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This is my first attempt at HDR.
It was a sunny day so I decided to visit The British Museum. Unfortunately by the time I got there, it became cloudy and the dramatic deep blue sky I had hoped to capture with sun light streaming through the curved glass roof and casting shadows were nonexistent. :-( Instead the sky turned a whitish grey and inside the museum everything looked dull and colourless. So HDR to the rescue!
All the shots were taken handheld (who says you need a tripod) 3 bracketed exposures set at continuous firing.
After a few hours at the museum as the weather was poor I decided to visit Westminster Cathedral. I had to struggle to get there and find parking. Once inside I found out that photography wasn’t allowed during a service so I had to wait around an hour until it finished. I think I captured some good shots for HDR but unbelievably, when I got back home and started to download the photos, half way through the download the memory card got somehow got jammed and I couldn’t download the photos from the church. What a nightmare! A wasted afternoon:-( By the way, this was a new 32GB Kingston elite pro card. The shop recommended it to me as they didn’t have the Lexar in stock that I wanted. So I won’t be buyer Kingston cards again.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the photos.
As it’s my first attempt at HDR I would be grateful for your comments, criticisms etc.
In Villambetta, a spontaneous settlement in the Tabare neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, families have the basics of shelter, food and water. The International Rescue Committee's partnership with community leaders ensures that children are safe, but toys and other typical children's possessions are nonexistent.
uncontrolled spaces
lifeless til provoked
deep uncharted oceans
nonexistent til claimed
great raging fires
silent
when there is no one
when no one is mine
the no one is me
the no one is me
me, me, me, me
Wobbly bridge - bright lights. Suddenly, Szymborska:
"So these are the Himalayas.
Mountains racing to the moon.
The moment of their start recorded
on the startling, ripped canvas of the sky.
Holes punched in a desert of clouds.
Thrust into nothing.
Echo—a white mute.
Quiet."
(c) 2013 / T. B. H. von H.
Sidney Woodruff, graduate student, talks about how to how different the Red Ear Slider and the Western Pond Turtle are as they record data from a Red Ear Slider with Emily Phillips (blue), a ecology graduate student, Natalia Younan (pink), a wildlife and fish coservation major, Raaghav Sexena, animal biology major, and Catelyn Bylsma (grey), evolution, ecology and biodiversity major, in the Arboretum on June 8, 2022.
The project involves assisting Dr. Brian Todd and Ph.D. Student Sidney Woodruff in a research study evaluating how native species respond to the removal of non-native species and waterway restoration. The research objectives are to investigate the abundance and population demography of the native Western pond turtle (Actineymys marmorata) and population response in growth and demography from the removal of non-native red-eared sliders. Natural populations of the Western pond turtle are found in the UC Davis Arboretum where red-eared sliders occupy the same ecological niche in high densities. Natural populations of Western pond turtles are found in the nearby South Fork of Putah Creek where the presence of non-native turtles is extremely low or nonexistent. This work can highlight the importance of waterway restoration in building a more resilient ecosystem while supporting the recovery and conservation of native species.
Providing this opportunity will allow undergraduate students to be involved in wildlife conservation research under the supervision of a graduate student mentor and PI while also supporting the objectives of this study and the restoration of the UC Davis Arboretum.
This is my first attempt at HDR.
It was a sunny day so I decided to visit The British Museum. Unfortunately by the time I got there, it became cloudy and the dramatic deep blue sky I had hoped to capture with sun light streaming through the curved glass roof and casting shadows were nonexistent. :-( Instead the sky turned a whitish grey and inside the museum everything looked dull and colourless. So HDR to the rescue!
All the shots were taken handheld (who says you need a tripod) 3 bracketed exposures set at continuous firing.
After a few hours at the museum as the weather was poor I decided to visit Westminster Cathedral. I had to struggle to get there and find parking. Once inside I found out that photography wasn’t allowed during a service so I had to wait around an hour until it finished. I think I captured some good shots for HDR but unbelievably, when I got back home and started to download the photos, half way through the download the memory card got somehow got jammed and I couldn’t download the photos from the church. What a nightmare! A wasted afternoon:-( By the way, this was a new 32GB Kingston elite pro card. The shop recommended it to me as they didn’t have the Lexar in stock that I wanted. So I won’t be buyer Kingston cards again.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the photos.
