View allAll Photos Tagged (touch
Thanks for all the comments and faves last week when I was away.
Had a great week's fishing and our team broke the world record for the most atlantic salmon caught in 6 days... 1377!
Got some shots in Helsinki when I was passing through but until I get them processed... California for now...
Please view on black - Hit "L"
Jesus…will everything be alright? I hate this shroud between You and I. I don’t like rocks or boulders or distances between us. I don’t want You to be in a place where I can’t find You. Why this darkness? When will come the day when I can touch Your face and kiss Your hands?
Kisstheson, Amy (2006). The Fourteenth Station: Jesus is Laid in the Tomb. (www.christianforums.com/t2908707/)
* * *
Mahal na Araw 2014 - Viernes Santo
Ang Paglilibing kay Hesus
Pagmamay-ari ng Pamilya Samorio - Antonio
Brgy. Rosario, Montalban/Rodriguez, Rizal
step back, in order to go forward.
let go of yourself, and then you will get hold of life.
are you ready to give that touch, and to be touched?
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Olympus E-M10 + LUMIX G VARIO 45-150/F4.0-5.6. Thank you, dear friends, for your high appreciations and kind attitude to my work!
I thought I would see how I managed getting about on my own with my one hand.. I surprised myself. It was great walking around the city again. There was a lot to see because of the RISE festival.
December 22, 2013, Christchurch CBD New Zealand.
Street artists armed with spray cans and paint rollers are coming to the rescue of Christchurch's struggling suburbs and city centre. Dozens of large artworks have been created on walls across the city this month with many more going up this week.
The RISE street-art festival has commissioned a dozen large street-art paintings in the city centre, while the From the Ground Up project has organised about 16 large artworks in the city centre and Sydenham. Christchurch business owners and city leaders believe street art will help regenerate areas hit hard by the earthquakes and draw tourists to the city.
Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce chief executive Peter Townsend said street art adds ''a whole new dimension'' to what the city offered.
"Putting street art in significant places in our city has the potential to make Christchurch unique,'' he said.
''It can create a real point of difference for a city and transform otherwise ugly buildings into an asset for the city.''
RISE festival director George Shaw said vibrant street art changed the feel of a city.
''If you paint amazing art on blank walls it brightens everything up and makes the place feel relevant and alive.
''That is desperately needed in cities across the world and especially in Christchurch.''
From the Ground Up organiser Jacob Ryan said about 20 New Zealand artists had created artwork in the city for the project.
''We wanted to get the city going again and make Christdhchurch a more interesting place. The aim was to brighten up the city. It has a real impact on this scale. Christchurch is the perfect canvas.''
Sydenham Quarter chairman Anthony Barker said street art had brightened his quake-hit suburb and attracted shoppers.
The business association helped get permission for street artists to use walls in Sydenham for the From the Ground Up festival.
The RISE festival also includes a major street-art exhibition at the Canterbury Museum opening tomorrow. The exhibition will feature one of the largest private collections of Banksy artworks in the world, work by international and local street artists, and new work by Australian artist Ian Strange.
For More Info: www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/art-and-stage...
A fantasy mecha project, inspired by Patlabor & Gundam. The plan was to build a ‘realistic’ hexapod tank, even though with an SF touch.
The vehicle is not 100% supposed to match anime style – but the concept is pretty popular in Japanese animation, SF or special interest genres like Ma.K., so I think calling the “Ackwisch” (Hebrew for “Spider”) mecha is fine.
While the mobility of walking vehicles is arguably higher than that of wheeled or tracked vehicles, their inherent complexity has limited their use mainly to experimental vehicles. Examples of real manned walking vehicles include General Electric's Walking truck, the University of Duisburg-Essen's ALDURO and Timberjack, a subsidiary of John Deere, built a practical hexapod Walking Forest Machine (a harvester for rough/delicate terrain).
