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Created for 48th MMM Challenge
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Source image - Frank Kovalchek aka Alaskan Dude
Lizard - Rubyblossom
Lizard from Pixabay
Background & foreground created by me with images from public domain
For my Faery Wonderland Series
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This is for round 1 of the BioCup 2018 theme fusion (Exo-Force)
Storm Lasher: www.flickr.com/photos/93028248@N08/42345720515/in/datetak...
At the start, I already set my target on making my entry based on a set, originally I was thinking of choosing either Sentai Headquarters or Combat Crawler X2, however I didn’t have a good amount of a certain color or parts I needed… yes I was planning on using a shit ton of bones on the Sentai Headquarters!
With Storm Lasher, the only part I didn’t have that I need for it was the sword pieces for the wings, or the amount I need at least. I use some other blades as a replacement for the lack of those parts. As you can see, I use lots of bones to make the around wing like with the Cave MOC, but all cover with shells.
The tail I didn’t have the parts I need, and the first thing that came to my mind is using the Skrall’s helmets; was a bit annoying putting them on until I found the hand joints to get the shaping right.
The weapons I could had just went with more detail, but I wanted to add some shooters for no reason whatsoever, and now they look like eyes. And with covering the front of the head and the bottom I had to use some rubber bands to get some add-on armor to stay put.
As with the Mini Dragonfly Bot, the color of the wings have to be replace with white, do to not having those hinge pieces and there not being a lot (that I have) of transparent pieces to be use as wings.
For the rest of it, thankfully the banana costume with hand in it helps give a curve shape on top, and than finding ways to get it not to look like a banana on top of a bug.
For my dear friend Angie in remembrance of her dear Mum
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If Roses grow in Heaven
Please pick a bunch for me
Place them in my Mother's arms
and tell her they're from me
Tell her that I love her and miss her,
and when she turns to smile,
place a kiss upon her cheek
and hold her for awhile
Because remembering her is easy
I do it every day
but there's an ache within my heart
that will never go away
Kirsten Preus
Sky with thanks to Cindy’s Art Stock
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For a time, East Lancashire Railway’s Class 144 DMU set 144 009 carried a non-standard blue livery with yellow ends and black windscreen surrounds, which is believed to have been in connection with a film contract. This image was intended as a refined version of that livery to more closely replicate the style applied to BR’s DMU fleet in the 1970s. The first attempt, without the black windscreen and light surrounds, was less than impressive and these features have now been restored. The base image is, of course, the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway's 144 011, photographed at Haworth depot (09-Jun-23).
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Sorry for me unintentionally lying last post, got busy and couldn't post. But, I'm not busy today! Mini series! One issue for every main member of this universes version of... The Avengers! In the order they joined, shown in the image. So, who are you most excited to see? Who ever it is, you will see them today (or tomorrow, depending on which one you want to see)! Peace!
~Spooky Girl
We had a great time in Bristol, seeing friends we hadn't met in 25 years. The weather was terrible so I didn't manage to get any good snaps and besides with two late nights, or should I say early mornings, under my belt it was difficult to focus - lol. I just don't bounce back like I used - hence I took today off work to recover:-))
I am glad to be back home - Bristol was way too hectic for me. We lived there ourselves 25 years ago, but I just wouldn't want to live that fast pace anymore. It was so nice being out in the Forest this morning with nothing but the animals for company.
For Macro Mondays - This week's theme is "Begins With the Letter "D". Captured at the Sensory Garden at KU. I'm fascinated by these Golden Raintree Pods and love them when they are dried and bronzed.
Modest? Coy? Contemplative? Another pic without the smile. I'm bracing myself for my dear friend Katie O'Malley's analysis of the scenario! I actually think this was meant as a close-up of my eye makeup, which I struggle with mightily, being blind as a bat.
Maybe I'm saying a quick prayer for all the folks in the DC area who, like me, are about to be pummeled with 2 feet of snow!
The hair and makeup won't look quite the same after I'm done shoveling! Hugs to all.
