So true.
(Just as a note of interest: In the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and most other countries it is referred to as Remembrance Day. I believe it's only called Veterans Day in the U.S.)
mwsilvers wrote:
Too few today are old enough to remember that Veterans Day before the mid 1950s was Armistice Day marking the end of the Great War on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
To those who served and to those who lost loved ones.
IN FLANDERS FIELD
In Flanders Field the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Lt. Col. John McCrae was a Surgeon with the Canadian Army in Belgium. He wrote this poem the day after he buried his best friend, who had been struck by an artillery shell.
McCrae died on January 28, 1918 in France of Pnuemonia and was buried with full Military Honours.
If it happened on Election Day all the ballot machines would be fried and you'd be stuck with Obama for another 4 years. Or at least until they hand counted all the ballots and that could take even longer.
sarge69 wrote:
A large solar flare would be the same as the EMP (Electric Magnetic Pulse) from an Atom Bomb exploding in the sky over a city. All electronics would be fried including computers, their parts, car electrical systems and local electrical systems.
Think of the implications to our society.
Sarge69
Nice shots. Really like them in the B&W.
Are these the Petroglyph cliffs?
No, Bill, that's a flower. Flowers aren't known for eating much of anything.
What scary-ass flowers do you grow? And I REALLY don't want to know about your vegetables.
Bill_de wrote:
All nice shots visually, but the last one makes you wonder what happened next. Do they eat their young?
Well done.
I sound like a rock. And not a very melodious one, either.
hlmichel wrote:
That wouldn't work for my kids...
They tell me I sound like a rock star when I sing.
I think I agree more with the people who commented than I do with the photographers.
In order to make a camera from a right hand operation to a lefthand one entails far more than simply redrawing and redesigning it. There are thousands of parts to a modern DSLR and many of those pieces would need to be re-manufactured to some extent or another, new molds alone would need to be made for the various body pieces. All the automated lathes and milling machines and other machine tools would also have to be recalibrated.
All this adds up to a huge outlay for a company with an extremely low payback. Lefthanded people only make up about 10-20 percent of the population. How few of those might be photographers that would benefit from a left-handed camera?
I just threatened to sing! That got them moving, I tell you!
French is normally only spoken in Quebec and parts of New Brunswick. And it's a very old, bastardized version. People from France have a difficult and humourous time trying to understand Canadian French.
TucsonCoyote wrote:
Canadians think so.....not sure the French would agree.
Personally I find Cajun closer to French than French Canadian!
Also "une piece" in French is "a coin"......money...you know ! :)