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Intention: The Relief of Souls in Purgatory
“We pray that through the treasure of your Divine Son, and your own special merits and those of the saints, God may be mindful of our prayers on behalf of the suffering souls in purgatory and bring them into His Kingdom to love and serve Him forever.”
Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us.
Small fry beware! Green Heron stalking a fish or frog. Seen through brush, which is a fairly typical view of these...
Wrapped in warmth, cut with intention. Fall never looked this sharp.
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There’s something about fall that makes me want to dress like a secret. The air gets crisp, the light turns honeyed, and suddenly I’m strutting down tram-lined streets like I’m the plot twist in someone else’s story.
The Tyla Dress by Lowen—fresh from the Dubai Event—is a masterclass in cutout confidence. Black, sculpted, and unapologetically bold, it’s the kind of piece that turns sidewalks into catwalks. I layered it with the Duda Shoulder Coat by Saudade, casually draped like I just stepped out of a Vogue editorial and into real life. The contrast of soft brown against sharp black? Iconic.
My Talia Tape-Ins by Royl (thank you, Dreamday Event—sponsored but obsessed) are giving length, volume, and that “I woke up like this, but with a glam team” energy. They cascade like velvet and catch the light like secrets.
The Lekka Earrings by Yorke add just the right amount of glint—big hoops, big attitude. And the H.O.J Handbag by Ruchell? She’s structured, branded, and ready to hold everything but my patience.
It was not really my intention to take photos to print or expose. I just went for a spin to test my new camera and lens in somewhat more complicated conditions than usual. And I did not go very far.
This is Llinars del Valles as seen from the roundabout before entering the city. As is logical and normal, it is absolutely forbidden to stop without a serious reason.
After a couple of laps to the roundabout to check that there was no danger for me or the others, I decided to make this photo that I had wanted to do for many years but I had never dared to stop the car in the middle of the circulation.
I went fast, just stop, go down, shoot and go whistling because it was not my intention to disturb anyone. But it was my picture pending.
Llinars is no architectural wonder. Perhaps with daylight what most stands out is the Montseny massif in the background. And that is what I tried to reflect in this image, although with the blue hour and its peaks with very little snow are not the most auspicious time.
The edition has not been easy, because with an iso so high, the amount of grain marring the image much, but at the end, has not been bad.
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En realidad no era mi intención hacer fotos para imprimir o exponer. Simplemente salí a dar una vuelta para probar mi nueva camara y objetivo en condiciones algo más complicadas de lo habitual. Y no fui muy lejos.
Esto es Llinars del Valles visto desde la rotonda que hay antes de entrara a la ciudad. Como es logico y normal, está absolutamente prohibido parar sin un motivo grave.
Después de dar un par de vueltas a la rotonda para comprobar que no habia ningún peligro ni para mi, ni para los demás, me decidí a hacer esta foto que llevo muchos años queriendo hacerla pero nunca me habia atrevido a parar el coche en medio de la circulación.
Fui rápido, apenas parar, bajar, disparar y salir pitando pues no era mi intención molestar a nadie. Pero era mi foto pendiente.
Llinars no es ninguna maravilla arquitectónica. Quizá con luz diurna lo que mas resalta es el macizo del Montseny al fondo. Y eso es lo que traté de reflejar en esta imagen, aunque con la hora azul y sus cumbres con muy poca nieve no sean el momento mas propicio.
La edición no ha sido facil, pues con un iso tan alto, la cantidad de grano afeaba mucho la imagen, pero al final, no ha quedado mal.
My original intention was to make a komekuburo, a Japanese-style drawstring bag with tabs along the top for the drawstring, to use when I need to carry my lunch. After I'd pieced and quilted my sides, I realized the darn thing was going to be ridiculously large for a lunch bag. Also, the top of a komkuburo doesn't completely close, so I hastened over to Ayumi's lunch bag tutorial for a save:
ayumills.blogspot.com/2010/08/tutorial-lunch-bag.html
Using her super easy to follow directions, I added a band around the top and a drawstring cover, and now I love it! It's weird and quirky, but so fun!
It's 9" (22.5 cm) on a side and 10.25 (26 cm) tall.
My intention was to sneak as close as possible to her to get a clear shot. Then she popped out from behind the tree and had her eye right on me, and I thought, "OOPS! I've been spotted!"
“I fancy having a go at the Armed Knight.”
