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Michelle or Barack?
A little bedtime reading and The Child can't decide between Michelle Obama (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Obama) or Barack - Potus 44 - (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama) Obama.
Diorama by (retired) Ken Haseltine of Regent Miniatures. Hot Toy figures (The Mandalorian and The Child Deluxe Set), from www.sideshow.com/. Darth Vader Snow Globe (45 mm) find from www.hobbylobby.com.
Amazing Star Wars sheets from etsy seller DAY DREAMERS By Jana at www.etsy.com/shop/DAYDREAMERSByJana.
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Note: It's tricky taking a photo with a snow globe, you gotta shake that globe than grab the camera quickly and get the shot before it's done being active. Not easy..
Week 1 for 52 weeks
This ones been bouncing around inside my head for weeks, and i finally got round to making it happen, still not entirely happy with it, but it was great fun to make,
The pop up book of nightmares is a real book, one of the many treasures in my collection.
I love books dearly and have collected many weird and wonderful specimens through the years
This was my first saunter into creative lighting, i used my swivel lamp with a daylight bulb, attached to a spare tripod and a tube of cardboard to create a spot light positioned it at an angle directed down towards me. worked OK,
who needs thousands of pounds of lighting equipment...........well me.... but this will do for now.
If you decide to comment... thank you very much but please i would prefer an insight or opinion rather then just some groups flashy soulless Giff,
after all I'm interested in what people think of my work not digital awards
just a note: everyone seems to like the veins in my arm's, this was not intentional but a side effect of the processing i used, i work out allot and after repeatedly sitting under a hot light and and holding the book as tight as i could to reduce movement (low shutter speed) they came out of there own accord i think their pretty gross but it seems to work in this image
I wasted a lot of time today trying to fix an email problem. After 4+ hours of troubleshooting, it all came down to 1 stupid checkbox that needed to be marked. Why this suddenly became an issue at 1:00 this afternoon is still a mystery, but my kids were off of school today and instead of spending that time playing with them, I wasted it on this darn machine!
I felt just awful and apologized like crazy as I tucked them into bed tonight. Priorities Kelly...
This is my latest bedside book that i`m reading.Its called A Centuary of creepy stories. One thousand and seventy eight pages of ghost stories published in 1934. There are some fabulous authors associated with the genre. Amongst others are Arthur Machen, Oliver Onions, M.R.James, E.F, Benson,Algernon Blackwood. etc; One of my particular favourites is a story called Crewe, by Walter De La Mare;
If you like railways and ghosts, then this is for you. The opening lines go like this. " When misty winter dusk begins to settle on the railway station at Crewe the wating-room grows steadily more stagnant. Particularly if one is alone in it."
Chronicle Of Vital Individual Distancing, day 38.
“Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939)
Respectfully presented in the ‘light and the half-light’ of my bedside table.
I'm deep into Daniel James Brown's book "Facing the Mountain: The True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II". This book is our town's "city read" this year.
I was the girl who passed out at the mention of blood in Biology class when I was at school, so I'm finding it hard going doing the necessary research into reconstructive surgery, it just makes me feel feint and sick. I do, however, know that I must shed the extra pounds gained through steriods and all the other drugs I've had over the past 18 months so that I'm in good shape for if/when I decide to go for surgery. I'm not looking forward to it, but hey, that's a story for another photo (and I promise it won't be a gore-fest!).
nyla likes having a book read to her at bedtime. Only today, she decided to read a book to herself on the bed. Well, a magazine really - and a Japanese one at that. But there were tons of pictures of babies so she loved it. She knows the abc song and about half of the letters, but hasn't even begun to start on the Japanese characters... (sorry, forgot to mention that this is from odc's "part of the full picture" theme)
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My first street scene / b&w / combo shot ever
We didn't have too early a start, as our daughter had the Health Visitor there for a visit until 10am. We had a good day together, with our toddler granddaughter enjoying playing with the Duplo bricks and animals and people, and going to the park with us, her mum & her baby sister.
In the evening, Mike & I watched the film The Next 3 Days, which we enjoyed. As it was on Netflix, we could watch straight after our meal, and I could get an early night. I'm enjoying reading Michelle Obama's autobiography at the moment. I'm not a great fan of biographies, generally, but I'm enjoying this one. I still find it hard - no, impossible - to understand how a majority of people could vote for Donald Trump, having had such an intelligent, polite, witty, well-read, caring statesman as Obama as president!
365:139
Since I decided to race my first race this summer rather than next I have become ever so slightly obsessed. Paranoid. Scared. Freaked out. You can call it what you like.
I have two friends that tell me often that it's good to do things that scare you. It would be really good if they turn out to be right.
05/19/09
(267/365)
A couple of weeks ago, a little less than a week before the series finale, I found the web-series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. It's a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice (and quite well done, fun, and funny).
