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Whizzing round the Poole Park cycle track
Did you learn to ride your bike in Poole Park? Or maybe you raced here? From its opening in 1892, the Poole Park track was the place to go for cycling in Poole. Thousands enjoyed the exhilarating track races.
Others came for fun family rides.
This track is one of the few Victorian park cycle tracks remaining: Just like today
cycling was very fashionable then. As soon as the Poole track opened, races became popular events.
'Encouraged by the frantic. Often there were 12,000 spectators.
The two main clubs were the Poole
Wheelers and Wesley Guild Cycling Club.
The Banten brothers were the local stars.
The family owned a bicycle shop and raced for Wesley Guild CC.
In the 1930s, Bill Harvell was the star rider.
He trained at Poole Park and won a Bronze Medal at the Olympic Games in 1932.
In 1933, he led the Poole Wheelers' team to victory at the National Team Pursuit Championship. Another champion was Marguerite Wilson from Bournemouth.
She became the first full-time female professional cyclist. At one point she held all 16 women's distance records.
In the 1970s and 80s, riders travelled quite a distance to compete here. It was one of the few places for mid-week racing.
Imagine racing here. The first track was gravel and cinder. In places it isn't much more than two metres wide. How did they avoid the benches and trees? Not to mention the water and spectators. Try to picture the spectacle of 30 fast and furious riders whizzing round the track.
Poole Wheelers are still an active club today, with regular rides for members of all abilities. Families also come to ride their bikes. Did you race or learn to ride your bike on the Poole Park track?
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Enhancing scale and texture
This is one of those shots where I literally gave my Nikon 14-24 Lens a little kiss. In fact, It’s such a profoundly awesome hunk of glass that if it had lips, I’m confident that I’d be divorced by now...
Most of my shots (I would say at least 85% of them) are shot using the 14-24. I really get a kick out of how much I can fit in frame from such a short distance away. With superior optical quality, It’s a fantastic lens for HDR Photography and well worth the $$ price tag.
HDR Photography opens up a lot of doors when It comes to texture. When you stack up all the Exposure Brackets (AEB), it fills in the highlight and shadow regions of the image with more color and luminance information. With a single exposure alone, these regions would otherwise be void of detail, either washed out or just black. With neutral or mid tones, stacking exposures enhances what’s already there and increases detail and texture overall.
If you combine wide angle lenses and HDR Processing together, you can yield some truly interesting results. It takes a bit of experimentation and a lot of trial and error (mostly error), but hey, isn’t that part of the fun?
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A long time ago… in galaxies far far away, the first stars were born in the early universe. But when and how? That’s a mystery Webb is one step closer to solving.
Using Webb, researchers have found two early galaxies that are unusually bright, one of which could contain the most distant starlight ever seen. The galaxies are thought to have existed 350 and 450 million years after the big bang (respectively, from top to bottom). Unlike our Milky Way, these first galaxies are small and compact, with spherical or disk shapes rather than grand spirals.
Webb’s new findings suggest that the galaxies would have had to begin coming together about 100 million years after the big bang — meaning that the first stars might have started forming in such galaxies around that time, much earlier than expected.
Follow-up observations with Webb’s spectrographs will confirm the distances of these primordial galaxies and help us learn more about the earliest stars. More: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-draws-back-...
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Tommaso Treu (UCLA)
[Image description: Two vertically stacked views of galaxy cluster Abell 2744 as seen by the Webb telescope. Both views feature countless galaxies of all shapes and sizes speckling the black backdrop of space. Some are spiral, some more disk-shaped and others spherical. Farther galaxies are only seen as dots. Their colors include blue, pink, orange, and white. The view at the bottom is differentiated by bright white stars with long diffraction spikes, unseen in the view at the top. Towards the left of both views, there is a small white box highlighting a notable galaxy. These two tiny boxes have diagonal lines connecting them to close-ups of their contents, placed in much larger inset boxes on the right. The close-up box on the top, labeled as 1, shows a red dot along with some surrounding streaks of foreground galaxies. This red dot is a never-before-seen galaxy thought to have existed 350 million years after the big bang. The close-up box on the bottom, labeled as 2, shows a central red disk with a few other blurry and fuzzy foreground galaxies. This disk is another never-before-seen galaxy, this one thought to have existed 450 million years after the big bang.]
