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Sister to the shot "Punctured..." this explores the relationship between the parts, which Gehry does to perfection.
My urge to publish is stronger than my sense as I wait for a lens, but in doing there is pounding and in pounding there is building; and building something is better than not building at all...
Explore, September 21 (Thank you Christine Lebrasseur for the heads up!!)
New from Engage this Harness is at August Manly Arena event , available in 8 colours .
Also wearing Enrage Mike Jock available from the store at
Antananarivo (Madagascar) - Je fais connaissance de cet homme alors qu’il est accoudé au bar de la buvette du marché d’Andravoahangy. C’est lui qui engage la conversation. Il parle un français parfait. L langue de Molière est largement pratiquée dans la Grande île, mais lui a vécu une quinzaine d’années dans la région d’Agen (Lot et Garonne) où il travaillait comme ouvrier agricole pendant la récolte des pruneaux et comme mécanicien agricole le reste du temps. Aujourd’hui, retraité, il a gardé un bon souvenir de la France, mais reconnait qu’il préfère Madagascar pour le climat.
Malagasy retiree
Antananarivo (Madagascar) - I met this man while he was leaning on the bar of the Andravoahangy market. He is the one who initiates the conversation. He speaks perfect French. French is widely spoken on the Big Island, but he lived for fifteen years in the region of Agen (Lot et Garonne) where he worked as a farm laborer during the prune harvest and as an agricultural mechanic the rest of the time. Today, retired, he has kept good memories of France, but recognizes that he prefers Madagascar for the climate.
What I enjoyed in this moment was how the people stepped back in time for a few hours to experience a gathering of people with very little modern technology in sight. The weather was like a traditional one with huge flakes of snow coming down. There was a warm fire to keep us cozy while waiting for a ride on the horse drawn sleigh. But mainly I saw people engaged with each other or watching the activities going on around them. However you celebrate the holiday season, I hope you engage with people around you in real time and leave those "devices" only for capturing the good times around you in photographs!
Whitehorse Falls is located on Highway 138 in Oregon. It has accumulated quite an assortment of logs in it and around its plunge pool. It made me want to engage some heavy equipment to remove the detritus! Oh well, I don't have the extra money to do that and it is no doubt illegal to do it anyway!
"A man may go through a door that leads him to himself"...so get that effin' gun out of my face, will ya?
Created for The Hypothetical Award's "5th Annual HYPOTHETICAL INTERIORS" challenge.
Well, it had to happen, because to complete the proper Victorian aesthetic look in my downstairs office and reading room I had to change the Angle-Poise light I had on my desk, which was a spare from my attic office, up in the roof space.
So I found this lamp instead, which is in the classic Accountants/Banker style, but the shade is in white, instead of green or blue. I loved those colours, but felt that they would be too dominant on the desk itself. [Not that I am fussy or anything]. Also, you can’t see it in this photo, but there is a rather nice white glass ‘tulip-shaped’ lamp to the side, behind the sofa, which has a sort of elegance that I thought this light had on my Victorian desk and would echo in style to match.
Now I sound like some house interior magazine waffling on about design. But, I will be spending a lot of time in here, so I might as well get it right, and that’s my excuse and I am sticking to it!
So here I was working in the evening on the MacBook and using my written notes and reference books in my usual way.
This is for a part of a series that I am going to show on my website and Flickr, depending how it all goes, and as to what goes where, I will sort it out as it goes along. Actually there has been quite a lot of work that I have been organising over the past few months. I have had one of those patches where the writing flowed and I just wanted to keep going. A lot of it has ended up in a series, well, four of them so far, rather than just singles because the photographs were either taken on the same day in roughly the same location yet each seems has something to say, or they go together as a group because the weather was similar over a period of time. But seeing them as a series together just gives them more power. Whether this will work on Flickr I am not sure, as the format is a bit restricting, but on my website I can place them all up on a page of their own. On Flickr I might just choose a few examples to tempt you to go and look at it on my website, designed with the poem to go with it. The important thing for me is that they appear together somewhere. But then I will also be printing them out as well…
I know that on Flickr many just scroll through…perhaps not even reading the text that goes with it, or the poem, but lately I have been thinking about this and have decided that I am not going to concern myself with this behaviour anymore. It is there if people wish to engage with it more fully. Because I used to produce creative work for a living you got used to keeping a copy for yourself. And by that I mean a physical, printed copy. Nothing beats it, because you feel as though you have actually done something, and for me that is important to show that you have a body of work. Social media, and even websites can lose information, shut down, or be sold off to the highest bidder…and your work might be lost if you haven’t backed it up, not to mention the subscription fees..which keep going up.
I think that if you are serious about your work, you need to treat it seriously, and lately I am thinking that perhaps the body of work I leave might be of use in the future. I have been encouraged by the reaction to it on Flickr and elsewhere, and that has really helped me to continue producing it. But I have also been thinking about my own well-being and what I enjoy doing. And that is going out with my camera and being inspired to write poetry to go with it. In this way, the joy of producing that work will continue to shine through the work itself as long as I get the balance right.
And for those of you who are itching to know what those piles of books are in the image..don’t worry, there is going to be more about that later. Books should be shared and collections loved, and I have been collecting all my life…
The time seems to be going by faster. A lot has happened since my last upload, both on the world stage and personally, because of various power-cuts, another water-leak in my home, and other matters I am behind in my own schedule for about a month. This winter has been tough. I have had to also block some people on here, as I did not like their controlling behaviour; that is just not acceptable. If you do not like my work then just move on, but also perversely, those that do like it but want to invade my life and use either my work or my empathetic nature for their own benefit can also remove themselves from my presence. You have missed the point entirely of my work.
