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A monstrous purple illuminated "art" structure on the Max-Joseph-Platz square in central Munich.
Actually this is some form of inflatable miniature plagiarism of the Guggenheim Museum in New York built by some Viennese art collective, serving as a performance venue.
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There are nearly 30 national parks in Sri Lanka. In many of them, big game can be seen, from monkeys, deer and bears to leopards, water buffalo and elephants. But the bird life is also enormously diverse. In addition to the fauna, the vegetation is always fascinating. There are many different palm trees of all sizes, philodendrons and ficuses with leaves as big as an umbrella or even monstrous tree compounds like this one.
Hair : Moon. Hair // Fallen. At Access Happy Weekend.
Headdress : *Rainbow Sundae* R'lyeh Headdress - Depths. At Chronicles and Legends.
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Skin : [Glam Affair] Sora Layer [Lelutka EvoX] Icy. At C88.
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Bliensen + MaiTai - Tentakel - Candleholder. At Chronicles and Legends.
Ruins : Never, Never Fall. At Hallow Manor.
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LORIEN VICTORIAN PROPS. At Chronicles and Legends.
RKO_067. Close-up of a "monstrous" beauty.
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It’s a bit like a country within a country here in Snaefellsnes. I could easily spend an entire trip mooching around, trying old stuff and new. Besides the blinking obvious, Kirkjufell and the Black Church of Budir there are waterfalls, beaches with sand in various shades of black, red or even traditional white (take your pick), epic roads across silent fjords, views to the north and the Westfjords, lone buildings, dunes, craters, lakes, twisted lava fields and plenty more. Oh yes, and if you’re lucky and arrive on a clear day, there’s a monstrous brute of a glacier, flanked with a white and blue ice cap that dominates the landscape from almost everywhere you go, reaching up to touch the very heavens. Tog or normal well balanced member of the public, there sure is a lot of stuff to keep you occupied on Snaefellsnes.
In the hostel, we’d got talking to Trevor, a veteran of several visits to the area who complained he’d never seen Snaefellsjokull. Some may ask, “how can you not see an enormous white lump, almost 1450 metres high that’s visible from Reykjavik on a clear day?” And the answer is in the last two words. “Clear day.” I’m sure the locals get to see the beast at regular intervals, but on our previous visit in 2019, the entire peninsula was painted in a drab grey sheet of gloom. Nothing doing. But this time around, on the second day of touring Snaefellsnes in a car with a back seat full of primed and loaded camera gear, we got lucky. Unfortunately for Trevor he’d gone north that very morning in search of the Aurora Borealis in the Westfjords. Mind you he found it, so I think he was happy in the end.
By now, we’d already stopped at two locations and made merry with the conditions. We didn’t get more than a couple of miles further through the day before coming to another unscheduled halt on top of a small mound of scrubby car park when the possibilities in front of us became apparent. No epic light in the middle of the day of course – that would come later – but while some images might work in mono, others seemed to offer themselves up in full glorious technicolour. And then we got to the lone church of Ingjaldsholl, close to Hellissandur at the edge of the map. And look who wasn’t bothering to hide behind the clouds? Yep, all fourteen hundred and forty-six metres of the beast, with a couple of interesting lumps and ridges in between for good measure. Who doesn’t love a glacier cloaked monster after all?
We were probably only here for twenty minutes, moving a couple of hundred yards from east to west over a patch of bare open ground as we tried to line up the elements, waiting for the sun to dapple the scene before us, whilst taking the utmost care not to tread on the moss. They really don’t like you walking on the moss in Iceland you know. It’s right up there with armed robbery and carjacking in the grand scheme of things. Not that we tested that out of course. You can’t take landscape photos when you’re locked in a cell, and when the trip is costing you something north of a hundred pounds a day even though you’re on the most stringent of budgets, you don’t want to be wasting any time being detained at the pleasure of the Icelandic Government.
Once again I found myself wondering at just how isolated so many of these simple and striking Lutheran churches are. Take this one for example, a mile out of both Hellissandur and neighbouring Rif. It’s not even placed directly in between them. I hope that in the days before cars, the locals had sturdy boots for those winter treks to morning prayers. And while Hellnar’s church may be surrounded by a handful of homes amid the tourist accommodation, Budir goes hand in hand with the only slightly less well known hotel of the same name. Not a house or farm in sight. Yet the village of Arnarstapi, a veritable metropolis in comparison to the rest of the settlements on the south west coast on Snaefellsnes, doesn’t have a church at all. Although it does have a fish and chip van, which depending on your belief system may or may not be far more important. At the end of the trip we visited Strandarkirkja, totally isolated by a thin thread of asphalt from the cluster of shacks that didn’t seem to be occupied by anyone at all. Still, they make for good subjects don’t they? And besides being dwarfed by the mighty Snaefellsjokull, this is the only one of them that was supposedly visited by Christopher Columbus. So the story goes (although historians aren’t of one accord on the subject), he spent a winter here fifteen years before his more famous adventure to check out the local intel on crossing the Atlantic. Leif Eriksson had made the voyage several hundred years earlier, and the Icelanders are well known for handing down stories from one generation to the next.
