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When I first got the internet I collected vintage pics like mad. I created this flickr account to have a place to store them and still after a few years haven't quite upload them all in here...
When I was 16, a boy at school told my friend her eyes were like pools of water. Then he told me my eyes were like pools of shit. He was head boy - I hope he is a plumber now ;-) I have forgotten trigonometry, but I haven't forgotten that!
Oh there was some sunlight this morning and I got so excited I took a picture of my eye in the mirror. I miss shadows!
Shetland Shellfish SSMG Ltd Mussels from Billingsgate Fish Market London These animals must be alive when sold £5 for two KG or £3 one KG
This photograph is of the time when Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih II (ra) visited Quetta, capital city of the province of Balochistan - Pakistan.
Taken from MTA International documentaries on the lives of His Holiness Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih II (ra) and His Holiness Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih V (aba).
Front row just behind Huzur (ra) from right to left:
1. Late Haji Zia-ul-Haq Khan sahib, British Government Officer (my maternal grandfather).
2. Late Mr. Shams-ul-Haq Khan, started career with the Civil and Military Gazette, Analyst at Radio Pakistan, Bureau Chief Daily Dawn, Columnist The Friday Times & President Balochistan Union of Journalists (my father).
3. Late Dr. Ghafoor-ul-Haq Khan sahib (brother of my maternal grandfather Haji Zia-ul-Haq Khan sahib).
4. Late Major Dr. Siraj-ul-Haq Khan sahib (my paternal grandfather).
May Allah rest souls of my ancestors in peace and their generations after generation be always loyal to the Institution of Ahmadiyya Khilafat. Ameen.
Seasonal change in magical colors.
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...When that fat old sun in the sky is falling
Summer evening birds are calling
Children's laughter in my ears
The last sunlight disappears...
When out walking Charlie, m'small brown chum, always looks out for benches, logs and tree stumps for me to rest upon. He is such a considerate, thoughtful caring little chap racing on ahead, hunting for just the right spot for me to retire, checking the base first himself and on approval, shows me the seating arrangements for the day with a smile and bark. Today he picked a Willow stump by a lovely rhyne at Skylark meadow.
Well thank you kindly young man, tiz a fine view from here to be sure and a great spot to sit and stare. The swallows flying overhead, a tractor bringing in the hay way off in the distance, a speckled wood butterfly and common darter perched on the brambles, a feint whiff of autumn in the air and the rustle of the plastic bag filled with treats being gently tugged out of my coat pocket ..."Oy..you little blighter..no wonder you're so close to the ground..stop thief!"
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"when the last teardrop falls" by blaque
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Diptych #10: When the last teardrop falls
Diptych collaboration with Zmedia.
Top pic: mine
Bottom pic: Zmedia
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It's getting hard to wake up these days. It's getting colder. This week, the alarm of my cellphone was not able to wake me up on time. It did alarm though ...
So today i went to search for a good alarm clock. It took me an hour to do that, shucks such a waste of time. Anyway, i'm happy with the clock. I hope it wakes me up on time tomorrow!
HGGT!
These may seem a little odd, but yesterday morning turned out to be very, very interesting for me.
I was just working on my comic at my computer, hearing the local bus (#80) that runs past the front door of my house coming up the hill, when all of a sudden there was the most outrageous bang followed by the bus stuttering for power, it then limped to a halt outside my front drive in a fog of acrid black smoke, whereupon the driver immediately opened the engine bay door and started dousing the street with sand from what had apparently been a fuel leak.
Passengers were unloaded, and Country Bus sent up another two buses to cover. Eventually their engineers arrived in their company coloured LDV Convoy, as did a local hero of the roads, the Count of Heathfield, a gigantic tow truck used to rescue HGV's and Coaches.
The bus is a 2004 Dennis Dart SLF with SC Coachbuilders body, and is a regular on this route. I overhead one of the engineers mentioning something to do with the 'Big End', which is part of the Connecting Rod, and connects to the bearing journal on the crank throw.
“When race keeps intruding into your romances, you start to wonder why. You look for patterns. I used to think the problem with white men is that they want control, a childish and obvious hankering. They’re used to it, socialized to seek it. But over time, I started to believe that the problem is that they’re unformed, shapeless. White men have had nothing to battle against or fight for; their identity is this amorphous default. They ooze around, taking up space. They manspread and mansplain. Even the ones who know better mandream on the sly. It always breaks my heart when I get wind of my white boyfriends’ secret fantasies: to rescue, to rebel, to rule. Every single one of them wants to own a motorcycle. It’s all so boring. It’s all just history.” —Namwali Serpell
Believe me these roses are pink but when I took this close up I was picking up a little shade of green around the edges of some of the rose petals!
