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This little girl was on a tourist train leaving the station when I spotted her. I snapped about 10 quick shots and at one point she spotted me taking her picture. I like this one, it looks like she is dreaming of far-away places.
"A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die."
-- Mary Mason
In love this maternity photography session.
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Strobist Info:
One Canon 580ex flash 1/2 power camera right fired through 1/4 Honl Grid.
One Canon 580ex flash full power camera right onto wall.
Both flashes fired with Cactus V4 triggers.
And here I thought zombies and fire didn’t get along.
Yesterday was Winnipeg’s annual zombie walk, where the undead get together to enjoy some zombie culture. Kicking things off at The Forks were the Undead Fire Performers who got the crowd fired up before taking to the streets.
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www.davidquiring.com/2012/10/zombies-fire-dance/
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superrrr stress, thought that i wouldn't be able to make it haha, but luckily i did :D Phew, only 10 minutes to go
Just coming home from a benefit concert. Tuna was one of the participants, he played the piano. Will upload the video on youtube in a few days! And.. what more??? Tomorrow i'm going to watch a friend's musical. Can't wait! Ka Wai and i are making sushi for dinner there :D
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
week 3 - 52 weeks
for all the "pretty" stuff i do, if you look through my favourites i love "dark" works, alot of my favourite photographers do dark ... i would love to learn how to do it properly and am still on a huge learning curve so bear with my terrible uploads til i get i right ...
So AllyTahlia did this photo and thought up everything!! So here is the story
Jade loved baseball it was her passion.One day on the way to the baseball field her life changed forever.Cloe and Melissa the populars came out behind the fence and from behind and attacked Jade.Cloe yelled "Loser!!" Melissa nodded in agreement.Usually quiet Melissa screamed "Baseball Freak!!" "Get a life loser!!!" They both screamed.Jade fainted and when she did the girls decided to put her on the huge transformer near the baseball field.At that moment the girls backed away and ran down the alley.Staying close enough to see Jade they watched the transformer shock her to death.Jade died from the injury and was remember the best baseball player in Stylesville,LA.Please stop bullying it hurts my feeling.If Taylor is bullied she will break down so please dont bully.Taylor has been cyber-bullied and i watched it all.So please stop.Taylor told me she hates going to school everyday she has to.Lets stop bullying!! Comment what you would do to stop bullying.
8.29.2010
It's been a busy last week/weekend. Hopefully I can get it all back together and be in proper working order up in the cranium by tomorrow.
We recently had a week’s holiday to take – Jayne’s job dictates my holidays – we went through the usual process of leaving it late and then desperately selecting a shortlist of cities where we thought the weather might be ok, after a reasonably short flight and we can fly from the north of England. Budapest was the chosen destination.
Budapest is touted as possibly the most beautiful city in Europe and we had a stream of people tell us that it was fantastic. It is. I was looking forward to getting there, no agenda other than walking, photographing the sights and trying to get off the beaten track. We certainly walked – over 70 miles – I photographed it ( I’m a bit embarrassed to say how many shots but it was a lot ) but I’m not sure we got off the beaten track as much as I wanted to.
We flew over Eastern England (and home actually – a first for us) and out over Europe. It was a late afternoon flight on a stunning day, one of the more interesting flights I’ve had. I was glued to the window watching the world go by, wondering about all of lives being played out beneath us. It was dark when we arrived. We were staying on the Buda or Castle Hill side of the city. What we didn’t know was, we were staying in one of the most prominent hotels in the city, sat on the hilltop overlooking Budapest. The Hilton sits on an historic sight and features in every photo taken of the Castle District from Pest. We had time to get out before bedtime and photograph the Matthias Church next door – floodlit – like all of the major buildings in Budapest.
Unfortunately after leaving the best weather of the year in the UK, Budapest was forecast to be a bit dull and cool – not what we wanted. There was occasional sun over the first two days but it was generally grey. Now I have to admit, I let the dullness get me down, I took photos because I wasn’t sure how the week would unfold but I was fairly sure that I was wasting my time. The photos would be disappointing and if it was sunny later we would have to revisit all of the famous landmarks again to get something that I was happy with. This is essentially what happened. The next four days were gorgeous and we did revisit, more than once all of the places that we walked to in the first two days. This meant that we didn’t have the time to go “off piste” or venture further afield as much later in the week.
The sun was rising before seven and we were staying in the best location for watching it rise. By day three I was getting up at 6.00 (5.00 our time) and getting out there with my gear. By day four I was using filters and tripod, not something I usually bother with despite always having this gear with me, and dragging it miles in my backpack. One morning I was joined by a large and noisy party of Japanese photographers, they appeared to have a model with them who danced around the walls of the Fisherman’s Bastion being photographed. Once the orange circle started to appear above the city they started clicking at the horizon like machine guns. We all got on well though and said goodbye as we headed off for breakfast – still only 7.15am.
By 8.00am everyday we were out on foot wandering along the top of Castle Hill wondering where to go that day. We tend to discover the sights as we walk on a city break, frequently discovering things as we head for a distant park or building and research it afterwards with a glass of wine. It works for us. We walked out to Heroes’ Square and beyond, returning by less well known streets. We walked along the Danube to Rákóczi Bridge a couple of times then back into Pest using a different route. Having been under the thumb of Russia for so long and considering its turbulent past there are lots of large Russian style monuments, tributes to great struggles, or the working man – very socialist and very much like Prague in a lot of respects. The Railway stations were also very similar to Prague, you could walk across the tracks and no one bothered. In the main station, now famed for the migrant crisis a few weeks previously, there was a mixture of very new and very old rolling stock from the surrounding countries, all very interesting. Considering that this station is the first thing some visitors to the city will see it is an appalling state. One side of the exterior is shored up and fenced off. This contrasts with the expensive renovation work that has been well executed in the city centre. It really is like stepping into the past when you enter the station building. It all seems to work efficiently though, unlike the UK.
Transport in Budapest is fascinating. Trams everywhere, trolley buses, ancient and new, bendybuses, again, very old and very new, the underground metro, yellow taxis in enormous numbers and of course the river and boats. This never ending eclectic mix seems to operate like clockwork with people moved around in vast numbers seamlessly. The trams looked packed at any time of day. Anyone dealing with tourists seemed to speak very good English, which is just as well as we didn’t have any grasp of Hungarian. Cost wise it was a very economical week for us in a capital city.
Once the weather (or light, to be precise) improved, I cheered up and really enjoyed Budapest. A common comment after visiting is that , although you’ve “done Budapest” you wouldn’t hesitate to go back, which isn’t always the case after a city visit. As ever, I now have a lot of work to do to produce a competent album of work. I think I will end up discarding a lot of the early days material – but then again, I’m not renowned for my discarding skills.
Thank you for looking.
I used a new background stamp from the brand new catalog. I stamped it with black ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder on black cardstock and then coated this with white paint. The paint was wiped off after it was slightly dry exposing the black embossed lines.
Linda Beeson
Thought the members of the "Composing Stick" group would like this one. Also the "Something in My Hand" group.
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Whatever stirs this mortal frame
Are all but ministers of Love
And feed his sacred flame...
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On a bus, somewhere in Mindanao.