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Back to basics for me... I have been preoccupied lately and haven't taken time to photograph anything like I used to. So, I decided, to ease my way back, to take pictures of things I did when I first got my camera.
45112 with a Network Rail HST Test Train negotiates the point work at Milford Junction
9 September 2003
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when I could walk about en femme, and the only thing I had to worry about was getting a heel caught in a sidewalk crack
Now--well, you know
When you kiss me
I know you miss me
And when you’re with me
The world just goes away
The way you hold me
The way you show me
That you adore me
When you kiss me
[] Shania Twain - When you kiss me []
Usually good advice.
Don't hand your camera to your sweetie to hold when ya gotta go to the bathroom. Take it with you.
Why you should always have your camera with you. Window in a public restroom at Pillar Point, just north of Half Moon Bay, California.
Glasgow, Scotland.
Lumix GX8 + K&F Concept M42 - µ4/3 adaptor + Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 55mm f1.8 lens.
"Forget about the sunshine,
forget about the sunshine when it's gone.
Today is gone. I'm the only light that you see.
You need someone and I know all you needed was me."
- All American Rejects.
31,500 views <3 love you.
This photo was an accident, but I thought it was still too pretty to delete : ) I was taking photos of this gorgeous Common Grackle, when it disappeared from sight and then suddenly popped up much closer than I was expecting. I cropped the sides of the photo to make it square, but other than that, this is how the photo was taken : ) Though these birds seem to be unpopular, I love to see them and try and capture their iridescent beauty. They appear to be a black bird, but when the sun catches them, they come alive with colour.
"Common Grackles are blackbirds that look like they've been slightly stretched. They're taller and longer tailed than a typical blackbird, with a longer, more tapered bill and glossy-iridescent bodies. Grackles walk around lawns and fields on their long legs or gather in noisy groups high in trees, typically evergreens. They eat many crops (notably corn) and nearly anything else as well, including garbage. In flight their long tails trail behind them, sometimes folded down the middle into a shallow V shape." From AllABoutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Grackle/id
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Two days ago, on 4 June 2015, it was a dry day, though a thunderstorm was forecast. After grey skies and rain the previous couple of days, I felt like going for a drive. Started at a wetland in SW Calgary, where I saw the usual Lesser Scaup and Redheads. The male Redhead did not like any of the other ducks around him and would chase away each one in turn. Quite the bully! Also managed to get a few more shots of a Common Grackle, including this one, though they move fast and seemingly constantly.
From there, I drove some of my usual backroads SW of the city. The clouds were building up quite dramatically, and I stopped at one wetland where they were reflected quite beautifully. I didn't see all that many birds, but was content to get a few chances to photograph a pair of Mountain Bluebirds, Tree Swallows, an Eastern Kingbird, and a Savannah Sparrow. No Wilson's Snipe this time, though I thought I had one on a distant fence post. Turned out to be a Mourning Dove - only the second time I've ever seen one on a fence post. Also saw a Swainson's Hawk which flew and landed on a high power pole near where the Bluebirds and Tree Swallows were nesting. The Tree Swallows, in true fashion, were causing the Bluebirds enough stress by flying and landing just a foot or two away from the Bluebirds' nesting box. The male Bluebird did such a great job of chasing away its rather beautiful, iridescent neighbours - which I also enjoy photographing. So, a short trip, but one that I always enjoy, especially each spring.
“When ‘Stellaris,’ the first human interstellar ship, unexpectedly hurtles off the earth, it takes the ship’s designer, Rob Cantrell, his girlfriend and a skeleton crew with it into the furthest reaches of space. If only that was their biggest problem! With no star maps, killer aliens on their tail and a ship that was only half finished, their journey home is going to be quite the challenge!” – Google
EXPLORED 27/04/08 #172
HDR created from 5 exposures using Photomatix and some Photoshop adjustments. Anna Theodora helped me a lot with the post-processing, "polishing the edges" and making it more surreal and pleasant to the view. Thanks a lot sweetie! If you have time to check her work, you'll be amazed by her creativity and cool ideas!
I also want to thank you all for your support and understanding about the last events on my life and my absence on Flickr. After my exam everything will return to normal and then, I'll be able to catch up with you, my friends! Have a great Sunday ya all!
I love miley cyrus. she is so beautiful and talented. [song: when i look at you]
so, i was tagged three times, which is a huge honour, so here i go. ten things.
- i bought my olympus on february 26, 2010
- truthfully, most of my photos are picniked in some way. even if they are fine the way they are, there is always something i can find to do to them.
