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As you would expect, there were a ton of characters out and about at Denver's 4/20 rally this year.
One of the favorites was the guy in the New York Jets Tim Tebow jersey.
This was the first Cannabis Cup and 4/20 rally since Colorado legalized recreational marijuana with Amendment 64.
Yes, despite the signage, pretty much everyone was stoned out of their minds and lighting up in public.
It was certainly an experience.
A total of 80,000 people were expected to attend the weekend festivities.
You can rest assured it will be even bigger and better next year.
Calgary is under a Winter Storm Warning (27 April 2019). "Hazardous winter conditions are expected. Rapidly accumulating snow could make travel difficult over some locations. Visibility will be suddenly reduced to near zero at times in heavy snow and blowing snow." The snow hasn't arrived here yet - all we have had (so far?) has been a few minutes of sleet.
Day 4 is finished - sigh of relief. The 17 photos I have just posted this afternoon are the remaining photos taken at Bishop City Park, on our way to Kingsville. Next, I will be able to start on Day 5, which was a day trip to the enormous King Ranch. One of the highlights of that day was seeing a pair of Ferruginous Pygmy Owls at the end of our private tour of the Ranch, as well as some new birds for us, such as the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher and the Vermilion Flycatcher. Perhaps the highlight for me was when I caught sight of a little Texas horned lizard near my feet, something I had longed to see for a few years. As far as animals go, two nice sightings were a Javelina/Collared Peccary and six exotic Nilgai antelope from India that had been imported to the King Ranch in 1930. We only got a fleeting glimpse of their rear ends as they raced away through the trees.
Day 4, 22 March, of our 13-day birding trip to South Texas, 19-31 March 2019, was a day of birding and also driving from Rockport, where we had stayed for three nights, to Kingsville. Earlier in the day, we had spent time at the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Centre/the Port Aransas Nature Preserve. We loved this great Birding Centre, getting great views of the various bird species, looking down from the new boardwalk that has been built after Hurricane Harvey destroyed the previous one in 2017. Lots of birds; even a huge Alligator.
We spent some time on the beach at Mustang Island State Park, watching and listening to the Laughing Gulls. They are such fun to watch and to photograph. The Royal Terns are so beautiful, always looking quite regal in their posture. At one point, a man started feeding the Gulls down the beach, and they swarmed over and around him. Managed to get a couple of distant shots.
After our short walk along this beach, we continued our drive towards Kingville, where we were going to spend two nights at the Hampton Inn. We had time to stop at Bishop City Park before we reached Kingsville. We saw several Aloe vera plants growing when we walked around the large duck pond. I think the first time I saw these succulents was at the Blue Waters Inn on the island of Tobago in 2017. Quite spectacular. We did see a Northern Rough-winged Swallow there and a Couch's Kingbird.
"Bishop’s City Park is located just west of the U.S. Highway 77 Bypass on South Birch Avenue and features a community center, two baseball fields for little league and high school baseball, a covered basketball court and a large lot for recreational activities. In addition, the City Park also offers visitors a 0.6 mile hiking trail and a 9.1 acre lake in which waterfowl are frequent visitors. Several families of ducks and geese have also made their home under the park’s two observation decks built out over the lake."
The day is warm and few clouds are seen
As I woke from a disturbing dream
The view from my window remains the same
There is cyclist riding down the lane
All seems well as the day begins
And I wonder what today will bring
Will it bring security and care?
Or will this day become unfair?
Like so many others in the recent past
When the day has slipped from my grasp
When instead of sunshine there was rain
As I try to start my life again.
Must I live expecting rain?
When all I want is to remain
to keep my life the way it was
Just ordinary and without this loss.
Poem: Richard Walker
22 Jan 2007
Note: Following the sudden loss of my son, all I wanted was for it not to be true. Some days began quite normally, then the dreadful realisation cuts in, and then it does not seem to matter what sort of day it is, all you want are for things to be normal again, but you know they can’t be…..
Image: Rain Over St Ives by Richard Walker
This is Willow. Ebony Oriental.
Momma didn't like him too much. He was extremely vocal. He was a sweety though.
When we moved to Texas, we gave him to the Oriental cat rescue to be rehomed. Last I heard, he was following a little girl around his new home... but that was years ago.
I like to believe he's still happy.
wasnt expecting to find a shed in this park, in fact i was pretty sure i wasnt going to. i happened to finally make it out of the laurels in to this hemlock grove. i saws tons of of porcupine and deer signs, both made for a good combination. looked around and find one from this year all chewed up.
Great DVD I got yesterday much quicker than expected :) :) . . . LAST DAYS OF THE COLISEUM ran on CT PBS Stations last month (12/10); It talks about the history of the late, great NEW HAVEN VETERANS COLISEUM, all of the great concerts/Nighthawks hockey and other events that played there 'back in the day'. It talked about how it was the southern anchor for the refurbished Downtown area that evolved over the late 60s/early 70s (with the late CHAPEL SQUARE MALL & KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS HQs Building, which is still there).
THE BOTTOM LINE: For a long time, I blamed current New Haven mayor John Destefano (?) for closing down the Coliseum . .. But after watching the documentary, and how the building fell into disrepair over the years and the major design flaw which looked good on paper during the pre planning stages (i.e. building the parking deck over the Coliseum) actually hastened the decline of the building (harsh New England winters caused the steel and concrete to wear out much faster than expected). By the time Destefano became mayor, the building was losing buisness to new arenas in Bridgeport (Harbor Yard) and Uncasville (Mohegan Sun). It was too expensive to repair the building; the only choice was to close it and tear it down**
**But I still believe a city the size of New Haven should have a Coliseum and a Mall, that's a seperate rant for another nite :) :) . . . .
