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She's dreaming to be like what's reflected on the water,
I'm dreaming for a more relax time.... :P
This pic was taken in the neighborhood of my new rent house (yes I just moved). It is a very nice place to live in.
I'm still busy, but I miss working with camera & photos :(
Thank you, my friends, for dropping me messages while I'm gone.
Really nice to know that I've been missed.
I will still be slow in flickring. Hope you guys are well.
ODC - DREAM
BDPC - In the garden
The Museum of Pop Culture, or MoPOP (earlier called EMP Museum) is a nonprofit museum dedicated to contemporary popular culture
As we exit from the freedom of Slab City, we are warned that We are entering a world of reality. We also see a note that Nat has Herpes, so I suggest you all avoid Nat.
Tested the Fooocus AI platform. Here's what I got.
On the left: a ‘live’ (real) model, on the right - its generated copy
An alternative reality is a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own.
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The only reality is you. You are the dream and the dreamer.
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Du musst das Ziel verstehen.
Die Wiedervereinigung mit deiner eigentlichen geistigen Größe.
Du verlierst nichts, du gewinnst nur hinzu. Ob du Illusionen behalten und weiter in ihnen leben willst, ist deine Entscheidung. Aus Sicht deiner eigentlichen geistigen Größe verlierst du keine Zeit.
Du erfährst, alles hat seine Zeit, auch das Wiedererwachen deines ursprünglichen Seins. Mit jedem Augenblick gehst du "ihm" entgegen, und "er" kommt auf dich zu.
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On the return from our walk the sky began to glow. The clouds and colours were beautiful.
Our Daily Challenge ... creative reality.
Maybe
This is why
I change reality
I have to find out
I want to be shure
About my self
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Aspects:
Leaving the Holy Grail -
leaving paradise -
leaving the room of childhood and fantasy
loosing innocence
growing up
changing perception
two realities
The meaning of life maybe is becoming aware of the two different states of consciousness.
When I realized what I had left and lost I turned and looked for my inner child which is a state of consciousness. Open minded. Innocent.
Die Vertreibung aus dem Paradies
Erdung der Seele
Parzival muss den Gral verlassen
"Nichts ist innen -
nichts ist außen -
doch was innen ist
ist außen!"
J- W. von Goethe
The challenge:
This week’s challenge is to “see” in black and white. As I was doing research for this challenge, I came across the following quote which I absolutely love: “From an artistic viewpoint; color depicts reality. Black and white is an interpretation of reality.” In B&W, colors are “interpreted” into differing amounts of light and dark, i.e. different tonal values. In this challenge we are going to practice seeing a scene the way our camera interprets it in B&W or monotone. This week compose an image in soft light (shade, overcast day, ambient indoor light, etc.) that converts to a B&W or monotone photo with full tonal range.
My process:
It was yet another busy week and though the weather was perfect for this challenge (overcast with some rain for most of it), I wasn’t able to enjoy the photographic possibilities. I should know that if I just get outside I’ll be inspired, but I was inside working at my computer for most of the week and was decidedly uninspired. That is until I did take a short walk and noticed a planter full of flowers covered with drops of water. Bingo!
At first I tried a bunch of different shots of dark purple pansies. Using the B&W mode on my camera to take test shots, I quickly realized that dark purple was not going to work for my B&W image – at least not against dark green leaves. The undersides of the petals were more lavender though and while those created a beautiful B&W image, I was having trouble finding a composition that I liked.
In another flower pot I found some Johnny Jump Ups with dark purple, bright yellow and white. I got as close as I could with my macro lens because the flowers are fairly small. I liked what I saw in B&W mode and played around with the position of the flower in the frame, but it wasn’t until I got it on my computer that the image really came alive with Silver Efex Pro 2.
Lessons learned:
1.I still have a lot to learn about “seeing” in B&W. Interestingly, I found that it was easier to figure out the composition I like _after_ I had processed the image in B&W. Once the color was removed, it was easier for me to “see” the strength of the composition.
2.I finally took time to learn more about all of the options in Silver Efex Pro 2 – most importantly the control points.
3.I also learned that if I applied Silver Efex Pro 2 to a Smart Object in Photoshop (instead of in Lightroom), I can go back and adjust my settings or even remember my settings. I’m sooooo happy to have found that tidbit of info while learning more about Silver Efex Pro!
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Antrim town lies just to the right, and yet you enter another world on his side of the wall. Antrim Castle Gardens.
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This is not my prefered photo, but I used it for an experiment with the Liquid Rescale Gimp plugin.
