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This is just a crap photo I took on my phone ages ago and didn't upload, and do not do these eyes justice at all, but they still look nice even with my bad photo skills :D I was a part of the Dollbakery 12mm small iris group order, these are the colour Moss, but I got to choose between one of two pairs, this one actually has a slightly brown tone to it, it's so gorgeous. In all my years in the hobby I have never owned better eyes.
So in unrelated events, this week has been so exciting and so frustrating hobby wise. After a year of searching I finally find the perfect shell for Pine, so I am extremely happy about that.
Discovered I've been following a recast owner for jeez knows how long (ugh, always remember to check tags from now on), saw another person get sold a recast body as legit, and I had to contact the mods about a super obvious scamming attempt on DoA. It's so frustrating to see these sorts of things become more and more common.
Dead
Or may my dog
Have a normal live
Not according to the municipality
That’s why I’ll take a part of the municipality with me
When I GO!!
To the rest
Found on a wall near The Hague, Central Station, opposite the Royal Library
RANT: I'm generally a pretty laid-back person, and it's not easy to ruffle my feathers. But there are some people who really irritate me. For example...
I consider myself to be a decent person, and I take care of my dogs, Luna and Henri. They eat well, they're well-loved, and they get plenty of exercise. They get to go to doggy daycare at least once a week, where they can socialize with other dogs and learn good manners, and I've trained them enough so that they listen to me (most of the time). Luna is still young (about 2 years) and can be excitable, and she has a bad habit of growling (usually in a playful way, although I'm sure other people see it differently), but she's not a mean dog. She's kind of a spaz.
I take them to the dogpark several times a week, usually first thing in the morning. When you go as often as I do, you tend to see the same people (with their dogs) over and over again, and most of them tend to be pretty nice, relaxed folks. But there are exceptions. There's one woman in particular -- I have a not-very-nice nickname for her, but I won't repeat it here -- and no matter how many times I say "hello" or "good morning" to her, she refuses to return the greeting; in fact, she usually just walks right past without even looking at me. I know she's not deaf -- I see her talking to other people. But not me.
Then, this morning, as we were leaving the dog park, another woman was coming in with her dog (a very unfriendly dog who has growled many times at my and other dogs) and a new puppy. Luna saw the puppy, and got all excited, and started chasing the poor dog, all the while shaking her head (showing off the ball in her mouth). The woman got very angry, yelling at Luna, and eventually picked up her puppy and cradled it in her arms as she walked past me. I tried to apologize, and lighten the mood with a smile and some friendly words, but she just walked past, not even acknowledging my presence. WTF?
Luna is part pit bull, and I'm pretty sure the reason we get so many bad vibes from certain folks is because of that. To me, that's just another form of racism, and it's reprehensible. It's like dissing all Muslims because of the extremists among them. Yeah, there are bad pit bulls (mostly because there are bad dog owners), but in my experience, pit bulls can be intelligent, affectionate, awesome dogs.
But to some folks, I guess I'm not worthy of a simple human ritual like saying "good morning" because I have one. And that irritates the hell out of me.
For the most part, I have been patient and supportive of the changes that Flickr has instituted. While as humans we are often uncomfortable with change, I also understand that market share drops when things remain static.
Having said that (for those of a sensitive nature, perhaps its best to refrain from reading further), I am totally p___ed (yes that’s a bad word) with the verbiage that has replaced the word “CONTACT”. So why replace the word "CONTACT" - its an apt description of who we meet on Flickr. Here's the reality: since I have in most case never met my "followers", they certainly are not intimate friends or relatives - they are simply "CONTACTS" who share a love for photography. So why change that word.
As for "FOLLOWING…" Blow it out your butt Flickr, I am not a FOLLOWER, never have been, don’t intend to start now. My super ego prevents me from “FOLLOWING”. So Mr. Flickr, I suggest that you have a talk with your dumbass group of latte slurping nerd techies, tell them that Earl thinks the word is dumb, stupid and offensive and should be changed back to “CONTACT”.
Now for all those who deem themselves as "FOLLOWERS",accept my apologies for having hurt your feelings...
I really want to rant. So I'm afraid I'm going to.
