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Going crazy stalking SDCC pix for new MH stuff. Ah, so exciting!!!! Can't wait to see what's in store for the ghouls and maybe perhaps the royals and rebels as well.
Actually a tripod for securing the prisoner so that their back is exposed for whipping. Alternatively they could have used this thing as an artist's easel.
Actually this sidewalk is the entrance to some nice hotels on a busy street. Mirror imaging the bushes and flowers makes for a very nice looking garden.
Actually an egg, hard boiled, taken with an iPhone on the window sill, sitting on a towel. Modified in Gimp; Texture added to duplicate image then faded a little. Another layer added to darken with a brush, another to add the stars using a star shaped pencil and slightly blurred. Afterwards I ate the egg; but that's art.
I just recently found out that what I thought was one doll with one name, was actually three dolls with three names and two origins!
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Me: Girls! Girls! Guess what! You are probably a Dasty and a Denny, not a Dusty at all! Now you can have one name each!
Dusty: ...
Dusty: ...
Me: What? Not even a giggle? You usually laugh at everyth...
Dusty: MmmOOwwaahh haha ha ha ha!!
Dusty: Whee hehehehehh hehe he!!
Me: Ah. Here we go.
Dusty: Look at that! Ha ha, it says Sport Girl. Not Sports Girl!
Dusty: Ha ha, and that Denny looks just like us! She even has the same fashion. Outrageously funny! Ha ha ha!!
Me: Yes, that was what I was trying to tell you. You two came wearing these outfits, therefore I strongly think you are produced in Germany and named Dasty and Denny.
Dusty: ...
Dusty: ...
Me: It's not a bad thing girls. It's actually quite nice to..
Dusty: Ich bin Denny! Ha hahaa!! (I am Denny)
Dusty: Wir sind besser als Dusty! Ich bin Dasty! (We are better than Dusty! I am Dasty!) Ha ha ha!!
Me: Oh boy! Perhaps I shouldn't have enlightened them.
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I beg your pardon to all who speaks German. I used 'Google translate' so it might not be correct.
All these dolls look the same to me, so couldn't say for sure if they are Dusty, Dasty or Denny.
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Just learnt there's also a Jenny!
This is actually the first photo I took of the clock tower, but I liked the one against the sky enough to post that one first.
There were a lot of people out, more than expected for a Wednesday. The Apple store didn't look all that busy, probably the usual curiosity seekers.
As you can see, I got this shot in the late afternoon, so I didn't have to fight the sunlight or harsh shadows. I was even able to see inside the Apple store.
Actually ... the thrifted part is the inspiration striped material that was repurposed from two pillow shams from Value Village.
My thanks to everyone with the ideas on thread and quilting pattern suggestions.
This is actually a quilt we will keep! And it has found a home on the sofa in the cabin living room.
Tutorial at: shinersview.blogspot.com/2010/01/tutorial-corner-block-qu...
Blogged at: shinersview.blogspot.com/2010/01/corner-block-quilt.html
Mark is not actually a menace, although he did a great job of portraying one! Wet plate collodion has a way of making even the nicest people look menacing, and I think this has to do with the fact that only UV light (no reds or yellows) is recorded on the plate. The three-second exposure also made for a serious portrait.
Thanks to Mark for all his patience, and for bringing the barrel-aged Old Rasputin XIV Imperial Stout for a nice pairing with our waffle breakfast!
8x10 wet plate collodion ambrotype (scanned on a flatbed scanner)
3-second exposure
11.25" Voigtlander Petzval lens from 1857 (wide open at F4.6)
Kodak Master View 8x10 camera
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About Wet Plate Collodion:
Wet plate collodion is a 19th-century photographic process invented in 1851. It was the third photographic process (Daguerreotype was the first, Calotype was the second), and used throughout the civil war. Wet plate collodion was the most popular form of photography from the 1850's into the 1870's.
Wet plate collodion is a process of hand-coating a plate of glass or metal with salted collodion and then sensitizing the plate in a solution of silver nitrate, making the plate light sensitive. The plate is then transferred (in a darkroom) to a light-tight holder, and then to a nearby camera while still wet. The image is exposed using a view camera (of any size). Exposures need a lot of light, and the plate is only sensitive to UV light (no reds or yellows) and has an ISO of less than 1 (yes, one).
