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Plaque given to head coaches by the league for their volunteer efforts. It will be a nice addition to my office at work.
YORK, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: during the Friendly match between i2i Albion and i2i Blue at Haxby Road on September 29th 2022 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Appleby)
YORK, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 26: during an i2i Soccer Academy Training Session at Haxby Road on September 26th 2022 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Appleby)
We are pleased to present a few of the actual concert programs performed world-wide by Michael Laucke
I was given three different types of Tasmanian poppy this year, they came with a note that reads, “The three Tazzys came from 3 sources, #1 was some people who snuck into the fields, stole seeds in Tasmania and sent them to us, #2 was from Merck pharmaceutical company in San Jose Costa Rica, one of the owners came to see the ranch, and his wife grows poppies as a hobby, he brought us these genetically modified seeds, and #3 some from another source.”
Taz #1
First and second sowing failed out right, nothing germinated from the first sowing and only three plants survived from the second, plants typical Taz characteristics.
SmartEdu Computer Education - First Year Anniversary Celebration - Gift Given to Mr.Sridhar to Performed on Stage Spot Request
For the first black-and-white film with my new camera Pentax 17 (see below for the details about the camera), I loaded a special film given to me as a gift by « Ateliers de Marinette », Lyon, France. The film was spooled for 30-exposures (60 expected for the Pentax 17 that a half-frame camera) and is a bulk Ilford PanF Plus expire in 2005. The film is however well conserved and it could shot for the original 50 ISO sensitivity.
The Pentax 17 was equipped with an Anti-UV 40.5mm Hoya HMC filter. For the camera transportation, I used a small camera bag ThinkTank « Mirrorless Mover 5 » that was well protecting the camera from possibly damaging vibrations when using my bicycles.
The expositions were automatically metered by the camera system using the « P » program modes with, or without, flash. For very bright scenes the exposition was corrected by +0.3 to +1EV to compensate the biais induced (and reversely -0.3 to 0.7 EV for very dark scenes to objects).
Confluence Saône-Rhône, April 14 2025
69002 Lyon
France.
After completion the film was processed according the Marinette advice in Adox Adonal developer at 1+25 dilution for 7min at 20°C.
Single-frame digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) fitted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm at approximate reproduction ratio of 1:2. The diffuse light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 14.2) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printer files with a frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the camera :
Since last Christmas, it was on display in the middle of « reusable » cheap camera’s in the window of my local photography store. But this camera is not cheap and sold at 10-times the price of those « reusable » film camera’s. The Pentax 17 is a novel film camera released by Pentax (a brand belonging to Ricoh Imaging, Japan) in June 2024.
The history of « Pentax » name is still something worth to mention. After the WWII, in Dresden (that was heavily destroyed by the bombing of Feb. 13-15, 1945), Germany, The Zeiss Ikon company could not produce anymore the legendary original Contax (a high-reputation professional range-finder 35mm released in 30’s) camera that was taken by Russia and transferred to Kiev, Ukraine, in the USSR. However the brand name Contax survived and the German engineers designed something completely new within several years : the Contax S (S for « Spiegel mirror reflex ») that integrated a pentaprism for a full redressed reflex viewer observation. Zeiss Ikon Dresden registered to new trademarks derived from the words « Pentaprism » and « Contax » that were « Pentax » and « Pentacon ». If Pentacon became the new name of the company in Dresden, the trademark Pentax was bought by Asahi Optical Company in Japan, and became a formidable industrial and commercial success. Asahi Pentax, then Pentax alone, produced amazing quality camera’s including the legendary « Spotmatic » (a 35mm SLR) and stunning medium-format camera’s heavily used by professional photographers. Many of these camera’s of the past century are still operative and appreciated by film photography enthusiast’s.
Production of film camera’s vanished progressively in the mid 2000’s, as digital camera’s became of better quality and finally of generalized appliances in photography. The Pentax 17 was introduced to the market in June 2024, it was a big surprise for all the film photography lovers. Seeing a newly engineered brand-new film camera was a sort of renaissance of the film photography today of a growing interest worldwide.
The camera is a « half-frame » format on the traditional double-perforated 35mm film giving 17x24mm photograms. This format was not as popular as to classical 24x36mm (full-frame) format of most of the 35mm camera’s. However famous and quality half-frame camera’s were produced in the past including, the long series of Olympus Pen for example. Then, the Pentax 17 immediately attracted the attention of experimented film photographers and camera collectors, probably more than the officially targeted customers of the younger generations. Less than a year after, the future of the Pentax 17 and the film photography project of Pentax is questioned today. The chef-engineer who conducted the project in Ricoh company recently left and the marketing of Pentax 17 is now a question.
