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That you dream away while looking at a picture. And when you wake up you find yourself back in the middle of an incredible romantic mood...
**it happens...
Let It Happen
It's always around me, all this noise
But not nearly as loud as the voice saying
"Let it happen, let it happen (It's gonna feel so good)
Just let it happen, let it happen"
It's gonna feel so good
All this running around
Trying to cover my shadow
A notion growing inside
Now all the others seem shallow
All this running around
Bearing down on my shoulders
I can hear an alarm
It must be morning
I heard about a whirlwind that's coming 'round
It's gonna carry off all that isn't bound
And when it happens, when it happens (I won't be holding on)
So let it happen, let it happen
It's gonna feel so good
It's gonna feel so good
All this running around
I can't fight it much longer
Something's trying to get out
And it's never been closer
If my takeoff fails
Make up some other story
But if I never come back
Tell my mother I'm sorry
What happens if a photographer discovers and develops his own style and starts repeating technique and motives? Is it becoming boring or does the work gain more depth? You find a new article with reflections about photographic style on the website.
"Depth and Latitude in Photography or Does it get boring after a while?"
www.chris-r-photography.net/blog/2020/11/12/depth-and-lat...
And you find the "Best of Inner Core Project" pictures on the website.
www.chris-r-photography.net/inner-core
If you are interested in participating in this project, please drop me a note via Flickr mail!
As I am writing these lines russia is shelling Lviv in western Ukraine. A beautiful city that happens to be where I was born. No need for complex geopolitical reflections and analytics. In the end, the situation we are all facing today is quite easy to comprehend. It is a battle of basic human values. Darkness facing light. Death against life. Evil versus good. Undoubtedly, good has always prevailed and I am sure this will be the case again. But at what cost?
The (back then) freshly overhauled VL80t-1811 arrives at Lviv station in June 2018 with a lengthy service from Eastern Ukraine. Notice the friendly driver waving at the camera. I wonder where he is today.
P.S. Lviv central station (Lviv-Holovnyi) was inaugurated exactly 118 years ago today.
The first Monday of October is World Day of Bullying Prevention. This happens in schools, online, and even here on Flickr and SL. This post was inspired by Dax's song Joker.
So what's your excuse, what helps you sleep?
You leave a negative comment
Not knowing that what you sow, you will reap
I bet you smile when you post, thinking you're hurting me
But you see the way the brain works
You become what you speak
I need peace, but y'all can't offer that
I held my ground, I didn't sell my soul
I said f the fame, y'all can't take that offer back
F a shelf, you can't take me off the rack
All the fame is not worth a heart attack
You're insane, you're in pain, I can tell by what you're saying
But my bad, I forgot you were fragile
I forgot someone who doesn't even know me told you I'm an ahole
I forgot that I'm a villain
I forgot that I've always spread positivity, but you think I didn't
I forgot that hatred stems from people who hate their own existence
I forgot I'm better off alone
I forgot I care for everyone's happiness, but forget about my own
I forget I spend every waking second on my phone-
Come join my circus, I'm recruiting
I'm taking everyone who passes judgement
Bitch, that's including everyone who thinks it's so amusing
To put me down while I'm pursuing
The keyboard warriors that live online
Behind a screen that's just an illusion
Come, come, come, come join my circus
the magical winter and the snowfall that is out of a fairy tale has landed...the day I have left....give me a bucket to cry into!!
Country living delights
This year a new recipe for compost :)
Bought an alfalfa bale to mix with fresh-cut grass and dried twigs. Curious to see what's gonna happen.
MTM announced this week at SDP40 325 and GN coach 1096 were being shipped to Albia Iowa in the coming weeks for repaints.
A massive private donation is seeing that both 325 and 1096 are repainted in Great Northern orange and green.
The 325 wore the simplified orange scheme for the first few years of her existence. seen here:
www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=114373
Both will return to the roundhouse in time for the 2023 operating season, so I've heard.
Being with the "big leagues" I've mostly fallen out of touch with MTM but maintain a few connections.
Fundraisers to repaint it Big Sky Blue (plan A) were deemed not successful, and the museum is giving the option of refund, reallocation, or hold for future 325 cosmetics.
