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Many practical homeowners in Denver, Colorado eschew the traditional grass lawn in favor of xerophytic garden or ground covers with highlights of colorful flowers. And, many of the gardens are spectacular.
We stayed in a beautiful 126-year old Airbnb rental home with not a blade of grass in front of the home. But the blooming ground covers and brilliant poppies, growing in the shade of the tall trees, were wonderful to behold.
Featuring:
Scandalize Onayra Set (tube top & skirt) - available at Sensation Event through 26-Nov
Insomnia Angel Puff Sleeve Gothic Bolero
Le Fil Casse Melanie Boots - available at FaMESHed through 27-Nov
Foxy Awake hair
Tentacio Aguetarre Headpiece
IDTTY Morning After eyeshadow/lipstick - available at Kinky through 22-Nov
Taken at Elysion Halloween - Omen
Full details at Grumpy Kitten.
An eye patch is big enough if you don't want to contaminate people. The nose is no threat unless you blow your nose in someones hair:-)
Back rested and bright eyed and bushy tailed I am starting with one of my favorite views of Haarlem which is the backside approach to the Nieuwe Kerk the scene always appears to me as a picture waiting to be captured and a fitting end to my reworks of Haarlem.
Originally there stood a cramped and falling down gothic St. Anne's chapel which the Nieuwe Kerk replaced in 1649 by Jacob van Campen’s Gothic austere design as Haarlem’s first stone built protestant church but keeping the locally designed Renaissance tower by Lieven de Key by request of the city .
This style of protestant church was designed to focus the congregants attention on the pulpit instead of the ornamentation and the outside was to represent the temple keep in Jerusalem.
The Nieuwe Kerk also served a more practical reason as well, in the winter the Grote Kerk is freezing and there is not an easy way to heat it comfortably to make it bearable for the attendees so during the colder months of the year the congregation moves into a much smaller warmer space of the New Church.
I took this on Sept 13th, 2017 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at 28mm 1/10 sec f/16 ISO100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , Luminar and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress
I don't know. This was one that I loved certain parts while I was doing it, but then as a total, not a big fan. Here is the original.
'...The world is a rose... I wonder if life is possible beyond it...?'
If one is a snail living on a pink rose one doesn't need to wear rose-coloured glasses. How practical!
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Chairs and Benches
This is yet another new series of photographs this time about Chairs and Benches with a few other seating items thrown in.
They can be Regal, Practical, Ultra Design items, Art Installations, used for Potty Training. They can even be vehicles of Execution. They hold immense power and none at all. From the densest populated cities, to the most remote parts of the world. Usually sturdy; reliable; honest; comfortable; often filled with people. People talking, sleeping, with their phones, eating, climbing to reach other items, feeding birds, making love and every scenario one can think of.
The imagination can run riot over the most important conversations that have taken place on them, what they could tell you if they could, what they would tell you if they wanted too. As usual I hope you enjoy what I have posted and this is the first of many……….
Like a Character from the Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats T.S.ELIOT
Jellicle Cats are black and white,
Jellicle Cats have moonlit eyes,
Jellicle Cats are rather small;
Jellicle Cats are merry and bright,
And pleasant to hear when they "sing" .♩♪♫♬
T.S. ELIOT - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIeQQcWnjqA
caught her awaiting spring and her parents ♥ ♥ ♥
Love & Sunshine to All my Beautiful Flickr Friends ♥ ♥ ♥
Spent some time at Itaska state park looking for some fall color. My daughter and I took this boat tour back in 2018. It's really fun and relaxing way to see the lake.
Founded in 1985 by Captain Thomas K. Coborn and Mickey Coborn, Lake Itasca Tours has made over 8,000 Naturalist Narrated boat tours to the Headwaters of the Great Mississippi River.
The first vessel the “Chester Charles”, named after Captain Tom’s Father, was a 1970 40′ tour boat that held 55 passengers. In 1999, it was decided that the time had come to expand the boat business.
Leech Lake was chosen for the expansion. In the fall of 1999, a 65′ x 22′ 40 ton cruise vessel was purchased in Van Buren Arkansas. Because of its height, width and weight, the Coborns faced a very expensive challenge in transporting it to Minnesota. The most practical way was by water. Since the trip would be over 1,500 miles and against a strong current in the lower Mississippi, it was deemed necessary to also purchase a 36′ push boat to assist in pushing the larger vessel.
In 2007, Thomas Coborn moved the boat to Lake Itasca. The 55 passenger “Chester Charles” was then replaced with the 141 passenger “Chester Charles II”.
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Something different from my usual. They were parked along the road side in the middle of nowhere, so I couldn't resist.
Thanks to SkeletalMess for the Cosmic Band texture
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Blogpost for ALPHA Event
The holiday season is here, and nothing captures its essence quite like a serene, snowy forest adorned with twinkling lights and a touch of festive spirit. For this blog post, I wanted to bring a scene to life that blends the beauty of nature with the warmth of the holidays.
