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One of those moments in life where you just stare in awe and let every little detail soak into your overly stimulated neurons. It was dangerous standing at the edge due to ice underneath the snow, but standing on that very edge gave me such a rush of adrenaline; a feeling of fear and excitement crawled under my skin.
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Treat This 198: Friday 8 June → Thursday 14 June 2018
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Almost 60 concerts and other live events took place at Kulturbühne Hinterhalt, South of Munich, since the COVID lock-down started one year ago. Donations are welcome. Here: The Stimulators.
March 30, 2014
"Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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A routine Sunday that started with more snow. Luckily it seems that the majority of what fell this morning has already melted away, but if this keeps up we'll never completely see the snow go. Just when someone of the pile melts away, it seems we get yet another day of snow.
The desperation for winter to go away continues to grow; at this rate I'm ready to quit my job, pack a suitcase for Fyero and I and hit the road; somewhere much further South; is "Winter is never going to die" a good enough reason for immigration into the states? I wonder if they'd issue me a green card for that...
Anyway, hope everyone has had a good day.
Oh; and before I forget, today's treat is a Chocolate Espresso Roulade from Epicuria which was a tremendous disappointment. The cake was dry and there wasn't even a hint of espresso flavour. I took a few bites and decided it wasn't worth it. Nard did the same with his piece.
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I hope you will enjoy this tutorial which may stimulate you own imagination about how making a tree. Please forgive me for the mistakes you will probably find, my english is... well... it's my own english ! LOL!
1) You will need :
5 green wires #24 (but it would be better #22 or #20)
bulbous cone tool
craft knives
modelling paste brown and 2 shades of green paste
mini leaf cutter
glue
2) Make a big sausage with the brown modelling paste. Then modell it to make the 4 roots at the base of the tree. With the cone tool make a hole in the trunck.
3) With the cfraft knife (yellow one) cut the top of the trunck in 4 parts to make 4 branches. Roll a bit every branch in your fingers to make them more round.
4) To prepare the little branches, fold in 2 each wires, then twist together the 2 parts ( it makes easier to insert in the biggest branches). Cut the leaves in the green modelling pastes with a mini leaf cutter, and sign the center of the leaves with the knife.
Green laser pen and purple-gelled LED flashlight on the side of a wrecked semi-trailer. I shot this as a demo during one of the September 2010 Pearsonville night photography workshop.
The laser has interchangeable lenses; this one breaks the beam into hundreds of smaller points of light. I taped it in the on position and set it on the ground, off camera, left, about 20 feet away. It was totally stationary. I left it on for about 30 seconds of this 2 minute exposure. The purple was skimmed down the side of the trailer from the right, just enough to add a little variance to the color.
Hey guys,
how are you doing? I had a really long period of time of 'not taking pictures'. Sometimes, it´s not that easy to bring everything under one roof... (work, hobby, family, etc.). That´s why you haven´t heard something of me the last few month.
But now I have something new for you with the incredible Kiki Vermillion! I love it so much to shoot with her, ´cause it´s so easy and makes always fun.
Please be so kind and visit her Facebook Fanpage!
Greetings, Marcus
Model:
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Canon EOS 5D MK III
Sigma 35mm f/1.4 ART
TV 1/ 2000
AV 1.4
ISO 100
Post - Production with Photoshop
Model:
Apparel:
Canon EOS 5D MKIII
Sigma 35mm f/1.4
TV 1/2000
AV 1.4
ISO 100
Post - Production with Photoshop
...the cicadas are just coming above ground, and their songs are stimulating the air. This one was on the fruitless mulberry in our front yard. The life cycle of the cicada, from Wikipedia, is this:
After mating, the female cuts slits into the bark of a twig, and into these she deposits her eggs. She may do so repeatedly, until she has laid several hundred eggs. When the eggs hatch, the newborn nymphs drop to the ground, where they burrow. Most cicadas go through a life cycle that lasts from two to five years. Some species have much longer life cycles, e.g. the Magicicada goes through a 17- or occasionally 13-year life cycle. These long life cycles are an adaptation to predators such as the cicada killer wasp and praying mantis, as a predator could not regularly fall into synchrony with the cicadas. Both 13 and 17 are prime numbers, so while a cicada with a 15-year life cycle could be preyed upon by a predator with a three- or five-year life cycle, the 13- and 17-year cycles allow them to stop the predators falling into step.
