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As in finally i remembered to post a fence shot on a friday again :)
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and greetings from ocean beach.
so yesterday was all about the iPhone. i finally took my camera in to get the sensor cleaned. lets just say. that after burning man.. it really just was not an option to stop down. picking it up today.. yay.... so perhaps this weekend i can actually attempt a landscape shot.
and then the internet went down. wah.. but the iPhone saved the day again :) woo hoo. could do a little browsing even if the pics were way tiny.
ooo.. and thanks to erin for introducing me to the Shake It Photo app. fun stuff!
anywho.. hope you all are enjoying your friday! yay for the weekend.
UPDATE: internet apparently is still being wacky...wah.. hopefully it will clear up soon. would love to see what you have been up to, but the small screen on the iphone is getting a bit hard on the eyes. will try a bit later.
Finally about to finish editing the Cuddlebeard Shoot!
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Well.. finally from This Friday
I'm going to have a 2nd photo exhibition with my flicker friend rody69.
Place ：Bar VERANDA（Nishiazabu,Minato-ku,Tokyo)
Date: from 9 July to the last ten days of August
Time: Mon-Sat 18:00-05:00 Sun, Holiday 18:00-24:00
If you are in the area please stop by!
An exhibition is a rest by Sunday, July 18 Sunday July 24 and Saturday august 7
Under certain circumstances,there is a possibility that the Bar
closes on Saturdays and Sundays.
At that time,I will inform you on this website. Please check it before
you come.
I think it would be convenience for you to come to our Photo
exhibition on weekdays.
さていよいよ今週の金曜日から僕とRody69さんとの二人展が始まります。
お店の都合により土曜日は貸切などがイレギュラーで入る恐れがありますので
出来るだけ土曜日は避けて来ていただけるとありがたいです。
７月１８日（日）は店内貸切のため２２時以降の閲覧になります。
７月２４日（土）は全日貸切のため２４時以降の閲覧になります。
８月７（土）は２２時以降の閲覧になります。ご注意ください。
週末の予定はここで逐一ご連絡いたします。
では、どうぞお時間ありましたら遊びに来てください！！
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Finding a supplier for mats and packaging was an interesting experience. I went through 4 companies before finding one that had a superior product, consistent results and great customer service. These mats and backing boards are thick, unlike any of the others I tried and I love the black core.
I think I'm all ready now for the show ....
150 Prints Matted/Packaged.
200 Cards printed and packaged.
25 Gallery Wraps ranging in size from 16x20 to 30x40.
All finished.
I finally made the time to hit 328 Katong Laksa. I've had laksa plenty of times in the past, and can still say without a doubt my favorite will always be Old China Cafe in Kuala Lumpur. Being the first doesn't always mean it's the best. It takes time to refine something complex like laksa, which by no means is a simple dish. 328 Laksa was ok I guess, my search for the ultimate bowl of laksa continues...
Coonalpyn – from Desert to Downs.
In the early years, Coonalpyn was known as the Ninety Mile Desert. It was not a desert in a true sense as it consisted of Mallee scrub, yaccas and banksias interspersed with lagoon and swamp flats, low fossil limestone hills and sand ridges. Early in 1850 Police Inspector Tolmer travelled through this vast uninhabited area on his way to the Victorian Goldfields to safely bring gold back to SA for assaying here. After 1852 Government wells and signs were established every 20 miles to aid travellers passing though the desert country. The pastoral era began with John Barton Hack who had a pastoral property here and chose the name Coonalpyn Downs for his estate from a local Aboriginal word meaning barren woman. Coonalpyn Downs was a 123 square mile leasehold property. It had several owners in the 19th century and the homestead was a substantial six roomed stone dwelling. By 1895 the land from Tailem Bend through to Coonalpyn and Tintinara was being managed under pastoral lease by the Cooke Family. Parts of it were resumed by the government to create settlements along the intercolonial railway line to Melbourne but larger areas were not resumed until the early 20th century. Coonalpyn is situated in the Hundred of Coneybeer which was declared and surveyed around 1895. (Frederick Coneybeer was a unionist and state parliamentarian for most years from 1893 to 1930.)
