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Macro Mondays
- Hi everyone, currently I have little time and so I will restrict my commitment at Flickr, at least less uploads for some weeks. Thanks for your ongoing support and kind words. Hugs
So I set up the camera outside the stables, the parents are zooming in and out feeding the new fledglings (of which seem to be down to 4 now) it’s real hard, they are so quick, so out of about 500 phots,,,,, this one
There is a moment when all becomes still and life is just solely about the two people in that moment
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"She got blood cold as ice
And a heart made of stone
But she keeps me alive
She's the beast down on my bones
She gets everything she wants
When she gets me alone
Like it's nothin'
She got two little horns
And they get me a little bit"
~"Horns" by Bryce Fox
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☠ Face Tattoo: Nina's Tattoo - Halloween 10
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What I'm Wearing
☠ Body: Maitreya
☠ Head: LeLUTKA - Brannon head
☠ Knives and Wombs around Neck: AsteroidBox - Destroyer Knives - at FLF-O-Ween Event Oct 15 -Nov 1
☠ Lipstick: ITSOKTODIE - Drink Me - Red
☠ Bloody Hands: Cureless - Anointed Hands / Coagulated
☠ Hair: Exile - Erin
☠ Bandages knees: One2K - Scar Morgana
☠ Nails: L'Emporio & PL - Scripia Manent
☠ Tattoo - Vegas Tattoo - Renewal
Scene-
Taking at Elysion - Halloween Sim - The Omen (Must be a group member)
If you see a married couple still in love through the
years, you may think how lucky they are.
But in marital relations, there is no such thing as
luck.
They made many compromises, they overlooked each others faults.
They forgave many mistakes, and endured many problems.
They spent years learning to understand one another.
Love has never been a matter of luck, its a mutual giving
compromise, shared dreams, care, respect, mercy and patience.
*Thank you Adrian for sticking with this bag of bones for decades....I love the new home, I love the beautiful gardens you masterfully set down, and I love you.
*No landmark, taken at our new beautiful home!
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*Back Ground Texture from ANNA LEIBMAN
for now our children are being fashioned into commodities, if you don't believe me, just search the terms, "human capital"
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taken @ ROCHE
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Let’s Support UN Women's Orange the World: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
📅 November 25 - December 10
Join us in raising awareness and taking action to end gender-based violence. This global movement, led by UN Women, calls for collective action to stand up for the rights and dignity of every individual.
🌍This Year’s Theme:
Every 10 minutes a woman is killed. #NoExcuse. UNiTE to end violence against women.
🌍 Take Action:
- Educate yourself and others about gender-based violence.
- Show your support by wearing orange, posting on social media, and using the hashtag #OrangetheWorld.
- Advocate for policies that protect all people from violence and discrimination.
Together, we can create a world free from violence and discrimination. Let’s raise our voices and show our commitment to this important cause.
#OrangeTheWorld #16DaysOfActivism #EndGenderBasedViolence #SecondLifeActivism #SLForChange #SLSupportForWomen #OrangeTheWorldSL #GenderEqualityInSL #SLAgainstGBV #UniteAgainstViolence #SLForUNWomen #VirtualActivism #SLInclusion #EmpowerInSecondLife
True belonging is not passive. It's not the belonging that comes with just joining a group. It's not fitting in or pretending or selling out because it's safer. It's a practice that requires us to be vulnerable, get uncomfortable, and learn how to be present with people without sacrificing who we are.
Dr. Brené Brown
Belongingness entails an unwavering commitment to not simply tolerating and respecting difference, but to ensuring that all people are welcome and feel that they belong.
John A. Powell
Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Theresa, Saint Teresa of Calcutta
The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, update their status on the internet, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories
Paulo Coelho
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, ‘It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
Fred Rogers
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
When we choose to wonder about people we don’t know, when we imagine their lives and listen for their stories, we begin to expand the circle of those we see as part of us.
Valarie Kaur
We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference. We can never be too generous or too kind.
Marc Bekoff
I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life — whoever you are, whatever our differences.
John Denver
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, and stay safe! ❤️❤️❤️
Golden Native Drone Fly (Eristalinus (Lathyrophthalmus) punctulatus)
Have a happy FriYay and a ripper weekend everyone.
Due to other commitments I have not had much time today, I will catch up soon.
*Working Towards a Better World
The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating. - Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible
Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories. -
Buddy Valastro
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. - Paul Sweeney
Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality. - Julian Baggini
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
Source: The Wisdom of Heschel” -
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜
As a break from trains this is a macro study of a lily taken at home with studio lights.
Captured on an entry-level Hasselblad 501CM (plus extension tubes), it was a camera that became my go-to for 5 years before work commitments became onerous enough for me to pretty well give up photography altogether for 10 years.
I hung on to the Hasselblad gear for another fifteen years or so after this shot was taken, until it became evident that I'd become seduced by the convenience of digital and film would unlikely be used again. In truth I hanker after a film camera still, but realistically it would more likely be the 35mm Nikkormat FT2 of my relative youth ..... but who am I kidding!
Hasselblad 501CM + ext tubes, Fuji Velvia, studio flash.
4th March 2001
Because several family commitments and a lot of work these last few months I could not devote much time to get out and enjoy taking pictures.
This April I begin to share with you my new photographic objectives.
I hope you enjoy it.
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Heavens to Murgatroyd...! Work Commitments have kept me away for the last four or five days, so my apologies for the lack of Comments beneath your photos...!!!
This is still Pauatahanui Inlet, about 40 kilometres north west of Wellington New Zealand... After walking along the north-western edge of the Inlet on a well-formed (and level) track, it was rather pleasant just taking some "Time Out" to simply sit and admire the beauty of the Inlet on such a lovely morning. (What I didn't know was that the next day, the weather would change dramatically - for the worse!!!).
