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Actually, not the back, it's the front. I didn't see too many veils like this. Taken in Deir ez Zuhr, Syria (near the Iraqi border.)
Actually - 5'10" in my stockings. And although the long skirt emphasises this perhaps a little too much I can live with it - Think of me as statuesque rather than big Dahlinks!!!!
Actually the locked entrance to an ancient winding-shaft to bring copper ore up from the underground canal 40 metres below under Ecton Hill, Staffordshire
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Actually meant to get this up yesterday, but never got to it... now had a request to see the mono version of the shot I uploaded in color...
better on black...
you actually can get 12% reduction in this home improvement store; it`s called BAUHAUS, which was the name of a school of arts and architecture in the early 20. century. It was a precursor in modernism and functionalism until the Nazis forced them to a self-liquidation in 1933.
Actually, this sculpture, park, and greenway section is dedicated to an orphanage and chapel that occupied this site for decades. The orphanage is long gone, but the chapel is still open and available for weddings and other gatherings.
I didn't even have to suggest Daisy pose here, by the way. She just up and did it on her own. Could be from the sheer joy of spontaneity. But more likely she just knew it was inevitable that I would "suggest" it...so she beat me to the punch. 😉💖💖
actually, i'm not sure what this is. there was a sign for the motel, but google maps shows there used to be a structure next to it that wasn't there when i passed through. this seems to be on the property but is of an entirely different style. doesn't matter - i have an affinity for anonymous motels ...
Actually it is not easy to see two Star Alliance together in Toronto YYZ. They line up to take off one after another at Rwy. 23
Actually, it's an old keyring that I found at the back of a drawer, but the rust, coupled with a piece of my drift-wood as a backdrop has given it a fairly foreboding look.
Taken for the 52Project Macro group, on the subject of 'Chains'
Actually I forgot where I made this shot. Somewhere in Bali =)
Location - Bali, Indonesia
Canon EOS 5D markII + EF 24-70mm f/2.8 USM
EXIF: 30 sec • f/18 • 38 mm • ISO 100
Exposure Mode + White Balance: Manual
Filters: Hoya ND 400
Actually this is an escape attempt. Probably you do not really recognize it because the gear setup with my 3mm thick neoprene wetsuit and the heavy leather straitjacket just gave me a few millimeters of movement.
Of course my escape attempt is ridiculous the setup is way too secure. My mistress just giggled about my attempt and told me to sit straight again.
Actually is a rather nice spot for a meal, but not with a little one.
Nikon F5 - AF Nikkor 24mm 1:2.8 - Rollei RPX 25 @ ASA-25
Tetenal Neofin Blau (1+9) 5:00 @ 20C
Scanner: Epson V700 + Silverfast 9 SE
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
Actually, I didn't know the picture was being resized on download. I'll be more careful in the future.
Actually, these gorgeous Mountain Bluebirds have been back for a while already. Each spring, it is such a joy to see the very first splash of blue after a long, cold winter. This photo was taken on 20 April 2018, SW of the city.
In Bluebirds, the blue colour is produced by the structure of the feather - there is no blue pigment. "Tiny air pockets in the barbs of feathers can scatter incoming light, resulting in a specific, non-iridescent color. Blue colors in feathers are almost always produced in this manner. Examples include the blue feathers of Bluebirds, Indigo Buntings, Blue Jay's and Steller's Jays."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mountain_Bluebird/id
www.jstor.org/discover/pgs/index?id=10.2307/4077277&i...
"A female Mountain Bluebird pays more attention to good nest sites than to attractive males. She chooses her mate solely on the basis of the location and quality of the nesting cavity he offers her—disregarding his attributes as a singer, a flier, or a looker.
A male Mountain Bluebird frequently feeds his mate while she is incubating and brooding. As the male approaches with food, the female may beg fledgling-style—with open beak, quivering wings, and begging calls. More often, she waits until her mate perches nearby, then silently flicks the wing farthest from him—a signal that usually sends him off to find her a snack.
