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...that I don't have a problem.... but not enough time... :-)
This is Yarow, one of the Dogs from Zbyszek Kunert (PL). I was in Austria last weekend - Sled Dog Race in Sportgastein.
Unfortunately there was a storm on Saturday so only on Sunday the stage was opened for the race.
A lot of dogs of course, a lot of fun with great people.
I will miss this kind of action on the weekend for the next months. It was a great pleasure to be on those events with the mushers and the beautiful dogs
When trying to read on my sunny patio in the evening with a cool, refreshing drink, I too often get distracted by the sunlight and how it moves across my borders. Normally I just sit and stare, and wish I had my camera.
Yesterday, I actually moved and grabbed my camera. Really hoping it doesn't become a habit; i want to keep enjoying my evening reading.
Apologies for no commenting today. Problems with Flickr all day. Sometimes I can access my own page - but sometimes not even that. And no success with anyone else's page either. State of play this evening! Having to give up for the night. Maybe things will be working tomorrow - hopeful!
Flickr outage map outage.report/flickr/map
Managed a Blog post - so there's a nice photo out there ;o))
A bad vacation start for this guy and his family - didn't pay the parking fee for their Eriba caravan.
I've been wanting to build some "real" Gundams/Mobile Suits around 1/144 scale in Lego for a while.
I thought combining 2 of my favorites (Crossbone Gundam Maoh and Gundam Deathscythe) would look cool. I think he turned out pretty badass. My only problem is that I couldn't make his chin piece.
Water for Sale
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Probleme bei der Hilfe…
Afrika sei ein faszinierender Kontinent, sagte Renate, die Entwicklungshelferin und erklärte den beiden ihr im Zugabteil gegenübersitzenden Frauen, in welchem Bereichen der Wassergewinnung sie tätig sei und wo die Schwierigkeiten lägen, die es in dem Dorf gebe, wo derzeit die Bewässerungsanlagen aufgebaut würden.
„Man hat es mit merkwürdigen Hierarchien zu tun“, sagte sie. „Der Dorfvorsteher weigert sich gerade, den Weisungen aus der Hauptstadt zu folgen. Vielleicht geht das auch wieder gegen mich, als Frau. Jedenfalls will er keine Wassergebühr. Die soll erhoben werden, damit die Bewässerungsgräben und Rohrleitungen von angestelltem Personal regelmäßig instand gehalten werden können. Sonst verwuchert und verschlammt alles im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes. Der Betrag ist gering im Vergleich zu den Kosten, die Wasserverkäufer erheben, wenn sie in den Trockenzeiten Wasser per LKW ankarren.“
Karin, eine der Zuhörerinnen der kurzweiligen Geschichten, stellte ein paar spezifische Fragen zu den Umständen in Schwarzafrika und drängte das Gespräch dann in eine psychologische Richtung indem sie zum Beispiel fragte: „Wie werden Sie mit den Belästigungen und Beleidigungen der Männer fertig?“
„Wir werden durch Schulungen mit der Mentalität der Menschen in Zentralafrika vertraut gemacht. Wir finden dort ein hohes Maß an unkontrollierten Emotionen vor und dem kann man, bei allem Verständnis, nur mit Disziplin und Hierarchie begegnen.
Lokale Politiker und einige aus der Stadt führen uns bei den Dorfgemeinschaften ein. Wir erhalten Respekt und die Afrikaner wissen schon untereinander, dass mit ihnen nicht zimperlich umgegangen wird, wenn man sich an Projekthelfern vergreift. Das läuft da zum Teil noch sehr archaisch und man darf keine Schwächen zeigen.“
„Sie sind eine sehr selbstbewusste Frau“, antwortete Karin. „Ich wünschte mir, ich hätte ein wenig mehr von Ihrer Kraft.“
„Ich saß schon immer voller Tatendrang“, sagte Renate. „Selbstbewusst bin ich nicht, aber energisch, wenn es sein muss. Meine Selbstzweifel und Skrupel darf ich nicht zeigen. Jede gezeigte Verunsicherung springt auf die Umgebung über und dann läuft alles schief.“
Auf die Frage hin, ob sie ein konkretes Beispiel nennen könne, überlegte Karin einen Augenblick und sprach über die negativen Aspekte der geleisteten Hilfe und die Einmischung in bestehende Gemeinschaften.
„Durch dieses Projekt entziehen wir dem Fluss Wasser für ein weit zurück liegendes Hinterland. Die Weideflächen werden vergrößert und entsprechend der Viehbestand. Der Wohlstand nimmt zu und die Kinderzahl wächst. Doch alle acht bis zehn Jahre im Schnitt kommt eine natürliche Dürre und der Fluss führt kaum noch Wasser. Da können auch die Wind- und Solarpumpen nichts mehr auf die Weiden bringen. Ich vermute manchmal, dass wir da eine Sache basteln, die noch zu viel Unglück führen kann. Vor etwa neun Jahren verdursteten während einer solchen Dürre etwa die Hälfte der Tiere.
