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A photo from this past summer taken at The Inner Harbor and adjusted with the Topaz Simplify addin for PShop.. The more I work with this filter the more I like it!
Blackberry capture, CNX2 to bring out colors and sharpen, Topaz Simplify to make it look like a painting.
What's for lunch?? maybe sushi!! ;-)
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Using the Coming Home pattern from the book Simplify with Camille Roskelley. Fabric is Sorbet by Sentimental Studios for Moda.
Big time traffic inside the tunnel due to hotel strike..temper flares everywhere...;-(
btw this is the famous ugly muni fight..check it out!!
The Bund (simplified Chinese: 外滩) is a waterfront area in central Shanghai. The area centres on a section of Zhongshan Road (East-1 Zhongshan Road) within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River, facing Pudong, in the eastern part of Huangpu District. The Bund usually refers to the buildings and wharves on this section of the road, as well as some adjacent areas. It is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Shanghai. Building heights are restricted in this area.
The City God Temple or Chenghuang Miao (Chinese: 上海城隍庙) is a temple located in Shanghai, China, within the old walled city. Today the "City God Temple" not only refers to the large temple complex, but also the traditional district of commerce in the city, surrounding the temple. There are over a hundred stores and shops in this area, and most of these store buildings are nearly a century old. The temple connects to the Yuyuan Garden, another landmark of the old city.
More information about the Bund
The Shanghai Bund has dozens of historical buildings, lining the Huangpu River, that once housed numerous banks and trading houses from the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Italy, Russia, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as the consulates of Russia and Britain, a newspaper, the Shanghai Club and the Masonic Club. The Bund lies north of the old, walled city of Shanghai. It was initially a British settlement; later the British and American settlements were combined in the International Settlement. Magnificent commercial buildings in the Beaux Arts style sprung up in the years around the turn of the 20th century as the Bund developed into a major financial center of East Asia. Directly to the south, and just northeast of the old walled city, the former French Bund (the quai de France, part of the Shanghai French Concession) was of comparable size to the Bund but functioned more as a working harbourside.
By the 1940s the Bund housed the headquarters of many, if not most, of the major financial institutions operating in China, including the "big four" national banks in the Republic of China era. However, with the Communist victory in the Chinese civil war, many of the financial institutions were moved out gradually in the 1950s, and the hotels and clubs closed or converted to other uses. The statues of colonial figures and foreign worthies which had dotted the riverside were also removed.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, with the thawing of economic policy in the People's Republic of China, buildings on the Bund were gradually returned to their former uses. Government institutions were moved out in favour of financial institutions, while hotels resumed trading as such. Also during this period, a series of floods caused by typhoons motivated the municipal government to construct a tall levee along the riverfront, with the result that the embankment now stands some 10 metres higher than street level. The Bunds revitalization began in 1986 with a new promenade by the Dutch Architect Paulus Snoeren and has dramatically changed the streetscape of the Bund. In the 1990s, Zhongshan Road (named after Sun Yat-sen), the road on which the Bund is centred, was widened to ten lanes. As a result, most of the parkland which had existed along the road disappeared. Also in this period, the ferry wharves connecting the Bund and Pudong, which had served the area's original purpose, were removed. A number of pleasure cruises still operate from some nearby wharves.
In the 1990s the Shanghai government attempted to promote an extended concept of the Bund to boost tourism, and land value in nearby areas, as well as to reconcile the promotion of "colonial relics" with the Socialist ideology. In its expanded form, the term "Bund" (as "New Bund" or "Northern Bund") was used to refer to areas south of the Yan'an Road, and a stretch of riverfront north of the Suzhou River (Zhabei). Such use of the term, however, remains rare outside of tourism literature.