Lloyd wasn’t declaring his intention to engage a fourteenth century nobleman in hand to hand combat as far as I could tell. Besides which I don’t think there are many of those left in these parts anymore; not since the chippy in St Just began closing its doors on a Saturday evening at any rate. He must have meant the sea stack at Land’s End, the one that’s so often overlooked in favour of the Enys Dodnan sea arch and Longships Lighthouse. Despite coming here plenty of times over the years, I’d only very rarely - just once as far as I could tell - made it the centre of attention, all too often making a beeline for exactly the same spot and shooting the same scene over and over. Of course it’s a great scene, never the same twice in my experience, but maybe I had been getting a little too single minded.
The Armed Knight suggestion seemed like a very good one to me. We’d been toying with the idea of Botallack, but the tide wasn’t quite where we wanted it to be, and perhaps we’d try that one later in the week instead. So with renewed purpose and the sense that I’d be shooting something different at Land’s End this time, I climbed into the car and headed west. I’m always glad for an excuse to head towards the Edge of Eternity, where you can stand at the edge of the cliffs and gaze towards the west. Just two thousand two hundred miles of ocean between here and Newfoundland after the Isles of Scilly. They’re very often visible from here, but not on this delightfully moody afternoon.
It wasn’t a day for changing lenses, and although the Armed Knight was going to be the main attraction, I had rapidly rearranged the inserts in the camera bag to include the telephoto lens, which I’d mounted separately on the crop body, for the odd rapid burst in the direction of Longships Lighthouse. But that’s another story - one that ran parallel to this adventure. So while the second set up lay close at hand, this camera sat on the tripod, often sheltering under a shower cap, waiting for the light to do something exciting. Lloyd and I were meeting for the first time since his previous visit to Cornwall a year earlier, and we planted our tripods a dozen yards apart, catching up in between shots, often losing entire sentences to the testing conditions around us. In strong winds it would be a bit of a challenge to capture the fury of the ocean, but if you don’t try, you don’t give yourself a chance of success. It also helps if you stand on the windward side of the camera and park yourself in the lee of a rocky outcrop, I so often find. Those granite fortresses at the edges of the land here not only make for compositional tools, they also act as shelters from the elements on days like this.
Things were going well. The parallel story was developing in those moments when the sun shone across the sea onto the lighthouse and its attendant cluster of rocks, and from time to time a glow would appear at the horizon, separated by drifts of driving rain to the south. It was the sort of day I enjoy most in these elemental corners of the landscape - ever changing, full of grimy mood, at times furious. The sort of day one might imagine JMW Turner in his oilskins, two hundred years earlier, dabbing spots of light onto his canvas against the murky dark inks of the ocean as the winds whipped around his easel.
While Lloyd stayed in the position we’d occupied for ninety minutes or more, I decided I might try another composition, and it was one that delivered my favourite moments of the day. The sea had by now taken on a shade of green that had to be seen to be believed, and the polariser intensified the colours throughout the scene. Those dabs of soft orange light continued to play at the edge of the sea, and from this much lower position I felt closer to everything. The weather was now coming straight at me, rather than from the side, and I knew that as I took this image it would be among the last moments before the payoff came in the form of an almighty bristling shower coming straight towards us.
Ten minutes later, we were back at the car park, shaking the rainwater from our clothes and camera bags. It had been an excellent reunion shoot. You know it’s been a good shoot when you’re soaked. And when you come away with two entirely different shots that tick your boxes, you’re always going to go home with a big wet grin from ear to ear. Even if the local chippy is closed.
I had every intention of going out to capture shots from the snowfall we are getting but it is snowing so hard that driving is actually a scary event. This park is just down the road from where I live and when got (only) this far, I decided not to venture much further. We have had over 8 inches, probably more like 10 now and the streets are terribly slick. My traction control kicked in more times in this little trip than its ever kicked in since I got my car 3 years ago......lol. I am not afraid to drive in snow, but there is a limit. I decided to be realistic about a photo shoot outdoors today and head back home. At least I got this shot. When the snow stops and they can catch up on plowing the roads, i will head back out. For the record, this is my 1st shot with the new lens :-)
My intention was to prepare many times longest exposures, but clouds interfered the session soon.
The comet was drifting toward southwest in galaxy-rich area in Cancer. Tails, small dust coma, and bluish green ion coma were beautiful.
