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& one lifetime didn't seem nearly enough. When I grow up, I hope it's at the very end when it doesn't matter anymore anyway
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HCM! Processed with Nichole Van's retro holga actions.
Secret #16
When I was little, I wanted to work at Walmart when I "grew up" or I wanted to work at Sonic, they had cool car hops that, instead of walking, they roller skated, and I wanted to be the queen, sounds about right, huh? lol
Taken with a Minolta X-700 with Motor Drive 1, a Fujifilm Fujicolor C200 film and a MD Rokkor-X 50mm f1.4 lens.
This delicate smudge in deep space is far more turbulent than it first appears. Known as IRAS 14348-1447 — a name derived in part from that of its discoverer, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS for short) — this celestial object is actually a combination of two gas-rich spiral galaxies. This doomed duo approached one another too closely in the past, gravity causing them to affect and tug at each other and slowly, destructively, merge into one. The image was taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1701a/
Credit:
ESA/Hubble & NASA
keep trying..keep believing..and miracles will come...at least thats what i told myself when im stucked...
well..this shot was quite a faillure..lol..see the bokeh circles infront of danbo??thats something im experimenting..i rarely(infact..never) put any bokeh circles infront of my subject b4..as i always think that its distracting...but after sooo many bokeh shots i've done..i think i shouldnt limit myself with that..so now im sourcing and experimenting new way of creating bokehs..as well as new positions..well even tho the result was miles away from what im expecting..but i guess i shouldnt give up after only 1 try.. ^^ so yea..witness my failure here..and i'll bounce back!! bwahahahaha~ *evil*
btw..the origami crane thingy was made by my gf(using the left over paper used to create the front bokeh)..it was really really small..only around 8mm(W) x 6mm(H) x 5mm(D)..
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Remember When - Alan Jackson
When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls, all silvered o'er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves,
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
And die as fast as they see others grow;
And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnet XII
Super duper offlink ! Then WDM2C Baldie, now WDM3A 14039R (APU Fitted) from Loco shed, Gonda in Short Hood Front pushing 22476 Coimbatore - Bikaner AC Superfast Express in reverse direction towards PF5 of Coimbatore Junction.
When it is the end of the week and you realize you forgot to check the challenge, and you are at a hotel….
Alphabet challenge Toasty
Round 117 ANSH: Bread
I was heading to Tokyo's national museum then i saw them working so hard & i felt like taking a photo of them
Brief History of Maryborough.
This fertile area of Queensland was the fifth area to be settled when it was still part of NSW. The first settlement in QLD was at Redcliffe (and later Moreton Bay) as a convict colony in 1824. This was followed by white settlement at Ipswich in 1842 and further inland in the mountains at Warwick in 1847. The NSW government sent explorers to the Mary River area in 1842 which was when the river was named. Then in 1847 inland from the Mary River a town was surveyed but not gazetted until 1849. It was Gayndah which now claims to be the oldest town in QLD. The establishment of Gayndah is remarkable given transport difficulties. Near the coast Maryborough was the site of a wharf for pastoralists in 1847 and later a small town was created in 1850 making Maryborough the fifth settlement in what is now QLD. The first land sales at Maryborough were in 1852 although a general store had opened before this time on leased land in 1848. The new town of Maryborough was sited on the Mary River which rises near the Glasshouse Mountains inland from the Sunshine Coast. It generally flows northwards to enter the sea a few miles downstream from the town of Maryborough. The Mary River was named after Lady Mary Lennox the wife of the Governor of NSW Charles Fitzroy. The little town struggled to establish itself but once QLD got independence from NSW in 1859 Maryborough began to grow more quickly as free white settlers spread around the new colony. The delays in growth were partly caused by local Aboriginal resistance to the white pastoralists. Between 1847 and 1853 twenty eight white settlers were killed by Aboriginal people. A white massacre of around 100 Aboriginal people in the early 1850s brought some calm to the area and broke the resistance of the Gubbi Gubbi people. The Gubbi Gubbi people were called the Gin Gins by white settlers hence the name for that town north of Maryborough. Like so many Australian towns Maryborough’s growth was fuelled by mining discoveries. Maryborough was declared an official QLD port in 1859 and the first ship load of immigrants disembarked directly at Maryborough in 1860. Most were female and instead of obtaining work as servants immediately accepted offers of marriage from the men of the district. Maryborough became a municipality in 1861. It soon had a Customs House, a Courthouse and School of Arts but it really grew with the discovery of gold inland at Gympie. Maryborough served as the pot for goods going to and from Gympie from 1867 onwards. The QLD Land Acts of 1867 also opened up the pastoral leasehold lands to farmers for the first time. The main crops grown were maize and sugar. At about the same time as the Gympie gold rush Maryborough got its first sugar mill, a timber mill and John Walker of Ballarat opened a foundry and engineering works to produce mining equipment just as he had done previously in Ballarat. The port expanded and the town grew. A new Post Office (1869), hotels and general stores opened to cater for the miners and the townspeople. By 1871 Maryborough had 3,500 residents with its own newspaper’s, churches and schools. The wider district population was 9,000 people. By 1876 the population had swelled to 5,700 people. The first railway opened in Maryborough in 1881 when a line connected the port with Gympie gold fields.
