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During my travels today, I came across a remarkably large chickadee and its birdhouse!
The proportion of this little bird and its home to its surroundings was truly striking. Standing at 5’6”, I notice that the sapling beside the birdhouse is taller than I am, highlighting the impressive scale of the scene. It was a delightful reminder of how art can surprise us!
Olympus OM-2N, with shutter speed control uncharacteristically located on the front of the body, not via a dial on top.
The #FlickrFriday #Bottles challenge
This is the neck of a glass codd-neck bottle made c.1910, a type used to contain carbonated drinks. It can be forgiven for looking a bit tatty as it was buried for decades before being dug up intact, cleaned and sold at an antique fair to dear wife who is a sucker for this kind of thing.
Originally it would have been filled upside down to allow gravity to make the pictured marble rest against a rubber washer. As the contents released carbon dioxide, internal pressure would have forced the marble against the washer, creating an airtight seal to preserve the fizz. To pour, the marble would have been pushed into a separate chamber by the consumer to allow the contents to be decanted.
I've gone for a high key effect, lighting using two LED strips projected onto a white background. Processing mainly included accentuating the green and adding texture to bring out the imperfections in the glass.
my seamstress wears her "ruler" around her neck
Natalie Jenè
at Reimagined BK Vintage boutique
Crown Heights
(I've used her for alterations, very pleased)
This week's FlickrFriday theme is: #Triangle
Le thème de ce FlickrFriday est: #Triangle
O tema desta FlickrFriday é: #Triângulo
本次 FlickrFriday 主題: #三角形
FlickrFriday-Thema der Woche: #Triangel
El tema de FlickrFriday es: #Triángulo
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#525
This week's FlickrFriday theme is: #Shade
Le thème de ce FlickrFriday est: #Ombre
O tema desta FlickrFriday é: #Sombra
本次 FlickrFriday 主題: #阴影
FlickrFriday-Thema der Woche: #Schatten
El tema de FlickrFriday es: #Sombra
... repair it
..... reparieren
FlickrFriday, #YouCan, #Tu peux, #Você pode, #你可以, #Sie können, #Usted puede
My young neighbor Howie believes that his dad is a hero...and he's right. Big shirt. Big shoes.
--You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose--
Dr. Seuss
The #FlickrFriday #Believe theme
"That man is like to die comfortably, who is every Day minding himself, that he is to die shortly. Let us look upon every thing as a sort of Death's-Head set before us, with a Memento mortis written upon it."
- Cotton Mather 1663-1728; Puritan Minister
The distinctive death's head design on this grave marks the deceased as a puritan, a member of an English Protestant sect which sought to remove Roman Catholic practices from The Church of England. Never a cohesive group, they often argued among themselves about theology, but all agreed that belief should be based upon pure reading of The Bible. Puritans disapproved of the depiction of the human form as idolatry, hence their graves would not feature angels or cherubs as others did; although this attitude softened over time. The death's head, often assumed to indicate the grave of a pirate or a plague victim, is typical of a puritan grave and is in reality a memento mortis - "Remember, you must die!" The symbolism reminded people of possible imminent mortality and represented an entirely different attitude to modern thinking. Today, if we knew we were to be gone in (say) 24 hours, we might make the most of the time left - meet up with friends, have a good meal, go for an experience . . . and I'll leave other options to your good taste and imagination. But puritans would be anxious not to offend God, who they may meet very soon. Daily piety was therefore very much the order of the day. Blotting one's copybook in the hours just before meeting Our Maker really was not the way forward so far as puritans were concerned.
Puritans led by Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell governed England 1649-1660 after The Civil War and the execution of King Charles I during a long interregnum, imposing their beliefs upon the populace. Banning the festivals of Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide which puritans believed were celebrated in too riotous a fashion symbolised their very austere way of life which fell out of popularity with the populace. Indeed, after the death of Cromwell and a couple more years of uncertainty, the monarchy was restored in the person of King Charles II, who became known as The Merry Monarch due to his lavish lifestyle. Remember, he was the son of the king who was so bad he was executed. Perhaps this and the public's stoicism in funding his excesses is suggestive of how unpopular the alternative - puritanism - had become among those obliged to practise it, although war weariness must also have been an important factor. As an aside, His Majesty's illegitimate progeny were raised at public expense. One branch of his extended family, the Spencers, will in due course provide a direct ancestral line between His Majesty and the modern monarchy in the guise of the future King William, son of The Late Diana, Princess of Wales.
The grave of John King is in my local churchyard. The photo was converted to monochrome, a sepia tone added, some tweaks made to colour channels, and grain and a vignette added.
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#514
This week's FlickrFriday theme is: #Redo
Le thème de ce FlickrFriday est: #Refaire
O tema desta FlickrFriday é: #refazer
本次 FlickrFriday 主題: #重做
FlickrFriday-Thema der Woche: #Wiederholen
El tema de FlickrFriday es: #Rehacer