Sun Distance: 1.614au
Earth Distance: 0.636au
equipment: AstroPhysics 130GTX "Granturismo," Field Flattener at f/6.7 focal length 873mm, 22.1mm Spacer, EOS Adapter, Kipon EOS-EOS R adapter, and Canon EOS R-SP4II, modified by Seo-san on Vixen AXD Equatorial Mount, auto guided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, GPUSB, and PHD2 Guiding with comet tracking on
exposure: 1 time x 900 seconds, 4 x 240 sec, and 4 x 60 seconds at ISO 3,200 and f/6.7
First exposure started at 16:30:42 January 29, 2022 UTC.
site: 1,466m above sea level at lat. 35 48 26 North and long. 138 39 24 East near Kotogawa dam in Yamanashi. 山梨県牧丘柳平
SQM-L was up to 21.28 at the night. Ambient temperature was around -8 degrees Celsius or 17 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild and silent.
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some days i get caught in the externals--do people like my photos? is this shot good enough to post? (and the ensuing doubt attack.) but i always find my way back. back to my heart's intention: i photograph because it makes me feel alive; it allows me to view the world in new ways. and that's the only thing that matters.
A sunny Saturday morning and decision made to head over to the delights of the WCML.....intention - to hopefully capture a lovely 86 on passenger duty, something I hadn't had the pleasure of for quite some time.
Things didn't start well, a check on RTT before leaving home revealed a late departure from Euston. Oh well I thought, gives me time to check out the location and catch some freight workings....but had Les failed??..... Arrival at the my intended A51 location, it revealed the delights of RTT were still accessible on my phone....great! A quick check and the intended tour was 110 late......oh dear!
After spending an hour alongside the A51 (and a few freights, Pendos and Voyagers later) . I decided to head to pastures new to capture the 86. There was a freight due soon, the intended victim, a Dollands Moor to Ditton Foundry freight. Before I left, RTT showed I had enough time.... When I rucked up.....no internet...totally blind...oh the joy....we've all been there so many times....
Drove to the intended location, parked up, and decided naahh, so I scrubbed that location and decided to head back a little way along the road I had just driven..... although I first had to run back to the car, which I think raised suspicion with a local, who proceeded to hang around and watch my movements for a while (sir I hope I provided entertainment??). Anyway, weekly exercise over, car found, started up, and driven...but arrival at this (final) location coincided with the passing of the aforementioned freight!!...damn!! Not to worry the main reason for heading over to rural South Staffs was the 86.
But.....no internet, much hanging around.....wondering.....where is it? Is it still running? Many test shots on Pendos and Voyagers later....it appeared, unannounced, Duff hauled. After spending a good 45 minutes poised and ready for action, and shot testing on Pendo after Pendo, one final test shot proved to be my downfall. I was reviewing the shot and checking that my limbs still moved as the Duff appeared......I was not ready, not poised at the critical moment. Oh well!!!...note to self, get fitter and learn to stay poised for longer.....stop chimping at test shots!
Bellamour Lane, Rugely, Staffordshire. A Virgin Class 390 Pendolino speeds north with 1F13 0907 London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street.
For alternative railway photography, follow the link:
www.phoenix-rpc.co.uk/index.html to the Phoenix Railway Photographic Circle.
I decided the intention of shooting the Lions peaks, but the lighting was not good for this. So I went to my old hood, which was East Vancouver. I have always wanted to get a decent shot of the East Van Cross, but never got anything I liked. I found it difficult getting the context of East Vancouver, which is know to be tough and gritty. I think this shot hits the nail on the head. While the cross does not dominate this 3 exposure pano, and it does not look that large, the fact is that this illuminated cross is 57 feet tall, including the base and the metal post it is hung on.
The Lowry, Salford Quays
Another planned visit to Salford Quays today with the intention of trying some long exposures with a big stopper didn’t quite go to plan... dull featureless grey skies, head on drizzle no matter which way I pointed the lens and no inspiration to boot!
But there’s always the Lowry Theatre to pop into for a mooch and a coffee. Hadn’t been in since the refurbishment work on the bar and restaurant started and was surprised to see it fully completed and reopened. What a transformation...
Relaunched as Pier 8 Bar and Restaurant the £3M redevelopment by The Lowry - together with Manchester architects Leach Rhodes Walker and interior designer Koncept have upped the standard for dining in the Quays area.
Gone are the vivid colours and industrial steelwork and aluminium cladding of the Lowry to be replaced by textured materials and high end fittings.
Just to continue with my abstract theme, here are a few images from the new Pier 8.
My intention was to build a mountain of chocolate chips (used in baking) but the little chips kept falling off. I glued the base layer to some paper and managed to build a mountain of sorts with white chips to represent the snow covered peak.