Maryborough South Sea Islander Hospital. The Kanaka indentured labour system was introduced to QLD in 1863. The Polynesian Hawaiians called themselves kanakas. This was the term used in the 19th century to cover the South Sea Islander indentured labourers. Most who came to the Maryborough region (and Bundaberg too) were from the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). Some Islanders were also taken as indentured labourers to Chile, to Canada, to California and to Fiji. The arrival of the first indentured islanders coincided with the beginnings of
the sugar industry in the Maryborough region. Sugar is a very intense labour crop and in the USA, the Caribbean and
South America African slaves were used for such work until the mid-19th century. The Americans had their tragic Civil War to end slavery there. British colonies were not allowed to have slaves by the 1830s century including all of the Australia colonies. African slaves were gradually freed in the Caribbean and elsewhere in the mid-19th century. South America had its slaves all freed by the 1870s. Although descendants of the South Sea Islanders like to refer to themselves as the Sugar Slaves this term would be highly offensive to all descendants of African slaves of the Americas and Caribbean. Indentured labour was a common labour system in the 19th century and continued into the 20th century. In Australia the Commonwealth government ran a similar indentured labour scheme for young British men who wanted to be farm labourers. They served a three year term, with no pay until they had completed their indenture, and they needed government permission to buy work boots or any other item. In SA this scheme was known as the Barwell Boys (Barwell was the SA premier at the time) scheme but it operated in WA and other states too. This indentured labour system ended in 1925.
So when the indentured South Sea Islander trade was established in Queensland in 1863 the first labourers were covered by the 1861 Masters and Servants Acts. (All colonies – and later states- had such acts which controlled labour relations right through to the 1980 and 1990s when anti-discrimination and equal opportunity acts watered them down.) Queensland acted quickly after 1863 and introduced the Polynesian Labourers Act in 1868. Amongst the many clauses of the act was the establishment of inspectors of conditions on plantations where South Sea Islanders were indentured. They weighed food rations, inspected housing and clothing. The act was also designed to protect the Islanders’ basic rights and to stop the “kidnapping” of Islanders. All ships captains had to ensure that there was no coercion and that the Islander’s recruitment was consistent with the QLD Polynesian Labourers Act. Although white settlers and Islanders died of fevers and tropical diseases frequently in the Maryborough area it had one of four Islander Hospitals erected by the QLD government in the early 1880s to help alleviate disease and death among the Islander populations in QLD. The first inspector for the health conditions of the Islanders began work in Maryborough in 1875.Their complaints about the conditions under which Islanders lived led to the opening of the 50 bed Maryborough Pacific Islander Hospital and doctor’s residence. Islanders had a higher death rate from disease than whites and extra health care was needed. Thus the Maryborough Hospital opened in 1883 to improve health conditions but it closed just five years later. Like other Islander hospitals it was funded from the wages due to dead Islanders. These wages were diverted to state government coffers. Attached to the hospital was an Islander cemetery which was formally established in 1891 but was used for interments whilst the hospital existed. A total of 363 Islander patients died at the hospital and were presumably all buried in the cemetery. The Maryborough Pacific Islander Hospital buildings were removed in 1892 and some equipment moved to the Maryborough Hospital which established a separate Kanaka ward. The site of the Pacific Island Hospital and cemetery was left vacant until sold off as vacant land in 1911. A controversy arose a couple of years when the Maryborough Council was considering allowing building on the former site. Action were than taken to have the site declared a heritage area. The outcome for this has not yet been decided. If building approval were to happen one can only hope that a suitable memorial and monument is placed there to remind everyone of Maryborough’s role in the South Sea Islander traffic. The site is near Tinana 5 kms west of Maryborough.