This week started on a double downer which thankfully spurred me into action with the aim of sorting my life out.
Was making more of an effort to applying for jobs, started taking more photo's, submitted a pic for a photo challenge and though of a good photography project to keep the momentum going on the picture taking front.
[The project involved taking pictures of local LS6 businesses for free so that they could use them for promo stuff and I'd manage to get my name out there and some nice portraits blah blah...]
Today started off amazingly, went for a run [This is unheard of!] Then spent all afternoon crawling round the garden taking pictures of bugs before trying to a do self portrait, something I really hate doing.
I'm procrastinating because I'm finding this therapeutic
So... as I was finishing my shift at the bar I work in, I got a phone call saying we'd been broken into. Cue panic.
[skip personal drama - though my friend and house mate was safe thank funk]
So police turn up and ask if anything’s been taken. My room at this point looks like it's suffered with fatal diarrhea and vomiting as there's shit everywhere. Look at the shelves were my photography stuff is kept and can see several of my shinny Nikkor primes and all my Olympus film OM gear. So stop fretting about my uninsured camera gear.
So after doing some stuff like removing the front door lock so that the door closes and trying to secure the place, had a proper look at my room. Turns out the ##### made off with some stuff I cared about . My SB-900, 60mm Macro, 28~85mm, radio triggers and my P-series Cokin filters.
I've had to stop looking to see what else is missing, hence why I'm typing a load of drivel.
But on the massive plus side I still have my D700 which was with me at work and the 28mm, 50mm & 85mm primes which where left alone.
And you know what, as much as I'm upset right now, it's also making me see this as a challenge to get another decent job, take more photo's and remind myself what it is that I find important in life.
ok so i'm really pissed off about how some people edit, i mean it's like they don't even try!!! LOOK EDITING ISN'T HARD!!!! YOU DON'T NEED A FANCY PROGRAM TO EDIT WELL, LEARN TO EDIT THERE ARE MILLIONS OF TUTORIALS ON YOUTUBE!!! USING THE PAINT BRUSH AND CHANGING THEIR HAIR COLOR WITH IT DOES NOT MEAN IT'S AN EDIT!!! IT MEAN'S IT IS CRAPPY!!!! the girl with the green hair... done with gimp! it's free and it's affective, the girl with black hair... I USED WITH FUCKING PAINT!!!!! YOU GET THAT WITH YOUR WINDOWS COMPUTER!!!! i mean sereously take some pride in your editing, don't just think it's good, yes you can be proud but there is always somthing that you can do better.... and i don't care if the girl with brown hair took you 20 hours... if it looks like that... YOU DIDN'T WORK LONG ENOUGH!!! have some originality and please don't be a mary sue either.... be your own person.... because a tube top is not sexy!!!! look at real clothes.... A TUBE TOP MAKES THE BOOBS LOOK SMALL OR JUST PLAIN SLUTTY!!!!! havn't you noticed that the sexiest outfits give people room to imagine? thank you and good night!
(all these edits were done by me, i only used gimp and paint)
and for those who use paint.... and don't think that they can make it look like the girl with the black hair.... check this out, it shows you everything! >:T www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTnhMDwcUXI
The car was with my better half, so I went to work by bus.
Personally I love a good public transport system. No car to look after, beer is not an issue, it's green, it goes out of one's way.
Well, yesterday the bus was 25 min late, apparently due to an accident. Fine.
Today I went to the ATM beforehand. Presented the $20 note to the driver and --- would have been refused service if it hadn't been for a colleague of mine who was on the bus, and borrowed me the change. The driver seriously said I'd have to take the next bus 30 min later. And that on the first bus in the morning.
The reason? No change.
When I last checked, a $20 bill was legal tender and had to be accepted.
Now here is a machine that is commonplace elsewhere. It changes all sorts of bills into the required coins. Really convenient. The rude bus driver and his refusal are just unacceptable when one knows these machines.
Luckily I'm not being treated that way when driving, so there goes another potential public transport user.
The name of the bus company doesn't matter ... rumour has it that they all have rude drivers.
They could just give me some kind of cheque for the change. Anything but rudeness.
