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I love this old photo of my Great Grandfather at Lake Michigan. First of all, it is beautifully composed and perfectly exposed. But besides that, it defies most of my beliefs about him. He was a farmer. He wouldn't do something so "undignified" as standing on a bench on a beach at Lake Michigan -- let alone have his picture made doing so. Maybe he and I have more in common than I may have thought. :-)
I didn't know W.A. Stockwell. He was born in 1888 and died in 1971, a few years before I came along. Still, there are stories told at family gatherings and none of them that I recall mention the side of him that I find in this photograph. I think that's why I like it so much.
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For Self Portrait Challenge in the month of June, we are exploring the old "good fortune" adage, "Something Old/Something New/Something Borrowed/Something Blue"
Cross-posting to "Me Again Monday"
...Happens when I do this!
The sensations are incredibly stimulating! Are you stimulated to see me like this?
My ensemble consists of a sheer black nylon lycra long sleeved bodysuit from odgirls.com, black satin underbust corset from canalboat.com, black buckle stretch belt from newportnews.com, Hanes Alive Barely There panty hose, black lurex opera gloves and my black vinyl thigh high platform stiletto boots, both from electriqueboutique.com.
To see more pix of me in other tight, sexy and revealing outfits click this link:www.flickr.com/photos/kaceycdpix/sets/72157623668202157/
To see more pix of me in sexy boots click here: www.flickr.com/photos/kaceycdpix/sets/72157622816479823/
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Fat Mum Slim's Photo a Day Challenge Day 86 - March 27 - Something white
We bought this set of porcelain dishes form the money we received when we got married. I still like it even though it is more than 18 years old now. Simple and elegant.
Canon 6D with Sigma 50mm f1.4 Art
f5 | 1/160 | ISO250
Strobist: 1xCanon 580EXII left and high, slightly angled from camera and high, slightly angled with small shoot through umbrella @1/16 +0.3. Second Canon 580EXII with Westcott large Apollo softbox right from camera and feathered @1/2. Yongnuo 560II right and low bounced at large white paper left and low to fill in background left and shadows. Triggered by Cactus V6 and slave mode of the Yongnuo.
Processed in Lightroom 5
hi guys! ;) my account is about to expire and I barely got time to keep it going... so, i'm considering leaving the PRO account - no money - but i'll keep the normal account hoping i'll not loose anyone of you!
so, i'm heading for a new flickr year and i also did some "cleaning" and it feels good! ;)
oh my,... i really miss flickring your gorgeous streams... i guess i have a lot to catch up, so hope to be back soon and with some new clicks! ;)
meanwhile, something sweet for you ;)***
cheers and have a lovely day! ;)
Ma petite brocante personnelle. Biche par le sculpteur animalier Rochard (1906-1984, Rochard, pas la biche). Rouleau compresseur Dinky Toys. Vase et lampes années 50.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIC1bUEJpAo by Frank Alamo
Still waiting for my little Lami to come back from a spa and a new girl to arrive. Oh, the anticipation, i adore you. You are well worth the wait.
Now we wait.
Love to you and yours. .
More here.
or something orange :) just bought these for my self this morning to enjoy over the easter ,think i may need to get some pink as well but i dont have a clue what they are called ....
Two possessions I've never had before in my life, both presents to myself (for both of us actually). I've never had a computer stylus before to do computer artworks. My artist friend Nick (posted earlier) said the difference is, '... like painting with a sable brush and painting with a broom.'
The second is right next to my head. Living inside that box are about 2000 Trigona carbonifera individuals, all ruled over by one queen and a retinue of princesses and a dozen or so lazy drones. It's a hive of our native stingless bees. Yes, they produce honey, but not prolifically. It's different to regular honey too.
So, my 'Something New' is something new to many who view this pic too, for those who are searching on Wikipedia about them right now and learning something new.
"What are you? Where do you come from ? "
"Where am I from?... I am... from You !"
SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Kaempffer vs Radu Molasar
(Michael Mann, The Keep; Dir. of Photo : Alex Thomson; novel: F.Paul Wilson)
And here is the whole outfit from yesterday's Teaser mini set.
I am still am not overly enamoured with the lighting but I am not sure I will get it much better!
Jacket is Hobbs, dress is Phase 8 and nylons are blue Gio full contrast RHT.
I've decided to grow my beard for a change, but I'm having second thoughts about it now :s
whadya guys think?
Old original Bambi movie poster from 1942
Posted for Jules March Photo Challenge
We bought this at auction when Seth was 2 years old, had it and 2 others in his room. One was Peter Pan; the other was from his all-time favorite Toy Story. Sorry I just couldn't get a shot without the reflection
There seems to be no opportunties to dress up for going out at the moment, I mean even if one goes to the supermarket they've got to wear a coat. So I'm wondering whether to put somethig nice on like this when I get my Covid Jab as it has easy access short sleeves too. The trouble is if I look too young and glamerous maybe the other over Seventies will think I'm just a queue jumper whose in the know.
I'm trying something different with Soulful actions!!! :))
Actually this action is called "A princess hides", for this pic "A princess reveals", hehe :-P
Years ago, when I was very new to both photography and Flickr, I faved and commented on a magnificent egret shot that a man had taken. I was so impressed with his work, I began to follow him, and he began to give me advice. Since I was working with a very inexpensive point and shoot, and didn't know much about post processing, he suggested that I start to learn about composition and lighting, and that the best way to begin, for me, would be taking self portraits, since, as he put it, my model would always be ready, would always know just what I wanted, and would work for free, lol! I joined a self portrait photo group called the 365 Day group, and began posting a photo a day for a year. Consequently, in the beginning, I would take some 20 pics or more a day, trying to find the best to work on, and post, so my stream was mostly just me!
I soon found out that my contact was really interested in meeting up with me and doing a nude photo shoot! Well, I ditched him as a contact, but stayed in the 365 group. Within two weeks, I was extremely bored with my shots. After all, hand held selfies with a cheap P&S, or ANY camera, are limiting, and you wouldn't believe how soon even a creative person can run out of ideas! That is when I started learning to manipulate photos. My selfies became more artwork than photography, as I discovered how to airbrush on photos, and soon my face was transformed into everything from a vampire to an elf, and even a bald woman, in honor of cancer patients! I did one shot where I made my eyes blue to honor one of my grandmothers, who died from breast cancer, and whom my father said I looked a lot like except for having hazel-green eyes instead of blue, and dark brown hair instead of black. It was all quite fun, and the unusual selfies DID teach me a lot about what I could do with the rest of my shots.
After the year ended, I dropped out of the 365 Day Group and began focusing on other kinds of shots, with the occasional selfie thrown in. Those I did to keep in practice for portrait work, since I seldom have another model.
After years of post processing, my passion is still portraiture. I think I've proved I can take a good shot of a flower or scenic, but I dearly love the magic of being able to transform a face into something artistic, rather than just a good photo. Whereas when I first started doing this, I chose the best shots to work with, now I often choose some of the worst or most mediocre. to practice post processing on. This was one of the so-so ones.
This is a bit of a new technique for me, and I will be trying some other different work in the near future. I'm considering beginning to post to 365 again, but not sure I want the commitment. I do feel I've been in a rut, though, and want to try something different.
If anyone wants me to work on a photo of theirs, let me know. I need the practice, and love to work on faces OTHER than my own!