This finally decided me to buy an exemplary from my local shop and to discover this strange machine. The camera is of course guaranteed, even with a there-year extension after the camera registration on the Pentax website. The whole ergonomic is clearly derived from classical past 35mm camera’s with a fully mechanical film advance and rewind, a collimated Albada viewer, no digital display at all, only levers, barrels, crank and wheels… However inside is a automatic electronic exposure system with flash, the focusing is manual but the electronic mechanism moves the whole optical group with a micro motor.
The lens is a Cooke triplet 1:3.5 f=25mm equivalent to a 37mm of a 24x36mm format. The Cooke triplet is a photographic lens designed and patented in 1893 by Dennis Taylor who was employed as chief engineer by T. Cooke & Sons of York. It was the first lens system that allowed the elimination of most of the optical distortion or aberration at the outer edge of the image. It likely for this reason that the lens is unscripted curiously « Traditional » on the front lens ring… It is known that a Cooke triplet lens could give surprisingly good results with only three separated optical elements. The Cooke Triplet is still widely used in inexpensive cameras, including variations using aspheric elements, particularly in cell-phone cameras. The Cooke triplet consists of three separated lenses positioned at the finite distance. It is often considered that the triplet is one of the most important discoveries in the field of photographic objectives
The lens receives 40.5mm diameter thread filters that I use for my Zorki / Leningrad lenses Jupiter-8 2/50mm, Jupiter-11 4/135mm and Jupiter-12 2.8/35mm. The metal shade hood Minolta D42KA could mounted on the filter but I have to check is there is vignette induced.
The camera size is close to the original dimensions of a thread-mount Leica (called also the original Barnack Leica) which are, in a way, a sort of « Gold » size in the 35mm camera’s. I compared with my Zorki 1D year 1954 that is a straight reproduction of the Leica Iic. The upper deck of Pentax 17 is designed very clearly as a classical 35mm and we even find the original logo of Asahi Optical Company. The rewind crank is also a revival of past design seen on old Pentax SLR as my year-1971 Spotmatic SP in this seres of pictures.
The Pentax 17 is very light (about 300g) compared to those old ancestors that weight easily the double or the triple. It is then an effortless camera to carry. The Pentax 17 fits in the small ThinkTank bag (called « Mirorless Mover 5 ») that I recently bought to safely carry a film back of my Hasselblad or my Bronica 6X6 camera’s. In this tiny bag, the camera is protected for the element and vibrations due to cycling for instance.
Reference
analoguewonderland.co.uk/blogs/film-photography-blog/pent...
Key features and specifications
* Half-frame image capture (17 x 24mm)
* 37mm (equiv.) FOV F3.5 lens
* Zone focusing system with 6 zones
* Circular leaf shutter (F3.5-16)
* Built-in flash (6m/20ft at ISO100)
* Optical tunnel viewfinder with frame lines
* Exposure from 1/350 sec to 4 sec (+ Bulb)
* Supports films from ISO 50 to ISO 3200
Specifically the lens has:
1. HD coating, which maintains high performance of the lens, by using this PENTAX multi-coating. This also enables high contrast and high definition right to the edges.
2. SP coating (Super Protect) which helps to repel water and oil from the lens.
The fact that the focusing on the Pentax 17 is electronic i.e. the lens only moves when you half-press the shutter gives me faith that autofocus was already considered in the R&D stage.
YORK, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: during the Friendly match between i2i Albion and i2i Blue at Haxby Road on September 29th 2022 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Appleby)
This window was given in memory of Mary Free, who died in 1920 ( aged 88). It is a top light of a window depicting the Nativity, in the church of St Mary & St Michael, Mistley with Manningtree. The current church is an amalgamation of St Mary, Mistley and St Michael, Manningtree after the latter church was condemned as unsafe and demolished in the 1960's. There have, in fact, been four different churches in this area, each on a different site but with a combined history stretching back to the 12th century. Two Robert Adam towers are all that remain of the 18th century Mistley church and this current church is a Victorian replacement on a different site but it has a welcoming and broad-minded congregation, which, although it belongs to the Church of England, share the space with Catholics who regularly celebrate Mass there twice a week. The stained glass, alas, all appears to be unsigned and dates can only be assessed from the dedications.
I've given thinkdrastic.net a new lick of paint, simply because I was so thoroughly bored of the old look. I'd like to do a complete redesign but I'm struggling to motivate myself to do such a thing at the moment.
Garry "G-Dog" Higgins gets his five minutes of web-fame - he's pictured in the header. I took the photos last july, up on Leckhampton Hill. Hallo Dave! You're my bike now!
Student veterans were given a pin commemorating their military service and their scholarship to the law during a ceremony at Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Florida on Tuesday, April 11, 2023.