What I’m Wearing
Creating this look was all about embracing the cozy and stylish vibe of the season:
Sweater:
ODIREN - Jacob Jumper - FATPACK @ALPHA Event
Available at the ALPHA Event, this sweater combines comfort and style effortlessly. The FATPACK offers a range of colors to suit any winter outfit.
Jeans:
#144 [ARCBACK] Jeans - Fatpack
These jeans are a perfect fit, offering versatility and a casual, relaxed look that’s ideal for a snowy day.
Hairbase:
EGX. BOM Sandro Hairbase (EVO X / ADVX)
A subtle and sleek addition that completes the look with a polished touch.
Sneakers:
[VERSOV] GENTOV_SNEAKERS_(LEGACY M)_FATPACK
Stylish yet practical, these sneakers add a modern edge to the outfit while ensuring comfort for a day outdoors.
The Scene
This setup was made possible with the Amitie Winter Boat pose set.
I adjusted the scene by hiding the boat to better integrate it into the snowy forest environment. The accessories, including the tree, brought a festive feel to the image, making it truly unique.
Stay warm, stay stylish, and have a magical holiday season! ✨
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What is it about a hat? What is it that makes it so iconic? So full of prestige. Is it the adventurous look it gives? All the practical uses? The confidence it gives when wearing a hat.
The hat, a symbol, the distinguishing mark, a companion, a most precious possession, shield, and shelter. Even better and more important than shoes. What I want to say is there's no adventure without a hat. I recommend all to get one, even myself, when setting out on a journey dangerous or no.
I'm afraid my practical skills don't extend beyond sewing on a button (seriously), but for some reason I do enjoy photographing sewing paraphernalia. Perhaps it's just a natural progression from the vintage buttons I love.
In this image, the scissors and silver thimble are from the late 19th century and the cotton reels range from the 1930s to the early 1970s. You won't be surprised to know there's zero chance any of these things will actually be pressed into service. :)
Photographed with Lensbaby Velvet 56.
There are some things I know for certain: always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can.
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FATEwear Anniversary Competition Entry
Found this today while on a ' deleting old photos spree'.
Taken in another lifetime.
I miss my Cybershot,and it's silvery biscuitiness.
This weathered dairy barn, with its handsome brickwork and distinctive gambrel roof, stands as a century-old survivor from the early 1900s, when similar architectural combinations defined rural America. The gambrel design itself traces back to Dutch settlers who brought this practical roof style to America in the 1600s.
On the modest family farms of that era, a substantial barn like this served as the farming operation's heartbeat. From their initial construction until the widespread decline of Minnesota small dairies in the 1970s and 80s, these barns witnessed generations of farmers housing their cattle and storing tons of hay in the loft above. The upper level sometimes held grain bins for winter feeding, making the barn a complete storehouse.
That cupola crowning the roof wasn't a mere decoration as it provided essential ventilation to prevent hay from spoiling and kept air circulating throughout the structure, protecting both feed and livestock.
Around the time this barn was built, St. Cloud served as a Minnesota brick manufacturing center, with the industry established in Stearns County during the Civil War era. While smaller brick yards operated closer to this barn's location in Kennebec County, practical considerations likely meant these bricks arrived by rail from St. Cloud's larger, more established kilns.
The farm children who grew up around barns like this remember them as centers of endless daily labor, but also a place where they learned lessons about life's fragility through caring for animals from birth to death.
Those same youngsters, many of them now elderly, carry vivid memories of Saturday morning conversations with fathers long gone, shared while mucking stalls and the infectious laughter of siblings goofing around at milking time, their voices still echoing despite needing hearing aids now to catch them.
Most of those once-young farmer boys have aged beyond heavy labor, but their hands remain calloused from decades of pitchfork handles, five-gallon feed pails, and the cool feel of snapping metal stanchions together before milking the trapped cows.
So forgive us old-timers for our wistfulness when we see an empty barn standing silent on a farm place. For during very formative years of our lives, structures like this one were at the heart of everything we knew, even if that heartbeat has now slowed down and grown faint.
(Photographed in Kennebec County, MN)
Always throw spilt salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck and fall in love whenever you can.
This container of rosehip eye balm is 100% biodegradable.
An idea whose time has come.
container dimensions: 1.75" across by 1" high.
Macro Mondays, subject: Container
Project 365-282
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Taken a bit too far, for sliders sunday…
hss!
See the first comment box below for the standard version, the original from which all arose, and a screenshot of this version's photoshop file with the expanded layers panel and channels panel.
After converting to black and white in Lr, and cropping, it was brought into Ps. I liked the version edited as usual, but then decided to see what would happen if I slud things further.
I like the overlay glow that is often created with editing for an Orton effect. The first way I learned was from Tony Kuyper's tutorials. At the top of the layer stack a curves adjustment layer set to screen blend mode is created. Then create a merged up through it layer. Set it to multiply blend mode and use gaussian blur. Group those layers and possibly add a mask to the group, and possibly reduce opacity of the group.
