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... we have had a wet spring.... and I suppose this has resulted in an abundance of wildlife here at the lodge.......... and Billy.............. "this moose".............. cbc
SEE ORIGINAL--- Bumble bee buzzing around our porch. Shot many pictures. This was cropped from an image as small a the head on this bee.
It's only taken two and a bit months, but I've finally found Guildford's latest Solo, 1519 (X417 BBD). It's ex-MK Metro Arriva Shires 2436, and the marks left by its old fleet number are still visible. It's seen here on the 437 at Cawsey Way on the 1725 ex-Woking. The 437 is one of what I call 'granny buses', which is a route that over the years has lost its attractiveness to commuters and is now nearly entirely used by OAPs off peak. This peak time journey left with one person aboard. I just hope it carries better loads to and from West Byfleet station.
The moment musician Patrick Landeza won his second Na’Hoku Hanohano award for excellence in Hawaiian music (Slack Key Guitar Album of the Year). He is the only mainlander in the US to win such a prestigious award, not just once, but now twice. He celebrated with his wife Jen, and was surrounded by his family and closest friends and supporters.
I knit all the pieces of the jacket in about a month. Then they sat for 4 months until I seamed the jacket together. Seaming isn't that bad, but I'd much rather knit.
Started: October 11th
FInished: April 11th
Name of Jacket: Monet's Garden
BAH!!! HERE PLEASE!
finally i can upload pictures at will! I dont need to reserve space! not everything will be my 365 anymore!
pro account is so boss. Prepare yourselves for a progressively massive upload of joy.
Also, I was tagged for this so here we go...
1) I am the only one in my family who is not named after someone else
2) I am so afraid of sharks its not even funny. I cant even look at pictures of them.
3) I really admire those of you who take tasteful nude self portraits. I honestly dont think i could ever do that. I have a seriouse lack of gusto. So yea, nicely done all of you.
4) i really love to sing.
5) My pipe-ish dream is to shadow Tim Walker for just a day. If you dont know who he is... you should.
6) I am a true band geek. I play trombone in my high school marching band. And you know what, i love it.
7) Im a die hard fan of classic musicals. Not this disney channel nonsense. The real ones.
8) I am going to art school no matter what anyone says. I will go there.
9) I work at a coffee shop. Its prettty much the best job ever,
10) Sam, Ashley, Sarah, Kyle, Thomas, and Steve... thank you for every smile you have ever brought to my face
The little groupie gets signed by James Blunt in April 2014 during his Canadian leg of the Moon Landing Tour. The doll www.flickr.com/photos/17757152@N05/10339592045/
New Chess and illustration dresses are now on my ETSY.
Made my own drawing and stamped with fabric ink.
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After many trips with nesting material being rejected, she finally accepts his offering. He looks proud and she looks happy, This is the perfect end to this Great Egret series, thanks for the comments and the looks. Please view large.
After a lengthy struggle, I finally found some Series 2 minifigs at Target! I had to go to two stores, since the first store's Guest Services employee was too lazy to get someone to take the boxes out of the stockroom. But my favorite Target went through for me again, as they brought out two new, unopened boxes for me to peruse when I asked them if they had any in stock! I did have to wait for half an hour for them to come to the Guest Services desk, but when they did, I had a fun 20 minutes of searching for the minifigs I wanted. I ended up getting one complete set and three extra Spartans. :)
I still have to find a way to get the Series 1 minifigs, though. I think I'll have to buy them on BrickLink in the future...
Officially one day away but close enough. I hadn't been to the upper part of Taughannock Falls State Park for months due to construction and maintenance there. It was nice out, just very windy.
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I have been ‘stalking” this little guy for weeks. He turns up in my back yard almost every day but by the time I grab my camera he is gone - or hides himself in the foliage so that I cannot get a clear shot. Today, finally, he hung around for a bit :)
It feels so good to finally have the kids room done. We live in a small 2 bedroom house with our 3 small children so the kids have to share. Our youngest is the only boy and we make sure he has plenty of boy stuff in what would otherwise be a very pink room. :)
Aaaand it fits!
The resin colour is a bit off (both are WS) but not enough to really notice at all in person, especially wigged and dressed.
The head kind of snaps around a bit on the body, and the neck is a tad thick, buut overall I am very pleased.
Beautiful resin, great posing (though he's a tad loose), nice and heavy, and beautifully sculpted. ilu spiritdoll
With 9 days to go I finally started my Christmas present wrapping today. Didn't take me long to get fed up with that and try out a self portrait with my new lens. That was a little Christmas present to myself that I didn't bother wrapping. Nikon are kindly offering £50 cash back on certain lenses so there didn't seem like a better time to buy it :)
So this is me in my Sarah Lund jumper as I call it (those who watch the Danish version of The Killing will know what I mean) in the midst of bags of gifts.
