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One of the old windows I came across.
Although it was falling apart, it had some colour left on it.
Also I had the bonus of the birds sitting there.
C R E D I T S
Body
Body Applier
[theSkinnery] - REBORN Body Addon @ Mainstore
Lingerie
Lapointe & Bastchild - Swear Teese PVC Lingerie @ FaMESHed X
Hair
Vanity Hair - -Twenty @ FaMESHed X
As Hairbase I used the LeLUTKA.EvoX.Hairbase.028 (f)
Heels
[Gos] Boutique - Rock Chic Mules @ FaMESHed X
Gag
Ama - Roll for Initiative : D10 @ FaMESHed X
Butterfly Cross
Violetility - Butterfly Cross @ FaMESHed X
Hopefully you can see the bench. I didn't want to crop it anymore than I did. Than I used Topaz for the special effects.
Still in quarantine here in Texas. However, I went to Loews today to pick up some stain and it didn't look like everyone was quarantined. Guess everyone was doing like me and working on a home project. I found this really gorgeous front door at a garage sale for $50 with glass inserts. It just needs some tender loving care..:) Can't wait to finish it
Hope everyone is holding up. I don't want to lose any of you..)
Who needs sunny weather when you can get such a sky instead.
Looking over Uxavatn to Skjaldbreiður. Geographically already in the Highlands although still accessible with a 2WD.
I found this old house in Northumberland County, Virginia. It looks like the second floor porch has fallen off and it is missing a few boards and windows. It needs a little paint and some landscaping. Other than that though, it seems fine!
“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”
~ Maya Angelou
Happy Earth Day!
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
John Muir
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money."
-- Cree Indian Proverb
I remember the first one well in 1970, my senior year. They let us out of school that afternoon and we picked up litter around town. Then we had a celebration for old Gaia. Great fun.
Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment. Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. While this first Earth Day was focused on the United States, an organization launched by Denis Hayes, who was the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international in 1990 and organized events in 141 nations. Earth Day is now celebrated in more than 175 countries every year.
I admire, support and greatly appreciate the portions of our precious planet that we have protected for future generations to enjoy, like this view of Mt. Rainier capturing the first light on another glorious day.
Thanks for the taking a look, and protecting and celebrating our home.
A little stucco, some paint, maybe a few bricks; good as new.
Taken while riding the steam train from Sao Joao del Rei to Tiradentes, MG, Brazil.
Lion yawning in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
All animals in Africa bite, but the safari bug is the worst.
The world is like a book and those, who do not travel, only read the first page.
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When the view of the sea gets tiresome or the sun needs a little tempering the old town of Gallipoli is filled with wonderful little treasure shops to discover along the narrow passage ways and welcoming streets that most would not fit Nonna’s Panda making usually safe to wander in and out of the shade and pretend to be a local.
The limestone island that hosts old Gallipoli is filled with Baroque churches and noble palazzi due to its prominence as a very successful trading port making it a feast for the eyes and a pleasure to lose yourself in though all streets eventually lead to the seafront so it is very hard to be lost for any length of time, the white and tan houses would be at home in any middle eastern city testifying to its origins and trade with the east.
If in your wanders you hear the locals speaking something that seems unfamiliar it is because it will be unless you are a speaker of Sicilian, most speak the local Salentino dialect with friends and family it is a close relative of the Sicilian language, if you would like to hear a lot of it wander down to the fish market under the bridge to the old town any morning to get your linguistic fill.
I took this on Sept 26, 2016 with my D750 and Nikon 24-85 f3.5-4.5 Lens at 72mm 1/200s f/16 ISO 250 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress
An interesting selection of free reading material at an abandoned farmhouse that isn't going to cost you a dime. It seems like every abandoned house has a great selection of Readers Digest condensed novels! HWW everyone!
Who needs air when I've got you babe. Thanks for letting me play photographer, I owe you one, two now actually, let me know how you'd like to collect. ;)
Make sure you go follow Ambr Rothschild guys and gals, oxygen optional, but not preferable.
