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I used three whole days to prepare and shoot this picture, it was the first time I used my new AD200pro flash and the umbrella. I even made the chessboard myself, using a 50cmx50cm sheet of plexi glass… I’m satisfied with the result since it was my first time using my camera in Manual mode too! :)
Camera and lens:
Canon EOS 700D - Sigma DC 17-70mm
ISO 100
Exposure Manual
Exposure time 1/200
F number f/11,0
Focal length 21 mm
Flash used Yes (AD200pro at 50%)
White balance Auto
Photo setup:
Flash Godox AD200pro bare bulb
Godox parabolic umbrella white 130cm
White diffusor screen 130cm
Flash with orange gel from the floor onto the backdrop
Godox X2t trigger
Backdrop (grey/black)
Reflecting white sheet on the side
174 came back today after its replacement engine fitted so I thought I would use it for tonight's UB1, it's seen here at Churchill Square.
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Spanish
La Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas es la mayor plaza de toros de España y con 23.798 espectadores la tercera con más aforo del mundo, tras las de México y Valencia (Venezuela). También es la segunda más grande en cuanto al diámetro de su ruedo tras la plaza de Ronda. Está situada en Madrid, en el barrio de La Guindalera en el distrito de Salamanca, y suele estar considerada por profesionales, aficionados y críticos como la más importante del mundo, seguida de La Maestranza de Sevilla.
English
The Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas is a famous bullring in Madrid (Spain).
Situated in the Guindalera quarter of the district of Salamanca, it was inaugurated on June 17, 1931. It has a seating capacity of 25,000 and is regarded as the home of bullfighting in Spain.
This bullring was designed by the architect José Espeliú in the Neo-Mudéjar (Moorish) style with ceramic incrustations. The seats are situated in ten "tendidos". The price of the seats depends upon how close they are to the arena and whether they are in the sun or the shade (the latter being more expensive). The bullfighting season starts in March and ends in October; bullfights are held every day during the San Isidro Fiesta, and every Sunday or holiday during the season. Bullfights start at 6 or 7pm and last for two to three hours.
"Las Ventas" is located in the east of Madrid.
Portuguese
Las Ventas é uma praça de touros na cidade de Madrid, na Espanha. É o maior recinto deste género em Espanha e o segundo a nível mundial, só ultrapassado pela Praça de touros México.
Foi inaugurada a 17 de Junho de 1931, com o nome de Praça de Las Ventas del Espíritu Santo', por ser o nome do local onde se encontrava. Apesar de já estar aberta, só em 1934 entrou em funcionamento. Foi projectada pelo arquitecto José Espeliú em estilo neo árabe (o mesmo estilo da Praça de Touros do Campo Pequeno, em Lisboa). A decoração ficou a cargo de Manuel Muñoz Monasterio. A praça tem capacidade para 25.000 espectadores, e a arena tem 60 metros de diâmetro.
A temporada tauromáquica começa em Março e prolonga-se até Outubro. Há corridas todos os domingos e durante todos os dias da Feira de São Isidro (de meados de Maio a meados de Junho). Começam normalmente entre as cinco ou sete horas da tarde e podem duram de duas a três horas.
Desde 1951 que é possível visitar o Museo Taurino, no interior do edifiíco; neste encontam-se colecções de objectos relacionados com a tauromaquia e com a história da praça.
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So it didn't take me very long to think this one up. It's happened to me before. Haha just joking. I've actually wanted to use my old chest for some photos, and this was a perfect opportunity. I had to get someone short and small to fit in it though. So I called Ashley (she's like 4'9 or something and weighs around 120 pounds). She was 2 hours fashionably late even though I didn't care what she looked like because I would probably only be showing her legs and arms. Hahaha oh well we had a good time anyways.
Oh yeah I don't really know that Vic guy all that well. I think we've talked on here once. But I did see that creepy picture of him that he said people could use, and I thought it was a nice touch hanging on a murders wall haha.
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Used internal timelapse on Nikon D850. set interval to 1 sec but slowed down to 60% as was a bit hectic.
this produce market only comes out at night, by day it is a normal road and main thoroughfare.
Used c.1995 manual Nikkor 180 f/2.8, using varying apertures as depth of field study.
This is a very small crop from original.
using a Cokin Filter to high light the clouds
....just a little more
a view from my front door
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I was a little surprised by The Evening Standard's crusade for the poor in London in their recent week-long series of articles on those who don't live in Notting Hill or Knightsbridge. It was probably just an attempt to gather a bit of support for the Tories by blaming everything wrong in the world on the Labour Government now that the General Election is on the horizon.