The first South Sea Islander labourers arrived at the port of Maryborough in 1867 on the schooner Mary Smith. All were male and found employed straight away with the Maryborough Sugar Company. They were paid £6 per year (paid at the end for the three year contract) compared with a white labourers who would have received up to £30 a year. The Islanders also were fed and housed which the white labourers were not. The Maryborough Sugar Company also paid for the voyage to and from the South Sea Islands. When the Mary borough Pacific Islander Hospital closed in 1888 it was partially because the number for South Sea Islanders was declining in the district. Numbers continued to fall in the 1890s as sugar profits declined. Then all South Sea Islanders were covered by the “White Australia Acts” of the new Federal Government in 1901. At that time the Islander population in Queensland was at its peak with around 9,000 Islanders. Commonwealth legislation banned recruitment from 1904 and started deportation in 1906. By 1908 7,000 Islanders had been deported and about 2,000 were allowed to stay on in Australia because of marriage or health or other issues. Over the life time of the South Sea Islander trade around 60,000 Islanders had been brought into Queensland and of those about a quarter were employed in the Maryborough district.
The Port of Maryborough.
The town actually began with a wharf as once prospective settlers learned that the River Mary was navigable white pastoralist and cotton and maize farmers moved into the district upstream from around 1848. Then in 1859 as the colony of Queensland was created from New South Wales a new international port was created at Maryborough. The town had moved from West Maryborough to the present site. Consequently the first Customs House was erected in 1861. In 1860 the first vessels arrived at the port of Maryborough direct from Europe with a load of immigrants. In 1869 nearly 7,000 immigrants had landed in Maryborough and by 1878 nearly 16,000 had landed here. In fact between 1860 and 1900 around 22,000 immigrants arrived directly in Maryborough from England and Europe. Maryborough also had a coastal steamer service to Brisbane and Rockhampton. From 1867 it also handled all the goods going into and the gold coming out of the goldfields at Gympie. In the last quarter of the 19th century the port of Maryborough handled saw timber, sugar, wool, meat, gold, maize, etc. Before the end of the 19th century when river ports like Maryborough were about to be forgotten because they could not handle larger steamers its imports and exports were roughly in balance in terms of value. The most valuable exports were: gold, silver, copper, fruit, hides and skins, sugar and wool. Of these the most valuable were sugar £50,000, raw and refined, followed by silver/lead £33,000, gold/silver £9,000 and skin/hides £8,000.
Among the early immigrants were shiploads of German settlers from 1860. As the numbers grew the first Lutheran pastor arrived in 1864 followed by a second in 1867. These and later pastors came from Germany or Denmark, mainly the Schleswig district, which was occupied by Germany from 1864 after it defeated the Danes. Between 1860 and 1891 around 180,000 immigrants arrived in Queensland with an assisted government passage and some rights to lease land. Around 16,000 were non British mainly Germans, Danes, Norwegians and Swedes. Other Australian colonies only gave assisted passages to British immigrants except for Tasmania and Queensland. Most of the non-British immigrants were German but the QLD government’s agent I Germany also recruited Scandinavians, Swiss etc. Queensland became the colony with the greatest number of Danes and it had almost as many Norwegians and Swedes as NSW. Some of these non-British immigrant’s landed in Maryborough with the first ship load arriving in March 1871 on the Reichstag from Hamburg. The Scandinavians especially settled at Tiaro and Tinana near Maryborough, around Bundaberg, Pialba at Hervey Bay and in other places like Kingaroy where Sir Jo Bjelke-Petersen lived. The town of Eidsvold, near Gayndah is a Norwegian name and it was established by the Archer brothers from Larvik in Norway. As most of the Scandinavians were Lutheran (but some were Catholic), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish names are often linked to the Lutheran churches of the Maryborough district. Some Scandinavian names (mainly Danish) of Maryborough early settlers include the Jocumsen, Claussen,Madsen, Kehlet, Weinberg, Okeden, Boge, Möller, etc. Many Danish and other Scandinavian names can also be found in the Polson cemetery at Pialba Hervey Bay such as Christensen, Hansen, Mortensen, Nielsen, Petersen, Thomsen etc.
