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Although all the rooms of the Rone - Empire installation exhibition are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study is one of them. It features walls of books covered with a portrait of Lily Sullivan, and the entire room is partially submerged in a lake of black water with the occasional red oak leaf floating across its glassy surface.
Melbourne based street artist Rone (Tyrone Wright) used the decaying glory of the 1933 Harry Norris designed Streamline Moderne mansion, Burnham Beeches in the Dandenong Ranges' Sherbrooke, between March the 6th and April 22nd to create an immersive hybrid art space for his latest installation exhibition; "Empire".
"Empire" combined a mixture of many different elements including art, sound, light, scent, found objects, botanic designs, objects from nature and music especially composed for the project by Nick Batterham. The Burnham Beeches project re-imagines and re-interprets the spirit of one of Victoria’s landmark mansions, seldom seen by the public and not accessed since the mid 1980s. According to Rone - Empire website; "viewers are invited to consider what remains - the unseen cultural, social, artistic and spiritual heritage which produces intangible meaning."
Rone was invited by the current owner of Burnham Beeches, restaurateur Shannon Bennett, to exhibit "Empire" during a six week interim period before renovations commence to convert the heritage listed mansion into a select six star hotel.
Rone initially imagined the mansion to be in a state of dereliction, but found instead that it was a stripped back blank canvas for him to create his own version of how he thought it should look. Therefore, almost all the decay is in fact of Rone's creation from grasses in the Games Room which 'grow' next to a rotting billiards table, to the damp patches, water staining and smoke damage on the ceilings. Nests of leaves fill some spaces, whilst tree branches and in one case an entire avenue of boughs sprout from walls and ceilings. Especially designed Art Deco wallpaper created in Rone's studio has been installed on the walls before being distressed and damaged. The rooms have been adorned with furnishings and objects that might once have graced the twelve original rooms of Burnham Beeches: bulbulous club sofas, half round Art Deco tables, tarnished silverware and their canteen, mirrored smoke stands of chrome and Bakelite, glass lamps, English dinner services, a glass drinks trolley, photos of people long forgotten in time, walnut veneer dressing tables reflecting the installation sometimes in triplicate, old wire beadsteads, luggage, shelves of books, an Underwood typewriter, a John Broadwood and Sons of London grand piano and even a Kriesler radiogramme. All these objects were then covered in a thick sheet or light sprinkling of 'dust' made of many different things including coffee grinds and talcum powder, creating a sensation for the senses. Burnham Beeches resonated with a ghostly sense of its former grandeur, with a whiff of bittersweet romance.
Throughout the twelve rooms, magnificent and beautifully haunting floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall portraits of Australian actress Lily Sullivan, star of the Foxtel re-make of Picnic at Hanging Rock, appear. Larger than life, each portrait is created in different colours, helping to create seasonal shifts as you move from room to room.
Although all the rooms are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study is one. The Dining Room features two long tables covered in a Miss Havisham like feast of a trove of dinner table objects from silverware and glassware to empty oyster shells and vases of grasses and feathers.
The Dining Room installation I found especially confronting. In 1982, I visited Burnham Beeches when it was a smart and select hotel and had Devonshire tea in the dining room at a table alongside the full length windows overlooking the terraces below. I was shocked to see a room I remember appointed with thick carpets and tables covered in gleaming silver and white napery, strewn with dust and leaves, and adorned with Miss Havisham's feast of found dining objects.
I feel very honoured and privileged to be amongst the far too few people fortunate enough to have seen Rone's "Empire", as like the seasons, it is ephemeral, and it will already have been dismantled. Rone's idea is that, like his street art, things he creates don't last forever, and that made the project exciting. I hope that my photographs do justice to, and adequately share as much as is possible of this amazing installation with you.
The reason most people go to Cemlyn Bay is to see the tern colony which was looking really busy this year with plenty of Sandwich, common and Arctic terns. There are few things better than sitting at Cemlyn listening to the terns and watching them come and go
This day, the sun could not even reveal the emptiness I once felt towards a person named me. Drowning in tears, glittering drops further disturb my reflection in the sea. My wish is to be free...a slave no more in the arms of my faceless adversary, him which hoists the flag of misery. Imperfect little boat named black pearl I may be, yes, I no longer hold to any a worthy appeal; fear is to drift away without hearing my own souls plea, "unanchor and become the master of your own destiny!"...
Everything happens for a reason. Serendipity,coincidence or whatever you call it, life blows its surprises unexpectedly. I have been encountering 22 several times a day for more than a month now and I can't help but think of the life I had in 2009.....this one's for you....
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When powerful wings of love seize you
Resist not though its horns pierce you through
And when it promises you a life of eternity
Believe though you kneel tattered in uncertainty.
For when it summons the bravest of your intentions
So shall be born the grandest of all your illusions
For when love delights your eyes and edifies you
So shall it become the arrow that betrays you.
From among the throng of faces it chooses you
Its rudder shall define and embody you
Love will pummel you 'til you are both gentle and strong
It'll crown you with blood 'til you are broken and sifts your wrong.
...And if you slumber and spurn when your heart sings,
Your existence unfolds only a speck of your being
Because if you only long for love's ease and rapture
Hide your face then for its thrashings you will not endure
For love discloses not of beauty and wit
But of soul's nakedness bereft of deceit
Of love be known and its words be true
May they fill every fiber of your being through and through.
