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Lotte Furama, Montreal.
Unforgettable Dim Sum with my friend Christine...
I have been posting my food photos up on foodspotting.com/moriza check them out!
Actually not. I've taken this on a arched ceiling of the reformed church of the village Kappel am Albis, which is part of the cloister there. These blue eagles look pretty much like the famous swiss comic hero "Globi". I first thought that the author of the comics (Robert Lips) was inspired by this figures, but that's wasn't the case, he saw them afterwards but needles to say that he was bluffed when he saw the resemblance!
actually this is not the twin lagoon, but a lagoon near by. island hopping from coron is a good idea. very beautiful, but very touristic too.
Actually this photo really random. Cuz they were just sitting on my bed just like this, I just love them so much.
I dunno why Velle looks abit ~.~ at this photo maybe because the focuz was on Megu. Aint Megu looks so pikapika? XDD Natsu looks so..very protective on Megu lmao.
From left is Velle, little Ivvy, Megumi, Natsu, and little Riru. :)
I'll take better photo one day when everyone was actually ready for family cam-time XD
Actually not a box, because I bought her on LDoll and have a bug and cushion for her. She is Ombre blue skin with two heads. One with open eyes already has a make-up. I'm very happy about her! <333
Actually, I think that this year's Winter Solstice was yesterday. But, following another day of heavy fog this was such an unusual, yet beautiful sunset.
Actually, I finally got around to getting a wireless remote for the camera. Apparently, it works. And in the process created some cashmere bokeh.
Actually, this old wagon is in front of the Gifford House, a museum and store located right next to the Fruita Campground. They are known for their homemade pies and other goodies made from fruits that come from the nearby orchards. I bought a jar of peach jelly which I learned, after some questioning, actually came from TEXAS! (It was still good. They said that, because peaches were out of season, they had to "import".)
Actually, it's under the Blue Ridge Mountains, but this scene looked like Golum might come rowing out any minute!
HSS!
I have lived off-and-on in Virginia for the past forty years, and it is the place I most consider home. Driving along the roads of the Commonwealth for as long as I can remember I've seen various Luray Cavern billboards promising A World of Natural Beauty! 400 Million Years in the Making! See the Great Stalagpipe Organ! My wife finally put it on the list of things to do this summer, and it was every bit as beautiful, and every bit as campy Americana as I expected.
Ive entered a photo contest! I would love it if you guys could help me out and vote. Thank you so much!
Ok so this is total trial and error picture. I love idea, but I cant quite get the image right when combining the two. Im "ok" at photoshop, but i dont know if this looks good or shitty, thoughts please.
Model Ashley Bahner
Door frame built on location.
Hair by Jessica Robinson.
Makeup by myself.
Help from Breana and Kristene.
AB800 with 47" octa box facing models face in both images.
Canon 16-35mm
© Tricia Davidge Photography
Actually not a house at all, though it could be a temple. I actually don't remember, except that it was within the amazing Buddha park where the gigantic siting Buddha resides.
Taken in Leshan, China.
Actually taken the day after, southbound Soo Line train #204 is seen pulling through Kentland, Indiana on Conrails Danville secondary at MP IH 61.8 on December 26th, 1986 at 11:45 am with Milw 22-Soo 773-Milw 137, 79 cars and Soo Line caboose #67. Photos are taken from the foundation of New York Centrals former depot location. Train was a mix of empty coal buckets, Milw boxcars, tanks, grain hoppers and there were 9 TOFC cars on the rear.
More snow was on the way and temps were in the 20's.
Milw SD40-2 #22 was built by EMD in July of 1973.
Soo Line SD40-2 #773 was built by EMD in November of 1973.
Milw SD40-2 #137 was built by EMD as Milw #3007 in July of 1972.
Merry Christmas to all my friends at Flickr!!!
This isn't actually Gal Gadot.
What? Really? You were pretty sure about that to begin with?
