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I wish that I could push a button
And talk in the past and not the present tense
And watch this hurtin' feeling disappear
Like it was common sense
Electric Drive
Chantilly Arts & Elegance Richard Mille
Château de Chantilly
Chantilly
France - Frankrijk
June 2019
This is one i had up before , but it's one among the few i deleted in error...I took this photo on a November sundown in 1986. This farm country was once in rural Beaverton and close to my home...Today it no longer exists, and is paved over and covered with houses... I miss those earlier times, when i had this beautiful farmland too photograph.
Graphic for a Collab between Nomad Skateboards and Tensor Trucks, celebrating the first decade of Nomad. This work is inspired in heraldic shields and medieval festivals.
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Gráfico para colaboración entre Nomad Skateboards y Tensor Trucks, celebrando la primera década de Nomad. Este trabajo está inspirado en heráldica y ferias medieval.
(One photo from each month, starting top left. You can read more about these photos and each month of my 2024 below.)
Although I haven’t been able to go to work this year, nor photograph as much as normal, I have tried to make the best of it - and I have made many great memories from the year anyway.
I ended last year by writing that I hoped for even more opportunities for photographing birds of prey from hides - which I did many times during winter and spring.
The photography trip to northern Greece during early spring that I looked forward to, gave me the chance to go back again already for late spring and other and more great experiences in that wonderful area.
I also spent much time on the island where I grew up, both during Easter and summer. I enjoyed the company of my parents, relatives, friends and of course enjoyed the nature, eagles and other birds there and on islands nearby, for a longer time than I use to.
During summer we had a great little road trip in northern, western and eastern Norway, and I focused even more on insect and wildflower photography in addition to landscapes and birds. And the autumn trip to Kenya gave many nice reunions and new experiences as well.
I have also found and seen many new bird species in Norway to me this year - 22, compared to 13 last year, (which I had by the end of May this year).
You can read more about each month of my 2024 below if you’d like to:
1. (Top left) Tough Times
JANUARY: After just staying at home by ourselves in the bad weather on New Year's Eve, it was nice to start the new year with a walk on our beach in the sunshine on New Year's Day. I also got some nice seabird photos in the beautiful waves.
After some cold and windy days, and envying all the snow in southern and eastern Norway that we never got here, we had a period of beautiful and cold weather, and icy shorelines and landscapes. I had longed for January weather like that since the last time 3 years earlier.
The rare red kite we also stayed in our neighbourhood for some more days since December, before it went on to southern Norway. I could even get special photos of it in the trees outside our front door! It was nice to meet and getting to know many birders who came to see it. It also led to an invitation to my first grouse lek during spring.
When the lakes froze, birds gathered by many water holes or feeding grounds, and it was easy to get nice photos of species that normally are more shy, like the water rail on this month’s photo. I went to Jæren and Stavanger several times, both together with Richard and bird photography friends.
We also did that on my 40th birthday, which was a beautiful and cold day, and I got some great photos of squirrels and robins in the frost. We went on an interesting underwater photography and protection lecture that evening as well. It didn’t feel like celebrating my “big day” in other ways than with regular things I love like that. But we also had a dinner at my sister’s place together with her family and our parents the next day.
A little later, we had some mild and grey weather, but then we suddenly and finally got some snow and beautiful weather. We went by boat to the local lighthouse to get some nice and rare seascape photos with snow, and we also got some nice bird photos in the snow by our bird feeders. Where we live, the snow always rains away after some days, but then we got weather for the year’s first bicycle rides with bird photography in the neighbourhood instead.
I also did some singing as usual that month, and ended the month by photographing a tawny owl release together with a wildlife veterinarian (which ended up in the newspaper), and having a presentation of my bird photography history for BirdLife Jæren.
FEBRUARY: Was a really busy and fun month of bird photography! It was hard to find just one photo from this month 😉
We had some days of beautiful snow early in the month. Finally, I got to photograph squirrels in snow for the very first time, on a nice feeding ground on Jæren. There were also lots of short-eared owls (jordugler in Norwegian) around for a long time, hunting by the coast and sand dunes. They stayed close to the trails and it felt unique to see that many that close. I had only seen one from a distance before, many years ago. I photographed them several times, and it was very social as well, since I met many other bird photographers while doing so.
