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From my Kayak series: www.flickr.com/photos/louiselindsay/sets/72157625999689606/
One of my favorite places at sunset and twilight. A sepia version below, but here I think the twilight colors add something.
All critiques very welcome
Adding a poem to accompany this image
Mind Wanting More
Only a beige slat of sun
above the horizon, like a shade pulled
not quite down. Otherwise,
clouds. Sea rippled here and
there. Birds reluctant to fly.
The mind wants a shaft of sun to
stir the grey porridge of clouds,
an osprey to stitch sea to sky
with its barred wings, some dramatic
music: a symphony, perhaps
a Chinese gong.
But the mind always
wants more than it has --
one more bright day of sun,
one more clear night in bed
with the moon; one more hour
to get the words right; one
more chance for the heart in hiding
to emerge from its thicket
in dried grasses -- as if this quiet day
with its tentative light weren't enough,
as if joy weren't strewn all around.
~ Holly Hughes ~
(American Zen A Gathering of Poets)
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Had a bad day today. My Canon 100-400 jammed and has been sent off to Canon. It will be gone 6-8 weeks for repairs. It's my most used lens and I will miss it.
I took this shot in the fall at Algonquin. It's one of those shots I debated posting. You can tell me what you think - I hope you like it!
I can't help but sit and stare and wonder how this shot came together so well front to back. Kudos fate, kudos.
Duluth, MN
MD: 許寶
Photographer: Edwin Setiawan
Place: NTU
Date: 2011/09/10
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Our hike was later in the day, and we were losing light quickly. I just love how the rays were hitting the dried grasses.
Single image taken from Philadelphia, TN on 21 Aug 2017.
We had the clearest sky on the Mid-to-eastern USA at 8% cloud cover.
Taken with 8inch Celestron (Cassegrain) telescope and Canon 650D (T3i).
St Peter, Walpole St Peter, Norfolk
A wonderful church. East Anglia's best large church, and one of the best large churches in England. But St Peter is not just special for its size. It is indeed magnificent, but also infinitely subtle, the fruit of circumstance and the ebb and flow of centuries. There is a sense of community and continuity as well; this is no mere museum, and it is not simply St Peter's historic survivals that attract its champions. This is a building to visit again and again, to delight in, and always see something new.
How did it get to be so big? Today, the Norfolk marshland villages tend to be rather mundane, apart from their churches of course. In this curiously remote area between Lynn and Boston, there is an agro-industrial shabbiness accentuated by the flat of the land. This part of the county has a character more commonly associated with Cambridgeshire. But you need to imagine the enormous wealth of this area in the late medieval period. The silt washed by the great rivers out of the Fens was superb for growing crops. East Anglia, with the densest population in England, provided a ready market, and the proximity of the great ports gave easy access for exports. And then there was the Midlands - Walpole is as close to Leicester as it is to Norwich.
The landowners and merchants became seriously wealthy, and according to custom bequeathed enhancements to their parish churches to encourage their fellow parishioners to pray for their souls after they were dead. This was nothing to do with the size of the local population; in England's Catholic days, these buildings were not intended merely for congregational worship. The fixtures and fittings of the parish churches reflected the volume of devotion, not just the volume of people. In areas where there was serious wealth, the entire church might be rebuilt.
But here at Walpole St Peter there was another imperative for rebuilding the church. In the terrible floods of the 1330s, the church here was destroyed, apart from its tower. Before it could be rebuilt in the fashionable Decorated style, the Black Death came along and took away fully half of the local population. However, the economic effects of the pestilence would turn out to be rather good for East Anglia in the long term, and by the early-15th century churches were being rebuilt on a grand scale all over Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. Walpole has two late medieval churches - St Andrew on the other side of the village is very fine, but St Peter is the one that puts it in the shade.
The nave came first, the chancel following a few decades after. Eventually, the tower would also have been rebuilt, in a similar scale to the rest of the church. How amazing it might have been! We only need to look a few miles over the border to Boston to see what could have been possible. But the English Reformation of the 16th century brought an end to the need for bequests, and so the late 13th century tower remains in place to this day.
The vast church sits hemmed in to the north and east by its wide churchyard. The battlemented nave and chancel are a magnificent sight, most commonly first seen from the village street to the north. Rendering accentuates the reddishness of the stone, and the finest moment is probably the conjunction between nave and chancel; spired roodstair turrets rise to the gable, and at the apex is a glorious sanctus bell turret. The stairway on the north side is supported by a small figure who has been variously interpreted as the Greek god Atlas, the Fenland giant Hickathrift, or as anyone else I suppose.
