As some of you know, I live in north central Minnesota. As most of you probably don’t know, Minnesota has something like 8 months of winter 😉 and much of the time it’s gray and overcast. I’m wondering if any of you might have some tips on shooting under these conditions. Today for example was pretty typical. We had a dusting of snow last night so the landscape is covered with fresh white snow but the sky was typically white/gray overcast. If I go out and take pictures I get a lot of blue snow and even when I accidentally compensate for that (purely by chance) I get, well, uninspiring white/gray overcasty looking shots. Minnesota can be pretty in the winter. I just wish I could capture some of it’s beauty.
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I’m interested in the same thing as I’m taking up snowshoeing and xcountry skiing this year and I’m taking my smaller digital with me all the time. In this part of the world, we don’t get a lot of sunshine during the winter…not that much during the summer either.
One thing I have noticed is the importance of contrast and the difficulty of finding it, otherwise it’s going to look like a washed out photo. I’m starting to experiment and keep my eye open for interesting contrast. While I was skiing, my friend pointed this out to me as a nice photo and I think it turned out nicely. I did have to get rid of the blue cast and increase brightness a touch but it gives a good example of contrast. It was taken on a very overcast day.
I’ll check out the other link tomorrow. Got to hit the hay now, 04:30 comes awful early.
I read somewhere a technique for eliminating or at least reducing the blue cast but I can’t remember where I saw that. It could’ve even been here but I searched and didn’t see anything. I’ve also been utilizing the library but I just can’t find a whole lot on the subject.
Joe, there are many techniques for removing the blue cast. However, I find in many cases that I don’t want to eliminate the blue cast altogether because it can be real (reflection of the sky) or give the right mood (snow is cold!). Personal preference thing, I suppose…or maybe I’ve just taken so many blue snow pictures I’m used to them!
Care to share some those techniques? I’m interested in preventing the blue cast in the first place with my camera, if possible. I know I can probably do it in PSE but I’d like to get the shot as good as I can with the camera.
I agree that some blue cast can be desirable, but did you check out Mark’s image? It’s great and although he said he did some retouching afterward I want to aim for this fidelity (right word? probably not) at the camera.
A few articles say the color cast is worse in underexposed conditions. If you meter the snow, the camera tries to make it 18% gray (the midpoint of the camera exposure range); somehow, the underexposure also causes the color to shift toward blue. (I think that makes sense for film, but not sure why it happens in digital too…?) Recommendation is to meter something other than the snow (your hand?); failing that, overexpose 1 or 2 stops using camera’s exposure compensation.
Re color cast removal techniques: Enhance>Adjust Color>Color cast is the easiest, although I’d recommend using it on a duplicate layer as it’s not available as an adjustment layer. Using a Levels adjustment layer and balancing the black and white points of the individual channels also can be effective. Will try to dredge up some more…
One of my greatest concerns is using the camera in the cold. I’m a nervous about taking my better camera into the cold weather. Thanks for the link Chuck. I’m going to print out that info.
Hi Mark, Wonderful photos! I don’t envy all that cold weather that you all have out there, but it will hit Zero again in New England tomorrow according to the WC. To go out in that weather and take pictures is neat, I would be chicken and jump right back into the truck. When it is really cold, can’t you just stuff your camera case inside your coat? Jane
Winter and grey skies are something we Canadians know a fair bit about.
1.) I try to maintain the attitude that there are no ‘bad’ light conditions, just different (and sometimes ‘better’) ones. Think of it this way the entire world has just been flooded with NORTH LIGHT, prized by photographers and artists alike. (Mmmm. Maybe I should start an Internet business selling bottled Canadian North Light?)
2.) Wintertime with flat lighting is an opportunity for me to head for the nearest woods. Scenes that would be difficult to control (extremely contrasty) in bright sunlight, become achievable in these conditions. After all, I can increase contrast in ‘processing’, but I can’t bring back pure white highlights (TIP: unlike film photography where you expose for the shadows and process for the highlights, with digital you have to expose to keep the highlights, then tease the information out of the shadows).
