Re: PESO -- Busking? Really?
PJ, Gotta get her face in there... Regards, Bob S. On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:41 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: > Yesterday, I was in Guilford, CT, at their town green, which is thought to > be the template for every other town green in New England, and possibly > every where else. The temperature was dropping towards 32° F and there was > literally no one else around. Yet this young woman was playing ans singing > her heart out. > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20buskingalone_K5I6485..html > > Equipment: Pentax K-5II w/smc Pentax M 85mm f2.0. > > As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. > > -- > A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the > crazy, crazier. > > - H.L.Mencken > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PESO -- Busking? Really?
Yesterday, I was in Guilford, CT, at their town green, which is thought to be the template for every other town green in New England, and possibly every where else. The temperature was dropping towards 32° F and there was literally no one else around. Yet this young woman was playing ans singing her heart out. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20buskingalone_K5I6485..html Equipment: Pentax K-5II w/smc Pentax M 85mm f2.0. As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. -- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier. - H.L.Mencken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Busking Swan - A Stern View
It looks more like the poop deck. ;-) On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > Interesting perspective, and nice composition. > > Dan > > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:05 AM, frank theriault > wrote: >> A different perspective (at least different from the last photo) of a >> busking swan: >> >> http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/busking-swan-stern-view.html >> >> Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. >> >> cheers, >> frank >> >> -- >> "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Busking Swan - A Stern View
Interesting perspective, and nice composition. Dan On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:05 AM, frank theriault wrote: > A different perspective (at least different from the last photo) of a > busking swan: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/busking-swan-stern-view.html > > Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Busking Swan - A Stern View
Nice angle. Great de-tail. Dave On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:05 AM, frank theriault wrote: > A different perspective (at least different from the last photo) of a > busking swan: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/busking-swan-stern-view.html > > Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Busking Swan - A Stern View
Deftly rendered, Frank! Makes me think; Blooming Swan. ;) Jack --- On Sun, 5/15/11, frank theriault wrote: > From: frank theriault > Subject: PESO - Busking Swan - A Stern View > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" > Date: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 8:05 AM > A different perspective (at least > different from the last photo) of a > busking swan: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/busking-swan-stern-view.html > > Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri > Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PESO - Busking Swan - A Stern View
A different perspective (at least different from the last photo) of a busking swan: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/busking-swan-stern-view.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Busking
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote: > > I like the shot Frank. I haven't been at the right place at the right time > with swans. Good job. > > I can't find a definition that supports "busking" as a swan thing, though I > don't see why it could not be derived from the early european nautical use > for tacking or cruising around. > > busk 1 |bəsk| > verb [ intrans. ] > play music or otherwise perform for voluntary donations in the street or in > subways : the group began by busking on Philadelphia sidewalks | [as n. ] ( > busking) busking was a real means of living. > • ( busk it) informal improvise. > DERIVATIVES > busker noun > ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from obsolete French busquer ‘seek,’ from Italian > buscare or Spanish buscar, of Germanicorigin. Originally in nautical use in > the sense [cruise about, tack,] the term later meant [go around selling,] > hence [go around performing] (mid 19th cent.). > > > I only heard the word used some 8 months ago when a friend brought to my > attention the couple playing guitars on the periphery of an outdoor concert > near here, telling me she used to busk when she was younger, as she pointed > to the sign by the performers "Busking for Love and Money". Thanks for the research, Joe! Being that I'm currently in a public library, once I'm off the computer I should see if they've got an OED (shorter) to see what they have to say. Until I recently saw it referring to this swan activity, I was only familiar with its reference to itinerant musicians. I note one of the definitions that you found talks of a nautical sense, cruising about or tacking. Perhaps it's from this meaning of the word that this swan posture comes to derive its name? Anyway, thanks for the kind words, and thanks to everyone else who commented and looked. Report forthcoming as to what dictionaries around here have to say! ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Busking
And here I thought it was just to help them as they went downwind !
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From: "frank theriault"
Subject: PESO - Busking
That's what it's called when swans swim around with their necks curved
and wings half-raised. There were several doing it (not near each
other or other birds), so I thought it might be a mating ritual ("See
my beautiful feathers? Surely you'll want to copulate now!"), but
apparently it's a show of aggression - although I don't know who they
meant to be aggressive towards.
Whatever, here's a swan, busking:
http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/display-of-wings.html
Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome.
cheers,
frank
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Re: PESO - Busking
On May 6, 2011, at 04:23 , frank theriault wrote:
> That's what it's called when swans swim around with their necks curved
> and wings half-raised. There were several doing it (not near each
> other or other birds), so I thought it might be a mating ritual ("See
> my beautiful feathers? Surely you'll want to copulate now!"), but
> apparently it's a show of aggression - although I don't know who they
> meant to be aggressive towards.