Alles rief nach Bewässerungsanlagen, um eine solche Katastrophe in der Zukunft zu vermeiden.
Das könnte auch klappen, wenn der Viehbestand ungefähr gleich bliebe. Etwa fünftausend Köpfe kann die Anlage auch bei Niedrigwasser versorgen. Doch ich wette, dass der Bestand schon in drei bis vier Jahren bei zehntausend liegen wird.“
Alle schwiegen für ein paar Sekunden, dann erzählte Renate einen Traum:
„Ich sah einen vertrockneten Baum am trockenen Flussbett, ein Vogel lag auf dem Boden, und im Hintergrund stand ein roter Hydrant. Ein Mann kam, um die Sache zu untersuchen. Doch dunkle Regenwolken zogen bereits auf und die Dürrezeit würde schon bald vorbei sein. Lass der Natur ihren Lauf, dachte ich, während ich aufwachte. Es gibt immer göttliche Lösungen für menschliche Probleme.“
Sie stecke also in einem Dilemma, erklärte sie weiter, und das zehre etwas an ihrem Tatendrang.
Da sagte Karin: „Ich habe auch große Schwierigkeiten, mich für oder gegen bestimmte Dinge zu entscheiden. Es ist nicht leicht, beide Seiten zu sehen und trotzdem in der Handlung zu bleiben.“
Renate nickte. „Ich teile meine Ansichten auf. Sobald 51% für eine Sache spricht, handele ich. Am liebsten ist mir natürlich eine ungebremste Begeisterung. Aber vielleicht schieße ich dann zu oft über das Ziel hinaus.“
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Digital art based on own photography and textures
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M7 + Noctilux at f 1,0, Provia 100 so shutter 1/15th. Focus on top edge of clipboard, DoF nil!. Slide scan is horribly noisy and this jpeg is compressed. (excuses excuses)
"She would've made such a lovely bride
What a shame she's fucked in her head, " they said
But you'll find the real thing instead
She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred
And hold your hand while dancing
Never leave you standing
Crestfallen on the landing
With champagne problems
Carmen has been wearing this dress since January, I think she is too perfect in it, so I guees she will keep it on for a little while :P
Seeking to "norm" problem drinking by making hilarious boasts about it could be indication that someone isn't handling alcohol well.
Spider problem? Not here, not now.
My nocturnal top predator has hung about. Why wouldn't they? I'm a good host, providing commodious accommodation and an all you can eat buffet. In return this gorgeous little huntsman with their spec-fabulous striped stockings is cleaning up all the messy hairy-legged daddy-long-legs spider, Pholcus phalangioides. They make untidy webs, are foreign, introduced spiders and never, ever volunteer to do good works.
Nope, I don't have a spider problem. I have a spider problem solver!
When the poor and needy seek water
Longing for food, many are hungry
Longing for water, many still thirst...
(Bernadette Farrell)
For I was hungry and you gave me food,
I was thirsty and you gave me drink...
(Matthew 25:35)
“Dear God, give bread to those who are hungry and a hunger and thirst for justice to those who have plenty. Amen”
(Benedictine prayer)
Praying for all around the world who are suffering from lack of food and water especially in war-torn countries.
Peace begins when the hungry are fed.
(Dorothy Day)
Hunger is not a problem. It is an obscenity.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
(Anne Frank)
Rollei SL66E Fomapan200 diafine (3+3)
Pelicula fomapan 200 revelada con diafine y el resultado es este. ¿Alguien le ha pasado esto alguna vez? Las manchas estan en todo el negativo, inlcuso en la parte no expuesta. Otro dato curioso es que carecia de numeros y de marca de pelicula.
Fomapan 200 developed in diafine (3+3) Can anyone tell me what could be the problem? The strange spots are all over the negative even in the unexposed parts.Another curious thing is that the film doesn´t have any numbers or film maarks.
Thanks in advance
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
El conjunt dels objectius tipus Petzval, tots de bronze. De moment només he pogut fer servir el Derogy, però espero aviat poder emprar el Voigtlander, el Lerebours i el Dallmeyer, tant per plaques de 13x18 com de 18x24.
Es tracta d'un ambrotip en vidre fosc, format 4x5 polzades, realitzat amb una Graflex Speed Graphic, fabricada entorn 1950; objectiu Kodak Anastigmat f4.5; col·lodió Mamuth Liliana, revelat amb Mamuth MD8. He de dir que no estic gens content amb aquest col·lodió, m'ha donat força problemes.
Les plaques de col·lodió es realitzen al moment, cobrint una placa de vidre o planxa metal·lica negra amb col·lodió i sals de cadmi i/o potassi, sensibilitzat amb nitrat de plata. Aleshores s'ha de fer la fotografia i revelar-la en uns 5 minuts, abans no s'assequi la emulsió. És un dels processos fotogràfics més antics del món, inventat el 1851, i que dominà fins el 1880. Però ara ha resorgit, ja que les imatges, molt treballades, que dona són úniques, màgiques i i irrepetibles.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col%C2%B7lodi%C3%B3_humit
Aquí en teniu una demostració de com es fan:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ZH4RTaM60
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Those are my brass oldies, all petzvals. By now I could only use the smaller Derogy, but I'm preparing lens boards et al. to use at least the Voigtländer, Lerebours and Dallmeyer.
