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Not too sure how to approach this subject but it could be just a matter of breaking the ice.
The above image was taken during a U.S. Army training exercise. The soldier laying next to the vehicles front wheel was "killed," notionally of course, during the exercise. If you look closely you'll notice another soldier onlooking in the background.
Now, here comes the odd part and the more difficult area to fully describe: People react the same way to a "death" as they do if it was real. And I'm not talking about going through one's training or anything like that. There's a certain awkwardness that strikes a human when another human has died.
It's as if time slows, feels as if it comes to a stop and we just need a moment to grasp this rare occurrence. People will just stop with whatever they are doing, no matter how important it is just to take in this fallen human. I don't know... Maybe it's this stark contrast of the two elements which overtakes us. Here you are caught in some random mess, some god awful hell of a shit hole and it's as if you are witnessing the angels coming down to take this soul away. This may sound crazy but it is one of the most peaceful things I have ever witnessed.
Being a bystander in the two images sorta supports this idea. Further more, I think it hits home even more because I have seen this for real in combat. It's such a surreal thing to grasp.
Why do I share this with all of you? Quite frankly I do not know exactly why but it may have to do with the this interactive process of sharing experiences. For some they will say this is fucked up or this or that - that's fine. Not that the full extent of this will ever be fully understood, the point of this was to show an emotion, an inkling that is deeply buried within my psyche.
Aaaaah! I finally have them all! This is such a nice line! And there's just so much nostalgia since i wanted these dolls ever since i was 4 about 12 years ago.
When i got out this morning he was full in bloom. Unluckily not yesterday ,when i made the previous photo.
A most beautiful flower for such a tiny and inconspicuous plant.
When Sargent Calhoun drives her race car into town to pick up some ground turmeric, she often thinks of Fix-It Felix Jr.
That cheerful and benevolent repairman! Such a hero with his magic hammer! Who needs Thor? Fix-It Felix Jr's hammer can fix and heal any damage or ailment.
Sargent Calhoun thinks of her own heroism as well. How many Cy-Bugs has she eliminated in Hero's Duty? Beyond count.
Sargent Calhoun mentally commends herself on her heroics and her fine taste in boyfriends.
Hmm... where to...? Ah, yes, finely ground turmeric.
Happy 🍔🍟 Wednesday!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Ralph Breaks The Internet
Sargent Calhoun
#8 Calhoun Racer
2018, McDonalds
Another fine Bijou Planks entry from Grab Bag #15!
Some dogs stay when they are told & some don't. It's hard to be annoyed when they are so adorably happy & cute. Zeus has decided he is just too old to be obedient anymore. LOL
Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
From 10 to 17 September 2011, Voronezh celebrated its 425th anniversary. The anniversary of the city was given the status of a federal scale celebration that helped attract large investments from the federal and regional budgets for development.
On December 17, 2012, Voronezh became the fifteenth city in Russia with a population of over one million people.
Today Voronezh is the economic, industrial, cultural, and scientific center of the Central Black Earth Region. As part of the annual tradition in the Russian city of Voronezh, every winter the main city square is thematically drawn around a classic literature. In 2020, the city was decorated using the motifs from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. In the year of 2021, the architects drew inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen as well as the animation classic The Snow Queen from the Soviet Union. The fairy tale replica city will feature the houses of Kai and Gerda, the palace of the snow queen, an ice rink, and illumination.
always needed time on my own
I never thought I'd need you there when I cry
And the days feel like years when I'm alone
And the bed where you lie is made up on your side
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
I've never felt this way before
Everything that I do reminds me of you
I love the things that you do
When you walk away I count the steps that you take
Do you see how much I need you right now
We were made for each other
Out here forever
I know we were, yeah
All I ever wanted was for you to know
Everything I'd do, I'd give my heart and soul
I can hardly breathe I need to feel you here with me, yeah
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A golfer at the very rundown Kings Creek Country Club did this to my husband's windshield last week. My husband was driving along on the highway minding his own business.. when a golfball smashed through his windshield. The country club claims they aren't liable and the golfer claims he's innocent. This damn country club is right next to a major highway with no barriers whatsoever. How the hell are they not liable? Also the golfer.. was one of only two people in the area that the ball came from. He was using yellow golfballs.. same color that smashed through the windshield.. and wearing the same red shirt my husband saw the asshole wearing from the distance.
That's okay. I went up there camera in hand and photographed the license plates of every vehicle on the lot in case I needed "proof" a certain someone was actually there that day. Then I went inside to ask for the sign in sheet of golfers on the field around that time. When the manager ignored me.. I glanced down at the front desk and saw it. Full names, email addresses and DL numbers. Nice. *Snap* Who needs xerox when you have a camera in hand?
It will be nice to sue a golf course. It's just the principal of the thing. Rich bastards trying to weasel out of paying for damages always annoy me. YOU ARE RICH YOU JACKASS.
One of the holes at Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place, Washington, which will be host to the 2010 US Amateur Open and the 2015 US Open! I'm so excited about that :-D
This is a 3 exposure (-2, 0, 2 ) hand-held HDR processed with Photomatix Pro and PhotoShop Elements 3.
