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Photograph taken at 13:35pm on Friday February 15th 2013 off Knee Hill A2041 and New Road in the grounds of Lesnes Abey Wood in Bexleyheath, Kent, England.
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Nikon D800 14mm 1/800s f/5.6 iso200 Mirror Up RAW (14-bit)
Samyang AE 14mm f/2.8 ED IF UMC. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod. Manfrotto quick release plate 200PL-14. Manfrotto 327RC2 Grip action ball head. My memory 32GB class 10 20MB/s SDHC. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit
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LATITUDE: N 51d 29m 10.17s
LONGITUDE: E 0d 7m 44.85s
ALTITUDE: 49.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 76.20MB
PROCESSED FILE: 29.26MB
Things from our “Orlando Treehugger’s Car Convoy – March 14-15, 2015”
PHOTO at BG: Kattya Graham really spoiled me with gifts of colorful homegrown seed packs (Mammoth Sunflower, Okra, and Papaya) along with Aloe plants, Lemongrass and Vetiver divisions, many Sugar Cane stalks, Daikon Radish roots and sprouting Chayote Squash; From our wild edible and medicinal plant walk at Mead Gardens, we picked fresh loquats and mulberries for our bellies and I picked some fresh Browne’s Savory (Clinopodium brownei) for making tea after drying; A Banana plant and fresh bananas as well as some nicely scented homemade pan-smoked wild Yaupon Holly leaf tea from Chadwick Brown; Homemade Hibiscus Honey from Maggie O’Halloran; a bag of hard-to-find White Cardamom seedpods from Sichuan, China from an Asian Market that will hopefully sprout in the nursery here; (4) types of natural noodles (millet, sweet potato, wheat and yam) from Eastside Market; (3) potted plants from the annual plant sale at Ley Gardens Botanical Garden included a very rare and exciting $20 Cao Dou Kou (Alpinia hainanensis, aka Hainan Galangal or Round Cardamom) that I have searched for online for a year now to no avail (the garden was selling just two plants this year from their collection and I got one early!), a large Yaupon Holly tree for just $10, and a $20 Midnight Ginger; (2) bottles of homemade red wine from Bruce and Kelli Johnson at their organic homestead in Winter Springs, (3) Ratalu purple yams, (4) Espina Yams, (4) fat Turmeric rhizomes, Turmeric, Ginger, Breadfruit, a bag of African Yellow Beans from Accra, Ghana, Purple Sugar Cane, (4) Yampi (Mapuey) Yams, Giant White Chayote from the large Caribbean Market on Colonial Drive west of town as well as a couple of other Asian Markets nearby.
So maybe if I just stand here long enough
Holding onto what's unwavering,
Unmoving,
Unchanging,
Maybe everything will fall back into place.
The world around me keeps spinning,
The people keep moving,
But I'm a little girl lost in the forest,
And time stands still here.
Whens it gunna be my turn to let go?
When should I go find my own path home?
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Graham Hill (TreeHugger.com), Kirsten Dirksen (faircompanies.com) and SuChin Pak (MTV, Hester Street Fair).
Meet my little armoured friend. I encountered him whilst doing some tidying up in the garden this morning. I posed him on the back of one of my naff white plastic garden chairs (Great Mills, circa 1985) and then put him back in the bottom of the undergrowth where it's damp and comfy-cool, just as he likes it.
I can understand the gardener's hostility to snails, but they are attractive and engaging creatures. Since my garden was laid down in recent geological time as fine-grained silt, and even now retains the grey colour of Bristol Channel mud, very little will grow in it. It is unworkably heavy in winter and turns to concrete in summer. Accordingly there are no tender blooms to protect and no need to envenom my garden with hateful blue pellets. Here snails may safely roam.
I remember, when I was about 12, seeing one of these snails in our garden. They are the Common Garden Snail (Helix aspersa). I crouched down and watched it for about an hour as it made its way, like a tightrope walker, along the top of a fireguard that my father had dumped there. Sometimes the shell would drop heavily to one side, but the snail always clung on and righted itself. I reached out and touched the tender eye-stalk, which instantly drew in on itself and merged with the body. Somehow this was a small moment of significance in my development, confirming a habit, already well established, of study, contemplation and feeling. I couldn't think my way out of a paper bag. Still can't. Since then my feelings towards snails have always been tender. Red Indians are said to adopt a particular creature as a protecting spirit and link with nature. It's only fitting, I suppose, that I should get this low, despised creeping thing, rather than an eagle or a bear.
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Photo from a model portfolio shoot with Inka in Espoo, Finland.
Lighting info: SB-900 in a small white shoot-through umbrella at camera left on a light stand, SB-800 with a green gel at camera right, pointed at the background. Pop-up flash as an on-axis fill. Remote flashes triggered by pop-up flash and optical slave mode.