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This was taken at the intersection of Thompson & Houston.
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
You know that feeling when you've created a spreadsheet, then spent hours entering data from a paper copy? Then, after a few hours, you think "that's not right". So you investigate, and find out that you haven't been given all the sheets? So now, you need to go through every month, checking if there is missing data?
And you lose the will to live?
That.
I needed a break from the computer. I had a cream cake for afternoon tea break, but needed to wash up first.
I've got another task now, so tomorrow will be yet more data entry. Oh, and there is no elegant way to eat a chocolate eclair!
Olympus OM-2n / Zuiko OM 24mm 1:2.8 / Kodak TriX 400
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Teusaquillo, Bogotá (COL)
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A Day Trip to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway for the first day of their 2021 Autumn Steam Gala,
As Usual, the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
Here, Visiting from the Great Central Railway (GCR) is 48305 at Grosmont Station, a Stanier designed and Crewe Works built for the LMS Class 8F 2-8-0 Steam Locomotive.
For More Info about Loco No. 48305 ....
www.gcrailway.co.uk/the-railway/locomotives/48305-2/
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You know that feeling when you've created a spreadsheet, then spent hours entering data from a paper copy? Then, after a few hours, you think "that's not right". So you investigate, and find out that you haven't been given all the sheets? So now, you need to go through every month, checking if there is missing data?
And you lose the will to live?
That.
I needed a break from the computer. I had a cream cake for afternoon tea break, but needed to wash up first.
I've got another task now, so tomorrow will be yet more data entry. Oh, and there is no elegant way to eat a chocolate eclair!
"Say your prayers little one / Don't forget my son / To include everyone" (Metallica - Enter Sandman)
(1950) Voigtländer Vito III (lens: Ultron 50mm f/2) - waist-level
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f1 diecast model with dolls house grass for the background and a picture of tarmac stretched onto an excel spreadsheet with the red and white curb stripes just red spreadsheet cells. did a shot like this before I owned a flash. did this as I wanted to see the comparison
But how much money do musicians really get paid in this new digital marketplace?
Data & sources
spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aqe2P9sYhZ2ndE9iZHhWc0pM...
idea
thecynicalmusician.com/2010/01/the-paradise-that-should-h...
Vertical voids carved into sandstone, narrow as if air itself has to queue. Stripped of detail, the wall is a spreadsheet made of stone: rows, columns, nothing human left in it. Photographing it straight-on pushes the point; it is architecture that refuses to listen.
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A Day Trip to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway for the Saturday of a 3 day Steam Gala,
As Usual, the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
There were 2 Visiting Engines and some of 5 of the Home Fleet Locomotives scheduled to run on an intensive timetable.
Here, on my first Steam Heritage Railway Visit of 2022, no. 46100 "Royal Scot", which was built for the LMS at Derby Works, is running round the train at Keighley Station.
For More Info about Loco 46100 "Royal Scot" ...
preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/46100-royal-scot-lms...
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A Photo from last Day of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
After an overnight in Doncaster, I went to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) for a trip up the 1 in 49 from Grosmont to Goathland.
Here, at Grosmont Station, 5428 - "Eric Treacy" a Stanier designed and Armstrong Whitworth in Newcastle built for the LMS Loco is arriving from Whitby and about to go up the 1 in 49 incline to Goathland Station.
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This week-end involved 2 Heritage Railways with the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
Here, after arriving at Holt Station on the front of the Class 9F Double-Header, I got a photo of Riddles designed and North British, Glasgow built Loco WD 90775 "The Royal Norfolk Regiment" joining 8572 to form another Double Header.
There were 6 Locomotives in Steam for the Gala Event Sunday.
For More Info about WD 90775 "The Royal Norfolk Regiment", see ...
www.nnrailway.co.uk/portfolio-items/wd-90775-the-royal-no...
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An afternoon Trip to the Tanfield Railway for an Tea Train journey which started at East Tanfield and going along the whole line via Causey Arch, Andrews House and to Sunniside Stations and Return to East Tanfield.
