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I miss so much the Eds Diner at Leiceister Square. It used to have the proper feeling of a diner all teh staff knew Ed and I there. Now the one just off Piccadilly Circus is large and inpersonal. Now we dont go as often as we used too.
If you ever go, do try the "Love shake" best shake ever.
I haven't been able to stop playing Jason and Jeanine's contemporary routine from So You Think You Can Dance all day. It was choreographed brilliantly by Travis Wall to "If It Kills Me" by Jason Mraz, which is now on repeat on my iPod. Ashley and I refer to this routine as "sex". All I felt like doing when I got home today was stripping down and laying in bed (and of course watching this dance one more time). I suppose now I should go do the dishes...
I thought that the church at Upleathem was in need of a re-visit, I took a set a while back when I was greener than the grass that surrounds the church ! I learnt a little since then, and armed with a new cam also, decided it was time to go do it a bit of justice. Now I am not claiming to be a good photographer, just a better one that I was a year or so ago. Any hoo here are a few efforts, only one of them I'm not 100% about .... but then we never realy are .. thanks for looking ....
Vic
:-)
I have been doing a LOT of thinking. That usually leads to trouble. I am thinking that I could have done better. I am thinking that I can still do better.
Message from the Universe:
“Once you truly decide that you are done living in a way that is not best for your soul, you will be able to be done. You’ve got to get to that day when you wake up and say…TODAY IS THE DAY THAT I AM DONE LIVING THIS WAY. That’s the hardest part…the deciding. Once you decide, you take one step after another toward where you want to be, and then you get there. Today is a great day to decide.
Even if you don’t want to…go do the things that you know are the right things. Do the hard things, do the boring things, do the uncomfortable things. Do the things that make you sweat and make your muscles ache. Do the things that cause you to give up something good for something better. Not very many worthwhile things just show up on our doorstep without us doing our part. The more you do those things, the easier it becomes to do them….and it leads to a really great life. Do your part. Show up. Do the things that are the right things.
Only you can decide, dear soul…no one can do it for you. The deciding is the most important part, and then sticking with that decision. You are not powerless! Today is a great day to decide.
You are meant for so much more than living on auto-pilot.”
I’m trying. I have been trying to listen to what people tell me. I have been trying to do the right things. I have been trying to do the hard things. Sometimes I still just want to throw my hands up and say.... “I QUIT, I can’t do this.” But I haven’t (yet). I’m trying, and it’s hard. God knows I’m sweating (as in DRIPPING!). I don’t want to be on auto-pilot anymore. I am thankful for the people that are there for me... every day. And I am thankful for those people that don’t even have a clue that something that they have said or something that they have done has meant so much to me. So...thanks....
And the photo .... an old one from Scranton Lace... on the outside, looking in (where I don’t want to be anymore!). I think I can do better. I have learned so much. I hope it’s not too late!
I recently went through some slide holders filled with slides I deemed unworthy of keeping. I've since decided otherwise since they are all images of trains that can no longer be photographed. I had taken a couple telephoto pics of this train along the river from this vantage point. I swung around and got the NYSW 3002 through the trees at the grade crossing with an Eastbound D&H freight in Cameron, NY on April 19, 1986. If I had stayed on the bridge instead of standing on the river bank I could of had a better image, but you can't go do this again.
Shot Rock, Easington
A location I've not been to in over two years, Shot Rock in Easington (County Durham) is a small rock stack located at the bottom of an interesting cliff path.
Heading out with no real plan or ideas of what we'd get - all we were concerned with was some colour and a bit of cloud. Whatever happened would be.
A beautiful location but possibly at risk of collapse as there appears to be a significant amount of cracking around the base of the right side of the stack. It'll be a sad day when this stack collapses...
[While I upload photos from 2020, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]
In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.
Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.
There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.
One of the sights I most anticipated visiting was the ruins of the Mediæval castle of Rocca Calascio, the highest castle in all of the Apennines at 1,460 meters of altitude.
A single watch tower existed here in the 900s, then the fortress was built during the 1200s.
It is of course well known for having figured prominently in movies such as Ladyhawke (1984), The Name of the Rose (1990) and The American (2010).
