View allAll Photos Tagged thinker
Think Tank I built a while back for the GTWLUG displayed at Anime St Louis.
I borrowed the leg and front feet (rear 4 have bigger toes) from Pascal's (www.flickr.com/photos/pasukaru76/) Kenbishi Industries R2600 he posted a few years ago.
Think Cool - Just remembering how cool and fresh this water and fountain looked in Illinois makes me cooler when it is hot and dry in Arizona.
A place to think. Hangzhou.
Xī Hú (Chinese: 西湖; literally "West Lake") is a famous fresh water lake located in the historic center of Hangzhou, in Zhejiang province of eastern China. The lake is divided by the causeways of Sū Tí (苏提 / 蘇堤) , Boi Tí (白堤), and Yánggōng Tí (杨公堤 / 楊公堤).
Had to post another Monty pic, to balance out the stranger pic!
__________________________________________________
Twitter |Instagram | L to view large | F to fav'
__________________________________________________
LICENCE INFORMATION
You are free to share or adapt this work but must attribute me as the original author of the image. This image may not be used for any commercial purposes without my written consent, which may be easier to get than you would think. Email me for licensing
Creative Commons Licence - Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic
I think one of New Year's photography resolutions is to focus more on black and white photography. I'm thinking about a 52 week project where I post 1 black and white image a week.
Strobist Info:
Camera Settings: Nikon 700 with Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8g lens, Aperture f/11, Shutter Speed 200, ISO 100
Flash Settings: Main Light - AlienBee 800 at 1/2 power shot into a Paul C. Buff 64 inch extreme silver Parabolic umbrella with diffusion cover camera right.
Flash triggered remotely using PocketWizard MiniTT1 transmitter with AC3 Zone Controller and FlexTT5 transceivers. PocketWizard AC9 AlienBee Adapter was connected to AlienBee's to enable TTL remote power control of strobes
© Calvin James 2012
Day 98 11/19/07
Never thought it would feel this way. Running out of ideas,,thanks roulette! Not a good focus,,oh well.
The Thinker
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thank you for visiting! Please checkout my work on Facebook And you can follow me on Twitter too!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I’ve been wanting to take a city break in summer, rather than in the cold months for a while, so rather than heading for the Lake District for a week of toil on the fells when Jayne could get a week off, we took off from Liverpool for Paris. Flight times were nice and sociable but it meant we were on the M62 car park at a busy time in both directions – it’s a shambles! I’ve stopped over in Paris a dozen times – on my way to cycling in the Etape du Tour in the Alps or Pyrenees – and had a few nights out there. Come to think about it and we’ve spent the day on the Champs Elysees watching the final day of the Tour de France with Mark Cavendish winning. We hadn’t been for a holiday there though and it was a bit of a spur of the moment decision. Six nights gave us five and a half days to explore Paris on foot. I had a good selection of (heavy) kit with me, not wanting to make the usual mistake of leaving something behind and regretting it. In the end I carried the kit in my backpack – an ordinary rucksack – to keep the weight down, for 103 miles, all recorded on the cycling Garmin – and took 3500 photos. The little Garmin is light and will do about 15 hours, it expired towards the end of a couple of 16 hour days but I had the info I wanted by then. This also keeps the phone battery free for research and route finding – I managed to flatten that once though.
What can I say – Paris was fantastic! The weather varied from OK to fantastic, windy for a few days, the dreaded grey white dullness for a while but I couldn’t complain really. We were out around 8.30 in shorts and tee shirt, which I would swap for a vest when it warmed up, hitting 30 degrees at times, we stayed out until around midnight most nights. It was a pretty full on trip. The security at some destinations could have been a problem as there is a bag size limit to save room in the lifts etc. I found the French to be very pragmatic about it, a bag search was a cursory glance, accepting that I was lugging camera gear, not bombs around, and they weren’t going to stop a paying customer from passing because his bag was a bit over size.
We didn’t have a plan, as usual we made it up as we went along, a loose itinerary for the day would always end up changing owing to discoveries along the way. Many times we would visit something a few times, weighing the crowds and light etc. up and deciding to come back later. I waited patiently to go up the Eiffel Tower, we arrived on Tuesday and finally went up on Friday evening. It was a late decision but the weather was good, the light was good and importantly I reckoned that we would get a sunset. Previous evenings the sun had just slid behind distant westerly clouds without any golden glory. It was a good choice. We went up the steps at 7.30 pm, short queue and cheaper – and just to say that we had. The steps are at an easy angle and were nowhere near as bad as expected, even with the heavy pack. We stayed up there, on a mad and busy Friday night, until 11.30, the light changed a lot and once we had stayed a couple of hours we decided to wait for the lights to come on. This was a downside to travelling at this time of year, to do any night photography we had to stay out late as it was light until 10.30. The Eiffel Tower is incredible and very well run, they are quite efficient at moving people around it from level to level. It was still buzzing at midnight with thousands of people around. The sunset on Saturday was probably better but we spent the evening around the base of the Tower, watching the light change, people watching and soaking the party atmosphere up.
