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Tigger is wondering when I'll be done working on my program and pay attention to her. I tend to be single-minded when I'm working on my programs... Poor Tigger!
Will it ever? I picked up this paperback 'The Corona Book of Science Fiction' on a S/H book stall in a Tesco's a few months ago and the irony of the title struck me. A lot! Who knows when it will end but things are slowly getting better. Just a couple of weeks ago we had a whole day without any deaths in England and Scotland due to the virus.
When I lived in Lakeview, Oregon during 1985-1986, I discovered that trackside access to the Southern Pacific branchline into town was somewhat limited. There was an infamous sinkhole seven miles south of town at milepost 505 that was adjacent to a county road. It was the last public access to the right of way north of the state line. As such, I recorded a fair collection of photos there.
These two shots show the differences that took place in a seven month span. On a Tuesday night in August 1985, I caught SP's Lakeview Local rolling timetable westbound at MP 505. Although I couldn't have imagined it at the time, eight years later I would get to ride in the GP9 pulling this train from Woodburn to Salem via Silverton on the new Willamette Valley Railway.
In January 1986, SP sold the Lakeview Branch to Lake County Oregon as a shortline. The county hired Great Western Railroad of Colorado to operate the new shortline. Severe storms during February 1986 caused so much damage that GWR was out of service for three weeks making repairs. Fortunately, GWR had stockpiled empties in Lakeview, so they were able to spot cars for loading during most of the time they were out of service.
Once the branch was reopened, I caught the first GWR train out of Lakeview down at MP 505 on March 4th. It was nice that the train departed town during my lunch hour! Aside from the lack of a caboose and the paint on the locomotive, the image was very similar to what I had seen the previous summer.
fear is all i come to know..
i walk through the tunnel trying to shade the darkness..
as it becomes my only shadow..
to guide me to the end as a bright light starts to glow through my path way..
thats when i relaize my eyes are shining bright with its colourful ray..
hope i call it in every way !
poem by : me.
When I was on the Olympic Peninsula I took a quick trip to Ocean Shores, WA, hoping to see vast oceanic vistas. All I saw was fog. I did hear waves. I do kind of like the simplicity of this shot.
When the sky use to be blue :) Wanted to get some picture yesterday. But the taste and smell of the air was to nasty.
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. [Anais Nin]
"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. "
Ernest Hemingway
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My Alex and his beloved grandfather.
I just love how Alex looks for his granddad while he was waiting for him to go together for a fishing. I love how my father slightly comes to this frame, love his strong hands, his being .. oh.. He is missed so badly .... :(
Cancer Sucks !
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Thursdays: B&W, sepia or monochrome #7DWF
Andromeda Rock
In Greek mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia's hubris leads her to boast that Andromeda is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends a sea monster, Cetus, to ravage Aethiopia as divine punishment.[1] Andromeda is stripped and chained naked to a rock as a sacrifice to sate the monster, but is saved from death by Perseus.
Her name is the Latinized form of the Greek Ἀνδρομέδα (Androméda) or Ἀνδρομέδη (Andromédē): "ruler of men",[2] from ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός (anēr, andrós) "man", and medon, "ruler".
As a subject, Andromeda has been popular in art since classical times; it is one of several Greek myths of a Greek hero's rescue of the intended victim of an archaic hieros gamos (sacred marriage), giving rise to the "princess and dragon" motif. From the Renaissance, interest revived in the original story, typically as derived from Ovid's account.
Contents [hide]
1Mythology
2Constellations
3Perseus and Andromeda in art
3.1Film
3.2Novels
4Depictions in art
5See also
6Sources
7References
8External links
Mythology[edit]
A small Roman fresco from Pompeii
In Greek mythology, Andromeda was the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of the North African kingdom of Aethiopia.
Her mother Cassiopeia boasted that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus and often seen accompanying Poseidon. To punish the queen for her arrogance, Poseidon, brother to Zeus and god of the sea, sent a sea monster named Cetus to ravage the coast of Aethiopia including the kingdom of the vain queen. The desperate king consulted the Oracle of Apollo, who announced that no respite would be found until the king sacrificed his daughter, Andromeda, to the monster. Stripped naked, she was chained to a rock on the coast.
