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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.
Finally my cousin sent me all the things we bought! I'll plan to open 1 every 2 weeks lol I feel so overwhelmed lol
Finally caved on Tenzin.........saw this one on ebay and his hair was just too perfect. I couldn't resist.
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
Finally got some pics of my Amethyst Faerie, I just finished her hair a couple of hours ago. She is made of Japanese glass seed beads, organic cotton, and real amethyst beads for her ball-joints. Now she just needs a dress!
FInally got a flick today. 8 ft. elephant print OG jordan 1 banana paste up. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago IL, near St. Alfred
Finally done: OOAK Merida from Disney's Pixar-movie Brave.
Before she was the Disneystore classic Merida doll. She has a full facial repaint, her hair is boil permed and restyled. She is wearing her original outfit from the Disneystore
Finally she's clean and perfect :D I took my time to do her because even if she was quite clean I had to work a lot on her
Her hair was kind of hard to do because of her wings and I didn't wanted to remove her head so I had to do with it, I'm quite happy with the result when you know how hard it was to redo lol
Her body was covered with some marks of paint, several colors but nail polish remover was here for that ^^
I love Fairytopia dolls, I'm so happy I can complete my collection step by step
I just need her skirt now
Somebody knows how I can repair her wings? Because her system is still working and the glitters are still in them too but water dried so it can't work anymore, any tips on how I can put water back in it ?
Finally, photographer Allan Tannenbaum is releasing a new book of photographs: New York in the 70s, that will transport you back to NYC as it was in the '70s. Sex, drugs, street gangs, disco divas, politicians, homeless, celebrities, musicians, hookers, and literally every other thing (and person) that went down during the decade are amongst the images included. It's nearly impossible to narrow down just a few from the book, but consider this a preview (minus all the sex club, disco orgy, x-rated shots). The book is out April 2nd, and the preface is written by Yoko Ono, with a foreword by P.J. O’Rourke.
New York in the 70s is a personal collection of photographs documenting an exciting chapter in New York's history-and a remarkable body of work produced by photographer Allan Tannenbaum while he was a photo editor of the SoHo Weekly News in Manhattan. The photographs encompass many aspects of New York life while capturing the heady exuberance of the era-from SoHo and the art world to the city's politics and society. By photographing everything from street gangs to disco divas, from homeless to Hollywood stars, Tannenbaum had assembled a personal diary of his journey as a photojournalist and raconteur through a strange and exotic era of New York life.
Allan Tannenbaum covered New York City for the SoHo Weekly News in the 1970s and early 1980s. He is an award-winning photojournalist, with work published in such major international magazines as Time, Life, Newsweek, Paris Match, and Stern. His photographs have also appeared in numerous books and exhibitions, including Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan. He lives in New York City.
"Tannenbaum's photographs of the 1970s are as wildly entertaining and energetic as that wonderful and bizarre decade itself. The form and important visual history of a moment when American culture changed forever." -David Schonauer, Editor-in-Chief, American Photo
" A valuable, lasting remembrance of things past."-Ron Rosenbaum
All photos by and © Allen Tannenbaum
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
New Chess and illustration dresses are now on my ETSY.
Made my own drawing and stamped with fabric ink.
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Finally ate here after years of passing the restaurant on the cable cars. Excellent restaurant, but I was too full to try their "little pancakes" for dessert.
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 :)
Finally being worked on...first started about a year and a half ago, and only just being close to being in service again...
Lots left to do though! The red stripe on the upper deck will be brough all the way round (ran out of masking tape!).
Having been told this market did not exist, I set out to find it, convinced it did exist. My friend Moo the Taxi driver set off to Rangsit on Saturday 12th June 2010. Around 09.00 am we finally found it. Mueang Rangsit floating market is on the Rangsit riverbank Klong 1, Rangsit - Nakhon Nayok road, Thanya Buri district. It is only 1 kilometre away from Future Park Rangsit department store.
The floating market consists of 11 rafts. Raft 1-2 host an exhibition about the history and lifestyle of the communities on Rangsit Prayoonsak canal. On Raft 3, there are sales booths of OTOP products, such as coconut oil and herbal wax. Raft 4 – 10 have a large array of foods and drinks for sale, especially the renowned Mueang Rangsit boat noodles. Lastly, Raft 11 is where visitors can enjoy Thai massage services by a well-trained group of housewives from Mueang Rangsit municipality.
The landmark of Mueang Rangsit floating market: after crossing over the bridge, visitors will find the market’s fair-sized parking space and a number of cars lining up the roadside. At the parking space, there is a massive arch entrance to the floating market. Since it is the most recognizable structure, visitors constantly take pictures with the arch to remind themselves of their trip. There are several choices of food you can try, including boat noodles, Pad Thai noodles, mussels pancake, papaya spicy salad, fried rice with crab meat, as well as a distinct menu like steak.
We made friends with a couple that owned one of the eating places, husband and wife Kea and Than. We had four different dishes of Thai food, along with beer and water all for 200 Baht ( about £4.30 at the exchange rate then.)
What was noticeable was the cleanliness of the boats and food area’s. The canal was also a beautiful backdrop and was also much cleaner than most other rivers or canals that other Floating Markets reside on.
This Market was truly a great place where many Thai owners had pride in, they were so friendly it made a great start to the day. This is a market everyone should try, to sample the Thai way of life, good Thai food and hospitality from a set of people proud of there Floating Market.
You could after visiting this market spend some time at Dream World nearby and then end up shopping at Future Park, about ten minutes drive away - a great day out in Rangsit. Mueang Rangsit floating market opens daily from 10:00 – 17:00. To get there, catch air-conditioning bus No. 538 and 559, regular bus No. 188, TCL bus Prachin Buri-Ramgsit - Ongkarak.
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.