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HDR : I've reworked an old image and also did a few ... er ... building 'alterations' !
Those of you who have been inside the tower at Margam Country Park will spot them with ease no doubt.
The same photograph, processed three ways. The original SOOC version is top left (straight conversion from the RAW file using Lightroom).
Here we see Joni dancing away in the newly "psychedelicized" dance floor in the Savoy Lounge. (To borrow a term from an old Chambers Brothers' song.). . . .
It is to be noted that this dance video was recorded on March 5, 2026, a mere 5 days after trump launched his sneak attack in conjunction with Israel against Iran. This "brief excursion", as trump called it at the time, got off to a great start as the initial assaults killed Iran's chief mullah Khomeini and virtually decapitated almost all of the upper echelon of the Iranian government's leadership. trump and Israel were hell bent on achieving a regime change in Iran by destroying the fanatical ruling Islamic Republic and replacing it with some type of democracy that was favorable to the interests of the United States and accepting of Israel's continuing survival. Not to condone Israel's participation in the attack, and Joni doesn't, but it must at least be recognized that Israel does have a very fundamental and existential problem with Iran, a nation which is dedicated to the proposition that Israel must be wiped off the map. As for the United States, whatever its fears and concerns about Iran might be, and however unacceptable and distressing the occasional and random Iranian-sponsored terrorist attacks may be, none of it amounts to an existential crisis.
To be sure, the USA does share Israel's concerns about Iran's ability to develop any kind of a nuclear weapon. . . However, according to trump, Iran's nuclear program had been completely destroyed by America's precision air and missile strikes last summer. Surely, trump didn't lie about that too, did he?? So one had to wonder what was the urgency for the March 1 sneak attack??
Regardless of the issue of urgency, there was no cause for alarm, as America's king of ignorance assured the nation that the USA had already won "trump war II" in the first hour of the conflict, thanks to a "perfectly executed" war plan; albeit one devoid of strategic concerns. There remained only a routine "clean up operation" that wouldn't take more than three weeks. So trump and his fox news' Weekend Update war-mongering Secretary of Defense Hogshit took multiple victory laps to the bewildered applause of his maga base, only some of whom seemed to recall a trump campaign promise that trump's Amerika would not become engaged in any foreign wars, but I guess if one read the fine print, that promise apparently only applied to the Ukraine's war of aggression against Russia.
Fortunately, Joni is not a graduate of Hillsdale College, that bastion of Christian Nationalism and high brow maga intellectaulism, so Joni wasn't buying any of the spin foaming from the mouth inside the Oval Office. Fully cognizant of the truism that everything trump touches eventually turns to shit, Joni confidently waited for "Operation Epic Fury" to morph into "Operation Epic Futility." It turned out it didn't take long at all before the Iranians, despite being mercilessly bombed by the USA, were able to gain the upper hand by simply shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, thereby cutting off more than 20% of the world's oil imports and more, thereby holding the entire world-wide economy hostage in the process.
The rest has been history as trump keeps issuing pathetic statements about how the Iranians are desperate to make a deal to restore peace, or risk biblical annihilation, when in fact, it is he who is the desperate party, and he keeps hinting that the end of the war he started was/is imminent, while the original three week war drags on without any resolution. The war is now more than three months old with no end in sight. Three years would be a more realistic, if not optimistic, timeline, as the Iranians prefer to play the long game . Recall that the Iranians refused to deal with Jimmy Carter during the Hostage Crisis, but rather waited until Reagan was inaugurated, who promptly gave them what they wanted, and like magic, the hostages were freed. . . It should be noted that the Iranians early on stated a clear preference for negotiating with v.p. vance as opposed to trump. vance, unlike trump, has actually met face to face with Iranian representatives, and Allah only knows what they discussed in private. Perhaps the Iranians know something about a regime change in Washington, D.C, that most Americans don't?? Being first in the line of succession to Amerika's throne, would it be beneath that ambitious hillbilly vance to stab trump in the back by beseeching the cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment thereby making himself POTUS??. . . . "Et tu, jd?"
