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My New Year project is now underway. Studio work...lots of it. I'm using this first-processed Christmas Collectibles image to explain what will be happening. This, for the four or five who will read this.
I anticipate a large number of Christmas items will be photographed. Have already done so with a couple of dozen. I'll process each one to my own individualized standard. Then I'll add them to my photostream so that I can get them into a special album.
Most won't want to look at Christmas images in February and March. I can't upload directly to album though, so must upload to stream. This means that anyone following me will see up to five uploads at a time. Because of that I'll wait until I have quite a number of the photos completed, and then upload all at once. I'll add them to the Christmas Collectibles album, and then batch alter the date taken so that they don't sit at the top of the stream.
There is no need to interact with any of these, and I'm not soliciting comments or faves. It's just the necessary procedure to get the photos into that album for various future uses.
After the Christmas items there will be several more additional categories and types of studio photos, large numbers of each. It is just me doing what I do.
This Carmichael airfield crashtender Range Rover conversion turned up at the farm I worked at to buy some spuds. Not that that was unusual enough, it was driven by a little old lady! Not any old lady though, my boss knew her and told me she owned her own vintage plane and airstrip, was a demolition and explosives expert who at one time trained the SAS.
~ Meet Betty, the adorable vintage deer from the 1960s whom I found on Etsy! She came home today and I snapped this shot of her. I don't usually collect vintage, but I have a thing for these cute deers!
I hope you like her ^_^
In other news, I have just paid the ransom fees for the two FL beauties I ordered in October, and they will be home on Monday (and will hopefully go to the spa shortly after, when I can afford them to!)....
Only 3 days to go to Xmas ;)
A small bee that specializes in collecting oil along with pollen and probably some nectar from plants in the genus Lysimachia, the loosestrife's (but not the invasive garden loosestrife or purple loosestrife). These bees are now very uncommon, probably due to declines in the plants that they forage from and also perhaps due to the fact that there are fewer people collecting and looking at bees than there were 100 years ago. This particular one was collected by Brianne Du Clos in Maine. Photography by Dejen Mengis.
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Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need to know
" Ode on a Grecian Urn"
John Keats
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Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World
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Basic USGSBIML set up:
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USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
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PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
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Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
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Two lover than can never be together catch a longing glance from the other in this sleepy old west town.
This is the sixth of my collectible minifigure scenes, and the first to combine two figures. They just went together so well. Inspirational credit for the buildings goes to Legohaulic.
Enjoy!
Yup, I collect AC8's. Read the notes as to what colors they are. I have duplicates of some of these, but these are all the different types/patterns I have.
ANY AC8 NOT SHOWN HERE IS WANTED. (Besides Cobalt or Tan).
Enjoy.
Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) - Musée des beaux-arts - Collection Daum - Vase "Blé et cigale" (1905).
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Verre soufflé-moulé, gravé à l'acide et à la roue, peint à l'émail, rehaussé d'or, applications. Anse en application.
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Collectif La Bohème
Concert au Festival " CIRQ'UM TERRESTRE" / Avril 2016
Toute la série... ICI...
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I honestly don't know why this made it into the final cut. Maybe because it looks unique? But it's honestly quite a mess of parts with a mundane color scheme and just too tall.
I captured this little guy by the lake at our campsite in Black Mountain, NC. There were dragon flies everywhere! I'll be posting some more later. Thanks to Gary for the ID: Blue Dasher.
Bes collecting pollen from dog roses taken on a recent macro safari
An ID on these bees would be good. Possibly a Lassioglossum SP
1er Mai 2016...Manifestation Ă Cubzac-les-Ponts...
4000 personnes selon les manifestants, 6 selon les chiffres de la Préfecture de Blaye...
Stamps are fascinating, they are little masterpieces of art, to me it is always stunning to see how the artist has implemented a given motif to a minimal space, as it is possible to make the "message" clear and understandable. By the way, you can learn a lot if you look in detail with the background.
So why not use these little marvels otherwise, eg for vintage - Jewelry?
67018 'Keith Heller' waits clearence outside Platform 2 London Victoria before motoring down to collect the British Pullman ECS and Loco.
Dave has numerous hobbies, and here you can see him collecting ticks in the Pine Barrens. He later asked me to ID one he pulled out of his hair, but aside from saying, "Yup, it's one of the blood sucking kind.", I'm afraid I let him down. :{(
Dave's shirt is not usually black like that, but at 90 something and 80+% humidity, we were both pretty much soaking wet (note the sand sticking to his shirt that he picked up rolling around in the dirt looking for those nice low angle tick captures.
Good thing we're back in an AC environment, since I've heard triple digits may be in store for us the next coupla days, and I'm now wondering why dah heck I left Florida!!!
Re: Composition
Dah Wife (art major) pointed out that Dave was dead center in this composition, but I defended my choices by saying he was very much alive in this rule of thirds composition with Dave being 1 third of the image, and the leaves and grass the other 2 thirds.
Works for me! :{)
The rent man has turned up in his Vauxhall Viva - and Mrs Tattle is about to negotiate.
Cobbled Streets diorama home made.
1:76 Scale, OO Gauge.
Diecast car is by Corgi Trackside.
The rise of the kidult is undoubtedly linked to the pressures of modern living. We spend our waking hours juggling professional and personal responsibilities. Is it any surprise that, after a hard day walking multiple tight-ropes at once, we should seek to unwind by connecting with our inner child? In a world that feels as if it is all work and no play, toys are a reminder of simpler times.
"The trend for people aged 18 plus buying toys for themselves is possibly a reaction against the stresses of our fast-paced lives," said Frederique Tutt of NDP Group, the market researchers behind the new study. "Toys are fun - and when you are having fun any stress you might be feeling goes away. It makes perfect sense."
The rise of fan culture is an additional factor. Thirty years ago, a person declaring themselves a hardcore Star Wars devotee would have been rewarded with baffled shrugs. Today, the Force is very much with fully-grown kidults. Of course, adults aren't simply collecting toys. They are playing with them too. Whether it be a LEGO collectible kit received as a non-ironic 25th birthday present or a Silkstone Barbie, there is evidence that millennials - who account for 50pc of the grown up toy market - have, in particular, gone the 'full kidult'.
And with the market expanding at three times the rate of the one for children, it's clear that ever greater numbers are embracing their inner child. In an increasingly stressful world, the freedom offered by play has never been more important. By Ed Power, April, 2017.