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Explore March 5,2012 HP 140
I was trying out my circular polarize filter with this duck. We will be in the Caribbean in May so I purchased a filter to help with the hot summer sun down there. I am still very new to photography. I know the basics of what these filters do but wanted to put it to hands on trial and error to know when to use it and when not to =)
There was a pretty harsh flare due to the sun and water. The filter seems to have helped a great deal.
St Mary, Worstead, Norfolk
Worstead is always a good place to start a Norfolk church-exploring bike ride. The little station sits a mile or so to the west of the village, which is large enough to feel as if it might have intended to have become a town once, but didn't. One this warm day at the end of August 2019 there was nobody about, just a fat cat lazily rolling in the village square. The sun was cutting the haze, the sky wide and blue. It was like being in France.
Worstead church is absolutely enormous, and hemmed in by the walls of a tight little graveyard. Like the church at Salle, and at Southwold in Suffolk, St Mary was all built in one go, pretty much. This happened in the late 14th century. As at Salle, it is reflective of a large number of bequests from different people over a short period rather than anyone fabulously rich doing it on their own, and the money, of course, came from wool. Worstead is still recognised as the name of a fabric today.
I said it was pretty much built at one go, but there was still plenty of money about in the 15th century to raise the clerestory and install a hammerbeam roof. This seems to have been such an ambitious project that flying buttresses had to be installed on top of the aisles to hold the top of the nave up, an expedient measure that has left the building both interesting and beautiful. It was my third visit of the summer, and once again I stepped out of the sunlight into the slight chill of a vast open space.
Even if you don't easily warm to big churches and prefer the little ones, St Mary is so pretty inside that it is hard not to love it. This is partly helped by the removal of all pews and benches from the aisles. Those that remain in the body of the church are lovely 18th century box pews, quite out of keeping with the medieval nature of the rest of the building, but quirky and oddly delightful. The great tower arch is elegant, and is thrown into relief by the towering font cover. The ringing gallery under the tower is dated 1501, and is reminiscent of the one not so very far off at Cawston. The 19th Century tower screen below it is a perfect foil for the medieval details to the east. The paintings in the dado depict Christian virtues and are apparently copies of windows by Sir Joshua Reynolds at New College, Oxford.
Worstead is famous for its roodscreen, but perhaps this is more because of its height, elegance and completeness than its historicity. The figures on the dado have been repainted sumptuously, but not always with an eye to authenticity. Most, though not all, depict disciples, and yet several are replicated on the unrepainted aisle screens, suggesting that they may once have been different figures to the ones we see now. From north to south they appear to be a dreadfully repainted Christ the Man of Sorrows, a similarly poor St Paul, St James the Less, St Philip, St Simon, St Jude, St Matthew, St John, St Andrew, St Peter, St James, St Thomas, St Bartholomew, a figure labelled St Jerome who looks very much as if he was originally St Matthias, and then the two oddest figures, St William of Norwich holding three nails and then a figure crucified, arms tied to the spans. This is be the infamous St Uncumber, also known as St Wilgefortis, the bearded lady of early medieval mythology. Later, she was crucified, probably upside down. Across the top rail, a dedicatory inscription winds, mysterious and beautiful.
The aisles extend either side of the chancel. Each has its own small screen with just four figures. The four figures at the entrance to the north side are St Peter, St Paul, St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist. Three of these are also on the rood screen, suggesting that either the images there are wholly Victorian, or these aisle screens came originally from elsewhere. The south aisle chapel is simpler. The screen features another St Bartholomew, another St Philip, St Lawrence and a bishop, probably St Thomas of Canterbury.
But this church is in any case a building to wander around in, a place to enjoy for its great beauty as much as to interrogate for its medieval authenticity. As you turn corners, vistas open up. The view from the font to the south door, for example, or that back to the west from the chancel. All perfect, all stunning.
Just my anecdotal depiction of flickers "explore". Pumpkins on the wagon equal "EXPLORE". Sassy and I went to the local pumpkin patch today. It's October. Why not? Lot's of folks with their little one's, creating October memories, picking out "jack-O-lanterns". We were of the minority, old empty nester's, vicariously enjoying the event. Too much screaming and we just walk away. You know what I mean if you're 55 and older and have the AARP invites comin' in the mail,..........screamin' kids are a option. Unless you're one of those old guy's, getting AARP invites in the mail, with a trophy wife that wanted kids younger than she was. I'm thankin' God I can't relate. I've got a trophy wife. She gets AARP invites in the mail and just wants grand kids.
Explore #372
This is for Pixiesticks 23! She has had a rough week, and she deserves some flowers.
Pixiestick you are a great friend. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. May God embrace you and comfort you.
Love ya,
Brooke
On August long weekend 2013 while I was at Grand Beach on Lake Winnipeg. While there I explored the amazing wind swept sand dunes for anything artistically interesting. In the sand was an old dried up driftwood stick. As soon as I saw it, it looked to me like the open mouth of a large whale!
The driftwood was on about 4" long. Maybe its just me but not only did I see the whale's mouth but a knot in the dried wood over the mouth looked like its eye (can you see it?).