This image was originally 2314 x 3474 pixels, it was scaled to a square ratio 3474x3474... I'll let you spot the artifacts ;)
The plugin uses seam carving technology to avoid loosing features aspect ratios when resizing the image to a different aspect ratio.
when we were young, we used to live so close to it
and we were scared and we were beautiful
and when I peered over the edge and seen death, if we are always the same
and I feel that nothing in life could ever be like this again
'cause your love kept me alive and made me insane
there were moments when it seemed okay
but I go back alone
to this moment away, where do you stay?
I go back alone
there was a time when the music would play
baby, every morning there are mountains to climb
taking all my time
when I get up, this is what I see
welcome to reality
A famous Cambridge landmark, Reality Checkpoint is supposed to have got its name during the 60's when students in an 'elevated mental state' would have to traipse home back over Parker Piece after a night out in town - arriving at the tangible Reality Checkpoint in the fog was presumably some reassurance in the middle of the empty and mysterious Parkers PIece.
The lamppost is regularly scrawled with its adopted name, and I have seen engraved brass name plates stuck on there too (the Council seems to take exception to any such supposed abuse, and quickly removes student daubings or other pranksters attempts to name this shrine).
The San Francisco Seals were a minor league baseball team in San Francisco, California, that played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957 before transferring to Phoenix, Arizona. They were named for the abundant California sea lion and harbor seal populations in the Bay Area. The 1909, 1922, 1925, and 1928 Seals were recognized as being among the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time.
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Harry Richard "Rube" Suter (b. September 15, 1887 in Independence, Missouri – d. July 24, 1971 at age 83 in Topeka, Kansas) was a professional baseball pitcher from 1906 to 1912. He played one season in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox. Suter was 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg). He started his baseball career in 1906 with the South Texas League's Austin Senators and had a win–loss record of 15–9. The following season, he was 23–13. Suter then joined the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League and became one of the top pitchers in the circuit. In 1908, pitching a league-leading 415 innings, he went 27–20 with a 2.00 earned run average. Suter's contract was purchased by the Chicago White Sox in August 1908. He was on the White Sox roster throughout 1909, and he made seven starts, relieved in 11 other games, and went 2–3 with a 2.47 ERA. His contract was then sold back to San Francisco after the season, and he never played in the majors again. Returning to his old club in 1910, Suter picked up where he left off, going 16–14 with a 1.95 ERA. The following season, his ERA rose to 2.67, but he struck out 339 batters to set a Seals team record. He also threw a no-hitter on April 25 to beat Oakland, 1–0. In 1912, Suter joined the Portland Beavers. He set a Pacific Coast League record on October 12, when he struck out 16 batters in a game against San Francisco. Suter pitched in 20 games that year and won only 5. His playing career ended after the season. In 1938, Suter was the manager of the Western Association's Salina Millers.
(Clipped from - The Topeka State Journal newspaper - Topeka, Kansas - 8 Jun 1905) - Sedalia has a new pitcher by the name of Harry Suter, son of George Suter of Fulton. He is a home-guard, but promises In great shape. He formerly pitched for the Westminster College team.
(Clipped from - The Topeka State Journal newspaper - Topeka, Kansas - 17 Jun 1905) - Sedalia - Harry Suter, the home guard kid phenom, who showed up so well in the box, refused to go along on the present trip. He only wants to play at home. In July he pitched for the Nevada Elks baseball team.
(Clipped from - The Sedalia Democrat newspaper - Sedalia, Missouri - 23 Feb 1906) - Sedalian Signed As Pitcher - Harry Suter, the young man who pitched such phenomenal ball for the Nevada Elks last summer, has signed with the Austin, Tex., ball team, says the Nevada Mall. Suter will make good in the Texas league, and If no accidents happen to him he will be In professional company before the passing of many seasons. He is a real “box-artist" of the strikeout order.
(Clipped from - The Sedalia Democrat newspaper - Sedalia, Missouri - 5 Nov 1906) - SEDALIA BALL PLAYER - Austin, He Will Likely Be Sold by Austin, Texas to St. Paul. Harry Suter, the plumber and baseball pitcher, who played last season with the Austin, Texas, baseball team in the Southern Texas league, is in receipt of a letter from W. P. Allen, secretary of the league, in which he states that Suter will very likely be sold to the St. Paul, Minn. American association club the coming season. (he ended up staying one more year with the Austin baseball team).