I composed this photo tilted in camera with the intention of displaying it like this (rotated out of bounds), but I don't know how to do that. I have GraphicConverter, which I hardly ever use, and I imagine I could probably do it with that, but instead of putting myself through all the trouble of learning how to do that, I just asked some Flickr friends for help. Thanks to CJ, Froot Smoothie, who rotated this for me and even gave it a pretty drop shadow!
Build something with the intention of photographing it. After you have photographed it disassemble whatever it is that you created.
— Dan Winters
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18 months after my father passed away I discovered a large stash of slides and a projector from the mid-seventies in the loft. He was a teacher, amongst many other things, and used the slides for Chemistry and Physics lessons. Some were created by him, others bought off the shelf from educational libraries.
It felt wrong to simply throw away these gems, despite the overwhelming number of them. So it's been a pleasure to spend time with objects that were such a large part of his life and to treasure them.
The shots were taken with very simple setup, projector, a range of slides and one of the classic pieces of science teaching equipment, the Prism.
My intention on this day was to capture the sun shining on some trees against a background of a dark sky, the contrast between these two sources of light is stunning but as I began to set up for the shot it started to rain and I was perfectly positioned to capture this fantastic rainbow. This was shot using my trusty Sigma EX 10-20mm DC HSM lens. Please enjoy the view and feel free to comment if you wish.
Our intention this particular morning was to get out at first light to find some Pronghorn Antelopes. So we started our route just before 6 a.m. We stopped and didn't expect to see this couple right next to the road on Marble Hot Springs rd. They never flew off and just paced back and forth. I've never had much luck getting close shots of them until this trip. This shot was taken around 6:20 a.m. the light was to die for!
My intention had been to make some images on the Cornish coast at Gunwalloe, with sun setting as the tide swept over the rocks on the beach. However, I had left things too late following a family day out, and the sun was already long gone by the time I parked up my missus' unwieldy Renault Scenic Megane at what I thought was the right location. However, as I hot footed it to the beach, I found myself in the wrong place! I was faced with a featureless beach and not a lot else - apart from this little white boat. Fumbling around in my camera bag for my hard edge ND grads, I managed to stack a couple and lined up this composition using the boat as foreground interest. It all looks perfectly serene, but I was out of breath and could feel the sweat trickling down my back!
Intention/tech: The goal in this image was to isolate the dogs face, and capture the texture and dogs face. I shot this at f/5.6 at 1/250. Tripod.
Reference: Lesson 19, Duchemin asks what does the image gain without color. It gains a story and gives complete detail to the dog.
Outcome: The image is giving a story, the light is perfect as well for B/W.
Edits: Added a levels adjustment, added a B/W adjustment layer, cropped, finsihed in ACR, took highlights down.
It's always my intention to write something interesting or thought-provoking with my Flickr posts. But the reality is that I'm usually too time-crunched or too exhausted. Mom life.
Image made with my Nikon F100.
Bridgette Guerzon Mills | Intention, encaustic mixed media including salvaged textiles, 10x 6 inches
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The intention had been to go to the Churnet Vally Gala, but a delay meant a last minute change of plan - so we headed for the much closer East Lancs Railway instead. For the first train of the day (Black Five 45212) glorious light prevailed at Burrs - but when the engine came into view it was tender first!
Intention was to sketch out shots for an hour then get the Bronica. An hour later the water was more choppy so I only took one shot
The intention had been to shelter from the rain on Kirkby Stephen station but when it stopped I decided to risk Smardale.The sun even put in an appearance at the booked time but the train lost time and the light dropped back.I have used this location many times over the years,this was the first time I had it to myself !
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I had no intention or doing any shooting this particular morning. I had to drop off my truck for some routine service so instead of sitting around I took a stroll around downtown and then had breakfast. But after breakfast it was so lovely out I figured I'd grab a few shots.
After my mediocre zoom pan results with Amtrak 2163 I went to look for CSXT but they hadn't arrived from Middleboro and I didn't want to wait so returned to the platform for two more trains since the light and sky were so nice. I took two nice simple conventional shots and then called it a day. Amtrak Boston to Washington regional train 173 scoots down Main 1 approaching MP 197 on Amtrak's New Haven Line with the standard ACS64 leading eight ageless Amfleets.
