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Given the opportunity to choose between a 17-40mm L lens and a can of Heineken, what say you?
With hot weather coming up, my take will be the can of chilled green. :P
Premier Ford was given a tour of some of the new facilities at West Park Healthcare Centre.
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Le premier ministre Ford a visité certaines des nouvelles installations du Centre de soins de santé West Park.
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"Given Serra’s taste for the supersized, it’s only fitting that the work is big enough to walk through and even to create its own echo. It’s so big in fact that it had to be installed before the terminal walls and roof could be constructed. Consisting of four huge steel fins—each one delicately curved, torqued, and coated in black rust inhibitor—Tilted Spheres (2002-04) is 39 feet long by 14 feet high."
- By Christopher Hume in Metropolis Magazine, Posted May 15, 2006
Given today by my Grandad Bill a former WMTPTE-TWM Employee is a blueprint for general arrangement for panels and glass fittings for MCW boded Fleetline's
On any given month, a drink at 111 Minna will tease your senses with a delicious burn of the dark and quirky. However, if you want something smooth to swallow, try the alcohol. It's with a taste for the surreal, that Minna has presented art goers with a curatorial slant that calls to the twisted, the weird, and the eccentric. Naturally, being a fan of strange and unusual things, I like this. I even stick around for a shot of Vodka, if it's the weekend.
Read the rest here:
www.warholian.com/2012/09/14/lethal-injection/
Photos and story by Megan Wolfe for Warholian.
Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991).
East German leader Walter Ulbricht agitated and maneuvered to get the Soviet Union's permission to construct the Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop Eastern Bloc emigration and defection westward through the Soviet border system, preventing escape across the city sector border from communist East Berlin into West Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West. Soviet and American tanks briefly faced each other at the location during the Berlin Crisis of 1961.
After the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the reunification of Germany, the building at Checkpoint Charlie became a tourist attraction. It is now located in the Allied Museum in the Dahlem neighborhood of Berlin.
Google have just announced they’ll be giving BLM and the black community MILLIONS to help their business. As you can see, for years I've been adding images to Google maps and peoples business pages on Google, yet I haven't been given one single penny from Google.
So if Google can falsely claim its to help disadvantage people and instil fairness, then where is my money Google...
ONE PENNY PER VIEW IS ALL I`VE EVER ASKED FOR AND IF YOU CHECK THE DATES OF SCREEN CAPTURED “OFF GOOGLE MAPS” UPLOADS TO FLICKR. IT PROVES I`VE BEEN ASKING FOR A PENNY A VIEW OFF GOOGLE AND LONG BEFORE THE THUGS OF THE BLM TRASHED ANYONES BUSINESS INCLUDING 80% OF THEIR OWN BLACK COMMUNITIES PROPERTIES....
Again Google, I make no money from the images I’ve long been adding to Google maps as a Google users and right back to the days of Panarimo. Plus if your pathetic statement to pay money to of disadvantage business and black people in the community. Which is totally racist and discriminates against everyone else.
Well my nation Scotland has for well over 300 years been dictated to by London who dragged my country into world wars notof our making that resulted in the murder of my people, while raping our nations national resources to which communist chine to this day rapes our north sea gas fields. This while London’s unlawful contracts with the EU how impose laws and dumps NON & EU nations into Scotland who rape it blind…
While blacks and every foreign nation under the sun can come into my country and under UK laws, given the right to vote and even go into politics to maintain my enslavement ...
AGAIN DOOGLE WHERE IS MY MONEY WHEN YOU CAME TO HELP OUT THOSE DISADVANTAGED...
I average around 70 thousand views of my photos a month on your Google maps / Business to which I have been screen capturing to prove an argue my point. When I last checked on April 1st 2020, I had over 77 million views on my David Cameron paisley Photographer page, though now June 2020 when I check the stats page I see no stats !!!!!!
I also have a second page that has 53 million views which does show up...
So while I don't break the law, but instead I volunteer my time and photographic skill to help my community instead of rioting and demanding free stuff from you Google..
Though all I’ve ever asked for was a penny a view and not from you but from the EU, who kept fining you Google to the tune of billions, I felt I and the other user who contribute to maps where more owed than the EU I believed where treating you like a piggy bank when demanding outrageous fines.
But when you Google take it upon yourselves to pay rioters and a movement of thugs millons to promotes their disadvantage lives. Then you need to pay me for the work I’ve done for you in the for of a penny a view. More so if the black of the USA claim their ancestors have been slave of the US. Well not only have we scots been slaves longer than the US blacks. But one third of those who signed the US declaration of independence, came from of had ties to Paisley in Scotland and my home town…
If your paying hundreds of millions to black peoples business, then the hundreds of millions of views at a penny a view come to £1 million and if your claims of fairness are honourable then honour your claims …..
