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Sharp-lobed Hepatica (Anemone acutiloba). In contrast to the Round-lobed Hepatica (Anemone americana) that I typically see, in this species the leaflets are pointed instead of rounded. Furthermore, among the Anemone populations I've encountered in Georgia, acutiloba usually has pure white flowers, while americana has purplish flowers. Riverside Day Use Area, Allatoona Dam on the Etowah River (US Army Corps of Engineers), Bartow County, Georgia.
Sharp PC-1475 pocket computer from the late 1980's - 2 line display and high accuracy for scientific and engineering applications.
Production stills from the Grady produced music video Sharp. Filmed by University of Georgia students in Athens, GA.
le "bloc tombant de Sharp a été clairement du côté de L'union pendant la guerre de secession avec les Sharpshooters du colonel Berdan(regt de tireurs d'elites de l'union équipés en Sharp en partie qui pourtant était plutôt une arme de Cavalier - fait d'arme le plus connu Gettysburg) . Hélas, c'est aussi le tueur de Bison (buffalo killing) par exellence et donc de la guerre indirecte ou economique faite aux amerindiens (en tuant les bisons on tuait "volontairement" et parqué aussi ces derniers).
I came upon this 'Sharpie' who had just caught a Junco and was enjoying his meal. I was already very close when I first saw him, so I moved very slowly to find an open spot to shoot through. He seemed aware of my presence, but didn't feel threatened enough to leave. In fact, I watched for several minutes then slowly backed off. He never flew...
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Weekdays come and go. My last work week consisted of exactly one day - Friday. Wouldn't it be nice if Friday was the only work day? You could go to work in the morning knowing that when you clock in you are beginning your week and when you clock out, it's the weekend again. Pay might be a problem, however. I'm working on a plan to live without money. If I get it worked out, I'll let you know.
And following my one-day work week came Glorious Dive Day! I had nobody going out on Faded Glory this week, so I skipped all of that boat loading and unloading and just went out with Richard Jones on Sanguma. I have to admit, I really like getting picked up at my front door. It's quite a treat compared to my usual Saturday routine.
The dive was quite nice. The Eel Garden was putting on a fine show. I got some very nice underwater shots. However, as it sometimes happens, my favourite shot of the day has nothing to do with fish. Ush is one of my favourite photographic subjects, at least when she is not too shy. I kept seeing wonderful reflections in her cheeky red sunglasses. A little coaxing Got her into the mood to pose for me:
When I first saw the result on my computer screen I was not overjoyed. Though Ush gave me just what I wanted, my exposure skills were not up to snuff. It took me the better part of an hour to massage the image into what my original vision demanded. I wanted the sharpness of the sunglasses and the reflections, but I needed Ush's skin to be as soft and smooth as a baby's bottom. Well, it pretty much is in reality, but cameras are harsh to skin, as we all know. I'm happy with the finished product. It's the most fun I've gotten from a single image for quite a while.
Now this one . . . this one is a mistake. It was so bad that I nearly deleted it. However, I sometimes like to play the photographic savior and redeem otherwise worthless frames:
The Soldierfish was swimming away, it was too distant, and the light was all wrong. On top of that, I had my flash turned on, which threw off the colour balance. I know! I'll call it "Art'.
Richard Jones came over to me with a rock and seemed quite excited about it. It took me a moment to realise that on that rock was a nudibranch which I had never seen before. Of course, I took its picture. It's a Phyllidia ocellata:
I have to say that it is probably the most humorously patterned nudibranch which I have seen. Some nudis are ethereal in their beauty. This one is wearing a clown suit.
I should know the name of this Planaria, more commonly called a flatworm. I got this shot standing on my head, because it was under a ledge. I've turned it right-side-up for you:
It's Sunday afternoon, and I'm not going to look it up. Somebody out there help me. It's very common here.
I'll finish up with a couple of "Deep Focus" reef scenes. As several readers have pointed out, there is nothing special about these high depth of field shots. It's just a matter of setting your camera right and having favourable shooting conditions:
However, I have noted that few underwater photographers actually do it. It seems as if nearly everybody either shoots macro shots of little things or big, gaudy scenes shot with super-wide angle lenses and multiple flashes.
I don't see many shots such as these which use a cheap camera and a normal lens stopped down to achieve maximum depth of field:
I find them pleasing, because when I seen them I can honestly say, "That's just the way it looked to me."
Someday, that is going to come in very handy for me.
This is almost certainly the same bird that I photographed at my home a few days ago. I have seen sharp-shinned hawks around my home for several years, but this is the first one that will allow me to stand 30 feet from it and not fly. Through a window it will allow me to get within about 10 feet. IMG_1329
The view up to the start of Sharp Edge, a grade 1 scramble in the Lake District. It's a route that should only be attempted if you have a good head for heights.
very brightly colored ripe fruit ready for the careful picking
Opuntia engelmannii ENGLEMANN'S PRICKLY PEAR Cactaceae
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Sharp Memorial Hospital first opened it doors in 1955 with the vision of offering the best that clinical knowledge and technology had to offer. Today, the new Sharp Memorial Hospital, which opened in January 2009, continues to be at the forefront of medical technology and patient satisfaction.
“Clean shirt, new shoes
And I don't know where I am goin' to…”
These lyrics are from “Sharp Dressed Man" performed by ZZ Top in their album 1983 Eliminator album.
May you all have a spooky, scary, spine tingling, but safe and fun All Hallow’s Eve or Halloween.
As you are having fun, remember this, yes, it is a night for fun and games, but it is, also, in reality, the one night of all the year when the portal between the two worlds opens and spirits, those once in body as we are, and others, evil spirits and entities, can pass through that portal or veil and enter this side...our side.