As it’s my first attempt at HDR I would be grateful for your comments, criticisms etc.
Catelyn Bylsma (grey), evolution, ecology and biodiversity major, mearsure a small Red Ear Slider for Sidney Woodruff's research in the Arboretum on June 8, 2022.
The project involves assisting Dr. Brian Todd and Ph.D. Student Sidney Woodruff in a research study evaluating how native species respond to the removal of non-native species and waterway restoration. The research objectives are to investigate the abundance and population demography of the native Western pond turtle (Actineymys marmorata) and population response in growth and demography from the removal of non-native red-eared sliders. Natural populations of the Western pond turtle are found in the UC Davis Arboretum where red-eared sliders occupy the same ecological niche in high densities. Natural populations of Western pond turtles are found in the nearby South Fork of Putah Creek where the presence of non-native turtles is extremely low or nonexistent. This work can highlight the importance of waterway restoration in building a more resilient ecosystem while supporting the recovery and conservation of native species.
Providing this opportunity will allow undergraduate students to be involved in wildlife conservation research under the supervision of a graduate student mentor and PI while also supporting the objectives of this study and the restoration of the UC Davis Arboretum.
House of the Golden Well, sometimes called At the Red Chair, the house no. 175 in the Old Town of Prague on the corner of Seminary (no. 2) and Charles (no. 3), near Clementinum.
On the site today of Baroque building with Classicist elements became Romanesque building, whose walls are preserved vaulted cellar at the Seminary Street following the house čp.177 / I. The first written record of this house but it is up to the year 1354 when it cutler Vaclav Muldorfer bought from Nicholas Znojmo. The house was at the time and edited Gothic square around it was called cutlery commons (Latin Plateau cultellatorum). Also in the 15th century there were several cutlers and two Mecir. The house had already been a corner and stood against the church garden. Clement, which was about to southwest facade still nonexistent Klementinum. Its central location expressing house sign midst of the wheel.
In the early 17th century, the house was probably likely to radically rebuilt in the late Renaissance style (as evidenced by a few preserved Gothic elements). In the early 18th century, the house was connected (still recognizably) with the neighboring small Gothic house (in the 17th century, rebuilt in Baroque style) in the Seminary Street and after 1769, was rebuilt on the 3rd floor. In the 80s of the 20th century, the house was significantly modified from the original structure remained only part of the perimeter walls and interiors to the level of the first floor. In basements, ground floor and first floor are barrel vaults.
The facade is decorated with stucco reliefs Johann Ulrich Mayer from 1713. They are located in three levels. Amid under the associated window on the second floor, is in gilded medallion Palladium of Czech, ie. semifigures Stará Boleslav Virgin Mary with Jesus on the octagonal star-founded Circle. Above the star pair of angels bears the crown, under the star is on the sides of a pair of crowned Czech lion. Left stands St. Wenceslas, right there nesvatořečený John of Nepomuk. Around the windows on the first floor is dvojicemorových patrons (left St. Sebastian, right St. Roch) and the third floor of the Jesuit patrons (left about St. Ignatius and right St. Francis Xavier and Francis Borgia). Above the window on the third floor is a relief lying plague patron Saint Rosalia.
Today the building houses a hotel Aurus (www.aurushotel.cz).
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Empty ethanol train B658 crosses the crossing at the bottom of the New River Gorge. Thanks to Hurricane Helene, this train was designed to run up the Clinchfield, but several freights and extra trains have detoured through different mountains then they're used to as CSX repairs the now nonexistent Blue Ridge Sub.
Sidney Woodruff (red), graduate student, talks about Western Pond Turtle that are in her research with Emily Phillips (blue), a ecology graduate student, Natalia Younan (pink), a wildlife and fish coservation major, Raaghav Sexena, animal biology major, and Catelyn Bylsma (grey), evolution, ecology and biodiversity major, in the Arboretum on June 8, 2022.