Our Daily Challenge ~ Any Colour You Want ...
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When I was a child I remember being fascinated by coins, specifically the bicentennial quarters, half dollars, and silver dollars of the American currency. My grandfather was a serious coin and stamp collector, but for me I just dabbled in it.
When the State Quarter collections were released I collected them, anxiously waiting for the new State to be released. When those wrapped up, they began a National Parks Quarter collection which are great especially because I have been to many of them.
Next year the final quarter is set to be released, and I am going to try and make a custom display of the quarters as one of my winter build projects, mixing wood and colored glass. Here's hoping for a creative display!
Theme: Dream A Little Dream
Year Twelve Of My 365 Project
When looking at the seeds inside the flower I just thought popping candy..lol..... thanks for stopping by and all your lovely comments
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When I reached my destination at painted hills it was so dark the milky way was visible with the naked eye.
"All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb - when you look at it, it's looking back at you."
Uniek Swain
.....breakfast in the sun at 10.30... to Frittured Pineapple on a bed of Vanilla Ice Cream Topped with Cream at 9.45!
Isn't that a too oft repeated scenario between potential lovers?
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From my set "Best Weed Flower Micros:"
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Some of these photographs appear to be close-ups of regular-sized flowers; they are not. All of these photos are micro (macro) photographs of the super-tiny blooms that blossom on common weeds.
Weed flowers...wild flowers...whichever appellation you want to bestow on them nonetheless these almost microscopic beauties are the flowers that bloom on the weeds in my yard.
Most of these flowers when measured petal tip to petal tip at their widest diameters measure 1/4" (6mm) across…or less...the entire bloom is that small. But the smallest weed flower I've shot yet is a small ring of flowers that measured less than 1/32" (.7mm) in diameter which encircled a spire which measured about 1/64" (0.3mm) in diameter.
For some photos I’ve included references to common objects such as the head of a paper match. On some others I’ve listed a description of the actual size of each object in the photo.
So far I've made over 600 photographs of over 48 varieties of weed flowers; this set represents the best of the best.
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What you're looking at here is the Rolls Royce Camargue, very much the Rolls Royce that time forgot. What can you even say about it? It's one of the most iconic automotive failures in history, and certainly a car that Rolls Royce fans are always very quick to wince at when I mention it at RREC conventions.
So where did this curious car come from? To truly understand this mighty machine you need to go back to 1969, where a massive change in the image and style of the world was starting to hold sway. In the world of autos, the curvature of the 1950's and early 60's was giving way to the angles of the 1970's, the decade that gave us the 'Wedge' sportsers and boxy saloon cars.
Rolls Royce, who at this point were building three cars, the Phantom VI, the Silver Shadow, and the Silver Shadow Two-Door Saloon (later to be known as the Corniche), were looking for a new design that would drastically alter its image from that of the Shadow. Originally, the intention was to use their new brainchild to replace the Two-Door Saloon, but due to financial difficulty within the Rolls Royce company, later followed by bankruptcy after the RB211 Jet Engine project, the company chose instead to save costs and rebrand it as the Corniche instead.
For their new car, Rolls Royce chose not to have it designed in-house like previous models, but went for the first time to Pininfarina of Italy. Throughout the remainder of 1969 the company toyed with many sketches, until in 1970 a final design was chosen and given the go by the Rolls Royce management, with the intention for a launch in either late 1972 or early 1973. Within the company, the project was dubbed "Delta", but was later changed to DY20, with ‘D’ signifying Delta, ‘Y’ signifying it was based on the SY (Silver Shadow) platform, and '20' shortened from 120 which was the car’s wheelbase of 120 inches.
But as mentioned, following the amount of money poured into the new Rolls Royce RB211 Jet Engine Project for the Lockheed Tristar, the company was bankrupt as of the 4th February 1971. The result was that the Motor Car Division, whose future now rested in the hands of the Official Receiver, had to look closely at all aspects of the business. This led to the splitting of the Rolls Royce company, with Rolls Royce Motors Ltd. being founded and placed under the ownership of Vickers, whilst the bankrupt Rolls Royce Ltd. was nationalised.
