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Taken at Rowallane Gardens, Northern Ireland.
Processed in photoshop to give the faerie garden effect.
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The theme for “Looking Close… on Friday” for the 31st of December 2021 is “New Year Cards”.
This postcard, published by Raphael Tuck and Sons in 1904 features the faerie tale of Hansel and Grethel. Chromolithographed in Bavaria, it one of a set of six faerie tale postcards in this series to celebrate Christmas and New Year. I do hope that you like it, and that it makes you smile.
I know that like 2020, 2021 is a year many of us would rather forget, however I'd like to end the year as I started, on a positive note. There have been many wonderful things that have happened in the second year of this world pandemic, and some of those things I have found on Flickr this year including beautiful images, lovely stories and connections with old and new friends. I'm grateful for all of those things and more besides. Thank you for the smiles and laughs! I sincerely hope that you find something to smile and laugh about this New Year's Eve.
I'd like to wish all my Flickr friends and followers the very best for the New Year. Thank you for your support, encouragement and comments this year. Thank you also for all your wonderful photographs!
May your New Year's Eve be a festive one, however you are celebrating this year, and if you are fortunate enough celebrate it with others, may those others be people you love and who love you. May 2022 be a happy, artistic and prosperous year for you all.
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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. :)
The Blue Cottage. Huntington Point,N.S. Canada.
>>> DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC PLACE
The Blue Cottage is a two storey cottage located close to the shore of the Bay of Fundy on Huntington Point, NS. Built in 1936 by Charles Macdonald, the cottage is one of the original five summer cottages built by Macdonald, providing Macdonald’s employees with much needed work and reflect his artistic vision. The provincial designation includes the cottage and surrounding property. www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=4119
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 Cinderella arrived at the palace, it was the king’s son who offered her his hand as she alighted from her golden coach. He led her into the palace to join the glittering company gathered there. Upon her entry to the ballroom there was an immediate and profound silence. Everyone stopped dancing, the musicians ceased to play, and all heads turned, so entranced was everyone with the singular beauty of the unknown newcomer. Nothing was then heard but a confused noise of, "Who is she? Do we know her? How wonderful her gown! How elegant her hairstyle! How beautiful she is!" The king himself, old as he was, could not help watching her, and telling the queen softly that it was a long time since he had seen so beautiful and lovely a creature.
‘Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper’ by Charles Perrault.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 8th of January is “portray a fairy tale”. This theme was made for me, as I love faerie tales, which were very much a part of my childhood when my beloved maternal Grandmother used to read me stories from an old book of faerie tales. Over the years, I have never lost the love, or the magic of faerie tales and these stories are as enjoyable and as fresh to me as they were when I first heard them. I now tell them to my godchildren, instilling in them the same love of old folk and faerie tales from around the world, complete with the darkness so many of them contain in their original versions. The only difficulty I faced with this theme was, out of all the things I could do, which one would I pick?
Over the last few years, I have been photographing different faerie tales I love using Playmobil characters to dramatise the tales. I have about fifty to sixty stories completed now, some of which I have uploaded to Flickr, but most have yet to see the light of day here, so I could have chosen a more obscure faerie tales like the Grimm Brothers’ “King Thrushbeard”, “the Sea Hare” or “Mother Hollie” or the Estonian faerie tale of “The Waterlily and the three Golden Spinners”, just to name a few, however I have opted for what would generally be agreed is the world’s most famous and beloved faerie tale of “Cinderella”. This is just one photograph of many that I have taken to illustrate the Grimm Brother’s version “Ashenputtel” which features no faerie godmother, although the text above comes from the more commonly known “Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper” by Charles Perrault. I do hope you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.
Playmobil is a line of toys produced by the Brandstätter Group, headquartered in Zirndorf, Germany. Production began in 1974. Playmobil began to be sold worldwide in 1975, and by 2009, approximately 2.2 billion Playmobil figures had been sold. The signature Playmobil toy is a 7.5 cm tall human figure with a particular smiling face. In 2006 Playmobil released three Fairy Tale Sets, including set 4213 which was a Cinderella set, which today is highly sought after. It contains four characters, all of which I have included here: Cinderella in the foreground, the king’s son in the midground to the right of Cinderella and her two stepsisters who are midground to the left of the photo. To complete her family, I have added her stepmother in the black and gold dress and her father in the cream hat with the red beard (as in the Grimm Brothers’ version, both father and stepmother play a more significant part in the tale). I have also included the king and queen and various ball guests including a joker with his yellow hat.
A wide range of accessories, buildings and vehicles, as well as many sorts of animals, are also part of the Playmobil line. Playmobil toys are produced in themed series of sets as well as individual special figures and playsets. New products and product lines developed by a 50-strong development team are introduced frequently, and older sets are discontinued. Promotional and one-off products are sometimes produced in very limited quantities. These practices have helped give rise to a sizeable community of collectors.
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This is a massive panorama of a small section of the forest... somewhere along the Terblans Nature Walk.
The one with the actual Faerie...none of that Photoshop Trickery..Lol !! ( well !...suggestively hand painted in Lightroom )
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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