Seen here are 325 & 1096 at Osceola in October 2018, when I made my last run as a volunteer.
Looking forward to seeing the finished product in a few months.
Honestly, with the chaos that is MTM the past year, I didn't think there was a snowball's chance in hell it would happen. But, money talks and the money wanted orange, even though I, along with many others, was rooting for blue.
I was drawing the curtains when I accidentally broke off one of the flowers from my amaryllis plant. I didn't want to throw it away so I put it in one of my little "casualty" pots, where it bloomed happily for just as long as if it had still been attached to the main stem - HMBT!
Cats does not like stormy weather, but when everything had calmed down Bastian ventured out to inspect the damage from storm Hans. He clearly wondered what had happened to his butterfly bush...
Bastian (mixed breed), Butterfly bush (Buddleja davidii) (Danish: Sommerfuglebusk), 08.08.2023.
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
A fresh start (:
First most important, i want to apologize to everybody i may have let down, let wait or anything related to my absence.
A lot has happened in my life, good and bad, either way, it was busy!
I am a volunteer for shelters and take dogs into my home to find them a happy family, but i must train them etc, which is super fun but takes some time! :D
Then there is sl, well, i am not very social in game, i have amazing friends in real life, and sure i met awesome people in sl also, however, certain people think it is alright to say bad things about you. Or screw you over. Well, i will not let my guard down anymore!
It is hard to let people close, they make it even harder, if they lie.
I mean there is already so much bs going on in the world. Can we have and keep online as a safe space. Stop the gossip, stop the lying. Lets not go evil just because you are hiding behind screen.
Rant rant rant :p
Anyway i needed a break from all this. Now i am happy and refreshed! And ready for a new start. With this new beginning i wanted a new name.
Mori.
Hope ya`ll dig it!
With love,
Nalena. ♥
Not sure what happened here. I was shooting for my Primordial Soup (because it sounds much better than pond scum) collection and ended up with this. But it worked. Converting to B&W helped.
Alviso, California.
It so happens / that you drive the road / between S and A / and someone / put up / a wildlife crossing.
Het gaat zo: / je rijdt op de weg / van S naar A / en iemand / heeft er / een wildviaduct / neergelegd.
Things get gloomy, happens to everyone,. Good friends, good food, or good clothes all can boost your spirits. Speaking of good clothes...
[JUSTICE] MIRABELLE DRESS
❤ Freya
❤GenX
❤ Hourglass
❤ Lara - Lara Petite
❤ Legacy - Legacy Bombshell
❤ Reborn
Stealthic - Secret Hair
The supermoon on the 30th August (last Wednesday) started being visible just on the side of the Sanctuary of Christ the King (“Cristo-Rei”), located on the south bank of the Tagus River.
This shot was taken from the north bank (Lisbon) at a distance of about 4km.
The clouds disappeared just before the moon rise, but the wind remained, which didn't help the image's sharpness.
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Lisbon, Portugal
@All rights reserved Rui Baptista. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
Luckily, this has actually never happened. We have had a couple of inches in the basement though when pipe broke one time. Good times…
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♥ MINA Hair - Anasine Hair with PBR Beret @ ACCESS ( Jan 12 - Feb 8 )
Athenatypes have been developed in tap water with a high pH-value, or also when rinsing with tap water at any stage before fixing.
To make it visible I have increased the iron stain a little in PS.
With slightly acidic developers the unexposed brushstrokes come out clean white.
“Most of the stuff people worry about never happens,”
says the sign.
But outside the window,
everything has already fallen apart.
Maybe it’s hope.
Maybe it’s irony.
Captured in Second Life on Portocorvo – Harvest Moon.