During this turbulent period, the DY20 project was closely scrutinised and the Receiver gave the go-ahead to commence the project, but following a critical review of the engineering specification for the car, a decision was taken to delay the launch date until 1975.
With development continuing, HJ Mulliner Park Ward, who already built the bodies for the Corniche, were chosen to manufacture the bodies of the DY20 project. In the summer of 1972, the first prototype D1 was released and tested heavily to maintain the standard of reliable excellence that Rolls Royce had been known for. At first the car's initial reception was warm, with people noting that it looked far more futuristic than the Shadow on which it was heavily based. Aside from sharing the same running gear, platform, Rolls Royce V8 engine and a majority of the internal features as the Shadow, the car was endearing in that it was fitted with a new and highly sophisticated bi-level automatic air conditioning system that at that time was the very first car in the world to have such a unit fitted. It was declared that this feature alone was more expensive than a British Leyland Mini! Another change was an instrument board, which many commented wouldn't have looked out of place on the flight deck of a Boeing 747!
Throughout 1972 and 73 more prototypes continued to be released and tested, with Rolls Royce giving paramount assistance to HJ Mulliner Park Ward's staff as they rigorously put these cars together. On the 18 January 1973 the body of the first production prototype, assigned D3, was attached to the front and rear sub frame assemblies on the normal Silver Shadow production line with maximum security in place and, following the production line assembly, the car was delivered to the experimental department to begin a period of intensive development work.
From May 1973 and all through 1974 production increased but still subject to extreme security. The production sequence was shared between MPW and Crewe. Once the body had been produced in the London factory and despatched to Crewe it was ‘finished painted’, attached to the front and rear sub frames and sent in a part built state back to MPW for all trim, general finishing and testing to take place at Hythe Road.
In January 1975, the car was officially launched in Catania, Sicily, and christened the name Camargue, an area situated in the delta of the River Rhône in France. Following a very successful press launch, the car was unveiled to the world on 5 March 1975 and the price quoted was £29,250, which made it the most expensive production car in the world ever at that time. Today, this figure translates out to £272,000. To put the price in perspective with other Rolls-Royce models at the time the Corniche saloon car cost £19,013 and the “Flagship of the Fleet” Phantom VI only cost £21,352!
The car was launched in the United States a year later after delays in fitting the cars with US Specification running gear meant that production didn't begin until August 1975. The cost of these cars in the US was $147,000, which today is about $588,000.
So, after a turbulent development mired in bankruptcy, a complicated building strategy and a delayed launch in America, did Rolls Royce's gamble with an audaciously designed car pay off?
Not in the slightest!
Purists recoiled at the sight of the angular corners and straight lines, with its big round headlights and chunky panels that made it look less like a Rolls Royce and more like a Lincoln Continental. They argued that for much, much less, owners could buy a Corniche or a Shadow which looked twice as good and performed just as well. This was then added to by the fuel crisis of the late 1970's, upon which that 6.75L Rolls Royce V8 soaking up petrol at a gallon every 15 miles looked deeply undesirable.
In all, only 531 of these cars were ever produced during its 11 year lifetime, but with a few variations. In 1985 a specialist hunting car called the Sbarro was reengineered for an Arabian aristocrat, whilst in 1979 two Camargues were used as testbeds for developments that would later find their way into the Silver Spirit/Spur range, including headlights and other features. In 1985 a single Bentley Camargue was also built, identical except for the changed badge and Grille, although many aftermarket conversions are known to exist. The last two cars rolled off the production line on Christmas Eve 1986 bound for Japan, at a price of £83,000.
Today, the Rolls Royce Camargue is a very, very rare car, and you would be hard pressed to find them routinely. In the United States a few continue to roam the countryside, with around 200 of the cars being exported there. Reception of these cars sadly continues to be very critical, with the car often topping people's lists for worst car ever made or ugliest car ever made. Although James May is one of a few people who defend this car, dubbing it "like that pug-faced but well-dressed bloke down the pub", for the most part all people can do is laugh at this car, laugh for the fact that it didn't sell, didn't look good and went through so much trouble to design and build that it was just a rushed embarrassment for the Rolls Royce company.