David Cameron paisley photographer = 77 million view
dddoc blogger = 53 million views
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YORK, ENGLAND - JANUARY 09: during an i2i Soccer Academy Training Session at Haxby Road on January 9th 2023 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Appleby)
May 4, 2014. Boston, MA.
THE 1ST ANNUAL UNIVERSITY EATING DISORDER AWARENESS WALK, WalkTowardRecovery at Boston University's Nickerson Field from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Emceed by Magic 1067's Candy O'Terry, the walkshed light on the often-ignored issues that college students face, such as poor body image, eating disorders and co-occurring depression.
Proceeds from this Walk l help fund scholarships for college students in need of eating disorder treatment. All donations will be given to the FREED Foundation, a non-profit organization that has been raising funds for treatment for over a decade.
© 2014 Marilyn Humphries
Given a brief, the brief was Nocturnal. This is what I can up with. Has all the "classic" elements, vampire bat, barn owl, full moon, bell tower...
Mixed media. Oil pastels, watercolour, coloured pencils and Indian ink.
I was given a sneek peek at dance rehearsals by QL2 Youth Dance Centre in Canberra. See the blog @ danielspellman.com/2013/07/hit-the-floor-together-dance-r...
We were given about 30 minutes to play with the puppies. Sled dog litters are named after a theme, and three puppies in this litter were named George, Charlotte and Louis after royal children.
We took the sled dog excursion offered by the cruise line for the opportunity to be pulled by the dogs (a dream ever since seeing a demonstration in Denali in 2004). Our musher's name was Josh, and he hoped to race in the Iditarod in three or four years.
The cart was non-motorized and weighed about 600 pounds empty. It carried me, Mom, a couple from Brisbane, Australia and Josh the musher. Sixteen dogs pulled us for about 20 minutes at about 10 miles an hour. It was exhilarating!
We were given the opportunity to hear Martin Boyce talk us through No Reflections and dicuss the re-positioning of the exhibition from the Venice Biennale 2010 to the DCA
Photograph by Janie Nicoll
Given to Churchill on his 80th birthday in 1954 by Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of West Germany. In his thank-you note, Churchill wrote, "I am high on your list of admirers as a statesman and a patriot." Adenauer led his country during its reconstruction after the war, shaping it into a Western democracy. The bowl is by Weyersberg of Düsseldorf.
De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth II G-ANEM (cn 82943) Previously EI-ANG privately owned P J Benest
De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth II G-AOBX (cn 83653) Built 1940 by Morris Motors originally allocated military serial T7187 before being civilianized in 1955 David Ross Flying Group
De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth II G-ANFM cn 83604 built by Morris Motors in 1941 and given military serial T5888 in 1953 it was sold off and acquired its current registration Reading Flying Group White Waltham
De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth II G-AHOO (cn 86149) privately owned J T and A D Milsom
At the Red Cross Centre in Ciudad Quesada, refugees are given clothes and food before proceeding to the transit centre.
Land given to Calvert 1868 for use as a park by the Houston & Texas Central Railroad.
Co. C, 4th Texas Inf. Regt., Hood's Texas Brigade, under Major Wm. Townsend, mustered nearby, 1865.
Was site during Reconstruction, 1868-1873, of "Sky Parlor" (room built on pole, as a tree house) to serve as prison for Southern sympathizers.
In 1895 and 1912, Hood's Texas Brigade Association entertained here. The Victorian pavilion and two gazebos were built 1895 for concerts, gatherings, and dancing.
The park was named in 1937 for landscaper, Mrs. Virginia Field. (1968) (Marker No. 10954)
The petition calls for the Welsh Government to withdraw support given for UK unmanned aircraft to be tested at Aberporth and to fly across Wales. The petition is being considered by the Petitions Committee, and the Committee have written to the First Minister, in the first instance, to seek his views on the issues raised by the petition.
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Mae'r ddeiseb yn galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i dynnu'n ôl cefnogaeth a roddir i brofi awyrennau di-griw'r DU yn ac i hedfan ar draws Cymru. Mae'r ddeiseb yn cael ei ystyried gan y Pwyllgor Deisebau, ac mae'r Pwyllgor wedi ysgrifennu at y Prif Weinidog, yn y lle cyntaf, yn ymofyn ei farn ar y materion a godwyd gan y ddeiseb.
Was given to me to get out of a mechanics shop. Blown head gasket (bad motor - HT4100). I replaced wheels with Cadillac Alloys & obtained engine but never put it in. Sits in barn.
Given an image, split it into blocls. For each block, note the histogram of each row and column. To decode, choose the most likely color at each point given the intersection of the row and column histograms.
Coded during a layover at JFK.
Kind of works, but there is an extra requirement of smoothness that should be satisfied for the decoding to look the best.
Same scene as www.flickr.com/photos/kylemcdonald/4392187221/ by Bethnal Green tube station.
