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I came across this painting in a gallery in Bali. The Balinese dancers are getting ready to perform. Artist unknown. I just loved it. The painting was showing signs of wear, so I added the texture you see in CS5. This would make a nice desktop wallpaper.
I have a friend coming in to town in a couple days. I thought I'd stock up on some beer, and I bought 2 20 packs, thinking I'd take a pic to send to him. 40 beers sounds like a lot, but I couldn't get the pic to be as impressive as it should've been. Add some strobisty goodness, and it makes for a nice photo. Granted, I didn't get all 40.
P.S. The black above the bottles is sloppily painted in photoshop. The umbrella shot light everywhere.
Strobist: 580 EX through umbrella directly above camera. SB-600 fired into white sheet to light up all the bottles. Triggered with Cactus V4s.
im trying to get ready for the holidays...
really i am ....
it scares me .....
it comes and goes so fast.....
We left Queenstown to make our way to Milford Sounds. Stopped in Te Anau for morning tea and to buy some lunch for our day trip. We we will be staying at Te Anau for the night.
Arrived at Milford Sounds just in time for our boat trip on the 'Milford Sound Nature Cruise" on the 'Milford Marner': For More Info: www.realjourneys.co.nz/en/experiences/cruises/milford-sou...
Day five of our fast trip around the South Island with my friends from the UK. November 5, 2013 New Zealand.
Milford Sound (Māori: Piopiotahi) is a fjord in the south west of New Zealand's South Island, within Fiordland National Park, Piopiotahi (Milford Sound) Marine Reserve, and the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage site. It has been judged the world's top travel destination in an international survey (the 2008 Travelers' Choice Destinations Awards by TripAdvisor) and is acclaimed as New Zealand's most famous tourist destination. Rudyard Kipling had previously called it the eighth Wonder of the World.
Milford Sound is named after Milford Haven in Wales, while the Cleddau River which flows into the sound is also named for its Welsh namesake. The Māori named the sound Piopiotahi after the thrush-like piopio bird, now extinct. Piopiotahi means "a single piopio", harking back to the legend of Māui trying to win immortality for mankind - when Maui died in the attempt, a piopio was said to have flown here in mourning.
Milford Sound runs 15 kilometres inland from the Tasman Sea at Dale Point (also named after a location close to Milford Haven in Wales) - the mouth of the fiord - and is surrounded by sheer rock faces that rise 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) or more on either side. Among the peaks are The Elephant at 1,517 metres (4,977 ft), said to resemble an elephant's head, and The Lion, 1,302 metres (4,272 ft), in the shape of a crouching lion.
Milford Sound sports two permanent waterfalls all year round, Lady Bowen Falls and Stirling Falls. After heavy rain however, many hundreds of temporary waterfalls can be seen running down the steep sided rock faces that line the fiord. They are fed by rain water drenched moss and will last a few days at most once the rain stops.
With a mean annual rainfall of 6,813 mm (268 in) on 182 days a year, a high level even for the West Coast, Milford Sound is known as the wettest inhabited place in New Zealand and one of the wettest in the world. Rainfall can reach 250 mm (10 in) during a span of 24 hours. The rainfall creates dozens of temporary waterfalls (as well as a number of major, more permanent ones) cascading down the cliff faces, some reaching a thousand metres in length. Smaller falls from such heights may never reach the bottom of the sound, drifting away in the wind.
Accumulated rainwater can, at times, cause portions of the rain forest to lose their grip on the sheer cliff faces, resulting in tree avalanches into the sound. The regrowth of the rain forest after these avalanches can be seen in several locations along the sound.
Taken From and for More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford_Sound
Any one interested in following our trip around the South Island.. here is a map: <a href="http://www.wises.co.nz/l/lewis+pass/#c/-41.801671/172.516537/8/"
Bob had turned into a ghost, WE don't know what's going on here and also Scoop is getting spooked indeed! Can somebody in Sunflower Valley help us?! There's a ghost riding a JCB digger!
I somehow managed to not upload the cross-processed photos from my recent blog about my newly-acquired Fuji GA645i...
A school bus fan gets pictures of one of two identical buses in use at a church in Huntington WV. A guy at the garage said the buses were originally used by a school district in Indiana, and they had consecutive VIN numbers.
In Summer 2010 we headed for Staffordshire to collect three new buses. Seen at services on the way back to Brighton is former Stagecoach Cumberland Volvo B10M Alexander PS K777 DAO. Visible in the background is another former Stagecoach vehicle P162 TDW
A determined Beverley defence deals unceremoniously with a Siddal Academy opponent at the East Riding Leisure Centre, Flemingate, in the Premier Division of amateur rugby league's Yorkshire League. Unfortunately, the hosts were less convincing for much of the match, and went down 42-18 against the divisional leaders. Halifax-based Siddal had the points in the bag at half-time, when they found themselves 24-0 up. But Beverley gave as good as they got after the break, running in three tries, all converted.
Match statistics:
Admission: free. Programme: none. Attendance: 150. Scoring sequence: 0-6 (7mins); 0-12 (27mins); 0-18 (43mins); 0-24 (38mins); 0-30 (42mins); 6-30 (46mins); 6-36 (50mins); 12-36 (61mins); 12-42 (68mins); 18-42 (79mins).
Technician on the runway beside a line of Cobra helicopters
"טכנאית על הליין של מסוקי ה"צפע
Photography: Yonatan Zalk
צילום: יונתן זלק
SOO 4443 (with a lack of nose lettering) leads a late CP G35 up the hill east of Wood Dale on its way to Spaulding. With the SOO roster beginning to severely dwindle, it was nice to see some white in what's becoming a sea of red.
Cutlery for this evening's dinner!
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My good wife gifted me with a new golf bag and a new electric golf cart for my Christmas ... wasn't I lucky!! Anyway, getting my bag in order and obviously I have to put new balls in my golf bag!!
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