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Hi friends first of all a big sorry for posting this pointless shot,i know its really bad...
I'm back to school,my summer vacations got over :( Our tenth Standard classes started today,So now onwards i will be busy with my studies,so no more wasting time in front of computer :D
Sorry folks, please do excuse me for not visiting & commenting on your streams....Will be back
aMiTh
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"Battle of New Orleans" by Ethel Magafan
Ethel Magafan (1916-1993) began her successful career in Colorado as a muralist in the Federal Government programs of the 1930's. When the programs ended in the early 1940's, she reinvented her career, becoming a successful artist exhibiting and selling her paintings in galleries. While still in her 20's she debuted in a New York gallery and established herself as a working artist first in Los Angeles and then in Woodstock, N.Y. She is represented in the following public collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.C., Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., National Academy of Design, N.Y.C., just to name a few. Magafan's mural instillations include: The Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C., Recorder of Deeds Building, Washington, D.C., Chancellorsville National Military Park, Fredericksburg, VA, among others.
The Battle of New Orleans, also known as the Battle of Chalmette Plantation, took place on January 8, 1815, during the War of 1812, when the United States forces defeated the British. The Treaty of Ghent, which ended the war, had been signed over two weeks earlier, but the news had not yet reached the front.
On December 1814, British forces under Major General Edward Pakenham landed along the lower Mississippi River. At first, they met with only minor resistance. The Americans, led by Andrew Jackson (a colonel in the United States Army and a Major-General of the Tennessee militia), set up defensive positions at Chalmette, Louisiana, some five miles (8 km) down river from the city of New Orleans. Jackson, because he needed time to get his artillery into position, decided to immediately attack the British. This stalled their advance enough for the Americans to bring in their heavy artillery and throw up earthworks.
The first British troops reached the American position on January 1, and in an exchange of artillery fire, the Americans held their ground. Pakenham decided to wait for his entire force of over 10,000 men (which included native American members of the Hitchiti tribe, led by Kinache, and several hundred black soldiers from the British West Indies colonies) to assemble, before launching his attack.
On the 8th of January, Pakenham ordered three large, direct assaults on the American positions; all of his attacks were cut down by American fire. Pakenham himself was mortally wounded in the third attack. The British suffered defeat, in part, because ladders needed to scale the earthworks defended by the Americans were never brought forward to the soldiers. The British Infantry could do nothing but stand out in the open and be shot by the Americans stationed behind unreachable defenses. General John Lambert, who assumed command upon Pakenham's death, ordered the British withdrawal, despite the fact that Pakenham, before dying, ordered Lambert to continue the battle. The British had suffered a loss of some 700 dead and 2000 wounded or taken prisoner; while the Americans only had 13 dead, with 58 wounded.
The Americans were greatly aided by Jean Lafitte and his group of pirates. Lafitte's men fought alongside the Americans; their pirating in the seas south of Louisiana having been largely ignored by the US government, because the pirates generally attacked only the Spanish and other pirates. It is an interesting side-note that Lafitte's men wore red shirts as their uniform, which caused much confusion in the British ranks, who were also clothed in red. Some daring pirates came down from Gen. Jackson's ramparts and merged with the British ranks, thus allowing them to kill small pockets of isolated British troops, before the British realized there was an intruder.
Also aiding the Americans were quite a few liberated Haitian slaves, a "black regiment" recruited from New Orleans, and "several" Choctaws.
Carl Degler has attributed the ease with which the Americans defeated the British to the American artillery, which was loaded with lead shot. Due to the compact British lines, this lead shot had a deadly effect.
Unknown to both parties, the end of the war had been negotiated with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent on December 24, 1814. However, by the terms of the treaty, the war was not officially over until ratifications were exchanged on February 17, 1815 and proclaimed the following day. Hence the battle may not have been completely pointless. It has been speculated that had the British been in control of the key port of New Orleans, they would have attempted to use this to seek additional concessions from the United States.
