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Kallitype on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag. Sodium acetate developer.
Platinum toner until the shadows show a deep black (1:45 mins). Theoretically, it is to be expected that the image can now react neither to a bleach nor to any other toner after fixing. However, practice shows that this assumption is wrong. After a subsequent iron-blue toning, especially the highlights appear in a blue-green hue, which can be shifted to a purer blue by post-treatment in a lead acetate solution.
33203 climbs away from Salisbury on Christmas Eve 1986 with the 0650 Waterloo to Exeter St Davids service.
In October 1986 I had bought my first SLR camera and two months later, putting it politely, I was still very much getting to grips with it.
On Christmas Eve I was aimed to capture some images of class 33s and 50s at Salisbury, which operated virtually all passenger trains at Salisbury then.
What I hadn't bothered with was the weather forecast, which combined the saying 'red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning' and the photographer's saying of 'f4 at a fortnight'. A heavy overnight frost was about to be obliterated by a blanket of cloud rolling in from the west.
Out I trotted and this photograph was the closest I came to any sun on a train that day. Everything else was hopelessly composed, dark or speed-blurred, or sometimes all three.
However, 34 years on, it is now clear the day wasn't a complete write-off: this image has reacted well to the wonders of today's photo-processing, and a reasonable image has finally appeared, 34 years after I took the original photograph.
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Do you see the statue of the soldier ?
Appears to be carved from that wooden post but it isn’t.
Today could have gone better tbh…Jonathan felt flat on his face at the end of last week but didn’t tell me and on Saturday asked me to look at his eye which was painful. It had a bright red streak which close up looked like a blood vessel and pressure in the eye is a side effect of his new medication for COPD caused by Covid or the Covid virus. He stopped taking the meds but wouldn’t go to eye casualty re the fall and hitting his eyebrow at the edge of the eye socket as the consultants on strike then. So made the earliest optician appointment which was this afternoon.
After extensive tests then a scan costing £30 ( brilliant new technology ) the Optician said his eye was not turning to the side properly and the pupil not reacting properly to light shining on it, although till that part the optician had been quite optimistic that no damage had occurred
He is phoning the hospital and told us to expect a call from them tomorrow 😏 These pics were to try to act a bit lighter but not reflecting my mood now :(
Jonathan says they might put it down to age or a small bleed on the brain and do an MRI scan.
He doesn’t appear worried but I am….😟
I hear that women only want the “tattooed bad boys” Listen up we are waiting and waiting for you to react.
It doesn't matter if you want or are a bad boy. It matters if you know “how” to be while being a good guy.
Sometimes you have to take a woman who wants to be taken by the hair and push her back to the wall and take her in a fit of heated passion.
You cover her flesh with your ravenousness kisses until you feel her squirming. Then you continue to turn up the heat by denying her what she wants most. You let your dominant animistic masculine actions devour, leaving her breathless.
You don't leave her until she is wanting more. We want you to react.
Walk-in light installation reacting to movement. Perspectiveplayground is a temporary photo-event by Olympus (unfortunately closing in Cologne now).
Last weekend, I suddenly found myself with a relatively new Mercedes (My Tundra got smashed and this was a rental, long story) and a free weekend. I had been waiting for an excuse to head out to Joshua Tree National Park, and after getting a Mercedes which needed to be driven combined with the Camelopardalid Meteor Shower due to show up at 10 PM, I jumped in the car and took off for the dessert.
Long story short, I spent two mights shooting the White Tank area of Joshua Tree. On Friday night, the meteors never really showed up but the sky was amazing. On Saturday night, I got out there a bit earlier and scouted out my locations a bit more. I had a decent spot to shoot the rock arch and shot the Milky Way coming up over the Rock Arch for almost 2 hours before packing up. It was nearly 1 AM when I turned around to shoot one last pano, and that is the shot that you see here.
The irony with this particular shot is that I had just recently become fascinated by the phenomenon known as "airglow."Airglow is caused by various processes in the upper atmosphere, such as the recombination of atoms, which were photoionized by the sun during the day, luminescence caused by cosmic rays striking the upper atmosphere and chemiluminescence caused mainly by oxygen and nitrogen reacting with hydroxyl ions at heights of a few hundred kilometres. (Wiki)
I had just been mentioning to some of my buddies that it would be great to be able to shoot it at some point, but from what I have read, it didn't seem to be a very common occurrence. In fact, the night before, I took an almost identical pano at exactly the same time, and there was no trace of airglow to be seen. But in this particular set of shots, the greenish streaks along the horizon aren't some type of white balance problem. They are, apparently, particles in the upper atmosphere that are glowing after the sun has long since set. I should probably also mention that this phenomenon is not quite the same thing as the Borealis.
