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The silent tears which remember you
you are in my silent prayers
do you know that i miss you
do you know that i truly do
To change a little bit from my previous uploads, a shot from the airport, where this guy had been left alone. A little boy must have been crying in the plane...
As I recover from shoulder surgery, I have assigned myself a big, major, huge project…and yes it concerns photography! My mission, should I decide to accept it (Mission Impossible reference) is to clean out and organize my 2TB external hard drive…that contains every digital photo that I have retained since 1985. The majority also have the RAW file associated with that photo attached. Files numbering in the tens of thousands that have been filed, misfiled, triple duplicated and thrown into folders as if I were dealing cards. My ADHD and sense of personal embarrassment will simply not allow this craziness to continue.
The blessing of this process is not just the discovery of photos long forgotten, but the memories contained. These files may well prove themselves to be priceless…not just for the memories depicted in the photos, but as a partner as I spent the next five weeks, the hours ahead fighting off my nemesis, boredom!
Here is one from a very good day…
You know that it was a very good day when you can remember everything about that day, the temperature, the warmth of the sun, the smell of a spring pasture and in this case anxiety of having to go to work when your best girl is about to give birth! It was the 13th of May, 2010 and our National Champion (Reserve Color Champion, 2006 AOBA Nationals) girl Rosalita was in labor. Joann and I both went to work to check in and start clearing the days schedule, both securing the day off with bosses and returning to the farm in record time.
A quick switch from work to farm cloths and a short trot to the front pasture found that Rosalita had already lost her mucus plug…her cria would be born anytime now. It was time to grab some lawn chairs, my camera and our birthing kit and just wait for things to progress. In the back of my mind, I prayed for a smooth, natural birth and that I would not have to put on the big gloves ever again and assist.
The next hour provided us with a memory of a lifetime as Giacomo would come into the world! A 19.2-pound male from Legend’s Challenger, at that time one of the top gray males in the country. The beauty of the moment, the cycle of life experience on such a beautiful May day is forever etched into my soul. Joann and I removed the remnants of the birth sack and dried our gift. The name Giacomo was chosen as it was in honor of my father who had passed some four years before. It was his childhood nickname and I know that it would have made him smile…like this photo does for me now as I utilize the editing program Lightroom to bring it to life.
This photo captures the bonding process/moment that alpaca mothers do just after birth. She gently takes her lips and nose and rub it against that of her cria, all the while making a clicking sound that bonds the two together for life. She will also use the same area to help her cria stay steady on its wabbly, minutes old legs.
What a blessing it is to witness not just the new physical body that God had created, but also the pure, palpable, natural love that was immediate between mother and son as well.
I didn’t know it then, but Giacomo would be the last cria born to us at Serene-n-Green Alpacas. In the early fall of 2010, a couple came to the farm and bought our last five alpacas, water buckets, farm name, logos, hay and trailer to start their own turn-key alpaca farm in Ohio.
Today, when anyone asks if I miss raising alpacas my response is immediate and direct. I miss birthing those babies!
Chase experiences, not things!
Even though it's been over a year since Chelsea my lovely walking companion left us, I turn around sometimes and see if she's still with me. It's just not the same hiking around without her :(
We had set up near the track but were moved by a steward, so I tried a shot with a longer lens. The Flying Scotsman at Fen Bog, today.
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"If you must die, sweetheart
Die knowing your life was my life's best part"
Keaton Henson - "You"
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The DPU of loaded NS coal drag #740 splits the signals outside of Perrysville as the sun sets on the shambles of this stretch of former Pennsylvania Pittsburgh-Fort Wayne-Chicago main. Despite the optimism of the adjoining position light, there will be no westbound Broadway on the now torn-up track #2 tonight.
This little girl disappeared from her bedroom 7 days ago in my town. It is imperative to get her photo out there for all to see. Please keep her in your prayers. Feel free to post this ... the more eyes the more chances of her being found alive.
Old barn beams were brought in to give the coffee house Double Shots atmosphere, I guess this beam connection was in the way so removed.
Blog SOON @ The Blogging Elf!
Apologies for the break and long gap in blogging. :( I was runnign (and actually still am) into some really weird issues in SL with constantly (basically ever yother second) unrezzing textures. It's driving me pretty batty. Will be back in business hopefully very soon! :)
The owner of this barn talked to me while I set up my camera in late November 2021. Her teenage son has requested permission to use some barn wood for a project and she told him sure. She assumed he would take some from the back where it was already falling down and was astonished to see he had dismantled part of the door on the most picturesque section of this barn! I couldn't decide whether to laugh or cry at her story... :)
I was going thru some slide scans and came upon some Conrail stuff.. It started to occur to me that Conrail has now been gone MORE years then it was alive (23 years)! I miss Big Blue, always a steadfast of alot of trains in the Chicago Terminal, you would never be disappointed on the Chicago Line (NYC) east of town.. Do we have a John Stanovich sighting here in the seat? Here I presume is ELBR tip-toeing into 1 lead at the east end of BRC's Clearing Yard at Hayford Jct, on a beautiful late summer afternoon in 96.. Conrail would last but 2.5 years and be dissolved on May 31st 1999 - 26 years and 9 months ago...
It’s been a minute since we’ve been able to go to NYC. I love it all, especially the subterranean world of the subway. After this school year, it’ll be nice to have some fun riding those lettered and numbered trains ;)
I purchased this mask from the @newyorktransitmuseum to support them during the pandemic. If you want one, feel free to support them too :)
Here's a story I wrote about my recent night under the stars at Palouse Falls, published in today's Spokesman Review newspaper, www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/may/14/seeing-the-lights/
Some people have asked about dealing with the noise in the landscape part of these really long exposures. I tend to post my rough-drafts here on Flickr before I remove the noise. This photo is the finished product with all the noise removed.
There is an in-camera noise reduction feature but for every 8-10 minute exposure it takes an additional 8 to 10 minutes of sitting waiting for the camera to do a dark-frame subtraction. This kind of delay just isn't feasible with my work flow when I'm out shooting, so in post-processing I use the healing brush in Photoshop to remove all the red, green, and purple spots. In some cases it only takes 30 minutes. In others, like this one, it took me about 8 hours. For me that's the price I pay for not missing the shot.
If I weren't crunched for time I might use in-camera NR. I should also probably learn how to do it manually with my own dark-frame but I'm not convinced that will lead to a good result given the sheer volume of the noise that results. I suspect it would look really blotchy given how the noise changes from frame to frame.