It was as spectacular as it promised to be, and being there almost at sunset made the visit an unforgettable moment.
A strange octagonal church, dedicated to Santa Maria della Pietà, was built in the late 1500s on the mountaintop road to the castle.
Panorama made up of two handheld exposures, stitched together in PTGui.
Hola,queridos amigos...os echaba de menos,pero no sé cuanto tiempo estaré aquí...
Es tan placentero volver
Que siempre me estoy yendo.
No intentes comprenderme,
Ni yo misma me entiendo.
(M.D. Ferrer)
Hello, dear friends ... I missed, but do not know how long I'll be here ...
It is so pleasant to return
I'm always going.
Do not try to understand me,
I my self understand me.
Por favor no utilice de ningún modo mis imágenes sin obtener mi autorización.
Todos los derechos reservados
Please don't use any of my images on websites, blogs or other
media witthout my explicit permission . All rights reserved
My husband took off work and we were going to go do something today, but the weather didn't allow for that. So we went to Selinsgrove to do some shopping and out to lunch at our favorite pub.
Anyone, driving through Central PA that likes microbrews- this is a MUST to check out!
i took a picture of these flowers
in the middle of a busy parking lot
and a busy street
and dodged some bees
while listening to my ipod
i'm a total bad ass
admit it
omgggg it's friday
go do something fun
i'm going shit here and eat some chips
:D
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KL1995 from Amsterdam (EHAM/AMS) taxiing to gate at Kraków Balice Airport ( EPKK/KRK).
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Choć Kraków przywitał mnie wczorajszym wieczorem burzowo⛈, dziś po południu było już nieco lepiej 😉.
Wracając ze szpitala do centrum postanowiłem odwiedzić Port lotniczy Kraków-Balice i dołączyć go do swojego coraz dłuższego portfolio. Może i nie trafił się szczyt przylotów ale kilka samolotów złapałem. Na dzień dobry wylądowała maszyna 🇳🇱KLM Royal Dutch Airlines o znakach PH-EZF z Amsterdamu wykonująca rotację KL1995.
Co ciekawe załoga kończyła swój dzień pracy właśnie tutaj, nowa odleciała do stolicy Holandii i dalej do Hamburga, gdzie samolot będzie nocował.
KLM wykonuje 21 rotacji tygodniowo na trasie Kraków-Amsterdam, nocując jedną ze swoich maszyn każdego dnia tygodnia.
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✈️Aircraft type: Embraer 190-200STD,
🔡Registration: PH-EZF
▶️Owner/User: 🇳🇱 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
📍Location: EPKK / KRK John Paul II International Airport Kraków–Balice
📅Date: 02.08.2021
🙋♂️Photographer: Paweł Wędrychowicz
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I've got a few thoughts kicking through my head this evening but I am going to try to keep it tied down to just one or two. And that one for tonight is recognition... or fame... or acclaim, or whathaveyou.
I admit that I have often struggled with the recognition that my photography earns me. In one way I have the opposite challenge of many, where they struggle when they don't get enough recognition I often struggle with the notion that nearly any recognition is too much attention. It seems a weird thing, I know. I have often wondered on it. I think it comes from a couple of reasons. The first is that recognition isn't my goal. It is not what I am after when I put my images in front of an audience, so when that is what I get in return it feels inappropriate somehow. Don't take this the wrong way. I do appreciate the giving of recognition. I honestly appreciate someone caring enough to pass on a compliment or to offer praise, I realize where that is coming from and I think that is a good thing. But I guess I put my work out there in the world not to earn that or collect it. It is kind of like if random passerby on the street stopped an offered you money. Sure, its cool, but it would also kind of make you feel weird.
So why put my work out in front of an audience then, if not for that recognition? I think I like doing it because I like the community of photographers, and what we are collectively capable of, and I want to do my part in making that collective bigger and better. I like putting my work out there, with my written thoughts, because I know it is capable of inspiring or motivating or enlightening, and that the ripples caused by those things will lead to the making of brilliant photos by others. I like enabling and encouraging and watching those I know grow and succeed and reach new heights. That is a cool thing.
