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Don't let him get too close!
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This is an oldie but goodie...a video of an American Goldfinch/Pine Siskin pool party in our fountain. I am sad to report the fountain cracked over the winter :(
You will see a black screen for a few seconds before the video starts. A look at the entire fountain in comments.
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Day 339 [12-4-2016]
Getting better. So today I am feeling a little better. Still gross and stuffed up but I am recovering quickly. I had a nice lunch and walk with Paul around midday before dropping him off for family stuff and heading out with George. We took some photos and drove around as Scott met up with us later in the night and we took some long exposures. I did something today that I don't have a photo to show for but I feel is important to document. I stepped foot on a skateboard for the first time since the incident. It was nice. I still have my balance and it doesn't seem as scary to me as it did for that time during recovery. I want to get away from that fear that has been getting to me and I am working up to that. I know some people might find it stupid and I understand that. I just can't let myself be scared anymore. I don't want to lay in my bed at night not able to sleep because I am thinking about all of the hills that I have skated down. I need to overcome those new fears. That is what I am going to do.
I can't wait for what the next day brings!
The sky looks strange right? But it is a tele shot showing only the lower part of the sky and if you look at my previous upload you can see the yellow there.
I noticed this man sitting on the ice fishing and tried to get a shot of him. Well with 300 mm I could not get closer...
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Get Young - back from our shoot in october.
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Went by the airport this morning for some photos. While this isn't as exciting as a photo of a plane taking off this one is probably my favorite of the morning. The colors and the lighting here are what make it for me.
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Camera: D700
Lens: 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6
Time taken: 6:34AM
Exposure Bias: 0EV
Focal Length: 190mm
ISO: 200
Aperture: f/16
Shutter Speed: 8 seconds
Sheep River Falls and I have never been here. Thanks Al Love for a wonderful suprise and an exciting day of photography.
So, I got out today, got some sun... bad idea?
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Every time I walk through these doors it reminds me of the opening and closing title sequences to the TV show Get Smart starring Don Adams! He walks at a rapid clip throug a series of doors at the hidden secret head quarters. If you are old enough to remember at the close the doors don’t open and he runs into the doors. I’m afraid that the doors might not open for me as I walk through these doors. These doors are motion activated.
I’ve been wanting to take a city break in summer, rather than in the cold months for a while, so rather than heading for the Lake District for a week of toil on the fells when Jayne could get a week off, we took off from Liverpool for Paris. Flight times were nice and sociable but it meant we were on the M62 car park at a busy time in both directions – it’s a shambles! I’ve stopped over in Paris a dozen times – on my way to cycling in the Etape du Tour in the Alps or Pyrenees – and had a few nights out there. Come to think about it and we’ve spent the day on the Champs Elysees watching the final day of the Tour de France with Mark Cavendish winning. We hadn’t been for a holiday there though and it was a bit of a spur of the moment decision. Six nights gave us five and a half days to explore Paris on foot. I had a good selection of (heavy) kit with me, not wanting to make the usual mistake of leaving something behind and regretting it. In the end I carried the kit in my backpack – an ordinary rucksack – to keep the weight down, for 103 miles, all recorded on the cycling Garmin – and took 3500 photos. The little Garmin is light and will do about 15 hours, it expired towards the end of a couple of 16 hour days but I had the info I wanted by then. This also keeps the phone battery free for research and route finding – I managed to flatten that once though.
What can I say – Paris was fantastic! The weather varied from OK to fantastic, windy for a few days, the dreaded grey white dullness for a while but I couldn’t complain really. We were out around 8.30 in shorts and tee shirt, which I would swap for a vest when it warmed up, hitting 30 degrees at times, we stayed out until around midnight most nights. It was a pretty full on trip. The security at some destinations could have been a problem as there is a bag size limit to save room in the lifts etc. I found the French to be very pragmatic about it, a bag search was a cursory glance, accepting that I was lugging camera gear, not bombs around, and they weren’t going to stop a paying customer from passing because his bag was a bit over size.
We didn’t have a plan, as usual we made it up as we went along, a loose itinerary for the day would always end up changing owing to discoveries along the way. Many times we would visit something a few times, weighing the crowds and light etc. up and deciding to come back later. I waited patiently to go up the Eiffel Tower, we arrived on Tuesday and finally went up on Friday evening. It was a late decision but the weather was good, the light was good and importantly I reckoned that we would get a sunset. Previous evenings the sun had just slid behind distant westerly clouds without any golden glory. It was a good choice. We went up the steps at 7.30 pm, short queue and cheaper – and just to say that we had. The steps are at an easy angle and were nowhere near as bad as expected, even with the heavy pack. We stayed up there, on a mad and busy Friday night, until 11.30, the light changed a lot and once we had stayed a couple of hours we decided to wait for the lights to come on. This was a downside to travelling at this time of year, to do any night photography we had to stay out late as it was light until 10.30. The Eiffel Tower is incredible and very well run, they are quite efficient at moving people around it from level to level. It was still buzzing at midnight with thousands of people around. The sunset on Saturday was probably better but we spent the evening around the base of the Tower, watching the light change, people watching and soaking the party atmosphere up.
Some days our first destination was five miles away, this is a lot of road junctions in a city, the roads in Paris are wide so you generally have to wait for the green man to cross. This made progress steady but when you are on holiday it doesn’t matter too much. Needless to say we walked through some dodgy places, with graffiti on anything that stays still long enough. We were ultra-cautious with our belongings having heard the pickpocket horror stories. At every Café/bar stop the bags were clipped to the table leg out of sight and never left alone. I carried the camera in my hand all day and everywhere I went, I only popped it in my bag to eat. I would guess that there were easier people to rob than us, some people were openly careless with phones and wallets.
