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Tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies.
-- Walt Whitman
I caught this reflection as two joggers passed by on the other side of a channel in the Corte Madera Marsh and ran the image through Topaz Simplify for Sliders Sunday.
Image created with Dream by Wombo and textured with my textures plus Distressed FX Plus
Prompts:Bouquet of Poinsettias, holly, pine boughs with ornaments, clear glass vase, old dark rough wood table, still life, black background, only dark moody soft warm back lighting
Style: Soft Touch
Only one more week until Christmas so I've got a bunch of Wombo holiday images on the way!
Thanks in advance for taking a closer look, for your faves, comments and invitations!
Chinese gardens are constructed to recreate and miniaturize larger natural landscapes. Traditionally, Chinese gardens blend unique, ornate buildings with natural elements. Just about every Chinese garden contains architecture, like a building or pavilion; decorative rocks and a rock garden; plants, trees and flowers; and water elements, like ponds. Most Chinese gardens are enclosed by a wall and some have winding paths. Chinese gardens aren’t just thrown together. Instead, they’re deliberately designed and visitors should walk through them in the particular order that the garden was laid out.
The Chinese Garden of Friendship (simplified Chinese: 谊园; traditional Chinese: 誼園) is a heritage-listed 1.03-hectare (3-acre) Chinese garden at 1 Harbour Street, in the Sydney Central Business District, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Modelled after the classic private gardens of the Ming Dynasty, the garden offers an insight into Chinese heritage and culture. It was designed by Guangzhou Garden Planning & Building Design Institute, Tsang & Lee, and Edmond Bull & Corkery and built from 1986 to 1988 by Gutteridge Haskins & Davey; the Darling Harbour Authority; Imperial Gardens; Leightons; and Australian Native Landscapes. The gardens were added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 5 October 2018. The Chinese Garden of Friendship was designed by Sydney's Chinese sister city, Guangzhou in China. Sydney's Chinatown complements the area's already rich in Chinese heritage and culture. The garden was officially opened 17 January 1988 as part of Sydney's Bicentennial Celebrations and named the Chinese Garden of Friendship symbolising the bond established between China and Australia. 14974
I collected about two dozen beautiful and varied leaves last night from the trees at Costco. My husband loaded our groceries while I wandered the parking lot searching for treasures. When we got home, I carefully laid the wet leaves on towels and put heavy pans over them to keep them from curling up and getting crunchy. I had dreams all night about what I could create with them.
On dreary days it's comforting to know that this is near my doorstep and I can't wait for the next visit.
location: taal, lemery, batangas, philippines
image info: nikon d90, 18-200mm@200.00mm focal length, manual settings w/o circular polarizer filter, iso:200, exposure:1/400s, aperture:f/5.6 and handheld
shot taken last: december 28, 2010
photo process info: natural light, with crop and no hdr. pp in adobe cs2 (adjustment of brightness/ contrast, exposure, shadows/ highlights and color balance), picasa 3.0 (adjusment of sharpen, tuning and watermark) and neat images (reducing noise).
That is my motto in life. Simplify. When things get stressful that is what I do. Here's to keeping it simple.
“A simplified life means that what has to get done will get done. And when we pare down life to its simplest, most beautifully basic parts, we’re left with room to enjoy each other, to rest, and to truly savor life with all our hearts, minds, and spirits.”
Blue Dasher, Pachydiplax longipennis. The last of a very satisfying series of photos taken in Cullinan Park a year ago, and my last post with Canon equipment.
26 July 2021; 08:50 CDT; RAW+post
Citroën ID (1957-1975) - ID 20 (1969)
La Citroën ID est une version simplifiée et mons onéreuse de la DS. On opposait symboliquement la « déesse » à son « idée ».
The Citroën ID is a simplified and cheapest version of the Citroën DS. It was the symbolical opposition of the "goddess" (DS = in French, phonetically "déesse", goddess) to the "idea" of it (ID, phonetically "idée", idea).
Hidup ini nikmat, nafas ini nikmat, rasa ini nikmat, dunia, alam semesta dan segala isinya ini adalah nikmat...
Maka bersyukurlah.
I should imagine we can expect more of this type of weather this winter, with the long range forecast predicting extremes in temperatures. LIke many photographers, I love it when freshly fallen snow simplifies the main features of the landscape. Under normal circumstances, I would not have even considered this gate and fence worth photographing, but set against a blanket of snow they take on a whole different appearance. Compositionally, the inclusion of the sweep of the road above the line of the fence was a crucial one.
This, too, is taken in the gardens near the rose garden at Point Defiance Park, located in Tacoma, Washington. I think I'm having a difficult time deciding which I like more, roses or dahlias! They're both so beautiful! Hope you all enjoy!
Point Defiance Park
Tacoma, Washington
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The ability to simplify means to elmininate the unnecessary so that the necessary
may speak.
Hans Hofmann