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Taken during various visits to the Summer Palace in the North West corner of the city of Beijing, China.
Some background info from wikipedia:-
The Summer Palace (simplified Chinese: 颐和园; traditional Chinese: 頤和園; pinyin: Yíhé Yuán) is a vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces in Beijing, China. The Summer Palace is mainly dominated by Longevity Hill and the Kunming Lake. It covers an expanse of 2.9 square kilometres (720 acres), three-quarters of which is water.
Longevity Hill is about 60 metres (200 feet) high and has many buildings positioned in sequence. The front hill is rich with splendid halls and pavilions, while the back hill, in sharp contrast, is quiet with natural beauty.
The central Kunming Lake covering 2.2 square kilometres (540 acres) was entirely man-made and the excavated soil was used to build Longevity Hill. In the Summer Palace, one finds a variety of palaces, gardens, and other classical-style architectural structures.
In December 1998, UNESCO included the Summer Palace on its World Heritage List. It declared the Summer Palace "a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features such as pavilions, halls, palaces, temples and bridges to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value." It is a popular tourist destination but also serves as a recreational park.
When the Jin Dynasty emperor Wányán Liàng (February 24, 1122–December 15, 1161 CE) moved his capital to the Beijing area, he had a Gold Mountain Palace built on the site of the hill. In the Yuan Dynasty, the hill was renamed from Gold Mountain to Jug Hill (Weng Shan). This name change is explained by a legend according to which a jar with a treasure inside was once found on the hill. The loss of the jar is said to have coincided with the fall of the Ming Dynasty as had been predicted by its finder.
The Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), who commissioned work on the imperial gardens on the hill in 1749, gave Longevity Hill its present-day name in 1752, in celebration of his mother's 60th birthday.
The Summer Palace started out life as the 'Garden of Clear Ripples' (simplified Chinese: 清漪园; traditional Chinese: 清漪園; pinyin: Qīngyī Yuán) in 1750 (Reign Year 15 of Qianlong Emperor). Artisans reproduced the garden architecture styles of various palaces in China. Kunming Lake was created by extending an existing body of water to imitate the West Lake in Hangzhou. The palace complex suffered two major attacks—during the Anglo-French allied invasion of 1860 (with the Old Summer Palace also ransacked at the same time), and during the Boxer Rebellion, in an attack by the eight allied powers in 1900. The garden survived and was rebuilt in 1886 and 1902. In 1888, it was given the current name, Yihe Yuan. It served as a summer resort for Empress Dowager Cixi, who diverted 30 million taels of silver, said to be originally designated for the Chinese navy (Beiyang Fleet), into the reconstruction and enlargement of the Summer Palace.
This diversion of funds away from military sources came just six years before the first First Sino-Japanese War which China lost.
On its southern slope, Longevity Hill is adorned with an ensemble of grand buildings: The Cloud-Dispelling Hall, the Temple of Buddhist Virtue, and the Sea of Wisdom Temple form a south-north (lakeside - peak) oriented axis which is flanked by various other buildings. In the center of the Temple of Buddhist Virtue stands the Tower of Buddhist Incense (Fo Xiang Ge), which forms the focal point for the buildings on the southern slope of Longevity Hill. The tower is built on a 20-meter-tall stone base, is 41 meters high with three stories and supported by eight ironwood (lignumvitae) pillars.
More info here - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Palace
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.
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.
Just one of many stacks in my house... destined for the dumpster.
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Download, print & display these posters in your window, school, workplace, car and elsewhere.
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Send them as postcards to your friends.
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.
Conclusion: It's too easy these days, to create something that looks like a painting, just by using a photo and some algorithms (in this case Topaz Simplify).
The previous image seems to become less appealing the longer I look at it. It looks too "busy" to me so I decided to upload something a little simpler.
I still like the pure black background best.
Zhijin Cave (simplified Chinese: 织金洞; traditional Chinese: 織金洞; pinyin: Zhījīn Dòng; lit. 'Weaving Gold Cave') is a karst cave located in Minzhai Village (民寨乡), Zhijin County, Guizhou Province, People's Republic of China. An important tourism area, the site lies 23 km (14 mi) northeast of the county town and 166 km (103 mi) from the provincial capital, Guiyang.
