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With a new smartphone, what's more, a panorama ! Sorry I'm so slow these days. The phone arrived on Friday - a big step to upgrade to one of these from a very old, cheap android, so please be patient with me, I am finding it ever so confusing - I hope I haven't made a big mistake. As 'smartphones' go, it's so smart, it's outwitting me - but it's mine now, it's delivered and I signed for it - too late !
You might find this music appropriate - hope it makes you smile :-)
Stevie Wonder - Signed Sealed Delivered (I'm Yours)
I hope you like this picture anyway, have a wonderful week to come. Thank you in advance for your kind comments and faves, I really appreciate each and every one.
I would request no multiple invites please, thanks.
Fuchsia buds taken at the Melbourne International Flower and Gardens Show at Carlton Gardens.
An oldie but goodie " That's What Friends Are For "
Sung by Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEQaR4RUDP4&t=1s
Many thanks for your visit, comments, invites and faves...it is always appreciated...
Peaceful Macro Monday
Taken at the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne.
Listen to Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney singing
"Ebony and Ivory"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZtiJN6yiik
Many thanks for your visit,comments, invites and favs..it is always appreciated.
HMBT
Friends are flowers in the garden of Life.
Thanks to Achim for the ID of this flower...it is a Coreopsis and this variety common name is "fruit punch"....taken at the MIFGS
2017.
Love this Burt Bacharach hit
" That's What Friends Are For"
by Dione and Friends ( Gladys, Elton and Stevie )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuICQjLDvQo
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HBW
“Isn’t She Lovely” by Stevie Wonder
www.huffpost.com/entry/songs-about-parenthood_l_5c9a975ee...
"To Zion" by Lauryn Hill
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sQjh261rU8
"Beautiful Boy" by John Lennon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BZkYfqa4Fs
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The guns at Fort Perch Rock were fired only twice in anger. The first occasion occurred during the First World War. A Norwegian sailing ship came up the Rock Channel that had been declared closed at the start of the war. Unfortunately the gunners had the wrong elevation on their gun and the shell flew over the ship and landed in Hightown on the other side of the Mersey. Apparently an irate householder collected the shell, put it in a bucket and took it to the Merseyside Defence HQ and demanded some kind of explanation!
One's got to love the Brits, hasn't one?! ;-)
The name of the artist escapes me at present, but this is located around Detroit’s Necklace District. If you look on the map of Downtown Detroit, the streets are patteryafter a necklace unlike the majority of the grids in Detroit. But this serves as a fitting tribute to a childhood prodigy. I have yet to see him in concert, but I’ve seen him live on TV many times over the decades.
YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF MY LIFE
You are the sunshine of my life
That's why I'll always be around
You are the apple of my eye
Forever you'll stay in my heart
I feel like this is the beginning
Though I've loved you for a million years
And if I thought our love was ending
I'd find myself drowning in my own tears
You are the sunshine of my life
That's why I'll always stay around
You are the apple of my eye (love has joined us)
Forever you'll stay in my heart (love, sweet love)
You must have known that I was lonely
Because you came to my rescue
And I know that this must be heaven
How could so much love be inside of you?
You are the sunshine of my life, yeah
That's why I'll always stay around
You are the apple of my eye (love has joined us)
Forever you'll stay in my heart (love, sweet love)
you are the sunshine of my life, baby
(Love has joined us) that's why I'll always stay around
(Love, sweet love)
--Stevie Wonder
Heaven help the child who never had a home,
Heaven help the girl who walks the street alone
Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall,
Heaven help us all.
Today is the 27th of Valentine's Day of February. And today I wish to express my love and gratitude for the beautiful sunrises and sunsets. Here in Florida, we are blessed with a wide variety of vivid, soft, and always different ones. Such a pleasure to enjoy; beauty always makes life a little better.
Maria Gadú - Shimbalaiê [Áudio Oficial]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZxUd4XYGkc
A Place In the Sun - Stevie Wonder (with lyrics)
valens.nu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8lVPMWLCBQ
bob marley - sun is shining (oryginał)
Stefan Karwowski
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQQpkll5aoA
The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun (Lyrics)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCGH8eU-_lA
Sunrise or Sunset?