The project involves assisting Dr. Brian Todd and Ph.D. Student Sidney Woodruff in a research study evaluating how native species respond to the removal of non-native species and waterway restoration. The research objectives are to investigate the abundance and population demography of the native Western pond turtle (Actineymys marmorata) and population response in growth and demography from the removal of non-native red-eared sliders. Natural populations of the Western pond turtle are found in the UC Davis Arboretum where red-eared sliders occupy the same ecological niche in high densities. Natural populations of Western pond turtles are found in the nearby South Fork of Putah Creek where the presence of non-native turtles is extremely low or nonexistent. This work can highlight the importance of waterway restoration in building a more resilient ecosystem while supporting the recovery and conservation of native species.
Providing this opportunity will allow undergraduate students to be involved in wildlife conservation research under the supervision of a graduate student mentor and PI while also supporting the objectives of this study and the restoration of the UC Davis Arboretum.
A Nonexistent Retirement Age.
Where She Was From
I am from the undeveloped films sitting in my drawers
waiting to view what I’ve seen as if I’ve never seen it before
I am from the mystery illuminated in my eyes
observing the souls around me as I keep quiet
I am from the acrylic paint gripping onto the thread of my clothes
Reminding me of the purpose of a specific art piece I’ve made
I am from the long hours I spend in what I love to do
I am from opening my mind to greater things
Allowing myself to reach outside my comfort zone
I am from breaking free from my shell
From sitting there awkwardly to starting a conversation with an unfamiliar face
I am from new experiences that widen my perspectives
From a dogmatic attitude to an empathic mind
I am from the positivity I have grown to have
I am from change
Therefore
I am not who I once was
I have killed the last version of myself
She did not belong here
I am not from the sorrow filled nights
She was never content with her life
I am not from the constant fights with myself at 2am
She loved no sleep
I am not from the scars I’ve created on myself
She was selfish
I am not from preventing myself from moving on
She was stuck in the past
And I am certainly not defined by my mistakes and flaws
And I certainly do not want to be She.
I am defined by the changes I have made to better myself: I am me, not she.
She is dead.
While I am growing.
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Sidney Woodruff (red), graduate student, shares a laught with Raaghav Sexena, animal biology major, and Catelyn Bylsma (grey), evolution, ecology and biodiversity major, as the do research in the Arboretum on June 8, 2022.
The project involves assisting Dr. Brian Todd and Ph.D. Student Sidney Woodruff in a research study evaluating how native species respond to the removal of non-native species and waterway restoration. The research objectives are to investigate the abundance and population demography of the native Western pond turtle (Actineymys marmorata) and population response in growth and demography from the removal of non-native red-eared sliders. Natural populations of the Western pond turtle are found in the UC Davis Arboretum where red-eared sliders occupy the same ecological niche in high densities. Natural populations of Western pond turtles are found in the nearby South Fork of Putah Creek where the presence of non-native turtles is extremely low or nonexistent. This work can highlight the importance of waterway restoration in building a more resilient ecosystem while supporting the recovery and conservation of native species.
Providing this opportunity will allow undergraduate students to be involved in wildlife conservation research under the supervision of a graduate student mentor and PI while also supporting the objectives of this study and the restoration of the UC Davis Arboretum.
Sidney Woodruff, graduate student, talks about the data they will be recording on the red ear slider with Natalia Younan, a wildlife and fish coservation major, Raaghav Sexena, animal biology major, and Catelyn Bylsma, evolution, ecology and biodiversity major, in the Arboretum on June 8, 2022.
The project involves assisting Dr. Brian Todd and Ph.D. Student Sidney Woodruff in a research study evaluating how native species respond to the removal of non-native species and waterway restoration. The research objectives are to investigate the abundance and population demography of the native Western pond turtle (Actineymys marmorata) and population response in growth and demography from the removal of non-native red-eared sliders. Natural populations of the Western pond turtle are found in the UC Davis Arboretum where red-eared sliders occupy the same ecological niche in high densities. Natural populations of Western pond turtles are found in the nearby South Fork of Putah Creek where the presence of non-native turtles is extremely low or nonexistent. This work can highlight the importance of waterway restoration in building a more resilient ecosystem while supporting the recovery and conservation of native species.
Providing this opportunity will allow undergraduate students to be involved in wildlife conservation research under the supervision of a graduate student mentor and PI while also supporting the objectives of this study and the restoration of the UC Davis Arboretum.
Redlands is in sunny southern California, hence the state of this soon to be nonexistent snowman.