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I was given a bike and asked to make something cool out of it for an art show. This is what I did. You can see it in person at the opening reception this Friday at 36 East Grand Ave in Downtown Chicago. Cool.
I've given my Luna the name Rhiannon for two reasons. 1) Fleetwood Mac. 2) I grew up with a girl named Rhiannon and still to this day (though I haven't seen her in many years) I still think of her has one of the most beautiful women the world has ever known. She not only had physical beauty, but a beautiful soul as well. She had all the traits I truly admire in a person. I don't think I ever saw anyone so true to themselves. Such a captivating beauty as Luna deserves the name Rhiannon.
Old Billingsgate Market is the name given to what is now a hospitality and events venue in the City of London, based in the Victorian building that was originally Billingsgate Fish Market, the world's largest fish market in the 19th century.
The first Billingsgate Market building was constructed on Lower Thames Street in 1850 by the builder John Jay, and the fish market was moved off the streets into its new riverside building. This was demolished in around 1873 and replaced by an arcaded market hall designed by City architect Horace Jones and built by John Mowlem & Co. in 1875, the building that still stands on the site today.[1]
In 1982, the fish market itself was relocated to a new site on the Isle of Dogs in east London. The 1875 building was then refurbished by architect Richard Rogers,
The Verona Arena (Arena di Verona) is a Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra in Verona, Italy, which is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there. It is one of the best preserved ancient structures of its kind. Amphitheatre .The building itself was built in AD 30 on a site which was then beyond the city walls. The ludi (shows and games) staged there were so famous that spectators came from many other places, often far away, to witness them. The amphitheatre could host more than 30,000 spectators in ancient times...The round façade of the building was originally composed of white and pink limestone from Valpolicella, but after a major earthquake in 1117, which almost completely destroyed the structure's outer ring, except for the so-called "ala", the stone was quarried for re-use in other buildings. Nevertheless it impressed medieval visitors to the city, one of whom considered it to have been a labyrinth, without ingress or egress. Ciriaco d'Ancona was filled with admiration for the way it had been built and Giovanni Antonio Panteo's civic panegyric De laudibus veronae, 1483, remarked that it struck the viewer as a construction that was more than human. Musical theatre .The first interventions to recover the arena's function as a theatre began during the Renaissance. Some operatic performances were later mounted in the building during the 1850s, owing to its outstanding acoustics...And in 1913, operatic performances in the arena commenced in earnest due to the zeal and initiative of the Italian opera tenor Giovanni Zenatello and the impresario Ottone Rovato. The first 20th-century operatic production at the arena, a staging of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida, took place on 10 August of that year, to mark the birth of Verdi 100 years before in 1813. Musical luminaries such as Puccini and Mascagni were in attendance. Since then, summer seasons of opera have been mounted continually at the
This was one of only two of these impressive butterflies seen on this trip and I spent a lot of time chasing it around hoping to get a photo. It settled on the ground quite often, but rarely for very long. In th end I am happy with the results I achieved given the scarceness and difficulty involved.
This was almost the only time that the butterfly settled on foliage rather than the ground, and this made this photo particularly special.
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).
Le Secret (white marble, René Béclu, 1913)
Jardin Botanique de Lyon, April 17, 2025
Parc de la Tête d'Or
69006 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.
Michigan State University Alumni Association, Grand Awards 2021, Copyright 2021 Michigan State University Board of Trustees and Alumni Association
I was given three homemade "my mom's a loser" shirts by a friend of the family, dave/roundboy. It's an inside joke that is a long, on-going feud, and with these shirts he has definitely one-upped me. I had to lighten this picture a lot, her hair isn't really this dark, and i believe it's getting lighter each day.
Given that I'm not a birdwatcher normally, I was fortunate to capture these images today when a family of wrens gathered around my yard.
They frolicked around these bushes and ate some small insects, before returning back to where they came from.
This appeared to be the father of the group.
Invocation:
Given by Rev. Michael W. Rzonca of St. Jerome's Parish, guest of Councilman Bobby Henon (6th District).
Presentations:
Councilman Kenyatta Johnson (2nd District) led a presentation congratulating the Philadelphia Eagles for their historic victory over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII
Councilwoman Cindy Bass (8th District) led a presentation honoring Brother Ron Armour, Trapeta Mayson, Keith Schenk, Michelle Kerr Spry, Pastor Alex Velazquez, Jr., and LeQuyen Vu for their significant contributions to advocacy & community service in Northwest Philadelphia.
Councilman Kenyatta Johnson led a presentation honoring the 20th Anniversary of Philadelphia International Airport's exhibitions program and recognizing the airport for its dedication to improving the passenger experience.
Photos: Jared Piper/PHLCouncil
given the amount of empty office space within a couple hundred yards of the central library area of birmingham city centre, what makes anybody think it's worth building yet more?
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)