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The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
-----Julian of Norwich
62/365: surrounded by knowledge
Sneak peak from this mornings senior photo shoot on Denton Square with Carly. We made a stop at the Recycled Books store on the square and capture this moment I’ve titled ‘surrounded by knowledge.’ I had envisioned this capture in my mind and it turned out exactly as I had hoped. The books, bookshelves and floor create leading lines directly to the focus point.
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Today, I finally get to try the Fujinon XF50-140mm for the first time in the Fuji Photo Walk Event. The greatest outcome of this event was to interact with different Fujifilm photographers.
The event took place at the Trout Lake Park. I think around 20-30 people showed up. As I arrived I quickly tried the XF10-24mm. It is a great lens and quite useful for landscape photography. I used it for 30 minutes and swapped to the XF50-140mm. It is definitely a heavy lens. My arm got a bit tired after an hour of shooting.
My initial impression is that the lens is excellent; it is very fast as it locks on to the subject without any problems. The images are pretty sharp (not as sharp as the XF90mm). I was about to keep away my distance between the subject so that he can "be" himself...and I got the shot I like today!
Location: Vancouver, BC (Trout Lake Park)
model: Philip Dupont
creative: Daniel T.
location: Cluj-Napoca
This is the last shot at that photo session.
After the outoors type, Danny had this idea ... see it LARGE
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2 elevated monolights (elinchrom 1200 watt total) one on each side of the model (1/2 power and 1/4 power) into softboxes triggered with Speedlite 430EX
As a child I always thought that to have an overachiever mother is a curse. Medical & pharmacy school. She memorized everything with flying colors. Her knowledge in every topic is almost encyclopedic. With fear every day I watched her tearing my notebooks apart every day till every letter written on the page was perfect. Over my elementary school career I probably rewrote hundreds of notebooks. My home always had stacks & I always knew why ... History chapters had to be memorized and recited. Poetry memorized. Education (in & out of school) is the most important possession one can have. It’s never a waste of time. At some points (younger days) I jeopardized my future. That’s one mistake I would never make again if could turn back time. Any knowledge acquired through out our life can be applied... you never know where. Everything is more connected than we think. Sometimes my mom mom says to me “what was the point of all that hard work in school if I got sick at 35”. I always reply back “there was because I’m very proud of you. And I don’t care that your education didn’t bring you monetary reward or status. The fact that you are my favorite & most interesting person to talk to is enough.” ♥️
A small glimpse of my mother's bookcase, well...one of my mother's bookcases. A lifetime of research and knowledge is found here.
Fujifilm Klasse W, Fuji Natura 1600.
On this hot day in Frankfurt, I met two plus two cheerful people, I could inspire for the Project "The Human Family". They did not stare at their smartphones, were relaxed and open to the project.
One of them was Jennifer, who I photographed first. Her story and her picture can be found here:
After the little photo shoot with Jennifer was completed, I asked Jennifer's friend, Matthias, to come in front of my camera. Relaxed we tried some settings. Matthias thoughts went to the shirt he wore. The text on the shirt does not quite fit into the idea of The Human Family project. It is remarkable that Matthias is concerned about it and show me what a reflected man Matthias is. The text also has no significance for Matthias, he was doing that night only a loose, casual, the heat matched, leisure look.
Matthias is 26 years old, comes from Alsbach (in the south of Frankfurt) and now lives in Frankfurt. Matthias is employed in an tax advisor office as a consultant. In the past Matthias had shown his portfolio on the Internet, with the result that his current employer approached him. Now he is on the staff. The time as a consultant is marked by the "on the job training" - that is, the switching and testing practical knowledge and skills. It is the professional preparation for tax advisors.
I asked Matthias what his biggest dream is. This is a beach bar in the Caribbean with a connected open-air gym, Matthias replied. When I asked Matthias about his hobbies, he answered: my girlfriend Jennifer, sports, socializing and meeting friends.
Matthias also likes to travel, this year is planned a trip to South America and next year to Asia.
How got you know Jennifer? We met in the internet. We were both logged on a Christian platform for young adults. I have Jennifer written. What followed from the mails is what now we have.