-cro (March 7-22, 2011)
Photography and poetry: ©crozahirah
Orcas are amazing animals to watch. No matter how often I see them, I feel a sense of wonder every time a pod of orcas go by. And to see them hunt or play is always awe inspiring.
But out of all the species of animals I have photographed, orcas are the most difficult! I have so many photos of splashes, or just a dorsal fin. And when they do jump out of the water, they are so fast it’s really hard to capture them – especially when you’re driving the boat at the same time.
Read the story behind the image on the blog:
annemckinnell.com/2017/07/12/reasons-love-vancouver-islan...
Hoops of delight at first but maybe it's because I'm not used to them but I had to take them out after about six hours as my lobes became quite sore and tender. However the good news is the sun came out and I have to confess I took over 500 images to sort, digest and hopefully post. That's one reason why I have so many good ones I don't just take two and one for luck. I have been reticent in the past to take my little studs out as I can be 'all fingers and thumbs' when trying to do fiddly things but even though I was dreading it I managed without too much difficulty to change them back again so you never know you might see me in more of them as some are so fab and besides they make me feel like a porn star lol..
This is one of the reasons why I wanted to do portrait photography - basically bring forth sides of people they may or may not know they have.
I've known Jaimee and her family since 2000. Now she's 17. And while she's blossoming to be a beautiful young lady, she thinks she's still the little kid we've known and loved years ago.
We did this impromptu photoshoot in her family's backyard just before I got here in Australia. Everyone in her family is thrilled to see a different side of her that they've never seen before ~ an image of a confident and beautiful young lady.
It got me to thinking: "That ain't bad an achievement for me as an enthusiast of photography." :-D
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there are two reasons for puddles
1- to get a dude to carry you over
2- jump in them
1 doesn't apply to me :P so i just love jumping in them HAHAHA
so girls, the next time you see a puddle, don't wait for some guy to carry you over it, splash around :)
btw check it out larger too :P
There isn't a time I can remember when Aladdin was not a part of my life. I have no memory of seeing Aladdin in theaters with my family, because I was so young. But, I do remember all the merchandise that was released with the film...namely the dolls! Every time the Aladdin cartoon series aired on television, my sister and I dropped whatever we were doing to watch it. We were truly bummed out when the show was canceled. One of the reasons we loved getting cable television when I was nine, was the fact that we got the Toon Disney Channel...which ran episodes of the Aladdin cartoon. My parents bought us Aladdin on vhs tape, but we eventually had to replace it around 2004. Somehow, we managed to ruin that vhs tape as well, but fortunately, we found the same '04 edition on dvd at the flea market during the summer of 2014. That dvd turned out to be faulty after a few uses, so we once again had to track down another! I guess my sister and I watch Aladdin so much, that we have a habit of ruining the tapes! We also always loved the sequels, Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Thieves. I still vividly recall the day I first saw Aladdin and the King of Thieves on vhs. It was around my birthday, when I spotted the display at CVS while shopping with my mom. She said I could pick the tape or Palace Wedding Jasmine as part of my birthday gift. Even though I desperately coveted the Jasmine doll, I chose the vhs, so Colleen and I could share it. For years and years, I always regretted not choosing the Jasmine doll. But realistically, Jasmine would have been destroyed within a year, like most of our childhood Aladdin dolls. Upon reflection, my childhood would have felt a little empty without Aladdin and the King of Thieves being in it!
Besides the movies, my sister and I collectively had hoards of Aladdin merchandise when we were young. We had the Sega video game, which we played every Saturday morning religiously. I owned a purple Aladdin lunchbox which I took to school with me, and Colleen had a green pencil case. We somehow managed to hang onto both the lunch box and the pencil case over the years. Then there were our Aladdin paper dolls--Aladdin was mine, Jasmine was Colleen's. We both always got into heated fights over who played with Jasmine. Jasmine's head had to be taped together more times than I can count, because we both played with her so much. Aladdin also saw play...but he was nude most of the time. I somehow lost both his outfits. Not to mention, while at the hair salon one day, I let another little girl play with Aladdin...and she chose to draw on the back of him! I also had a palace figurine set that came with Aladdin, the Sultan, and Jasmine. Our dog, Haley, ate Jasmine's head one day while I was walking down the hallway. Years later, I still resented Hayley for destroying my beautiful Jasmine figurine. I bought the Aladdin Polly Pockets too--poor Jasmine lost both her hands, but I still have the set. Colleen and I even had Aladdin clothes. Our childhood wardrobes consisted of swimsuits, shirts, and even underwear that were adorned with Aladdin cartoons. Basically, whatever merchandise was marketed for Aladdin, chances are, my sister and I wanted it.
