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So this is a follow up to the Anakin Skywalker - What If I posted a while back. It's based in the same universe and operating under the same galaxy changing event.
Obi-Wan Kenobi - With the public execution of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine at the hands of the CIS commander General Grievous, the Jedi council made it their highest priority to capture the villainous commander and bring to justice before the Senate. To accomplish this, they assigned the Open Circle Armada commanded by Jedi Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to lead the spearhead into the heartland of Separatist space with one objective. Capture Grievous.
Having faced the droid general on multiple occasions and failing to best him in combat, Obi-Wan would often feel guilt for Palpatine's death, believing that had he not failed in the past the Clone War would have come to an end long ago. But with the help of his former apprentice, Obi-Wan was able to look beyond his past failures to the future. Both he and Anakin would bring Grievous to justice in the name of the former chancellor.
The spearhead campaign would take both Jedi to the edges of the Outer-Rim, culminating in a skirmish on the sinkhole world of Utapau where Grievous would gravely wound Obi-Wan by stabbing the blade of a lightsaber through his stomach. As his former apprentice fought the droid general one on one, Obi-Wan was able to use the force to briefly numb his pain.
As he delved deep into the force to grant him the power he needs for one last strike, Obi-Wan heard a familiar voice calling to him.
"I am proud of you, Obi-Wan."
At first Obi-Wan was taken aback. Hearing the voice of his deceased master distracted him for a moment, but calling on the force allowed him to lunge forward with his lightsaber. Before Grievous could react, Obi-Wan decapitated the Separatist commander. Neutralising the threat.
Collapsing from blood loss, the Jedi master was rushed to the nearest medical bay onboard a Republic cruiser. Despite a near brush with death, Obi-Wan survived and told Anakin about how he'd heard the voice of Qui-Gon Jinn speak to him. It was at that point that Anakin confessed something he'd hidden from his master since the beginning of the Clone War. Following the first battle of Geonosis, he had married Senator Padme Amidala of Naboo.
Whilst he was taken aback by this revelation, deep down Obi-Wan had always suspected that his feelings for Senator Amidala were more than he cared to admit. Though hesitant, Obi-Wan voiced his support for his former padawan, and promised to keep his secret. In a jokey remark, Obi-Wan then asked if Anakin knew who the father of Padme's future child would be, much to the Jedi Knight's horror.
With the elimination of General Grievous, it was believed the Clone Wars would come to an end with the capture of Count Dooku, the recently ascended Sith Lord. Though keen to finally bring peace to the galaxy, Obi-Wan and Anakin were ordered back to Coruscant for a much needed reprieve from the conflict. As they left Utapau, Grievous' final trap would reveal itself. Every sinkhole on the surface of Utapau had been layered with explosives designed to detonate two days after activation. The explosions would destroy every city on Utapau and destroy a sizeable portion of the occupying force.
The devastation would leave the surface of Utapau inhospitable. Realising the horrors that the Separatists were capable of, the Republic vowed never to end the war until their enemy was wiped from existence.
As both Anakin and Obi-Wan returned to Coruscant, Padme went into labour resulting in an unexpected surprise.
Anakin became the father of twins.
As his closest friend, the young Jedi asked Obi-Wan to be godfather to his children. Obi-Wan graciously accepted.
Though he was happy for his former padawan having the family he'd always wanted, deep down Obi-Wan felt more isolated than ever. Having lost the love of his life the Duchess Satine of Mandalore to the hands of Darth Maul, just under a year ago he couldn't help but feel heartbroken every time he saw Anakin's new family.
To distract himself, Obi-Wan would take on a new apprentice by the name of Jaylam Duos. Despite his reluctance in the past to take on a new apprentice, having wanted to not teach a pupil during a time of war, Obi-Wan decided that his declining physical condition meant it was unlikely he'd make past the war thus his choice to take on his new apprentice now.
As both master and apprentice began to move into the unknown regions of space, they'd encounter Count Dooku's newest agents. Sith acolytes, all vying for the position as Dooku's apprentice. Though Kenobi and Duos were able to defend themselves against the acolytes, the Jedi Master lost the closest friend he had during the Clone War. Clone Commander Cody was killed saving Duos' life from one of Dooku's acolytes.