We didn’t enter the big attractions, it was too nice to be in a museum or church and quite a few have a photography ban. These bans make me laugh, they are totally ignored by many ( Japanese particularly) people. Having travelled around the world to see something, no one is going to stop them getting their selfies. Selfies? Everywhere people pointed their cameras at their own face, walking around videoing – their self! I do like to have a few photos of us for posterity but these people are self-obsessed.
Paris has obviously got a problem with homeless (mostly) migrants. Walk a distance along the River Seine and you will find tented villages, there is a powerful smell of urine in every corner, with the no alcohol restrictions ignored, empty cans and bottles stacked around the bins as evidence. There are families, woman living on mattresses with as many as four small children, on the main boulevards. They beg by day and at midnight they are all huddled asleep on the pavement. The men in the tents seem to be selling plastic Eiffel Tower models to the tourists or bottled water – even bottles of wine. Love locks and selfy sticks were also top sellers. There must be millions of locks fastened to railings around the city, mostly brass, so removing them will be self-funding as brass is £2.20 a kilo.
As for the sights we saw, well if it was on the map we tried to walk to it. We crossed the Periphique ring road to get to the outer reaches of Paris. La Defense – the financial area with dozens of modern office blocks – was impressive, and still expanding. The Bois de Boulogne park, with the horse racing track and the Louis Vuitton Centre was part of a 20 mile loop that day. Another day saw us in the north east. We had the dome of the Sacre Couer to ourselves, with thousands of tourists wandering below us oblivious of the entrance and ticket office under the church. Again the light was fantastic for us. We read that Pere Lachaise Cemetery or Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise was one of the most visited destinations, a five mile walk but we went. It is massive, you need a map, but for me one massive tomb is much the same as another, it does have highlights but we didn’t stay long. Fortunately we were now closer to the Canal St Martin which would lead us to Parc de la Villette. This was a Sunday and everywhere was both buzzing and chilled at the same time. Where ever we went people were sat watching the world go by, socializing and picnicking, soaking the sun up. As ever I wanted to go up on the roof of anything I could as I love taking cityscapes. Most of these were expensive compared with many places we’ve been to before but up we went. The Tour Montparnasse, a single tower block with 59 floors, 690 foot high and extremely fast lifts has incredible views although it was a touch hazy on our ascent. The Arc de Triomphe was just up the road from our hotel, we went up it within hours of arriving, well worth the visit.
At the time of writing I have no idea how many images will make the cut but it will be a lot. If I have ten subtly different shots of something, I find it hard to consign nine to the dark depths of my hard drive never to be seen again – and I’m not very good at ruthless selection – so if the photo is OK it will get uploaded. My view is that it’s my photostream, I like to be able to browse my own work at my leisure at a later date, it’s more or less free and stats tell me these images will get looked at. I’m not aiming for single stunning shots, more of a comprehensive overview of an interesting place, presented to the best of my current capabilities. I am my own biggest critic, another reason for looking at my older stuff is to critique it and look to improve on previous mistakes. I do get regular requests from both individuals and organisations to use images and I’m obliging unless someone is taking the piss. I’m not bothered about work being published (with my permission) but it is reassuringly nice to be asked. The manipulation of Flickr favourites and views through adding thousands of contacts doesn’t interest me and I do sometimes question the whole point of the Flickr exercise. I do like having access to my own back catalogue though and it gives family and friends the chance to read about the trip and view the photos at their leisure so for the time being I’m sticking with it. I do have over 15 million views at the moment which is a far cry from showing a few people an album, let’s face it, there’s an oversupply of images, many of them superb but all being devalued by the sheer quantity available.
Don’t think that it was all walking and photography, we had a great break and spent plenty of time in pavement bistros having a glass of wine and people watching. I can certainly understand why Paris is top of the travellers list of destinations
On Friday we chose an adventure in Chloe's favorite woods. We were going to Worship Central so we wanted to make sure we gave her some attention before leaving her at home all night. We didn't have loads of time so the walk was only 45 minutes. I don't think she was happy with this, because as soon as she spotted the car (about 10 feet away) she just plopped down in the middle of the road and would not get up! Silly pup!
Sep 9 2017 - A former colleague of mine getting a tattoo on his calve.. one more to add to his family
Get Out! Magazine, Third Annual Readers Choice Awards at Splash in NYC. May 05,2012
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Getting ready to be out and about in the warm sunshine!! Next Thursday, we are all off to Tenerife in the Canary Islands for a couple of weeks!
Five grandchildren, their mums and dads and my good wife and myself .... think I'll be out and about walking! Plenty adults to look after the little ones! 😉
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Grouplove - Everyone's Gonna Get High
escutando muito essa música ultimamente e ai isso ai aconteceu na hora do almoço.
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Friday night we recovered nearly 300 bottles and about 20ish jugs of expensive organic hippy juice from the vicious jaws of a dumpster. Each one of those costs three bucks retail. So yes, that’s a score worth well over a grand before we even hit up trader joes. All in my friend Oriens truck that runs on vegetable oil.
Marx defined the difference between production for consumption and production for exchange. Here it is.
My husband has recently taught the dog to 'get the cat'. So now all it takes is three words and the dog zones in on the cat and they chase each other around the house.
I seem to be getting the hang of this "footy photography from the stand" lark. Today's CIS Cup Final between Glasgow Rangers and Dundee United produced a number of shots I'm very happy with...particularly of the celebrations after Rangers won. :-)
For most of the match we were outplayed and Dundee United will (rightly) consider themselves unlucky. However...and I can't stress this enough...WE WON (albeit after a penalty shoot out)!
This is Kris Boyd scoring Rangers 2nd goal in extra time, to make the score 2-2. It came as quite a relief. :-)
Kris Boyd has a number of weaknesses in his game...BUT he certainly knows the route to goal. Woo-Hoo!