As Usual, the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
"Horden" is an 0-6-0ST built in 1904 by Andrew Barclay as Works No 1015 for the colliery work and later taken over by the NCB and it worked at Horden Colliery. and some other Durham Coast collieries.
For More Info about "Horden"...>>>
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Después de varios meses sin participar en ningún reto de la familia fotera (www.facebook.com/groups/retosfamiliafotera/) he decidido retomarlos justo con este reto y es desde que tengo el 50mm es imposible decir que no a un bokeh.... asà que aquà os enseño mi nuevo llavero.... ¡me encanta! hasta tiene flash y todo!
Si queréis ver las fotos del resto de participantes, pasaros por aquÃ, os gustarán: docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuUb_ql9WMzHdHRiQnlk...
Spreadsheets to write, then data to input. But first, important stuff. Nails to paint and coffee to drink!
in the walled garden at Rowallane on Saturday
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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A Photo from Day 3 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
The Swanage Railway runs trains from Norden via Corfe Castle, another station and a halt to Swanage Station or the other way round so there is some very pleasant scenery to look at and photograph when travelling along the line.
There is ample car parking at the Norden end of the line so I started there.
The day I went during the sort of main summer holidays, there were 2 trains running both hauled by Steam Locomotives.
Here, 31806, a Maunsell designed SR U Class 2-6-0 loco has just run round the train to get ready to go back to Norden.
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To the ancient Egyptians, a lotus bud or sesen was a symbol of rebirth. It closes in the evening and falls to the water, but in the morning it opens and is lifted above the surface. Its behaviour emulates that of the sun. Because of this rising and setting, it is also a symbol of death and rebirth. According to one creation myth, a giant lotus emerged from the watery chaos at the beginning of time. Out of its centre, the sun itself rose on the first morning. However, this plant is not likely a true lotus but rather a waterlily.
Lotus Car
Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at Hethel, Norfolk, England. The company designs and builds race and production automobiles of light weight and high handling characteristics.
Lotus Software
Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) is an American software company with its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lotus is most famous for its groundbreaking Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application, which was the first killer app in the early days of the IBM PC and which helped spread the adoption of the PC. Thanks to Ray Ozzie's Iris Associates, it also developed one of the more powerful groupware systems, Lotus Notes. IBM purchased the company in 1995 for $3.5 billion, primarily to acquire Notes and to establish a presence in the increasingly important client-server computing segment, which was rapidly making host-based products like IBM's OfficeVision.
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A Photo from Day 6 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record but unfortunately I didn't get any journeys on this day.
The Severn Valley Railway (SVR) runs trains along a 16 mile Heritage line from Kidderminster station to Bridgenorth station .Highly is one of the stations along the line and there is The Engine House Museum there.
The day I went during the sort of main summer holidays, there were 4 steam Locomotive running on various Steam Excursions where due to Covid19, Compartments were being sold to families and there were some tables for groups of 2 or 4 people but nothing really suitable for the solo traveler.
Here, in The Engine House museum very near Highley Station I took this photo of 46443, an Ivatt designed and Crewe Works built for the LMS, Class 2MT - 2-6-0 loco.
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According to both batterymillx’s in-progress Target Store List and this CNN article, the Poplar/240 Target opened in March 2009, which makes it the newest Target store of any of the Memphis-area locations. (Olive Branch is the next newest, having opened in July 2008.) My photos of the store come from a visit on January 4, 2018. This stour was unplanned, and thus isn’t too terribly substantive; if I’m remembering things correctly, we were simply killing some time here, after arriving at the shopping center so I could take some pics of the vacant Staples store nearby. But sometimes the best stours are unplanned, so I hope you’ll enjoy this one!
Target // 5959 Poplar Ave, Memphis, TN 38119
(c) 2019 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Cosmos white garden cultivar. Botanic Park Belfast
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
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Some music if you like:
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A Day Trip to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway for the first day of their Steam Gala,
As Usual, the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
Here, at Platform 3 of Grosmont Station having just arrived from Whitby is 825, a Urie and Maunsell designed Class S15 4-6-0 locomotive built for Southern Region at Eastleigh.
For more info about 825 ...
www.nymr.co.uk/southern-railway-825?