Although there were other craft anchored closer to where I was sitting, from what I could see of this vessel, it looked as if it had Character...In the background are some of the umpteen million Sheep that outnumber Humans by something like 6 to 1...!
(Left click the Mouse to view Large; click again to return to normal).
It's time for a break from birds! Yesterday I took a break from Flickr; this should be fun, not another chore. Between recent commitments and the need to get my garden planted asap due to our brief growing season, the past few weeks have been hectic.
But beyond that, I feel like I'm going a little stale as a photographer - so it's back to basics. And in my life, basic means black and white.
The prairie lends itself well to monochrome: such a simple, yet highly graphic landscape. To do it well, some deep looking is required. Essentially, I've had to get over the need to please people by photographing the prairie the way it's usually seen: hay bales against a sunset sky, for example. I've done that, but I know... well, I know it's been done. Done to death, perhaps. Flip through any calendar that has at least one prairie image and you'll find hay bales against a sunset sky, or if not that, maybe a combine in a wheat field. Nothing wrong with that. But the prairie offers a whole lot more. There must be different ways to see it!
Over the next few days I will offer some recent and some older black and white takes on the prairie, my prairie, starting with this view of some Trembling Aspens: a thick tangle of branches at the top, thread-thin trunks below, and in between, the seeping inky blackness of nightfall. There was barely enough light to focus. I resisted the temptation to process for detail - the camera's sensor captured a whole lot more than what's visible here - and instead tried to maintain the murky quality of the subject as I saw it in the gathering dark.
Photographed at Aspen Coulee in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2022 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
The humanly side of photography contains at least three elements:
subjectivity
creativity
human initiative
If you going to purchase a camera and lenses you should try to be a photographer; however, for some (photographers?) laziness replaces human initiative.
The first outing in my book "Ridgewalks in the Canadian Rockies, second edition” describes a long but rewarding day in Waterton Lakes National Park taking in Vimy Peak and Vimy Ridge to its east. This image from the townsite shows whitecaps on Upper Waterton Lake, an indication of typically windy Waterton weather, and the summit of Vimy Peak. The trip I describe takes trail and a bit of scrambling that lead to the top from behind the ridge to the left. Vimy Ridge lies directly behind the high point.
As mentioned, it’s a big commitment — involving some 35 km total distance and over 1000 metres of elevation gain and loss. If you have lots of energy and a long summer day, it’s well worth checking out.
I am the author of “Ridgewalks in the Canadian Rockies, second edition” -- for more info on the book and to order, please see www.alpinebookpeddlers.ca/?q=h.tviewer&using_sb=statu...
Through out the Azores, as one would expect, there are many historic Catholic Churches and most have interesting stories. The Church (Igreja) of Nossa Senhora dos Milagres located in the village of Serreta on the Island of Terceira is no exception. Although the current church building there was not constructed until the late 19th Century, the history of the Church and the Parish had its beginnings at the end of the 17th Century. Finding himself persecuted unfairly, Father Isidro Fagundes Machado took refuge in a slightly settled, remote area of Terceira Island called Queimado which is the area where the present-day village of Serreta is located. In fulfillment of a vow, after he arrived, Fr Machado erected a small chapel where he placed an image of Our Lady and a manger with the Child Jesus. As the priest’s reputation spread so did stories of miracles that came to those who visited the site. Many pilgrims came. Even after the Priest died they came to visit the statue (image) and ask for miracles. But the little church fell into disrepair and so did the small hermitage that followed.
The first commitment to rebuild a church in the Queimado area dates back to 1772, when the brothers of the Confraria dos Escravos de Nossa Senhora gathered in the Doze Ribeiras. At the time, it was agreed that the old Church of the Virgin should be rebuilt, in Serreta. However, work on the church only started in 1819, on the initiative of General Francisco António de Araújo, then appointed Captain General of the Azores. It was completed in 1842. The venerated image of the Christ Child and Our Lady again took up residence in the Church after being protected for our a hundred years in the church in Doze Ribeiras.
The 1842 Church was located across the road from the current church and was of a modest size. With a growing number of locals and pilgrims attending, the church’s size was soon insufficient. The building of the current church commenced in 1895 when the first stone was laid. The date on the outside of the church reads 1898 but the constuction schedule suffered interruptions due to lack of resources. The dedication finally took place in 1907. Like many buildings on Terceira, The January 1, 1980 earthquake badly damaged the building. The building was reconstructed but with the same design.
Commitment
GRIEF CAN TAKE CARE OF ITSELF, BUT TO GET THE FULL VALUE OF A JOY YOU
MUST HAVE SOMEBODY TO DIVID IT WITH.
mark twain (1835 - 1910 )
Family commitments have kept me away from photography (and Flickr) for most of the year and I am not sure that this will ease off . . .
I photographed this DLR Tunnel from a moving train one night after visiting my sister (she lives on the DLR route).
Sunday 21 June 2009; 2052 Hours
[Canon EOS 5D Mark 2 | ISO 1600 | 16mm | 0.8 seconds | F/6.3]
Work commitments were favourable enough for me to hang on at Farnborough for this, and I was very glad that I did! Celebrity pairing of 66522 and 66721 head the 6Y48 09:02 Eastleigh to Hoo Jn engineers. One Freightliner and one GBRf 66 working a Colas infrastructure train. Privatisation at its best? Wednesday the 28th of September 2016.
Dedicated Laysan albatross mates alternate parental duties taking turns sitting on the nest and foraging for food. Tending the nest can mean a commitment of up to two weeks or more before swapping duties and heading out to sea to feed. This Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) nest site was in the shade of a naio shrub on the sand dunes of Ka’ena Point.