3.) Another unexpected benefit of shooting in these conditions is that there are fewer joggers/walkers out there with you, popping into your picture unexpectedly.
4.) Winter with flat lighting can be an excellent time to explore Black and White. Often the scene is quite ‘monochromatic’ to begin with.
5.) Change your subject matter. Look for a scene that depicts feelings about winter and grey skies. Strive for a picture so cold, bleak, stark, desolate, despairing and lonely, that the viewer is chilled, reminded of his powerlessness against the forces of Nature, and his insignificance in the universe. Look for a scene that makes an isolation cell look ‘homey’ by comparison. Get yourself in the mood by watching FARGO again. Or reading ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ by Solzhenitsyn. (Or maybe not. Winter might be OVER by the time you finish THAT one).
6.) Describe things differently, then try to capture it. Maybe those aren’t grey skies, they’re ‘leaden’ or ‘steely’. Can you make a picture that really shows leaden or steely skies? At least with digital, you’re not burning up film/photo paper trying to find out.
7.) Make a complete series of pictures of ‘snow angels’ in various locations in Minnesota. ‘Snow Angel in Front of Prison’, ‘Snow Angel Beside Barn’, ‘Snow Angel on the Governor’s Front Lawn’. Some art/photo gallery in New York is bound to snap it up. 🙂
First don’t believe you meter open up at least one stop. Second when you import it into Elements and if it is still to blue go to Enhance > Adjust Color > Colour Cast Click the eye dropper onto the snow an the show will be white again.
Grant is right. As usual. But if you misplace the picker just a tiny little your snowscape will be a nice magenta "winterwonderland". So, work, as usual, on a layer and adjust the opacity afterwards.
Many digital cameras have a method to override the Auto White balance. It may mean entering manual mode or searching some menus. The procedure on my Nikon 4300 is to go to Set White Balance menu selection, point the camera at something that should be white and press the shutter button.
There may also be Scene selections on a menu. One of them could be Cloudy. That would also modify the white balance setting of the camera.
Another way to manipulate the blue cast is to use a levels adjustment layer and a hue/saturation adjustment layer. With both of these, don’t use the default RGB mode. Choose the blue and then adjust the different levels that are available. I think you will find that a combination of the two layers will give you a lot of control. If you have a lot of layers and don’t want the adjustment to affect the entire image, just make sure that you place a check mark in the "group with previous" box, and it will only make adjustments to that layer. Maybe this isn’t the perfect solution for you, but it might get you headed in the right direction..
Now where did that reply go? and how do I get answers to show up in the right place in a thread?
Nice compositions.
Don’t worry about the camera and the cold, it’s good for it (photographically). Noise is reduced. Think my first reply went to the great bit bucket in the sky.
This Topic showed up just in time. I will be spending a week on the Bay at Traverse City, Mi I hope to take a lot of Ice and Snow pictures. I want to thank Joe for starting this thread and all the great answers to Joe’s and my questions. Thank you Grant,Leen,David,Jim Mark And John etc. I will be working back and forth with all the ideas to accomplish the best pictures. Will start with Camera settings, and go on from there. Loads of fun to come. Barb
Traverse City, Tropical paradise? My daughter’s best friend lives in Leland, and she said that the weather there is so bad in the winter, that she is going to move! She is from Cape Cod, and our winters are not that nice either. She was here for Christmas, and just made plans to move to Atlanta soon as the school year is over. It is 6º on Cape Cod right now, our wood stove is cranking, and I am on the net making reservations to go back to Costa Rica. I’ve had enuf of this weather. No, I really shouldn’t say that, as when the weather is like this, I stay indoors most of the time and learn PSE! Jane
Not to discourage anyone but I never realized when I lived up north that you need to get at least 150 miles south of Atlanta to escape snow and temperatures below freezing. And at least 300 miles down into Florida to avoid frost. But you do shorten the duration of winter the further south you go.