~Photo by Library friend Kendall
Maine state capitol in Augusta. The only other time I've seen this building was way back in late summer 1996. The dome was green then. Coppery green, like the Statue of Liberty (as is given away in the collage picture of the capitol made of business cards posted here). It was recently repainted black, within the last few years.
It's a fairly straightforward and understated capitol which makes it enjoyable. The city of Augusta...an unusual place. A town of 20,000, there aren't many amenities here, and public transportation is nonexistent. I was incredibly lucky to get uber drivers, according to the one who drove me back to the bus station. Overall, Maine isn't a place to be if you aren't driving yourself around.
A headlining performance by Looming at Black Sheep Cafe in Springfield, IL on January 17, 2014. Openers included Meredosia, Bad Catman, Bookmobile, and The Flips.
Words cannot describe how good it felt to be shooting another show at Black Sheep after so long. It doesn't have the greatest lighting and the photo pit is nonexistent, but I just feel so at home there because that community of people is just incredible. They all support each other so much and it's amazing to be a part of that and to get to photograph it every so often. And then getting to be the guest photographer for Harm House's "Record of the Night" was absolutely awesome. Honestly, when I look back, I can't even begin to describe how thankful I am to the Black Sheep venue and community for everything they've done for me. This was my training ground when I was really getting started, and these are the people who took me in and accepted me without question and without reservation. That, and they put on some kick-ass shows =)
Irham is in the process of teaching his children Andi and Ina the ropes of the coffee business, along with the other leaders of the Gayo Organic Coffee Farmers' Cooperative. Ina is especially enthusiastic- although Ina speaks limited English and my Gayo is nonexistent, I can tell she is a coffee person and loves this business.
3 more to go! Although the flight attendant wanted our window shades down, to facilitate the nonexistent movie-watchers, I couldn't resist peeking at the South Pacific...
Getting people together for Record of the Night...
Words cannot describe how good it felt to be shooting another show at Black Sheep after so long. It doesn't have the greatest lighting and the photo pit is nonexistent, but I just feel so at home there because that community of people is just incredible. They all support each other so much and it's amazing to be a part of that and to get to photograph it every so often. And then getting to be the guest photographer for Harm House's "Record of the Night" was absolutely awesome. Honestly, when I look back, I can't even begin to describe how thankful I am to the Black Sheep venue and community for everything they've done for me. This was my training ground when I was really getting started, and these are the people who took me in and accepted me without question and without reservation. That, and they put on some kick-ass shows =)
The Sportsman, a Shepherd Neame pub in Seasalter, near Whitstable. Well not worth the walk. A potentially decent pub with massive, embarrassing pretensions to be a restaurant. Customer service nonexistent, overcrowded, overrated, and no view at all of the sea!
Model: Sweetgum Balls
Photographer: tanith k
Editor: tanith k
I went for a brief photo walk in the neighborhood today. It was a bit chilly, but the sun was warm and the wind was nonexistent. Which was very lovely! The 'hood is littered with sweetgum trees. Ugh. They are so blah in the fall and they dump their gumballs everywhere. But when the lighting and pose is just right, I can't say "no" to taking its photo.
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Sidney Woodruff, graduate student, talks about how to how different the Red Ear Slider and the Western Pong Turtle are for her research with Emily Phillips (blue), a ecology graduate student, Natalia Younan (pink), a wildlife and fish coservation major, Raaghav Sexena, animal biology major, and Catelyn Bylsma (grey), evolution, ecology and biodiversity major, in the Arboretum on June 8, 2022.
The project involves assisting Dr. Brian Todd and Ph.D. Student Sidney Woodruff in a research study evaluating how native species respond to the removal of non-native species and waterway restoration. The research objectives are to investigate the abundance and population demography of the native Western pond turtle (Actineymys marmorata) and population response in growth and demography from the removal of non-native red-eared sliders. Natural populations of the Western pond turtle are found in the UC Davis Arboretum where red-eared sliders occupy the same ecological niche in high densities. Natural populations of Western pond turtles are found in the nearby South Fork of Putah Creek where the presence of non-native turtles is extremely low or nonexistent. This work can highlight the importance of waterway restoration in building a more resilient ecosystem while supporting the recovery and conservation of native species.
