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Couldn't resist posting this with the weather finally getting consistently decent here in NYC.
Although it was cold a couple of days in February, for the most part it was absolutely stunning down there.
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Today, instead of posting my usual one photograph nd loading it into several groups, I have decided to do this a wee tad different, the only photographs from this load that will make it into a group are the ones that moderators and administrators and kind enough to invite (so long as I am invited to the group too if it is a private one).
I do hope you like this little selection of my work from the last couple of years. I have posted this as I am currently suffering from two slipped discs and a torn lumber muscle and getting out for photography presently is to say the least almost impossible. The hospital have given me a walking stick to use but I am a wee bit uncomfortable of using it, especially in public places. One thing I have discovered, diazepam is a wonderful drug, without it, I would not have slept since Friday of last week. Anyway, thank you for reading this much, have a great weekend ahead and stay safe while you are out there shooting. The photographs you make are what is keeping me going just now because the doctors reckon they have no idea if I will ever heal properly but one thing for sure is I am going to fight to be fit again as best I can.
Posting today five different brochures from my collection. I like little cars and these are just a bit different. Cony was made by the Aichi Machine Co and became part of Nissan in the sixties.
I'm new to posting retail pics, so go easy on me. Also... There was a sign walking in about the media policy... so I tried to be careful and didn't get as many pics as I wanted.
Hopefully you guys will enjoy these though. This is a 1993 Target, with very little remodeling. Still has the original Color Worlds.. and Original Food Ave Signage. Kinda Cool :)
Posting a few photos from 2018 and 2019 made during my flickr meetups with former flickr user Rod. Even though Rod decided to leave flickr, we are still in touch and have been meeting up at least once a year.
At the Whitby GO Station, this rather fancy looking mobile toilet trailer appeared to be for the exclusive use for Durham Region Transit staff.
I'm posting this as sort of an "I'm Back" photo since I haven't posted much since this was taken. Actually, the day after this was taken I suffered a major heart attack. It happened shortly after I arrived at the Randolph AFB air show on Saturday, Oct. 29th.
Fortunately for me, I was at the show with a good friend of mine. He rapidly noticed I was having issues, and got the Air Force medical team to respond. Obviously. time is critical in the first minutes after a heart attack. I've been told my my physicians that the quick thinking and action by my friend saved my life. It was really touch and go for a while - the doctors told me later they thought they would lose me. But I made it through, and I'm on my road to a full recovery.
I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the friend who was with me that day. He not only saved my life through his fast action, he also went with me to the hospital, and took on the unenviable task of notifying my family of the situation. I won't mention his name, since I didn't clear it with him. I will say that he is an excellent photographer, and posts on Flickr often. (He posts regularly on the San Antonio Flickr Club SA group here.)
While I'm thanking people, I should also thank the medical team that responded at the scene, as well as all the doctors and nurses who contributed to my recovery. I'd also like to thank my son, who spent HOURS with me at the hospital each day. Without him, my stay there would have been MUCH more difficult.
I know this is a long post. I don't typically share this much information here. But this was a big event in my life. I also sort of wanted to let everyone know where I've been. I hope to be back to posting more regularly in the new year.
Happy New Year to all - have a great 2012!!!!
Posting the pics of the Harrier reminded me about this … designed it as a set for Tate’s birthday a couple years ago. Was the first fully Studio designed build I ever did. Ordered all the parts and boxed them up with the instructions printed and bound. Tate was stoked. Still says it is one of his favourite LEGO models he has ❤️
Following my last posting here is the free Asda bus for the Blackwood store this time its operated by Stagecoach with this Volvo B10M seen in Blackwood high street October 2013.
Posting shots of this bike never grows old for me. As it’s so much fun to ride and so capable as a #fastfar offroad / gravel bikepacking rig. And as these two photos were made in my last real holiday wit real sun in August / September last year. On my way to Badlands in Granada.
Posting for amusement value -- Ragnar's head (EID Arvid in RS) is temporarily on Gremory's NS nYID body for the wigmaking process, and he looks like an Arvid lollipop, LOL!
Wig is about half-done in this pic -- it's drying from Step 3 currently (I added more hair -- he's going to have a dread-y ponytail, so I first covered the wig cap in glued-down hair going the right direction, let it dry overnight, and applied loose hair (glued inside the hairline) today.
When it's all dry, I'll dread the remaining loose hair, and my sexy pirate captain can have his official debut ^___^
Here it is my 1st official shot of the alpine flowers on Mountain Rainier photographed on Mazama Ridge, Mountain Rainier National Park. Ever since I came back from my Palouse trip and seeing so many of my contacts posting beautiful shots of wild flowers. I began to realized how beautiful and unique these flowers were and since May until now I've waited 4 months for the snow to melt on Mt.Rainier then finally yesterday early morning at 1:30am I met up with 2 other Flickr buddies David and Quynh and we drove to the parking lot of Paradise to meet up with 2 more flickr buddies Dene and Patty.
