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“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books.” -John Lubbock
Wandering in nature is always an enriching experience!
Notebook from Pike St. Press, bandana from Woosah.
A wander around Padley Gorge before the masses gather.
Some nice light and the colours getting ready to go.
Press L to be there.
One of my favourite photos, from one of my favourite places in the most remote corner of British Columbia
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BR Standard 9F No. 92212 pictured at Wanders curve on the Mid Hants railway, hauling a demonstration freight train to Alton.
Kampong Phluk is a commune in Prasat Bakong District in Siem Reap Province Cambodia. The name means "Harbor of the Tusks". The community largely depends on fishing for survival, primarily shrimp, spending Cambodia's wet season (May-October) fishing.
Many houses and buildings are constructed on stilts ranging from 6 m to 9 m to accommodate the changes in water level between wet and dry seasons.
During the dry season (November-April) as the river thins due to receding water, many turn to farming to supplement their income. Tourism, which started in the village approximately 10 years ago, is also a growing part of the local economy.
The children of the village seemed largely uninterested in our group as we wandered through
My father's note in the family scrapbook said, "Ed was always first to make friends with the natives." I assume the reference to "natives" here was the dog -- which was not ours, and which I have no memory of at all. The girl on the right is Patrice, the older of the two sisters I grew up with; at this point, she was a few months shy of her third birthday.
This was taken shortly after we arrived in Roswell, before we had found a house to live in.
I know that my younger sister Aleda celebrated her first several birthdays (on Mar 17th) in a motel as we moved around the country, and I think this might well have been the first such occasion. That being the case, I'm assuming that this photo was taken a few days later...
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This may have been photographed near the house where I lived with my parents and two of my five sisters in 1953-4. The photo was taken nearly 40 years after we first moved into the house, as part of some research that I was doing for a novel called Do-Overs, the beginning of which can be found here on my website
www.yourdon.com/personal/fiction/doovers/index.html
and the relevant chapter (concerning Roswell) can be found here:
www.yourdon.com/personal/fiction/doovers/chapters/ch7.html
Before I get into the details, let me make a strong request — if you’re looking at these photos, and if you are getting any enjoyment at all of this brief look at some mundane Americana from 60+ years ago: find a similar episode in your own life, and write it down. Gather the pictures, clean them up, and upload them somewhere on the Internet where they can be found. Trust me: there will come a day when the only person on the planet who actually experienced those events is you. Your own memories may be fuzzy and incomplete; but they will be invaluable to your friends and family members, and to many generations of your descendants.
So, what do I remember about the year that I spent in Roswell? Not much at the moment, though I’m sure more details will occur to me in the days to come — and I’ll add them to these notes, along with additional photos that I’m tweaking and editing now (including some of the drive from Roswell to Riverside, CA where our family moved next), as well as some “real” contemporaneous photos I’ve found in family scrapbooks.
For now, here is a random list of things I remember:
I discovered roller skates while I lived here — perhaps aided by the presence of nice, smooth, wide sidewalks throughout this whole area of town. Sometimes my mother sent me on a small shopping expedition to the local grocery store, about two blocks away, to buy a quart of milk or a couple of other minor things. The shorts that I wore had no pockets (I have no idea why), so I put the coins that my mother gave me into my mouth, for safekeeping. That way, I had both hands free in case I tripped and fell … but if I had done so, I probably would have swallowed the coins.
For Christmas that year (i.e., Christmas of 1953), I was given a .22-caliber rifle. Even today, it would cause only a shrug in many rural parts of the U.S.; and it was certainly unremarkable in the 1950s. My dad felt that every boy should have a rifle, and should learn how to shoot it, clean it, and take care of it in a responsible fashion. I think his intention was to take me out into the open area outside of Roswell, to shoot at rabbits or gophers; but we ended up shooting at cans and bottles in the local dump.
In 1953, Roswell had not acquired any fame or attention for its proximity to the alleged alien landing in 1947. Trust me: if there had been even a hint of a rumor, the young kids in that town would have heard about it. Whatever may (or may not) have happened there . If you have no idea what this is all about, take a look at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident
For young boys, it was great sport to shoot at moving creatures. Dogs and cats were considered off-limits; and as implied above, we were not allowed to wander the streets with a .22 rifle. But we all had slingshots, and there were an infinite number of lizards in the area. Unfortunately, lizard were far too quick to hit with a relatively inaccurate slingshot (especially if shot with an unevenly-shaped rock; and it was only a year later, in California, that I began shooting marbles). Our greatest success was actually with slower creatures: horned toads, usually referred to as “horny toads,” or just “horns.” Indeed, they were slow enough that you could capture them with bare hands. You probably have no idea what I’m talking about, so take a look at this National Geographic article: animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/horned-toad/
WND JF3GPSFC nebula in exouniverse
Image credit: WANDER Space Probe / Navid Baraty
Big news! I’m excited to announce my new ongoing series of images taken by the WANDER space probe. WANDER (Wormhole Accelerated Nomad Delivering Exploratory Reconnaissance) is on a mission to explore beyond our universe and capture never-before-seen images of what exists in these strange worlds. WANDER travels by tunneling through wormholes, or “shortcuts” through spacetime. The wormholes are created from huge quantities of extremely dense matter in neutron stars and are filled with incredible amounts of negative energy harnessed from the vacuum of space. This negative energy holds the tunnel of the wormhole open long enough to be traversable.