I was lucky to spend 5 days in 3 different hides during this month, together with some other photographers - photographing both golden eagles, a common buzzard, squirrels, ravens, crows and jays in the snow, and golden eagles, white-tailed eagles and ravens without snow. Fun!
In the middle of the month, I bought myself a nice used Sony a1- a great upgrade from my a9II (that I use as a second camera now).
I also did some singing together with both familiar and new acquaintances this month, and went to some birthday parties. It was nice to have these chances to be social, since I was still on sick leave from work since November and sitting at home much (which turned out to last the whole year).
In the end of the month, during the school’s winter break, I went to Greece for the first time – a country I had wanted to visit for a long time. A photography friend and I spent three days of spring sunshine and delicious dining in Thessaloniki. It was lovely to go from very early spring in Norway to warmer spring in Greece. The first migratory birds had already arrived in Norway like the lapwings, but it was nice to meet even more of them in Greece.
After those three days, we met up with three more photographers and our two Norwegian photography guides from the Moskusguiden company. We went to Lake Kerkini National Park one hour further north, close to the Bulgarian border, where we spent four days photographing birds and eating lots of delicious food. Most of the photography time was spent in boats - photographing pelicans in all kinds of light and conditions, both early and late. I also learnt to pan motion pictures, like this month’s photo. We also photographed flamingos, egrets, cormorants and other birds that we met.
MARCH: I was still in Greece the first days of the month, photographing pelicans and other birds. Back home, I went to Jæren again a couple of times to take some more photos of the short-eared owls that still was easy to get good photos of on Jæren, since they hunted during the day, close to the paths by the beaches.
I also spent a lovely day of spring in a different bird photography hide than the three hides I visited in February. I hoped for some first photos of goshawks, but sadly they didn’t show up for the first day that winter/spring. But I got some nice photos of squirrels, great spotted woodpeckers, jays, bullfinches and other birds instead as a little consolation.
Spring continued, but it was a bit cold so I didn’t go as much outdoors at home to look for migratory birds as I would like to. But indoors I had lots of bird photos from winter and Greece to go through.
I had fun attending several Easter concerts with two different choirs, both hanging out with old friends and meeting and getting to know many great people. It is a bit sad that I can’t stand and move as much as I would like to when I sing now due to my back, hips and feet, but fortunately there are high stools so that I can participate anyway. It means a lot to be able to participate, meet people and sing anyway.
March ended with the week of Easter break, and I went to the island I’m from to spend it together with my parents, visit my niece in Bergen who turned three years old, enjoy nature and visit friends and family. I also spent three beautiful spring days there at sea, together with a photography friend to photograph white-tailed eagles (at least 18 individuals), the year’s first oystercatchers, and also several common guillemots and red-throated divers that I didn’t expect. We had so many lovely nature experiences. It was also fun that my choir's conductor and his father-in-law (who have a cabin where I’m from), got to join us for some hours, to meet the white-tailed eagles up close for the first time. They were really excited.
4. (Top right) Beautiful World
MAY: Started with lovely 23 degrees and a little road trip to enjoy the weather and photograph some birds. Back home we saw the year’s first common terns in our neighbourhood, which is always delightful. The next day, I showed bird photos from the winter and spring in our bird club.
I both visited bird watchers early in the month, where I got some nice hawfinch photos in their garden (kjernebiter in Norwegian- I rarely see that species), and I had bird watchers visiting me as well. We photographed all the common terns courting with fish up close in our neighbourhood, several loons by the beach, and on a field close to our house, we even found both my and the municipality’s very first dotterels (boltiter). Several friends came to join trips to ring and photograph tawny owls and owlets as well throughout the month.