The victory was celebrated with great enthusiasm in the United States, and gave Andrew Jackson the reputation of a war hero (by defeating the top military force in the world, the regular British army, which later propelled him to the presidency.
Amtrak 649, an EMD SDP40F, is seen with another unit in Chicago, Illinois in February 1976. The 649 would later be sold to the ATSF and eventually repainted into BNSF colors. This unit was also the last of this model that EMD would produce.
Unknown photographer, Greg Kozlick collection.
Brother Hubbard has now established themselves at this location which once hosted a restaurant associated with Gary Rhodes [maybe]. As part of their expansion plans Brother Hubbard North merged with the corner site shown in my photographs and are now operating a huge 300-seat restaurant with function spaces and bar. This is an impressive success story.
Gary Rhodes is an English restaurateur and television chef, known for his love of British cuisine and the distinctive spiked hair style that he once wore. He has fronted shows such as MasterChef, MasterChef USA, Hell's Kitchen, and his own series, Rhodes Around Britain.
In 2006 the Rhodes D7 restaurant opened on Capel Street in Dublin. The D7 in the name referred to a Dublin Post code that one might not easily associate with a top class restaurant. Before I proceed I should say that I am not fully convinced that Rhodes was actually involved other than allowing the use of his name.
Right from the beginning it struck me as a bit pointless going to a restaurant owned by a famous chef based in the UK and with only a slight possibility that the said chef would ever prepare a meal that I ordered in Dublin 7.
Despite my lack of interest in trying the restaurant my mother insisted that I organise for us to visit for a meal. Any time that I phoned I was told that the restaurant was booked out for six weeks and to phone again six weeks [that did not make sense]. The strange thing was that every time I passed the restaurant it was never more than half full and sometimes not even 25% occupied by diners so I eventually decided that they did not want me as a customer and I gave up trying to book a table.
Sometimes they would open on bank holidays and sometimes, at random, they were closed on Bank Holidays and Sundays [that is usually a bad sign and an indication that a business is failing]. One bank holiday I was passing by and as they were open I dropped in and got a table no problem and the food was good but expensive compared to other options nearby. I must say that the staff were very well trained, much better than most Irish restaurants.
In 2008 the day before Christmas [or maybe it was the 23rd.] I visited the restaurant as the last customer of the day and I asked the waiter when were they planning to reopen after Christmas and much to my surprise he said that he was returning home to Poland for a two week holiday as management had decided to give all the staff an extend break ahead of a very busy period in January. I remember saying to him that this just did not feel right because a restaurant would not close for two weeks during the Christmas holiday period but he said that the were booked out for about two months starting January 7.
I was supposed to spend Christmas with family and expected to be away for two weeks but due to an outbreak of flu my holiday had to be cancelled and I got stuck in my apartment with no food on Christmas Day.
On the day after Christmas I searched to see if any shops or restaurants were open and I walked by Rhodes D7 and saw a notice reading as follows "closed for remodelling works, re-opening Tuesday, March 17. I immediately knew that they would not reopen as March 17 is St. Patrick's Day. This sort of sign usually indicates that the owners of the business or the premises are trying to sell the enterprise as a going concern.
According to local newspapers staff had believed for three months that the restaurant would reopen.
I was the last person to have a meal the Rhodes D7.
The restaurant remained empty for a long time. 'Ta Brasserie 7 Limited' was set up on Tuesday the 17th of April 2012. When it did reopen as Brasserie 7 I was the first customer and I got an excellent meal free of charge and a bottle of really good wine on the house.
Is there any point in advertising the Uni of Portsmouth IN Portsmouth? Surely most students in this area that are intending on furthering their education would want to get away from the area (and parents). I know I did - that was the main attraction of university ... 😁
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Scania N230UD, Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 (H47/29F)
Stagecoach South (PM)
Commercial Road, Portsmouth
19 March 2018
Fashions come and go but stile...