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I don't know just how it happened
I let down my guard
Swore I'd never fall in love again
But I fell hard
Guess I should have seen it coming
Caught me by surprise
Wasn't looking where I was going
I fell into your eyes
You came into my crazy world
Like a cool and cleansing wave
Before I, I knew what hit me, baby
You were flowing through my veins
I'm addicted to you
Hooked on your love
Like a powerful drug
I can't get enough of
Lost in your eyes
Drowning in blue
Out of control
What can I do
I'm addicted to you
Midnight blows in through the window
Dances 'round the room
Got me hypnotized
I'm getting high on love with you
I couldn't live without you now
Oh, I know I'd go insane
I wouldn't last one night alone, baby
I couldn't stand the pain
I'm addicted to you
Hooked on your love
Like a powerful drug
I can't get enough of
Lost in your eyes
Drowning in blue
Out of control
What can I do?
I'm addicted to you
Manassas National Battlefield Park, Virginia
*Press L or left click on the photo for best viewing.
The Past: the Stone House (1848)
The Present: the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, 20 December 2020
The Future: the Park Ranger who unbeknownst to me is about to chase me out of the park…
The Great Conjunction hasn’t happened in almost 400 years, since 1623; Jupiter and Saturn aligned in the night sky to form a single bright point on December 21, 2020. A similar event over 2000 years ago is thought by some historians to be the Star of Bethlehem that led the wise men to the Infant Jesus.
What you see here was supposed to be a practice shot the night before but wound up being my best photo of this little adventure.
I have been planning this photo since I found out about the celestial event taking place…it will not happen again until 2080. I have wanted to try my hand at landscape astrophotography for a while, and this event was perfect for a first time. The Stone House is such a wonderful and iconic historic building and its relatively remote location was ideal for the angle needed to see the conjunction (between 220˚ and 240˚).
The Stone House served as an impromptu field hospital for not just one, but two massive battles of the American Civil War: the first major battle of the war First Manassas (Bull Run according to the North, July 21, 1861), and it’s even more tragic follow up Second Manassas (Second Bull Run, August 28 - 30, 1862). The grounds around it were fought over in both battles and several artillery shells are still lodged in its walls. While it sits just under a mile away from the main battlefield, it is part of Manassas National Battlefield Park.
Well preserved and photogenic, the Stone House is very easy to visit with its own parking lot outside the main National Park area and a convenient location…too convenient as it turned out. The car light trails from the nearby intersection proved to give off too much light pollution.
I had just taken this shot, only my second of the night, and was in the process of adjusting to another shot due to the light pollution present when a Park Ranger showed up, lights blaring on her patrol car. She chased out two other photographers from the parking lot, but I foolishly hoped she would ignore me. No such luck.
“The park closed an hour ago sir,” she said through her patrol car window. She followed me out of the parking lot, flashing lights still on.
And the Great Conjunction dropped behind a cloud by the time I found another location. And the following nights were full cloud cover. Lucky I got this shot! PhotoPills and StarWalk 2 for planning, and Capture One for post processing.
Selected for FLICKR Explore December 22, 2020, # 81.
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Just standing around waiting for something to happen. Unexpected heritage leader, ditch lights on, and a sun hole at just the right place and time.
A CN hopper train blasts north through Dyersburg, TN en route to a whole day of sitting around at South Fulton, KY. Second best thing I saw all day.
Just happened across a series of cascades while up near the Parkway the other day. It was a bit breezy so I required shooting different exposures for the water and different sections of the surrounding forest. This (hopefully) allowed me to blend the most in-focus areas of the photo together along with a longer exposure of the stream and cascade.
Wishing you a good week ahead.
Thanks for viewing my photos. Comments are always welcome.
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I am so happy that I could almost cry this is the first photo of a damselfly that I’ve ever taken in my life. The only thing I did to this photo was crop it. I’m just amazed at how beautiful it came out, I hope you will be too!
The odd thing, the miracle is the fact that I was sitting on the porch flickering and I was admiring photos of dragonflies & damselflies, I said to myself “I haven’t seen a damselfly in this area but it would be nice to see one up close”. This little lovely fly must have been a guardian Angel because less than five minutes my want was granted. This scarlet beauty stayed still but also danced around from branch to branch. I haven’t gone through them yet, this is the very last shot I took.
I may not be able to thank everyone personally but I do try because I do appreciate you looking at my photograph, faving it, or commenting on it. I would love to know what you guys think. I don’t know about you but I’m tickled pink! THANK YOU EVERYONE!