made of acrylic, very often used.

kitchen is the topic for Macro Mondays May 4th.

Mom, Junior, Fido and Dad ;-). Mashed up from a photo I took of a silver exhibit at the Seattle airport a couple years ago. Kite photo from Pixabay.

Created for EXPLORE Worthy - The Number Games 4, Season 2 (Art from 2015)

Wendy

“I know he's around,

When the sky and the ground start in ringing.

I know that he's near,

By the thunder I hear in advance.

His words, his words alone,

Are the words that can start my heart singing,

And his is the only music that makes me dance.”

Lyrics from “The Music That Makes Me Dance” written by Bob Merrill and Jule Styne from the musical “Funny Girl” (1960).

The theme for "Smile on Saturday" for the 6th of June is "musical instruments", and when I read the theme, the lyrics from the Broadway musical “Funny Girl”, based on the life of American comedienne and singer Fanny Brice, written to showcase singer and actress, Barbra Streisand’s vocal and comedic talents, came to mind. I happened to have a still life that I think is suitable for the theme already: one featuring a pair of rather eccentric designer shoes and a violin borrowed from a musician friend of mine. In order to highlight the beautiful instrument, I have processed the photo in selective colour. As “The Music That Makes Me Dance” is a romantic song about unrequited love, I decided to leave the pink roses in the still life in colour as well. I hope you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!

The shoes that feature in this still life are stilettos from the 1950s in pristine condition. The heel pads are leather, whilst the toe of the shoes are bleached snakeskin hand painted with black dots and finished with a black grosgrain ribbon.

The purse in the foreground is a hand beaded example from the late 1910s to early 1920s, made of black faceted jet beads.

The glasses on the tray are faceted crystal from the 1930s, whilst the decanter of port is from the late Victorian era. The soda syphon is from the 1920s. The silver tray and lidded silver serving dish are late Victorian.

BMW Welt, Munich

My sister on the right, serving food to my now passed away uncle, a few years back. He is also on the right seated behind my sister.

On the iPad with a colourful image open and black paper behind it.

This is about 4 cm.

Happy Macro Monday.

Thank you for your views, faves and or comments, they are greatly appreciated !!!

Don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission !!!

© all rights reserved Lily aenee

Wizard of Oz ink I believe

I have always granted myself the freedom to exercise artistic license and pursue whatever brings me joy. Currently, shots from my cellphone and digital AI artwork fulfill that purpose, at least for the time being.

- Generative AI

I have always granted myself the freedom to exercise artistic license and pursue whatever brings me joy. Currently, digital AI artwork fulfills that purpose, at least for the time being.

by Generative AI

Canon EOS 6D - f/7.1 - 1/320sec - 90mm - ISO 100

Here at Opscode Austin, we've got a bit of a private cloud in the works. These are my test machines for deploying OpenStack and other applications with Chef.

我们在QQ上发送的信息说不定就是通过这里传输的喔

Restaurant Covent Garden London,

Server detail for the TBB Server Downtime Contest. I had this lying around for months without knowing what to use them for. I still don't, but at least I got to use them for the contest :)

Our favourite server at one of our regular restaurants.

This Red-tailed Hawk looked as though he was "serving" the duck in lower right corner, instead of dining on it. Taken 1/14/10. Went back to the hard drive for this one.

We've been talking, and Honey Lemon & Space Cadet SL have decided to start a Discord server to make our brands more accessible to everyone!

Be one of the first to join: discord.gg/CNbEgmx2ZX

IT

Pretty wine server at Maelstrom Winery.

Seaforth,Ontario

Canada

www.maelstromwinery.ca/site/home

Just checking the servers as i wish you all a fantastic day :)

stanleylieber.livejournal.com/385361.html

Billedet er også skudt fra hoften.

We IceCube Winter-Overs here at South Pole have to administrate all the 200+ servers in the IceCube Lab (ICL) building. When the lights are off the server room looks almost like Christmas does ;)

My old server machine started locking up frequently, and I couldn't isolate the cause. (I think I narrowed it down to the motherboard or CPU itself.) Rather than spend a small fortune swapping out components, I decided a "new" PC was in order.

I found this refurbished Dell Optiplex 7050 online for about $200. It came with 32GB RAM and a new 500GB NVMe drive. There's room in the SFF case for a single 3.5" hard drive, so I installed one of my old 2TB drives. I'll probably buy a larger SATA drive on sale during Black Friday, as SMART reports that it's been running for 9+ years (that's actual total UP time - not merely its age)!

Anyway, I've installed Linux Mint 21.2. This morning I got file and print sharing configured for everyone on our home network again. It's also running Folding@Home, but on the lowest setting. These SFF cases are nice, but cooling is an issue. I'm definitely pushing it on the CPU temp, but staying well below critical.

Of course, I have all my figurines set up around it. I own my geekiness. :)

I made this picture for the Inria contest on "Computing: past, present, and future". The abacus is, to me, the birth of computing.

I borrowed a camera with a very fast lens, and went to the server room of our research center, where I played finding a spot for the abacus in the middle of the computing equipment. A large numerical aperture gave me a short depth of field, turning the lights in a nice bokeh.

I did fairly little post-processing, using darktable as always. I used a local contrast filter on the abacus itself, and pushed the colors in the top right of the photo toward green.

I was looking for this set by Epoch for quite a while until I finally got one. I also picked up some extra chairs because each table only comes with 1 chair. The set is pretty tiny, the chair backs are a little over 2 inches high. I don't know why I needed this set so much, in fact, I have another set on the way LOL

Original image and processing by me

"Mirror’s Edge Catalyst"

-4000x5333 (SRWE Hotsampling)

-Hattiwatti's Cinematic Tools (free camera, timestop, FOV, HUD toggle)

-ReShade Framework

After all, a two-storey server room, complete with glass floor, functional lighting and a claustrophobic hallway seems to be exactly the kind of challenge I wanted for making a scene.