Caught a lovely scene with kites cross crossing the sky against a beautiful sky and treeline. The seemed so foreign to the sky and i nearly cropped them out but it made for a lovely distraction as they glided back and forth into the frame I decided they had to stay!. Apparently the kite is an ancient device that is believed to have been invented in China by two philosophers in the fifth century B.C. named Mo Di and Luc Ban.

We invent time

With the stories

we tell,

we set the pace

with how we

live

Quickly it passes

when we

love,

slowly it drags

when we

search for

it .

Tyler Knott Gregson

Taxi to Furillen

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"If you have no legs, run

If you have no voice, scream

If you have no hope, invent."

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entre hier et avant-hier, entre aujourd'hui et après-demain ou encore plus loin. Il peut rompre à tout instant. Il suffit d'y déposer un pied trop sûr pour que la fine pellicule de glace se brise et ne réduise à néant le délicat équilibre sans cesse ré-inventé par la nature au fil des saisons, en haute montagne.

Occasionally, I have fun reusing a pose, just to see if I can come up with something that has a completely different feel. This is one of those times.

Elysion's Cirque du Reves event was recently, and I was inspired to make an outfit for the event, as well! It was such a lovely event, I do hope they have more!

It's perfect, as there was so much new stuff that fit perfectly.

The Avenue has some wonderful stuff from Zibska! The Yingtai decoration, along with the blush and lipstick are striking with the Aceri eyemakeup that came out for the event! Grab it before it's gone! The headpiece is unrigged, so you can have fun with some of the falling petals, like I did!

Azoury's Cyrus Boots seriously made me excited the moment I saw the ad. I couldn't wait to get them. Grab them at Cosmopolitan before the next one!

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"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."

~ Mary Lou Cook

Taken at Toronto Park

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Soooo when Kiddo Oh of Dead Doll came out with these FANTASTIC glasses inspired by Anna Delvey, I had to do a photo. I just finished watching Inventing Anna and could not resist!

Glasses: You Look Poor (Dead Doll @ Mainstore)

Hair: Doux

Lipstick; Velour

Skin: The Skinnery

Head: Lelutka

Freckles: Izzie's

Eyes: Avi-Glam

Jacket/Top: Coco

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Most modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, 52 white keys for the notes of the C major scale (C, D, E, F, G, A and B) and 36 shorter black keys, which are raised above the white keys, and set further back on the keyboard. This means that the piano can play 88 different pitches (or "notes"), spanning a range of a bit over seven octaves

Also the King of Pop named Michael Jackson used the piano within his famous #earthsong !

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There is no Beauty Without Some Strangeness

- Edgar Allan Poe

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The Raven:

Ravens are among the smartest of all birds, gaining a reputation for solving ever more complicated problems invented by ever more creative scientists.

The Raven is an acrobatic flier, often doing rolls and somersaults in the air. Young birds are fond of playing games with sticks, repeatedly dropping them, then diving to catch them in midair.

People around the world sense a certain kind of personality in ravens. Edgar Allan Poe clearly found them a little creepy. The captive ravens at the Tower of London are beloved and perhaps a little feared: legend has it that if they ever leave the tower, the British Empire will crumble.

Common Ravens can mimic the calls of other bird species. When raised in captivity, they can even imitate human words; one Common Raven raised from birth was taught to mimic the word “nevermore.”

The oldest known wild Common Raven was at least 22 years, 7 months old. It was banded and found again in Nova Scotia.

(Nikon D750, Nikor 80-200/5.6, 1/320 @ f/8.0, ISO 400, edited to taste)

Invented by photogenic Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks (Dendrocygna autumnalis). Tree dwellers etymologically ("dendrocygna" meaning "tree swan"), but easy to mistake for a water bird. Harlingen City Lake Park, Texas.

