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As a photographer, your camera rarely gets you in the frame. So if someone uses it to practice and takes a great picture?
You keep and edit the damn photo.
...... and no I'm not going to take my clothes off.
These are the first pickings from the chilli plants in the greenhouse. They made it into one of my infamous beef curries.
And well tasty it was too......
The Canadian Pacific 2816 steam engine came through Pittsburg just before noon today. It was exciting to get the chance to see it and photograph it. The crowd that lined Michigan Street to get a glimpse as it roared through town added to the excitement. My wife took the video as I took the still shots.
It really was not all that long ago, in years anyway, that kids would cut grass and deliver newspapers for a few bucks, Now, at least in Missouri, we have have grown men cutting grass and delivering newspapers for a frigging living, Not that that thought has anything to do with this photo,
It looks like the fairground attractions didn't attract anyone!
Headed out to the Liverpool Festival last night. A small crowd so it was ideal for shooting. I tried a bunch of different shots. Shallow DoF, Fish eye and the obligatory pano. I must say I am most happy with the pano. It was fun and in the end, I got a couple of images that are pretty much what I was hoping for.
These images will go nicely in my Liverpool collection
This is the final slideshow of my work in Coney Island.
An idea about Coney from early morning till late night.
The music is by Sweet Soubrette, a friend and a great singer, who I have listen live in a NY East Side's pub during her show.
At the end of the show I asked her the permission to use her song for my work, because it perfectly fits with my mood about Coney Island.
This is the result...
Music:
Unlucky in Love by Sweet Soubrette
(c) Sweet Soubrette Songs (ASCAP) / (p) MH Records/Ellia Bisker
Used by Permission
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Un grazie a Mario e alla redazione di Idee in Bianco e Nero per lo spazio che mi hanno dato. Li' trovate una descrizione in italiano del lavoro. :-)
Roker is a tourist resort and affluent area of Sunderland, North East England, bounded on the south by the River Wear and Monkwearmouth, on the east by the North Sea, to the west by Fulwell and on the north by Seaburn. It is administered as part of the City of Sunderland and lies within historic County Durham.
The majority of the houses in Roker are terraced or semi-detached. Further west, to the part bordering Fulwell, are cul-de-sacs with semi-detached bungalows, these being owned mainly by members of Roker's sizeable elderly population. On Roker Terrace (Roker's main street) are exclusive apartments and hotels which overlook the seafront.
In addition to Seaburn seafront, the coast at Roker seafront plays host to Sunderland International Airshow, the biggest free airshow in Europe, which takes place each year, usually over the last weekend in July.
The story of Roker began in 1587, when the Abbs family were granted land on the north side of the River Wear on the condition that they provided six soldiers to defend the mouth of the river. Fast forward to 1840, when Roker Terrace was built upon the cliff tops, along with Monkwearmouth baths and Roker Park soon after. The pier and lower promenade were built six years later. In 1898 Roker Park Stadium was built and Roker became known worldwide for being home to Sunderland A.F.C. The stadium was used for ninety-nine years until 1997. In the early 20th century Roker became a hugely popular resort for locals and tourists alike, and in 1928 it was taken over by the Borough of Sunderland, along with Fulwell and Seaburn.
In 1995 Roker Park Conservation Area was declared
St Andrew's Church (1905–07) is recognised as one of the finest churches of the first half of the twentieth century and the masterpiece of Edward Schroeder Prior.
One well-known landmark of sorts in Roker is the Bungalow Cafe, which is an old-fashioned café in a tiny bungalow on the upper promenade. Also famous is the signpost next to the café, marked: "To Beach" (pointing towards the beach), "To Village" (pointing into Roker), "To Bungalow" (pointing to the cafe), and "To Germany" (pointing out to sea).
A museum is located in the Roker Watch House which was originally opened in 1906 as the headquarters of the Roker Volunteer Life Brigade. It is open every Sunday afternoon and on Bank Holiday Mondays.
