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Well, folks, we've been given the green light to take Millie's hip
harness off for a full two hours per day. And, in doing so, we've been
shocked to discover that Millie is not the short squat baby we thought
she was. In fact, she's quite lithe — spindly even!
And, wouldn't you know it. As soon as we placed her on her frontside
in front of the fireplace, she rolled herself onto her backside. All
this time, she could roll over and we had no idea!
So, there you go. Milestone accomplished. Check.
Back home, then.
I have midge and mozzy bites on my ankles, so I slept poorly, and then snoozed until after seven, which made it seem like an OK night's sleep.
After coffee, and fruit, I decided we should go to Park Gate Down, as I had a feeling, correct as it turned out, that the Monkeys would not be lasting long.
Traffic, expected to be dreadful over the weekend, was at normal levels, so we drove along the A2 to Barham and then down to the Elham Valley Road, and along to Elham itself, turning off just before we reached the vllage.
Other than a twitcher and a group doing a survey for KWT, there were few on the reserve, so I walked up and came across those doing the survey, who were struggling to tell the difference between Common Spotted and Chalk Fragrant Orchids. They asked me, so I explained.
Look out for the Monkeys I said. Yes, there's one further in the reserve they said. Oh, there's more than one, and within 30 seconds I found a couple so called them over to see.
Not sure if the guy from KWT was happy with my intervention, but it was done.
Anyway, indeed the Monkeys no longer have that bubblegum pink colour, instead are darker, showing that they are already going to seed. In some years they have hardly been out by this date, and in 2024, they're fading fast.
A few CSOs in partial flower, and a multitude of Chalk Fragrants about to bloom covering the down.
Monkey numbers seem to be down this year, which could just be the ebb and flow of the seasons, let's not panic yet.
In the third paddock I found several Fly Orchids also on their last legs, and further still, two spikes of Greater Butterfly, one already darkening at the edges, but the second a fine example.
I have been having trouble with my trainers, and so too again this day, as I turn my right foot over too easy in them, and so strain the tendons on top of my foot.
I work through the pain, looking for Musk Orchids in the usual places, but its still early in the season for them.
I walk back to where Jools was waiting, then we walk to the car and drive back to Dover, going to Tesco on the way, to save the job on Saturday morning.
I did forget to say, that last we passed by here last weekend, I thought I saw a spike of White Helleborine, so we stopped to check it out, and as a reward found seven spikes in total, though most going to seed already.
Yes, it was mad and jammed, but we got what we wanted, and was back in time for lunch, which was pork pie and coleslaw.
I managed to while the afternoon away, doing nothing at all. Which is the kind of afternoon you want when on holiday, a good way to ease into the weekend.
There was a mess up with the quiz, and so I gave up and we went to Jen's early, so we could have over three hours of cards after we had pizza and wine for supper.
This is a statue of Giordano Bruno, a philosopher who was burnt alive by the church in 1600, because his ideas were deemed dangerous. This statue was erected in Campo de Fiori in 1887, and he stands defiantly facing the Vatican, to remind them of their guilt.
For the first black-and-white film with my new camera Pentax 17 (see below for the details about the camera), I loaded a special film given to me as a gift by « Ateliers de Marinette », Lyon, France. The film was spooled for 30-exposures (60 expected for the Pentax 17 that a half-frame camera) and is a bulk Ilford PanF Plus expire in 2005. The film is however well conserved and it could shot for the original 50 ISO sensitivity.
The Pentax 17 was equipped with an Anti-UV 40.5mm Hoya HMC filter. For the camera transportation, I used a small camera bag ThinkTank « Mirrorless Mover 5 » that was well protecting the camera from possibly damaging vibrations when using my bicycles.
The expositions were automatically metered by the camera system using the « P » program modes with, or without, flash. For very bright scenes the exposition was corrected by +0.3 to +1EV to compensate the biais induced (and reversely -0.3 to 0.7 EV for very dark scenes to objects).
Documentary smartphone picture
Serre aux Camélias, April 17, 2025
Grandes serres tropicales
Jardin Botanique de lyon
Parc de la Tête d'Or
69006 Lyon
France.
After completion the film was processed according the Marinette advice in Adox Adonal developer at 1+25 dilution for 7min at 20°C.
Single-frame digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) fitted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm at approximate reproduction ratio of 1:2. The diffuse light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 14.2) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printer files with a frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the camera :
Since last Christmas, it was on display in the middle of « reusable » cheap camera’s in the window of my local photography store. But this camera is not cheap and sold at 10-times the price of those « reusable » film camera’s. The Pentax 17 is a novel film camera released by Pentax (a brand belonging to Ricoh Imaging, Japan) in June 2024.