In a moment of rage, Obi-Wan was able to disarm all four of Dooku's acolytes by severing their hands, only to allow them to leave. A perplexed Duos would be met by one of the first lessons Kenobi was taught by his own master.
'Revenge is not the Jedi way.'
In honour of their fallen comrade, Duos would take the former clone commander's blaster pistol and continue to use it in conjuncture with his lightsaber much to Kenobi's dismay. He considered blasters to be a crude and inelegant weapon compared to a lightsaber.
As time would progress and the recently deceased Commander Cody was replaced by Clone Captain Sendro, Kenobi's former apprentice would achieve the rank of Master before being named Grand Master of the Jedi Order as Master Yoda passed the reigns to young Skywalker. Though the transfer of power was questioned by some council members, Kenobi would openly endorse his former Padawan, claiming there was no-one more suited for the role than the Chosen One himself.
Under Skywalker's leadership, the Jedi would undertake an intensive search throughout the galaxy to locate the final piece of the puzzle needed to end the Clone War. Reigning Sith Lord, Count Dooku known by this point as the nefarious Darth Tyranus. After two weeks scouring the galaxy, Kenobi and Duos would come face to face with the Sith Lord.
The duel between the three of them would culminate in the Sith Lord besting Kenobi in lightsaber combat, but not before the Jedi Master could sever one of Dooku's hands. Even in his weakened state, the old man was able to easily best Duos in lightsaber combat and would use his blade to decapitate the young boy. Distraught, Obi-Wan declared how horrifically Dooku disgraced Qui-Gon Jinn's legacy.
In a moment of what appeared to be regret, the Sith Lord chose to leave the duel without taking Kenobi's life. This would prove to be the Count's undoing, as Kenobi was able to place a tracker on the Sith Lord's cape allowing Republic intelligence to track the Count back to his last refuge.
A moon sized battle station known as the 'Death Star'. Reunited with Skywalker, both Master and former apprentice would lead the Republic fleet into battle against the Separatists one last time, with the fate of the galaxy in their hands....
Thanks to:
Luca Ruggero Jacovella & sua moglie Gulsum
Luca Ruggero Jacovella & his wife Gulsum
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ALWAYS CHECK YOUR ISO SETTINGS! I had the opportunity to sit down by the water for a bit today, and came back with quite a few shots. Once I opened them in Lightroom, I realized that I had left my ISO settings to 800... resulting in way more grain than I needed.
Luminar2018 helped, but I could have done better.
Sheesh.
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Well, I've only had the chance to shoot Picture Lake once so far, but I am itchin' to get back up there sometime soon.
Anyway, this is from September. I revisited it today, because I was pretty unhappy with almost all of my shots that day because of the horrific lens flare I was getting from the circular polarizer I was using. I should have been more careful and/or used a lens hood.
I suppose this is a lesson learned. Anyway, I went through the 60 or so shots I took up there that day, and found this series that was lacking the annoying flare!
The real reason I brought this one back to life is because I had intended to put one of the Shuksan images in the "gallery" I set up today at Boxley's in North Bend, but after printing and framing the 20x30, I was too disgusted with the flare to display it, so I put it back in the car and brought it back home with me...
I do like this one, because if you look closely you can see a dragon fly =)
Had a makeup lesson while back love how the look turn out unfortunately was no time match it with nice outfits
Had my first lesson today. It was fun. It still remains to be seen if I have any apptitude for this but it will be fun learning. :) Hope you are having a great weekend! We got a little bit of RAIN today! So exciting! (First since June!)
{on my last bit of wedding photo editing!! I *have* to finish it this weekend!}
Lesson ONE
Don't try too hard, brush your hair, dab a spot of perfume here and there!
Then fall asleep and dream of the girl you are :-)
Learnt a valuable lesson whilst I was in Helsinki this weekend. -12 and an early start for sunrise, I am in the right place at the right time and the sky exploded with colour. The cold drained the battery quicker than expected, my poor practice meant that the spare was dead too and no matter how much I wanted it, another shot was impossible.