My second Chuck Palahniuk novel this year; my first one was Survivor and I loved it. In fact, this is only my second Palahniuck novel ever. He has an exciting and unique writing style that I'm totally into these days.
As a bonus, I found that I got a signed copy! How lucky of me :)
I warmly recommend Survivor and will post an opinion on Rant as soon as I'm done it.
okay, to sum up everything im about to explain in one sentence; demi has lost me as a fan.
i used to adore demi, i really did, she was always so sweet and yeah... basically i loved her.
after her and selena fell out, i still loved her, i decided i wasnt picking sides between them because i loved them both and we didnt know what happened, which is still true to this day.
she then started to annoy me with snide comments she made about selena, but then the ask taylor comment really pissed me off.
it was really immature and stupid. im sure selena could say those things to, like oh ask miley, or ask anna or whatever, but she doesnt.
even after that, i still liked demi, okay i didnt love her anymore, but i liked her. then recently the interview came out where she said she wasnt friends with selena because selena let her friends and family be mean to demi. this pushed me over the edge.
first off, demi is trying to act all innocent in this, when her friends are often mean about selena.
secondly, IF she was referring to taylor,she needs to remember that she was more than happy to hang around with taylor on jet ski's last summer.
thirdly, if she is referring to the twitter fight with selena's cousins brandon and priscilla, i think she need to remember that SHE started that with the coat-tail rider tweets and they were just defending selena.
so yeah, basically they are my reasons why i am no longer a fan of demi. i will always love her music, and there no doubt that she is very talented, but this new bitchy personality that she seems to have acquired. i do not like.
so thats basically it.
but remember, this is my opinion, so dont jump down my throat for it.
and this doesn't mean im going to start bashing demi left, right and centre because i wont.
its most likely i just wont mention her much anymore.
A screen grab of a racist rant by an 18 year old girl. Trying to decide if I should sent it to her parents and her employer.
Seriously, Minnesota? We don't send electoral votes to the GOP since Nixon, but in the primary, you go for SANTORUM? Mr. "We're stewards of the earth, but that just means to use it to serve industrialized man, not nature..."?
A little background, Minnesota has very open voting, so practically anyone can walk in and participate in a primary for whatever party they want. Last election, I sincerely believe Republicans mobbed Democratic primaries to stick us with Dayton, hoping he'd lose the election. I can only hope Santorum with 45% is the result of Democrats monkeywrenching the system in a bit of fair-play-turnabout.
Oh, and by the way, politics is one of the few things that gets me going these days... this is fun for me, even though I get a bit apoplectic once in a while.
A pleasant enough IPA, but why so murky ugly?
I taste first with my eyes. I appreciate beauty. Slight haziness or wispy cloudiness is one thing, but I do not appreciate beers that look like, forgive me, baby puke.
London Murky and New England-style Murky IPAs notwithstanding, I stand firmly in this position, if with a shrinking minority of like-thinkers.
Just say no to ugly beer!
14 April 2016.
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Postscript
Proper and skillful brewing can and will produce flavorful yet see-through beers, WITHOUT loss of character. Later that same evening, I tasted a different IPA, more pungent than this, but quite beautiful in appearance, if not utterly crystalline in clarity.
Post-post-script
This isn't a new 'thing.' Just three examples:
▶ Here, from 2012: flic.kr/p/cstQNd.
▶ And, here: flic.kr/p/ccU9TY.
▶ And, here, from 2015: flic.kr/p/BzNu5N.
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fall back.
A knee jerk rant against adjusting clocks forward one hour in the spring and back one hour in the fall.
Spring forward, Fall back,that's the mnemonic for remembering which way to move the clocks on the days that everyone (except me I guess) agrees that the time should change. Actually, I'm not sure that is true, May-be everyone isn't burdened with Day Light Saving Time.
For certain, in the US of A we will all chuckle at the inept sleepy heads who charge into their jobs late on Monday because they were so out of touch that they missed the comments on TV and Radio all day Sunday. But (and here's the rant) what sense does it make to do this? I don't really mind changing all the clocks - as you might assume looking at the image, they need adjustment anyway. Why arbitrarily call 'now' Six A.M. when it was perfectly acceptable to call 24 hours ago Five A.M.?