After my trip to Greece in February, I got a last-minute offer to join their next five days long photography trip back to the same area in the middle of May. I couldn’t resist, since there were many more and other birds to photograph there now during breeding - like bee-eaters, spoonbills, birds of prey, little bitterns, penduline tits, shrikes, storks, more cormorants and egrets than last time, and many more. And I looked forward to get some more of the delicious Greek food as well. I didn’t regret going at all, it was a great trip!
Back home, I celebrated our national day (and the day before) in the lovely nature in our neighbourhood, with my electrical bike and camera. The weather was really lovely, and I found many nice birds to photograph, an even some rare ones as well- like two Icterine warblers (gulsangere).
Then I traveled to visit some friends for the weekend, and take portrait photos of their confirmand. I also visited my parents and another friend on her 40th birthday for a couple of days on the way home. I found several nice birds to photograph in the lovely weather there as well, and met a curious grasshopper warbler (gresshoppesanger) up close for the first time. I also started photographing more butterflies in my parents’ garden than I have before, and it was a nice break from all the birds. I continued collecting many butterfly- damselfly-, dragonfly- and wildflower species to photograph for the next four months. It had been many years since I used to do that.
Back home, I spent the last week of the month on bird watching and photography in our neighbourhood, and even found another new species for me that’s rare to find here (marsh warbler/ myrsanger). It was my 13th new bird species in Norway for the year- as many as I had on a whole year the year before. (I ended up with 22 new species this year, and now have 235 in total in Norway. I didn’t use time on getting more even though I’ve heard of several discoveries the last months of the year, but I have to save some new ones for 2025 as wellッ)
I also found many ringed gulls of different species in our neighbourhood this month and the next one, which always are interesting to register to see how long time it has been since people last saw them, and what countries they have been to.
I also photographed some more beautiful confirmands in their national costumes and suits out in the nature the last part of the month.
JUNE: Started with photographing a relay race in Stavanger together with my photography club. A fun new experience. But when as had summer weather home in Egersund that day, it was really cold and gray in Stavanger. So when I got back home to the sunshine, I went out to the sea to photograph the great crested grebe (toppdykker in Norwegian) that we had in our neighbourhood for several months, which is not usual. It was the first time it was registered for our municipality in June, so it’s fun to get some nice photos when it’s something special.
The next day, I was invited to photograph a beautiful golden eagle (kongeørn) that was being treated by a wildlife veterinarian. Although it is sad that they are sick, it is awesome to get to see them that close.
After some lovely days in the sunshine both on the terrace and out among the birds, we had the first days of heavy rain in months (which is normal to have often here) and colder weather. But I had many portrait assignments and birds to edit indoors, so that was okay by me.
In the middle of the month, I was invited on a boat trip to see the tern colony by our island for the first time. I didn’t realize that we had that many common terns here- which is great, since they are in decline (too). I got some nice photos of them flying by right over the waves, with fish for their chicks.
Some days later I got many terns and different gulls even closer, when we had lots of them hunting shoals of fish by the beaches in our neighbourhood for days. It was quite a show, and I got so many cool photos of them. They didn’t mind me sitting by the sea, and came to dive for the fish very close. They also argued with each other and some eider ducks with chicks, which gave many cool situations and motives.
I also found many more ringed gulls in our neighbourhood, like the month before. Most of them was old, and hadn’t been seen that much- which is interesting.
I also had time and energy for some bird photography trips to Jæren and Stavanger, and met even more new species- like the beautiful spotted nutcracker (nøttekråke).
I photographed several beautiful confirmands in their national costumes in the last part of this month as well, and I attended a summer party together with the colleagues that I hadn’t seen that much, and had a fun summer concert with my choir.
Then we went on a little road trip and yet another wonderful stay at Tranøy lighthouse in Northern Norway, before going back to western Norway and our favourite spots in Stryn in the sunshine, like on the month’s photo.
I went to visit my parents for 3.5 weeks after the trip. It was lovely to stay there for that long, to get to visit many more of all the people and places I would like to when I am home, and to spend even more time with my cameras in the nature I grew up in. But we had a lot of bad weather, so I really enjoyed the nice days or hours in between.
