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Day 6 : To The Dogs
Last day tomorrow, my Star wars week has been fun, thanks all.
HAPPY 4th OF JULY to all my American visitors :-)
aparently an actual street in chicago, course get 4 adults with dirty minds to walk past this sign, and laughing insues...
The "NYC Heritage" leads BNSF's U-ELUNSD0-26 around the bend at Wacker Rd and is about to assault the hill out of the Mississippi River valley.
Savanna, IL. May 1, 2013.
Recently, we trouped off to Simcoe, Ontario to visit the Norfolk County Fall Fair and Horse Show, which is probably the best fall fair in Ontario and one of the last as the fair season winds down on Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. Once dusk had set in, we headed over to the midway area to shoot the wild colour scenes such as this game which was based on wacking a large button on the counter. The young ladies were seemingly enjoying themselves, possibly having more to do with the attendant than the game. - JW
Date Taken: 2017-10-06
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8, Auto WB, ISO560 (Auto ISO), Aperture priority mode, f/2.5, 1/160 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: scale image to 9000x6000, set exposure to approx 1.25stops higher (brighter) than as-shot, adjust contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, adjust colour balance to help manage the effects of the mixed lighting, increase vibrance, enable shadows-highlights and bring up shadows a bit to improve the look of the people in the foreground, enable the Graduated Neutral Density tool and rotate it to darken the distractingly bright area below the counter level, sharpen, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: adjust the tone curve bring up the mid-tones slightly, make adjustments to colour balance to get reasonable colour balance in the impossible multi-light-source environment, create new working layer from visible results, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000x4000, sharpen slightly, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 1800 wide for posting, sharpen slightly, save.
Beskrivning: Tillskrift av Bernhard Ludwig Wacker, den 18 november 1778
Källa: Stifts- och landsbiblioteket i Skara: MS Biografi Stambok 4, s. 78
Yes folks, there really is a Wacker's Trading Post. It's on Rt. 47 (Delsea Drive) in Pitman, NJ. We recently bought an antique bedroom set from them.
HBW!
As a result of the disappointing news that our move to Texas is off, Jean and I decided some retail therapy might deflate the funk. So...
We bought a hot tub!
It's being delivered on Friday. In the meantime, we had to prepare a space for it. One of our neighbors owns a landscape company and he found a way to fit us in this week.
I'm pretty sure these guys thought I was weird. But, I'm okay with that.
I decided to leave my real camera at the apartment for our trip into Harlem, because I’m a suburban white Canadian guy and didn’t think it was a good idea to take it. I’m not going to sugar-coat my reason. So, the rest of my pics from Day 1 would have to be taken with my cell phone camera.
We got off the 6 Train at 125th Street and first looked for a bathroom. I went into a crowded McDonald’s and headed for the bathroom, and immediately this big black guy sitting at a nearby stool called me out for not buying something first. So I looked around and assessed the situation and thought “Fuck this; I’m not about to get shot over a piss”, so I left. I told Ally what happened, and she suggested we go to the Subway just up the street, which I said no to…I think. The details are a little blurry. Probably should have posted these pics and stories sooner. Anyway, after my first experience in Harlem being a negative one that completely fit the stereotype in my mind, we walked up the street and turned onto E 127th Street, where we got ice cream from a truck in front of a school, and walked toward the Crack Is Wack playground. We walked around the park and saw some people inside, then made our way around to the actual mural, where we each took a few pics. The stereotypical first tourist stop? “OMG Statue of Liberty!!!” Our first stop? “Crack Is Wack!”
We didn’t spend much time in Harlem, but my impression overall (including our experiences that afternoon and later in the evening) was better than I expected. I expected Harlem to be sketchy and full of gangsters, but it was really no more sketchy than the neighbourhood I lived in at the time. Maybe it's the fact that we got there around 3 in the afternoon and there were kids everywhere, but it seemed like a happy place.
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