For the group Monday's Weekly Photo Challenge. This weeks challenge was to to take a picture of something either "red, white and blue" or something patriotic. So, I think this about covers both.
This build is for the Global Challenge XI in the Lands of Roawia game located on Merlin's Beard.
Challenge:
Build a scene that depicts one of the following actions occurring either in your lands or in another factions lands:
Steal: Acquiring materials through illicit and dubious ways that are done either through the cover of darkness or in a way that they will not be linked directly back to your faction (this can also be a scene showing another faction doing this to yours).
While Lanseril was delivering some intelligence to a contact in Grahnhaven, he became aware of a Loreos spy that was going to attempt to purchase some information about Garheim troop movements. Lanseril teamed up with Sigfrid Ahigren to create a complex sting. The first step Lanseril hired a pick pocket to steal the gems that the Loreos agent was going to use to purchase the information. The second step will be continued in the second build by str0ngbad.
Comments and criticism are welcome.
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well i'm here
and summer is gone i hear
so pray for me
as i now leave your town
when did i say this
i will never leave
i can't recall this
moment in my life
you would never sleep at night
if you knew what i've been through
and this thought is all i have
to trust upon when light is gone
my problem was
that you kept me here too long
and today is when
we'll regret that i came by
when did i say this
i will never leave
i can't recall this
moment in my life
life is full of darkness
and murderers come my way
someday you will join them
and i will let you in
camera: nikon d60 / nikkor af-s 18-200mm
aperture: f10.0
exposure: 1/320
focal lenght: 80mm
iso speed: 100
texture used by flickr user skeletalmess
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Great technique for fried rice
I picked this up watching an episode of Iron Chef. Normally, you must cool cooked rice for several hours before frying it; otherwise, you will end up with gummy, sticky rice. The Iron Chef, however, added raw eggs to freshly cooked rice. The egg coats the rice and keeps the grains from sticking to each other. This is great if you want to make fried rice without waiting several hours! The rice doesn’t taste like the result of a “short cut” either—in fact, I like it better than the normal technique.
Since Iron Chef doesn’t provide any recipes, I had to do a bit of guess work. I found that one egg to 2 cups of cooked rice seems to work well. Here is the recipe I worked out. You can change the ingredients listed at the end of the recipe to vary the style of the fried rice.
Fried Rice
Base Recipe
4 cups cooked jasmine rice*
2 eggs
3-4 tablespoons peanut oil
6 cloves garlic, chopped
1/4-1/3 cup shallots, chopped (onions would work as well)
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon soy sauce
Additions for variation
2-3 tablespoons Thai roasted chili paste, nahm prik pao*
1 bunch of Thai basil
1/2 cup or more fresh vegetables (pea pods or mushrooms, etc.)
Cucumbers for garnish
*I cooked 2 1/3 cups of dried rice and 3 cups of water in a microwave rice cooker for 18 minutes. First, I washed and drained the rice 6 times in a bowl of water to remove the excess starch.
* I use homemade Thai roasted chili paste made from dried red peppers, garlic, shallots, oil, sugar, salt, soy sauce, and tamarind liquid.
1. Cook the rice. Remove lid and stir rice to cool and separate grains (you will get the best results if you divide the rice into two bowls to facilitate cooling). Let stand for about 5 minutes.
2. Break raw eggs into rice and stir to coat grains.
3. Heat oil in wok on high heat. Add garlic and shallots and fry until they begin to brown.
4. Add Thai roasted chili paste and basil and fry for a minute or two.
5. Add vegetables and fry for a couple of minutes.
6. Add rice in 3 or 4 batches, stirring to incorporate other ingredients.
7. Finally, add seasonings and mix well.
8. Serve immediately with cucumbers and more basil to garnish.
for julia ;)
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Well, my friend inmortuorum asked me to draw something. So I spend an 3 hours just for you. Hope you will like it ^~^
p.s. I just love to draw these *yaoi* kind of scenes, please don't judge me hehe:3
Gatha for Meeting Awe
Breathing in, I bow to the vastness without shore.
