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Fooling around with the Instagram app on my Android phone. I'm in the final weeks of my job, squeezed out as a result of an acquisition by a much larger company and am now training others to do my work. They assume they can accomplish the job much cheaper at their HQ site. So far I've trained approximately 12 different people on different aspects of my position, with more to go....
I have this sign in my day planner: "This is Your Life. Do What you Love and do it often. If you don't like something change it. If you don't like your job, quit." So that's what I'm doing ! just 16 days to go.... Then I will take some time off to define what my encore role will be.
My third piece from my Fool Me series. There's been a lot about the child molesting priests in the Irish news recently. This sums up my thoughts on the matter. If you view it large you can see that the wafer has a certain symbol on it.
PCA184 – Low Key
Sunday, November 20 - Sunday, December 4, 2011
Image Tag: pca184
We tried this 96 assignments ago. Let's give it another shot.
The assignment is to photograph any subject using low key lighting style. Low Key photography is dominated by black, and highlights are used to paint in the detail. Its more than just an underexposed photo, and its more than just a black background. Low Key should have some amount of pure white or at least highlights in it, and usually does not have a lot of middle-gray. Some research on the web will quickly show that there is a wider than expected definition to low key so some studying may be in order.
WIT:
A shamelessly sentimental photograph of me fooling around with my wife.
The setup was similar to last week except the light was above us and slightly behind. I was inspired to do this by a film poster that I saw coming out of the cinema tonight. It took me a while to figure out how the light was positioned to light both the actor and actresses faces - Anne pointed out that it must be above and behind them because the actress was looking back and up at the actor.
It is quite tough to get the focus right when you are also in the shot. I used my little 50mm f1.8 prime lens (best value for money ever!) and set the aperture at f7.1 and experimented with exposure till I got the right shot.
I would have liked to have had more light in the eyes but a reflector brought in too much light and spoiled the low key effect for me.
I did some tweaking in photoshop to remove stray hands and trouser legs that seemed to add confusion to the shot - it isn't obvious that I am sitting behind Anne (who is kneeling) so it was a little confusing to see a knee sticking out there.
We had fun on April Fool's. No coffee?! That's a cruel joke
And special thanks to SleepyNeko for using the CC license! We used her photo and love it! Thanks SleepyNeko!
Pranked the kids at dinner. Instead of fruit punch I put Jello in their cups. It was hilarious watching them trying to suck the juice out.
Why the Fool? Because this was the very last shot I took with my demo Carl Zeiss 2/50 - and I was a fool for trying, now that I HAVE to buy it. ;) But this is a pure SOOC - no crop, no color adjustment, no nada! I took this for my Lenscrack group ( www.flickr.com/groups/lenscrack/ ) - in which this month's assignment is SOOC. Nikon D700 + Carl Zeiss 50mm The journey is the reward. Please, no group invitations or badges.
April Fool's joke from fdsflickertoys
1. edward, 2. leashed, 3. these eyes, 4. saturday..., 5. paws, 6. weary edward, 7. open wide, 8. burrowing owl,
9. fantasia beauty, 10. my son, 11. sunrise, 12. latino cultural center, 13. clyde, doing his morning duty, 14. brown stretching, 15. sleepy paws, 16. ipod vending machine?,
17. cheers to friends, 18. a little privacy...please, 19. if a peacock is albino-ish..., 20. chewing bamboo, 21. cuckoo lunch, 22. making a sauce, 23. gateway arch, 24. mutual gazing,
25. i feel special, 26. Manolo Blahnik sketches, 27. living room..., 28. juxtaposition, 29. beautiful bonnie, 30. headshot, 31. cropped, 32. the other side,
33. gorilla, 34. need some help, 35. Trans-Island Skyway 1 of 6, 36. think that's a wig?, 37. latino cultural center, 38. don't want to be here, 39. suspended animation, 40. i know, it wouldn't hurt me to smile,
41. harpy eagle profile, 42. dinner tonight 1 of 4, 43. looking a bit higher up, 44. now for something completely different, 45. my mal shot, 46. my beautiful daughter, 47. toad in the hole..., 48. cheers to the group,
49. bridge over the charles, 50. expressive, 51. stuff in my cam bag..., 52. eww gross dad!, 53. our suite, 54. on the lookout, 55. gecko, 56. bonnie and clyde,
57. just a test..., 58. evan, our youngest..., 59. tory, the project coordinator, 60. deciding what to do..., 61. one the cops missed, 62. our first view, 63. on the way home, 64. heffalump,
65. maybe they're just lonely, 66. there were some clues, 67. looking west from the east drive on tahoe, 68. scruffiness, 69. found framed photo, 70. santa fe, 71. six flags, 72. the big ticket guys
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“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.” - Mark Twain
For Macro Monday: Fools Gold
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pyrite
A mass of intergrown, striated pyrite crystals
General
Category Sulfide mineral
Chemical formula iron disulfide (FeS2)
Identification
Color Pale brass yellow, dull gold
Crystal habit Cubic, faces may be striated, but also frequently octahedral and pyritohedron. Often inter-grown, massive, radiated, granular, globular and stalactitic.
Crystal system Isometric; bar 3 2/m
Twinning Penetration twinning
Cleavage Poor
Fracture Very uneven, sometimes conchoidal
Mohs Scale hardness 6–6.8
Luster Metallic, glistening
Refractive index Opaque
Streak Greenish-black to brownish-black; smells of sulfur
Specific gravity 4.95–5.10
Fusibility 2.5–3 to a magnetic globule
Solubility insoluble in water
The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, is an iron sulfide with the formula FeS2. This mineral's metallic luster and pale-to-normal, brass-yellow hue have earned it the nickname fool's gold due to its resemblance to gold. Pyrite is the most common of the sulfide minerals. The name pyrite is derived from the Greek πυρίτης (puritēs), “of fire” or "in fire”, from πύρ (pur), “fire”. This name is likely due to the sparks that result when pyrite is struck against steel or flint. This property made pyrite popular for use in early firearms such as the wheellock.
The Light Art installation (A13) by Vertical Submarine (Singapore) for the i Light Marina Bay Festival 2014 at The Promontory @ Marina Bay.
The setting sun from Belstone Common, North Dartmoor on the 1st April (Fool's Day).
Best viewed on black.
A-board sign outside a bar in Columbia, Missouri that says "I'm not saying you'd be a fool to pass up a beer, but..."
World Premiere of the motion picture Fools' Parade at the Court Theatre, June 17, 1971.
- From the Thomas Burns Fools' Parade Collection of the Ohio County Public Library Archives.
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