While Atlanta does not get much snow it does get cold, and a LOT of rain (114 day a year on average). I was disappointed when I was promoted and moved up to Atlanta from sw GA. But happy again when I later moved to Florida.
We used to spend a lot of winter time in Costa Rica and Belize back when we had the time to travel. But there was one thing that people who lived there, who had come from temperate climates, said they really missed, and that was the change of seasons. They had given up their homes, some in the USA, but mostly Canada, and after a few years, went back home full time. We only rent when we go to CA. Jane
Last I read recently there were 23,000 people a week that move to Florida. There is a small percentage that last less than a year. Some for the change of seasons, some miss family (women miss children mostly it seems). But those that last the first year seem to be permanent:)
A few neighbors around here have moved back. But the city has grown from 13,000 to 37,000 in just four years. Most of that growth is people moving from the north. (but it is not for everyone. summers are Hot!)
one thing that people who lived there, who had come from temperate climates, said they really missed, and that was the change of seasons.
Just shows they’re unobservant, Jane. There are seasons everywhere, only they’re much more subtle in the tropics/sub-tropics. I’ve heard that remark my whole life and never have understood it.
There’s plenty of difference between a December day and one in June, even here (and I don’t mean just temperature), and it still mystifies me that they can’t see it.
Well, Barbara, when I first moved to Minnesota I didn’t see much of a difference between a December day and February day, but it’s much more obvious to me now.
Nowadays people are so into productivity and rushing to get things done that they don’t notice the world around them.
Humans try to conquer nature, rather than work with it.
I will be staying on the edge, but who knows how far we will be traversing the ICE! Lou, by the way I also live in Central S. MN. Looking forward to more snow then we have here!! Barb
A friend of mine who knows much more about photography than I sets his camera exposure compensation to +0.7 to +1.0 EV for snow shots. Checking the histogram can tell you when you have the setting correct.
At the western end of Lake Ontario we are having a not so typical winter high. The sky is beautifully crystal clear and the temperature is around -15° C without the wind chill. What isn’t really typical with this weather is we had about 20 cm of snow last night. Everything is moving just a bit slower than on a normal day. Last night I has something on my mind and couldn’t sleep so, at 4, am I went and shovelled snow. The night was beautiful, the moon was just visible through high wispy clouds and there was very light snow falling. It was very cold almost -30° C and the falling snow was almost crystaline. At the right angle the snow caught the street lights and looked like little flecks of diamonds. I was very well dressed for the task and the silence of the night, the beauty of the snow and the crispness of the air was magical. While winter can be perceived as something to endure there are those moments that are so beautiful they are indescribable.
Hi Leen Bitterly cold arctic air has been entrenched over Southern Ontario (Canada) courtesy of a frigid northerly flow coming out of a large slowly moving arctic high over far Northern Ontario. Northerly winds combined with the frigid air mass is resulting in extreme wind chills of the minus mid forties over Eastern Ontario. So here in Ottawa, like Montreal we are not getting the snow – just very cold. There will be skating on the Rideau Canal!
RE: Ontario weather. I think I’m going to have to buy some thin ‘super thermal’ socks and gloves for photographing in the cold. I keep looking outdoors but I am reminded of the LAST time I tried to take pics at -30C. I didn’t have the right gear to keep my fingers and toes safe, and it was useless to persist.
Saw it on CNN, but missed the shot of your butt. To all the others enduring the cold: tighten the screw of your belly button in time, else your butt might fall off as well. 😉
Fuel oil wont be here t’il monday morning…meanwhile the tank is kissing the dreaded ‘E’ marker…must go to store and get a couple of 5 gallon containers to hold us through. Prices have sky rocketed to 1.44 gallon ! …ya….tell me i’m not getting played as a dumb consumer !