Breathing out, I release all grasping and fear.
The boundless holds me; I hold nothing.
All is still, all is here.
This was the highlight and reason for my Southern Arizona Adventure 2024. This is stage 8 of 9.
I was lucky to secure permits for the once monthly photography tour of Kartchner Caverns. Kartchner Caverns State Park strictly forbids any cameras or cellphones in the Caverns. Except for one trip per month for 12 to 15 photographers currently $125. I planned a 4 day 3 night road trip around Southern Arizona anchored by my Kartchner Cavern permit.
I was expecting dark conditions. The State Park turned on all the lights in the Big Room. They don't like turning on all the lights since can cause an increase in algae. This is the reason they only have one photography tour a month.
I found myself adjusting my histograms to not clip the highlights. Adapt, Improvise, and Overcome. Next time I am going to bracket my shots. I almost wish I had brought a ND filter or tried a handheld GND filter.
I don't know speleothems so I won't even try to identify. If anyone can help me with the identification, I will appreciate it.
www.nps.gov/subjects/caves/speleothems.htm#:~:text=The%20...)%20when%20needed.
The features that arouse the greatest curiosity for most cave visitors are speleothems. These stone formations exhibit bizarre patterns and other-worldly forms, which give some caves a wonderland appearance. Caves vary widely in their displays of speleothems because of differences in temperature; overall wetness; and jointing, impurities, and structures in the rocks. In general, however, one thing caves do have in common is where speleothems form. Although the formation of caves typically takes place below the water table in the zone of saturation, the deposition of speleothems is not possible until caves are above the water table in the zone of aeration. As soon as the chamber is filled with air, the stage is set for the decoration phase of cave building to begin.
The term speleothem refers to the mode of occurrence of a mineral—i.e., its morphology or how it looks—in a cave, not its composition (Hill, 1997). For example, calcite, the most common cave mineral, is not a speleothem, but a calcite stalactite is a speleothem. A stalactite may be made of other minerals, such as halite or gypsum.
Classifying speleothems is tricky because no two speleothems are exactly alike. Nevertheless, speleologists have taken three basic approaches: classification by morphology, classification by origin, and classification by crystallography. All three of these approaches have their problems (Hill, 1997), so cavers often take a more practical approach that primarily uses morphology (e.g., cave pearls) but includes whatever is known about origin (e.g., geysermites) and crystallography (e.g., spar) when needed.
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The Kartchner Caverns, rated one of the world's 10 most beautiful caves, is an eerie wonderland of stalactites and stalagmites still growing beneath the Whetstone Mountains 40 miles southeast of Tucson.
The limestone cave has 13,000 feet of passages and hundreds of formations built over the past 200,000 years, including some that are unique and world-renowned. It's a "living cave," with intricate formations that continue to grow as water seeps, drips and flows from the walls and slowly deposits the mineral calcium carbonate.
The caverns were discovered by amateur spelunkers Randy Tufts and Gary Tenen in 1974 on land owned by the Kartchner family. They kept the cave a secret until 1988, when the Kartchners sold it to the state to become a state park.
The highlights of the Big Room tour are a stretch of strawberry flowstone, which has been colored red by iron oxide (rust) in the water, and a maternity ward for 1,800 female cave myotis bats, with black grime on the ceiling where the bats hang and piles of guano on the floor. Visitors who look closely will see a bat's body embedded in one of the cave's formations.
Though not all are available on the tours, the caverns' unique features include a 21-foot, 2-inch soda straw that's one the world's largest (Throne Room), the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk (Big Room), the first reported occurrence of "turnip" shields (Big Room), the first cave occurrence of "birdsnest" needle quartz formations (Big Room) and the remains of a Shasta ground sloth from the Pleistocene Age (Big Room).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartchner_Caverns_State_Park
Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of passages.[1] The park is located 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Benson and west of the north-flowing San Pedro River. Long hidden from view, the caverns were discovered in 1974 by local cavers, assisted by state biologist Erick Campbell who helped in its preservation.