The Mezco One:12 line is a relatively new toy line, popping up in recent years as a response to the various 1/6 figure companies becoming more and more expensive. Most of them retail for $80 USD, though of course there are probably come con exception.
Now, through the years I've read reviews of various figures, but never bought any due to the fact none of the characters were particularly appealing to me, and I had missed the Armoured Batman from the BvS movie.
I had ALMOST actually bought Wonder Woman here over Christmas during the Boxing Week sale at the Silver Snail, but held out, thinking that my $100 + tax would be better used towards what I thought was going my inaugural analysis, Hela, which still hasn't materialized yet.
Mezco, as far as I'm aware, is an American company. I don't typically purchase American toys, with the exception of Transformers, so I had no idea what to expect, though I know enough that in general that my expectations should be tempered as compared to Figma, Figuarts, or even the Storm Collectibles stuff.
At any rate, enough preamble - lets get on with the show. As this is my first One:12 product, I'm going to be whining about everything.
So the exterior box is shipped protected by various plastic tags and sheets to protect against scratching. The actual packaging itself was fairly functional, consisting of an inner windowed box with a slip cover. Graphics are clean and bright, though somewhat simplistic compared to the Hot Toys, Medicom, hell even the Figuarts and Figma boxes, though that glossy image of what I think is the Mezco logo is quite nice.
Actual cardboard is pretty average quality, being fairly lightweight with a natural matte finish. I understand that the convention exclusives and other more uncommon figures come in a metal tin, which reminds me very much of those metal tins you get Mooncakes in.
The actual contents of the box are mostly spelled out on the back of the box: the figure, an alternative head, four additional hands, coiled and uncoiled lasso, her Godkiller Sword, her shield, a base with arm for dynamic posing, as well as a Figma styled plastic bag for holding the various loose goodies in.
Actual cardboard is pretty average quality, being fairly lightweight with a natural matte finish. I understand that the convention exclusives and other more uncommon figures come in a metal tin, which reminds me very much of those metal tins you get Mooncakes in.
The actual contents of the box are mostly spelled out on the back of the box: the figure, an alternative head, four additional hands, coiled and uncoiled lasso, her Godkiller Sword, her shield, a base with arm for dynamic posing, as well as a Figma styled plastic bag for holding the various loose goodies in.
The figure is, as one would guess, a 1/12 figure, putting it roughly 6 inches high. The only other competition the Mezco figure has is that Mafex BvS Wonder Woman that I picked up last year. I'll make this as painless as possible - with the exception of one factor, albeit a very important one, the Mezco destroys the Mafex I own.
Off the bat, I'd like to note that with the exception of the very fine detailing on her face and maybe some smaller metallic features, the overall paint work is actually pretty good. No areas where overspray caused me to gawk, nor was there any areas with obviously poor masking or line work, though I will admit that the lines on her bracers come awfully close. Her skin tone is a bit on the bronze side, which can make photographing her using yellow lighting challenging.
It goes without saying that the work here is significantly better than that of your Marvel Legends figures, and probably even the Black series stuff. Of course, these do cost almost 4 times as much.
Her sword is seems about the right length and girth, but the shield is definitely smaller than what the prototype picture on the box itself shows.
Grasping hands were all of a soft rubber which is easily malleable, allowing for easy manipulation to hold the sword without fear of constant breakage. Fingers look kind of muddled on these hands, and there are concerns on my mind about overall longevity of painted rubber parts (i.e. the split head on my Microman Chun Li) but only time will actually address that.
One of the key selling points of the One:12 line are the tailored outfits that the characters wear. Wonder Woman, unfortunately, really only has fabric skirt, and as such, much like the Hot Toys version, her armour is a moulded and painted piece of plastic.
The bracers and her leather strap are separate pieces, which is nice. I couldn't find any instructions included with my figure, so I'm guessing they never made a way for you to actually strap the shield and her sword to her back.
Her lassos are functional, though to be honest i didn't play around with the uncoiled one at all.