During our small interviews we sat (Matthias, Jennifer and I) on the steps of city hall. So I could ask Jennifer ,how she would describe Matthias: She was a little surprised by the question and could not say so specifically what it is exactly at the moment. "In any case, Matthias is a cheerful person, always laughing and attractive".
Meanwhile, I am in e-mail contact with Jennifer; the following characterization of Matthias Jennifer had send to me. With her permission I quote this little declaration of love. (When I read her mail and this passage, it conjured me a smile on the face.)
"Matthias is really the best cheerful, dearest, most selfless person I know. He's just the perfect complement of me. With many incredibly similarities, but also a few opposites that fit each other perfectly. In addition Matthias is a selfless nature. He would repeatedly backtrack himself, just to help other people. And he always smiles, everyone likes him because he has such a sympathic way. Matthias is very empathetic."
I can only agree with Jennifer. In our little photo session Matthias was beaming calm, friendliness and fun. In the "Couple Photo", which I made at the end of both, I could feel the warmth and love that exists between Jennifer and Matthias.
Jennifer wrote me that Matthias and Jennifer have otherwise "only" selfies or smartphone images from each other. These photos here are so exceptional. I hope that Matthias and Jennifer still can see the photos in 50 years and then say, “do you remember that time at Frankfurt Römerberg”!
Thanks for the time have you given me and the project. I wish you well. I hope your future professional goals will be reached. But especially I wish you a long common time together full of love and harmony.
This is my 28th post to the group "The Human Family". Visit "The Human Family" here and have a look on the photos of the other photographers:
www.flickr.com/groups/thehumanfamily/
Last but not least, Melanie will follow. I'm writing the text. So be patient.
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An diesem heißen Tag in Frankfurt traf ich zwei plus zwei gutgelaunte Menschen, die ich für das Project „The Human Family“ begeistern konnte. Sie starrten nicht auf ihr Smartphone, waren entspannt und offen für das Projekt.
Eine von Ihnen war Jennifer, die ich zuerst fotografierte.
Ihre Geschichte und ihr Foto findet ihr hier:
Nachdem das kleine Foto Shooting mit Jennifer abgeschlossen war, bat ich Jennifers Freund, Matthias, vor die Kamera. Locker und entspannt probierten wir einige Einstellungen aus. Gedanken machte sich Matthias zu dem T-Shirt, das er trug. Der Text auf dem Shirt passt nicht so ganz zu dem Gedanken, der hinter meinem Projekt steht. Ich finde es bemerkenswert, dass Matthias sich darüber Gedanken macht und zeigt mir welch ein reflektierter Mensch Matthias ist. Der Text hat auch keinerlei Aussagekraft für Matthias, es ging ihm an diesem Abend nur um einen lockeren, lässigen, der Hitze angepassten, Freizeit- Look
Matthias ist 26 Jahre alt, kommt aus Alsbach (südlich von Darmstadt) und lebt jetzt in Frankfurt. Matthias ist in einem Steuerberatungsbüro als Consultant beschäftigt (hoffentlich gibt es dafür eine englische Übersetzung). Seinerzeit stellte Matthias sein Portfolio ins Internet, mit dem Ergebnis, dass die sein jetziger Arbeitgeber auf ihn zugekommen ist. Jetzt ist er fest angestellt. Die Zeit als Consultant ist geprägt durch das „Training on the Job“ – also die Vermittlung und Erprobung praktischer Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten. Es ist die Berufsvorbereitung zum Steuerberater.
Ich fragte Matthias nach seinem Wunschtraum. Das ist eine Strandbar in der Karibik mit angeschlossenem Open-Air-Fitness-Studio, antwortete Matthias. Gefragt nach seinen Hobbies antwortete Matthias: meine Freundin Jennifer, Sport, Kontakte pflegen und sich mit Freunden treffen.
Matthias reist auch gerne, dieses Jahr ist eine Reise nach Südamerika geplant und nächstes Jahr nach Asien.
Wie hast Du Jennifer kennen gelernt? Wir haben uns über das Internet kennen gelernt. Wir waren beide auf einer christlichen Plattform angemeldet. Die ist für junge Erwachsene. Ich habe Jennifer angeschrieben und aus den Gesprächen folgte dann was wir jetzt haben.
