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I could barely hold my excitement when I saw the Game of Crows gacha collection created by the insanely talented Dash Phan Tom for Aardvark SL for the current round of The Gacha Garden, featuring 23 mischievous corvids that will kill your boredom for sure! They are wicked and sooooo muuuuuuch fuuuuuuuun! And what a perfect match they are to my gorgeous Cersei Gown by Enfant Terrible?
Winter is coming. We all know that, but first... Autumn and Halloween!
Feathery Friends: Aardvark Game of Crows Gacha
Outfit: Enfant Terrible Cersei Gown
Skin: Glam Affair Jasmina
The news is a constant stream of atrocities and war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine. There is no other war in history where so many criminal, murderous, reckless and senseless acts have been so well documented and immediately shared with the world. I often feel like we all have a front-row seat to the most terrifying events in our lives and yet are powerless to do anything to help. This message is a further reminder that we are all not powerless.
We can all work together to help. We can create artwork, attend rallies, write to politicians, donate our time or money, and some truly heroic individuals head straight for the war to take up arms or deliver humanitarian aid while risking their own life. I am not that brave, but we are doing everything we can here to help.
This week we delivered four car-loads of groceries, supplies, toys, medicine, and general aid to the refugee effort here in Varna, Bulgaria. There are two centres open now, partly due to the main sports complex requiring a scaled back operation as they resume their normal activities. We’ll continue bringing supplies, and we are incredibly grateful to all those that have donated for this effort.
This image took a few missteps but finally was completed today. The concept was to get blue and yellow fluorescing ink in the center of a gerbera daisy, which has a very similar resemblance to a small sunflower (and we have some novelty sunflower seeds on order for more images). The first attempt was using highlighter ink, but the blue ink did not fluoresce. The second attempt was using fluorescent tempera paint, but still the blue did not fluoresce. Today we visited a specialty art store and they had what I needed, though it felt odd walking around shining a UV flashlight on their product offerings. The daisy is illuminated with a Convoy S2 UV flashlight after carefully painting the center of the flower with the two colours. Yellow fluorescence tends to be a bit yellow-green, so this needed to be adjusted in editing to properly emulate the Ukrainian colours.
“Peace” talks may continue, but Putin has showcased his complete disregard for any agreements, treaties, humanitarian corridors, international law, and more. The longer this war continues, the more I realize that there really is no negotiating with the devil. NATO and other allied nations need to find a way to remove Putin from power without creating an existential threat for Russia, and threading such a needle is damn near impossible. I’m certain that the most brilliant military minds in the world are working on this, but here we still sit, watching in horror of the daily crimes against humanity. I fear we will become numb to this in time, but should not simply be complacent regarding our own safety or the lives of other human beings just like us. Please, write to your politicians about your thoughts. Tell them to take action, whether it be increasingly harsh sanctions or military involvement. We all must do more to stop this brutal genocide.
This daisy was bedraggled and bruised, but shining brightly. Just like the heroes in Ukraine. Their hearts are filled with their freedom, and they will fight to their last breath. And like all images in this series, I deliberately enter it into the Public Domain so anyone can use it for any purpose without crediting me or any license required. Just another way to support the cause – and there is always more to do.
Is death something new in the stock
Of events stored for mortal's sake ?
By Nature from it's early wake
Scented blooms although shorter lives may take.
Length of life is not the mark
A human holds, a golden hook
To fish his laurels or to gain
His ends in life avoiding stake,
But the way he acts before its break.
Life of man from where it comes
And how in body lingers who knows ?
And who is to pronounce
It's form or size, and its immanence
Are we able to know ? poor souls
To let you see your sun set at noon
O ! hapless would it ever be ?
For irretrievable, if it is to happen
Could you dear mum bear the pain ?
Hurled unto darkness, what more to add
From the world to depart is sad
But to part with the one, prideless to you in life
Would it be so hard indeed ?