Now, reporting the poverty that still exists in London (and the rest of the UK of course) is very important and it is a good thing that somebody is doing it. What I object to is the utter ignorance of this poverty in the paper for the other 51 weeks of the year, and the attempt to turn this poverty into a political issue to use to the advantage of a political party. That's not going to breed positive results is it?
The opening paragraph on day one of the Standard's campaign was:
"London is a shameful tale of two cities. In the richest capital in Europe almost half our children live below the poverty line. These families are cut off from the life most Londoners take for granted. They are the dispossessed.
The Evening Standard will shine a light on their plight. With the general election imminent, we demand action."
As the only citywide newspaper in London you'd think that the poverty that exists here wouldn't come as such a surprise to the staff of the Standard. Yet reading the paper you realise that its target audience live in another world of minor Royals, book launches, West End theatres, disputes with architects, and restaurants where the price of a meal for two, with wine, would feed the dispossessed for 6 months.
You probably won't be surprised to learn that the Evening Standard is owned by a Russian billionaire and it's editor is an ex Etonion who went to Oxford, lives in Notting Hill and "has never let up his devotion to the privileged social scene". Average Londoners then. The absence of any criticism for London's multi-millionaire Conservative Mayor was also noticeable by it's absence.
I believe that the only thing the Standard had in mind with its light shining plight is to stoke up right wing fury (check out the comments on any of the articles to see how successful they were in this) and boost support for their equally rich Conservative friends in the election in May. Be careful what you wish for.
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London Museum Fisheye Architecture
The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, England (the others are the Science Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum). Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road. The museum is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.[2]
The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 70 million items within five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. The museum is a world-renowned centre of research, specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation. Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Darwin. The Natural History Museum Library contains extensive books, journals, manuscripts, and artwork collections linked to the work and research of the scientific departments. Access to the library is by appointment only.
The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons, and ornate architecture — sometimes dubbed a cathedral of nature — both exemplified by the large Diplodocus cast which dominates the vaulted central hall.
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London Museum Fisheye Architecture
London Museum Fisheye Architecture
Used to be so easy to give my heart away
But I found out the hard way there's a price you have to pay
I found out that love was no friend of mine
I should have known time after time
So long,it was so long ago
But I've still got the blues for you
Used to be so easy to fall in love again
But I found out the hard way,it's a road that leads to pain
I found that love was more than just a game
You're playin' to win but you lose just the same
So long,it was so long ago
But I've still got the blues for you
So many years since I've seen your face
Here in my heart there's an empty space where you used to be
So long,it was so long ago
But I've still got the blues for you
Though the days come and go
There is one thing I know
I've still got the blues for you
( Gary Moore )
Used our new scanner today to take some self portraits. I had no idea what I was doing, so I'll do some more well thought out ones later. But the neat thing about scanner photos is it makes you look underwater.
I started to post process it then I realized it was really neat as is, so here it is straight out of the scanner.
This used to be a proud well kept train station. Now tickets are bought and paid for online or from the conductor on the train. I’m not even sure that the building is in use anymore. You used to be able to buy a newspaper and a cup of coffee inside. At one point it was featured in a movie even!!
ANSH scavenger14 public transportation.
Last update of 2018, so time for a collage of the best pics that I've posted over the last year.
There have been some pretty tough times for me in my real world in the last year, but thankfully things are starting to look up. My girl side is always a welcome distraction, and although I don't dress up as much as I used to, I still love having a girly day when I can.
What really has rejuvenated my girl side was starting to go out again after giving it a miss for over a year. A couple of fabulous nights out to BNO and a welcome return to Torture Garden have been truly amazing, and it's been great to catch up with so many old friends and making some lovely new friends on the way too.
Thank you again to everyone that leaves comments or favourites my pics, it really is appreciated :)
I'm really looking forward to 2019, and wishing you all a Happy New Year.
Penny
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Do you realise that the symbol used to represent pi….you know, that horrible 3.141….thing you had to learn about at school in maths for calculating the circumference or area of a circle….., originated in North Wales?
The first calculation of pi was made by Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC), one of the greatest mathematicians of the ancient world, but it was a much less famous man called William Jones who introduced that symbol ‘π’ which until then was just a Greek letter.
William Jones was born sometime around 1675 on the island Anglesey in the parish of Llanfihangel Tre’r Beirdd, about four miles west of the town which is now Benllech. He had a humble up-bringing and was raised on a small farmstead by his parents Siôn Siôr (John George Jones) and Elizabeth Rowland. However his talent for mathematics quickly became apparent when he attended a charity school at Llanfechell. It was to be his only formal education. His aptitude for the subject ensured that he would not follow in the family footsteps. A local squire and landlord of the distinguished Bulkeley family, heard of his skill and took him under their patronage. They arranged for him to work in a merchant’s counting house in London.