It certainly isn't the cleanest pano I've ever shot as I bumped the tripod and accidentally tweaked the focus too far as I grabbed my camera out of the bag in a near stupor, but I just wanted to post this shot as I've never witnessed this before, and I honestly didn't notice it until I got home and began looking through my shots. I'll be headed up to Yosemite this Summer to shoot the Milky Way from Glacier Point, and I'm hoping I get lucky there as well.
A brief moment of light before the storm. I think this was one of those moments when I pulled over and reacted to the conditions.
And once again I had to react quickly: it had snowed the night before (which caused a good deal of traffic chaos in the region, because many trucks were driving with summer tires) and snow rarely stays in my area for long. So the next morning I climbed the pier tower to photograph snowy Friedrichshafen in the early morning blue hour.
I knew something would happen to Ahsoka at the end of the Clone Wars, I expected her to get assassinated or to be killed in combat but I NEVER expected her to become a sith. I was reading the topics about this on the Star Wars.com forums and I honestly can’t agree with them. They say that that it would be too dark for the kiddes if they kill her off on the show, but I can’t agree because during the Clone Wars we have seen Clones necks being snapped, Clones being impaled with lightsabers, choked to death etc. Another reason I think she turns to the Dark Side is because look at her face, she has cracks on her head, and yellowish/greenish eyes. That is EXACTLY was a Sith has. Now I can pretty much tell that something/someone convinces Ahsoka to learn the ways of the Dark side and she attacks Anakin, fails and dies at the hands of right then and there. Now I don’t know for sure. But telling from the little clip we got from the trailer, that’s what it looks like is going to happen. Why Ahsoka would turn to the Dark Side is beyond me, but as eclipsegrafx said she may find out about Padme and Anakin but I don’t think she would react that horribly. Ahsoka goes through so many battles, and learns so many things about both sides. Now during the Clone Wars Ahsoka seems to understand that the Republic are trying bring peace to the galaxy. Why would she think the Jedi were trying to do different?
Sorry for the long and dramatic description :P btw here is the link to where you can see Ahsoka as a Sith : www.starwars.com/theclonewars/?video=v001162#vid
So feel free to discuss your theories below :)
Oh, one more thing make sure you skip to 1:00 in the video to see what I am talking about.
This young roe deer was sitting hidden in the grass, watching and not running away. Young deer react like that. The sun was already setting so the colours came out nice.
Though my dog is not particularly used to horses, that didn't stop her from reaching her nose under the barb wire to grab a chunk of (dry and crunchy) horse poop. The horse immediately reached down to see what she was doing, and she scooted back post haste. As my dog's parent I am frequently mortified by her public behaviors related to cat poop, racoon poop, and now, horse poop. How can such an elegant pooch have such base desires?
I decided to repost some Aurora shots I took in Lapland in 2012. I was very unsatisfied with the contrast of the original posts and the "balance" of the colours of the Aurora. Some photos you see posted on line are profundly green which is more about how the Camera sensor reacts rather than what your eyes see. Colours are more muted in reality with less dramatic greens owing to the cones in your eyes (which perceive colours) functioning less in the darkness. When the Aurora is strong it can be quite green, because it is bright, but when it is weaker it is more like the light from a flourescent tube. I prefer to record what I see in my photographs, i.e. reality, rather than what I would like to see. Of course I would love to have a deep green Aurora but it isn't representative of what I saw. The week before and after the period I was in Lapland was spectacular for Aurora....unprecedented, in fact. However when I was there the Kp levels were at 2...or below. A long way to come to be dissappointed. However I was blessed with a Coronal Hole in the Sun...which I had never heard of before this. This allows the solar wind to stream out of the Sun at an incredible rate and the effect is that while all the terrestrial monitors will tell you the levels are low and there are no CME's you get a constant flow of strong Solar wind....which is what I got. Not a bad way to celebrate your 50th Birthday ! I was even lucky enough to capture a metorite in this photo.
23 Jan 15
Thank you everyone for your faves, kind words and encouragement, all deeply appreciated !