In 1887 the Adelaide-Melbourne rail link opened up the area and a small settlement at Coonalpyn was established. It began with the Coonalpyn Post Office followed by the primary school in 1889. But the township of Coonalpyn was proclaimed in 1909. The Coonalpyn Congregational (now Uniting) Church on Poyntz Terrace now the Dukes Highway was built in 1927 but Congregational services were held in the old institute from 1907. Fund raising for the Coonalpyn Congregational Church was under way by 1919. Also in 1927 the primary school moved from the institute hall where it had been held to a new government school room in the western part of Coonalpyn. Coonalpyn originally had two Lutheran Congregations (Bethlehem and Emmanuel) which were formed in 1930 and in 1940 respectively. They both held services in the Institute but in the early 1950s the two congregations cooperated to build a Lutheran Church at a cost of £5,000 that both congregations could use. The new church was dedicated in November 1952 and was the first Lutheran Church in Australia to serve both main Lutheran synods (ELCA and UELCA). In 1966 with Lutheran churches unification it changed its name to Redeemer Lutheran Church. E.T.S.A power came to Coonalpyn in 1962. Before this, private operators supplied electricity. A boost to the community occurred in 1968 when a water pipeline from Tailem Bend to Keith was constructed. The Coonalpyn Hotel was proposed in 1953 and finally constructed in 1956. The town has a general cemetery on the outskirts. The stone RSL Hall was the original institute hall which closed in 1953 when a new one opened. This institute was open by 1906 and during the 1930s and 1940s Catholic masses were held within it. The old institute was sold at public auction in 1954. It is not known when the RSL acquired it. The new 1953 Institute was built at a cost of £8,000 and it was opened by the Premer Sir Thomas Playford. Catholic masses were moved to the new institute after 1954. The town also still holds an annual agricultural show which was first held in 1945. A new bank of Adelaide opened in 1954 in the former chemist shop. The town was growing.
In the early 1950s the town boomed as the so called Ninety Mile Desert was transformed into the Coonalpyn Downs with the addition of trace elements to the soil which suddenly made them productive for some crops but especially for pastures (subterranean clover) for sheep and cattle. This important work took years of research and development and the actual discovery of the importance of trace elements to soil fertility was only discovered by intelligent chance by scientist Hedley Marston and his colleague David Riceman. Riceman noticed grass under coper power lines was greener than grass elsewhere because of constant dripping water from the wires in winter. He investigated this further. Marston’s work with trace elements transformed the Ninety Mile Desert from poor scrub to thriving farms carrying luxuriant pastures. Deficiencies of copper and zinc as well as of phosphorus in the sandy soils of the area were demonstrated by Marston's colleague, D.S. Riceman. Co-operative experiments with a private landowner, Mr J.E. Becker (later Sir Ellerton Becker) were begun by Riceman in 1944 which led to a definition of the mineral nutrients limiting pasture establishment. Superphosphate appropriately supplemented with copper and zinc gave spectacular pasture and cropping results. The Australian Mutual Provident Society invested capital in family farm holdings and first developed much of the land which it later sold to farmers. The prices of land in the Coonalpyn district and Keith area rose from about 25/- per hectare to about £25! This was a major scientific breakthrough. Much of David Riceman’s experimental work was carried on the property of Sir Ellerton Becker near Keith.
Today after decades of decline it is now revitalised by the silo art of the town. Bulk handling of grain began in SA in the early 1950s but most silos in the Upper South East were only built in the 1960s or later. They are now managed by Viterra grain buyers and exporters. Victoria began silo art in Australia and created a specific silo art trial across the Victorian Wimmera several years ago. Coonalpyn decided to follow suit in an attempt to revitalise the town. The silo art in Coonalpyn was only completed in April 2017. The paintings are 35 metres high. Five silos were painted and the work was done with a grant from the Coorong Council. $80,000 was needed for the project with local fund raising and grants from Country Arts SA and the Regional Arts fund. The Coorong Council employed the services of Brisbane artist Guido van Helten who created the first silo art mural in the Victorian Wimmera town of Brim. Helten visited the town of Coonalpyn for most of the month of February and decided to use actual portraits of children from the Coonalpyn School. They are truly stunning and they are encouraging some of the four to five thousands vehicles a day that pass through the town to stop and look more closely at the silo art. Van Helten has painted similar giant silos in Florida, Russia, Mexico, Poland, the Ukraine, and Belgium etc. To take advantage of the silo art a new café and coffee shop has opened in Coonalpyn. South Australia is unlikely to create a silo art trail as the next silos transformed by art are in Kimba about 660 kilometres away! Above is the silo art of Brim in Victoria’s Wimmera painted by the same artist but it is less successful than the Coonalpyn silo art. The colours are drabber, all the faces look downwards and it is extremely difficult to tell that the third figure form the left is a female farmer. In our view he should have made the contribution of local women to farming at Brim much more obvious. Coonalpyn is also the home of the Careship Coorong snail farm. It was established in 2011 to provide a kind of therapeutic environment for people suffering from dementia. Volunteers run the snail farm and the coordinator learn of the scheme from care farms in the Netherlands. The farm is home to about 15,000 snails which will be harvested from 2018 as they are destined to become a gourmet style of pâté. The dementia volunteers capture escaped snails and ensure the gardens are thriving to provide food for the snails. The farm has received an Alzheimer’s Australia award and it is the first snail farm in Australia but the concept of care farms for dementia sufferers is more common in Europe.