Other nearby landmarks are the statue of Bede's cross on the cliff top near Roker Park and St Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth. The cross recognises the work of the Venerable Bede, who worked in the North-East all his life at the twin monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow. There is bid for the twin monasteries to gain World Heritage Site status.
From 1717 the newly formed River Wear Commission began to improve the harbour entrance at the mouth of the Wear. By 1750 a pair of breakwaters had been built (which survive in truncated form as the 'Old' North and South Piers).
By the beginning of the next century each had a lighthouse at its end. (The lighthouse which stands today in Roker Cliff Park originally stood on the Old South Pier; it was deactivated in 1903 and removed eighty years later.)
With the growth of Sunderland as a port, it was decided to improve the approach to the river by creating an outer harbour, protected by a new pair of new breakwaters curving out into the North Sea from the shore on each side. The new piers were the brainchild of Henry Hay Wake, who at the age of 25 had been appointed Chief Engineer to the River Wear Commission (in succession to Thomas Meik) in 1868. The foundation stone for the New North Pier (Roker Pier) was laid on 14 September 1885. Applauded at the time as a triumph of engineering, the 1,198 ft (365 m) pier is built of granite-faced concrete blocks, which were loaded onto wagons at River Weir Works by a Goliath crane and unloaded and placed at the end of the pier by a Titan crane.
The opposite 'New South Pier' was begun at around the same time but never fully completed due to the start of the First World War; the twin lighthouse planned for its end was never built.
The lighthouse at the pier head was completed in 1903. Its distinctive stripes are of naturally coloured red and white Aberdeen granite. When built it was said to be Britain's most powerful port lighthouse. Equipped with a third-order rotating catadioptric optic (consisting of a single-panel Fresnel lens backed by a prismatic mirror), it displayed a single flash every five seconds. The lighthouse had initially (like its predecessors) been lit by gas from the town mains, but the supply to the end of the pier was found to be intermittent so the gas light was soon replaced by a Chance Brothers incandescent petroleum vapour mantle lamp. This increased the effective intensity of the light from 40,000 to 150,000 candle power, to give it a range of 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi).
A fog siren was also provided, powered by compressed air from a pair of 7-horsepower gas engines located in the basement. It gave a two-second blast every twenty seconds in foggy weather from a sounder on the parapet, which was regulated by clockwork.
The light was semi-automated in 1936 when a new light system was installed by AGA. The main lamp was a 750-watt incandescent light bulb, with a gas mantle lamp (fed from the town supply) provided as a stand-by, activated by an automatic lamp changer; and a small electric motor automatically wound the clockwork which rotated the lens.
Full automation followed in 1972, when the old optic was replaced by two back-to-back arrays of six sealed beam units mounted on an AGA gearless rotating pedestal, to give the light an increased range of 23 nautical miles (43 km; 26 mi); a new fog horn was also provided at the same time. The system was supervised remotely from the Pilot House on the Old North Pier. Subsequent to its removal the 1903 optic was added to the maritime collection of Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery.
In 2007 the lighting system was again replaced with a dual-drive Pelangi PRL400 rotating pedestal and lamp.
Roker Pier Lighthouse still functions today. Both pier and lighthouse have undergone significant refurbishment in recent years. In 2012, as part of the restoration, a new flashing LED lamp array was installed, replacing the small Pelangi unit previously in use. In 2018, following a comprehensive six-year process of refurbishment, the lighthouse was opened to the public for the first time; regular guided tours now take place, with access provided by way of the tunnel which runs the length of the pier.
On the site of Sunderland AFC's former stadium is a small housing estate, its street names all being references to the football club (Clockstand Close, Goalmouth Close, Promotion Close, Midfield Drive etc.). The streets in between Roker Baths Road and Roker Avenue are all named after members of William Ewart Gladstone's cabinet (Gladstone, Hartington, Forster, Bright, Stansfield, and so on).