For Marcia Calosio!
This is an iPad painting, made with iColorama. As a source, I used a photograph that I had taken when Grace gave birth to Hope, and Marcia arrived to bask in the herd.
Both Grace and Hope are still here, along with Joy D. Dogue and the Lovely Miss Beverly Tennessee, Warren Young The Man I love, and me.
33 years ago on this date (November 10, 1975) the ore carrier S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior taking with her all 29 men aboard, may they rest in peace.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
Gordon Lightfoot
When we decided to go to that shooting spot, my friend Dannick told me it was a good hike uphill. I laughed at him saying he was not fit for it. Next thing I knew is... I was defininately not fit either for that hike and I wanted to die at the top of the hill because I was so exhausted.
I'm sorry Dannick, you were right. I won't ever doubt you.
I gotta say though that it doesn't help trying to run uphill in sand like monkeys so you don't miss the train :D
“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
When I was young I lived in Levi's 501 STF. Found a box filled with once dark indigo jeans that now are super faded but awesome imho. Feels like I just got 6 new pairs of jeans for free. They still fit like a glove
This is Sunset at Athgreany Stone Circle. This place was built probably for religious purposes about 1300 BC in the Bronze Age. On a day like Summer solstice it was definitely a place for some celebrations. People gathered, the priests celebrated the ceremony, people offered sacrifices. In times when the Sun was God..To was an extraordinary experience to be there on this special day of the year.
Everything Gets hotter when the sun goes down. This season Texas Motor Speedway introduced a night race for the Sprint Cup. We've had Nationwide, the truck series and IRL all racing under the lights but no Sprint. It was nice. I hope they keep it this way.
Enjoy The Church Choir as they add a little mood music to today's photo.
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"A true sadhak (spiritual seeker) believes more in the present than in the future. When we put our faith in the present moment, all of our energy will be manifested here and now. Surrender to the present moment.”—Amma, “108 Quotes on Faith”
It rains a lot where I live in England and although it's less wet in Sri Lanka, when it rains -- it pours.
On an otherwise sunny day on the beach at Hikkaduwa the clouds rolled in for a spectacular display of tropical rain and lightning in the evening. By morning it was sunny clear and warm again. Perfect!
Sony RX100
Vintage French postcard. Series Collection Artistique du Vin Désiles. S.I.P. Photo by Manuel. Fugère, Opéra Comique. Caption: Désiles! Désiles! Ton vin donne au chanteur, Et du charme et de la vigeur!
Lucien Fugère (22 July 1848, Paris – 15 January 1935, Paris) was a French baritone, particularly associated with the French repertory and Mozart roles. He enjoyed an exceptionally long career, singing into his 80s.
Fugère's father died when he was 6, and at the age of 12 he was apprenticed as a mason, working on repairing statues and gargoyles of Notre Dame with his brothers. He also joined, and got noticed, in the singing societies popular in Paris at that time. Fugère was working as a jewelry salesman when he decided to try his luck at a career in music. After taking private voice lessons (he was refused by the Paris Conservatory), he made his debut as a chansonnier at the Bataclan in 1870. He then made his debut in operetta at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, in 1874, in La branche cassée by Serpette. In addition Fugère sang in La Boite au lait, Madame l'archiduc, Le Moulin du Vent-Galant and La créole at the Bouffes.
The turning point of his career came in 1877, when he made his debut at the Opéra-Comique as Jean, in Les noces de Jeannette by Victor Massé. He was to perform there regularly until 1920, creating roles in more than 30 operas, notably the father in Louise by Gustave Charpentier, Fritelli in Le roi malgré lui by Emmanuel Chabrier, and for Jules Massenet, Pandolfe in Cendrillon, the Devil in Grisélidis, des Grieux in Le portrait de Manon, Sancho in Don Quichotte, Boniface in Le jongleur de Notre-Dame, and for André Messager, Maitre André in Fortunio, Buvat in Le chevalier d'Harmental, and le Duc de Longueville in La Basoche. In total he sang in over 100 roles including Mozart's Figaro, Leporello, Papageno, Falstaff, and appeared at the Gaîté-Lyrique from 1908 until 1919. Two Chabrier songs are dedicated to Fugère: Sommation irrespectueuse and Pastorales des cochons roses, giving the premiere of the latter in 1890. In 1898, having sung at the re-opening of the Salle Favart, Fugère was presented to President Faure from whom he received the Cross of the Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. Fugère sang le Duc de Longueville one last time at the Opéra-Comique in 1929, and his final performance on stage was as Rossini's Bartolo, at the Trianon-Lyrique theater, in 1933, at the age of 85.
His voice was described as "a basse chantante of easy baritone range, with ringing clarity in the lower register and skilful refinement in the upper".[6] He recorded for Zonophone in 1902, and then for Columbia in 1928–30 (re-issued by Symposium). An outstanding singing-actor and a fine musician, Lucien Fugère enjoyed one of the longest operatic careers of all time. When asked about his longevity, he said to an interviewer, "If a man doesn't sing well by the time he is 83, when will he, I'd like to know!" He has been compared to the Swiss tenor Hugues Cuénod, who made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera at the age of 84. He became a singing teacher at the Paris Conservatoire, was a member of Comité de l'Association des Artistes dramatiques, and a member of the 'Commission départementales des Sites et Monuments naturels de caractère artistique de la Charente-Inférieure'.
