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I had a wonderful night running around the beach between Nash Point and Cwm Nash, trying to use the great sky that was laughing at me. After a few reflections in the sand, I went back to my favourite rock features, they're so dynamic. Solid air is a favourite John Martyn track, an they do have that feel to them.
Solid Snake as he appears in MGS2: Sons of Liberty from the MGS series.
-Minifig made by Minifigs.Me
-Head made by eclipseGrafx
The first month of 2025 has been an essay in how cold we can get! Although we are on the same latitude as Moscow, we do have the warming influence of an ocean around Scotland's shores. So we probably shouldn't complain, but of course we do 😊
-16c was the lowest we managed - and snow a foot deep. So we were quite home-centred, and shooting, even in the garden, was quite an adventure. After keeping ourselves warm, we spent a lot of time trying to ensure our garden birds survived too. Icy weather for a few days is not too bad - but when it extends to 2 or 3 weeks, they were suffering. Both water and food froze solid so quickly!
So there are a lot of white images in the monthly collage! I used one snow bokeh image as the background for the collage. Happily the group challenges gave me inspiration for indoor and tabletop still life shots, as we felt the memories of 'lockdown' returning 😊
February is beginning with the same sub-zero world, though much of the snow has gone. But we are looking forward to a very early and very warm Spring! Well - we can dream!
As ever - many thanks to everyone who has visited my photostream and for the comments and faves.
All my collages are collected here: At a Glance
i shoulda thought this through a little more and keep these last catch-up uploads a bit more chronological, eh? :P my emotions get all out of order, haha. backtrack a bit to summer 2013 for this one, sort of a sequel i suppose to my original walking on water shot from 2011 - even using the same oar: www.flickr.com/photos/karrah_kobus/5995642749/
and here is the original description i wrote with this photo:
sometimes i have to wonder why i beat myself up so bad. i try to be perfect. i try to take the perfect photograph. i try to say the perfect thing, be the perfect person for everyone. sometimes i catch up with myself and remember that "perfect" isnt real. and my perfect, isnt even your perfect, and in the end it all makes so little sense. its silly, because i always feel the worst about myself when i havent been making photos, but i havent been making photos because i feel inferior... and ive been sharing even less because i feel my work isnt where i want it to be. its an old habit that truly has been dying hard - i need to be reminded that im strong and beautiful and worthwhile, cause we all are, arent we? it seems even more silly that my whole world can be rocked so deeply by what was once, not long ago, just a hobby, and a dream. a new little spark in my soul... something i simply craved being "good" at, without even knowing how badly i NEEDED it.
im quite used to giving pep talks at workshops, speaking passionately about following your dreams and never giving up no matter what life throws in your way - even when its yourself. and while i mean every word, im not quite as good at giving these talks to myself. though today im forcing myself to be brave and share a piece of me with the world - because i know deep down, its what i live for and its throwing these little pieces out into the universe that builds me up. im pretending til my mind believes that im triumphant again. like im on solid ground, even if im not.
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model: vinny balbo.
p.s. this is also a composite, i cant remember who i found the background from, its from somewhere on deviantart! will try to find it again...
A little male kinglet with his crown exposed. The females have a solid yellow crown patch. Kinglets are hyper-active and a frustrating bird to photo. They can see your lens move to focus and fly before you can press the shutter release! Our beautiful world, pass it on.
a rider performing a "rock solid" stunt
Freestyle Motorcross
at Essurance Icer Air
San Francisco, CA
November 2007
see more of my Freestyle Motorcross Photos here"
IMG_5256_F
Solid Snake - Metal Gear Solid
Took me like 5 months mainly because I'm lazy. My favorite thing I've made by far.
CN X322 has a train of solid autoracks as it passes through Beaconsfield with CN 5619 & CN 2183 for power. In the distance VIA 63 has a clear signal on the south track.
Sandstone rock on the Barrenjoey Headland.
Palm Beach, Sydney.
It's been there for a long time, I suspect!!
And here's legendary Australian band 'Goanna' with their song: 'Solid Rock' (1982) - from their album 'Spirit Of Place'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSNxFGW09Mo
‘Solid Rock’ deals with issues of land rights for the aboriginal people of Australia. According to songwriter Shane Howard, the inspiration for the song came on a 10-day camping trip at Uluru (Ayres Rock) in Central Australia, in 1980, where he saw ‘an incredible injustice that needed to be dealt with … I had to reassess my whole relationship with the land and the landscape, and understand that we [the white people] had come from somewhere else, and we had disempowered a whole race of people when we arrived.’
The protest message resonated with the Australian public, with the single peaking at Number 3 on the Australian Kent Music Report and winning Best Debut Single at the 1982 Countdown Music and Video Awards.
They were a band that also passionately supported environmental issues. Their next song was entitled: 'Let The Franklin Flow' - all about the controversial decision to dam the Franklin River in Tasmania and thus destroy a pristine wilderness, at a time when Tasmanians, it seemed, wanted to dam all their rivers and build massive power stations everywhere!!
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon 16-35mm lens.
Processed in:
Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
The Delta II rocket drops its solid fuel booster rockets during NASA's OCO-2 satellite launch last week.
2:58 a.m. local (5:58 a.m. EDT; 0958 GMT)
T+plus 1 minute, 50 seconds. "The ATK-made solid rocket boosters have jettisoned from the first stage. They remained attached until the rocket cleared off-shore oil rigs."
A candid street photo of a young strong, bald-headed man with large human skull tattoo on his back. He proudly stands in blue jeans shorts by the public fountain on a hot day of summer. The impression of a single solid bone.
Solid Rock
Goanna
Out here nothin' changes
Not in a hurry anyway
You can feel the endlessness
With the comin' of the light o' day
You're talkin' 'bout a chosen place
You wanna sell it in a marketplace
Well
Well just a minute now
You're standin' on
Solid rock
Standin' on sacred ground
Livin' on borrowed time
And the winds of change
Are blowin' down the line
Right down the line
It’s not often (ever really) that I’ll take the camera out in the midday sun. It’s even more rare that it won’t be on a tripod.
Broke both of these self imposed rules on Sunday. We had been driving for a while, and my girls needed lunch, so a man is taking his life into his hands when he wants to stop roadside to have a look at a ‘composition’.
I jumped down into the scrub, watching step by step for any sign of an over friendly snake, and knocked out a few quick hand held images.
Hope you like ‘“Solid Rock”
Cheers, Mike
Inside a long-abandoned ore processing plant in the first week of spring this year, when it was still bitter cold and several inches of ice caked the floors.
The place has a rusty cheese grater for a roof, and all the precipitation rains right down on the machinery in some places. These appear to be some sort of rotating drums to wash the finished product.
... By John Martyn. A favourite of mine. I have to replace the L.P. gets lost or damaged - It brings back memories of college days. He played at Oxford Brookes SU 24 May 1975
A collage of my own photographs and textures created for The Hypothetical Awards’ 5th ANNUAL MUSIC CHALLENGE
Tech Details:
Canon 5D MK2
Canon 24-105mm f4 L @ 45mm
Exposure: 74 sec, f/16
B+W ND110
ISO: 100
Capture One 6 (raw conversion)
CS3 Ext & Silver Efex Pro2
- Trace the sides of a solid & sort them
- Calculate & compare the volume of different shapes
- Find the surface area of faces
- Sort the solid shapes
I decided to make my partner a mini version of this quilt:
tlcstitches.blogspot.com/2010/06/my-new-favorite-quilt.html . It measures 19.5"x22.5".