.The Mana Spirits, also known as Elemental Spirits, are magical beings representative of the elements that make up the world. There are eight spirits in all:Salamander, the spirit of fire Undine, the spirit of water, Gnome, the spirit of earth, Jinn, the spirit of wind, Dryad, the spirit of wood,Luna, the spirit of the moon,Wisp, the spirit of light,Shade, the spirit of darkness.According to Seiken Densetsu 3, in her creation of the world, the Mana Goddess forged the Mana Sword and with it sealed the eight God-Beasts inside Mana Stones, which were then scattered across the world; the Elementals were charged with the duty of protecting the Stones. While each Elemental is a powerful spirit, being an embodiment has a drawback in that they can be physically harmed or limited, notably Jinn (Sylphid) in Seiken Densetsu 3 and Salamando in Secret of Mana. In the World History Encyclopedia featured in Legend of Mana, the Elementals are descended from the Mana Goddess, the embodiment of the creative and destructive forces of Mana, each being born from the light which formed the respective elements of Fa'Diel, the world of Mana.There is a basic system of opposing elemental pairs in the games before Legend of Mana: Undine (water) and Salamando (fire); Gnome (earth) and Sylphid/Jinn (wind); Lumina/Wisp (light) and Shade (darkness); Dryad (nature) and Luna (celestial). The system works differently in Legend of Mana, with the four Western Elements in a circular relationship: Undine overcomes Salamander, who overcomes Gnome, who overcomes Jinn, who overcomes Undine, thus launching the cycle over again; while Wisp and Shade are opposites, and Aura (gold/metal) becomes the new opposite to Dryad (wood) (see Elements).
mana.wikia.com/wiki/Mana_Spirit
www.mythsdreamssymbols.com/dreamsarchetypes.html
Imagine you are sitting in a theater, listening to a heroine sing longingly of her beloved. Suddenly the stage is invaded by two bands of acrobatic warriors. They tumble and twirl, cartwheel and somersault, flip this way and that. From the orchestra come sounds of cymbal, gong, and clapper to punctuate the action.
Dreams and myths are constellations of archetypal images. They are not free compositions by an artist who plans them for artistic or informational effects. Dreams and myths happen to human beings. The archetype speaks through us. It is a presence and a possibility of "significance." The ancients called them "gods" and "goddesses."What then is an archetype? Jung discovered that humans have a "preconscious psychic disposition that enables a (man) to react in a human manner." These potentials for creation are actualized when they enter consciousness as images. There is a very important distinction between the "unconscious, pre- existent disposition" and the "archetypal image." The archetype may emerge into consciousness in myriads of variations. To put it another way, there are a very few basic archetypes or patterns which exist at the unconscious level, but there are an infinite variety of specific images which point back to these few patterns. Since these potentials for significance are not under conscious control, we may tend to fear them and deny their existence through repression. This has been a marked tendency in Modern Man, the man created by the French Revolution, the man who seeks to lead a life that is totally rational and under conscious control. Where do the archetypes come from? In his earlier work, Jung tried to link the archetypes to heredity and regarded them as instinctual. We are born with these patterns which structure our imagination and make it distinctly human. Archetypes are thus very closely linked to our bodies. In his later work, Jung was convinced that the archetypes are psychoid, that is, "they shape matter (nature) as well as mind (psyche)" (Houston Smith, Forgotten Truth, 40). In other words, archetypes are elemental forces which play a vital role in the creation of the world and of the human mind itself. The ancients called them elemental spirits How do archetypes operate? Jung found the archetypal patterns and images in every culture and in every time period of human history. They behaved according to the same laws in all cases. He postulated the Universal Unconscious to account for this fact. We humans do not have separate, personal unconscious minds. We share a single Universal Unconscious. Mind is rooted in the Unconscious just as a tree is rooted in the ground. Imagine the Universal Unconscious as a cosmic computer. Our