It's no surprise given my long history of obsessing in the movie Aladdin, that I have accumulated a ridiculous number of Aladdin dolls over the years. The dolls, of all the merchandise, were always my favorite, and usually the thing I whined the most about not having. It seemed as though Colleen and I never had luck with our Aladdin dolls when we were kids. My sister's black, rambunctious (and might I say disgustingly smelly) dog, Hayley, devoured several of our dolls in the course of a few years. Hayley consumed Colleen's brand new Water Surprise Jasmine doll within the first week of her arriving home from the store. To be honest, my younger self couldn't be trusted any more with the Aladdin dolls than Hayley. It was a habit of mine to steal Colleen's coveted Aladdin dolls when she was at school. Sometimes I would take only Jasmine's necklace to use on my Sun Jewel Kira, other times, I would steal just Aladdin's lamp. One day, I worked up the nerve to borrow the Aladdin doll. Even though I was very young, I still vividly remember sneaking into Colleen's closet, digging through her laundry basket of Barbie dolls, and snagging Aladdin. Mom warned me not to play with Colleen's stuff, but that certainly did not stop me. Apparently, according to Colleen, I broke Aladdin's head that day...which she was NOT happy about. I conveniently blocked out my memory of decapitating Aladdin! Mom and Dad unintentionally rewarded me that day, as I got to keep the broken Aladdin, since they bought Colleen a replacement Water Jewel Magic Aladdin. Colleen felt ripped off, because her old Aladdin doll came with more clothing and accessories than her new doll.
I used to beg Colleen everyday to borrow her beautiful Jasmine doll. One day, she foolishly let me have my way, by giving me the privilege of carrying Jasmine around the grocery store. I lost Jasmine, who was wearing her purple dress, that day while we were shopping. Colleen was furious with me, and for years and years, she hung the entire incident over my head. I was certainly not any more trustworthy with my own Aladdin dolls. I don't know where my beloved childhood Musical Princess Jasmine went. She was either lost like Colleen's Jasmine doll, our she was one of Hayley's meals. I made my Perfume Jasmine and "Classics" Jasmine doll bald not long after I bought them. Poor "Classics" Jasmine was my birthday gift when I turned four years old. I still recall picking her out at Toys 'R' Us, along with the So Much to Do! Kitchen playset. Water Jewel Magic Jasmine and Aladdin, as well as Colleen's Perfume Jasmine were the only dolls who survived our early childhood unscathed. Well, Water Jewel Magic Jasmine didn't completely escape carnage....her head fell off on multiple occasions and Dad had to super glue her back together. Regardless, she was the surviving Jasmine doll that I always played with until I bought my Sparkling Jasmine in 2002.
Although our luck with Aladdin dolls was not the best in our early years, the acquisition of my Sparkling Jasmine in 2002 shifted things. She was the first Jasmine to be in stores since the My Favorite Fairytale lady (who I had missed out on getting). I was so unbelievably ecstatic the day Mom, Dad, Colleen, and I were at Target and I saw the most stunning Jasmine doll ever. Sparkling Jasmine's purple ensemble was unique, and I loved her less bug eyed facial screening. To me, she most resembled the character I loved, and I was so grateful that I was able to afford her. The last Jasmine doll I had been so taken with was the Holiday Princess lady. But due to her "fanciness" I declined from asking Mom or Dad if I could get her. Although she wasn't outrageously priced in retrospect, she was at least double the price of my less than $15 Sparkling gal. Jasmine became a fast favorite, of course it helped that her only competition was our sad, repaired Water Jewel Magic Jasmine. Coincidentally, I had been playing with Water Jewel Magic Jas right around this time, casting her as a poor farm girl who ran away from home. Obviously, Water Jewel Magic Jasmine was dethroned when Sparkling arrived. Sparkling Jasmine was my most prized possession for several years. She was the apple of my eye, and her beauty could not be matched. I bought her numerous Barbie fashion packs that would go splendidly with her purple makeup. Wherever I went, Jasmine was sure to tag along. Kid Kore Katie, Colleen's favorite doll, who was sold with a poodle, soon became Jasmine's traveling companion. We took the dolls to the pool, the beach, in the woods, to the movie theaters, to restaurants....everywhere and anywhere we traveled! Along the way, other Aladdin dolls joined the cast. During a beach themed doll scene, Colleen gave our childhood Water Jewel Magic Aladdin a new identity. He became Leroy, the hard working, nerdy, reliable guy. Leroy and Jasmine fell in love, and the rest is history! We would crank up my Britney Spears albums and have Jasmine sing to Leroy. Sometimes he would duet with her when male singers guest starred on the songs. They would take flying unicorn rides on my Starlight Unicorn (who did not actually feature wings), named Ocean. Jasmine's furry/hoofed friends were always nearby--Ocean and Muffin my Puppy Ruff dog I got when I was two/three. The family soon became the "Arabache" clan. Jasmine's family showcased her adopted sister Katie, and her two sisters/sometimes daughters Reggie and Myra. Leroy's side consisted of his wheelchair bound sister, Becky, and his featherbrained brother Bradley. Winning London Mary-Kate and Ashley and Pet Pals Skipper, aka Robin, were also part of the family, but changed sides. There were also usually Kelly and Krissy dolls added once we decided to have Jasmine and Leroy start their own family (one was Stroll 'N Play Krissy, aka Natasha, the other usual was 1995 Bathtime Fun Kelly, aka Stephanie). Once I got Xpress It! Yasmin, she too was a staple in our games, sometimes featured as Leroy's sister, other times as Jasmine's. Bradley was our decapitated "Classics" Aladdin from childhood. Reggie and Myra were our two Perfume Princess Jasmine minis. Ironically, I had always been jealous of Colleen's much neater Perfume Jasmine, even though I already had my own. Myra, who was my original doll, had an earring chewed off by a guinea pig and virtually no hair. Colleen gave me her Jasmine doll, who I renamed as Reggie--she was the smarter, more "mature" twin who was also the head troublemaker. Myra was the sweet, incontinent one who always asked for "Mommy" or "Daddy," and who was notorious for toting a massive stuffed Pooh Bear with her. Despite the