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This is a wall.
The wall which stands in my mind.
Sometimes it can be the maze which keeps me away from my aim.
But it can be the force of my willpower.
So, that's me.
Hedera helix (English Ivy), photographed on Astrum Foto 100 film, processed in Xtol.
Camera used: a 1930s Kodak Retina I, type 126.
In the World Of Sense, of which everything changes instantaneously, there's a realm of Unchangeable, of which everything is constant.
The meeting of several channels in Botts Marsh, Wheeler, Oregon, at low tide.
Botts Marsh is stewarded by the Lower Nehalem Community Trust, in perpetuity. So these channels will persist and evolve as a natural habitat, providing shelter and feeding grounds for fish, birds, invertebrates, and the occasional mammal, into the unforeseeable future.
SHIPtember
One Month.
One SHIP.
One Hundred studs (plus).
Rules: Build SHIP must be 100 studs or longer between September 1st and October 1st. That's it!
How do I enter? Simple! Start building your SHIP starting on Sept 1st, and start posting WIP shots as you go so everyone can all praise your guts for building a SHIP in a month!
WIP and your final glory shots should be posted in the LEGO SHIP group:
www.flickr.com/groups/the-shipyard
What about [insert standard ship critiera]? We don't care, as long as it's a 100 studs [+] and you build it all in SHIPtember we'll be happy...
Though there will be Trophies for people that build a really good SHIP... ;)
Trophies?!?! Yup. Trophies. There will be a number of custom trophies that will be awarded in various categories. Categories will be Judged by a cabal of SHIPists who are not participating in the building (or will not be eligible for trophies/prizes). And there will also be a limited of Engraved/Printed Badges for participants
Engraved/Printed Badges!?!?. Yup, we got those covered too. What's a trophy without a nice engraved brick? And we got some extras for SHIP Builders, and maybe a few for non builders.
Wait? why are non builders getting prizes too? The way I see it, SHIP building doesn't have to be a solitary affair. It seems to be one of the few builds that people typically post WIP shots leading up to the final completed SHIP. Furthermore comments and critiques offered by the larger community may actually be incorporated into the final SHIP. So I'm hoping all builders and those that can't build will help encourage the courageous few who will be attempting to build a really cool SHIP in a month.
FAQ:
What is a SHIP? a S.H.I.P. is a Seriously Huge Investment in Parts and is at minimum 100 studs in length. Alternatively it has also been dubbed a S.eriously H.uge I.nvestement in T.ime...
What scale should the SHIP be? Any scale you want, Minifig, Micro, Frog, Chicken, whatever floats your SHIP - as long as it's 100+ studs.
Does it have to have an interior? It's up to you, It's not required, but definitely bonus marks if you do. Some contend that it's not a real SHIP without a kick butt interior.
Does it have to be swooshible? Again it's up to you. It's definitely high execution points if you do. But given the size and complexity of ships these days it may not be feasible for swooshing- especially given the time constraints. Short answer: no, longer answer - swooshing is fun.
What is the current record for the longest SHIP? I believe it's Adrian Drake's Tribunal at 487 studs... let's just say if someone can top that in SHIPtember, I have something very special in store for them.... not that it's a challenge... but I bet you can't do it.
100 studs in a month? that's easy! What else can I do to make this challenge actually hard? Well there Mr. or Ms. Overachiever - you can always make it BIGGER, or build a full interior, or make it swooshible, or add play features, or add motorized functions or all the above. You have one month... impress us.
What if I build a 1x100 stud ship? Then I will laugh and mock you till next SHIPtember and disqualify you for all the awesome trophies and prize(s).
It's August, why are you announcing this now? While you're not allowed to start building your SHIP till September, part of the SHIP building process is the preparation of building a SHIP, so we decided to give a one month 'sort/prep' lead time. So start mentally thinking of how you're going to make your SHIP / pre-cracklink.
Credit to Red Spacecat for awesome poster :)
Complexity. Image one hundred and thirty-three of my project 365. Just another corner of the University of Wisconsin Madison, Elizabeth Waters Residence Hall.
A series of 3 pictures that started by looking at a ceiling, in a subway station... Details:
www.ticklebear4u.com/2014/01/up-beyond-011365-days-40.html
:)
Varying complexity from foreground to back in four distinct layers. I was attracted straight away.
Close but not quite enough..
Complexity in life
Reason to live
"Autumn Leaves - Nat King Cole"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETQ-qi6oXi4
"Yang cantik tak selalu penawar,
Yang hodoh bukanlah racun"
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Welcome to Skin Fair 2026
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March 6th - March 16th
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Each store will showcase at least one new and exclusive skin or skin related item, featuring a diverse lineup of skin, body part and mod, makeup, hairbase and eyebrow, body deformer, tattoo, and eye, nail, and shape creators, and new this year: role-play products related to skincare, makeup, and similar beauty enhancements.