The history of « Pentax » name is still something worth to mention. After the WWII, in Dresden (that was heavily destroyed by the bombing of Feb. 13-15, 1945), Germany, The Zeiss Ikon company could not produce anymore the legendary original Contax (a high-reputation professional range-finder 35mm released in 30’s) camera that was taken by Russia and transferred to Kiev, Ukraine, in the USSR. However the brand name Contax survived and the German engineers designed something completely new within several years : the Contax S (S for « Spiegel mirror reflex ») that integrated a pentaprism for a full redressed reflex viewer observation. Zeiss Ikon Dresden registered to new trademarks derived from the words « Pentaprism » and « Contax » that were « Pentax » and « Pentacon ». If Pentacon became the new name of the company in Dresden, the trademark Pentax was bought by Asahi Optical Company in Japan, and became a formidable industrial and commercial success. Asahi Pentax, then Pentax alone, produced amazing quality camera’s including the legendary « Spotmatic » (a 35mm SLR) and stunning medium-format camera’s heavily used by professional photographers. Many of these camera’s of the past century are still operative and appreciated by film photography enthusiast’s.
Production of film camera’s vanished progressively in the mid 2000’s, as digital camera’s became of better quality and finally of generalized appliances in photography. The Pentax 17 was introduced to the market in June 2024, it was a big surprise for all the film photography lovers. Seeing a newly engineered brand-new film camera was a sort of renaissance of the film photography today of a growing interest worldwide.
The camera is a « half-frame » format on the traditional double-perforated 35mm film giving 17x24mm photograms. This format was not as popular as to classical 24x36mm (full-frame) format of most of the 35mm camera’s. However famous and quality half-frame camera’s were produced in the past including, the long series of Olympus Pen for example. Then, the Pentax 17 immediately attracted the attention of experimented film photographers and camera collectors, probably more than the officially targeted customers of the younger generations. Less than a year after, the future of the Pentax 17 and the film photography project of Pentax is questioned today. The chef-engineer who conducted the project in Ricoh company recently left and the marketing of Pentax 17 is now a question.
This finally decided me to buy an exemplary from my local shop and to discover this strange machine. The camera is of course guaranteed, even with a there-year extension after the camera registration on the Pentax website. The whole ergonomic is clearly derived from classical past 35mm camera’s with a fully mechanical film advance and rewind, a collimated Albada viewer, no digital display at all, only levers, barrels, crank and wheels… However inside is a automatic electronic exposure system with flash, the focusing is manual but the electronic mechanism moves the whole optical group with a micro motor.
The lens is a Cooke triplet 1:3.5 f=25mm equivalent to a 37mm of a 24x36mm format. The Cooke triplet is a photographic lens designed and patented in 1893 by Dennis Taylor who was employed as chief engineer by T. Cooke & Sons of York. It was the first lens system that allowed the elimination of most of the optical distortion or aberration at the outer edge of the image. It likely for this reason that the lens is unscripted curiously « Traditional » on the front lens ring… It is known that a Cooke triplet lens could give surprisingly good results with only three separated optical elements. The Cooke Triplet is still widely used in inexpensive cameras, including variations using aspheric elements, particularly in cell-phone cameras. The Cooke triplet consists of three separated lenses positioned at the finite distance. It is often considered that the triplet is one of the most important discoveries in the field of photographic objectives
The lens receives 40.5mm diameter thread filters that I use for my Zorki / Leningrad lenses Jupiter-8 2/50mm, Jupiter-11 4/135mm and Jupiter-12 2.8/35mm. The metal shade hood Minolta D42KA could mounted on the filter but I have to check is there is vignette induced.
The camera size is close to the original dimensions of a thread-mount Leica (called also the original Barnack Leica) which are, in a way, a sort of « Gold » size in the 35mm camera’s. I compared with my Zorki 1D year 1954 that is a straight reproduction of the Leica Iic. The upper deck of Pentax 17 is designed very clearly as a classical 35mm and we even find the original logo of Asahi Optical Company. The rewind crank is also a revival of past design seen on old Pentax SLR as my year-1971 Spotmatic SP in this seres of pictures.
The Pentax 17 is very light (about 300g) compared to those old ancestors that weight easily the double or the triple. It is then an effortless camera to carry. The Pentax 17 fits in the small ThinkTank bag (called « Mirorless Mover 5 ») that I recently bought to safely carry a film back of my Hasselblad or my Bronica 6X6 camera’s. In this tiny bag, the camera is protected for the element and vibrations due to cycling for instance.