Oh and I'm a little behind on comments- I will try and catch up soon.
It's finally here!!!
A couple of things:
First impressions, the first thing I notice is that it's...dense. I can't quite explain it, but its well put together, and feels solid. It's not "toy like" in any way.
The camera handles VERY differently than the D40 in many ways. First of all, no grip on the right side.
BEFORE YOU BUY ONE: Go and hold it, WITH THE STRAP ON. This is important because the trap lug on the camera is normally covered by the dangling strap hoop. So when you hold it like that it might feel alright. However, with the strap on, the hoop is out of the way, and the lug sort of digs into your middle finger. It took about 1hour of handling for me to change my grip to hold it comfortably. After that it was great. I can see this being an issue for a lot of people.
View finder: Many reviews say its small, but considering need to fit the aspect ration of 4:3, one gets used to it really quickly.
Camera usage:
The menu system: is extremely odd, coming from Nikon. "OK" button in the middle of the directional arrows actually acts as "back" or "exit" ehehhe got used to it soon enough though.
The Back LCD menu: really useful and, quite frankly, I feel like "hard buttons" for all the settings you can change with 2-3 clicks aren't that important to me.
BEFORE YOU BUY: Coming from Nikon, the "fn" or function button was located next to the lens, reached by thumb of the left hand while holding the camera, the "fn" button is now ON TOP of the camera, on the left side. Not really ideal position, considering the way you are kind of forced to hold it ( The only way I can a person pressing that button while using the camera is if they are holding it as a Point and Shoot and using live-view....not that there's anything wrong with that) i.e. can not change settings without pulling camera away.
Preliminary image quality thoughts: The first couple of shots I took scared me. I thought I would have to return the camera and take the 15% re-stocking fee hit. THEN I started to dig through the menus, and changed a couple of things. TURN GRADATION AWAY FROM AUTO. That "special feature" while useful in certain situation, produced ALOT of unnecessary noise EVEN at iso100. So, keep it at normal. Noise filter and Noise reduction can be tweaked to personal pref. I set Filter to OFF and Reduction to standard. THEN I took some pictures and were quite happy with it eheheh.... Now the image quality wise, so far I found the D40 JPGs to be slightly less Noisy, but the difference is minor. Color is more accurate on the e-420 however. I feel that with some more tweaking of the settings the image quality will be very good, if not excellent. ( I would say it's a tie, with the e-420 with a resolution edge, and D40 with a Noise edge) My skills had never allowed me to "out resolve" the D40 or any lens, and I HIGHLY doubt my skills will "out resolve" the e-420.
One thing is that the shutter sounds really quiet compared to D40. Where as the D40 is a "slap!" the e-420 is more of a "snick!" Not silent, but def. not as loud as D40.
BEFORE YOU BUY: Find the PDF version of the E-420 manual online and read it. It'll save you alot of time + frustration + remorse.
Kit lens: Very nice, but slow (I was so used to using the Sigma 30mm f1.4 on the D40 hehehe... spoiled). The Bokeh is quite amazing considering its a kit lens. I would even say it's better than the sigma 30mm. (I never found the "unique" Bokeh of the sigma to be very attractive). Very silent focusing, and very light (considering the reach)
BEFORE YOU BUY: The manual focus ring is, well, bad. The lens focuses by wire, meaning that when you turn the focus ring, it sends a signal to the body, then sends a signal to the focus motor in the lens, and it moves the elements. Your turning, is in no way mechanically connected to the actual focusing elements in the lens. If that's important to you. Try it out first.
Other things to look out for: Coming from Nikon D40, this camera is jam packed with features. All the reviews point out things like wireless flash control and what not, but actual auto bracketing for me was a feature I couldn't believe nikon left out on the D40, Live view will hopefully allow ME to be in more pictures now...
All in all, very happy with the camera, Will post pictures taken with it soon, and as soon as the pancake is widely available, I will do a Nikon D40 + Sigma 30mm VS Olympus E-420 + 25mm Pancake comparason
PS. if you havn't noticed. Its small.
13th March, 1941,
Major Stockton went in to our barrack this morning and said: "Take your garbage, lads! Finally some orders. Jerrys are regrouping in a valley there, south-west of us. Colonel Wilson at headquaters told us to get ready for some attacks." I got damn glad that we are ready to fight, because I was getting more than a little mad.
I got really FP freaked out, so expect some more soon!
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