Before going out for a drink and catch up with my friend Tanya

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Ex-Norfolk and Western Number 475 awaits the call to pick up its first train of the day. Strasburg, PA...

Here is a fox for you Ethan, this is the same fox that had his foot caught in a trap. He was sleeping and the photographer woke him up, (not on purpose) love the way the snow is on his fur and yet he is warm.

For my video: youtu.be/xv6O-tCBLtI,

Kerr street pier,

North Arm, of the, Fraser River, in, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada,

QUADRANT WARRIOR (MMSI: 316022036) is a tug boat and is sailing under the flag of Canada.

Her length overall (LOA) is 64 meters and her width is 49 meters.

460bhp diesel engine (1973)

Twin Screw

In 1973-1995 she was owned by Noble Towing Ltd., North Vancouver BC. In 1996 she was owned by 473994 B.C. Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1998-2009 she was owned by Westview Navigation Ltd., Powell River BC. In 2011-2019 she was owned by Quadrant Investments Ltd., Coquitlam BC.

For me, Formidable, On Black

It was so hot, today!! I took a walk at my lunch time and right away needed something cool to drink and I quit soda drinking seven years ago and I am more of a Pepsi but this looked so inviting, than I realized I was looking at an opticians store window and this was just a decor!!! LOL!! Had to have a shot of it, and the eye glasses so cool exactly the same same shape of mine but different colors!! hmmm, should maybe get this one too or instead a camera lens!! hahaha, I guess a camera lens!! I am satisfied to have this shot!! and it reminded me of a song by Charles Aznavour titled "Formidable", nothing to do with this shot since it is a romantic song, but could be for the CocaCola or the eyeglasses!!! why not!!

Please right click the link to listen:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXIgqfQCo3U

P.S. Sorry will be late to comment, was busy and tired but couldn't resist to post this!!!

Thanks for stopping by and commenting!!

For those who prefer the girl next door look

Funny how different images change the way a person is viewed,

I have observed this for some time now ever since I posted my lingerie photo.

While it was very well received by most I did find that some of my followers didn't know how to take it. Its almost like they thought I had cheapened myself by posting a photo like that.

Now let just get this clear this narrative is not a poke at anyone who has made a comment either way. it is purely to pose a few questions that we maybe should ask ourselves

I have to say I have done the same myself , I once followed a very respectable girl who always looked nice and then one day she posted a basically pornographic photo of herself. At that point my view of her was shattered so much so I stopped following her. So I can understand why it happens.

Problem is do we keep the sexy photos to ourselves and in doing so are we saying we are ashamed of said photos or do we embrace ourselves and just enjoy the image we can project and in doing so possibly cheapen ourselves?

I find it a hard line to follow. I love who I am, my public image has been worked on over time to a point of being almost good enough to pass most of the time but I also love the fact that I can look sexy even if its only in my eyes.

I don't view Photos of girls wearing lingerie keeping everything covered as rude/dirty! sure yes it is erotic but then so is posting a photo wearing thigh high boots.

Do these photos detract from the positive view I project most of the time?

I suppose even real women have the same questions although with the rise of social media it is becoming very evident its not just a trans thing taking photos in your underwear lol

Heal the World - Michael Jackson

spoken:

Think about the generations and to say we want to make it a better world for our children and our children’s children. So that they know it’s a better world for them; and think they can make it a better place.

There’s a place in your heart

And I know that it is love

And this place could be much

Brighter than tomorrow.

And if you really try

You’ll find there’s no need to cry

In this place you’ll feel

There’s no hurt or sorrow.

There are ways to get there

If you care enough for the living

Make a little space, make a better place.

Chorus:

Heal the world

Make it a better place

For you and for me and the entire human race

There are people dying

If you care enough for the living

Make a better place for

You and me.

If you want to know why

There’s a love that cannot lie

Love is strong

It only cares for joyful giving.

If we try we shall see

In this bliss we cannot feel

Fear or dread

We stop existing and start living

Then it feels that always

Love’s enough for us growing

Make a better world, make a better world.

Chorus:

Heal the world

Make it a better place

For you and for me and the entire human race

There are people dying

If you care enough for the living

Make a better place for

You and me.

Bridge:

And the dream we were conceived in

Will reveal a joyful face

And the world we once believed in

Will shine again in grace

Then why do we keep strangling life

Wound this earth, crucify it’s soul

Though it’s plain to see, this world is heavenly

Be God’s glow

We could fly so high

Let our spirits never die

In my heart I feel

You are all my brothers

Create a world with no fear

Together we’ll cry happy tears

Se the nations turn

Their swords into plowshares

We could really get there

If you cared enough for the living

Make a little space to make a better place

Chorus:

Heal the world

Make it a better place

For you and for me and the entire human race

There are people dying

If you care enough for the living

Make a better place for

You and me.