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Dang this shot was hard to get, every time I went anywhere near, the birds flew off, but where theres a will theres a way, so armed with a bag of chips to hold their attention, they hung around in anticipation of their greasy lunch, I got the shot I wanted, and then happily shared my chips, everyone happy and contented :o)
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This is a picture of the third page from a little handmade book I created for my first solo exhibition titled AND THEY SAY of HER WOMAN held in 2017 at the Gallery 7th in Fort Worth, TX, U.S.
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Imitations - 12 photos imitating famous painters
Melu's Photo Gallery - Time Portal
December 2019
Imitating is the first step in the education of painters and photographers. Following the path of masters you can learn to use properly light, colors and composition in your images, according to renowned tastes and styles. Later, you can fly elsewhere, developing your own style and inspiration.
But imitating masters can be also a way to celebrate them and to show how much they influenced your view of the world.
I wanted to do that with this small collection of photos I've taken in Second Life trying to reproduce the "eye" of my favorite 20th Century painters. SL is a goldmine for that: its landscapes, its buildings, the atmosphere of many of its places recall the world that famous artists have portrayed or represented.
I've chosen six painters, three of them are from US, three from Italy. Their very different styles represent the main trends of 20th Century art: Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) is the painter of the big industrial development of the first decades of the century and is the icon of the Precisionism; Mario Sironi (1885-1971) has shown the sadness and the loneliness of the big cities; Edward Hopper (1888-1967) is maybe the most famous painter of the American art, with his view of the 1930-40s America; Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978), with his special surrealism inspired to classical models, is the one of the most important Italian painters of the 20th Century; Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) changed forever the way to conceive the still-life painting, introducing a minimalist touch into his series of bottles and bowls; Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) celebrated the Amarican rural landscape going beyond the timeworn Regionalism.
For the exhibition flyer I used a photo inspired to Mark Rothko (1903-1970), whose paintings is a step forward compared to those masters, but whose extreme minimalism was too close to my style to refrain me from imitating him.
Beside the photos, you will see a panel with some examples of the work of the painters I imitated, for reference and comparison.
I hope visitors will enjoy this game, that's mainly a grateful declaration of love to my great Masters.
Melu"
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after a long time I visited this concentration and extinction camp again.
I invite my flickr friends and visitors to walk with me through this camp, to honour the wellknown and unknown victims of the german Nazi regime and all its helpers.
And I invite or urge you to stand up against fascism today, all antisemitism, racism, nationalism. Resist all preachers of hate anywhere. Try to be human in a good sense.
After the funeral in Bremen it was also in the mind of my lost sister-in-law to visit this place, to honour especially the jewish victims and to try to understand and learn from this terrible dark sides of german history and the history of mankind.
A couple of Winters ago I walked down to the cliffs here at the Lower Lake for a few photos. Not seeing the ice, I fell and hurt my back. I got up quickly, jumped on the bike and pedaled for home. The following morning I couldn't move. It was impossible to even get dressed. It took two weeks before I was up and running again. During that time, I ordered a pair of Icebug boots, and these days if it is snowy, and or icy I always wear them when I am out shooting.
We should learn from the snow how to enter in other people’s life, with that grace and that ability to put a thin layer of beauty above all things.
Dovremmo imparare dalla neve a entrare nella vita degli altri con quella grazia e quella capacità di stendere un velo di bellezza sulle cose.
I suck at picking my favorite; More in comments; I was exploring flickr a few days ago and I saw an interesting photo. A person attached a tag to their toe with their name, age, and cause of death on it. I thought it was an amazing idea!! So I wanted to try. I wish I remembered the person's name so I can give them credit for the idea. Im sure other people have done it before him but I would still like to give them credit for giving me the idea. While doing this I got the idea of rape from a recent experience. It didn't personally happen to me but it was something I would enjoy not mentioning on flickr. So this photo was not only for fun but it was also to display a purpose.
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