scruffiness of some of our oldest Aladdin dolls, they were incorporated into the newer games. It was also around this time that we found "replacements" for a few of them. Colleen bought another, much fresher Water Jewel Magic Aladdin, who we named Lennon, at an outdoor flea market. He subbed in for Leroy on occasion, since his arms weren't faded and his hair paint was intact. We also scored a very mint looked "Classics" Aladdin for $5 at the town flea market (which is notoriously over priced). She decided to make him the father of Leroy and Bradley, and he was dubbed "Frank." We always envisioned Leroy and Bradley having an overbearing mother, but nobody was permanently cast in the role. As adults, we feel that Bratz Portia would have been the perfect leading lady! For several years our doll family remained more or less unchanged until our favorites began to deteriorate. I bought Princess Party Jasmine as a temporary substitute when Sparkling Jasmine balded and began to fade from too many pool excursions. But she just wasn't the same, which is why I eagerly bought a secondhand Sparkling Jasmine in 2004 or 2005. She was purchased a little bit too late though, because by that point we had phased out of the Arabache clan and were playing with a new doll family. These days, the members of the Arabache household still make appearances in photos and Youtube skits. We always cast the original dolls, despite having minter counterparts. But my skills as a doll restorer have helped our poor childhood friends look substantially better, so they aren't the raggedy faces we used to play with anyways! The "Leroy and Jasmine" era will forever be Colleen's and my favorite time in our doll playing history. Of course, it was all that more special since we incorporated several beloved Aladdin dolls!
It was not only my love for the film, but also my "not so great" childhood experiences, that drove me to collecting so many Aladdin dolls. It was surprisingly unintentional that I first began buying so many Aladdin dolls. My original focus when beginning to collect dolls again in 2011 (I took a few years off from dolls when I was a teenager) was on Hercules dolls and the Hunchback of Notre Dame dolls, as well as a few random Disney dolls. I remember I wanted Water Surprise Jasmine and Holiday Jasmine first. Not long after, I couldn't resist buying a brand new Water Jewel Magic Jasmine, since I have a long history with our childhood doll. Then, one day, I won Rajah Friendship Jasmine on eBay somehow. I was fueled with anger after losing a bid on Fashion Secrets Megara. I took all that frustration and turned it towards bidding on Jasmine. I couldn't believe I won her!!! She was the first bid on eBay I ever won that was opposed. The day she arrived, I opened her up right away, and I couldn't help but desire more Aladdin dolls. So, I used Margo Rana's "Disney Dolls Guide", as a map for which Jasmine and Aladdin dolls I wanted. One of my main targets from the get go was Palace Wedding Jasmine--a doll I coveted from the moment I saw her at CVS as a child. She was the most expensive individual doll in my collection, but worth every penny. I was able to make another childhood dream come true that first year, when I found a perfect set of Magic Carpet Aladdin and Jasmine dolls online. I had pined for them each time we were at my friend's house, and I saw her sister's dolls set up in her bedroom! Within my first year of collecting, I had nearly all the dolls in the Aladdin section of her book. It's become an addiction of mine to buy Aladdin dolls as an adult. I've taken long breaks from purchasing anymore of them, but it just takes one doll to send me into a frenzy. That's actually how my third Aladdin shelf happened. I simply wanted to buy Glitter Princess Jasmine and Sparkle Princess Jasmine on eBay. Then I found Genie of the Lamp, Gem Princess Jasmine, Enchanted Tales Aladdin, and several more dolls over the course of the next two months. I couldn't cram another doll on my other two Aladdin shelves, so I evicted all my Cindy dolls from the top shelf. My Aladdin expansion made me very happy, as I not only had a fabulous new display to look at, but I also was able to put just about all my duplicated Aladdin dolls on display!
My Aladdin dolls all have a history, whether I made memories with them as a child or an adult, I cherish each and every one. They've been a staple in my dolly world since I was too young to remember. I am so grateful that a few of our oldest dolls are still standing, like Bradley, Leroy, and our original Water Jewel Magic Jasmine. All have required an extensive amount of work--from new bodies, to partial reroots, to paint touch ups. My Sparkling Jasmine needed some of the most lengthy restoration as she was so heavily played with. Despite being able to fix up these dolls, Colleen and I still always have trouble turning away Aladdin duplicates. Colleen was over the moon to find a boxed Water Jewel Magic Aladdin, renamed Luxor, in 2018 at the flea market. I was secretly glad that a third Sparkling Jasmine joined the family in 2013 in the "60 Doll Bin." She most captures the spirit of my forlorn childhood doll (but when she was brand new, not trashed). I'm without a doubt torn whenever I see an Aladdin/Jasmine doll I don't "need" floating around a secondhand venue. Of all the Disney movies dolls were produced for, I have the most Aladdin dolls hands down. The majority are the 90s-early 2000s era produced by Mattel, as they are the cream of the crop in my opinion, due to nostalgia! But I also have expanded my collection to include Disney Store dolls and later Mattel releases, even those with gaudy molded clothes. Aladdin dolls have left a mark on every era of my dolly history. They were the coolest Disney dolls to have in our household, and also the ones most likely to be lost or destroyed, during our early years. When I was eleven to thirteen, Aladdin dolls were key cast members of the most sentimental time in our doll playing history. It wouldn't have been the same if we had another Disney couple or a random Barbie and Ken instead of Leroy and Jasmine. And of course, it was the Aladdin section in Margo Rana's book that drove me bonkers and fueled my inner doll addict when I first dabbled back into collecting as a nineteen year old. Although there aren't many Aladdin dolls I don't have, I still find that my family is constantly expanding, and I never tire of adding more! My Aladdin dolls always have the best display spaces reserved for them, in the same way that I always hold a special place for them in my heart that no other dolls can ever touch!
