laboratory studies focused on the various ecosystems of our Hawaiian island chain and of Hawaii's history and culture.
Led by Professor Dr. Alexandra Moore, the EES Field Program is based out of Waimea and hosted by the Hawaii Preparatory Academy. The students' living quarters is the 8-bedroom Waiaka House near the main campus of HPA.
Dr. Moore explained, "The students are immersed in studies geared towards "Kumu Pa'a I Ka 'Aina, which translates to 'Knowledge and understanding that comes from the land.'"
The stated mission of the EES Field Program is "To inspire stewardship of the Earth through first-hand experience with the power, and fragility, of Earth's interconnected systems."
Upon completion of the EES Field Program, students will achieve 18 credit hours from courses such as; Field Study of the Earth System, Biogeochemistry of the Hawaiian Islands, Field Study of Marine Ecosystems, Internship Experience, and an Introduction to Hawaiian History and Culture, which included Saturday's slack key guitar lesson.
The Program stresses the importance of respecting the Hawaiian ancestral lands and to give something back to the community by engaging in a variety of service learning (in class) projects and local volunteer opportunities. Students are also encouraged to explore ways in which they can contribute to the well-being of their adopted community.
Before Saturday's lesson began, the students were able to briefly meet and chat with another famous Big Island slack key guitar master, Sonny Lim, a 2007 Grammy Award winner for his work on the album, "Slack Key Guitar Volume 2".
Participating in Saturday's guitar lessons were a diverse group of five Cornell University students; Hannah Kubica, a junior from Little Falls, New York, Keisuke Irie, a senior from Bergen County, New Jersey, Matt Connelly, a sophomore from Syracuse, New York, Kourtney Reynolds, a senior from San Diego, California and Tyler Huth, a sophomore from Boston, Massachusetts.
More information about Cornell University's EES Field Program can be found on the Internet at www.geo.cornell.edu/hawaii.
Excerpt from www.themills.com.hk/en/experience/attractions/?popup=popu...:
The new creation, named The Weaving Wall (TWW), carries the vision of engaging various stakeholders within the community. The Weaving Wall combines a vast array of mediums including literature, visual arts, weaving art, and performing art to navigate and tell the story of Hong Kong textiles.
Drawing and distilling inspiration from 'The Memory of Herbs', the first part of The Trilogy of Women Workers written by Chan Wai and created by The Mills, The Weaving Wall is embedded upon this pilot part of the literature series as the blueprint for creation. As early as 2017, The Mills' CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) and the House of Hong Kong Literature jointly curated and invited the renowned local writer, Chan Wai, to craft stories of women workers set against the backdrop of Tsuen Wan and Hong Kong's textile history. This time, The Mills has invited visual artist Flyingpig and the weaving art team Breakthrough Arts Studio and embroidery artist Dream a Little Dream Embroidery joining forces with the community to paint and weave, presenting the past and present of the community before everyone's eyes. Flyingpig's artwork portrays the sentiments, appearances, and everyday life of the Tsuen Wan district. Evolving from a barren land to becoming a textile hub in Hong Kong, familiar landscapes gradually become unfamiliar, yet many individuals have grasped opportunities to shine here in this place. The place has expanded in scale, experiencing ups and downs. This place named after some distinct strands of herbs, however, hold only ample space to store our hearts. The visual artists use heartfelt brushstrokes to outline the lives of the women workers penned by Chan Wai.
Photobook now available for pre-order from ADM Publishing
Race goers are an eclectic group. At one extreme there is the serious punter and at the other, the casual race goer simply enjoying a day out. There are those that go to be seen as well as to see, the high-rollers, the young, the old and those in between, the wealthy and those less so, the country set and the townies that just go to party.
The mix of attendees is endless, creating a colourful atmosphere within the spectator enclosures as people circulate between the stands, the betting ring, the bars, and the parade ring interacting and engaging with one another.
Yorkshire based street photographer Peter Bartlett spent much of 2019 visiting race meetings to capture a fly on the wall document of attendees enjoying a day out. Studying the odds, enjoying a drink, having a laugh, socialising and occasionally soaking up the action, Peter’s candid photos capture the frivolity of pre-pandemic race days.