The most credible explanation I've gotten is that we're supposed to benefit from more daylight during working hours. But who leaves the office because its getting dark? Who, in the office bases their decision to turn lights on or off on the time? In fact, aren't most of those nasty fluorescent office lights on hours before the work day (and hours after it) year round?
Actually a rant is probably longer and better reasoned, but I've said it and I'm glad. Just give me some warm milk and put me to bed. I'm sure I'll feel better after my nap. I know my real reason for whining is that I hate to get up early and for the next two weeks, until I get used to the new 6 A.M. I'll have to do just that.
I have posted this picture before but I need to vent so here goes.
I know the public perception of truck drivers is not very good. I saw a poll the other day that showed where we ranked right there with used car salesman and garbage men. Sad but true. People think we are all crack smoking pill poping nuts. I was told the other day that I take pills to stay awake at night and pills to sleep during the day. I had to laugh and walk off. What this person does not know is 2 weeks before he said that I had just taken a random drug test. One of several given at work each year.
If these people would take the time to get to know someone first they may like them. When I was married I was very lucky. The only money my wife and I owed anyone was for our house and two cars. Our kids college was paid for. My oldest daughter got her degree in nursing last year debt free. We have two more in college now and one in private high school debt free. We have sent all of these children ALL OVER THE WORLD. Places I will never get to go and we were happy to do it. A couple of years ago if the housing market had not gone to hell and we had sold our house we had been aproved to buy a mansion and the payments were going to be what I make a week.
I enjoy getting up and going to work each day. I am very proud of what I do. How many people can say that?!! Think about this. If tommrow all the drivers said to hell with it no work for a week. Where would you get your food. Clothes drinks ANYTHING?
So the next time you put a tag on someone because of what you THINK and not know get your head out of it.
Rant:
Spring is in the air, why should I? At least I feel it in my blood, after a well deserved skiing vacation the sun finally is back in the country and things are getting sunnier, these are the prime reasons I'm a bit quiet on Flickr these days...
About:
When driving around the Island of Skye in 2010 ( it's that long ago and still haven't finished processing my pictures of that vacation... Two weeks ago I decided to go through my Skye pictures to see what I missed and what to expect in August). Long sidenote aside, thus I was driving along the road when I suddenly saw clouds forming above that mountain, I couldn't resist stopping and taking a picture, I remember it was rather windy and the clouds didn't take too long to move on, but I got it on a picture anyway...
Only later when processing the picture I found out this is The Storr with to the right the Old Man Of Storr
Location:
Island of Skye, Scotland, Europe
This image is also geotagged
Technical stuff:
Exposure: 1/100 sec at f/11 at -1/3 EV
Taken with: Nikon D90 and 18-105 mm f/3.5-5.6 at 42mm
HDR photo merged in Photomatix, processed in Oloneo PhotoEngine, tweaking in Photoshop: made the lump of land on the right a little bit lighter. Slight blur on the water to remove some of the 'sharp' edges of the little waves.
Crop to about 16x10 to remove uninteresting foreground of the lake.
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I read about this controversy in the newspapers a couple of times but didn't know where the ter Horst house was actually located until I stumbled across it on one of my runs.
I don't remember what the problem was exactly, but man, he must have been pretty angry.
20 Moran Street. Beaconsfield, Western Australia.
*Fun Fact: The house (there is an antennae on top) is part of a survey of environmental radio frequency electromagnetic energy (RF EME) levels arising from mobile phone base station antennas.
I took this just for the sake of taking a picture.
Though, I do like the simplicity.
I'm just using it as a post so i can write something.
I feel like i have become so distant with my photography. Very rarely will i actually pick up my camera, and if i do I'm not happy with what i get out of it. I don't know what i want to see in my pictures anymore. It feels like there is no passion behind anything i do anymore. I feel like I'm in a rut and its one of the worst feelings. I've been thinking and i want to start a "365," I'm just afraid that between school and work that I won't have enough time to take any pictures. I'm not much of a writer at all, but i believe anyone reading this will get the jest. if you have any helpful advice i would love to hear it.