7. Clover Feast
JULY: I was still on Bømlo island where I am from the first three weeks. In between all the bad weather, I got some bird photos that I didn’t have from before, and I used the days and moments of sunshine the most on finding more butterfly- and wildflower species to photograph, like I started doing in May.
Both of my siblings with families including my nieces and nephew, came to visit me and my parents as well. We had a great weekend together both in the garden, at sea, in the boathouse eating crabs, and celebrating the kids’ birthdays together.
On two of the nicest days, I went to the sea together with my photography friend to photograph the white-tailed eagles again, and other birds that we met- like red-breasted mergansers (silender) with lots of chicks at sea.
I went on some road trips as well together with my parents on some nice days, to neighbouring islands (populated ones)- including one that I actually hadn’t visited before. We went on nice walks, ate delicious food and visited my friends on one of them.
Richard also came for some days, and we spent some time in nature and visited my brother and his family in Bergen, before he brought me and my stuff home from the long, relaxing and nice vacation with my parents.
Back home the last week of the month, we enjoyed the nice weather on some road trips for some nice walks in the nature, butterfly photography together, and even some bird watching and new species on Jæren again. I also found lots of butterflies and other insects to photograph in our neighbourhood. It’s my best way of enjoying nice weather ッ
We also spent some days together with my parents who visited us, and we visited my sister and family in their cabin in southern Norway together.
On the month’s last day Richard and I went on a longer road trip over the mountains to eastern Norway. The weather was lovely and we found many nice and new butterflies to photograph, which both of us was into.
8. Evening Walk
AUGUST: Started with finding the rare apollo butterfly while in Telemark, on a hillside where they are known to be found. But it still was hard to find one and we used a long time to do so. It was even larger, more transparent and special than I thought. (Richard found one the evening before, but it was gone before I came to the spot. Luckily I found one this next day, before we had to drive to our next accommodation.) We visited some more nice places for landscape photography in eastern Norway before going home the next day.
Back home, I heard and met the first migratory wading birds already, stopping by after breeding further north. Some common greenshanks (gluttsniper in Norwegian) stayed on a small beach here for some days. As I was lying still on the beach, they came closer than I’ve ever had them- both to rest and search for food, and I got so many nice photos and videos. I just love when the birds don’t notice me like that, and I have to lie there until everything aches before they walk away by themselves ッ
Some days later, I did the same on our longest beach - where many sanderlings (sandløpere) like the one on this month’s photo and a dunlin (myrsnipe) stayed for some days. I had a lovely evening together with them at the beach, in the stunning light before the sun set.
I also continued photographing butterflies, damselflies and dragonflies on nice days on our island, and I went to Jæren one amazing day where I got three new bird species on my list.
When school started, I tried to stay some hours at work for some days, for the first time in a long time. But sadly my body didn’t handle that in a good way at all, and it was hard to get well enough to get back. So I was still on sick leave that lasted for the rest of the year.
But I finally got medicines that helped me on shorter assignments- like photographing a 2 year old and his family at our beach, a newborn, and some kittens for The Norwegian Society for Protection of Animals (on different days, of course). But I couldn’t do weddings and long assignments at all this year.
I had a fun assignment for my sister-in-law as well. We went by our boat (in heavy rain), to the lighthouse close to where we live, to surprise my sister-in-law´s friends who were on an overnight stay there on her birthday. She wanted me to sing some songs for them on their party, which they seemed to enjoy.
9. (Bottom left) Wonderful Weekends
SEPTEMBER: The weekend when we entered September was a wonderful one. I could sunbathe on the terrace, which is not normal that late in Norway. Actually, I could sunbathe throughout the month (!) Especially all the weekends were really lovely with high summer temperatures after some rain on some of the week days.