A poem by Joan Leotta
Staring into the sky as sun makes its appearance or slips away, I often imagine I can see beyond our atmosphere, beyond space, into the paradise that once was. Sunrise, sunset, two breaches of the wall of separation between this world and the next, shifts between darkness and light. I’ve watched sun rising up from water and, later, sinking down into it.
Over history, dawn is called the way to life, and sunset named as the passing out of it.
For me, both are times to celebrate that same shift, that brief moment that opens a narrow path between this world and the next.
I sometimes wonder why we claim one a start and the other a finish when the true beauty lies in that moment of transience, a movement between earth and paradise, dark and light that defies science, a movement only artists of brush and pen can define.
Red gold sun spreads
across the horizon line
in both dawn and dusk.
May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace.
Umair Siddiqui
There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.
Jo Walton
If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord. The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again. There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope
Ram Charan
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Titel borrowed from Stevie Wonder's song "So What The Fuss" from his last official studio album "A Time 2 Love" from 2005. Prince played guitar on this funky song.
#MacroMondays
#String
An "up-close and personal" view into a cut-open, orange-patterned paracord rope. The moment you cut paracord, both the inner strings (seven single strings that are themselves made of numerous even thinner strings) and the braided sheath, as well made of thin strings (that are also made of even thinner...? It's dizzying) start to fringe badly so you better have a (stick) lighter at hand. But here, this was the effect I wanted to have.
I have made a few (very basic and simple) paracord camera wrist straps with one of the easiest weaves, the cobra weave (everything else is beyond my braiding skills). The next project was supposed to be a camera shoulder strap. Still, of course, I wanted it to look fancy and so I wanted to combine two differently coloured/patterned paracord ropes – and ended up with a hopelessly tangled mess that also "ended" the shoulder strap project. As time (a long time) passed, I came to prefer wrist straps over shoulder straps because if you wear your camera gear as I used to (photo bag cross-body to the right, camera on strap cross-body to the left) it quickly becomes uncomfortable, especially around the neck/throat area. Problem solved (and enough material left for more paracord wrist straps) :)
The image didn't work as long as I used a black background and tried to incorporate more than a very small part of the (backlit) paracord because the rope, and even more so the inner strings are way too thin to effectively backlight them with a regular flashlight, and that flashlight already is a small one with a diameter of only 1,5 cm/0,59 inches. I almost wanted to quit but then thought "blue". So the blue glitter foam sheet, dull side up, came to the rescue. The tricky part was to place the paracord rope so I could photograph it face-to-face. Placing the piece on an upside-down, tiny glass jar gave me the right height but produced unwanted, distracting reflections in the glass from the single light source (natural light photo lamp from above). So in the end, I used my camera's (empty) spare battery case which has a small opening on top. I fixated the rope with a clamp, stuck it into the battery case, and bent it so the lens would "look" right into the paracord section.
The image is made of 50 focus bracketing images combined in Helicon Focus, Method C, S3 (and still, not everything is in focus due to the slightly pulled-out inner strings and the depth of the view). The paracord section is 4 mm/0.15 inches in diameter.
I'm very busy today and will properly catch up with you tonight.
HMM, Everyone!
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I was making such good time in my hot rod climbing the Sierra's that I decided to bail out at Colfax, a small railroad town that I haven't been to for close to a hundred years...
Pastime Club
10 N Main St.
Colfax, Ca.
Dionne Warwick and Stevie Wonder "My Love" clear version
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDn46bw624E
I just happened across this song and am absolutely in love with it. It is a heart-wrenching and beautiful song, sung from the heart, an amazing rendition full of emotion and good wishes. One to be treasured for always! Enjoy!
#HMMM
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Quanti di noi soffrono di eptacaidecafobia?
letteralmente «paura del numero 17» e, per quanto possa sembrare strano, nel mondo occidentale la sperimentano molte più persone di quanto non si creda.
E quante persono credono che il barbagianni della mia foto porti sfortuna??
Il barbagianni è un rapace stanziale, abitudinario e monogamo: rimane per tutta la vita con lo stesso partner e ne cerca un altro solo se il primo muore…
E' per questo che a noi ragazze questo piccolo rapace piace tanto, penso che possederne uno sia una vera fortuna!!😍
Nature..... water .....I wish youtu.be/2GhF2mPKnDg
There's a place in the sun,
And before my life is done,
Gotta find me a place in the sun.
