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This beauty was captured after a 10 hour sail in the vacinity of one of Blackbeard's stomping grounds. Evidently it's a charter sailboat that hails out of Silver lake in Ocracoke.
Excerpt from bronte-village.ca/event/at-home-in-bronte/:
Life is Good by Chloe & Paula Adams
Inspired by walks along the Bronte waterfront with their father and family dogs, this chair honours his memory and his favourite saying, “Life is Good.”
Seems like he is turning one way before a year has had time to come and go. Time is flying by way to fast. We took him out on the desert near Saguaro Lake and the Salt River. He posed pretty good for me. Grandkids are the best thing that has ever happened to us.
Here I am holding Volume 2 of my self portrait book! On its cover I am holding Volume 1. Can anyone guess what the cover of Volume 3 will be?
Inspired by the ODC theme: Books
I went out with a bunch of friends last night and we partied until we were kicked out of the place where we were hanging out.
Then we went to my house and had some more beer, until the sun came up...it was all fun&laughs, we'll do that again very soon :)
This is a reflection of me in the mirror of the Schuim, one of Amsterd@m's best Bars. Earlier on we had some of the best Thai food ever...what a night!
It's good to live in the best city in the world, with the best people in the world, thank you all for the lovely evening :))
The lovely Miss D and the lovely Miss N, chilling out in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam, enjoying a perfect summer day :)
I really like the colors and the happy vibe in this shot...on days like this one, when life seems so perfect, easy-going and pretty, we usually sigh to each other 'Why can't Amsterdam always be like that?!'...well, why can't it?!
Anyway, have a great day and a wicked weekend :))
David and I in Sun River over Winter Break. We've been together for a little over two years now.
I'm not usually one to post photos of my personal life here on Flickr, but in he spirit of Valentine's Day, I thought I might as well. :D
In other news, I'm pleased to say that David has been accepted at the Art Institute of Portland, which means that we'll finally be able to spend some decent time together (currently, he lives in California, so I only see him over vacaton). I'm pretty stoked.
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Unedited mobile phone shot of some plants chilling out on my balcony :)
The last days were very nice and Summer'ish, half-naked, beautiful people everywhere, easy-going vibes dominating the best city in the world and everything was just fine&dandy, as you can see in this shot...and then, last night a MEGA-Storm came blowing across the little country that could!
It was one of the craziest storms I've seen so far, it started out with some wind and lightning and then things quickly got out of hand...it was so bad that I jumped out of bed at 4:30 to close all windows and seal off any other possible rain-entry-point with some hot tar&lots of spit (not true!)!
Here are some videos of the storm!
Luckily the storm is mostly over now but has left us behind with a rainygray day that makes it very hard to like it...I'll try my best though, I'm still off for a whole week, so I'll make some more coffee now and edit my latest 'Crazy Crows Attack' video, keep an eye on my YouTube page, yesterday the Crows attacked a Cat! Weirdos!!
Anyway, have a nice day, take care but take it easy :)
Yesterday I went on a bike trip from the best city in the world, Amsterdam, to a lovely little village/island called Marken.
I went with a group of fun, bicycle-loving people, we biked 50 kilometers and had so much sunshine, wind, good vibes and delicious fishy food snacks that I can safely say, it was a perfect Summer day in the best country in the world :)
This is the entrance to Neverland Marken, a little traditional Dutch Fisherman Village, that has kept much of its old charm and thanks to the inhabitants wearing their grand-grandparents clothes, makes you feel like you've gone through a time-tunnel, hehe :)
Here's what 'the Man' has to say about Marken:
"Marken is an island in the IJsselmeer Lake. A storm surge in the 13th century separated the village from the mainland. The local people are a close-knit community. The main reason for this was their centuries-long isolation. The typically Marken houses and the traditional costume are reminiscent of the past. The dike which was constructed in 1957 once more links the island to the mainland.
Source of income
Before the former Zuyder Zee was closed off and became the IJsselmeer Lake, the local people made their money with fishing. Now many people work outside Marken. These days tourism is a major source of income.
Marken houses
The village consists of two districts, the Harbor district and the Church district, and eight surrounding mounds. In the old days the island was flooded quite regularly. For this reason, houses were built on stilts and on mounds. Most of the houses are painted dark green and most side-walls project.
Traditional costume of Marken
In summer the women wear a striped underskirt during the week. They don a full, black skirt and a black apron over this. Over the jacket with striped sleeves, they wear an embroidered bodice and a kind of bolero. A floral wrap is pinned to the front of the bolero. These days, the women usually only wear a small bonnet made of lace, cambric and chintz. The men of the island wear a smock and knickerbockers. The youngest children of the island hardly ever wear traditional costume. Boys and girls do sometimes wear skirts and bonnets, in a wide range of patterns and colors."
Aruba, Dutch Caribbean, Palm Beach.
Summicron 50mm
Have a great week, hope to have time to post and visit your streams again.
Thanks to everyone for your kind comments and all of the invites!
The response to this photo has been way more than I expected....thank you!
Thank you admins from Sir Henry en Co: Frontpage!! in the next two weeks! I am honoured:-)
[ExPLORED]
Haha I have no idea, how I came up with this. Nor do I have any idea why I did this...
I suppose sometimes I like to be borderline inappropriate...just to shake up people's perception of me?
""psych major**
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EDIT imvanessalau: I did eat them afterwards >.>
lol.