I photographed some last butterflies and dragonflies of the year in the sunshine. The beautiful peacock butterflies (dagpåfugløyer) on this month’s photo was two of many, on some butterfly bushes in a friend’s garden. I had photographed them many times on many places since early May, and right outside our house as well. That’s kind of unique, since I had only seen them once before- 9 years ago, without my camera. But maybe I noticed them even more this year, since I was more focused on searching for butterflies to photograph (?) At least I think I’ve got enough photos of them for a lifetime now 😉
At that time, we also went to Stavanger to photograph the release of a recovered tawny owl, for some wildlife veterinarians that even had given her a bunch of new feathers. It’s always lovely to first see them that close, and then to see them go and hope for a good life for them.
The second weekend was even warmer, with an amazing 30 degrees in most of the country (not normal). I went on a fun weekend in Sauda together with my choir, which feels like both like friends and family. It’s always good being together with them.
I got some new bird species this month as well together with a bird photography friend, in Kristiansand and on Jæren. The most special was Norway’s third registered visit of a cattle egret in history. I had seen them in Africa and Greece before, but it was fun that my friend wanted to drive for 3 hours both ways to get it on our Norway list as well ッ And we got really nice photos of it as well, while lying on a pier when it was searching for food right on the other side of a bay for a long time.
And on Jæren we met our first great grey shrike- the rare subspecies called steppe grey shrike (steppevarsler), native to central Asia. It came from the other side of a field and right in front of us to hunt for- and eat beetles, for a long time. What a luck!
I could sunbathe for a whole week in the end of the month, to get some base colour before going to Kenya the next month, which is fantastic for Norwegian autumn.
I also spent much time gathering at least 110 kilos (5 suitcases) of clothes and bags to give away to the people I met in Kenya. I had very much for women and youth myself, and got much for children, men and larger women from family and friends.
I had a couple of confirmand photo shoots as well this month, a soloist assignment in the church and a concert with my choir.
10. Fine Family
OCTOBER: Started lovely, like September, and Richard and a friend of mine went to another friend to get a new migratory bird species on our lists that was in her garden ッ But as others could be outside enjoying the other sunshiny days, I had to stay indoors packing for Kenya and finishing my presentation of bird photos from Greece, that I held in our bird club right before leaving.
Kenya (Masai Mara) in the autumn break was fantastic! I brought 5 other photographers with me, and all the clothes I had gathered to give away, back to the same place where I was only 16 months earlier. But it was so lovely getting to know all the Masaais who work there even better, and we got many other animal experiences than last year. There were even more of the most interesting animals closer to the camp this year, like several lion tribes, elephant families and a cheetah, in addition to even better hippo photos than before, and many other species both close to the camp and on our day in the Masai Mara National Reserve further south.
It was also lovely to see a newborn giraffe there, my first (young) leopard in a tree with a newly killed impala (that I had hoped to see for so long, and had to go to Africa 4 times to see), and so many other unforgettable moments. Although there were less water and less birds than last time, I had many new bird experiences as well- like my first two southern ground hornbills (Rødmaskehornravn) right by our camp, some other new bird species to me, and many nice photos of white-fronted bee-eaters feeding their chicks. I also got some great photos of new birds of prey to me. Luckily I had my new medicine to help me to endure, getting a great trip.
Back home the typical grey, wet, windy and cold autumn weather had arrived, and my body needed som time to function again after giving it all on the trip.But I had many portraits from before I left to sit and edit at home, and some photos from Africa in between.
My choir had some busy weekends, with both a visit from and concert together with the American gospel artist Norman Hutchins who had been here a couple of times before, and then a weekend of concerts in the concert hall together with known artists and the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, to celebrate the local and popular Viking soccer team. Very social and very fun!
I also started rehearsing for all the Christmas concerts, photographed an engaged couple, celebrated our grand-niece’s birthday, and Richard’s 50th birthday som days later- in the same quiet but cosy way that I did on my 40th birthday in the start of the year.
I also finally was diagnosed with chronic inflammation in my worst hip, so that was able to get some more treatment for it. It’s only too bad that they haven’t seen it on all the photos earlier, since they said that I must have had it for a long time, and that it probably won’t go away completely.