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I have been sickly nowadays and also very busy making arrangement for my mother's assistant living home. Yesterday, she finally moved to the assistant living home about 200 miles from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plant. I still need to do some legal works for my mother. I hope I will be able to reunite with my family in the U.S.A. soon.
The situation of nuclear disaster here is getting worse.
On April 19th, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) notified the Board of Education and related institutions in Fukushima Prefecture to raise annual radiation exposure limit from 1mSv to 20 mSv.
20 mSv per year is comparable to the legally recognized dose for inducing leukemia in nuclear power plant workers. It is also comparable to the maximum dose allowed for nuclear power plant workers in Germany.
If the government allows 20 mSv per year for the children. Most likely many of them will get thyroid cancer in the future like the children in Chernobyl.
Dr. Ira Helfland: There really is no safe level of radiation Children are much more vulnerable than adults
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This is a sign for Vicki's BBQ, a barbecue place on Warren Avenue in Detroit that is famous enough to have been featured on an episode of Anthony Bourdain's TV series. It has determinedly remained in the same location even as the neighborhood faded away around it.
I did not eat at Vicki's, but am using this shot to illustrate a "public service project" of mine. For some years now, I have been working on a spreadsheet that incorporates the American barbecue places that cook with wood and that have been listed as among the "best" by reputable critics.
The "reputable critics" include the fabulous Real Barbecue books, whose 1988 and 2007 editions are among my favorite books of all time; the invaluable quadrennial Texas Monthly lists of the best barbecue places in Texas; Johnny Fugitt's "The Best 100 Barbecue Restaurants in America," based on Fugitt's year spent eating barbecue across America in more than 300 restaurants; Food and Wine Magazine's periodic listings of the best BBQ places in each state; various national "Best Of" ratings by the Food Network; Thrillist.com's ratings of the 33 best BBQ places in the US and of the best BBQ places in each state; Wes Berry's "KY BBQ: The Kentucky Barbecue Book" (2015), whose author has a marvelous ear for dialogue and which is well worth reading straight through even if you never eat in a single one of the restaurants Berry rates; ratings by the regional magazines Southern Living and Garden and Gun; ratings by dedicated and knowledgeable BBQ bloggers like the estimable John Tanner and the BBQ Jew (whose blog has now sadly gone dark); and me (point of personal privilege).
The spreadsheet is probably too detailed to be of much interest except to the most fanatical BBQ gourmand (but is available upon request). However, I have prepared a Google Map that is publicly available at the link below of every currently operating restaurant that (a) has appeared two or more times on any of these "best" lists or (b) has received the highest rating from Texas Monthly, Real Barbecue, or me.
Here is a link to the map:
The map currently has more than 250 BBQ places on it, but there are some places that get praised far more often than the others. Based on the spreadsheet, I would say the following are probably the 93 US BBQ places that are the most famous and most highly regard by critics (listed by state) (* = I have eaten their barbecue).
This is not a list of my personal favorite places, but of those most often highly rated by critics.
This list will be updated periodically (and capped at a maximum of 100 places).