The park encompasses most of a down-dropped block of Palaeozoic rocks on the east flank of the Whetstone Mountains.
The caverns are carved out of limestone and filled with spectacular speleothems which have been growing for 50,000 years or longer, and are still growing. Careful and technical cave state park development and maintenance, initially established by founder Dr. Bruce Randall "Randy" Tufts, geologist, were designed to protect and preserve the cave system throughout the park's development, and for perpetuity.[3]
The two major features of the caverns accessible to the public are the Throne Room and the Big Room. The Throne Room contains one of the world's longest (21 ft 2 in (6.45 m))[5] soda straw stalactites and a 58-foot (18 m) high column called Kubla Khan, after the poem. The Big Room contains the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk. Big Room cave tours are closed during the summer for several months (April 15 to October 15) each year because it is a nursery roost for cave bats, however the Throne Room tours remain open year-round.[8]
Other features publicly accessible within the caverns include Mud Flats, Rotunda Room, Strawberry Room, and Cul-de-sac Passage. Approximately 60% of the cave system is not open to the public.[9]
Many different cave formations can be found within the caves and the surrounding park. These include cave bacon, helictites, soda straws, stalactites, stalagmites and others.[12] Cave formations like the stalactites and stalagmites grow approximately a 16th of an inch every 100 years.[13]
Haiku thoughts:
Beneath earth's cool veil,
Stalactites in silence grow,
Whispers of stone deep.
Kartchner
Southern Arizona Adventure 2024
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For the "Build the Porsche of your Dreams" contest on Rebrick.
The model, was made with aesthetics in mind rather than functions, taking designs from various versions of the 911.
Features HOG steering and doors, bonnet and trunk can be opened.
Yesterday the weather was inspiring so after the kids left for school I headed out to make a day of it! My intention was to do an autumn walk that I could make the most of the exercise, (my back was stiff and I needed the time away from the computer) and more importantly, to enjoy the lovely colours and misty conditions that were still around after the cold and frosty morning. Sadly I wasn’t able to get out for dawn, as I was responsible for dragging the kids out of bed and making sure they left for school with food in their bellies and clothes on their backs! Anyway, I decided I would concentrate on walking and enjoying the countryside near my house.
So I arrived at the start of the walk at about 9am and upon getting my boots on and messing about for several minutes faffing about with packing camera equipment and sandwiches and the like, I lifted the bag out and wrenched my back! My intention was to do good not make it worse! I had to decided what to do, I was in agony. I could barely walk without it hurting! Anyway, I decided that a walk with only one lens and no tripod was passable and I would probably spend more time walking and snapping, (just like I use to before my bag became like dragging a small planet around). Anyway, off I set, regretting my stupidity, but slightly excited that I would not feel pressured to get the perfect shot and let it spoil the walking pace down to something that slugs compete at!
Anyway, the first part did go well, I snapped, I walked, I moaned about my back and I must have looked like an old decrepit man walking, nay shuffling along occasionally complaining in spasm at my stupidity! Anyway after 40 minutes had passed and the painkillers had begun to take effect, I began to forget my problems and my mind wandered to recording the mood of the walk! Part of me wanted to write a photographic walking record of the walk, the other part of me wanted to make a killer image, but I began to forget and be more myself! Yes several occasions presented themselves that I’m sure I would have spent considerable time working with the tripod in toe, but I had to snap away and let it go! I did begin to think differently about what I saw and I became obsessed with sharpness that I usually take for granted on a sturdy mount! So up went the ISO, down went the F-stop, on went the IS and I got myself into several sticky situations on walls, floor and leaning against trees! I must say I loved not having to carry all my kit, but I did miss my dam old and trusted tripod, even though I curse it for being old and not behaving the way I want!