The box proclaims over 30 points of articulation. I didn't bother counting them because my point is this - it certainly didn't feel like there were that many. Her outfit effectively removes the waist as a point of articulation, nor are there any any ab crunch options. Shoulders do not collapse, which basically makes doing the cross armed pose impossible. Legs can at most be raised 90 degrees from a vertical position thus making kneeling poses with the figure very unnatural looking. Similarly, crossing her legs isn't happening either, making more stylish or elegant poses very hard to pull off. Thigh swivel joints are quite unsightly.
Now that I think about it, the elbows didn't bend more than 90 degrees either.
All in all, the various other high end 1/12 ish Wonder Woman figures offer better articulation than this one. I'm hoping this body is not the base one used for their various figures, but rather like the Hot Toys seamless body, one they developed specifically for Wonder Woman. But looking at preview pictures for all of the other One:12, articulation may be limited like this for all of their product.
While we're on the subject, if this is a custom body, then Mezco needs to improve the silhouette a bit, and really improve their game on the muscle tone, particularly on the arms and her back.
We now come to one of the greatest points of controversy for this figure, the face/head. From what I have read, release of this figure was significantly delayed due to Mezco fiddling with the heads, and many accounts I read said the final product was a marked improvement over the prototypes. Some even claim that the sculpt looks exactly like Gal Gadot.
Hence "This is not actually Gal Gadot".
No matter which way I stare at it, I honestly don't see any aspect of her at all in any of these, and still stick with my original analysis of "she looks like Olivia Munn".
Another hot topic is "why the hell does she look like she has chipmunk cheeks?". Several factors.
First off, to my eye, the base of the back of the neck for the default head sculpt is way too thick, and as such, this serves to widen her already problematic face. To my eye, the back of the neck on the alternate sculpt (one where she has no bangs) is slimmer in this area which helps to given a more streamline look.
Secondly, the sculptors really didn't emphasize her cheek bones that well. It's there, but you really need to have the light shining the right way for them to appear. Because these cheek bones are not emphasized, her jaw looks like a continuation of a blob that starts from her forehead. I also feel a dash of contouring paint apps would have helped with this issue, and allowed for easier photographs.
Sculpting of the hair is pretty good, but I think they missed an opportunity to have one sculpt feature a head of hair that is blowing sideways as opposed to having one that is all behind her head.
So that was my first foray into the One:12 line. A bit of a mixed bag, with my real disappointment being the surprisingly limited articulation, particularly given what Figma, Figuarts, and Mafex figures can do at a slightly smaller size. I'm going to wait for Hela to tell me how good their tailored costumes are, and hopefully see why people are highly excited about these products.
Actually, I was trying to get some sort of flight shot of a Bluebird. Right idea, wrong color.
This male has been hanging around the yard for a couple of years. He has been a good friend for a long time. He is pretty easy to pick out by his bad left foot. Only one claw, and pretty useless for supporting his weight. None the less, he has raised a bunch of baby Cardinals and carries on like a trouper. I guess, since he's old, he flies really slow, so he's easier to photograph :-)
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... I guess a few people have wondered where I've been the past few days and so I'll confess. When I tell you about movies or anything else, I do it for me as much as for you, knowing you have every right to delete me and move on. You should do whatever you're moved to do and that's exactly what I'm doing. If you're going to love your neighbor, for which your neighbor will be eternally grateful, it's high time you settled in and learned to love yourself, so you'll have some guidelines for future neighborly action. I make no apologies for my Flickrsite being all about me ... that's what the word ME means. Without the ME you couldn't even make the word MEANING. Surely that means something, then again, maybe not.
I set out to give you a review of the movie LOVE ACTUALLY and what a movie it is. Wikipedia will tell you, it's the incorporation of ten different stories involving love of all sorts, but involving people who are all connected, even if loosely. I got carried away researching the film and here's what I've been doing the past week.