One can argue about the sense of a legged tank, though. It's slow, it has a high CG an silhouette, it's mechanically complex, it needs a lot of space in order to manoeuver, and you cannot deny the laws of physics: ground pressure is a SERIOUS issue, for any armored vehicle. A simple wet lawn can stop a tracked medium battle tank with a relatively large footprint – how’s a walking tank with only a fraction of area to distribute weight supposed to fare? A modern battle tank like the Merkava easily weights 60 tons and more. You might add for a legged specimen at least 10 more for the legs and their mechanics… so, is a walking tank “realistic”? Certainly not, but it’s cool…. And, since this is SF, it should at least look cool and somewhat menacing... ;)
This project had been waiting on the bench for a while and even saw a major creative interruption, and even then the whole building process took several weeks. Main ingredients are an 1:72 ESCI Merkava II tank kit, PVC doll joints from Kotobukiya for the legs (so they remain moveable, within limits),six resin legs from two ‘Junk Rock Tank’ recast kits in 1:35 scale (from a total of eight – you never know!), and two aftermarket gun barrels made from metal, since the tank received a double gun as a special feature. The commander’s cupola was donated from a 1:87 scale Roco Minitanks M60, otherwise a lot of details had been scratched or improvised – please check the WiP album for reference and single steps.
Construction was pretty straightforward, though, as well as painting, since I kept the tank in a uniform drab color (very similar if not identical to real life IDF tanks, RAL 7008 “Khakigrau”). Weathering was done with a thorough black ink wash and dry painting with various shades of brown, beige and grey, plus some of the artist pigments that were used on the base, too (see below).
The base was created with Styrofoam and plaster on an MDF board, the rock is actually aquarium decoration from a pet store, made from resin. The crater was sculpted into the basic surface.
The surface was decorated with fine sand, water-based paint and artist pigments, the vegetation consists of fine model railroad turf and grass fiber, brush fibers for large weed bushels, some dried real vegetation and a bit of dry moss.
As some space was left on the left side of the base, I eventually added a small vehicle there – my choice fell on a die-cast HMMWV from Dragon. Very fine car model, even though its place and position could have looked a bit more natural if I had integrated earlier into the planning process. But with both vehicles in place, the whole arrangement gains a bit of a meaning, as an observation scene. I still would not call it a diorama, though – it’s just a presentation base that might also be used in future model photographs.
Shooting the tank on its base was tricky, because of the relatively small dimensions of the base – on some of the pics I had to add virtual foreground in order to fill blank space, but otherwise only little “photoshopping” had to be done.
N&W "M-Class" number 475 sits steamed and ready at the Strasburg Railroad station. Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1906, she's the oldest steamer in Strasburg's fleet. On this day, they didn't have 475 pulling any passenger trains. Instead, she was fired up for railfans of all ages to get up close and personal. They offered a range of options including cab tours, whistle blows and photo opportunities through the day. 475's whistle is a pretty sound, but once you've heard it blow on and off at full blast for the whole afternoon, you start to wish you brought ear plugs. I love the brilliant shine on the engine and tender in this shot.
A Great Blue Heron touching down into the salty shallows to do some fishing.
To purchase cards & prints including matted, framed, mounted and canvas, click onto link;
www.redbubble.com/people/islandlady154/works/10811370-tou...
"PHOTO INFORMATION"
Taken on Jun 30/13 at 11:35am on south east Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada
Camera, Canon 7D
Lens, Canon EF 100-400mm L IS USM lens.
Tripod, Manfrotto, including 498RC2 ballhead
Taken at, 1/640's at f/10 at 375mm, man white bal, iso 500
"Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished."
~Michael Strassfeld
Today was a pretty easy day today at school!
(Three photos posted in three days! I'm on a roll :D)
Et voici les photos de la Japan Touch!!!!! Comme à chaque fois c'était juste extraordinaire!!!!!! :D On attend déjà la prochaine maintenant!! :D
Ma page FaceBook: www.facebook.com/pages/Jadiina/174390782635947
Ma chaine YouTube : www.youtube.com/user/jadiina15?feature=mhee
Mon Twitter: twitter.com/Jadiina15
Ma galerie DeviantART: jadiina.deviantart.com/gallery/
Mon Blog Dolls: jadiina.skyrock.com/
Mon Blog Lolita: jadiina-lolita.skyrock.com/
Mon Blog NCIS: jadiina-ncis.skyrock.com/
Mon Blog Fairy Tail: jadiina-fairytail.skyrock.com/a