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When I look at this photo I cannot help but think it is for a "feel good" type advertising campain. I love the heartfelt joy on the faces and body language of the couple.
SNOWFLAKES FALLING SOFTLY TO THE GROUND - CREATE A PEACE ALL AROUND!
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No new photos today so playing with the toys.
Thanks to lynne_b for the title of "When Snowflakes Fall"
When it comes to the film industry, there are plenty of films out there that are never seen by traditional still photographers. These are film dedicated to printing, producing, and archiving motion pictures. Among these films is Eastman 2238, but what about Fuji? Well here's Fuji's version of 2238, a Panchromatic Separation film designed to make film copies of digital files. And what a fun film to work! While slow, it produces a fantastic fine-grain image and beautiful tonality!
You can read the full review online
www.alexluyckx.com/blog/index.php/2019/12/30/one-roll-rev...
Minolta Maxxum 9 - Konica-Minolta Zoom AF 17-35mm 1:2.8-4 D - Fujifilm Eterna-RDS Type 4791 @ ASA-12
Pyrocat-HD (1+1+100) 11:30 @ 20C
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
"Millions of years ago, when beer roamed the Earth, small liqueurs would ooze away in terror at the approach of Pintius Maximus, the fiercest of all the golden liquids ever to reign. Not a dry throat, however large, was safe from this hunter. Alas, these times ended abruptly with the coming of a giant meteor, whose passage shattered all but the most insignificant of glasses, leaving us with today only the tiniest reminders of that great lost age. Ale to the chief."
When Smoke Gets In Your Eyes you are not able
to see very clearly
what you are knitting
& the result might be
a little disappointing
or a super model´s nightmare!
I ended up with a 3m long scarf sculpture
of epic proportions
nearly unwearable
& useless to say the least....
Later on
I decided to revamp
the darn thing
but this is a whole different story
coming up later.....
Way back in my archives, many years ago, this capture received some interesting observations. Decided to give it a six word story and repost in that category! Fun to reflect on reflections! meoooooooow . . . many years ago . . .
We have a "book walk" in one of our studios . . . here we lay out pages to be bound. This morning, with sun streaming in the window, wonderful reflections hit the different stacks. On this same counter we also have the little book of *Emotions* under glass. Found these interesting quotations which seem to apply, especially since today was a huge television event for most of America!
We went to Border's and enjoyed having the store to ourselves! And yes, tomorrow I will start another diet!
“The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement.
Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically.
It's an existential experience-there and then gone.” ~ Bill Moyers ~
“Page one is a diet, page two is a chocolate cake. It's a no-win situation.” ~ Kim Williams ~
When 2Pac & Biggie died, questions were who was going to take the throne? Well two stepped up to the plate, Jay-Z & a underground battle rapper named DMX. Both men signed to Def Jam Records in 1997. The next year both top the album charts. While Jay-Z made radio hits to get to the top of the charts, DMX gritty dark angry rhymes top the charts by not going to the mainstream, the mainstream went to him. With six No.1 albums & movies along with awards, X had the world in his hands. But he had one big problem, he couldn't shake the drugs, a problem he had when an adult gave him a joint that was laced with crack lead him to a drug addiction that had sadly stayed with him till his untimely death when someone gave him tainted cocaine that finally killed him. What a fucking lost. I wish he would had took his words from his song "Slippin" close to his heart. Rest In Paradise DMX.
"When Nature gives a gorgeous rose,
Or yields the simplest fern,
She writes this motto on the leaves,
"To whom it may concern!"
And so it is the poet comes
And revels in her bowers,
And, though another hold the land,
Is owner of the flowers."
- John Godfrey Saxe
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Venice in December without any turist
From a dream...
You know, these one which you emerge with this strange sensation of emptyness, lightness, blindness...
That's a part of this world where I love to refugee myself, so far and beyond my own perpetual dreams.
I can live the strongest moments again and again like this one.
Just fly in the whitness between sea ans sky, my dear son, you're free.
This was back in the day when Hollywood Boulevard was, so the city leaders said, in dire need of rescue. True, it had slipped badly from its brief heyday (early 1930s to middle 1940s) and by this time adult theaters, unsightly storefronts, and poorly-remodeled buildings abounded, but it was mostly original. After a long and tortuous process "The Boulevard" (particularly between Vine St and La Brea Ave) received, via several developments, a mammoth makeover into a new family-friendly string of venues. Some say these blocks of Hollywood Blvd look more like a theme park than a neigborhood, but certainly great effort was made to recall the old grandeur. The centerpiece of redevelopment is the 2001 Hollywood and Highland complex (on the spot where the 1959 First Federal Savings and Loan tower, left, had replaced the original gracious Hollywood Hotel).
The modern Hollywood Boulevard does seem to appeal fo a lot of people. Sunset and Santa Monica Boulevards, by contrast, have retained more of their originality and offer a better-integrated mix of past and present. The Pierce Brothers billboard in the background offers counseling for how you might spend the very distant future. Standing proudly in the background is the 1930 Hollywood United Methodist Church, unchanged today.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a
green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and
deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the
man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.