The reputation of these cars is so bad that in spite of its rarity, owners can't even give these things away, with most that I've seen going for as little as £20,000. But a word of advice, stop laughing, and buy their car! £20,000 for a two-door luxury saloon, a pedigree Rolls Royce, and one that once held the distinction of being the world's most expensive production car, you not only get this car for the cost of an equivalent Ford or Vauxhall, but you also make a saving on the original price tag of £252,000, that's over a quarter of a million pounds!
Me personally, I absolutely adore these cars! Indeed they're not as pretty as other Rollers, but I consider this a car that you not only have to feel sorry for, considering the background troubles that trailed its development from the start, but one that you have to admire as well. I feel that it's a car that's stood the test of time, a bit of automotive history from the 1970's that shows how reckless and ambitious we were with our car construction, like the Aston Martin Lagonda, brash in the extreme, but lovable all the same.
In fact if I had £20,000 right now I'd gladly go out and buy one, not only because I'd be saving a fortune, but also because it's a very personable little car, the kind of car you can't take your eyes off of, the car you could really give a name and love forever.
I'd name mine Christie! :D
When the "Full Cold Moon" rises on Sunday night (Dec. 3) it will also mark the first (and last) "supermoon" of 2017. Supermoons happen when a full moon approximately coincides with the moon's perigee, or a point in its orbit at which it is closest to Earth. December's supermoon is actually the first of three back-to-back supermoon full moons to come in the next two months. On Jan. 1 and Jan. 31, the full moon will also occur near the moon's arrival at perigee, according to NASA, which billed the line up as a supermoon trilogy.
~'Paradise' Coldplay.
this is part of a three day series. last night two nights ago i watched the sky for an hour and a half, waiting for the sunset, and when it finally happened i grabbed my camera, a globe, and my sister Hannah and we ran down to a field with a view until we were breathless. we managed to catch it at it's best. out of all the photos i took, three turned out good, i'll be uploading them in the next two days, the last one tomorrow so keep checking.
i loved these when i took them, now i can't seem to appreciate the colour. i just want to turn them black & white. sorry.
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this morning i received a flickrmail which made me cry whilst getting ready. if you've been reading my descriptions, you might know how i'm feeling right now. someone lovely sent me a message which cheered up my day so so much.
until...
i had photography today and i processed the film i used over the summer. it had photos for my 100 STRANGERS on. photos for my GCSE PHOTOGRAPHY EXAM PROJECT. a project that has to be over by december. it had 18 of the 25 photos i have taken so far on it, and they went. all of them. processed wrong, and that's it.
i nearly broke down in tears in the darkroom. it was worse once one of the art teachers, who is my form teacher, asked and i explained and she started hugging me. worse that my friends were in the darkroom when i pulled the film out of the spiral and saw it was blank. worse that everyone knows i learnt the SPANISH, thanks to a helpful spanish flickrfriend, to 10 of those people in mallorca and got photos of them.
i wont point fingers.
but im just so upset:(
when she dances
earth and sky
bend with her
fire leaps
like hands
telling stories
river moves
in calligraphic
graces
mist shrouds
mountain shoulder
hidden
"We must remember that the heart of our religion is alive and that each person has the ability within to awaken and walk in a sacred manner." ---- Thomas Yellowtail, CROW
The Native Spirituality is full of life. When we seek it we become alive. Even if we have gone astray and have conducted ourselves in a bad way, we can look within and have a new awakening to life. Maybe we have drunk too much alcohol; maybe we have cheated on our spouse; maybe we have done things that make us feel guilty and ashamed. If we look outside ourselves, we will not find life; if we look inside, we will find life. Anytime we choose to change our lives, we only need to look inside. How do we do this? Take some sage and light it, close your eyes and say to the Great Sirit, I'm tired, I need your help. Please help me change. Great Spirit, I know you exist inside of myself. Let me awaken to your teachings.
* Higher * ~ song lyrics by Creed
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When dreaming I'm guided to another world
Time and time again
At sunrise I fight to stay asleep
'Cause I don't want to leave the comfort of this place
'Cause there's a hunger, a longing to escape
From the life I live when I'm awake
So let's go there
Let's make our escape
Come on, let's go there
Let's ask can we stay?
Can you take me Higher?
To a place where blind men see
Can you take me Higher?
To a place with golden streets
Although I would like our world to change
It helps me to appreciate
Those nights and those dreams
But, my friend, I'd sacrifice all those nights
If I could make the Earth and my dreams the same
The only difference is
To let love replace all our hate
So let's go there
Let's make our escape
Come on, let's go there
Let's ask can we stay?