The 5 of us began our hike around 4am and along the way we passed through a couple of spots where all you could see were tall trees and narrow path with no sign of flowers. I was like "where is Mt. Rainier?" hehe then we finally approached the lupine fields and there it was the grand view of Mt. Rainier behind us.
We started to split up searching for our compositions. Quynh had found his comp, David and Patt were together found their comp too, Dene had also sat down and started shooting except me who was still standing in the middle of the field looking in the dark with my headlights for the right comp. I really wanted the different variety of flowers in my shot but all it is was mostly the lupines. Since I didn't see much of a variety, I ran up next to Dene and found this unique round clump of lupines with twin flowers (forgot their names). I finally camp there, planted my camera and waited for the light show to begin. I sat there at one spot for the entire sunrise and the sun finally lid up the tip of Rainier. Quite beautiful and magical as I never seen a sunrise this close on the mountain. The damage was I ended up with 5-6 mosquito bites on my face including 2 on my forehead! 1 and half hour of sleep but the view, the result and the experience were priceless.
Process this was quite a pain the fact that my camera was so close 10 inches from the flowers. I had to focus 1/3 at a time then manually blended in CS5 using layers and masks since I don't have the luxury of the Helicon Focus software.
It was definitely a lot of much fun shooting with my Flickr buddies and really thanks to Flickr that I have met so many funny, friendly and wonderful friends. Always looking forward to somemore shooting opportunity with you guys.
Thank you so much for the all the constructive comments on my last post. You all have a great week my friends.
Please check out their wonderful streams:
Dene - www.flickr.com/photos/denemiles/
Pat - www.flickr.com/photos/photopatthomas/
David - www.flickr.com/photos/fresnatic/
Quynh - www.flickr.com/photos/qtonthat/
Nikon D300s
Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8
Tiffen CPL
3 stop Hitech GND
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Part 3 of my “models from 2021” posting. This year my models had be invited to attend the Strathtay Scottish running day held by Angus Transport Group and Dundee Museum of Transport. The three models pictured here were completed in time to be featured on my Forfar Prior Road diorama during the event. Pictured are a Leyland Tiger, East Lancs Myllenium Hyline rebody, an East Lancs Spryte Dart and a Leyland Leopard Alexander Y Type in the modern livery - the only time a Strathtay y type wore this livery was in promotional artwork, and now with this model. Finally, I added to my Travel Dundee fleet with this code 3 Dart Pointer, finished with Sunrise transfers.
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I'm posting a large letter which, weighing just under 500 grams, costs £1.99 – happily I have plenty of stamps 😀
In posting shots on other social media last year, it seemed that my shots at Ruckinge were not as complete as they should have been.
I did call in last year, but due to COVID, the church was locked.
On Saturday, we were in Ham Street so I could hunt butterflies, and surprisingly, Ham Street has no church within the village, instead there is Ruckinge and Orelestone to the north and east.
Orelestone I only visited last year, so have not been inside, but Ruckinge I last saw inside in 2014.
Saturday mornings there is a regular coffee morning in the shop, and I arrived just after midday as the refreshments were being packed away. Another role into which parish churches step into as other civic buildings are sold off up and down the country.
The tall, squat dower is visible from half a mile away, towering over the mature trees between. Clearly an ancient construction, Norman for sure, and topped by a wee little steeple.
Being a glorious day, I walked round the outside of the church, recording some of the finer details, like the tympanums over the west and south doors.
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A large church of Norman origins, the west door being a much-weathered example of twelfth-century work. The south doorway is also Norman and has the remains of two mass dials carved into its dressed stonework. The masonry inside the church shows clear signs of fire damage, and a nice crownpost roof of the fourteenth century probably marks the date of the rebuilding after the fire. Of the same period are the returned stalls on the south side of the chancel - the fronts being little more than a series of plain upright planks, with some spectacularly proportioned poppy-heads at each end. Outside, the upper stage of the tower dates from the thirteenth century and has a small pyramidal roof with needle spire.
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RUCKING
LIES the next parish westward from Bilsington, for the most part upon the clay-hills. It is written in Domesday, Rochinges, and now usually called and written Ruckinge. Part of it, in which the church stands, is in the hundred of Newchurch, and another part in the hundred of Ham. That part of it which is below the hill southward is in the level of Romney Marsh, and within the liberty and jurisdiction of the justices of it, and the residue is within that of the justices of the county, and within the district of the Weald.
The PARISH lies so obscurely as to be but little known, it is a dreary unpleasant place, the roads are very narrow and miry, as bad as any in the Weald, the soil being a deep miry clay; that from Limne, through Bilsington, Ham-street, and Warehorne, crosses this parish on the side of the clay-hill, inclining nearer to the Marsh. The church stands on the side of the hill, overlooking the Marsh, which lies at the foot of it southward. The upper or northern side of it is mostly coppice wood. It contains about 930 acres of upland, and as many of marsh-land. There is no village, the houses being dispersed about the parish, and are mostly inhabited by poorer sort of people.
