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When the tides came in at the dusk, the beautiful world I saw at the Ruby Beach has been divided into three parts, the sky, the waves, and the sandy beach! Here I tried to capture the main elements of the beauty around the dusk, all in the blue! :-)

 

p.s. 歡迎點閱我最新的文章「透過flickr,展開與Getty Images的合作關係!」,或是我的部落格 光影、色彩、我,關於攝影二三事

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~Olympic National Park,華盛頓州,美國~

Ruby Beach, Olympic National Park, WA, USA

- ISO 200, F16, 13 sec, 35mm

- Canon 5D Mark II with EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L lens

- sunset @ 8.52pm / shot @ 9.25pm, 2011//7/29

- high tide 8.8m @1.40pm / low tide 2.8m @ 6.58pm

 

© copyright 2011 Hsiang Wei Chao

.|| This image may not be used for any purposes without the expressed, written permission of the photographer.

www.lokomotivy.net/adm/zobraz2.php?rada=r754&loko=7742

Železniční trať z Veselí nad Moravou přes Myjavu do Nového Mesta nad Váhom si již roky žije svým poklidným životem, který je zastoupen pouze osobními vlaky a velmi vzácně se buďto na české nebo slovenské straně trati objeví nákladní vlak. Většinou se jedná o manipulační vlaky, ale jednou za dlouhý čas je zde možné spatřit i nákladní vlak, který touto tratí tranzituje. V roce 2025 zajišťuje osobní dopravu v úseku Veselí nad Moravou – Myjava dopravce Arriva a ve zbylém slovenském úseku trať obsluhuje dopravce ZSSK. Potkat tedy na této trati jinou soupravu, než motorovou jednotkou, je doslova "zázrak". K tomu však došlo dne 25. ledna 2025, kdy se do stanice Velká nad Veličkou vydal z Brna vlak Pn 52489, který vezl devět vozů řady B k dlouhodobému odstavení. Právě stanice Velká nad Veličkou je pro tento účel vhodná, jelikož je v ní dostatek volného místa pro odstavení. Dopravu vlaku zajistil "brejlovec" 754.077, díky čemuž bylo možné po letech spatřit tuto lokomotivní řadu na této trati, a to ještě v čele dlouhé "klasické" soupravy. Snímek zachycuje průjezd tohoto vlaku bývalou stanicí Lipov, kde byla v roce 2002 zavedena výluka dopravní služby a v současnosti je zde pouze nákladiště se zastávkou a vjezdová návěstidla plní funkci automatického hradla. Samotné nasazení lokomotivy řady 754 na této trati umožnilo, se na pár chvil přenést o několik desítek let nazpět, kdy v letech 1981 až 1982 vozily bratislavské "čtyřky", tehdejší řady T478.4, po této trati noční rychlík 178/179 "Devín" [Bratislava hl.st. – Nové Mesto nad Váhom – Veselí nad Moravou – Brno hl.n. – Praha hl.n.] a zpět. Ten dopravovaly v úseku Bratislava–Brno a zpět. Následně pak v letech 1997 až 1999 zajišťovaly veselské "čtyřky" vozbu manipulačních vlaků 84221/84220 z Veselí nad Moravou do Velké nad Veličkou a zpět. V čele těchto manipulačních vlaků se několikrát objevil i na snímku zachycený stroj 754.077, jelikož byl toho času deponován ve veselském depu. Od května 1999 je tak jakákoliv návštěva "čtyřkových brejlovců" v těchto končinách poměrně velkou raritou, která stojí za zdokumentování i v nepříznivém počasí.

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6:47 pm CET -> El mismo río, el mismo punto de vista, un encuadre diferente

 

Focal length: 15 mm

Aperture: f/10

Exposure: 1 sec

ISO Speed: 100

 

Manfrotto 190CXPRO4 + 460MG

 

FLUIDR I flickriver I Flickr Hive Mind I Getty Images I 500px

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I'm taking more photos and I'm trying not to be so over critical and instead post more. Took this during my walk on the ice on saturday. I'm afraid I was stalking that poor old couple just to get something human into these shots (there'll probably be more to come). I hope I didn't scare them.

 

I've been tagged a couple of times so here we go

 

1. I have 2 days left of high school. it feels so good.

2. I want to go study photography in sweden next year. I'm nervous.

3. I love how much music can affect my mood.

4. I collect quotes, lyrics and beautiful words.

5. I wish I had more time to read.

6. I'm going interrailling through Italy this spring!

7. I have a loud laugh.

8. I've lived in the same house my entire life.

9. I saw 500 days of summer yesterday and Tom is now my imaginary boyfriend. I think more boys should dress like him.

11. Polaroid cameras have always fascinated me, I want one.

12. I love shooting live music.

13. I can't help dancing when I listen to Mumm ra's she's got you high

14. I tend to sing out loud when I walk to school with my headphones on

15. I wouldn't buy another brand than Nokia when it comes to phones.

16. I have a penpal i USA, her name is Alex and she's awesome.

17. I'm gonna learn how to play gnossienne nr.1 on piano before I die.

18. I'm also gonna learn to speak french.

19. I enjoy spending time on my own.

20. I have a test tomorrow and that is why I gladly made 10 extras.

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A blizzard blew as the ship, loaded with migrants bound for Australia, sat at its moorings awaiting clearance to cast off and begin its epic journey halfway around the world. Streamers thrown optimistically between ship and shore were blown off course by the wind and lost in the driving snow, denying those parting their symbolic breaking of the bonds. Not that it made any difference to him, personally. There was no one in Southampton to bid him farewell. His goodbyes had been said a day earlier on the railway platform in Aberdeen. He was already en route to the Antipodes.

 

The Beatles had recently released an album to catch the Christmas market and one of its tracks, I’ll Follow the Sun, seemed particularly appropriate for this shipload of migrants. One of the young people on board the vessel had brought with him a copy of the album but had no means of playing it until the ship docked at Port Said and was surrounded by a flotilla of vendors in Bum Boats selling all manner of goods from food, to clothes, to souvenirs, to watches and electronics. He bought a portable record player and from that moment onwards, the ship followed the sun to the sound of The Beatles, through the Suez Canal, down the Red Sea and across the Indian Ocean.

 

After voyaging for a month since leaving wintry England, they finally docked at the port of Fremantle in Western Australia. It was 106 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale as he stumbled down the gangplank and as the hot, stifling blanket of air enveloped him, almost suffocating him, he vowed to quit this inhospitable land at the first opportunity.

 

Needless to say, this vow, like so many others sworn on the spur of the moment, was not honored. But he never quite became acclimatized to the rigors of the Australian summer. And every year thereafter, as winter’s chill abated, The Beatles would taunt him with another of their songs: Here Comes the Sun

EXPLORE December 21, 2008 #157

 

Aquesta foto - tan poc habitual a la meva galeria - està dedicada a en Jordi Brió, que em va convidar a participar en l'Agrupació Fotogràfica d'Esparreguera.

Si teniu temps, visiteu la galeria d'en Jordi Brió, segur que us agradarà.

 

Aquesta fotografia la vaig fer durant la darrera sessió de foto-estudi de l'AFE. És la primera vegada que faig fotos d'estudi.

També és el meu primer intent provant tècniques de suavitzat de pell. Podeu veure l'original més avall. Qualsevol suggeriment per a millorar, serà benvingut.

 

Model: Nerea

 

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This picture - quite unusual in my photostream - is dedicated to Jordi Brió, who invited me to particpate in the Agrupació Fotogràfica d'Esparreguera (Esparreguera Photo Club, AFE).

If you can spare some time, please visit Jordi Brió's photostream, you will like it very much.

 

I took this picture in the last photo-studio at AFE. It has been the first time I've done studio photos.

This is also my first attempt trying skin softening tecniques. You can find the original picture below. Any suggestions to improve, will be welcome.

 

Model: Nerea

 

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View Large On Black Photo taken in the park at the corner of Broadway and 10th St in Red Lodge, MT... where we have a vacation home... Red Lodge was included in the National Geographic Adventure 2008 list of Best Places to live at the number 10 position:

 

10. Red Lodge, Montana

Set beside Yellowstone National Park in the wooded Beartooth Mountain foothills, Red Lodge is the toned-down Jackson alternative—complete with a smaller (and less intimidating) ski resort on its 9,416-foot signature peak. The town’s epic 71-mile Peaks to Prairie triathlon every April shows outsiders what they’re missing.

Population: 2,455

Median home price: $290,760

 

Note that I've been told to go back and mark my photos (the images included in my gallery show starting Feb 12, 2010) as mine to guard against the unscrupulous folks out there in the world around us... none of my Flickr friends/contacts fall into that category!

Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: ODETTE ARRIVES /

LA LLEGADA DE ODETTE

 

(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 08 of 17) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

 

FOTOSTORY: In English / En Español

L: Sheryl... just wondering... didn't you think of making Watari to share the responsibility of taking care of all the children? ¬¬

Sheryl: XD I'm not clear about Watari yet, but I advance that Mello will be here very soon.

L: … Great... u_u

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L: Sheryl... por un casual... no se te ha pasado por la cabeza hacer a Watari para no cargar yo con toda la responsabilidad? ¬¬

Sheryl: XD Watari no lo sé aun, pero el que si que vendrá en breve será Mello.

L: … Genial... u_u

 

LINKS:

- Las FOTOHISTORIAS de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es

- Sheryl Photostories at Flickr

From www.artic.edu/artexplorer/search.php?tab=2&resource=65:

 

Will the apples fall off the table? Explore the tension between stability and imbalance in this late still life by Cezanne.

 

Many of Paul Cézanne's late still lifes depict complex arrangements whose artificial character underscores the artist's role as contriver. They are, however, very different from the seventeenth-century Dutch prototypes to which they are sometimes compared. Cézanne never aimed at illusionism, and his still-life compositions can be anthropomorphic, expressive of psychological tension, in ways never dreamt of by his Baroque predecessors.

 

The Basket of Apples exemplifies this effect. The theatrical tilt of the basket implies that the apples on the tabletop have rolled out of it; yet the way they huddle and nestle in the crumpled napkin suggests that they possess independent minds. The biscuits on a plate are carefully stacked, but they too seem animate, as if straining to take in the drama unfolding before them. The bottle—slightly askew and off center, teasingly close to stabilizing union with the picture's upper edge—presides over the scene like a dark sentinel. Poised between resolution and imbalance, sensation and ponderation, The Basket of Apples makes tangible the complex eye-mind interplay that determines visual experience.

 

Cézanne's grave attentiveness to this dynamic gives his art a philosophical cast, but the pleasures afforded by his robust color chords, lively touch, and sure compositional instincts make it seductive. Here, his considered juxtapositions of autumnal hues, like the resolutely disjointed table edges and intentionally "unfinished" contours, draw attention to the deliberative nature of art-making.

 

Cézanne's determination to recognize the provisional nature of perception derives from Impressionism, but his stress on the tension between optical sensation and aesthetic transformation sets him apart. In his mature work, he found beauty of a new kind in the inherently charged dialogue between contingency and contemplation, thereby facilitating the more radical break with realistic representation effected by the Cubists and other modernists in the early twentieth century.

 

An examination of Cezanne's dynamic composition of fruit and objects in this still life from the mid-1890s.

 

Paul Cezanne spent most of his working life in and around the southern French city of Aix-en-Provence and, partially as a result of his self-imposed isolation, was for many years all but unknown in Paris. In 1895, he was persuaded by the dealer Ambroise Vollard to have a one-man show in Paris. The exhibition, held at Vollard's popular gallery, was not an important financial success, but it had a profound effect on the history of French art. It was the first time in nearly twenty years that French artists who had heard about this painter from Provence could actually see his work. Basket of Apples was among the paintings selected by Cezanne and Vollard for inclusion in this exhibition. Like several of the other paintings in the exhibition, it was signed, most probably at the insistence of Vollard, who felt that an unsigned painting might be considered unfinished and, hence, would fail to sell. Cezanne grudgingly complied, and, for that reason, the paintings in the Vollard exhibition are among the few the artist actually signed.

 

Basket of Apples is among Cezanne's "baroque" still lifes painted in the late 1880's and 1890's. Its pictorial structure derives from seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes. Like the Dutch artists, Cezanne sought to establish a dynamic, asymmetrical arrangement of objects that are held in place only by the painter's compositional skills. Yet, where such an effect of imbalance was merely a compositional device of the Dutch painters, it was an essential element of Cezanne's conception of the still life. Cezanne recognized the fact that the artist is not bound to represent real objects in real space. He was able, therefore, to impart to everything a strength and relative position that could not possibly be duplicated in an actual studio arrangement.

 

Here, the basket filled with apples tilts improbably on a small base or stand, its contents held in check only by a bottle and a cloth, in whose complex, craggy folds lie many other pieces of fruit. The table, like virtually every one in a Cezanne still life, has four edges that cannot be aligned to form an exact rectangle. At the raised upper right corner of the table, the artist created a latticed "log-cabin" of the French pastry called dents de loup, contrasting the informal and unstable arrangement of the circular apples on the table with the architectonic stack of cookies. Both arrangements vie for dominance around the central form of the bottle, which, with its own silhouette shifting from left to right, acts as an anchor for a composition in endless flux. Thus, the balance that Cezanne achieved is a purely pictorial one: the actual arrangement of objects he painted in his studio could never have possessed the dynamism and tension with which it is endowed in Basket of Apples.

Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: SHIN CALLS GABRIEL (1 of 1) /

SHIN LLAMA A GABRIEL (1 de 1)

 

(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 27 of 38) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38.

 

FOTOHISTORY: In English / En Español

Shin: Now you have the perfect excuse to ask Saw to let you come here some days on holidays... not only to see your mate Shin, but also to know your brand-new-sexy-sister... hahahaha! XD

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Shin: Ahora tendrás que decirle a Saw que te deje venir unos días de vacaciones... ya no solo para ver a tu colega Shin, sino para poder conocer también a tu hermana-maziza... jajajajajaja! XD

 

LINKS:

- Hilo de las Fotohistorias de Shin y Gabriel en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es

- Hilo de la Relación entre Shin y Gabriel en la sección de Penpals de Pullip .es

- FOTOHISTORIAS en casa de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es

- Saw Canceled and Sheryl PHOTOSTORIES at Flickr

- Sheryl Photostories at Flickr

- Saw Canceled PhotoStories at Flickr

 

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s it getting better?

Or do you feel the same?

Will it make it easier on you now?

You got someone to blame

You say

One love

One life

When it's one need

In the night

One love

We get to share it

Leaves you baby if you

Don't care for it

 

Did I disappoint you?

Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?

You act like you never had love

And you want me to go without

Well it's

 

Too late

Tonight

To drag the past out into the light

We're one, but we're not the same

We get to

carry each other

carry each other

One

 

Have you come here for forgiveness?

Have you come to raise the dead?

Have you come here to play Jesus?

To the lepers in your head

 

Did I ask too much?

More than a lot.

You gave me nothing,

Now it's all I got

We're one

But we're not the same

See we

Hurt each other

Then we do it again

You say

Love is a temple

Love a higher law

Love is a temple

Love is a higher law

You ask me to enter

But then you make me crawl

And I can't keep holding on

To what you got

When all you've got is hurt

 

One love

One blood

One life

You got to do what you should

One life

With each other

Sisters and my

Brothers

One life

But we're not the same

We get to

Carry each other

Carry each other

 

One...

One...

 

extended version

 

Can You hear us coming Lord

Can You hear us call

Feel us knocking

We're knocking at Your door

 

U2 : One

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFWPeVfWB9o&feature=fvw

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Ålesund is a city and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. It is a sea port, and is noted for its unique concentration of Jugendstil architecture.