But here is where a sort of weird stream of thought might start to sound even more strange. In a certain way, the recognition for the pictures is hard for me to comprehend because to a large degree I don't care about the pictures I make. I do, a little. But not a lot. And here is what I mean by that.
Draw a line representing a spectrum... or a journey. At one end, the beginning, there is you sitting at home with the cameras tucked away. Photography is not near at hand and it is just an abstract idea of something to go do. As you move along this line you progress from that beginning point to being out looking, to finding, to creating, to returning home, to developing the film and seeing the negs for the first time, to scanning them, to printing them, maybe to publishing them at the very opposite end of that line. Now, different photographers will put there emphasis point at different spots on this line. I know some who would place it at the publication spot. Everything they do is toward the goal of having the work published or displayed in a gallery or similar. Some would place there point of emphasis at the print stage. They make the prints and they are happy. I know some whose point would even fall far to the left, much closer to the beginning. What they love is the planning, even if the execution never fully materializes. My point is somewhere between the looking and the creation. That is the peak of my hill, so to speak. My best moment of photography is that gray zone between searching and finding. The farther away from that spot I move, the less excited I am. I have noticed this about myself for a while now. I love seeing my negs developed and while I enjoy seeing the initial proof prints or scans quite a bit, it is not quite as exciting as the first glimpse of developed film. I am moderate good about getting my choice images scanned, but I wouldn't say it excites me. I'll do a somewhat decent job of editing, but my interest is really waning at this point. I only print when I am showing and I only show once a year or two and then only when the opportunity comes and finds me. I have sometimes remarked that I am a photographer who just happens to make pictures. Or that my favorite part is the process versus the results. All this I think is circling this notion that the most important part for me is somewhere well before a physical artifact ever gets made and is even earlier than the creation of the image itself.
I would trade ten of these images for one evening on this beach.
What spurred these thoughts? Well, my mind is often tumbling something around regarding my photography. I like to think about it. Not as a problem to be solved, I don't ever want to fix it, it might only make it worse. ;-) But I do enjoy the mental engagement, so I ponder when I can. But more specifically I was listening to an interview between two photographers I know: Blue Mitchell and Ray Bidegain. It is always a good thing to take in outside art, or to mingle with peers or listen to them talk about their process. Both Ray and Blue have a particular trait in common: they are both amazing creators of physical, tangible pieces of photographic art. I admire the work they both create. During the interview they got to talking about the importance of the physical piece. Blue especially was recounting his time as a reviewer and how often photographers will hand him a tablet or iPad upon which to browse their work and he wants to tell them to go make a physical print, even a small one, instead. I agree with both of them on this point. The physical print is important, and I admire those that make them, Susan Burnstine also comes to mind in this regard. But hearing them talk about this made me realize the contrast between them and where I stand with my photography. I'm not after that physical print, it isn't my goal. And that in turn got me to wondering just what that goal is. That is kind of what I attempted to lay out here in this semi-rambling.
If I was going to offer a moral to this story, and caution to any who would be brave enough to accept such from this writing, it would be to realize that it is ok for you to choose any point on that spectrum/line/journey/process as what is most important to you, but let it be your choice and not a choice you are adopting from the beliefs of those around you. If the images are important to you, great. If it is making prints, great. If it is publication, great. If it is sketching and daydreaming ideas to turn into photos, great. If it is collecting the gear that you swear you will use... someday, great. There is no wrong answer here for you other than any answer that is not your own, but rather adopted from somewhere else. That is all I think I have for tonight. I'm sure you'll hear more from me soon enough.
Innova 6x9 pinhole
Kodak Ektar
If the love knocks on your door that finds it always open, never close it, invite it to pass ... Open it, do not let it go, do not leave it, do not lose it, you do not know when it will call again ...
I had four days off for Fall Break from my studies at school, so I decided to make the drive home. While visiting family and friends was on my list, I also had a couple things I wanted to get done on the photography side of things. Nate and I were discussing taking Friday to go do some goobing, and M&M was put on the table. This little terminal railroad operation by the ELS is always a priority of mine, with their rare and ecclectic roster of switch engines, and a kickass crew, it can't be beat. So, I shot Ryan a message and we were on our way to M&M.