Pictured Front row are (l-r) U.S. Army member, Brandon Labrie; Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Veterans and Servicemembers Law Clinic, Antony Kolenc; Associate Professor of Law and former U.S. Army member, Jennifer Jenkins; U.S. Navy member, Matthew Moser; U.S. Navy member, Jonathan Sperling; U.S. Army member, Nicholas Davis; and service member family, Jillian Reville.
Back row (l-r) Reed Larson Professor of Labor Law and former U.S. Navy member, John Raudabaugh; U.S. Army member, Max Pennington; U.S. Army member, Nathaniel Hitchcock; Professor of Law and U.S. Army member, Kevin Govern; U.S. Army member, Jacob Moore; and U.S. Air Force member, Brian Anderson.
Lisa Johnston | ljohnston@avemarialaw.edu | Twitter: @aeternusphoto
YORK, ENGLAND - JANUARY 17: during an i2i Soccer Academy Training Session at Haxby Road on January 17th 2023 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Appleby)
The original name given to this beautiful stately home built high on a hill overlooking the Otago Harbour was 'The Camp' (which is spelt out in mosaic tiles on the floor of the entrance foyer) but the people of Dunedin called it Larnach's Castle.
The house was built between 1871 and 1887 as the residence of William Larnach, a man of Scottish descent, who was born in 1833 in New South Wales, Australia. His banking career began in Melbourne then followed the gold rush to the Australian goldfields where he was manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Ararat. Gold was discovered in Otago, New Zealand, in the 1860's and Larnach was offered the position of manager of the Bank of Otago in Dunedin, which serviced the extensive goldfields.
His original house plan had two floors of open verandahs, typical of homes where he lived in Australia. Once he realised the weather in Dunedin was very cold (with snow sometimes), he imported many panes of glass from Venice and employed a team of glaziers to totally enclose the verandahs. Approximately 200 men spent three years building the shell of the Castle and then gifted European craftsmen spent 12 years embellishing the interior.
Extensive use of timber for floors, walls and also ceilings was used throughout the house. One man was contracted to do wood carving for 12 years. Even some of the ceilings have intricate wood carvings.
The ballroom was added in 1885 for the 21st birthday of his eldest daughter.
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quick and generous size but exxe
nice ambience in the lobby and may return again (they tolerate kids well)
This beautiful glass swan was given to me in the mid-1950s when I was about six years old. It has a white pearlized body with metalic gold wings, and its tail is of softly spun fiberglass. Back and forth it wobbles on legs made of springs, and a clip afixes it to tree branches. I have cherished it from the first moment I saw it.
Windsor Red Bull Air Race 2009
The Canadian Historical Aircraft Association has given the Red Bull Air Race people use of their Facilities, my son Volunteers with the Lancaster Restoration Group there and we had the opportunity for a up close and personal tour this past weekend.
Red Bull Site
redbullairrace.showare.ch/General/ShoWareFrontEndHome.aspx
Windsor Flying Club Web Cam
www.windsorflyingclub.com/webcam.html
The Camera is looking directly at the Red Bull Air Race Airport Control Tower
Canadian Historical Aircraft Association
Avro Lancaster FM212 Group
Given to my Great-Aunt by her Sunday School in 1899. Given to me to keep when I was Confirmed in 1962.
The Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA in 1892.
YORK, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 22: during a Friendly match between i2i Albion and Dunnington at Haxby Road on September 22nd 2022 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Appleby)
Diane was given the assignment to cover Huey Lewis and The News at the NYCB Theater in Westbury in Westbury, NY with opening act Jamie Kent. Click this link to see her photographs and read her review
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Grand Marnier - probably one of those bottles youâll have seen a hundred or a thousand times, in bars all over the world. Iâd never really given a second thought to it until I was given the chance to come and meet some of the people behind the brand a few months ago at Bistrot de Luxe on Baker Street (the first restaurant to have been opened by the 'Michelin Starredâ Galvin brothers).
Anyway, I was there for the launch of their Grand Marnier Cordon Rouge limited edition bottle, Le Café Parisien...
Grand Marnier has quite a history behind it. The recipe for Cordon Rouge (âred ribbonâ) dates back to around 1880, when an enterprising chap named Louis-Alexandra Marnier Lapostolle decided to combine Cognac brandy, distilled essence of bitter orange (Citrus Bigaradia), and sugar. Iâm not sure how many revisions the recipe took originally but he clearly got something right, as I donât think theyâve changed much (asides from the bottle designâ¦) since then. That said, they are now owned by Diageo (but is that a surprise?)