The oldest recorded Mountain Bluebird was a female, and at least 9 years old when she was recaptured and rereleased during banding operations in Alberta in 2005. She had been banded in the same province in 1997." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mountain_Bluebird/
On 20 April 2018, I had no choice but to go out somewhere to test a Nikon Coolpix B700. So, I took my usual short drive SW of the city to find some things that I could photograph. Not a whole lot to be found, but a group of three competing American Robins made my first stop. Later, three distant Mountain Bluebirds were in fighting mode and two of them were down on the ground in quite a vicious attack. Too far away for more than snapshots. I also stopped to watch three distant Hawks that were competing. You know what they say : "Two's company, three's a crowd".
A very cooperative American Kestrel gave me a good chance to try out the camera at different zoom distances. Cars were a different thing - and I was not on the best road for stopping, so I ended up driving the same stretch of road several times. These birds are so beautiful. I knew that this one caught something to eat, but it was timed just when another car came down the road and I needed to move on. Of course, an old barn is always a bonus, too.
The sun was shining for most of my drive, with cloud moving in towards the time I needed to leave. A stop to pick up some delicious chili was the final stop of the afternoon.
From the Guardian: Circumcision was different in the time of David and is actually correctly noted in the statue with just the tip of the foreskin removed. It wouldn't become a more common practice to completely remove the skin until roman times. Michelangelo, by all accounts, is accurate to David's time.
From Wikipedia:
David (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdaːvid]) is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504 by Michelangelo.
It is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft)[a] marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.[1] Originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, the statue was placed instead in a public square, outside the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504.
Because of the nature of the hero it represented, the statue soon came to symbolize the defense of civil liberties embodied in the Republic of Florence, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici family. The eyes of David, with a warning glare, were turned towards Rome.[2] The statue was moved to the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, in 1873, and later replaced at the original location by a replica.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo ˈdi lodoˈviko buonaˈrɔti siˈmɔni]; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.[1] Considered to be the greatest living artist during his lifetime, he has since also been described as one of the greatest artists of all time.[1] Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Florentine Medici client, Leonardo da Vinci.
A number of Michelangelo's works of painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence.[1] His output in every field of interest was prodigious; given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century.
He sculpted two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, before the age of thirty. Despite holding a low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential frescoes in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and The Last Judgment on its altar wall. As an architect, Michelangelo pioneered the Mannerist style at the Laurentian Library. At the age of 74, he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter's Basilica. Michelangelo transformed the plan so that the western end was finished to his design, as was the dome, with some modification, after his death.
Michelangelo was unique as the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive.[2] In fact, two biographies were published during his lifetime; one of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries.
In his lifetime he was often called Il Divino ("the divine one").[3] One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur. The attempts by subsequent artists to imitate[4] Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance
Actually so casual as to be completely unappealing to anyone!!. To think that I used to traipse around town looking like this!!!
This species is actually an italien species that has been invading the rest of Europe since the 1970s, enabled by climate change.
Unfortunately it is also very likely they are the cause for the decline of two other Opilio species here in Germany, Opilio parietinus and Opilio saxtilis, which is a shame.
To make things even worse they aren't even a very interesing looking species, almost no pattern, no spikes or interesing shapes, just orange. If you are invasive why aren't you at least pretty?
Giving them a bit of a hard time, I actually like them, still a shame they are likely pretty bad for our native harvestmen.
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Actually took this last night, but I accidentally set it to private and couldn't make it public until today, when I figured out how to access the mobile version of the website on my iPhone via Safari. Grrr, Flickr, I go to bat for you so many times, and then you have to make an iPhone app update that's unfinished and glitchy. >_<
On a happier note, the background is from a Lisa Frank mini coloring book I found at Big Lots. :^D
Actually, at the time I made this image this train was being operated by the Regional Transportation Authority and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific had been out of business for more than two years. A commuter train sits in Chicago LaSalle Street Station between runs. (Scanned from a slide)
Actually got a shot when the sun was out. There is a pool to the right of this shot that takes water from the surrounding hills. The overflow travels down into the pool you see below. There is also an outlet for the water into the canal basin which is to the left of that bottom pool hidden by the tree in the foreground.
