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When you're driving 75mph and see a majestic sunset, the only logical course of action is to put your camera on the dashboard and hope for the best.
A colourful structure of horizontal lines winds from tree to tree bringing an element of logical geometric arrangement to the urban environment, creating a powerful and poetic image. Photo by Kelvin Trundle : Facebook - www.facebook.com/KelvinTrundlephotography/
Se o seu sistema emperrear faca o seguinte...
Perca um pouco da paciencia.
Pense tambem um pouco.
Tire os discos da gaveta e os re-instale.
Pronto.
Problema resolvido....
Obrigado pela ajuda e carinho de todos ...
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Principalmente as dos Ćŗltimos 10 meses...
Quando fiz o Ćŗltimo back up caprichado
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Bom, entĆ£o esta foto serĆ” a ultima do CanadĆ”.
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God has a sense of humor.
Aardvarks, for example. Or the fact that I keep winding up in places where the only logical attraction is...flowers.
We wound up in gardens on a day trip to Calgary and on the Kelby Photo Walk, we wound up in gardens again.
Whatcha gonna do? If you're me, you start off looking everywhere else for anything else.
Then you take pictures of that "anything" knowing full well that the images are going to be 100% crap...but you stay stubborn and shoot anyway.
It's not like I hate flower pictures. I'm just indifferent to most of them. I look and say "aha...a flower. Oooo."
Then, having saved face, you sigh and turn your attention back to the fricking flowers.
It was a wonderful day: perfect weather. Nice people (photographers of all sizes and experience levels) too.
This flower simply wouldn't cooperate. I wanted to make an HDR exposure and it kept moving in the wind.
"Let me hold that for you," said Lady Caroline (who is brand new to flickr. Her stuff is here: www.flickr.com/photos/capturingmemoriesandmagic/) who bustled up, took the flower in a death grip and waited patiently for me to finish shooting.
We got to talking. Carolyn has just retired and she's getting serious about photography.
She has a bag full of gadgets that made Sheree go "oooo" and "ahhhh."
Carolyn also has a patient husband who follows her around carrying her tripod.
Why not pop by her site and welcome her to flickr? She's a nice person.
In the meantime here's another fricking flower. Tuh Dum.
45/365
Besides my, shall we say, crimes - I call them eccentricities - I am a sane, loving human being. "Normal," I say.
I listen to pop music. I love wine. I like bars, and friends, and gatherings. I make ordinary but irresponsible decisions. I hold a day job - I am a professional, I dare say. I go to school. I walk, I don't fly. I am like everyone else.
I have even put a list of odd behaviors I enact on regular basis, to seem oddly normal and normally odd. Iāve established a set of illusionary idiosyncrasies and hobbies that people attribute to me: āhe takes pictures, talks about morbid topics, all part of some messed up narrative he made up.ā
So, I stick closely to those perceptions, to that belief. It fulfills everyoneās need to justify my oddities, and concurrently, conceals everything about me. Everyone wins. Well, mostly everyone.
You get the picture.
My first ever B&W post. I thought this scene seemed a logical choice. Navajo Bridge near Lee's Ferry, AZ
WHAT IS LOVE ?
Love is when someone breaks your HEART
and the fact is that You still love them with every broken peice of your heart :)
Our parents raise us to be smart, logical people and our experiences in life help create a sense of reality based on our surroundings and interactions with people. But from time to time we may be presented with a situation which we might not have any control over, or just have no fathomable understanding of how the events are playing out. Itās like the Twilight Zone and you feel like youāre in some sort of strange dream where you start to question your own mental fortitude and sense of reality.
Luckily I have learned the importance of patience. Still have to work hard and be strong but perhaps the answer will be revealed with enough patience.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
The end of a matter is better than its beginning and patience is better than pride.
I'm sorry that I've been a big poop on commenting lately. I've had some things come up that have been occupying my time and energy. And I'm going to Colorado on Sunday-Tuesday for work, so besides training people, the rest of my free time will probably be dedicated to driving through the Rockies, looking for barns and reading the new book I got at lunch today
Norrbro bridge.
Stockholm, Sweden, is a city of bridges, which seems logical when you think about its location. While Sweden isnāt an island, since land connects to Norway on the West and Finland to the North, its capital, Stockholm, is built on 14 islands. Some 57 bridges connect the cityās nearly 800,000 residents!