Ambrotype in 4x5 format, made with a Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic; Kodak Anastigmat f4.5 lens; Mamuth Liliana collodion, developed with Mamuth MD8. I'm not happy at all with this Liliana collodion, has given a lot of problems, like cloudly lines & peeling, even with the developer!
The collodion plates are made covering a glass plate or black metal plate with collodion and salts of cadmium and / or potassium, sensitized with silver nitrate. Then you have to take the photo and reveal it in about 5 minutes, before the emulsion dries. It is one of the oldest photographic processes in the World, invented in 1851, and which dominated photography until 1880. But now it has resurfaced, as the images, very elaborate to create, that it gives are unique, razor sharp, magical and unrepeatable.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collodion_process
intrepidcamera.co.uk/blog/rikard-osterlund-guide-to-wet-p...
Here's a nice video of the wet plate collodion process:
Hi Everyone,
Just a quick note to let everyone know what it happening!! My wife was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday and will just say that the issues have not resolved!! Please no emails at this time because I don't have time to address them!! We only have questions at this time and no answers so it will do no good to speculate!! I ask that for those of you who pray that we would appreciate it if you kept her in your prayers!! I will try to get back here as soon as possible and fill everyone in but it has been a 20 hour day today! Peace and blessings to everyone!!
Thanks to all. Jerome
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Little MOC for the french BrickPirate Challenge during november and december.
The goal : NPU of the minifigure arms.
"The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer." ~Paula Poundstone
Cat- courtesy of Tom Tapio www.flickr.com/photos/tomitapio/2859574161/in/set-7215759...
Fixed the noted problems
Credit to M0KII for the logos and flash hider
(RAH) for the shading technique
A free Spirit
Mirit Ben-Nun was born in Beer- Sheva in 1966. Over the years she has presented in solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in Israel and around the world.
When she was six, her father was killed in a car accident, leaving behind his wife and two daughters, Mirit and Dana.
Ben-Nun had difficulty concentrating on studies, which caused behavioral problems, and at the age of fourteen she dropped out of the education system and went to work. The colors and writing tools gave her a quiet private space and her own way of surviving. Creativity eased her tumultuous soul.
Until her early 30’s she worked as a telemarketer and for the next fourteen years she doodled and doodled. While talking to customers she filled thousands of pages with lines and dots that resembled hundreds of compressed eggs and seeds which she threw away.
In a large portion of each page she would pick a random word and would write it down over and over while concentrating on her hand movements.
Even then she noticed the rising of her need and obsession as she practiced the endless doodling and writing.
Ben-Nun testifies that the lack of artistic training to paint "correctly" freed her from adhering to the rules of painting and allowed her freedom and spirit of rebellion.
In 1998, she received a bunch of canvases and acrylic paints as a gift from her sister.
She brought the acrylic into her world of lines and dots; she went back to painting women and masks that appeared in her childhood paintings and flooded them with lines and dots without separating body and background.
This is also the moment when Ben-Nun began to refer to herself as a painter.
and when art became the center of her life.
The intense colors in Ben-Nun's paintings sweep the viewer into a sensual experience. The viewer traces the surge of dots and lines formed in packed layers of paint. The movement leads to a kind of female-male hormonal dance within the human body and to a communion with an artistic experience of instinct, passion, conceiving and birth.
Contributing to this experience is the wealth of characteristics reminiscent of tribal art. Ben-Nun merges these with a humorous and kicking contemporary Western Pop art. In the language of unique art, Ben-Nun creates an unconventional conversation between past and present cultures.
It is evident that the paintings emerge from a regenerated need and desire, a force that erupts from her soul, a subconscious survival instinct to which she cannot or does not want to resist.
Ben-Nun places women at the center stage where they are her work focus. The paintings obsessively deal with the existential experience of being a woman in the world. A few of the women's paintings carry feminist slogans stressing the women's struggle in society, a critique for being held to perfection and being required to perform as a model of "beauty, purity and motherhood". Feminism pulsates in Ben-Nun's psyche, through her diverse female images and the play between beauty and unsightliness; Ben-Nun assimilates the consciousness of feminine possibility, of not being "perfect", of being powerful, influential, and outside social norms. This mandates a departure from acceptable limitations where Ben-Nun creates a new world of free spirit for women.
Mirit Ben-Nun is a mother of three and the grandmother of three grandchildren.
Mirela Tal
The problem with memories is that the ones that really hurt you sticks like Tattoos on the wall of your heart.It’s a memory that is stuck in your head. It’s in the past, but it comes back and bites. It’s a tattoo because it’s a memory that hurts, but doesn’t disappear.
Wish we have a choice to delete the ones which you hate haunting you and save just the ones you like to cherish...