Frankly, none of this comes as a surprise to Joni, nor should it come as a surprise to anyone else who has not been maga brainwashed. trump is completely delusional and totally unhinged, as his recent conduct and statements clearly document. Overlooking the fact that trump should have been serving a life sentence all along for the treachery, he orchestrated on January 6, 2021, he now clearly belongs in a strait jacket in an institution for the criminally insane. If you saw his recent interview this past weekend on "Meet the Press", as well as his recent comments about inflation and the economy, then you know what I mean. . . . In the later stages of World War II, the Nazi generals finally realized that Hitler had become unglued when he started to order them to activate 'reserve" armies and Panzer divisions and move them forward to the front lines. The only problem being that the units in question had already surrendered or had been previously annihilated, or never even existed. trump, in his own way, has come to the same delusional fantasy land that even his most loyal sycophants in the cabinet can't ignore. . . . Okay, maybe "Little Marco" Rubio can, but even he should agree that trump should no longer have access to the nuclear codes!!
It's a truly pathetic situation, but what is it that a woman like Joni is supposed to do?? . . . Well, Joni decided to maintain her sanity and dress up en femme and go out somewhere in Orlando on a Wednesday night. . . . You know, somewhere she "could forget all her troubles and forget all her cares, and go downtown" to the Savoy Lounge!! Joni's loyal followers may recall that Joni had initially planned to visit the Savoy Lounge on the previous Saturday evening, only to walk away when confronted by an overflow crowd and a $15.00 cover charge. Now a Wednesday night might not seem like an ideal night for a girl who likes to dance, but the admission was free, and wonder of wonders, Joni discovered that the house DJ was on duty and the dance floor was open! Even more amazing, Joni discovered that the Savoy Lounge had upgraded and "psychedelized" the dance floor since her last visit nearly a year ago. Not only were there more lights and lazers, but a large screen had been added upon which mind-blowing images were projected that generally defy description, but left one with the sense that they were on an LSD trip, not that Joni would know. The concert footage in this video was very tame compared to some of the other stuff that was projected on other videos that Joni recorded, although it was fun to have a simulated audience while dancing. Unfortunately, those other videos remain on Joni's cell phone, but she hasn't been able to successfully transfer them to her computer yet, but maybe someday. . . .
In any event, while trump and the rest of the world is going to hell in a hand basket, Joni chooses to remain above the fray by enjoying her feminine moments and dancing the night away! Really, what else can a T-Girl do???
Deep in thought as to which bunch is appropriate for the occasion or which one he could afford. Union Square, San Francisco, CA
recently processed film. kiev 60, zeiss-flektogon 50mm f/4 + red 25 filter + kodak Tri-X 400 film. lab: the icon, los angeles, ca. scan: epson V750. exif tags: filmtagger.
Folding is part of my job.... haha, I am just tired after 9 days of working
26/365 - I realized that my creativity die quickly if I am tired
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New friend and colleague whom i met in the park today.
There was something about this guy that attracted me.
lol i think the image speaks for itself...it was his humbleness oh and that thing he was carrying around; looks like a camera :P
A snap with my cool GRD III in a shopping mall in Düsseldorf.
Processed (in seconds) with FLARE to get the post card mood.
I'm obsessed with networks, links and relationships. Links across time and space but specially the ones we create as social beings: Parenthood, love, friendship.
How can I reflect in a visual piece the deep relationship with my family? my answer is to transform photographs in networks of lines and points, employing Processing to build Voronoi graphs based in the difference in brightness intrinsical to each image.
Then I create "maps" juxtaposing side by side the voronoi graphs and build a network, a set of pathways that relate one with each other in an "organic" way.
I'm not a programmer, I'm sure a person with the patience and the knowledge will create something more spectacular or complex. But for me, at this moment, this simple network is an interesting way of show what lies below most of my photographic work.
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