Pumpkin-Head's PAD - Picture of the Day

2008-06-12T15:21:00.000-07:00

TEST POST - from GMAIL

2006-04-04T12:43:00.000-07:00

Just Testing Out - Picture taken at BabyShower - I received at work.

2005-12-20T14:09:00.000-08:00

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2005-10-14T17:30:00.000-07:00

Dad & Me - Testa River

2005-10-14T17:27:00.000-07:00

Wow Google is really

2005-08-27T08:56:00.000-07:00

Wow Google is really taking over the world – check out my picture post with my new lens. http://chhimi.com/Gallery/albums/userpics/10001/NO-OR.jpg

Canon Digital SLR Tutorials

2005-07-05T14:57:00.000-07:00

http://www.canon.co.jp/Imaging/enjoydslr/index.html

A very nice tutorial if you own a digital SLR - or getting into the SLR world of photography. It has very nice graphic tutorials - even if you don't own a digital SLR camera but a point and shoot digital camera (which has a lot of features including manual settings that control both appeture, shutter and ISO settings) - it has some very helpful tips.

Canon EF-S 60 mm F2.8 macro lens: Digital Photography Review

2005-03-04T19:47:00.000-08:00

Canon EF-S 60 mm F2.8 macro lens: Digital Photography Review: "Pre-PMA 2005: Canon has today announced a very interesting EF-S lens to complement its announcement of the EOS 350D. The EF-S 60 mm F2.8 Macro is designed specifically for Digital SLR's with its EF-S lens mount and provides and equivelant field of view of approximately 96 mm and a true 1:1 macro magnification ratio. The lens also features a ring-type Ultra Sonic Motor and has a maximum aperture of F2.8."

Canon: PMA 2005 Show Report: Digital Photography Review

2005-03-04T19:46:00.000-08:00

Should have waited a little longer - with the Rebel and maybe I should have got the Canon 350D... I think this should beat out the Olympus E300.
Canon: PMA 2005 Show Report: Digital Photography Review

Gnomads

2005-01-20T19:20:00.000-08:00

A little while back my brother came to visit from the big city and introduced me to my new buddy. He is a "GNOMAD" and his name is Gandu. So from time to time I will be helping him upload some pictures of his wild adventures.

Just chillin with the boys "L-R: Grumpy, Me and Obelisk."

Place de la Concorde

2005-01-20T13:45:00.000-08:00

Between the Champs Elysées and the Tuileries Gardens, there lies the Place de la Concorde. With traffic roaring and careening about seemingly in all directions, it is easy to feel lost on its 84,000 square meters.

History
It was designed by Gabriel begun in 1748 and completed in 1763. It was first called Place Louis XV, and planned as a worthy setting for the royal statue. Place de la Concorde is often associated with the bloody events that took place on its pavement. In 1770, for example, 133 spectators were trampled to death at a huge fireworks display on the occasion of Marie-Antoinette's wedding to the Dauphin.

A few decades later, the revolutionaries, who were intent on eliminating all royalist monuments trom the face of the earth, removed Louis XlV's statue, dubbed the plaza Place de la Révolution, and set up their guillotine on it. Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and 1119 other people lost their lives here, among them Charlotte Corday (the murderess of Marat), Danton, Philippe Égalité and Robespierre. In order to help these bloody events on their way to oblivion, the Directory renamed the square Place de la Concorde in 1795. And, officially, the 1830 Revolution renamed it Place de la Concorde.

What to see
Two commanding edifices, whose colonnades are copies of the Perrault wings of the Louvre, rise up over the north side of the plaza. And, currently situated in the right-hand building is the Naval Ministry. Just on the Place de la Concorde sits the famous "palace" the Hôtel Crillon, which is amongst the citadels of Parisian snobbery. Formerly, its elegant salons served as the winter quarters for the famous Chateaubriand family. Today it houses the French automobile club. These are just two examples of Louis XV style, by Gabriel.

Just at the entrance to the Place de la Concorde, on either side of the Champs-Élysées, are the Chevaux de Marly.

There are eight statues representing the eight major cities of France: Brest and Rouen (in the northwest), Lille and Strasbourg (to the northeast), Lyon and Marseille (on the Quai des Tuileries) and Bordeaux and Nantes (in the southwest). The statue representing Strasbourg was modelled by the actress Juliette Drouet, who was a muse of Victor Hugo. You can find these statues on the four corners of the square.

The Obelisk
In the center of the plaza is the Obelisk of Luxor, a pink granite monolith 23 m (73 tt) high and weighing 220 tons. It is 3,300 years old and decorated with hieroglyphics exalting the reign of the pharaon Ramses II. The obelisk was presented as a gift to Charles X by the Egyptian viceroy Méhémet Ali in 1829. The monument was installed here under Louis Philippe who, bearing in mind the death and destruction witnessed by Place de la Concorde, was pleased to have found a non-political monument to replace the unpopular Bourbon Louis the XVth statue. So that future generations would be reminded of the effort it required to erect this colossus here, the procedure, including the mechanical devices that were used, are portrayed on the
pedestal. After three years of travelling from the Nile riverbanks one anecdote reminds the suspens of this enterprise of erection before a crowd of 200,000 people.The obelisk wasn't upright yet when the huge winches reached their mechanical limits probably due to their location. From the silent crowd holding its breath a man's voice shouted "moisten the ropes!" A sailorman of the old days knew that hemp ropes would shrink while drying...

POD: Picture of Day

2005-01-20T08:25:00.000-08:00

I don't want to be a copycat like everyone else. Especially like my brother. (hehehe) So welcome to my POD. Have Fun.

best friends

2005-01-19T14:53:00.000-08:00

Taken when I visited the Versailles in France. Just managed to take a quick picture.

Welcome to my PAD

2005-01-19T13:20:00.000-08:00

PAD - aka Picture of the Day

Stealing this idea from my bro (www.chhimipenjo.com).

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