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Well it seemed like it, back in the late 80,s on the Centurion Rally, car 5 an MG Metro 6R4, im thinking car 5 Esso sponsorship, it might be Ken Wood
But Probably Bill Barton, thanks "Chunder"
I did this picture for a flat share contest. We didn't really know what to do and we only had a few hours to do those pictures. We first did some shots in the flat. And then decided to place a couch in the field next to the building. It was pretty fun to see the neighbours watching us and asking them self "what the hell are these guys doing a monday night walking around with a couch in the field!?" ahaha
strobe: SB-700 full power, 35mm, through softbox (from gadget infinty), right of the camera and a YN462 left. Triggered with 3 cactus V5.
Nikon D7000, 35mm
Alviso Flat lies just a hundred yards north of the Alviso Marina County Park. Situated just west of the 1880 South Coast Pacific railroad grade, the flat is a widening of the ditch flanking the rail track. I have no idea why the ditch widens here but it makes an interesting and photographic landscape feature. The area fills with a few inches of water during our winter rainy season and tends to dry out in the summer. This has been an exceptionally dry winter so I was a bit surprised to find water in the flat during this January visit. Perhaps it is due to the adjacent salt ponds, which were relatively full, or a connection to the New Chicago Marsh on the other side of the track. This marsh is running with much higher water levels since the Salt Pond A16 construction project.
As you walk along the levee past Alviso Flat you can see the vague remnants of a few marsh channels. These are much more evident from the air as is the color du jour of the flat’s shallow water (in this case light brown).
Fellow KAPper Dave Wheeler, who was visiting from Maryland, accompanied me on this outing. You can see Dave’s white Rokakku kite in several of the images.
I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife. Kite flying is prohibited over the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve without a Special Use Permit, as is access to this part of the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge.
If you are near my age, you will remember the old flat top hair cut, now worn by sports luminaries like Howie Long. Sony nex5n and Micro Nikkor 55/3.5, hand held, rocking focus. I am really liking this old lens.
www.ravelry.com/projects/EdwardRad/basic-flat-sock-pattern
2/2/09
I am still trying to get into this type of sock. Normally, I wouldn’t knit my socks flat because I love just going round and round in stockinette but I really wanted to try a bunch of different types of socks with this year long project. So, I’m knitting socks flat and them seaming them. The pattern itself is written well, I’m just not a fan of the back-and-forth stockinette (I would much rather be using my little 9” sock-circs).
Laura does do a really good job of explaining the hows and whys of this type of sock which is really nice. (Like why you need to cast-on more stitches for a sock knit flat than you would for a sock knit in the round.)
I love the way that they are looking!! I’m wondering, though, if this colorway is supposed to be a self-striping yarn because of the striping/pooling that I’m getting. I’ll have to ask Rita to find out for sure. Either way, though, I love this colorway for this month.
2/9/09
My socks have been moving right along. (Honestly, quite a bit quicker than I intended, I’m currently about 3 days ahead of schedule on them.) They’re the most handy take-along project that I have, so it’s hard not to always have them with me at my knit groups and my parents’ house. The striping on these is turning-out very nicely so I’m glad that Michelle convinced me to keep working on them. When I thought that it might be a self-striping yarn, I almost switched to a more random colorway. Rita assured me, though, that this colorway was never intended to be self-striping and that I just lucked-out. I’m so happy with how they’re looking, I just hope that they fit.
2/10/09
I finished sewing the seams on my first February Sock tonight at B&N. Knitting socks flat is really a leap of faith. When you’re knitting them in the round (whether toe-up or top-down) you can at least try them on as you go. By just knitting them flat, you really have no clue as to whether they will actually fit you or not until that last seam is in. I tried mine on as soon as I got home and all I can say is this:
Love.
This sock actually turned-out quite a bit better than my January Socks did. I managed to make my heel flap correctly. (I realized as I was starting the heel flap on this sock that I did the ones on my January Socks wrong. You do not, in fact, slip every-other stitch on each row, only on the right-side rows.) The pieces of the foot lined-up nicely as I was seaming them. I adore the way the stripes worked-out and, basically, these socks are going to be on my most-worn list.