Actually...he just knocked over the Jenga tower with a great expression on his face :)))
A great moment from a funny night, played Jenga and PES (Pro Evolution Soccer) on Playstation 2...
Sorry for flash shadows...but it was night time, and I needed light! :)
Actually, I don't know if it is a Cleome spinosa or a cleome hassleriana. Maybe someone could help me to tag this flower with the right ID ?
Feel free to comment !
Actually I went to Mount Baleku in Gunung Sari for the view and to get a feeling for the place interestingly described by Alfred Russel Wallace in his The Malay Archipelago. I came too late in the day for the monsoon season, and the mists obscured the views of Mataram from this pretty hill with handsome Hindu Pura. So I looked to the ground.
Here's a Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa aestuans. They're quite hard to photograph because they flit about so erratically. She's drawing nectar from Rattlepod, Crotalaria pallida. Then the rain came down from Rinjani onto the Lesser Hills, and I fled for the car below.
Actually the train was spot on time, but I couldn't resist the title given this shot was taken from a coffee shop!
A Richmond to Stratford 'London Overground' service departs from platform 4 at Willesden Junction.
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I actually finished everything a few weeks ago, but got lazy with posting pics. Well, to be honest, I probably didn't want to post because I didn't want to face the fact that one day I'd be sending this away! But nope, I'm gonna finish my breakfast, (goof around a bit) and pack this up.
I didn't go with the Katy Jones Sunday Clippings print for the back after all -- the style just didn't match the front. Besides, when it showed up, Dylan fell in love with it! But I soon settled on FMF dotted leaves in grey, which I happen to think balances out the front really well:D
Hope this makes its way to you safely, partner...I mean, once I learn to let it go:)
Good evening everyone!
Check out me sucking on a ………….
……….no no wait.
Actually – I will mail a t-shirt to the person who can correctly ascertain what the fuck is in my mouth. Do not doubt me – a t-shirt is yours if you can figure it out.
First correct comment wins. Do not doubt me people.
I mean – it’s hard to see. I dodged and burned the fuck out of unnamed object for it to be more received as a cigarette or some other cool object.
Not a cigarette.
And no cock jokes you assholes. Fuck you all! Ha-ha.
Has anyone noticed my new section on my signature in which I am beginning to proclaim an album of the day? No one cares? Fuck you all – again. (giggle)
I’m decent at photography. I’m pretty good at writing. But my music tastes probably surpass both of these formally mentioned hobbies.
I remember when I was in my 20’s. I would meet a girl by whatever means and eventually bring her by my “pad”. I’d always try to woo her with my music knowledge and kickass CD collection.
I swear to god I have the “mix tape” (when I was a teenager) and the “mix cd” (until present day) to thank for me scoring at least a couple of chicks. I’d bust out this badass mix and personalize it for them and they’d swoon for more.
Works every time!!
The key guys (and I mean my fellow males) is to change it up. The songs on the mix I mean. Decades, genre’s, slow, fast, etc. Change it up, like sex sort of?
Me so slick.
The shot at hand? Pimp running out of time for a shot of the day. I was tired as shit and didn’t feel like going outside to lay down on the fucking ground yet again. So I went into my bathroom and sucked on unseen object for all of you.
Yummy.
Location: in my bathroom; Alameda, California
Taken: August 17th, 2009
Posted: August 23rd, 2009
Album of the Day: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
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Actually taken last Friday! Pisgah has opened a small tap room in their brewery to get the old regulars through the winter...:)
In camera double exposure.
CITX SD40M-2 2799 leads another CITX SD40M-2 and two CITX SD40-2s east through Riverside, IL on a X-MRLCSX. I barely had enough time to get out the door for this guy! I never thought I'd ever see a quartet of 40's on the racetrack again.
Actually, one of many - the woods are looking gorgeous at the moment - with pink, white and yellow roses in full bloom.