IN THE YEAR 791 king Offa gave to Christ-church, in Canterbury, fifteen plough-lands in Kent, among which was this estate of Roching, together with several dennes, for the feed of hogs, in the Weald; (fn. 1) but it was afterwards wrested from the church, during the Danish wars, and it continued in lay hands at the time of the conquest, soon after which it appears to have been in the possession of Hugo de Montfort, from whom archbishop Lanfranc recovered it again to his church, in the solemn assembly, held on this occasion by the king's command, at Pinenden-heath, in the year 1076. This estate coming thus into the hands of the church, on the division made of the revenues of it between the archbishop and his monks, was allotted by him to the latter, and the possession of it was confirmed to them by king Henry I. and II. In Somner's Gavelkind, is a transcript of a release anno 17 Edward I. of the base services of several of the tenants of this manor (gavelkind men) who brought them out, and consequently it was a mere change from service into money, by the mutual consent of lord and tenant. King Edward II. in his 10th year, granted to the prior and convent of Christ-church, free-warren in all their demesne lands in Rucking, among other places. In which state this manor continued till the suppression of the priory, anno 31 Henry VIII. when it came into the king's hands, where it did not remain long, for the king settled it by his dotation charter, in his 33d year, on his new-erected dean and chapter of Canterbury, part of whose possessions it still remains. The heirs of the Rev. Dr. James Andrews, lately deceased, are now entitled to the lease of it. There is no court held for this manor.
The OTHER PART of this parish, not included in the above grant of king Offa, seems to be that which Cuthred, king of Kent, in the year 805, with the consent and leave of Cœnulf, king of Mercia, gave to Aldbertht his servant, and Seledrythe the abbot, being two plough-lands in Hrocing, situated on both sides of the river Limene, to hold in perpetual inheritance, free from all regal tribute, &c. (fn. 2) Soon after the Norman conquest Hugo de Montfort was become possessed of lands in this parish, some of which were those which had been given by king Offa, as above-mentioned, to the priory of Christ-church, which were again recovered from him by archbishop Lanfranc, at the great meeting held at Pinenden. The residue continued in his possession, and are accordingly entered in the survey of Domesday, under the general title of the lands of Hugo de Montfort:
Ralph, son of Richard, holds of Hugo half a suling in Rochinges, which Leuret held of king Edward. It was taxed at half a suling. The arable land is two carucates. There are now twelve villeins having one carucate and an half. Of wood the pannage for one hog. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth fifty shillings, and afterwards thirty shillings, now fifty shillings.
IN THIS PART was the MANOR OF WESTBEREIS, alias Rokinges, which seems to have been once accounted as a moiety of the manor of Rucking. The former of these names it appears to have taken from the antient owners of it. After this name was extinct here, which was before the reign of king Henry IV. this manor was come into the name of Prisot, and in the 21st year of king Henry VI. was owned by John Prisot, who was that year made a sergeant-at-law, and in the 27th year of it knighted, and made chief justice of the common pleas, (fn. 3) in whose descendants it continued till the 8th year of king Henry VIII. when Thomas Prisot passed it away by sale to George Hount, in which name it continued till the 9th year of queen Elizabeth, when it was sold to Reginald Stroughill, usually called Struggle, who was in the commission of the peace in king Edward VI.'s reign, a name of antient extraction in Romney Marsh, where there were lands so called, and there they continued in good esteem at Lyd, of which town they were jurats, and possessed lands for many years afterwards. From this name this manor of Westberies, alias Rokinges, went by sale to Pearse, and anno 23 Elizabeth John Pearse, alienated it, being held in capite, to Richard Guildford and Bennet his wife, but he being indicted for not taking the oath of supremacy, they fled the realm, and were attainted of treason, and his lands became forfeited to the crown, where this manor seems to have remained till the death of the latter in 1597, anno 39 Elizabeth, when the queen granted the fee of it to Walter Moyle, gent. who sold it soon afterwards to Francis Bourne, esq. of Sharsted, and his grandson James Bourne owned it at the latter end of king Charles I.'s reign, and in his descendants it continued till it was at length sold to Parker, in which name it remained till John Parker, of London, alienated it in 1706 to Edward Andrews, of Hinxhill, and his daughter Susanna, who married George I'anns, of this parish, and left a daughter of her own name, who afterwards married first John Gray, M. D. of Canterbury, and secondly Tho. Ibbott, clerk, and entit led each of her husbands in turn respectively to the possession of this manor. On her death without issue, her heirs on her mother's side became entitled to it, and in them, to the number of more than thirty, the inheritance of it is at this time vested.
