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This picture is #72 in my 100 Strangers project;
Meet Aubrey.
I met Aubrey walking back from the gym a few days ago (am pretty delayed on my posting) and undoubtedly her wild red hair was a immediate standout, as also were the tattoos - of course I will not mention the eyes smile emoticon.
So I approached her and made my request and Aubrey was caught by surprise To give her some context, I did show her few of the pics from the project - and she was appreciative of the pictures but was a little skeptical since she felt each of them were really beautiful- but I pitched the fact that most of the folks had the same feeling. She a little unsure - but agreed to be a part of the project for which I am extremely thankful.
Aubrey held the reflector and we did a few test shots. Although a serious look was the preferred option she couldn't stop smiling - so I decided to go with whatever came naturally. A gentle breeze helped add some movement to the hair which I really liked. Aubrey during the conversation demonstrated a dry sense of humor and we went through the shoot smiling most times. At one point a couple of very young girls passed by and seeing Aubrey posing shouted out to their mom "Mommy I want to be a model too". That was really funny.
Aubrey is a personal trainer and when I asked her something that she likes - she mentioned that she liked food. When I asked anything else she wanted to share, she replied "Isn't a personal trainer who loves food interesting enough?" - ending the shoot as it began i.e. with a smile.
Thank you Aubrey for being a part of the project despite being hesitant and unsure - you were indeed a great sport and was wonderful meeting you. Hope you like your picture and all the very best in everything you do.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
For my other pictures on this project: www.flickr.com/photos/vijaybrittophotography/sets/7215764...
Although all the rooms of the Rone - Empire installation exhibition are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study is one of them. It features walls of books covered with a portrait of Lily Sullivan, and the entire room is partially submerged in a lake of black water with the occasional red oak leaf floating across its glassy surface.
Melbourne based street artist Rone (Tyrone Wright) used the decaying glory of the 1933 Harry Norris designed Streamline Moderne mansion, Burnham Beeches in the Dandenong Ranges' Sherbrooke, between March the 6th and April 22nd to create an immersive hybrid art space for his latest installation exhibition; "Empire".
"Empire" combined a mixture of many different elements including art, sound, light, scent, found objects, botanic designs, objects from nature and music especially composed for the project by Nick Batterham. The Burnham Beeches project re-imagines and re-interprets the spirit of one of Victoria’s landmark mansions, seldom seen by the public and not accessed since the mid 1980s. According to Rone - Empire website; "viewers are invited to consider what remains - the unseen cultural, social, artistic and spiritual heritage which produces intangible meaning."
Rone was invited by the current owner of Burnham Beeches, restaurateur Shannon Bennett, to exhibit "Empire" during a six week interim period before renovations commence to convert the heritage listed mansion into a select six star hotel.
Rone initially imagined the mansion to be in a state of dereliction, but found instead that it was a stripped back blank canvas for him to create his own version of how he thought it should look. Therefore, almost all the decay is in fact of Rone's creation from grasses in the Games Room which 'grow' next to a rotting billiards table, to the damp patches, water staining and smoke damage on the ceilings. Nests of leaves fill some spaces, whilst tree branches and in one case an entire avenue of boughs sprout from walls and ceilings. Especially designed Art Deco wallpaper created in Rone's studio has been installed on the walls before being distressed and damaged. The rooms have been adorned with furnishings and objects that might once have graced the twelve original rooms of Burnham Beeches: bulbulous club sofas, half round Art Deco tables, tarnished silverware and their canteen, mirrored smoke stands of chrome and Bakelite, glass lamps, English dinner services, a glass drinks trolley, photos of people long forgotten in time, walnut veneer dressing tables reflecting the installation sometimes in triplicate, old wire beadsteads, luggage, shelves of books, an Underwood typewriter, a John Broadwood and Sons of London grand piano and even a Kriesler radiogramme. All these objects were then covered in a thick sheet or light sprinkling of 'dust' made of many different things including coffee grinds and talcum powder, creating a sensation for the senses. Burnham Beeches resonated with a ghostly sense of its former grandeur, with a whiff of bittersweet romance.
Throughout the twelve rooms, magnificent and beautifully haunting floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall portraits of Australian actress Lily Sullivan, star of the Foxtel re-make of Picnic at Hanging Rock, appear. Larger than life, each portrait is created in different colours, helping to create seasonal shifts as you move from room to room.
Although all the rooms are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study is one. The Dining Room features two long tables covered in a Miss Havisham like feast of a trove of dinner table objects from silverware and glassware to empty oyster shells and vases of grasses and feathers.
The Dining Room installation I found especially confronting. In 1982, I visited Burnham Beeches when it was a smart and select hotel and had Devonshire tea in the dining room at a table alongside the full length windows overlooking the terraces below. I was shocked to see a room I remember appointed with thick carpets and tables covered in gleaming silver and white napery, strewn with dust and leaves, and adorned with Miss Havisham's feast of found dining objects.
