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Accessories by: AstralWork Creations (www.facebook.com/AstralWorkCreations?fref=ts)
And many thanks to Jim Keith (www.facebook.com/JimKeithCosplay?fref=ts) for his assistance.
This series was featured in:
1.) Dark Beauty Magazine: www.darkbeautymag.com/2015/03/spirosk-photography-irene-a...
2.) Ladies of Steampunk Magazine (print, too): www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/901617
3.) The Greek book of Steampunk stories "Gods of Steam" (as illustrations and cover): www.goodreads.com/book/show/24293119---steampunk
Shot in an abandoned factory in Drapetsona, Greece.
"Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)
Another unposted shot from the archives... there are just so many :-) This one is from Airey's Inlet on Victoria's Surf Coast in July 2010.
Painkalac Creek is a salt lake separated from the sea by a thin strip of beach and the magnificent rocks of Split Point and Eagle Rock, an amazing place!
* Pentax K20D and Pentax SMC DA-18-55mm Lens - 2 shot HDR
"The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us."
— Vladimir Nabokov (The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov)
Day 55 - Best Viewed Large On Black
Being doing a lot of contemplation lately... glancing back, looking forward! This shot taken looking east at sunset...
A fangyi was a Chinese bronze vessel in the form of a small hut or granary, per the Brittanica. The little "hat" is a knob in the form of a hipped roof, to lift the cover. Archaeologists call this sort of thing a ceremonial object, meaning "we don't really know what those people used it for." Some people argue for a wine offering, others for food. They're found as grave goods, so it's reasonable to suppose the offering was to sustain the deceased in the afterlife.
The design is an animal mask, which likely means this was southern Shang, per the Met catalog.
Fangyi were made with ceramic piece molds. The simple square shape of the fangyi with its four corners has suggested to many observers that the flanges (ridges that rise above the surface of the vessel) mask the area where the ceramic piece molds were connected.
Refs: www.britannica.com/art/fangyi
www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/asian-art-museum/aam-...
A nice old Met museum catalog of a 1997 show, mostly PRC loan stuff. I reviewed it at Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3048354171
archive.org/details/time-peice-with-time-peice-interview
obituaries.times-news.com/obituary/dr-j-rn-bramann-108441...
www.goodreads.com/author/list/751043.Jorn_K_Bramann
www.amazon.com/Wittgensteins-Tractatus-Modern-Arts-Braman...
www.amazon.com/stores/Jorn%20K.%20Bramann/author/B001KCAC4Q
archive.org/details/waterwoman-part-2
sis.piopend.info/?Unemployment-And-Social-Values:-A-Colle...
"The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again."
— Barbara W. Tuchman (The Guns of August)
Postcards From London Series #1
*Samsung EX1 - 3 shot HDR (-1, 0, +1 EV)
More at A Raven Image
Three cheers for public libraries. Every year for I am not sure how long, maybe since I retired as a school librarian in 2013, I have been reviewing children's literature new in the year. Many of these books are vying for the title of Caldecott Gold and Silver - for the best illustrated book of the year. I belong to a Caldecott Study Group in GoodReads. We play a Mock Caldecott Award voting event in January of each year, a week before the Caldecott Committee votes and announces the winners at the American Library Association. Our choices are often very close to the real committee's choices.
I do enjoy reading and reviewing the new books. I am so fortunate to belong to the Des Moines Public Library System. Any book that I would like to read, it seems like one of their libraries in the system has the book or has it on order. The librarians wave to me when I come in. My books are waiting on a reserve shelf. We book talk the books. I am so happy to share ideas with them. I usually walk out of the library with a stack full of books.
As I picked up this first set to read and review for 2022 at GoodReads, the librarian told me that they are already hoping ONE of these will carry through to the award ceremony in January 2023 and win the coveted award! Time will tell!
"...denn ich war plötzlich den Vögeln ein Nachbar geworden, nicht indem ich sie einsperrte, sondern indem ich meinen Käfig in ihre Nähe versetzte."
H.D. Thoreau "Walden" Seite 93
© 1979 Diogenes Verlag AG, Zürich
"Walden: or, Life in the Woods", 1854.
"...for I found myself suddenly neighbor to the birds; not by having imprisoned one, but having caged myself near them.”
Rolleiflex 6008
Planar 80mm
AGFA Agfacolor Optima 100, exposed as 50 ASA,
exp. 08/2000
Induro AT 14
Novoflex ballhead
Sekonic L-758 D
Epson V 750
This little bear is posing with Something For Christmas, a 1958 book by Palmer Brown.
My parents read this book to both of my older brothers and to me over the course of many Christmas times, many years ago.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone on Flickr! Cheers!
Something For Christmas by Palmer Brown (Goodreads):
www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/11533513-something-for-chr...
"You sit at the edge of the world,
I am in a crater that's no more.
Words without letters
Standing in the shadow of the door.