Some days our first destination was five miles away, this is a lot of road junctions in a city, the roads in Paris are wide so you generally have to wait for the green man to cross. This made progress steady but when you are on holiday it doesn’t matter too much. Needless to say we walked through some dodgy places, with graffiti on anything that stays still long enough. We were ultra-cautious with our belongings having heard the pickpocket horror stories. At every Café/bar stop the bags were clipped to the table leg out of sight and never left alone. I carried the camera in my hand all day and everywhere I went, I only popped it in my bag to eat. I would guess that there were easier people to rob than us, some people were openly careless with phones and wallets.
We didn’t enter the big attractions, it was too nice to be in a museum or church and quite a few have a photography ban. These bans make me laugh, they are totally ignored by many ( Japanese particularly) people. Having travelled around the world to see something, no one is going to stop them getting their selfies. Selfies? Everywhere people pointed their cameras at their own face, walking around videoing – their self! I do like to have a few photos of us for posterity but these people are self-obsessed.
Paris has obviously got a problem with homeless (mostly) migrants. Walk a distance along the River Seine and you will find tented villages, there is a powerful smell of urine in every corner, with the no alcohol restrictions ignored, empty cans and bottles stacked around the bins as evidence. There are families, woman living on mattresses with as many as four small children, on the main boulevards. They beg by day and at midnight they are all huddled asleep on the pavement. The men in the tents seem to be selling plastic Eiffel Tower models to the tourists or bottled water – even bottles of wine. Love locks and selfy sticks were also top sellers. There must be millions of locks fastened to railings around the city, mostly brass, so removing them will be self-funding as brass is £2.20 a kilo.
As for the sights we saw, well if it was on the map we tried to walk to it. We crossed the Periphique ring road to get to the outer reaches of Paris. La Defense – the financial area with dozens of modern office blocks – was impressive, and still expanding. The Bois de Boulogne park, with the horse racing track and the Louis Vuitton Centre was part of a 20 mile loop that day. Another day saw us in the north east. We had the dome of the Sacre Couer to ourselves, with thousands of tourists wandering below us oblivious of the entrance and ticket office under the church. Again the light was fantastic for us. We read that Pere Lachaise Cemetery or Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise was one of the most visited destinations, a five mile walk but we went. It is massive, you need a map, but for me one massive tomb is much the same as another, it does have highlights but we didn’t stay long. Fortunately we were now closer to the Canal St Martin which would lead us to Parc de la Villette. This was a Sunday and everywhere was both buzzing and chilled at the same time. Where ever we went people were sat watching the world go by, socializing and picnicking, soaking the sun up. As ever I wanted to go up on the roof of anything I could as I love taking cityscapes. Most of these were expensive compared with many places we’ve been to before but up we went. The Tour Montparnasse, a single tower block with 59 floors, 690 foot high and extremely fast lifts has incredible views although it was a touch hazy on our ascent. The Arc de Triomphe was just up the road from our hotel, we went up it within hours of arriving, well worth the visit.
At the time of writing I have no idea how many images will make the cut but it will be a lot. If I have ten subtly different shots of something, I find it hard to consign nine to the dark depths of my hard drive never to be seen again – and I’m not very good at ruthless selection – so if the photo is OK it will get uploaded. My view is that it’s my photostream, I like to be able to browse my own work at my leisure at a later date, it’s more or less free and stats tell me these images will get looked at. I’m not aiming for single stunning shots, more of a comprehensive overview of an interesting place, presented to the best of my current capabilities. I am my own biggest critic, another reason for looking at my older stuff is to critique it and look to improve on previous mistakes. I do get regular requests from both individuals and organisations to use images and I’m obliging unless someone is taking the piss. I’m not bothered about work being published (with my permission) but it is reassuringly nice to be asked. The manipulation of Flickr favourites and views through adding thousands of contacts doesn’t interest me and I do sometimes question the whole point of the Flickr exercise. I do like having access to my own back catalogue though and it gives family and friends the chance to read about the trip and view the photos at their leisure so for the time being I’m sticking with it. I do have over 15 million views at the moment which is a far cry from showing a few people an album, let’s face it, there’s an oversupply of images, many of them superb but all being devalued by the sheer quantity available.
