Michael Lau Toys
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Lying off the Cornish Coast on the south west of England is Saint Michaels Mount. Indeed every once in a while I do like to get out of Scotland to visit other places.
This is the beautiful church of Kallmünz, a picturesque small village situated in the Naab valley north to Regensburg, Bavaria, very close to where I live.
I have posted an interior pano of this church before. See below in the comments. This image has been created from the exact same set of individual captures but using a totally different projection*.
Multi-row panorama (stitched from 6 individual HDR images) covering a viewing angle of 240°H x 160°V.
* Explanation: A panorama is a flat representation of the scene around the camera. Essentially, a 3D world is projected on a flat surface. There are multiple ways to do this (panoramic projections). There is no perfect panoramic projection; each projection has its own properties and limitations.
Tableau Vivant - Visage - Michael skin for Lelutka evo x male. Shown on Devon
System Layers, in 5 skin tones. @Kustom 9
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^^Swallow^^ Earrings for LeLUTKA Human (H01) EVO X unisex.
Each ear has different jewels
♦ 24 Metals
♦ Full bright on/off
♦ Shadows on/off
♦ Delete script
♦ Chain show/ hide
♦ Lobe rings show/ hide @Mainstore and Marketplace
Saint Michael the Archangel is one of four archangels and the main conqueror of the devil. Fragment of an icon in the iconostasis of the St. George Cathedral of the Vydubitsky Monastery.
Фрагмент иконы Архистратига Божия Михаила в иконостасе Георгиевского собора Выдубицкого монастыря в Киеве.
Михаил – один из семи архангелов (согласно зороастрийской мифологии) и главный победитель дьявола и иже с ним взбунтовавшихся ангелов, которые «не устояли, и не нашлось уже для них места на небе», так говорится в Откровении Иоанна Богослова.
На иконах Архангел Михаил изображается попирающий ногами дьявола. В левой руке он держит зеленую финиковую ветвь, а в правой копье с белой хоругвью ( иногда пламенный меч), на котором начертан червленый крест.
Michael was the supposedly the first and oldest of the four Archangels created by God, making him the very first angel ever created, as well as one of the oldest and most powerful beings in the whole universe. During the War In Heaven in the distant past, Michael banished Lucifer from Heaven on God's command, albeit assisted by God, later restricting him to a Cage bound by 66 Seals. He was the Viceroy of Heaven in God's absence and commanded the Heavenly Host before he fell into the Cage with Lucifer. As the highest-ranking Archangel, he issued the commands, which went to the higher-ranking angels to disperse the orders down across the celestial chain.
Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christians often refer to the angel Michael as "Saint Michael", an honorific title that does not indicate canonization. He is generally referred to in Christian litanies as "Saint Michael the Archangel." Orthodoxy accords him the title "Archistrategos", or "Supreme Commander of the Heavenly Hosts."
Архангел Михаил — главный архангел, являющийся одним из самых почитаемых Архангелов в авраамических религиях. В православии его называют Архистратигом, что означает глава святого воинства Ангелов и Архангелов.
St. Michael ist die römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche der Stadt Dormagen.
Die ursprünglich romanische Kirche wurde im 12. Jahrhundert aufgeführt. 1274 wurde sie dem Kölner Andreasstift inkorporiert. Das Langhaus wurde in gotischer Zeit durch einen Neubau ersetzt; der aus Tuffstein gemauerte romanische Turm blieb erhalten. 1887 wurde das gotische Langhaus niedergelegt – sein Grundriss ist im Pflaster markiert – und westlich des Turms ein dreischiffiger neogotischer Neubau von Franz Statz errichtet. Dabei wurde die ursprünglich geostete Kirche nach Westen ausgerichtet. Zusätzlich wurde dem Turm ein viertes Geschoss aufgesetzt.
St. Michael is the Roman Catholic parish church of the city of Dormagen.
The originally Romanesque church was built in the 12th century. In 1274 it was incorporated into the Cologne Andreasstift. The nave was replaced by a new building in the Gothic period; The Romanesque tower made of tuff stone was preserved. In 1887 the Gothic nave was demolished - its floor plan is marked in the pavement - and a three-aisled neo-Gothic new building by Franz Statz was built to the west of the tower. The originally east-facing church was aligned to the west. In addition, a fourth floor was added to the tower.
Sunset at St Michaels Mount. A different composition to the standard, mainly due to a clash of tide times.
We took a slow walk along the coast path from Perranuthnoe for the view of St Michaels Mount and were rewarded not with a sunset exactly where I had hoped it would be unfortunately ( have to admit I'm hopeless at using the sunset app on my iphone ) but some wonderful lighting all the same and it was very peaceful. We met a fisherman checking conditions for fishing but he left. Maybe he was going later in the evening as he had no fishing gear with him........
The slightly LE Just done in camera - no NDs just slow enough for what I hoped for to capture the scene as seen.
I did slow the water to a stop in a couple of locations but it’s not my preference tbh….
Milky water is a personal choice and if that’s your preference is absolutely fine by me. I had filters with me, they go everywhere I do but I held off for this shot and this body of water appears as seen through my lens was beautiful and just lazy looking which is exactly how it felt to be here..just a gentle wash in and out as the tide was in and there was no wind. Just a beautiful calm evening…….just for us - or so it felt. Exactly what we needed and sort of ‘special’ if you know what I mean….
Being unwell at present comments are turned of but I appreciate all those already given and thank you all so much 😊
Michael
Orange Circle, Orange, CA
Acrylic 15 minute sketch
352 mm x 248 mm Kyowa sketchpad
Sunday October 12 2025
Today’s event with @nomad_portrait_artists
Goodnight, Michael. Rest easy...
As a teenager in boarding school, one of my schoolgirl crushes was Dex
Dexter in Dynasty. Little did I know then that he would become such a good family friend and regular presence in our lives.
Life was a always more fun when you were around and you will be hugely missed. Deepest condolences to jodi and Lindsay...
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Excerpt from Wikipedia:
St. Michael's Cave or Old St. Michael's Cave is the name given to a network of limestone caves located within the Upper Rock Nature Reserve in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, at a height of over 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level. According to Alonso Hernández del Portillo, the first historian of Gibraltar, its name is derived from a similar grotto in Monte Gargano near the Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo in Apulia, Italy, where the archangel Michael is said to have appeared.
It is the most visited of the more than 150 caves found inside the Rock of Gibraltar, receiving almost 1,000,000 visitors a year.
Jazz Manouche - Take the A-Train Musicfestival - 14.09.2024 - Arte Hotel Salzburg
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Besetzung:
Klaus Zuckerstätter: guitar;
Hans Baltin: bass;
Michael Brandl: guitar;
This was shot in the gardens behind St Michaels Mount. I’d spotted the crystal clear turquoise sea from the terrace and just had to get down to the waters edge. I knew that the movement in the waves would add some contrast and drama to the backdrop of the dominant castle.
note: i've had some techinical questions about this image that need some clrification.
I used an nd-graduated filter doubled up with a nd 8 and a polarizer to get the colours and to deal with the reflections and to get the movement. Also for double safety I bracketed it and filled in any burned out areas.... I personally feel it needs just a bit more dodge and burn but I didn’t want to over work it. And I need some time to reflect on this.
Michael Payton Stewart selfi Miami Florida, USA.
No post-processing done to photo.Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at NoPhotoshoppig.com
The Crop Shop without Photoshop, iMac 27 inch and MacBook Pro 16 inch.
I bought Photoshop when I bought my second digital camera in 2006, Nikon D2x and used it only to water mark my photographs on my website.
I believe wildlife and nature photographs which includes people should NOT be photoshopped, because they are created by God, and by making major changes to the image captured by the camera on the computer, the image is no longer a photograph but digital art, and photographers should tell the viewer what major changes were made, or in my case I state what was done to the photographs, only cropped on some.
National Geographic:
Some rules for summiting photographs to enter contest.
Photographs may be taken with any type and brand of camera.
Photographs may not be entered that previously have won an award in a
National Geographic sponsored photography contest.
Only submit photographs that are un-manipulated and real. Do not digitally
enhance or alter your photographs (beyond the basics needed to achieve
realistic color balance and sharpness). Cropping is acceptable. If you have
digitally added or removed anything, please don't submit the shot. Every photo
will be reviewed to see if it's authentic, and if we find that yours in any way is
not, it will be disqualified. In case of the winners, RAW files will be
requested, to be submitted for review. Please do not submit images showing
product branding, logos, and trademarks.
(Copied from National Geographic website)
Wikipedia
A photograph (also known as a photo) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating such images is called photography. The word photograph was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς (phos), meaning "light," and γραφή (graphê), meaning "drawing, writing," together meaning "drawing with light.”
Miami Florida, USA.
No post-processing done to photo. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at NoPhotoShopping.com
Taken by my friend Kate while we were at Disney World.
And in case you're wondering what's on my shirt, we had just exited the Lilo & Stitch Ride where they squirt you with stuff - I just hope it was water.