Channeled my inner 'Cat' for this shot. 37421 leading 3Q12 1220 Doncaster West Yard - Goole over the River Don at Conisbrough. Evey Valentines day needs a frothy four....? 14th February 2023.
...a little stucco, some elbow grease, a little paint, maybe a couple of new window covers.
Sao Joa del Rei, MG, Brazil.
Eastern prickly pear makes a nice little focal point in a small border, in my case along the waterfall, needs some cutting back after they finished blooming,
Eastern prickly pear tends to spread open and low as it grows, Use caution when working with any cactus. even the young, fuzzy looking seedlings can stab. Rose gloves, tweezers and kitchen tongs will come in handy.
I use the long barbecue utensils to cut them back.
Those flowers never stop blooming and they are beautiful I think!
Graffitis mag ich in aller Regel nicht so, aber diese aufgeklebte Botschaft im Schanzenviertel mag ich :-)
Ich hoffe, ihr habt die Geschenke bekommen, die ihr braucht.
Wir alle brauchen Liebe!
In general I do not like graffitis, but I like this glued paste-up in the Schanzenviertel :-)
I hope you got the gifts you need.
Everybody needs love.
Taken on a beach walk on Sunday, it was cold, damp and freezing and this couple were the only other people who were braving the conditions. I enjoyed the walk ...bracing is the word that springs to mind though :-)
Your always on my Mind and in my Heart , My Soul .. Your my Inspiration Baby ... No one needs you more then i Need You
Song : Chicago - You're the Inspiration
Just occasionally I get tempted to join in, but I always resist. If you use other social media and photography is your thing, chances are you get adverts from editing software providers, regardless of the fact that you're already a paying customer, telling you all about the latest sky replacement tools and the facility to squeeze as many real life unicorns as you can sensibly into your images. I can't help but stop and read the comments sometimes, and am always intrigued by the ones who profess to be completely against editing of any type whatsoever. Among them I'll find the sage counsel of the genius who states there's no need at all, because they always take their photographs correctly in the first place. Do they never get dust spots on their sensors or specks on their lenses? They're obviously far cleverer than I am, so I don't ask them how they manage to avoid low light noise with the ISO rammed up to twenty gazillion, or how they pull back the shadows and drop the highlights, or how they reduce the saturation that cameras often seem to add of their own accord. I'm still not sure how they manage to get a shot looking reasonably in focus throughout the scene at longer focal lengths either. But it seems they can. I just can't be dealing with the plaudits from one side and the vaguely focussed vitriol from the other, as they accuse me of adding too many unicorns under my replacement sky. The conversation is often heated as responses get shorter and shorter, often just reduced to a couple of short words, one of which is unrepeatable. I often wonder whether the "Be Kind" movement needs to intervene at such moments. So I scroll past and look at other peoples' photos instead, with and without unicorns. I tend to prefer the ones without the unicorns, but that's just me. When Topaz put up an advert for their wares, the posturing gets even more intense, even over the utility suite programmes that are only there to enhance file sizes for heavy crops and reduce noise or sharpen blurs.
So yes I admit it. I've never been tempted by the replacement sky option, and I'm studiously avoiding the new "add unicorn" button in Photoshop, but I do edit my raw files. Call me Mr Manipulator if you like, but if such luminaries as Mads, Nigel, Gavin and all the rest of them do, then why on earth wouldn't I? And until cameras are able to see what the human eye does instead of averaging everything out, I don't think there's any other option when you shoot into those big dynamic range scenes. Mostly I blunder through, slowly accumulating half an idea of what I'm supposed to be doing, and gradually I'm getting the hang of how it all works - often with the help of those YouTube gurus who've unknowingly dragged me through the process. Maybe I've learned about two percent of what Photoshop does now. The other ninety-eight could take several lifetimes.
But here's the thing - this shot, taken at sunset on that blustery bluff above Hay on Wye has been barely touched. All I did was crop it to this aspect ratio and slightly twiddle the white balance before frowning briefly and concluding nothing further was needed. Not even a unicorn or two. Those hazy hilly layers before the setting sun spoke for themselves, or so I felt.
What about you? Unicorns or not unicorns? Nobody judges you here.