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I am continuing working on getting some decent images of Mountain Bluebird inflight. I learned a lot more about the challenges today and got a few that I will share but I am still not there yet. It was a lot of fun doing though.
You can find a more detailed video (with more projects and instructions) here:https://youtu.be/mE_rnRSbBFg
The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England. Inside the two biomes are plants that are collected from many diverse climates and environments. The project is located in a reclaimed Kaolinite pit, located 2 km (1.2 mi) from the town of St Blazey and 5 km (3 mi) from the larger town of St Austell, Cornwall.
The complex is dominated by two huge enclosures consisting of adjoining omes that house thousands of plant species, and each enclosure emulates a natural biome. The biomes consist of hundreds of hexagonal and pentagonal, inflated, plastic cells supported by steel frames. The largest of the two biomes simulates a Rainforest environment and the second, a Mediterranean environment. The attraction also has an outside botanical garden which is home to many plants and wildlife native to Cornwall and the UK in general; it also has many plants that provide an important and interesting backstory, for example, those with a prehistoric heritage.
I decided to follow a new direction for this project. Experiencing the current pandemic situation and having to stay quarantined for safety, I was having issues with myself and the artworks I was creating. I felt like it was unimportant to keep making the same kind of sculptures in the current moment. I felt like there were more pressing matters to attend than making cute, fun, little figurines. Plus, all that was filling my mind was anxieties about knowing if my family and friends were safe after checking the news all day every day to see how close and in which locations new cases of the virus were being found. I felt the need to create some more literal art piece which reminded me of the chapter on language in our book, which reminded me of Jenny Holzer's work with the large projections and light signs. I figured I could express what I was feeling and being surrounded with by working in a similar way.
The bottom sign is more of what the news casts were telling people to do, and the top sign is what I was seeing friends and family post on the internet. I also added the part "We are here because we are here.." as a reference to a time in WWI were British soldiers stopped to sing this in the battlefield over and over as a form of expressing how they felt trapped in battle and danger without knowing even the reason for them to be there.
A project I put together with items I had on hand...old cardboard, old vintage prints, fabric remnants and a cut out from a botanical print I had. I like the fact that it's all on cardboard :-)
One of a series of photographs of the Norris Whitney Bridge construction project between Belleville and Rossmore, Ontario, taken by Ross J. Cummings and donated to the Community Archives in January 2013.
My daughter doesn't like dresses, so I remixed this as a tunic and leggings. I kept the shape of the bodice, but lengthened it. It is still fully lined. On the back, I used big covered buttons and longer loops to give it a kind of Sergeant Pepper feel. I mimicked the color band of the sash with solid colored leggings. These were re-purposed from the sleeves of an old shirt, using the existing hems and adding a yoga style waistband. Her headband is one I use a lot; ribbon covered with a snap so I can swap out the yoyos to match her different outfits. For a finishing touch, I used the scraps of my lining fabric to make a necklace (from another Cottage Mama tutorial!). Still dressy, but more practical. :)
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I am guess first picture is always the hard one to choose and I always have no idea how to start. I Capture this shot with my Macro 100mm in 1/125 sec at f8, ISO 100 with natural sunlight.
Patterns: Paradox, Purk, Bubble Up (Sandra Strait) and Sundoo (Jane McKugler)
string 021: tanglepatterns.com/2012/10/tanglepatterns-string-021.html
More kaboom with the Triggersmart. I have some new pellets that smash the glass first time everytime so it's just a question of timing. It's also somewhat easier with two strobes now. I had my Nikon SB900 to the left and a Yongnuo to the right, both on manual at 1/128.
Yes Yes. Let us all take a moment and smirk at me. I keep a journal. Truth of the matter is though if I didn't I very well may go insane.
Yes this is the front of it... you are all very privelaged to see such a thing. This shows how comfortable I feel around all of you 'flickr' people.
The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England. Inside the two biomes are plants that are collected from many diverse climates and environments. The project is located in a reclaimed Kaolinite pit, located 2 km (1.2 mi) from the town of St Blazey and 5 km (3 mi) from the larger town of St Austell, Cornwall.
The complex is dominated by two huge enclosures consisting of adjoining omes that house thousands of plant species, and each enclosure emulates a natural biome. The biomes consist of hundreds of hexagonal and pentagonal, inflated, plastic cells supported by steel frames. The largest of the two biomes simulates a Rainforest environment and the second, a Mediterranean environment. The attraction also has an outside botanical garden which is home to many plants and wildlife native to Cornwall and the UK in general; it also has many plants that provide an important and interesting backstory, for example, those with a prehistoric heritage.
This flower is from my mom’s hibiscus plant, the other day it had six huge blooms. I saw them and thought it’d be neat to do a portrait with one of them. The blossoms only live for a day and so I had to wait for the next bunch to pop open and that was today.
Something so beautiful and it only lasts a day. I guess that’s a picture of physical beauty, as it says in Proverbs 31: 30 “…beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.” I think so often as women we can get caught up in physical beauty, it’s like our worth is derived from that. It’s what people see first when they meet us even before we open our mouths. I know I have struggled in this area and the culture of the day doesn’t make it easy. Everywhere you look the beauty of women is displayed and exploited. So in our hearts we can feel that we have to compete with what the world says is beautiful. As a mom of two daughters I want them to be free of that, I want them to be secure with how the Lord has created them. I want their beauty to come from within, just as I want mine to come from within.
“Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.”
~Nate Dircks~
Couple more things about me:
1. I like to fish, though I haven’t done a lot of it in a long time. But we grew up going to the cottage every summer for a week and the two things you did were swimming and fishing. When I was nineteen I caught a 25lb 42 inch musky. My brother thought I was stuck, he insisted that I was stuck; of course I didn’t think so. Anyway, I gave the rod to him and he reeled the beast in much to his surprise.
2. I love going for drives to just sit and see the country side.
The Heidelberg Project is art, energy, and community. It's an open-air art environment in the heart of an urban community on Detroit's East Side.
The astronauts maneuver the bug into position and docks with the orbiting command module.
Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
by Charles Coombs
Scholastic Books, Inc., 1965
This is the project I'm finishing for the "Sketchbook Project 2011". I've choosen the theme "This is not a sketchbook" and I made a story.
A very very very simple story...
Leaving landing gear and used descent stage behind, LEM's ascent stage blasts off the moon for a rendezvous with the orbiting Apollo.
Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
by Charles Coombs
Scholastic Books, Inc., 1965