Visibility in nature is a fickle concept. Photographers and naturalists always crave perfect lighting and the correct conditions in which to see a place. But, as everyone knows, perfect lighting and visibility isn’t always possible or realistic to plan for. The light can be too bright and blinding- a lack of clouds can make a sky be overwhelming and burnt out. Too many clouds and what should be a brilliant and shining and defined landscape can become gloomy and diminished and murky. Like most things, balance is needed. When I was in Yosemite, I was besieged by clouds one night, had cloudless and bright skies the next night, and then was overwhelmed by smoke, the next two nights. When I was planning the trip, this is exactly what I wanted to avoid- I wanted consistency! But as I was there? Seeing Yosemite Valley react to the changes of visibility with the receding and growth of the light and the evolution of the colors and textures of the environment? The experience was transcendent. Different levels of visibility brought a different awareness to the actual experience of the place: the walls of the valley were thrown into sharper relief and became towering and immediate monuments that could then suddenly drift back into the foreground allowing for closer introspection of the immediate landscape- the trees, the water, the rocks. Colors fluctuated from being vivid and flashy to cool and muted. Even in moments where the gloom and shadows of the valley were accentuated by the sinking sun, the glow left behind by the absence of direct light only left me with an impression of how much depth there was to my surroundings. Visibility, in Yosemite, as in life, depends on your perspective.
Aftermath
Name: Peter Renshaw
Location: Kinglake West.
Date: 2009MAR26
Description:
First time in the back paddock. The plants you see in the foreground are what is left of a 1acre paddock of exotic Camellias and Rhododendrons. They are bending in the direction of the fire path.
The text below is a talk I gave on how we (brother, sister, myself and mates) organised and executed plans to get immediate power & water at my Dads house. Authorities simply didn't react fast enough.
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Final draft for talk at Trampoline
update latest news
Now published at seldomlogical.com/gsd.html.
A quick intro to the fire is here www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157615800278371/. Be aware this is a draft & I'll be posting later a linked & more polished version at seldomlogical and my wp site. For the purposes of the talk on the day I subtitled the talk Kick-starting Volunteers to not only make the title shorter but to put the talk in a bigger context. The ideas here can be applied to situations like Black Saturday but could just as easily be applied to Volunteers, even Startups. They all face the same types of problems.
Hello, my name is Peter. My talk is called "Getting stuff
done with nothing". Before I begin I'll tell you something
about myself. My first computer was a ZX-80. I don't get
out much and I haven't been to a meeting for a long time.
I'm one of those Gen-X slackers, I went to school for 20
or so years and I've worked mostly in Startups and
software. So you could say I'm a bit of an expert on the
topic. Well at least one.
Getting stuff done with nothing
Why is it that some individuals adapt to change faster than
others? How is it that people with no authority, few
resources can make such a difference? The ideas I want to
explore has its roots in the slow decline of volunteering,
the unfolding financial crisis and the 7th February 2009.
A day we now know as Black Saturday.
How do you avoid sabotaging yourself trying to help?
How do you get stuff done, with nothing?
Black Saturday
It was 46 degrees that day. I'd thought about going to Dads
about 70 kilometers from where I live. But with a total
fire ban and hot conditions I chose the pool instead
staying close to home. It wasn't till I got home about six
o'clock that evening that I got a call from a distressed
sister saying Dad was fighting off fires at his property at
Kinglake West and his phone was going flat. Later I got
another call at around 8 o'clock to say the house had
survived but he was still fighting. [0]
I was 70 kilometers away, it was getting dark so I drove to
the nearest place I could see the range, snapped a few
shots and uploaded them to Flickr. My brother and sister
who lived closer shot up to Whittlesea trying to get into
the fire-zone to help. Foolish maybe, but it was to have
positive implications later. [1] I knew that if Dad
survived the first two hours with house intact - as long
as he kept his wits about him, he would survive. So I
started planing, writing and collecting any information
I could to see if I could help out further down the line.
49 days later
It's now forty nine days since the fire and work is
still going on. A casual comment by a CFA volunteer on my
Flickr account [2] suggesting that for the next major fire
a similar site might do exactly what I was doing -
collecting information and acting as a clearing house.
This was going to be initial idea for my talk. "How to
apply technology and apply it to solve the communications
and logistic problems" I encountered with the fires. Maybe
it could be applied to other relief efforts. What about
the recession? Could it help people who loose their jobs
to re-train? Get new skills?
But thinking about it more, it turned out to be the wrong
question to ask. I don't think technology is the problem.
[3] I think the real problem is much more fundamental. I
think it's people and how they tackle obstacles. I don't
want to get bogged down in theory. What I want concentrate
on something practical. How to apply some quick hacks that
anyone can master in times of need.
Personal qualities not technology
To get things done you have to overcome hurdles. Some
are personal and internal. Others are external and totally
out of your control. When I started thinking about what
personal qualities might be important, I was struck by the
fact you might need to experiment and apply various
combinations to achieve a result. So I have tried to narrow
the list, to what I think are the 10 qualities that make a
difference.