I recently came across another way to do it in the Practical Photography magazine. They say duplicate the background layer a couple times but since I'd already done a lot of editing with quite a few layers, I created a new merged up layer at the top of the layer stack, then duplicated it. One of those layers is set to Multiply and blurred. The other is set to Screen and left as is. They are grouped and a curves adjustment layer is added to the group. The line is pulled up and left to lighten the group.
I ended up using both those ways of creating an Orton effect, and sliding opacity of each a bit for this.
Happy Sliding!
I had just taken some photos when the sculptress walked out and asked if I had put on that mask. Apparently, a prankster had just played a practical joke.
Terracotta sculptures by artist Laure Gaudebert
Je venais de prendre quelques photos lorsque la sculpteuse est sortie et m'a demandé si j'avais mis ce masque. Apparemment, un farceur venait de jouer une blague pratique.
Sculptures en terre cuite de l'artiste Laure Gaudebert
Excerpt from www.oakvillegalleries.com/exhibitions/details/228/Sascha-...:
Sascha Braunig's paintings and drawings are exercises in colour, form, and illusion. Citing an artistic lineage that stretches from the Pictures Generation through to the Chicago Imagists and horror-movie practical effects, her sometimes barbed, tubular, netted, or neon-lit forms speak of many of the tensions of the current moment, such as being a subject within the grid of digital or gender systems.
In this exhibition, which stretches over both Oakville Galleries sites, the Canada-born, US-based artist brings together new and recent works that are based on the compositional motif of figures engaged in conflict with a dress-like structure. These works use material qualities to analogize an immaterial idea: the feeling of struggling with a system more powerful than you, in which you are also deeply entangled.
Braunig builds and uses three-dimensional models as visual aids in the making of her work, some of which are included in the exhibition. Because of this observational painting practice, she sees her work as being linked to the academic nineteenth-century painter's use of the “lay figure," a jointed doll, not quite to-scale, that artists used as a stand-in for a live model in the studio. The exhibition's title, Lay Figure, refers to this historical practice, but Braunig extends its meaning to the schematic wiry figure that recurs in her recent work. Here she imagines the lay figure coming into a life of its own, squirming to free itself from rigid systems and resisting its status as the inanimate muse in patriarchal painting's history.
Berry is a Home Rule Class City with a 2020 population of 350 located in rural Harrison County . Tobacco farming declines every year in this area. The tobacco barns were designed for the hanging and curing of tobacco with ventilating slotted openings that would regulate the barn's inside temperature. Often not practical to convert the barn for other purposes.
I took this photo somewhere in central Kentucky. At the time, I forgot to jot down the exact location.. Kentucky is full of old barns and old abandoned houses that make for some great photographic opportunities if you like capturing that type of images. There is something about these old barns that I find appealing and I have a hard time putting it into words. I think of the life of extreme hard work, tough and practical men and women, and—contrary to Hollywood's stereotypical portrayal of farmers and rural folk as ignorant—I find them to be above-average in intelligence and practical wisdom.
Saturday Self Challenge: Kubus
Een kubus is een zeldzame vorm in het dagelijkse leven, want het is geen praktische vorm. Dozen, boeken, laden, bakstenen, enz., enz. zijn allemaal voorwerpen die meestal twee of soms vier gelijke zijden hebben, maar niet in de vorm van een kubus. Dus de oplossing zat in een dobbelsteen, de kubus die de meeste mensen wel kennen.
Om de kubusvormen goed uit te laten komen dacht ik aan contrasterende vormen namelijk twee dezelfde maar in formaat verschillende schalen met daarbij diagonale strepen. Verder heb ik de compositie vierkant gemaakt, want een vierkant is één zijde van een kubus.
Om de kubusvormen uit te laten komen koos ik voor deze en niet voor die van boven.
een vergelijkbare foto, maar van boven
Muziek: The Name of the Game
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Saturday Self Challenge: Cube
A cube is a rare shape in everyday life, because it is not a practical shape. Boxes, books, drawers, bricks, etc., etc., are all rectangular objects which have mostly two or sometimes even four equal sides, but not in the shape of a cube. So the solution was in a die, the cube that most people are familiar with.
To make the cube shapes stand out, I thought of contrasting shapes namely two of the same but different in size scales combined with diagonal stripes. Furthermore, I made the composition square, because a square is one side of a cube.
To make the cube shapes stand out, I chose this one and not the one from above.
a similar photo but from above
Music: The Name of the Game
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Standing outside this century old barn, I looked up to see an aircraft flying overhead and thought of how far we'd come. The barn featured a unique swing beam construction that allowed a team of horses, hitched to a wagon, to turn around without having to back up. Horses apparently don't like to walk backwards so this made life easier for farmer and animal alike. When you compare that marvel of practical engineering to the complexity of the plane, it seems there are no limits to what we can accomplish.