- Anuj Nair
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The echoes of gunfire break the normal city noise on the calm April night. The “New-Asia” district is under attack. Dozens of UFA soldiers have been deployed to seize the city’s important regions like government buildings, economic hubs and Eurasian residences. The Eurasian soldiers hold valiantly as their families lie just around the corners. This is the fight that will determine the outcome of the war.
The Battle of Kinshasa took place on April 17th, 2036. It marked the start of Operation Cetshwayo; the UFA’s attempt to push Eurasian forces out of Africa. Ideally the city would be captured and the Eurasian forces westward could be cut off and squeezed, giving an early foothold to the UFA in the war.
Spearheaded by UFA pathfinders, the battle began with strategic drop points around the city. The pathfinders destroyed roads, police stations and targeted government buildings. Select teams were deployed to secure all airports in the region so the full-scale attack could begin. UFA standard infantry was flown in along with light armour and trucks to ship them directly downtown. A key strategic location was the canal. The canal split the city directly in two and controlling it meant having access to the easiest way to move supplies. The initial firefights broke out downtown between Eurasians and the arriving UFA resulting in casualties on both sides. The UFA had planned for a swift capture before Eurasian forces could respond, giving them time to fortify the city. Most of the strategic points were captured besides the New-Asian districts and the North East side of the city.
By nightfall the city had essentially been split in two, with both sides skirmishing back and forth. With the Eurasian’s fortified positions and the lack of supplies on the UFA’s end, the attack soon fell apart. A sly Eurasian counterattack saw the recapture of downtown forcing the UFA to lose hold on part of the canal, allowing the Eurasian’s to deploy their armoured HB-45 boats.
The city was eventually overrun by a huge swarm of Eurasian soldiers deployed from all over the Congo. The UFA suffered massive casualties, but the heavy equipment loss was minimal due to the planned late deployment that never occurred. Eurasian casualties were plentiful, and the military infrastructure in the city was ruined.
Seeing some of the pictures taken from the First World War, I find it hard to believe that its only 100 years ago.
Most cities towns and villages in the UK have a memorial to their own dead, but actually seeing one poppy for every British soldier killed in WWI for me really helps to drum in the scale of human loss, but of course there are the civilian casualties , the losses to our allies and those of the Germans and there allies, and not least all the wounded.
"If you're going to the Isle of Wight festival, Be sure to wear some chives in your hair"
See what i did there :)
HBW!
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This was shot in the later stages of morning, but with lots of clouds around. I re-engineered the "blue hour" look here. It is very interesting to see the difference in details that is revealed by changing the WB (or by shooting under varying lighting conditions such as very early morning light). Alas I could not be back at this location so early in the morning, so this is the best I could do.
The streaming clouds and mood there with the geothermal features was amazing ... certainly a must place to visit if you have not been to Yellowstone.
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Liège-Guillemins train station is the main station of the city of Liège, in eastern Belgium. It is one of the most important hubs in the country and is on the high-speed train network. The station is used by 36,000 people every day.
The new station by the architect Santiago Calatrava was officially opened on September 2009. It has 9 tracks and 5 platforms (three of 450m and two of 350m). All the tracks around the station have been modernized to allow high speed arrival and departure.
The new station is made of steel, glass and white concrete. It includes a monumental arch, 200 metres long and 35 metres high. The building costs were € 312 million.
Enjoy it best large and on black.
With a section of Babbacombe Road closed for re-surfacing work a diversion is currently in place via Perinville Road, Redenhill Road & St Anne's Road. Perinville Road is not a wide road and has many cars parked along one side of it, even though some parking restrictions are in place. There's not enough room for large vehicles to pass on sections, at one point I had to stand on someone's driveway so that oncoming traffic could use the pavement to pass a bus!
Pictured pulling out of Perinville Road onto Redenhill Road is 15802, WA61KZN, on a 22 to Dawlish Warren. After managing not to ground the bus and waiting for the car to reverse all that was left to do was avoid lopping the overhanging tree on the corner and he was away!