 

Ålesund was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Borgund was merged with Ålesund on 1 January 1968. Sula was separated from Ålesund on 1 January 1977. Ålesund received city rights in 1848. It is the administrative center of the municipality as well as the principal shipping city of the Sunnmøre district. Ålesund municipality has a population of 41,385 as of 2007, while the Ålesund agglomeration has a population of 45,299.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%c3%85lesund

 

Ålesund è una piccola città-museo, ma anche uno dei porti pescherecci più attivi della Norvegia. Sorge nella parte settentrionale della regione dei fiordi, su tre piccole isole collegate fra loro. La città ha una conformazione molto pittoresca in quanto occupa sette isolette della costa occidentale norvegese. Ålesund ha un clima marittimo con inverni miti e ventosi. È il centro più importante del distretto di Sunnmøre e durante gli anni '50 e '60 era uno dei centri più importanti per la pesca dell'aringa. Tuttavia Ålesund viene riconosciuta ancora oggi come la capitale norvegese del pesce.

it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%c3%85lesund

Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: MUSE CONCERT AT BARCELONA: PALAU SANT JORDI (6 of 9): Tha queue. /

CONCIERTO DE MUSE EN BARCELONA: PALAU SANT JORDI (6 de 2): La cola.

 

(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 64 of 115) PAG: Entrada, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115.

 

Dolls collaboration:

Nunusite: Lola and Keiko

Kaizoo: Miyavi and Salander

 

LINKS:

- Las FOTOHISTORIAS de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es

- Sheryl Photostories at Flickr

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One day, Brother Matthias found a mysterious egg lying in the middle of the meditation path outside the monastery walls in the mountains.

 

He picked it up and brought it back to Redwall, his monastic enclave at the top of the mountain.

 

Finally, after much searching, he found some old records in the gatehouse stating that it was the egg of the Rary Bird, an extremely rare breed. Abbot Mortimer agreed they could keep the egg.

 

Once it hatched, the Rary Bird grew very fast and very big, though its wings were too small for it to fly. At first it happily lived on fish, but one day it suddenly attacked one of the friars.

 

Two novice brothers managed to overpower it before it killed anyone, but they were now stuck with the problem of what to do with the bird. They could hardly keep it tied up forever, and no one dared get close enough to kill it.

 

Finally, Abbot Mortimer, being the wisest of the monks came up with an idea.

"The bird cannot fly, so we shall bind it and take it to the top of the watch tower at the top of the monastery at the top of the mountain and throw it off."

 

Reaching the great height, Brother Matthias looking over the edge agreed saying,

"That should do it as ....

(are you ready? you can still turn back, no? okay, but don't blame me)

".... it's a long way to tip a Rary.

It's a long way to go."

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ParatIIIssima 2007

 

Traces

Traces of lives, which traces persist beyond memory.

Traces of a past in a superfluous note that resists the symptoms of time.

Traces of what was and that fortuitous coincidence of events still remains.

Traces inside and outside of those areas in which remote presences are among the dust and dirt, buying right to exist in a specific aesthetic dimension in which the prospect of decadence determines its ephemeral beauty.

 

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Tracce

Tracce di vite, tracce che persistono oltre la memoria dell’uomo.

Tracce di un passato superfluo in un presente che resiste ai sintomi del tempo.

Tracce di ciò che è stato e che per fortuita coincidenza degli eventi ancora permane.

Tracce all’interno e all’esterno di quegli spazi nel quale remote presenze si rivelano tra la polvere e lo sporco, acquistando ragione di esistere in una precisa dimensione estetica nel quale la prospettiva della decadenza ne determina la propria bellezza effimera.

 

Alessandro Ragazzon

Alfredo Gigliotti

 

qua le mie foto esposte

www.myspace.com/alfredogigliotti

WWW.INDIPENDENTEMENTE.ORG

  

Nikon F801s

Ilford Hp5 3200

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The Louvre Pyramid is a large glass and metal pyramid, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace in Paris. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum. Completed in 1989, it has become a landmark for the city of Paris. The construction of the pyramid triggered considerable controversy because many people felt that the futuristic edifice looked quite out of place in front of the Louvre Museum with its classical architecture.

 

The Louvre Pyramid is the work of American architect Ieoh Ming Pei. His architectural works are characterized by the search for a certain purity of form combined with functional efficiency. The use of abstract forms and the use of cold materials such as stone, concrete, steel or glass are accompanied by a strong propensity for theatrics and technology challenges.

Listen Silver Ray - Dover

  

Why don't you talk?

I can't hear a word

it's like you said

if you eat before eight

Silver Ray

 

Show me the place

it's not too late

just like you said

if you eat before eight

Silver Ray

 

Now I want you back

tell the clouds that you don't need them

we were four and now we're twelve

tell the clouds that you don't need them

 

I can't wait to know

how much weight you lost

give me your things

I will deliver'em

 

In Wordpress In Blogger photo.net/photos/Reinante/ In Onexposure

(Original shot take with Canon Eos 5, on Ilford 400 Delta Professional)

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...and you find yourself longing for a certain drastic context

a dreadful circumstance that will tack great lengths onto your dictionary definition

 

to soothe your leaden understanding of bread, water, and money

now arriving by an alternate route at where the absence of such things might leave you

mind you, this is not more rich confession of a child actor

and as you would agree completely with a gift cyst as it appeared in your throat

and delight your tiny heart a moment with uncontested omnipresence will...

 

you've had the wind knocked out of you by something life size and you're afraid to say to your face

you stretch the pen and cheat the sleep

 

this sort of evening you want to say something you words cannot

 

note: which leaves your ghost blowing up globes

tying them off with an x axis c-clamp

and setting them down

 

for 7 days and 7 nights

you've sewn a cloth copy of your nervous system

to a turtle neck and pair tux pants

outside the city's dry all covered in primer

you have lost control of you hair

yesterday you were shot for a magazine cover

fatigue swapped your body build with all urge and by the door

you heard demo's creaking squeezing a squeal from your guilt against the clinging teeth of their cd-tray

all beneath the inner half of the door knob

hissing at its other head

hung in the sun

 

you're staring at a quill as the lump sum of its parts

and it's begun to look brutal

 

4 walls of day: and that alone

no empty hallway for you bearing the 100 bright light blocking doors of luck

and here in the favor of life i will

contrive no device against expectation, only announce

i have learned to respect the color yellow

for one reason or another

and in the insurmountable non strength of one's weight

 

and you're afraid to say to your face

you stretch the pen and cheat the sleep

since you all alone

has always been such the long audience

you spring forth, full with overconfidence

as if to say...superman

(Ghostwork - 13 & God)

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I have a new book available which is the most up to date collection of my work...

The Oasis Bar by Allan Ellerby

   

Earlier collections in a larger format are...

Altering the State... Book Preview

  

The Feeding of the Birds... Book Preview

    

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The Gothic loftiness of Notre-Dame dominates the Seine and the Ile-de-la-Cité as well as the history of Paris.

 

Notre-Dame de Paris is a church, a place of Roman Catholic worship, where Christians come together to pray. It opens its doors to people to participate in services or to freely visit the cathedral all year long.

 

Notre Dame de Paris was among the first buildings in the world to use the flying buttress (arched exterior supports). The building was not originally designed to include the flying buttresses around the choir and nave. After the construction began and the thinner walls (popularized in the Gothic style) grew ever higher, stress fractures began to occur as the walls pushed outward. In response, the cathedral's architects built supports around the outside walls, and later additions continued the pattern.

 

For a look at the upper parts of the church, the river, and much of Paris, climb the 387 steps to the top of one of the towers.

 

Explored: Highest Position: 358

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After skirmishing with the Empire on OSSUS, Nathan and Ozz begin their search for the artifact called BALAAM'S HEART. On the mysterious world of DAGOBAH they find both knowledge and danger, and for Nathan, a grueling test of his spirit and will.

 

Nathan recoiled, slumping in his seat in the Lucky Star. He felt a sudden pang of anguish, a ripping in his soul, as spirits were separated from their bodies back on Ossus. He sensed it only faintly, but whatever caused the sensation was so powerful that it hit him with the force of a wave.

 

“Kid? Kid! What’s wrong!”

 

He felt Ozz shaking his shoulder as he drifted into unconsciousness, the strain too much to bear. When he finally woke, it was to Ozz’s worried, ugly face. Nathan stared, as though his eyes were trained on something hundreds of parsecs away.

 

“The Searchers are dead, Ozz. At least, I think so,” he coughed. “They killed them. Abay…all of them.”

 

Ozz asked how he knew this, but Nathan couldn’t explain. Finally, Ozz nodded and sighed. He believed him. He’d seen enough strange stuff by now that he wasn’t going to question this one.

 

They flew in silence for the next few hours.

 

After a brief stop for fuel (“That’s gonna be our last fill unless we start makin’ some money soon,” Ozz had complained) and the purchase of a few cheap blaster pistols, Nathan and Ozz were set to continue their search.

 

“I’ll need some coordinates if I’m gonna fly somewhere, Nate.”

 

Nathan had spent nearly all of the time since Ossus huddled in the bunk with Luke’s journal and the inscribed slates they’d found in the deep archives. He was a quick learner and a voracious student, and with the help of a few runes already translated in the journal, he was able to compile a mostly accurate key for unlocking the old tongue Balaam had used for his writings. He had no idea what it was, but it wasn’t pleasant.

 

The writings of Balaam were primarily daily accounts and impossible to understand musings, but they also mentioned 'home made among vines and home made among flame, whilst tethered mine soul to the dark lord wert'. Of all the planets Nathan could recall from Mayla's manifest, Dagobah was the one most likely to feature vines. At least, according to their gazette. It might just be a wild bantha chase, but it was worth a short.

 

The planet Dagobah came into view. It looked musty and small and remote. Sensors revealed it was entirely free of settlers, based on a lack of technology readings. But it was packed to the brim with life.

 

Nathan leaned over the dashboard controls with interest. "Take us in, Ozz."

 

"I know, I know..." said the Iakaru, rolling his eyes.

 

They dipped beneath a dense sea of cloud and Ozz pulled back hard on the throttle, easing them down into what was revealing itself to be a tangled, dark mass of trees.

 

Nathan felt the planet, just as he had felt Ossus. There, it had been the power, the war, and the secrets, but on Dagobah, he felt life. Wildness and strangeness, the circle of things. Not good, but not evil. Just very alive.

   

"This place gives me the willies," said Ozz, peering out the viewscreen. There wasn't much to see. It was mostly fog and the shapes of trees.

 

"I can see a weirdo like Balaam living here..." Nathan mused. "You don’t think he put the Heart here, do you?"

 

“Nah, that’d be giving me a break. Luck hasn’t done that in years.” He glanced around at the damp, dismal surroundings, his face scrunched with dread. “It ain’t gonna start on this planet.”

 

Ozz set the Lucky Star down on some alarmingly mushy ground, and powered down the craft. He turned to his companion and shrugged.

 

"Let's go find out, nerd. And hey, let's stick it to those Imps, ey? What happened on Ossus..."

 

Nathan understood. He clapped a hand on Ozz's shoulder. “I know.”

   

They gathered their equipment and trekked out into the woods. The sounds of a million living things filled the air. The smell of mildew and bog water floated up into their noses from underfoot. Tendrils of vine hung down around them from the twisting branches overhead.

 

"Yeah, this has got to be the place...now, Balaam's writings mention landmarks; the shores of the swamp, a grove of mushrooms, and a magic tree."

 

Ozz scanned the canopy with the barrel of his blaster. Something flew overhead. He jumped, but held his fire. "Yeesh! How do we know they're not on the other side of the planet?"

 

That was a possibility, one that tempted Nathan to despair. But he kept his hope.

 

"Honestly, I don't know," he admitted. "But...I don't think they are. I'm not sure why, but I've got a feeling."

   

The sounds of creatures and the dense foliage became obstacles they were unwilling to brave. Much to their disgust, this forced them to their only remaining option: the water. Nathan cajoled Ozz into joining him, which says something about the noises in the void of the woods and how they affected them both, that they were willing to wade chest-deep into opaque, smoky water.

   

"What's that smell?" Ozz groaned, the swamp water inches from his nose.

 

Nathan, who was miserable, gave him an incredulous look. They were soaked in oily, gunky swampwater, dragging at their clothes and limbs. Something in Nathan's mind considered what else could he dragging at his hands and legs, and images of tentacles and eels had to be forcibly pushed from his brain.

   

Then they saw the strangest thing.

 

The flicker of firelight.

 

They pointed it out to each other and squinted against the tepid mist. It was real.

 

Just as real, they discovered, were the two men sitting at the campfire, their leaning tents pitched feet away. Tall trees reaching down towards them with roots like cages.

 

A shore, Nathan thought. Then he remembered this planet had been on Mayla's list. These strangers could be Imperial spies.

 

Just as he was about to warn Ozz, one of the men called out.

 

"Hoy, there! I don't believe it -- people?"

  

"Wet, stinky people," Ozz replied. "You fellas mind if we come on up?"

  

The man and his companion smiled. "Please do!"

  

They were rescued from the swamp waters and joined the strangers around the fire. Wings beat the air above them. Something groaned in the water they'd just left. But the fire was safefy.

 

"We're pilgrims," explained one of the strangers, with an odd grin. "What about you?"

 

Nathan and Ozz looked at each other. Even Nathan wasn't willing to extend trust this time, not in a situation like this.

 

Ozz cleared his throat. "Err, real estate," he lied. "Nice planet like this, with no colonies? I don't get it!"

 

The 'pilgrims' looked at each other, then broke into laughter. "You're a funny guy. Thanks for cheering up the mood."

 

Nathan felt paralyzed. Fear danced at the corners of his brain, fear of what might happen if they dropped their guard. He thought about the blaster at his side, and if it would work after being submerged. If he should just shoot them both now. They had to be spies, right?

 

But no. That would be murder. He couldn’t do something like that. You can't just shoot someone for a suspicion. Reacting to a nebulous fear was never the right opening move, and it was wrong, he decided, to try to prevent the possibility of evil by doing something evil first. Besides, the Searchers were pilgrims, maybe these were similar types.

   

A glow nearby caught Nathan's attention.

   

Small blue spots of light scattered across the mossy ground, hidden in and among the roots of the trees.

A grove of mushrooms.

 

Balaam's second landmark.

 

He felt something pull at him, a force or energy that wanted him to come searching. It was irresistible, and clouded his mind in such a way that he forgot his fears of Imperials and treachery.

 

He stared long enough that one of the pilgrims caught him looking.

 

“What are you, uh, looking at there?” the man asked, watching him keenly.

 

"Oh, nothing,” Nathan said, emerging from his thoughts. “I thought I saw a...an animal, out there. It was nothing. I, uh, better just go check, though."

   

Ozz half-rose from his spot. "Want a second?"

 

And expose their backs? No. "No," he said, and he smiled reassuringly. "You keep resting. I'll be right back."

 

"Sure thing!" Said one of the pilgrims, and the other nodded silently.

 

Nathan caught Ozz's eye, and flicked his own towards the Iakaru's blaster. Ozz understood.

   

"I'll be right back," said the young man, who then walked deeper into the woods.

   

The sound of cracking fire faded into the distance as it was replaced by the hum of forest life. The mushrooms were just the start, they led him like a trail, becoming larger and wilder as he went. Finally, after chasing their path for several minutes, Nathan looked up to see the tree.

   

It was old. Its bark was like wrinkles, crevices in a face with no features. Its roots splayed out like enormous fingers that raked the ground. It seemed to heave with breath, to pulse, to live. Now in silence, Nathan found he was utterly alone with this ancient thing. The woods shrank back from it, as if from deference or fear. Nothing ventured close.

 

It beckoned him.

 

He felt it in his inward being. The draw.

 

A dark opening in its roots, like a doorway, stood open to him.

 

Nathan took hesitating steps. His spirit ached with restlessness, a need to see what was inside that burned and fried the edges of his nerves.

 

He entered the depths of the Magic Tree.

   

The hollow was dark.

 

He was alone in a den of soil. Fibrous sinew traced many-forked veins in the earth.

 

He felt a presence.

 

"Who's there?" He whispered.

 

"It's me, Nathan."