- Big Bob Gibson's - Decatur, Alabama*
- Saws BBQ - Homewood, Alabama
- Archibald's Bar B.Q. - Northport, Alabama
- Dreamland - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- Little Miss BBQ - Phoenix, Arizona
- Craig's Bar-B-Q - Devalls Bluff, Arkansas
- McLard's - Hot Springs, Arkansas*
- Jones Bar-B-Que Diner - Marianna, Arkansas
- Bludso's Bar & Que - Fairfax, California
- Memphis Minnie's Barbecue Joint & Smokehouse - San Francisco, California
- 4 Rivers Smokehouse - Winter Park, Florida
- Fat Matt's Rib Shack - Atlanta, Georgia*
- Fox Brothers Bar-B-Q - Atlanta, Georgia*
- Heirloom Market BBQ - Atlanta, Georgia*
- Fresh Aire - Jackson, Georgia*
- Southern Soul Barbeque - St. Simons Island, Georgia
- Beast Craft Barbecue - Belleville, Illinois
- Lem's - Chicago, Illinois
- Smoque - Chicago, Illinois
- 17th Street Bar & Grill - Murphysboro, Illinois
- Joe's Kansas City - Kansas City, Kansas*
- Jones Bar-B-Q - Kansas City, Kansas
- Moonlite BBQ Inn - Owensboro, Kentucky*
- Old Hickory Pit - Owensboro, Kentucky*
- Starnes Barbecue - Paducah, Kentucky
- The Joint - New Orleans, Louisiana
- Arthur Bryant's - Kansas City, Missouri*
- LC's - Kansas City, Missouri
- Bogart's Smokehouse - St. Louis, Missouri*
- Pappy's Smokehouse - St. Louis, Missouri*
- Abe's Bar-B-Q Drive-In - Clarksdale, Mississippi*
- The Shed Barbecue & Blues Joint - Ocean Springs, Mississippi*
- Leatha's - Petal, Mississippi*
- Fette Sau - Brooklyn, New York
- Home Town Bar-B-Que, Brooklyn, New York
- Dinosaur Bar-B-Que - Syracuse, New York*
- Buxton Hall - Asheville, North Carolina
- Bum's - Ayden, North Carolina
- Skylight Inn - Ayden, North Carolina
- Grady's - Dudley, North Carolina
- Wilber's - Goldsboro, North Carolina*
- Stamey's - Greensboro, North Carolina
- B's Barbecue - Greenville, North Carolina
- The Barbecue Center - Lexington, North Carolina*
- Lexington BBQ #1 - Lexington, North Carolina*
- The Pit - Raleigh, North Carolina*
- Red Bridges Barbecue Lodge - Shelby, North Carolina*
- Sam Jones Barbecue - Winterville, North Carolina
- Midway BBQ - Buffalo, South Carolina
- Home Team BBQ - Charleston, South Carolina
- Lewis Barbecue - Charleston, South Carolina
- Rodney Scott's - Charleston, South Carolina
- Scott's BBQ - Hemingway, South Carolina
- Sweatman's - Holly Hill, South Carolina
- Brown's Bar-B-Q - Kingstree, South Carolina
- McCabe's - Manning, South Carolina
- Hite's Bar-B-Que - West Columbia, South Carolina
- Maurice's Piggy Park - West Columbia, South Carolina
- The Ridgewood - Bluff City, Tennessee*
- Helen's - Brownsville, Tennessee*
- B.E. Scott's - Lexington, Tennessee*
- Bozo's Hot Pit Bar-B-Q - Mason, Tennessee
- A&R Bar-B-Que - Memphis, Tennessee
- Central BBQ - Memphis, Tennessee*
- Charlie Vergos Rendezvous - Memphis, Tennessee*
- Cozy Corner - Memphis, Tennessee
- Payne's - Memphis, Tennessee*
- Peg Leg Porker - Nashville, Tennessee*
- Martin's - Nolensville, Tennessee
- Franklin BBQ - Austin, Texas
- La Barbecue - Austin, Texas
- Valentina's Tex-Mex BBQ - Austin, Texas
- TRUTH Barbecue - Brenham, Texas
- Vera's Backyard Bar-B-Que - Brownsville, Texas
- Cattleack Barbecue - Dallas, Texas
- Lockhart Smokehouse - Dallas, Texas
- Pecan Lodge - Dallas, Texas
- Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse - Dallas, Texas
- The Salt Lick - Driftwood, Texas
- Southside Market - Elgin, Texas
- Gatlin's BBQ - Houston, Texas
- Snow's BBQ - Lexington, Texas
- Cooper's Old-Time Pit Bar-B-Que - Llano, Texas
- Black's Barbecue - Lockhart, Texas*
- Kreuz Market - Lockhart, Texas*
- Smitty's Market - Lockhart, Texas
- City Market - Luling, Texas*
- Killen's Barbecue - Pearland, Texasa
- CorkScrew BBQ - Spring, Texas
- Louis Mueller Barbecue - Taylor, Texas
- Tejas Chocolate + Barbecue - Tomball, Texas
- Stanley's Famous Pit Barbecue - Tyler, Texas
- The Barbeque Exchange - Gordonsville, Virginia*
- ZZQ - Richmond, Virginia*
The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends that all radiation exposure be kept as low as achievable, and for the public, on top of background radiation and any medical procedures, should not exceed 1 mSv per year.