Don’t think that it was all walking and photography, we had a great break and spent plenty of time in pavement bistros having a glass of wine and people watching. I can certainly understand why Paris is top of the travellers list of destinations.
I was reading this article "Why Wordle" By Steven W. Anderson this morning and decided to try one out. I thought the "Think Different" monologue from the classic Apple commercial might be a nice choice. View large.
You can see my photo of the wall mural of the monologue at the Apple Campus here.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
UPDATE 12/16: Welcome all TUAW visitors.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Apple's "Think Different" monologue.
"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who actually do."
Wordle image created by the www.wordle.net/ web application and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
This past Sunday a bunch of our photographer friends got together with Nikki, Connor, and I for a nice sunrise shoot. Our intended model couldn't make it so Connor filled the void. Got some nice shots of the water and beach too.
sMart V for sMart F = A pioneer Tourist/edu/art/anti bullying/pro sport guidance - Project - FOR every SMART family who WANT REAL /creating/Fun /vacation AND for every place/park/hotel WHO want more Tourism by 30% = A study/research/work of life by GM/SCOUT basketball = SUPPORT = LIKE/SHARE the F page - push the button there and =Shopping/donate/participate . -willing to discus every proposal = www.facebook.com/Think-Family-Vacation-278970899443002/
HÔm nAy nhỚ....
nhỚ đỂ nGÀy mAi quÊn
buỒn lẮm
nhƯng k hỀ khÓc
vÌ đà hỨa rỒi
cÓ lẼ..
điỀu dUy nhẤt cÓ thỂ lÀm
lÀ quÊn Đi ThÔi….
________________________
YêU mà kHông gẶp KhÔnG gẦn
NếU nHư tHế
gỌi lÀ yÊu xA à
xA mÀ gẦn
gẦn mÀ xA
quAn trỌng lÀ trOnG lÒng cÓ nhAu thÔi
kHi xA nhAu rỒi
cÓ nG buỒn
cÓ nG vUi
cÓ nG cưỜi
cÓ nG khÓc
cÓ nG muỐn đy
cÓ đỨng chỜ
nhƯng k cÓ Ai muỐn giỮ cẢ
....!~
___________________________
đỂ biẾt cẦn cÓ nhAu nhƯ thẾ nÀo
tẠm xA nhAu
đỂ nỤ cưỜi giẢ tẠo lẠi xuẤt hiỆn
tẠm xA nhAu
đỂ quÁ khỨ mÃi lÀ quÁ khỨ
tẠm xA nhAu
đỂ biẾt hẠnh phÚc lÀ thỂ nÀo
tẠm xA nhAu
đẾ niỀm vUi lẴng xuỐnG
tẠm xA nhAu
đỂ nỖi buỒn dÂnG lÊn
tẠm xA nhAu
đỂ quÊn đI tẤt cẢ
!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tình yêU nàO cŨng vậy , cỨ đến rỒi lại đi . CỨ yêU thật nhiềU rỒi lại tìm đến sỰ chia tay ....
...CÓ nhỮng cuỘc chia tay đầy phấn kích nhƯng mang lại cảm giác dễ chịu chO đỐi phưƠng ....
...NhƯng cŨng cÓ nhỮng cuỘc chia tay ... nhẹ nhàng , im lặng nhƯng mang đầy nỖi đaU ....
...NỖi đaU sẽ đưỢc hằn xé trOng tim tỪng ngày vì ... chẵng baO giỜ hiểU đưỢc lí dO vì saO ... mình chia tay ....
...k cãi nhaU , k giận , k xUng đỘt , mà chỉ là cái im lặng đÔi bên .
...Sự im lặng để nÓi lên tất cả nhỮng việc đang xảy ra trưỚc mắt mình ....
Phía saU cái nắm tay.
........Là sỰ đắn đO giỮa việc đi và Ở.
*Phía saU nhỮng ngÓn tay siết chặt
........Là sỰ sỢ hãi và âU lO.
*Phía saU nỤ hÔn.
........Là sỰ thèm khát hƠi ấm và lành lặn.
*Phía saU tình yêU.
........Là 2 cOn người thẨm lẶng
*Phía saU chỮ yêU.