I watched the movie and fell in love with it. I went back and watched the bonus materials, the deleted scenes, the documentary on music, and then I re-watched the movie with the director and several of the leading performers doing a commentary as the movie moved along. That was exciting and I learned a lot of trivia. Trivia always captures my fancy and my fancy is very difficult to capture. Then, of course I picked up trivia of my own.
The first piece of trivia I picked up on was in one of the stories involving an unsuccessful young English stud who believes he'll be much more appreciated by American girls, so flies to Milwaukee where girls in a local bar go gaga over him and his brittle English accent. Three girls take him into their apartment and then go back to England with him at the end of his vacation. Here's the little gem of trivia ... one of those girls is Betty Draper, remember Don Draper, star of Mad Men? What a trollop that lady has turned into. You fans of Mad Men will want to look for her. As she talks she does that magic thing with her eyes, shutting them at key words in her sentencing and looking down and then back up at her subject. In the commentary, the director even told the others to watch what she does with her eyes. It's s small world, I never expected to see Betty in Wisconsin.
Then the big trivia popped up in the form of Heike Makatsch, Harry's secretary who makes passes at him around Christmas time. She is a doppleganger for my granddaughter, Ashley. I may be a month doing this review, at this rate. After watching the reviewed movie, I went back and watched it again to get the sequences straight in my mind. This image is two pictures of Ashley on the left and two of Heike on the right and me in the center, since I'm a part of this transaction also. I've explained that already...Love your neighbor, include yourself remember? I'm anxious to hear what Ashley thinks about this look-a-like who turned up in Love Actually and if my daughter and sons will agree they are phenomenally similar in appearance, or is it just me seeing some vision of my own ... More later.
This from Wikipedia ...
Harry, Karen, and Mia ... Harry (Alan Rickman) is the managing director of a design agency. Mia (Heike Makatsch), his new secretary, clearly has sexual feelings for him. His nascent mid-life crisis allows him tentatively to welcome her attention, and for Christmas he buys her an expensive necklace from jewellery salesman Rufus (Rowan Atkinson), who takes a very long time adding ever more elaborate wrapping while Harry becomes increasingly nervous with the fear of detection. Meanwhile, Harry's wife Karen (Emma Thompson) is busy dealing with their children, Daisy (Lulu Popplewell) and Bernard (William Wadham), who are appearing in the school Nativity, her brother David, a politician who just became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and her friend Daniel, who has just lost his wife. Karen discovers the necklace in Harry's coat pocket and assumes it is a gift for her, only to be given the CD Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now to "continue [Karen's] emotional education", as Harry puts it, instead. She then believes Harry is having an affair with Mia (having earlier noticed how closely they were dancing together at their office party), and briefly breaks down alone in her bedroom before composing herself to attend the children's play with her husband. Following the play, Karen confronts Harry over the necklace, who admits, "I am so in the wrong - a classic fool", to which Karen replies: "Yes, but you've also made a fool out of me - you've made the life I lead foolish too", before blinking back tears and enthusiastically congratulating their children. As for Mia, she is shown smiling while trying on the necklace.
Here's the link to Love Actually on Wikipedia ...
Actually it's the State Game Lodge at Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Quite an historic place and a nice spot for dinner and/or cocktails, you can read more about it here:
www.custerresorts.com/plan-your-trip/state-game-lodge
I mention it because The Sturgis Rally is drawing near. I generally attend for business reasons, but I leave the town and the hoards of barbarians attending the rally as soon as I'm able and head for these hills--and some of the most scenic motorcycle touring roads in the country. Not a done deal yet for this year, but keeping my fingers crossed!
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Actually, it's not mine, thankfully. i was walking on Sunset Blvd with luluphoto and her hubby, telling them about the new iPhone I had just ordered when Lulu's hubby looks down and says, "Someone need an iPhone?" Crazy. It was just sitting on the curb. I think they're going to return it to Apple to see if they can locate the rightful owner. I only had time for a quick snap-- maybe Lulu will make some other 'art' with it. Although she was handling it with a paper towel like she had just picked up a dead mouse. ;) Germaphobe.