Reference
analoguewonderland.co.uk/blogs/film-photography-blog/pent...
Key features and specifications
* Half-frame image capture (17 x 24mm)
* 37mm (equiv.) FOV F3.5 lens
* Zone focusing system with 6 zones
* Circular leaf shutter (F3.5-16)
* Built-in flash (6m/20ft at ISO100)
* Optical tunnel viewfinder with frame lines
* Exposure from 1/350 sec to 4 sec (+ Bulb)
* Supports films from ISO 50 to ISO 3200
Specifically the lens has:
1. HD coating, which maintains high performance of the lens, by using this PENTAX multi-coating. This also enables high contrast and high definition right to the edges.
2. SP coating (Super Protect) which helps to repel water and oil from the lens.
The fact that the focusing on the Pentax 17 is electronic i.e. the lens only moves when you half-press the shutter gives me faith that autofocus was already considered in the R&D stage.
A beautiful golden sunset sky display tonight over the city. To be honest, I wasn't expecting a sunset like this tonight. It was indeed a nice treat! I like this quote by John Lubbock: "Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven"... Pic taken from around San Jose, CA. (Saturday around sunset, September 26, 2020; 7:06 p.m.)
*Did you know? Sunsets are instants of intimate & private contemplation. It's a time when we look at each other without mirrors. A sunset tells us what we are & where we should head to. It's a spiritual guide powered by Mother Nature & one that we should never neglect. Dusk teaches us to be a better person & to choose happiness over wealth, careers, resentment, & lies. Sunsets are also intimately connected with love, life, God, friendship, family, the beach & the ocean. A sunset is one of the most photographed natural events. Lastly, the golden hour can be simultaneously shared with the ones we love & care about…
After the first black-and-white test film of my Rolleiflex 3.5F model-3 (or « K4F », see details given below), I decided to do a negative-color film with a roll of Kodak Ektar 100. I expected for some weather improvements but finally it was essentially overcast during the session giving a very soft light to the scene. The sun came after on my way back for a moment only.
For all the frames, the Rolleiflex was equipped with the Rollei RII protecting filters (UV) on both lenses and the taking lens additionally equipped with the Rollei RII original shade hood. The film was exposed for 100 ISO. Light-metering was done using a Minolta Autometer III equipped with a 10° finder for selective measures privileging the shadow areas or with the integrating white dome for incident light metering. The camera was held using the brand-new leather neck strap for the Rolleiflex that I received from China.
Documentary smartphone picture.
March 25, 2025
Parc de la Tête d'Or
69006 Lyon
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed using the C41 protocol by a local laboratory service (one-hour service).
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 film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe software Lightroom Classic (14.2) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG together with some documentary smartphone pictures.
About the camera
I got this stunning Rolleiflex 3.5F from a French artist near Paris, France. The camera came in it original box and leather bag with accessories and a reference book year 1955. The whole kit is in a remarkable state of conservation.
The Rolleiflex 3.5F is the model-3 that Rollei-Werke Franke & Heidecke produced in about 50.000 units in Germany from 1960 to 1965. The Rolleiflex originates from 1928 for the very first model and was produced still in a limited number until the years 2000’s. The 3.5F model 3 was available etheir with a Schneider-Kreuznak Xenotar taking lens or the Call Zeiss Planar 1:3.5 f=75mm as this camera. The Rolleiflex, that was a quality reference for many professional photographers in the 50’s for the medium-format 6X6 camera’s. Many worked both with the Leica M3 (starting from 1954) as small-format 24x36mm camera and the Rolleiflex for other appliances. The Rolleiflex remained one of the most iconic and trusted camera of all the times.
This specific 3.5F is labelled on the right side with nice badge made of enameled brass « T » « Telos » that was the exclusive first French importer of Rollei to France until 1972.
The Rolleiflex 3,5 F model 3 is equipped with the Synchro-Compur central shutter MXV CR00 with cone-wheel differential. The distance scale is only in meters here with automatic DOF indication.
Serial number with ‘3,5F’ prefix on of top name shield.
I detailed the camera and accessories and studied carefully the user manual and the book to be more familiar with this beauty before waiting for a quiet moment to prepare for a test film. I did not trust the solidity of the old leather original neck strap to carry this precious machine on the field to avoid the real risk to drop the camera. I first used my modern Peak-Design Leach safe strap before using a Chinese nice remake of the original leather strap, reproducing even the famous « crocodile » connectors.
