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Last year started out on an optimistic note, on a nice sunny day, as I recall. I had 30 or 40 people over for Hoppin' John, and we all had a festive time. And then look at what that year became.
So this year has started out on a decidedly gloomy note. No visitors allowed. Rain and wind. Too gloomy to go out for a walk. Just right for indulging my depression on the couch all day with 47 episodes of Big Bang Theory. So....maybe that means that the year will become something positive and wonderful and sane.
That reasoning sounds plausible enough.
The We're Here! gang is exploring Dark Days today.
There's something very optimistic about a sunrise. I photographed this one on Seven Mile Beach a few weeks ago - you might recognise the hues from my first postcard video. I am sometimes asked how I manage to be in the 'right place at the right time' and the answer is that it is far from lucky. I simply go out as often as I can and let the law of averages work in my favour. Or to put it another way, if you don't go fishing, you won't catch a fish. Cheers me dears :)
An optimistic sign in the front window of the Uptown Theatre, 225 South Ohio Avenue, Sedalia, Missouri. The Uptown Theatre opened in 1936 and was designed by the Boller brothers.The theatre closed in 1975 and the building has been vacant ever since. Renovation efforts were underway around 2017, but these have petered out and as of May 2023 the building was up for auction.
My friend Jon is the most optimistic supporter in the world. Even in the most desperate times in Oxford United's recent existence, he's stuck with them thick and thin - and never had a negative comment to make about his beloved Us. Here he is sneaking a glance inside the stadium before a game late last season - Oxford's successful promotion season from the Blue Square Premier.
I tweaked with this image a couple of ways using GIMP. I first did the selective colour thing to kind of bring out Jon's optimism in otherwise gloomy times - Oxford had blown a big lead at the top of the Conference and at this point were looking consigned to the pain of the play-offs. I followed the excellent tutorial found here for this:
www.gimp.org/tutorials/Selective_Color/
Then I also followed another of the tutorials to lighten up the shadows on the photo to get some more of the stadium detail out:
“Mildly optimistic”. That’s what I told my friends (Monte Sano regulars) on my morning weather report. I’m usually up there before anybody else and it helps to know what the weather is really like. And I was “mildly optimistic” is would be a decent sunrise. You really don’t know what you’re going to get. Just show up and hope for the best.
A very unusual color combination: Streaked orange down low and puffy red up top. It was an interesting morning.
Nikon D7200 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
32mm
F8@1/50th
ISO 400
GND filter
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©Don Brown 2023
I'm optimistically naming this one in the hopes of doing a series on the New York subway system. Not a new idea, by any means, but it could be interesting....plus, it is getting too cold outside ;-).
Part of my Life Underground Series
Photo captured via Minolta MD Rokkor-X 85mm F/1.7 lens. Spokane Indian Reservation. Selkirk Mountains Range. Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills section within the Northern Rockies Region. Inland Northwest. Stevens County, Washington. Early October 2020.
Exposure Time: 1/6 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 4700 K * Film Plug-In: Fuji Provia 100F * Filter: Hoya HMC CIR-PL (⌀55mm) * Elevation: 2,520 feet above sea-level
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Autumn impressions from Graz and (near) Vienna Lobau - I know, I'm late with my autumn pictures, but I wanted to use Lightroom and I had to learn it first. :-)
This optimistic young man stayed out on the still water for a hour or more hoping for a wave. Naples, Florida has a lot to offer…unfortunately waves are are not one of them. The area is know for it's calm, still, warm waters. Dream on young man.
Taken at the Naples Pier in Naples Florida..
Optimistic Fantasy ;;; Just Hold The Hands & Drop The Knees
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With their optimistic hue and general association with good cheer, yellow roses are the perfect way to toast friends, lift spirits and send a general wish for well-being.
And that’s great news for those who love roses—the rose is known for its simple, architectural beauty, but some colors are so loaded with significance that they can be a bit tricky to work with.
Sending a get-well bouquet of red roses to your administrative assistant might raise eyebrows around the office, for instance. Suffice it to say, you can never go wrong with yellow roses.
In the outdoor gardens at Lake Merritt, Oakland
To a nature loving optimistic photographer like myself, I often go to extremes to get that 'one-shot' that has a certain story, flair or is otherwise interesting, at least for myself. My goal is first to please myself with the adventure of obtaining a fun image, perhaps even a composition that would be enjoyed by others. And occasionally there turns out to be a few bumps along the way, and an interesting story to go along with the photo.
Such was the case this last Saturday at the wooded Harrison Hills Park near the border of four counties in Western Pennsylvania. Every Saturday morning I often hike along a scenic trail which lies at the top of a very steep ridge along the Allegheny River. At the base of the ridge are railroad tracks. I don't often see trains along there, but on this occasion, there was a train stopped right below me.
In winter the view is spectacular; off in the distance one can see the town of Freeport, and there are snow covered hills and trees as far as the eye can see if one looks up the valley. The river itself is often teaming with various forms of ducks and geese often heard, and with binoculars seen down in the distance.
