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After finishing her skirt, Mrs. Mouse enjoyed a glass of wine and a quiet moment.
Her peace did not last long though because her baby was calling.
New mouse in my 1:12 scale dollhouse.
Shanghai 2.2 is a movement where someone is doing something on their own which they would prefer to do together with someone else, as performing a sequence of dance steps is just not the same when you have no partner.[...] But music can be heard. A powerful sound arouses an imperfectly devised structure, which slips off its shoes and transforms its rigid pillars with scarves and tunics to create an elegant stylisation, thus seeking to dismantle what some excessively rigid mind had tried to construct.
I was just sitting there. Breathing. Nothing more and nothing less. You could hardly call it living.
It makes me sad.
I thought I returned from all this. I thought I made a comeback. Sadly, this wasn't the case.
Everything is temporary.
I'm so indecisive and picky. Slowly, my mood began to lighten. For some reason, I wasn't yet ready for it to do so.
Ungrateful, ungrateful, ungrateful.
As if I'm the absolute center of the universe and nothing will ever live up to my expectations.
I've secluded myself and pushed a dear friend away. I feel it's my fault entirely.
I'm merely a body and seem to have lost all feeling.
This isn't right. This isn't what's meant for me.
I'm going to do this for myself. I'm going to get up and live.
Take 2.
Take 2. Breathing. Living. Feeling. Mission complete.
For the first time, I now feel free and real.
I'm moving forward.
"sometimes a silence seems
so loud to me
and i'm thinking out loud
and i'm trying to keep
too much reflection
isn't healthy for me
present and future
is where i need to be
but i'm stalling this story
i'm gonna fill it with glory
cause theres no place to go but up
and i'm changing my outlook
cause looking inwards
isn't always a good place to go"
This is the most perfect song.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssdqm66sqp0&feature=related
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (all shots with this lens till 95% with aperture at 2.0)
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Here is an other photo from our Retro Rockstar shooting, last week. It was made at the Multimedia Center in Halle, with a driving tram in the background. So you guess right, it was a difficult long term exposure, because it was necessary for Sebastian to standing 100% still, for 1/3 second.
Press L to view in large.
Strobist info:
1x YN460 Speedlight left, @ 1/1 power, handheld by TJ
Triggered by Yongnuo RF-602
Camera was on tripod
Nikon D5000 with Tamron SP AF90mm F/2.8 Di Macro 1:1
Nikon D5000 | ISO 100 | 90mm | ƒ/32 | 1/3s
Number 2 is more in an Oriental style, following the techniques of the great contemporary artist, Gao Xingjian, whom I admire greatly.
Original is 8x11 inches.
Kowloon, Hong Kong
The Queen Mary 2 prepares to dock at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, Hong Kong. Tough shot this one. We knew she was scheduled to dock at 0700 but with first light at 0645 and a deceptively fast moving subject we knew that getting any kind of shot with decent brightness and sharpness was going to be a challenge. She was a bit ahead of schedule and we arrived on the scene just as QM2 was being turned to be pulled into the pier. The sun was just starting to rise, casting some much needed light on the port side facing. We literally had a couple of fleeting minutes to get these shots, so we felt pretty lucky. But after taking all things into account, sometimes you make your own luck.
So I got interested in how to do linear scans with my Canon 8800F via Silverfast SE. I haven't shot slides in a while so I took this 2 years old slide from one of my vacations and took the 2400dpi 16bit straight-out-of-the-scanner option... WOW! I'm blown out, away, whatever... totally. I had to do some fiddling around contrasts, levels and colors and resample it to 1800dpi 8bit scan but the intensity and details are still there. Now I only have to find out how to turn HDR scans from the negatives into print/positive image.
Pentacon Six TL, Carl Zeiss Jena 180mm f/2.8 Sonnar, Fuji Provia RDP, Canon 8800F.