oh you gotta check this out!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo
oh you gotta check this out!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo
MCLEAN, TEXAS The sun was dropping on d…
MCLEAN, TEXAS The sun was dropping on down when we arrived at McLean. In the downtown area, the road split into one-way east and west bound segments, divided by a city block. Although closed for the day, we saw a dual museum called “Texas Route 66 Museum / Devil’s Rope Museum” The term “Devil’s Rope” referred to barbed wire as there were two gigantic balls of barbed wire perched on concrete columns. Where else but on Route 66 would you find a tribute to barbed wire? It is a wonderful country we live in! A great photo opportunity was the tiny cottage-style Phillips 66 gas station all decked out in fresh tan and orange paint. The sign on the street corner indicated the station was originally built in the 1920’s and was the first Phillips 66 station in Texas. An antique Ford tanker truck was parked to the side, also painted a bright orange with the Phillip 66 emblem on the door. The gas pump showed a price of 19 cents per gallon! As we drove west through McLean on Route 66, there was the smell of something delicious cooking! We followed our noses to the Red River Steakhouse. Once there our stomachs began to do the Route 66 rumble… We were greeted at the door by a very friendly hostess who had the same southern accent as we did. For a tiny town like McLean, the parking lot was packed when we arrived. A full parking lot at a local restaurant is always a good sign. We were late-comers for supper and people began leaving while we were eating. Everyone knew everyone else as there were shouts of goodbye from across the room and farewells that included “be careful driving home”. It was obvious that this was a very friendly ranch community on Route 66. As my daddy used to say, we must have “popped out like a sore thumb” as visitors because the waitress immediately wanted to know where we were from and the hostess later brought out the guestbook so we could sign it. A big ole salad was served first, heaped high with crisp, cold lettuce and lots of fixin’s. Then our 8 oz. steaks were placed before us, completely covering a large platter. The steak was so big that it was nudging the baked potato out of the way! Both were tender and cooked to perfection. The complimentary dessert of homemade peach cobbler was delicious. For $1 more, we added a big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. If you are anywhere near McLean near supper time, don’t miss the Red River Steakhouse.
My Dear Dear Bad Boy….SODDY JAMMS OF WATER WORLD / I…
My Dear Dear Bad Boy….SODDY JAMMS OF WATER WORLD / IS FEATURED! IN THE THE EYES HAVE IT GROUP! / THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!
I have been touched by the sale of my card Seeing Spots today – ...
I have been touched by the sale of my card Seeing Spots today – this shot was taken on the platform at Hornsby railway station here in Sydney … and was bought by Earthangel who originally had this to say about the image: I love it but I’m biased – I work for an Australia wide Blindness and Low Vision Agency and I love that you took this pic and won an award for this. Many people take tactile markings for granted but when you know people who have died or fallen down between a train and a platform due to blindness and the everyday difficulties they face – I love these things! This would be a great card for our organisation to sell. Well done love the colour contrast which is also what it’s all about. THANK YOU EARTHANGEL for thinking beyond the box and seeing a way for this work to potentially make a contribution … Rosalie
Battersea Power Station is clearly the finest structure in London, forget Apsley House, you want imposing might, you can’t go further tha…
Battersea Power Station is clearly the finest structure in London, forget Apsley House, you want imposing might, you can’t go further than Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s magnificent Art Deco monolith of brick. / So he had a stab at the telephone box, and Bankside (or the Tate Modern) is alright, but those four chimney’s rising from clutter of terraces and railway sidings strike an imposing figure over the city skyline. And it’s not surprising, it’s the largest brick building in Europe. / From Pink Floyd to Children of Men, via The Beatles and The Dark Knight, it is scorched into our modern cultural psyche, the Bank of England burnt tens of thousands of pounds in the furnaces there when they thought the Bosch were about to conquer us during WW2. Meanwhile the RAF were using the plumes of smoke to guide them home. Screaming Lord Sutch wanted to cover it in wool and make it look like a dead sheep, John Broome tried to turn it into a theme park. Now they want to turn it into a naff collection of faux pot plants and cafes, with a riverside walkway way, exterior designed to within an inch of it’s life. They’ll probably fail. But I don’t care, it meant that it was opened for two days for the public to get inside and have a wander, and this just hasn’t happened very often. (PVZ would have wet himself) On a different note, but while I have your attention, the next day I attended the Lovebox Weekender, and aside from Goldfrapp having these totally ace guys dressed up like colourful carpets pinging it all over the stage, Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips came out in a massive plastic ball and went walking and crawling all over the crowd, oh, and yeah, their show was amazing too
Yorkshire Grit have kindley featured my image Power Station I eo…
Yorkshire Grit have kindley featured my image Power Station I eould like to thank the moderators Glen
Many thanks to the trains group for featuring my image all aboard...