Our Daily Challenge - "Warm"
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Sometimes us "old people" are a bit too old-fashioned and rigid for my liking -- the lack of rigidity in children, and their willingness to let themselves be guided completely by curiosity and intuition is one of my favourite qualities to observe in them.
Rather than following a pesky and wildly inaccurate calendar (and trying to to apply a discreet December or June Summer Solstice to to one's location on a continuous grid of coordinates), children just know:
When they can sense the relief and increasingly happy aura around them, summer has begun. When they are free to do whatever they want, unimpeded by the weather or schedules, summer has begun. When some mysterious, uncontrollable force within them shoves them out the door and into the nearest freezing cold pool of water, THAT is when summer has begun.
They just know! They have no old-fashioned date systems, calculations based on axial tilts, or other technicalities to hold them back -- they let their intuition guide them, and it serves them well. I love it! :D
The Netherlands
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Song ''Undiscovered'' by J. Morrison
You think that I wanna run and hide
I'll keep it all locked up inside
I just want you to find me
I'm not lost, I'm not lost, Just undiscovered
And when we're alone we are the same as each other
You see the look that's on my face
You might think that I'm out of place
Im not lost, no no, just undiscovered
Here is a collage form my visit to Paradise In The Poconos. A young 22 year old girl's first multiple day dressing event! I arrived Thursday morning and stayed through Sunday afternoon. Four days if feminine bliss! I made many nice friends out of the group of about 100 girls. So liberating! I dressed immediately after arriving (top left) in a cute denim jumper dress and colorful blouse. I actually won the Miss Legs contest (middle pic) and came in 2nd in that year's Miss Poconos contest at the gala on Saturday night! I was floating on air! I even stayed dressed and drove home in feminine mode on Sunday evening! Woohoo !!!
I brought a summer dress especially.
I don't care how much it rained, I was determined to wear my new summer dress!
30 Songs in 30 Days
Jay Z - D.O.A. (Death of Auto-tune)
For me, this video and rap and what it stands for means everything about hip-hop. Jigga is the fucking man. There is no doubting it. With this track he is basically calling out all these motherfuckers who have cultivated the same old tired ass sound over the last few years...
"i know we're facin' a recession, but the music y'all makin' is gonna make it the great depression, uh, all your lack of aggression, pull your skirt back down and grow a set men"
...the auto-tune sound, yeah, you know it, the sound where they all sound like Peter Frampton on the vocoder shit...
"you rappers singin' too much, get back to rap, you T-Pain'n too much"
...which is the best line of them all, tellin' all of them to quit bitin' the style that T-Pain made a hit and get their own fuckin' shit.
Yeah, I like this album. And guess what...it's not out until tomorrow and I've been listening to it since a few days ago...yeah. I said it.
In other news, i just read that Apple updated their Ipod shuffles to include...guess? an FM radio???
WTF? They said people had been "begging" for it for years now. WTF? You people have all this fucking music available to you to download and buy, let alone many download illegally, yet you still want to listen to the motherfucking radio???
Wack.
I'm out.
Day 57
Beauty is all around you, you only need to find it.
THREE DAYS IN A ROW OH MY GOSH NO WAY I'M ON A ROLL! I took this today before work but I didn't have time to edit it until now.
I still haven't made my mind up. Either I really really hate it, or I think it's not awful, or I really like it. Hmm... Oh well! I'm proud that I actually executed some sort of a concept today! Yay for keeping promises! (to myself, lol).
It was in 2011, in south India, a few days after Christmas. Thane initially developed as a tropical disturbance, it rapidly became a Cyclonic Storm and then a "Very Severe Cyclonic storm. The information on television or meteo forecast mentioned winds around 50 km/h, but they were wrong, it went to 165 km/h !! 400 000 trees has fallen in Pondicherry.
The Thane cyclone was one of the most dangerous cyclones in indian history.
My choice for Flirty Friday. Best of all my wife loves it and has made no objection to me going out in it. Oh joy!
It was loaned to you by your children :-) Kenyan proverb
I got to spend some time with my son Michael when we drove together to the top of Mt Evans. Here he is enjoying the view as we took a break before approaching the summit.