After exposure, the holder is taken into a darkroom, the plate removed, and a developing solution poured over the plate. It is then hand developed, stopped, and rinsed. At this point, the plate can be taken out of the darkoom. The image appears as a negative until a fixing agent poured over the plate turns it into a positive. For an ambrotype (wet plate collodion on glass), the silver is a creamy color, so the image appears as a negative if viewed against a bright white and a positive if viewed with a black background. Ambrotypes can be made specifically for use as glass negatives as well (for contact printing). For a tintype (on metal), the plate is pre-coated with a black background, and the final collodion image appears as a positive. The final step of the process is varnishing the plate to protect the silver from tarnishing.
Actually, it's Thryallis, also called Golden Showers (Galphimia Glauca). Photographed at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden in early fall.
Developed using Darktable 3.6.0. A light texture was added with Photoshop.
Actually, its one of many, and one which Ruth indulges only rarely (the ciggie dimwit). Otherwise our heroine is the epitome of ladylike behavior (Hah)
Actually these are white. Manipulated the neutrals and whites in selective coloring (Photoshop) to give them an eerie green glow. I think these grow on Krypton....
Submitted to 7 DOS, Green in Nature, Wild Wednesday.
Actually just an admiring bystander...
A Grey Hawk (Buteo plagiatus) scopes out the terrain with its sharp eyes. These hawks occur from South America north to extreme southern Arizona and Texas, in habitats ranging from thorn scrub to tropical forests. Their prey consists primarily of small rodents and reptiles. This obliging bird was part of a raptor demonstration at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum.
Actually the rest of the flock had just flown off.
Taken shooting upwards to the top of a shingle bank witth the Male Snow Bunting stood on the ridge.
I quite like the strange perspective this creates, but some people may not :-)
Taken earlier this year in Norfolk. Hopefully I will get some more shots of these fabulous birds over the winter, but very few about at the moment.
Actually couldn't believe l found this! Only 7 of these in the UK so it's extremely rare. Sadly the light post was in the way so I can't see the number plate, took this photo from my car so lucky I got a picture of it at all. First Lada I seen in about 12 years!
Actually, im not really sure if these are berries or not. Not even bigger than half of the tip of my pinky finger. :)
Pretty interesting though. I should be studying for the long tests on monday. BUT, i felt like i needed to go to the park and relax.
Actually turned out harder than I anticipated to capture a drop of water. Taken for a new 1 month of photo challenges by creative live.
Actually a quite small Ross's goose. This guy was hanging with the Canada geese and took off with them.
Taken very early in the morning - pre-sunrise - so I had to use a lot of my tricks to make this a passable image. But we see them so rarely. The bird isn't that rare - I've photographed one every year for the last three years - but they are hard to find here in Milwaukee. They are a Canadian bird.
Actually this is my third office. The second office was in the building in the background (before it moved) and the office window is more or less behind the branch
Actually, we called him Daddy .....never "Father, Dad, or Pops." Those names did not seem to fit him. He was our leader, our example, our provider--definitely the man of the house. I have few tangible reminders of Daddy, but many great memories and life lessons learned. I recently picked up this old booklet entitled simply "Time". He used this and similar books to record his hours worked (primarily in construction) and to calculate his weekly wages. Times were hard back then, but Daddy managed to raise 7 children on meager wages. We never seemed to lack necessities. What we lacked in "extras" was made up many times over with love and nurturing.
Happy Fathers Day, Daddy.
(Viewed Large, you might be able to see that the drawing on the cover of a sundial. It has a small inscription "Tempest Fugit" or "time flies". Indeed, it does.)
actually, the waves were really flat that day and most of those in the water had to wait patiently for something resembling a wave to roll in. this was one of the better waves seen that day.
better viewed large (no kidding, this time!)
Actually, nothing cooking or being prepared at the moment but I guess something will be happening when my wife returns from her shopping!!
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there's my truck- when I actually get to drive it. I have to run shovel and loader and pumps and utility stuff lots too. But nothing beats being left alone to drive up and down the haulroad all day!
PS- for those of you who want to hear about the little misadventure I had on pumps a few weeks ago, go here: homiebear.blogspot.ca/2012/06/this-story-would-be-so-much...
and then here for the fallout: homiebear.blogspot.ca/2012/07/so-not-only-did-i-get-piss-...