Nein ? Kein Wunder, habe ich sie doch gerade erfunden !! 😊

Sie funktioniert ganz einfach. Man legt nur wenig auf den Teller und isst mit vorgehaltener Lupe und schon vergrößert sich die Portion !! 👍😜

No ? No wonder, I just invented it! 😊

It works very simply. You just put only a little on your plate and eat with a magnifying glass in front of you and the portion increases!

👍😜

Smile on Saturday: OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS

. “De los diversos instrumentos inventados por el hombre, el más asombroso es el libro; todos los demás son extensiones de su cuerpo… Sólo el libro es una extensión de la imaginación y la memoria”.

Jorge Luis Borges.

L'invention du téléphone et des télécommunications intercontinentales a permis -d'après certains penseurs libéraux- l'avènement d'un village planétaire où tous, nous sommes reliés au reste de l'Humanité tels des frères et soeurs humains.

Et voici donc la preuve à quel point les télécommunications nous rapprochent. :-))

cin cin

Dopo un’epica giornata che ci ha impegnato più di 15 ore per raggiungerne la cima, dalla stretta cengia che porta alla bocchetta del Lavattel un ultimo sguardo alla parete ovest del Torrione di Bettola, bella vetta dei Corni di Nibbio teatro di una recente conquista alpinistica della guida ossolana Fabrizio Manoni con Felice Ghiringhelli.

Noi, più modestamente abbiamo percorso la via normale, un itinerario tutto da inventare ai limiti tra l’escursionismo e l’alpinismo, in gran parte fuori sentiero, che attraversa profondi valloncelli boscosi, si inerpica su vertiginosi pendii di erba ripida e rododendri, supera roccette di varia difficoltà fino al canalino di 2° grado che precede la vetta.

Vera avventura a due passi da casa che lascia tanta soddisfazione.

'Ok who ordered the plain grasshopper and who ordered the extra crispy.'

Dad got wary of the dueling siblings when he arrived with the food order so decided to bring a double order. It didn't work out because despite several attempts he could not manage to keep the second hopper in his mouth and deliver the first hopper. the youngsters were not adept enough at grabbing the insect from the host's mouth, dad had to literally jam it into the throat of the little ones before they could eat it. So end of the tale, he dropped the first hopper and turned to watch it fall below before returning and delivering the second hopper - leaving the other one wailing. The moral of the story, something about two birds in the bush which they invented in the first place.

This is a Venetian Pitcher made on the Island of Murano. It is a popular Murano technique called Millefiori (a thousand flowers) which was invented by Murano Glass masters centuries ago. It is crafted entirely by hand and is created from hundreds of unique colorful millefiori pieces fused together under high temperature in a special furnace. We were fortunate to take a tour to this glass factory and watch the masters at work. This little vase is 5" tall and 4" at it's widest part. This shot is taken looking into the pitcher. (Macro Mondays Theme: Souvenir)

A lava lamp is a decorative lamp, invented in 1963 by British entrepreneur Edward Craven Walker, the founder of the lighting company Mathmos.

It consists of a bolus of a special coloured wax mixture inside a glass vessel, the remainder of which contains clear or translucent liquid. The vessel is placed on a base containing an incandescent light bulb whose heat causes temporary reductions in the wax's density and the liquid's surface tension.

As the warmed wax rises through the liquid, it cools, loses its buoyancy, and falls back to the bottom of the vessel in a cycle that is visually suggestive of pāhoehoe lava, hence the name. The lamps are designed in a variety of styles and colours.

Lava lamps are often associated with hippie culture and cannabis culture.

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* Arco de triunfo del Carrusel. Ubicado entre el Museo del Louvre y los Jardines de las Tullerías. París. Francia.

* (Foto tratada con el programa PSP. 07, en la que me he permitido algunas licencias de fantasía en la estructura y la luz).

El arco de triunfo del Carrusel es un monumento que data de 1809 y que se encuentra en la plaza del Carrusel. Napoleón Bonaparte lo mandó levantar en conmemoración de sus victorias militares. Fue construido por Pierre F.L. Fontaine y Charles Percier, según el modelo del Arco de Constantino en Roma. Con entradas en cada una de sus cuatro caras fue declarado Monumento histórico y más adelante Patrimonio de la humanidad.