 

Mayla stepped out from behind a gnarl of root. She looked as he remembered. Sharper, even. Her bangs fell over her face, her dark eyes shone in the bare light. She walked with grace, poise, as if compensating for her stature.

 

"Why are you here?" She asked.

 

He wanted to reach out, to touch her cheek. "To...to stop the Empire. To save lives and find…something powerful."

 

He saw the disappointment in her face. The vulnerability, the openness that had drawn him to her in the first place.

 

"...I thought you were here for me?"

 

"I am!" He said quickly. "But...Mayla...I don't know how to find you."

 

She stepped closer and smiled. "I forgot, you think my name is 'Mayla'...that's okay. You've done everything so well, exactly as I wanted."

 

"Well, that manifest you left us has been our guide. That’s all thanks to you."

 

"Yes, it is. Just what was needed, right? I was always told I was resourceful."

 

Nathan stood a hesitant step back. His mind was swirling. Everything felt completely real, the question of how it could be happening seemed distant and foggy and not worth considering. His skepticism seemed to leave him, soaked into the walls of soil. But his reason wasn’t gone entirely, and her words started to raise flags, even in his currently-dim mind. "...What?"

 

"You've done just what we needed. You'll find what you seek, and the Empire will win."

 

Nathan started to speak, but she stepped closer, close enough to smell. She held up a finger to his lips, quieting him.

 

"I know you don't like that, but if you need a consolation prize...we can be together. It's the only way it'll work. Things will happen fast, Nathan."

 

The way she said his name made his heart flip.

 

"They'll happen so fast. That's how things happen, when change is coming. Your pilot will die, Syfot, some others...but you and me? We'll be alive, together, forever. And so many others, too. We'll give them safety," she said, and she winked. He could feel her breath as it mingled with the fog.

 

"I...want...you," she whispered, and his stomach fell. He stared at her eyes as they closed.

 

No.

 

"No," he murmured.

 

She leant forward, her lips parted.

 

"No," he repeated, and he stepped back. "You're not her," he said. "I don't want this."

 

Mayla's eyes flicked open, staring up into his. "You do. You want me, most of all," she smiled, her cheeks dimpling. "Remember what you gave up? Everything else -- everyone else --- was just a way of getting to me."

 

"No!" He stuttered, and he fell back, tripping on a root. "No, no, no!"

 

Her eyebrow curved. She frowned. "Nathan..."

 

"Not anymore!" He said. "No, I...I want to find you so bad, Mayla, but...this isn't just about you and me, not anymore. Things have changed. I'm not just in this for you anymore, I've got to…” He shook his head, trying to clear the fog. “…I’ve got to do what's right. I've got to stand up to these people. It's about the Searchers who died on Ossus, and Abay, and Jep, and...and...Ozz."

 

Nathan blinked, thinking of his friend. He had left his friend, his best friend, with the enemy.

 

"Ozz," he repeated.

 

"That monkey? You've got to be tired of being cooped up with that smelly, stupid thing. Trust me," she whispered, her fingers running up his arm. "I’m much better company than he is."

 

Nathan, eyes wide, said nothing. With all his strength of will, he pulled away, turned, and fled.

     

Nathan rushed through the woods. He heard screams. His name.

 

First from behind, in the voice of the girl he loved.

 

Then from the shore, echoing, hoarse, in the voice of Ozz Sabaran.

 

"NATE! NAAATE!" Followed by grunts and shrieks of pain.

 

Ozz.

 

The firelight flickered in the mist. A dark shape stepped into his path, weapon raised. The blood-red light of blaster fire struck a tree by his head, sparks and smoke burst from the impact.

 

Nathan was not afraid. He was not angry. He had to help his friend.

 

Desperate, he raised his hands.

 

His fingers curled with the warm mist.

 

Reached with the roots.

 

Stretched with the beating wings.

 

Stood with the soil.

 

He heard one of the pilgrims cry. The thrash of water and wet cloth and arms. Dragged from the shore, he disappeared beneath the surface.

 

The wildness of life beat like a drum in his ears.

 

The other pilgrim—Imperial spy—stumbled and entangled himself in the strong vines. Something seized him and pulled into the air, while he flailed his arms to try and break free of the tightening plants. The flying things took notice, their squawking growing agitated and hungry.

 

His cries ended abruptly, and the flailing stopped.

 

Nathan rushed to his friend's side. Ozz's leg was bent wrong, blood trickled from his mouth.

 

"Too...fast...for me," he choked.

 

Nathan hurried to tear a piece of tent, his hands shaking.

 

Ozz wiped his mouth. "What...was...?"

 

"I don't know," Nathan said shakily. "How about we never speak of it again? Kinda freaked out. Are you okay? I can't believe I left you here!” he cursed himself. “What’d they do?"

 

"Wanted...to know...what we knew. Turns out, they were spies. Can you believe it?" he said weakly, with a hint of irony.

 

"Your leg is broken," Nathan said gravely. "Rest here, I'm so sorry, Ozz."

 

"it's okay, kid, I'm alright. We Iakaru are tough sons of -- ouch!"

 

Nathan let the leg go, the bone now set.

 

"What was that?" Ozz winced.

 

"Oh, a trick from the orphanage. I didn't come up with it."

 

"Geez, rough orphanage.” Ozz shook his head, impressed and relieved. “See? Long as I got you around, I'll be right as rain. Thanks for the save, kid."

 

"I’ll try to be quicker next time,” Nathan said with a wry look. “Things got weird. Ozz, we have to get out of here."

 

"You're telling me. Did you uh, get the Heart thing?"

 

"I didn't get anything, but I found what we need. But I need your help. Will you…” He swallowed his pride, asking his friend openly, “please come with me? I'm...honestly, I’m afraid to go back alone."

 

Ozz grinned to himself, chuckling at the irony. "You need Ozzie? Even one-legged Ozzie?"

 

Nathan made a face. "What else is new?"

 

"Wanna hand me my blaster? I'm really raring for a hike. Gotta get this leg working, that’s the best thing for a hurtin’ leg.”

   

Nathan stood before the magic tree again, now with Ozz by his side, supported by an old branch.

 

Nathan had explained what he'd seen to Ozz, but despite Ozz's vigilant eye, nothing appeared from the shadows of the roots.

 

There was writing on the trunk of the tree. Nathan got as close as he dared. Ozz covered him with the blaster.

 

"Whatcha got? Anything useful?"

 

Nathan was scratching down notes in his notebook, thankful for the material Luke had chosen that had endured the bog.

 

"Coordinates in the Bark, half."

 

“Coordinates? Like, readable, usable coordinates?”

 

“Yeah, I guess it’s that simple. Maybe Balaam wasn’t so bad after all. Thanks, pal,” he said quietly to the carving.

  

"Simple! Ha! You telling me--"

 

Nathan grimaced. "—He hid the other half on a flame world? Yeah, guess it would be weird for things to get any easier."

 

Ozz sighed. "Yeesh, another planet with no payout. Can't wait to eat more grayweave..." He shrugged, and gave a lopsided grin to his scribbling companion.

 

Well, at least we won't get wet again...right, kid?"

 

Nathan grinned back at him, feeling very glad he was there to joke and lighten the terrible mood. There was no one he could think of he’d rather have by his side.

  

"Yeah. Right!"

   

The tree, unmoving, unknown, watched as they left, Nathan supporting Ozz as while he limped along. Soon, the Lucky Star left the atmosphere, and the ancient planet was unchanged for their visit. The roots still dug, the fog still swirled, and the creatures flew between the trees. And despite its appearance, everything was vibrant and alive.

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I just couldn't bring myself to give this some cliche title like , I'm feeling under the weather, or brainstorming, or some other similar thing.

 

this was enspired by asier inhi's photo and Rosei Hardy's photo

and the fact that i am having some sinus trouble and not having fun today!

 

it is not as good as either of theirs, but it was something i wanted to try,

and im fairly happy with the results!

 

feedback and tips would be greatly appriceated!

   

So Yeah, I was tagged by Phian and here go my 10 facts

 

1. I will be sixteen in 2 months and i get my drivers lisence on my birthday

2. My school has 6th through10th grade and the high school only had 90 people last year

3. I am currently working on my eagle project - ive got it written up and approved and im abou 1/8 th of the way done with it!

4. I have done no back to school shopping to date, becuse i on;y need one pair of pants and a new pair of Vans

5. i want these tortise shell vans that come out later in the fall - so i gotta wait

6. This summer i was on an aiplane for the first time ever

7. My headphones have cpmpletely died, and im not going to have a chance to get new ones for a while... :(

8. My moms birthday is this week.... so i need to get her something

9. once i have some money, im going to geta 50mm f1.4 lense! - im pretty excited about that!

10. All these facts seem really weird and random, so im just gonna quit, i don't have a 10th one

 

to the eight people that i added to this photo, please do ten facts along with a picture of yourself

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Many thanks for looking & your time in commenting - it means a lot to me as i think it has helped me improve a heck of a lot in quite a short space of time :)

 

All comments / tags / notes welcome as long as its not plain rude!

 

If you give me a score out of 10 (or whatever!), if you could spare the time to let me know what i could have done better to get closer to a full score it would be soooo apreciated :)

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Part of "MY BEST" Set, a collection of Images that I feel represent my skill as a Photographer, as well as reveal my eye for picking good quality Images. View more of MY BEST here.

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Despite most popular western beliefs, the sun is honored in a female form as well, in India. Actually, not one, but in three significant forms.

 

They are Gayatri, Savitri and Sarasvati, respectively. Gayatri is the early morning sun, that peeps out at the crack of dawn. It is presented in the form of a young and beautiful woman, who is initiates action.

 

Anyone who wakes up at dawn can confirm what a beautiful sight the sun is. And almost always there is absolute stillness before she comes out of the horizon, and when she is up, life springs into action. Birds begin to fly. Peope begin to move about. Flowers begin to blossom. Its a magical time.

 

This capture was taken at the same place as the previous capture. I could not resist the wires across the sun, and when I framed it, two angels in the form of the birds stopped by. What a glorious moment.

 

I dedicate this shot to the sun, the source of light, without which photography could not be possible...

 

Photograph © Kausthub Desikachar

 

Photographed with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II, and Canon EF 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 IS USM L Lens with Canon EF 2X Extender. Handheld. Yes, thats right. Handheld.

 

The previous photo I posted yesterday was taken at 16mm, with my super wide angle lens, while this one is with a super telephoto lens and a 2X extender. This one was framed at 660mm.

 

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Check it out on black or at 1600 x 1000 pixels if you want to see it really big. :)

 

About this shot

Especially for you I uploaded this in 1600 x 1000 pixels (about 1/3 of the orginal size) - hope you like it. Nobody believes me anymore when I say I'm afraid of heights! ;-)

 

This is the view from the Haagse Toren (known as 'Het Strijkijzer' or 'Flatiron', at 132m.

Its architecture was indeed inspired by the well known Flatiron building in New York. There was a *very* strong wind, and I battled a couple of showers on top, pfff!

 

[NL] Strijkijzer / Wikipedia

 

[EN] Strijkijzer / Wikipedia

 

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Date: Taken on May 15, 2012 at 14:31 h / 2.31pm CEST

 

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Mejor verla en grande

  

Bandera municipal de Madrid

 

La bandera municipal de Madrid es de color carmesí con el escudo de Madrid situado en el centro.

El oso figura por los muchos que hubo en tiempos lejanos.

El madroño resulta de los pleitos entre el Cabildo y el Ayuntamiento por la propiedad de los montes y los pastos, llegando a un acuerdo que los pastos serían propiedad del primero y los árboles del segundo.

Las siete estrellas simbolizan las siete estrellas de la osa mayor.

  

Bandera de la Comunidad de Madrid

 

La bandera de la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid tiene fondo en rojo carmesí y siete estrellas blancas de cinco puntas en el centro del lienzo, estando cuatro arriba y tres abajo en alineación horizontal. El rojo carmesí por la vocación madrileña de castellanidad, pues este es el color de los pueblos castellanos; y las siete estrellas por dos cosas, una, por las siete estrellas de la constelación de la "Osa Menor" que se deja ver sobre el horizonte de la Sierra de Guadarrama y que bien podría delimitar los antiguos municipios del Concejo Madrileño; y otra, por ser las siete estrellas uno de los emblemas del escudo de la ciudad de Madrid

  

Bandera de España.

 

La bandera de España, conocida como la rojigualda, fue adoptada con todos sus elementos actuales el 5 de octubre de 1981 al aprobarse la Ley que establece la última versión del escudo nacional. Con anterioridad, la Constitución de 27 de diciembre de 1978 especificaba en su Artículo 4.1: «La bandera de España está formada por tres franjas horizontales, roja, amarilla y roja, siendo la amarilla de doble anchura que cada una de las rojas». Se trata del mismo diseño que fue adoptado como pabellón nacional de España en 1785, y que, a excepción del diseño adoptado entre 1931 y 1939 en la II República, sólo ha ido variando el modelo de escudo.

 

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Intuí nuevamente que la belleza absoluta es una especie de castigo temible, una carga casi horrorosa, casi imposible de soportar, que lleva consigo la tragedia hermosa de la perfección condenada a una existencia fugaz de apenas unos cuantas horas o días.

 

Recuerdo que la primera vez que vi una rosa china, en el patio de casa, casi conmovido por el rojo intenso me quedé helado cuando mi madre dijo, detrás mío, que solo viviría un día. Esa fue la primera vez en la que tuve contacto con ese concepto: la belleza extrema como carga insoportable.

 

El viernes volvía de la facultad con el paso algo apesandumbrado. Entendiendo que por la forma en la que las nubes estaban iluminadas solo quedaba a lo sumo 30-45 minutos de luz solar. Esa certeza aumentó el tedio porque no llegaría a tiempo para salir en bicicleta. Luego de unos cuantos pasos arrastrados y habiendo descartado la actividad física nuevamente, opté por focalizarme en los eventos próximos, principalmente en la delicada reunión de esa noche.

Fue así que en entre paso y paso, mientras imaginaba las alternativas de la reunión y el tema a charlar, percibí un movimiento cerca de uno de mis pies. Cuando bajé la mirada descubrí con sorpresa que una mariposa, tal vez la más bella que haya visto de tan cerca. Estaba en la calle, sobre el asfalto helado. Con sus alas coloridas abiertas de par en par. Acerqué lentamente la mano, pensando que se iba a volar inmediatamente. Pero no fue así, solo movió mágicamente sus alas maravillosas, pero lentamente, como si fueran una carga, y se trepó a mi dedo.

No podía volar ya que apenas podía mover torpemente sus enormes alas. Apenas podía cargar ese peso.

Ahí recordé que la belleza extrema puede ser una carga intolerable. Y pronto supe que estaba muriendo aplastada por ese peso.

Decidí llevarla conmigo. Fue así que caminé hasta la fotocopiadora unas 10 cuadras con la mariposa en la mano.

Fui buscando una latita o una botella para poder guardarla en la mochilla sin dañarla. Pero no pude encontrar ni una.

Ya en la fotocopiadora esperé las imágenes de una tomografía encefalocraneana normal, los dibujos de la correlación neuroanatómica, y el informe de la OMS, del ministerio de salud de Argentina y de México del viernes 8 de mayo sobre la gripe porcina con esa carga preciosa en mis manos.

El chico que hacía las fotocopias y otra persona que esperaba miraron mi mano y a la mariposa que en vano intentaba ocultar y en sus rostros se dibujó una pregunta que jamás vio la voz.

Fue así que llegué a casa. Casi no tenía tiempo y tampoco luz, por lo que supe que debería relegar las fotos.

La puse en la maseta del helecho serrucho, con la idea de que se mantenga fresca cerca en la tierra. Movido por cierta culpa, puse cerca una cuchara de té con miel diluida en agua y otra solo con agua… Tal vez necesitaba algo dulce.

El sábado estuve todo el día en el hospital, al llegar a la noche estaba moviendo sus alas torpemente, con una dificultad aun mayor, en el mismo lugar. Volví a relegar las fotos por la falta de luz.