The MANOR OF BARDINDEN, or Barbodindenne, was likewise most probably situated in this part of Rucking, and was antiently so called from a family of the same name, who were possessors of it, one of whom, William de Barbodindenne, held it at his death, which was in the 9th year of king Edward III. and in his descendants it continued till at length it was alienated to Sir Robert Belknap, chief justice of the common pleas, who being attainted and banished in the 11th year of king Richard II. his estates became forfeited to the crown. Notwithstanding which, the king, who considered him as a martyr to his interest, granted him his estates again, and among others this manor, which he died possessed of in the 2d year of king Henry IV. His grandson John Belknap, in the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign, alienated it to Engham, in which name it continued till king Henry VIII.'s reign, when it was sold to Sir Matthew Browne, of Beechworth, who held it in capite at his death, anno 4 and 5 Philip and Mary. His grandson Sir Thomas Browne passed it away by sale, in the 7th year of queen Elizabeth, to Thomas Lovelace, esq. whose cousin and heir William Lovelace, of Bethesden, sergeant-at-law, succeeded him in the possession of it, which afterwards descended down to Col. Richard Lovelace, who, soon after the death of king Charles I. alienated it, with his estates at Bethersden, to Mr. Richard Hulse, afterwards of Lovelace-place, in that parish, but whereabouts this manor is precisely situated, or who have been the proprietors of it since, I have not as yet been able to gain any discovery of.
POUNDHURST is a manor, situated about a mile north-west from the church. It belonged in 1651 to Richard Watts, who sold it to Gadsley, from which name it passed to Hatch, and then to Read, who passed it away to Clarke, of Ashford, and Grace Clarke carried it in marriage to the Rev. Thomas Gellibrand, and at her death in 1782, gave it by will to her son the Rev. Joseph Gellibrand, of Edmonton, the present possessor of it.
The MANOR OF MORE was antiently held by owners of the same name, one of whom, Matthew at More, held it by knight's service in the 20th year of king Edward III. after which this manor of More came into the possession of the family of Brent, who were possessed of it in king Henry VII.'s reign. At length Thomas Brent, esq. of Wilsborough, dying in 1612, s. p. by his will gave this manor to his nephew Richard Dering, esq. of Pluckley, in whose descendants it continued down to Sir Edward Dering, bart. now of Surrenden, the present possessor of it.
Charities.
A PERSON UNKNOWN gave to this parish an annuity of 20s. paid out of lands in Romney Marsh, occupied by Mr. Stone, of Great Chart, which is yearly distributed on New Year's day to the poor, who receive no parish relief.
The poor constantly relieved are about twenty, casually forty.
THIS PARISH is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Limne.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, is a very small building, having at the west end a pointed tower, out of which rises a small slender spire. In the tower there are five bells. It has a middle isle, and two narrow ones coving to it on each side. It has one chancel, and another building at the east end of the south isle, built of flint, with two handsome gothic windows on the south side, and seems to have been a chantry or oratory. It is now made use of to lay the materials in for the repairs of the church. There is a white stone in the north isle, having once had the figures of a man and woman in brass. There are no other memorials or gravestones in the church. On the outside of the steeple, on the west side, there is a very antient Saxon arched door-way, with carved capitals and zig-zag ornaments round it, and some sculpture under the arch. And there is such another smaller one on the middle of the south side of the south isle.
The church of Rucking seems to have been esteemed part of the possessions of the see of Canterbury ever since the restoring of it to that church, by the means of archbishop Lanfranc as above mentioned, when, on the allotment of the manor to the priory and monks of Christ-church, the archbishop most probably retained the advowson of this church to himself. His grace the archbishop is the present patron of it.
It is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 14l. 13s. 4d. and the yearly tenths at 1l. 9s. 4d. In 1588 it was valued at one hundred pounds, communicants one hundred. In 1640 it was valued at eightyfive pounds, communicants the same as before. There are about eighteen acres of glebe.
In the petition of the clergy, beneficed in Romney Marsh, in 1635, for setting aside the custom of twopence an acre, in lieu of tithe-wool and pasturage, a full account of which has been given before, under Burmarsh, the rector of Rucking was one of those who met on this occasion; when it was agreed on all sides, that wool in the Marsh had never been known to have been paid in specie, the other tithes being paid or compounded for.
¶There is a modus of one shilling per acre on all grafs lands in this parish within the Marsh, and by custom, all the upland pays four-pence per acre for pasturage, and one shilling per acre when mowed, no hay having ever been taken in kind, the other tithes are either taken in kind, or compounded for. Formerly the woods of this parish paid tithes, after the rate of two shillings in the pound, according to the money paid for the fellets of them; but in a suit in the exchequer for tithe of wood, anno 1713, brought by Lodge, rector, against Sir Philip Boteler, it was decreed against the rector, that this parish was within the bounds of the Weald, and the woods in it consequently freed from tithes. Which decree has been acquiesced in ever since.