This was the last shot I got before the camera died.
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I drew this sitting in the car, and colored it there as well. Completely forgot that I was supposed to take a picture of it before I added paint. But it is early in the week, so will try to do another door before next Tuesday. I really, really really enjoyed this, as I used my finger as my measuring instrument and think I got the dimensions correct. And I used my new (in the mail today!) Rosemary pocket brush and found it delightful, so I went into watercolor heaven for a while. I did two drawings of the same door and inked the smaller one after an attempt at paint without the lines, since the watercolor pencil disappeared. The second one I did no lines until after I painted. I am very inclined to break the rules...sorry.
Such a patient puppy. The girls are constantly messing with him.
This morning they were trying to make him sit and watch Calilou.
SOHN - Lessons
Of lessons learned, of lessons learned
Of bridges burned, of bridges burned
This time I'll do things differently
This time I'd like to need you less
I'm struggling, I'm struggling
I've given in, I've given in
This time I'll keep an overview
This time I'll keep away from you
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Happy New Year guys! I wish all the best. May this one be the best one ever, and not a crash like 87 years ago.
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For Project Soul Pancake: Admire An Old Building
While living in the Rocky Mountains is great for it's nature, it's quite lacking in any real ancient buildings to explore. While I wish I had some abandonded hospitals or schools or skyscrapers to wander through, I'm afraid that most of our buildings are still very much in use. Since this area really didn't start to develop until the gold rushes in the late 1800's most of our "old buildings" are from that time period, including the one in the photo above.
Built in the early 1900's this building was originally a residential school comissioned by the Canadian Government and run by the Catholic Church to "educate and house" first nations children. Essentially the government, along with the church wanted to assimilate first nations people into "european life" in the new world and this was their way of doing it and it wasn't optional, it was mandatory. For such a beautiful building it holds what I'm sure is a dark history, I tried to find some stories about or some elders to tell me about it but I haven't heard back yet. I feel that this is such a tragic part of Canadian history that often gets overlooked, it makes me sad to think that at the time this was how our government acted. The building stopped being used as a school in 1970's and is now a part of a hotel and resort complex, an attempt at reclaiming the building for more positive uses I suppose. I've only ever been inside this building once and it held in it some very strong vibes and emotions, as it would after being used in such a way.
A couple of weeks ago, Oskar Smolokowski - Head of Camera at Impossible Project - visited the Apple Store in Covent Garden to show off the Instant Lab, and talk Impossible things. He had a prop, I took a snap on my iPhone, passed it through my own (not bisected) Instant Lab...
I learnt a valuable lesson the other day when I did the photoshoo
Off all the girls and women only one was what we would call pretty. a young Japanese girl who was painfully shy.
One a Russian girl had a great smile but you wouldn't have looked at her twice in the street. an older lady of 50 years who was big but had gorgeous eyes and two average girls.
I watched as each was transformed into a beautiful woman with nothing more than a few flowers in their hair and crown atop their heads, They really did look different and they came alive. The Russian girl looked by far the prettiest.
The lesson I learnt is simple and that is we are all Beautiful and pretty it just takes a special someone to discover our beauty,
In this photo I am just the girl next door in some of my others I become a princess.
And that leads me to my next photo and short story.
Saturday we hosted a private lesson at the stables. We went over general horse knowledge & safety before getting into our riding lesson where we covered gait changes, steering controls and then turned the kids loose on some jumps! 🐴
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A lesson learnt: After talking with my friend Gary, I decided not to go to the Dover Patrol, but somewhere under the route posted.
So, that is why I was parked up at the edge of a field in Martin. I got distracted by a buzzard, rattled off a few shots, then noticed that my battery was nearly flat. I went back to my car to get my other camera body, just in case. I went back to the spot I was before, but was not happy.
I would walk onto the road. I checked my watch, ten to two.
I looked up.
There was the Vulcan, coming straight for me. I raised the camera, but with it set on 400mm and the dull background, it would not focus.
I tried again and again. Nothing.
