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Using yesterday's panorama, these instructions photojojo.com/content/tutorials/create-your-own-panorama-... and Photoshop Elements.
I had someone contact me about taking some images of these buildings for them. It's been a while since I have taken photos there, but I'm sure to return soon.
This is one of the images they did not want.
Day 45 of 365: Been wanting to get a shot of HQ for a while now. This one fits with their recent eco campaign.
Mini Air Show held at Narragansett Town Beach in Rhode Island. This was in advance of the Rhode island Air National Guard Air Show held that weekend at Quonset Point.
Picture: Nineteenth century image of a Carrion Crow from Morris's English Birds, digitally adapted.
An old illustration from my collection called The Morrigan's Dark Ministers, here:
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The ORACLE
The curse of the oracle I bear:
Baring uncomfortable truths
To those with too much power.
My heart, a small receptacle
For a kingly soul, beating old blood
About a body battered and maligned.
I spoke truths of children
Serpent tailed; Athene dropped her stone
In wrath, making Lycabettus,
And banished me from the Acropolis,
Turning black my bone-white
Feathers, beak and claw.
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I shall draw the keeper’s wrath
Away from jays and slit-eyed foxes.
Of lead-shot cruelty I caw,
And hang dead, wired up like lightning
Zigzag, or a hooked and hanging
Question mark, zeroing to ground.
Cut me down gently, bury me,
Let my black fluid flow back
To Earth, who made me.
The curse of the oracle I bear:
Baring uncomfortable truths
To those with too much power.
Source material: In Greek mythology, the crow, personified as Cronus, was an oracular bird, and was said to house the soul of a sacred king after his sacrifice. The crow was cursed and banished by Athene after he reported to her that Herse, Pandrosos and Agraulos had plunged in terror from the Acropolis after uncovering a child with a serpent’s tail. She did this after dropping the stone which she had been carrying towards the Acropolis, thus forming the nearby Lycabettus Hill. See Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, 6, 7, 25, 50. The second half of the poem describes the plight of a particular crow, known to the author, who happened to fly within range of the gun of a bloodthirsty gamekeeper.
Purple? Maybe?
It is annoying how it is utterly impossible to capture real colors of light on a photography. While the dark, deep blue with white blobs is very neat, perhaps even more than in reality, what one sees with their own eyes is a pale shade of violet with a weird, almost grey light inside.
Oldest known form of Chinese writing, from the Shang dynasty - up to 4,800 years ago. (Wow.)
The card reads:
"The day on which royal consorts would give birth, and whether the baby will be a son or daughter, were both matters of great interest to the Shang King.
Of the four sets of inscriptions on this turtle plastron, parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 inquire as to the month of birth."
More information about the writing: click
Here is a list of oracle bones - this one is at the very bottom.
Taken in the National Palace Museum in Taipei [ against the rules, shhhhhh! ;) hooray for sneaky digicam snaps! ]
Oracle was built at the Cammell Laird Birkenhead yard and launched in 1961 and was an Oberon class submarine. This class were improvements over the earlier Porpoise class being made of higher grade steel, having a fibre glass conning tower and having a better equipment fit. The class was intended for anti-submarine operations but also carred out may special forces missions..
She was decommissioned in 1993 and broken up at Pounds Yard, Portsmouth between 1997 and 2003
Reading's famous shopping and entertainment centre, the Oracle, with the (fully navigable) river Kennet running through the middle of it. Always looking festive :)
Scott Ferguson (BSE NAME '85), Design Coordinator and Manager of Wing Design for ORACLE TEAM USA, talks with other members of the team before the day's afternoon testing event.
ORACLE TEAM USA is preparing to compete in the 2017 America's Cup. The race will take place in Bermuda, so the team has setup shop on the small island nation off the eastern coast of the United States in order to perform iterative design testing and practice racing its hydrofoiling catamaran yacht.
Photo: Evan Dougherty, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing