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How about pictures from Holland? The one in Michigan.
Traditional Dutch dancing! Or so we're told. They had four women and two men, so one woman played a man's part. They paired up into three groups for the main show.
Bunnies! Lots of them. The petting zoo section also had chickens. I tried taking some photographs from underneath the wire cage. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
bunny_hugger saw me taking up-fluff shots of bunnies and gave me a quick ``ya perv''. The pictures came out unfocused, because cameras never auto-focus on the actually interesting part of the scene.
View of the village, and some of the attractions, from the top of the Ferris wheel. In the left center is the street organ, around which dancing was done; you can more easily see the stands for spectators.
The antique carousel! It's a 1924 Spillman carousel with Dutch-inspired painting. There's only two rows of horses on the ride anymore. Some of the horses, un-restored, are mounted on wall of the enclosing building where they look honestly gruesome. You can just barely make one out in the far background on the left.
Mathematics blog roundup, you say? Indeed. If you haven't got it on your friends page or your RSS reader you might want to see some of the past week's posts, including:
- Reading the Comics, August 22, 2015: Infinite Probabilities Edition, where things left off last Sunday.
- Who Was Jonas Moore? A footnote, yes, in mathematical history but that doesn't mean we can't talk about him.
- Do You Have To Understand This? Before going on to the next subject, I mean.
- Reading the Comics, August 29, 2015: Unthemed Edition There were a bunch of comic strips the past week, I just didn't think of a connecting theme to them.
Trivia: On the 2nd of November, 1973, Sid Richardson Bass, oil family magnate, returned from New York City convinced the oil embargo would send stocks into a freefall, and ordered the liquidation of all his holdings. It was done (except for investments in the Church's Fried Chicken chain) within five days. Source: The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes, Bryan Burrough.
Currently Reading: Austerity Britain, 1945 - 1951, David Kynaston.
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Date: 2015-08-31 03:10 pm (UTC)Those are some surprisingly chilled buns, given how much is going on. But then, I'm used to wild buns, who tend to be very shy - though, with exceptions, like one black bun in particular, who's seen me at or near the gate a few times now, and has still (cautiously) made their way forward and under the gate, once even all but running over my feet in the process. ^_^
I forget - what's your bun's name? I'm all in favor of more photos of him.
Focus is one area I'd hope we'll see a lot of progress in the coming decade's cameras. I'd love to be able to tell mine I'm interested in rabbits, and much less so in twigs and grass, which provide perfect inspiration for autofocus mechanisms. As is, if the subject's not in a hurry, manual focus is an option, where the view's too confused for AF to work well, or where the light's especially poor.
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Date: 2015-09-01 02:02 am (UTC)Our rabbit is named Stephen, as in Colbert. I need to get more photographs of him especially as he's been working very hard on being all the more adorable. Last night he was stretching out next to his bed, with his forepaws stretched out over top of the bed, and licking his own cheek. You can imagine that all that is like.
I'd love for someone to have a consumer digital camera only with manual focus. Also with an autofocus capable of understanding that we basically never want a picture of a fence, mesh, or wire.