Während unseres kleinen Interviews saßen wir (Matthias, Jennifer und ich) auf den Stufen zum Rathaus. So konnte ich Jennifer fragen, wie sie Matthias beschreiben würde: Sie war etwas überrascht von der Frage und konnte in dem Moment gar nicht so konkret sagen, was es genau ist. „Auf jeden Fall ist Matthias eine Frohnatur, immer lachend und attraktiv“.
Inzwischen stehe ich in E-Mail-Kontakt mit Jennifer; die nachfolgende Charakterisierung von Matthias hatte Jennifer mir per Mail zukommen lassen. Mit ihrer Erlaubnis darf ich diese kleine Liebeserklärung hier zitieren. Als ich ihre Mail und diese Passage las, zauberte es mir ein Lächeln auf das Gesicht.
„Matthias ist wirklich der best gelaunteste, liebste , selbstloseste Mensch den ich kenne. Er ist einfach die perfekte Ergänzung von mir. Mit unheimlich vielen Gemeinsamkeiten, aber auch mit wenigen Gegensätzen, die uns perfekt ergänzen. Dazu kommt seine selbstlose Art. Er würde so oft zurück stecken, nur um seinen Mitmenschen zu helfen. Und er grinst immer, jeder mag ihn, weil er so eine sympathische Art hat. Er ist sehr empathisch.“
Ich kann Jennifer nur zustimmen. Bei unsere kleinen Fotosession strahlte Matthias Ruhe, Freundlichkeit und Spaß an unserem Tue aus. Bei dem „Pärchenfoto“, welches ich zum Schluss von den beide machte, konnte ich die Wärme und Liebe spüren, die zwischen Jennifer und Matthias besteht.
Jennifer schrieb mir, dass Matthias und sie sonst "nur" Selfies oder Smartphone-Bilder voneinander haben. Solche Fotos sind somit etwas Besonderes. Ich hoffe, dass Matthias und Jennifer sich noch in 50 Jahren die Fotos anschauen können und dann sagen, weißt du noch, damals am Frankfurter Römerberg!
Danke für die Zeit, die Ihr mir und dem Projekt geschenkt habt. Ich wünsche Euch alles Gute und dass ihr eure beruflichen Ziele erreichen werdet. Besonders aber wünsche ich euch eine lange gemeinsame Zeit miteinander voller Liebe und Harmonie.
Dies ist mein 28. Beitrag zu der Gruppe "The Human Family". Mehr Fotos von anderen Fotografen der Gruppe findest Du hier:
www.flickr.com/groups/thehumanfamily/
Es folgt noch die Charakterisierung von Melanie. Ich schreibe gerade am Text. Bitte habt noch etwas Geduld.
^*016 and 68002 are about to pass through Woodbridge with two flasks from Sizewell . The purpose of this train was for the drivers to keep up the knowledge of the route, and keep the timetabled path. The train is going back to Crewe
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A soccer player loses his leg. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
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THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY COMMENTS!!!
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There is a famous Chinese proverb - my crappy translation:
"Seeking knowledge is like rowing a boat against the (water) current. If you don't move upstream, you will drop behind."
At some point this picture was ranked #494 in Flickr Explore for Feb 15, 2009, according to Flagrant Disregard's Scout.
Stack of leather bound books with gold Arabic calligraphy on their spines, found at a book stall at the Muscat Festival 2009 at Qurm. As per the comments from Spiral Architect below, these are copies of the Quran (Koran), the holy book for Muslims, in a Pakistani style. There is a "Q" and a "K" in there - I can't read calligraphic Arabic, and standard Arabic only if there's an English equivalent to help me puzzle it out :)
Edit: I'm told it reads "Al Qur'an Al Kareem". The name of the Qur'an is always written in a calligraphic style as far as I have seen and the characters all have diacritics, unlike standard written Arabic, because it's religious writing.
I've been told that the Quran, as the word of god, should never have anything stacked on top of it. I guess it's OK if it's another Quran.
British postcard by Film Weekly, London.
With his smooth, boyish good looks, American actor Richard Cromwell (1910-1960) had the makings of a Hollywood star in the early 1930s. The handsome actor became well known with The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), sharing top billing with Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone. His film career reached its pinnacle with Jezebel (1938) with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda and John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) also with Fonda. But soon after that, his meteoric career crashed and burned.