minds are subdirectories of the root directory. If we look in our personal "work areas," we find much material that is unique to our historical experience--could only have happened to us--but it is shaped according to universal patterns. If we humans have the courage to seek the source to which our "account" belongs, we begin to discover ever more impersonal and universal patterns. The directories of the cosmic computer to which we can gain access are filled with the myths of the human species. Modern man fancies that he has escaped the myths through his conscious repudiation of revealed religion in favor of a purely rational natural religion (read: Natural Science). But consider his theories of human origin. In the beginning, there was a Big Bang, a cosmic explosion. This is an image from which reason may begin to work, but it is not itself a rational statement. It is a mythical construct. Consider the theory of biological evolution. Man's ancestors emerge from the seas, and they in turn emerged from a cosmic soup of DNA. The majority of creation myths also begin with the same image of man emerging from primordial oceans. See Genesis 1 or the Babylonian creation epic. Consider the Modern tendency to call ourselves persons from the Latin persona. The term derives from the "mask" of Dionysus. Moderns are the wearers of masks! The reality is concealed in the darkness of mystery. This too is a mythical construct. Synchronicity Personality theorists have argued for many years about whether psychological processes function in terms of mechanism or teleology. Mechanism is the idea that things work in through cause and effect: One thing leads to another which leads to another, and so on, so that the past determines the present. Teleology is the idea that we are lead on by our ideas about a future state, by things like purposes, meanings, values, and so on. Mechanism is linked with determinism and with the natural sciences. Teleology is linked with free will and has become rather rare. It is still common among moral, legal, and religious philosophers, and, of course, among personality theorists. Among the people discussed in this book, Freudians and behaviorists tend to be mechanists, while the neo-Freudians, humanists, and existentialists tend to be teleologists. Jung believes that both play a part. But he adds a third alternative called synchronicity.
Synchronicity is the occurrence of two events that are not linked causally, nor linked teleologically, yet are meaningfully related. Once, a client was describing a dream involving a scarab beetle when, at that very instant, a very similar beetle flew into the window. Often, people dream about something, like the death of a loved one, and find the next morning that their loved one did, in fact, die at about that time. Sometimes people pick up he phone to call a friend, only to find that their friend is already on the line. Most psychologists would call these things coincidences, or try to show how they are more likely to occur than we think. Jung believed the were indications of how we are connected, with our fellow humans and with nature in general, through the collective unconscious. Jung was never clear about his own religious beliefs. But this unusual idea of synchronicity is easily explained by the Hindu view of reality. In the Hindu view, our individual egos are like islands in a sea: We look out at the world and each other and think we are separate entities. What we don't see is that we are connected to each other by means of the ocean floor beneath the waters. The outer world is called maya, meaning illusion, and is thought of as God's dream or God's dance. That is, God creates it, but it has no reality of its own. Our individual egos they call jivatman, which means individual souls. But they, too, are something of an illusion. We are all actually extensions of the one and only Atman, or God, who allows bits of himself to forget his identity, to become apparently separate and independent, to become us. But we never truly are separate. When we die, we wake up and realize who we were from the beginning: God. When we dream or meditate, we sink into our personal unconscious, coming closer and closer to our true selves, the collective unconscious. It is in states like this that we are especially open to "communications" from other egos. Synchronicity makes Jung's theory one of the rare ones that is not only compatible with parapsychological phenomena, but actually tries to explain them!