1) Controlling emotion
Emotions effect the way we make decisions. Emotions come in
many forms as we react to stress. Each person reacts
slightly differently. Limiting your emotional reaction, lets
you move forward to make decisions. It's a trait that only
you can control. Some sort of control is an advantage over
none. No control over you emotions can let fear control
you. Fear is by far the most damaging emotion I can think
of. Fear paralyses you into in-action. In-action is not
only counter productive but it's also the fastest way to
sabotage yourself. Fear is also contagious. If you are
fearful, it has a nasty habit of rubbing-off onto others.
I don't know the solution to avoiding or controlling fear
but I do know you should be aware it exists. You should try
to negate it's side effects. The better control you have
over fear, the more effective you can be. [4]
2) Listening
How well you listen greatly effects any outcome to try to
achieve. Not listening is one of the quickest ways to fail
when you encounter external hurdles. Not listening you miss
details. Details that could mean the difference between
knowing what is required or taking a risk and guessing. A
requirement achieved is a form of measurable success.
Guessing simply wastes time. If in doubt ask someone "on
the ground". They know things you don't. Listen now and
you save time and effort later.
3) Mindset
If you have a rigid mindset. If you cannot adapt quickly
enough. You risk not only failing to achieve the things you
set out to do. You will be susceptible to blunder. A
blunder is when the action you take, results in a worse
situation than when you start. Blunders have many causes.
But the most likely culprit is a fixed or rigid mindset.
Mindset is the combined effect of "how you react
emotionally to current events" and "the decisions you make
as a result". So ask yourself. "Are you undermining
yourself because you have a rigid mindset?"
4) Empathy & imagination
Can you walk in the shoes of another person? Can you
identify their problems and solve them? Empathy and
imagination are an effective antidote to blunders, rigid
mindsets and cognitive traps in thinking. [5] Don't just
try and blunder your way through a solution. First put
yourself into situation you are trying to improve and
use your mind to to project, how you might make the
current situation into a better or best situation. [6]
5) Communication not Info-mania
An info-maniac is someone who misuses information. If you
hold onto information, shun or avoid the source or nature
of information. You are self sabotaging yourself. You need
to collect enough of the right type of relevant
information. Don't worry about the having too much
information. You will be surprised what people might be
looking for or find. [7] Working as a team has its own
challenges. When communicating to more than one person
make sure they have the right mindset and ensure they are
communicating together to get the job done.
6) Thrift and resources
Up till now, the focus has primarily been on the how.
Little thought has been given to cost. If you have few
resources and need them quickly it is up to you to work out
how important they are. Weigh the costs of buying verses
loaning. Don't buy if you can help it. The time honoured
"Beg, borrow and ask" works, well some of the time. A simple
solution is to hack what you already have and see if it can
fit the purpose. A roll of fencing wire and duct tape may
work wonders but not miracles.
This is where you have to get creative. A good resource can
be friends or people you know. It may even be complete
strangers. In some cases you will have to pay cash. Before
you do check with people on the ground if they really need
this item. If you pay cash it might be better to accept a
higher price for a receipt instead of trying to negotiate
a discount. This avoids disputes. Pay a bit more to avoid
potential conflict. [8]
7) Speed
We are often told to do things "fast". But saying and
doing are two different things. Where do you start? Well
start at the basics. The basics of life are 'food', 'water'
and shelter. So for a given situation concentrate first on
the basics. Be able to say with certainty you have
reliability. Day in, day out. Every day. Speed is also
about getting real results without wasting unnecessary time
and resources. Any lack of the above qualities will hinder
your efforts. So I think the measure of speed is about
delivering the basics. Then using a combination of
listening, empathy and imagination you can move your way
forward.
But speed alone isn't good enough.
It's a constant. What you really want is acceleration.
What forces can you use to increase the accelerate the rate
you do things? Well the answer to this and a potential
road-block is probably a combination of and Info-mania.
Collect enough information on problem at hand and you get a
data glut and as long as the relevance of the information
is high someone can probably find the right information.
The trick is then to get the right people to take notice.
We got "feet on the ground" to Dad in less than 48 hours.
Delivering a delivering a generator and essentials. Yet I
was shocked that it took another 48 hours for support teams to
touch base in Flowerdale a mere 26 kilometers further
north. [9] This changed quickly when Pete William started
writing the "helpflowerdale" blog. Things sped up when the
information flow sped up. [10]
8) Search for simplicity
KISS or Keep it Simple Stupid. Easy to say, much harder to
do in practice. The advantage of simplicity is it helps
keeps you focused on what is achievable. Focusing on simple
outcomes is also cost and time effective. Complex things
consume resources. How do you find simple solutions in
real-life complexity?