(Clipped from - The Morning Union newspaper - Grass Valley, California - 18 February 1908) - LONG SIGNS GOOD MAN FROM TEXAS - SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 17. - Danny Long announced today that he had all but signed Harry Suter, who helped to pitch Austin into the championship in the Texas League last year. Suter was drafted by Washington. When Long sold Street to Cantillon the understanding was that the latter should send him a player in addition to the money that was passed. Now if Washington can secure waivers on Suter he will be turned over to the Seals. "Suter is a left-handed pitcher", said Long, "and was one of the best men in the Texas League last year. His side-kicker, Bailey, was tried out by the St. Louis American Club last fail and made good, and from all accounts Suter is as good a man. I am told that he has a lot of speed and for a left-hander and is remarkably steady. We need a good southpaw and I look for Suter to fill the bill."
(Clipped from - The Sedalia Democrat newspaper - Sedalia, Missouri - 2 April 1908) - A SEDALIA BALL PLAYER WHO HAS MADE GOOD WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO TEAM IN COAST LEAGUE. HARRY SUTER IS A FIXTURE THERE - Washington Drafted Him From Texas, but Turned Him Adrift Without a Trial and Is Sure to Regret It. Harry Suter, son of George Suter, the plumber of this city, has made good with the San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast Baseball League. Suter has something up his sleeve that no other pitcher is working on. Suter’s new junk is the “knuckle ball.” it is a combination of the slow ball and the spitter. In making the delivery, Suter grasps the ball firmly of course, against the knuckles of the pitching hand. It is delivered with the same motion that sends the swift ball across the plate. And that is where the deception lies. While the swing is that of a fast ball the knuckle sphere is in reality a slow ball, it comes to the batter looming up as large as a balloon and then suddenly drops, just like the “saliva special.’
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T212 Obaks were to the West Coast what T206’s were to the rest of the country. While little of the players are known, their images endure...trade cards from the "Obak Baseball Players" series (T212), distributed by the California branch of the American Tobacco Company to promote their Obak Mouthpiece Cigarettes brand. The set was released in three separate subsets, one per year from 1909 through 1911.
While the players may not be well known to fans today—and most probably weren't to fans in the eastern half of the country even in 1910—the cards are appreciated for their stunning good looks. The artwork on these is sensational, transporting you back in time to a period when the game was beginning to grow up in California, Oregon and Washington, where these players toiled in hopes of getting noticed by a big league club in the east.
Link to - Obak Cards Were West Coast’s Version of T206 - www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/obak-cards-were-west-coasts...
All three Obak sets feature the same front design. The design has a brightly-colored lithograph of a player, surrounded by a white border. At the bottom are the player's last name and team city, and the specific league is added for the 1910 and '11 sets. Collectors can identify which year the card was issued by its back design. 1909 cards feature an Obak advertisement in Old English script. 1910 had the Obak wording in block type, along with a mention of either 150 or 175 subjects. There are a total of 35 different slogans available on the 1910 card backs. Finally, the 1911 cards are printed in red ink, with a biography of the player and a few lines of statistics. There are 426 total cards in the three sets.
Many 1909 Obaks were obviously hand-cut at the factory and were issued exactly in this manner; these cards are encapsulated as "Authentic" due to their very slight irregular cut but are definitely not trimmed. There were 10 horizontal cards issued in the 1909 set (Boyce, Brackenridge, Brown, Dillion, W. Hogan, Martinke, Mohler, Nelson, Reidy and Wiggs).
1911 Obak - The final year of production for the original Obak baseball card brand. The 1911 Obak Baseball set featured players from the six PCL teams and the four NWL teams. These teams included professional clubs from Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Vernon, and Seattle. This year is noticeably different from the previous two years as the backs are printed in red ink and contain a bio and statistics. The stats are a first for minor league cards.
Link to - Finding 5 Gems In The T212 Obak Minor League Set - www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/t212-obak-set/
The OBAK (T212) cards were printed in San Francisco at the Schmidt Lithography Co. Judging from the 76-card
uncut sheet shown in Post #8, Schmidt Lithography used a 30-inch wide press track to print 19 cards across the
sheet.
Links to 1911 T212-3 Obak Cigarettes (179 cards) complete sheet (printed by the Schmidt lithography company in San Francisco, sold for $16,000) - www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/cct-worth-...
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There comes a time in the life of every photographer when he (or she) decides that it's time to 'play' with their zoom lens. This is one of my early attempts. It was taken in a church in Delft in The Netherlands. My camera was on a tripod. I think the exposure was about two seconds, zooming only for the second half of that (as near as I could estimate it).
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