So on reflection, I achieved my goal. I had a great walk in the woods, I enabled my back to get the much needed exercise it deserved and I fed my sprit with the beauty of the autumn spender just a few miles from my house. The only regret is that I didn’t have the tripod for the last panorama I made as the conditions were specular, but like fishing, it’s the one that got away that one regrets not landing! But there is always another time and I will enjoy the journey!
Choosing the contents of my camera bag in my forthcoming journey of a lifetime inevitably gives me more sleepless nights than choosing those mundane things like where to stay or what to wear.... Finally I have gone for: Leica Q digital (perfect all round light digital street camera), Hasselblad XPan II and two lenses (perhaps my favourite film camera these days), Contax T2 compact camera - because it is small and perfect, and the LOMO LCA-120 because I want a good portable and quick to use medium format camera. And lots of film (if I run out I think they sell it there!..), some books and guides to read. Oh a little tripod and flash in case. A couple of phones. Slip my laptop in and I should have a nice heavy carry on bag with everything I could ever want....
Engineers working on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have successfully folded and packed its sunshield for its upcoming million-mile (roughly 1.5 million kilometer) journey, which begins later this year.
The sunshield — a five-layer, diamond-shaped structure the size of a tennis court — was specially engineered to fold up around the two sides of the telescope and fit within the confines of its launch vehicle, the Ariane 5 rocket. Now that folding has been completed at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California, the sunshield will remain in this compact form through launch and the first few days the observatory will spend in space.
Designed to protect the telescope’s optics from any heat sources that could interfere with its sight, the sunshield is one of Webb’s most critical and complex components. Because Webb is an infrared telescope, its mirrors and sensors need to be kept at extremely cold temperatures to detect faint heat signals from distant objects in the universe.
Read the whole feature: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-s-webb-telescope-p...
This image: Both sides of the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield were lifted vertically in preparation for the folding of the sunshield layers.
Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn
and that freak with the 70s style perm in particular.
- Thank you but I am not your legal brothers. I am not good enough to be your legal brother. Leave this title to someone else;
- Thank you for calling me every 2 hours and not hanging up even though we have nothing to say to each other;
- Thank you for spoiling many of my weekends and holidays. It's fun working on the same documents again and again and again.
- Thank you for testing the limit of my patience. You constantly raise my patience to a new level.
- Thank you for providing me with all the riddles I have to solve before understanding what you're saying.
Kindly accept the bananas as a token of my gratitude.
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It is a kind of a slang (a little rude perhaps) in Hong Kong to ask people to eat bananas if you are pissed off by them. There is nothing discriminatory, racial or otherwise, for the use of bananas here.
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Union Pacific's Provo switcher poses for photographers the newly rebuilt and repainted United States Steel No. 26 on March 6, 1977. The beautifully restored Baldwin DS-4-4-10 received a new lease on life with an EMD power transplant and new paint by Morrison Knudsen of Boise, Idaho. The USS 26 was purchased new for use at United States Steel's Geneva Works in Dec. 1947.
Beetle y Sugus estarán buscando hogar en el Pullipcon ^_^
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Beetle & Sugus will be looking for a home at Pullipcon ^_^
i'm leaving for a 10 day holiday tonight...! can't wait to relax and not see a computer for the whole time :-)
take care and see you when i get back.
ciao!
When I arrived I found you there, looking at the rocks and smiling. I took photos and tried to understand.
Hasselblad 500cm. © Dan Cordle
Mother and Child is a reiterating theme for everyone. This was shot in Pune
on the streets. A woman sells flowers while her child eats some bread on a
busy thoroughfare in the old city area. The mother looked back just for a
few moments amidst the hustle and bustle of people walking by. Maybe a wait
of 10 minutes or so in a limited space behind her.
This is again a very low res image. The internet connection is still giving
trouble. Hopefully it gets better in the coming days.
Dates
Taken on September 8, 2011 at 4.09pm IST (edit)
Posted to Flickr April 19, 2012 at 8.05AM IST (edit)
Exif data
Camera Nikon D300
Exposure 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture f/3.2
Focal Length 50 mm
ISO Speed 200
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash No Flash
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