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I Will Grant You Three Wishes… Maybe!?

June 22, 2015 — 20 Comments

genie in a bottle

F/ 18.0 , 1/60, ISO 250, Photoshop CS6.

Day 173 / 365

An older couple were walking on a beach when the husband tripped over a bottle and a genie came out. “You can each have one wish,” said the genie. The wife made her wish first “I would like to travel around the world, with my husband,”. Suddenly there appeared in her hand two tickets for travel around the world. Now it was the husbands turn, “Well” said the husband, with a naughty look on his face “I wish I can have a younger companion,” . The words were barely out of his mouth when poof, he aged 20 years!

Interesting Fact: Recorded from the mid 17th century (denoting a guardian or protective spirit), the word comes via French from Latin base of genius. Génie was adopted in the current sense by the 18th-century French translators of The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, because of its resemblance in form and sense to Arabic jinnī jinn.
let the genie out of the bottle let loose or lose control of an unpredictable force, start an uncontrollable chain of events. Sometimes in the form, you can’t put the genie back in the bottle. ( http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/genie.aspx )

This Is The Moment In Your Life, That You Can’t Stop Smiling At A Pineapple

June 8, 2015 — 16 Comments

pineapple

F/4.5, 1/60, ISO 100.

Day 159 / 365

Why did the pineapple stop in the middle of the road?
Because he ran out of juice

Interesting Fact: The word ‘pineapple’ was recorded in 1398 to describe ‘pine cones’. It was not until 1694 that pine cones were first called pine cones. On arrival to the Americas, European explorers called the tropical fruit pineapples around 1664 because they resembled the pine cone. ( http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/food/pineapples.html )

See The World Through My Eyes

June 2, 2015 — 8 Comments

eye lenses

F/16.0, 1/60, ISO 100.

Day 153 / 365

These are the lenses the doctor prescribed to me.  Now, let me show you the world!   🙂

Interesting Fact: The invention of the camera in the early 19th century has led to a large array of lens designs intended for photography. The problems of photographic lens design, creating a lens for a task that would cover a large flat image plane, were well known even before the invention of photography[1] due to the development of lenses to work with the focal plane of the camera obscura, a device for projecting images used as a novelty and an artist’s drawing aid that had been around for hundreds of years. Since the invention of photography many types of lenses have been tried. The succession of designs was never uniform since an older design that performed a task the photographer needed (such as working better portrait versus landscape, working at the wavelength of light the film collected, etc.) would still be used in unison with newer designs. Even today the job the lens needs to do, the laws of physics, the limits of engineering, as well as the practical considerations of size, weight and cost, means there are many designs available. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photographic_lens_design )

Paparazzi!

May 20, 2015 — 8 Comments

Paparazzi

F/5.6, 1/125, ISO 140.

Day 140 / 365

Pants: Anthropologie

Sweatshirt: Abercrombie and Fitch

Necklaces: J.Crew

Shoes: INC

Bag: Zara

Sunglasses: Le Specs

Model-Joanna

Interesting Fact:  In the 1500s, fashion designers showed off their clothing by putting it on miniature dolls. There were no such thing as models until 1853. ( http://www.younghollywood.com/scene/15-amazing-fashion-facts.html )

Happy Earth Day!

April 22, 2015 — 8 Comments

Cape May Warbler

F/6.3, 1/80, ISO 1600.

Cape May Warbler

Day 112 /365

Why did the little bird get in trouble at school?
Because he was caught tweeting on a test.

Interesting Fact:  The tongue of the Cape May Warbler is unique among warblers. It is curled and semitubular, and is used to collect nectar during winter. ( http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Cape_May_Warbler/lifehistory )

Guess who? Wha ha hahaha! Wha ha hahaha! Hahahahahahahaha!

April 21, 2015 — 18 Comments

Northern Flicker woodpacker

F/6.3, 1/1000, ISO 800.

Northern Flicker

Day 111 / 365

What do you call a woodpecker that lost his beak?

A Head-Banger.

Interesting Fact: Although it can climb up the trunks of trees and hammer on wood like other woodpeckers, the Northern Flicker prefers to find food on the ground. Ants are its main food, and the flicker digs in the dirt to find them. It uses its long barbed tongue to lap up the ants. ( http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Flicker/lifehistory )

Hungry Bag

April 20, 2015 — 5 Comments

lunch bag

F/3.8, 1/25, ISO250.

Day 110 / 365

What if your lunch bag ate your snacks?

Interesting Fact: The first paper bag machine was patented by Francis Wolle in 1852. Margaret E. Knight (1838-1914) was an employee in a paper bag factory when she invented a new machine part to make square bottoms for paper bags. Knight can be considered the mother of the grocery bag; she founded the Eastern Paper Bag Company in 1870. On 20 February 1872, Luther Crowell also patented a machine that manufactured paper bags. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_bag#History )

We Are Losing Him!

April 8, 2015 — 5 Comments

operation 1

F/20.0, 1/60, ISO 100.

Day 98 / 365

Does an apple a day keep the doctor away?
If you aim it well enough.

Interesting Fact: Operation prototype was invented in 1964 by John Spinello, a University of Illinois industrial design student at the time, who sold his rights to the game to Milton Bradley for a sum of USD $500.[1] Initially produced by Milton Bradley in 1965, Operation is currently made by Hasbro, with an estimated franchise worth of USD $40 million.  ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_(game) )

I Am Ready To Go Outside!

March 28, 2015 — 22 Comments

bella 1

F/5.3, 1/60, ISO 100.

Day 87 / 365

Man’s best friend, and family for life.      🙂

Interesting Fact:  Yorkies are a toy breed, one of the smallest acknowledged by the American Kennel Club. As with every breed of dog, there are Yorkies that are smaller or larger than the breed standard. According to “Yorkshire Terriers” by D. Caroline Coile, the record-holding smallest living Yorkie is only 3 inches tall. Because there is really no such thing as a teacup Yorkie, anyone looking for a small companion should be wary of sellers offering such dogs.  ( http://pets.thenest.com/teacup-yorkshire-terrier-4873.html )