I have no real answers. But I did get a few valuable
insights trying to work out how to solve the problem of
water. After the fires, I knew delivering the basics was
going to be a big problem. And the most important basic is
water. But how do you source, deliver and maintain a clean
water supply 70 kilometers away?
How did I simplify the problem? Well first I had the right
mindset. I knew in the middle of summer in remote areas
that damaged water tanks, no pumps and when the power is
down there will be no reliable water. I also knew speed was
of the essence. The simplicity hack I applied was knowing
that water being a basic was required quickly. I confirmed
by ringing up people on the ground that water storage was a
problem. Then spread the news around this is what was
required. It just so happened that other people where
already thinking along the same lines pre-warned because of
the information I spread, "empathised" and offered help.
The actual situation itself is complicated and I couldn't
tackle this problem myself but I got a call from a good
friend who is an expert in logistics and just happened to
have a water solution in the form of a Shutz. By chance I
also got access to various forms of transport.
Is this a case of good luck or searching for a simpler way?
I'm not sure. I do know that by knowing this was a priority
and using resources I secured the water containers and got
them delivered. [11], [12]
9) Follow through, re-evaluate
What you start you finish. Don't leave loose threads. Then
quickly re-evaluate. Do you really need to continue?
Communicate together. Is someone else doing this? Check
with someone on the ground again. Then continue. If you
promise to do something, do it. No one else is going to do
it. It is up to you.
Are you going to let your mates down?
10) Motivation, "the mongrel factor"
The final personal quality is how much of the "mongrel
factor" you have. No, it has nothing to do with "Blue
Heelers" (the TV show) [13] but the mongrel breed of dog.
How hard do you "snap" and "snarl" [14] to extract that
last 5 percent effort required to complete a task? The
difference between those who give up and those who succeed
can partially be explained to how hard they are willing to
push themselves. [15]
The future of Volunteers
I don't think technology alone can solve the types of
problems. You need intelligent application of technology.
Instead we should look at how we as individuals respond
using technology to amplify results. I also saw a complete
change in community attitudes to 'volunteering'. Before the
fire, volunteering was a dirty word. After the fire people
felt guilty not helping.
The fires may be over. But your chance to make a difference
begins now. Black Saturday might be the fractal training
run for the current recession. Lots of people, young people
especially are now going find themselves without the
opportunities to work and no path to improve themselves.
What are YOU! going to do? Are you! (point to individual)
going to let your mates down?
Reference
[0] Bootload, flickr, "You can read a summary and view
pictures of the fires first hours here",
[Accessed Thursday, 26th March, 2009]
flickr.com/photos/bootload/3260244634
[1] We (my brother, sister, her bloke, myself and a good
mate) undertook two distinct operations. Operation Genny:
objective to deliver power in the form of a generator.
Operation Shutz: objective to deliver clean water supply
tanks up to 3000 litres with 1 tank capable of being put on
a ute. We completed both. We had feet on the ground within
48 hours of the fire occurring for the generator. The water
supply following some 2 weeks later.
None of this would have been possible if emotional sister
and determined brother used speed to the fire zone within
couple of hours. The reward, a pass to move through the
police road blocks. Had it not been for this quick
thinking. Nothing we planned would have come to fruition.
[2] miniopterus, Flickr, "I should have said, good job
tracking the events. I imagine that next time we have fires,
we might see something similar to your Flickr diary.",
flickr.com/photos/bootload/3298613958
[Accessed Thursday, 26th March, 2009]
[3] To technologists who forge and yield hammers every
problem can appear to be a nail. In this case I don't think
a technology solution is applicable as tackling how people
deal with decision making. You need intelligent application
of technology. Instead we should look at how we as
individuals respond using technology to amplify results.
[4] Fear is there for a reason. Men may perceive women to
be inferior when it comes to emotion. But like the second
law of thermodynamics, all that built up emotion is going
to leak out some time in the future. So in the long run,
I think women have an edge over men dealing with emotion.
But in the short term it is men who edge women out with
self control. There is a downside here. Apply too much
control and you might emotionally overheat and become
brittle when you cool down leaving yourself open to
cracking. Hard objects become brittle and crack under
stress.
[6] google, "enter 'from: kinglake west to: Flowerdale
VIC, Australia' and view the maps tab. This reveals the
distance from Kinglake West."