On this particular day I spied a bird's nest, by my estimation most likely the nest of a Red-eyed Vireo based on the size and location in the branch of a small wild Black-Cherry tree. I decide that I'd try to get a photo of this durable nest, even though it was situated down about 15 feet from my position. The embankment there is quite steep, and against my better judgment I began to descend a little bit over the edge. There was a nice foot hold for my right leg which I decided was the best place to make pictures. I dared not go any further. I took a few photos, but my zoom was only 3x, and decided I need to get just a few inches further.
Suddenly I slipped onto my back, but yet did not slide down the ridge. My cool head told me to put the camera away, which I did, luckily, I even managed to get my glove back on my right hand. But how would I get out of this predicament? A moment later I began to slide, and slid on my back halfway down the steep ridge. Luckily, a log loomed large and I grabbed it, otherwise who knows how much further I would have gone, and to what peril.
I was able to gain my feet, inspect for damage, to which there was none, and traverse along the ridge to a place where trees with many hand holds afforded a chance for me to ascend back out of the ridge back to the path. I went back to where I had fallen and marveled at my luck. I then proceeded to place a few well laid foot prints so that anyone else coming upon the scene wouldn't worry that someone had fallen over the cliff because the tracks would have appeared to go one way only: down. I didn't want anyone to institute a search.
Perhaps some day, another photographer, in a similar situation, will think of my story, and err on the side of caution. Maybe my foolhardy escapade will have not been for naught.
Flies are buzzing around my head
Vultures circling the dead
Picking up every last crumb
Big fish eat the little ones
Big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem give me some
Radiohead
"Optimistic"
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El fusell alemany de la I Guerra Mundial, el Mauser Gewehr 98 (no comfondre amb el Kar98k de la II Guerra Mundial, més petit), tenia un molt optimista mira graduada des de 400 fins a 2000 metres. Com si haguessis de encertar a algú a dos quilometres!
www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=WkBrh1euWg0
El Museu del Exercit Nacional o Muzeum Armii Krajowej, a Cracovia, mostra la organització d'una resistencia armada durant la Segona Guerra Mundial contra la conquesta alemana del 1939, però també contra els sovietics tant a partir de 1939 (al·liats amb els nazis) com a partir de 1944. El més interessant és la colecció d'armes d'infanteria de l'època, sobretot les improvissades.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armia_Krajowa_Museum_in_Krak%C3%B3w
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The German World War I rifle, the Mauser Gewehr 98 (not to be confused with the smaller World War II Kar98k), had a very optimistic "tobogan" like rear sign graduated from 400 to 2000 meters. As if you had to hit someone two kilometers away!
www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=WkBrh1euWg0
The National Army Museum or Muzeum Armii Krajowej, in Krakow, shows the organization of an armed resistance during the Second World War against the German occupation of 1939, but also against the Soviets both from 1939 (allied with the Nazis ) as from 1944. Most interesting is the collection of infantry weapons of the time, especially the improvised ones.
Call me Snake offers an optimistic provocation – ‘imagine what could be here’ by Judy Millar. On a walk into the city October 3, 2015 Christchurch New Zealand.
The work is comprised of vibrant graphics of Millar’s looped paintings, which are adhered to five intersecting flat planes, and draws inspiration from the forms found in pop-up books. The colourful piece will add a dramatic and rhythmic counterpoint to the city’s current urban landscape — a mix of flattened sites, construction zones and defiant buildings that have stood through the quakes. The work employs theatricality, playfulness and visual trickery, whereby the viewer is unsure about the work’s flatness or three-dimensionality; and it has been designed to offer a different perspective from each angle. The bright colours interrupt the grey of the work’s surrounds, and as buildings pop up around it,
SCAPE 8, New Intimacies curated by Rob Garrett was a contemporary art event which mixed new artworks with existing legacy pieces, an education programme, and a public programme of events. The SCAPE 8 artworks were located around central Christchurch and linked via a public art walkway. All aspects of SCAPE 8 were free-to-view.
The title for the 2015 Biennial – New Intimacies – came from the idea that visually striking and emotionally engaging public art works can create new connections between people and places. Under the main theme of New Intimacies there are three other themes that artists responded to: Sight-Lines, Inner Depths and Shared Strengths.
For more Info: www.scapepublicart.org.nz/scape-8-judy-millar
An optimistic trip to Sidmouth for sunrise proved just that - optimistic. Therefore I tried to make what I could of this breakwater that I always have trouble with, composition-wise.
My initial design for the rear landing gear struts of the Hornet was optimistic at best. I used a ball and cup pivot joint design in order to replicate the look of the original design. Many visitors to my Flickr pages commented on the lack of structural strength inherent in the pieces and the design so I took to fix the problem.
Ralph Savelsberg directed me to his excellent Hornet model for reference. I did not want to directly copy Ralph’s design, but I did employ some of his connection techniques. From there, I redesigned the landing gear struts to be more resilient and still retract into the minute space of the fuselage. No easy task.
In this image, you can see the revised landing gear design on a F/A-18E Super Hornet of VFA-14 “Tophatters” coming in for a landing on the USS Nimitz. The Super Hornet model has larger flaps and a more sculpted engine nacelle design than the Legacy Hornet. Also note the larger, angled air intakes and slimmer nose.