for commenting in lower case - i slipped yesterday and was plastered this morning! broken wrist. hopefully this cast will be replaced by an easier to manage one in a week or so.
For some reason this ex Dartline Coaches of Devon vehicle with legals for Burrows Coaches of Dorset, was parked up across the street from the ASD Coaches yard in Medway City Industrial Estate, though I don't yet know why it was here, with it having departed when I next passed by in June 2026.
Day 234
Every Mother's Day for the last 10 years, I have had a reason...or two...or three... to keep going and keep trying. Unfortunately, about 5 years ago, I lost one of those reasons. I found out I had lost our baby girl, Mia, the Friday before Mother's Day in 2008. In September of 2008, a new reason was kindled...but it wasn't until she was born in June the following year, that the flame took.
I always say my oldest two kept me from losing my mind completely...so that my youngest could heal me to be the mother I am today. I am incredibly blessed and grateful to have all three of my living children, and to have the barest moment in time with my angel baby.
Note: for reasons I don't understand at all, this photo was published as an illustration in an undated (Feb 2010) Squidoo blog titled "Barely Balanced."
Moving into 2014, the photo was published in an equally strange context, in a "Team Wedding" blog titled "‘Shacking-Up’ Before Getting Married."
Note: A large percentage of my "landscape" photos (including the ones in this set) are now copyright-protected, and are not available for downloads and free use. You can view them here in Flickr, but if you would like prints, enlargements, framed copies, and other variations, please visit my SmugMug "NYC HDR" gallery by clicking here.
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With the frigid weather these past couple of weeks, and with the sun way far south on the horizon, we've had some spectacular sunsets here in New York City. Unfortunately, they only last for a few minutes; you're either out there, ready to photograph, or you're not. If I were leading the life of sloth and leisure that I'd prefer, then I'd set aside an hour each afternoon, and just watch the progress of the sun and sky; but it doesn't usually work that way. Instead, I'm usually in my office, staring at boring, work-related trivia on my computer screen, and my wife yells at me from the kitchen, "... wow, that's a really great sunset tonight!"
On this particular occasion, it was not only bone-chilling cold outside, it was also quite blustery. I'm not talking about a few modest puffs of wind from time to time, but a steady (frigid) blast punctuated by gusts almost strong enough to knock me over. Meanwhile, the light was changing rapidly; and while I had brought my camera with me when I scampered out onto our 21st-floor balcony to get a better look at the sky, I had not brought my tripod.
Indeed, the light was fading so quickly that I figured I had only one chance to capture the scene. In the few seconds that it took to adjust the camera settings to capture a 5-shot HDR image, my fingers had become almost numb. I could see that I would need a fairly high ISO setting to ensure a fast enough shutter speed to allow a hand-held shot; and then I balanced the camera on the balcony railing and pressed the shutter speed, and waited to hear five consecutive "clack" sounds of the shutter.
Unfortunately, a huge gust of wind hit me at just that moment -- and it almost made me lose my grip on the camera. Rattled, I let go of the camera's shutter button after only four "clacks" -- so this is a four-image HDR shot, instead of the five I intended. Also, because of the high ISO setting, there's a fair amount of noise in the resulting image. I did my best to improve it with a plug-in program called "Noise Ninja," but it's barely adequate.
Normally, my reaction to a situation like this would be to shrug and delete all of the images; after all, tomorrow is another day, and there's a sunset every single day. But even on the non-cloudy days, we often have one boring sunset after another ... so it could be weeks before I'll see anything like this again. To make matters worse, I'll be out of town next week; and by the time I get back, the sun may have shifted, the temperature will (hopefully!) be warmer, and consequently the colors may be different.
So ... I've decided to keep the image. You may not like it, and you're welcome to stick out your tongue and make rude noises at it. Meanwhile, I'll just add it to my collection of sunset photos. Some are better than others -- but I'm a sucker for sunsets, so just about anything will do...
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Note: This is one of 12 photos that I've culled from several thousand that I took in 2009, for possible presentation at a Jan 2010 class I'm taking at the International Center of Photography (ICP), called "On Seeing What's Right In Front of You." The photos already exist in various other Flickr sets -- often just one or two out of a group of hundreds of related images -- and I've just pulled them together for this occasion.