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I did a mini shoot for one of my best friends who found out that they are expecting! It was lots of fun and a great way for them to tell everyone the news!! On the blog www.freelandphotgraphy.wordpress.com
County Grand Lodge of Ayrshire Renfrewshire Argyll,
Paisley Ferguslie Gardens Park,
Flute Bands Parade Saturday June 25th 2016,
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"All preview images are scaled down & low rez"
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Expected Bands,
Imperial Blues Flute,
Parkinson Accordion,
Prince of Wales Accordion,
Ayrshire Blue Belles Flute,
Saltcoats Protestant Boys Flute,
Ardrossan Winton Flute,
Leeds Crown Defenders Flute,
Govan Protestant Boys Flute,
Sir George White Memorial Flute,
Grenadiers Memorial Flute,
Batts Purple Star Flute,
New Stevenson Loyal Flute,
Pride of the Hill Flute,
Cambuslang Brittania Flute,
Bridgeton Loyalist Flute,
Caldercruix Defenders Flute,
Newtown Defenders Flute,
Crown Accordion,
Sandy Road Flute,
Spirit of Stewarton Flute,
Dykehead Sons of William Flute,
Saltcoats Protestant Girls Flute,
Heirs of Cromwell Flute,
Sons of Ulster Portrush Flute,
Partick Protestant Boys Flute,
Netherton Road Flute,
Ayr Protestant Boys Flute,
Pride of Bargeddie Flute,
Abbey Star Flute,
Lanarkshire Loyalist Flute,
Saracen Truth Defenders Flute,
Drongan Young Conquerors Flute,
Patna Faith Defenders Flute,
Camlachie Loyal Star Flute,
Sons of the Somme Flute,
Prince William Young Defenders Flute,
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The spirit of Scotland remembrance project
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i am going to share with you some of my weekly bathroom shoots. this is week 21. i have 2 skirts and 1 pair of jeans that still fit me. i am desperate for some new clothes. when i am at the shops i get so depressed: maternity clothes is ugly.
kazdij ponedelnik ja fotografiruju sebia v zerkale v vanne. budy delitsia s vami nekotorimi fotografijami. eto 21 nedelia. u menia ostalos 2 jubki i odni dzinsi, kotorije jeshio ne mali. nado srochno idti v magazin za novoj odezdoj, no kogda ja tam menia oburevajet zutkaja toska. odezda dlia beremennih ochen bezvkusnaja.........
Top-seeded Gonzaga was tested more than expected in the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament while reaching the Sweet 16 for the seventh straight time.
Now the Bulldogs will attempt to play two strong halves when they face fourth-seeded Arkansas on Thursday night in the West Regional semifinals at San Francisco.
The Razorbacks (27-8) will run a slew of athletic players against the Bulldogs (28-3) as they attempt to reach the Elite Eight for the second straight season. Arkansas lost to eventual national champion Baylor last season.
"We're playing a team that a lot of people think is going to win the national championship," Razorbacks coach Eric Musselman said. "Nobody is even talking about Arkansas having a chance to win this game."
The Razorbacks will have to slow a potent Gonzaga attack that scored 109 combined second-half points in wins over 16th-seeded Georgia State and ninth-seeded Memphis to rebound after lethargic first halves. In fact, the Bulldogs didn't take the lead for good against Georgia State until just under 12 1/2 minutes remained.
"These are all tough in their own ways," Gonzaga coach Mark Few said. "That 1-16 is a real mental situation where you're trying not to play like this, because you don't want to be the one that gets upset by the 16. From here on out they're all tough. They're all physical, they're all great athletes or great defenses or great offenses or both."
The
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The EU is on track to meet its targets for emission reductions and the share of energy produced from renewable resources while maintaining growth in its gross domestic product. The 20-20-20 targets represent an integrated approach to climate and energy policy designed to combat climate change, increase energy security, strengthen competitiveness and create jobs.
My photo walk of Tuesday, September 17, 2024 in Lyon, France. I expected a mixture of sunshine and clouds for testing the B+W red filter but in turn, the cloud cover was tight. I decided to keep the red filter for the whole film anyway.
I used my Hasselblad 500 C/M camera loaded with a Kentmere 100 film. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped with a 67mm screw-on filter Light Red 5 B+W type 090 adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 25 ISO to compensate of the filter light absorption using a Minolta Autometer III and its 10° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's or by measuring the incident light with the opalescent dome.
September 17, 2024
69004 Lyon
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+50 and the film processed for 15min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About my Hasselblad 500C/M:
I remember that somewhere around 2002, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. Afterward, I started digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films until more recently. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024.
The results show very high-quality, highly-contrasted negative views, perfectly exposed and spaced proving the good technical state of the camera, film magazine, and the lens/shutter.
On sept. 2, 2024, I received from a French specialist of collection camera's, a second film magazine Hasselblad "A12". This back is in a pristine condition and matches the production year 1978 (Hasselblad letter coding "UR") of the 500 C/M body.
The camera back is like a new with almost no signs of use. It arrived in its original Hasselblad box including the original user manual too. The film insert has latest 3 digits matching the film magazine serial number, that is not the case of the other magazine. Unmatched magazines and inserts, are very common and assumed not to be a technical problem, but Hasselblad maintained the pairing of the insert magazine to ensure to the customers of the best attention to the precision of the film plane.