In writing this, I’ve just remembered that one of Iceland’s five prisons is right next to Kirkjufell. Not because I study such things in detail before choosing my holiday destinations of course. But if you take the single track road to the immediate west of the mountain to try and take pictures from another angle, you can’t help but be aware of the signs telling you which route not to follow unless you have plenty of time to spare and a very plausible explanation. I could have pointed the camera out of the window of my cell if we’d been sent there. Although I suppose they’d have confiscated it.
I wonder if Columbus took his resident landscape artist with him and got a sunset canvas of Kirkjufell in front of the waterfalls?
My Korner #383 - Emerging From The Swamps!
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Emerging from the swamp with a monstrous physique and strange new powers, the woman who was once Shakilyn Peppermint struggles to hold onto her humanity. So don't go into the swamps alone. She will take your soul!
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An imposing stack of clouds looms large as a formidable stormfront blows in. I was actually here intently photographing the Mackinac Bridge (now behind the camera) when, much to my surprise, this monstrous system snuck up from behind. So I spun around to snap this shot that won the day.
American White Pelican sloshing through the shallows. These are monstrous birds that can reach almost 20 Lbs (9 kg). So they're pretty easy to spot out on the ponds
You'd think I'd have got the hang of this sort of thing by now. I mean, I've only lived beside the sea for pretty much my entire existence after all. We get monstrous ocean waves like this every winter. Plenty of opportunities to hide under the duvet...........erm I mean venture out into the elements in my wellies and sou'wester, to face the latest sou'wester that the Atlantic has sent over and attempt to capture the excitement. But every time I've tried, I've come away feeling disappointed at myself. Surely it can't be that difficult to struggle out of the car, point the camera at a huge thundering wave, take a couple of snaps and then go home to dabble about in Lightroom and Photoshop can it?
Last time I attempted to photograph big waves was in Lanzarote in November. I fact I think I've a shot worth sharing from that adventure, taken, yes again using the 100-400. I'll come back to that one later. Prior to that, I have to go back in time to one Saturday lunchtime precisely twelve months, when Storm Arwen, the first of that winter season arrived and attempted to batter down our front doors. Over a two hour period on the beach at Portreath I took almost six hundred handheld frames, mostly in burst mode. When I got home and worked on them, even those that were taken in bright sunshine looked positively anaemic in the final edits. Eventually I posted "The Sorcerer and the Sea," a huge tower of spray to the west of Gull Rock giving the image its title. The sorcerer himself was such an extraordinary sight that I had to post the image and story, but in truth I wasn't at all happy with the edit. The foreground wave had no contrast at all, no matter how I tried to lift it, and a further crop was going to bring the base of Gull Rock too close to the border of the image for my liking. "Publish and be damned." One of those - there was a story to be told, and a mass of white spray that seemed almost unbelievable. Otherwise, I would have consigned it to the bin and forgotten it.
But just recently, something made me want to revisit the wave images from that day. With another year of education in the editing suite behind me, I felt sure I could do something to improve the contrast in particular. This was the first image I decided I'd attempt to remaster (or re-bungle) and after a certain amount of pushing and pulling with a considerable number of layer masks I felt I was getting somewhere at last. Finally it seemed I had managed to darken the sky without affecting the crest of the wave too noticeably, and finally I was managing to bring out the contrast needed to make the image pop. Maybe, just maybe the lessons I'd learned from Mads' online Photoshop course were starting to bear some fruit. It needed a heavy crop, but then again I never knew about high pass filters and Topaz noise reduction layers before. Even at 400mm on the crop body that wave seemed to be a long way away. I tried a further edit of the Sorcerer and the Sea, but I still can't get it to work - neither in colour nor in black and white. More practice needed then.
In fact we're still waiting for a big hoolie to hit the coast here this winter, but I'm holding out my hopes for February. That's when it usually gets a bit interesting as the tail end of winter ramps up and delivers its last assaults. Like the errant schoolboy with the disappointing report, I'm hoping to make a better impression next time. But wave photography remains a bit of a mystery, that I'm still attempting to unravel. It doesn't help that down the road resides the finest exponent of ocean wave photography I know in the form of one Mark Dobson - or Wild Seascapes as his moniker goes. Mark is a genius at this stuff. So highly regarded is he by those in the lofty plains of YouTube, that Nigel Danson recently featured his work one Sunday morning. Sadly, Mark doesn't have a presence on Flickr, but you can find him on Vero and Instagram under "Wild Seascapes." I'd love to know where he stands to get such extraordinary side on images to such huge storm waves without needing a frogman's outfit and a waterproof camera, but I'm always struck dumb by the quality of his results. I guess if I keep on trying I can only get a little bit closer to the gold standard. Bronze standard will do to be honest. Just need a storm of two to pass by and a thermos full of coffee on hand, and away we go again.
Mark's website: www.wildseascapes.co.uk/
The Sorcerer and the Sea : www.flickr.com/photos/126574513@N04/51710521748/in/datepo...
a part of "Monstrously Nice", Crammed Organisms 2008
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One of my attempts at the "Macro Mondays" theme "Smell".
Shot with a Schneider-Kreuznach "M-Claron 60 mm F 5.6" lens on a Canon EOS R5.
Brought those from the Continent again!
Most unusual, these bicoloured Rococo Parrot Tulips, flowers with twisted, irregularly fringed petals.
Even their leaves are wild and 'Baroque'. They are weird even a little 'alien'? Are they "monstrous beauty or beautiful monster"?
Love them or hate them, Parrot Tulips are Spring's grand (bulb) showcase, big and beautiful, they have flamboyant flowers with streaks, ruffles and frayed edges.
Have a glorious day and thank you, M, (*_*)
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Monstrously huge cubic capacity road rocket...very butch!
Over 300kg when fuelled up...let’s just say you better not drop it!
Actually, the cockatoos are cute. They are smart, they do funny things to get nuts or other treats. They also have something monstrous from a closer look:).
Long Island, Whitsunday Islands, Australia.
One of the monstrous Triclops SD60Ms stops at Birdville to pick up the conductor, and continue it's trip north on NS 230.
Four knights encounter a terrible monster they thought belonged only to the past!
But the monstrous mammoth is not alone. The knights appear to have trod accidentally into an ancient ice kingdom almost frozen in time, a kingdom of the East, determined to protect itself from outsiders. Who will immerge from the encounter victorious? And whose bones will remain in the blizzard, to be lost forever to the snow, the wind, and the ice...
Hey guys, this is my entry to Brickscalibur's Monstrous Encounter category, which I collaborated a little with my sister on. Hope you like it :) .
Every once in a while I have a ‘what would Paul Jones do?’ moment. And this was one: just after sunrise, in a remote part of the trails around the Lake, I came across a monstrously large CST moving from the Lake to a large pond adjacent to the Lake. The Jones question occurs because I know he has two objectives, with one more important than the other: first, protect the creature, and in doing that, try to secure a decent image, but not if it exposes the creature. I also had in my head an echo of Paul’s amazing Blanding’s Turtle event, which led him to conclude, in image terms, that he would approach the Turtle at a 45 degree angle and make turtle sounds to attract a side glance. The Turtle felt it needed to get somewhere, so if I were to get a photograph I could not interfere. So I tried the 45 degree angle/turtle sound approach. Not knowing what sounds Turtles make, I think I ended up singing Happy Together. I was able to get this image and give the animal a bit of a boost in the right direction. Physical distancing with humans was observed at all times; with the CST, not so much. Paul's image and story: www.flickr.com/photos/paulbjones/49739210766/.
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This monstrous robber fly is a real menace to other flying insects out on the prairie. This fierce female is busy consuming a clouded sulphur butterfly.
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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. - Aldous Huxley
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. -
Dr. Seuss
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. - Abraham Lincoln
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. - Abraham Lincoln
In war, truth is the first casualty. - Aeschylus
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. - Alexander Berkman
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. - Alfred Adler
Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it. -
Anne O’Hare McCormick
Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible. -
A. Philip Randolph
Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. - Ayn Rand
War is the unfolding of miscalculations. -
Barbara Tuchman
War does not determine who is right, only who is left. -
Bertrand Russell
Peace is constructed, not fought for. - Brent Davis
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️
Nature at its freakiest best?
Most unusual, these bi-coloured Rococo Parrot Tulips, flowers with twisted, irregularly fringed petals.
Even their leaves are wild and 'Baroque'.
They are weird, even a little 'alien'?
Are they ‘monstrous beauty or beautiful monster’
These white and green are the most exotic of the lot though!
Love them or hate them, Parrot Tulips are Spring's grand (bulb) showcase, big and beautiful, they have flamboyant flowers with streaks, ruffles and frayed edges.
Have a glorious day and thank you, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
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A monstrous ML exits Bozeman Tunnel. Zach and I threw around where we'd shoot this guy next after scoring a few times already, and we weren't sure if this would work out like we had hoped light-wise, but the gamble paid off.
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During the summertime in Alaska, we pretty much get used to sharing the roads with monstrous construction equipment. This big fella dwarfed our one-ton truck. I'd love to see the world from the driver's seat in that beauty - although I think I'd need a big ladder to get up to driver's side door.
A monstrous new building going up in the Oakland district of Pittsburgh on the corner of N. Craig and Centre, overwhelming everything else around it, including this little house, which is the home of a great Indian restaurant.
Found this gorgeous garden and had to photograph it. Yeh, the monstrous camera again....smh I never learn ....and I had to carry it around the Forgotten Gardens looking for a nice scene.
"Be wary of any treasures you find too easily. Nature usually preys upon the naive..."
A monstrous amphibian that lurks in caves along island coasts. It hunts by luring prey in with the glowing Kanohi on it's forehead.
Been kicking the idea for this one around for about a year now. Figured I would take advantage of MOC League to get the motivation to build it actually. Inspired by Anglerfish. Was originally intending to make something more lithe with a lure on it's head, but committed to the chunkier look to accommodate the large maw I ended up going with.
Built for the MOC League 2022
Preliminary Round
Theme - Hunters