........ĐÔi khi là dấU chấm hết.
........ĐÔi khi là chấm cảm.
........ĐÔi khi là chấm hỎi.
........ĐÔi khi là bỎ lỬng.
........ĐÔi khi là ba chấm.
*Phía saU cỦa phía saU.
........ĐÔi khi là điểm kết thÚc.
........ĐÔi khi là điểm dỪng.
........ĐÔi khi là bắt đầU...
........ ĐÔi khi là trống rỗng
CuỘc sỐng giỐng nhƯ cOn đưỜng 1 chiềU.
Và mÓn qUà qUý nhất cỦa cuỘc sỐng....... ĐÔi khi là quá khỨ và kỉ niệm
Sẽ bé nhỎ giỮa cuỘc đỜi......... hạt cát nhỎ bé trOng sa mạc rỘng lỚn ..
Sẽ đi gÓp nhặt chO mình nhỮng hạt bỤị thỜi gian, nhỮng dấU chân cuỘc đỜi, nhỮng tàn giÓ cát mênh mang ...
Sẽ thả tâm tƯ tình cảm cỦa mình vàO đÓ..... rỒi giÓ cuỐn đi đâU thì đi
Sẽ vỤng dại chạm vàO 1 cành hỒng đang rỉ máU,........... nhƯng gai đã làm chính mình
chảy máU ....
Ngày mai ...sẽ lại là chính mình - đi trên cOn đưỜng cỦa riÊng mÌnh !!!!!
KeEp mOviNg fOrWaRd !!!!!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~
fav + Note + cm nhiệt nhé :) i* tất cả
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
What do you really know about Breast Cancer? Take the "Breakthrough Breast Cancer Quiz": www.breakthrough.org.uk/breast_cancer_awareness_month/bre...
* Press F if you like it *
Photo+Retouch: Zin nguyen
Cell: [+84] 937130787
Email: ng.trungthanh87@gmail.com
YIM: hi.inviz
Website: CAST.VN [coming soon...]
Facebook: Zin nguyễn
Flickr: flickr.com/photos/zin_nguyen
SOOC
I think I'm back for more photo fun times! I've been on a break due to no legit reason. Taking a break is never a bad thing though. And it's a good way to rethink about my way of photography, if I can put it that way.
I'm trying not to edit my photos as much as possible. That also means I have to take more control over my camera and have to actually know how to use it I guess? It's going well so far!
Oh yeah I'm planning to buy an orange Panasonic GM1 in the coming months. That thing is so damn cute!! But my black lens won't look good on it......
[Rant] I had a set of cat photos that I planned on uploading today, but I deleted them by accident... And I deleted the original files on my memory card without knowing I have deleted the photos off my HDD... ARGHHHHHHHH [/Rant]
I think Davisville? Also the yard where trains were stored and serviced.
The day we set out for Niagara Falls - should have realised a wet day wasn't the best to view a major waterfall casting off lots of spray!
****This is the last of the beer commercial advertisement shots.....I think.****
We took a day trip (just a 20 minute ferry ride) over to Jost van Dyke one day. It is a tiny island with approximately 200 inhabitants.
We were the first (and only) people on the beach at White Bay for about 2 hours to start the morning. We spent the morning sitting like this with no one around at the One Love Bar & Grill. It is the bar that inspired Kenny Chesney's "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem". (I will post a picture of the "bar" later).
Later on we wondered down to the Soggy Dollar which was on the other end of the beach. It was "packed" with about 75 people. Soggy Dollar is the bar which created the Painkiller...which I have had before and had a few more on this trip. If you are ever in the neck of the woods White Bay on Jost van Dyke is a must.
You really can't go wrong with Zac Brown and Jimmy Buffett in a setting like this
2002 when Ford was running Think. They decided it was not their time for an electric car, so the Think didn't come to market in the USA, even though this page says it's coming. Picked up this flyer at the Detroit Auto Show.
Now it may finally come to America, without Ford.
english:
If your Yahoo! ID is based in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong or Korea you will only be able to view safe content based on your local Terms of Service so won’t be able to turn SafeSearch off.
In other words that means, that users from those countries can not access photos on flickr that are not flagged "safe" ... only flowers and landscapes for them ...Copy and upload this picture to your account - show flickr who we are!
deutsch:
flickr sperrt uns aus! Und auch dich!
Seit gestern werden für deutsche Nutzer keine Bilder mehr angezeigt, die als 'moderate' oder 'restricted' markiert sind! Es gibt keine Moeglichkeit das umzustellen - das ist eine grobe Unverschämtheit und Frechheit von flickr!