We shot most of their shift, only dipping out for a little bit to shoot A450 coming across this same bridge. With a fat Leslie RS3L screaming, this M-2 pair leads the southbound A450 through Marinette towards Green Bay.
It started out with my oldest liking the KCS, and I used the merger talks to go do KCS with them in early April. That turned out to be 3 trips in a month to the KCS. The last one with Guss the past weekend that with crazy dumb luck got us a trip planned the week the business train ran. As with any Guss trips, we covered it all! By the time we were done, we would see MP 7 to MP 671 on the KCS! MP 671 is only 119 miles from the Gulf of Mexico on the KCS Beaumont Sub!!!!! Seriously, it was a great trip, and lots of good stuff came from all my trips! I can not thank enough my 2 drivers, my wife, and all the people who helped me along the way. I really appreciate it....thank you!!!!! It was also to meet a few names along the way too.
One of the spots I wanted to get was the tall Spiro Bridge on the KCS Heavener Sub over the Arkansas River. Luck would have it the last day the OCS ran early, and traffic was busy at day break. Here, a 2nd KC to Shreveport freight rumbles across the bridge. Birds were in full flight around the bridge as the train heads towards Heavener with a nice 4-pack and 99 cars.
KCS was merged into the CPKC on April 14, 2023.
25.12.2023
Węgierska wizytacja w Ostrowie Wielkopolskim.
Ciekawy kolorystycznie i oznaczeniowo "Gagarin" po naprawie przeprowadzonej w Daugavpils na Łotwie stoi na bazie przewoźnika SKPL Cargo. Gagarin po okresie świątecznym został przetransportowany przez spółkę na granicę, gdzie potem przejął go inny przewoźnik i przewiózł go do odbiorcy, spółki VHID.
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Hungarian visitation in Ostrów Wielkopolski.
Interesting diesel machine after revision repair made in Daugavpils stay at SKPL Cargo depot. "Gagarin" after Christmas time has been transported to polish border, where another operator take them to VHID company, which is an owner of this locomotive.
well paddling..if you wanna get technical.
last night I decided I would wake up at 5:30 to go do hair flips while balancing on a slippery canoe...SO worth it:)
Be part of this Great Celebration. GO, DO IT!
Passed by here yesterday afternoon and was attracted by this installation. Those fencing make the surroundings look ugly. Was told they will remove them soon.
Where does youth go? Does it want to flee or feel it needs to? What if we allow just the tiniest morsel of our inner child to remain present? At best why not permit a more current and accounted for version?
This thought attracts my attention. It couldn't hurt anything. Be it an uncensored giggle, better yet a laugh-out-loud, or a round of dress up with kiddos, yourself, or friends? And why not consider pulling off your shoes and walking barefoot outside? How long since you left shoes behind and felt bare flesh upon the Earth?
I am thinking back to the timeouts of childhood. Perhaps there's more to those snippets of stillness than I once thought. Maybe a few quiet moments of considering our actions is something we can permit to be present from our childhood. Recognizing the beauty of the day at hand, honoring the less obvious, and allowing our bodies to merely breath in and breath out are benefits of timeouts, as well.
In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.
Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.
There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.
In Ravenna, there is obviously a lot to see in terms of Romanesque churches, but not a lot to show in acceptable quality photographs, as TRIPODS ARE PROHIBITED EVERYWHERE AS “PROFESSIONAL ACCESSORIES”.
Yes, that is as asinine as can be, and it means no photography indoors, where there is not enough light...
The pièce de résistance in Ravenna is of course the world-renowned basilica of San Vitale, built very quickly in flat little Roman-like bricks between 526 and 547, at about the same time as both Sant’ Apollinare basilicas we saw yesterday. From an architectural viewpoint, the many large windows are very unusual for a pre-Romanesque building. The weakening they introduce in the structure are compensated by the enormous flying buttresses, and of course brick walls and vaults are lighter than stone ones, thereby lessening the thrust applied to the walls.
The mosaics inside are obviously magnificent and known all over the world. However, it is impossible to photograph them properly because of tripod prohibition.
San Vitale is also a UNESCO site, obviously.