Hoy domingo a la mañana apenas si movía sus alas bellas, ya no relegaría las fotos. Con la delicadeza y con el nudo en el garganta de quien acaricia a alguien que está por morir, la tomé en mis manos y me dispuse a retratarla.

Su belleza no quedaría en el silencio de una muerte anónima, tal vez destrozada por la rueda de algún auto indolente o por un pie imprudente. No lo permitiría.

Esta es una de las fotos que hice.

Esta fue la segunda vez en la volvía a rumiar ese concepto: lo efímero de la belleza extrema.

 

Luego de pensar un momento comprendí algo que me hizo esbozar una sonrisa.

Tuve la sensación que la osadía de ser bello es castigada con la fugacidad de la vida y que la osadía de ser inmortal se paga en ella misma, es decir, su precio es la condena a la eternidad.

Comprendí que la perfección y la vida fugaz y la vida eterna son, o bien, una especie de tormento, un castigo a quien desafía las virtudes exclusivas del Dios celoso y cristiano o bien son una forma de equilibrar las existencias de los seres.

Tanto una como la otra llevan consigo una tragedia hermosa. La tragedia hermosa de la belleza inigualable e intolerable que en su fugacidad vive apenas unos días y muere aplastada bajo su propio peso y la tragedia temible y bella de una vida eterna cargada de tormento de la que no hay salida.

 

Diego A. Marino

Todos los derechos reservados.

For the 5 kilometre race results and photos...here are the local (Ottawa & area) participants -- sorted by cities and first name -- in the September 19, 2010, Canada Army Run held in Ottawa, Ontario.

 

Click here and enter the bib numbers for the full individual race results. Race photos here. (6,760 runners in the 5 km race)

 

Thank-you to Sportstats.

 

Part A. Ottawa (see below)

Part B. Other Communities (Alexandria to Navan) (Click here.)

Part C. Other Communities (Nepean to Woodlawn) (Click here.)

 

Part A:

 

