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Original photo was taken and titled by tom_skram ( www.flickr.com/photos/tomskram/ )
Processing/editing done by myself.
No bicycles here, and no closeup archive shots. But last night while out for dinner, I saw this sign that said:
"Don't take your bicycle to your room...
Thank you, the Management."
I took an angled shot of the bicycle and cropped most of the print to get this close view.
Was my good fortune this calm evening to admire, enjoy and experience this lovely, mauvelous sunset with Mt. Rundle rising above one of the Vermilion Lakes.
Back from a great visit with my 93-year old dad and family. Wish I lived closer to them. Dad is amazing, still living alone and independently. Hmmmm, most days he's mentally sharper than I am.....
Thanks for taking a look! Always appreciated.
Profile Pic for my friend Seren. Hopefully she likes it, since I decided to experiment and try mimicking some of the things I've seen in other images from SL peeps I look up to. ^____^
Ever see a shot on your camera roll that you didn't consciously take? I must be getting good at this.
SOOC, no crop.
after shooting my christmas tree I saw the light on my little white orchids was also beautiful and so exceptionally I took a long distance shot at them as well... it does open up the perspective on things!
Two ways of seeing and capturing the same spot in the forest:
one close up and the other one taken with intentional camera movement.
For four years I have been trying to capture a Wilson's Snipe that lives in a marshy area across the road from our house. These skittish birds always take flight before I can get close enough for a shot. Last night, my wife and I were sitting on the front porch after dinner, and I happened to have my camera with me. I was pointing out the Snipe's distinctive call to my wife when one took off from the field. As I called my wife's attention to it, I realized it was coming straight toward us. It landed on the lower terrace of our front lawn and strolled around long enough for me to finally get "the shot".
The new elegant and stylish Serendipity Designs – Tokyo Gold Bedroom Set for the September 2017 SWANK Event. The Tokyo Bedroom set includes: bed, dresser, nightstands, lamps, room, divider, panels, bench and statue. The [LZbodies] BENTO shape MARK is also available at the SWANK event. The NOCHE. Crop-tank//Red is available at the Kinky event.
Unexpected moments and uncertainty create splendid displays and connections with unexpected companions. It's a marvel both how small and large the world can be, and how things seem to come together when we least expect it.
So I drove out to a country road to photograph what promised to be the best sunset in months... and look who floated into my field of view!
Somewhere between Davis and Winters, Ca. November, 2020.
a gorgeous sim on SecondLife by Neva River....
the first day of a New Year is the perfect time to let it go
I love it when something just catches my eye. Here it was a small perfume bottle I left in the window, when a sudden shaft of winter sunshine brought it to life... A quick shot, maybe not quite in focus, but SOOC!
Shot with the NEX-6 and the Helios 44-2 lens
Happy Bokeh Wednesday 😊
My Bokeh set: Here
Helios 44-2 and 44-M set: Here
My Glass set is: Here
Still Life Compositions: Here
#AbFav_BICYCLES_🚴🚴
In Brugge, I had taken a number of photo's already with success, of the window displays.
Here was the truffle shop.
Took the colourful photo.
When I saw it on the back of my camera, I thought... nnnaaah, felt like deleting it stante pede, spotted something else, so, came home with it.
Once on the big screen, it became an instant favourite.
Don't ask me why. LOL
With love to you and thanks, M, (* _ *)
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Brugge, bicycles, reflection, boxes, chocolate, truffles, shop, display, people, day, urban, attraction, Flanders, colour, horizontal, "Magda indigo"
A special dedication to Carlton Holls
Serendipity demands the management of diverse kinds of tacit knowledge, a kind of networked wisdom, a hunter's sagacity, a knack for combining clues.
As I was having a stroll alongside the river, I spotted a flack of seagulls gathered at about a hundred meter away. There was nothing special about them it's just the M shape of the flock, at rest, that had attracted my attention. I so decided to look closer, luckily I was carrying a 200mm telephoto lens, I fixed it on my camera, aimed, focused and started composing just in time to see one bird lift of suddenly. Most photographers will understand why my index pressed the trigger :-)
The above quote is just an excerpt; If you find it appealing scroll down, explanation will take less than 90" to read.
The word “serendipity” was famously coined by the 18th-century aesthete Horace Walpole, who based it on an Eastern tale of three princes with a knack for “making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.” Serendipity is a prized quality in Internet culture and yet in stressing accidents over sagacity, we abuse the term. The princes in Walpole’s old tale describe a missing camel sight-unseen with such alacrity that they are accused of having stolen it; in their defense, they unravel the clues they used in reconstructing the absent animal, telling a story scavenged from the traces it has left. “Serendipity” demands the management of diverse kinds of tacit knowledge a kind of networked wisdom, a hunter’s sagacity, a knack for combining clues.
In this sense, the science historian James Burke is the Carl Sagan of Serendip. Beginning in the late seventies, the Connections series he presented on the BBC and on American public television unraveled technology’s history as the interwoven record of sagacious discovery. Unlike mystical approaches to the history of technology, Connections didn’t approach its subject as the revelation of some plan or purpose or fate; Burke didn’t stoop to theorizing, but knit together, clue by clue, the story our inventive, tool-making ancestors left scattered through time. The story he tells does express a theory, however: that technology is the key in which serendipity expresses its role in human experience. Source GEAR FUSE - RAD STUFF FOR RAD PEOPLE.
TD: 1/800 f/8 ISO 1250 @200 mm
In an event of total serendipity, picking up my new Canon 760D coincided with a solar storm. For the first time I managed to capture the lights on camera even with the lights of Sunderland and a very bright moon.
"Its a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SaSxJkH5do
Have a lovely weekend xxx
Today's walk was down a new (to me) trail, was curious if there would be suitable subject in celebration of Earth Day 2023. Paused on a corner to gaze around and this is what I saw.
The author of this quote and the builder of the gate (there's a trail behind it) are unknown, but the serendipity is appreciated.
Project 365-112
Single exposure of the 2024 Solar Eclipse. Hadn’t planned for this shot, but by chance the heavy cloud cover served as a sufficient filter, with just enough of a break very near maximum partial eclipse. Glad for my tilt screen and long slow light zoom lens, which let me look down while pointing at the sky. Many thanks to Ms Patty, who recognized the opportunity and got similar quality with much less effort on her phone. 🙏
Explore no57, 11 April 2024
A cool and misty Thursday finds a rare early-running Y222 sprinting toward Worthington at Cooke Road with 4 cars for Anheuser-Busch. With CSX unfortunately working to modernize this segment of the ex-Big 4 Burt Line, going out and shooting the ancient NYC type Gs was a necessity despite the weather, but the "Beer Run" was a total surprise and made running around in the rain worth while.