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We made a quick trip to Cody for groceries. Next time I want to spend more time in and around Cody as there is a lot to photograph. We did stop to shoot the Smith Mansion. It is an enigmatic multi-story structure about half way between Cody, Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park.
Francis Lee Smith began building the house in 1971. He had no plan; he just started building and couldn't stop. The structure is built from fire damaged lodge pole pine and other materials scrounged from the surrounding area. The only electricity was from a long extension cord connected to a pole along the highway below. A tangle of additional extension cords powered various rooms in the house.
The builders wife and children moved into town and visited on weekends. He kept building additional floors, stairways and balconies, furniture and metal sculptures as the mood struck and supplies were available. He lived without running water or plumbing until he slipped off an upper balcony in 1992 and died. For awhile his daughter made efforts to raise funding to preserve the house. That effort failed. As the structure has been vacant for almost 25 years it has become more and more deteriorated and unsafe.
The Smith Mansion and the surrounding 10 acres went on the market for $750,000 in August, 2018. Act now to make this unique property yours!
The Sandhill Cranes are making their way to Othello for the March 23-25 Sandhill Crane Festival. These early arrivals are less than a days flight from Othello. They are no doubt practicing synchronized flying and posing for the many viewers who will show up for the festival and no doubt want to arrive early so that they get the best seats for the tours and lectures. I think the tours fill up fast so it is important to get signed up early. A few of them have likely attended the festival several times so the can teach the youngsters how to be on their best behavior while they are people watching (peopling). After all if they crowd the the roads they might scare the humans who are standing there with their scopes and big cameras. That would be a shame because some of them may not have seen people and could miss some colorful rarities. IMG_2654
for this week's class, we joined with a photography class at the art institute, pinned up all of our projects in a row, and sat down like soldiers. meanwhile, the ai students pinned theirs up about the room, mingled with each other, and snacked on gouda cheese and cookies. am i at an art gallery opening? i wondered.
Thanks to my wonderful friend, and exquisite artiste Nina for the fantastic testimonial:-) xox.. www.flickr.com/photos/22729519@N03/
Led Zeppelin "All My Love" www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkgMlrGXB5c&feature=rec-fresh
I found this beautiful weed lying alone in front of my friends room, and I clicked it .. took some 4-5 shots and this was the one I liked the most.
Also special thanks to Rowena R for sharing the color tones graphs :)
I want to send my friends my very best wishes for a wonderful New Year. I have big plans for 2020, and I hope for us all to find sources of inspiration, hope and love. Lets all be more grateful and more forgiving. love, J
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“This is for the birds! Oh wait – I AM a bird!”
The challenge:
A photograph can be technically perfect, and have a great composition – that’s already hard enough to achieve sometimes! But for me, a photograph really stands out if it touches me. If it conveys a feeling, or stirs an emotion within. A really great image is one that evokes a mood and pulls the viewer into the scene. That’s what this week’s challenge is about: capturing emotion and feeling.
My process:
This is not the image I thought I was going to take this week. I started off the week thinking I would need to make a difficult and heartrending decision. The rainy weather forecast looked like it would match my mood and I planned to see what I could capture during a downpour. As it turned out, the sun appeared during a break in the clouds at about the same time I got the news that all my worry was for naught. In an effort to calm my frayed nerves, I turned to my camera and started taking photos of birds in my back yard.
I take a LOT of photos of birds – thousands upon thousands of photos often of the same exact birds. Sometimes I question my sanity, but the reason is because I’m hoping to capture the rare instance when a bird seems to express an emotion that we humans can identify with. I’m pretty sure we anthropomorphize the emotions, but we identify with them nonetheless.
Grackles seem to be particularly expressive – maybe because of their bright yellow eyes. This particular grackle has a bum leg that he never puts weight on, but the wind was making it particularly challenging for him to stay upright while perching on the post. He was using his tail as a rudder and he looks like he’s had just about enough! (We’ve all had those days buddy.)
The lighting helped to further enhance the mood of the photo as well. There was a small shaft of sunlight on the bird, but the background was in shade and was especially dark because of dark clouds overhead. The sun highlighted the iridescent colors in the wings and lightened the overall dark colors of the bird to help differentiate it from the dark background.
Lesson learned:
As you probably know, I strive hard to capture technically perfect images. However I am slowly learning (as Maaike said in her opening paragraph) that even though an image might be technically perfect, if it’s void of emotion the technical perfection doesn’t make up for that. Conversely, an image with emotional impact can make technical imperfections almost irrelevant. Perhaps this is because emotions connect us to the deepest parts of ourselves. Technical perfection is about what the eyes see; emotion is about what the heart feels – and it is entirely possible for our eyes to overlook something that our heart feels strongly about.
We're on an orange alert for strong winds, so here's a photo from our beach on a lovely, calm day.
Better viewed large, and thank you for your favourites. :)
Aoife's ready for Autumn!
Minifee Juri 08'
Wig - For My Doll
Eyes - Ginarolo
Knits - Hand made Christmas gift exchange from Anielle on Dairyland BJD forum
I woke up to a chilly morning here in Wisconsin, and after eating breakfast and looking at doll photos, I was inspired to play with Aoife a little. So I redressed her and organized my doll stuff bin! Which takes a surprisingly long time.....
This is what is left. I am willing to let them go for pretty low prices. FM with an offer for one, a few, all Whatever floats your boat
Sorry about the kinda blurry quality..
I hope it's good enough.
Since she usually has really simple,basic clothes,I decided to go for something a little more girly and stylish :)
Purple Irises taken yesterday on my walk in the park. Best seen large by clicking on the photo,
Thanks for visiting, I'm off to the dentist.
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The World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, Idaho, is the headquarters for The Peregrine Fund, an international non-profit organization founded in 1970 that conserves endangered raptors around the world.
Built 32 years ago in 1984, the World Center for Birds of Prey is located on 580 acres (2.3 km2) on a hilltop overlooking Boise, south of the airport and east of Kuna. The campus consists of the business offices of The Peregrine Fund, breeding facilities for endangered raptors, the Velma Morrison Interpretive Center, and the Herrick Collections Building, which houses a large research library and the Archives of Falconry.
This one's for Andreas Mogensen. Happy 40th my friend, sorry its a day late!
Credits: ESA/NASA
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For their first year operating the Brighton City Sightseeing tour, Brighton & Hove hired a matching pair of DAF DB250 Northern Counties Palatines from Ensignbus. M647 RCP leaves the Marina on 30th August, 2007.
for those with a tendency toward the churlish when commenting, containment of any and all debauchery within the privacy of your lascivious mind is expected. Anything other will not be tolerated
©️ July 2019
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The Midland Railway 115 Class is a class of 4-2-2 steam locomotive, nicknamed "Spinners". They were designed by Samuel Waite Johnson and a total of 15 of the class were built between 1896 and 1899. They were capable of reaching speeds of up to 90 miles per hour (145 km/h).
York National Railway Museum,
York, England, UK
Heading for the trees to enjoy its catch
Bald Eagle on the Susquehanna River. The bisected background may not be a classic composition but I like that it shows a blue sky and fall foliage on a bright crisp November morning
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19 janvier 2015, Paris.
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Created for the Serif Users Group competition, "Boxes"
www.flickr.com/groups/serifusers/discuss/7215761460570549...
Original image from Harald52. Thank you!
www.flickr.com/photos/fkhuckel/3400176800/
Girl in red coat from Axel Buhrmann. Thank you.
www.flickr.com/photos/snapeverything/3066355546/
Thanks to Playingwithbrushes for the texture.