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“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
This was the first shot that I take upon our closer inspection of Carrie Furnace on Saturday, on the photowalk I went on with Wiz. We were literally like little kids on Christmas walking up to this place, it certainly was an HDR heaven!
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i don't know which one is better....
so, help me decide. which one is the best? the original? or the colorized version?
She decides to go to Marty's apartment to find out the scoop about her and the stranger. She enters the lobby and looks around. Something is not right. She walks up the stairs to Marty’s floor and smells her perfume along with something else in the air. She pulls out her gun from her handbag and peeks out from behind a wall to the lobby. The revolving door rotates and reveals one of her arch enemies strolling in. Harley Quinn. Which means Joker can’t be far behind. ‘Why now?’ she thinks. ‘What does she want?’ She turns and hurries on to Jane’s apartment to warn her.
She bangs on Marty’s door and realizes her gun is still drawn. She sees an eye looking through the peep hole and is met with the sound of a hammer being pulled back and Jane’s yelling. She listens to her flip her lid for a few seconds, then turns and walks away.
‘Anotha day Miss Marty. But watch your back cause I sure am.’
Photo: Taken @ Drune Gotham
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Même oiseau, même plage,
et le décor qui s'inverse dessus-dessous.
Aigrette garzette
Egretta garzetta - Little Egret
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Deciding to explore Athens, I first came to this park that has the statue of Athena. The park had some really cool landscape designs and is very peaceful. I'm not sure what it was called, but it is not far from Mount Lycabettus. Mount Lycabettus was another place I visited and it is one of my favorite places. As you ascend to the top, you could see most of the city. Once you're on top, you really could see the entire city of Athens. I was also surprised that they have a church up top too with a few cafes and restaurants.
I couldn't decide whether that was Barbra Streisand filling the window or one of my old girlfriends. She sure looked familiar. The bird didn't seem too concerned about her. She was just another surface to plaster in white.
San Francisco, CA
Decide to hell with the rain and went for a short stroll anyway, and it was worth getting damp as I met the Swan Family again. They were sitting by the small park near the Union Canal, then got up to get back into the water a few moments after I arrived.
It took us a while to get out of the house and on the road. By the time we got to the reservoir a storm rolled through. I wish I brought my big camera. I would have tried capturing the lightning that sent us on our way. :)
J'ai décidé de reposter cette photo de l'an dernier, en corrigeant la perspective. Pas exactement parfait, mais beaucoup mieux que la première version !
I decided to repost this one from last year, but straightening it better. Not exactly perfect yet, but much better than the first one !
As you know i was in two minds as the whether I should go to the dance last night or not and in all truth i was delaying making that decision because going to something like that alone is a big thing when you are a normal CIS type let alone when you are trans.
I would be going in blind! not knowing who was going to be their, if i would know anyone and how i would be received.
After putting off deciding I went for it threw on a dress i brought yesterday and said to hell with it make or break time. and off i went.
Well turns out it was fine, I knew a few people and had a few dances following as a lady should and also leading a few, All in all a good night I even got to dance with Richard the guy who i danced with on Thursday. He is a sweet guy and really accepting of me! He even gave a peck on the cheek when I went home, Don't worry he is getting married, i am not going to get another Jamie situation lol.
Although northern and western parts of the US have a variety of colorful Hairstreak species, here in the deep south we have several gray species...and one major exception, the Purple Hairstreak, which always makes for a rare but happy find!
You think so?
go and take a look there :
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Deciding to explore Athens, I first came to this park that has the statue of Athena. The park had some really cool landscape designs and is very peaceful. I'm not sure what it was called, but it is not far from Mount Lycabettus. Mount Lycabettus was another place I visited and it is one of my favorite places. As you ascend to the top, you could see most of the city. Once you're on top, you really could see the entire city of Athens. I was also surprised that they have a church up top too with a few cafes and restaurants.
The Kim Yong market is possibly most popular shopping destination in the Hat Yai area. These shoppers were buying imported chestnuts from one of the venders along the street sidewalk.
Decide to hell with the rain and went for a short stroll anyway, and it was worth getting damp as I met the Swan Family again. They were sitting by the small park near the Union Canal, then got up to get back into the water a few moments after I arrived.
Question: Should this photo be brightened a bit in the shadows, or left alone? I can't decide. Realistically, this is about how it looked.
