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Going through some of my old digital files I came across this image taken some years ago. Re-visiting old neglected files can sometimes be rewarding! No idea of the location though...
Taken in Belém, Pará, 06 Dec 2008.
In "Mangal das Garças" complex tourist.
Forced HDR using Photomatix. This black pixel area marked with notes is me dirty CCD sensor.
A walk in the nature in one of my shortest dresses. Again I met the nice ranger who was so kind to take this photo of me.
For me, fashion is a form of art. I wanted to take the time and experiment with some styles and colors to se what works and what doesn’t. Feel free to comment on what styles you think work best 😃
“The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today
It must come sometime to jam today, Alice objected
No it can't said the Queen It's jame every other day. Today isn't any other day, you know”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Mirrorland
pencil on paper.
After working for 2 hours with something that I wanted to look like a faded forest, I gave up, it wasn't my day, my head were spinning with too many other thoughts... So the forest was almost deleted and instead this person decided to appear, don't know how it will end.
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"Calligraphy (from Greek κάλλος kallos "beauty" + γραφή graphẽ "writing") is a type of visual art related to writing.
Islamic calligraphy (calligraphy in Arabic is Khatt ul-Yad خط اليد) has evolved alongside the religion of Islam and the Arabic language. As it is based on Arabic letters, some call it "Arabic calligraphy". However the term "Islamic calligraphy" is a more appropriate term as it comprises all works of calligraphy by the Muslim calligraphers from Morocco to China.
Islamic calligraphy is associated with geometric Islamic art (arabesque) on the walls and ceilings of mosques as well as on the page. Contemporary artists in the Islamic world draw on the heritage of calligraphy to use calligraphic inscriptions or abstractions.
Instead of recalling something related to the spoken word, calligraphy for Muslims is a visible expression of the highest art of all, the art of the spiritual world. Calligraphy has arguably become the most venerated form of Islamic art because it provides a link between the languages of the Muslims with the religion of Islam. The holy book of Islam, al-Qur'an, has played an important role in the development and evolution of the Arabic language, and by extension, calligraphy in the Arabic alphabet. Proverbs and passages from the Qur'an are still sources for Islamic calligraphy.
It is generally accepted that Islamic calligraphy excelled during the Ottoman era. Turkish calligraphers still present the most refined and creative works. Istanbul is an open exhibition hall for all kinds and varieties of calligraphy, from inscriptions in mosques to fountains, schools, houses, etc."
from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligraphy
Kukeldash Madrasah, Tashkent
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Hello, everyone and welcome back to This Week in the News! I’m glad to report that this week’s stories are waaaay better than last week’s! Now shall we get on to the stories of the week?
The first story of the week is that Nintendo released a Nintendo Direct just for the upcoming Legend of Zelda game, Hyrule Warriors. This direct released a lot of information about the game and announced 3 new playable villain characters. Personally, I’m not a huge fan of the Zelda series, but if you are, check out the direct here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_DZtTR3zu0&list=UUGIY_O-8vW4... it’s only 25 minutes long so enjoy! Hyrule Warriors is coming out September 26th in America.
Our next story is also about Nintendo. Nintendo has released that they are making an update for the game, MarioKart 8. This update included some tweeks to the online, a map of the course on the TV screen, and most importantly free Mercedes-Benz DLC! If you have MarioKart 8 and you want this DLC, just update the game on August 27th! Watch the DLC trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=abOnJoz85UY&list=UUGIY_O-8vW4...
The next story of the week is that The Avengers: Age of Ultron has officially finished filming! So… ya… WHY CAN’T THIS MOVIE COME ANY SOONER?!
The two stories of the week are probably the biggest ones! Warner Brothers has officially announced that Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice has moved out of their May 6th, 2016 date to March 25th , 2016, ONE WEEK AFTER MY BIRTHDAY, what a good birthday present for me! This means that Captain America has won. I think that moving earlier is a very smart decision because DC has more to loose than Marvel if they open on the same day. Now contiuing on this pattern of DC movies, DC also announced 9 dates for upcoming DC movies all the way to 2020!!! They also said that they are going to reveal a few of these movies at the end of the month! What movies do you think they’ll announce?
Our last story of the week regards the new film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Paramount has just announced that TMNT 2 is coming out June 3rd, 2016. I haven’t seen the movie yet but I’ll either try to see it next week so I can put up my review on it.
Well, that’s all for this week, tune in next week for more juicy stories on This Week in the News! Thanks for Reading!
August 7th. I wish I'd had a little more time to do this but frantic packing before we go off to Oxfordshire. Friends tonight and then a 5 day festival (Wilderness).
This is an early shot of our house which we think was taken in the 1800s when it was the main farmhouse. And today with an extension to the left (put in about 100 years ago) and the demolishment of the conservatory which was done way before we moved in. As you can see, we are not so good at tending the gardens.
Again I may, I'm afraid be very absent til next week. I will be taking photos and will try not to photo bomb when I get back. I apologise in advance but there is very little chance of my catching up 5 days of comments but I will be back on the case as quick as I can.
in remembrance of a good friend who passed away eleven years ago. a re-edit of a photo I made one off the last URBEX trips we did together. you will never be forgotten mate
In July 1993 Kermit Weeks acquired the Sunderland G-BJHS for his "Fantasy of Flight museum in Polk City,Florida and Lough Derg near Shannon was the jumpoff point for the Atlantic Crossing.
German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, Nubdeb/Westf., no. 600. Photo: Warner Bros. Clark Gable in Band of Angels (Raoul Walsh, 1957). Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.
With his natural charm and knowing smile, Clark Gable (1901-1959) was 'The King of Hollywood' during the 1930s. He often portrayed down-to-earth, bravado characters with a carefree attitude, and was seen as the epitome of masculinity. Gable won an Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One Night (1934), and was nominated for leading roles in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and for his best-known role as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939).