Lade dieses Bild runter und poste es in deinem Account! Lass uns das Bild überall auf flickr verteilen und es in 'Interestingness' heben!! So geht es nicht!
Original Version: farm2.static.flickr.com/1299/543864623_7aadef1e69_o.jpg
Espanol:
No sé cuando, pero muy recientemente a las cuentas de Alemania, Hong Kong, Corea y Singapur les han prohibido ver las fotos que están en el Safe Search, las mismas en las que a nosotros nos dan la opcíón de ver o no ver. A ellos simplemente se lo prohiben. Chale no?
Francais:
Si votre compte Yahoo! est basé à Singapour, à Hong Kong, en Corée ou en Allemagne, vous ne pourrez voir que les photos qui n'ont pas été marquées comme ayant un contenu qui peut choquer. Toutes les autres ne vous seront pas accessibles. Vous serez donc condamnés à ne voir que des paysages et des fleurs. Il ne faut pas laisser faire ça. Envoyez cette photo sur votre compte pour montrer à Flickr que nous savons nous mobiliser contre la censure !
Portugues:
Se a tua conta yahoo e de Singapura, Hong Kong, Koreia e Alemanha.. vc so podera ver fotos comportadas..rs, digo censuradas.. Todas as outras nao serao acessiveis , apenas flores abelhas e anjinhos.. bem-vindos a mais um absurdo Flickr..kkkkkkk
Junte-se a nos, proteste..porque o proximo pode ser vc, seu pais, sua conta, ou o diabo a quatro...
Italiano:
Se il tuo ID yahoo è localizzato a Singapore, in Germania oppure ad Hong Kong o in Korea potrai vedere solo foto dal contenuto che è in accordo con il locale accordo dei termini di servizio per cui gli utenti flickr di quelle nazioni non potranno cambiare da SafeSearch on in SafeSearch off.
In altri termini, ciò significa che gli utenti tedeschi e delle altre nazioni citate non potranno accedere a foto su flickr che non siano flaggate "safe"
e quindi solo fiori e paesaggi per i tedeschi.
Copia e carica nel tuo stream quest' immagine sul tuo account - mostra a flickr chi siamo!
Česky:
Je-li tvé Yahoo! ID vedené pod Singapurem, Německem, Hong Kongem nebo Koreou, uvidíš jen "bezpečný obsah" opírající se o lokální Podmínky používání služby, a tudíž nebudeš moci vypnout funkci SafeSearch.
Jinými slovy, němečtí a jiní uživatelé neuvidí fotografie které nemají označení "safe".
Pro Němce - jen kytičky a krajinky!
Nechceme aby se to stalo!!!
Zkopíruj si a uploadni tento obrázek do svého streamu: ukažme Flickru, kdo jsme!
Kdo bude další...?!?!?!?!?!?!? (translation of this last one: Historicus)
The phrase "Think Before you Cross" adorns the long hood of BNSF 1523; A message staple which has also been worn by hundreds of other locomotives throughout North America. Although Operation Lifesaver continues to make great strides towards properly educating the public about grade crossing safety, incidents still continue to happen. There is no fun or games when it comes to railway safety; if you tie with a train, you lose. Endangering lives is not worth saving a few minutes of your time. Stay safe. Stay alert. Think before you cross.
cardstock: papertrey ink vellum, stampin' up pink pirouette/coastal cabana
stamps: reverse confetti/color me happy
ink: zing black embossing powder
other: reverse confetti petals 'n posies confetti cuts, italian wool, mme enamel dots, t$spot clipboard
tsurutadesigns.blogspot.com/2015/08/reverse-confetti-summ...
Picture via Damian Mac Con Uladh twitter.com/damomac/status/211133929049161728/ taken outside Flutes champagne and wine bar at Dublin Airport
Trending globally on twitter via the hashtag #donttellmerkel
Also reported by BBC Irish footie fans: 'Angela Merkel thinks we're at work'
Skandalös! How about this for a Euro bail-out of a different kind?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18371142
Fans ‘blown away’ by Merkel flag furore in the Irish Examiner
www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/fans-blown-away-by-merkel-f...
Republic of Ireland fans go viral with 'angela merkel thinks we're at work' flag
www.offthepost.info/blog/2012/06/republic-of-ireland-fans...
Irish Times: Irish Merkel banner makes cover of 'Bild' German tabloid newspaper
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0613/1224317819...