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🇬🇧 The theme of the Dakar Rally holds me tight. This time I was inspired by the buggy of the Argentine racer Sebastián Halpern Dakar from the German X-raid Team. In some ways, I differed from the original to make creation fun for me, but the result is a beautiful essence. What do you think?
I really enjoy building economically and quickly. Some passages were really challenging. When I finished the inner tubular frame and found that a third spare wheel would fit in the space above the engine, I was completely excited. The buggy is very compact and packed with details that provide a really beautiful space on this scale.
Enjoy the Dakar Rally 2022!
🇨🇿 Téma Dakarské Rally se mne pevně drží. Tentokrát jsem se inspiroval buggynou argentického závodníka Sebastiana Halperna z německého týmu X-raid. V určitých ohledech jsem se od předlohy odlišil, aby pro mne bylo tvoření zábavou, ale výsledek je krásnou esencí. Co myslíte?
Moc mě baví stavět úsporně a svižně. Některé pasáže byly opravdu náročné. Když jsem dodělal vnitřní trubkový rám a zjistil, že se do prostoru nad motorem vleze ještě třetí náhrandí kolo, úplně jsem zajásal. Buggy je velmi kompaktní a nacpaná detaily, které v tomto měřítku poskytují opravdu krásný prostor.
Užijte si Rally Dakar 2022!
We had a Rock Band party at our place as we celebrated the first day of summer. Appropriately, the theme was tropical, featuring a sand covered balcony for the barbeque, a pina colada machine, and lots of Jello shots.
Venice themed dining marquee: sophisticated lighting, starlight ceiling, Carnevale masks and Venus di Milo table centrepieces are some of the ingredients that contribute to the magical look of this marquee.
See a case study of this themed marquee on our website www.countymarquees.com/case_studies/venice.htm
Name: Nikki Miles
Website: www.nikkimiles.co.uk
Blog: nikkimilesillustration.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter: @nikkimiles_
Note: to see the overall theme of photos in this particular Flickr set, click here to see the summary description and thumbnail images of the photos in the set.
Note: this photo was published in a Jul 6, 2012 issue of Everyblock NYC zipcodes blog titled "10025."
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Jul 6, 2012.
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This was taken on the southeast corner of Broadway & 96th Street, during the "golden hour" between 6-8 PM a few evenings ago, when the sun drops down over the western horizon and casts its glow up 96th Street…
Crowds of people swirl up and down the street all evening along, and then wait at the corner of 96th Street for the light to change -- so they can cross over to the median strip between the uptown and downtown lanes of Broadway, and then walk into the subway stop of the #1 IRT subway line.
Of all the people in the swirl, I noticed this mop-haired person with the blue shirt and the unruly hair … and I snapped photo after photo after photo as both of them stood on the corner and talked intensely for several minutes.
The traffic light changed, but they didn't walk towards me at all, into the subway station. Instead, they moved even closer and closer and closer to one another ... they kissed, and then they walked away -- one of them heading north across 96th Street, and the other turning east, and walking up the hill towards Amsterdam Avenue.
I'll leave it to you to figure out what was really going on here. I have to admit that I didn't understand it at the time … but one of the other photos that I took (and which I will not be uploading to Flickr) explained the details to me.
By the way, that is not my reflection in the window behind the two subjects of this photo. For photos like this, I am -- and always want to be -- invisible and anonymous.
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Over the past several years, I've grown so accustomed to the "automatic" features in my cameras that I've almost completely forgotten how to do anything manually. I think it was the early 1990s when auto-focus mechanisms began to creep into the point-and-shoot cameras that I used to record birthday parties and other family events; and virtually every DSLR camera I've had provides an "automatic-everything" mode that combines autofocus, auto-aperture, auto-shutter-speed, and even auto-ISO auto-white-balance. Most of the time, it works just fine; and it allows me concentrate on figuring out who (or what) I want to include in the picture. For street photography, that's a full-time job in itself.
But sometimes it doesn't work so well; and sometimes, the photographer wants to override what the camera would do by itself. For example, I normally shoot in "aperture-priority" mode, which means that I'm the one who sets the f-stop; and I'll typically set the ISO (speed), and just let the camera figure out what the appropriate shutter speed would be. That generally works pretty well, especially if I've set the aperture to something like f/8 or f/11 in order to get a reasonably deep depth-of-field (DOF), which results in almost everything being in-focus.
Lately, though, I've been getting more and more obsessed with photos that have a shallow DOF, so that the subject of the photo is in sharp focus, but the background is blurred. Aside from a "prime" 50mm f/1.4 lens that I don't use very much, most of my lenses only "open up" to a f/5.6 aperture ... but sometimes even that is enough to cause some problems if I let the camera do its auto-focus thing. Sometimes the camera decides to focus on something other than the subject that I'm interested in; sometimes it bases its focusing decision on an "average" of everything in the frame; and sometimes it gets so utterly confused that it focuses on nothing at all.
So I decided to spend one evening (when I could take advantage of the "golden hour" sunset lighting) reverting back to manual focusing to see if I could force the camera to focus on what *I* wanted to focus on. Bottom line: it works okay if the subject(s) is/are stationary, and you've got a couple seconds to adjust the focus appropriately. But if the subject(s) is/are in motion, as is often the case with street photography, then it's a disaster. By the time I took this shot, I had given up on the whole manual-focus thing, and switched back to auto-focus. However, I chose a particular form of auto-focus that instructed the camera to base its focusing decision on a very small circular section in the middle of the frame ... and not to worry about anything else. It wasn't quite so crucial on this photo, because my aperture somehow ended up at f/6.3 ... but the camera did focus properly, and the background is just slightly blurred.
Now, if I can just find an affordable f/2.8 telephoto lens that doesn't weigh a ton, it will be interesting to see how this manual-focus/spot-focus thing works out...
Love is a Blue Gummy Bear!
A grandson gave me a bag of 'hand picked' candy for my birthday!
He knew I liked, WATERMELON, DOGS & the color BLUE and he quickly added, "and you call me Bear!"
Love it! Love him!
Project 52
Week 11/52
Week 11's theme is - BLUE
From : Catcher In My Eye :)
Oh look, shorts, blazer and booties again for another perfect fall day.
I'm worried there might not be too many more, so it's important to wear my shorts and blazers as much as I can.
And the red blazer is preppy no more. Now it's kinda punk. I like to think it is anyway. My sister thinks the look is "train conductor".
Blazer - United colors of benetton
Shorts - Made by Me
Top - Urban Outfitters
Boots - Steve Madden
Hat - Khols
Scarf - Avon
Ring - Payless
On the wharf in Santa Cruz, California, is the Woodies Café, which I-5 Design and Manufacture designed to have a fun, welcoming atmosphere that the whole family could enjoy. In keeping with the ‘Woodies’ classic car theme, we produced an internally illuminated background panel depicting a ‘woody’ on a beach setting, to be centered between the two entry columns, which were wrapped with a thick nautical rope and had authentic surfboards mounted to the face of the pilings. To see more examples of restaurant design visit our project portfolio.
Designer unknown (佚名)
1955, July
Root out the Hu Feng counter-revolutionary clique exhibition cartoons 12
Suqing Hu Feng fangeming jituan manhua zhanlan tupian (肃清胡风反革命集团漫画展览图片)
Call nr.: BG D25/296 (Landsberger collection)
More? See: chineseposters.net/themes/hufeng