~ William Blake
This Osprey was on approach to the nest to deliver a fish and relieve its mate of incubation duties on the nest. As it circled around it apparently approached a little too close to this Red-winged Black Bird's nest and he took off after the Osprey and pursued it all the way to the Osprey's nest..
Apparently birds have no sense of size when it comes to defending their territory. Kind of reminds me of the phrase "it isn't the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog."
SAY WHEN!
Date: Circa 1915
Source Type: Postcard
Printer, Publisher, Photographer: James Montgomery Flagg, Richard Phillips [?] (#597)
Postmark: None
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Copyright 2010. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.
♫
Down by the lake
a warm afternoon -
breezes carry children's balloons.
Once upon a time,
not long ago,
she lived in a house by the grove.
And she recalls the day,
when she left home...
Long good-byes,
make me so sad.
I have to leave right now.
And though I hate to go,
I know it's for the better.
Long good-byes,
make me so sad.
Forgive my leaving now.
You know I'll miss you so
and days we spent together.
Long in the day
moon on the rise -
she sighs with a smile in her eyes.
In the park,
it's late afterall,
she sits and stares at the wall.
And she recalls the day,
when she left home...
♫♪ Long Goodbyes ♫♪
- Album: Stationary Traveler
- Music band: Camel
When the LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part sets were announced, there was one set that stood out even to my dark-aged heart as the one to buy: 70841 Benny’s Space Squad. At the time, we had no idea how it was going to fit into the movie, but I think everyone can get on board with a rainbow...
www.fbtb.net/the-lego-movie/the-lego-movie-2-the-second-p...
A beacon of light,
To show me the way in dark -
That is who you are.
- Haiku by theCipher
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Wirrabara.
A Kaurna Aboriginal name meaning “gum trees with running water” was used to name the town when it was proclaimed in 1874 although the local Aboriginal people were the Ngadjuri tribe. Before 1874 the land was firstly leased by Samuel and Frederick White from 1844 who named their run Charlton. A small and not very successful copper mine, the Charlton mine, was established in the 1850s on this run just north of the present town site. The Charlton Mine was run by the Australian Mining Company from 1854 for just a few years. White’s leasehold was purchased by Charles. B. Fisher in 1861 who renamed the property Wirrabara instead of Charlton but Charles White retained his old homestead and some acreage around it. When Surveyor General George Goyder visited Fisher’s Wirrabara run in 1864 he estimated it was carrying 50,000 sheep. In 1866 the Wirrabara run was taken over by Alexander Borthwick Murray and his three sons of Mt Crawford as a sheep stud for their Murray Merinos. When parts of the run were resumed in 1872 for closer settlement Alexander Borthwick Murray used his employees to purchase extensive areas of freehold land in a system known as dummying. The Murray family built a homestead in 1872 on the property called Avonmore shown because they then had freehold to the property. When Alexander Scott Murray married in 1874 he extended and remodelled it into a grand ten roomed house with marble fireplaces and cedar architraves and it became his family home. There is a fine stone memorial to Alexander Scott Murray near the railway station with its silo art. He was only 34 years old when he died of ill health and he was the highly respected manager of Wirrabara Station. He had a large public role and apart from supporting local organisations he did public works like laying the foundation stone of the Laura Institute etc. On his death he left a wife and four children under five years of age. The memorial was unveiled in February 1882 two years after Alexander Scott Murray’s death in 1880. After Alexander Scott Murray’s death his brother John took over Avonmore but he too died of health issues in 1884 aged 35 years. Alexander Borthwick Murray and his remaining son Malcomb of Avonmore also had lands northwards along the ranges. In 1885 A.B. Murray had some of these lands surveyed and put up for sale as a private town named Murraytown after himself. Up to 50,000 sheep were shorn on the Wirrabara run in the late 19th century which by then occupied 20,700 acres freehold. But then son Malcom Murray committed suicide in April 1900. Malcom Pulteney Murray was known for his pranks, drunkenness and rash behaviours and his depressions. Alexander Borthwick Murray died in 1903 and his estate trustees managed Avonmore and the lands at Murraytown. The 20,700 acre Wirrabara Estate was sold as part of Alexander Borthwick’s estate in 1910 for over £141,000. At that time it was known for its fruit orchards, grain paddocks and lucerne flats. It was subdivided into 47 farms.