I am here to share my own journey of the soul, and to help you with yours if you want me to, through art and conversation. Perhaps as creative people we can all find an equilibrium in this, as it is something we can do, that we can rely on to help us through the turbulent years in our lives. I know for myself that this is true, as my work has helped me to remain relatively sane in difficult times. It is also good to share, not just in challenging times, but also in the good times.
The creative arts have always had a place in shaping history too, it can be very powerful. And it can also be quietly consoling.
As well as producing work for my own portfolio it has always been my intention to provide a gallery on Flickr and a website that shows my work in such a way that it can be a constructive help. I wanted both of them to be a calm space, a place you can go to when you need to think, or settle your mind. I wanted these works to provide an understanding of the human condition, of the difficulties of keeping your faith, whatever God you follow, and also the joy that spiritual faith can provide.
And most of all, I wanted my work to offer hope in any dark times you might be going through.
Thank you all for your support and I hope to keep sharing my work and enjoying the wonderful images that you all share on Flickr. In our own way, perhaps we can make the world a better place. It is a privilege to be in the Flickr community and those who care not only about their own work, but also each other.
And If you would like to see more of my work, have a look at my website at:
Update..
Thank you to all those who have responded to this Explored image...and a special thank you to those who read the accompanying text...as that was what this image was for, just to keep people in the loop as to what I am up to. But maybe the algorithm fancied a read today, who knows? At least, for the moment, it is more benign than Kubrick's "Hal"...
"Open the door Hal...open the door Hal..."
Love to all, Shell xx
A robin in our back garden landing on the fork Rachel wasn't at that point using. This is not a Photoshop job!! (Well, beyond a crop, levels, slight sharpen.) I just happened to have the macro lens (f=105mm) on the camera, which helped.
Never give up on a dream or a plan however hard it might be whatever obstacles are in your way, keep the faith and the end goal in mind and with a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck you will succeed ...... this image has taken so many hours and a lot of patience i've lost count of the obstacles and the doubt of will i ever get the shot i'm after BUT here i am finally posting an image i had visualized it makes every minute worth it!! Thankfully in these trying times i can photograph such beautiful wildlife from my garden, stay safe out there my friends x
Lockhead Martin F-35 Lightning II.
Having just taken off from RAF Lakenheath.
Acknowledge that most of my fellow bird photographers are not bothered about planes photos, so tried my best to make them look a bit more interesting.
I enjoy shots looking at the radiant of a meteor shower, makes me feel like I'm on a space ship cruising out into the galaxy. This one's got it all, the Perseid shower, airglow, Milky Way, Pleiades, Andromeda, and more!
This is a stack of about 60 of the shots I took with my Nikon D600 and Rokinon 24mm f1.4 lens on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer mount. Each shot was 15 seconds at ISO 1600 and f1.4.
Helm lay in a course for sector 221-G Warp Five.
Got a new light tent for Christmas and playing around with it. Hopefully this will be the first of many new pictures!
Trinity College Dublin, looking magical now that the annual Christmas lights have been turned on, perking up the city which needed some uplifting after a horrible year caused by Covid-19.
Dublin Bus route 14 at warp speed through Dame Street - engage.
AARMA Corp's Guardian testing it's mettle.
2028 - AARMA Corp (Advanced Assault Robotics for Military Applications)
Satellite Laser and Radio Ranging System:
One of the 1.3 Gigawatt Pulsed Lasers at Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO), tracking a Satellite as it passes overhead.
About this specific Laser Ranging System:
"The system can range to satellites with an orbital altitude of 25 000 km, perform continuous tracking of navigation signals from GLONASS and Global Positioning System satellites, take measurements of current navigation parameters and receive navigation messages transmitted from the satellites." - SARAO News.
Note: This was shortly after dark and what seems to be a bright star above the laser, is in fact the planet Jupiter.
Just for fun - how powerful is 1.3 Gigawatt?
It is more than Doc Brown needed in Back to the Future!
A big thank you to Heystek Grobler from HartRAO for showing me around.
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Chops Busten, one of the Busten Bros, that famed fighting fam out of Hamstrung Hollow, is ready to fight!
He really wouldn't be 'ready' for much of anything else.
He cannot dress in a societally appropriate manner. He does not have table manners and eschews silverware. Or plasticware. He cannot repair a vehicle or properly work a remote. He cannot answer most questions with words so he tends to throw a punch instead.
"How are you, Chops?"
POW!!
"GAAAGHH!"
He can fight. Fighting, he does well.
Chops Busten, ladies and gentlemen. If you see him, do not engage.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Million Warriors
Chops
Series 1
Astrals
2021, Spin Master
* The Million Warriors have made their tiny appearances in:
BP 2023 Day 205!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53069751073/
BP 2023 Day 248!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53166527662/
BP 2023 Day 269!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53216161998/
BP 2024 Day 108!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53661070016/
BP 2024 Day 128!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53705583026/
BP 2024 Day 156!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53769593801/
BP 2024 Day 282!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/54052088422/
BP 2024 Day 323!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/54151814976/
BP 2024 Day 338!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/54182021274/
BP 2024 Day 345!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/54195593652/
We think it's time Million Warriors got their own album.