One of the massive flying buttresses that support the walls by counteracting the outward thrust caused by the weight of the vaults.
🌸I really appreciate all of your lovely comments and favs, Thank you sooooo much! :))))
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maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Winter%20Moon/63/100/22
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJuhthRJ0yE&list=RDVtOdSAxCuf...
Artist : Chancellor, Taeyeon
Do you know, do you know
I'm still the same
Even if time passes and your appearance changes
I will love you
You don't even know my heart (you don't know)
I try to be patient
But sometimes I think of small things
I can't sleep
So what
What happened to my baby
When I opened my eyes, I was always by my side
Now I have to close my eyes to see you
You are my angel
Sometimes Something Special
So I can fall asleep today
Don’t run away tonight
Don't try to run away
Even in a dream, so I won't miss you (I won't let go)
I know I know
I know but pretend I don't know
Even if no, if we meet again
I will love you again
Maybe you don't know me yet (you don't know)
The whole world is you
If you can hear my heart like this far away
It would be great
Girl please
Say that you love me baby
When I opened my eyes, I was always by my side
Now I have to close my eyes to see you
You are my angel
Sometimes Something Special
So I can fall asleep today
Don’t run away tonight
Don't try to run away
Even in a dream, so I won't miss you (I won't let go)
Do you know that
The saddest words in the world
I was almost there
I was able to achieve
Even now, the self-talk that bothers me
Come back to me
To your place
So I can fall asleep today
I need you babe tonight
Don't say it's a dream
So I won't miss you in front of me again
You are my angel
Sometimes Something Special
So I can fall asleep today
Don’t run away tonight
Don't try to run away
I won't miss you even in my dreams
I won't miss
Happy New Year!
Thank you my dear friends for providing so much love and joy! I wish for you all a loving, peaceful joyous rocking year! Much love to you all <3333
Cannon Beach, Or
One of my favorite places on earth!
Explore #26
"Crap. Crap! CRAP!"
"I know. We did what we could."
"I should've had his back! But all I could focus on was the loot. My greed got the best of me, and now it's cost us the life of a teammate."
"Don't beat yourself up. Nobody could've known the Mutts would attack so suddenly."
"But-"
"Just get some rest. I'm gonna go do another scout around the camp."
"But, I just got back from doing just that."
"You can never be too careful. Especially since we just lost one member of our crew."
"Whatever, waste your time then."
walks off grumbling
"I'll be back in about an hour."
"Be careful."
"Aren't i always?"
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Hope y'all liked that! I want originally gonna make a story for it, but decide to just got the fun of it. I really like the moc. I modded that broken down alleyway that I've had built, and used the steps of my tardis to make it look like a broken down building. What do you guys think? Which fig is your favorite? TELL ME IN THE COMMENTS!!! Stay frosty, bros and broditas!
-FANTXTIK
For once, this was spotted by the wife while we were driving through a Welsh Village...l just had to go back and get a snap of it despite holding up all the traffic on the main road...l think l should have "Gone directly to Jail." for that.
16/365
explore #93 86
i apologize for last night, weird mood
i stayed up til 1 doing homework because i literally had nothing better to do, if you wanted a sense of how amazing my social life is
ANYWHO. i got a new shirt today. it's from T bar who's shirts are normally $60 each but i got this for $5 :)
I CANT STOP LISTENING TO THIS. (play count so far: 26 and counting...its on repeat)
We grow from our roots,
We reach majestic heights,
Now all we have to do is face the Sun and embrace who we are.
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by me. ahaha. I made it in less than 30 seconds :D. and I think it sounds pretty neat :D.
Happy Thursday to all!
Afterwords, I gotta go do homework. Goal is to get at least 4.5+ GPA this semester
Seen during our walking in Rogoznica :)
Bluecrown passionflower (Passiflora caerulea) is a species of flowering plant native to South America (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil). It is a vigorous, deciduous or semi-evergreen tendril vine growing to 10 m (33 ft) or more. The ovoid orange fruit, growing to 6 cm (2 in), is edible but bland. Bluecrown passionflower is widely cultivated as a wall-climber or as groundcover. In milder temperate areas it can be grown outside, and can become invasive, the twining shoots constantly appearing unless eradicated. Though the fruit is edible, it is rather insipid when eaten raw. It can substitute for blackberries. A tea can be made of the flower which is said to alleviate stress and anxiety. The flower of the passion fruit is the national flower of Paraguay. The intricate structure of the flower has generated Christian symbolism, each part representing a different part of the Passion of Christ.