The North Bridge or Norrbro, is the oldest standing bridge in Stockholm. Completed in 1807, it was one first in Stockholm to use stone. The neoclassical style bridge had other firsts too, since it was the first to be paved. When built, its 19 m width set a record, however, the West Bridge, or Vasterbron, built in 1935, exceeds that at 24 m wide.
guide2travel.ca/2016/12/stockholm-city-of-bridges-photoof...
So, as you can most probably guess, I've taken up digital building. Now, this may come as a bit of a shock to some of you, but it was quite a logical choice really. I hardly ever properly finish builds, let alone photograph the, so building digitally is the best way for me to actually finish stuff, and try out techniques I'd never usually get a chance to experiment with.
So, moving swiftly on, here's the first digital build that's not only spread out enough so you can actually see it, but is something I'm actually, properly, happy with. As most people on the Brickrealms discord server know, I have a wee bit of an addiction to Tardis console rooms. Though I have about 6 in real life, 4 of which actually complete, they're all a bit basic, with exception to the most recent 2. Now this, this is not only finished, but fairly interesting too. I won't lie, I have no idea how I came up with this, just that I wanted an interesting console design, as a result, it doesn't have a fancy name or anything (naming thing's really isn't a strength of mine) So a few nights ago, I came up with an incredible overcomplicated console design. It needed a room, so wallah! I've even used some stuff I've made before, just to see if I could (you may recognise the tables from a previous furniture post). It's got a kinda Chinese look to it, which I only say as the gate pieces behind the arches really evoke that kinda feel to it. Plus I had a really nice lil bamboo plant that sadly didn't make the render, as the parts didn't exist in mecabricks. You can also see a Doctor by the console, who I only really added so you can see who pilots this Tardis. He probably won't be appearing again, just an excuse to use more interesting minifig designs I can't currently make in real life.
Now, I must thank Space Glove for being an absolute legend of a guy and rendering this build for me, as well as helping me work out the ins and outs of mecabricks, in the hope I'll one day be able to do some half decent renderings of my own. I should also thank Cagerrin for helping me with LDD stuff, and for starting me on this whole 'digital building' thing. Also Gunnbuilding, for inspiring me with his truly awesome Tardis builds, which made me want to come up with even more designs of my own.
So, with the build displayed and everyone thanked, that brings the talking bit to an end. As always, please lemme know what you think, and if you'd like to see more digital building from me in the future :D
The Kodak Vest Pocket (VPK) camera
The VPK camera was made in several countries, but I bought this 1917 model a few years ago from a fellow in the UK specifically because it was the Canadian version manufactured by Canadian Kodak Company Ltd. in Toronto.
So a logical guess would be that it made it across the Atlantic on a troop carrier in the knapsack of a WW1 Canadian soldier.
Quoted from Tommy's War - The Western Front in Soldiers' Words and Photographs, (shown open in the photo):
Chapter 1: The VPK camera - "In 1912 the small Vest Pocket Kodak (VPK), with its 127mm film, was manufactured, producing smaller 1 3/8 by 2 1/2 inch images, so that by the time war broke out, soldiers of any rank could take a camera with them, if they could afford it.
The camera's compact shape, its retractable bellows lens and its durable all-metal construction made it ideal for the tunic or greatcoat pocket.
Kodak was not shy when it came to advertising its VPK as the perfect camera for the front: 'the Soldier's Camera' they called it, and while the cost was a lot for other ranks to pay, it was not entirely prohibitive to the committed enthusiast.
In marketing its products to the soldier, the company naturally focused on its camera's suitability for front-line life, especially its durability and flexibility. But it also cleverly picked up on the significance and, indeed, the historical importance of the images that were already being taken at the front.
To give such a camera to a soldier, it argued persuasively, would be to ensure that a loved one did not miss out on recording such a hugely significant event as a European war."
Olympus OMD-EM10 Mark IV
Olympus M.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO @ 25mm
Godox TT685 TTL bounced
āŗ All my images are my own real photography, not fake AI fraudography.
āŗ Toutes mes images sont ma propre vraie photographie, pas une fausse fraudographie basĆ©e sur l'IA.
