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Rustic Timbers waterfalls off of Timber Creek. Captured this photo yesterday on a nature walk with the family in the Rustic Timbers area of Timber Creek. This is a 3 image HDR composite which allows for the blue of the sky to show though while also showing the silky water movement of the long exposure.
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A variety of maple trees in all their autumn glory frame the footbridge at the Garden House near Yelverton, Dartmoor.
(this work added to my Art Gallery inworld)
SecondLife Photographers and Artist all know of the amazing ever-changing and creative scenery of the EMBRYO sim. If somehow you do not - YOU NEED TO! The landscape builders of this sim creates some of the most nature-realistic and artist lands in SL. But these creators surely need us SL photographers to capture their work for a permanent record as the beauty does not stand still.
This art work was captured on April 2nd, 2011 during the sim's change to Spring - and wow the builders did not disappoint. When I arrived to explore, I took many photos but this little shack of a farmhouse with a water windmill standing over it and a little front yard fence really caught my attention.
In this capture I was looking for that dark gloomy eerie lonely farmhouse look. The strange glows in the foreground seem to accentuate the ominous dark shadows lurking just behind the lil shack. I loved the shadowy trees and so I worked with my own textures to create an crisp contrasting outline of the tree branches as they almost look to grab the house. The windmill stands tall and glows to the front as well.
I decided I wanted to use a strong embossing on the art and use a mix of my red and brown and green textures to almost give a Leathery embossed look. I liked how it added to the branches and mill. You can also see the falling rain ni the front of the art to the right. Then I worked to make the whole art look grungy and grainy like old worn wood.
I called this Rustic Tempest because I felt the skies around the little home were in turmoil or a surrounding tempest.
CREDITS & PERMISSION:
The main photograph is my own photograph from the virtual world of SecondLife. I abided by all terms and conditions formally set out by the owners of SecondLife - LindenLab Inc. when taking this photograph. See details of builders of the sim in SecondLife that I photographed below:
The SecondLife 3D Builder & Sim info where I took photo...
Owners/Builders: The "embryo_*" (group)
SIM Name: EMBRYO ::Ruscott::
SURL LM (need SL Viewer to use this link) : slurl.com/secondlife/embryo/27/217/23The 4 textures used to enhance this artwork are from my private stock of textures
Rustic bunting (Schoeniclus rusticus, カシラダカ) at Yasugawa along the path near the ground golf course in Deba, Ritto City
Wow..it really has been too long since I have posted on here. I don't know what happened.
The summer was going good and I was really getting into my 365 but then somewhere along the way I got distracted and it all slipped away. With all of the hustle and bussle of trying to get my life packed up and ready to head out of town for my new life as a college student, I set my camera aside. Every once and a while, though, I would pick it up and decide to reconnect with my artistic side. Man..I sure do miss it! But now that I am all settled into the dorms and finally getting used to college life and life away from all of my family and friends, I think it is safe to say that I am ready to start practicing photography again. I think I may even opt to take a photography course next semester? Who knows..
Life sure is crazy these days though. I absolutely love it here on campus. I have made sooo many new friends it's unbelievable. My roommate is amazing too. But he sure as hell is pretty intense..a little too much to handle at times..haha. But hey..it could be worse right? My biggest fear could have become reality and I could be stuck with some freak that I am afraid will smother me in my sleep at night because I snore too loud... :D
However, I may have to smother my roommate, Chad, some night since he constantly wakes me up because he talks in his sleep. Wow..its a little freaky. Haha. But I'm not gonna get into that.
I feel like since I left home so many things have changed and home just isn't the way I left it. Part of my family is falling apart while another part is coming back together. I haven't talked to certain friends in way too long. I feel like I am losing so many people. Family AND friends.
Oh how I fear losing people. It's one of the worst things that could ever happen to me. Well, besides losing my teeth. :) But that is why when I go back "home" this weekend, I am going to use the time wisely to reconnect with people. I have already called tons of people and made plans with so many of them that I don't know how it is all going to happen! For example, tomorrow I am supposed to wake up, go to class, pack some clothes, drive home, go to two different girls' houses, AND go to the movies with another girl, Krystin. And then at some point this weekend I am supposed to eat with Stayce, hang out, go walk, drive around, and have one of our special talks. Oh how we both miss them...
How am I supposed to do it all?!
But I could keep going on forever about all of this random BS since I haven't written in so long, but I guess I will just end it here and give myself another reason to take some beautiful pictures and post on flickr.
Oh yeah..the picture is of an old barn of my uncle's up in Iowa. My mom's side of the family is from the small farming town of Rembrandt, Iowa. I have spent many summers up there visiting relatives and friends. And a few trips have been made to bury the ashes of family members that live(d) here in Texas. Anyways..I have learned to grow quite fond of this place throughout my youth. It is such a quiet and peaceful place and a place to really connect with yourself. There is nothing better than a cool summer night wandering through corn fields, playing in the barns, walking on the dirt roads, or laying in the fields watching the fireflies. I desperately long to return there sometime in the near future. It is really a place to reconnect with myself.
