Lynn Rosentrater -- expat, PhD candidate, hobbyist photographer
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
If only I had USD 60,000 to burn…
Read more about this bespoke limited special edition camera: The Leica M9-P ‘Edition Hermès’
(Source: slrlounge.com)
A musher and his dogs seen in a long exposure compete on a track near the Mont-Cenis Path during the ninth stage of La Grande Odyssee sled dogs race on Jan.17. The race crosses the Alps in France covering over 1000 km (621 miles) over 11 days. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)
Nothing is less stable than opinion, and nothing more liable to engender fruitless rancor; new technology bears a weighty responsibility for prolonging, even immortalizing, our merest verdicts, far beyond the guttering glow of their natural duration, and, worse still, for admitting those verdicts, however fleeting, as indictable evidence of character.
I love Anthony Lane! Here is the entire essay.
Downton Abbey: I am Mr. Bates
“You are a patient, kind, salt-of-the-earth type. But sometimes your self-righteousness can threaten to engulf you.”
(Source: pbs.org)
Celery-flavored jell-o?! It gives a whole new meaning to my family’s famous Thanksgiving jell-o recipe.
One hundred years ago today, Roald Amundsen and his men arrived at the geographic South Pole, 34 days ahead of a British party led by Robert F. Scott.
(Source: arkivverket.no)
Give and be merry!
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Love this: 1952 Studebaker Commander as seen in PANTONE: The Twentieth Century in Color.
The Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah is presented here by 5th graders at Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat in Quinhagak, Alaska. Hellooooo, Christmas!
Your Brain on Maps
This is what your brain looks like after looking at too much cartography. From the very clever Strange Maps blog.