ā Please don't use my images for any purpose, including on websites or blogs, without my explicit permission.
ā S.V.P ne pas utiliser cette photo sur un site web, blog ou tout autre mĆ©dia sans ma permission explicite.
Ā© Tom Freda / All rights reserved - Tous droits rĆ©servĆ©s
Seemed like the most logical. Sort of like painting a floor...you cannot trap yourself in the room of wet paint. Same idea here. The position of bricks is not "flexible" while the straight bricks are and I wanted a continuous pattern. I did the top and bottom arches at the same time so they would match. I used the top bricks as templates for the bottom.
Norio in two logical sections - one behind the curtains and enjoying the fragrances and one in front of the curtain, ready to be pet, in Kitahiroshima in July of 2018.
My first sunrise photos after hundreds of sunsets. Yes I am more an owl than the early morning bird. I need a couple of coffees before having a touch of inspiration. So it is logical that I started my sunrise HDR project during Winter holidays. In my view only bakers and the NSA should get up early. And the NSA should be first in case of suspicious bakers....
Having decided to take a vacation day Wed and having free time till noon with no need to go right home to sleep I did the only logical thing...head out on the B&A! A quick check revealed that there were three trains all moving east (Q436, Q264, and I022 in that order) out toward the mountains and they should all be through the Palmer area between 10 and 11. That timing was even better since it was absolutely miserable with low clouds, dark gloom, and rain at 'sunrise,' but that all blew out replaced with sparkling clear blue skies by later in the morning come train time.
I shot Q436 (Selkirk to Worcester manifest) arriving in Palmer to start their work setting out in the yard and then headed to this favorite spot out at the Warren line. I kept an eye on things and as it turned out hotshot long pool intermodal I022 ran around Q264 at CP92 in Wilbraham and Q436 in Palmer which made them the first to show.
In the next 30 minutes two more trains showed up spaced 15 min apart so I relocated for a wide angle broadside shot I've been wanting to try that features the ancient doouble stone arch bridge dating from the line's construction in 1839. Having wrapped up their work in Palmer Q436 is on their last 30 miles to their destination in Worcester with a big train running 2x1 DPU. A nearly 20 yr old AC400CW still wearing the ever more scarce YN2 'bright future' scheme is trailing over the Quabog River here at about MP 75.5 on modern day CSXT's Boston Subdivision.
When the Western Railroad was completed in 1842 formed the longest and most expensive railroad constructed in the United States up to that point.
The three predecessors merged to form the Boston and Albany Railroad in 1870. Thirty years later the B&A was leased by the New York Central Railroad and the line would pass successively to the Penn Central in 1968, Conrail in 1976 and CSXT in 1999. To this day it remains as the preeminent freight route and the only Class 1 trunk line still serving New England...truly a testament to the forethought of those who laid out and built the line over 180 years ago.
Check back soon for a view of train number three here!
Warren, Massachusetts
Wednesday November 10, 2021
When I was young
It seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees
Well they'd be singing so happily
Oh joyfully, oh playfully watching me
But then they sent me away
To teach me how to be sensible
Logical, oh responsible, practical
And they showed me a world
Where I could be so dependable
Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical
There are times when all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am
Now watch what you say
Or they'll be calling you a radical
A liberal, oh fanatical, criminal
Oh won't you sign up your name
We'd like to feel you're
Acceptable, respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable
At night when all the world's asleep
The questions run soo deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am, who I am, who I am, who I am
Assignment: Fall Color.
Easier said than done in Southern California.
We thought Big Bear might be a logical place to find it since it's in the San Bernardino mountains and sits at about 7000 feet above sea level.
There were a lot of patches of yellow sprinkled throughout the mountainsides as we made our climb from sea level, but getting up close and personal to a lot of it, was not gonna happen.
Stopping at the Big Bear Discover Center, we asked where the best color might be and got a few suggestions, and went into a photo gallery and asked the guy where he'd go if he was wanting to shoot fall color that afternoon. His answer? New England.
So we made a drive to a spot I had read about when researching some places that might have possibilities and came across one called Aspen Grove Trail.
There was some color, but unfortunately, most of the aspens were already bare.
Our main plan though was shoot the full moon rising over Big Bear Lake, which coincidentally according to greatest app for photography ever, TPE, was supposed to rise four minutes before the sun set.