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Kwiat męczennicy pstryknięty podczas spaceru po uliczkach Rogoznicy :)
Męczennica błękitna (Passiflora caerulea), zwana również męczennicą – gatunek pnącza należącego do rodziny męczennicowatych. Pochodzi z lasów Brazylii i Argentyny. Jest często uprawiana w cieplejszych krajach. Również w Polsce jest uprawiana w mieszkaniach i szklarniach jako roślina ozdobna. Jest najważniejszym gatunkiem męczennicy uprawianym w mieszkaniach. Owocem jest dość duża, soczysta jagoda. Łacińska nazwa tej rośliny oznacza "kwiat męki pańskiej". Misjonarze, którzy dotarli do krajów Ameryki Południowej, doszukali się w ich budowie symboli męki Jezusa Chrystusa: 5 płatków i 5 działek kielicha to dziesięciu apostołów, 5 pręcików to pięć ran, 3 znamiona słupka to trzy gwoździe którymi przybito go do krzyża, przykoronek to korona cierniowa. Kwitnie przez całe lato, ale pojedynczy kwiat kwitnie tylko 24 h.
[While I upload photos from 2020, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]
In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.
Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.
There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.
Santa Maria di Cartignano is a ruined Romanesque church, built in the 1000s near the village of Bussi sul Tirino in the Abruzzo province. It just sits there by the roadside, open and unsignaled, and it was really by chance that we happened to drive by on our way to somewhere else. We had to stop right away, and even though access to the church itself is not possible, I managed to bring back a couple of photos.
You will appreciate the thickness of the walls, the fine work on the small, early Romanesque rose in the western façade, and the lovely sculptures and engravings on the bandes lombardes adorning the apse...
This is my first attempt of making a custom minifig ,Hope you like it .
This minifigs are made from Lego parts plus pla-plate ,AB putty and white putty , and the weapons being from original lego .The begining for the whole progress with cut out some pla-plate scribed panel lines, added few pla-plates, drilled some holes and Sanding was the most difficult part for the whole progress.
I've also found that after sanding for a while,My hands lose their sensitivity to the surface for those small pieces so I take a break and go do something else. Must be the vibration of the sanders.....at the end I really enjoy how all those putty parts slowly turn into a single entity.
After a week of sickness and being stuck at home, I made a mental health day out with the boys to go do something to burn off some of the uncertainty with the days ahead. We decided to go towards the Marquette area just to see some trains and get Mom some quiet time. Things worked out better than expected when the sun came out today. This Portland to Chicago Q-train rumbles along the Mississippi River on this beautiful Sunday morning. Hard to believe this...but couple old timers lead this expedited traffic along the Aurora Sub. Seems most of the SD70MACs and some of the Dash 9s are heading into storage as traffic levels drop with all the health concerns around the world. So these consists won't be the most common in the days ahead.
i was thinkingg, and maybe ill start my 365 up again this summer. where i left offf. who knows. its a possibility!
i just cant wait for schoool to get out. i have like five or six weeks lefttt.
$0 3xc!t!ng.
now i must go do an outline. gross.
A quick peice done in Nanjing the other day. I was out there to see a friend recovering from a surgery in a hospital and at the same time I took 2 hours off to go do a quick piece with Joints and Chose. Wasn't really focused on painting so I'm not to happy about this one. I added a connection from the D to the bottom of the Z and it looks like it's part of the E unfortunently. Didn't really realise till the end, makes the E look kindof awkward. Also the background green is too close to the fill green althought it was several tones darker on the ring. Would've looked much better had it contrasted more.
Anyhow, my buddy is all good now so no worries on that side. A big up to Chose and Joints for taking me out painting.
