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Citro-Classica @ Twente Airport
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B+W Cir-Pol
Tonemapped
This is my first cross-stitch! It is for Morgan and is inspired by the first Hugo Award winner "The Demolished Man" by Alfred Bester. The story is set in the 24th century, in a society where telepaths — "Espers" formally, "peepers" colloquially — help guard peace and order.
The protagonist, Ben Reich, is a businessman who must conceal his murderous intentions from the prying capacities of the telepaths. In order to achieve this, Reich visits a songwriter who teaches him a deceptively simple jingle: 'Tenser', said the Tensor; 'tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun' that proves to be an earworm, so persistent and involving, that it blocks most Espers from properly peeping into Reich's mind. I've had the phrase in my head for weeks, ever since I finished the book for the first time.
For the decorative detail I combined the tilda with the Psi Corps logo from Babylon 5 (one of the telepaths is named 'Bester' as a nod to the inspiration of their origins). The tilda is used in propositional logic to represent negation.
I need to stretch and frame the finished work. But, when its done, then hopefully it will continue to protect us from the government's devious mind-rays. :)
Note: this photo was published in a Feb 23, 2010 blog titled "Nice People Sex … Boring." It was also published in an undated (late Nov 2010) blog titled "Long Distance Relationships: How to Know When it's Time to Call it Quits." And it was published in a Dec 10, 2010 Totally Random dot Net blog, with the same title as the caption that I used on this Flickr page.
Moving into 2011, the photo was published in a Mar 18, 2011 blog titled "Traveling Together vs. Traveling to Be Together." And it was published in an undated (early Sep 2011) blog titled "When Your Partner's Behaviour Concerns you."
Moving into 2012, the photo was published in a Jan 10, 2012 blog titled "Is It Time to Close Your Exits? ~ Joe Elliott, MA."
Moving into 2013, the photo was published in a Jan 9, 2013 blog titled "How Common are the Most Common STDs?" It was also published in a Nov 23, 2013 blog titled "Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb."
Moving into 2014, the photo was published in an undated (late Jul) blog titled "When Your Partner's Behaviour Concerns you."
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Because of the constant rattle and roar of the subway, and because of my distance from the downtown platform, I couldn't really tell what was going on with this couple. But the body language told me that she was tense and frustrated, and that he was resigned, bored, or disinterested...
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This is one of 15 photos that I took in the 96th Street IRT subway station on a cold, rainy Saturday afternoon on the day before Easter, in April 2009. Like 99.9% of other New Yorkers, I normally spend as little time as possible in the subways: it's a noisy, crowded, increasingly-expensive subterranean experience that exists for only one reason: to convey people from one place to another within New York City in a reasonably fast, reliable fashion. If you know you're going to spending a significant amount of time on the subway, you might bring a book, a newspaper, or an iPod ... but you don't come down here to relax.
Indeed, I've never spent any more time than necessary down in the subway since I first moved here in 1968 ... not until this afternoon. Today, I spent half an hour (which is obviously not that much time, in the greater scheme of things) sitting on a wooden bench on the uptown side of the IRT station. In front of me was the uptown-express track and the downtown-express track; further in front of me was the platform where people waited for downtown trains, and still further in front was the downtown-local track.
One person, whom you'll see in three different photos in this collection, remained stationary (asleep) the whole time; but aside from that, there was a steady stream of people walking and sitting, waiting and chatting, getting onto a downtown train, or getting off a downtown train. Some were in groups, some were alone; some looked happy, some looked said, but most looked bored.
Since I was two track-widths away, on an entirely different platform and thus not at all relevant to their "space" or their destination, most of the people I photographed paid no attention to me at all. The few who did see me pointing a camera in their general direction seemed mildly curious, but mostly bored...