Bajo este arco rememoré los versos profundos y sinceros de la escritora española Ana M.ª Fagundo

Arcos triunfales sobre la noche de otro sueño

se yerguen ahora potentes y empeñados

negando que en la batalla se había perdido

el sentimiento,

la luz,

aquel sesgo alborozado de mi verso.

(ANA Mª. FAGUNDO. Poemas.)

Killer invented a Kloning Machine as he's planning on World Domination.

Here is Kea's alternate shot.

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E' incredibile quanta inventiva, pazienza e plasticità abbiano i personaggi che decidono di vestirsi in maschera. A prima impressione sembrerebbe che i due nella foto si siano prestati a mettersi in posa assecondando qualche richiesta di fotografi di passaggio... invece vi assicuro che erano loro i registi di questi siparietti... sono i primi a divertirsi e a giocare, come non assecondarli???? ;))

Hundred years ago... the famous Steam train Flying Scotsman was inaugurated, electricity was booming all over, Marconi already invented the radio, cars started to become slowly cheaper and then more popular, television was about to be invented the next year... it was still a period of economic prosperity and cultural features known as the Roaring Twenties and began in leading metropolitan centers and spread widely in the aftermath of WW1

ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO SPECIALLY DEDICATE this post to this father who is so courageous in his pain..

(some may already follow him)

THANK YOU FOR READING and bringing the support he deserves

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NO AI

MUSIC made by DAZ !!!

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Steampunk Train station from KK

German steam Locomotive from Bunker

old Newsstand from serenity style

God invented whiskey & beer to keep the Irish from ruling the world ...

I would bring you sweet port wine

And hoppy beers

And tiny dry Champagne bubbles

If they would let me ... Sarah O’Connor

* All drinks on me and served with Irish verses & humour ...

Sober thoughts while walking around Belfast and outside the "Secret Garden".

I once read about the evils of drink, so I gave up reading...

New Flickr era after being silent ...

Many thanks for listening to my silence ♥

♥ Special Thanks to all those friends who kept visiting despite my absence.I did my best to return their kindness although the hectic pace of life left me very little spare time ♥ ♥ ♥

PS: I'll start posting retrospectively,I don't expect any visits especially now during the Season of Advent and all the forthcoming festivities.Besides,silence is a language itself ...

by Hans Christian Andersen

#MacroMondays

#OnceUponATime

Did a double exposure image of the yellow brick road, floating legs of the Tin Woodman and tea from the Mad Hatter.

Then discovered that I was inventing a whole new fairy tale.

I was so sure that Alice walked down that road.

Turned out it was Dorothy :-)

Moved on to something a little simpler.

The Ugly Duckling is on the fairytale list provided by the moderators.

The length of the deco eggs is 1 inch.

In the crypt of the Medici Chapels the original crown of the Nova Sacristia dome after the restoration. The "polyhedron" designed by Michelangelo is inspired in a way invented by the genius Leonardo da Vinci.

Inventé en 1832 par Julien-Joseph-Hippolyte Fénoux, le mât-pilote d'une hauteur de douze mètres, le mât indiquait grâce à une aile triangulaire, une boule noire et un drapeau rouge orientables, les consignes aux navires pour pénétrer dans le port.

You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon..once invented, it cannot be improved...Umberto Eco

Eratosthenes was a Greek scholar living in the third century B.C. He invented the discipline of Geography and, for a while, was the head librarian of the ancient Library of Alexandria. He is known for having calculated the circumference of the earth. By the way, the fact that our planet was a sphere had been known for centuries. New was that Eratosthenes was able to measure its true size. What you see here is the essence of his method:

1. Select two locations on the same meridional line (Alexandria and Aswan)

2. Erect a vertical measuring pole in each of the two locations.

3. Define the accurate distance between the two (800 km).

4. Measure the length of the poles' shade in both places at exactly the same moment (noon at the summer solstice).

5. The fact that there was a shade in one place only (Alexandria) meant that the surface of the earth was curved.

6. Measuring the exact angle the shade produced (7.2 degrees out of 360) meant that the length of the curvature (800 km) represented 1/50th of the full circumference.