Perseus was returning from having slain the Gorgon Medusa. After he happened upon the chained Andromeda, he approached Cetus while invisible (for he was wearing Hades's helm), and killed the sea monster. He set Andromeda free, and married her in spite of her having been previously promised to her uncle Phineus. At the wedding a quarrel took place between the rivals and Phineus was turned to stone by the sight of the Gorgon's head.[3]
Andromeda followed her husband, first to his native island of Serifos, where he rescued his mother Danaë, and then to Tiryns in Argos. Together, they became the ancestors of the family of the Perseidae through the line of their son Perses. Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, Electryon, and Cynurus as well as two daughters, Autochthe and Gorgophone. Their descendants ruled Mycenae from Electryon down to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus attained the kingdom, and would also include the great hero Heracles. According to this mythology, Perseus is the ancestor of the Persians.
At the port city of Jaffa (today part of Tel Aviv) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.[4]
After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE,[5] the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.
Constellations[edit]
Andromeda (1869) Edward Poynter
Andromeda is represented in the northern sky by the constellation Andromeda, which contains the Andromeda Galaxy.
Four constellations are associated with the myth. Viewing the fainter stars visible to the naked eye, the constellations are rendered as:
A huge man wearing a crown, upside down with respect to the ecliptic (the constellation Cepheus)
A smaller figure, next to the man, sitting on a chair; as it is near the pole star, it may be seen by observers in the Northern Hemisphere through the whole year, although sometimes upside down (the constellation Cassiopeia)
A maiden, chained up, facing or turning away from the ecliptic (the constellation Andromeda), next to Pegasus
A whale just under the ecliptic (the constellation Cetus)
Other constellations related to the story are:
Perseus
The constellation Pegasus, who was born from the stump of Medusa's neck, after Perseus had decapitated her
The constellation Pisces, which may have been treated as two fish caught by Dictys the fisherman who was brother of Polydectes, king of Seriphos, the place where Perseus and his mother Danaë were stranded
Perseus and Andromeda in art[edit]
Cesari: Perseus saving Andromeda, 1596, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Sophocles and Euripides (and in more modern times, Corneille) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art, including Greek vases. Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera, Persée, also dramatizes the myth.
Andromeda has been the subject of numerous ancient and modern works of art, which typically show the moment of rescue, with Andromeda usually still chained, and often naked or nearly so. Examples include: one of Titian's poesies (Wallace Collection), and compositions by Joachim Wtewael (Louvre), Veronese (Rennes), many versions by Rubens, Ingres, and Gustave Moreau. From the Renaissance onward the chained nude figure of Andromeda typically was the centre of interest. Rembrandt's Andromeda Chained to the Rocks is unusual in showing her alone, fearfully awaiting the monster.
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain’d,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fetter’d, in spite of pained loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrain’d,
Sandals more interwoven and complete
To fit the naked foot of poesy;
Let us inspect the lyre, and weigh the stress
Of every chord, and see what may be gain’d
By ear industrious, and attention meet:
Misers of sound and syllable, no less
Than Midas of his coinage, let us be
Jealous of dead leaves in the bay wreath crown;
So, if we may not let the Muse be free,
She will be bound with garlands of her own.
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"If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d"
John Keats (1795-1821)[6]
The Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino composed an hour-long operatic drama called Perseo e Andromeda in 2000.
Film[edit]
In 1973, an animated film called Perseus (20 minutes) was made in the Soviet Union as part of the Soviet animated film collection called Legends and mуths of Ancient Greece.[7][8]
The 1981 film Clash of the Titans retells the story of Perseus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, but makes a few changes (notably Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than Thetis as opposed to the Nereids as a group). Thetis was indeed a Nereid and also the future mother of Achilles. Andromeda and Perseus meet and fall in love after he saves her soul from the enslavement of Thetis' son, Calibos, whereas in the myth, they simply meet as Perseus returns home from having slain Medusa. In the film, the monster is called a kraken, although it is depicted as a lizard-like creature rather than a squid; and combining two elements of the myth, Perseus defeats the sea monster by showing it Medusa's face, turning the monster into stone. Andromeda is depicted as being strong-willed and independent, whereas in the stories she is only really mentioned as being the princess whom Perseus saves from the sea monster. Andromeda was portrayed by Judi Bowker in this film.
Andromeda also features in the 2010 film Clash of the Titans, a remake of the 1981 version. Several changes were made in regard to the myth, most notably that Perseus did not marry Andromeda after he rescued her from the sea monster. Andromeda was portrayed by Alexa Davalos. The character was played by Rosamund Pike in the sequel Wrath of the Titans, the second of a planned trilogy. In the end of the sequel, Perseus and Andromeda begin a relationship.