12036…Aaron Kennedy

12454…Acton Kilby

7417…Adam Daniow

10248…Adam Mcleod

12409…Adam Yahn

13856…Ademir Vrolijk

14356…Adrien Barrieau

12050…Afton Maisonneuve

8420…Agathe Houle

14250…Ahmad Sakr

14321…Ahsan Ahmed

14600…Aidan Westdal

9010…Aime Larochelle

7952…Airi Trant

8265…Al Charron

7187…Al Thompson

14035…Alain D'arbelles

9532…Alain Desgranges

10416…Alain Dionne

7861…Alain Rabeau

7504…Alan Bolster

7001…Alan Tomalty

8715…Alana Blouin

14025…Alana Detenbeck

12757…Alana Fong

14499…Alana Macewen

9662…Alanna Macaulay

12132…Alanna Yaraskavitch

7983…Alecks Zarama

10172…Alex Braden

14052…Alex Graham

14102…Alex Lyon

12729…Alex Patch

13192…Alexander Gaillard

10699…Alexander Leslie

13108…Alexandra Desouza L'heureux

9008…Alexandra Laplante

12105…Alexandra Vincent

13636…Alexandre Poiget

14153…Alexandre Prenoveau

12894…Alexandria Beck

11577…Alexandria Gerrior

9743…Alexis Leblanc

14322…Ali Belbachir

14036…Ali El-Jaby

10402…Alice Leung

10095…Alicia Li

10008…Alicia Noonan

14423…Alicia Whiting

12911…Alison Benn

8853…Alison Evans Adnani

8468…Alison Jerome

14363…Alison Mckittrick

12825…Alison Morris

9474…Alison Pier

8753…Allison Cassie

8343…Allison Coons

10422…Allison Desroches

14031…Allison Downton

8137…Allison Ellis

14109…Allison Mackenzie

13372…Ally Lamothe

10360…Allysan Dinn

13439…Almut Macdonald

8777…Amanda Colton

12815…Amanda Elliott

8965…Amanda Kalbfleisch

11944…Amanda Krisciunas

5786…Amanda Pavlovic

10440…Amanda Pyykonen

13867…Amanda Watson

10150…Amanda Weatherdon

7950…Amanda-Kate Tracy

7820…Amber Nickerson

11904…Amelie Armstrong

9881…Amelie O'sullivan

7793…Amira Mohamed

8675…Amy Arcand

14489…Amy Cambell

13313…Amy Johnson

12176…Amy Jutras

12097…Amy Muller

9823…Amy Read

13690…Ana Robert

8532…Anaek Jande

9304…Anastasia Tserotas

8013…Andre Marin

14115…Andre Materman

7941…Andre Thivierge

8682…Andrea Auger

12109…Andrea Brauner

8285…Andrea Chippa

9491…Andrea Ethier

12541…Andrea Evans

8969…Andrea Karklins

10902…Andrea Mccaffrey

4782…Andrea Mrozek

7874…Andrea Rousseau

12690…Andrea Szenteszky/Merils

10976…Andrea White

8466…Andreas Reichert

12372…Andreas Vander Pluym

9374…Andree Ball

12982…Andrew Buchan

7528…Andrew Butson

9822…Andrew Cooney

12485…Andrew Currie

12275…Andrew Fainer

12009…Andrew Fourney

8488…Andrew Harris

7290…Andrew Keleher

10152…Andrew Klassen

12527…Andrew Leslie

14319…Andrew Lessard

10113…Andrew Maffre

14111…Andrew Mallam

12863…Andrew Mcdougall

14515…Andrew Mendes

11901…Andrew Mulawyshyn

13630…Andrew Pinsent

7362…Andrew Roberts

8599…Andrew Robertson

12741…Andrew Woolsey

14206…Andrew Zurowski

10401…Andy Burgess

10238…Andy Shelp

9569…Andy Wielgosz

9427…Angeline Law

7429…Angelo Garcia

9202…Angelo Ricci

9714…Angie Ermel

9550…Anika Rowland

8678…Ann Arsenault

9328…Ann Walton

11194…Anna Macintyre

14239…Anna Von Dadelszen

8072…Anne Bailliu

12504…Anne Bauer

3838…Anne Biscope

8719…Anne Bowker

14493…Anne Edwards

14443…Anne Ethier

12143…Anne Fitzpatrick

13946…Anne Thombs

13957…Anne-Sophie Alarie

8362…Annette Lebel

10677…Annik Beaudry

7866…Ann-Marie Reid

13975…Anthony Barnshaw

12643…Anthony Glaser

10240…Anthony Ippolito

10532…Anthony Weeks

14151…Antoine Plenderleith

14476…Anyk Glussich

10169…April Whitehead

12251…Arlene Maciver

13320…Armin Kamal

9113…Arthur Moulie

10256…Aruna Rajulu

12850…Ash Ahmadzadeh

13528…Asha Mohiddin

7826…Ashlee Oleinikow

9971…Ashley Browne

12394…Ashley Butcher

7214…Ashley Lavery

7775…Ashley Mccann

6259…Ashley Tannis

8236…Ashley Tuttle

14150…Audrey Perreault

12736…Audrey Vermette

9884…Austen Brown

8130…Avery Stirling

13710…Barbara Routliffe

11305…Barbara Saville

9377…Barry Dupont

13391…Barry Le Grys

12714…Barry Lemoine

8459…Barry Rowland

13465…Beatrice Maluski-Cain

13556…Ben Murray

7529…Benjamin Buttera

8029…Benjamin Oman

9533…Benny Ling

14338…Bernard Tremblay

13718…Beth Sabourin

13644…Beth-Anne Poulin

11409…Betty Letendre

10798…Bev Carroll

8879…Bev Furniss

10197…Bill Grand

10455…Bill Mackay

7376…Bill Rostek

11903…Bill Salminen

7533…Bingbing Cai

13069…Blair Crawford

7345…Blake Carruthers

9530…Blake Dooley

13638…Blake Poirier

13829…Blanche Tree

9501…Bob Eagleson

14117…Bob Mccrindle

13551…Bob Muise

9523…Bob Ryan

13947…Bob Thombs

13515…Bogaah Mensah

12276…Bonnie Boretsky

11985…Bonnie Vinet-Paradis

9548…Borishka Croteau

9622…Brad Mills

13905…Brad Young

7585…Bradley Davis

9084…Brady Meldrum

14268…Breanna Muller

7543…Brenda Cerson

8404…Brenda Etchells

9405…Brenda Quinlan

14632…Brendan Potter

9135…Brent Odonnell

7167…Brent Pilon

7246…Brent Weatherdon

8527…Brett Mac Lean

9789…Brett Maxwell

9894…Brian Blanche

12898…Brian Deeks

13157…Brian Fava

10215…Brian Kells

13534…Brian Montgomery

7029…Brian Radey

7011…Brian Rolfe

13251…Brianna Harris

13206…Bridget Gervais

14581…Bridget Kehoe

7225…Bridget Mallon

14520…Brigid Bedard

10026…Brigitte Archambault

13121…Brigitte Dionne

12008…Brigitte Menard

9559…Britt-Mari Sykes

10176…Bronwyn Anderson

10083…Bruce Covington

7310…Bruce Donaldson

12389…Bruce Fischer

9702…Bruce Waid

13591…Bruno Paltrinieri

9464…Bryan Mackay

14288…Bryce Halls

11546…Bryce Lemoine

7332…Bunny - Andy Fong

8518…Bunny - Gary Rush

7326…Bunny - Liam Ohuiginn

8519…Bunny- Bruce Moquin

7333…Bunny- Ellen Campbell

7329…Bunny- James Wildsmith

7331…Bunny- Julia Fournier

7330…Bunnypatrick Girard

11123…C Soulodre

12087…Caitlin Devlin

14172…Caitlin Salvino

7728…Caludia Langevin

11126…Calum Urzinger

7663…Calvin Hanselmann

8795…Cameron Cribb

13637…Camille Poiget

13876…Camille West

7087…Candace Anderson

8491…Candi Ager

12060…Candi Munroe

7699…Carey Jones

12064…Carl Perreault

8389…Carla Pino

13679…Carleen Ridley

10135…Carly Parrish

9138…Carol Anne Owen

8595…Carol Campbell

14064…Carol Huffman

7204…Carol Mclean

12107…Carol Rosenthall

10746…Carol Skillen

9760…Carole Quenneville

13813…Carole Thomas

11906…Caroline Ebata

8058…Caroline Lavigne

14232…Caroline Matt

7805…Caroline Murray

7545…Carolyn Chacksfield

12173…Carolyn Charters

12257…Carolyn Fornataro

9100…Carolyn Montague

7286…Carolyn Turner

9209…Carrie Roberts

9037…Carrol Lunau

12069…Carter Saunders

13008…Casey Carswell

7544…Casey Cerson

7032…Cassidy Leclerc

7530…Catarina Buttera

14425…Catharine Brady

7596…Catherine Desmarais

11973…Catherine Griffin

9495…Catherine Jackson

14447…Catherine Jolicoeur

12084…Catherine Mackin

7862…Catherine Radatus

10251…Catherine Sainte-Marie

13752…Catherine Siot

14456…Catherine Winters

7977…Catherine Wood

8108…Cathy Jackson

9044…Cathy Maclean

12245…Cathy Nolan

7949…Cavell Townley

10465…Celeste Irvine-Jones

7505…Celia Bond

7436…Chandrashan Premakanthan

12492…Chantal Brisson

8351…Chantal Evans

9605…Chantal Nicholson

9480…Chantal Rosenberger

8239…Chantal Roy

13736…Chantal Sayde

7563…Chantale Cobbold

9419…Charlene Winchester

10558…Charles Bernard

8067…Charles Frost

14407…Charles Trombley

7439…Chelsey Quirk

12833…Chenchen Hou

14543…Cheri Reddin

14208…Cherinet Seid

12495…Cheryl Brouse

12574…Cheryl Caldwell

7464…Chloe Adlard

8587…Chris Anderson

12971…Chris Brown

14462…Chris Bygrove

8122…Chris Carruthers

8762…Chris Chartrand

9508…Chris Coveny

7579…Chris Dauphinais

7582…Chris Davey

9835…Chris Davis

14599…Chris Denison

14227…Chris Garrioch

11431…Chris Goddard

14485…Chris Goy

10264…Chris Hale

14509…Chris Holmes

11954…Chris Isaac Mckay

12774…Chris Jourdeuil

7725…Chris Lamarre

13373…Chris Landry

14097…Chris Li

7334…Chris Lynam

13519…Chris Mick

9096…Chris Moffit

7800…Chris Morash

14411…Chris Mullins

13641…Chris Polowick

9588…Chris Schroeder

7403…Chris Sheridan

9303…Chris Travers

7062…Christa Van Sickle

12327…Christene White

11889…Christian Figueredo

10368…Christian Giguere

7931…Christie Swann

12670…Christina Chevrette

8516…Christina Kaeser

9460…Christina Leclerc

14369…Christina Leibbrandt

14220…Christina Silmser

8317…Christina Sluyter

10093…Christina Yee

14552…Christina Young

11898…Christine Atwood

11920…Christine Besnard

7517…Christine Bray-Duhamel

8860…Christine Fikis

9490…Christine Ford

8299…Christine Foster

13408…Christine Leon

11008…Christine Nicasio

10874…Christophe Kervegant-Tanguy

9630…Christopher Cullen

9441…Christopher Fillmore

14432…Christopher Knowlton

10359…Christopher Macarthur

13471…Christopher Marton

7873…Christopher Rotherforth

9492…Christopher St. Jacques

13604…Christy Peeters

7142…Chuck Bing

7726…Chuck Lamarre

14200…Cici Waugh

13980…Cindy Bennett

13109…Cindy Desouza L'heureux

7940…Cindy Termorshuizen

13979…Claire Baudry

9698…Claire Cockburn

7684…Claire Horwich

12070…Clara Saunders

7591…Clare Demerse

7743…Clarissa Lewis

7896…Claude Schryer

12420…Claudette Moise

10297…Claudia Hintz

9947…Clayton Ryder

12157…Clinton Laidlaw

10321…Cody Gaudet

7586…Cole Davis

8640…Colin Kelly

7216…Colin Muldoon

7551…Colt Charlebois

14242…Colt Hardcore

12044…Connie Paris

9040…Connor Macdonald

13447…Connor Mackenzie

13520…Conor Middleton

10258…Conrad Hladik

14466…Corinne Ginnish

12152…Corrina Morehouse

13156…Costas Farassoglou

13959…Courtney Anderson

7855…Courtney Powless

4785…Craig King

7718…Craig Kuziemsky

8556…Cricket Riberdy

9928…Criss Gibran

12807…Crystal Foubert

9035…Crystal Louie

12468…Crystal-Lee Rooney

12874…Crystel Marly Arseneault

7418…Curtis Smith

9543…Cyndi Demers

13021…Cynthia Chaput

12112…Cynthia Desnoyers

9679…Cynthia Gee

12586…Cynthia Horvath

13900…Dalaila Wyse

9587…Dale Brown

7289…Dale Potter

12823…Dalelle Mensour

13440…Damian Macdonald

7121…Dan Mckinney

10456…Dan Mikaelian

8656…Dan Newell

12446…Dana Pandolfi

9159…Dana Paul

14216…Daniel Albahary

9918…Daniel Giguere

13302…Daniel Jamieson

13492…Daniel Mcguire

12646…Daniel Morris

14133…Daniel Muir

10027…Daniel Poulin

14408…Daniel Raymond

7442…Daniele Riendeau

9977…Danielle Bernier

12924…Danielle Bisson

13035…Danielle Cirillo

8199…Danielle Cormier

7046…Danielle Fainer

12338…Danielle Grenier

13270…Danielle Hoegy

7735…Danielle Lee

9183…Danielle Plunkett

7554…Danny Chin

7156…Dany Huard

12764…Daphne Vaudry

13580…Dara Ohuiginn

7215…Darcy Lavery

8637…Darcy Terrell

9959…Darl Dimillo

9995…Darlene Charron

9117…Darlene Mulvihill

7188…Darren Clark

13068…Darren Coyle

8920…Darren Handley

12556…Darren Jerome

7283…Darren Knight

7039…Darren Poole

12904…Dave Bellefleur

12512…Dave Carlson

12474…Dave Etchells

8377…Dave Johnson

12715…Dave Johnston

14203…Dave Young

12737…David Badour

14007…David Claxton

14566…David Davidson

8316…David Dimitri

9859…David Elms

13169…David Foster

7655…David Hall

12349…David Leahy

13500…David Mclaren

12255…David Molnar

13651…David Pratt

13683…David Rietkoetter

7889…David Sankoff

8524…David Thorpe

10223…Davide Pisanu

11989…Dawn Styan

11125…Dawn Urzinger

14614…Dean Corno

8066…Dean Duteau

9672…Dean Morewood

10298…Deanne Chafe

10599…Debbie Murray

13613…Debbie Peterson

10407…Debby Barsi

11952…Deborah Broad

11486…Deborah Trotman

12047…Debra Hughes

10454…Deena El-Sawy

12277…Delphine Wallace

9644…Demian Seiden

12552…Denise Gillam-Gledhill

9273…Denise St. Jean

8573…Dennis St. Louis

13869…Dennis Weatherdon

14178…Derek Smith

733…Derrick Marshall

7803…Desirai Moyer

7991…Deven Bhatla

12810…Devon Kampman

10211…Devon Shulist

12077…Devon Taylor

8857…Diana Farah

7580…Diane Dauphinais

12636…Diane Dupuis

12611…Diane Gallant

13039…Dianne Clarke

9985…Dimitris Foss

13428…Dino Luberti

7213…Dominic Lessard

7200…Dominik Rymsza

10336…Dominique Ansell

9553…Dominique Baker

7211…Dominique Chiasson

13470…Dominique Martel-Lamothe

9488…Dominique St-Denis

7953…Dominique Trudeau

10647…Don Eatherley

9376…Don Rooke

7467…Donald Allan

8798…Donald Cumming

9403…Donna Blois

12074…Donna Dufour

8031…Donna Mirasty

13747…Donna Sianchuk

14188…Doreen Taylor-Claxton

9766…Doris Chu

1069…Doris Mclean

13572…Dorota Nierobis

12602…Doug Crummey

14426…Douglas Briscoe

13421…Douglas Loader

13892…Douglas Wong

7210…Duncan Elbourne

8724…Ed Brady

12342…Edith Bernard

14459…Edith Bostwick

7761…Edmund Mah

12753…Edouard Larocque

7244…Edward Boushey

7987…Edward Miner

8971…Eileen Keefe

9338…Eileen Whyte

13055…Elaine Copson

13293…Elena Ienzi

10186…Elena Pecherskaya

7849…Elena Petre

9703…Elise Vandette

7008…Elizabeth Burn

10355…Elizabeth Conway

7622…Elizabeth Finnigan

10613…Elizabeth Fournier

14445…Elizabeth Fry

11404…Elizabeth Glover

8896…Elizabeth Goheen

7656…Elizabeth Hall

11956…Elizabeth Hayman

13331…Elizabeth Kerr

7956…Elizabeth Valentine

12762…Elizabeth Vaudry

14224…Elizabeth W12

9549…Ella Rowland

7923…Ella Stewart

11986…Ellen Hogan

9002…Ellen Lamarre

14574…Elly Crow

7248…Elly Robertson

8638…Emery Terell

8659…Emilie Adams

11919…Emilie Plater

11700…Emily Coleman

14266…Emily Gerbasi

8645…Emily Hamilton

10271…Emily Hewitt

14565…Emily Lafreniere

14293…Emily Lister

13535…Emily Montgomery

13676…Emily Rick

12481…Emily Thomas

9855…Emily Vingerhoeds

11403…Emma Cianfaglione

9125…Emma-Lee Newby

13353…Engelina Kruizinga

13150…Eric Eryou

13409…Eric Lepine

10358…Eric Macarthur

10457…Eric Noel

7903…Eric Shear

13824…Eric Torelli

12557…Erica Leslie

12263…Erich Farrell

11990…Erik Jolliffe

12696…Erika Williams

7486…Erin Beasley

14615…Erin Beck

7564…Erin Collins

333…Erin Drybrough

8344…Erin Johnstone

8020…Erin O'higgins

8621…Erin Sarsfield

12014…Erma Seekings

7473…Ernesto Angeles

10324…Eryn O'niell

7513…Estelle Bourlon

12229…Esther Moghadam

13357…Ethan Labelle

12455…Ethan Macdonald

13877…Eunice West

14080…Eva Lacelle

8164…Eva Rehder

8581…Evelyn Lannon

13328…Faye Kennedy

12686…Florent Fournier

11735…Fortino Cruz

14401…Fran Enright

8697…France Beare

12804…Francine Vachon

8340…Francois Bak

1553…Francois De La Chevrotiere

13592…Francois Paltrinieri

14155…Francois Proulx

13426…Frank Lozanski

10651…Fred Pelletier

10394…Frederic Theriault

12632…Frederick S. Gannon

10450…Gabriel Bouchard

7428…Gabrielle Lambert

9110…Gabrielle Moser

12549…Gabrielle Nadeau

7722…Gaetan Laforest

8293…Gail Harlow-Bolt

9528…Gary Avann

14277…Gary Cunningham

12763…Gary Vaudry

8315…Gemma Riley-Laurin

10075…Genevieve Cholette

12675…Genevieve Gales

8925…Genevieve Harte

12363…Genevieve Joly

7721…Genevieve Lacroix

10325…Genevieve Lemieux

9061…Genevieve Martin

8391…Genevieve Sorel

14267…Geoff Blair

7426…Geoff Plint

13887…Geoff Wilson

10446…Geoff Wilton

11933…George Kovacs

13396…George Leblanc

14214…George Marko

12745…George Mcleod

8390…George Reklitis

8399…George Weber

13811…Georges Thenor-Louis

13024…Gerry Chartrand

10432…Ghaith Dhaidan

8654…Gianna Inglese

13060…Gil Couch

10331…Gilles Duguay

10107…Gillian Goddard

12811…Gillian Howell

13677…Gillian Rick

14002…Gina Charos

7311…Gina Donaldson

12170…Gina Landriault

10923…Gina Palmese

7975…Gina Whiting

8143…Ginette Miron

7828…Ginette Orlicky

9759…Gino Moretti

8125…Giovanni Vivolo

8371…Gisela Grossman

12295…Gisele Steele

12838…Giuseppe (Joey) Porchetta

12536…Gizem Eras

9718…Glen Pilon

13087…Glenda Davies

13175…Glenn Franklin

8252…Glenn Horne

10799…Glenn R. Carroll

7025…Gloria Hache