With my technical background and knowledge of photography, I’m honored to have been selected as the lead image processor for the WANDER mission. WANDER uses special electronic detectors to record wavelengths of light throughout the range of the electromagnetic spectrum. This raw image data from WANDER is transmitted to Earth in the form of qubits (quantum bits) at nearly instantaneous speeds via quantum entanglement. My job is to analyze and edit this data to produce finished color images that accurately depict the grandeur of these universes.
UPDATE: For several months, the WANDER space probe mysteriously disappeared and completely ceased transmitting all data to Earth. With heavy hearts, all of us involved with the WANDER mission assumed the worst. Miraculously and quite unexpectedly, the WANDER resumed contact with our servers last week and data connection has been fully restored with the probe! I'm so happy to report that I've once again resumed my role as the lead image processor and will be posting images seen by the WANDER space probe in these strange and mysterious worlds.
First up is this image of a nebula designated WND JF3GPSFC. We're very interested in the unusual streams of gas emanating from this nebula and I'll be posting updates as we know more.
Follow updates from WANDER on twitter and on facebook.
Wanderung auf den Burgberg > Kreuz des Ostens > Burgberg > Kaltes Tal > Bad Harzburg an einem grauen diesigen Wintertag.
Aber schön war's trotzdem. Kein Mensch weit und breit.
Believe it or not I hadn’t set out to make a photograph from this famous location. Along with my wife and children I had just been for a wander up to the Quiraing*, (Scots Gaelic: Cuith-raing) and the path passes very close to this spot. We were on our way back to the car after a morning and early afternoon of bright sunshine and squally showers, but by now it looked like heavier rain was setting in. I thought that it might just be dull enough overhead for it to be worth trying something, and this image is the result. I was hoping that the sky at the top left of the frame might darken a bit, but it didn't happen. Within 5 minutes the rain was torrential and it was time to pack up.
*You’ll often see this view referred to as ‘The Quiraing’, but this is in fact looking away from that feature towards the summits of Cleat and Bioda Buidhe, part of the Trotternish Ridge (Druim Thròndairnais).
Website: Douglas Griffin Photography
WND 5C1O2CH Nebula in exouniverse
Image credit: WANDER Space Probe / Navid Baraty
Big news! I’m excited to announce my new ongoing series of images taken by the WANDER space probe. WANDER (Wormhole Accelerated Nomad Delivering Exploratory Reconnaissance) is on a mission to explore beyond our universe and capture never-before-seen images of what exists in these strange worlds. WANDER travels by tunneling through wormholes, or “shortcuts” through spacetime. The wormholes are created from huge quantities of extremely dense matter in neutron stars and are filled with incredible amounts of negative energy harnessed from the vacuum of space. This negative energy holds the tunnel of the wormhole open long enough to be traversable.
With my technical background and knowledge of photography, I’m honored to have been selected as the lead image processor for the WANDER mission. WANDER uses special electronic detectors to record wavelengths of light throughout the range of the electromagnetic spectrum. This raw image data from WANDER is transmitted to Earth in the form of qubits (quantum bits) at nearly instantaneous speeds via quantum entanglement. My job is to analyze and edit this data to produce finished color images that accurately depict the grandeur of these universes.
On occasion, WANDER will be making observations in our universe as it periodically returns to Earth for routine maintenance.
Follow updates from WANDER on twitter and on facebook.
Wandered in the yard a bit to stretch my legs. Several of the bushes are blooming nicely. They were here when I moved in and I have no idea what they are, but they sure are pretty.
Blick vom Mehlberg bei Steinach an der Saale in Unterfranken Richtung Ostsüdosten. In den Ferne erkennt man den Höhenzug der Haßberge.
Ghostly anomaly in Universe SBE133
Image credit: WANDER Space Probe / Navid Baraty
Big news! I’m excited to announce my new ongoing series of images taken by the WANDER space probe. WANDER (Wormhole Accelerated Nomad Delivering Exploratory Reconnaissance) is on a mission to explore beyond our universe and capture never-before-seen images of what exists in these strange worlds. WANDER travels by tunneling through wormholes, or “shortcuts” through spacetime. The wormholes are created from huge quantities of extremely dense matter in neutron stars and are filled with incredible amounts of negative energy harnessed from the vacuum of space. This negative energy holds the tunnel of the wormhole open long enough to be traversable.
With my technical background and knowledge of photography, I’m honored to have been selected as the lead image processor for the WANDER mission. WANDER uses special electronic detectors to record wavelengths of light throughout the range of the electromagnetic spectrum. This raw image data from WANDER is transmitted to Earth in the form of qubits (quantum bits) at nearly instantaneous speeds via quantum entanglement. My job is to analyze and edit this data to produce finished color images that accurately depict the grandeur of these universes.
On occasion, WANDER will be making observations in our universe as it periodically returns to Earth for routine maintenance.
Follow updates from WANDER on twitter and on facebook.
Went on one of Alistair's Summer Wanders on Thursday with the Camera Club. We went to Glasgow Green. Good turn out and nice to be able to do it out without having to put on the brown corduroys (it can be quite intimidating you know!!) Sorry I wasn't able to stay for a beer. Looked a nice place to finish. Cheers Alistair!!