Richard Cromwell was born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh in Long Beach, California, in 1910. he was the second of five children of Fay B. (née Stocking) and Ralph R. Radabaugh, who was an inventor. In 1918, when Radabaugh was still in grade school, his father died of the Spanish flu. Roy earnestly delivered morning newspapers to help out the family's budget crisis. on a scholarship, he attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, a precursor to the California Institute of the Arts. He continued to work part-time as a maintenance man, custodian and soda jerk. He set up a small art shop in Hollywood in the late 1920s and made masks and oil paintings there. He sold pictures, made lampshades, and designed colour schemes for houses. The handsome Cromwell made contacts with film stars of the time such as Anna Q. Nilsson, Colleen Moore, Beatrice Lillie, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford and Tallulah Bankhead, some of whom he also immortalised in his paintings and masks. He painted scenery for community theatre productions and eventually took on acting roles. His first film appearance was an extra role in King of Jazz (John Murray Anderson, Walter Lantz, 1930), along with the film's star, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. On a whim, his friends encouraged him to audition for the lead role in a Columbia remake of D.W. Griffith's silent classic Tol'able David (1921) starring Richard Barthelmess. Radabaugh won the role over thousands of hopefuls. In storybook fashion, studio mogul Harry Cohn gave him his screen name Richard Cromwell and launched his career. Cromwell earned $75 per week for his work on Tol'able David (John G. Blystone, 1930), which co-starred Noah Beery Sr. and John Carradine. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "the studio publicity machines worked overtime to promote both the film and their new leading man. Richard lived up to all the hype once the reviews came out, giving a terrific debut performance in a very difficult role. As the rather weak-willed young boy who finds the strength and courage to right the injustice done to him, he hit overnight stardom". Amid the flurry of publicity, Cromwell toured the country and was even invited to the White House to meet President Herbert Hoover. Cohn signed Cromwell to a multi-year contract based on the strength of his performance and the success at the box office of his debut. In the following years, Richard played several leading roles in smaller films, often in youthful, somewhat sensitive roles. Leslie Halliwell later described him in his Filmgoer's Companion as the "friendly hero of the early talkies". Cromwell maintained a deep friendship with Marie Dressler, which continued until her death from cancer in 1934. Dressler personally insisted that her studio bosses cast Cromwell on a loan-out in the lead opposite her in Emma (Clarence Brown, 1932), also with Myrna Loy. Dressler was nominated for a second Best Actress award for her portrayal of the title role in Emma. This was another break that helped sustain Cromwell's rising status in Hollywood. He was now much in demand and his next roles were in The Age of Consent (Gregory La Cava, 1932) co-starring Arline Judge and Eric Linden, Tom Brown of Culver (William Wyler, 1932), and Hoopla (Frank Lloyd, 1933), where he is seduced by Clara Bow, in her final film. He made an early standout performance as the leader of the youth gang in Cecil B. DeMille's unusual cult-favourite, This Day and Age (1933). To ensure that Cromwell's character used the right slang, DeMille asked high school student Horace Hahn to read the script and comment. Cromwell then starred with Jean Arthur in Most Precious Thing in Life (Lambert Hillyer, 1934). He had his definitive breakthrough when he co-starred with Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone in the adventure film The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Henry Hathaway, 1935), which was nominated for seven Oscars. Cromwell played the son of a senior officer who is tortured by insurgents. His father refuses to rescue him in order to demonstrate his impartiality. After this promising start, Cromwell's career received a bump when he wanted more artistic independence.