Obscured by the trees and catenary poles in the right center background, beyond the signal for BORO interlocking, stands the old wooden tower that was known as SS165 in NH days. Allegedly constructed in 1898, it was relocated here when the NH undertook their massive grade separation project through town and built their two new stations between 1903 and 1906. This tower also holds the distinction of being the last in service on the corridor in MA, not closing down until 1993. Amazingly it survives three decades later despite regular reports of its imminent demise.
Looking over the scene on the left side is the brick Second Congregational Church that was constructed on Park Street in 1904. The congregation dates from 1748 and is a daughter church of the First Congregational Church in the old town section of North Attleborough. This is actually the third structure in which congregants have gathered. Originally located in a meeting house on what is now the common, Second Congregational had a stately white clapboard building built in 1825 which was removed in the early 1950s to make way for the addition of a new Fellowship Hall and education rooms. The clock in the tower of this third building was owned originally by the city but now belongs to the church and seems to be keeping perfect time.
Attleboro, Massachusetts
Monday August 12, 2024
On Friday I had no intention of getting in any photography as the day was devoted to a bike ride with my dad. We met in Connecticut to do a rail trail that was new to us and bike 32 miles round trip on the Hop River Trail from Willimantic to Bolton Notch and return along the old Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Route a one time secondary New Haven mainline that felt the weight of its last train in September of 1970. If you're a cyclist and into ghost foaming I highly recommend it as the trail has many worthwhile relics to explore along the way including tons of telegraph poles, many original bridges, a cool stone arch, deep cuts, old whistle posts and more!
Anyway, upon return in the mid afternoon I noticed that New England Central Railroad 608 hadn't returned home from Palmer yet. Since a friend had told me that 3857 was in the lead I decided to to look for them. Alas I missed them by seconds at the South Coventry depot so doubled back for some shots of them in Willimantic. Looking down off the Columbia Road bridge, they are seen here working the big Willimantic Waste facility adjacent their small office at about MP 29.5 on the Palmer Sub, the former Central Vermont mainline.
NECR 3857 (EMD GP38AC blt. Apr. 1971 as Gulf, Mobile and Ohio 730) in the lead is the last original blue and gold unit in service on the property dating from the road's 1995 startup. She is trailed by NECR 3040 (GMDD GP40-2LW blt. Sep. 1974 as CN 9495) in Rail America colors and NECR 417 (EMD GP40-2 blt. Oct. 1972 as FEC 417) in battered Florida East Coast blue.
Village of Willimantic
Windham, Connecticut
Friday October 28, 2022
My intention on 4 October 2017 had been to drive some of the back roads a bit further north of where I have been two or three times before, almost as far as Olds. However, after finding myself on a couple of muddy, slushy, potholed country roads caused by our recent snow storm, I decided not to risk driving on any others. I ended up stopping and photographing two of my absolute favourite barns that I had seen a couple of times before, and was happy to see again. I first discovered the old barn in this photo - or is it a homestead? - on 28 October 2014. Good to see that it is being taken care of, with its new roof.
My final stopping point towards the end of a day of driving N and NW of the city, was at the site where the McDougall Memorial United Church had once stood. On 22 May 2017, this beautiful, historic church was burned to the ground by an arsonist. Such a very sad loss! It was a sad sight to see the burnt outer walls, knowing that that was all that was left of this special little church that was almost as old as Canada itself. I loved this little country church, especially the long, photogenic fence line leading up to it from the parking lot. The church was built in Carpenter's Gothic style of architecture. A sign had the following words on it:
"The historic church at the end of this pathway was constructed in 1875. At that time, native people were still hunting bison on the prairies. The young nation of Canada was only eight years old; the Canadian Pacific Railway still nine years in the future. And this church would become the heart of a thriving community, Morleyville, and for a time the largest settlement in what would be southern Alberta.
The story of this church is really the story of Rev. George McDougall who moved to western Canada with his family in 1862 to minister to the fur traders and native people. In 1873, the McDougalls established the first mission in the region and built this church. In doing so, they wrote an important chapter of Alberta's settlement history".
After George McDougall's tragic death in a snowstorm, his body was brought back to the church at Morleyville and laid to rest.
www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8788
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morley,_Alberta
An enjoyable day out - a barn day, not a birding/wildlife day. I think the only birds I noticed were the usual Ravens. Seeing that snow was once again in our forecast in a few more days, I wanted to get this drive done while the weather was still decent.
Today, 2 March 2018, the temperature this morning is -10C (windchill -15C) and we are having another snowstorm. Snow is in the forecast for the rest of the day. Definitely a day to stay off the roads, but unfortunately I have a doctor's appointment.