12859…Gordon Allison

7966…Gordon Wallace

12540…Grace Yee

8695…Graeme Beales

7223…Graeme Beare

12901…Graham Bell

8566…Grayson Ivey

8565…Greg Ivey

14221…Greg Jensen

12165…Greg Kimball

13342…Greg Knighton

14333…Greg Pinard

7448…Greg Weatherdon

11972…Gregory Adams

7281…Guy Pitre

11581…Guy Thibault

10379…Hai Nguyen

9277…Hailey Stewart

11191…Hailie Pedley

10293…Hannah Hopkins

9558…Hannah Sykes

7052…Haris Gisavi

11955…Harold Mckay

12678…Harry Ehret

12312…Hayley Goodman

8232…Hazel Stoute

12873…Heather Arnold

10813…Heather Cosgrove

14275…Heather Fisher

11576…Heather Gerrior

11256…Heather Jamieson

9465…Heather Mackay

12311…Heather Macleod

7797…Heather Moore

10139…Heather Munro

14468…Heather Wilson

10244…Heather Woltman

9344…Heather Wright

9503…Hector Capetillo

9360…Helen Huang

9072…Helen Mcdowell

12817…Helena Herby

9150…Helene Paquin

10914…Henri Monette

9426…Henry Strong

9297…Hermelle Thivierge

7193…Hidetaka Nishimura

10763…Hilda Chow

14295…Hiro Dozono

9695…Hollie Mclean

9651…Howard Smith

9323…Howard Voight

13119…Hubert Dinel

13258…Hugo Hazledine

8014…Hugo Marin

7118…Ian Briggs

13082…Ian Dalling

14077…Ian Kluke

9724…Ian Pedley

10719…Ian Thomson

7173…Iryna Karpova

7461…Isabel Chin

13698…Isabel Rodrigue

8694…Isabelle Beach

13984…Isabelle Blondeau

9433…Isabelle D'souza

10160…Isabelle Gilbert

9705…Isabelle Gingrich

12642…J.W.Gilbert Rose

13274…Jack Hopkins

13314…Jack Johnson

9268…Jack Snyder

7453…Jackie Bonisteel

9978…Jackie Oncescu

8604…Jackie Poole

14325…Jacob Cardinal Tremblay

11579…Jacob Thibault

8846…Jacqueline Emery

12106…Jacqueline Guarisco

9009…Jacqueline Laplante

11033…Jacqueline Mackay

7641…Jacques Gobin

13753…Jacqui Sirois

9834…Jacquie Lemaire

12559…Jaffer Majeed

9896…Jaime Mclean

7974…Jaime Whetstone

12771…James Allard

8696…James Beales

12948…James Bowie

14254…James C Stewart

12290…James Cantellow

13115…James Dickson

14440…James Griff

10759…James Hill

13316…James Jones

9396…James Kierstead

9837…James Mcmichael

7180…James Moore

13597…James Paul

7848…James Peters

13649…James Powers

7003…James Pyzevas

7430…James Stewart

7927…James Stockwell

7957…James Vannier

7147…Jamie Bell

7119…Jamie Mclennan

10442…Jamie Ryan

10363…Jamie Snider

10879…Jan Labelle

7724…Jane Lajoie

12834…Jane Le Fresne

9895…Jane Rudolf

7911…Jane Smith

9975…Janel Chiasson

10049…Janet Mcintyre

8686…Janice Bailey

10017…Janice Chan

7984…Janice Zeitz

9493…Jantine Van Kregten

13481…Jari Mccready

14412…Jasmine Viau

14585…Jasmine Vos

7998…Jason Brazeau

8917…Jason Hamilton

7393…Jason Lannon

13410…Jason Leroux

10243…Jason Moreau

7893…Jason Saunders

12617…Jason St.Pierre

14192…Jason Thompson

12478…Jason Warwick

8426…Jason Wiltshire

8608…Jay Asselin

8504…Jay Janzen

13436…Jay Lymer

13601…Jay Paxton

10182…Jay Reid

12425…Jayme Drainville

12427…Jean Daoust

9946…Jean De Bellefeuille

12662…Jean Francois Martel

8746…Jeanette Caron

14523…Jean-Francois Fauteux

11640…Jean-Francois Leduc

13299…Jean-Guy Isaya

7512…Jean-Marc Boulet

12380…Jeannine Bailliu

12122…Jean-Paul Nadeau

10306…Jeff Cranton

13084…Jeff Daniels

7071…Jeff Johns

11169…Jeff Lepoidevin

13420…Jeff Lloyd

7753…Jeff Lockert

7926…Jeff Stiles

12877…Jeffery Attala

13285…Jeffrey Hunter

9967…Jeffrey Pelletier

13888…Jeffrey Wilson

12550…Jenah Thompson

11910…Jenelle Power

12178…Jenna Cormier

8618…Jenna Hurst

8962…Jenna Jones

10367…Jenna Matsukubo

14313…Jenna Stirling

7821…Jennie Nieradka

10559…Jennifer Bennett

8714…Jennifer Blattman

8716…Jennifer Born

13005…Jennifer Carneiro Demers

12787…Jennifer Conley

6507…Jennifer Dagg

8805…Jennifer Dare

12095…Jennifer Dumoulin

12582…Jennifer Fitzpatrick

12062…Jennifer Gibson

8902…Jennifer Grandy

8940…Jennifer Hood

8132…Jennifer Irwin

10153…Jennifer Koussaya-Kent

13406…Jennifer Lemire

7748…Jennifer Lim

8109…Jennifer Macinnis

14606…Jennifer Madigan

9102…Jennifer Moorehead

7798…Jennifer Moores

14544…Jennifer Morin

9437…Jennifer Murphy

9745…Jennifer Naddaf

9937…Jennifer Paul

9194…Jennifer Read

7867…Jennifer Reid

7905…Jennifer Shortall

7319…Jennifer St.Pierre

8512…Jennifer Thiessen

7090…Jeppe Henningsen

12479…Jeremy Ferrall

7930…Jeremy Sumner

13030…Jerome Choi

14023…Jerry Dechnik

14450…Jerry Kovacs

10385…Jessey Basi

8790…Jessica Cox

14497…Jessica Dean

11892…Jessica Fletcher

13174…Jessica Frankland

12345…Jessica Reddin

8346…Jessica Skinner

12166…Jessica Souannhaphanh

7565…Jessie Cook

12851…Jill Aiello

14518…Jill Perry

14193…Jill Thompson

11921…Jim Baker

7587…Jim Davis

7425…Jim Louter

12776…Jim Quinn

12444…Joan Mcewen

9129…Joan Norgren

9207…Joan Riznek-Ricardo

9726…Jo-Ann Pedley

10653…Joanna Lee

13969…Joanne Baker Baker

8406…Jo-Anne Belliveau

12301…Joanne Blackburn

8567…Joanne Ivey

11991…Joanne Jolliffe

11324…Joanne Macneil

9507…Jocelyn Hanna

13598…Jocelyn Paul

8643…Jocelyn Swift

9310…Jodi Turner

12177…Jodie Hoffart

7097…Joe Coballe

7369…Joe Kemp

7301…Joe Kresovic

12099…Joe Marques

8339…Joey Bak

7757…Joey Mackenzie

7273…Joffre St-Martin

14602…Joh N Smith

9547…Johannita Rowland

9852…John Armstrong

7485…John Basile

10795…John Boyd

7534…John Caminiti

12797…John Coltess

8854…John Ewing

7082…John Gazo

9580…John Gibberd

8068…John Gordon

12580…John Nethercott

7830…John Ortiz

9590…John Pasqua

9160…John Pavelich

9174…John Pick

8413…John Rochon

7934…John Szabo

9308…John Turnbull

7037…Johnathan Macdonald

7675…Joleen Hind

10047…Jolene Head

9064…Jolene Maxwell

13526…Jon Moberly

13714…Jon Ruddy

14413…Jonathan Diamantstein

13307…Jonathan Jeffrey

14081…Jonathan Laflamme

12159…Jonathan Laidlaw

7745…Jonathan Liddell

10272…Jonathan Matthews

9106…Jonathan Morley

14179…Jonathan Smith

10119…Jordan Fraser

9866…Jordan Merkas

11029…Jordan Pellerin

9715…Jordy Finnigan

13608…Jorge Perez

8307…Jose Mari Perez

13533…Jose Montes Castilla

7475…Joseph Arbour

12639…Joseph Harding

7816…Joseph Ngare

10090…Joseph Smith

9505…Joseph Wilkinson

12988…Josh Burrill

7016…Josh Moore

13427…Joshua Lozanski

14118…Jovette Mcdonald

8602…Joy Delacruz-Shea

9410…Joyce Contant

9934…Judith Lamesse

10263…Judy Brockelbank

10510…Judy Fox

10361…Judy Lam

8074…Judy Mcintosh

14410…Julia Barry

10373…Julia Garant

11181…Julia Gingrich

11322…Julia Marshall

14332…Julia Nikonorova

11485…Julia Trotman-St. Hill

8075…Juliana Laboucane

9742…Julie Beaulieu

14522…Julie Bedard

10806…Julie Chouinard

9478…Julie Chubb

8837…Julie Dufour

12790…Julie Emond

14075…Julie Keith

13403…Julie Leger

10888…Julie Lesperance

13523…Julie Milligan

10055…Julie Nault

13623…Julie Pickering

13885…Julie Wills

7992…Justin Bhatla

7065…Justin Lalonde

9669…Justin Vienneau

10369…Kaitie Jourdeuil

8483…Kaitlin Bell

7413…Kaitlynn Dinn

7951…Kamil Tracz

6260…Kammal Tannis

9660…Kane Newell

8677…Karen Armstrong

11932…Karen Brown

10010…Karen Elchakieh

11356…Karen Elliott

10842…Karen Frederick

8564…Karen Hurley

12051…Karen Johnstone

8998…Karen Lahay

8447…Karen Leslie

9059…Karen Marshall

10199…Karen Mcnaught

9203…Karen Richard

9466…Karen Sutherland

12001…Karen Vandenhoven

9614…Karen Vinczeffy

7181…Karine Dion

12486…Karyn Lessard

9733…Karyn O'flaherty

7482…Kate Barbosa

8171…Kate Clost

12782…Kate Costello

11649…Kate Headley

13546…Kate Morrison

12637…Kate Todd

9746…Katerina Naddaf

13849…Katerina Venderova

10384…Katherine Swim

13804…Katherine Taylor

7257…Katherine Yee

10108…Kathleen Hurley

7500…Kathryn Blair

12282…Kathryn Gibson

14495…Kathryn Gough

8231…Kathy Crowe

9028…Kathy Litalien

7577…Katie Dalton

14108…Katie Macdonnell

12210…Katie Malcolm

13548…Katie Morrissey

10255…Katrina Ellis

9200…Kayt Render

7040…Kazutoshi Nishizawa

12309…Keith Hendricks

12505…Keith Kawall

7127…Kelly Crawford

10537…Kelly Jung

13333…Kelly Keyes

9831…Kelly Louie

7322…Kelly Mccann

14526…Kelly Patrick

12080…Kelly Stirling

8283…Kelly-Anne Campbell

14442…Kelsey Saha

14580…Kendra Kehoe

14291…Kenneth Coleman

8648…Kerri Hunter

12085…Kerry Maloney

7063…Kerstyn Farrell

8001…Kevin Buttle

9576…Kevin Cotten

13448…Kevin Maclean

9067…Kevin Mccarragher

10412…Kevin Moher

10717…Kevin Platford

10426…Kevin Smith

7235…Kevin Swan

10096…Kevin Wong

12043…Khallad Karime

8748…Kim Carriere

14511…Kim Holmes

13404…Kim Lehto

11802…Kim Ling

8111…Kimberley Coleman

12347…Kimberley Merkas

9728…Kimberly Stewart

8693…Kimby Barton

12640…Kingston Harding

14541…Kirstie Parisien

13346…Klaus Kollenberg

7457…Koni Bennett

13483…Koreena Mcculloch

13742…Kris Shaw

10225…Krista Brown

13889…Krista Wilson

11402…Kristen Cianfaglione

8810…Kristen Decaire

13289…Kristen Hutchinson

13443…Kristen Macgowan

7841…Kristen Parker

7732…Kristin Le Saux-Farmer

8839…Kristina Dyck

14479…Kristina Jensen

12490…Kristine Baker

14348…Kristine Dempster

10307…Kristy Fleet

7365…Krzysztof Malczynski

13107…Kyle Desormeaux

6504…Kyle Klumper

13502…Kyle Mclaughlin

14344…Landen Moore

9650…Larkin Mosscrop

8309…Larry Hoskins

52…Larry Mccloskey

13578…Larry O'brien

12980…Lars Brusven

14022…Laura Dawson

9981…Laura Garrow

9911…Laura Griffin

13244…Laura Halpenny

8489…Laura Harris

12180…Laura Johnson

12731…Laura Kealey

8189…Laura May

12330…Laura Meaney

13509…Laura Medeiros

13660…Laura Radey

14173…Laura Scholtes

8325…Laura Ziebell

14628…Laureen Harper

11915…Laurel Murray

7646…Lauren Gouchie

8954…Lauren Hutchings

8302…Laurie Hunt

12742…Leanne Forman

9858…Lee Jacobs

8526…Leif Thorpe

12635…Lenka Acreman

9694…Leo Kiu

8437…Leonard Post

12068…Lesley Kathnelson

11999…Lesley Mackay

13866…Lesley Warren

11968…Leslie Blades

14096…Leslie Levita

9099…Leslie Mondle

13669…Leslie Rendell

8303…Leslie Youngson

8350…Lia Hiltz

14289…Liam Bell

13218…Liam Gordon

9118…Liam Mulvihill

14539…Liam Price

12259…Liam Wood

12941…Lianne Bouffard

14608…Lianne Wright

10584…Lilly Wood

8701…Linda Beehler

12142…Linda Desgranges

10849…Linda Hall

9369…Linda Leung

8438…Linda Post

12189…Linda Yusak

12865…Lindsay Andrusek

12806…Lindsay Doyle

8276…Lindsay Sinclair

10235…Lindy Ledohowski

10688…Linsay Janzen

8097…Lisa Calloway

9950…Lisa Cox

8867…Lisa Forbes

13204…Lisa Georges

8892…Lisa Gibson

10046…Lisa Hamilton

12840…Lisa Mouchet

9185…Lisa Poirier

10712…Lisa St-Denis

8627…Lisa Valentino

10396…Lise Brandi-Hansen

7096…Lise Piche

8427…Lise St-Andre

12949…Lissa Boyd

8287…Liz Goodman

7293…Liz Maguire

12480…Loretta Saunders

10988…Lori Di Pierdomenico

12028…Lori Eagleson

10736…Lori Pepper

10583…Lori Wood

14572…Louis Romeo Montgrain

9440…Louise Fortin

9114…Louise Moulie

12459…Lucas Mcgreal

10241…Lucia Monique Ippolito

14434…Lucie Tasse

13547…Lucy Morrison

9057…Luize Marie Marquez

9494…Lukas Ratkowski

8401…Luke Allan

12227…Luke Young

9469…Lyn Crozier

10816…Lynda Cronin

13173…Lynda Franc

8237…Lyne Billings

9178…Lynette Pike

8872…Lynn Fournier

12824…Lysann Boisvert

14467…Lyse Patenaude

9451…Mackie Elliot

12780…Maddy Gibson

13895…Madeleine Woods

9589…Madison Schroeder

10309…Maggie Pawelec

10817…Magnus Cronin

7606…Manon Drake

14364…Marc Andre Bouchard

7058…Marc Berube

14514…Marc Dumaine

9017…Marc Lefebvre

7282…Marc Magierowicz

11942…Marc St Pierre

7053…Marcel Losier

8852…Marcia Evans

7769…Marcia Matsuo

12443…Marco Vocisano

8653…Marcus Ibbotson

9768…Marek Szymborski

8065…Marg Duteau

12220…Margaret Coleman-Mclean

9910…Margaret Hazel

11117…Marguerite Joyce

12246…Maria Barrett

12181…Maria Gomez

11908…Maria Lemus

10466…Maria Menard

7802…Maria Mottillo

9916…Marian Kneitz

10050…Marie Andree Paquin

12201…Marie Avila

9938…Marie Cocking

13138…Marie Dupuis

9531…Marie Engelmann

8891…Marie Gervais

10072…Marie Martin

12603…Marie Paul

10535…Marie Poirier

13599…Marie-Eve Paul

12664…Marie-France Horton

12362…Marie-France Joly

8086…Marie-France Sexton

7212…Marie-Jeanne Carola

8921…Marie-Lise Handley

12158…Marilyn Laidlaw

12033…Marina Murphy

11893…Marion Ings

8337…Marion Lapham

7772…Marion May

8942…Marisa Hopp

9512…Mark Bracko

13994…Mark Budd

8755…Mark Caverson

8885…Mark Gaillard

13217…Mark Goodchild

10265…Mark Menary

7850…Mark Phillips

7370…Mark Thompson

13825…Mark Totten

11951…Marlene St Pierre

13583…Marni Oliver

12183…Marta Gomez

10365…Marta Jarzabek

10249…Marta Piresferreira

13816…Martell Thompson

7498…Martin Bisson-Dubois

7056…Martin Gerrits

13363…Martin Laflamme

10299…Martin Stahl

14496…Martine Goulet

8698…Mary Beaudry

11966…Mary Brassard

11897…Mary Van Buren

12449…Mary-Ellen Maybee

13719…Mathew Sabourin

7601…Mathias Dormann

12411…Mathieu Stanton

7144…Matt Closs

8960…Matt Jelly

7837…Matt Paquette

8529…Matt Riopelle

8028…Matthew Arnott

7420…Matthew Bernhardt

12961…Matthew Brean

12965…Matthew Britt

13027…Matthew Chiasson

14008…Matthew Claxton

10809…Matthew Clement

12812…Matthew Colvil

7773…Matthew Mayer

10602…Matthew Pappas

9966…Matthew Pelletier

13411…Matthieu Leroux

13392…Maud Le Monnier

12171…Maureen Carroll

12581…Maureen Mccann

7315…Maureen O'connor

7833…Maureen O'Higgins

8893…Max Gibson

9368…Maxime Plater

10287…Maximilien Haghighat Talab

8767…May Chow

7995…Maya Aden

13168…Maylanye Fortin

7845…Meena Paul

7044…Megan Halhed

13287…Megan Hurley

14586…Megan Mcleod

12316…Megan Paterson

7360…Megan Rocquin

10339…Megan Trottier

9668…Meggan Phelan

8000…Meghan Bryant

9885…Melanie Burston

10357…Melanie Carkner

12250…Melanie Dubeau

7619…Melanie Farrell

13319…Melanie Jupp

10644…Melanie Mitchell

7381…Melanie Patina

9097…Melinda Mollineaux

13576…Melinda Nycholat

8789…Melissa Cosman

7576…Melissa Dahabieh

12344…Melissa Favaro

13310…Melissa Jess

10004…Melissa Radford

9872…Mercedes Marin

14444…Meredith Rocchi

12658…Merina Shulist

10404…Mia Mackechnie

9408…Mia Meldrum

12883…Michael Bamber

12946…Michael Boutet

8754…Michael Cassie

8284…Michael Chippa

9593…Michael Cuddihy

12375…Michael Davie

14258…Michael Diamond

12188…Michael Faulkner

8904…Michael Greene

7450…Michael Howitt

13351…Michael Krkic

9007…Michael Langlois

11098…Michael Mcginn

7183…Michael Mckiernan

9133…Michael Noynay

13614…Michael Petryk

12354…Michael St. Denis

9863…Michael Sulyha

12816…Michael Thompson

9314…Michael Van Aanhout

8484…Michael W Fawcett

9130…Michaela Norgren

7088…Michel Anglehart

7611…Michel Duhamel

12089…Michele Burkholder

7415…Michele Motiuk

10146…Michelle Blundell

8780…Michelle Conway

12781…Michelle Costello

12667…Michelle Crawley

12129…Michelle Gravelle

7340…Michelle Haines

9506…Michelle Joos

12583…Michelle Lefebvre

8575…Michelle Lindsay

13480…Michelle Mccombs

7808…Michelle Naylor

10926…Michelle Pineo

9210…Michelle Robichaud

12115…Michelle Straver

9912…Michelle Taylor

9983…Michelle Toutant

10443…Michelle Whitty

9711…Michelle Zakrison

7203…Miguel Bussiere

12663…Mikael Tremblay-Martel

11116…Mikaela Nicholson

12622…Mike Bushey

10515…Mike Clark

13207…Mike Giles

13230…Mike Greenly

14510…Mike Holmes

10445…Mike Kosavic

8250…Mike Scott

9893…Mike Seymour

13759…Mike Smith

10077…Mike Ward

13455…Mikel Magnusson

12463…Milan Patel

8298…Miriam Bloom

9923…Mithony Phan

12981…Moe Bsat

8288…Molly Goodman

12082…Monica Waterhouse

