We went into the Badlands the other day with some photo enthusiast to learn how to shoot at night. Since we have the moon up right now and the milky way is not visible we concentrated on using the moon as a source of light. After photographing a Juniper Tree with the moon in our back I decided to shoot right into the light.
This image was taken with my Nikon D800 and I used my 14-24 lens. My aperture was set at 18 and I exposed for 30 seconds. The cameras ISO was set at 1250.
And of course we painted the tree with our headlamp. If you look closely you see the stars in the sky as well. See more about Night Sky Photography.
Just to keep us all up to date on the demonic upchucking, head spinning, bone snapping contortions of Exorcism/Possession flicks, here are couple of entries and one must-see…
The Exorcist II: the Heretic
John Boorman’s (Deliverance) effort to add insanity to the overall feel of this flick succeeds, however it does not succeed in telling a coherent story. Worth a look for Richard Burton’s over the top performance which is a laugh riot
Exorcist: The Beginning aka Dominion
Before they exhausted all the demonic trimming from this worn out franchise Paul Shrader (American Gigolo/Affliction) had to put in his two cents in an attempt to tell a prequel. This abysmal creep-fest is another testament to Shrader’s troubled soul and scattered focus: a boring mess.
The Unborn
Not scary enough to be good and too serious to be “so bad it’s good.” The gab-fest generic possession story goes beyond absurd and way beyond caring if it makes sense or not. Using the same material as Possession, this debacle is a horrid piece of symbolism and illiteracy. The Unborn‘s verbal nonsense, which tries to set the film up as a Jewish Exorcist, is enough to numb your mind. Most people will only sit through this atrocity waiting for the next jolt-scare, vicious blue-eyed-fang-face, unexplained slimy tentacles to squirm out of a wall or the next barf scene
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This is a gross simplification of the real story. I worked at BCC for about six months and it was a maelstrom of mis-management. Community Service and Experience Works workers were treated with disdain and downright contempt by Taffy. The books were in chaos. There was not training. Workers were thrown into situations with no clear guidelines. While I was there, the Health Department came because the kitchen was dirty. Taffy, despite her avowals of love for the homeless, never communicated anything but contempt and distrust of them. Please go deeper into your examination of this.
I agree with Been There on every single point. I worked for this organization as well and left in dismay after watching Taffy deride, shame, and manipulate the people who came to her for training. They were often single mothers with few allies, who belived they were joining up with an organization that could help them. Instead they were belittled and “trained” to belittle store customers. I’ve been wondering when she was going to be found out and exposed for her horrible mismanagement and downright meanness, but even here she’s been portrayed as some sort of advocate/underdog. There is so much more to this story. So much more.