Published: October 19th 2020.
60pp hardback book on 170gsm paper.
Offset printed.
Stitched binding.
210mmx210mm.
Limited to 500 copies.
ISBN: 978 1 9997596 2 9
CORDICELLA SALVA VISTA.
Spesso, quando si usano gli occhiali per leggere da vicino,si usa una cordicella attaccata alle stanghette in modo che si possano portare con sè senza impegnare le mani e non dimenticare gli occhiali in giro.
A dir la verità la cosa appare un pò demodè e sa di vecchio ma la praticità è indubbia.
Stasera ho voluto ridare un pò di dignità a questo accessorio semplice,un pò banale ma utilissimo.
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Often, when you use the glasses to read closely, you use a string attached to the temples so that you can carry them with you without engaging your hands and not to forget the glasses around.
To tell the truth, the thing appears a bit out of date and tastes of old but the practicality is undoubted.
Tonight I wanted to give some dignity back to this simple accessory, a little banal but very useful.
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The Squirrels and Chipmunks help the ground-foraging birds (mainly Juncos and Jays) to clean up the spilled seed from the feeders. I enjoy watching them handle the small seeds... their finger dexterity is amazing! This adult squirrel is as close as that allowed by my tele lens (~6 ft.). I often have to retreat to achieve focus... after many years these engaging rodents are now totally accepting of my presence! I actually believe the pups learn this trust from their parents. They are usually even more accommodating for photographers... often crawling across my boots!
Selected for Explore 12/18/2018
IMG_1042; Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel
Excerpt from www.notlmuseum.ca/about:
The Niagara Historical Society was established in 1895 to foster an appreciation of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s rich heritage. Within a year, the Society had a significant collection of artefacts that it decided to open a Museum in the local Courthouse. In 1907, under the leadership of the Society’s President, Janet Carnochan, they opened Memorial Hall, Ontario’s first purpose-built Museum.
Today, the Niagara Historical Society continues to promote and preserve our local heritage by owning and operating the Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum. The site now consists of three independent buildings that are merged together. The three buildings are: The High School building (1875), Memorial Hall (1907) and the Link Building (1971).
The Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum contains one of Ontario’s most important local history collections. Located 20km north of Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake was an important home and terminus for Indigenous peoples, provided a safe haven for refugees and United Empire Loyalists, was the capital of Upper Canada, was in the middle of a war zone and visited by millions as a place of recreation for over 160 years. These stories play a major role in the development of Canada. The galleries host a permanent exhibition, titled Our Story, chronicling the history of our community. Two temporary exhibitions are mounted each year and over 80 engaging programs are enjoyed by the young and the young at heart.
It was an absolute delight to observe the wild red deer at Wollaton Park. It's now rutting season and the stags are very protective of the hinds. A safe viewing distance of 50m is recommended by the park.
Wollaton Park is home to two herds of deer: Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) and Fallow Deer. Red Deer are larger than fallow deer and have reddish-brown fur, seen here. The park is their home and they roam freeley.
There are over 90 red and 120 fallow deer at Wollaton Park. These wild deer are incredible to see, though during the rutting season (September and October), Stags are protective of Doe/Hinds (female deer).
The red Deer is the Britains largest land mammal. When fully grown, stags weigh between 90 to 190kg and stand at around 1.07 to 1.37m tall at the shoulder.
Doe/Hinds weigh between 63 and 120 kg and stand up to 1.22 m at the shoulder.
The average lifespan is 18 years.
Rutting Season.
The breeding season, or the rut, occurs from the end of September to November. Stags return to the hind’s home range and compete for them by engaging in elaborate displays of dominance including roaring, parallel walks, and fighting. Serious injury and death can result from fighting but this only occurs between stags of similar size that cannot assess dominance by any of the other means. The dominant stag then ensures exclusive mating with the hinds.