William Clark Gable was born in 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, to Adeline (Hershelman) and William Henry Gable, an oil-well driller. He was of German, Irish, and Swiss-German descent. When he was seven months old, his mother died, and his father sent him to live with his maternal aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania, where he stayed until he was two. His father then returned to take him back to Cadiz. At 16, he quit high school, went to work in an Akron, Ohio, tire factory, and decided to become an actor after seeing the play The Bird of Paradise. He toured in stock companies, worked oil fields and sold ties. His acting coach Josephine Dillon, 15 years his senior, paid for him to have his teeth repaired and his hair styled. She also trained him to lower his voice and attain better body posture, attributes that that were instrumental in contributing to his later success and eventual iconic status. In 1924, with Dillon's financing, they went to Hollywood, where she became Gable's manager and first wife. He appeared as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926. However, he was not offered any major film roles, so he returned to the stage. While Gable acted on stage, he became a lifelong friend of Lionel Barrymore. He moved to New York City, where Dillon sought work for him on Broadway. He received good reviews in Machinal (1928). He gave an impressive appearance as the seething and desperate character Killer Mears in the Los Angeles stage production of The Last Mile. In 1930, Gable and Dillon divorced and a year later, he married Maria Langham (a.k.a. Maria Franklin Gable), also about 17 years older than him. After several failed screen tests, Gable was signed in 1930 by MGM's Irving Thalberg. He made his talking film debut as an archetypal villain named Brett in the Western The Painted Desert (Howard Higgin, 1931), starring William Boyd. Joan Crawford asked for him as co-star in Dance, Fools, Dance (Harry Beaumont, 1931) and the public loved him manhandling Norma Shearer in A Free Soul (Clarence Brown, 1931) the same year. His unshaven lovemaking with bra-less Jean Harlow in Red Dust (Victor Fleming, 1932) made him MGM's most important star. His acting career then flourished. At one point, he refused an assignment, and the studio punished him by loaning him out to (at the time) low-rent Columbia Pictures, which put him in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934) opposite Claudette Colbert. He won an Academy Award for his performance. The next year saw a starring role in Call of the Wild (William A. Wellman, 1935) with Loretta Young, with whom he had an affair (resulting in the birth of a daughter, Judy Lewis). He returned to far more substantial roles at MGM, such as Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd, 1935) and Rhett Butler in the Oscar-winning epic Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939).
After divorcing Maria Langham, Clark Gable married Carole Lombard in 1939, but tragedy struck in January 1942 when the plane in which Carole and her mother were flying crashed into Table Rock Mountain, Nevada, killing them both. A grief-stricken Gable joined the US Army Air Force and was off the screen for three years, flying combat missions in Europe. When he returned the studio regarded his salary as excessive and did not renew his contract. He freelanced, but his films didn't do well at the box office. He starred in such films as The Hucksters (Jack Conway, 1947) and Homecoming (Mervyn LeRoy, 1948) with Lana Turner. He married Sylvia Ashley, the widow of Douglas Fairbanks, in 1949. Unfortunately this marriage was short-lived and they divorced in 1952. In July 1955 he married a former sweetheart, Kathleen Williams Spreckles (a.k.a. Kay Williams) and became stepfather to her two children, Joan and Adolph ("Bunker") Spreckels III. In 1959, Gable became a grandfather when Judy Lewis, his daughter with Loretta Young, gave birth to a daughter, Maria. In 1960, Gable's wife Kay discovered that she was expecting their first child. In early November 1960, he had just completed filming The Misfits (John Huston, 1961) with Marilyn Monroe, when he suffered a heart attack, and died later that month. Gable was buried shortly afterwards in the shrine that he had built for Carole Lombard and her mother when they died, at Forest Lawn Cemetery. In March 1961, Kay Gable gave birth to a boy, whom she named John Clark Gable after his father.
Sources Ed Stephan (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Tapati Festival in Easter Island is a mix of carnival, sports, theatrical presentations and homage to Rapa Nui, it is celebrated annually in January and February; the sporting competitions are based on ancient sports, such as sliding down a cliff on a banana trunk in haka pei, swimming, oaring across Rano Raraku Lake in a reed tortora raft and racing around the lake balancing heavy banana bunches over the shoulders; there are also dance competitions, parades with floats and costumed figures, that tourists are invited to join, and the crowning of the queen of the festival, in 2012 the winner was Lili Pate
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Pink Lotus Flower regarded as the supreme lotus and considered to be the true lotus of Buddha.
Did you know that lotus flowers in Japan are revered because of its ability to rise from the dirty, murky waters to bloom into a beautiful pure flower. It’s said that nothing is more spiritual and enchanting than a lotus flower. It represents purity of the body, speech, and mind; derived from Buddhist symbolism.
Lt Col John McCrae
Canadian Army Medical Corps
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!
Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields
Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915 during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium.
Little baby Jesus, wrapped in bandages by our 8-year old daughter to take part in her christmas scene.
LumoPro LP180 from camera left, no modifier. Triggered by Yonguo RF-603C II set.
Camera Pentax K5-II, Panagor Auto Macro 90mm f2.8 at f16, 1/80s, 100ISO.
The Wave! ave! Sony A7R2 ! Coyote Buttes in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness of the Colorado Plateau! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography
Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35mm f/4 ZA OSS Lens SEL1635Z Carl Zeiss!
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Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
Fresh snow! More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
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And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
Cuillin Mountains, Skye. Taken on a long road trip to Scotland in May 2012. Experimenting with new LEE Filters.
An indigenous man in rural Cambodia.© ILO/Sophal Yin
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The Hague Central Station
August 2012
The Netherlands
Candid shots in and around the Public Transport in The Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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