The Juniper Events and sponsor groups will have a 24 hour early access to the event
(9am on the 5th of March – 9am on the 6th of March)
You can join the Juniper Events Group (free to join), using the following link pasted into your browser:
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The Complexity limits of 100,000 will be enforced on the sims for the first few days to reduce the lag and give you a better shopping experience, please dress accordingly and detach any unnecessary attachments.
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I hate simple. Simple is boring. But with this picture/project I got so frustrated with its complexity, I nearly gave up.
Let's start with the bed: Shooting covers is hard, especially if all you want them to do is 'ripple' in relation to a large gust of wind. It's amazing how even a small move on a cover will appear ott as soon as you really scrutinize on your monitor, looking as if someone is actually in the bed. As a result, the first lot of cover shots were rubbish. All hopelessly dominating the frame and making the bed look scruffy. I reshot the covers the next day. And because it was at dusk, I resorted to a 30 second exposure at F5, ISO 500. To be honest, I wouldn't even be surprised if the corner of the bed which is turned up (due to a gust of wind obviously!) suddenly disappeared overnight either as I'm not entirely happy with it.
The curtains were shot with only natural light from outside. F13, and 0.5 exposure. A fan at the base provided the movement.
Agnes was lit with two strobes, one large octogon housing a Bowens GM200 at the lowest power setting, touching the ceiling. Another Bowens GM200 with grided snoot was pointing back at her head and situated behind her. This is where it gets interesting. I couldn't have got the two lights into the far left corner of the room (camera left), but they did fit neatly into the right corner. This image of Agnes is therefore horizontally flipped so that she appears with her head towards the pillow end of the bed. Settings for that shot: ISO 250, F4, 1/40th. We did try some shots of Agnes positioned the 'right way' round, and although they were fine, this was my winner for expression.
I mounted a small long step ladder on the slats under the mattress for her to rest on, and the image you see is just two shots, the secondary one, providing her hands. We used the same fan for Agnes' hair that was also used for the curtains..
I've been fortunate to have an article printed in Advanced Photographer this month in which I trumpeted the fact that you should try and keep all your settings the same for levitation pictures. I thought about that afterwards, and a little demon popped in and said 'you should try and mix strobe with natural light, it'll be fun!'. The frustration I referred to was the differing colour temperatures and lighting being all over the place. But, it can be done.
For the final image, I imported the composite back into Lightroom and used some split toning and vignetting.
Why the title? Edware 6222, extension 7 is the original number on the phone.
This is my third image with the Bakelite phone, and originally I was going to have the phone, shot many times with the 'base' on the ceiling and the receiver dropping down and turned to face her, like attacking snakes, but I decided that might clutter the frame and appear messy, so I just went for the single phone by the bed. I have another bakelite phone shot coming up. Your comments are always appreciated.
Complexity of clouds in the drifting front as they mix with a pall of bush fire smoke from over the New South Wales border with southern Queensland. The radar dome houses radar and communications for the Gold Coast Airport (OOL) to the left of the image.
A wide-angle view of the ornate interior of the historic Exhibition Building in Melbourne, with a World Heritage listing.
Shot with the Tokina AT-X 124 PRO DX 12-24mm F4 zoom with some optimization in PS.
I will be away for a couple of weeks - less time here but will lurk and even post the occasional shot.
Happy shooting, my friends.
Because I couldn’t quite get the right colour balance when digitalising this vintage transparency, I have opted to upload this scene in black and white. The view depicts the complexity of the track work at the northern throat of Newcastle Central station - much simplified in later years - and I was perched on the keep of Newcastle’s medieval castle.
A Class 46 Peak 1Co-Co1 locomotive trundles over the point work with its empty stock of BR Mark 1 coaches that it has hauled on an express from Liverpool, taking the the stock to the carriage sidings at Heaton. Gateshead shed kept a roster of Class 46s for cross country and freight workings throughout the 1960s and 70s. In the bay platform, a pair of Metro-Cammell DMUs await their next local duties. Also in view is a Class 55 Deltic locomotive. The tracks to the left lead to the High Level Bridge across the River Tyne and onwards to Gateshead.
April 1973
Zorki 4 camera.
Holy Week in Sicily:
"… There is no country in Sicily, in which
the passion of Christ does not revive
through a real
representation, in which people
lives or statuary groups do not
of the streets and squares the theater
of that great drama ... "
(Leonardo Sciascia).
“…Jesus said, “I love you as you are. And I love you too much to leave you as you are…”
(Chris Lyons).