[po polsku, dłużej i nieco refleksyjnie, poniżej]
ST43-345 with a freight train (tank wagons) after passing the Wisłoczanka passenger stop and yet before reaching the station in Boguchwała. Another from "Subcarpathian detours" series.. August 15, 2011.
Forgive me not translating my long impressions from Polish (below), they are related to my friend I took this photo with and who died from COVID-19 in 2021.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
Kompletnie nie pamiętam kiedy i gdzie go poznałem. Musiało to być chyba przed grudniem 2000 roku, bowiem, gdy peregrynowałem lokomotywownię na Odolanach w nocy, to mi towarzyszył... chyba. Albo jednak dopiero w 2001 roku się poznaliśmy, pewnie przy okazji jakiejś imprezy, ale jakiej? Tego momentu nie pamiętam. Z pewnością wpadł do mnie do Gdańska, gdy jeszcze tam mieszkałem, na długi weekend listopadowy owego 2001 roku, chociaż słaby to był weekend, ze świętem 11 listopada w niedzielę. W każdym razie pojeździliśmy nieco po północy kraju i pokazywałem mu moje zakątki, pogoniliśmy "lopka" na Ostbahnie, pokręciliśmy się po Węglówce, takie tam standardy północy. Wyznał mi chyba wtedy, że moje pierwsze fotki w sieci zainspirowały go do tego hobby. Ojej, urosłem, chociaż z tych moich pierwszych fotek i pierwszych internetowych stron to ja dumny nie jestem - było to technicznie i kompozycyjnie po prostu słabe. Sami wiecie, nie każda fotka, którą człowiek pstryknie, nadaje się do pokazywania urbi et orbi.
Ale on nie był byle kim, miał niezłe zacięcie, potrafił rozkminiać jakieś "motywy", kombinować, jak do jakiegoś w sumie banalnego ujęcia podejść tak, że nagle na nowo odkrywało się znane okolice. I był cholernie zawzięty, jak coś nie wyszło, to tylko złowieszcza cisza i nerwowe zagryzanie wargi zdradzało, że nie jest pogodzony z losem.
W sumie niewiele razem gdzieś wypadaliśmy. Pewnie wszystkich wspólnych wyjazdów było nie więcej, niż palców u obu rąk, a wypadów wyłącznie we dwójkę tylko dwa - ten pierwszy, gdy byłem gospodarzem terenów, oraz ten ostatni, gdy dłuższe zamknięcie na linii 96 między Stróżami i Tarnowem wymusiło objazdy linią Rzeszów - Jasło. Czyli, było nie było, ostatni wspólny wypad tylko we dwójkę miał miejsce w długi sierpniowy weekend już niemal dwanaście lat temu!
Wypad był całkiem udany, chociaż nie wszystko wyszło tak, jak miało i parę dłuższych momentów nerwowego milczenia zaliczyliśmy. Ale i poszukiwania różnych ciekawych miejsc, które już miałem tu okazję pokazać i pewnie jeszcze pokażę, sprawiały nam frajdę.
Ostatnim dniem wypadu był poniedziałek, 15 sierpnia. Jakoś ruch nie dopisywał, gdzieś w tyle głowy czuło się potrzebę powrotu do Warszawy, we znaki dawało się zmęczenie parudniowymi podchodami i ganianiem pociągów nie zawsze w do końca spokojny sposób (chociaż mimo czasem brawurowej jazdy, czułem się z nim, jako kierowcą, całkiem bezpiecznie). Chyba w okolicach południa złapaliśmy ten pociąg, ST43-345 z beczkami pomiędzy przystankiem Wisłoczanka i stacją w Boguchwale. A potem długo, długo nic i... zdecydowaliśmy się ostatecznie wrócić do domu. I tak to właśnie zdjęcie z 15 sierpnia 2011 roku było tym ostatnim wspólnie robionym.
Widywaliśmy się potem nie raz, ale o ile dobrze pamiętam, dłuższego wypadu nie było, z pewnością nie we dwójkę. Aż w ostatni czwartek (tekst pisałem w maju 2021 r.) kolega przesłał mi SMS "Jeżyk nie żyje"...
Żegnaj Mareczku, samych udanych zdjęć i świetnych motywów w Krainie Wiecznych Łowów (fotograficznych).
