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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 on the artwork inside the buildings and on the other interior spaces including the Eleven Restaurant and the Gift Shop. A separate album posted a few days ago is devoted to the two April mornings that we spent exploring just some of the trails that crisscross the 120 acres of Arkansas forest around the museum.
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."
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crystalbridges.org/nature-trails/
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A car you'd expect to see in Cuba.
Cars are expensive and usually impractical on Iqaluit's roads, however I spotted this beauty in the summer.
Expecting this and we'll be dreaming of that....
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At the time of our expected arrival ay Oporto, Portugal, we pass the NILE RIVER (IMO: 9187007), a Suction Dredger that was built in 1999 and sailing under the flag of The Netherlands. It’s carrying capacity is 25169 t DWT and her current draught is reported to be 7.2 meters. Her length overall (LOA) is 149.43 meters and her width is 28 meters.
An everyday piece of text or narrative that anyone working on the sea will be familiar with is the Shipping Forecast. These fragments, screen printed then applied to hand made pebbles will be the first objects to sit beneath the waves and experience the full force of the winter tides.
I'm particularly interested to see how this technique will work, so selecting something as generic as the Shipping Forecast will be a fun way of seeing whether the sea decides to erode some of the words, and in doing so, reinvent their meaning.
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).
Cycas revoluta (Japan)
Jardin Botanique de Lyon, April 17, 2025
Parc de la Tête d'Or
69006 Lyon
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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.
Expect nothing less than an extraordinary meal and first class service from one of the most outstanding prime steak houses in the world: Ruth’s Chris Steak House. Among the most distinctive dining destinations in the area, at Ruth’s Chris Steak House your service will always be first-class but never fussy.
"A Long-Expected Party"
An event organized by the New Worlds Alliance to celebrate
"A Long-Expected Party"
An event held in January 2004; organized by the New Worlds Alliance to celebrate scifi and fantasy fandom. As 2004 marked the local release of The Return of the King, The Philippine Tolkien Society
"A Long-Expected Party"
An event held in January 2004; organized by the New Worlds Alliance to celebrate scifi and fantasy fandom. As 2004 marked the local release of The Return of the King, The Philippine Tolkien Society's exhibit was the assigned highlight of
"A Long-Expected Party"
An event held in January 2004; organized by the New Worlds Alliance to celebrate scifi and fantasy fandom. As 2004 marked the local release of The Return of the King, The Philippine Tolkien Society's exhibit was the assigned highlight of the convention. But, all groups involved put up very entertaining exhibits and activities. It truly was a weekend to remember.
For more information on the New Worlds Alliance, visit www.newworlds.ph
"A Long-Expected Party"
An event held in January 2004; organized by the New Worlds Alliance to celebrate scifi and fantasy fandom. As 2004 marked the local release of The Return of the King, The Philippine Tolkien Society's exhibit was the assigned highlight of the convention. But, all groups involved put up very entertaining exhibits and activities. It truly was a weekend to remember.
For more information on the New Worlds Alliance, visit www.newworlds.ph
Expect to fulfil all romantic dreams in Munich, München or call her by any name. If at first, you are pushed for time visit the photographed sites ONLY! Then give her a second thought. Trust me, cos I loved her so…
I figured it wouldn't be long before the carts started escaping from the nearby retail complex. This one is perplexing however because it's barely a block away from the Target. I figure it will make a good find for one of the many homeless regulars in the neighborhood.
7th Annual Domestic Violence Awareness purple ribbon campaign, Sept. 27, 2017 at the Travis County Sheriff's Office. "Football is a Contact Sport. Love Shouldn’t Be."
Hmm. Not the photo I expected, but honestly, I'm pretty happy with it.
(I wanted to get the streaks of the stars, but got streaked clouds instead, weee)
Back is doing a lot better. Netflix has been sucking my life away, and making me less prone to want to take photos. Evil. I'll try and fight the urge.
Photo school in a few more days. Happy.
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Larry Fitzgerald expected to sign Cardinals extension:-Larry Fitzgerald is expected to soon sign a one-year contract extension with the Arizona Cardinals, a source informed of the situation told NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport.
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Not sure what to expected from the bulls in Round 3… PBR livestock director Cody Lambert this to say about the nightly draft for the next night’s bulls, “that’s what this draft and this sport is about. It’s about stepping up and taking the challenge.” Cody also said “Some of these guys were wanting me to pick their bulls for them and I really didn’t know these bulls as well as I knew the rest of them, because these aren’t bulls that I picked to come to the World Finals. These are bulls that qualified through the ABBI.”
The bulls chosen for tonight are the top ABBI Classic bulls. These bulls are three and four years old, and can be considered the ‘future superstars,’ of the PBR.
Robson Palermo of Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil, won the third round with a 92.25 point ride on Black Pearl.
This was not the night to miss at the PBR World Finals; these ‘future superstars,’ had a few surprises and that meant only seventeen riders rode tonight. Join me as I bring you the rides and unforgettable moments from Round 3 at the PBR World Finals in Las Vegas.