These photos were all taken with a Nikon D300, without flash. I cranked the ISO up to 1600, which was sufficient to allow shooting at a shutter speed of approximately 1/30 of a second; I also set the White Balance to acknowledge the fluorescent lighting in the subway. As a result, the pictures are not as crisp and sharp as one might like; and I probably could have done a better job of color-correction ... but all in all, they came out reasonably well ...
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Over the years, I've seen various photos of the NYC subway "scene," usually in black-and-white format. But during a recent class on street photography at the NYC International Center of Photography (ICP), I saw lots and lots of terrific subway shots taken by my fellow classmates ... so I was inspired to start taking a few myself.
So far, I'm taking photos in color; I don't feel any need to make the scene look darker and grimier than it already is. To avoid disruption, and to avoid drawing attention to myself, I'm not using flash shots; but because of the relatively low level of lighting, I'm generally using an ISO setting of 800 or 1600.
I may eventually use a small "pocket" digital camera, but the initial photos have been taken with my somewhat large, bulky Nikon D300 DSLR. If I'm photographing people on the other side of the tracks in a subway station, there's no problem holding up the camera, composing the shot, and taking it in full view of everyone. But if I'm taking photos inside a subway car, I normally set the camera lens to a wide angle (18mm) setting, point it in the general direction of the subject(s), and shoot without framing or composing.
So far it seems to be working ... we'll see how it goes...
Traffic is stopped on the Canyon Park Extension as Baynard Police and Florida Highway Patrol Units negotiate with a suicidal man threatening to jump off the overpass.
The roof is caving in, but this abandoned house was once a beauty. The gate is for a new farmhouse down the drive. .... On a rural road near Fisher Mill, in Oregon.
Tourist in the undercroft of the Bethesda Terrace, Central Park, New York.
Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM
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Due to the fact that we were threatened and pushed by fascists who were also threatening to smash our cameras, I couldn't take many pictures of what was happening today, I was too afraid to show my camera.
People turned up to 'protect statues' but I think in reality the objective was something different. There was a threatening atmosphere, bottles thrown, nazi salutes and police being attacked.
Things are tense at the International Old Maid Championships. Hosted at the vernerable Old East Pengers Cricket Pavillion, but only until 8pm when the Womens Institute have booked the room for their Monthly guest speaker evening who is presenting their paper "Is there room for sex and preserves in the 21st century?"
We've opened a brand new deck, and the Queen of Hearts has been removed. She won't like it, and will probably shout "Off with their heads", but Hoyle makes it quite clear in his rules:
"Throw out the Q of hearts from a 52-card pack. Distribute the cards one at a time as far as they will go among the players, until the whole pack is dealt out. The players sort their cards into pairs, and all pairs are thrown on the table face up. our of a kind is two pairs. Each player in turn, beginning with the eldest hand, then offers her remaining cards face down, and spread out like a fan, to the player on her left, who draws one. If it makes a pair, the pair is thrown out, as before.
Whether she gets a pair or not, she presents her hand in turn to the player on her left. This is continued until only one card is left, which must be the odd queen."
The competitors would be playing for chips, but a fire in the frier at Salty Sam's Piscine Palace put paid to that so its Twiglets from the local mini-mart.
We're here, and we know the rules 'cause some bloke from the 1600's wrote 'em all down for us!
"A Little Tense": Exposure/Color Adjusted Digital Capture"Copyright:2015:Joel A. Fairchild...!...ILYJAF...!!!...{]=;
Despite a warning from a British CID of a plot to assassinate Jinnah during this ride, the program proceeded on schedule. Mountbatten joined Jinnah on this ride from Victoria Road till Government House. The ride was most tense when passing through a Hindu neighbourhood which had little to rejoice and where the plotters were supposed to act. On reaching Government House, Jinnah kept his hand on Mountbatten's thigh and remarked, 'Thank God I brought you back alive'. 'I brought you back alive' retorted Mountbatten. Later on it was learnt that one of the conspirators lost his nerve at the crucial time. Did someone say Advani?