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Post by htmb on Apr 6, 2013 2:33:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2013 2:47:00 GMT
I hope that my photo of the vintage rusty low rider will be okay, but I probably won't download anything new until I am back home now because the netbook gets indigestion easily.
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Post by anshjain97 on Apr 9, 2013 16:03:07 GMT
The opposite of this thread would have been when I was almost permanently stuck to my camera on the taxi ride from Bangkok airport to my hotel. The original number of pictures on the 30km/90 min ride was around 150, but it is now closer to 50 after some deletion.
So I don't remember too much of the ride...
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Post by htmb on Apr 9, 2013 19:30:59 GMT
I had my camera with me this morning, but would have had a wreck if I'd chased down the guy I saw riding a bicycle down a hill in the opposite direction. He was not holding on to the handlebars and was talking animatedly on his cell phone. It would have made a great shot!
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Post by bjd on Apr 9, 2013 19:45:38 GMT
There is a certain freedom about not having a camera when you are in a place you don't know. You are not spending your time looking for good shots but are just looking around.
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Post by htmb on Jul 13, 2013 5:09:23 GMT
I happened to look out my window this afternoon (while uploading photos to my computer, thus no camera) to see that a police officer, who had stopped a car in front of my house, had called for back-up help. I looked a little closer since officers don't typically need backup for a routine traffice stop. What I observed was the second officer and the driver of the car communicating in sign language. They talked for about ten minutes and the cop seemed to do a pretty good job. I used to know a little sign language and recognized a few words here and there, though the officer was doing a lot of finger spelling. It was pretty cool and I was impressed at the officer's skill. The driver seemed a bit agitated at first, but the more they talked the more they seemed to come to an understanding. They ended their conversation with the driver complimenting the officer and they shook hands. In the meantime, another official vehicle, with "canine horse patrol" written on both the side and back, stopped in my driveway and a female officer dressed in police riding attire - riding boots, pants, and shirt - got out to talk to the first policeman about something that seemed unrelated to the traffic stop. I have no idea where she'd left her horse and trailer. It sounds like I'm making this up, doesn't it?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2013 5:21:27 GMT
You mean visions of police fantasy land?
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Post by htmb on Jul 13, 2013 5:24:36 GMT
Ok.....to further the fantasy, which was real, the driver appeared to be Hispanic, first cop and horse girl cop were white, and the Sign Language speaking officer was African American.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 13, 2013 5:41:15 GMT
It sounds like I'm making this up, doesn't it? No, no ~~ of course not! ( ) You DID read the directions on the prescription bottle carefully, right? Just kidding. That was a delightful vignette and would have been difficult to capture on camera anyway. The mounted cop in the drive is definitely out of the ordinary.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2013 5:44:47 GMT
I have never been able to capture our roller skating police on camera.
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Post by lugg on Jul 13, 2013 7:53:49 GMT
Bixa ;D I think that too K2 every time I drive past a huge building project in the centre of Hereford city. As I stop at the lights I fumble for my camera and just as I reach it ....the lights change. The old and very ugly cattle market that was previously sited here has been demolished and a brand spanking new retail centre is being built . As you might imagine this has evoked mixed response. I for one am hugely looking forward to having some new shops and more importantly a modern cinema with comfortable seats and more than one screen ! Fortunately it is being recorded really well on Facebook Via photos , comments, web cam and videos showing before, during and eventually www.facebook.com/hereford.futureswww.facebook.com/esgpics?ref=stream&hc_location=stream
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2013 22:58:02 GMT
Dammit, in the same category as "me with no camera" tonight I was confronted with "memory card full"! Entirely my fault, because I knew I should have downloaded my previous photographs before going out again. So if by any chance anybody notices a "firemen's ball" thread in the coming days, one should not be surprised if it is shorter than it should be.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 13, 2013 23:02:37 GMT
One thing I love about my cheapo camera case is the little pocket on the front. It's just big enough for an extra battery & an extra memory card.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2013 23:11:57 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 14, 2013 3:39:09 GMT
Tsk!
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Post by rikita on Jul 14, 2013 18:25:48 GMT
of course, the morning i go on a walk in the forest without a camera, i see a weasel and several deer. all the other mornings, when i am smart and take the camera along - nothing.
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Post by htmb on Nov 6, 2013 1:24:53 GMT
I do typically have my camera with me on the drive to work, but there is one sight I am unable to photograph, though it's something I see almost daily.
A gray haired gentleman, possibly in his late seventies/early eighties, speed walks each morning and I pass him on my way to work while I'm driving in an area where I absolutely cannot stop to take a picture. During the hotter months he has his t-shirt off and tucked into his jogging shorts so it hangs down behind him. He also wears jogging shoes and socks.
So, no shirt, jogging shorts, tennis shoes, socks......and he is READING FROM A LARGE BOOK. Academic TEXTBOOK sized. He carries the open book in front, using one hand, and appears to read while he walks very fast down the sidewalk. Last week it was quite dark during his walk, but no problems. He clipped a little light to his book!