I feel very honoured and privileged to be amongst the far too few people fortunate enough to have seen Rone's "Empire", as like the seasons, it is ephemeral, and it will already have been dismantled. Rone's idea is that, like his street art, things he creates don't last forever, and that made the project exciting. I hope that my photographs do justice to, and adequately share as much as is possible of this amazing installation with you.
U of M Amplatz Children's Hospital fascia... Which shifts colors as you walk by (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
-Birth- 'Last Unicorn' - Bracers
Step into subtle fantasy with the Last Unicorn Bracers - intricate detail and finished in rich, 2K textures for standout clarity.
These bracers with unicorn reliefs give these pieces are as cute as they are mythical.
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Lel EvoX Lilly
*CK* Picky Baby dress
NO_MATCH NO_DEPTH hair
lovely sweet Oh My pose
Standout car for me here is the brown Mazda 929, looks like the later facelift model (as glimpsed on one of yesterday's Burntisland postcards).
Several Escorts both Mk1 and 2, rearmost one loos like a Popular with the black bumpers and hubcaps (but with an optional/afternmarket vinyl roof).
I have nothing to offer on the horse and cart.
Unsent card published by ETW Dennis & Sons Ltd, ref. G.1205.
NY Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY. Nymphaea nouchali, often known by its synonym Nymphaea stellata, or by common names blue lotus, star lotus, red water lily, dwarf aquarium lily, blue water lily, blue star water lily or manel flower, is a water lily of genus Nymphaea. It is native to southern and eastern parts of Asia, and is the national flower of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.This species is usually considered to include the blue Egyptian lotus N. nouchali var. caerulea.
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An old image from our archives, edited in Photoshop Elements 11, which I'm still learning. The original foliage and dirt background was very distracting.
Another standout vista/feature in Gros Morne National Park.
From Parks Canada:
Half a billion years in the making – the result of a brilliant coming together of two ancient continents -- the Earth's inner soul: the mantle - exposed to you the way few have seen it.
www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/nl/grosmorne/activ/experiences/tabl...
www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/plan-and-book/attractions/11...
i really liked this shot. the sand-breaker just stands out, and looks like its been shot in a studio. but obviously it wasn't, and its unedited, like the majority of my photos (except hdr, focus stacked etc)
In a very dry year of gaming in 2015, Splatoon was one of the standouts of that year and was a pleasant surprise for me. Now with the Switch being announced back in November, it was only a matter of time before a Splatoon game came to the console due to it’s popularity. Now with Splatoon 2 out on the Switch for a few weeks, I’m ready to give my thoughts on the game as a whole? Now has Splatoon 2 fixed the problems from the original Splatoon, or is it another shitty sequel? Let’s check it out!
Good: The greatest thing that Splatoon 2 has built upon the original is Salmon Run. At first I was a little hesitant on the concept, but now after playing a good amount of it, I absolutely love it. It’s mixing the classic Splatoon mechanics with the “enemy comes in waves” form of battle gameplay that’s in lots of other shooters. Another great thing that Splatoon 2 builds upon is the single player. The single player campaign is a lot like the first game, but with new stages and fun new mechanics like grinding on rails and these fun foam cylinders that roll and destroy enemies when you shoot it. The story is pretty simple like the first game, but that’s fine, I wasn’t expecting anything spectacular. Besides those two features, everything else is still the same. There are a few cool weapons like the splat dualies and the brella, ut besides that, everything else that’s new isn’t quite memorable in terms of weapons, gear, stages; but it doesn’t detract from the game.
Bad: My biggest problem with Splatoon 2 is although there are more features from the first game, I feel like the developers didn’t fix any issues from the last game. There’s still the problem about online communication which really take away from online matches where you can’t fully communicate with your teammates. They also didn’t fix the problem with stage selection, it’s only two stages every few hours and it’s annoying as hell. Once I spent like 8 matches playing the exact same stage! They should at least do stage selection like Mariokart 8 where players vote on the stage. There also aren’t any new versus modes, it’s still the same modes from the first game and the only fun ones are still Tower Control and Turf War. And even then, you can rarely choose tower mode because the ranked matches rotate! And then to top it all off, they give us this amazing new mode in Salmon run, but it’s only available at certain times, which is bullshit!
Overall, Splatoon 2 is an absolute blast… when the game allows you to have an absolute blast. It just feels like there are so many small and unnecessary things that block the player from having an amazing experience all the time! That being said, it still has lots of fun stuff for me to call it a good game, so I’m going to give Splatoon 2 an 8/10. If you want more games for the Switch, I suggest you pick up this game, but if you weren’t a fan of the first Splatoon, I’d say this is just more of the same so you can skip it. If you have Splatoon 2, let me know what you think of it in the comments below!