7. Result is that the circumference of the earth is about 40 000 km.

Eratosthenes was right.

Fuji X-Pro1 plus Helios 44M-7 at F2.8.

It was my Uncle Peter who put his finger on it in his gentle Cork accent. “You can’t have the one without the other,” he said, as I glowered into the final Irish breakfast of my visit one morning many years ago. The party was over and it was time to skulk back towards life and the hamster wheel. I always think of those simple words when the holiday is over. The triumph of arrival, ever balanced by the sinking sensation in the pit of your stomach when it’s time to go home again. The last trudge back to the hire car from the beach after sunset. This time tomorrow the angler will almost certainly be out there on the rocks again, oblivious to the fact that we’ll be back in British airspace. The couple in the apartment next door who arrived here yesterday will be heading down to the pool area, armed with rubber rings and sunscreen as we do the drive of shame, stopping at reception to return the key cards and just about managing a forlorn, “Yes we had a lovely time thanks. We’ll be back next year.” Seconds later the receptionist will have forgotten us entirely, as she moves on to the family surrounded by suitcases who’ve just been whisked here by the transfer bus from the airport. In Lajares, the front of house team at La Boqueria, who’ve served us so many times won’t register our final farewell as they prepare for the lunchtime rush. Just one more of those goat’s cheese salads feels like a dream right now. I’ve had six or seven of them since we’ve been here. Had one today in fact. I don’t even look at the menu anymore - “ensalada de cabra por favor!” And the sun will continue to blaze uncaringly over the island as we taxi down the runway and set course for the icy dampness on the other side of Europe.

But it’s always that cruel last afternoon on the beach when I feel it the most, as the sun begins to lose its warmth and the light starts to fail. It’s what we come for - those lazy afternoons under blue skies next to the ocean as furious winter enters its final phase and kicks in the doors at home. There will be sunshine as we drag our bags into the airport terminal from the hire car, but it won’t be ours like it was today and yesterday. Now it belongs to the angler on the rocks, the couple next door, the waiting team at la Boqueria and the family who just got off the plane. It’s always at this moment that we wish we could be magically spirited home at the snap of a finger. Just get it over with - we’ll sacrifice the final evening. Why has nobody invented the teleporters like Captain Kirk had on the Starship Enterprise yet?

We remind ourselves that spring is on the way - and we live in Cornwall for goodness sake. Our own back garden is a tourist Mecca in itself. Half the country would auction their vital organs on eBay to set up home on the peninsula. And there’s no hamster wheel anymore since we retired. Thoughts of these make it easier, but there’s still that tedious journey - and the weather on the other side. Even in beautiful Cornwall the weather is horrible in winter. There’s the summer hike in Scotland to look forward to as well - yes I know about the midges - done battle with those before and they won’t put us off. Menorca in October too - we’ve never been there before. There’s a long distance hiking trail we like the look of, so we’re already thinking about a second visit before we’ve even made the first. Stuff to look forward to - other mountains to climb, especially in Scotland. There’s always the next adventure. We never go away without having the prospect of at least one future escapade sizzling in the wok to keep our spirits from flagging as we face the impending temperature collapse. It’s what keeps us going, especially in winter. Ali had a retirement gift in the form of a holiday voucher with a well known operator and we really ought to think about where we’re going to cash that one in. So many places to see. We have to do this stuff while we’re still young and healthy enough - you never know what life might fling at you when you least expect it.