Providing this opportunity will allow undergraduate students to be involved in wildlife conservation research under the supervision of a graduate student mentor and PI while also supporting the objectives of this study and the restoration of the UC Davis Arboretum.
acrylic on paper.
Existential fear (2008)
There is nothingness everywhere. For infinitive years he was not there in any part of this universe. Don’t know why. Don’t know how. He came into being. Why I was not there for this infinitive years. Why I came into being now. He knew there is infinite importance for his life.
After my deaths I will not be there for infinite years. After that will I again come into existence? Don’t know. In brief I exist. That is a truth that cannot be ignored.
There are no other qualities for brain other than that we know through our brain. If it is like that if brain is making mind then the qualities in brain even though it exists outside must be making itself. Some philosophers consider Physical force and space to be the creator of consciousness. If we know physical force through our mind that force which we know through our mind when somebody pushes us is making our mind. If we do not know physical force through our mind some unknown thing is making our mind. In brief we don't know correctly what inside brain is making our mind. That will not happen in any case. Because what we consider as the creator of consciousness even if it may exist outside is the constituent of consciousness.
What ever we don’t know scientists will tell that it is energy. Energy means work. in human beings language work has only one meaning. Movement in space time. Above told entities are not enough to explain how the consciousness is made. That is why scientists consider consciousness as a mystery and tells that it can’t be explained
there is no answer for the question, what will happen after death. Sometimes it may be asleep for infinitive time. A sleep without awakening afterwards. The question is that why one will not awaken. How can one sleep for infinitive time. Infinity itself is a question. How something which exists will become nonexistent. Why something which is happening on my own brain might not again happen in another planet. Man is always in doubt because there exist several possibilities for him. There is Possibility that he may or might not exist. For infinitive years i may or might not exist. After infinitive i will surely exist. It is told that two parallel line will meet on infinity.
it is not a big deal that time is moving. it is not a big deal if time is moving from past to present. Experience is changing its color otherwise nothing is happening. More important than existing is I know. I know that i exist. Is it true?
Two things are important. First one is I knows. Other thing is I exist. Do I really exist? Or is it like I only know that I exist. I know because I exist. Even if I didn’t exist there is no use. I exist. Whatever i was before my birth That will I be after death.
Sidney Woodruff (black shirt, sunglasses, short curly hair) , a graduate student, works with a group in the Arboretum on August 8, 2023. The project involves assisting Dr. Brian Todd and Ph.D. Student Sidney Woodruff in a research study evaluating how native species respond to the removal of non-native species and waterway restoration. The research objectives are to investigate the abundance and population demography of the native Western pond turtle (Actineymys marmorata) and population response in growth and demography from the removal of non-native red-eared sliders. Natural populations of the Western pond turtle are found in the UC Davis Arboretum where red-eared sliders occupy the same ecological niche in high densities. Natural populations of Western pond turtles are found in the nearby South Fork of Putah Creek where the presence of non-native turtles is extremely low or nonexistent. This work can highlight the importance of waterway restoration in building a more resilient ecosystem while supporting the recovery and conservation of native species.
Providing this opportunity will allow undergraduate students to be involved in wildlife conservation research under the supervision of a graduate student mentor and PI while also supporting the objectives of this study and the restoration of the UC Davis Arboretum.
Sidney Woodruff, graduate student, talks about the data they will be recording with Emily Phillips (blue), a ecology graduate student, Natalia Younan (pink), a wildlife and fish coservation major, Raaghav Sexena, animal biology major, and Catelyn Bylsma (grey), evolution, ecology and biodiversity major, in the Arboretum on June 8, 2022.
The project involves assisting Dr. Brian Todd and Ph.D. Student Sidney Woodruff in a research study evaluating how native species respond to the removal of non-native species and waterway restoration. The research objectives are to investigate the abundance and population demography of the native Western pond turtle (Actineymys marmorata) and population response in growth and demography from the removal of non-native red-eared sliders. Natural populations of the Western pond turtle are found in the UC Davis Arboretum where red-eared sliders occupy the same ecological niche in high densities. Natural populations of Western pond turtles are found in the nearby South Fork of Putah Creek where the presence of non-native turtles is extremely low or nonexistent. This work can highlight the importance of waterway restoration in building a more resilient ecosystem while supporting the recovery and conservation of native species.