The rites of Holy Week are present in Sicily with complexity of content and symbologies due to numerous influences, very present those due to the Spanish culture, dominating the island between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; in the mystery of the death and resurrection of Christ, it is attended by a popular culture, referring to ancient pre-Byzantine rites that originated long before those of Mediterranean Christian culture.
These ancient rituals represent the most significant moments of the Passion of Jesus Christ, described in the Gospels, from his arrest by the Romans to the Resurrection and are part of the Holy Week celebrations, together with the normal religious functions.
The rites of Holy Week unite Sicily in a single collective rite, an appointment highly anticipated by many Sicilian and non-Sicilian photographers, due to the covid-19 pandemic, now also for this year 2021, as for last year, these celebrations- collective rites will not be able to take place, so I created a "photographic showcase" to be presented on Flickr, composed of images belonging to events that belong to the Sicilian Easter rites, posted in past years; of each reportage presented, I only took "a few cards" more or less significant, some photos were originally posted in black and white, and as such I left them, other photos were posted in color, the latter I re-edited in black and white to conform them to a single photographic language; some photos differ within this black and white language, for having been subjected to a very marked vignetting, I have left them anyway, belonging to reportage characterized by that type of post-production.
Trapani: The Mysteries of Trapani, Good Friday, 2018
Marsala: procession of Good Friday, 2019
Enna: the Good Friday procession (la processione del Venerdì Santo), 2012
Militello Rosmarino: the Good Friday procession (la processione del Venerdì Santo), 2016
Bronte: the Good Friday procession (la processione del Venerdì Santo), 2017
Randazzo: the Good Friday procession (la processione del Venerdì Santo), 2014
Piana degli Albanesi: Easter Sunday (Domenica di Pasqua), 2014
Scicli: Easter Sunday, the Living Man - U' Gioia (Domenica di Pasqua, l’Uomo Vivo – U’ Gioia), 2017
la Settimana Santa in Sicilia:
"…non c'è paese in Sicilia, in cui
la passione di Cristo non riviva
attraverso una vera e propria
rappresentazione, in cui persone
vive o gruppi statuari non facciano
delle strade e delle piazze il teatro
di quel grande dramma..."
(Leonardo Sciascia).
“…Gesù disse: “Ti amo per come sei. E ti amo troppo per lasciarti come sei…”
(Chris Lyons).
I riti della Settimana Santa presentano in Sicilia una complessità di contenuti e di simbologie dovute a numerosi influssi, molto presenti quelli dovuti alla cultura spagnola, dominante nell’isola tra il XVI ed il XVII secolo; nel mistero della morte e della resurrezione di Cristo, si assiste nella cultura popolare, a riferimenti risalenti da antichi riti pre-bizantini che originano da molto prima di quelli della cultura cristiana mediterranea.
Questi antichi riti rappresentano i momenti più significativi della Passione di Gesù Cristo, descritti nei Vangeli, dal suo arresto da parte dei romani alla Resurrezione e fanno parte, insieme alle normali funzioni religiose, delle celebrazioni della Settimana Santa.
I riti della Settimana Santa uniscono la Sicilia in un unico rito collettivo, appuntamento attesissimo da molti fotografi siciliani e non, a causa della pandemia da covid-19, oramai anche per quest'anno 2021, come per l'anno scorso, queste celebrazioni-riti collettivi, non potranno attuarsi, ho così realizzato una "vetrina fotografica" da presentare su Flickr, composta da immagini appartenenti ad eventi che appartengono ai riti Pasquali Siciliani, postati negli anni passati; di ogni reportage presentato, ho preso solo "qualche tessera fotografica" più o meno significativa, alcune foto furono postate originariamente in bianco e nero, e come tali le ho lasciate, altre foto furono postate a colori, queste ultime le ho rieditate in bianco e nero per uniformarle ad un linguaggio fotografico unico; alcune foto differiscono all'interno di questo linguaggio in bianco-nero, per essere state sottoposte ad una vignettatura molto marcata, le ho lasciate ugualmente, appartenenti a reportage caratterizzati da quel tipo di post-produzione.
La doctrine “ LESS IS MORE” déplore la complexité , elle justifie l’exclusion pour le but de l’expression . Elle autorise l’architecte à être sélectif ( extrêmement ) dans son approche des problèmes de résoudre. Or il ne doit pas être sélectif , il ne doit pas exclure des problèmes pour son architecture.
Robert VENTURI
Best viewed on black !
Amsterdam
A day with Akbar without graffiti is impossible.
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and occasional singer. Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote, "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated . . . Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time."
Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop.
In the 1940s Gillespie, together with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Jon Faddis and Chuck Mangione.
cf Wikipedia
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Have a nice week everyone !