But hey! another day done right?? ;)
County worker relaxes during her lunch break on the seawall along the Intracoastal Waterway on Miami Beach
Unedited mobile phone cam shot of myself, reflected on the front of a scooter in Amsterdam. Taken with my C905 mobile phone. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop :)
I miss the Summer...it's only gone for a little while and soon it'll be back, but for now I miss it. I miss wearing my shorts&shirts, I miss not looking like the Michelin-man in my winter jacket, I miss chilling out in the park with my friends, I miss sitting outside a bar with a cold drink, I miss looking at all the hot Amsterdam girls in their light dresses, I miss riding my bike without having to worry about slipping on some ice layer in the streets, I miss the bees, the flowers, the warm breeze and all that...luckily it's almost Spring now and soon I won't have to miss all these things anymore :)
Have a nice Winter!
Unedited mobile phone cam shot of buildings, a biker and some boys, reflected in a puddle in Amsterdam.
No Photoshop or any other software/tricks was used to create this wicked reflection shot :))
Even though I refer to the people in this picture as 'Urban Riff Raff', I don't mean it in a bad way, I just like the sound of the words, I'm sure they're all very nice, talented, loving and caring people, that are on their way home, to tell a significant other how much they cherish and appreciate them being part of their life :))
Have a wonderful, wicked weekend, I'm going on a 50 kilometer bike trip in an hour, with lots of lovely people, it's gonna be so much fun, the sun is shining, my bag is packed and I can't wait to hop on Bikey and kick off :))
...or at least it looks like Iran finally got nuclear weapons and is attacking Amsterdam :)
In reality it's just a friend of Miss E, enjoying the afternoon sun and the delicious coffee&cake...somehow, after fiddling a bit with the colors&contrast, it looked like she's witnessing a nuclear explosion outside the window...Miss E has the freakin' BEST light in her new appartment and I intend to spend many afternoons there with creative outbursts and lots of homemade pie's (eat your heart out Mr.D, haha ;)
Mobie&Me, reflected on a car window. Taken with my C905 mobile phone. No editing besides some added contrast&saturation, no magic tricks, no Photoshop :)
In my humble opinion, taking wicked reflection shots on them is the best thing you can do with cars :))
Have a nice long Easter weekend, enjoy the sunshine, take care but take it easy!
flower pots
Life is good and sweet! *INOJIES* Gallery of Art, Music is good. Concert Hall and Flower Garden. Enjoy your peacefull time.
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Mr.P, looking all stylish :)
I was just snapping away, a bit drunk already (&VERY high on paint+terpentine, hahaha ;) and didn't even notice this pic until much later, when I reviewed my wicked day on my PC's big screen...I guess the pretty people of Amsterd@m always look cool, even if they don't try :)
P.s. Sometimes I wonder where the titles for my pics come from, it seems that the little people from the Photo department of my brain sit around a lot with the little people from the Music department, having beers, trying to find ways to combine their knowledge to supply the little Japanese engineers living inside my mobile phone with complete Flickr-posting-packages...wicked people they are...love you guys ;-)))
Okay, I'm pretty sure I'm having the Best Week Ever™!
First, I won a bike. Sure, it's not the best bike in the world and I prefer the three bikes I already own but still- I won it!
Then, if you're not on flickr all the time, you can find time for Craig's List and you might just score a polaroid camera and 2 packs of film for $20. Suh-weeeet!
And that's just the beginning:
Monday- Dinner out with out of town friend at awesome new Thai restaurant.
Tuesday- 8 hour round trip with a car full of food lovers to a farm in the country where they make wood fired pizzas with wheat they grow and mill themselves. (more on this later...)
Wednesday- Later today I get to be a judge in a local cooking contest, which is like going to the best potluck ever.
Thursday- Who knows what Thursday has in store for me...
Friday- Going to see She & Him with a flickr friend.
Saturday- Finally, finally getting to go to the Great Taste of the Midwest, a fab beer fest that I've never managed to get tickets for.
And to think that this week last year I was laid up on the couch with a sprained ankle...
This city is a dirty old Hoe...but I love her :)
Puddle reflection shot of buildings in the Red Light District of Amsterdam. Twin shot 2 years later: www.flickr.com/photos/amstersam/3777694912/in/set-7215759...
Unedited shot of a biker in Amsterdam, reflected in a puddle. Taken with my Sony HX1. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop :)
My last weekend was near perfect, it lasted for 4 days, it was perfect weather, and I've spent lots of quality time with awesome people, so imagine my shock when I found out the Monday after, that I'll have to work this Friday, my usual day off! I'm actually trembling and also crying like a baby as I write this, so hurt is my delicate little, fluffy soul by the insult of an idea to make me get up at 6 in the morning, bike 10 kilometers and spend the whole day working? It's inhuman, that's what it is, and nobody should have to suffer like this...oh, wait, I just realized that most of my colleagues do this every week, all year long, all their lives...how the hell do they do it? And why?! Ah well, I'll console myself with the thought that I'll be off next week Thursday and Friday to make up for this horrible thing that has overpowered me, called a full working week, lol ;-D
P.s. If you're thinking now 'Well, I work 5 days a week, every week, and you don't see me rolling around on the floor with a snotty nose, crying like a baby over it!', I can only say, you must be some kind of superhuman, while I, as I have mentioned, am the proud owner of a delicate little, fluffy and easily upset soul, hahaha :D
Thank God it's Friday, I'm so going to try to get reallyreally drunk tonight!