One thing that never fails to amaze me is that you can get on a plane in a freezing rainstorm at home, and just a few hours later arrive in a place like this. It’s as if there’s a conjurer hiding in the clouds. At some point tomorrow, as the pilot tells us we’re somewhere over the northwest coast of Brittany, the sky will darken along with the mood of the passengers, a stubborn yet sizeable minority of them wearing flip flops and t-shirts as if summer will have somehow arrived three months early and surprised us all when we touch down at Bristol. But our plane will descend through soupy grey clouds, the windows speckled with raindrops as for the first time we see an endless web of orange lights spreading away into the distance, just before thumping down onto a blackened wet runway. We’ve had some rain in Fuerteventura this time, but never for more than three or four minutes and almost always followed by bright warm sunshine. When we set off for home, it will still be warm and sunny here, as if under an enchantment - life on the island of perpetual summer will carry on as if we were never here at all. We’ll drive down the fast road to the airport, leaving the white dunes of Corralejo in the rear view mirror, spotting side roads we never explored, making plans for next time before we’ve even left.

But there’s no denying that this sunsoaked Spanish archipelago has seen us off in style today. As I stand here on the beach behind my tripod, gazing at the spot where the sun has just dipped below the sea, the clouds light up in a fierce display of golds, oranges and pinks, a fine farewell flourish. I wonder whether the angler has even noticed, lost in his own world at the edge of the ocean. Again I think of my uncle’s words in these moments. There’s always the next time to look forward to, even if my home made goat’s cheese salad won’t be half as good as the one at La Boqueria.

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4.10.1996 und 24.11.2018, Garten, 21x30 cm, Bleistift, Wasserfarben, Papier.

4.10.1996 und 24.11.2018, Garden, 8x11 inch, pencil, watercolors, paper.

Es ist verwunderlich, wenn im Bild die gezeichnete gegenständliche Welt mit erfundener ungegenständlicher Malerei kombiniert wird. Die Situationen zeigen meist einen verfemdeten, irritierenden Himmel.

It is astonishing when in the picture the drawn figurative world is combined with invented non-figurative painting. The situations usually show a stunned, irritating sky.

Questa copia in gesso di Amore e Psiche fu ricavata nei primi anni del 1800 dall'originale in marmo scolpito da Antonio Canova intorno al 1797. Ho avuto la fortuna di fotografarla in occasione della mostra “Canova, eterna bellezza” tenutasi in Roma nel 2019; occasione unica perché a gennaio del 2023 il gesso è stato venduto all'asta, per una cifra esorbitante, a uno sconosciuto collezionista. La vendita dell'opera, di proprietà della Veneto Banca di Montebelluna, è servita a ripianare i debiti dell'istituto trevigiano.

Così la vicenda dei due amanti, in modo del tutto inaspettato e per vie traverse si è ritrovata al centro dell'attenzione mediatica. A distanza di molti secoli da quando la storia fu inventata, Canova la reinterpreta, qui, togliendo le ali a Cupido e materializzando l'idea platonica di anima in forma di farfalla; i due innamorati, nudi entrambi, salvo che per un leggero drappo che avvolge Psiche sui fianchi, si scambiano dolcemente il dono delle loro anime.

Nel corso degli anni, passando di mano in mano, di mente in mente, assecondando i cambiamenti sociali la favola si è arricchita di ulteriori sfumature: l'unione fisica può essere, anzi, dovrebbe essere un incontro d'anima, e sia in questo gruppo scultoreo, denominato “Amore e Psiche stanti”, cioè in piedi, sia nell'altro famosissimo gruppo di “Amore e Psiche giacenti” scorgiamo nel marmo erotismo e spiritualità, caratteri apparentemente inconciliabili che Canova è riuscito a fondere con grazia e delicatezza.

La materialità del corpo e il piacere dell'unione; l'immaterialità dell'anima e la gioia di essere compresi e amati, solo così può essere raggiunta la completezza. Traguardo impervio, forse impossibile, ma Apuleio dice che se fossimo coraggiosi e anche un po' trasgressivi ognuno di noi potrebbe tentare l'impresa.

Ma come sono arrivati i due giovani a raggiungere questo momento magico?