NOVEMBER: The typical autumn weather was still ongoing, but we got one colder and nicer week later on, where I took some trips to our longest beach to photograph all the crested tits (toppmeiser) and other small birds in the low pine trees behind the beach, where it is easy to get good photos of them. I also got some nice deer photos. But no flocks of crossbills or great spotted woodpeckers showed up, like they did for a long time during autumn and winter the year before.
I also got a long-tailed duck and some velvet scoters (haveller og sjøorrer), fishing much closer than before while sitting on the beach in some nice evening light.
I went to many Christmas concert rehearsals, and due to my busy rehearsal and concert schedule of 5 concerts in December, I finished the last Christmas gifts in November already.
I took some pregnancy- and sibling photos of a lovely family that I have photographed many times before. It’s so nice to meet customers like that now and then, and see the kids growing up.
The second-to-last weekend, I went to visit my parents together with my sister, niece and nephew. I love getting quality time together with them like that. While up there, we had this winter’s only day of snow in western Norway, and as you can see on this month’s photo, we had a great time outdoors - taking their Christmas card photos, sledding, grilling sausages, and I got some photos of birds in the snow by the feeders I’ve bought for my parents as well. The next day, it all rained away- like it use to here by the coast..
And the last weekend, I had a very fun and cosy overnight stay at my sister-in-law’s place. We can share everything, and I’m so lucky to have her.
DECEMBER: Was a very grey and rainy one throughout the whole month, except for a part of the first very busy week with many dress rehearsal (generalprøver), concerts and a wedding party. I sadly had to drop the Christmas party at work that busy week.
The family I photographed in November, had their baby boy in December, so I went back to photograph them all. Except for those cute photos, the only other photos I took in December was of my new Christmas tree ornaments like on this month’s photo.
I found the ornaments while on a very cosy hotel weekend in Stavanger together with my best friend who lives on the island I’m from. I only see her a couple of times a year, so it was really nice to hang out together. We bought a few last Christmas gifts, watched movies and listened to Christmas music at our room, and had a lot of delicious food and drinks.
Except from this, I mostly stayed indoors (in the rain) in December- enjoying the Christmas atmosphere in the livingroom, listening to Christmas music and watching Christmas movies.
On the day before Christmas Eve, which we call “little Christmas Eve” (lille julaften), I went to Sandnes to exchang Christmas gifts and be together with my niece and nephew while their parents were busy. We watched Christmas movies and had a cosy time together, which was really nice since we weren’t celebrating Christmas together this year.
We celebrated Christmas Eve together with Richard’s mother and sister, and went to his mother together with more of their family on a Christmas dinner on Boxing Day.
Now, on the year’s second-to-last day, I am in a hide where I finally got to photograph the goshawk (hønsehauk), that I have hoped for all year and never got to photograph on all the other days in hides during the start of the year. We have also had many beautiful jays posing for us, but the golden eagle (kongeørn) that we originally came for wouldnt’t come today. But we got some moody snow while sitting there.
Tomorrow I will end the year the best way- having a nice time together with Richard, my parents, my sister, her husband, and my niece and nephew- at their place.
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Like I wrote last year - I am grateful for all the nice nature experiences, trips and travels, and all the time spent together with friends and family this year.
I really hope that I will be able to be even more active and work more in 2025, and that I can start to photograph long assignments and weddings again. I have really missed that this year.
Since I don’t know what my health and economy will bring, it’s the first time that I haven’t planned any trips and travels for the coming year. But I am sure that some things fun and exiting will happen more spontaneously through the year, as it always does.
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If you’d like to see more of all my photos from 2024, you can do so by scrolling down my page here on Flickr, or on Ranveig Marie Photography on Instagram and Facebook.
Thanks to all who wanted to read about my year, and to all my photography followers!
I hope your 2025 will be great!
✨* Happɣ ቢēw ɣēaṛ! *✨
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She was standing talking to a friend while holding the colourful boxes that matched her hair colour.
The second generation DS 4 Hatchback was unveiled on 3 February 2021. It is meant as a replacement for the DS 5 which was discontinued in 2018 and is based on the PSA EMP2 platform of PSA Group. The car comes in three models, DS4 Crossback, DS4 Performance Line, and the main DS4 hatchback.