This morning when I passed him, back in the daylight because we changed our clocks over the weekend, I noticed he was wearing a shirt and long pants to help ward off the cooler weather we are having, BUT he was still walking along and reading that big, heavy book.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 6, 2013 2:31:07 GMT
Rikita, somehow they just know. Wow, Htmb, I'd like to see that! But really, no photo could convey the amazing regularity & ability to dodge obstacles that your story does.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 10, 2013 21:10:48 GMT
A twist on the no-camera frustration: I was in the zócalo the other day with my camera. There was a huge contingent of people from all over the state demanding more support for their areas. It was a cornucopia of photo-ops -- traditional clothing, wonderful varieties of faces, people waiting, people interacting -- but I felt it would be too rude and intrusive to take pictures.
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Post by htmb on Nov 10, 2013 22:45:00 GMT
I can relate, Bixa. It's too bad you couldn't snap a few photos in the interest of recording social history, but sometimes it's really tricky, or even impossible.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2013 6:14:54 GMT
I would love to make a photo report concerning the lines of undocumented refugees around the corner from my apartment every day at the assistance centre, but there is no way that I would ever allow myself to do so. However, I do plan to sneak a general view of the queue from a distance one of these days.
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Post by rikita on Nov 13, 2013 22:09:11 GMT
a couple of weeks ago i visited my aunt for her birthday. she lives in potsdam, but i had never been to her place before. well, as agnes got tired after a while, my cousin suggested a little walk in the park, so i could have agnes sleep in the sling. turns out my aunt lives just around the corner of park sancoussi. and it was a really beautiful autumn day with lots of bright yellow leafs and blue sky and sunshine, so i saw many great picture opportunities. but no camera ...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2013 14:02:55 GMT
Driving back out East to L.I. from NYC, along the highway in the South Bronx, we saw a man walking with an ATM machine in a shopping/grocery cart...!!!!!!!!!!! ONLY IN NY!!!!
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Post by htmb on Jan 31, 2014 2:24:30 GMT
Cruising through the gas station lot on his motorcycle, with goggles and a helmet on that looked circa WWI, a scary man was wearing this: link
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 31, 2014 4:11:56 GMT
Noooooo!!!
Are you on medication? Did you do something really bad in a past life?
This pales in comparison with Htmb's trauma missed photo-op, but still a shame not to have had my camera with me ~~
A couple of days ago I was in a paved public area with my dogs, who were off leash. There are some very large raised planters there with trees & bushes in them. Harley was in a planter facing off to the boles at the base of a big tree, growling and lunging forward, then scampering backward. I could see there was something stuck between two boles. As I got closer, I thought it was either some kind of purse with beads & stuff hanging off it or maybe an art work. It was reddish and the fringe-looking parts seemed to have colored beads on them.
It was a very large empty lobster head stuck upside down in the base of the tree!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2014 6:25:03 GMT
Saw something really great on Valentine's day & didn't have the camera.
Went with the dogs to a shady small park with lots of seating, most of which was occupied by couples. There was the usual paraphernalia associated with the holiday -- roses, stuffed animals, etc. I noticed that each woman in a couple was licking a heart-shaped lollipop & assumed some vendor had gone through with them. But no.
When I got to the end of the park, two young women came along the sidewalk. They were dressed normally, but had their heads wrapped ninja style, with just the eyes showing. One woman was holding up a poster & the other was carrying a large cloth bag. As they approached a couple, they'd stop & the poster would be held up. It said: No seas la mujer de la vida, sino de la tuya. (idiomatically: "Don't be the woman of his dreams, but of yours.") Then the bag holder would give the woman a piece of candy.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 18, 2014 3:18:02 GMT
Pedant alert!
Psst bixa, you are missing a word: No seas la mujer de la vida
As for me, I'm really going to have to get one of those camera things. Always didn't get one because I didn't want to be distracted from working on my painting.
But yet again tonight, the arrondissement did one of their heroic snow cleanings. There are huge trucks rumbling by (to collect the snow), snow-scraping ploughs for the streets and little ones called chenillettes for the sidewalks/pavements. One has to be very alert and jump out of their way, and yes, they have killed people.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2014 5:14:07 GMT
~ ? ~ Copied & pasted from my post: No seas la mujer de la vida
Copied & pasted from your post: No seas la mujer de la vida
What is missing from mine?
And yeah, you are WAY overdue to try pitcha-takin!
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Post by lagatta on Feb 18, 2014 13:04:28 GMT
My Spanish is iffy, (especially right now as I'm translating something from Italian into French) but shouldn't it be something like su vida, because in English you wrote "of his dreams"?
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2014 14:14:05 GMT
No, because it's the same as other things one says in Spanish using neutral the: el/la rather than possessive as one would in English. In English I'd say to you, "Give me your hand" or "Take my hand", whereas in Spanish it would be, "Dame la mano" or "Toma la mano". The literally translated sentence from post #55 would read: Don't be the woman of the life, but of yours. But to convey the same sentiment with the same idiomatic feel in English, you'd say: Don't be the woman of his dreams, but of yours.
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