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John Martin's or simply Johnnies, was an Adelaide icon, responsible for the famous Adelaide Christmas Pageant. It operated for more than 130 years, from 1866 until its closure in 1998.
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In addition to creating original images, I also compose music as well. You are invited to visit one of my music sights and listen to some of my unique compositions.
Here's my original piece: The Prophets Spoke Tonight by pdw from the Alpha & Omega Suite - the Seasons!
Music is just like art… it's quite subjective. You might love it or you might not enjoy it at all, but it represents who you are, right or wrong. I just want to say Thanks for viewing my art and taking a few minutes to give my music a listen as well.
My first HD video. I filmed this video to my new Sony A77. The lens was 16-50 f/2.8.
The good old vinyl format is disappearing from people's lives so I wanted to refresh your minds about it. I have few excellent LP's at my music collection. Sometimes I like to go searching old soul vinyls at flea market.
"I remember, I remember when I lost my mind,
There was something so pleasant about that place..."
They were singing Crazy by Gnarls Barkley (Cee lo Green & Danger Mouse),
City of Chicago, Illinois.
After Cecil the Lion killing a big game hunter explains why he shoots wild animals...
Peter Flack has shot dozens of wild animals including lions for sport and here explains why he does it and how...
Walter Palmer, a US dentist shot Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe sparking condemnation from wildlife lovers but he is not alone in his love of blood sport.
Peter Flack is a South African lawyer, businessman and hunter.
He is a retired game rancher and has killed many wild animals including lions.
Here he explains what it is like to hunt and kill a lion.
There are broadly four ways to hunt lion – tracking, following the sound of a roaring lion, hanging out bait and waiting and bump into lions accidentally when hunting something else.
In all likelihood a lion will already have become aware of your presence and be on the alert.
It may only wait for a few seconds to confirm its suspicions before departing and, if it actually sees you and recognizes you for what you are, it may not stop again for a very long time.
On the other hand, if you have pushed the lion on a number of occasions, particularly in areas where it is very hot underfoot such as the semi-arid or semi-desert regions of Africa, the lion may eventually become irritated and decided that offence is the best form of defence, turn the tables and decide to hunt you.
Although a lion will, more often than not, grunt at the start of a charge, this is not invariably the case and, although being big animals they will usually make a noise when they come, again, this is not always the case.
A lion can move from lying down to 100 metres in under five seconds so, should something like this happen, you need to be alert, focused and have prepared mentally and physically for such an event because it will be too late to try and work out what to do if and when such a situation eventuates.
Should you unexpectedly come face to face with a lion, you must not open your eyes wide and stare intently at it as cats will take this as a threat display and, particularly if you have given it a fright or there are young ones around, this may well trigger a real or a mock charge.
If you want to avoid a confrontation, you need to be sufficiently in control of yourself to half close your eyes, tilt your head to the ground and blink frequently while backing slowly away yet nevertheless keeping a careful watch on things.
Before you shoot one you must be absolutely sure you are ready to make a clean, one shot killed. There should be a cartridge in the chamber of your firearm and the safety catch off.
In all likelihood, adrenalin will have suffused your body, your heart will be beating faster and you will be breathing quicker and shallower. Muscles will be tense and, were you to open your hands, your fingers will have developed a slight tremor. It is vital that, in these moments to breath deeply and relax your shoulders.
The tracker will usually spot the lion first and point it out to the guide if he has not already seen it. Your attention should be focused on moving into a comfortable, steady position from which you can make a clean, one shot kill and you need to remind yourself, yet again, that nothing bad happens until you pull the trigger.
Even if it is the last hour of the last hunting day, it is far better to decline the shot and lose the opportunity than make one when you are uncomfortable, unsteady and uncertain.
When I see I lion I think power, awesome, coordinated power, followed by respect and an ancient remembered fear.
However my mind is totally focused on the picture in the tube of my telescopic sight and it is calculating the precise spot on the animal which I must hit in order to drive the bullet through its heart or spine.
You also need to remind yourself to re-chamber a round immediately after you have fired and to keep on shooting at the lion for so long as you can see it and it is still moving.
When I have shot a lion a whole complex array of emotions washes over and through me such as I have never experienced in any other situation.
When hunting dangerous game liked lions, relief that no one has been injured or worse is usually at the forefront of my mind, followed quickly by awe at and admiration for the marvellous animal; happiness that I have been successful and a quiet sense of achievement that we have beaten the animal by fair chase means on its own terms and on its own home ground; sadness that a magnificent animal like this has died but tempered by the fact that it was killed instantly or almost instantly with one shot.
During these moments I like to be left on my own with the animal, to be able to examine it closely and carefully in my own time and allow the emotions of the moment to play out in me without any need to put on a face for the hunting team who may or may not share them.
It is more than 15 years ago since I shot my last lion in Tanzania but, as I remember things, the hunting team were overjoyed and made a big fuss of me.
It had been a long and difficult hunt. The lion outwitted us a number of times and, over the two weeks, there were many times when we were ready to give up. But we were eventually successful and it was a very big, old lion whose skull subsequently measured well in Rowland Ward’s Records of Big Game. When we got back to camp the staff all rushed out to greet us, picked me up and danced around the camp with me and, at night held a big party.
I must admit that I also had a scotch or two. that evening and, the next day, local villagers came from all around to see the lion and there was some competition to buy the fat and meat.
Why do I want to shoot a lion? I suppose you could just as easily have asked why do you want to shoot any animal?