Stevie Wonder
Morning dewdrops on Nandina leaves taken in the morning at Queen Victoria Gardens.
Best view enlarged.
Hope you like Stevie Wonder singing " You Are The Sunshine Of My Life "
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgBbZBcj5wQ
Many thanks for your visit, comments, invites and faves...it is always appreciated..
HMBT
#a,e,i,o,u
Lately I seem to be drawn to low-key when it comes to MM captures. At first I took a few captures of an owl feather I found at the Tierpark Berlin, but since I can't prove that it's an "O" for owl feather and not simply a "B" for any (any starts with an "a", though...) bird and therefore a consonant feather, and since I had little time, I decided to stick to this not very original (was the theme "Apple" btw?), however pleasantly blasé apple wedge. Not exactly a beauty, but as the saying goes: "Every Jack will find his Jill" (and vice versa, as it's not really clear whether this is a "he" or a "she" - in German it's "der" Apfel = he; but "die" Apfelspalte = she). No good news for this apple slice, however, because both Jack and Jill for him/her in the end was... my mouth.
Processed in Luminar (details and microstructure, dodged the "eye" to highlight it a little), and LR (matte effect and vignette).
The end of every year is also the time to make New Year's resolutions, and I've decided that a Flickr-related resolution will be that in 2019 I will only take part in MMs when I'm absolutely convinced that my idea is good enough (and the picture is so, too). As I'd mentioned earlier I have posted many similar captures for MMs recently, many of them only to avoid skipping, but I definitely don't want to bore you. There are also so many other captures I'd like to show you, as 2018 was a tremendously "photo-rich" year, and I feel that my non-MM captures somehow get the short end of the stick. So 2019 will be the "skip MMs from time to time" year. This, I hope, will also give me more time for viewing and commenting on your wonderful uploads, something that I felt went short more and more, too.
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone :-)
Irgendwie lande ich in letzer Zeit immer bei Low-Key-Aufnahmen, wenn es um MM-Themen geht. Eigentlich wollte ich eine Eulenfeder fotografieren, die ich im Tierpark Berlin gefunden hatte, kann aber natürlich nicht beweisen, das es sich um eine E-wie-Eule-Feder und nicht um eine V-wie-irgendein-Vogel- und somit um eine Konsonanten-Feder handelt (obwohl "irgendein" ja eigentlich mit "i" anfängt...). Also bin ich, auch aus Zeitgründen, originellerweise bei dieser leicht blasiert dreinblickenden Apfelspalte geblieben (und war das Thema dieser Woche nicht "Apfel"?...). Entwickelt in Luminar (Details, Microstruktur, Aufhellen des "Auges") und LR (Matt-Look und Vignette).
Das Jahresende ist ja auch stets die Zeit, gute Vorsätze für das neue Jahr zu fassen, und ein solcher Vorsatz für Flickr wird sein, dass ich an MMs nur noch teilnehme, wenn ich eine wirklich gute Idee habe (und natürlich das Foto ein gutes ist). Ich habe in letzter Zeit einfach zu viele gleichartige Fotos und um nicht ausfallen zu lassen hochgeladen und ich möchte Euch auf keinen Fall langweilen. Außerdem habe ich aus dem sehr "Foto-reichen" Jahr 2018 noch so viele Bilder, die ich auch gerne zeigen würde und die wegen MM zu kurz gekommen sind. Vielleicht habe ich dann auch wieder mehr Zeit für Eure schönen Fotos, anstatt mir Erstere jede Woche vom MM rauben zu lassen.
Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
I couldn't help but think of this classic tune when I was shooting this lovely perfume bottle.
I'm still trying to fulfill my New Year's resolution by shooting with artificial light more often. This is my 5th or 6th shot using a strobe.
Normally I'd use a pink, peach, or red backdrop because of the pale pink label and peachy-amber liquid, but this time I thought I'd use more complimentary tones.
I've had this Stevie Wonder classic in my head for the last two days since I got this fragrance.
I wanted to shoot this perfume bottle with more "expected tones" but in a way I don't think I've really done before.
(See, I can do non-bokeh shots, too!)
August 16, 2008... I'm 45 yo today.
Earlier this week I stopped in Hy-Vee after work. Was in the mood for frozen pizza. But chocolate cake sounded good too(so I had both)... and when I saw the Batman cupcakes. Well, "Mmm-Mmm" ever since.