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[5] Zachary Shore, "Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad
Decisions, Blunder Intro, P5."
www.zacharyshore.com/static/content/blunder_intro.pdf
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[6] CVS2BVS: Current View of Situation to Best View of
Situation is a quick hack to make you think of moving
forward. What is you current view? What is your best
view? How do you get there? You have to ask the question
before you can find a solution.
[7] ITConversations, Tech Nation, Zachary Shore, "Why
Smart People Make Bad Decisions: Professor, Naval
Postgraduate School"
itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4007.html
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[8] Sourcing the Shutz (ruggised 1000 Lt, portable water
container) I negotiated a price by quoting a friends name
in cash. Then I get a phone call asking for more money. A
quick call back to my referring mate sorted this out. But
had I got a receipt I could have avoided this. In the end
it worked out. But the risk was there. You can read more
about sourcing the Shutz here:
www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157614178152108/
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[9] google, "To find the distance from Kinglake West to
Flowerdale enter 'from: Kinglake West to: Flowerdale VIC,
Australia' into google and click the maps tab.
[10] Pete Williams, blogspot, "Flowerdale - Survivor
Spirit", "A cry for help from the forgotten people of
Flowerdale"
"... The final straw for my sister in law came at 6.00am
today (12/02/09) when those left fought to save one of the
remaining houses that caught on fire overnight. They fought
with no water, no fire trucks and no support from the Army
that was in the area. They lost the fight. ..."
helpflowerdalenow.blogspot.com/2009/02/cry-for-help-from-...
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[11] bootload, flickr, "flickr set: 'Shutz IBC 1000L' where
I order and collect the Shutz water tank"
www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157614178152108/
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[12] bootload, "flickr set: 'Eltham to Kinglake West'
where we deliver the tanks"
www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157614178001242/
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[13] IMDb, "Blue Heelers, The Mongrel Factor"
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[14] Australian Sports Commission, "Participating in Sport:
Predicting sports suitability", "... Coaches who observe
such testing sessions are assessing the ‘mongrel factor’
which athletes show a doggedness to continue when the test
becomes hard?"
www.ausport.gov.au/participating/got_talent/overview/pred...
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[15] Simon Britton, "Mongrel Nation",
culturenow.com/site/item.cfm?item=24814
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
To Andy, James, Kev, Mum and Trace. They know how to get
things done with nothing. Thanks Trace, Colin for reading
the article.
...en concert à l'Espace Culturel St Grégoire à Munster le 04/01/2022
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A la fois roots et contemporaine, leur musique se veut forte et accessible. C’est dans cet esprit que le cercle s’est retrouvé en studio pour enregistrer leur tout premier album, qui fera sans doute réagir dans le monde du Blues, et même ailleurs...
Ce groupe nait sous l’impulsion du guitariste Gino Monachello, rejoint rapidement par le jeune Flo Bauer au chant et à la guitare, puis par une section rythmique de choc, à savoir Matthieu Zirn à la batterie et Franck Bedez à la basse. Le tout dirigé d’une main de maître par David Husser, prodige de la réalisation qui propulse ce projet dans des sphères inespérées...
Both roots and contemporary, their music is strong and accessible. It is in this spirit that the circle found itself in the studio to record their very first album, which will undoubtedly react in the world of Blues, and even elsewhere...
This band was born under the impulse of the guitarist Gino Monachello, joined quickly by the young Flo Bauer on vocals and guitar, then by a rhythm section of shock, namely Matthieu Zirn on drums and Franck Bedez on bass. All directed with a master hand by David Husser, prodigy of realization that propels this project in unexpected spheres...
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This is a shot my brother took of me back in the 90's, working with a large Cinnamon Phase Black Bear.
Please Note!
This is something that, Most People Should Not Attempt!
I get along with animals way better than I do with people!
Always have!
Animals are very honest in the way they deal with you.
It does require a lot of time and patience.
Also, you can't fear the animal you are working with. Respect it, Yes! But, do not fear it.
Animals will sense your fear and can react adversely to it.
Steve (my brother) recently had a bunch of his old slides digitized and sent me some scans of myself working with various animals.
I am very grateful for him doing that.
We used to do a lot of photography together.
Then not so much.
Recently he has got interested in photography again, at my prodding!
This makes me happy, as he is an excellent photographer, when he puts his mind to it.
What was that in the periphery? You turn and there's nothing... but you're sure something was there... a slight displacement of air, the softest rustle...
Your hairs stand, goosebumps rise... what is that chill that just passed through...