In the spirit of the ICP class title, all of these photos were taken "right in front" of where I live -- i.e., within a hundred feet of my apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
The photos are organized as 6 separate pairs -- each pair illustrating a specific situation, close to home, where I had a particular motivation or strategy for taking photos. This particular photo illustrates the principles that you may have lots of potential shots "right in front of you," but they may last only a moment -- so you have to be prepared to grab your camera, and take advantage of the moment. Case in point: winter sunsets in NYC, which can be spectacular, but which only last a moment.
This photograph is part of my latest project: 'Beauty loves slow tempo'. It's a project carried out entirely with long-exposure photographs. The aim of using this technique is to showcase the great amount of beauty that exists in our wonderful planet, with a personal point of view :)
Check it out! danivaldes.com/en/#/beauty-loves-slow-tempo-project
Esta fotografía es parte de mi proyecto más reciente: 'Beauty loves slow tempo', un proyecto realizado íntegramente con fotografías de larga exposición. Mediante esta técnica, pretendo plasmar la belleza que se extiende por doquier en este maravilloso planeta con un punto de vista muy personal :)
Puedes verlo en: danivaldes.com/#/beauty-loves-slow-tempo-project
Going back through old shoots and finding shots that for some reason I decided not to process / share at the time
Yellow flowers in the garden after a shower of rain (in Explore :) Then it was dropped for no reason :(
The reason we went to Winchester was to see the market, but not this market - there's also a Christmas market, which I'll show you later on.
I've heard that Logan is rumored to play the part of Clay in 13 Reasons Why .. and Selena has already been cast as Hannah in this movie. OHMYGG PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN ASDJFFKSGFKGFLFLJFLFJ!! Dream come true if it's real. ^o^
I hope you like the manips. :) but this one is definitely not one of my best.
Rodenstock lenses are held in high regards by many and I think there are really good reasons for it. Here is an assortment of different apochromatic lenses from Rodenstock (however it may be noted, that the consensus on these seems to be, that they're not really 100% apochromatic but only well-corrected...):
Apo-Sironar digital 45 mm F 4.5
Apo-Rodagon N 50 mm F 2.8
Apo-Rodagon-D 2x 75 mm F 4
Magnagon 75 mm F 4
Apo-Rodagon 90 mm F 4
Apo-Ronar 150 mm F 9
Apo-Gerogon 210 mm F 9
(The Magnagon isn't even Apo-designated in name, however I'm pretty certain that it is indeed one of the better corrected ones in this regard.)
These lenses cover a lot of different applications (from enlarging-, large format- to repro- as well as inspection- and scanner-lenses) but they all are interesting, well-corrected and most of them generally pretty excellent taking lenses.
Shot with a Schneider Kreuznach "Apo-Componon HM 40 mm F 2.8" on a Canon EOS R5
For some reason I never uploaded this one. When I bought my ST170 back in 2020 there were two to view, this and the blue 5 door example I ended up with.
This one was more expensive, but had the stiffest gearchange I've experienced in any car. I'm assuming the gearbox didn't have much (or any) oil left inside it. Worse than that though, the rear seatbelt mounting area had been bodged on both sides. Presumably they had rotted out at some point, but hadn't received a welded repair. Instead a metal plate had been glued over the offending areas.
Having seen that, it wasn't a difficult decision to go for the cheaper car, which looked rougher cosmetically and had the EML illuminated (actually a very handy bargaining point), but which turned out to have a very good engine and gearbox. And it cleaned up nicely too.
Not too surprised to see the silver one has now been scrapped. The blue one I had is still taxed, but out of MOT. Going by the previous advisories I'd not be too confident of an easy pass!
These birds are some of the reason for returning to Lefkas, we have seen them there before but only in flight. Although a long distance away the still photograph well due to their enormous size. The Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) is the largest member of the pelican family, and perhaps the world's largest freshwater bird, although rivaled in weight and length by the largest swans. They are elegant soaring birds, with wingspans that rival that of the great albatrosses, and their flocks fly in graceful synchrony. With a range spanning across much of Central Eurasia, from the Mediterranean in the West to the Taiwan Strait in the East, and from the Persian Gulf in the South to Siberia in the North, it is a short-to-medium-distance migrant between breeding and overwintering areas.
See....I told you I would put up one of me smiling!!!!
Heck.....I'm even showin' a lil skin!!
I just want to thank you again for your words and comments....you are all right in your own way.
TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY AND I WILL SMILE DAMNIT!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU!!! XOXOOXOXOOOXOXOX
5 reasons why we love Hardwood Floors t.co/u6XV7IH7mT t.co/M3JlHqdqlR (via Twitter twitter.com/RefinishingPro/status/813029073421299713)
title.
There are two reasons why a person faces the sea.
One to enjoy a slice of shine in the sea like children bubbling over in the beach.
The other to brush the dust of memory like an old man who misses old days staring at the shine
quietly.
Those lead to only one meaning though they do not seem to overlap. It’s a rebirth.
I face myself to change tomorrow a vague day into something certain.
That is the meaning of a rebirth.
(My Novel “ unforgettable ”)
(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)
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(iPhone 13 Pro shot)
Motosuka coast. Kujukuri beach. Sanmu City. Chiba prefecture. Japan. September 26, 2023 … 4 / 4
(Today's photo. It is unpublished.)