Richard Cromwell's next pictures at Columbia Pictures and elsewhere were mostly inconsequential. Cromwell starred with Will Rogers in Life Begins at 40 (1935) and appeared in Poppy (1936) as the suitor of W.C. Fields' daughter, Rochelle Hudson. In 1937, he portrayed the young bank robber in love with Helen Mack and on the lam from Lionel Atwill in The Wrong Road (James Cruze, 1937). A challenge was his lead role in The Road Back (James Whale, 1937), a sequel to the classic All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone, 1930). The film chronicled the story of young German soldiers readjusting to civilian life after WWI. Fearful that this film would not do well in Germany, the new regime at Universal Pictures severely edited the film before release, removing much of the strongly anti-Nazi slant that author Erich Maria Remarque included in the original novel, and which director James Whale had intended to retain in the film version. The resulting film was not well-received. Richard Cromwell took a detour in his career to Broadway for the chance to star as an evil cadet in an original play by Joseph Viertel, 'So Proudly We Hail!'. The military drama was directed by future film director Charles Walters, co-starred Edward Andrews and Eddie Bracken, and opened to much fanfare. The New York Herald Tribune called Cromwell's acting "a striking portrayal" and The New York Times said that he "ran the gamut of emotions" in the play. Cromwell had shed his restrictive Columbia contract and pursued acting work as a freelancer in other media. Cromwell guest-starred on the radio in 'The Royal Gelatin Hour' (1937) hosted by Rudy Vallee, in a dramatic skit opposite Fay Wray. Enjoying the experience, Cromwell acted in the role of Kit Marshall on the radio soap opera Those We Love, which ran from 1938 until 1942. On-screen, Cromwell appeared in Storm Over Bengal (Sidney Salkow, 1938), for Republic Pictures, in order to capitalise on his success in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. He stood out in supporting roles as Henry Fonda's brother, who kills a man in a duel of honour, in the romantic drama Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938) starring Bette Davis and as defendant Matt Clay to Henry Fonda's title performance in Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939). In 1939, Cromwell again tried his luck on stage in a regional production of Sutton Vane's play 'Outward Bound', co-starring Dorothy Jordan. Cromwell drifted into secondary features. He enjoyed an active social Hollywood life with friends including Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, George Cukor, Cole Porter and William Haines. For Universal Pictures, Cromwell starred as a draftsman who thwarts the Nazis in Enemy Agent. He went on to appear in marginal but still watchable fare such as Baby Face Morgan (Arthur Dreifuss, 1942), with Mary Carlisle. Cromwell enjoyed a career boost with Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher (1943), the film adaptation of the hit radio serial. However, he was next up at Monogram Pictures, where he was cast as a doctor working covertly for a police department to catch mobsters in the forgettable though endearing Riot Squad.
During the last two years of World War II, Richard Cromwell served with the United States Coast Guard. Upon returning to California following the war's end, he acted in local theatre productions. He also signed on for live performances in summer stock in the East during this period. Cromwell's break from films due to his stint in the Service meant that he was not much in demand after the War's end. He failed to make a comeback as a film actor with a role in the Film Noir Bungalow 13 (Edward L. Cahn, 1948) and he retired from the film industry. All told, Cromwell's film career spanned 39 films. In the 1950s, he returned to his artistic roots and studied ceramics. He built a pottery studio on his property, becoming especially known and admired for his creative tile designs. Returning to the name Roy Radabaugh, Cromwell also wrote extensively, producing several published stories and an unfinished novel in the 1950s. Cromwell was married once, briefly (1945–1946), to actress Angela Lansbury, when she was 19 and Cromwell was 35. They were married in a small civil ceremony in Independence, California. Lansbury later stated in a 1966 interview that her first marriage was a mistake because Cromwell was gay. His homosexuality had been kept secret from the public and Lansbury had not known about it before the marriage. However, Cromwell and Lansbury remained friends until his death in 1960. She later described him as "charming with a good knowledge of jazz music". In 1960 he tried a second comeback in the film business. In July 1960, Cromwell signed with producer Maury Dexter for 20th Century Fox's planned production of The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (Andrew V. McLaglen, 1961), starring singer Jimmie Rogers. Diagnosed with liver cancer shortly thereafter, he was forced to withdraw and Chill Wills replaced Cromwell in the film. Richard Cromwell was a heavy smoker for many years and at times advertised Lucky Strike. He died on 11 October 1960 in Hollywood, at the age of 50. He is interred at Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana, California. For his services to the film industry, Cromwell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (1627 Vine Street). Cromwell's legacy is preserved today by his nephew Dan Putnam and his cousin Bill Keane IV. In 2005, Keane donated materials relating to Cromwell's radio performances to the Thousand Oaks Library's Special Collection, "The American Radio Archive". In 2007, Keane donated memorabilia relating to Cromwell's film career and ceramics work to the AMPAS Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills.
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Leslie Halliwell (Filmgoer's Companion), Wikipedia (English and German) and IMDb.
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