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Thomas Paine, born in Thetford in 1737, a writer and radical, advocated the independence of America from Great Britian. This is a memorial statue located in the market town of his birth.
Long write-up for today's batch of awesomeness.
First off. This whole covid thing, the election, working from home, not being able to go out, not seeing friends/family, etc. Has me, and I'm sure everyone else frazzled. Having a project to work on, in my case hiking out and shooting photos of graffiti on trains has been the one thing that's keeping me sane at this point. Hoping to see some new pieces from writers that I respect is like opening a pack of baseball cards and finding your favorite players rookie card for me. Yeah, it sounds goofy, but I've been having fun, staying sane, and seeing and capturing some amazing pieces of rolling art.
So I had this weird Monday vacation day on 11-2-2020. I decided to drive out to one my my benching spots and hang out for the day.
The plan was to set up a time lapse camera, and then just hang out and bench freights for 5-6 hours. There wasn't a cloud in the sky and a slight breeze, 88F. high. No clouds makes for a very boring time lapse between trains coming by. I also only brought my little Small Rig clamp for the time lapse camera and couldn't decide where I wanted to clamp it. I should have just brought a tripod.
Out for a few hours before the BNSF guys in their truck rolled up, got out and started walking toward me. "Great!" I thought. They're going to try and chase me away. Nope, they walked over to one set of tracks, walked across the bridge inspecting the tracks, then under the bridge inspecting the bridge, got in their truck and left. I like that. I don't bother you. You don't bother me.
A while later I see tree guy coming back home. I don't know his name, but there's a guy who lives in/under a tree that's next to the trail I hike in on. Once he's in there you'd never know it. I've seen him, he's seen me, and we don't bother each other.
The whole time I'm there I'm using my little Tascam recorder to record train audio every time one comes by so I have audio for the slideshow videos I've been uploading on YouTube. Well, this time I forgot it out there. Didn't dump my photos until Tuesday night and discovered it missing. Woke up early, drove out and it was still there. It recorded for almost 5 more hours before the batteries died. Glad to have it back, I thought tree guy might have found it.
The Minister of Police-Générale writes to the Grand-Master of the University, Jean-Pierre-Louis de Fontanes, 5 May 1812, telling him to find a way of consolidating public education in the department of the Finistère. Above all, he orders him to investigate the number and legality of church schools and their influence. The French Revolution had secularised education and welfare services, but, in the process, had provoked the opposition of the Catholic clergy. The 'Imperial University', established in May 1806, was the entire Napoleonic education system, from primary schools to tertiary institutions. It sought to set up a state monopoly of education, which would instil secular, national loyalties and state service as the guiding values. Private, Catholic schools were allowed to exist, although they could only be set up with the permission of the University, their teachers had to be approved by the University and they paid a special tax on every student taught. Here, the police minister, Anne-Jean Savary, duc de Rovigo, orders Fontanes to take measures against clerical influence in education in precisely one of those areas affected by opposition to the regime. Savary is also insensed by the priests' use of the confessional to reproach those who celebrated the anniversary of the coronation of Napoleon.
This is part of the Napoleon Collection at the University of Stirling. For further information see libguides.stir.ac.uk/content.php?pid=337208&sid=2791969
Several of you have put up pics of writing with light experiments. Well, here's mine - from 1981!
Tripod-mounted Pentax MX 50mm lens, f5.6 30 sec exposure, Agfachrome 100ASA slide film.
When I was a teenager (eons ago), we wore a midi blouse like this (sailor collar type) for C.G.I.T. -- A church group (Canadian Girls In Training). Loved that group & our church still has it for teen girls.
They use to write songs about the war.
They use to write songs about the drugs.
They use to write songs about the protests.
They use to write songs about the freedom.
They use to write songs about the love.
Now they write songs about the clubs.
Now they write songs about the drinks.
Now they write songs about the parties.
Now they write songs about the fancy cars.
Now they write songs about the money.
What happened to our society?
What happened to the way people thought of important things?
What happened to real meanings of songs?
-me
p.s. my hair in this picture is almost NOT edited. My hair was just really huge and frizzy, so it looks like im a lion. haha
Blow - ke$ha
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Posted this image earlier but I had to repost as i am trying to figure out applications on my new 24" iMAC.
I did some minor edits in iPhoto and saved the image, iPhoto allows you to directly link to your Flickr account so you can automatically upload the image. Seems to be a great idea.
One BIG problem, when you establish the link, deleteing an image from iPhoto also automatically deletes the image from Flickr .... yikes. Good thing I found this out early as I just read through a few iPhoto groups and people have deleted entire sets of photos from their Flickr portfolio without even realizing the implications ... BUMMER!
iPhoto on it's own is quite an impressive, quick and easy to use photo editor for jpegs but I use the Canon DPP software mostly as it is quite powerful.
Overall, the iMAC is amazing and you can't beat the 24" screen when editing and viewing your images, the quality blows me away.
This image was shot with an Olympus OM2sp and Zuiko 100 mm f2.8 lens.
Sorry to the people who left wonderful comments on this image earlier but I erased it by mistake!
The Improvised Shakespere Co.'s first, and last performance of "Arron Burr's Romance." The company headlined Grayslake Central High School's third annual "Write Night" as part of the fourth year of "Writers Week," which featured several student presentations of their work.
"Write 2014" by RGC is a book of personal series of drabbles. RGC has created a contest for tumblr users to submit their cover work to win cover space on "Write 2014." Anyone reading with an active tumblr, find me and reblog or like this photo if it appears on your dashboard. It would be a great service to me. This artist entry/submission contest is won through recognition and majority vote. So far, I am in the lead and would like to stay at the top. The contest ends March 17th, 2015 at 8pm. You can find my cover page submission on both of my blogs:
africanamericanalienanalyst.tumblr.com
waiffs.tumblr.com