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1) I feel happy and elevated when it's gloomy and raining, especially when there is a thunderstorm. Snow is great too... Sunny days, on the other hand, make me feel tired and bored.
2) Outside of working with clients, I go to great lengths to avoid my phone. Half of the time I don't carry it, and 90% of the time the ringer is off.
3) But I do adore my iPhone. I bought it just a few days after it first came out in 2007 and I still think it's the best thing since sliced bread.
4) Other than that, I am not an Apple person. In fact - brace yourself - I passionately love PCs. I gotta have my right-click, period.
5) I am one hundred percent incapable of multitasking. I would consider it a handicap, if I didn't appreciate its upside of making me able to hold my focus on one thing for veeeery long periods of time.
6) Which would be so cool if it wasn't engaging me in staying up all night most of the time. I am really a morning person at heart, regretfully trapped in the body of a night person.
7) One of my biggest dreams is to attend TED someday.
8) I can't wait for the Skycars :-))
9) I am addicted to Moleskine's Squared XLarge Notebooks. They are perfect - from the size of the squares, to the paper quality, to the page size and format. I write random notes and draw sketches every day. I can't live differently for more than two days, and no other notebook will do. I was deeply upset when I found out they are going out of print.
10) I've been wanting to learn to play the piano since I was 9. Finally I stopped blaming my mom for discouraging me at the time, and took a few piano lessons last summer. Now I can play two full piano pieces on two hands. I'm so proud of this. It was difficult.
11) Someday I will write music.
12) In a club, I am the first person to start dancing. And when the dance floor fills up, I may climb on a podium.
13) I am embarrassingly intolerant to spelling mistakes. I'm not an easily frustrated person, but bad spelling will get on my nerves any day. I'm not really proud of this.
14) I really, really love web design! When I see good web design I get so giddy I almost want to hug it... I also take bad web design (and bad user experience) very personally... I think it is really offensive, especially coming from large service-oriented companies, like banks for example.
15) I feel much more comfortable in a cocktail dress than I do in a t-shirt.
16) My charity / volunteer interest lies in education and child development. I think the long-term answer to most of our world's problems would be to nurture a thirst for knowledge and a strong character in children. What we do changes the world, and our actions don't come from anything other than our own minds and hearts.
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Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet at Tate Modern, London
"Carlos Cruz-Diez’s immersive installation Chromointerferent Environment fills the room. A sequence of moving parallel lines colour the gallery floor and ceiling. The projection is constantly in motion, changing the appearance of the objects and people in the room. This creates a disorientating effect. Visitors are invited to interact with the cubes and balloons positioned around the room, engaging directly with the dizzying optical patterns."
Burnaby's Willingdon Linear Park connects East Hasting Street to Brentlawn Drive at Brentwood Mall.
The park is approximately 1.5 Km long on the east side of Willingdon Avenue.
The park has many decorative walls separating the park from adjoining residential homes.
Completed in 2018 Willingdon Linear Park is a multi-use green space for walking and cycling. It includes two unique pocket parks, plenty of spots to play and rest, and a scenic urban trail with an engaging public art walk.
Daniel Alarcón is a Peruvian-American author who closed out the Chicago Humanities Festival last night and was really engaging as he presented some stills from his graphic novel release, City of Clowns and talked about performance artists, outcasts, and politicians in Peru. He also talked quite a bit about different identities people have and language as a mode of human expression. I just finised At Night We Walk in Circles not too long ago by him and found it to be an interesting book about politics and acting on a surface level but, on a much deeper level, about love and identity. Recommended!
Note: The word human in this photograph was taken from the Chicago Humanities Festival words next to him-I was playing with this. The whole festival this year focused on Citizen and what it meant truly to be a citizen. I think, to me, being a citizen of not just a country but the world means you are a human being who redeems the sum total of us by taking part in reaffirming activities that elevate us all. Being a citizen means rejecting harmful power and political structures that reduce the artist and creator within contemporary society and instread to actively encourage great artists to flourish. Being a citizen can also mean searching for insight and context into this modern world. Well, that's what it means to me, anyhow. I would love to hear the viewpoints of others.
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