It was gonna be a race, because we had 20 minutes to find a place to set up where we could capture both the sunset and moonrise, and we were a good 20 minutes from the lake.
From the direction we were coming it looked like the Stanfield cutoff bridge which connects the South Shore to the North Shore was our best bet.
I didn't even bother to set up a tripod -- just grabbed the camera and ran down the road as I saw the huge moon coming up. Turned on the VR and set the camera on a garbage can to steady it and hoped for the best.
Not much in terms of vibrant fall color here, but for an image taken at 1/15th of a second while the camera was resting on a garbage can lid, it was all I could do, so I'll take it.
After all, the chase for the light is always one of the best parts of the journey.
Having decided to take a vacation day Wed and having free time till noon with no need to go right home to sleep I did the only logical thing...head out on the B&A! A quick check revealed that there were three trains all moving east (Q436, Q264, and I022 in that order) out toward the mountains and they should all be through the Palmer area between 10 and 11. That timing was even better since it was absolutely miserable with low clouds, dark gloom, and rain at 'sunrise,' but that all blew out replaced with sparkling clear blue skies by later in the morning come train time.
I shot Q436 (Selkirk to Worcester manifest) arriving in Palmer to start their work setting out in the yard and then headed to this favorite spot out at the Warren line. I kept an eye on things and as it turned out hotshot long pool intermodal I022 ran around Q264 at CP92 in Wilbraham and Q436 in Palmer which made them the first to show.
In the next 30 minutes two more trains showed up spaced 15 min apart so I relocated for a wide angle broadside shot I've been wanting to try that features the ancient doouble stone arch bridge dating from the line's construction in 1839. Following right on Q436's block was Q264 (Buffalo to East Brookfield autoracks) with a a nice duo on the head end of ES44DC 5305 (GE blt. Mar. 2006) followed by quarter century older veteran veteran SD40-2 (blt. Jul. 1979 for the Seaboard Coast Line with the same number amazingly!) crossing the Quabog River here at about MP 75.5 on modern day CSXT's Boston Subdivision.
When the Western Railroad was completed in 1842 formed the longest and most expensive railroad constructed in the United States up to that point.
The three predecessors merged to form the Boston and Albany Railroad in 1870. Thirty years later the B&A was leased by the New York Central Railroad and the line would pass successively to the Penn Central in 1968, Conrail in 1976 and CSXT in 1999. To this day it remains as the preeminent freight route and the only Class 1 trunk line still serving New England...truly a testament to the forethought of those who laid out and built the line over 180 years ago.
And that's a wrap....three trains in about 30 minutes on the good old Boston and Albany!
Warren, Massachusetts
Thursday November 11, 2021
A colourful structure of horizontal lines winds from tree to tree bringing an element of logical geometric arrangement to the urban environment, creating a powerful and poetic image. Photo by Kelvin Trundle : Facebook - www.facebook.com/KelvinTrundlephotography/
My cat was bitten by a radioactive cockroach. That really is the only logical explanation for her transformation the last few years. Just like Spider Man gained his supernatural powers after being bitten by a radioactive spider, she has been transformed with the powers of the critter that bit her.
TC (named after "True Colors", the Cindy Lauper tune) was going on 20 years old when I took this photo. I considered changing her name to Skeleton. But the Amazing Cockroach Cat is probably more appropriate. The first of her cockroach powers appeared shortly after when she began to transform from my neat, fussy, tidy cat into a creature that can tolerate -- no thrive -- in all manner of filth. She pretty much stopped cleaning herself. Her feet stink, she usually trails dingleberries, has a constant secretion of goo coming from her eyes and keeps a perpetual hunk of dried cat food clinging to her nose. I no longer have a small out-of-the way liter box discretely available for her use, but an entire room covered with a tarp and three big litter boxes hoping one might appeal to her. And once in a while one does.
The second cockroach power TC developed was an insect-like bony exoskeleton. Petting her is like touching some kind of tiny crooked, hardened washboard with a tail. She has weighed less than three pounds for over a year, consuming three tins of cat food and a cup of half-and-half a day. Each night she selects a new location to vomit about three quarters of that, which I usually discover in the morning before I get my shoes on.
