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We were privileged to see several faeries today on our walk along the Bluffs, which is good luck in itself but this one allowed us to see his face and waistcoat which is truly remarkable
The Faerie Forest is here! Deep in the heart of Avalonia on the Mystic Islands lies a land rich with magic and mystery. Here is the Faerie Forest capitol home to more than 200 forestmen and elves. The world's most elite archers are found here in its renown Archery Guild. And if you're looking for an earth wizard, ent, or faerie dragon rider, here is the place to find them. One can even see the expanse of the mystic isles from the Redwoods hundreds of feet tall. It is here that Coral and Siercon make their home.
W.I.P.?
Having my translucent blue doors and borrowing Magma's trans-glitter pink ones, I knew a faerie dragon/thing had to be done sooner or later. Since there were a lot of pink pieces on sale at Kocke Fest 13, I figured this is as good of a time as any.
Should anything be changed on him (her? Or is it a hermaphrodite?), since I guess I am keeping my MOCs built for longer periods of time lately (8 at the moment)?
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tram L0108 hair
Pox - Fae.Dress
Zibska Julija SET
Combining new EXCLUSIVES from Midsummer Enchantment with older favorites from Aii & Ego to create a brand-new look.
Info & links on my Dark Blog ~ aznanasaccouterments.blogspot.com/2024/07/062224me01.html
trailor park garden.. so sweet and simple.. not much space here, so they make the most of the spot given.
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Life can be very difficult, and stressful. Taking solace in the beauty of nature can be a great comfort.
corroded silver etched in time
captures a memory
i believed just a dream
waking magic
believed
© jen turner 2007
This is a seven-image panorama of a small section of a forest path that I sometimes walk along.
You shouldn't believe people when they tell you that "camera gear doesn't matter". Gear definitely does matter. At least in this forest it does. I probably wouldn't have been able to capture this image if I didn't own a Nikon D850 (or any other camera with at least 14.8 stops of dynamic range (which is the difference between the darkest darks and the brightest brights)).
While it might not be too difficult to capture this composition on an overcast day, when the sunlight penetrates the canopy, everything becomes a lot more difficult. There are very few cameras today that are able to capture all the details in both the highlights and shadows in one single exposure in a forest scene like this. Taking multiple exposures and then blending them together afterwards might seem like the obvious solution to that problem, but you can only really do this when there is no wind... so that nothing moves a millimetre between each of those bracketed shots. The only workable solution is to expose for the highlights (white pixels can only become grey when you darken them), and then hope that you can retrieve all the details from the shadow areas of your RAW file later.
Yesterday, while walking in the park, my eye was caught by flashes of light, as the faeries were just waking up from their afternoon naps...
The Knysna Forest at Knight... attempt #4.
This is a combination of five different photographs... and only because I don't have five 1000 lumen lanterns... yet. :)
Make It Interesting ~ Challenge #1
With thanks to….
Starter image ~ Cliff1066™
Rocks ~ TenSafeFrogs
Peacock ~ BY-YOUR-⌘
Models ~ Marcus Ranum
Lanterns ~ JinxMim
Clouds & Double Rainbow taken by me
* #215 Explore - February 2, 2012 *
When I was a child, I grew up listening to my maternal grandmother reading faerie tales to me from a big (at least from a child's perspective) green leather bound volume of Grimm's Faerie Tales with fine gilding and marbled edges. However, that wasn’t the only volume she read from. She also introduced me to the wonderful characters created by Lewis Carroll through “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass” which she had in an omnibus edition from the 1920s in grey vellum with all the characters’ names written in ever reducing squares and font as a border to the title.
It is from these stories that I have taken my inspiration for the theme for “Looking Close… on Friday!” for October 13th, which is “mushrooms”. If you have ever read “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, or seen one of the multitude of television and film adaptations, you will be familiar with the caterpillar who sat on a mushroom smoking a hookah who told Alice that eating one side of the mushroom would make her taller and one side would make her smaller. You would also know that the whole reason Alice first went to Wonderland was by following the White Rabbit, who was late for the Queen of Hearts croquet party, down a rabbit hole. The amalgam of these two things led to this pairing of macro photos. Alice and the White Rabbit are both miniatures who live inside a small jar terrarium that I was given as a Christmas gift by a dear friend some years ago, whilst the mushrooms with their luscious shiny red tops are hand painted polystyrene examples that I picked up from a craft shop. The woodland setting is a small patch of my garden where the clivias are. I hope you like my choice for the theme, and that it makes you smile!
I would like to acknowledge and thank my Flickr Friend Red Stilletto www.flickr.com/photos/thevixen/ for inspiring me to use the pairing of two images and the application of a wide white frame. Both of these design elements she uses to create great impact with her own images.
Can anyone identify this tree? Cheesequake's hardwood forest is known for containing Oak, Maple, Birch, and Gum trees. I'd love to know what species this is, but clearly no leaves to go by in winter.
"Cheesequake State Park is a 1,610-acre (2.52 mi2) state park located in Old Bridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, in the United States.
The New Jersey Legislature allocated $100,000 in 1937 to purchase property for the park. The state first acquired a 250-acre (100 ha) tract of farmland and a Civil War-era mansion from the Favier brothers in January 1938. Additional lands were acquired over the next two years, and the Civil Conservation Corps, part of the Works Progress Administration, helped develop the property. The park was opened in June 1940. It is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry and is part of the New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route.
The name Cheesequake has been variously described as deriving from the Lenape words Cheseh-oh-ke ("upland"), Chichequaas ("upland village"), or Chiskhakink ("at the land that has been cleared").
The park's lowlands consist of freshwater and saltwater marsh and a tidal estuary near the mouth of Cheesequake Creek on the Raritan Bay. It also includes hills of Northeastern hardwood forest, open fields, and a white cedar swamp. It includes a small parcel of Atlantic coastal pine barrens, consisting of pine forest in sandy soil, an isolated section of the much larger New Jersey Pine Barrens. It also includes the 6-acre (24,000 m2) Hooks Creek Lake, a freshwater lake where recreational fishing features trout, largemouth bass, catfish, and sunfish. Crabbing is also available at the park.
The park includes an interpretive center and five marked trails for both hiking and mountain biking that run throughout the wooded hills and across long wooden bridges across marshland. The park has designated camping areas available by reservation. Swimming and boating are summertime activities, while sledding, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing are available in wintertime.
The Garden State Parkway runs through the park near exit 120 but offers no direct access. A road runs underneath the parkway to connect the northern and southern sides of the park. Parts of the park, including a picnic area, are visible from the parkway. Aberdeen-Matawan station (New Jersey Transit) is located about two miles east of the park." (Wikipedia)
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