Jodi, whassa matter with your heating oil distributor? Tomorrow’s a workday, at least in most parts of the world. Sure hope they don’t take off for the Monday holiday…
All the monkeys have been taken indoors at the zoo. Ta Dum
It is so cold that it’s cold enough to freeze the reproductive orbs off of inorganic members of the simian species. …. Rhim Shot
Last night my wife and I had words but we will have to wait until the spring when they thaw to see if it was serious or not. … Symbol Crash
Just reminder we are comfortable with this in Canada because we are use to the seasons. In fact we have two seasons …. winter and road repair. … ba-da-bing
Oh Crap Chuck….I hope not ! Now you got me nervous…well, she gave me the time and date….sooooo, hopefully she knew better than to set me up on a holiday.
Jodi, hopefully they’re watching your ‘degree days’ and your tank isn’t really approaching empty. Pain in the butt to restart the furnace if it goes out on low fuel…I’d call them tomorrow and insist on a delivery before the weekend.
Chuck, ya, I’ll call in the morning and see what they can do. They are very busy and have few drivers/trucks ( you know how it is )….I stick with them because they have the best prices…and they know who i am….just like at Cheers 😉
Love your #47’s joke on Teflon Bill. Iv’e downloaded it to my Jokes folder for keeping. 😉
Friends in Ontario.
The impression I had of the winter chill in northern Ontario wasn’t all that bad. Nearly forty years ago, I was visiting a classmate in his home town for a week in Timmins during Christmas holidays. On calm days which was most of the week, I set up my baby view camera on a tripot and waited for the light change. Hadn’t had any frostbite staying outdoors for up to two/three hours at a stretch. Of course, it helped to have a long cable release that I operated from inside the pocket of my anorak, ski cap, wool long johns and felt-lined insulated boots. Didn’t hurt either to return indoors and greeted with a large mug of hot rum-laced cocoa. 🙂
Cold here outside, wood stove crankin’, living room over 80º, huge dinner just eaten after a couple of G+Ts, now on the web looking at our favourite places in Costa Rica and Belize,,,,,, Oh well, thats our climate, and thats why we have fun indoors when it is too darn cold to go out, so we get really good at PSE! Jane
"visiting a classmate in his home town for a week in Timmins during Christmas holidays
I am told a week in winter near Timmins almost last a life time. While I have never spent a winter day in Timmins I have spent many summer days canoeing just to the south. It is a wonderful place except for the black flies and mosquitos. We go black fly season as they are much easier to control. Control is a relative thing as the black flies are huge. So large in fact that we tether our dogs so that they aren’t be carried off. Last year a friend of mine was up there during mosquito season (Jan 16 – Jan 14) and he aggravated a mosquito … the last we saw of him three mosquitoes were carring both he and his canoe off in the direction of North Tummins. You gota love Timmins!
Last minute news… ! WE ARE HAVING SNOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m usually well depressed (to the point of not even turning on the computer, that’s spell depressed) of the thought of seeing a real snowflake. But this time, that can only mean one thing : WARMTH ! Temps are gonna get high for tomorrow morning. Well, high actually means -15C. That’s whooping +12C compared to last morning !
Still, at this temp, I’m gonna have my camera batteries boosted before I can use it. But, it’s a step in the right direction. After all, Spring is only 8 weeks away.. 😉
Now you got me spilled my single malt on my keyboard and mon with your "Timmins flies"! I heard about them from before and that’s why I turned down the invite in the summer, which was also my work time to make some money to help pay for college.
Going up north in winter was kind of rough. It took more than twelve hours to cover the nearly 350 miles from Toronto in a beat-up third hand Volkswagon beetle running with two retread snow tires at the rear. The experience was more like my trying to do the J-stroke going all over the place except where I was supposed to go in a canoe. Luckily a previous car owner had a duct piped in through the bottom part of the backseat, with an electric fan blowing hot air collected from the exhaust magnifold. Although I was warned to have the windows open a crack to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning, I was grateful to keep from freezing even if it meant toasted buns. 🙂
No school today in all of Albany news viewing area….because it’s too cold !….I don’t remember ever getting a day off from school because it was too cold…and i went to school in Quebec !