For nuclear industry workers, they recommend a maximum permissible annual dose of 20 mSv averaged over five years, with no more than 50 mSv in any one year.
However, on April 19th, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) notified the Board of Education and related institutions in Fukushima Prefecture to raise annual radiation exposure limit from 1mSv to 20 mSv. This is way to high for the children.
20 mSv per year is comparable to the legally recognized dose for inducing leukemia in nuclear power plant workers. It is also comparable to the maximum dose allowed for nuclear power plant workers in Germany.
If the government allows 20 mSv per year for the children, we will see many children suffer from thyroid cancer in five years like what happened on the children in Chernobyl.
Please click the link below and sign the petition for the children in Japan by Sat. April 30, 2011 at 23:00 in Japanese time (UTC/GMT +9 hours)
This petition is only for protecting the children from unacceptable level of 20 mSv
spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&userstoinvite=...
This petition is being organized by: Green Action, Greenpeace Japan, Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, Citizens Against Fukushima Aging Nuclear Power Plants (Fukuro-no-Kai), Osaka Citizens Against the Mihama, Oi, and Takahama Nuclear Power Plants (Mihama-no-Kai), Friends of the Earth Japan
Thank you for your support and friendship.
for Beautiful Big Bee Butt Thursday,
-HBBBT all!
Prunus incisa (Fuji cherry) growing in the walled garden at Rowallane.
for my Honey bees on named flowers set set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Nikon F4s / Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8 AF-D / Kodak TriX 400 @ ISO 3200
Epson Perfection 4490
Self-developed with Kodak HC-110 (dilution H)
Development details on FilmDev
Semi-stand: 45 mins at 20 Celsius - agitating normally for the first 30 seconds, then inverting the tank 3 times every 5 minutes thereafter (a huge thanks to drasticgroove for his contribution, helping me getting the proper developing times on this one. One of the reasons I still hugely prefer Flickr to Instagram & al)
'Dilutions spreadsheet' provided by Ralph Lundvall
© 2016 Prezioso PH
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Hey you! You didn't know that you can now follow my street work at my secondary Tumblr blog www.tumblr.com/blog/smilefromthestreetsyoushoot, did ya? Amazing, isn't it. Enjoy it then, why not? Of course you will. I know, you know it.
Spreadsheets to write, then data to input. But first, important stuff. Nails to paint and coffee to drink!
The 2th annual kawaii Fair
Date: 12 - 26 April
Price: L$ 2500 Lindens, 100 prims.
Rules: docs.google.com/document/d/1hyg06WpCWqW0sKDXp15zmkS5qLDL4...
Designers Application: docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFV6Ynd2WWxE...
Bloggers Application:
docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG1TdnhHekJF...
More information:
Instead of dividing into eighths, I used a spreadsheet to pick four numbers between 0 and 90. They fortunately fell within foldable parameters.
Such a useful bee plant for spring build-up in my area.
This mild January weather means the bees are flying loads right now. not sure it is good for them!
for my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
© 2021 George McVitie. All rights reserved.
A Photo from the last Day of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
After an overnight in Doncaster, I went to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) for a trip up the 1 in 49 from Grosmont to Goathland.
Here, after the journey back down From Goathland to Grosmont Station, this is a Cab Photo of 65894, a J27 Locomotive which is maintained along with 3 others by The North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG) has an 0-6-0 wheel arrangement was Designed by Worsdell/Raven and built at Darlington Works as Class P3 when NER owned it from new in 1923 until LNER and later BR took over.
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This week-end involved 2 Heritage Railways with the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
Here, Eventually I got a train powered by 564 from Weybourne to Holt Station and then back to Weybourne where I took this Picture.
There were 6 Locomotives in Steam for the Gala Event Sunday.
Locomotive 564 is a Worsdell designed and Stratford works built for the GER as Class Y14 - 0-6-0 which was later for the LNER numbered 7564 as a Class J15.
