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Topsail Beach, North Carolina, USA

before the ferocious winds came...

 

the calm afterwards

Fellow photographers. Don’t ever sit on a garbage bag on a steep snowy bank. I made this mistake and went hurtling down the slope with the leg of my tripod in one hand until I was able to grab onto a tree trunk. Also don’t breathe over your filter in -15 temperatures or you’ll have to defrost that filter up your jumper and you’ll still get fogging which is what happened here.

"I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go ahead and be one.”

~Calamity Jane

She once shot a man for walking across her shadow.

 

SL Teej into SD

 

Platform: Stable Diffusion Automatic 1.1.1.1

Model: realisticVision13

Used Dreambooth to train the model on SL pics of Teej.

  

Nikon F100 : Nikkor AF 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6D : Arista EDU Ultra 100 : PMK Pyro

Fitted mesh outfit with texture HUD ( 149 textures ) for Maitreya, LaraX, Legacy ( Classic ), Gen.X ( Classic & Curvy ), Ebody ( Reborn & Waifu ) & Kupra ( Original )

 

.:: Hanatsumi ::. Romina

 

Fitted mesh boots with texture HUD ( 129 textures ) for Maitreya, LaraX, Legacy ( Classic ), Gen.X ( Classic & Curvy ), Ebody ( Reborn ) & Kupra ( Original ).

 

- Landmark: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/My%20Pleasure/32/16/3000

- Marketplace : marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/223503

This was the May showing - Thursday was unfortunately a very different story.

 

My alerts were brewing all week but we have had horrendous cloud cover down here. I knew Thursday looked promising so I drove to Hatchet Pond. The app was going mad but there was just a wall of thick cloud. I should have just been more patient and stayed put but instead I drove home thinking I would go back out if it improved. Test shots from my back garden started to show something so I decided to head back out.

 

I won't go into details but a driving mishap put paid to the venture. The main thing is no-one was hurt.

 

My husband keeps saying you have got the Northern lights.. why do you need to photograph them again?

 

He doesn't get it!

 

It was only later that night, back at base that I realised Icelandic lightning had struck twice. Not in the form of a thunderstorm, more’s the pity - the light would have been a gazillion times more exciting. Last time I found myself unwittingly shooting in jpeg mode, my camera had suffered a midnight malfunction more than three years earlier at Aldeyjarfoss. Happily, I’d already taken the shots I needed, as in frustration I went to the total reset option, but what I’d forgotten was that the resulting default setting ignores RAW mode completely. Which seems crazy for a so-called professional camera. It was only as I stood on a completely overcast beach at Stokksnes thirty-six hours later that I suddenly noticed I’d been shooting jpegs. For a moment I’ll leave you to imagine the language. It’s a good job not many people had bothered to try and photograph the invisible Vestrahorn that day.

 

This time it wasn’t so much absentmindedness as good old fashioned incompetence that had knocked on the door of disaster at the enchanting, yet challenging to photograph Brúarfoss. You see, most of the time it matters little that one external memory slot contains a thirty-two gigabyte CF card while the other holds an SD card with four times the capacity. After all, most of the time I don’t come close to filling either card, and so every image is faithfully recorded onto two separate storage devices. Ideal if one fails. Full marks to the manufacturer. I inherited the CF card, courtesy of the previous camera I’d owned - yes the one that wobbled at Aldeyjarfoss three years ago. And while thirty-two gigabytes was once more than adequate, things have moved on - especially if you remember to shoot in RAW mode. But CF cards are expensive, and I like holidays. It’s not going to be a priority item anytime soon.

 

This time, only four days into the trip, the CF card was already full and the camera was complaining. And faced with the need for a quick solution in a hurry, it seemed I’d chosen the wrong option. Twice. For a while all images were recorded in both formats, and then when another urgent message appeared on the screen which refused to go until I’d pushed some more buttons, both cards resorted to jpeg only. All of which had happened at one of those roadside stops earlier in the day. In my head I still hear the famous five words that Ali so often deploys for more important moments than this, such as when the washing machine has broken down again - “should have read the manual.” And Brúarfoss, with its intricately pretty glacier blue waterfall was the casualty. In fact I’ve spent so many column inches rattling on about storage media that I’ve neglected to talk about the waterfall, which despite all of the challenges, was an aquamarine gem. I’ll have to post a second story from here, with another image edited from a jpeg. I won’t mention any of this again, I promise.

 

By the time I got home from this second Iceland adventure, I’d taken almost two thousand exposures, enough to fill that CF card almost four times, yet the SD card was still happily swallowing each new image. And just to attach the proverbial braces to the already belted trousers, each night I downloaded everything onto an even bigger external hard drive, before uploading it all into my online storage cloud too. At least something on the technical side seemed to be working properly. After the trip I even retired that SD card with all of the images still stored on it. Just in case. It lives in an untouched drawer.