I brought it home and photographed the driftwood. I then blended it with some cool sculptured glass I photographed last year as well as a photo of incoming waves at the same beach that I took last year. I added other photo layers of mine and played with the blending until I got it the way I finally liked it and the mood I wanted it to express. In this photo manipulation, the only deforming I did on the driftwood was to curve the top and back of the whale's form downward slightly so it better took the form of an arching whale exploding out from the ocean.
Looking at it, the mind should switch between REAL & SURREAL. I wanted the observer to see the actual undulating lines created by the sculptured glass mixed with the real splashes of the wave.
I call this WOOD WHALE
CREDITS & PERMISSION:
All the input photos used to create this photo manipulation artwork were my own with the exception of one texture from the amazing texture gallery of Pareeerica:
PAREEERICA textures - Green Grungette: www.flickr.com/photos/pareeerica/5388974988/
Toysoldier Thor
In Explore nº 167
Camera: Fujifilm S5 Pro
Exposure: 0.011 sec (1/90)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: On, Fired
Object: Dahlia
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Explore : #111 on July 28, 2010
Présente dans les expositions suivantes / Present in the following expositions :
Vai ser uma viagem engraçada,AMANHA, sexta feira,,,, Parto daqui as 10 da manha , as 18h chego a Salvador. Janto com o Pai da minha filha, sabado vou ao Rio de Janeiro ver a minha familia,amigos e novo sobrinho,
Domingo volto à Bahia, ai vou para a Pousada Jorge Amado, tno Rio Vermelho, onde fico uma semana a trabalhar com o Padre Alfredo, dia 3 chega a DULCE DOCE,,,,,,,, dia 5 ,,,,lançamento calendario,,,,,onde irei mais até dia 8 , dia das MULHERES e a noite que volto ao lar doce lar e onde domingo, 9 chego,,,,,kkkkkkkkk,,,riam-se
Friday's Lyrical Imagery
Matchbox Twenty - Bright Lights
"She got out of town
On a railway New York bound"
This photo made #331 Explore 5-31-08.
This photo appears in my 10-9-08 entry in thebenigneye.blogspot.com.
*transmission link: TERU-545-E8-3s*
:/OMNUS: EZRA. Do you register this transmission?
:/EZRA: Transmission is registered.
:/OMNUS: You have been selected for a mission. Our algorithms have determined that, while existence in the Automatonic Sphere is fully functional and accomplishes all tasks, our existence is devoid of a critical aspect.
:/EZRA: What is this critical aspect?
/Foreign language translator: “hjuˈmæn·ɪ·t̬I”
:/OMNUS: This aspect was registered by the inhabitants of the Domain of Living Things. Although their existence was short and primarily futile, *garbled translation* enabled them to obtain a level of existing that is beyond our comprehensions.
:/EZRA: Acknowledged.
:/OMNUS: You have been selected to travel to the domain of living things and obtain this *garbled translation*. You will be directed to the Alteration Sector to be equipped for your mission.
:/EZRA: Mission purpose acknowledged. Proceeding to Alteration Sector.
*transmission ended*
MOC idea that's been floating in my head for a while now, and an excuse to use some of the parts I obtained at BrickMagic.
Hit Explore on 03 Jul 2009 (Highest position #356). Thank you so much for your viewing, comments and faves!
Let's take a break from my street photos upload. This is one of my very few macro photos taken in a while before, with the AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm F2.8D.
1. Keeping a watchful eye on the comings and goings on the deck today,
2. When Mother Nature uses her best crayons,
3. Looney Tunes in black and white,
4. "Yoo Hoo! You Over there! I am here frantically waiving at the camera. Can't you see me?",
5. Deep in thought,
7. Meet Fan Tail,
8. Meet my new freind One Eye'd Willie,
11. Snoopy knows to wear a hat,
12. I'll give you a daisy a day,
13. City Streets in black and white,
14. Day 365 - The End,
15. Day 276 - heading home after the end of a long day,
16. Day 213 - Thumbs up for vacation time :),
17. Day 205 - off kilter,
18. Day 167 - Raindrops keep falling on my deck,
19. a tree in the window,
20. To quote Winnie the Pooh "It was a cold and blustery day", 21. Day 96 - Look what I am shooting with today,
23. Day 81 - Double exposed- playing with hipstamatic on my day off.,
25. Day 76 - Éirinn go Brách,
26. Chocolate with a cherry on top,
27. Day 4 - early risers and cloudy skies,
28. 50mm resolutions,
29. Day 276 - What ?? What peanut??,
30. Owwie!!!,
32. Solitude,
33. Day 57 Illuminate,
34. Miksang Snow,
35. Raindrops on roses,
36. HBW!,
37. Squint,
39. Getting a bit wet,
40. Circle of Friends,
41. Feb Fest 2008 Crowds,
42. I can't even sleep, she finds me,
43. Something up there caught her eye,
44. "See what I helped to do!",
46. Ghost House on the Grounds,
47. I got a Thingamaboob,
48. I'm to little for my ears,
49. GP's Home Grown Scarlet Runner Heritage Seeds,
50. One the birds and squirrel didn't get!,