www.mythsdreamssymbols.com/dreamsarchetypes.html
On this day ghosts and other supernatural creatures come out from the Underworld and move among the living. Families prepare food and other offerings and place them on a shrine dedicated to deceased relatives.Mana You must understand that these archetypes are not really biological things, like Freud's instincts. They are more spiritual demands. For example, if you dreamt about long things, Freud might suggest these things represent the phallus and ultimately sex. But Jung might have a very different interpretation. Even dreaming quite specifically about a penis might not have much to do with some unfulfilled need for sex. It is curious that in primitive societies, phallic symbols do not usually refer to sex at all. They usually symbolize mana, or spiritual power. These symbols would be displayed on occasions when the spirits are being called upon to increase the yield of corn, or fish, or to heal someone. The connection between the penis and strength, between semen and seed, between fertilization and fertility are understood by most cultures.The concept of archetypes is central to Jungian psychology and myth analysis. However there are many different ways of looking at what exactly an archetype is (cf Heiddegger). Carol Pearson, in her book, Awakening The Heroes Within shows how five different individuals would view the idea of archetypes.A Shaman, or other seeker after spiritualism, will conceive of archetypes as gods and goddesses, encoded in the collective unconscious, whom are scorned at great risk. Academics and other rationalists, who are typically suspicious of anything that sounds mystic, may conceive of archetypes as controlling paradigms or metaphors, the invisible patterns in the mind that control how we experience the world.Scientists may see the process of identifying archetypes as similar to other scientific processes. Physicists learn about the smallest subatomic particles by studying the traces they leave; psychologists and other scholars study archetypes by examining their presence in art, literature, myth, and dream. Carl Jung recognized that the archetypical mages that recurred in his patients' dreams also could be found in the myths, legends, and art of ancient peoples, as well as in contemporary iterature, religion, and art. They know that they are archetypical becausethey leave the same traces over time and space. People who are committed to religious positions that emphasize one all-encompassing God, can distinguish the spiritual truth of monotheism from the pluralistic psychological truth of archetypes. The god we mean when we speak of "The One True God" is beyond the human capacity to envision and name. The archetypes are like different facets of that God, accessible to the psyche's capacity to imagine numinous reality. Thus these archetypes helpthe person connect to the Eternal; they make great mysteries more accessible by providing multiple images. This is evident in both the Catholic idea of the Trinity (The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost), and the Buddhist idea of one Buddha (which is then divisible into the 40, the 400, and the 4000 facets or aspects of that single deity, each with it's own name and story). Finally archetypes are the primal symbols of aspects of our own nature. By identifying with one of more archetypes we can identify our own nature. By portraying these archetypes, we portray ourselves. Thus we can use these archetypes as a spiritual guide to the discovery of selfhood. And what does an archetype mean to ? That's simple. Archetypes are symbols. In the Hermetic Tradition there is very little difference between the symbol and the thing it represents. This is explicit in the Law of Association. By manipulating the symbol it is therefore also possible to directly manipulate the thing. And because archetypes are symbols representing facets of ourselves they allow us to change ourselves. As within, so without. The macrocosm embodies the microcosm.So much for the content of the psyche. Now let's turn to the principles of its operation. Jung gives us three principles, beginning with the principle of opposites. Every wish immediately suggests its opposite. If I have a good thought, for example, I cannot help but have in me somewhere the opposite bad thought. In fact, it is a very basic point: In order to have a concept of good, you must have a concept of bad, just like you can't have up without down or black without white. This idea came home to me when I was about eleven. I occasionally tried to help poor innocent woodland creatures who had been hurt in some way -- often, I'm afraid, killing them in the process. Once I tried to nurse a baby robin back to health. But when I picked it up, I was so struck by how light it was that the thought came to me that I could easily crush it in my hand. Mind you, I didn't like the idea, but it was undeniably there.According to Jung, it is the opposition that creates the power (or libido) of the psyche. It is like the two poles of a battery, or the splitting of an atom. It is the contrast that gives energy, so that a strong contrast gives strong energy, and a weak contrast gives weak energy. The second principle is the principle of equivalence. The energy created from the opposition is "given" to both sides equally. So, when I held that baby bird in my hand, there was energy to go ahead and try to help it. But there is an equal amount of energy to go ahead and crush it. I tried to help the bird, so that energy went into the various behaviors involved in helping it. But what happens to the other energy? Well, that depends on your attitude towards the wish that you didn't fulfill. If you acknowledge it, face it, keep it available to the conscious mind, then the energy goes towards a general improvement of your psyche. You grow, in other words.