The series ended last week, and I started to read the book on Kindle, but the free classic version's formatting had some attributes that began to annoy me (ALL CAPS instead of italics, being one, and some paragraph-break wonkiness). So, of course, I dug out my paperback copy, which I've had since junior year of college when I took a class entirely about Jane Austen. Before that class, I had tried to read Pride and Prejudice once on my own during high school, but dropped it to read other things that I found more interesting. The professor I had for the Jane Austen class, though, was one of my favorite professors, and she had such a passion for Austen's novels she persuaded me into taking the class. (I had to take an author-centric class for my major, hadn't done it yet, and Austen went well with my unintentional emphasis in Brit Lit.)
Least to say, during the course of that class I fell in love with Pride and Prejudice (and Mr. Darcy, of course, haha), and really enjoyed Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion. (Mansfield Park had a slow beginning for me, but I liked it as it went along, and Emma was most decidedly my least favorite, probably because the titular character annoyed--and still annoys--me.) I usually end up rereading Pride and Prejudice every year, and every time I'm somewhat surprised to find that I'm not sick of it, and also that there are things I didn't pay much mind to before or had forgotten about it. I love how some books are like that.
(And I forgot to take a picture Wednesday, so this is one of two I took to make up for it.)
My days of going out for fun and games in the evenings are long gone. Now, I’m happiest with an early night and a good book!
Work came through. I will be engaging in serious webby geek behaviour while I'm all on my lonesome
A beer to anyone who can tell me the origin of that phrase
A Children's Story Book (Illustrated) about a rescue mission. The Badgers a girl called Rhea set off to rescue their farmyard friends from Fred the Fox.
Available at leading ebook stores.
Just what I need at the end of a stressful day.
The iPad2 for reading and the Gerber folding knife for... I just like to look at it.
it's been a long, extraordinarily hot, ridiculously steamy, apocalyptically rainy day. feeling all hot and manky, so no face shots today. bedtime now. i'm reading a kate atkinson novel on my sony reader. lately, my reading time has given way to my iphone solitaire addiction. making an effort to get back to reading.
Franco Nero gets in some bedtime reading alongside Vanessa Redgrave in this extremely rare still from “Un Tranquillo posto di campagna” aka “A Quiet Place in the Country.”
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One of the items I found in today´s shipment was THIS.
384 pages of "must have" racing equipment.
I will go to bed early tonight and I am glad that I will be on my own at the breakfast table tomorrow so I can behave as a totally antisocial carpart nutter, eating whilst reading and not talking.
Must remember the dogs though....
Now, here's a trick that my wife often plays ... reading with her eyes shut ... not asleep, no, not asleep ... definitely, not asleep ... turn the light out love
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Reading on bed is absolutely not a good habit, but I'm kinda addicting doing so. Part of the reasons - it helps me walking into sleep with imagination, all kinds of it.
This was a shot testing my newly acquired camera - Yashica Electro 35 GSN, a famous range finder with fixed lens "COLOR-Yashinon DX 1:1.7 f=45mm". The camera built with ISO setting dial on its body while an aperture control on its lens, no shutter settings can be touched, so I need to do the EV compensation by changing the ISO dial to manipulate the result I'm guessing with. It's a fun part along my testing.
I was surprised with the result of this trial, the lens of Yashica Electro 35 GSN RF could actually render a sharp image for sure!
連動測矩老相機: Yashica Electro 35 GSN 試機
黑白底片: Fujifilm NEOPAN 400
Settings: F 8; ISO 250 (+ 2/3 EV)
(20100504_Neopan400_02:F8-ISO250-UV+Y)
A shot before the camera started rolling on an under the bedcovers shot of Lewis (the main character) reading.
Taken on the set of 'The Confession', a graduation short film at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield.
Prod: Emily Williams
Dir: Tanel Toom
DOP: Davide Cinzi
If The Hungry Caterpillar is good enough for George W Bush then by damn it's good enough for my daughter
Poorly sick today - spent most of the day on the sofa and failed to take any photos until bedtime.
Some high brow reading here - 'Make Me' by Lee Child ;)
Nearly midnight on the day I almost forgot to take a daily picture. 3 April 2012 using smc Pentax-A 50mm f1.7 lens.
...from me - to me!
Still feeling a tad under par, I spotted these pretty pink jelly beans in a heart-shaped perspex box whilst shopping after work tonight, and thought that perhaps I deserved a wee treat-ette to enjoy when I curl up with my book and a coffee tonight!
Day 56 : 365
Tonight's read
If you haven't read a Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich, you are missing out!
I've always passed up these "mass market" grocery story paperbacks. But then I saw the movie, One for the Money, which is book 1 in the series. A friend recommended the books. They are well written with great character development. Not to mentioned, funny. A hoot and a half! This woman can NOT keep a car! Her bounty hunter skills are well, lacking. Her ex-street walking side kick is a fashion statement of her own, and her Grandmother is pure *trouble*!
"Going out with your grandma's enough to kill anyone."
You will be snort laughing out loud!