It was only the first of many journeys. Between 1695 and 1702 he served in the Royal Navy, sailing to the West Indies during which time he taught mathematics on board a man-of-war, en-route learning about navigation. He was present at the battle of Vigo in October 1702 when the English successfully captured the Spanish treasure fleet as it was returning to the port in north-west Spain under French escort. Ignoring the obvious riches of silver to be had, he went in search of other booty according to an 1807 memoir by Baron Teignmouth, ‘... literary treasures were the sole plunder that he coveted.’
On his return he published A New Compendium of the Whole Art of Navigation which he dedicated to a benefactor John Harris, a writer, scientist and Anglican priest who had taken him under his wing. Back in the capital, his voyages over, he became a mathematics teacher in coffee houses and as a private tutor to the son of the future Earl of Macclesfield. He also became tutor to Philip Yorke, later 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), who became Lord Chancellor and provided an invaluable source of introductions for his tutor.
In those circles, Isaac Newton had already mentioned to the Admiralty the benefit of sending mathematicians to sea. So inevitably it was only a matter of time before Jones came to the attention of Newton after reading “Jones’s Synopsis”, in which the younger man explained Newton’s methods for calculus as well as other mathematical innovations. It was in this book that Jones first used the Greek symbol ‘π’ to denote the pi. More significantly he used it as a constant number - 3.141...
Before Jones, approximations such as 22/7 and 355/113 had also been used to express the ratio. Explaining its use, he wrote: ‘... the exact proportion between the diameter and the circumference can never be expressed in numbers...’. Hence, a symbol was required to represent an ideal that can be approached but never reached. For this Jones recognised that only a pure platonic symbol would suffice.
In 1708 Jones was able to acquire an extensive library and archive, which contained several of Newton’s letters and papers written in the 1670s. The following year he applied for the mastership of Christ’s Hospital Mathematical School, despite references from Newton and Edmund Halley (the astronomer who calculated the orbit of the comet, now named after him) but he was turned down. Jones went back into private teaching but thanks to the papers he had acquired he was able to help his old mentor Newton resolving a dispute with German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, over which of the men first invented calculus.
In 1712 Jones joined the committee set up by the Royal Society to determine which of them invented calculus. He was now firmly in the mathematical establishment.
He married twice, firstly the widow of his counting-house employer, whose property he inherited on her death.He remarried in 1731, to Mary, the 22-year-old daughter (30 years his junior) of cabinet-maker George Nix, with whom he had three children.
And therein lies the story of ‘π’ and it’s origins in North Wales. My photo is actually of part of some derelict structure of the Penmaenmawr quarry, the quarry that has removed the top one third of this granite mountain. But I thought it looked like ‘π’ standing high above the North Wales Expressway.
How much ingenuity is used to dispose of our waste nowadays!!!
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I have seen in the past a similar vehicle working in our street.
Today I have spotted this vehicle in Business Park, Notting Hill
It was fascinating to have a closer look at this amazing machine with these gadgets attached.
"I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone." ~ Robin Williams
Taken using my Nikon F4 with Ilford HP5 Plus film on a cold rainy day in Vancouver.
Little to no post processing with the exception of shadow adjustments.
Song: Out of the Woodwork
Artist: Courtney Barnett
Album: The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
Using 18th century term referring outlandish dress. This Jay was drying himself after several damp days.
The use of Iris as a garden plant dates back to 1469 B.C. and King Thutmose III of Egypt. Apparently, the king was an avid gardener and coveted plants the way many at the time coveted gold. When Egypt conquered Syria, the king found Irises growing in abundance and introduced them to his gardens. Iris soon became very popular and was regarded by Egyptians to symbolize both the essence and renewal of life. The three petals of the flower were thought to stand for faith, wisdom and valor. Its rhizomes were used for medical purposes and for the manufacture of perfumes and incense used in religious ceremonies. (Source: David Trinklein, Univ. of Missouri Division of Plant Sciences).
I am not used to use Twitter but
since flickr update their policy
i think my 2nd flickr will get removed
anytime soon i assume since its not pro account.
I'd still upload picture on my first flickr which is pro,
but i will move these kind of content such as
NSFW, Lotd, Blogging to twitter.
Soooo am looking for twittie fran :>
I used it originally for upload my Animal Crossing pictures lmao
and now i will be update my SL picture as well.
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