Company: Stagecoach Devon
Registration: WA61KZN
Fleet Number: 15802
New: 2012
Chassis: Scania N230UD
Bodywork: Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 H75F
Route: 22 (Paignton, South Devon College-St Marcyhurch, Chilcote Memorial)
Location: Redenhill Road, Babbacombe
Exposure: 1/400 @ f5 200ISO
Date: 12 September 2016
On February 21, 1952 Police opened fire on a student demonstration in Dhaka demanding Bangla to be one of the national languages of the then Pakistan. A number of students of Dhaka University laid down their lives in that shooting and thus creating a unique event in the annals of History. Never before has any one laid down their lives for recognition of their mother tongue!
This event is observed throughout Bangladesh and in Dhaka it begins with laying of floral wreaths starting from midnight followed by early morning barefoot procession towards the Central Shaheed Minar located near Dhaka Medical College Hospital (the location where the students were shot and killed).
Its observance was also formally recognized by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution in 2008 establishing as the International Year of Languages!
entrance the Museum of London
Suddenly she was there, touched the nose for a second and ran away again, giggling horsses horsses
Union - hors with tho disks. Christopher Le Brun. 1999-2000
London
England
3-11-2012
Cape Nagasakibana (長崎鼻岬, Nagasakibana Misaki) is the southernmost point of the Satsuma Peninsula. However, it is not quite the southernmost point of Kyushu. A walking path leads from a small cluster of souvenir shops to the tip of the cape where there stands a white lighthouse.
One of those nights when your jaw just falls and you're wishing you never have to leave such a beautiful place.
I shot this from a tarn 25 miles from the nearest trailhead, in the backcountry of the High Sierra. The unique light was caused by the combination of building clouds and smoke from nearby fires.
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On April 27, 2013, a day of Lennies (Lenticular clouds), there were many variations to be seen over Mount Adams and Mount Hood. It was a good day for me! *grin*
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Pandorea jasminoides, commonly known as Bower of Beauty, Bower Vine or Bower Climber is an evergreen, woody climber. Found in tropical and subtropical rainforests and warm temperate areas of eastern Queensland to northern New South Wales.
Another of the shots I found on that 'lost' memory card mentioned earlier this week. Below the waterline in a vase of flowers on the kitchen windowsill.
I like it better on black - click on the image or press 'L' on your keyboard.
I think I'll use this as my entry for No.36 - Water, in 111 in 2011.
(Explored - thank you :) )
I love the magic of the night sky.
This is my take on the Horsehead Nebula sailing over the Wild Horses Monument in Vantage, WA.
To get a small grasp on the incredible visions above us outside our Earth, see the source of this image here: www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/d4/horseheady.jpg
I was going through photos from this year and began going over the Horses Monument photo shoot. I thought it would be interesting to find a mixture of the Horsehead Nebula and one of my shots from the horse sculptures. This was a very enjoyable project to get into :-)
I'm in a bit of a bind lately. I've become fixated with the night sky, spending hours and nights far from home taking pictures of the stars. But, my interest hasn't taken me equally as far into the astronomy books. Over 2010 I've taken a ton of pictures of the night sky with my DLSR and I am very proud of my work. I hope I can be an instrument to connect people in cities to the wonder and beauty of the stars shining bright and clear far from their porch lights...and my porch lights. But, I just have a real trouble getting into the deep space stuff. I find it mesmerizing, but it's so difficult to relate to it. So, working on this, was taking a step beyond what my eyes can see to the beauty of deep space above us.
I'll stop it at that. I think I'll change this caption a few times before it says something that expresses well enough how I feel.
Credit to National Optical Astronomy Observatory/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy/National Science Foundation for the nebula image.
But the foreground image is an unposted shot from my night shoot at the Wild Horses Monument
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The Tower of London was built my the Normans and dates back to 1066 with the White Tower being built in 1078. The castle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Making of for this week's MacroMondays challenge
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The Temple of Debod (Spanish: Templo de Debod) is an ancient Egyptian temple which was rebuilt in Madrid, Spain.