Plenty in my garden.
what we wrongly call 'Geranium' are actually 'Pelargonium'... from my garden, where they grow faster than 'weeds'. LOL.
WILD(?) Geranium Ingwersen's Variety (Cranesbill, Perennial Geranium)
Pleasant light pink flowers with pronounced sepals on strong stems.
Macro-rhizum are more drought tolerant than other Cranesbills.
The semi-evergreen aromatic leaves of Geranium Ingwersen's Variety are tinted bronze-red in fall and foliage can be dried for potpourri.
It has a very particular, quite strong smell.
Bees love them.
Thank you for your visit, M, (*_*)
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Actually seeing service this time round, another Yutong demonstrator is about with NCT, doing the same as the eCitaro did when that was here... Not a lot!!
Catching up with this in service is certainly a challenge as it only does a couple of sporadic trips in the late morning and early afternoon due to the folks in the training school getting their hands on it, and they tend to finish before it gets dark.
999 is seen on Upper Parliament Street having just set off on an additional 7 to Gamston via Trent Bridge, West Bridgford and Abbey Park.
Actually it's just sketch for bigger series.
It's quite interesting location with unique character. This young forest is placed on small hills shaped by glacier. Probably these hills saved this place from deforestation, this kind of terrain is very difficult for agricultural activity, especially in this part of central Poland where everywhere around go on many tens of kilometres big flats of Lodz Plateau.
Actually, a rather gruesome scene. I didn't even notice the spider there when I was shooting the fly, nor the tiny yellow mite on the fly's leg. I did notice the odd angle of the fly's head and the exaggerated distance between abdominal segments, though, and figured out that it was an entomopathogenic fungus victim. It does look a bit like the spider deployed a decoy to make other flies think there's some good reason to stop here...
I figure Arachtober is a good time to post this one!
I believe the fungus is Entomophthora muscae
SERC Bug Blitz
Edgewater, Anne Arundel Co, MD
6 June 2015
(actually, i haven't showered in 3 days...when i get really caught up in work, i get lazy like that...so i decide to take pictures, what else?!)
The above poor-quality image was actually taken in 2004, as I was arriving on an early-morning flight into Heathrow. As we turned onto finals, I was disgusted to see the layer of smog and took this image, looking east over City Airport in the foreground, the Dartford Crossing mid-right and the Thames estuary beyond. It was not a bad day in terms of pollution!
Air pollution in London passed levels in Beijing this week (end of January 2017), with popular wood-burning stoves blamed for exacerbating the problem.
On Monday, 23 January 2017, Mayor Sadiq Khan issued the highest air pollution alert in London for the first time, and said on Tuesday that the capital’s ‘filthy air’ is now a ‘health crisis.’
Readings at 3 p.m. on Monday showed that air at locations in the capital were worse than in notoriously smoggy Beijing, hitting a peak 197 micrograms per cubic metre for particulate matter on the Air Quality Index. Pollution in the Chinese city only reached 190, which is still deemed ‘unhealthy.’
Although nitrogen dioxide levels in London rose higher than China in 2014, it is believed to be the first time particulate readings have exceeded those in the Far East.
Experts at King’s College London said the recent spell of unhealthy pollution was the worst since April 2011 in the capital and was being caused by cold, calm and settled conditions combined with ‘traffic pollution and air pollution from wood burning.’
Temperatures have fallen below zero overnight over the last few days, meaning householders are burning more fuel to keep warm. “This was the largest contribution from wood burning measured during the winter so far,” said a spokesman for King’s College.
Over the past few days, many parts of the capital have recorded double the legal limits of emissions. Some schools banned children from playing outdoors, and Public Health England warned people not to exercise outside.
The Mayor said the situation was becoming so toxic to children that hundreds of schools will now be audited to see whether gates and play areas can be moved away from busy roads.
‘No idling’ zones are likely to be implemented to prevent drivers leaving their engines running while waiting for children on the school run, while the most polluting vehicles may be banned entirely from driving up to entrances.
Schools will also be encouraged to plant hedges and bushes around their sites to provide barriers to block out fumes and children will be encouraged to walk and cycle to cut down on lifts.