Mount Evans is a 14,265 feet (4,348 m) mountain in the Front Range region of the Rocky Mountains, in Clear Creek County, Colorado. It is one of 54 fourteeners (mountains with peaks over 14,000 feet (4,300 m)) in Colorado, and the closest fourteener to Denver. It is often compared to Pikes Peak - another Front Range fourteener - which it exceeds in elevation by 154 ft (50 m).
The peak is one of the characteristic Front Range peaks, dominating the western skyline of the Great Plains along with Pikes Peak, Longs Peak, and nearby Mount Bierstadt. Mount Evans can be seen from over 100 miles away to the east, and many miles in other directions. Mount Evans dominates the Denver Metropolitan Area skyline and can be seen from points south of Castle Rock, up to (65 miles (105 km) south) and as far north as Fort Collins (95 miles (153 km) north), and points east of Strasburg (105 miles (169 km) east). In the early days of Colorado tourism, Mount Evans and Denver were often in competition with Pikes Peak and Colorado Springs
The Mount Evans Scenic Byway consists of Colorado State Highway 103 from Idaho Springs, Colorado on I-70 about 13 miles (21 km) to Echo Lake, and Colorado 5 from Echo Lake 15 miles (24 km), ending at a parking area and turnaround just below the summit. The latter has long been the highest paved road in North America and is only open in the summer
The folks from 3M (the Post It Notes people) contacted me through Flickr more than a year after my 2006 Post It Notes car photos had become a phenomenon.
Michelle Gebbie, eMarketing Supervisor from 3M Office Supplies Division, was seeking permission from me to use the Post It Note Car photos in marketing materials for a contest that the photos had inspired.
I responded, asking her where the photos would be used and what their budget was. She responded saying that they would be used for 6 months on in-store displays, and that they would not pay more than it would cost for them to copy our car and take their own photos. I respectfully asked for a little more than that and she stopped returning emails.
They really did do a good job copying it, didn't they? Even Walt thought it was his own car. Now I am getting tons of comments and notes from people saying "I saw your photo at Staples" (or OfficeMax, Office Depot, etc.). Look at their YouTube video. Clearly they wanted people to see it in the store and think it was the same car they'd seen before on Flickr and YouTube.
Was written up here and picked up lots of places.
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Model : Quynh Nhi
Makeup and costume by her own.
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Don't know this little guy but he was cuttin it up out there...
@Blithe's Going Away 80s Skate Party
Close examination on Portobello. I recognise the camera because I still have one. It's a Werra 1 with a fixed 50mm 2.8 Tessar. Lovely 35mm camera.
It's snowing again in Boston. Which reminded me of these quick "out the window" shots from a month ago. This snowstorm provided a nice coating almost a week before nearly two feet of snow dumped on Boston as part of "Winter Storm Fern" that hit a large portion of the U.S.
Street lights below illuminate the snow-coated branches. I prefer this color photo overall, but I like the slightly different perspective of this companion B&W shot. Btw, this is exceedingly similar to this photo from almost exactly two years prior. But that one was even better and made Explore, fwiw.
"our incomes are like our shoes, if too small, they gall and pinch us;
but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip."
- john locke
"it is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- author unknown
...so, i know i always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude... ^-^
chinatown, los angeles
2006 jan 7
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You can't even imagine the tricks my mind has been playing on me.
We're all so predictably irrational.
And now there's not much I can do, say or even think. So I'm just gonna let it burn until it turns into ashes, so it will be easier to clean.
With the gear down and sporting a couple of black and yellow tipped 'Red-Top' missiles, Royal Air Force English Electric Lightning F.3 XP696 performing a down and dirty pass at the International Air Tattoo held at RAF Greenham Common on the 6th July 1974.
Scanned Kodachrome 64 35mm Transparency taken with a Russian Zenith E fitted with a fixed length 200mm pre-set f5.6 Soligor lens
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