This was one of the most amazing waterfalls I have ever seen let alone photographed. Rhys and I walked down a flooded stream in Hazelbrook yesterday and this waterfall was our last of the day. It was way of the track and we had to climb down another waterfall to get to it. What made this so unique is that there is a waterfall and the back of a waterfall in the one shot. I am using my Mums Nikon D60 at the moment as my Canon is dead. I have no filters to fit the nikon but with the water flowing so fast I could still get that long exposed look.
4 shot panorama stitched in Photoshop CS3
Best viewed on Black
Rhys's Shot
Custom is the name of the game with this stunning Fitzgerald glider. One of Many has been seen at truck shows across the country, raising awareness and donations for autism. It was seen here leaving the 3rd Annual Outsiderz Show & Shine benefiting the National Capital Area Chapter of Autism Speaks, a cause very personal to owner Michael A. Manuel of Manuel Trucking out of Winchester, VA.
I was at a do at the Royal Institute of British Architects today. Luckily I remembered to take my camera, not surprisingly its a beautiful building with lots of original features. This was taken up on the top floor looking up through a skylight.
Upper more rising sun on top of the hill
The skinny trees show silhouette scene
Look like a another landscape
Feel it with your mind don't see with your eyes
5917 (with 3237 out of sight at the rear of the train) stomps through Greta with a 3801ltd/LVR shuttle between Maitland and Branxton at Steamfest 2009.
3237, 5917 and 3830 had arrived from Sydney earlier that day. 3830 was requisitioned for "The Great Train Race" against a Hunter railcar, whilst the 59 and 32 ran a shuttle to Branxton. The trio would then return to Sydney that night. Regrettably, the return journey was plagued with problems en-route, with the train not arriving back into Sydney until after midnight.
I am afraid of heights.
More than anything really. Standing at the top of the cliff I felt sick to my stomach and my legs were shaking so much I could harldy stand up. But I really wanted to try and get over it and just jump. I'm so glad I did. And look how happy my friends are waiting for me =] Maybe because it was after about 20 minutes of convincing.
By the way I am screaming my head off.
Cam took this,and I edited.
Explored #35
View BIG to see my friend's expressions :)
The Mount of Olives is a mountain ridge east of and adjacent to Jerusalem's Old City. It is named for the olive groves that once covered its slopes. The southern part of the Mount was the Silwan necropolis, attributed to the ancient Judean kingdom. The Mount has been used as a Jewish cemetery for over 3,000 years and holds approximately 150,000 graves, making it central in the tradition of Jewish cemeteries. Several key events in the life of Jesus, as related in the Gospels, took place on the Mount of Olives, and in the Acts of the Apostles it is described as the place from which Jesus ascended to heaven. Because of its association with both Jesus and Mary, the Mount has been a site of Christian worship since ancient times and is today a major site of pilgrimage for Catholics, the Eastern Orthodox, and Protestants.
Much of the top of the hill is occupied by At-Tur, a former village and now a neighbourhood of East Jerusalem with a majority-Muslim population.
A week of black and white photos, hope you’ll enjoy them?
Here, I tried a different light, even more dramatic, well, you do have young performers in the 'wings and the STAR taking front stage, lol.
I'm in a very creative and inspired 'state' at the moment, tee hee.
I really had fun with them.
LYSIANTHUS , unfurling in front of your eyes.
Originating in the West Indies, Mexico, and Central and South America, the flower is known botanically as Eustoma grandiflorum. The common name comes from the Greek words lysis, meaning 'dissolution' and anthos, meaning 'flower' Lisianthus is also known as eustoma. Colours include white, light and dark pink, lavender and deep purple. Double and single-flower varieties exist.
Many people do not know what it is, but everyone loves it!
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This is a picture of my Butchers’ Guild Coat of Arms model taken in the shade (diffuse light). Compare to the previous picture in my feed, which shows the same model in direct sunlight. Same model, completely different look.
Model description: origami.kosmulski.org/models/butchers-guild-coat-of-arms
The Engineering Building (1959–1963) was the first major building by British architects James Stirling and James Gowan. This Grade II* listed building comprises workshops and laboratories at ground level, and a tower containing offices and lecture theatres.
