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Am trying to comment, but the flickr gods aren't cooperating.
I've missed you all
I've had a chance to reflect. I have to spend time researching for and pulling together stories, all of which I want to feature on flickr. There are also a number of other projects I've been putting off for the eighteen months that I've been on flickr. I need to get some balance going here. All this means that, for the foreseeable future, I will be up on flickr every two or three days rather than every day as I have been to date. Many of my flickr buddies have curbed their flickr activities, and some have even dropped off flickr for reasons similar to mine.
Flickr is an addictive business. It has a tendency to take over, and Explore really drives the addiction. Explore is like heroin in that it stokes us for a period of time by including everything we post, only to drop us us for periods of time during which we try everything to regain the old Explore high.
Not trying to be resentful or maudlin here. Just trying to put flickr into perspective. I'll still get around to see you all on a regular basis, and I promise to pull some good stories together. Thanks for being great buddies. You've all become an important part of my life. You teach me so much, and I'll still be part of this great community.
Feel free to email me directly at any time. I'm around a lot.
I really like photographing fireworks, perhaps because I get to do it so infrequently. The last time was two and a half years ago at our town's Canada Day celebration.
However, this year, out there in the township, they had a New Years Eve display. This was the biggest burst that I caught, and perhaps the biggest that I saw.
I love how they also lit up the buildings, including the old schoolhouse on the right.
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We had a really enjoyable visit to Berwick upon Tweed whilst we were on holiday. We walked along the River Tweed to the Royal Border Bridge which you can see in the distance. It is a Grade I listed railway viaduct built between 1847 and 1850. The bridge in the middle is the Royal Tweed Bridge built between 1925 and 1928 and finally the bridge in the foreground is Berwick Bridge, known as The Old Bridge. It is a Grade I listed stone bridge built between 1611 and 1624, so no wonder it is called The Old Bridge
Okay, I'm possessed of a horribly sick sense of humor, but when I discovered this sign, I could not help but conjure up a little scenario that goes something like this: "Higgins, we've got this very important assignment we wish to provide you with, and it's going to require some very creative thinking......"
Forgive me dear viewers.
And it really happened! A Deltic on the Blyth and Tyne, hundreds flocked in the warm spring sunshine of a double bank holiday. Yes, a royal wedding too! We will take it all.
We sped along the spine road that shoots past Cramlington, Blyth and Bedlington. So many wait for the mornings first train on the over bridge by Freemans crossing. Its -The Shot- of the morning. We continue on, beyond Ashington to the Woodhorn curve, and then on a little more, towards the smelter. And stop there to check. Really?!! It is there but we can't see in. An unmistakable drone can be heard from within, the multi layered roaring drone from the triangular configuration of cylinders and their opposed pistons, six pistons in each back, eighteen to an engine. Thirty six if both engines were running but here they are not.
And so we return to Woodhorn and await. The dandelions are in first bloom, a low down viewpoint will accentuate this. There is no one else waiting here! And then she comes, roaring on one engine at low speed on the tight curve. A racehorse on a slow slog, so beautiful in the sun. Our days work is already done!
55022 Royal Scots Grey. Woodhorn curve, 6N51 morning empties from Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter to North Blyth. 27th of April 2011.
Minolta x300, 100mm f2.5 Rokkor. Fuji Provia 100, 1/250 @ f8-1/3.
Fridays really do come around too quickly--
"Winterset" 1973
Painting by Robert Addison (1924 - 1988)
Here is another painting in my ongoing series of presenting Robert Addison's paintings to all of you.
Barns, farms and rural scenes were some of Addison's favorite subjects. He chose them because he grew up with them and he was concerned that one day they would all be gone.
Kingston, Ontario Canada.
It looks like it might be a gyrfalcon gray morph.
In flight:
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I kept 15 pictures of it flying away from me, and it flew just above the ice the entire time.
I decided to take a ride on the ferry today. Hoping to see a Snowy hunting on the ice.I was quite surprised to see this young falcon sitting on the ice on the edge of the channel.
I really hope you love my new shot. So sorry for my absent, I will check your awesome stream guys !
Alexa, miss you girl.
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Just oh my god! Your testimonial is just wonderful, I have tears in their eyes. All these compliments, it's so nice. I don't really know what to say because nothing would live up to what you said. It's so original and touches me a lot. It's really very nice of you. Really, one of my best testimonial. I could say thank you for the rest of my life, so it makes me happy.