I can give you a whole lot of rational and cogent reasons why hunting is critical for the conservation of wildlife and wildlife habitats in Africa but I suspect some people already know them and, besides, they do not explain to me why I hunt the animals I love so much and for whom I have devoted almost all my discretionary time, effort and money to conserve and preserve.
The best I can do is suggest that for most of the 200,000 years that mankind, as we know it today, has been on this earth, men and women have hunted to provide for and protect their families. Agriculture only began a mere 10,000 years ago and refrigeration has only been prevalent for less than 300 years.
As such I think that some men and woman are more genetically predisposed to follow in the footsteps of their forebears than others and, like my other major passion, writing, all I can say is that it satisfies something deep within me that is beyond my ability to explain.
Having said that, hunting has coloured my entire life. It gets me out of bed every morning to exercise so that I may remain fit enough to hunt. It dictates the books I read, the art I admire, the places I visit, the people I befriend and the subject matter I write about and film.
For most people, the Big Five – rhinoceros, elephant, buffalo, leopard and lion – are the top of the hunting totem pole and, before I discovered the top African trophies like bongo, mountain nyala, giant eland, forest sitatunga and Abyssinian greater kudu, I thought it was completely natural to want to test myself as a hunter against the most challenging and dangerous of African game animals in their natural habitats.
Today, if you can afford it, because a lion hunt is the most expensive hunt in Africa, some of them costing in excess of the £100,000 with no guarantee of success, I think it is almost your duty to hunt lions and try and ensure that as much of this money as possible reverts to the communities who live cheek by jowl with these magnificent animals and who, but for this money, have no incentive not to kill them by all means at their disposal, including poison, leg traps, snares and fixed guns over bait.
In fact, it is my firm belief, based on all the studies I have read, all the empirically established evidence I have mustered and everything I have seen while hunting in 17 sub Saharan African countries that, if you want to ensure the extinction of all lions in Africa, the surest way would be to ban lion hunting.
This was extracted from Peter's blog with his permission. To find out more about his life visit his website
Joseph Brito, an active member of the National Guard, stands with an American flag on the corner of Katella Avenue and Los Alamitos Blvd to commemorate the lives of the 31 Navy Seals killed in a helicopter crash today in Afghanistan.
100 years since the formation of the Royal Air Force, a small remembrance service was held in Doune Cemetery in Girvan, where the ashes of its founder David Henderson lie along side where his son Ian was buried. An experienced pilot, the son died during the First World War whilst training others at the nearby Turnberry Airfield www.abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder/turnberry/
More on Henderson at www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-43597095/raf-founder-si...
August 1st, 1995
Manchester Airport
Caledonian Boeing 757 G-BPEB has just been towed out ready for departure. The aircraft went on to serve with a number of airlines and eventually ended up with Federal Express in 2012. It flew with them for another 12 years before being put into store during May 2024 (info from Airfleets)
We flew with this airline in 1998 to Ibiza
“Always remember to slow down in life; Live, Breathe and Learn. Never forget every person that has a place in your heart.”
These things that leave you so frustrated will pass.
They will.
When a day like this happens again you will know what it feels like because you've been here before.
Even though you will cry and feel just horrible, because that's what you do, it will pass.
And you'll feel a whole lot better knowing that ,
at least,
you're trying to do something you believe in.
That's something.
Don't you wish you had camera lenses for eyes? to remember all the good things that happened in your life and just remember the exact way it was
(wish i could get better at photoshop this is my first time trying to make something like this, people here in the Flickr community are just amazing at what they do on photoshop also this was the first picture i tried on my new Gary Fong Lightsphere Cloud)
the lenses on my eyes where 50 mm nikon lenses lol
sb600 on camera with gary fong lightsphere bounced from ceiling with dome attached
Beyond all the past, crinkled letters, the ephemeral pieces we kept, the tattered clothing, the worn, barren jewelry, will you remember me?
A necklace of small bits from the Victorian era in the most delicious rose gold. One piece, with the mother of pearl crescent with a rhinestone in the center must have been a small brooch. It however no longer has a backing. The second piece swivels (though there is nothing on the back) and also has mother of pearl on the front with a horseshoe and a rhinestone. The third piece is the most lovely--its a horseshoe shaped compass. The compass does work. On a brass chain with a lobster clasp.
The charms each measure about 1inches/2.5cms.
The chain measures 21.25inches/54cms. .
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation which designated May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which that date falls as Police Week. The Virginia Beach Fraternal Order of Police hosts this annual memorial service as a tribute to all local law enforcement officers that have died in the line of duty in service to the City of Virginia Beach.
Reminder: Flags should be flown at half-staff on May 15th
This tribute to American law enforcement officers is part of the historic crime bill that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994. At the request of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, Public Law 103-322 designates Peace Officers Memorial Day as one of only two days each year during which government agencies, businesses and residents are to fly their U.S. flags at half-staff.
“Just as we honor those who died in military service each Memorial Day, our nation pauses each May 15th to show its appreciation for the more than 20,000 men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in protecting our communities and safeguarding our democracy here at home,” said Craig W. Floyd, Memorial Fund Chairman and CEO. “Lowering flags to half-staff on Peace Officers Memorial Day is also a way to remember the family members, friends and colleagues these brave American heroes left behind.”
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The British High Commission and the German Embassy, together with Sri Lanka Unites, organised Football Remembers, a commemoration of the centenary of the WWI Christmas Truce on Tuesday, 9 December, 2014.
More information www.gov.uk/government/world-location-news/the-christmas-t...