Many thanks to the trains group for featuring my image all aboard much appreciated indeed
Wow…Great news my shot of the Albury Railway Station has been featured in “Trains” Group. Thank you very much.. http://www.redbubble.c…
Wow…Great news my shot of the Albury Railway Station has been featured in “Trains” Group. Thank you very much.. http://www.redbubble.com/train-art-photography-writing/featured_works
Quite a few months ago I posted a picture called The Station Master’s Cottage-...
Quite a few months ago I posted a picture called The Station Master’s Cottage. The very charismatic (and now shingle free, I hope) Gregoryno6 bmailed me to say that he saw something “dark and disturbing” in that cottage…..................so I set him a challenge and asked him to write The Story of the Station Master’s Cottage. A new job, a bout of shingles and a few months later…...............ta da! Here it is, the spinechilling story of The Station Master’s Cottage by Gregoryno6 Read it if you dare…...........
Wow my enhanced shot of Albury Civic Fire Station was featured in http://www.redbubble.com/live-love-dream. Thank you very much. !...
Wow my enhanced shot of Albury Civic Fire Station was featured in http://www.redbubble.com/live-love-dream. Thank you very much.
Thank you very much Cherish for the feature:))) / This is the main train station in central Lisbon- Rossio. / Thanks to all friends who vis…
Thank you very much Cherish for the feature:))) / This is the main train station in central Lisbon- Rossio. / Thanks to all friends who visited this work:)) / Tereza / . / . / . / . / . / . / .
WOW, thank you for featuring my shot of our fire station. I’m very happy. !http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/framecolor:mocha/...
WOW, thank you for featuring my shot of our fire station. I’m very happy. :
The lovely people at the European Everyday Life Group have been kind enough to f…
The lovely people at the European Everyday Life Group have been kind enough to feature my On the Outside shot. If you have not discovered them yet, then please check out this great group to find some outstanding work. Click on the photograph below to see the shot properly: Thank you so much to the hosts for recognising my work, I appreciate the honour and the exposure. Tom
The lovely people at the Victorian Viewfinders Group have been kind enough to fea…
The lovely people at the Victorian Viewfinders Group have been kind enough to feature my On the Outside shot. If you have not discovered them yet, then please check out this great group to find some outstanding work. Click on the photograph below to see the shot properly: Thank you so much to the hosts for recognising my work, I appreciate the honour and the exposure. Tom
Unbelievable………..My shot of Albury Civic Fire Station was featured in *1:1 With the News...
Unbelievable………..My shot of Albury Civic Fire Station was featured in *1:1 With the News: / I’m very honored and proud. / Thank you very much to the host Heavenandus777: :
Hi everyone Myself and roybob have started a new group called Fire Station:. / We welcome a…
Hi everyone Myself and roybob have started a new group called Fire Station:. / We welcome all shot of fire stations, also those taken inside or a part of a fire station.
In the group Painter’s In Modern Times – there is a section were people are submittin…
In the group Painter’s In Modern Times – there is a section were people are submitting their Instant Cheer Up Music......So I want to share Marilyn Brown – choice, which she aptly called:- Prepare To Be Blown Away – Enjoy….....Sx
Thank you so much to the hosts of Communities Group for featuring my work. !http://images-2…
Thank you so much to the hosts of Communities Group for featuring my work.
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Thank you all!