Can you take me Higher?
To a place where blind men see
Can you take me Higher?
To a place with golden streets
So lets go there, lets go there,
Come on, lets go there
Lets ask can we stay?
Up high I feel like I'm alive for the very first time
Set up high I'm strong enough to take these dreams
And make them mine
Set up high I'm strong enough to take these dreams
And make them mine
Can you take me Higher?
To a place where blind men see
Can you take me Higher?
To a place with golden streets
Can you take me Higher?
To a place where blind men see
Can you take me Higher?
To a place with golden streets
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I dont know what should I made: correct the color or try one more time. Im not satisfied with this photo, but Im very tired and short of time...
SOOC (absolutly without postprocessing).
Macromondays theme: "High Key". Not so perfect but as I like them, SOOC.
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Post mill (Dutch: Wipmolen - German: Kokerwindmuehle) De Blokker at the Blokweer Polder at Kinderdijk-Elshout, Zuid-Holland (South Holland), Netherlands
Some background information:
The windmills at Kinderdijk are a group of altogether 19 windmills in the Alblasserwaard polder, in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. Almost all mills are part of the village of Kinderdijk in the municipality of Molenwaard, but one mill, De Blokker, is part of the municipality of Alblasserdam. Mostly built in 1738 and 1740, to keep water out of the polder, it is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands and one of the best-known Dutch tourist sites. The mills are listed as national monuments and the entire area is a protected village view since 1993. The mills have also been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
The post mill De Blokker on my picture is the 19th mill in the ensemble. It was already built in 1521. De Blokker burned down a few times, for the last time in 1997, but in 2001 it was completely restored. Today De Blokker is one of the windmills at Kinderdijk, which is still operational.
Kinderdijk lies in the Alblasserwaard, at the confluence of the Lek and Noord rivers. In the 13th century problems with water became more and more apparent in Alblasserwaard. Large canals called "weteringen" were dug to get rid of the excess water in the polders. However, the drained soil started setting, while the level of the river rose due to the river's sand deposits.
After a few centuries, an additional way to keep the polders dry was required. It was decided to build a series of windmills, with a limited capacity to bridge water level differences, but just able to pump water into a reservoir at an intermediate level between the soil in the polder and the river. The reservoir could be pumped out into the river by other windmills whenever the river level was low enough. The river level has both seasonal and tidal variations. Although some of the windmills are still used, the main water works are provided by two diesel pumping stations near one of the entrances of the windmills site.
No longer being of use for bridging water level differences, some of the windmills were converted into private residences. Their owners keep them in good repair, gird them with beautiful, well-groomed gardens and therefore make them a lovely sight.
Kinderdijk is a village in the Netherlands, belonging to the municipality of Molenwaard, about 15 km (9 miles) east of Rotterdam. The name Kinderdijk is Dutch for "children dike" and derives from a folktale which is said to have been occurred during the Second Saint Elizabeth Flood of 1421.
In the course of this flood, the farming region Grote Hollandse Waard flooded, but the Alblasserwaard polder stayed unflooded. It is said that when the terrible storm had subsided, someone went on to the dike between these two areas, to see what could be saved. In the distance, he saw a wooden cradle floating on the waters. As it came nearer, some movement was detected. A cat was seen in the cradle trying to keep it in balance by jumping back and forth so that no water could get into it. As the cradle eventually came close enough to the dike for a bystander to pick it up, he saw that a baby was quietly sleeping inside it, nice and dry. The cat had kept the cradle balanced and afloat. By the way, this folktale and legend has been published as "The Cat and the Cradle" in English.
I edited this photo with the new photoshop CS6 preview,
I must say I am rather pleased with the new features and look of photoshop.
first thing you see is the new interface (don't worry it's still the same, just with a more aperture/Lightroom look)
then, the new bur effects are great, easy to modify and create exactly what you want,
a big + here for adobe as it was betting annoying to have 10 layers just to get the blur you needed...
Then, the new way of saving file is great, you can finally keep working while the file saves,
remember all those 1gb+ file that need 1min to save... so much better
new better way to handle mask layers
I could just keep talking,
but, why not trying it out for yourself -it's free- labs.adobe.com/downloads/photoshopcs6.html
Please leave comments and questions about the new photoshop :)
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