I have a polarizer that I can't seem to figure out. So I YouTubed it to see what I wasn't getting. Seemed pretty straight forward, so I attached it to the lens and out I went - mid dayish, sunny & bright. Still not seeming to get it to work. I really can't tell any difference through the viewfinder as I turn the polarizer~ I know it's not a huge ( Read more... )

Much to my surprise, my weekend last was interrupted by the flu. No, the real flu - influenza. What the Heck.. and I faithfully get my flu shot since the first and last time I got the flu on New Years Eve 1999. Hit my like a brick on Sunday and knocked me on my butt all week. Enforced and miserable one week vacation. I tried this morning to go back ( Read more... )

I recently drove I-90 through part of North Dakota heading to Bismarck to see family and the birth of my newest granddaughter - meet Emma Grace. We had a bit of a rough start, so here she is being held by Daddy in NICU.


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Love this photo. The detail and clarity of subjects obviously in motion is fantastic!

Originally posted by almond_cakes at Swing Time at Hamilton Fish Park, New York City, April 2, 1909

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Hold your horses. We're fighting some viking barbarians right now.

#We_Are_Coming_O_Rome
- Antonella C. (@TobaccoVillain) February 19, 2015
I woke up this morning, well, no- the caffeine craving and hunger pangs forced me out of bed finally, opened up Facebook and saw a post on the hashtag #We_Are_Coming_O_Rome trending on Twitter. Opened the post ( Read more... )

It's been awhile since I've been there, and it has been an eventful couple years. My job was eliminated, but I was hired into a department that then split into to two. There are two of us. Two. Managing a few hundred accounts. It's been a trip and an adjustment. There was essentially no job description in what was a pretty new direction - we've ( Read more... )

Originally posted by grrm at Corporate Cowardice
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Love these old photos, especially the candid ones.b



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There is a great collage out there comprised of side by side photo's of the Romanov's & era then and now. This photo is one of them beside a picture of those same steps today-the contrast is striking...and haunting ( Read more... )