The third cockroach power she has gained of course, is that she will never die. I've taken her to the vet several times wondering if she is suffering, but she seems to still be hanging in there enjoying her new cockroach life. She's actually become far more affectionate now than in any of her previous 16 years as a cat, purring and climbing on my lap and doing her best stinky cockroach-cute impression. I can't help thinking that is just her reaction to knowing how much I'd like to get new carpet though.
Anyway, here's my TC after one of her baths she must take now, drying out in the sun, and planning how to how use her cockroach powers today.
7/12/09 update - I posted this photo over two years ago. My cat passed away shortly after that. She didn't quite make 20 years but had a great life and enjoyed playing and hindfooting with her toys right to the end. I do miss her.
Thanks to all of people who empathized with one of the toughest decisions there is to make - how long to let an elderly animal live and when to put it down - especially when you can't talk to a cat to hear its wishes. Even humans have vast differences in how much they want to live or die if in pain.
Twice we packed her up, said our good-byes and took her into the vet who said she was still hanging in there and no need to kill her yet. Again, its a tough tough tough thing to go through - and sometimes you have to laugh through the tears .
Thanks to all for the considerate concerns - and best of luck to the many of you who have faced similar difficult situations. Take care all.
for November msh: a logical next step
only 3 categories left to go. yay. just need to find "a red head, a rich dad and a dot com" on the way to picking up the little dude from school tomorrow.. and i should be good to go. ha! we shall see ;)
was going to catch up with you all now.. but it is going to have to wait til morning. way late now.
I previously posted the mono version of this called Delight. So this being the colour version Delight-ful seemed logical.
No logical explanation - just a mental image I had been carrying around for a while (maybe a dream of flying?). Caroline bravely climbed up onto the roof at sunset to bring it to life...
This one (her improvisation) worked especially well because the direct sunlight momentarily lit up her dress allowing her nice silhouette to show through.
See "Night Flight" and also another "on the roof" photo as well as the other photos of Caroline indoors, the day before.
A new, higher-resolution version, previously posted on PATREON
My Flickr journey officially began on New Year's Eve of 2019/20. I made a New Year's resolution to upload one picture per week, for the entire year, which would eventually total 52 pictures.
The pictures became increasingly more complicated. I experimented with mirrored poses, moving them into the logical positions where the reflection would be, taking multiple shots from the same perspective, and splicing them together to fake accurate reflections. I was also building some of my own backgrounds, and doing it all on top of creating the outfits. Very early on in the 52-picture project I started feeling dread every time the weekly deadline was approaching, and it became more and more of a chore to maintain. After only 20 pictures, I completely burned myself out and stopped uploading to Flickr for almost FOUR YEARS!
((SIDENOTE: Mad props to all the photographers who have the energy to maintain that level of creativity for so long!! It's just not me!))
On November 21st 2023, inspired by one of my besties Emily, I decided to restart my Flickr with this post: www.flickr.com/photos/162222975@N08/53346380892/in/datepo...
My new objective was to keep things SIMPLE. From now on I wouldn't worry about backgrounds or reflections. I would only use a simple colored backdrop, set midnight, one projector light, one regular local light, very minimal photoshop, and that's it. Sometimes I would tweak the midnight setting if I needed some more ambient light, but overall I streamlined my workflow to be super simple. And I also decided to not hold myself to any rigid weekly deadlines.
Last Thursday Nov 21st, marked the 1-year anniversary of me restarting my Flickr. I am proud to say that I did not experience any burnout, and I breezed my way to creating 65 unique outfits/pictures! It may not seem like much, but this archive is something that I'm very proud of.
To celebrate the anniversary, I decided to make some of my old pics from the original 2020 series public again. I hope your enjoy them. (Damn, that old Genus head was cute!)
Lastly I just want to say THANK YOU to everyone who follows me and likes my stuff, and for all the kind comments I've received on Flickr, and especially in-world. I don't know what 2025 will bring. I'm going through some changes in my RL, which might not allow me to be around in SL as often as I am used to. My regular pace of uploading outfits might slow down once again, but at least this time it won't be from cracking under the pressure from the constraints that I put on myself.
2024 was the best year that I've ever had in Second Life, BY FAR. I am in a very happy place and so full of love for all the friends that I've made in this crazy virtual world. ā„
KB out.
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