The car is intended to compete with the BMW 1 Series and Audi A3 hatchback, and will also compete with the Mercedes-Benz A-Class Hatchback.
DS 4 E-TENSE hybrid version will be available. As for gasoline engines, the DS 4 will have options of PureTech engines with a power of 130, 180, or 220 PS.
The 2021 DS 4 will go on sale in the fourth quarter of 2021. It was designed in Paris, but will be produced in Opel's Rüsselsheim plant.
Tourist in the undercroft of the Bethesda Terrace, Central Park, New York.
Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM
©2011 Patrick J Bayens
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 tense moment as the glass vase Marcel is working on is transferred from his blowpipe to Anneleen’s ponty.
This mini feeling has a little red elastic around it's tummy. It's tense.
I will add the elastic after firing of course, this is just to show how it will look...
Today is my day off, and I decided to take Danielle with me on a tour to Farmolis beach. Well that's what I told her, but the fact is I was asked by my coworker to take her away so that they could have a day off... Sure Danielle is a little bit tense these days. She didn't invented or made a discovery in weeks, while on the other hand a M.A.N.T.I.S. scientist keeps publishing astonishing breakthrough in various fields. Maybe some fresh air will help her I thought, so I agreed to take her with me.
Since Jacques LaRose needed to go to Farmolis for some kind of meeting (he wasn't very specific when I asked), he proposed to lend me his car, a nice looking vintage Jaguar XS-97 hovercar! That car is a legend among the luxury cars, and of course very expensive, but that's not a problem for Jacques... Produced to only 158 copies by Octan Corporation in 3627, under an old brand Octan acquired long ago, the XS-97 is famous for its natural leather interior. The leather used came from the last herd of wild cows on Earth, that Octan bought for a tremendous amount of credits. Those wild cows were the one children heard about in old stories from the old past. They were the original cows, unaltered by humans, genetically pure, with no modification whatsoever. They didn't even had grow the 5th stabilizer leg! Octan led them to a remote genetic facility and modified their DNA so that their hide would grow in the shape of car seats. Only 158 survived the process and lived to the expected size. That's why that car is so precious. All other cars made after this one have use modern materials like synthetic leather or space-sheep, sapce-sheep, SPACE-SHEEP wool. Having that car in my hand made me nervous. I hope I won't scratch the seat... Hopefully the beach is near to Central City, and we arrived there quite quickly. There we encountered a ferocious beast, but as I faced the creature bravely, Danielle only wanted to get one more experiment subject.
My entry for Week 11 of Andromeda's Gates on Eurobricks.
Voiture unique aux allures de GT, elle est le prisme par lequel l'avenir de DS prend vie, un avenir empreint de technologie avancée et de raffinement.
Alliant l'authenticité du savoir-faire artisanal à la créativité née d'outils numériques novateurs, DS E-Tense est unique tant par son design que par la sensation de conduite procurée : un mélange de luxe, de high-tech et de haute performance.
L'intensité, la profondeur et l'aspect cristallin de sa robe couleur Vert Amétrine magnifient son allure sculpturale. La teinte de son habillage intérieur amplifie son élégance en conjuguant le Vert de Gris du cuir légèrement bleuté à la platine verte des panneaux.
DS E-Tense est équipée d'un moteur électrique d'une puissance de 402 ch avec un couple de 516 Nm pour un 0 à 100 km/h en 4.5 secondes.
Caractéristiques techniques :
-motorisation 100 % électrique d'une puissance de 402 ch
-couple maximal : 516 Nm
-0 à 100 km/h : 4.5 s
-autonomie : 360 km (cycle urbain) ou 310 km (cycle mixte)
-châssis monocoque carbone
-Dimensions (L x l x h) : 4.72 x 2.08 x 1.29 m
-poids : 1.8 tonne
Para ver el tensor molecular en movimiento hacer click en Head Honcho
La ilustración pertenece a la serie: Mental Radio de Head Honcho en la era del oriente medio. Buscando el concepto de la Telemecánica.
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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.
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...
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. :)