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"I wanted to travel and work at the same time, and au pairing seemed like the ideal way to do that"
"You could equally end up in a place you don’t like?"
(Friend) “Yeah, I had to live with this horrible family in France. They hit the children, wouldn’t let me out, and they electrocuted their dog. They seemed like really nice people on Skype. The kids were nice, but the parents were horrible. I really wanted to take the kids with me when I left, but I couldn’t of course. I quit after a few months”
"Same for me, I was meant to be with this family for a year, and then after a couple of months I wasn’t liking it because it wasn’t work. It was sitting in a house, telling kids to do their homework"
"How is that different to being an au pair?"
"Well, that is au pairing, but in this case the parents would be there, with you, and you’d still be the one telling the kids to do their homework. It was like being a second mum, it wasn’t nice really."
We picked these up at a farmer's market in Provence to go with our ham and baguettes. Simple, but so good. That's my kind of lunch.
Early start of the season in a warm and cloudy afternoon. The dried field was full of ticks.
A new lens introduced recently was available to shoot with: OM System M.Zuiko ED 90mm F3.5 Macro IS PRO. It worked very well, lots of things to discover in the near future about it!
A tack of 53 natural light exposures at 2X magnification.
A pair of 1978 Bristols, a Devon General VR, VDV142S, and a Western National LH, AFJ 692T.
Seen at Penzance.
This pair of towers (at 38 and 41 stories, the Bronx's tallest) was built to provide 871 units of affordable rental housing under the Mitchell-Lama program. Rudolph's design is reminiscent of his earlier Crawford Manor in New Haven: its futuristic-Brutalist appearance belies a fairly ordinary structure of concrete columns and slabs, with precast infill. The walls have Rudolph’s favored “corduroy” texture, which is detailed to imply continuous verticals, as if the huge oval “piers” are the structure and the other spaces are hung between them. In fact, the ovals are rather poorly-lit bedrooms, with closets shoved against the real columns, and the pre-fab corduroy surfaces are simply cladding. The project is thus a perfect “Duck” per Venturi and Scott Brown’s critique of Crawford: conveying the message “Super-Modern Building found here” displaces all other concerns. (The living rooms do take advantage of the kingly views, though.) The Baroque curviness is meant to evoke the geometry of the adjacent parkway, while staving off the client’s desire for a circular building.
The whole thing is an air-rights cap over the Mosholu rail yards; Rudolph had hoped to further cap the parking deck with a leafy trellis and townhouse-style units. Perhaps someone pointed out that two- and three-story buildings perched atop a three-story concrete cliff made for fairly unconvincing "townhouses." Nonetheless, the scheme's biggest failing (at a design level) is its insufficient urbanity; as with some other Mitchell-Lama projects, I suspect cost savings found in unconventional sites contributed to a long-term sense of (unpleasant) isolation. There is no walking route to, or into, the buildings that is not in some wise a slog. As well, today's residents are suffering from a major recent rent hike (after getting it partially reduced by the courts).
As landmarks, the buildings are another story - striking, visible for miles, with the rhythm of open and closed surfaces leading to fantastic sculptural effects in strong light. If they just plugged into something more convincing at ground level these might be thought of as classics.
This pair have nested in the garden. Two or three times a day they both fly around and one feeds the other .. cute!
(Colaptes auratus) It was pairs day in the Park today. Not the greatest of shots, but useful for comparing the genders.
The Ukrainian Carpathians.
Vizhnitsa, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine.
SLR Camera: Minolta Dynax 404si
Lens: Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm f1.7 RS
Film: Kodak Ultramax 400
Filter: Hoya UV(0)
Film was processed and scanned by "Mark" Studio Lab. in Chernivtsi. I am happy with the results.
To see the pictures taken with this camera click here.
Thank you for your comments and Fav's.
Another pair of items commonly found around the home, I shot these on a black surface with a black background on my new tabletop studio. Staying with the 50mm lens I stopped down the lens all the way to f/22 to give me a deep depth of field and converted the color image to B &W. A hint as to what you're looking at: This is NOT two images of the International Space Station. I'll let you know in the comments, in a few days what these are (just in case you haven't figured it out)...
Comments and constructive feedback are always appreciated!
Another pair of turnstones waiting for the tide to turn so they can get back to foraging at Walton on the Naze. D500_24194.NEF. Many thanks for views, comments and favourites.
MUST BE VIEWED IN STEREO TO FULLY APPRECIATE!
A 3D (stereo) crosseye view.
TO SEE THIS IN 3D, there's a tutorial here: