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“There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think 'This isn't the way our lives are supposed to be going.' Then I'd think 'Half the world has the same idea.”
Stephen King
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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the Kitties are very curious, whether Edward Scissorhands will catch it's Pea, or not...:)
Eating scene from the Tim Burton's great Movie.
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Johanna and I saw this bike and both noticed that it was a very special compostion by Mother Nature. How was it that the ocean was able to prop her up so imperfectly like this? Lodged between rocks, brought in by the surf. On our way to the apparently disappeared Wreck of the Dominator, she left us this ruin as consolation.
-Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles
Ο κόσμος των παιδιών είναι πολύ καλύτερος από αυτόν των μεγάλων.
Settings: 1/640, ƒ/2.8, ISO 400 @66 mm
This scene presented itself to my eyes while strolling around in a big park in Rome and as i was walking around the place the beautiful light was spreading above the trees and the green meadow and my attention was caught by this couple who was enjoying the warm light in one of the coldest day of last year.
Hand-held, best viewed on black - 500px
Rome, Italy
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Francesco
Stretching high above our consciousness
where hopes pray in silence
in sleep and in the Spring
those days of optimism and exquisiteness
through disquieting extortionate storms
and parched dreams
flooding a saviour's dwelling place
now desire in heavenly forms
ouwits the dulling weather overhead
and the dying of precious daylight hours
may be forgiven with a demulcent touch,
of seasons cyclic turn when all's been said.
by anglia24
14h20: 22/09/2007
© 2007anglia24
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This was hard, and didn't turn out nearly as well as I had hoped. I wish I would have let the cord fall on the iron, and I wish I could have made it a little more crisp, and I wish I didn't have a double chin, but oh well.
"...feeling it very sorrowful and strange that this first night of my bright fortunes should be the loneliest I had ever known"
I had great expectations on this roll of film, but about 85% of it didn't came out like I expected. On addition, I have been quite busy lately, so I havent' had time for taking pictures D:... Anyway: View On Black :)
I've been meaning to scout this shot for a long time, and finally got around to it. In my mind: Double S-Curve, interesting canyon, distant mountain range. In reality: Double S-Curve, featureless hills, mountains out of frame to right. At least I got a train!
"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."
The breakwater at Ogden Point, Victoria, BC.
It's funny, I went through all the painstaking effort to make certain the structure was sturdy enough to support the current design and made improvements as I saw fit, but it still fell short of my expectations!
Since the walker is segmented, I was concerned the head would pull the front portion of the body away from the middle, causing an unmistakable gap. I really hoped all the effort accomplished would prevent this, but I still had doubts… and I was right! It did not hold up as I wished, and any improvements I made to the chassis afterward cause little to no difference. None of it worked!
*Heavy sigh*
I am trying to avoid a major redesign, but the current state of this one makes it near impossible. Otherwise, I have to cut back on some of the ambitious features that limit the structural potential of the chassis, but that would defeat the whole concept of this project.
Not an option for me. I will keep trying. So, one major redesign to the chassis coming right up!
Great expectations...
I was approached by someone who wanted something 'special'.
For days I was agonizing, racking my brain!
I invited her around for a chat and a bite to eat, I noticed how, when left by herself or while I was in conversation with someone else, she looked down and hugged her belly.
As I am very much a night person, I was inspired in the middle of the night, suddenly sat up in bed and had the PERFECT image in front of my mind's eye.
I consider pregnancy a very beautiful natural event, but also private, so that's why she's in silhouette.
Everybody who knows her, immediately recognizes her profile.
Prepared the studio and lights, with Paul's help, in she came, I gave her one of my Japanese house-kimonos, she took the pose with total ease.
Took a couple of polaroids, to check the angle of the lights to perfection, then I took THE SHOT, not 2 or 3, no, just the ONE!
Most people say, it's like she is looking into a 'crystal' ball, what will the future bring?
It was a girl...
Done on Hasselblad (square neg 6X6), only the sides are cropped.
Thank you, Magda.
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This is my 2016 Pete! She’s a Fitzgerald glider, therefore, no DEF, no emissions. Best investment we’ve made in a long time. She’s loaded with lots of extras, plenty of horse power with a 500hp 60 series Detroit, 8” straight pipes, and plenty of creature comforts inside.
The We are Here challenge on April 4 2017 was: Seeds in your hand
Lighting: 1 SB-600 1/32 left, 1 Neewer 750ii 1/32 right, both flagged, wireless triggers