But if you pretend that you never had that evil wish, if you deny and suppress it, the energy will go towards the development of a complex. A complex is a pattern of suppressed thoughts and feelings that cluster -- constellate -- around a theme provided by some archetype. If you deny ever having thought about crushing the little bird, you might put that idea into the form offered by the shadow (your "dark side"). Or if a man denies his emotional side, his emotionality might find its way into the anima archetype. And so on. Here's where the problem comes: If you pretend all your life that you are only good, that you don't even have the capacity to lie and cheat and steal and kill, then all the times when you do good, that other side of you goes into a complex around the shadow. That complex will begin to develop a life of its own, and it will haunt you. You might find yourself having nightmares in which you go around stomping on little baby birds! If it goes on long enough, the complex may take over, may "possess" you, and you might wind up with a multiple personality. In the movie The Three Faces of Eve, Joanne Woodward portrayed a meek, mild woman who eventually discovered that she went out and partied like crazy on Saturday nights. She didn't smoke, but found cigarettes in her purse, didn't drink, but woke up with hangovers, didn't fool around, but found herself in sexy outfits. Although multiple personality is rare, it does tend to involve these kinds of black-and-white extremes. The final principle is the principle of entropy. This is the tendency for oppositions to come together, and so for energy to decrease, over a person's lifetime. Jung borrowed the idea from physics, where entropy refers to the tendency of all physical systems to "run down," that is, for all energy to become evenly distributed. If you have, for example, a heat source in one corner of the room, the whole room will eventually be heated.When we are young, the opposites will tend to be extreme, and so we tend to have lots of energy. For example, adolescents tend to exaggerate male-female differences, with boys trying hard to be macho and girls trying equally hard to be feminine. And so their sexual activity is invested with great amounts of energy! Plus, adolescents often swing from one extreme to another, being wild and crazy one minute and finding religion the next.As we get older, most of us come to be more comfortable with our different facets. We are a bit less naively idealistic and recognize that we are all mixtures of good and bad. We are less threatened by the opposite sex within us and become more androgynous. Even physically, in old age, men and women become more alike. This process of rising above our opposites, of seeing both sides of who we are, is called transcendence.
www.mythsdreamssymbols.com/dreamsarchetypes.html
The ego is the centre of consciousness. It is identity. It is 'I'. But it is not the totality of the psyche. Being the king of consciousness amounts to dominion over a small but important land surrounded by a wide world of terra incognita. The more aware the King is of lands beyond his domain the more secure he will be on his throne, but he must not be tempted to open the borders to it all. In Jungian theory the unconscious is far too vast to ever be made fully conscious, poking about in it is not without danger, yet ignoring it is also a mistake since it leads to a brittle fixedness which at best impedes growth, at worst can break when under the pressure of the 'threat' of change.So called "humanist spirit" relates to the thought and the viewpoint concerning man's mental life: the humanist spirit is linked with humanitarianism and is different from each other. Compared with animals, the author concluded: Tao (Dao) and Food, kindheartedness and living, righteousness and benefit, moral integration and feats of strength, principles and appetites and independent will, etc. all are human personality values. Simultaneously strong human social responsibility is also human social value. Human beings live in nature, mutually coordinate, and co-exist in harmony together with nature which is also the representation of man's natural
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This was taken by the Olympic pool in Kerrville. I actually tried taking a picture from Mooney Aircraft and ended up a the park.
I wasn't going to upload these self portraits, originally, cause when I reviewed them later - I was shocked to see that they revealed something quite private about me. Like I was letting some parts of my indecision, the moments I waver before the crests & leaps of life, the parts of myself that are dark and gloomy and unlikeable be visible to my camera. I didn't expect those things to translate so clearly into the images and I felt so vulnerable about sharing them.
But I took some time and now I feel more objectively excited about the images, and if I find them embarrassing I can always delete them later.
Thanks for reading.
I wasn't going to upload these self portraits, originally, cause when I reviewed them later - I was shocked to see that they revealed something quite private about me. Like I was letting some parts of my indecision, the moments I waver before the crests & leaps of life, the parts of myself that are dark and gloomy and unlikeable be visible to my camera. I didn't expect those things to translate so clearly into the images and I felt so vulnerable about sharing them.
But I took some time and now I feel more objectively excited about the images, and if I find them embarrassing I can always delete them later.
Thanks for reading.
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