A brief update on the Facebook issue: the photographer responsible for the posting has now deleted the post and all the angry, accusing comments left by people who changed the subject from road safety to people going out to photograph owls far too often, taking too many photos, etc., etc.. Thank goodness, I can now try and forget the whole thing, though it really doesn't make me look forward to going anywhere to take photos.
The Long-eared Owl is nocturnal and roosts in trees during the daytime, which is exactly where this one was when I first saw it. However, as you can see, it was still active in broad daylight. Though these owls are secretive, this one was so easy to find because of the huge crowd of photographers that, unfortunately, was already there.
When I left home that afternoon, I actually had no idea at all where people were seeing this beautiful owl - I was on my way to see the Short-eared Owls. I had stopped very briefly to watch a large bird flying far away in the distance and had asked someone who was photographing it if it was a Short-eared Owl, as I wasn't even sure if it was an owl. He said yes, and that the Long-eared Owl was just down the road. Imagine my surprise, which quickly turned to horror when I saw dozens of photographers gathered there.
"The Long-eared Owl has erect blackish ear-tufts, which are positioned in the centre of the head. The ear-tufts are used to make the owl appear larger to other owls while perched. The female is larger in size and darker in colouration than the male." From Wikipedia.
I took maybe 25 or so photos of this Long-eared Owl - not thousands like everyone else there, especially those who were apparently there all day long! I have already posted several images, and now have just a few odds and ends that I want to add to my album.
The video of me shaking my head is my favorite. I should’ve taken more photos and videos of the back view, as I can still see me- which is fine- when in makeup, but when I can only see the back it’s like “wow is that woman really me?!”
Apologies for posting another Red Admiral photo, but we have had so many of these beautiful butterflies in the garden this year that it has been hard to resist the temptation to photograph them. For better detail, please view large.
The Red Admiral (Vanessa Atalanta) is a well-known colourful butterfly, found in temperate Europe, Asia and North America. The Red Admiral has a 45–50 mm (1.8–2.0 in) wing span. The species is resident only in warmer areas, but migrates north in spring, and sometimes again in autumn.
This medium-sized butterfly is identified by its striking dark brown, red, and black wing pattern. More specifically, the dark wings possess orange bands that cross the fore wings and on the outer edge of the hind wings; white spots on the dorsal fore wings near the front margin; reddish bars on dorsal surface of all four wings. The caterpillar feeds on nettles, and the adult drinks from flowering plants like the Buddleia and overripe fruit.
In northern Europe, it is one of the last butterflies to be seen before winter sets in, often feeding on the flowers of ivy on sunny days. The Red Admiral is also known to hibernate, re-emerging individuals showing prominently darker colourings than first brood subjects. The butterfly also flies on sunny winter days, especially in southern Europe.
In North America, the Red Admiral generally has two broods from March through October. Most of North America must be recolonized each spring by southern migrants, but this species over-winters in south Texas.
(Source: Wikipedia)
I had no intention of posting a capture from fourteen years ago but wanted to illustrate a point. I also want to thank Stacy for allowing me to link to her photo. Just wanted to illustrate to everyone the effects that a distant tropical storm can have once they start twisting around in the Gulf of Mexico. Armand and Horsepen Bayous are part of a tidal estuary and directly connected to the Gulf of Mexico.
This capture will illustrate how deep the water has risen in the bayou and you can see how those tidal surges and heavy winds can move a lot of water about and move it up into the bayou. I will also add that the area looks a bit different now with many of these trees reduced to nothing but stumps in the water by the passage of time. The tides here are at a normal level and this is a boardwalk at Bay Area Park where I launch my canoe.
The first photo from Stacy shows the water to be about 4” deep on this boardwalk. This will flood many of areas in the bayou and will have an impact on any birds that might have been nesting in the area.
The second photo shows the parking lot that I use when I launch my canoe. The dock in the second photo is a floating dock so the only danger there is if it breaks loose and floats away. The three bollards off to the left mark the position of the boat ramp but I don’t think it’s usable in these conditions.
I’m not the best at explaining things, so if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. I’m a bit early with my post as I have a busy day tomorrow and wanted to allow people to see the area. I also want to add that we are not in any danger from the storm and the major concerns are the storm surge.
Once again, a huge THANK YOU to Stacy (TysonAndStacy) for allowing me to link to her photos. You can check her photostream at the link below. Wishing everyone a wonderful Friday.
www.flickr.com/photos/tysonandstacy/
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I'm posting another version of this subject. I just like all of them for various reasons. This one has a nice skyline, with the various structures and poles. It includes the graffiti on the side of the red brick building and the building next to it, the fluorescent yellow on the corner of the white building, and the orange of the "End Road Work: sign in the background at left. I also like the way the diagonal lines of the paint on the pavement and the wires work together with the lines of the buildings. Others I posted are:
Good morning. Today's posting are of Red-winged Blackbirds starting with the female since ladies are always presented here first :-) Besides, the male in the following photo wasn't as co-operative as the female in that it kept as much distance as possible between me and it over the three days I spent at the pond across the street photographing these birds. All three of which were intently caring for two nests in thickets along the edge of the pond. And this is the first of two sets to be posted of these birds, which I hope you enjoy as much as I did observing and photographing them.