CSL SW1500 31 leads a coke train through South Chicago, IL, approaching their yard limits. The CSL, which is not a easy catch at all, is one of the railroads I've been wanting to shoot for a while now.
Finally the MAR-SUE is getting much closer to being splashed. Painting, replacing underwater through hulls and adding one, reinstalling transducer and adding a new one, adding two bilge pumps and through hulls, all currently working. Hoping to splash Monday April 29th.
The MAR-SUE is now 104 years old.
Multnomah Falls, Oregon.
Drove by the first time, because we didn't know it was there. Drove by the second time, because the parking lot was overflowing and our car was overheating. The third time, it was too early but we managed to get a nice look from the parking lot and I pieced together this photo of the lovely falls (doesn't do it any justice as you can't hear the roar of the water).
Saturday afternoon up on Froggatt Edge.
This was taken in the other direction to the previous shot, just as the light started to break through. By the time I'd swung the camera round and recomposed, the light really kicked in, and that was it!
Finally!
Eddie's Dress.
Ties are not finished on this pictures, I didn't want to get the dress dirty by changing the ties. There's a pic of the finished ties, though.
Hope you like it!
I finally found a loose Fembot to add to my bionic collection that didn't break my bank!
I've had a MIB one for years that I wanted to take out so many times, to pose and create scenes with. An almost complete figure with a perfect outfit, good joints, and a full head of hair!
Missing Jaime's mask, the wig, and the taser gun. The search continues...
Dempsey had been trying to get into Ava's lap all night and finally succeeded when she was in the living room doing her homework.
It always feels weird complaining that the weather is too nice, but ever since I got to New Mexico, it seems like practically every single day is bright and sunny and clear with a solid blue sky. As a photograper, it is BORING! Today I finally got what I have been waiting for. A crappy day! A couple of days ago, I finally moved out of the Albiquerquee area, and moved down to a town called Ruidoso. It's BEAUTIFUL. Wow, what a difference 150 miles can make. I had been staying in a town called Moriarty. Looking out my window, there was not a tree within 20 miles. It was flat, dry, brown, and ugly, nothing but dead shrubbery as far as the eye could see. Now I'm in Ruidoso. Amazing! It's beautiful. There are big tall pine trees everywhere. So, today was rainy, which is great, because about 10 miles west of here is Sierra Blanca mountain, it's over 12,000 feet high. If it's raining here, it's gotta be snowing there. Hopefully tomorrow I can get some shots of a snow covered mountain.
"some people say a cluttered desk means a cluttered mind. Well, I say an empty desk means an empty mind."
Finally started working on the pillars today with view of getting some of the structure up and together before the weekend. It was hard going as I am still working out what the finished article will look like, eventually though I had a break trough which was very satisfying. Lots more work ahead though, I ache everywhere.
After a long and late summer.
The two Dogwoods near our front door finally did their thing.
Also, my photostream needed a bit more color, it was looking wan.
We got our first real rain of the season the night before this photo. Then a brief, unexpected, and powerful hailstorm in the afternoon after this photo. Most of the leaves are gone now.
finally managed to get my hair dyed. my wife does a pretty good job of it gas to be said.
we were out for most of Saturday doing stuff as it is my birthday today. 55 all over again. yeah I told everyone last year I was 55. turns I miss calculated.
anyway, just another day. I was going to go out and meet a friend, and just as I left the house, it got cancelled.
that was a waste of makeup lol.
More than two years in the making, it just showed up IRL. It's hard cover, 72 pages of creatures! You can get yours at www.rachelbellinsky.com!
With only two cars to drop at North Yard, its finally finished and time to fly for the CSX M585 as the train accelerates south behind a veteran AC44CW in YN2 paint.
I finally completed customizing my nude Hot Toys Man Of Steel! I used Magic Sculpt to fill the holes in the body made to hold the suit in place! I then added a little paint to match the body's tan skin tone!
I've never used Magic Sculpt before and I am amazed at how easy it was to work with! I'm not completely happy with the finished product so I plan to do it again with another body that I traded a True Type Body for.
I learned a lot with this project. I will post photos of my process in case anyone is interested!
From deep in the Czech photo archives, finally proof of the rumor that a few German soldiers were issued prototype iPhones in the last years of WWII. However, due to the limited
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