Don’t remember anymore where I found these quotes but here they are:
“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.”
~ Mark Twain, Taming the Bicycle
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“The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.”
~ Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green
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“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
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“Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.”
~ Grant Peterson
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“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of mankind”
~ H.G. Wells
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“Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.”
~ James E. Starrs
March 5th, 2006
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Rich |
Blogging, Fun |
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With the winter Olympics 2006 finally over and sometimes snowy, sometimes rainy, sometimes balmy February days behind, it is time to pick up my ‘blogging’ routine again…A few side notes first: First, the Olympics were good this year, even though I didn’t follow it as closely as usual, with the exception of ice hockey. After many tries, the NHL has finally gotten it right and allowed all its players to participate. As a huge fan of Team Slovakia, I just couldn’t feel worse than completely crashed after the quarterfinal elimination against the Czech Republic. Even more so, as the team was full of NHL-caliber players, done so great in preliminaries and gone undefeated. The ice hockey being No. 1 and hugely popular in Slovakia (probably more than in Canada), you can understand my disappointment better.
Second, I will probably have to re-think my camera needs for the trip;) Since the beginning of the month, I have been playing with a new D-SLR (digital single-lens-reflex), Olympus E-500. With two small lenses, covering 28-300mm range, it is a perfect travel companion: light and small, yet offers myriads of options for advanced amateurs… I like it a lot! So much, that I have even gave up on my small Fuji digicam and sold it to a friend. Picture quality of a D-SLR is on another level when compared to my old camera, despite Fujifilm F10 being the best compact digital out there. Moreover, I have always thought of photography as picture-”creating” rather than picture-”taking” process and the camera revived my ever-dormant love of seeing, interpreting & capturing the world around me through a camera viewfinder rather than looking at the LCD screen. Call me an old-fashioned fool but I just prefer it that way…
It really looks as a better option for my trip. Knowing myself, I would feel creatively unsatisfied with limited options of my previous camera on a trip of this magnitude, with so many ‘one-in-a-lifetime’ photo opportunities. And despite being larger than a digicam, the complete package is smaller (and more importantly lighter) than my previous D-SLR setup, Canon EOS 10D with two lenses covering almost exact range, 27-320mm. Plus, the smaller size is beneficial, as the camera is easily reachable and it won’t distract my subjects unnecessarily. In the end, I feel I simply take ‘better’ pictures with a D-SLR. And by that I mean ‘creatively’ better pictures, not ‘technically’ better which is given…
Originally, I have planned to put some info about a DVD I have watched recently: Michael Palin’s journey in the Himalayas: HIMALAYA. But I guess that’s for another update now;) In the mean time, enjoy my random pictures of New York City on Flickr.com…
March 2nd, 2006
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China, Himalayas, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Preparation, Tibet |
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