Here are a couple of fun sites to visit. For the first one... just put in your date of birth and it will give you all kinds of cool info relating to that date in time...
www.paulsadowski.com/birthday.asp
The following link will show you what song was No.1 the week you were born...
www.joshhosler.biz/NumberOneInHistory/SelectMonth.htm
Mine was "Finger Tips-Pt 2" by Little Stevie Wonder...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIfgwNJkCMI
... "I could have been groovin' out of the womb on this jam". My mom probably would have been more likely listening to something on the lines of Dean Martin. But that's cool too.
Seattle's over-water hotel built in 1962 for the World's Fair. Many famous and infamous musicians have stayed there over the years.
Sauvie Island, Oregon.
Summer 2022.
Tri-X and Minolta SRT-102 (light leak).
Processed and printed by Blue Moon Camera. Home scan.
As soon as I got out of the car to catch the sunset, albeit just after the sun had gone down, this song popped into my head when I saw the streamer-like clouds. Tonight I also took a shot of the sunset behind the No Trespassing sign!
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord, why don't we?
We all know that people are the same whereever you go
There is good and bad in ev'ryone
We learn to live, when we learn to give
Each other what we need to survive, together alive
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord why don't we?
Songwriter: Paul McCartney
Performed by: Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder (1982)
A very challenging theme … “Solidarity”. After two days of thinking about this theme, it came to me in a moment. I was watching CNN last night, only to learn that another black man, Rayshard Brooks, had been shot and killed by a police officer, in the United States. For some reason I started thinking of the song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, “Ebony and Ivory” from 1982. And that led to my piano pic for this weeks’ theme.
Every November day would be like this - it was magic. We saw our special friend, this beautiful horse. The sky was blue, the countryside was beautiful and we were happy with the joy the day brought. Reminded me of all the happiest days of all autumns past. Here's a song for you which always makes me happy whenever I hear it and I hope it makes you happy too.
Edited in Topaz Studio with help from PicMonkey.
Thanks as always for your comments and faves, you know they're always appreciated. Oh, and happy Fence Friday !
I personally have 5 wonderful children for whom I will always be there. I believe it is important to talk about and share ideas of parenting and the love between father/mother and son/daughter so I have selected the songs below for you to see some other artists feelings about their relationships with their children. I hope that you enjoy their songs:
For the songs I have chosen go to the Spinditty page and scroll down. I only chose 10 of the best songs and added Ben Fold's song for his son which has a separate link underneath his name
Spinditty - 12 Best Songs From Parent to Child
spinditty.com/playlists/12-Best-Dedication-Songs-from-Par...
Tim McGraw – "My Little Girl" (2006)
Stevie Wonder – "Isn't She Lovely" (1976)
Rascal Flatts – "My Wish" (2006)
John Lennon – "Beautiful Boy" (1980)
Clark Richard – "Red Robin" (2010)
Ben Folds - Still Fighting It
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqPwR39VMh0
Ben Folds – "Gracie" (2008)
Miley Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus – "Ready, Set, Don't Go" (2007)
Billy Joel - "Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)" (1993)
Celine Dion – "A New Day Has Come" (2002)
Martina McBride – "In My Daughter's Eyes" (2003)
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
For this week's MacroMondays challenge Junk.
For making of:
www.flickr.com/photos/digifred/48780288961/in/dateposted/
Op mijn zolder veel boeken, oude papieren maar geen leuke
dingen om een macro van te maken.
Maar er stond ook nog een doos met oude grammofoonplaten.
Omdat ik niets beters kon vinden of bedenken dus maar
een close-up deze single gemaakt.
In my attic many books, old papers but no fun things
to make a macro out of.
But there was also a box with old gramophone records.
Because I couldn't find or think of anything better,
I just made a close-up of this single.
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Macro Mondays: "Inspired by a song". This image was inspired by Stevie Wonder.
Remember to say to love ones... I love you no matter near or far. We don't say it enough. HMM!!
Take a listen to the lyrics!
WCFL (Chicago) Hit Survey, November 9, 1970
The Partridge Family hits numbers one with "I Think I Love You", and "Montego Bay" is on the move. Newcomers include Clapton's "After Midnight" and Dawn's "Knock Three Times". The biggest chart breaker though is The Who's "See Me Feel Me" from the musical opera Tommy.