Chaos Chaos! You all decide to laugh at the fool when you don't realize that you're the real fools, I may look imprisoned when in reality you're all in containment and I'm the only free one, the leaders thought such fun was a crime, well nothing can contain me, I CAN DO ANYTHING! Even make the crazy insane secret boss, which also explains the crazy talk at the beginning. I really like how he turned out for the most part, I sculpted his hat with ears and modified a tailcoat piece thing he has with paper, he also has a cape, a painted Shakespeare neck piece, and a double sided head. His scythe was as close as I could get with how it actually looks, I didn't want to scult or glue anything on it because I didn't want it to break so I kept it nice and simple.
Decide to play with this one just for the fun of it. Not sure quite what I think of it, looking forward to your opinion! :-)
Banff or Jasper I cant remember I shot them at both locations.
I have decided to get the Canon 100-400 the ultimate deciding factor came down to the Canon lens being much smaller and lighter. The last two trips I have had issues at the airport with my gear being too heavy so the Sigma and Tamron would of been more of a hassle.
Thanks everyone that provided feedback
#1 - Papa Tian suddenly decides to climb up a tree and hang upside down, while his fans gasp in amazement; #2 - Papa decides to wow his fans even more by slothing out to a little limb; #3 - Papa completes his acrobatic routine by sliding down the little limb
We were just little kids…all 4 of us.
Christmas was coming and as usual…we wanted to make some money to buy Mom a gift. Of course, we had to decide what the gift would be …but first things first…we needed money!
We pooled our resources and came up with only a few bucks .. that would never do … but .. we had done this before. We had a few ideas to make a few more dollars.
First, there was our regular Christmas pinecone business. Well, maybe not quite a business … but it was our usual little money making venture at this time of year. We would hike up the hills behind our streets … probably a few miles, and cut off some perfect little branches containing pine cones. We also gathered all the largest, perfect, individual cones we could find. I can’t imagine my little brother going at that time .. he was pretty small …but can’t say for sure. All of us went anywhere and everywhere … and all alone. Seemed no big deal in those days. Most kids did and most parents thought nothing of it. Not that we were stupid .. we knew to always stay together, and to never speak to strangers … and scream like a banshee if anybody tried anything … not to mention rocks, sticks, etc .. in actuality I pity anybody who tried to mess with us. We were kind of wild …..
When we got the pinecones home, we would lay them out on sheets of newspapers, paint glue on the tips with a little paintbrush and then shake some silver glitter on to each of them. Even in those days I was pretty penurious … well, we had to be … there was no money for fun stuff. Mom showed us how to conserve our glitter … shaking it off onto the paper and pouring it back into our little bowl from the fold of the paper. Waste not, want not, she always said. We learned that and plenty more from our Mom.
On the single cones we would tie a ribbon or a thread so that it could be hung as a decoration … we charged only about 10 cents apiece for those. The branches were more … but honestly, I can’t remember how much we dared to ask. We would stack them in our big red wagon and trundle off down the street to sell our festive cones and branches to neighbours. We always worried that people would think the price too high and would not want them .. but we always sold out immediately and had to go back up the hill to get more. I think some of the women looked forward to our fresh cut boughs each year. Or … it could have been that we sent our tiny little brother to the door in front of the rest of us … knee high to a grasshopper he was, and just as silent. We rarely had to go more than a few blocks to sell out repeatedly, but at those prices it took quite a while and lot of pinecones for it to add up to any amount.
Dad was our other source of income… but …. it definitely did not come easy. We would help clean the barbershop on many a Sunday, and, before Christmas … it used to get a super thorough “going over” because we were asking for the big bucks. We would each get $2.00 for the day. I think dear old Dad used to like using the opportunity to teach a lesson or two … his favourite being …….
”money doesn’t grow on trees you know”.
In those years … $2.00 each did become a sizeable chunk of change. But, we certainly worked very diligently for a very full day to get that amount. Standing on the barber chairs to be able to reach the overhead lights and dusting on top of them; scrubbing and wiping all three big chairs as well as scrubbing all the customer chairs, (with a nail brush as they had vinyl upholstery that was pockmarked with little holes, instead of smooth stuff) polishing and shining many mirrors, washing windows, sweeping, moving all the bottles of lovely smelling hair stuff and cleaning all the counter tops ( every last little cut hair) emptying all the little and large garbage pails … etc … it was a long, LONG day, believe me. But … it was always worth it to add the loot to our stash. Dad would buy us a pop and then we had to sit and wait while he washed and rinsed the whole floor. A grueling day.