La favola mostra che le cose non sono così facili, bisogna lavorare molto per depurarsi dai sentimenti negativi e incontrare l'altro senza risentimenti, gelosie, pretese. Le cronache sono piene di episodi drammatici: incapacità di capire, di stare da soli, necessità di possesso, confusione sulla propria identità, molte sono le ragioni alla base dei conflitti che sfociano a volte nel delitto; spesso, più banalmente e quotidianamente, rancori, incomprensioni, ripicche in una triste solitudine affollata di presenze.

Rientrando nel racconto di Apuleio troviamo Psiche mentre affronta la prova più rischiosa di tutte, ora sta chiedendo alla regina dell'Oltretomba di riempire un piccola scatola con un po' della sua bellezza, necessaria alla dea Venere che ha consumato la sua affannandosi per curare il figlio. In disparte Proserpina riempie la pisside, porgendola poi a Psiche che si affretta a riguadagnare l'uscita stando attenta ad eseguire le istruzioni della torre.

Quando ormai è riemersa dalle tenebre, alla luce del sole la fanciulla si sofferma a pensare: in questo vasetto è contenuta la bellezza della regina sotterranea alla quale la stessa Venere ha chiesto aiuto per diventare più seducente, se mi adornassi anch'io con questo divino unguento potrei piacere di più al mio sposo. E così dicendo apre la scatolina facendo appena in tempo a constatare che è vuota, salvo “un sonno infernale che appena liberato dal coperchio la assalì”.

Avvolta da una densa nebbia di incoscienza Psiche cade a terra e lì giace come morta.

Come mai Psiche questa volta ha disobbedito alle raccomandazioni della saggia torre? Ella volontariamente ha osato decidere con la sua testa, seguendo il desiderio. Sa di rischiare decidendo di trasgredire, anche se gli avvertimenti sono stati chiari:” …Un'ultima raccomandazione, ed è la più importante: non aprire e non guardare dentro al vasetto che porterai, e comunque non essere troppo curiosa riguardo al tesoro di divina bellezza che è nascosto lì dentro”.

Ecco il suggerimento di Apuleio: non bisogna prendere alla lettera tutto quello che ci viene comandato, non fermatevi all'evidenza, abbiate il coraggio della curiosità, di esplorare l'ignoto.

Psiche con questa trasgressione solleciterà indirettamente Amore a venire in suo aiuto, così come Lucio, protagonista delle Metamorfosi, trasformato in asino a causa della sua curiosità, di avventura in avventura, approderà all'incontro con Iside.

Magnifica l'invocazione che Lucio farà a Iside nella parte finale del romanzo, dove si capisce che egli sta parlando del mistero della vita e dell'immensità del tutto di cui la dea è personificazione e somma rappresentante :

“...Tu per mare e per terra proteggi gli uomini, allontani le tempeste della vita e porgi con la tua destra la salvezza, tu sempre con la tua mano sciogli le fila che il destino aggroviglia in nodi inestricabili, tu calmi le bufere della Fortuna e poni un freno alle funeste rivoluzioni delle stelle. Te onorano gli dei del cielo e rispettano quelli dell'Inferno, tu fai ruotare la terra, dai la luce al sole, governi l'universo, calchi col tuo piede il Tartaro. A te obbediscono le stelle, per te ritornano le stagioni, di te si rallegrano i numi, a te servono gli elementi. Al tuo cenno spirano i venti, offrono il nutrimento le nubi, germogliano i semi... La tua maestà temono gli uccelli vaganti nel cielo, le fiere erranti nei monti, i rettili celati nel terreno, i mostri che nuotano nel mare...”

Invented by a local man, Martin Quinn, this grass is a beautiful addition to the garden. I usually cut the grasses down in the fall but decided to leave this one to see how it behaves in the winter.

Michael Orton invented this technique in the mid-1980's, where he achieved the effect by superimposing two slides (analog), which is why this type of photography is also known as the sandwich - technique.