There is the sudden urge to run, but where? And from what?
Bodies are found. Murder without a drop of blood shed because the blood has dried in the veins. Faces drawn taut, their final expressions grimaces of horror.
Best call for the falconers, because skulks are about.
Skulks are intelligent, malevolent little assassins with the distinct ability to atrophy the internal organs of their victims. They can petrify hearts and lungs in moments, and coalesce blood into dry powder even as it flows.
Skulks are quite skilled at stealth and it has proven exceptionally difficult for advanced races, such as humans and even elves, to see them at all. An unidentified quality in the skulk causes them to be obscured in the vision.
Raptors, however, can see skulks quite clearly and always react viscerally, attacking skulks on sight. Skulks apparently cannot exercise their abilities on birds of prey, nor do they fare well in combat against them.
Falcons, hawks, eagles, and especially owls are adept at killing these vile beings. Kestrels have been seen relentlessly attacking skulks ten times their size, and killing the creatures.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
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Walking through cemeteries is a multi-dimensional experience. At times I'm caught up in the energy of the place. Other times I react to how my presence here influences my emotions. And often I have this odd reaction to the geometry of shapes and angles. It's like walking through a life size chess board. Grim looking pawns, rooks, knights and queens in all directions, forever locked in their last move. The stones and monuments cause ever-changing sight lines and negative spaces as I move about. I often crouch down, preferring to shoot through the stones rather than over them. The sense of texture pleases me; I'm not sure why. I also love the sense of crowding and depth created by overlapping stones. Viewing the monuments down at ground level really reinforces the realization of just how much stone has been brought in here. There's also the corridor effect of shooting something in the distance by finding the perfect visual pathway to get there. Inches matter in this process. Even slight variations in movement cause shifts in these alignments. When it works, it looks easy. Like snapping the final piece into a jigsaw puzzle. More often though, it resembles the puzzle when you first lift the box lid and see 1,000 disconnected pieces.
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West across dunes toward the San Andres Mountains.
In late October, I made a trip to New Mexico to shoot the dunes at White Sands National Park. I hooked up with my close friend and photographer, Sandra Herber. www.flickr.com/photos/sandraherber/ We were at White Sands four days, made eight excursions into the dunes, hiked over 20 miles and shot close to 2,000 photos between us.
We are posting our images at the same time and it will be interesting to see how we handled being in the same locations together. For safety reasons and for the fun of it, we hiked the dunes together, sometimes pointing our lenses in the same direction, other times wandering apart. I am sure we got some similar shots, but it will be interesting to see those that are different as we each have our own way of looking at things, as well as having different focal length coverage. Then there is the processing aspect.
To say White Sands is magical is an understatement. As photographers, we talk about the light, emphasize the light, are critical about the light. The dunes at White Sands react in amazing ways to the change in light, offering different looks, revealing various personalities. It is this diversity of the dunes that I wanted to capture then, and present here now.
This first series I’ve titled Vistas and they represent a more traditional landscape style. I think they will give an idea of what White Sands is like. My subsequent series will be more interpretive.
Good morning. For some reason it felt like a fish day, which might have something to do with it being Friday and yours truly being a traditional Catholic :-) So I thought I'd share some shots of a Threadfin Butterflyfish (Chaetodon auriga).
As for these photos, lighting for the tank and water clarity wasn't the best. Plus I upped the ISO a bit. In the end the quality is less than perfect so please bear with it if you would. Thank you. And while almost all fish react negatively when someone gets too close to a tank this fish seemed quite timid in comparison to most and acted like I had BO. But in the end my charming personality won out over any body odor issues and I managed to get a few good shots.
I hope you enjoy this series on this beautiful, but shy little fish, and find the provided text in the comment section informative.
Thank you for visiting...and I hope you have a super Friday the 13th and upcoming weekend.
Lacey
ISO400, aperture f/5.6, exposure .022 seconds (1/45) focal length 58mm
They had been bickering ever since Crinan. Or was it banter? But Mike the Bike wasn’t happy. He had been resting up against the railings alongside the canal when he was literally lifted and put on the old converted fishing boat. Now he missed his owner a nice young thing with a fragrant pert bottom who used to bounce up and down on his leather saddle along the towpath.
It might have been summer but still when Semolina had hit the waves of the southern Minch sea spray had splashed over him where he lay tied down on the open wooden deck. Although he couldn’t move, he knew rust was forming on his handlebars and pedal cranks.
By the time they passed the Corran narrows and were heading up past Fort William to wards the southern end of the Caledonian Canal at Neptune’s Staircase he was getting both angry and argumentative, frustrated by his abduction (as he saw it).