Early Morning: / On my way to work I roll into the Petrol station at Sainsbury’s, Upton, on my Moto and start filling up, sitting on th…
Early Morning: / On my way to work I roll into the Petrol station at Sainsbury’s, Upton, on my Moto and start filling up, sitting on the bike as I, and nearly everyone else does, because it means you can fill your tank properly to the top. Suddenly there is no petrol coming out of ther spout. Reason? ............. / / .....the cashier had switched it off because, (long argument short) and I quote, “it is dangerous to fill up sitting on the bike. I’ve seen bikes explode”. Apparently this edict had been handed down by the Operations Manager. She refused to listen to rational argument and so I had to side stand it and get off before she would turn the pump on and I could finish filling up. / / What a load of B---KS. I cannot help thinking that if Bikes were exploding at petrol stations on a regular basis, it just might have made the news. / / Guess who is going to see the Operations Manager tomorrow when we go shopping? / / The Next Day: / We go shopping, and I go to see Sainsbury’s ‘Operations Manager’ whom the petrol cashier said had issued the, ‘must not sit on your bike and fill up’ edict. Turns out that they don’t have an Operations Manager. / / It gets better…...... / / Spoke to a General Manager named Adrian. I explained yesterday’s debacle and he said that what I had been told, ”... was rubbish”. There was no danger filling your bike while sitting on it – he knew because he rodes bikes in the past! Their concern was that you might spill petrol on yourself sitting on the bike, but that it is up to the customer’s own decision. Have to admit a certain smug warmth swept over me!! / / So everything the cashier told me; it’s not allowed, it’s dangerous, she had seen bikes explode (!), and their Ops Manager had told them not to allow it, was a total fabrication. / / He said that if I had trouble again, to say that I had spoken to Adrian and that he said it’s alright to fill up sitting on the bike. / / So – well done Adrian at Sainsbury’s, Upton, Wirral. A result and a victory for common sense! hurray!
Hey Everyone! I was on the radio this morning – what a great experience. I was interviewed by Jan Goldsmith and had the chance to meet…
Hey Everyone! I was on the radio this morning – what a great experience. I was interviewed by Jan Goldsmith and had the chance to meet Bruce Pascoe and his publicist from Penguin Australia as well. I was happy to talk today about how the internet has both influenced and helped me as an author and yes, I of course managed to slip Redbubble into the conversation! Unfortunately the recording equipment was having an “off day” so this is just a small catch of what was said. I hope you enjoy it! For more go to Flicmanning.com Flic :)
I have just been reading an excellent article in the latest Digital Photo magazine and it has set me thinking. How many of us, I wonder,...
I have just been reading an excellent article in the latest Digital Photo magazine and it has set me thinking. How many of us, I wonder, have used – or even know about – the pre set Actions that Photoshop has provided for us. There is quite a selection, but one stands out and that is sepia toning. Click on Window>Actions in Photoshop and this will open your Actions palette. About half way down the list is Sepia. Open a photo that you wish to convert, click this action, go to the bottom of the Actions palette and you’ll find a right facing arrow. Click on that and bingo! You have a sepia image in a fraction of the time it would take you normally. The same process applies to using any of these Actions and when you find one or two that you think you’ll have a lot of use for you can assign a Function key to them (F1, F2 etc) and in future all you do is press that key and the action takes place immediately. Easy eh – and I now confidently expect to see a whole swag of Sepia photos uploaded into these pages!! Regards, / Peter
A fascinating look at people, perceptions & culture – I received this information via email. Washington, DC Metro Station on a col…
A fascinating look at people, perceptions & culture – I received this information via email. Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule. 4 minutes later: the violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.. 6 minutes: A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again. 10 minutes: A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. Every parent, without exception, forced their children to move on quickly. 45 minutes: The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32. 1 hour: / He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition. No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100. This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities. The questions raised in a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context? One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made…. How many other things are we missing? The full story can be found at this link: Does The Name Joshua Ring A Bell?
About 4 months ago my sister told me that one of her friends was looking through our photos from our 2008 Europe trip. Her friend works f…
About 4 months ago my sister told me that one of her friends was looking through our photos from our 2008 Europe trip. Her friend works for a publishing company, and was impressed by the shots she saw, and wanted to use them in a book on Paris she was publishing. While I was excited at the time, didn’t get my hopes up about it, until it was actually done. In true Parmi style, I totally forgot about this until today, when a copy of the book turned up in the mail for me! The book is set for release on Dec 1st I am currently in a state of shock that 6 photos (5 of mine and 1 of my sister’s) have been used in the book! I had to make a journal entry to commemorate the event :) Below are the shots from the book and the original photos that I took while in Paris. So fitting that the book itself is PARIS – A Personal Guide To The City’s Best. Given that Paris is quite possibly my favourite city I have visited so far, this was poetic in it’s own way. / Paris Underground / My sister’s photo / Notre Dame / Notre Dame / Notre Dame / Pantheon Link to the book online All book shots taken from Shannon Bennett’s PARIS – A Guide To The City’s Best. Published by The Miegunyah Press 2009, copyright to Melbourne University Publishing Limited. Edit: I left to make a cup of coffee and came back to a massive outpouring of encouragement and congrats from so many of you! YOU GUYS ROCK! I am so supported on here by all of you and I can’t even express in words how incredible that feels! Thank you just doesn’t cut it!!! :)
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