9615…Monique Lecompte

7522…Montana Brisbin

7268…Morgan Dickson

10257…Morgan Hladik

10533…Morgan Weeks

9986…Mumtaz Jaffer

10024…Murray Beare

7817…My-Chau Nguyen

13023…Mylene Charron

12179…Mylene Gomez

10242…Myriam Bower

8015…Nadim Missaghian

8398…Nadine Carroll

12278…Nammie Patel

8720…Nancy Boyd

8835…Nancy Dudek

9969…Nancy Dupuis

12487…Nancy Kalil

9309…Nancy Turnbull

8769…Naomi Christensen

12688…Natacha Tremblay

9773…Natalia Ng

7742…Natalie Lemay-Calcutt

13510…Natalie Melanson

13594…Natalie Paquette

9922…Natalie Phan

7166…Natalie Pilon

12222…Natasha Brennan

8462…Natasha Rueter

14257…Natasha Stewart

8796…Nathalie Croteau

13412…Nathalie Levasseur

13842…Navpreet Uppal

9238…Nazish Saleem

13203…Neil George

8009…Neil Irwin

9095…Neil Mispelaar

9280…Nelson Stokes

13213…Ngatho Githii

13962…Nicholas Anderson

12969…Nicholas Brousseau

13214…Nicholas Glennon

7660…Nicholas Handfield-Jones

9515…Nicholas Johnstone

14311…Nicholas Laughton

7352…Nicholas Newell

7073…Nicholas Schroeder

7456…Nicholas Tyler

9738…Nick Brunt

14210…Nick Doucette

13343…Nick Knighton

13429…Nick Luberti

13807…Nick Taylor-Vaisey

12621…Nickola Hockey

12847…Nicola Adams

12945…Nicolas Bourgogne

14040…Nicole Flanagan

10335…Nicole Loreto

8923…Nigel Harrison

13259…Nik Hazledine

7709…Nikolay Khotylev

9472…Nikta Fallahi

14553…Ninar Younes

13266…No Name, See Sportstats

14584…No Name, See Sportstats

9361…Noel Mcginnity

13228…Norma Green

13154…Olakunle Fajimi

14305…Olivia King

14488…Olivier Blue F-Bosh

7270…Olivier Choiniere

12855…Omar Allam

11745…Omar Diaz

9291…Omar Tareen

8300…Orlandd Foster

13260…Oscar Hazledine

7789…Oscar Metcalfe

13095…Oweeny De Silva

12698…Owen Savage

7402…Padme Raina

13254…Pam Hatton

12149…Pamela Bazinet

8304…Pamela Louie

8151…Pamela Vezina

10700…Pamela Wilson

12930…Parker Blois

7493…Pascal Bessette

10581…Pascale Castonguay

12548…Pascale Robillard

7149…Pat Barbeau

12118…Pat Horner

7487…Patricia Begin

12800…Patricia Innes

12417…Patricia Maloney

9112…Patricia Mosher

10437…Patricia Pearson

12098…Patricia Slaunwhite

12364…Patricia Turner

9324…Patricia Voight

12852…Patrick Alden

8057…Patrick Calnan

9540…Patrick Fletcher

8490…Patrick Harris

13268…Patrick Hodges

7010…Patrick Kirkham

7343…Patrick Lennox

7891…Patrick Saumur

13851…Patrick Vienneau

13977…Paul Barnshaw

9610…Paul Bazinet

7050…Paul Desgranges

8827…Paul Dionne

9955…Paul Duff

8862…Paul Finnigan

12551…Paul Gledhill

13229…Paul Greene

10288…Paul Haghighat Talab

8011…Paul Jonah

8646…Paul Karpiak

11943…Paul Krisciunas

9003…Paul Lamarre

7764…Paul Marchand

12124…Paul Racine

13701…Paul Romeo

7942…Paul Thompson

9315…Paul Van Aanhout

8651…Paula Ibbotson

13932…Paull Leamen

9180…Pei Pilgrim

8513…Penny Burton

9123…Penny Napke

14438…Perry Stansel

9565…Peter Bogart

13034…Peter Cianfaglione

14414…Peter Crow

14033…Peter Dudley

8030…Peter Fisher

13243…Peter Halpennny

7113…Peter Johnston

10122…Peter Mackay

13449…Peter Maclean

9378…Peter Orange

9181…Peter Pilgrim

7865…Peter Redekop

13731…Peter Saunders

12211…Peter Williams

9674…Petra Morewood

12770…Phil Jourdeuil

7364…Phil Rogers

9401…Phil Shilling

7250…Philip Corey

9716…Philip Pilon

12732…Philipp Guerin

8722…Philippe Boyer

14204…Philippe-Jacques Zaor

7690…Phillip Hughes-Morash

8655…Pia Newell Santiago

8003…Pierre Elhamoui

9799…Pierre Langevin

12356…Pierre-Pascal Duquette

10903…Pierrette Mccartney

11435…Pippa Leslie

9979…Pippa Sellers

7674…Pj Hewitt

10323…Porter Heffernan

7012…Predrag Bosnjak

10949…Prem Sharma

7497…Prescilla Bisier

9641…Quy Ha

8405…R Harman

8976…Rachael Kennedy

10691…Rachel Archer

7444…Rachel Armstrong

7527…Rachel Burgess

7832…Rachel Oueis

12808…Rachel Sheil

13418…Radek Linhart

9364…Rajiv Bhatla

14253…Raluca Dobre

11575…Randall Gerrior

14315…Randall Wilson

9538…Raquel Vinhais

7894…Rasha Saymeh

9143…Ray O'flaherty

14154…Raymond Prenoveau

13611…Real Perriard

13284…Rebecca Humphries

11939…Rebecca Knowlton

9557…Rebecca Mahler

9699…Rebecca Ross

7391…Rebecca Rousseau

8023…Rebecca Stallwood

9560…Rebecca Trueman

10175…Rebecca Wemyss

8800…Red Curtis

12575…Regan Braund

12853…Reji Alex

11663…Remi Ares

14304…Remy Poulin

9034…Renee Longpre

7787…Renee Mendrisky

8819…Ricardo Dias

12429…Richard Bisier

8721…Richard Boyd

11165…Richard Cotnam

10818…Richard Cronin

7661…Richard Handfield-Jones

13926…Richard Hayes

9599…Richard Lamoureux

10043…Rick Lessard

12751…Rick Mongeon

7836…Rick Palmer

9038…Ricky Ma

13893…Ricky Wong

10210…Rigel Shulist

9717…Riley Finnigan

8689…Ritu Banerjee

12668…Rob Blier

7536…Rob Carrick

12027…Rob Duncan

14134…Rob Muir

14583…Rob Parker

13729…Rob Saric

9568…Robert Bailey

10177…Robert Charrois

14473…Robert Cooper

7079…Robert Graham

7271…Robert Lamothe

10061…Robert Maranger

11962…Robert Mcintyre

13524…Robert Milligan

9107…Robert Morley

12657…Robert Walker

7380…Robert Watt

7632…Roberto Galeano

12973…Robin Browne

7556…Robin Chu

7141…Robyn Spicer

7989…Rod Vanderzalm

13844…Rohit Vaish

14237…Roman Ulyanov

13233…Ron Grossman

14441…Ron Maceachern

13680…Ron Ridley

13407…Ronald Lennox

13837…Ronan Tunney

9827…Rose Ngo

9719…Ross Ermel

12120…Roxanne Temple

7221…Roya Macdonald

10291…Ruben Saikaley

7677…Ruby Ho

10236…Rueban Balasubramaniam

10079…Russ Fitzpatrick

14207…Russell Christie

10233…Russell Francis

14228…Ryan Bush

7628…Ryan Fortner

13924…Ryan Garrett

7673…Ryan Hendy

10372…Ryan Jankovich

9816…Ryan Newton

11227…Ryan Squires

12083…Ryley Mackin

12224…S Slade

10646…Sabina Grossman

8649…Sabrina Dadrian-Kassabian

8880…Sabrina Gagne

8609…Said Hussien

14427…Sam Mackechnie

12317…Sam Paquette

12403…Samantha Burke

8467…Samantha Jerome

10080…Samantha Marcotte

12752…Samantha Mongeon

7404…Samantha Tysick

13146…Sami Elkout

7098…Sammy Diamantstein

14055…Sandra Gruescu

7064…Sandra Lalonde

11818…Sandra Monaghan

8050…Sandra Ryan

14365…Sandy Macleod

10138…Sara Jefferson

10748…Sara Lachance

13886…Sara Wilshaw

7471…Sarah Anderson

14446…Sarah Bennett

12303…Sarah Blackburn

13097…Sarah Degen

13123…Sarah Donahue

12683…Sarah El-Saliby

10118…Sarah Fraser

10780…Sarah Gisele

13242…Sarah Hahn

13288…Sarah Hurley

14083…Sarah Laliberte

12542…Sarah Leighton

7027…Sarah Leverton

13430…Sarah Luberti

8218…Sarah Michelle Pham

13567…Sarah Nesbitt

9230…Sarah Rudolph

12298…Sarah Turcotte

11996…Sarah Vandenhoven

9929…Sarah Verreault

14424…Sarto Leblanc

9583…Sasha Poirier

7758…Scot Maclean

14409…Scott Barry

14287…Scott Dupont

7116…Scott Evans

12022…Scott Gillespie

13280…Scott Howat

7750…Scott Lindsay

13615…Scott Phelan

13806…Scott Taylor

9399…Scott Thompson

7639…Sean Giovannetti

7701…Sean Jorgensen

10377…Sean Murtha

8093…Sean O'reilly

8652…Sebastian Ibbotson

7186…Sebastian Saville

8622…Sebastien Ares

7509…Sebastien Bouchard

9574…Serge Bidnyk

7682…Shana Hopkins

8934…Shane Hennessy

14612…Shannon Kelly

12703…Shannon King

9524…Shannon Ryan

10982…Shannon Youmelle

8937…Sharon Hiebert

10178…Shauna Maclean

7476…Shawn Arcand

9511…Shawn Boeyen

11907…Shawn Goudge

13335…Shawn Kidman

7831…Shawn Osborne

9177…Shawn Pigeon

13697…Shawn Rodgers

8776…Shawna Colbey

12435…Shawna Grosskleg

14621…Sheefra Brisbin

9046…Sheila Macleod

12445…Shelley Fleming

9425…Shelley Hale

12020…Sheri Curkovic

8742…Sherri-Ann Cameron

6508…Shona Mcculloch

7763…Simmi Mangat

10185…Simon Ferrand

9739…Simon Gagne

13929…Simon Jacques

7233…Simon Jones

13375…Simon Laplante

13413…Simon Levasseur

7232…Simon Mcdermott

14463…Simon Mclennan

9220…Simone Rose-Oliver

7794…Sonia Moioli

8106…Sophea Smith

12256…Sophia Molnar

14513…Sophie Goguen

14620…Sophie Hamel

9198…Sophie Reinhard

14328…Speedy Gonzales

10387…Spencer Rolfe

11756…Stacey Fox

10136…Stacey Lacroix

11950…Stacey Luce

14196…Stefan Van Kessel

7659…Steffan Hammonds

7135…Stephane Brunet

7636…Stephane Gauthier

7860…Stephane Quimper

8388…Stephane Thivierge

8668…Stephanie Anderton

9357…Stephanie Brunet

11961…Stephanie Culleton

13096…Stephanie De Silva

8849…Stephanie Etchells

13464…Stephanie Malley

14331…Stephanie Monteith

8455…Stephanie Niles

9149…Stephanie Paolin

10221…Stephanie Parisien

8222…Stephanie Parker

13696…Stephanie Rocque

7925…Stephanie Stewart

7076…Stephen Cutts

7047…Stephen Difruscio

8563…Stephen Donoghue

13132…Stephen Downs

13264…Stephen Hendrie

7731…Stephen Lawson

12691…Stephen Merils

8017…Stephen Morton

10217…Stephen Powell

13685…Stephen Ritchie

7535…Steve Campbell

14059…Steve Heath

8955…Steve Hutchings

13456…Steve Mahood

9086…Steve Meldrum

13648…Steve Power

13942…Steve Shaddoc

12735…Steve Westley

12254…Steven Molnar

14340…Steven Walker

13878…Steven West

10734…Steven Winters

13904…Steven Yankowich

11059…Stuart Campbell

14454…Stuart Macmillan

9068…Stuart Mccarthy

10167…Stuart Mccubbin

7255…Stuart Thomas

10370…Sue Jourdeuil

9032…Sue London

7185…Sullivan Brown

9504…Susan Domina

13269…Susan Hodgson

14538…Susan Mckay

9948…Susan Nevitt-Yelle

9132…Susan North

11895…Susan Oneid

9842…Susan-Belle Ferguson

8680…Susanna Atkinson

7288…Suzanne Hotson

10168…Suzanne Laverty

14550…Suzanne Maclean

8124…Suzi Vivolo

7239…Suzie Abcarius

8997…Suzie Lafreniere

10239…Sydney Shelp

13188…Sylvain Gagne

14310…Sylvain Osborne

12943…Sylvie Bourassa-Muise

9974…Sylvie Chiasson

8456…Sylvie Cote

9409…Sylvie Giroux

9616…Tabitha Legault

7300…Tamara Knighton

13730…Tamara Sarkisian

7613…Tammy Dupuis

11623…Tanja Sredic

12875…Tanya Ashton

12002…Tanya Cullen

11478…Tanya Desjardins

7739…Tanya Leger

7070…Tara Read

13800…Tara Sweeney

8956…Taylor Hutchings

9463…Ted Mackay

8275…Terri Sinclair

7568…Terry Cowan

9968…Terry Warren

13177…Tess Fremont-Cote

13321…Tessa Kampman

12119…Thea Temple

8865…Theresa Flaherty

7691…Theresa Humphrys

7749…Thiago Lima

14314…Thivisha Rajagopal

10290…Thom Haghighat Talab

14273…Thomas Gallagher

10883…Thomas Lamarre

12390…Thomas Pereira

11304…Thomas Saville

13596…Thusyanthan Pathmalingam

7746…Thuy Lieu

7469…Tiago Alves De Jesus

11367…Tiana Burton

12595…Tiffany Patten

7859…Tiffany Pursoo

14557…Tim Gibel

10850…Tim Hanley

9908…Tim Norman

10254…Timothy Hopkins

10586…Tina Meldrum

13326…Tobin Kelly

8977…Tobin Kennedy

13755…Todd Smaridge

12573…Tom Caldwell

14617…Tom Echlin

9422…Tom Fleming

9626…Tom Grace

13337…Tom Kilby

13389…Tom Lawson

8016…Tom Morel

13691…Tom Roberts

7196…Tom Steen

7078…Tomas Graham

13438…Tonda Maccharles

9484…Tony Curkovic

10088…Tony Tran

8806…Tracey Davis

8056…Tracey Mcdonald

9388…Tracey Mcdonald

7948…Tracey Tong

13857…Tracey Wait

12501…Tracy O'connor

14174…Tracy Seymour

8254…Tracy Tabuchi

9654…Tracy Walden

10334…Travis Boisvenue

11890…Travis Martin

9394…Treena Skory

12382…Trevor Berg

9864…Trevor Cavanagh

7547…Trevor Chaisson

13245…Trevor Halpenny

14101…Trevor Luten

8957…Trish Hutchings

14465…Troy Gilbert

12466…Tyler Allan

13031…Tyler Christian

7754…Tyler Longpre

7272…Tyler Mabo

7397…Ursula Melinz

8667…Valerie Anderson

13915…Valerie Delaney

13135…Vallier Dufour

11048…Vanessa Meikle

7935…Vanessa Talbot

8808…Venissa De Castro

10140…Veronica Benoit

9873…Veronique Boudreau

14570…Veronique Morin

1966…Veronqiue St-Denis

8077…Vicky Williams

12244…Victoria Calladine

14015…Victoria Crosbie

7704…Victoria Keaney

9673…Victoria Procunier

9861…Victoria Thomson

14486…Vincent Extreme-Kiwi Turpin

7555…Vinod Choyi

13890…Virginia Wolfe

7324…Vitaly Pecherskiy

12136…Ward Sb Powell

10247…Wendy Alexis

7688…Wendy Hough

12034…Wendy Jermyn

12205…Wendy Mak

7914…Wendy Snyder

7437…Wes Huffman

8282…Will Messervey

9566…William Aikman

7007…William Bain

14255…William Dods

7662…William Handfield-Jones

13275…William Hopkins

8454…William Kuchapski

8366…William Mcgowan

13600…William Paul

7864…William Read

10092…William Yee

9774…Wojciech Kulacz

13754…Xander Sirois

8219…Xuan Huyen Pham

7346…Yannick Brisebois

7807…Yasir Naqvi

13311…Yiuen Jiang

13748…Yves Sikubwabo

14307…Yvonne Burton

7629…Zander Fraser

13833…Zoe Trudel

7396…Zu Vuong

 

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Jan Kochanowski (6 VI 1530 - 22 VIII 1584)

  

TREN VIII

 

Wielkieś mi uczyniła pustki w domu moim,

Moja droga Orszulo, tym zniknieniem swoim!

Pełno nas, a jakoby nikogo nie było:

Jedną maluczką duszą tak wiele ubyło.

Tyś za wszytki mówiła, za wszytki śpiewała,

Wszytkiś w domu kąciki zawżdy pobiegała.

Nie dopuściłaś nigdy matce się frasować

Ani ojcu myśleniem zbytnim głowy psować,

To tego, to owego wdzięcznie obłapiając

I onym swym uciesznym śmiechem zabawiając.

Teraz wszytko umilkło, szczere pustki w domu,

Nie masz zabawki, nie masz rozśmiać się nikomu.

Z każdego kąta żałość człowieka ujmuje,

A serce swej pociechy darmo upatruje."

J.K.

  

Tren VIII

 

Your flight, my dearest, caused

This vast emptiness in my house.

We are so many yet no one's here:

One tiny soul and so much is gone.

You spoke and sang for all alone,

Skipped around in every corner of the house,

Never let your mother fret,

Never let your father brood,

Hugging one and then the other,

Cheering all with joyful laughter.

Now all is silent, the house stands bare,

There's no laughter, song or joy.

From every corner stares remorseless grief

As gnawing heartache vainly seeks relief.

 

TRANSLATIONS BY ADAM CZERNIAWSKI

 

/Wystawa prac absolwentów i nauczycieli wiśnickiego Plastyka, Muzeum Okręgowe w Nowym Sączu,

Oddział Zamek w Wiśniczu, 31 maja - październik 2008 /

 

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Day 17 - i thought i'd go outside and try to grab some pics of the moon. yeah. that's a little harder than i thought. i need to read up on what i was doing wrong. i just got a big blurry orb. so instead i decided to try a little light painting. this was my fourth photo out of four. it was about a ten second exp. im not sure if it was the full ten... my battery died either during this exposure or immediately after it. no flashes were used. i just used my trusty Energizer Hard Case Tactical Flashlight to paint the blue. the upper branches were painted by my neighbors security light.

 

on a side note - just found out i could do rear curtain sync with my cheapo triggers... not sure what im going to do with that, but at least i can do it if i want. this photo has nothing to do with that. i just thought i would share that out loud.

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LISTEN TO TAPS as performed by SGM Woody English of the U.S. Army Band.

  

John was laid to rest last Jan 16. He was 90 years old who served with honor and pride in World War II. He is of Italian origin and Catholic. He was given a military honor during his burial.

 

Taps was played by the honor guard. There were 2 guards in attendance.

 

First time I attended a funeral with not so much people. It was just the family of John in attendance, one friend and our family. I think when you reach the age of 90, your friends are all in heaven waiting for you.

 

Her wife Antoinette, who received the flag from the guard, and 2 sons who are already in their 60s or 70s were left by John.

 

RIP John.