 

All of this has prompted me to check current prices for CF cards, and as usual the online results include a bucketful of products I didn’t ask to see. Among them an adapter to put an SD card into a CF card slot. Now why didn’t I think of that before? I’m just going to stop here a moment and bang my head on the desk to see if any common sense manages to creep in through the gaps between my ears. Then I’ll write a story about Brúarfoss. It deserves a bit of lyrical waxing after this sorry tale of operational oversight.

 

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NEW! Hat, Hair & Earrings: S-Club - Susan (Anthem)

Head: Genus Project - Baby Face W002

Skin: Boataom - Yoonah

Lashes: Michan - Lala

Eyes: Avi-Glam - Angelic

Lipstick: IDTTY Faces - PussyCat (Cosmopolitan)

Scarf: Ghee - Dottie

Top: adorsy - Electra Denim

 

Sköll for Anthem Event

February 3rd.

Taxi: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Anthem/131/128/1107

 

Calamity corsé.

 

+Rigged for Reborn / Legacy.

+Available to purchase by color or fatpack.

+Top included with each corsé color, 3 colors, 3 bloody versions.

+Show/hide option for the top.

+Custom HUD for the corsé body and seams with all the colors as fatpack exclusive.

The Calamity blood layers will be available at the event only for 50L (Yes this is the bloody layers from the Countess set, updated for EVOX)

 

PLEASE try the demo before your purchase.

Featuring Aii The Ugly & Beautiful // Miss Black

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↳ Aii - Devoura Tail @ Warehouse Sale

Taxi maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rotten/127/109/23

↳ Aii - NightEmber Horns

↳ Aii - Lily Archdevil

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aii/159/136/1525

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↳ Miss Black - Gemini @ Sabbath Event

Taxi maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SABBATH/207/124/28

Nearly done, needs a stand and some ruined castle in heaps at it's feet.

Dear God, calamity again! ...

It was so peaceful, so serene;

We but began to break the chains

That bind our folk in slavery ...

When halt! ... Again the people's blood

Is streaming! Like rapacious dogs

About a bone, the royal thugs

Are at each other's throat again.

 

Taras Shevchenko - 'Calamity again'.

Translated by John Weir

Explored 7/27/2019

Bicton Botanical Gardens Cactus House has some flowering exhibits - rather nice I thought....

Calamity new @ the mainstore ♥

CP 5960 helps power Rocky Mountaineer's P610 as they negotiate the curves near Calamity Tunnel on CP's Cascade Sub.

Glasgow; 08.04.19

Leica MP; 35mm Summicron; Delta 100

Calamity Song - The Decemberists

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJpfK7l404I

 

Had a dream

You and me and the war of the end-times

And I believe

California succumbed to the fault line

We heaved relief

As scores of innocents died

 

And the Andalusian tribes

Setting the lay of Nebraska alight

'Til all that remain is the arms of the angels

 

Hetty Green

Queen of supply-side bonhomie bone-drab

You know what I mean

On the road

It's well advised that you follow your own bag

In the year of the chewable Ambien tab

 

And the Panamanian child

Stands at the Dowager Empress's side

And all that remain is the arms of the angels

And all that remain is the arms of the angels

 

And you've receded into loam

And they're picking at your bones

We'll come home

We'll come home

 

Quiet now

Will we gather to conjure the rain down?

Will we now

Build a civilization below ground?

And I'll be crowned the community kick-it-around

 

And the Andalusian tribes

Setting the lay of Nebraska alight

'Til all that remain is the arms of the angels

'Til all that remain is the arms of the angels

Back when boys were boys and girls were Calamity Jane's

Happy Halloween! Or not.

 

Credits Fashion ColLecker

NEED WE SAY MORE---HEEEEE

First post-BrickFair MOC... Having been pulled out of the back of a car at an undisclosed location, Indiana Jones finds himself attempting to find a specific box for Irina Spalko in a warehouse full of similar-looking crates. Upon having retrieved the box, Indy makes an untimely escape, which requires his quick agility and a talent of running on rafters suspended over a concrete floor while being shot at. Safe, right?

 

Lots of interesting techniques went into the making of the jeep that you see here in the picture. I made a collage of the techniques that you can view here: www.flickr.com/gp/john_klapheke/4k6u46

 

Also, a shoutout to Brian Williams whose Indiana Jones Area 51 MOC served as a great guideline and source of inspiration for this model. And as usual a big thank you to the Harry Potter builders for their unwavering inspiration.

so i totally wasn't smacking savana across the face :)

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