Semolina was old and just chuntered on, her decrepit old diesel pounding away below decks, black acrid fumes bellowing out behind her. The owner didn’t seem to care either, unbothered that she might collapse at any moment and cast them adrift. The wheelhouse was rotten, the most up to date aid, an old Decca Navigator, that blinked with senile confusion. But some how they got to the top of Loch Linnhe.
It was there that Mike the Bike made a bid for freedom, jumping ashore whilst the owner had a boozy slumber in the damp and fetid rubbish strewn cabin below. Since his young blonde crewmate had jumped ship to a flashy tallship, and the cat had gone missing he seemed to have lost his soul completely and let things slip. And he had condemned Semolina to ruin. The hull was leaking, split timbers, full and stinking bilges, flaking paintwork, rotten ropes, perished seals. She was already a (just) floating wreck
None of that had been lost on Mike the Bike whilst he was tied down, and he was thankful to get off before she sank. Ashore he was so relieved to turn a wheel and feel the fresh air in his face as he raced along the towpath, totally blind to the strolling people who stood aside as a riderless bicycle went by.
The bet was on! He had bet Semolina £ 5 . he could get to Loch Ness before her! On their marks, and they were off, Mike the Bike hearing a change of note in Semolina’s engine as she hitched up a few more revs per minute. He got going up the ‘staircase’, lock by lock and then onto the flat. Mikie was already well ahead as he opened up on the Great Glen Way. By Moy Bridge he knew his bet was already won, and having expended himself thought he might take a rest.
It was an unwise thing to do. While he slumbered a wild camper spotted him there and leapt aboard taking him further along the canal to the vehicle recovery yard at Gairlochy where it seemed his round the world five times VW camper was having some critical attention for a broken five cylinder engine. When abandoned in the yard he had been wheeled in behind some derelict cars and jammed in and wedged by some wing mirrors….in a bed of nettles. A fierce guard dog in the compound meant he did not dare move until late in the day when it seemed the animal was taken elsewhere for some exercise.
It was almost dark when Mike the bike managed to free himself and get back on the Great Glen Way as it gently climbed through the pine forest above Loch Lochy. As it grew darker he found it spooky amongst the tall dark trees, and he couldn’t wait to get closer to the houses he knew were past Kilfinnan at Laggan. But he was driven, determined to beat old Semolina. As he rode he wondered how the old girl was getting on. She must be at least 50 years old, although from certain angles she looked younger. He had to admit he had some affection for her although he reckoned today would be tough for her, and he wished her luck, negotiating the difficult meeting with Laggan Locks, Loch Oich and a long stretch of canal before Kytra, and then more canal to putter along before the series of locks at Fort Augustus, and then finally into Loch Ness. Meantime he had no hurdles to cross, bar just plodding up the brilliant pathway towards Inbhir-Nis (or Inverness as I’ve always known it).
He dashed through Fort Augustus, horrified by the appearance of the prison camp like Loch Ness Highland Resort, and what other developers had done to the abbey but that’s supposedly what humans call progress. Nah, for him peace was finding a little quiet corner in the sunshine by the side of the loch, free of summertime midges.
And presently he found such a spot, in a layby at a place so small it was imaginatively called “Inch” just north of Fort Augustus. There were some dodgy looking wild campers in their vans in the layby, but he was so exhausted by his ride he thought he would risk a rest.
He was in a deep dream, when he was woken by the sound of an old engine. And not a VW/Audi 2.5 R5 TDI either. Looking up he saw a large shape looming to wards him. With joy he saw it was old Semolina coming round the point into Cherry Bay. But what of the owner? He was sawing at the wheel, this way and that, but Semolina wasn’t reacting and straightening her course. She was running straight for the shore, to him. Mike the Bike was alarmed as she hitched up her skirts with even more revs and aimed right at the water’s edge, riding high on the shelving beach, until she juddered to a stop.
Afterwards she never mentioned how the monster of Loch Ness had raked her sides and peeled apart her hull and taken the drunken owner back to her lair in the depths of the loch but…….well, I’m sure you know the rest of the story.
Think I should get some breakfast
Some interesting facts about these Bioluminescence aka
"blue tears” These are natural phenomenons caused by a type of algae named Noctiluca scintillians, Which produces glow when reacting to chemicals from agricultural pollutions and household sewages. Although they dont produce any sort of harmful chemicals to humans and ocean species but they do deplete oxygen and causing negative effects on nearby marine life.
An absolutely magical yet a sad natural phenomenon to witness