- i have no idea what i want to do for the rest of my life
- i don't wear socks. ever.
- i have the worst job ever. EVER.
- hint: i have giant biceps as a result of my job. haha, not really. ;)
- i love music everywhere from tokio hotel to hannah montana, to ingrid michaelson to beyonce. i love it all. [just not country. *shudders*]
- i am the least creative person in the world. almost all of my photos are inspired/partially copied from someone else.
- i have emetophobia, arthritis, short term memory loss, and obsessive compulsive disorder, undiagnosed of course ;)
- my dream is have one of my photos on the front page of explore.
and all the gray is gone, everytime I see you smile. What i'd do to make you see who you are to me.
Say hello to my lovely best friend and incredible sister Hannah. This was taken on the way home from camp tonight and after she shared some heavy things that had been on her heart..
I am so honored I am to be a part of her life. She chooses to stay faithful and strong through hardships no one should ever have to face. Her heart is hands down the most beautiful I've ever gotten to know and she sets an example for me daily. God was thinking of our family when he made her.
When I captured this image, we were having very strong wind gust.
I'm amazed that she was able to get her beak into this tiny blossom when it was so windy.
In the 1960s Ferrari's Prototipo 'P series' sports car racers proved highly successful in terms of races won and imaginations captured. Of course speed rather than beauty was the goal of these cars, yet the two were seemingly inexorable at a time when intuition was a guiding principle. The P4, designed by Mauro Forghieri and William Casoli was both a zenith and nadir of the genre – perhaps the most beautiful, yet also increasingly outdated at a time when aerodynamics were coming to the fore.
And so Ferrari commissioned Pininfarina to explore advanced aerodynamics for the 250 P5. Young recruit Leonardo Fioravanti was chosen to design the car because of his mechanical engineering education at the Politecnico di Milano where his studies focused on aerodynamics and car body design.
Revealed at the 1968 Geneva motor show, the P5 won immediate acclaim for its futuristic design, even if some Ferrari purists grumbled at its perceived departure from Ferrari design orthodoxy. Built on P4 chassis number 0862, the two-seat coupe featured a three-litre V12 engine mounted in its tail. A walk around the brilliant white car (later repainted red) revealed a design composed of intersecting convex and concave volumes, its ovoid masses contrasting with deeply scalloped recesses for vents and wheel wells.
Revealed at the 1968 Geneva motor show, the P5 won immediate acclaim for its futuristic design, even if some Ferrari purists grumbled at its perceived departure from Ferrari design orthodoxy. Built on P4 chassis number 0862, the two-seat coupe featured a three-litre V12 engine mounted in its tail. A walk around the brilliant white car (later repainted red) revealed a design composed of intersecting convex and concave volumes, its ovoid masses contrasting with deeply scalloped recesses for vents and wheel wells.
The design featured a low, concave front fascia with a narrow slot for ventilation for the radiator. Just above this, integrated into the hood, was a bank of headlamps. Flanking this front assembly were pontoon-like fairings for the front wheels. It seems Enzo Ferrari was not overly impressed with this, referring to it as the “suppository”.
More successful were the Dino-like ventilation scoops with flow vanes integrated into the openings while at the rear a strong character line outlines the top of the wheel opening and then ascends and curves across the deck lid. Underneath this somewhat duck-tailed assembly, a strong composition of horizontal vanes covers the tail-lights and engine ventilation openings. It's clearly a theme Fioravanti was proud of as it was to reappear on his later Testarossa.
The upper body was almost entirely formed of a transparent teardrop canopy, its gullwing doors revealing a spartan composition of two seats, driving controls and little else. Seats were minimally ergonomic and the headrests are built into the firewall that separates the cabin from the engine compartment.
A Gentlemen’s Agreement
As popular as the P5 was on the car show circuit, changing racing rules and the complex and ever-developing programmes at Ferrari soon meant the P5 would not be developed further. Indeed, Fioravanti and his team were already working on a successor, the P6.
As it slowly became public knowledge that P5 was not to be a part of Modena’s future, an unusual request came to Enzo Ferrari from his longtime friend and associate, Dr. Giuseppe Luraghi, Chairman of Alfa Romeo. If Ferrari was not to continue the development of the P5, would he cede the project to his company to develop further? In a move that would be unheard of today, Il Commendatore granted the request.
[Text from CarDesignNews.com]
cardesignnews.com/articles/concept-car-of-the-week/2016/0...