Providing this opportunity will allow undergraduate students to be involved in wildlife conservation research under the supervision of a graduate student mentor and PI while also supporting the objectives of this study and the restoration of the UC Davis Arboretum.
These are ALL the pictures I took, the good, the bad, and the fuzzy. I'll rotate and whatnot later. :)
Behold: I finally have a garden again! The garden in 2010 was okay - got enough tomatoes and basil to keep me happy, but not much else. The garden in 2011 was nonexistent, except for strawberries: there were NO sunny days until the 2nd week of August that year (not exaggerating). This year, the weather has been perfect since July 1, and I have the best garden I've had in Oregon. Note: all of the tomato plants on the left side of the photo showed up in pots with other plants this year - they were from seeds planted LAST year that never produced!
Shobhit stands on our stateroom balcony, looking at Ketchikan, Alaska.
Shobhit usually has on pants that make his butt look so flat it's nonexistent -- just pant drapes that fall straight down his backside. These pants, though, are actually kind of flattering on him.
Perhaps you've heard the French proverb "Fish discover water last."
. . . For fish, water simply is. It's their environment. It surrounds them. . . . They're unaware of its existence - until it becomes polluted or nonexistent. Then, the immediate and dramatic consequence makes it quickly apparent that quality water is absolutely essential for their well-being. Without it, the fish will die.
In a similar way, we as human beings discover trust last. Trust is an integral part of the fabric of our society. We depend on it. We take it for granted - unless it becomes polluted or destroyed. Then we come to the stark realization that trust may well be as vital to our own well-being as water is to a fish.
Without trust, society closes down and will ultimately self-destruct.
~ The Speed of Trust, Stephen M.R. Covey
Sidney Woodruff (red), graduate student, talks about Red Ear Slider for her research with Emily Phillips (blue), a ecology graduate student, Natalia Younan (pink), a wildlife and fish coservation major, Raaghav Sexena, animal biology major, and Catelyn Bylsma (grey), evolution, ecology and biodiversity major, in the Arboretum on June 8, 2022.
The project involves assisting Dr. Brian Todd and Ph.D. Student Sidney Woodruff in a research study evaluating how native species respond to the removal of non-native species and waterway restoration. The research objectives are to investigate the abundance and population demography of the native Western pond turtle (Actineymys marmorata) and population response in growth and demography from the removal of non-native red-eared sliders. Natural populations of the Western pond turtle are found in the UC Davis Arboretum where red-eared sliders occupy the same ecological niche in high densities. Natural populations of Western pond turtles are found in the nearby South Fork of Putah Creek where the presence of non-native turtles is extremely low or nonexistent. This work can highlight the importance of waterway restoration in building a more resilient ecosystem while supporting the recovery and conservation of native species.
Providing this opportunity will allow undergraduate students to be involved in wildlife conservation research under the supervision of a graduate student mentor and PI while also supporting the objectives of this study and the restoration of the UC Davis Arboretum.
On midsummer there is a church rowing event in keeping with old traditions when the river and lakes were more convenient and dependable than the almost nonexistent roads.
This is Latte. He is around 10 years old.
He purrs as loud as a motor boat, the concept of eating TOO much is nonexistent to him, and his favourite activity is eating grass and then regurgitating it a couple of hours later.
The High Line…again. February 8, 2024
Although there is nothing really new in this group of photos, it was still a great day to get out under a clear blue sky and escape from the house for a few hours. Yes it was another trip south on the High Line for the umpteenth time, and yes, another stop for lunch at the Berlin Currywurst stand at Chelsea Market, and then a walk through the West Village to Grace Church at 10th St and Broadway to listen to the daily “Bach at Noon” concert. It was a completely relaxing journey, with occasional stops for a few photos, sort of looking at things with new eyes, and from new angles. Most of the photos came out quite well on this relaxing photo journey.
And with the holiday season over, and the fact that it was the middle of winter, crowds were nonexistent along the High Line. Wonderfull!
wow i know i have been nonexistent on this website for quite a while. I would like to blame it on the fact that flickr doesn't even look the same and i do not like it one bit. but i actually haven't touched my camera a whole bunch and when i have, i haven't been quite as serious about it as i used to be. hopefully that will change soon. i miss it.