In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus. In order to attain the Andromeda Cloth, he was chained between two large pillars of rock and he had to overcome the chains before the tide came in and killed him, also reminiscent of this myth.
Andromeda appears in Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series as a new student of "Prometheus Academy" which Hercules and other characters from Greek mythology attend.
Novels[edit]
In Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, there are a few references to Andromeda. The most obvious is that the series' lead villains have a cruise ship which serves as their headquarters and is called The Princess Andromeda.
Andromeda is the main character in Harry Turtledove's short story "Miss Manners' Guide to Greek Missology", published in Esther Friesner's Chicks in Chainmail series of humorous feminist fantasy collections, and reprinted in other anthologies afterwards. It is a satire filled with role reversals, puns, and deliberate anachronisms relating to pop culture.
Andromeda is Anna's full name in Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper, which was turned into a movie in 2010. In the novel there are several references to mythology, as Anna's dad Brian is an astronomer in his free time.
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When I reached the last line of dunes on this windy afternoon I observed something new. About a half dozen crows or ravens were frolicking in the updrafts over the dunes.
Superb fliers, the crows could easily have flapped their way up and into the winds. But what fun would that be?
Instead, as seen here, the crows were waiting for just the right gust to lift them into the air and sweep them away. They were patient. They had to be, since not just any gust would do.
What I wasn't able to capture was the sight of the crows, now airborne, skimming over the dunes like cruise missiles on their way to a target.
Now, there may be some dry, sociobiological explanation for this afternoon of aerobatics, but I prefer to think that crows just want to have fun!
When I started the 100strangers project, coloured hair was one of the key factors for choosing a stranger; people started telling me I was doing a project with subject with coloured hair and I wanted to move on.
Watching the people walk around the Duomo area, I could not avoid noticing these
blue hair: just too amazing!
Yvonneè was walking with Asia and they agreed to help me with the project despite being quite in a rush.
We were near the alley I noticed when I met Mario in Milan a while back and this was my chance to shoot a stranger there.
Asia helped me with the reflector and made sure everything was fine with Yvonneè, who preferred to get rid of her glasses for the shooting. I'm not sure Yvonneè was too happy with the result, mainly because she had no makeup.
Thank you ladies: it was fun meeting you!
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This picture is #98 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
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I was in Scotland last weekend, there had been a lot of snow on the hills, but it had all melted, then frozen again, leaving paths of sheet ice... some interesting moments as we were out walking!
When you walk away
I count the steps that you take
Do you see how much I need you right now?
When you’re gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
When you’re gone
The face I came to know is missing too
When you’re gone
The words I need to hear to always get me through the day
And make it ok
I miss you
When you walk away
I count the steps that you take
Do you see how much I need you right now?
When you’re gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you . .~
ain't no sunshine when she's gone: www.youtube.com/watch?v=16AnGcB7MHA
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When you go fishing, you know that a lot of preparation, skill and time is spent in obtaining your fresh catch. Right? Well, it's no different for the brown bears ... but they also possess an incredible amount of patience to go with it. Especially if you're this particular bear.
See, this bear was cruising the creek for salmon. When he (let's assume that it was a he ... not sure) saw us, he decided after a brief time to park himself along the bank of the creek, but staying in the water. I was excited because that usually means that it's time for some quick action, lunging shots of the salmon pursuit ... you know, bear claws, intensity in the face of the predator, and lots of splash. I set up my gear and tried to exercise some patience. Well, bears win on the patience front, that's for sure. This guy just sat there for what seemed to be an hour (OK, maybe it was 15-20 minutes) and stared at us, while he intermittently stared down a few salmon as well. At his personal "dinner table", the brightly colored salmon swam by him in numbers. He waited for just the right one ... the nice big fat one full of roe. You guessed it too, I missed the lunge shot! Oh well. LOL. There will be lots more lunges, as this bear continues to "fatten up" for the winter.
This is how I feel while waiting for the year end holidays. Anxious for them to get here, carefully choosing my activities, and getting ready to plan for the future.
More images to come too on the blog @ www.tnwaphotography.wordpress.com
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When I shot this I put my shutter speed to 1/1000 of a second and still didn't stop the wings. Next time I'll try 1/2000 of a second.
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