That reminds me of a little road trip I took back in college. I was studying in Oxford for a semester and like most of the UK we had the Easter weekend off. Someone in my group of friends had the bright idea to hitchhike up to Edinburgh, so we paired off one girl, one guy and started thumbing it. The first rig to stop for my partner and I was an ancient Land Rover driven by a couple of youngish Welsh fellows who were headed to Edinburgh for the weekend as well. This Land Rover had definitely seen better days. It was really loud, mostly rusted out, had no heat and there must have been more than one hole in the exhaust system because when we opened the door there was a definite bluish haze that wafted out.
Well we spent the next 9 hours or so (shouldve only taken about 6) bouncing along the motorways, nauseated from the exhaust fumes, on a homemade wooden bench seat bolted to the floor in the back of the Land Rover. As an additional bonus, the two very nice and friendly drivers of the Rover (theyd switch off about every hour) spoke English with a very thick Welsh accent. Other than the words Edinburgh and Coppers we really didnt understand a word they said.
At about 9:00pm our gracious Welsh friends deposited us down town Edinburgh. Only slightly worse for wear (a really sore, splintered butt and a headache from the fumes) we took in the spender that is Edinburgh at night. IMO it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Well, out of the four couples that attempted the hitchhiking adventure, we were the only pair that made it, thanks to the Welsh! Being the Easter weekend, available beds/rooms where few and far between. We hadnt thought to make reservations, but thats another story.
Oh, and I met Alice Cooper, but thats another story as well
Jodi, kids around here are at their 3rd day off school because of the cold and for today, snow (south shore mainly). You just can’t ask them to wait for the bus or walk to school at these temperatures. Besides, every excuse is a good excuse to close the schools, believe me… 🙂
Chuck, the princess did not have school today because it was too cold….can you believe it ? My hub is also home…soooooo, this was a good place to ‘hide’ and be bad.
Hoe doet u? Ik hoop u goed doet. Wenst u soms niet dat wij allen het Nederlands op dit forum spraken?
Apple also gives as a disclaimer that they are not responsible for the accuracy of this translation so if I’ve just insulted Leen they won’t cover for me.
Actually UT, for a couple of years. Loved that time in Toronto. Still do. Used to work three evenings a week 7 to 10 as a janitor and all of the summer and winter holidays too. It just wasn’t enough to pay for tuition and my keep. After that I picked up schooling again in another part of the world where part-time plus summer work paid just enough to sustain me for the rest of my architectural education. Those were good but pretty tough times. But when you are young, hardship could hardly get in your way to go after what you want. May be that’s why I turned out to be such a stubborn oldman. 😉
As soon as I translate this "Dutch" text to english I understand what you mean 😉 No, it is rather good, to be true. If I would convert this to real Dutch and re-translate to english it would be something like this:
How goes it with thou? I hope that it good with you goes. Would you find it fun when we all spoke Dutch on this forum.
The real fun begins when a word has several meanings. The chance this translation software picks the wrong word is almost 100%. Just try to translate a sentence from English to French, from French to Dutch and back to English…. 😉
According to my translation, you just asked Leen to move to the next closest town and open a store that sells underwear. 😉
So here:
Zeer goed Teken, wist ik niet u het Nederlands sprak! Sprekend van Nederland, is het geweest te sinds lang ik heeft bezocht. I zeker kon voor Heineken gaan. Amsterdam is vrij een prachtige en mooie stad.
Shan, with all due respect…..there is only one UT. That would be the University of Texas…! 🙂 Chuck (with apologies to Tennesseans, Torontoans, and other T-groups)
Ik heb een maar niet naar Holland gereist. De liefde van I’d om daar ooit te gaan. Het is op mijn lijst van te doen dingen. Ik zal een Heinekein hebben wanneer ik daar ben.
Leen,
Nu niet wordt het aardig om het Nederlands hier gesproken een weinig te zien?
Leen,
Now isn’t it nice to see a little Dutch spoken here? The rest of you don’t have the slightest idea what I’m saying. With the way these translators work Leen may not understand it either.
Leen’s right about the translations of a translation. Doesn’t come out quite right but you get the meaning, hopefully.