Fot. Jarek / Chester
[As announced yesterday, and as of today, I slow down my daily upload pace to 5 or 6 photos, having finally caught up with the times, which took me the better part of a year...]
In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.
Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.
There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.
In the city of Assisi, we will not dwell on the enormous and over-touristed basilical sanctuary dedicated to Saint Francis, but rather on older monuments, which I believe are of deeper significance, both architecturally and historically.
What is simply called today “the San Pietro church” is one of them. It was built as the church of a Benedictine abbey erected in the 900s, and the inside retains its original majestic and stark grandeur, very conducive to the intended elevation of the soul through meditation and prayer.
The façade was redone in the 13th century, and there are some added elements from the Gothic period, but overall, the church as we can see it today has traversed an entire millennium to reach us almost intact. It is a splendor to behold and a joy to visit.
I had to use the 24~70mm ƒ/4 zoom to take all those photos. I had left the tilt-shift lenses and tripod behind, for fear that someone would once more forbid me to use them!
The nave is living proof (or rather, “cast in stone proof”!) that “pointed arches” should not only be associated with the Gothic style, as they most often are. They were known to, and used by, architects and builders of the Romanesque period, even though the traditional barrel vault was preferred, in reference to the Roman model that was very much in favor during those centuries.
Here, in the San Pietro abbey church, they contribute to the elevation and slenderness of the nave. Also note that the church is roofed, and not vaulted throughout, thereby lessening the weight supported by the pillars.
Pink paeony petals. Yep :)
This is derived from exactly the same image as last week, but with a different endpoint. It treads a well-trodden path for me though in this case I used a different way of producing the symmetry.
Oh, and it’s for Sliders Sunday in case you hadn’t guessed :)
First I developed the image in Affinity Photo to a passable rendition of the flower (effectively a plainer version of last week’s).
The symmetry was achieved very simply: duplicated the layer and then flipped it horizontally and blended the upper copy with Darken. Merged the two layers and repeated the performance but flipping vertically. And there we go: four-way symmetry.
[At this stage it is already a fun image. If you want to have a go do feel free to download the original and have a play yourself: it doesn't take long and can do it in Photoshop or Affinity. I suggest you try changing the colours and contrast a bit and see what happens...]
Then the pretty bit. Into Topaz Studio using the Glow filter and starting with the Contrast Cables preset. Quite a lot of fun and tweaking from there, and looking at it I must have played with hue shifting too.
Finally back into Affinity with a dark vignette and a slight tweaking of the brightness and contrast. The usual frame method of merging what we have so far, expanding the canvas by 100 pixels, placing a white fill layer underneath the merged layer; then adding a shadow and a 1-pixel black outline using layer fx.
I’ll post a link to the in-camera original in the first comment so you can see how far we meandered...
I rather liked the stained glass window effect...
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)
This past Saturday after work, my friend Scott and I decided to go do some night shooting. Without going all the way downtown, which is sketchy at night at best, we decided to stick around home and not go too far. We ended up in old town St. Charles, which is horribly lit at night by the way. I've been trying to get in some night shooting practice before Photomagic gets here, just to stay sharp. This was a three shot bracket and one of the only shots out of the limited number I took that actually came out. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
B&W challenge Day 5
Challenged by Judy Head
Haven't found a person to challenge today and we have a hospital appointment with Eve's diabetic team - so please, if you fancy having a go, do volunteer. back later to see if anyone responds....
In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.
Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.
There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.
Just north of Ravenna, the small town of Comacchio stands on the most southern tip of the Venice lagoon. Although it is on the mainland, it features a couple of canals and does its very best to try and look a little like Venice, for obvious commercial reasons...
[While I upload photos from 2020, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]
In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.
Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.
There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.
The Gran Sasso and Campo Imperatore are highland moors and mountains in the Abruzzo region of Italy.
Plenty of opportunities there for the landscape photographer!
At the Coastal Maine Botanic Garden. I can walk on soft surfaces but not on hard so I LOVE the scooters! I want one so badly so I can go for walks again!
[While I upload photos from 2020, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]
In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.
Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.
There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.
An Abruzzo landscape.