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This quilt is being made for my mom, she loves batiks and she has the perfect place for a quilt in these colors in her house. Hopefully this one will be done in the next couple of days, I am almost finished with the blocks.
This is a photo whose composition I liked but the detail was too much and then I found Topaz Simplify and it helps to isolate my intention a good deal.
Custom wall decor
Many sizes, fonts and colors to choose from.
Available on my website, see my profile for more info.
I've changed my design a bit, now with more JavaScript!! This is the clean version with big type like you've seen so many times before everywhere on the internet. You will also be able to switch to the hand made look and feel cork board version as well.
Same pic "Glacier Cruising in Alaska II" with a Topaz Simplify adjustment added to create a painterly effect. Best viewed in "Large" format
The Great Wall of China (simplified Chinese: 长城; traditional Chinese: 長城; pinyin: Chángchéng; literally "long city/fortress") or (simplified Chinese: 万里长城; traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng; literally "The long wall of 10,000 Li (里)"[1]) is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in northern China, built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 5th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire from Xiongnu attacks during various successive dynasties. Since the 5th century BC, several walls have been built that were referred to as the Great Wall. One of the most famous is the wall built between 220–206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. Little of that wall remains; it lay farther north than the current wall, which was built during the Ming Dynasty.[2]
The Great Wall currently stretches over approximately 6,400 km (4,000 miles)[3] from Shanhaiguan in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia, but stretches to over 6,700 km (4,160 miles) in total;[4] a more recent archaeological survey using advanced technologies points out that the entire Great Wall, with all of its branches, stretches for 8,851.8 km (5,500.3 mi).[5][6][7] At its peak, the Ming Wall was guarded by more than one million men.[8] It has been estimated that somewhere in the range of 2 to 3 million Chinese died as part of the centuries-long project of building the wall.
Source: Wikipedia
Location: Badaling, Great Wall, People's Republic of China
Photography: Keith Cabillon www.keithcabillon.multiply.com
Day 20 of my contributions to Mostly365.com. A photo a day (mostly) for a year.
Today's shot is a real closeup of a little stem with three tiny leaves left on it. I used a simplify filter to give it more of a painting look. The background is snow and a house in shadow.
Website redesign for Grid4 Communications in celebration of their 10th anniversary. Everything from accessibility and structure to graphics and content was reworked to provide customers, partners and employees a more user-friendly web experience. I worked on this project with Grid4's in-house marketing team to develop the design, functionality and message of the new site.
Grid4 is an IP communications company headquartered in Troy, MI. They provide businesses with voice, Internet, hosted VoIP and multi-location telecommunication services.
Visit Grid4 Communications' site at www.grid4.com
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Images Thruthelookingglass
...........so we do the best thing we can do...
open up the windows to our senses
(so we can hear the waves
wwwiiiissshhhing into the night)
and let our hearts lead us back to.......
The Land of Simplicity
Sandy Gingras, How to Live at the Beach.
The Bingling Temple (simplified Chinese: 炳灵寺; traditional Chinese: 炳靈寺; pinyin: Bǐnglíng Sì) is a series of grottoes filled with Buddhist sculpture carved into natural caves and caverns in a canyon along the Yellow River. It lies just north of where the Yellow River empties into the Liujiaxia Reservoir. Administratively, the site is in Yongjing County of Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu province, some 100 km (62 mi) southeast of Lanzhou.
The caves were a work in progress for more than a millennium. The first grotto was begun around 420 CE at the end of the Western Qin kingdom. Work continued and more grottoes were added during the Wei, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. The style of each grotto can easily be connected to the typical artwork from its corresponding dynasty. The Bingling Temple is both stylistically and geographically a midpoint between the monumental Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan and the Buddhist Grottoes of central China, Yungang Grottoes near Datong and Longmen Grottoes near Luoyang.
Las cuevas de los Mil budas de Binglisi. Bingling significa "mil de Budas" ó "diez mil Budas" en lengua tibetana. Es uno de los complejos budistas más antiguos y una de las diez grutas más grandes de China. Gran cantidad de estatuas y frescos mostrando las diferentes culturas y vestimentas de los dioses adorados en varias épocas. Monjes y budistas,
procedentes de Asia Central a lo largo de la Ruta de la Seda, fueron estampando y tallando en cuevas naturales los ídolos de la cultura budista e india. Las grutas, talladas dentro de las montañas de arenisca roja, se encuentran a ambos lados del final del valle de Dasigou. Destaca uno buda sentado de 27 metros de altura con 1.200 años de antigüedad.
Over the centuries, earthquakes, erosion, and looters have damaged or destroyed many of the caves and the artistic treasures within. Altogether there are 183 caves, 694 stone statues, and 82 clay sculptures that remain. The relief sculpture and caves filled with buddhas and frescoes line the northern side of the canyon for about 200 meters. Each cave is like a miniature temple filled with Buddhist imagery. These caves culminate at a large natural cavern where wooden walkways precariously wind up the rock face to hidden cliff-side caves and the giant Maitreya Buddha that stands more than 27 meters, or almost 100 feet, tall.
I gave up my habit of writing and leaving endless notes for myself on the counter. I went digital. I simplified my mind, and to honour the moment I collected and cut up all my past notes into tiny pieces and collaged some of them here :-)
nnn.STANDING EYESRUSSIAN BUBBLES.2011. This one is a simplifyed version. Even then, I should have done better...
This tree was found in Ecola State Park just north of Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast. It made an OK photo, but this version, created with Topaz Simplify, is a lot more dramatic and attractive to me.
"Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity."
- Henry David Thoreau
One of my favorite qoutes from his book "Walden".