More about that bottle. The first limited edition bottle was released in 1927. They stopped for a while, before reviving the tradition in 2003 - releasing a bottle every year since then. This is the latest (and the thirteenth) - and they seem to be going for an Art Deco (or Art Nouvelle?) aesthetic with the red and gold pattern. I have been told that the inspiration for this one came from Parisian cafe scene of the early 1900s (hence the name). RRP is £18 for 50cl.
Early 1900s France has had a big effect on the food we eat and the cocktails we drink today. Around about then the Cosmopolitan was invented (which makes use of the orange flavours in Grand Marnier) - it was also when the legendary Auguste Escoffier was at his peak, a man with culinary talents that set a new standard for gastronomic excess. Asides from cocktails, some people use Grand Marnier in cooking - for example, the Crepes Suzette (origins disputed) which is essentially a crepe with a sauce of caramelised sugar, butter, citrus flavours and Grand Marnier as the topping. According to Wikipedia: "The most common way to make Crêpe Suzette is to pour liqueur (usually Grand Marnier) over a freshly-cooked crêpe with sugar and ignite it.â Hah!
From a brief afternoon photo shoot at Qingdao's Zhongshan Park.
Qingdao Zhongshan Park is, I think, one of the two biggest parks in the city (with adjacent Taipingshan Park). Zhongshan Park was built in 1901, originally called Xu Park (and then No. 1 Park). It was given its current name in 1929 to honor the late Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan to the Chinese). At 69 hectares, it is the largest comprehensive park in Qingdao. There are more than 300 varieties of ornamental trees (more than 100,000 trees in all). The park is famous for its cherry trees which blossom during April and May every year. (However, I saw very few in bloom in mid-April.) There is an annual cherry blossom festival at that time. The other annual festival is a lantern festival in August. Among the attractions in the park are the Wisteria Corridor, Peony Pavilion, Little West Lake, Sun Wen Lotus Pond, and various other landscapes of lakes, hills, ponds, and so on. There is also an amusement park – geared mostly towards children (a common sight in Chinese parks) – and a cableway which connects Zhongshan Park to the peak of Taipingshan Park and the TV Tower there.
I’ve lived in China for almost three years now; about two years in Shanghai and one year in Tianjin. Shandong province is the province that’s on the sea between the two cities. (From Shanghai to Tianjin by train is around 5 hours; by plane, 2 hours.) Qingdao, probably the most well-known city in Shandong, is a charming city, to say the least. In my opinion, it’s exceptionally photogenic – with very nice beaches, great architecture, good geography/topography, and terrific food.
Qingdao also happens to be known for the most famous of Chinese beers (Tsingtao), which is actually a company started by the Germans. (For what it’s worth, Chinese beers are quite watery and Tsingtao is somewhat like the Budweiser of Chinese beers. That being said, I’m happy to drink an ice cold Tsingtao on a hot summer day whereas I wouldn’t say the same thing about a Budweiser.
So what to make of Qingdao then? Before colonial powers swept in and started chopping up China piecemeal, Qingdao was basically a sleepy fishing village. During the Ming dynasty, a battery was built here. In 1898, the Germans seized control of Qingdao when two missionaries were killed. (Personally, it seems alarming to me that a country could lose a city because two foreigners happened to be killed – and China sure lost a lot that way during the 19th century. I guess that’s the downside to outmoded military technology; the Europeans and Americans basically plundered China…) At any rate, Qingdao was ceded to the Germans for 99 years, but that didn’t last long, thanks to World War I.
During the 15-20 years that the Germans did have control of the town, they managed to build a handful of churches (still standing) and missionaries, in addition to the aforementioned Qingdao brewery. Because of that, a lot of the European architecture has a heavy German influence and there are still a few random signs of German heritage around town.
From the Germans, Qingdao didn’t land directly with the Chinese. It spent 8 years under Japanese control (1914-1922) before being returned to the Kuomintang (aka General Chiang Kai-Shek’s clan). The Japanese took control once again in 1938 (as they swept through northeast China and across half the country) before losing it for the last time in 1945 at the end of World War II. Since then, it’s been in Chinese hands. (Brief history courtesy of Lonely Planet.)
Contemporary Qingdao certainly makes its way as a tourist destination – and it’s a fine one at that. The population (per my LP from 2011) lists it at 1.73 million. The city has a few areas that are quite appealing to tourists: the Old Town (the heart of the city) off the beach and just east of the railway station downtown, Badaguan (which means “eight passes”) is a hilly area with a lot of nice residential architecture to the east of the Old Town. Other than that, there are a lot of parks, a beer street, churches, and a 40 km. scenic walk (which, obviously, most people do not cover from end to end) along the shore which goes by all of the beaches in the area.
All in all, Qingdao is the type of town that, if you get the chance to visit, I think you would find yourself thinking it would be great to return again and again.