Sandbach Footpath 23, North of Dancing Bridge.
FP23 runs from the Trent & Mersey canal Northwards to the bottom of Mill Hill Lane. It passes underneath the Wheelock Rail Trail at the old Railway Bridge, known locally as Dancing Bridge.
For when the days are short, and the nights are far too long, a macro lens can be useful tool to have :-)
Really Pointless!! Just bought Elements 14, and checking out its features. Looks good so far - everything seems to work!!!!
BTW, does anyone else think that the stands look like owls?
A preview of what I will be teaching at the USK Symposium in Singapore this July, and what I taught in my own local sketching architecture workshop last month.
A (vanishing) pointless approach to perspective.
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Pointless Walks to Dismal Places album painting show
A Sausage Machine gig
Camden, London
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More pointless photos of dismal gigs
New neate photos facebook page.
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A poster I designed for a group art show here in Milwaukee. The show is about fake propaganda art.
AVAILABLE AS A PRINT!!!
XO
Its pointless putting armour all over a binocular if the prisms move at the first knock. Internal construction is a bit of a joke, there is no positive location around the hypotenuse of the prisms, the only security is a few blobs of cement and a weak clamp to hold the prism in place.
The image quality is warm in tone, and very sharp centre field. Image goes soft around 50%, not bad for such a wide angle binocular.
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A poster I designed for a group art show here in Milwaukee. The show is about fake propaganda art.
AVAILABLE AS A PRINT!!!
XO
This is at a T junction where an unclassified road meets a B road.There is a 30mph speed limit on the B road.
The road was previously a mass of patches and potholes.
Am I missing something?
Panasonic TZ100 Leica DC Vario-Elmarit 9.1-91mm f2.8-5.9 Asph
A soldier in a bright red tunic and tall bearskin cap marches past a stone building. He carries a rifle over his shoulder while maintaining a steady, disciplined pace. His uniform features white cross-belts and dark trousers with a thin red stripe running down the side.
I am amazed at the "Say No To Video On Flickr" groups that are popping up on flickr. Do these people really have nothing more important to worry about in their lives? (For real cause suggestions tune into CNN or BBC for a few minutes) It seems to me that flickr has added a feature that you are free to use or ignore if you like just like geotagging, groups, sets, collections, printing, keywording (AKA tags) .... use these features if you want or ignore then, it's your choice.
Some of these zealots are actually talking about class action lawsuits against flickr (a business that they are free to not patronize if they don't want to).
Videos are moving pictures ... they are pictures that move, not really that different than pictures that don't move. It's all photography no matter how you look at it.
I have no fear that flcikr Pro members are going to start posting Numu Numa videos or dancing babies. Flickr Pro members are going to post video clips very much like the stills they take and I think that's just fine.
If these crybabies want to ban something on flickr I think they should go after my pet peeve; people that post comments to my photos and attach ridiculous little pictures of awards and stars that say "congratulations, you've won the pointless worthless silly (award one, rate 6, comment 14, view 12, tap your foot, spin around, wear a funny hat) award of the day award prize thing. Click here to join our silly pointless spamming group with more rules and procedures than the catholic church and you to can post comments with little star or trophy icons in them.
Before anyone attacks me ... let's make it clear, I'm not on either side of the issue, I couldn't care less what flickr offers as additional features to the site. As far as video clips go, I could take them or leave them, it does not matter to me. I'm a still photographer myself and I have about a dozen short video clips to my name and I've already posted the ones that I wanted to post and I probably wont post any more for a while. However if I ever want to post another video clip I'll be glad the option is there for me when I want it.
...Also by posting that screeshot above I am not attacking that group. Actually most of the people commenting in that group have the same opinion as me, that the whole argument is silly and kinda humorous when you step back and look at it.
