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Today, Alcatraz is being preserved for the enjoyment and understanding of future generations. Former prison buildings are being conserved and seismically upgraded, and additional areas of the island are opened to the public as safety hazards are removed. Seabirds are retuning to the island in ever-greater numbers, and naturalists carefully follow the number of eggs laid during the 8-month long nesting season.
Our 3 doggies in their special, fund-raising clobber. Archie, despite not being a Cavalier, still felt obliged to participate.
Three boys who broke the Reading Room door to get inside and save books from the fire, and firefighters investigating.
With a baby on the way I'm gonna need to seriously cut back on my toy collecting and start saving up money, but before doing so I decided to treat myself to one last great "hurrah". I've been buying Joe figures off of e-bay that I've always wanted when I find a good deal on them. Mostly these are figures that came out AFTER I stopped collecting as a kid ( I only collected Joes from 1982-1986) that have intruiged me and which I doubt will ever be reissued or revamped
I've always wanted this figure, he doesn't get much respect, maybe it's because of his goofy helmet or his magenta uniform? Or maybe the fact that he came with a funky condor as a pet?
However he has always intruiged me, maybe I'm just too much of a sucker for the Iron Grenadiers and anything related to Destro? Maybe It's because I feel that there aren't enough General characters in the Joe-niverse that have figures made of them?
Whatever the case, I dig Voltar. I think if Hasbro ahd issued him in a red uniform instead of his less than masuline magenta jumpsuit he would've been more popular as red, black and gold would be a prety sharp color combo.
On our way home we saw a Turtle trying to cross the street and Laura demanded that I help the guy out. Here I go and try to help him and he pisses on me!!
Ok, well we chose to save Matilda. I hope we don't regret our decision, though I'm already beginning to wonder why we chose the child who refuses to wear her shoes on the correct feet.
No, just counting newfound change, discovered while cleaning his room. I'm sure it will be spent by the time he's off to U.C. in the fall.
I see this sign every night from a distance while walking the Dixie. Don't forget to save some money. It's a wise thing to do.
Squeezing out the tomato's seeds into a jar as part of the seed saving process.
The Saugeen River Community Shared Agriculture (CSA), a Demeter certified Biodynamic farm in Durham, Ontario.
Hi all
Today's update is a milestone for me.........last week after a long time saving.....I took the plunge and jumped into the murky dark art world of DSLR's..........
Oh.........what came over me........don't worry my trusty pani FZ38 will always be with me.
For lanscapes, sunsets, sunrises and close up work.....my trusty pani will be gainfully employed.
There are things my bridge will do that I miss in most DSLR......even the pro models!
But I'll leave those comparisons until another day when I have more time.......
I bought a Nikon D7000 last weekend with a standard 18 to 105mm kit lens......
But sadly I had only about 2 hours play with it in the whole weekend......
One reason I never said to anyone I had the camera......I needed more time to try it and start to re-learn everything. And yesterday I picked up a telephoto lens ( Sigma 150-500mm )
So with the weather man saying today was going to be a gorgeous sunny day (ahhhh.....he was so wrong!!! ) it was sunny for half an hour.............I was really keen to get out today.
So my plan was to do from sun up to sun down.....taking in the sunrise and sunset ( did I say before the weather man got it wrong ) as well as going to a number of locations to try the new camera set-up.
Anyway I was up early making up my days kit.........rucksack containing flask of tea, corn beef sandwiches, roast chicken crisps, two fruit drinks......food sorted for the day!
One laptop......in case I run out of room on the memory cards and needed to transfer files while I was out and about. ( hey....it's a new camera so still learning how memory hungry it is! )
So there I was at the beach ready for a glorious sunrise ( glorious it wasn't! ) but did get a few shots with my old FZ38
Then I went on to the main event.......wanted to try the new camera on the wildlife along the cliffs.
With a lot of trial and error some shorts came out ok......and others like a whole set of Meadow pipit shots....which looked gorgeous through the view finder......until I checked them on the screen ....and found I had knocked the dial to full manual and they were all burnt out.... dohh!
Anyway to cut a long day short.......have some nice Stonechat pictures which I'll post another time.....did some Lizards with the old FZ ( and yep the little reptiles are still out and about )
Managed to take some nice Dartford warbler captures.....since being Dorset I have seen many but never managed to get a decent shot of these rare little birds.......so really happy to see one today and do justice to these lovely little birds.
Also went out to my fav spot for seeing Common darters this year........sadly :-( I didn't see any.
They've had a awesome year.......in this location I've seen them from June till the end of November.....almost a week shy of six months.
Anyway the sad loss of dragons until next spring was more than made up with a lovely and relaxed sighting of a male Roe Deer.
I've tweaked all the shots from RAW to JPEG and added some adjustments like sharpening and contrast. In the case of the Dartford warbler I've left the un-cropped version for you to see as well.
With the type of sensor you get in the D7000 you can crop a bit without too much loss clarity.
In the grand scheme of things the lens I bought is relatively cheep compared to buying a Nikon.....if I wanted a really good Nikon with this reach I wouldn't get much change out of £6000
So I'm happy with this Sigma.... the roe deer was taken at well over 60ft away in woodland on a cloudy day......so with a little tweaking and sharpening and a close crop....they came out really well.
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UNIC Dhaka jointly with the UN Youth and Students Association of Bangladesh (UNYSAB) organized an awareness campaign at the sea beach of Cox's Bazar (almost 400 km away from Dhaka and world's largest sea beach) to promote the Ocean Conference during 5-9 June 2017. Students of UNYSAB distributed leaflets on ocean conservation. (Credit: UNIC, 5 June 2017)
As some of you know back in February at work we brought a guy back. He was dead laying on the floor in a house right across the street from the firehouse. The only better place to have a heart attack would be in the ER. But we worked him and saved him. I have been in EMS for seven years, not long by any means. But I have had my share of dead people and those that died from heart attacks. I've broken a LOT of ribs, I do the compressions. Not a feeling I think I'll ever get used too. Anyway, this is my award. I set it down on the desk the night I got it in May. I haven't messed with it as you can see. It is supposed to go on my Class A uniform.