Once upon a time (LoL) I read about the Orton effect and loved it.

To create an Orton Effect image, first create a sharp, correctly exposed photo, and then a blurred image that is 2-3 f-stops overexposed. The effect varies depending on the amount of blurring. A tripod must be used because the images must be absolutely congruent, the image must be in RAW and in manual mode. Then both photographs have to be overlaid with an image processing program (Photoshop) and then multiplied.

Open the photos in a RAW software of your choice. Make basic adjustments - contrast - white balance ect.

Open the photos in PS. With the move - tool you drag the blurred photo onto the sharp photo. You can then use the blending mode to create the characteristic effect. The best:> Lighten -> Multiply negative and> Soft light. Then go to> Layer / New Adjustment Layer / Gradiation Curves and adjust the photo until you like it. Depending on how picturesque you want it to be. I haven't done much of anything because it's a beautiful tree anyway. I was absolutely amazed how the colors changed. The originals are really different to the end result. My advice is to choose a motif that doesn't have as much empty space as mine here. I will definitely test it more often.

I smiled all over my face, as I went through the variuos steps.

Have fun testing dear HSS people ;-)

Photo made from a television capture of the band's video Exit Earth "Bested bones"+ PS edition

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the invented mountain

I've invented a colours - bit too much fantasy, but like it still ;- >

Bodnant Garden, Conwy.

Bodnant Garden, Autumn.

Bodnant Garden (Welsh: Gardd Bodnant) is a National Trust property near Tal-y-Cafn, in the county borough of Conwy, Wales, situated overlooking the Conwy Valley towards the Carneddau range of mountains. Founded in 1874 and developed by five generations of one family, it was gifted to the care of the National Trust in 1949.

The garden’s founder, Henry Davis Pochin, was a Leicestershire-born Victorian industrial chemist who acquired fame and fortune inventing a process for clarifying rosin used in soap, turning it from the traditional brown to white. He became a successful businessman, mayor and JP. Pochin bought the Bodnant estate in 1874 and employed Edward Milner, apprentice to Joseph Paxton, to redesign the land around the existing Georgian mansion house, then just lawns and pasture. Together Pochin and Milner relandscaped the hillside and valley, planting American and Asian conifers on the banks of the River Hiraethlyn to create a Pinetum, and reinforcing stream banks to create a woodland and water garden in the valley, in the style of the garden designer of the day William Robinson in his book The Wild Garden. In the upper garden, Pochin and Milner created the Laburnum Arch and glasshouses, to house exotics. Pochin also built The Poem, the family mausoleum in an area of the Shrub Borders.

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Antoni Gaudí

Gaudí was an architect with an innate sense of geometry and volume, as well as a great imaginative capacity that allowed him to mentally project most of his works before moving them to plans. In fact, he rarely made detailed plans of his works; he preferred to recreate them on three-dimensional models, molding all the details as he thought of them. On other occasions, he would improvise on the fly, giving instructions to his collaborators about what they should do.

The work of Gaudí has ​​achieved a wide international spread over the years, with countless studies dedicated to his way of understanding architecture. Nowadays, it is admired both by professionals and by the general public: La Sagrada Familia is currently one of the most visited monuments in Spain. Between 1984 and 2005 seven of its works have been considered a World Heritage Site by Unesco.

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They invented velcro based on this sticky plant. My jeans had lots of little stickies as I walked through the area. In Explore December 1, 2022

Thermoscope invented by Galileo Galilei in the early 1600s.

A brief on the science behind it:

Archimedes’ Principle: Objects float or sink depending on whether they are less or denser than the fluid they’re in.

Liquid Density: The clear liquid inside the thermoscope expands slightly as it warms, making it less dense. When it cools, it contracts and becomes denser.

Calibrated Bulbs: Each colored glass bulb has a small metal tag with a specific weight. These weights are carefully chosen so that at certain temperatures, the buoyant force matches the bulb’s weight.