 

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This HDR was processed using Photomatix, LucisArt and Photoshop. HDR people will be included in my upcoming book. Thanks for all the inquiries on when I will be releasing my 1st HDR book. I am trying to finish it in record time. I want you to know what I've been doing all my HDR life.

 

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I took this photo of the New York Stock Exchange, draped with the American Flag, on Wall Street, on my first trip to New York City in October 2004.

 

After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the NYSE building is well protected. Not only is the entrance guarded 24/7, it is surrounded by an iron fence and concrete barriers (the planters), AND there was a big pickup truck parked across the entrance to Wall Street here, and since Wall Street is so narrow, it blocked all vehicular traffic on the street.

 

MORE INFORMATION OF THE NYSE:

 

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the "Big Board", is a New York City-based stock exchange. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by dollar volume and, with 2,764 listed securities, has the second most securities of all stock exchanges. Its share volume was exceeded by that of NASDAQ during the 1990s. As of December 31, 2006, the combined capitalization of all New York Stock Exchange listed companies was $25.0 trillion.

 

The NYSE is operated by NYSE Euronext, which was formed by its merger with the fully electronic stock exchange Archipelago Holdings and Euronext. The New York Stock Exchange trading floor is located at 11 Wall Street, and is composed of four rooms used for the facilitation of trading. The main building, located at 18 Broad Street between the corners of Wall Street and Exchange Place, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978.

 

The origin of the NYSE can be traced to May 17, 1792, when the Buttonwood Agreement was signed by twenty-four stock brokers outside of 68 Wall Street in New York under a buttonwood tree. On March 8, 1817, the organization drafted a constitution and renamed itself the "New York Stock & Exchange Board". (This name was shortened to its current form in 1863.) Anthony Stockholm was elected the Exchange's first president.In 1922, a building designed by Trowbridge & Livingston was added at 11 Broad Street for offices, and a new trading floor called "the garage". Additional trading floor space was added in 1969 and 1988 (the "blue room") with the latest technology for information display and communication.

 

(Source: Wikipedia)

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2007 Wieliczka Salt Mine Near Krakòw

 

One traveled Frenchman observed in the 18th century that Krakow's Wieliczka salt mine was no less magnificent than the Egyptian pyramids. Millions of visitors, the crowned heads and such celebrities as Goethe and Sarah Bemhardt among them, have appeared to share his enthusiasm when exploring the subterranean world of labyrinthine passages, giant caverns, underground lakes and chapels with sculptures in the crystalline salt and rich ornamentation carved in the salt rock. They have also marveled at the ingenuity of the ancient mining equipment in the Wieliczka salt mine. And the unique acoustics of the place have made hearing music here an exceptional experience.

The Wieliczka Salt Mine, nowadays practically on the southeast outskirts of Krakow, has been worked for 900 years. It used to be one of the world's biggest and most profitable industrial establishments when common salt was commercially a medieval equivalent of today's oil. Always a magnet, since the mid-18th century Krakow's Wieliczka salt mine has become increasingly a tourist attraction in the first place. Today visitors walk underground for about 2,000 m in the oldest part of the salt mine and see its subterranean museum, which takes three hours or so.

Nine centuries of mining in Wieliczka produced a total of some 200 kilometers of passages as well as 2,040 caverns of varied size. The tourist route starts 64 m deep and ends 135 m below the earth surface, where the world's biggest museum of mining is located with the unique centuries-old equipment among its exhibits. Still below, some 210 m deep, there is a sanatorium for those suffering from asthma and allergy. Occasionally concerts and other events take place in the Wieliczka mine’s biggest chambers.

UNESCO has entered the Wieliczka Salt Mine in its World Heritage Register.

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25 Octobre: cela fait plus de 3 semaines que plus de 150 familles dorment sur les trottoirs de la rue de la Banque, devant le Ministère de la Crise du Logement. Aujourd'hui, une délégation a été reçue par Christine Boutin, Ministre de la Ville et du Logement, mais sans résultat (apparemment, le Ministère aurait demandé une liste permettant d'identifier les familles les plus démunies afin de solutionner leur problème, mais l'ensemble des mal logés exigent une solution globale, et ont refusé cette offre).

 

Ici, une petite fille a l'air un peu triste ou fatiguée entre les tentes.

 

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Years ago, a friend told me a story from her childhood that I'd not heard before, and I think of it often. The story goes like this:

 

One morning, a little girl was looking across the valley from her house, admiring the beautiful golden windows on a house on the top of the hill.

 

"Mom," she said, "Do you see that house on the hill with golden windows? It must be so beautiful there, and the people who live there must be so wealthy! I'll bet they have no problems and their lives are filled with happiness every day. I wish OUR HOUSE had golden windows."

 

"Oh, darling," replied the mother, "no one's life is perfect. Even people who live in a house with golden windows."

 

"No, I think you are wrong! I want to go see for myself!" So the mother packed the daughter a lunch, and away the daughter went to cross the valley and see how wonderful life was for the people who lived in the house with golden windows.

 

The girl walked all day long. As she reached the bottom of the valley, she lost sight of the house but kept going. It was dusk by the time she reached the top of the other hill. But to her surprise, all she found was an ordinary house. She saw no golden ornaments, nothing that made the house look different or more special than any other house. The people looked ordinary, just like the people in her own family. She was puzzled.

 

Disappointed, she turned around to gaze at her own house across the valley she'd just crossed. And to her surprise, her house was ablaze with light. The windows shone with gold as the setting sun lit them up. In disbelief, she looked again at the ordinary house in front of her, then back to her house gleaming across the way.

 

"MY house has golden windows!" she said in amazement. She stood for a moment, struck by how beautiful her house looked from this side of the valley. She took off running back down the hill, eager to return to her family.

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Addendum: it seems the dream is running fast to an end . . . and it is a sad one

 

A dictator always says "My people!" as if it were a herd to be gathered in a stable, in fences, uses demagogy to get people's consensus and stops freedom of thought, speech, religion and condemns and punishes each diversity.

A wise chief of his state always addresses the free citizens that believed his non demagogist plan to preserve their freedom, and knows that diversities ar richness and fuel for freedom and democracy and protects them and promotes free debate, exchange and peaceful coexistence.

  

The boundary between Asia and Europe is almost everywhere uncertain, but in one place it's perfectly delineated: along the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles.

So Istanbul, that spans on both sides of Bosphorus Channel, is the only city in the world being subdivided in two continents.

 

Şemsi Pasha (Üsküdar): Istanbul - Asia

Galata Tower (Beyoğlu): Istanbul - Europe (in the background)

Bosphorus Channel in the middle

 

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Shot it at GANGASAGAR Fair.

Gangasagar Mela(fair) is the largest fair celebrated in West Bengal. This fair is held where the Ganga and the Bay of Bengal form a nexus. Hence the name Gangasagar Mela. The river Ganga which originates in the Gangotri glacier in the snow clad Himalayas, descends down the mountains, reaches the plains at Haridwar, flows through ancient pilgrimage sites such as Benares and Prayag, and drains into the Bay of Bengal. Sagar Island, at the mouth of the river Hooghly in Bengal where the Ganga breaks up into hundreds of streams, and drains into the sea, is honored as a pilgrimage site.

A dip in the ocean, where the Ganga drains into the sea is considered to be of great religious significance particularly on the Makara Sankranti day when the sun makes a transition to Capricorn from Sagittarius and this town becomes home to vast fairs, drawing visitors and recluses from all over the state. There is a common belief among the locals that the girls who take the holy dip get handsome grooms and the boys get beautiful brides. When they are done with the ritual obligations, they head towards the Kapilmuni Temple situated nearby, to worship the deity as a mark of respect.

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About this shot

The shot above is almost two years old and actually only a 'vehicle' for some hints and tips I want to share with you for when you're preparing a (city) trip.

 

I took this shot with my (old and now sold) D90 + Nikon 18-200mm VRII travel lens, shooting from the back of the deck of a speedy moving river bus. It's fantastic travelling by boat in and around London! Glad I wasn't in the rowing boat though. :)

 

Preparing your city trip

In the 20th century (remember?) when you were sort of planning your trip, you went to a library or bookstore and got yourself a couple of books and/or travelguides from the place you we're going to visit. That's kinda old skool now.

 

Here's three simple tips to help you out planning your trip, picking spots with dusk/dawn in mind, and how to get inspired - all in 21st century stylee!

 

Tip number one: Let Flickr be your inspiration

Unless you're preparing a city trip to Atlantis (*blub, blub*), you'll find out that plenty of other excellent photographers have been visiting and shooting your destination. Take advantage of their efforts by browsing through their images, and learn from their spots and angles. You'll see the stuff that's been shot to death, so maybe you want to avoid these. Most likely though the work of others will inspire you to go out there shooting and give it your own 'personal touch/twist'.

 

I use Flickr search to get an idea about the possibilities of a certain location. It's a good idea to use more than one search keyword. So instead of using 'London' (for example), use 'London Thames barrier' or even better 'London Thames barrier night' to narrow down more specific results.

 

My personal tip is to use the filter 'Recent' on your search results. This way you'll find out the famous object you were planning to shoot is being renovated, surrounded by scaffolding - saving you the time and effort of going there all excited and end up sobbing.

 

An example: London Thames Barrier - Recent.

 

It's also a good idea to check out websites of a special spot you prepare to visit. For example: This way I found out the St. Paul (London) was being renovated and the excellent view over London you can get there is closed in March/April. I'd rather be dissapointed in advance than finding out about this after standing in a cue for 10 minutes or something.

 

Sometimes you're curious from what spot a photograph is taken, because you like that angle very much. Unfortunately not a lot of Flickr folks add maps to their images. Maybe to avoid that other people will 'copy' their angles? Tsk, tsk. We will find out anyhow! This brings us to my second tip...

 

Tip number two: Google Earth / Streetview

You'd like to explore the locations you're planning to visit beforehand? That's possible with (for example) the help of a couple of Google web applications.

 

Google Earth A useful download, especially with 3D elements.

 

Google Streetview Limited, but nonetheless useful.

 

While Google Streetview is very useful - it gives an excellent idea of 'being there' while you're still in front of your computer - it's rather limited because in the end it's only what it is: 'street view'. What does your photographic object look like from a boat in the middle of a river? What's a nice angle from that pedestrian bridge? How's the view from that hill? You can only find out with Google Earth. Pinpoint your location and you can check it out from any given angle. Together with the first tip (using Flickr search results) you'll get a pretty good idea if a location is promising and worthwhile enough for you. Plus you most likely will find out if there are any obstacles or unpleasant surprises making it difficult or impossible to take the shot you had in mind. No surprises for you if you prepared yourself using the tips above!

 

Tip number three: The Photographer's Ephemeris

Every photographer knows this, or should know it. Scott Kelby told me. ;-) There's only two periods in a day you can take shots that make a difference: at dusk and at dawn. No really!

 

Well, at home you can probably 'dream' where exactly the sun is coming up (east, right? hehe) and where it goes down (west - just a wild guess), which buildings it hits from that specific angle, where it sinks in the sea or where to find that nice view/spot at dusk/dawn. Now you're going to visit a different city you don't know *that* well. You know about the east and west thing and all that, but it won't be enough to be at the right spot at the right time at dusk or dawn! *Panic!*

 

Where's the sun going down while facing your object of photographic desire? Where's the moon? Do you want to plan a city trip with full moon? You want to prepare an evening or night session but want to know if it's in your view from *that* specific spot? Now what!?

 

Here comes the rather excellent Photographer's Ephemeris in handy! This little program is free for PC and Mac, and you will find it here. You pay for the iPhone/iPad/Android versions, but they're well worth it, especially the iPad edition.

 

You simply pick your spot (wherever!) and the date (of your future visit for example) and you'll get all the info on the whereabouts of the sun (dusk, dawn and everything in between) percentage and position of the moon, everything you'd like to know beforehand about the perfect light conditions.

Excellent stuff! That's the third and final tip, an awesome tool to plan your perfect city trip.

 

I also recommend Star Walk for iPhone by the way, an excellent app! Tells you everything about sunrise/sunset, the moon and all that. It's not free, but worth the money!

 

Summing it up and some extra tips

Free inspiration through Flickr, no more time wasting on location finding your way towards your favourite spots, and no surprises finding out the sun is out of range when you thought of catching a brilliant sunset over that stunning city view.

 

That being said, it's also a pretty smart idea to keep an eye on the weather conditions at all times - huge chance the unpredictable weather's going to be the biggest spoiler of your perfectly planned trip - especially going to the UK - but hey, that's life!

 

Even when the weather is not really cooperative you should always try to get the most out of your visit, so go out and try some rain shots or even better - when there's plenty of dark clouds floating by - bring your tripod and ND filters to create stunning Long Exposures!

 

Inspiration with the ND110!

 

I wish all of you out there a lot of fun with these hints and tips - if you already didn't use them - and happy shooting! Keep looking for that perfect angle, treat it with your personal touch!

 

My English is not perfect but I hope you can 'catch my drift'! :-)

 

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Date: Taken on May 7, 2010 at 7.31pm CEST

 

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Exposure 0.013 sec (1/80)

Aperture f/9.0

Focal Length 18 mm (Nikon 18-200mm VRII)

ISO Speed 200

 

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Callier, a childhood friend of Curtis Mayfield, began recording in 1963 but never reached stardom despite a series of regional hits in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1983, he gained custody of his 12-year-old daughter Sundiata and decided to retire from music to look for a steadier income. He took classes in computer programming and landed a job at the University of Chicago in 1984.

 

He reemerged from obscurity when British DJs discovered his old recordings and began to play his songs in clubs in the late 1980s. Acid Jazz Records head Eddie Piller brought Callier to play clubs in Britain beginning in 1991 and he began to make regular trips to play gigs during his vacation time from work.

 

In the late 90s Callier began his comeback to recorded music, contributing to Beth Orton's Best Bit EP in 1997 and releasing the album Timepeace in 1998, which won the United Nations' Time For Peace award for outstanding artistic achievement contributing to world peace. Curiously, his colleagues at the University of Chicago never learned of Callier's life as a musician, but after the award the news of his secret life became widely known and subsequently led to his firing.

 

Callier today is continuing his recording career having currently released five albums since Timepeace.

 

May 2009 saw his album Hidden Conversations featuring Massive Attack released on Mr Bongo records.

 

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From the Port Adelaide National Railway Museum Web site:

 

Dieselisation of Australia's major railway systems got away to a slow start because of a lack of local builders capable of manufacturing this type of locomotive. Initially therefore orders were placed overseas, and it wasn't until 1951, when the Clyde Engineering Co., of Granville, NSW, gained the licence to build General Motors EMD locomotives for the Australian market.

 

Based on General Motors-EMD's F-7 model, the design for the local product required considerable modification to conform with Australian loading gauges and axle load restrictions. This job fell to Fred Shea who produced a machine with a carbody both lower and longer than its US counterpart. The resulting A-7 (ML1) model was highly successful and aesthetically pleasing. Also, whereas the North American units were carried on four-wheel bogies, the GMs required six-wheel bogies to distribute the weight for the lighter track then in use, the traction motors being mounted on the outer axles.

 

GM 1 underwent its road trials over New South Wales Railways' tracks on 24th August 1951 and, on its delivery run ran as far as Albury. At Bandiana it was transfered to broad-gauge bogies and hauled the rest of the way to Port Pirie where it was once more lifted onto its own bogies. It was placed in service on 20th September.

 

Originally the GM1-class was restricted to the Transcontinental route between Port Pirie and Kalgoorlie but, as the standard-gauge network expanded, they ranged further afield. Eventually they were to work in all mainland states except Queensland.

 

The success of Fred Shea's modifications to the original design can be gauged from the fact that variations of it were ordered by the Victorian Railways, New South Wales Railways and the North-Western Railway of Pakistan. All the GMs passed to the control of Australian National on 1st March 1978, and the first were not condemned until 1988. Most have had a lifespan well in excess of thirty years and only now are they being displaced by the more powerful DL and EL classes.

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