Actually it's Ashbridges Bay...Lake Ontario...Ontario......Canada ....Planet Earth....our home, third planet from the Sun. A beautiful blue and white ball when seen from space , it is the largest of the inner planets.
Earth is the only planet known to support life and to have liquid water at the surface.
I was actually sitting outside at McGettigan's pub in JLT, when I first heard and later saw Mike. When I got closer to his "stage" I gestured if it was OK to photograph and he indicated it was OK. Between songs he asked if this was for a magazine and which song would be best for photography. In the end I suggested something from Neil Young and he played "Heart of Gold". Excellent!
In between sets we talked a little and I indicated I sometimes photographed strangers and published my work on Flickr and loved live music. I doubt if I fully explained the 100 strangers project but we continued to talk about him getting live acts into Dubai and the hurdles one was required to take.
In his next set Mike played a great rendition of Billy Joel's "Piano Man", which I thought was an interesting choice.
Mike if you see this, contact me if you like the reuslt, I would love to do a more substantial session on a gig with you.
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
EF100mm f/2 USM
Æ’/2.0
100.0 mm
1/50s
ISO 3200
Flash (off, did not fire)
This picture is #30 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page.
Actually today the sun was shining ...and the weather was sweet°°° Horray!
This pic was taken some days before when it really rained and rained and rained ^^
Hope i´ll load up some summer - sun shots soon :)
Jason actually lost 60lbs in a year before he came to me but then stalled for 10 months. (Picture on left.)
Above are the pictures from our two months working together. Full interview here: wp.me/p1H4CG-vG
...actually I forgot to add my Lumix DMC-TZ70 camera, so there is one camera missing and I had to use my Nikon D90 for the shot ;)
From left;
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 12-50mm f/3,5-6,3 EZ
Sigma 60mm f/2,8 DN
Sigma 30mm f/2,8 EX DN
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 45mm f/1,8
Lumix G Vario 14-140mm f/3,5-5,6
Lumix G Vario 7-14mm f/4
Olympus OM-D E-M5 body
Lumix DMC-G5 body
Lumix DMC-GM1 with Lumix G Vario 12-32mm f/3,5-5,6 and grip
Lumix DMC-GH3 body
Lumix DMC-GM5 with Lumix G Vario 12-32mm f/3,5-5,6 and grip
Lumix DMC-GX7 body
Lumix G Vario 45-200mm f/4-5,6
Lumix G X Vario 35-100mm f/2,8
Lumix G X Vario 12-35mm f/2,8
Lumix G Vario 100-300mm f/4-5,6
Lumix G 20mm f/1,7 II
Lumix G 14mm f/2,5
Lumix G Fisheye 8mm f/3,5 (missing in the photo)
Lumix G Macro 30mm f/2,8 (missing in the photo)
Lumix G 42,5mm f1,7 (missing in the photo)
Actually, this is what I'm calling bumper art: abstracts on vehicle bumpers created by deterioration of sorts. Camarillo, California
They actually have an incredible summer in Mammoth Lakes, but since it starts snowing in October and you can typically ski until July, it always seems to be winter there to me. One of my favorite places on earth. This shot is of the entrance to our condo over this year's Christmas holiday.
Actually the door to the outhouse.
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i actually took some different shots today too... and i actually made it outside today...all the way to the east bay even. wow.
but figured i might as well finish up flower week properly with this. little dude made it in for the last day of school. these poppies are in some very cool planter boxes made by a parent.. out in the yard. a little bit of green for the kiddos .. which is fab. most of the yard is concrete and chain link fence.. with colorful murals here and there. pretty common for most of the public sf schools. a bit run down to say the least.
This is actually a headshot I did for the daughter of a model I know. It came out very nice, I really like how the color grading went.
I used 3 yn 560iii's. One camera left fired into a gold parabolic - in front of model. One camera right, also in front of model, fired into a tiny softbox - the last was also camera right, behind the model - fired into a gold parabolic.