After a long, gruelling walk so Dad can self isolate Argyll style, Harris taking a little nap. On the sofa, of course.
Day 4, Image 2, for Polaroid Week. Went out this morning and shot this, as well as most of the remaining shots for this project. Mint SLR-670X (I-Type), Polaroid 600 Round Frame film.
*Arcane Spellcaster* - Andy Dress
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I really enjoy taking macro images.
I first started with buying a cheap set of screw on lenses onto my standard efs 18-55mm lens. Then I moved onto extension tubes,reversing my lens and experimenting with cheap m42 mount lenses.
Eventually I knew that I really wanted a proper macro lens and I've had a lot of fun with it.
I was always looking for more magnification and eventually bought a Canon 1-5x macro lens. Although I wouldn't recommend this as a first macro lens as it's harder to use with no auto focus it is still my overall favourite lens of all.
I'm really active on Instagram now your welcome to check me out!
Thanks for reading
Taken from the plastic yacht. I stayed there resisting the current using moorings and a small platform for nearly three hours. That %^*&!! bird would NOT take off. Had to leave without my usual weak attempt at a flight shot. {:-/
316 days down and I haven't missed a single day.
Damn.
With so many of my friends finishing up their 365 projects, it has me thinking a lot about this project.
And what it is REALLY ABOUT.
Sure it's about documenting your life.
Sure it's about exploring yourself and expressing yourself.
But what it's REALLY ABOUT is putting yourself "out there" every single damn day. Even on the days when putting yourself out there is the VERY LAST thing that you want to do. I say every single DAMN DAY because trust me that is how you feel sometimes with this project.
BUT you keep on keeping on. In that comes your reward.
It's about facing yourself even on the days when it hurts.
It's much much deeper than just taking a picture of yourself.
MUCH.
365 is NOT about a bunch of vain people who just LOVE to take pictures of themselves.
Hell somedays you don't even want to take a picture of your damn feet. Let alone upload it for the world wide web to see.
Honestly?
Aside from having my children and meeting my husband, 365 has been THE MOST amazing and life changing experience of my life. Full of ups and downs. Full of days where I was so close to throwing in the towel.
So today on my Day 316, I give you my damn feet.
My feet reflecting in my van. 365 really IS all about reflection of ones life and ones being.
Today I don't even want to give you my damn feet BUT I know on my Day 365 I will be very happy and very proud that I did.
So there you go.
What 365 is REALLY about.
Well at least what it is REALLY about for ME.
and yes as always it looks best on black
Psssssssssssst I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on 365, participant or not.
I really enjoyed this frog pattern, it was effective without many difficult folds. I really liked that the front had enough details to get fingers and that the back was kept simple to give a childlike whimsy to the model. I'm tempted to fold it again and try to add toes to the hind legs. But who knows if that'll actually happen :)
Pattern is: "Frog" from the book "Advanced Origami - An Artist's Guide to Folding Techniques and Paper" by Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander
I was really excited to start working on new images for musician Paul Caseys new album as i ve done his last album "Big World"! As well as other things for him live shots etc...its called "somebody i m not" this was based on an idea from a song called standing in my shoes.
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Daniel Bradley Photography 2014
Really a rainy spring this year, I hope weather will change soon!
HGGT my dear Flickr friends!
Taken in Sant'Olcese, Italy, during a railway trip with "Ferrovia Genova-Casella".
Please View Large On Black for better details, thanks!
I really have lost focus in school. I'd rather have fun and take pictures rather than do essays every week. Can anyone really blame me though?
I wish I was the kind of person that RIGHT when I got an assignment, I did it. Unfortunately, I'm the opposite of that person. I do the assignment the night before it's due.
So, either tomorrow or Wednesday, I'm going to be showing you something I bought from The High Museum of Art from the Salvador Dali exhibit. :) It'll be a part of my picture. I'll also talk a little more on the exhibit, because it was AMAZING. :)
I hope all is well with everyone!
QOTD: (since I'm procrastinating)
What is your favorite TV show, and what is your favorite website to go to? :)
My favorite TV show: Family Guy. But also shows like America's Next Top Model, because it inspires me when I model AND take pictures :)
My favorite website: Flickr is pretty awesome :D Lately I've liked WIMP.com check it out! :D
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Here you can see selection of my best photos - www.flickr.com/photos/jup3nep/albums/72157603856136177