Two Pointless Facts...One True, The Other Made Up By Moi
London Met Police Ford Transit Van. BX70 DHF wIth a London Ambulance Service Mercedes Sprinter. LX69 AYC
North West Lpndon. England. U.K.
A poster I designed for a group art show here in Milwaukee. The show is about fake propaganda art.
AVAILABLE AS A PRINT!!!
XO
Stopped in Squamish for a quick Ice Capp. (with chocolate milk) on the way to a weekend in Whistler . Saw this in the car park.
Made with my self made scanner-camera.
for most people this photo is a pointless shot of a building, out of focus, in a dark cloudy day, but I have decided to upload this to celebrate that I solved one of the biggest problems of my scanner-camera:
the RGB offset. It was not a problem itself, but when I was moving the RGB channels in place, there was a shadow of the other channels, so I had to do one scan for each RGB channel.. very boring.
The solution was so much stupid: I simply turned off the color correction in the Epson software (even when you don't touch anything it seems to affect the channels in some way) and that's it, a correct scan!
I made it not with the large format lens, but with the little tamron(35mm format) 28mm. very cheap, but is more convenient to use, and lightweight.
in the lower section of the photo you can see a color stripe, it's some dust on the ccd glass.
coming back around from a rather uneventful plateau of uninspired-ness... prepare your photostreams for mass spam >:)
but anyways, about this photo; (since this is supposed to be a description and all). I found this nifty ribbon thingy in my house, and as most things do it ended up wrapped around my head. I thought about how it looked like a blindfold, but since it's see-through it wouldn't do much good to cover up your eyes with it. then I got thinking about how we hear of so many bad things happening in the world, and sometimes you just don't want to hear it anymore and you're losing faith in humanity, and you try to look away but it's so omnipresent, you just can't get away from it because it's really hard to live under a rock these days. so that's kind of what the see-through blindfold represents; trying to block it all out but it's not really working.
anyways. point being; i'm baaaaaaack.
2015 Weekly Alphabet Challenge, Week 43, P for Pointless This ball has an actual point but I'm thinking the ball itself is rather pointless as it won't react like a regular football nor like a rugby ball. :-)
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Rolleiflex F, Zeiss Planar f2.8
Rollei Superpan 200, Rodinal 1:50 17min
Descending the pointless bridge on Queen Street in some winter morning sunshine, Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse Urban YJ07 PDU is on the Coastliner 844 to Leeds... the last time I got a photo of this bus in some sunlight was up on the North York Moors. But even if the Moorsbus network is restored in some way, this bus won't be going up there again as it's due back to its leasors in no more than 6 weeks.
Here are three last propaganda pieces I made for an upcoming show in Detroit.
And now that I have featured pretty much all of my favorite animals and slogan variations, I think I am going to officially consider this series CLOSED.
Expect to see these pop up in my Etsy store very soon.
XO
Pointless posting this, because flickr shows panoramas up so small! This is a panorama looking out from the city walls of Valetta, the Capital city of Malta, and is probably made up of 20 images, roughly 10x2. The thing slightly to the left of middle is an old fortress (which was completely empty), contrasting with the modern hotel block to the right. The panorama actually went more to the left and right showing the large dome of one of the many churches of Valetta on the left and the outside of a section of city walls and another fort on the right; unfortunately, I perspective was mucked up and I couldn't get the images to blend. Still, if you want to see all the details, from the boats in the marina, to people enjoying boat trips, as well as a couple of blending errors, then feel free to view original sized!
Valetta is a love city, so steeped in history. However, the city that Kate and me really loved was the silent city of Mdina. It is packed with very narrow streets and buildings with little courtyards. So beautiful. Hopefully I will get round to posting some more normal pictures soon, as I am sick of blending panoramas! However, I am off to Chicago at the weekend with work to attend a conference!
710 (YJ04LXT), one of Keighley & District's Transbus Mini Pointless Dart's taking up its usual pose, as a broken bus - a task they perform best at!
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