Take care...and I hope everyone has a most wonderful day.
Lacey
ISO100, aperture f/6.7, exposure .006 seconds (1/180) focal length 430mm
Project 366. Day 37.
Note!
So I don't come across as completely redundant, I'll be posting the walkthrough for each image in its entirety to my Facebook page - so head on over, make sweet love to the LIKE button, and follow along.
Flash:
- SB-80DX, 50" softbox, camera right
- Flashwaves Triggers
The Story.
Back in February I started work on a project. The genesis of that project was to craft a workbook of my favorite lighting designs, and to push myself to try new techniques. I wanted to do something that would keep me busy in the dead of winter and while I wasn't on assignment, but it grew and grew and grew... and left me with this mess.
And thus this Project 366 was born. The goal is to use, shape, mod and mold light 366 different ways. It's an ambitious goal, and I can tell you from time to time I stumble. Sometimes I fall flat on my face. Not every one of the images included are world-beaters, but then some of them never were designed to be. I've held back from posting this for quite some time because I wanted to make sure that I could see it through - if I'm out shooting all day on assignment, sometimes the last thing I want to do is come home and shoot some more. But I did it, all for the sake of light. And now I'm going to share it.
Flash Parker Photography:
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19/365 there were 2 photos for today but I liked this one a bit more. I am back to posting from my iPhone. Damn temperamental Internet.
Here’s one of my photos from the Saturday night at Troy. Yes, I have two drinks but only one was for me, lol.
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Today, in honour of the first day of Lent, I'm posting my "first" picture of Lothar von Richthofen. While I don't believe he's any immediate relation to yours truly, he is, was, and always will be the younger sibling of Rittmeister Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron.
To say someone is half the measure of one's brother would be an insult in most cases. However, in LvR's case, it's a profuse compliment. Lothar had no fewer than forty aerial victories at the conclusion of the First World War, exactly half his brother's score.
Apart from being "the younger Richthofen," Lothar is perhaps best known for downing leading British pilot Albert Ball. He and Ball had it out one night during a thunderstorm, while older brother Manfred was somewhat reluctantly visiting with Kaiser Wilhelm and company, and young Lothar had been given temporary command of their squadron, Jasta 11. (It made for good propaganda). The aerial duel ended with both planes crash-landing—Lothar survived, but Ball didn't. Initially, no one was able to ascertain how Ball was brought down until later, when it was discovered that LvR had managed to sever the British plane's fuel line. He was then presented with that segment of the offending fuel line as a souvenir.
Someone certainly adept at surviving crashes, the German Ace was shot down a total of four times during the war—the last three instances occurring on the thirteenth day of the month. To no astonishment, the younger half of the Red Baron duo had an apocalyptic case of triskaidekaphobia... but who wouldn't? Alas, it was a civilian plane crash that ended his life just four years after the war's end, and not a treacherous plot by the number thirteen.
One of Germany's very best. Like I said, here's to the first day of Lent—and to "brotherhood."
Does Lent have a thirteenth day?
Codi von Richthofen,
The Red Baron Gallery ©
Instagram postings of the photos which I have taken recently or from the archive from the last few years. Explore the photo set to find other work by the artist or of the same theme or event. These images are also being posted on the Wallkandy facebook page and Tumblr. Follow Wallkandy on Instagram instagr.am/p/CanKu--NtkR/ to see photos as they are posted. All photos © Ian Cox. If you would like to use an image please ask first.
As they say "nothing will change IMMEDIATELY"--remains to be seen what changes are in the offing, however, for surely there will be some.
I have admired SmugMug in the past, but never joined. Maybe, just maybe, this will be an improvement? Fingers crossed. . . . . .
Posting five more photos taken on 3 December 2024, from my last but one visit to the Saskatoon Farm. I am adding the description that I wrote under a previously posted image taken on the same visit.
"Along with all our fairly recent snow, everywhere turned white. Can't complain, though, as mild, fall weather lasted well into November, which was wonderful. So thankful that I managed to get out for groceries before the freezing fog arrived. On 3 December 2024, our weather turned 'warmer', which felt really good. Today, 11 December, it is overcast and our temperature is PLUS 2°C (feels like 0°C). Sunrise was at 8:30AM and sunset will be at 4:29PM.
I decided to make the short drive as far as the Saskatoon Farm late morning on 3 December. Their last day to be open will be 15 December, and then the Farm remains closed to the public till about 14 February. The owners and staff work so hard and deserve a good break for a few weeks.
My main reason to go to the Farm was that I wanted to catch a few Christmas decorations to photograph. I also bought a few food items to enjoy over the next while.
