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Things to learn about Green Park
Green Park station seems to be fairly lacking in green-ness as the following two pictures show. This shot by Chutney Bannister almost looks as though there’s been a dirty protest:
Away from the dirt, Jag from Route79 uncovered something about the walkway that connects the Jubilee Line and Piccadilly Lines at Green Park
He said “walking at a brisk pace is what I normally do whenever I have to do this tunnel. So brisk that I never really notice a very clever but quirky little detail about this walkway.
“We all know that the colour coding used on the Tube is excellent, consistent and familiar. For example, that the colour of the Piccadilly Line is dark blue and and the Jubilee Line is grey (or silver), but did you know that as you walk from the Picc platform to the Jub platform through this tunnel […]

Original post by Annie Mole and plugin by Elliott Back

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I know I keep going on about this, but there’s no denying that photography can be an insanely expensive hobby: Especially if you’re curious about why people start shelling out thousands and thousands of dollars/pounds/euros on glass with a little red L on it… Once you’ve shot a couple of hundred photos with professional equipment, […]

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Original post by Haje Jan Kamps and software by Elliott Back

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Even though it won’t go on sale for another couple of months, things are starting to happen really quickly now. I’ve finished most of my involvement of the book, and I’ve handed it over to the project-, copy- and technical editors, designers, and publishing boffins.
They never told me quite how much work it is to […]

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In trying to get motivated to train for the upcoming running season, I’ve resorted to watching people on the big screen who could outrun myself even if George W. Bush and his trigger-happy sidekick Dick Cheney were chasing me with a hunting rifle.
For example, this month I’ve plopped down into my favorite easy chair with a bowl of grapes to watch Running Brave (1983) and Endurance (1999). Both movies — despite depicting Olympic champions — are little-known and rather unheralded, so finding them entailed clicking away on the Internet instead of running down to the local Blockbuster.
Running Brave is a story about a Native American runner named Billy Mills who was the last person from the Western Hemisphere to win a gold medal in the 10,000 meter Olympic event. He also was the only American ever to win the Olympic 10k. That was in Tokyo, […]

Original post by Felix and software by Elliott Back

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Just after we run our ‘photography with rules’ article, Popular Photography magazine comes along and beats us to it with an even better idea, by declaring January 21st as ‘international shooting-all-the-time’ day!
The concept? Take a photo at least every 5 mintutes for 15 hours of the day. But surely, that is complete and […]

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If you are a ski/snowboard enthusiast, you’ve gotta check out this video tour of Whistler Blackcomb. They’ve got record breaking snow this season. We’ve been up there a few times, and the snow is truly the best this year.I took this photo at the peak of Symphony, which just became accessible to public this season. Symphony Express, the high-speed quad chair lift provides access to acres of previously inaccessible high alpine terrain. Ski lovers used to hike 40 minutes from the top of Harmony Express to Symphony to enjoy the spectacular undisturbed mountain. Now, it’s accessible to everyone.

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Is too much running bad for you? So the question goes for any runner who has succumbed to injuries or illness as a result of long-distance over-exuberance. Or even those who have not…
I am one of the fortunate ones who are in the latter category, having never suffered a serious leg, knee or ankle injury that kept me out of action for more than three days despite running many marathons and longer runs. Yet, one has to wonder if it is just a matter of time…
Here are some interesting articles I came across which, hopefully, will help myself and others stay injury-free…

Run Technique

Run technique is undoubtedly a huge factor in one’s propensity to get injured. Common sense says that inefficient, jarring strides may lead to more frequent injuries.
The late British champion Gordon Pirie estimated that 70% of all runners get injured at some point and, […]

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Is too much running bad for you? So the question goes for any runner who has succumbed to injuries or illness as a result of long-distance over-exuberance. Or even those who have not…
I am one of the fortunate ones who are in the latter category, having never suffered a serious leg, knee or ankle injury that kept me out of action for more than three days despite running many marathons and longer runs. Yet, one has to wonder if it is just a matter of time…
Here are some interesting articles I came across which, hopefully, will help myself and others stay injury-free…

Run Technique

Run technique is undoubtedly a huge factor in one’s propensity to get injured. Common sense says that inefficient, jarring strides may lead to more frequent injuries.
The late British champion Gordon Pirie estimated that 70% of all runners get injured at some point and, […]

Original post by Felix and a wordpress plugin by Elliott

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Nick and I spent all day riding the thick powder up and down the trails at the Symphony bowel near the Whistler peak. That is when we ran into the big furry sasquatch hanging out near the top of the chair lift of the new Symphony high speed chair. Dressed up exactly like the evasive snowboarding sasquatch on the Kokanee beer commercial, this dude was just sitting there enjoying the spectacular view at the peak. I took out the camera, and snapped it away before he had a chance to slip down the mountain.

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Original post by Jas and software by Elliott Back

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As a kinda-sorta follow-up from my most recent critique, where several of the commenters mentioned that they felt that their photography got better when they imposed rules on themselves, I started thinking: Which other constraints can you put on photography?
First of all — why? Well, in a machoistic kind of way, making rules about the […]

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Original post by Haje Jan Kamps and plugin by Elliott Back

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