Refrain (2x)

There are people dying if you care enough for living

Make a better place for you and me.

There are people dying if you care enough for living

Make a better place for you and for me.

You and for me / Make a better place

You and for me / Make a better place

You and for me / Make a better place

You and for me / Heal the world we live in

You and for me / Save it for our children

You and for me / Heal the world we live in

You and for me / Save it for our children

You and for me / Heal the world we live in

You and for me / Save it for our childrenYou and for me / Heal the world we live in

You and for me / Save it for our children

For Nik

OK, this is really weird for me, but I love this gal WAY too much for a repro! LOL (Especially since I already have a vintage Black Francie, but she is the earlier 1967 version, with the oxidised tawny hair and rust-coloured eyes. I know that it’s the version most collectors prefer, but I always wanted the later 1968 version, which this gal more closely resembles.) I have one coming to me as a gift, but once I heard that there were some available at Myer Chatswood, (which is the suburb I work in) I rushed over there straight after work and there were two left…. This one really ‘spoke’ to me with her almost cheery expression on her face... I can't stop looking at her! She is WAAAAY better than the earlier Black Francie repros, IMO. She has the larger rust/milk chocolate pupils just like the original, so she is not so 'zombie/stare-y' like some I have seen and like a lot of the other repros (which is a big issue for me!) and her hair isn’t rooted in that weird, too-low- way of the ‘Wild Bunch’ repro black Francie I already have ... she also doesn't have the large melon head of some of the others I have seen. And I've seen some on here brush or wash out the gunk from her hair and she looks amazing when they do that, so I can’t wait to do that myself! Her eyelashes and fringe look even and aren’t wonky, thank God… (the eyelashes are actually a little 'winged' like Stacey’s, which I actually PREFER to the original’s long ‘horsey’ lashes!!!) ... The dress is OK too, but I have the original vintage version of that, anyway (which funnily enough, was one of the first dresses I put on my vintage black Francie when I got her!) I'm gonna keep her in the box until my other one arrives and then decide which to de-box. The wonkier one will stay in there! LOL 😆 It was actually an unexpected thrill to buy a Mod-era looking doll from a department store in 2022... almost felt like going back in time! LOL

For the joy and experience of mindfulness.

Under a cloud laden sky Colas 56113 propels more empty Bitumen tanks into Eastriggs siding from Carlisle going into store. This was the first trip from Carlisle with the locomotive returning Light engine for another load.

created for: DUC challge 960

Original photo by: Rab

texture by: Cleanzor

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Thank to FOTOLIA

For some years Australian Black Swans have bred successfully along the Itchen - this is the 2015 brood. Although smaller than the native Mute Swan they tend to be more agressive and often see Mute Swans off!

Cimetière du Montparnasse. This is Céline Seurre (1873-1966) known as Cécile Sorel or the Comtesse de Ségur (by marriage) who was a French comic actress. She was know for her extravagant costumes.

DSC_0112, Rio Grande

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Macro Mondays weekly theme: Childhood memories

My father sold vegetables and fruit door to door in our village with his horse and wagon. As a child I had to work with hem after school and Saturdays. We want talk about how I felt about that ;-) ... My father has been dead nearly 30 years, but he is still with me .. in my mind and in my heart. If I think about my father it is with love .... lots of love ....! This horse was decorated by my daughter (when she was 12) as a present for me and for me this horse is a symbol of my childhood with my father ... on the vegetableswagon.

Mijn vader was groentenboer. Hij ventte met paard en wagen door het dorp om de groenten en fruit huis aan huis te verkopen. Als kind moest ik na schooltijd en zaterdags meehelpen.We zullen het er maar niet over hebben hoe ik dat vond...

Mijn vader is al bijna 30 jaar geleden gestorven, maar hij is nog steeds bij me.. in mijn gedachten en in mijn hart. Aan mijn vader denk ik terug met liefde.... heel veel liefde....!

Dit paard heeft mijn dochter voor mij versierd (toen ze 12 was) en staat voor mij symbool voor mijn jeugd met mijn vader... op de groentenkar.

Buttercup..., for you :-)

No snow yet but mornings are frosty and cold in the gardens. Time for turtleneck jackets on tender little dogs. ❤️

This pretty Blythe is Prima Dolly Peony, wearing Cloud 9 Bowl's stock dress. The record player is part of a play set for Our Generation dolls at Target. This picture is #6 in my Valentine's Day 2020: Kitschy Valentines series.