Originally called the Daji Cave (打鸡洞), it was discovered in 1980 by the Zhijin County Tourism Resources Exploration Team. Split into three layers,[1] the cave extends for some 13.5 km (8.4 mi) over a total area of 7 km2 (2.7 sq mi) and is believed to possess the largest unsupported roof span of any cave worldwide. More than 120 different crystalline formations are found in the cave's interior along with stalactites and the "Silver Rain Tree" (银雨树), a 17 m (56 ft) tall rare flower-like transparent crystal.
The surrounding area, known as the Guizhou Zhijin Cave Scenic Area (贵州织金洞风景区), was made a national level tourist site by the Chinese State Council in 1988. Other attractions here spread over an area of 307 km2 (119 sq mi) and includes Zhijin Old Town (织金古城区) as well as Luojie River Scenic Area (裸结河景区).
The Bund (simplified Chinese: 外滩; traditional Chinese: 外灘; pinyin: Wàitān) is an area of Huangpu District in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. 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. The Bund is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Shanghai. Building heights are restricted in this area.
This took way too many steps so if I ever do it again I will have to simplify or never ever do it again, whew!
on a positive note I found how to remove stubborn nail polish(too many layers and/or glitter polish). Looking it up online, others have bemoaned how hard it is to remove glitter polish and gave these steps to easy removal:
1.)dab a piece of napkin(cut 10 pieces into 1"X2") or small cotton ball in acetone polish remover
2.) lay on nail with stubborn polish(cover whole nail)
3.) wrap up the napkin covered nail with a 2"X4" rectangle of tin foil
4.) let nail polish remover soak for 5 minutes
5.) remove foil/napkin(voila! polish is smeary and can now be wiped off with same napkin)
6.) wash your hands
7.) clean up any leftover bits on your nail with a little more remover(it will be so much easier).
one extra tip: do one hand at a time or have someone help you with your second hand(my 7 year old daughter loved to help me with mine:))
"For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day." ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)
Nikon D700 / Nikon 35mm f2.5 Series E
In this page we are going to discuss about simplify fractions. Fraction is a two-part number representation which has numerator part at top and denominator part at bottom. By simplifying the numerator and denominator terms of fraction as possible, we can get a simplified form of fraction. A fraction may be proper or improper fraction. Example: 4/8 is simplified as 1/2.
直到來上海以後，有一天我才知道林夕原來是夢的意思。然後我一面在記憶中搜尋他填詞的歌曲，一面做了模糊的夢。夢裡面出現了夢卜，那到底是什麼？醒來的瞬間我就忘記了，只留下白色的散景。後來我才弄明白，原來那無關占卜或者巫術。是萝卜。
然後近來我開始後悔，一直不夠認真蒐集他的歌。
"Lately I have realised
That I need to simplify.
Thoughts pass like ships in the sky.
Do, or do not, there is no try.
Life became complicated
When modern times arrived.
Board games are underrated.
I want a different life.
They say, 'Well, get out of the city!'
We say, 'Well, there's no such thing as a house in the country.'
Simplify your life."
- Marina & the Diamonds
Simplifying fractions is a two-part number representation which has numerator part at top and denominator part at bottom.Simplification of fraction does not always result in reducing the fraction as higher equivalent fraction could be the required answer in some cases.Simplification could also end up in improper fractions and those cases we need to convert it to mixed fraction form.Simplification could also result in reducing the fraction to its lowest possible equivalentA fraction may be proper or improper fraction. Example: 4 / 8 is simplified as 1 / 2.
Here I was aiming to simplify the form to an even more extreme level.
I painted in a very simplistic, almost abstract way, human forms onto absorbent paper. I then used whatever ink leaked through to the other side to create violent, contorted images. I again juxtaposed this with text, and deep hues, and kept the blue and crimson theme running through.
Each of these works are A3, and are done in India ink (some diluted), oil pastel, compressed charcoal, on Buff paper, and canvas.