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Toshiki Kadomatsu … I'd Like To Be Your Fantasy
youtu.be/kVxOvUklpyc?si=3d9LqdasapWzFOny
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Exhibition in 2023
theme
Camera kisses time.
Mitsushiro - Nakagawa
organizer
Design festa
place
Tokyo Big Site
schedule
11th. Sat. 12th. Sun. Nov. 2023.
Booth number
J-232
exhibition.mitsushiro.nakagawa@gmail.com
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SEVENTEEN(세븐틴)-All My Love
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title.
人が海へ向かう理由には、二つある。
ひとつは、波打ち際ではしゃぐ子供のように、今の瞬間の海の輝きを楽しむこと。
もうひとつは、その輝きを静かに見据えて、過ぎ去った日々を懐かしむ老人のように記憶の埃を払うこと。
二つは重なり合わないようではあるけれども、たったひとつの意味しか生まない。
再生だ。
明日っていう、曖昧な日を確実なものへと変えてゆくために、自分の存在に向き合う。
それが再生の意味だ。
(My Novel “ unforgettable ”)
2.unforgettable’ ( JNP.ver.)(この小説は未来のアーティストへ捧げます)
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itunes.apple.com/us/book/unforgettable/id1216584262?ls=1&...
( iPhone 13 Pro shot)
本須賀海岸。九十九里浜。山武市。千葉県。日本。9月26日2023年 … 4 / 4
(今日の写真。それは未発表です。）
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角松敏生 … I'd Like To Be Your Fantasy
youtu.be/kVxOvUklpyc?si=3d9LqdasapWzFOny
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２０２３年の展示
テーマ
カメラは時間にキスをする。
Mitsushiro - Nakagawa
主催
デザインフェスタ
場所
東京ビッグサイト
日程
１１月１１日。土曜日。12日。日曜日。2023年。
ブースナンバー
J - 232
exhibition.mitsushiro.nakagawa@gmail.com
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SEVENTEEN(세븐틴)-All My Love
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the reason im reuplaoding this is for people to see this. i love it and wanted to share it with people who passed it by and i wanna share how much i love my friends. each and every one in this picture who put up with all my stuff this day august 8. thanks guys
This was the highlight and reason for my Southern Arizona Adventure 2024. This is stage 8 of 9.
I was lucky to secure permits for the once monthly photography tour of Kartchner Caverns. Kartchner Caverns State Park strictly forbids any cameras or cellphones in the Caverns. Except for one trip per month for 12 to 15 photographers currently $125. I planned a 4 day 3 night road trip around Southern Arizona anchored by my Kartchner Cavern permit.
I was expecting dark conditions. The State Park turned on all the lights in the Big Room. They don't like turning on all the lights since it can cause an increase in algae. This is the reason they only have one photography tour a month.
I found myself adjusting my histograms to not clip the highlights. Adapt, Improvise, and Overcome. Next time I am going to bracket my shots. I almost wish I had brought a ND filter or tried a handheld GND filter.
I don't know speleothems so I won't even try to identify. If anyone can help me with the identification, I will appreciate it.
www.nps.gov/subjects/caves/speleothems.htm#:~:text=The%20...)%20when%20needed.
The features that arouse the greatest curiosity for most cave visitors are speleothems. These stone formations exhibit bizarre patterns and other-worldly forms, which give some caves a wonderland appearance. Caves vary widely in their displays of speleothems because of differences in temperature; overall wetness; and jointing, impurities, and structures in the rocks. In general, however, one thing caves do have in common is where speleothems form. Although the formation of caves typically takes place below the water table in the zone of saturation, the deposition of speleothems is not possible until caves are above the water table in the zone of aeration. As soon as the chamber is filled with air, the stage is set for the decoration phase of cave building to begin.
The term speleothem refers to the mode of occurrence of a mineral—i.e., its morphology or how it looks—in a cave, not its composition (Hill, 1997). For example, calcite, the most common cave mineral, is not a speleothem, but a calcite stalactite is a speleothem. A stalactite may be made of other minerals, such as halite or gypsum.
Classifying speleothems is tricky because no two speleothems are exactly alike. Nevertheless, speleologists have taken three basic approaches: classification by morphology, classification by origin, and classification by crystallography. All three of these approaches have their problems (Hill, 1997), so cavers often take a more practical approach that primarily uses morphology (e.g., cave pearls) but includes whatever is known about origin (e.g., geysermites) and crystallography (e.g., spar) when needed.
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The Kartchner Caverns, rated one of the world's 10 most beautiful caves, is an eerie wonderland of stalactites and stalagmites still growing beneath the Whetstone Mountains 40 miles southeast of Tucson.
The limestone cave has 13,000 feet of passages and hundreds of formations built over the past 200,000 years, including some that are unique and world-renowned. It's a "living cave," with intricate formations that continue to grow as water seeps, drips and flows from the walls and slowly deposits the mineral calcium carbonate.
The caverns were discovered by amateur spelunkers Randy Tufts and Gary Tenen in 1974 on land owned by the Kartchner family. They kept the cave a secret until 1988, when the Kartchners sold it to the state to become a state park.