The building is part of the Red Trilogy by James Stirling. Beginning in the late 1950s, the architect designed three university buildings featuring distinctly red materials: red bricks and red tiles. The Red Trilogy includes the Engineering Building, University of Leicester (1959–1963), the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge (1964–1967), and the Florey Building, The Queen's College, Oxford (1966–1971). James Stirling and James Gowan worked together on the design for the Engineering Building. The Trilogy's two later buildings were designed by Stirling, without Gowan.
The Engineering Building is a large and complex structure. Stirling and Gowan were tasked to design spaces for offices, laboratories, auditorium, and workshops with heavy machinery. The design also includes a water tank on top. The workshops are located in the low-rise section of the building, in a hall with a rectangular floor plan. Connected to the workshop hall is the tower, which houses auditorium, offices, and laboratories. The water tank sits on top of the tower. The tower section is notable for its chamfered edges and its prismatic geometry. The auditorium is located at the base of the tower. The auditoriums seating arrangement is designed typically stadium-like with staggered rows of seats. The angled auditorium floor results in a pronounced wedge-shape on the building's exterior. The tower's facades are clad in glass and red tiles, the workshop hall's facade is entirely made of frosted glass.
A unique feature of the workshop hall is its roof construction. The roof's geometry is rotated by 45 degrees in respect to the floor plan's orientation. This results in a unique jagged roof line and a diamond-pattern-like perimeter. The roof appears as a series of multiple translucent prisms. The translucent effect was achieved by lining the glass panes with fibre-glass. Other parts of the glass shell are completely opaque, in contrast. Here, the glass panes were coated with a thin layer of aluminium.
Stirling and Gowan were commissioned in 1957. The design is dated to 1959. Construction lasted from 1960 to 1963. The consulting structural engineer was Frank Newby.
Location: Selangor
Distribution: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.
Status: Near-threatened
Malay Name: Kekicau-Telunjuk Dada Putih
Chinese Name: 白胸雅鹛
Habitat: Subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. It is threatened by habitat loss
Behaviour/Ecology: Feeds on small invertebrates taken from the forest floor, mainly in wet areas. Surprisingly this species is quite opportunistic. We saw it caught a tiny fish from shallow water of a river bank, an uncommon observation i must say.
🌟 because i love my country! our constitution! our bill of rights! and what's written on the statue of liberty! .. (and also because i love animals :) .. this is a heartmade meal for america's independence day ..
vegetarian tostada. food from 'south of the border' (which, up north here in the usa, pretty much all of us revere :) .. made for today because: we don't need a 'wall' ! between close friends & neighbors
what we DO need is to keep faith with the words on our statue of liberty:
'A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name: Mother of Exiles, cries she.. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" '
and vegetarian .. because we don't need to eat other breathing beings who were born here on earth to - just like us! - live their lives.
(and the colors just because tertiary colors make me happy :)
God bless America!
and
every other beautiful corner of this Earth that we all share !
and to everyOne who has been stunned by the wrong and bewildering path taken as of & since our "election" nov. 8. 2016.. please know that we are too!.. deeply so, achingly so. . . .
please forgive us and please stand together with us as we right this boat!
thank you to all who have stood beside us thus far .. and who believe - along with the majority of us here - that WE will right it 🔅
for the benefit of all beings on earth, for Mother Earth herself, and for the precious generations to come
love u
🌳🌳🌳
The glory of the Taj Mahal early on a Sunday morning.
This white marble wonder - inlaid with semi-precious stones and inscribed with words from the Koran - was built by the emperor Shah Jahan, in grief-stricken memory of his beloved wife, who had died giving birth to their 14th child. The construction employed several thousand craftsmen largely brought to India from Iran and took place between 1632 and 1653.
The Shah described the Taj in these compelling words:
"Should guilty seek asylum here,
Like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin.
Should a sinner make his way to this mansion,
All his past sins are to be washed away.
The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs;
And the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes.
In this world this edifice has been made;
To display thereby the creator's glory."