The chancel is beautiful, but its most striking feature is the tunnel that goes beneath its eastern end. One of the features of the late medieval English Catholic church was liturgical processions, but when this chancel was extended in the 15th century it took the building right up to the boundary of consecrated ground. To enable processions still to circumnavigate this building, the tunnel was placed beneath the high altar. Such passageways are more common under towers, and there are several examples of this in Norfolk, but that option was obviously not possible here.
There are lots of interesting bosses in the vaulting, some of which you can see at the very bottom of this page. It isn't just the past that has left its mark here. The floor of the tunnel is flagged, and there are horse-rings in the wall from the 18th and 19th century when it served the more mundane purpose of stabling during services.
Views of the south side of the church are hindered by a vast and beautiful copper beech, but there is no hiding the vastness of the south porch, one of the biggest and finest in Norfolk. The parvise window is as big as nave windows elsewhere; the keys of St Peter decorate the footstool of one of the niches.
And here are some of the finest medieval bosses in Norfolk. The two main ones are the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, and the Last Judgement. There are characterful animals in the other bosses. Figures in niches include a Pieta, a Madonna and child, and a pilgrim with a staff, pack, and shell on his hat.So much to see, then, even before you come to push open the original medieval door! And then you do, and the birdsong and leaf-thresh of the summer morning outside falls away, and you enter the cool of a serious stone space. The first impression is of height, because the vista to the east is cut off by an elegant 17th century screen, as at Terrington St Clement. The unifying of nave and tower, almost a century apart, is accomplished by sprung buttresses high up on the west wall, each carved with a figure. Here are the Elizabethan communion table, a hudd ( the sentry box-like device intended to keep 18th century Rectors dry at the graveside) and the perpendicular light through the west windows.
And then you step through the pedimented entrance through the screen into the body of the church, and the building begins to unfold before you. Your journey through it begins.
Some huge churches impose themselves on you. St Peter doesn't. It isn't Salle or Long Melford. But neither is it jaunty and immediately accessible like Terrington St Clement or Southwold, nor full of light and air like Blythburgh. St Peter is a complex space, the sum of its parts, like Cley, and yet more than them, with a sense of being an act of worship in itself. Simon Jenkins, in the often-maligned England's Thousand Best Churches, tends to cast a cold and even sardonic eye on most buildings as he passes by, but at Walpole St Peter even his breath was taken away: it is a place not of curiosity but of subtle proportion, of the play of light on stone and wood. If English churches were Dutch Old Masters, this would be St Pieter de Hooch.
Gadwall drakes are not the most colorful of waterfowl, but their subtle colors have a beauty of their own.
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"it's easy to see that it's hard to ignore
your subtle hints i'm catching wind
how insincere are your finger prints?
so make me promises, girl, the kind i know you can't keep
and while i'm losing my mind, i hope you're home finding sleep.
but you and i both know that that's not the case
because the look on your face gives all your secrets away"
-hit the lights
this is still from my black and white film collection
this is my friend brian- we took this before camp officially started for the day.
the hand print was supposed to be placed a little differently but he was too worried about getting red paint in his blonde hair! but i was still pleased with how this came out considering our time constraint and lack of cooperation from the subject, lmao!
It still bothers me every time I look at these two cars, even after numerous attempts to modify them yet something is fairly off. On the F40, the only downside was those stock wheel covers, which could be easily solved by 3D printed replacement. Nonetheless, resin deep dish wheels are not enough for the Countach, the front and bonnet section were not shaped correctly. Therefore, I have to do it justice by redesigning, adding more curves and slanted nose. As a result, the slopes above front fenders need to be placed one plate higher, which in fact is more proportional according to real car.
Magoo's Eye still has bad days. :( I wonder if it will always be weepie and a bit crusty in the morning. I found a vet that does house calls!!! So Monday Magoo is going to get a re-check as well as having his Urine tested and micro chipped . Tre will get a general check up since he is up to date on everything ... as well as Micro chip. ( and i am sure another scolding from the vet on Tre's weight issue. :S )
Magoo has now come downstairs a few times during the day and night braving the scary t.v. It usually takes him 3 tries to get past the T.V. But he does it. :) I find a few play times a day is pretty effective in mellowing him out and keeping his anxiety lower. I have noticed the days that i can't be here to do it often he is more skittish. There is a playful loving guy in there that shows up and is waiting to bloom!!!!
Edit done in Picmonkey!!! Pretty funky to use the Monkey. ;) www.picmonkey.com/