Why oh why did I decide that my pregnancy layouts should use my 35 week photos instead of say, my 20 week photos. By 35 weeks I'm just huge and tired looking. LOL! Oh well, so be it. Here is my very last "expecting" layout. I did one for McKenna and Kyla too.
Journaling:
First positive test: May 18, 2007
Estimated due date: Jan. 27, 2008
Weirdest cravings: Marzipan
Other cravings: Peanut butter, Carnival squash, Egg rolls w/mustard.
Scariest moment: The unplanned natural birth.
Greatest moment: Realizing how much we loved the idea of having three daughters.
Most uncomfortable symptoms: Pelvic pressure, heartburn almost every day.
Baby shower theme: Pink & Brown
First time I felt you move: Week 10
Credits: Template by Pattie Knox. Pink Chocolate kit and pink clipped bow by Michelle Coleman. Paper heart, paper for title, frayed flowers and glitter by Gina Cabrera. Felt ric rac by Gina Miller. Drop shadow actions by Traci Murphy. Goldenrod photo action by Photoblast. Font is AL Age Old Love.
So i noticed a couple days ago...that Juno seemed to be particularly round..Turns out shes def pregnant..from some boy she met at the shop that she came from. I was expecting it, but ive had her for a little over 2 weeks and she didnt show any signs until now, thought we might of been in the clear. I love ratties to death but there is no way i will be able to keep all of them, i know itll be so hard to resist, having little furry babies running all over the place. I plan on keeping one boy, and one girl if possible. Im reallllly hoping she doesnt have like 15 or something, lol..lets pray for a small litter..Ive never done this before, but i know everything there is to know, except when she is due. Theres no way of telling exactly cause i dunno when it happened..But im guessing maybe within the next week? Shes big but shes not absolutely huge yet. I will def keep you updated.
The broken weather machine in the treetops was less than reliable, but still better tan the local weather station.
This World Class attraction was everything we expected and more. Construction has just begun on a major expansion, but that has been managed in such a way that it does not in any way detract from the experience now.
This album focuses solely on the two April mornings that we spent exploring just some of the trails that crisscross the 120 acres of Arkansas forest around the museum. There will be another album that surveys the art inside and the amazing interior.
Alice Walton and her co-creative team can be proud of the vision and execution of everything on this 120 acre site.
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"Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a museum of American art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The museum, founded by Alice Walton and designed by Moshe Safdie, officially opened on 11 November 2011. It offers free public admission.
Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, spearheaded the Walton Family Foundation's involvement in developing Crystal Bridges. The museum's glass-and-wood design by architect Moshe Safdie and engineer Buro Happold features a series of pavilions nestled around two creek-fed ponds and forest trails. The 217,000 square feet complex includes galleries, several meeting and classroom spaces, a library, a sculpture garden, a museum store designed by architect Marlon Blackwell, a restaurant and coffee bar, named Eleven after the day the museum opened, "11/11/11". Crystal Bridges also features a gathering space that can accommodate up to 300 people. Additionally, there are outdoor areas for concerts and public events, as well as extensive nature trails. It employs approximately 300 people, and is within walking distance of downtown Bentonville."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Bridges_Museum_of_American_Art
crystalbridges.org/nature-trails/
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This isn't the life I Expected - Jonny Brook
Jonny is eye catchingly disabled as a human, but thankfully, he's award winningly hilarious about the madness of his life, and the madly defective legs he has to live on, as a Sat Down Stand Up.
He started life as a normal human, but as his degenerative condition has kicked in, his ability to tell the funniest stories about his adventures in life, with his 'PoundLand Action Man' legs, has thankfully made laughter of the madness of his life.
Jonny will take you on mad journeys, through so many of the moments he's experienced in this journey to becoming one of those people the seats at the front of the bus are reserved for. Failed chats with GP's, Specialists, Surgeons, His Family, Empathetic Homeless Men, Caring Sex Workers, Semi Naked Pensioners, and so so so much more.................
Tickets greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk/events/jonny-brook-this-isn...
Gran expectativa se advirtió en decenas de nuevos parlamentarios para el PerÃodo Legislativo 2011-2016 durante la jornada inaugural del Programa de Inducción en el que seguirán participando los dÃas miércoles y jueves de la presente semana en el hotel El Pueblo, de Santa Clara. El acto de apertura fue en el hemiciclo Raúl Porras Barrenechea del Palacio Legislativo.
1. Grauwe Fitis, 2. Atalanta (Vanessa Atalanta), 3. Caught in flight
Ik bedacht laat ik eens kijken of ik wat in explore heb staan. ;-)
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