For more info about Loco 564 ...
www.nnrailway.co.uk/portfolio-items/ger-y14-564/
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At Rowallane, in the walled garden.
a small white pollen load visible
for my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Does the BBC give good value for money? What does it spend on Mad Men and other shows? How does its budget compare to other broadcasters?
Original Guardian post here
www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/mar/01/information-...
Data here
spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqlCrVujNb9xdGYwWF9hVi00...
More visuals here
And its from here, about a month on from their introduction, that I started to get up to speed with the E400MMCs back in the pre-Pro 2019 upload days. 11198 was, annoyingly, really evasive when I first built up my bus spotting spreadsheet over the spring lockdown of 2020, but it turns out that I didn't have that much trouble through just hanging around in Queen's Gardens in July 2019! Looking back in retrospect, no wonder this is a favourite spot of mine. Right, that's the double-decks done, onto the single-decks!
The final upload from this part of the new bus assuage of 2019, Stagecoach in Hull's 11198, a 2019 ADL Enviro400 MMC, passes by Queen's Gardens on a 12 to Bransholme Centre.
also known as Sweet box or Christmas box.
The start of a corbicula pollen load is visible and is more white than cream.
At Rowallane Gardens today, this is growing next to the entrance of the main house (tearoom) - temperature was 9C and dull. The bees were out and about and working this plant hard. The beautiful scent today from this plant was amazing - and reaching maybe 20 metres from the plant!
I get the impression that this would be an extremely useful honey bee plant to put in a garden. It is now on my list of plants I want to add to my garden in the future.
A new entry for Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
I have a few pots on the patio with chives in them.
I love chives and good to see the bees loving them too!
One for my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go (eventually!) on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
© 2021 George McVitie. All rights reserved.
A Photo from Day 7 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
A horrible wet day on the East Lancs Railway (ELR) where I went on a trip from Heywood to Rawtenstall and back.
Normally I would get out to see and photograph the run round at the far end of the line but it was so wet I just stayed in the carriage.
Here, at Heywood Station, 60009 "Union of South Africa" or Number 9, as it is often known as, is ready for the next journey to Rawtenstall.
60009 is a Nigel Gresley designed and Doncaster Works built for the LNER A4 Pacific Streak Locomotive 4-6-2 for work on the East Coast Main Line (ECML).
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In a previous EB thread, I proposed a collaborative Nostalgia Train Layout for this Summer's Brickworld Chicago: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/146028-b...
There is a new EB thread is to determine participation so this is your chance to sign up: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/forum/122-lego... We hope that this collaboration will attract many participants by recreating the nostalgic look and feel of the older train layouts featured in Lego catalogs and the train idea book. Unfortunately Brickworld won't permit us enough floorspace to do the large "L E G O" layout I first proposed. Therefor we are moving forward with the alternative shown here: a moderately sized "50" nostalgia layout to celebrate 50 Years of Lego Trains! Here is a description:
- The overall size is 16'x13'
- Only official Lego sets will be featured: track, trains, stations and other sets. We have limited space so priority will be given to train specific sets first, then to general town sets as needed. Upgrades and part substitutions are fine as long as the trains still look original (for example replacing 12v traction tires, re-gearing an Emerald Night, etc).
- This is a floor layout. The green and tan areas are created with colored roll paper taped to the floor. Tracks will be laid down over the colored paper.
- Scenery will consist of loose trees, vehicles and figures placed on the paper between the sets (just like in the catalog pictures :-) Open areas will remain so people can step around for access.
- Security will be addressed by having special stanchions up all show days (not just the weekend public days). These stanchions will feature a additional lower horizontal pipe to prevent young ones from entering the layout area. There should be about 30" between the stanchions and the outermost tracks.
The signup sheet is here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TWLe2n5GGTr_nSR4KT4gXIht1...
Please signup by May 15.
For dinali -who always posts the most amazing bathing birds shots!! Taken on my break today...Well I have to quit early tonight...the eyes just don't last after staring at spreadsheets all day...
JUNIPER EVENTS & LeLUTKA are delighted to bring you SKIN FAIR 2024
Thank you to our SPONSORS:
BeSpoke
CATWA
eBody
GENUS
HYPE
IVES BEAUTY
LAQ
LOGO
Event dates: March 8th - March 25th
Every store will showcase new and exclusive Skins, makeups, tattoos, and mesh body parts.