Had a nice two hour hike today, so nice and warm 53 and sunny!! We had a great day, kitties were out running and zooming also~~MA;-))

Thank you all so very much for your nice comments, and visits~~~Best large on black!!!~~MA;-))

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For Blab! Show

Exibithion at Copro Gallery, with:

Femke Hiemstra

Gary Baseman

D'Holbachie-Yoko

Ryan Heshka

Travis Lampe

Kris Kuksi

CJ Pyle

Ron English

Rob Sato

John Macnair

Marc Burckhardt

Shag

Fred Stonehouse

Dave Cooper

and More...

BLAB! is an annual anthology of visual art produced by Chicago-based Graphic Designer and Art Director Monte Beauchamp.

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Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 60 cm.

Anemone headpiece MAUI, available at The Dressing Room for 70L

Hair: Burley

Skin: Mother Goose's (1L)

Eyelids: Slink

Teeth: PXL

Late sunset view with the comet PanSTARRS. We were searching for the comet but couldn't see it with naked eyes. In the end the comet was recorded in this photo in a very small way. Shot taken in Kuuva, Ruissalo, Finland.

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A Snapping Turtle pops his head out of the water for some air and to survey the area.

Furnishings for sale in the medina in Morocco's capital, Rabat.

(Explore)

A Massy Ferguson with sumertim cab getting ready for haytime in Garsdale

“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.

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Subscribe to my new youtube channel and see how I used the divine section and golden rectangle, spiral, and ratio to get the cover of N-Photo Magazine! And see how Ansel Adams and the great painters and fine art masters used the golden mean in their compositions!

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It shows up in a lot of my surf photos too!

Nikon D810 Photos Pro Women's Surfing Sports Photography With New Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon!

Beautiful athletic swimsuit bikini wetsuit model goddesses!

The new Nikon D810 rocks for sports photography! New Instagram!

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Goddess videos! vimeo.com/45surf

Nikon D810 Photos Pro Women's Surfing Van's US Open Sports Photography Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD !

I shot in DX mode which crops away the extra pixels and takes me 1.5X closer while allowing for up to 7 FPS with the Nikon D810's Nikon MB-D12 Battery Grip using the 8 AA battery option! 8 Duracles took me through around 3,000 shots no problem--maybe more! I was shooting at the equivalent of 900mm with the 1.5x crop factor! Pretty close! Had I gone with the Nikon D4s, I would have gotten 12 fps, but no DX crop factor, as the sensor has only around 14mp, compared to the d810's 36 megapixels! Sure the larger pixel size on the Nikon D4s full frame sensor comes in handy indoors or at night, but in the brigth sun, there's more than enough light for the smaller pixels in crop mode! Sure we lose some pixels from the outer edges when shooting in DX crop mode, but most of those pixels would be cropped away in lightroom anyway. And the smaller files make the memory cards last longer, while also upping the FPS to 7 shots per second! Not quite 12 FPS< but still awesome and enough I felt!

What a beautiful way to test the Nikon D810 and Tamron 150-600mm zoom lens for sports photography!

Athletic graceful girl goddesses! Tall, thin, fit and in shape! Pro women's surfers form the van's us open wearing both long wetsuits and bikini bottoms with shorty wetsuit tops/summer wetsuits. Sexy, beautiful beach babes and water goddesses all! Many are professional swimsuit bikini / surf lifestyle models too!

Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD Autofocus lens for Nikon AF-D Cameras.

The new Nikon D810 rocks for sports photography New Instagram!

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Beautiful athletic swimsuit bikini wetsuit model goddesses!

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All the best on your epic hero's odyssey! :)

Been hard at work on my books--my physics books on Dynamic Dimensions Theory (dx4/dt=ic) celebrating the hitherto unsung reality of the fourth expanding dimension which all the photons surf across the universe en route to making a photograph! Also working on an art, mythology, and photography book titled The Golden Hero's Odyssey! All the best on your Epic Hero's Odyssey! Always love hearing from y'all! :)

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.

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We're on an orange alert for strong winds, so here's a photo from our beach on a lovely, calm day.

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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

Jackdaw taking the opportunity for a meal

For Strobist:

Comet twinkle w/ yellow filter set at 45degree leftside and 35 degree upright of lens.

For We're Here — Symmetrically Yours.

Put some zing into your 365! Join We're Here!

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

Beynac, Dordogne

For the Love of Lust