From 2008, a major reconfiguration of traffic flow along the Bund was carried out. The first stage of the plan involved the southern end of the Bund, and saw the demolition of a section of the Yan'an Road elevated expressway, including removal of the large elevated expressway exit structure that formerly dominated the confluence of Yan'an Road and the Bund. A second phase involved the year-long restoration of the century-old Waibaidu Bridge at the northern end of the Bund. In a third stage, the former 10-lane Bund roadway was reconstructed in two levels, with six lanes carried in a new tunnel. The vacated road space was used to widen the landscaped promenade along the waterfront. The new concrete bridge that was built in 1991 to relieve traffic on Waibaidu Bridge was rendered obsolete by the new double-levelled roadway, and demolished.
The Bund was re-opened to the public on Sunday 28 March 2010 after restoration.
Text form the Wikipedia article the Bund.
This was made from a bali pop that I got awhile back with the intentions of making something for my mom. She loves batiks and I have been wanting to make her a quilt made with them for awhile. Once I saw this pattern, I knew that this would be a perfect pattern to make those bright fabrics pop. The top is done and now it is being added to the needs to be quilted pile which is getting to big...
After a bit of experimentation with the Topaz Simplify filter, we get this result from this source image.
Simplified map shows the railroads of the Tampa Bay area in 1912, when Pinellas had just become a county independent of Hillsborough County. The red line down the left side traces the route of the Orange Belt Railway to St. Petersburg from Sanford, which became part of the ACL in 1903.
In Tampa at the right, the ACL rail route is shown in red, making connections with Tampa Union Station, Port Tampa, and wharves along the harbor. The green line traces the SAL tracks that connect to Tampa Union Station and to wharves along the harbor. The purple line traces the path of the Tampa Northern railroad from wharves along the harbor north towards Brooksville.
The blue lines trace the Tampa & Gulf Coast railroad routes to Tarpon Springs, with a branch northward to Port Richey. The Tampa & Gulf Coast railroad used the line of the Tampa Northern railroad to reach Tampa, and trains of the Tampa & Gulf Coast and the Tampa Northern connected to Tampa Union Station along the SAL line. The SAL owned shares in both of these smaller railroad companies, and eventually absorbed them into the SAL system.
The ACL also had a track spur to Belleair's Belleview Hotel, just south of Clearwater. Adapted from Heritage Village map
ODC- Wave for 9 November. I used Topaz Simplify 4 to change what was a black and white cushion pattern.
Three knobs plus an air valve on the top of this fork. Mountain bikers tend to take for granted how much they know about the complicated workings of these things. This particular one was simplified in its most recent revision – and that's saying something!
When you learn how to say yes to the things you want in your life and no to the things you don't want in your life – your life becomes simpler.
The vents for this dress, for which I used the lower portion of the pattern for the Ebb top w/ vents, are longer than the Ebb top vents.
For this I took my original Rippled Cats image and ran it through a Topaz filter called Simplify. I do love what can be done with fractal art and a few of my photo editing filters. ..Created with JWildfire 2.60 R2 and Topaz Simplify.
"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."
Model : Angela
Photographer : Taiping DSLR
Presented by : Kweong
Location : Taiping Lake Graden
Special thanks to AlanOng for the organisation and help up.
@sweet secret cafe, U center, Bangkok, Thailand
Buffet Cake Review :: Sweet Secret
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This is a wider sleeve cuff than the original pattern. For this dress, I like the perpendicular stripe better than bias.
After I sewed/tried it on, I decided I didn't like the wider cuff so I cut it back to the original width.
The ten or so litres of vegetable curry that I cooked up over the weekend. The curry isn't that amazing. It's very basic, but very nutritous. It is also guranteed to simplify my cooking for a week to come.
Just one of many stacks in my house... destined for the dumpster.
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We say it in so many ways, but we are one.
I love you!
Yoko Ono Lennon
1 December 2015
Ok, I have a lot of pack rat things in my house that I need to take care of. The worst of this is the basement. Here is a shot of my computer corner.
My goal is to make my the house simple and peaceful. Getting rid of a lot of the junk that piled up is the biggest part of this. De-clutter.
So each day, for 30 days, I'm going to simplify some part of the house. Be that getting rid of clutter, creating storage space, or organizing stuff.