GiGi Hadid by Noel Cruz (ncruz.com) in the Regent Miniatures Mansion by Ken Haseltine with hands by Pure Icon Paris.

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In red leather

Some of you may know that I've decided to take a break from 4-wides and move up in scale to 6-wides. If you didn't know that, well... now you do, I guess.

Anyway, this Is what I have got with my first project. Chances are you'll know what this is. All it needs now is a front, interior, and maybe a rework after I've got a final result. So far I'm pleased, but I want to fix the back up a little...

Oystercatcher does not want to get wet

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RBMN NRFF-7/8 passes the farm at Millers Crossing Road in Molino as Mike Tierney lays down to frame a shot of the train with some burnt debris in the foreground.

Shot on a Bronica SQA-I with 80mm and Portra 160 film.

So this was on Explore on 15-09-2015 it seems, awesome and weird since my pictures normally don't even get 100 views.

I have a Facebook page with some behind the scenes info on this picture. Have a look:

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Before attending a social event, I believe it's imperative to get into a proper frame of mind and a nice sauvignon blanc helps greatly. It was also nice to feel the warmth of a fireplace on a brisk October afternoon at Happy Hour. Cheers to my many sweet friends! ❤

Seen toward the end of our walk. Not sure how you get a tire to a roadless beach.

I think I enjoy the behind the scenes shots more than most of the photos I get from a shoot. That is mainly because I like candid photos, something that is telling a story. The adventure is in the journey not the destination.

National Get Up day.

Heading to see friends for the weekend, we detoured to Rutland Water to see the Ospreys.

While watching from the hide, we were just about able to see the nest, and saw the male fly off into a tree nearby.

We decided to walk back to our campervan as it was quite a distance at a different car park. As we did, we went down a footpath near the water. Seeing a bird flying, we both said "is that what I think it is?" Sure enough it was, so we just watched the osprey. Getting my camera out again, I waited a short while, and it returned, much closer than from the hide! He did look like he was thinking of fishing, but no joy. We were unable to stay any longer, but what a treat!

It's not often these days I start my day in a nightie so get my face etc on more as my feminine self. So I did do a few getting ready pictures yesterday, and having squeezed a little more space on my flickr page I might as well put one on, someone might like it.

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“The road to success runs uphill.” ~ Willie Davis

Iam so bored today.. so iam trying to get myself inspired.

View my Stream in Fluidr!

I thought I would get todays photo up before tackling yet more house work.

All I have to do is the side pieces and figure out how best to make it in to a cushion cover, I realised I had not sew the little panels the same as in the tutorial but I like the way it has turned out and it gives me an excuse to do another one I will have to find some more plain fabric first. I'm sure there was a spair pair of cotton curtains some ware

it WILL get in there , just as i WILL wish you all a fantastic day today

getting wet

Léthéia - Pullip Romantic Pink Alice

View on black

the bear's contract won't be renewed for next year :)

I saw this in the Super Kmart in Kahului where we were passing time while waiting to head to the airport for our 10pm flight home. What a fascinating store, filled with stuff, groceries, booze, aisles of delightfully tacky souvenirs, ( I bought a palm tree keychain ), everything stacked to the ceiling, it was eye candy for my camera :)

Any constructive comments are appreciated.

Last week I joined the Get Pushed group. I was looking for inspiration, and hoped I would find some here. So this is my first Get Pushed try! I got paired with ever-creative and fun Emeraldgirl. It was a pleasure going through her photostream - it made me laugh out loud more than once. Here's what she had in mind for me:

"So my challenge to you is to [...] do a selfie where you are wearing red in an otherwise monochrome setting. And the trick is to express how red makes you feel in that setting. Find a spot that is dark, dreary and otherwise dull and really pop that red colour with emotion. No black and white with selective colour though - it should come right from the camera."

I was struck by how she challenged me to do exactly what I would never do normally. First of all, as a rule I don´t do selfies - or at least do not post them here. I´m definitely not model material, and I am kind of a private person - can you tell? And then, I don´t like red. It´s just not my colour.

Even so, I got excited about this challenge right away. How to fulfil the challenge without compromising my own feelings about it. Inspiration hit me like a truck, my mind filled with all kind of wild ideas. Like starting a fire in the woods, or stumbling in front of a train at night. I´ve been advised not to, suppose they´re right, I worried a bit about getting fined too;-). And red, what does it stand for? Love, warmth, sensuality, danger... I got together all the red props I could find, which weren´t many as you would expect. (I did discover I have 3 pairs of red shoes! How weird.) I even borrowed a pretty red party dress from my neighbour. But in the end, I fell for those beautiful red autumn leaves - I rescued the last few of them out of the garden this afternoon.

Now if you think this was easy, think again. There I was, lying on the cold - dull grey! - kitchen floor, trying to get those leaves to stick to my face, all but buttered up my face. I only had a little compact mirror to try to spread them evenly. Had to call my son down to pull the trigger (I have no remote). Had to do the sticking-leaves-on-my-face-thing over again because we burst out laughing. And again. So this is how I feel in red, and I think it shows: ridiculous!

Thanks for the inspirational challenge Emeraldgirl. I´m still contemplating some of the ideas it gave me.

Z151 blasts through Kent City with 128 cars in tow, This would be a experience as the 3 EMDs would traverse a series of grades, But the well seasoned crew would get back to Baldwin in under 10 hours.

HK Tram series.

Camera for the photo : Olympus OM-D E-M5

Lens for the photo : Lumix G X Vario 12-35mm F2.8 ASPH

In my quest to find a cheap replacement of my Trioplan 2.8/100, I discovered another slide projector lens. The Rodenstrock--Splendar 2.8/100 with lenses made of glass in a steel tube (all others I had so far were made of plastic) seems to be a good choice. It has the same focal length as the Trioplan and is also Cooke triplet construction. A big difference is that the bubbles are getting ovoid when away from the center.

Perhaps not getting the same levels of attention as the steam locomotives, the oldest working diesel-electric loco in the world, No.2 shunts the yard at Marley Hill

Number 2 (Armstrong Whitworth D22 of 1933) is one of a batch of six 100hp locomotives built by Armstrong Whitworth in 1933. Two are preserved at Tanfield and the best know example operated on the North Sunderland Railway which linked Chathill on the ECML and Seahouses on the Northumberland coast.

A Greylag Goose getting airborne from a small pool at Murton nature reserve, near Forfar.

Stitched Mill Hill Panorama 52 Weeks of 2020 Week #11 "Get High"

This is a Panorama from a local beauty spot called Mill Hill in Shoreham-By-Sea You can see on the left the Adur Flyover The main A27, beyond that you can see the Old Toll Bridge (Woden) This used to be the old A27, then further back is Shoreham Municipal Airport.

You can see the pale colour River Adur snaking through the photo.

Just to the right of centre and towards the rear you can Just see Lancing Collage Chapel

Not a very good day visibility wise! 😩

Best viewed large press "L"

You can see all my other 52 Weeks of 2020 photos here :- www.flickr.com/photos/123248944@N05/albums/72157712514998051

A Shot form Bull Racing Event....

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That'd be me reflected in the rained on black glass of my truck.

I like that I have no farther to go than my own backyard to go exploring. Then again, sometimes I don't even have to go that far.

Getting a little philosophical this week.

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Created for Toy Sunday’s theme, “HOAX”.

For those who are not feeling so well today.

Spraxia flowers

Taken in PennyPack Park. Philadelphia, PA

Chillin' in the backyard.

January 17, 2023

Which is Better?

Colour or Mono?

Getting a little closer to this old church means you could smell it. The rot, decay and animal habitation.