When frozen glacier lakes begin to thaw, they make the perfect racetrack for kayaks 🏁 British Columbia
Sometimes when you look out your window you have to grab the camera and get the shot. Pretty nifty how the rainbow formed in the clouds.
May 2012 © Lise Utne. The double portrait is from 1891 or 1892, and was photographed by Tora Petterson, Östersund, Sweden. I found it in a shop a couple of years ago, in its present condition.
PS (6th June): This photograph is featured in my new book: WHEN LOVE CAME TO TOWN (2012).
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When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again
And I'll forget the world that I knew
But I swear I won't forget you
Oh if my voice could reach back through the past
I'd whisper in your ear:
"Oh darling, I wish you were here"
A few of Noah by himself tonight. He is so sweet.
Sometimes when I'm photographing the underside of Covered Bridges I might see some wood carvings or graffiti but this is the first time I've seen placards with Bible Scriptures, in this case, parts of Psalm 119:5-16, affixed to the underside structure of a bridge. The Siegrist's Mill Covered Bridge was originally built in 1885 in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In 2011 flood waters from tropical storm Lee lifted the bridge off its abutments and it floated downstream. The roots of a large sycamore tree stopped the bridge's progress and two large cranes were used to lift the bridge out of the Chiques Creek and onto dry land.
The decision to rebuild the bridge was made and two companies, Rettew Associates and Timber Frames, worked together to do the rebuild. They dismantled the existing bridge and marked salvageable parts that would go into the rebuild. Thirty of the existing timber pieces were used and 365 new pieces were added. In May of 2013, a 300 ton crane positioned the bridge on its new foundation which had been elevated by two feet from the original level to help prevent future flood damage. The rebuilt bridge, just like its predecessor, uses pine boards and battens and iw roofed with cedar shakes. The timber are rough-sawn Douglas Fir.
The bridge has a Burr arch design and is 101 feet long. The WGCB# for the bridge is 38-36-37#2.
Nikon D850 with Nikkor 19mm PC-E F4 perspective correction lens. F11, ISO 100. Oben tripod with Benro 3-way geared head.
Jedi Master Yoda, designed by Kawahata Fumiaki, folded/interpreted by Boon.
Paper : Elephant Hide, 30x30cm, green acrylic paint applied on one side, wet finished.
Just testing how EH will fare on this model and errr .... generally messing around ... I need the distraction ... :-)
I had been wanting to do something related to the Hokusai Magician for the longest time but hadn't got around to doing it properly. Just recently, I was reminded of Yoda's words of wisdom in someone's FB posting and I just *have* to do this image ... :-)
Not quite there yet. Planning to fold one more Yoda when time permits - promised a friend quite some time ago that I would give him one and he seems to be getting a bit impatient ... :-) Will likely use a slightly larger square and pose it in the manner similar to the diagrams. And will fine tune a bit more, here and there.
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"When Elijah reached Horeb, the mountain of God, he went into the cave and spent the night in it. Then he was told, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord.’ Then the Lord himself went by. There came a mighty wind, so strong it tore the mountains and shattered the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind came an earthquake. But the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire. But the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire there came the sound of a gentle breeze. And when Elijah heard this, he covered his face with his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave."
– 1 Kings 19:9,11-13, which is today's 1st reading at Mass.
Stained glass window from the Carmelite church of Stella Maris in Haifa.
And when fear and doubt creep in...don't mock God. Turn to Him.
Psalm 30:10Living Bible (TLB)
"Hear me, Lord; oh, have pity and help me.”
Psalm 27:7Living Bible (TLB)
"Listen to my pleading, Lord! Be merciful and send the help I need."
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Arthur Kay Piene - piano
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Lightroom 3
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I've always been drawn to the sea and to ships and boats. Maybe it's because I'm a water sign or maybe I lived by or on the sea in another life. My favorites are filled with photographs of boats. I just love them.
My entry for the Monthly Scavenger Hunt category "When the Ship Comes In".
Arctic Monkeys - When the sun goes Down
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