>
> Whatever, here's a swan, busking:
>
> http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/display-of-wings.html
>
> Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome.
I like the shot Frank. I haven't been at the right place at the right time with
swans. Good job.
I can't find a definition that supports "busking" as a swan thing, though I
don't see why it could not be derived from the early european nautical use for
tacking or cruising around.
busk 1 |bəsk|
verb [ intrans. ]
play music or otherwise perform for voluntary donations in the street or in
subways : the group began by busking on Philadelphia sidewalks | [as n. ] (
busking) busking was a real means of living.
• ( busk it) informal improvise.
DERIVATIVES
busker noun
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from obsolete French busquer ‘seek,’ from Italian
buscare or Spanish buscar, of Germanicorigin. Originally in nautical use in the
sense [cruise about, tack,] the term later meant [go around selling,] hence [go
around performing] (mid 19th cent.).
I only heard the word used some 8 months ago when a friend brought to my
attention the couple playing guitars on the periphery of an outdoor concert
near here, telling me she used to busk when she was younger, as she pointed to
the sign by the performers "Busking for Love and Money".
Joseph McAllister
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Re: PESO - Busking
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Steven Desjardins wrote: > Nicely done. That's a a good catch and nicely framed. Thanks, Steve! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Busking
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Jack Davis wrote: > Informative and very well demonstrated, Frank. ;) Like the light and exposure. Thanks, Jack. I try to educate as well as illustrate. ;-) Seriously, I'd not heard of busking before doing a bit of research to see what was going on here. I've seen images of swans busking, but never seen it in person before until this day a few weeks ago. I had several busking shots with the sun behind me, but this one, with the sun behind the swan was the nicest. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Busking
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > Beautiful, Frank. I especially like how you caught the reflection and > the wake, with the latter giving a sense of movement to the image. > Thanks, Dan. All the swans I saw busking that day (it was a couple of weekends ago) were swimming quite fast, so catching the wake was easy. The backlighting from the sun makes the wake that much more prominent. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Busking
Beautiful, Frank. I especially like how you caught the reflection and
the wake, with the latter giving a sense of movement to the image.
Dan
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:23 AM, frank theriault
wrote:
> That's what it's called when swans swim around with their necks curved
> and wings half-raised. There were several doing it (not near each
> other or other birds), so I thought it might be a mating ritual ("See
> my beautiful feathers? Surely you'll want to copulate now!"), but
> apparently it's a show of aggression - although I don't know who they
> meant to be aggressive towards.
>
> Whatever, here's a swan, busking:
>
> http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/display-of-wings.html
>
> Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome.
>
> cheers,
> frank
>
>
> --
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Re: PESO - Busking
Nicely done. That's a a good catch and nicely framed.
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:23 AM, frank theriault
wrote:
> That's what it's called when swans swim around with their necks curved
> and wings half-raised. There were several doing it (not near each
> other or other birds), so I thought it might be a mating ritual ("See
> my beautiful feathers? Surely you'll want to copulate now!"), but
> apparently it's a show of aggression - although I don't know who they
> meant to be aggressive towards.
>
> Whatever, here's a swan, busking:
>
> http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/display-of-wings.html
>
> Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome.
>
> cheers,
> frank
>
>
> --
> "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Re: PESO - Busking
Informative and very well demonstrated, Frank. ;) Like the light and exposure.
Jack
--- On Fri, 5/6/11, frank theriault wrote:
> From: frank theriault
> Subject: PESO - Busking
> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List"
> Date: Friday, May 6, 2011, 4:23 AM
> That's what it's called when swans
> swim around with their necks curved
> and wings half-raised. There were several doing it
> (not near each
> other or other birds), so I thought it might be a mating
> ritual ("See
> my beautiful feathers? Surely you'll want to copulate
> now!"), but
> apparently it's a show of aggression - although I don't
> know who they
> meant to be aggressive towards.
>
> Whatever, here's a swan, busking:
>
> http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/display-of-wings.html
>
> Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome.
>
> cheers,
> frank
>
>
> --
> "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri
> Cartier-Bresson
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PESO - Busking
That's what it's called when swans swim around with their necks curved
and wings half-raised. There were several doing it (not near each
other or other birds), so I thought it might be a mating ritual ("See
my beautiful feathers? Surely you'll want to copulate now!"), but
apparently it's a show of aggression - although I don't know who they
meant to be aggressive towards.
Whatever, here's a swan, busking:
http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/display-of-wings.html
Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome.
cheers,
frank
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