After the farm, I drove past a snowman in a farm yard along a back road. I'm not sure what it was made of - could they be old tires? I also quickly stopped to take a photo or two of a couple of my favourite old barns, in a winter setting.
It felt so good to get out for a short while that day. In the whole month of November, I only went out once for a drive, again to the Saskatoon Farm. This was partly because of trying to get my computer out of the 'danger zone' (i.e. out of space) and also because of an awful spell of cold weather. Still need to gradually do a lot more deleting."
From the photoblog Chillimatic
Posting a photo of a shop called "Party World" here is an odd way to memorialize someone. Bear with me, I'll explain further down the page. Firstly a little on how I came to know about Jon Claremont and his work.
The service provider for my photoblog, Chillimatic, is called Expressions. Expressions won't be rivalling Flickr any time soon and perhaps due to the small number of subscribers, or perhaps due to the good work of the people who run it, Expressions is a genuine ‘online community’ (prior to joining I had thought this phrase an oxymoron) brought together by a shared love of photography.
Some particularly high quality photoblogs are nestled alonside my own (frankly amateurish) site. Chief among these is a blog I discovered during my earliest nose around Expressions called ClaremontPhoto - Jon’s photoblog.
The aesthetic of Jon’s pictures was so different to that which currently prevails in photography that it was a shock when I first landed there. My eyes had become too accustomed to the diamond-sharp, perfectly colour-balanced images that digital technology has made possible to immediately accept photos taken with film cameras and developed at the local One Hour Photo. Jon's snaps were often blurry and overexposed with no apparent colour scheme. His subjects rarely sat nicely in measured compositions.
Even when he was photographing the patrons of the shabby café-bars of Montemor-o-Novo, the town in Portugal where he lived - subjects who were in fact seated and immobile - there was always a touch of anarchy, a touch of humanity, his photos were alive. He once remarked in an e-mail to me that he didn’t do “pretty pictures”. He was wrong. His photos were beautiful, and in a way that all those diamond-sharp digital images could never be.
I started leaving comments on Jon’s site, he on mine, and our intermittent e-mail exchanges began. Just as one had to get past the aesthetic shock and look carefully at Jon’s photos to fully appreciate them so he looked carefully at others’. More than once he remarked on something in one of my shots that I hadn’t noticed myself. For this reason his words of encouragement were valuable to me; his appreciation was genuine.
Jon's warmth of character was a further quality as apparent in his photos as his mails. Most of his shots were of the inhabitants of Montemor, a village lost in the countryside 40 miles to the east of Lisbon, a town not pretty enough for tourism nor rich enough for chain store homogeneity.
Similarly, Montemor’s inhabitants are neither charmingly rustic nor the neat, presentable Gap-clad men and women that the global economy has moulded. They're a scruffy lot, spending their evenings sitting awkwardly on bar furniture, drinking cheap beer straight from the bottle, looking up slack-jawed at the football on the telly. In viewing Jon’s photos I was often reminded of Oscar Wilde’s famous aphorism “Work is the curse of the drinking classes”.
Most photographers, I think, would maintain a certain distance between themselves and such subjects, one that would translate into a mocking tone in their photos or a falsely reverent one: ostensibly honouring such ‘salt of the earth’ characters, covertly pitying them. Jon did none of that; the section at ClaremontPhoto compiling his ‘people’ shots is titled “Friends and Neighbours”. Quite right, they were not his subjects, he was one of them. The warmth and camaraderie so apparent in his photography were equally evident in his words to me.
Soon after I was first in contact with Jon he was appointed as Community Ambassador at Expressions, bringing to the members’ attention the work of other Expressions contributors, and continuing to offer words of encouragement and genuine appreciation to so many of us. He was very much the glue in our online community and I know that I am not alone in saying how greatly missed he will be.
I learnt of Jon’s passing on Friday and that same day Shanolyno, a fellow Expressions user, posted a comment on my photoblog. I mailed him to say thanks and told him the sad news. His words in reply voiced my own thoughts perfectly: “Seems strange to mourn for someone that I feel I know so well, yet I never met.”
I never met Jon Claremont either, I never even spoke to him and yet he touched me in some way, he inspired me, and I will miss him. For those that did know this clearly exceptional man, his family and friends, the loss must be very great indeed and my thoughts are with them.
So, the photo of “Party World”. It was taken in July of last year with a DSLR which I’d just bought, on the day I arrived in Sardinia, my holiday destination. During the preceding months I had spent much time on photography: taking photographs, tending to my website, reading about photography, viewing the work of others and occasionally exchanging e-mails with Jon.
Shortly before I left we had a quick exchange about Martin Parr, whose work we both admired. I wrote: “Regarding Martin Parr, yes the man is a genius, but I also kind of hate him because it's become impossible to take photos in certain areas (supermarkets and seaside towns in the UK particularly) without thinking of his brilliant photos. He kind of owns all that now. If I ever find myself in a run down bar in Portugal and I'm unable to take photos because you've taken all the ideas and own that environment I'll let you know.”