Finally we had $20.00 … and, I had seen the gift. A locket at a little jewellery store. I took the other kids to look at it in the window. They all 'ooohed' and 'ahhhed'. That was it. We were getting it. Of course, we had no idea how much it really was yet and I was sure it would be out of our price range … but we had to find out. Wild as we were, we were still pretty shy … especially with adults. So … a few days passed and all of a sudden it was Christmas Eve and I still had not gotten up nerve to go into the store. Off we went to do our shopping for our Dad too; usually socks and soap-on-a- rope …. Old Spice. I know we did look at a few other places for something for Mom (just in case). Checked out several other possibilities …but … ended up back at the jewellery store window. It was dark already … getting near closing time … cold and snowing and we were cold and nervous, but finally, in we went. A very nice lady smiled at us and asked us if we had seen something in the window that we were interested in. I said, “the locket” …as if there was not another one in the whole window …. but, somehow she knew exactly which one I meant. The one with the pink gold rose on it …. She brought it to the display counter and I was the only one tall enough to see it .. she held it down so the other kids could get a good look too. More “oooohhhing” for sure. Three heads turned … they all looked at me. Gulp. “How much is it please”? She turned over the little tag and I could see that it said $29.95. She didn’t say the price, but instead asked me how much money we had to spend. Oh, the hot prickles of disappointment and shame. I had to tell her that we only had $20.00. When I heard, “why, that is exactly the right amount” I couldn’t believe my ears. I could hardly speak; my mouth must have been hanging open. I wanted to grab that little velvet box and run out of the store with it; forget wrapping it … in case she realized her mistake. But, she just smiled right at me, and carefully wrapped it in snow white paper with gold swirls on it….. and put a beautiful gold ribbon on it …. then placed it ever so carefully into a tiny bag engraved with the name of the store. Off we went; on top of the world. Who cared if it was cold and snowing … it was Christmas Eve … we had our precious little gift. We walked the two miles home because we didn’t even have a dime left for the bus. And, all that way I kept wondering how it happened. Had I seen the wrong amount? No. Definitely not. So, why had she done that? Was it going to cost her? In the end I just had to accept that she had done it out of the goodness of her heart. All I knew for sure was that we were the luckiest kids in the world on that particular Christmas Eve …. And that lovely lady was probably just as pleased as we were.
(This is the actual locket... we had her initial engraved on it after Christmas... B for Bette. Our amazing little Mom.)
I couldn't decide which version of this Hawkweed flower I liked best.
So, I put them all together. Including a color one, even though this was going to be a BW only week for me.
There is something about each of them, tone, texture, details and softness that really appeal to me.
All were taken with iPhone and Olloclip Macro lens in early July and then post processed in Hipstamatic's Oggl app.
They are all the same image but the browner toned one (uchitel film) was placed a bit differently in the frame.
Camera and lenses used are noted from top left, to bottom right are:
1) Wonder Lens & AO BW film
2) Yuri 60 Lens & Rasputin film
3) Lincoln Lens & T. Roosevelt 26 film
4) Diego Lens + Uchitel 20 film
It's been a while since my last post on Flickr. I don't get out much for sometime. So yesterday I decide to go out and Tanjung Biru, Port Dickson is the place I went. Thanks to a friend of mine in Facebook, for telling me about this location. :)
I have to say, if you are a seascape lover like myself, this is the place that you definitely want to go. There's many foreground interest can be found here.
The sad thing is, I only manage to get couple of shots only, due to arriving late and the sunset was not so glorious that day. The magic hour didn't appear at all. :(
Surely I will revisit this place again soon. :)
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I couldn' t decide between the two. They seem like two different images, even though I know they are the same.
Deciding to explore Athens, I first came to this park that has the statue of Athena. The park had some really cool landscape designs and is very peaceful. I'm not sure what it was called, but it is not far from Mount Lycabettus. Mount Lycabettus was another place I visited and it is one of my favorite places. As you ascend to the top, you could see most of the city. Once you're on top, you really could see the entire city of Athens. I was also surprised that they have a church up top too with a few cafes and restaurants.
Working on any dollhouse/roombox, there’s an order to doing things. Had to decide on the bottom paper before screwing on the wheels thru the bottom of the box. Now, I can decide on the inside flooring.
it's not fair-why do I have to be so?
Oh I feel everything much more-
much more than you ever will
and it's too hard when I can't even catch your eye
so I can't send you messages
and at night I dream of reasons that I can't let you go
but I don't know if it's time to crack through your walls so thick that I can't see past you
and last summer wasn't enough for me
and now that winter comes the cold beats harder
and no one is left alone and I'm offering you me right now-
take me I'm yours
and I won't have it any other way
so don't let fools be carried by what I say because the night keeps looking our way
and you're not seeing what I'm missing 'cause I am missing you
and I think that we should run as fast as we can into what we don't know-
it's time to let me in because I feel just fine.