Love you. Miss you.
Just.Shoot.Me
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The Beginning After the End - Stars
Oh the blood and the treasure
And the losing it all
The time that we wasted
And the place where we fall
Will we wake in the morning
And know what it was for
Up in our bedroom
After the war?
Filming the Rustic Bunting on my phone camera, it was down to less than 2 feet at times. Lowestoft, Suffolk, October 2020.
A rustic scene that caught my eye in the beautiful medieval town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria.
Geometry rustic .... Geometria rustica ...
Eh pensare che a due passi ho trovato un camion vecchio operativo ...
Grezzana Vr 27.07.2013
“T. S. Eliot, faced with the glib modern claim that ‘we know so much more than our ancestors’, riposted, ‘Yes; and they are what we know.”
― Rowan Williams, Why Study the Past?: The Quest for the Historical Church
Wish I could have gotten closer for a better look.... love the fact there's still a chair on the porch!
felt cute might fell some trees later jk tan ankle boots my gray speckled knee high wool socks gray skirt and sweater for a return of bone chilling weather
Flounced Rustic moth, Luperina testacea. 31 August 2024. Ealing, London, England, UK.
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Rustic wooden fence north of Bonners Ferry, Idaho
It's been a while since I've posted any fence shots. This one was taken on our Easter Sunday picnic/hike.
Happy Fence Friday!! :D
Rustic Plum Tart
From Pure Dessert, by Alice Medrich
Contrast is what makes this tart work: the crust is quite sweet, and the plums should be quite tart. Look for plums that are both sweet and tangy, especially the ones that make you pucker a little when you bite into the flesh closest to the skin. I’ve made this tart with some unnamed red-skinned, yellow-fleshed plums that I found at the farmers market, and also with Flavor King pluots. Medrich recommends Santa Rosa, Friar, Laroda, and Elephant Heart plums, and she advises against the small, oblong plums often called Italian prune plums. They’re not tangy enough.
Also, I make the dough for this tart in a food processor, but you can make it by hand, so I’m including instructions for both. The food processor makes it especially quick and tidy, but either way is easy.
Finally, for the tart dough, you don’t want ice cold, rock-hard, straight-from-the-fridge butter. You want it to be a little softer than that, but not as soft as it gets at room temperature. You want it to be firm, as it is when it’s pleasantly cool.
1 cup all-purpose flour
¾ cup sugar
½ tsp. baking powder
1/8 tsp. salt
1 large egg, lightly whisked
3 Tbsp. unsalted butter, firm but not hard, cut into a few pieces
4 to 6 juicy, flavorful plums
Set a rack in the lower third of the oven, and preheat the oven to 375°F. Generously butter a 9 ½-inch tart pan with a removable bottom – or, barring that, a 9-inch springform pan also works nicely.
To make the dough by hand, mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt together in a medium bowl. Add the egg and butter, and use a pastry blender, a large fork, or a couple of knives to cut the mixture together, as though you were making pie dough. The dough is ready when it resembles a rough mass of damp yellow sand with no dry flour showing.
To make the dough in a food processor, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in the bowl of a food processor, and pulse to mix. Add the egg and butter, and pulse just until the mixture resembles damp yellow sand and is beginning to clump around the blade.
Press the dough gently but evenly over the bottom but not up the sides of the pan. You’re not trying to pack it down; you’re just lightly tamping it.
If the plums are very small (under 2 inches in diameter), cut them in half and remove the pits. Cut larger plums into quarters or sixths, removing the pits. Leaving a margin of ½ inch around the edge of the pan, arrange halved plums cut side up over the dough, with a little space between each one. Arrange wedges skin side up – they look nice that way after baking – and press them lightly into the dough, so that they won’t turn onto their sides in the oven.
Bake until the pastry is puffed, deep golden brown at the edges, and a lighter shade of golden brown in the center, about 50 to 55* minutes. Transfer to a rack to cool for 10 minutes. Then loosen and remove the rim of the pan, and cool further. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Note: This tart keeps at room temperature for a few days, but its texture is best on the first day.
* UPDATED on November 3, 2010: A number of readers have reported that 50 to 55 minutes was too long in their ovens, and that their tarts were burnt. To be on the safe side, set your timer for 35 to 40 minutes, and keep an eye on it.
Yield: 6 to 8 servings
I had a pretty good day with the sphinxes!
This handsome specimen suggests Rustic Sphinx (Manduca rustica)...though they typically tend to range further south.
(Wagner's Guide indicates that they stray northward.
His words, "..Note the extremely granulated horn." are pretty convincing.)
This sphinx has similarly bordered (but lighter) abdominal bands...and the head pattern seem right.
I welcome other opinions.
(The host tree was not recognized.)
Bynum Run (Edgewood Quad)
Harford County, Maryland
August 21, 2016
from a recent photowalk with a great friend who was passing through my town. Such a lovely evening, filled with yummy pizza, laughter and talking to kittehs in alleys