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My sister Elizabeth (aka "Chi-Chi") at her birthday dinner party, October 1, 2016
I was struck by the repetition of left-leaning elements in the photo: the candle flames, the head position, and even the sweep of the hair and where the eyes are focused--all pointing from the left to the right, against the black and white vertical stripes in the background.
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For sure not my best shot. The quality is shit, but I love this red "flames" at the backside. Looks so evil somehow.
I don't normally post more than one image a day, but I'm afraid I may fall behind tonight and tomorrow. Things didn't go well at the dentist (what a great title for a song in what passes for "soft jazz" according to Alexa) this morning. Love my dentist. Would recommend him to anyone, but this morning a nerve was hit. "Bullseye!" only that's not exactly what I said. I've doubled my dose of pain med for today, and before I take a 30 minute nap and follow his instructions for "pain management", I thought I'd give y'all a treat of one of my favorite Flame Skimmer images from just two weeks ago.
By itself, you would probably say that the Flame Skimmer is red, but as I tried to show with the image of a Flame and a Cardinal on the same branch, the Flame Skimmer is orange in comparison. It is an omnipresent dragonfly HERE. It's relatively large with a 2.75 inch wingspan, and more than two or three can be seen patrolling the same territory. It was the first Skimmer I tried to capture in flight: it was the third that I actually succeeded capturing in flight almost a year after the Green Darner and the Black Saddlebags.
The flame skimmer or firecracker skimmer (Libellula saturata) is a common dragonfly of the family Libellulidae, native to western North America. Male flame skimmers are known for their entirely red or dark orange body, this includes eyes, legs, and even wing veins. Females are usually a medium or darker brown with some thin, yellow markings. This particular type of skimmer varies in size but is generally measured somewhere between two and three inches long. An immature flame skimmer (nymph) feeds mainly on aquatic insects. Its diet consists of mosquito larvae, aquatic fly larvae, mayfly larvae, freshwater shrimp, small fish, and tadpoles. The nymphs, which live in the mud at the bottom of warm streams or ponds, catch their prey by waiting patiently for it to pass by. Adult skimmers usually feed on moths, flies, ants, or any other soft-bodied insect while waiting perched on a small rock or twig or while in flight. I haven't addressed feeding habits for any dragons or damsels while still nymphs. Many, like the Flame Skimmer, are ambush hunters! Imagine having developed those skills and techniques 330 million years ago, and then being the first animal to fly when it becomes an adult. (Some spend 2-6 years underwater before becoming the fliers they are as adults.)
See you all tomorrow...
Finally finished. Mirror and red/amber glass and charcoal grout. The bottle is available for sale on Etsy - glassmagic.etsy.com
Flame Heath
(Stenanthera conostephioides syn. Astroloma conostephioides)
Manning Flora and Fauna Reserve, McLaren Flat, South Australia
A simple flame can mean so many different things:
A source of light
A source of heat
An expression of grief
A special event or celebration ... "Make a wish!"
A religious observance
A romantic mood setter
A tribute or remembrance
A light for a cigarette (or something to be smoked)
A fire starter
A quiet mind-soothing moment
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Made of mithril, this mighty weapon bursts into flames when near a beer bottle :)
Taken for active assignment weekly- show us your curves.
WIT: My strobist experiment went wrong. The opener is back light by a torch, but I spilled some light on the backdrop.
I liked the end result.
The two carved-out cavities of the Flame nebula and NGC 2023 were created by the destructive glare of recently formed massive stars within their confines. They can be seen tracing a spine of glowing dust that runs through the image. The Flame nebula sits adjacent to the star Alnitak, the easternmost star in Orions belt, seen here as the bright blue star near the top left of the image.
... as Inigo calls her. This was really just an attempt to see just how much ALF I could get in one screen. I hope JJ Abrams is jealous.
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Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.
(by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
āI love iron. It is the stuff of which the frame of the earth is made, and you can make it say anything you will. It eloquently responds to the hand, at the bidding of the imagination.ā
ā Samuel Yellin 1885ā1940 (American Master Blacksmith)
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On a cold winter day the fire starts heating up with flames dancing around throughout the fireplace.
Flame Trooper features Custom helmet and waterslide decals. A modded CAC flamethrower with removable flame.
Thanks to Apples for the NEW dark orange Arealight helmet!
I think I put it to good use.
Thought of taking this shot may be a thousand times but then again thought wouldn't it be 'Cliche'?? Of course.. we've seen such shots being taken several times during our journey. Most taken during the early stages of photography when everything looked 'WOW' and we just waited for the next shot. Everything seemed to be a potential 'Subject' and the world looked so beautiful. Then we start getting matured (Thought I am not, yet!) and a single subject in a single frame doesn't always attract us. We start getting complicated thoughts after reading all those articles and journals and all those rules, after seeing all those beautiful works of others' and so on.. The end result... we start losing the subjects.. All that seemed beautiful once doesn't look the same.. But I feel, that virgin beauty is always there and everything around us has a beauty of its own.. Sometimes we see and sometimes we ignore.. The flame is always burning..