And, many times, depending upon with whom they interact and the actions of those still in body, some of these spirits and evil entities do not return through that portal back to the other side at night’s end.
So, laugh and have fun, but, do be very very careful. For, as you know, for every action there is a consequence.
BoO! :0 MaRsHa
“The poverty of modern architecture stems from the atrophy of sensuality. Everything is dominated by reason in order to create amazement without proper research. We must mistrust pictorial elements if they are not assimilated by instinct. It is not a matter of simply constructing beautiful ensembles of lines, but above all, dwellings for great people.”
- Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray was an influential Irish architect and designer whose iconic modernist work is among the most valuable and sought after in the world today.
Although Gray was not a trained architect, her contribution to design and architecture is incredibly significant. Her E1027 house, nestled within a rocky coastline in the south of France, was famously coveted by her contemporary Le Corbusier, while her ‘dragon’ armchair - made between 1917 and 1919 - sold at a Paris auction for almost 22 million euros in 2009, setting a record for 20th century decorative art.
Gray was born in 1878, near Enniscorthy, Wexford. Her father was a painter who encouraged her artistic interests and in 1898, she enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, to study painting.
In 1900 she made her first visit to Paris – the city in which she was to spend much of her life. Moving there shortly after the trip, Gray continued her studies at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi for around five years before returning to London and the Slade school in 1905.
It was while back in the English capital that Gray chanced upon a Soho lacquer repair shop where she asked to be trained in the art of lacquer work. In 1906 she returned to Paris and began working with a contact of the Soho shop owner, a Japanese artist called Seizo Sugawara, whom she worked with for four years, despite developing lacquer disease on her hands.
It was this training however, that paved the way for her future career. In 1913, at the age of 35, Gray first exhibited her lacquer work and recently a black lacquered screen, made by the designer between 1923 and 1925, sold for 1.3 million euro at auction.
Her first major foray into furniture and interior design came at the end of the first World War, when Gray was tasked with decorating the apartment of a successful female milliner in the rue de Lota. It was during this period that she designed her famous ‘Bibendum’ chair, as well as carpets with modern geometric patterns and lamps, including the ‘tube’ style lamp for which she is also known.
Several art critics at the time hailed the work as innovative and in light of this positive response, Gray opened what was to prove a hugely successful shop in Paris - Jean Desert - to exhibit and sell her work and that of her artist friends.
In 1924, with her then partner, the Romanian architectural critic Jean Badovici, Gray’s interests turned to house design. That year she began work on ‘E-1027’ (the name of the building being a code for the couple’s initials - E for Eileen, 10 for J, the tenth letter of the alphabet, 2 for B and 7 for G).
The sharp clean lines, flat roof and ribbon windows that featured throughout the Cote d’Azur house helped make it an icon of modernist architecture. As well as collaborating with Badovici on the structural elements of the house, Gray also designed the interior and furniture – creating another design classic in the circular glass and steel E-1027 table.
Her friend and professional contemporary, Le Corbusier was said to be greatly impressed by the house and built his own summer home nearby. However, in what is believed by some critics to have been an act of jealous vandalism, he covered large areas of the white painted walls with somewhat gaudy and explicit murals, much to Gray’s distaste (they were apparently created at Badovici's behest in her absence.) It is perhaps ironic that Le Corbusier died in 1965, while swimming in the sea directly in front of E-1027, a building thought to have stirred such professional envy in him.
The house itself has been tarred by misfortune over the years – it was looted in the evacuation of the French coast during World War II, and in 1996 the then owner was murdered in the building. For years E-1027 fell into a bad state of disrepair, but it is currently being restored as part of plans by the French government, who designated it a French National Cultural Monument. The national agency, Conservatoire du Littoral, bought the villa in 1999 to secure it provisionally and it is hoped the house will be ready and open to the public again by 2015.
After the war, Gray returned to Paris and led a reclusive life, almost forgotten by the design industry. Then, in 1968, she agreed to the further production of her Bibendum chair, E-1027 table and other works with renowned London based retailer Zeev Aram – leading to the pieces becoming the modern classics they are today.
In 1973, she was recognised by her home country in the Bank of Ireland exhibition: Eileen Gray, Pioneer of Design. The event was organised by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) which later presented her with a honourary fellowship.
Eileen Gray died in her Paris apartment in 1976. In the following four decades her legacy lives on - her style still heavily influences modern design and the value and collectability of her work continues to grow.
History E1027, designed BY ARCHITECT EILEEN GRAY
1924: Villa is designed by Eileen Gray (with Jean Badovici)
1927: Building is completed
1932: Eileen Gray leaves the house
1937-39: Le Corbusier marks the walls with murals; Gray is displeased at his intervention
1951: Le Corbusier builds Le Cabanon next door
1960: A patron of Le Corbusier, Madame Marie-Louise Schelbert, buys E1027 at his behest
1956: Jean Badovici dies
1965: Le Corbusier has a heart attack and dies whilst swimming in the sea below
1976: Eileen Gray dies
1982: Madame Schelbert dies and a Swiss doctor (Dr. Kaegi) buys E1027
1996: Dr Kaegi is murdered in the villa by his gardeners
1999: Municipality of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin and the French Government buy E1027
2008: Restoration begins on now dilapidated villa
2013: The restoration had cost €600,000
2015: It is hoped that the house will be open to the public
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Showbus 2018, Donnington
30th September 2018
I posted a macro of some of these tacks the other day that was quite frankly lousy. I had another go this evening and think that this one is much better, although could probably be better.
Sharp-lobed Hepatica (Anemone acutiloba). First Day of Spring, Vale Wildlife Management Area, Sibley County, Minnesota. March 20, 2016.
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