If you think about it, it’s pretty amazing. A guy like me who tried but couldn’t learn a foreign language can sort of communicate with someone half way around the planet in that persons native tongue. Pretty cool. 🙂
Sorry I must have misread college for university. My daughter-in-law was offered a teaching post there but she chose York instead. I am not even sure if York was in Toronto when you were there. In any event you just confirm the reputation that only the best attend Uof T.
here’s some french I used in kindergarten to the teacher; I oublier mai running shoes….i still remember this…translated…’I forgot my running shoes’. I guess my englafrench wasn’t appreciated much back then. 😉
hum, you mean colourful ? sorry Joe, my tongue is lost for words at the moment. …did you really think i was going to continue using that filthy language now that I know you have a translator ? 🙂
I’m proud to say that despite not having doen any French since I was 16, I could still understand all the crude parts (and most of the rest) without needing to resort to a translator!
The following are extracts from an interview with Madonna by the Hungarian magazine Blikk. The questions to Madonna were asked in Hungarian and then translated into English. Madonna’s responses were then translated into Hungarian. The interview was then published in Hungarian and, finally, translated back into English. Time Magazine states, "to say that something was lost in the process is to be wildly ungrateful for all that was gained"
BLIKK: Madonna, Budapest says hello with arms that are spread-eagled. Did you have a visit here that was agreeable? Are you in good odor? You are the biggest fan of our young people who hear your musical productions and like to move their bodies in response.
MADONNA: Thank you for saying these compliments (holds up hands). Please stop with taking sensationalist photographs until I have removed my garments for all to see. (laughs). This is a joke I have made.
BLIKK: Madonna, let’s cut to toward the hunt. Are you a bold hussy-woman that feasts on men who are tops?
MADONNA: Yes, yes, this is certainly something that brings to the surface my longings. In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present. And there is a more normal attitude toward leather play-toys that also makes my day.
BLIKK: Us this how you met Carlos, your love servant who is reputed? Did you know he was heaven-sent right off the stick? Or were you dating many other people in your bed at the same time?
MADONNA: No, he was the only one I was dating in my bed then, so it is a scientific fact that the baby was made in my womb using him. But as regards those questions, enough! I am a woman and not a test-mouse! Carlos is and everyday person who is in the orbit of a star who is being muscle-trained by him not a sex machine.
BLIKK: May we talk about your other "baby", your movie, then? Please do not be denying that the similarities between you and the real Evita are grounded in basis. Power, money, tasty-food, Grammys-all these elements are afoot.
MADONNA: What is up in the air with you? Evita never was winning a Grammy!
BLIKK: Perhaps not. But as to your film, in trying to bring your reputation along a rocky road, can you make people forget the bad explosions of Who’s That Girl? and Shanghai Surprise?
MADONNA: I am a tip-top starlet. That is the job that I am paid to do.
BLIKK: O.K. here’s a question from left space. What was your book Slut about?
MADONNA: It was called Sex, my book.
BLIKK: Not in Hungary. Here it was called Slut. How did it come to publish? Were you lovemaking with a an-about-town printer? Do you prefer making suggestive literature to fast selling CDs?
MADONNA: These are different facets to my career highway. I am preferring only to become respected all over the map as a 100% artist.
BLIKK: There is much interest in you from this geographical region, so I must ask this final questions. How many Hungarian men have you dated in bed? Are they No. 1? How are they comparing to Argentine men, who are famous for being tip-top as well?
MADONNA: Well, to avoid aggravating global tension, I won’t say. It’s a tie (laughs). No, no, I am serious now. See here I am working like a canine all the way around the clock! I am too busy even to try the goulash the makes your country for the record books.
Jodi, I was hoping you’d remember something other than the colourfull words in French.. 🙂
For those using BabelFish’s tool to translate in French, let me tell you : it is horrible. You’re better off looking in a dictionnary then to use this tool.