The moon shines down on a sleeping lizard,
Little fish rain from the sky.
Outside the window there are soldiers,
steeling themselves to die.
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The drowning girl's fingers
Search for the entrance stone, and more.
Lifting the hem of her azure dress,
She gazes --
at Kafka on the shore"
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
Nothing but endless blue sky and azure ocean...
Wide Open Series #2
A starlet comes to Reno to start a new life—and end her old one forever
Sylvia Shoreham’s Hollywood dreams came true long ago. Critically beloved for her beauty, talent, and style, she was on her way to international stardom when a bad contract committed her to seven years of trashy comedies and half-baked melodramas. Her marriage to her producer husband has become a rotten, loveless sham, so Sylvia’s silver screen life verges on a nightmare. To escape her celluloid hell, she’s got only one option: Forget Hollywood. It’s time for a Reno vacation.
She comes to Nevada hoping for a divorce from her husband, Vicki, and an end to her contract, but the ugly side of the business follows her. To protect herself from Vicki, she enlists Nevada’s biggest Sylvia Shoreham fan. He’s six feet tall, strong as a mule, and just happens to be Reno’s sheriff. When her divorce turns into a war, this Hollywood icon will be glad to have him on her side.
Sometimes bug eyed monsters love to read YA and that diversity is what we stand for here at the SL Book Club!!! Have you read "The Forever War"? NO? Get it now >>> www.goodreads.com/book/show/21611.The_Forever_War
“After every party
someone has to clean up.
Things won’t straighten themselves up, after all."
With apologies to Wislawa Symborsky:
www.goodreads.com/quotes/9086328-after-every-war-someone-...
One thing they're really good at on a cruise is making sure that things get cleaned up right away. Kind of like the way Disney used to be, don't want to ruin the illusion for the guests.
There had just been a speech and champagne toast by the Captain, accompanied by lots of confetti falling from the ceiling. These folks were staged and ready to start the cleanup once the guests had meandered out of the way.
This was a good trip in that I really stepped up and out when it came to taking control of my camera. The majority of the shots I got were done in manual (M) and I'm trying to keep any editing down to just a crop or two. This shot was done in (M)anual, but I did have to up the exposure a bit and do a little crop in post. One of my better interior shots IMHO, need to start working on inside photography more.
This is a real photograph taken with a real camera, and not created by AI.
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself."
HDR Trees Series #2
* Pentax K20D + Samsung 50-200mm Lens - 3 Shot HDR
It's so nice to see my book at 4.6/5 on goodreads! I'm glad people are enjoying it. Still no reviews on Amazon though! I know it's a weird book that is probably hard to review, but if you're enjoying it please consider throwing up a quick rating. It would be greatly appreciated! ❤️ amzn.to/1NTMGmq
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals.
Over 160 films have been made of his novels, more than any other author.
In the 1920s, one of Wallace's publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him.
He is most famous today as the co-creator of "King Kong", writing the early screenplay and story for the movie, as well as a short story "King Kong" (1933) credited to him and Draycott Dell. He was known for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, The Four Just Men, the Ringer, and for creating the Green Archer character during his lifetime. [Source: the Goodreads website at www.goodreads.com/book/show/1363197.The_Traitor_s_Gate]
"Love is like a tree: it shoots of itself; it strikes it's roots deeply into our whole being, and frequently continues to put forth green leaves over a heart in ruins. And there is this unaccountable circumstance attending it, that the blinder the passion the more tenacious it is. Never is it stronger than when it is most unreasonable."
— Victor Hugo (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)
* Pentax K20D and Samsung D-Xenon 50-200mm Lens
بعد عمليات الشد والجذب اأنا ووأدومه
وعمليات العصر الذهني لإيجاد فكرة صورة :P
وبعد تصوير مليون ألف وسبع وستين صورة
توصلنا إلى هذه الصوره الهادفه الراقية في معناها << تحاول تهون على نفسها
على أنها بعيدة كل البعد عن أفكار الصور الي قبل بس سبحان الله يقولك دايم الشي اللي شسمه كذا
الزبده أنا قلت خل أصير هادفة اليوم :D
هذا رابط موقع حلو يساعد عالقراءه وتقدرون تدعون أصدقاءكم له
فكرة الموقع تعتمد على إنك تضيف قائمة بالكتب(بعد التسجيل) الي قد قريتها والكتب واللي ناوي تقرآها والكتب الي حالياً تقراها
هو يساعد عالقراءه والتذكر في كثير من الأحيان ، وبدال ما تروح مكتبه تدور لك كتاب تقدر من خلال هالموقع انك تتفرج عالكتب وكل كتاب فيه له سمري عشان تتعرف عليه
موفقين
Just like the spacemen of Classic Space, the explorers of Mars Mission commissioned several vehicles from Llwyngwril Systems. A perfect example of Hegel's assertion that, “What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”.