The Vulcan was getting closer. Those shots I missed would have been sensational, or so I tell myself.
With the Vulcan almost overhead, I find it in the viewfinder and rattle off a few shot, this being the best.
The plane flew off, I got some OK ones, but nothing like the head on ones I should have got.
It seams I am more passable than I think.
While out shopping in my local town I past the florist who happens to sell a lot of vintage style dress (Yes Janet you know the florist) and in the window was flyer for a tea dance to be held locally. I continued shopping and got my bits I went out for and decided as I liked the idea of a tea dance on the way back to pop into the florist and a ask a question.
Now me being the caring sort of person and worry about people's sensibilities I thought it would be prudent to ask if I would be welcome at such an event my being trans and all.
Well the lady was a bit taken aback saying "of course you would be welcome why ever not?" On explaining a second time she said "Had you not told me dear I would never have known"
Well that shocked me and yeah OK she could have just been saying that bit I feel she was being truthful.
So one happy girl walked out clutching a flyer Hell bent on attending the event.
The lesson learnt is I have to stop telling people I am trans it doesn't matter.
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So this is the famous Mesa Arch at sunrise. I've got a huge number of these shots to go through, I'm sure I'll find one I like better than this one but this was my first attempt to post process one. Looking at it now I think I should lighten the foreground rock a little. This isn't the optimal view point for shooting but with so many people there this is where I ended up. I was actually the 3rd one there but I sat down, without setting up my tripod, to eat breakfast and the real estate quickly became very valuable. Well, lesson learned. Stake claim, then eat.
Shinku had started her Class a day ahead of Ala so that her children would have more time to understand the Lessons and get time to practice.
"Okay little ones its time to learn how to Summon and why we do it," Explained Shinku calling over the little ones to come closer to her.
"Whats summoning?" asked Little Eternity hoping it would be a new toy to play with.
"Come here children and I will show you," Shinku explained sounding sweet and playful with Little Eternity after all she understood that Eternity was 9 so she was not as mature as some of her other students.
As little Eternity looked at Shinku's hand win all of the sudden a light and rainbow came out from her hand! Than as little Eternity followed it she saw Butterflies flying above her head.
"Summoning is the power to call on something or some one and call them to your aid from no matter the distance away they are from you," Explained Young Mariposa in a very sweet but smart manner feeling it was important that the Little girl know how it worked!
"Yes my sweet Mariposa and today we are all going to learn how to Summon a Item and than win we are done we will learn now to put it back," Shinku Explained as she smiled up at both girls seeing she had their attention.
"Oh why do to need to put the Pretty Butterflies back thou," asked Little Eternity as she giggled and reached up to touch the Butterflies.
"Well its all ways important to put the things you Summon back since they do belong to a world of there own its not fair to keep them worlds apart after all they have family and friends they want to get back too," Stated Mariposa now trying her very best to sound super smart in front of Little Eternity.
"Very Good Mariposa your right yes and now that is the end of our class tomorrow you will work with me one on one to learn how to Summon your very own Item from another place," Sweet Shinku said with a smile as she looked up to her little innocent sweet Students faces.
"Can we play with the pretty Butterflies," asked Little Eternity as she giggled and held her arms out like they wore wings.
"Sure sweet hearts have fun with them," Sweet Shinku said bringing her class to a close and letting the girls play. Both girls got up and played with the Butterflies. She wanted and smiled till she had noticed something about one of her little girls...
What in the world," Thought Sweet Shinku as she noticed that little Mariposa looked like she had grown and started to develop in to a young lady. The only parablem with this was that Little Mariposa was only 11 so how the hell did she go from 11 to looking like she was 14 or 15 in just a week?
Thank you for following my stories today we have a 3 different Types of Pure neemo bodies so you can see how they look on the girls.
Little Eternity is on a XS body being its is the smallest.
Mariposa is on a S body that had the look of a young lady still to little to be a Woman just yet.
Sweet Shinku is on a M Body that very much looks like a Young Lady just starting her life as a Woman in the world.
I hope to get a L Body for another girl some time so every one can see how all of them look nest to each other in my photos ^_^