Apart from pastoralism forestry has been a major industry in the region even after grain farmers arrived in 1874. Some individual foresters were cutting timber and selling it from around 1865. Good quality straight posts were sold by them for the erection of the telegraph line to Melrose and Port Augusta in 1865. The first plantation forest in Australia was established by the SA government in 1875 at Bundaleer near Jamestown. The second forest was declared at Wirrabara in 1877. The government had resumed almost 50,000 acres in 1875 which was set aside as the Wirrabara Forest Reserve. A Forester’s residence and a Nurseryman’s residence were soon erected. The most drought resistant of the pine trees the Aleppo Pine from Syria was planted here in 1878. Tasmanian blue gum and other exotic and native trees were planted at Wirrabara. Most of the lands of the forest were about 1,700 feet above sea level (518 metres) and about 20 small leasehold farm blocks were created in it for fruit growing. The horticulturists were known as the Wirrabara Blockers. In these early years Wirrabara forest was also used to produce seedlings for plantings at Bundaleer. The first saw mill began in 1880 with another in 1902 to mill the Aleppo pines. In 1881 the Wirrabara Forest School opened as so many people lived in this area. A second Forest School was built in 1910. Forestry and saw milling remained an industry until the Bangor bushfires of 2014 destroyed large areas of the forests which the then current Labor government decided not to replant. The native trees along the ranges remain as forest or as conservation parks. Thus it is not surprising that the theme for the Wirrabara grain silo art is the forestry worker and the native birds of the forests like the red capped robin. The King Tree or Eucalyptus camaldulensis (usually called River Red Gum) is one of the main trees of the native forests. By 1889 the Blockers were under the control of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and some purchased their farms freehold. Most Blockers grew vines or fruit trees. Some blocks were sold by the government as soldier settler farms after World War One but this was not successful with farmers deserting their blocks by 1932.
The town began to emerge overnight in 1874 with many buildings being erected by 1875. The first stores in the town were opened by Melrose storekeepers. They were followed by a baker, a butcher, a saddler and the hotel. In fact the Wirrabara Hotel was licensed in 1875 and the fine sandstone building opened shortly thereafter. A government school followed the Free, Compulsory and Secular Education Act for 1875 by opening in 1879. It was replaced with a larger red brick school building in 1921. The Post Office started in 1880 and the Institute foundation stone was laid in 1884. Once open it was used for Anglican and Lutheran church services. It still runs a library service, the only independent library service left in SA. In 1912 a new local Wirrabara stone institute or hall was built and opened by the Governor Sir Day Bosanquet. The War Memorial in front of the Institute was unveiled in 1921. The first courtroom operated in Wirrabara from around 1880 with a temporary police station. One of the biggest events in the town growth was the arrival of the railway line from Laura in 1910 as it pushed northwards to Booleroo Centre. Public meetings in Wirrabara had called for this from 1901. Parliament approved the line in 1908 and the work was finished to Wirrabara in 1910. In 1923 the government bought a block of land in Fifth Street for a new police station but this was not erected until 1929. Apart from industry and commercial premises the town soon churches.
The Wesleyan Methodists opened their church in 1876 being the first in town. The Bible Christians Methodists opened theirs soon after. The Anglicans held early services in the first Institute until St Margaret’s Church opened in 1909 on the corner of Second and Fifth Streets. The old or first Institute was left vacant for some time after 1912 and then in 1920 it was taken over by Manning’s Furniture Store. In the early 1940s the Anglican began planning for a new and larger church. When Manning’s Furniture store came on the market in the first institute the Anglicans purchased that and it was consecrated in 1964 with the old foundation stone on the front. The Lutheran church opened in 1921. The foundation stone of Catholic Church was laid on 1 June 1930 by the Bishop of Port Augusta with the church opening in February 1931.
Wirrabara received an $80,000 federal government grant through the Fund My Neighbourhood program to have their silos painted. The Mount Remarkable Council conducted a local survey to select the artist and the theme of the painting. The most favoured artist was Sam Bates, alias Smug, of Melbourne and he was awarded the task. The most popular theme voted for was forestry and woodcutters. The woodcutter depicted on the silos is Dion Lebrun of Tumby Bay and the beautiful bird is a red capped robin. Since the closure of the forests the silo art is just one of a number of measures the locals are taking to keep their town alive. A farmers’ market is held once a month on a Sunday morning, they maintain a community website, the volunteer staffed craft shop distributes tourist information and some locals still grow apricots, peaches and nectarines and one enterprising horticulturist is now growing Manuka bushes to produce Manuka honey in a few years’ time.
When the underground originally opened finding an entrance was super tricky. Recently they have build a few that are more noticeable.
This pyramid made the meetup point much easier to find.
Taken during the February @StreetMeetOK meetup
A poster but ruined as a cloud image.
NASA does this all the time - takes a pale deep space image and enhances it to look spectacular. Takes an image of the surface of the sun in Xrays and people believe that that is what one would see if one was there. Not so. I am disappointed with many of the images on the web of clouds that have, to my eye, been over cooked like this one. I do try not to do this to mine, to just try to render the image as close as I can to what I saw, but the temptation is very strong.
When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.
When DRS 66434 failed at Wentloog after working the 4V44 DIRFT - Wentloog 'Tesco Express' the return working 4M36 was caped.
The following morning DRS sent 66431 0V44 Daventry - Wentloog to perform the rescue.
Heading through Kidderminster 66431 is seen at the sharp end of the VSTP 4Z36 Wentloog - Daventry sadly minus the disgraced 66434.