The rocky surface of Mars was causing severe tyre wear to 4x4 vehicles. Various design teams were asked to come up with a solution. Llwyngwril Systems simply removed a wheel, thereby reducing tyre wear by 25% (in theory). The MT-32 Trike was the result.
“The stupendous fantasy of the Aztec hounds turned loose on the modern world.”
“The stories of Francis Stevens are unique in the records of great Fantasy. There is in them a power to evoke the very essence of all that is strange and weird and at the same time make live both the real and supernatural characters. You will find in this marvelous, colorful adventure qualities possessed only by the most famous fantastic mysteries of all time.”
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Two adventurers, an American and an Irishman, discover a lost city in the Mexican jungle. One is taken over by an evil god while the other falls in love with a woman from Tlapallan in the wilds of Mexico. Back in the states, the possessed man begins to use magic to mutate civilians. The other walks away, but the pair must duel in the end.
Originally published in 1918, “The Citadel of Fear” is a fun pulp novel that weaves elements of various genres, from Aztec mythology and lost world adventure to gothic horror. The author, Francis Stevens (pen name of Gertrude Barrows) has been called “the most gifted woman writer of science fiction and science fantasy between Mary Shelley and C. L. Moore.”
[Source: Goodreads at www.goodreads.com/book/show/957430.The_Citadel_of_Fear]
Otis Adelbert Kline is best known for a literary feud with Edgar Rice Burroughs for producing close imitations of Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars novels, though set on Venus. The Buccaneers of Venus concerns Robert Grandon, a man from Earth fighting a race of pirates and various monsters while dealing with political conflicts on a world gone mad. Kline’s Buccaneers prompted Burroughs to write his own stories set on Venus. In return, Kline wrote two novels set on Mars, as well as several jungle adventures reminiscent of Burroughs’ Tarzan.
[Source: www.goodreads.com/book/show/18866014-the-buccaneers-of-ve...]
Later, Kline became the literary agent for Robert E. Howard, creator and author of stories about Conan the Barbarian, stories written mainly for pulp magazines. That was long before Arnold Schwarzenegger had a chance to mangle the legend of Conan.
After the 1979 revolution, Tomcats continued to serve with the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force. The fleet suffered from parts shortages, but saw combat in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. According to unofficial accounts, such as Iranian F-14 Tomcat Units in Combat, by Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop, they shot down dozens of Iraqi aircraft, often using AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missiles.
Don't distract me honey, I'm having a good read!
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The Dilbert Principle is one of the funniest books ever written for people working at the office, and sadly enough it's all true.
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I started reading this classic back in 2009... and because I wanted to extend the joy of this book, I decided not to finish reading it directly, and put it on a shelve instead.
So now, 10 years later, I can continue enjoying the rest of the book.
Some books are not worth to consume in just one weekend, it doesn't do any harm to take your time for pleasure.
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Day 3 of #timewillwaitchallenge to spoil yourself with something exclusively for yourself.
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Oh yes.
School's back in, pimp-o-holics.
Guess who's back?
HERE COMES THE hammer PIMP...
OH OH OH. OH OH OH. Here comes the hammer pimp... yeah.
news and pimpnotes
I made the minipimp do this.
I know you are salivating over the "Wall Of Fedoras" back there! I actually masturbate while looking at that wall when I'm alone regularly.
I know you had one too. Sorry for the unexpected orgasm. Those fedora's are tricky.
I'm going to post a real picture coming soon. Oh yeah. We're on it. Don't you worry.
Here comes the pimp. (just to remind you). Pimp's back bitches.
Oh by the way, I think I'm going to start calling myself MC Pimp. Ever notice if you throw "MC" before any name it just becomes better? Let's try it!
Barrak Obama = liar, changed nothing, more war, blah blah blah
MC Obama = fuck all that stuff above, he now RULES!
Joel Osteen = um. how about...(let me pray).. um. No?
MC Joel Osteen = Yes. Oh. Fuck brothers and sisters!
Joe Buck = suck a duck, B O R I N G and L A M E
MC Joe Buck = turn the volume UP, less Troy Aikman, more MC Joe Buck!
Tom Brady = nah nah nah nah you just got beat by Eli Manning again LOSER! :-P
MC Tom Brady = oh lookie someone just got cool again! Eli who?
David Hasselhoff = um. Knight Rider anyone?
MC Hasselhoff = now we can't hassle the hoff anymore! Even The Hoff becomes cool with MC thrown in!
Tony3 = father of flickr
MC Tony = father of instagram
Just like the spacemen of Classic Space, the explorers of Mars Mission commissioned several vehicles from Llwyngwril Systems. A perfect example of Hegel's assertion that, “What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”.
The rocky surface of Mars was causing severe tyre wear to 4x4 vehicles. Various design teams were asked to come up with a solution. Llwyngwril Systems simply removed a wheel, thereby reducing tyre wear by 25% (in theory). The MT-32 Trike was the result.