(Source: English Wikipedia)
Photograph taken at an altitude of Two metres, in the golden hour around sunrise at 07:42am, (Sunrise was at 06:55am), on New Year's Day Tuesday 1st January 2013 opposite Western Esdplanade and Adventure Island, looking towards the old Pier, on the muddy shoreline of Southend on Sea, Essex, England.
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A little while ago I was invited to help photograph a Cerebral Palsy fund raising gala. At the event there was this very lively auctioneer. No, lively doesn't cover it - he could pass for the love child of Richard Simons and Jerry Lewis. Anyway he was running around, telling jokes and convincing people to raise their bids like he was on speed. I watched this poor signer trying to keep up. Didn't know whether to laugh or feel sorry for him, but he sure worked up a sweat trying to keep up with the auctioneer.
International Women's Day is celebrated around the world as a day when women are recognised for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. Since its early years, this day has helped direct society’s attention to women's rights and women’s increased participation in the political, social, public and economic arenas.
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Credits: Dana Rvana
When I first left school and started work in Shrewsbury I used to stand by this letter box every day waiting for the bus and I never realised it was a Victorian Box. When I was younger my Father used to write to my Grandma in Kent every Sunday. If he didn't have a stamp to put on the letter he used to wrap the letter in newspaper and enclose a threepenny bit and a penny, post it and the collecting postman would buy a stamp and put it on.
When I was a kid, 60 or 65 years ago, these were called Dandy Longlegs. By the time I reached high-school, I knew that a lot of my friends preferred Daddy Longlegs, and some friends were adamant that the only "real" name was crane fly. For the most part, I gave in.
But I've gone back to calling them Dandy Longlegs. Reclaiming the authenticity of my childhood, like.
This was the first I saw this season. It was inside a plastic tent we overnight plants in. I suspect the higher temperature in there awoke this guy.
When I’m not flying between countries, I have taken up the hobby of collecting my dream cameras of the past via Ebay. I picked up this mint Nikon F Photomic for only $50 (not including the lens). It looks like it was never used. This joins my Nikon F2 that I got a few months ago.
I find myself cycling invisible film through these cameras when I am relaxing with a glass of wine and looking for inspiration.
There is something obscene about the fact that a piece of technology like this can barely be used today, due to the virtual death of film. We can collect and drive a classic old Ferrari, because it still uses gasoline. But the “gasoline” of these old pieces of art is almost dead.
The person who bought this 1969 camera would have been a Pro. It was much too expensive for most people, except serious amateurs and pros. The user would have to understand how to set shutter speed and aperture to get the image that he/she was trying to attain. He/she would use his/her brain to focus, and understand how lighting would affect the final image, which would only be seen later after the film was developed. You had 20 or 36 shots to get the images right, and there was a cost involved that limited your use of film.
Today’s pro digital SLRs have settings for aperture and shutter speed, but most consumers don’t have a clue what the A, S, and M settings mean. Many set their expensive pro DSLR to AUTO and produce well-exposed and properly-focused boring pictures … that is what you generate when you leave your brain out of photography and let the camera do everything.
Your camera doesn’t know about the rule-of-thirds in framing an image, or that you want the background to be out of focus so you don’t have tree branches “growing” out of people’s heads in the image.
I love digital photography and would hate going back to film, but I am also glad that I grew up understanding how photography works, and I would never buy a digital camera that doesn’t allow manual settings. The best automation in today’s DSLR cameras can only approach the capability of a serious teenager photographer’s brain…. that’s all.
All the bulls**t about needing 90-point autofocus and 15 frames per second to take pictures at your son’s soccer game is just that – marketing bulls**t and bragging rights for dad at the soccer game.
#Let me take you back to October 2023 and a weekend in London. I took along my Fuji XT3 This is part of my plan to get on top of my home computer which is awash with thousands of images from the past 6 years and I'm finally trying to add a few to Flickr and delete most!
#Columbia Road flower market and shops are open every Sunday. As well as the market, there is also a mass of independent shops, selling everything from jewellery and vintage clothes, to antiques. Located in East London, in between Shoreditch and Bethnal Green, near to Brick Lane and Spitalfields.
#Expect huge crowds its wall to wall people so while its a great opportunity to shoot street photography its also difficult as you are literally carried along by the crowds if you stop!
I have been looking for years as to how to make a decent looking Pantograph Shoe and was never happy with what I had seen or could do. The other day when going through a wardrobe looking for something a box of my daughters Belville collection fell, the parts spilt everywhere on the floor. When I was picking up the parts I picked up one of these www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=42013 and thought wow that looks really useful, I then scratched around for another. For years I had pretty much ignored Belville parts due to them being oversized and useless but this time I found a perfect part for a hard to model subject.
Credit goes to Taiki (Namo-Den) for his Pantograph design which I have altered by using the Belville iceskates for the pickup shoes.