Concept thingy for a nonexistent design firm BECAUSE I'M AWESOME. Featuring the not-so-bad free font Lot, which I found on Smashing Magazine.
Atlanta Braves baseball from 20 September 2019 (the night they clinched the division crown). The new park (opened in 2018) gets panned a little because it's usually pretty hot in Georgia and a heck of a lot of seats are in direct sun.
It's a relatively generic stadium (in the new mold of generic stadiums), but it's nice. The area outside the stadium (bars/restaurants) is actually a bit more interesting/unique than the stadium itself.
The biggest drawback is that the Atlanta Braves no longer play in Atlanta. (That and parking is almost nonexistent up there in Marietta near the stadium. We were scratching our heads looking for the actual parking lots.)
As for the game...it was a great game. First time in my life I actually got to see a division-clinching game. (They'd clinched a playoff spot a few days before.)
Bookmobile supporting Meredosia, Bad Catman, The Flips, and Looming at Black Sheep Cafe in Springfield, IL on January 17, 2014.
Words cannot describe how good it felt to be shooting another show at Black Sheep after so long. It doesn't have the greatest lighting and the photo pit is nonexistent, but I just feel so at home there because that community of people is just incredible. They all support each other so much and it's amazing to be a part of that and to get to photograph it every so often. And then getting to be the guest photographer for Harm House's "Record of the Night" was absolutely awesome. Honestly, when I look back, I can't even begin to describe how thankful I am to the Black Sheep venue and community for everything they've done for me. This was my training ground when I was really getting started, and these are the people who took me in and accepted me without question and without reservation. That, and they put on some kick-ass shows =)
Sidney Woodruff (red), graduate student, talks about Western Pond Turtle that are in her research with Emily Phillips (blue), a ecology graduate student, Natalia Younan (pink), a wildlife and fish coservation major, Raaghav Sexena, animal biology major, and Catelyn Bylsma (grey), evolution, ecology and biodiversity major, in the Arboretum on June 8, 2022.
The project involves assisting Dr. Brian Todd and Ph.D. Student Sidney Woodruff in a research study evaluating how native species respond to the removal of non-native species and waterway restoration. The research objectives are to investigate the abundance and population demography of the native Western pond turtle (Actineymys marmorata) and population response in growth and demography from the removal of non-native red-eared sliders. Natural populations of the Western pond turtle are found in the UC Davis Arboretum where red-eared sliders occupy the same ecological niche in high densities. Natural populations of Western pond turtles are found in the nearby South Fork of Putah Creek where the presence of non-native turtles is extremely low or nonexistent. This work can highlight the importance of waterway restoration in building a more resilient ecosystem while supporting the recovery and conservation of native species.
Providing this opportunity will allow undergraduate students to be involved in wildlife conservation research under the supervision of a graduate student mentor and PI while also supporting the objectives of this study and the restoration of the UC Davis Arboretum.
34. Let me be the first to say that I am by no means super talented when it comes to photoshop at all and to even undertake this cover was an extraordinary test of my nonexistent skill. I'm sure much more experienced and learned photoshoppers out there could have pulled this off in mere minutes, but I have no clue how to work these kinds of magic. I simply played and tweaked layers and filters and adjusted this and messed with that. The end result is nothing I would claim to be all that proud of, but for not knowing what the hell I'm doing with these kinds of effects...it could've looked worse.
The Flips supporting Meredosia, Bad Catman, Bookmobile, and Looming at Black Sheep Cafe in Springfield, IL on January 17, 2014.
Words cannot describe how good it felt to be shooting another show at Black Sheep after so long. It doesn't have the greatest lighting and the photo pit is nonexistent, but I just feel so at home there because that community of people is just incredible. They all support each other so much and it's amazing to be a part of that and to get to photograph it every so often. And then getting to be the guest photographer for Harm House's "Record of the Night" was absolutely awesome. Honestly, when I look back, I can't even begin to describe how thankful I am to the Black Sheep venue and community for everything they've done for me. This was my training ground when I was really getting started, and these are the people who took me in and accepted me without question and without reservation. That, and they put on some kick-ass shows =)