The highlights of the Big Room tour are a stretch of strawberry flowstone, which has been colored red by iron oxide (rust) in the water, and a maternity ward for 1,800 female cave myotis bats, with black grime on the ceiling where the bats hang and piles of guano on the floor. Visitors who look closely will see a bat's body embedded in one of the cave's formations.
Though not all are available on the tours, the caverns' unique features include a 21-foot, 2-inch soda straw that's one the world's largest (Throne Room), the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk (Big Room), the first reported occurrence of "turnip" shields (Big Room), the first cave occurrence of "birdsnest" needle quartz formations (Big Room) and the remains of a Shasta ground sloth from the Pleistocene Age (Big Room).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartchner_Caverns_State_Park
Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of passages.[1] The park is located 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Benson and west of the north-flowing San Pedro River. Long hidden from view, the caverns were discovered in 1974 by local cavers, assisted by state biologist Erick Campbell who helped in its preservation.
The park encompasses most of a down-dropped block of Palaeozoic rocks on the east flank of the Whetstone Mountains.
The caverns are carved out of limestone and filled with spectacular speleothems which have been growing for 50,000 years or longer, and are still growing. Careful and technical cave state park development and maintenance, initially established by founder Dr. Bruce Randall "Randy" Tufts, geologist, were designed to protect and preserve the cave system throughout the park's development, and for perpetuity.[3]
The two major features of the caverns accessible to the public are the Throne Room and the Big Room. The Throne Room contains one of the world's longest (21 ft 2 in (6.45 m))[5] soda straw stalactites and a 58-foot (18 m) high column called Kubla Khan, after the poem. The Big Room contains the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk. Big Room cave tours are closed during the summer for several months (April 15 to October 15) each year because it is a nursery roost for cave bats, however the Throne Room tours remain open year-round.[8]
Other features publicly accessible within the caverns include Mud Flats, Rotunda Room, Strawberry Room, and Cul-de-sac Passage. Approximately 60% of the cave system is not open to the public.[9]
Many different cave formations can be found within the caves and the surrounding park. These include cave bacon, helictites, soda straws, stalactites, stalagmites and others.[12] Cave formations like the stalactites and stalagmites grow approximately a 16th of an inch every 100 years.[13]
Haiku thoughts:
Beneath earth's cool veil,
Stalactites in silence grow,
Whispers of stone deep.
Kartchner
Southern Arizona Adventures 2024
Photos from the 3 New Law Firms: 3 Reasons to Celebrate event on September 18, 2019. Photography by 5ive15ifteen Studio.
What are some reasons why bears attack humans?
Typically, you see two types of attacks on humans. One is a defensive attack, which most typically involves defending young or a food source, such as a prey carcass.
[A bear might also launch a defensive attack] if you startle it. You might walk around the corner of a house and all of a sudden you're within just a couple of feet of the bear, and it responds immediately and attacks.
Bears can also do what's called a bluff charge. That's not an attack; it's simply a behaviour. The animal will pop its jaws and give you all kinds of signals that you're encroaching on its personal space and it's uncomfortable with that.
Let's do all that we can and respect wildlife. Let bears be bears not on our terms but theirs.
Guatemala Herbal Medicine Why We Love Echinacea, echinacea is undoubtedly one of the most important medicinal plants and the reason we love echinacea
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Christmas Time Capsule
The latest video is at the link below!!
Today let's take a look at the upstairs, the basement and the outbuildings of this abandoned time capsule!!
Called the Christmas Time Capsule for very good reason, this home was left in an untouched state for years and remained so until after it was first discovered. The house was filled with furniture, personal belongings, photos covering the walls, oh and of course Christmas decorations, lots and lots of decorations. Unfortunately time has not been kind to this "time capsule", vandals had discovered the home since the first explorers visited and tossed belongings everywhere, stolen items, put holes and even wrote graffiti on the walls. Despite all the destruction it was still a very interesting explore!
Having done a little bit of research I found out that the woman who lived here died in 2001 and her husband had died 9 years earlier. Does this mean that the home has been sitting abandoned for 20 years? I don't think so, I also found two calendars in the home dating back to 2011 and 2012 and I would imagine that's how long this home has been sitting. This leaves a gap of about 11 years where someone else was living in the home, maybe it was one of the children or some other relative, we may never have the answer to this. One thing that we know for sure is that the last occupants definitely liked Christmas and it is likely that the home was abandoned around that time. A few years ago the property was sold for tax arears which leads one to believe that the last occupant may have been having financial problems.
The home is now starting to show signs of mold growing in the kitchen and the basement but there seems to be a relatively new roof and the outside of the home was also updated with vinyl siding, if the property continues to sit, it could be a very long time before the home begins to decay naturally. If it weren't for the overgrown and unkept yard passersby would have no idea that this house is even sitting abandoned, that's how good it looks from the road. Only time will tell what happens to this property from this point onward.
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What can you do to your skin?
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What is Skin Bleaching?
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Facts about skin bleaching
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So another reason for my hiatus of build has to be my collection. Since Brickfair my lego room has been a mess, and I have finally finished up sorting all of the pieces!
Now the flow of posts should be a lot smoother, and I will have a build up in less than a week! (I'm actually taking the photos today ;) )
Thanks for your patience everyone!
I also made an ipernity, I'm not leaving here but I would like to have an account.
Here's a link: link is coming