Ray P.S. Don’t count on me to show you some colourfull French language words guys, even though I would probably be considered the expert on that matter around here 🙂
My wife was born in Portugal. I do not speak the language, other than a few "choice words" that I use now and then. She always reminds me, don’t say that in front of my mother. Grin Stan
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:41:55 -0800, wrote:
Where’s the swearing Jodi? I’m looking for colorful French. You never know when I guy might need to cuss En français.
Don’t count on me to show you some colourfull French language words guys, even though I would probably be considered the expert on that matter around here
I’m sorry to hear that. I might be able to use a few colorful, colourful, expressions the next time I’m in a French speaking country.
I’ve got a serious complaint about this forum. 😉 To be sure you all will understand properly, I used a Babel Fish translation from German to English.
Why does their fun make as I mostly sleeps? Normally I lie at this time in bed and only then go it loss. Gesternabend am I to two up-remained and only then began those fun.
Why does their fun make as I mostly sleeps? Normally I lie at this time in bed and only then go it loss. Gesternabend am I to two up-remained and only then began those fun.
My French: Mark, si tu le souhaites, je pourrais t’envoyer quelques expressions françaises. Gardes à l’esprit, cependant, que le français parlé au Canada est assez différent de celui parlé en France ou à travers l’Europe.
Babel’s English: Mark, if you wishes it, I could send some French expressions to you. Guards with the spirit, however, that French spoken in Canada is rather different from that spoken in France or through Europe.
My English: Mark, if you wish it, I could post you a few French expressions. Keep that in mind, though, that French spoken here in Canada is quite different than the one spoken in France or Europe in general.
That one was easy… let’s complicate things a little…
French : Putain de bordel de merde, il n’y a rien qui marche ce matin! Je suis en retard dans tous mes projets! Et ce sapristi d’ordinateur à la con ne coopère pas une minute. Il se fera remplacer pour un iMac avant longtemps, je te l’assure !
Babel’s English (or… en-glitch ?) : Whore of bloody hell, it has there nothing which goes this morning! I am late in all my projects! And this sapristi of computer to the idiot does not cooperate a minute. He will be made replace for a iMac before a long time, I ensure it to you!
My English : Mo.. f…, there’s nothing working this morning! I’m late in all my projects! And this da.. stupid computer doesn’t cooperate a second. It’ll get replaced by an iMac before long, this I tell you!.
That one was more colourful (colorful ?)…
Translation softwares aren’t quite capable of capturing the spirit of words. They merely translate basic expressions, but even then, they add their own.. 🙂
York was just starting out I guess. Ryerson was going pretty strong already. U of T couldn’t possibly be just for the "best", because a run of the mill such as myself took honors for two years. Too bad funding was such a problem.
Toronto had been and still is a beautiful city. I missed the old Purple Onion folksinging club, the nice Hungarian Village eatery that served inexpensive but good and filling food, and all the funky haunts just north of Bloor and east of College. Those landmarks of my mind were gone when I revisted Tornto fifteen years ago after a long absence.
Too bad you were not Canadian at the time as funding would not have been all that much of a problem. York University is now one of the largest and a most respected of Canadian Universities. Ryerson is still there and still good but seems to have been taking a very low key role in education lately.
Oh my, the Purple Onion has long passed into the acrid cannabis smoke of history. In fact the whole area of Yorkville has changed into a very upscale boutique ghetto that cater to the money crowd. For the life of me I can’t even picture what is just north of Bloor and east of College, so I guess it is not a player any more. There are new landmarks to replace these so it is time to revisit Toronto the Good. 😉
Grant, the Purple Onion…..that brings back memories of another time for me, also – but the Purple Onion in question was a legendary cabaret in New York’s Greenwich Village. I saw Thelonious Monk perform there in the early 70’s….he was certainly past his prime at that point. I note in my search that there are/were also Purple Onion clubs in San Francisco and Vancouver.
Chuck, I envy you. Once I bought tickets for a Monk concert in Amsterdam, but unfortunately that day I had the flue. I was so fortunate to know the organiser of this concert and a friend of mine changed the tickets for tickets for an Ornette Coleman concert a few monts later. This happened to be one of the best concerts I ever attended.
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