A Complexity limits of 100,000 will be enforced through the first weekend.
You can find a list of participating designers here:
juniperevents.net/skin-fair-2024-designers/
Shopping guide:
juniperevents.net/skin-fair/2024-2/shopping-guide/
Map with Slurls:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jrti8rNYGDHiF8z1dvrZjbIrX...
Spreadsheets to write, then data to input. But first, important stuff. Nails to paint and coffee to drink!
Orange pollen loads visible.
Botanic Park Belfast a couple of weekends ago.
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
I feel like this is the Common House Spider (Parasteatoda tepidariorum), but my spider senses aren't that acute (get it?). Anyway it clearly was on the site on the site the USDA National Honey Bee Lab where they have research buildings not houses. Photo by someone in the lab who did not fill out the photo spreadsheet. ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~
All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML
Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World:
www.amazon.com/Bees-Up-Close-Pollinators-Around-World/dp/...
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
Closer again. Tonight's attempts initially started off as a test for my calculations and recordings spreadsheet that I've spent the last few days trying to write. I learned some excel to do it. Seeing as it seems to give me close estimates of timings, I had a good try to get a certain shape. Not there yet, but a step closer at least.. I just need to get a grip on the controller now.
WE CAN'T BELIEVE WE'RE DONE!! This has been going on for MONTHS AND MONTHS. It's ABOUT TIME! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
SERIOUSLY -- This is the happiest we'd been in a LOOOONG time.
Notice how my sock has become a slipper -- close-up in a separate pic.
Actually, we still had some final touch-up sanding to do... But nothing that required wood stain, polyurethane, ventilation, masks, gloves, dropclothes, painter's tape, and all the hassle. Just some casual final touches with the least rough (400-grit) sandpaper to ensure that the finaly (usually 4th) polyurethane coat was smooth.
BACKSTORY: Anyone who reads our contract (link below) can see that it specified to move the closet and built-in shelves. But Virginia Design Builders's workers -- the workers hired by Daniel M. Lopez -- were unable to properly move the closet without destroying it. And they "accidentally" threw away our shelves. They also broke the trim at the edge of the closet.
And then guess what? The asshole refused to stain ANY of it, despite the fact that the only reason the color now didn't match was due to their inability to properly execute a contract. (It was a 3 month contract and was not finished for over 3 years.) This left us having to stain WAY more wood than we otherwise would have. It was quite literally a difference of several months' work, as we both had jobs (at the time), and spare time at home has been in deficit for awhile.
STAINING IS A PAIN: Just for reference, proper wood staining is a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR pain in the ass. The wood filling, the sanding, the pre-conditioning, staining, the wiping, the dropcloths, the multiple coats of everything, the (4) polyurethane coats [which often required holding a lamp in one hand, to reflect light on it to ensure evenness], and the final sanding. And don't get me started on the timing: Stain 20 minutes after pre-conditioning, but only for 2 hours; stain in 20 minute cycles consisting of 4 sub-cycles: stain area #1, stain area #2, wipe area #1, wipe area #2. Then break, get new gloves, and start over. A 20 minute cycle might equal 2 shelves, or 2 boards from ceiling to floor. Our spreadsheet had over 200 cells. At the end of the day, the only way to get stain off your skin was to apply paint thinner directly to your skin in violation of the instructions, common sense, and one's best interests...
celebrating, doing shots, standing, wood staining.
Cutty Sark, chair, newspaper, shelf, slipper, sock, stool.
dirty. happy.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
July 26, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
LEGAL: To see an official VA DPOR sanction of $500 (+$150) against Dan Lopez and Virginia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... These people were suing him for $400K last time I checked.
To see OUR contract with Dan Lopez / Virginia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... Just in case anybody doesn't believe me.
Over-exploitation. Destructive fishing techniques. Polluting fish farms. If you want to eat ethically, which fish are actually fine for your fork?
Guardian piece:
www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jun/24/information-...
Data:
spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CMb7wa8P...