When I arrived in Olbia this throwaway comment had transformed into prophecy. Maybe it was the intensity of the sunlight (in Jon’s outdoor shots the walls and streets of Montemor appeared sun-bleached) or maybe it was the slightly tattered look that much of Olbia still has despite a recent influx of tourists courtesy of EasyJet, but I was unable to take pictures of the place, I saw Jon’s photos everywhere.
Thwarted in my attempts to take my own photos I decided to produce some imitation Claremonts. I turned the exposure up a notch to get the bleached look, switched the focus setting to “auto” to lose some sharpness and took a couple of shots of shop fronts which I imagined wouldn’t be out of place in Montemor. This shot was the most successful. I had intended to send it to him but, very regrettably now, never got round to it.
But "Party World", though? Surely not the best way to memorialize someone? Like I say - bear with me. This shop, despite its apparent banality, despite the cheap plastic knick-knacks it displays in the window, proudly proclaims itself “Party World” and this is in keeping with the meaning I read behind many of Jon’s photos. Despite the tawdriness of their surroundings; despite their shabby clothes; despite the cheap beer they’re given to drink every night; despite the fact that they live in a forgotten hinterland, held there just above the breadline; despite the fact that they’re old and working class (both characteristics that were once a source of pride but not so much these days); despite all this and much more, the people in Jon’s photos are mostly smiling. They’re happy.
My favourite of Jon’s photos is of a frail old man who sells lottery tickets from in front of a bar. According to the text accompanying the photo he’s there every week with the same patter, every week he has “the big one”. There he is - leaning against a rubbish bin, an expression of rapt wonder on his face as he eyes the little scraps of paper in his hand which, despite the 10-million-to-one odds, are going to bring in the jackpot. The Don Quixote of Montemor, he is both a fool and a hero.
As summations of the human condition go, it's hard to beat. We are born into a world without purpose or meaning where there is but one truth: that one day, soon, we will be gone from it, obliterated. We have no chance; we are playing a machine we will never beat, which metes out suffering so much more than joy... And yet we still believe, holy fools that we are, that we're going to land "the big one", that “A vida é uma festa!” Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Party World.
So rest in peace, Jon Claremont, and thank you for showing me all this.
If you've read this far I hope you'll click on the link for ClaremontPhoto. Many of his older photos (including the lottery ticket seller) have disappeared but there remain many photos of exceptional quality.
Everyone's posting about the new span, but it wasn't long ago that the Bay Lights were the new hotness. From March shortly after the new lights were lit.
Random postings of photos I have taken over the last few years. Explore the photo set to find other work by the artist or of the same theme or event.
All photos © Ian Cox. If you would like to use this image please ask first. Best viewed as a set here
Follow Wallkandy on Instagram to see photos as they are posted. These images are also being posted on the Wallkandy facebook page and Tumblr.
Random postings of photos I have taken over the last few years. Explore the photo set to find other work by the artist or of the same theme or event.
All photos © Ian Cox. If you would like to use this image please ask first. Best viewed as a set here
Follow Wallkandy on Instagram to see photos as they are posted. These images are also being posted on the Wallkandy facebook page and Tumblr.
Posting four photos taken at the Calgary Zoo on 8 September 2015. I will add the description that I wrote on a previously posted image taken on the same visit.
"This photo was taken on 8 September 2015. In the morning, I joined a group of friends for a three-hour stroll at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. 38 bird species were seen, though I didn't manage to see any of the tiny, fast-moving Warblers. It was good to see 28 Wood Ducks, but they were far, far away, in an area that is still closed due to devastating flood damage. The Sanctuary had been closed for about two years for this reason and only very recently re-opened just a part of the area.
The Calgary Zoo is very close to the Sanctuary so, after our morning walk, I decided to call in there. I hadn't been for about a year and I really missed going there. Of course, many of the garden flowers were past their prime, but I did find a few that were fit to photograph.
I knew I wouldn't be able to walk far, having already been walking all morning, but I really wanted to get to the ENMAX Conservatory to see what was going on. I had been longing all summer to see the tropical butterflies and plants. The butterfly season will be coming to an end (or maybe already finished?) for these tropical beauties, but there were still plenty of them to be seen. Also, this month, the parking lot that I use will close for the winter and I don't like the drive back home from the north parking area, using Deerfoot Trail, so tend not to go to the Zoo all winter.
There was so much activity going on at the Zoo on this most recent visit. People everywhere, carrying large animals wrapped in white, protective coverings, preparing for ILLUMINASIA, Lantern & Garden Festival. Each animal is an individual lantern and there are so many of them. I noticed that several of the real animals in their enclosures were watching all the unaccustomed activity, which made me smile.
A good day, despite the overcast sky, and plenty of photo opportunities. Recently, I have been finding far fewer things to photograph, with fall on its way, so a day like this was more than welcome."