The insects spend most of the time that they are underground as nymphs at depths ranging from about 30 cm (1 ft) up to 2.5 m (about 8½ ft). The nymphs feed on root juice and have strong front legs for digging.
In the final nymphal instar, they construct an exit tunnel to the surface and emerge. They then molt (shed their skins), on a nearby plant for the last time and emerge as adults. The abandoned skins remain, still clinging to the bark of trees.
...my friends, I hope you have a wonderful evening...take care. :~}
***here is a link to another great cicada pic by zoniedude1 - Bzzzzzzzzzzz....
Tilly Opaline: MGU 2023 - Italy
For this stimulating challenge Tilly has chosen to represent the zodiac sign under which she was born here in SL: Virgo.
According to legend, for the ancient Greeks the constellation Virgo was linked to the goddess Demeter.
Demeter was the goddess of nature, the fields and agriculture and, with them, the changing seasons. Tilly has chosen to represent it in the luxuriance of the summer season, when the wheat ripens in the fields and the sunflowers chase the star that allows life.
The bare branches overhead, however, and the orange leaves are already a reminder of autumn, the season of rest and preparation for winter sleep that will precede the spring rebirth in a continuous cycle that is life.
"Red is obviously such a stimulating color, and it has so many connotations."
--P. J. Harvey
"The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood."
--Alice Meynell
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Also know as Milfoil, Old Man's Pepper, Soldier's Woundwort, Knight's Milfoil, Herbe Militaris, Thousand Weed, Nose Bleed, Carpenter's Weed, Bloodwort, Staunchweed, Sanguinary, Devil's Nettle, Devil's Plaything, Bad Man's Plaything, Yarroway, Arrowroot, Death Flower, Eerie, Field Hops, Hundred Leaved Grass, Knyghten, Noble Yarrow, Old Man's Mustard, Seven Year's Love, Snake's Grass, Thousand Seal, and probably any other goofy name you choose to make up. I lean toward Bad Man's Plaything myself...
After the previous exhaustive research, I also discovered yarrow is a valuable medicinal herb, with much scientific evidence of use in alternative medicine as an antiseptic, antispasmodic, astringent, carminative, diaphoretic, digestive, emmenagogue, stimulant, and tonics, vasodilator and vulnerary. Fortunately, I've never needed an emmenagogue. In fact, I thought that was the name of a rapper.
It is also used against colds, cramps, fevers, kidney disorders, toothaches, skin irritations, and hemorrhages, and to regulate menses, stimulate the flow of bile, and purify the blood. And those of you who have ever had your bile stimulated know exactly how great that can be. Yarrow herb tea is a good remedy for severe colds and flu, for stomach ulcers, amenorrhea, abdominal cramps, abscesses, trauma and bleeding, and to reduce inflammation. Clearly, all of you must be suffering from one or more of these afflictions and need to immediately go out and get some yarrow.
-- Facts compiled from a variety of sites when Googling "Yarrow"
[Best large where you can spot a few ants I didn't even know were there, but nonetheless, inadvertently eliminates this from inclusion in any of those strict "NO BUGS" groups. Oh well...]
We live in this media saturated world where viewing photos becomes an aesthetically stimulated but distanced experience. Photos become a façade to mask our real and more vulnerable issues and identities. We are entice by it, and enticed to be creators of it. Enticed to idealize our lives in some way or another, because damn it, it feels awful and horrifying that we don’t have it, and we don’t have enough.
But the thing is, even though to be immersed in the idealized versions of ourselves can help us move forward in some practical ways, the real and honest versions of ourselves are lost and left behind. They become history, and they become lost history.
Ironically, photography was just such medium to capture history. And like ourselves, we might just lose that.
As part of my portrait project.
Leica M2 | Ilford HP5+ | D76
Inspiration can be so hard to stimulate. It takes effort, it takes a certain frame of mind, and it takes persistence. Sometimes it needs a catalyst, something to jolt the grey matter and free up the boring predetermined path towards inevitability. Something to infiltrate your mind and help you see the world with a different set of ‘eyes’ and help weave a slightly different set of neural pathways. This can take the form of a piece of writing, a painting, or even a conversation, but one thing is for sure, the lack of inspiration, a blockage in stimuli, is one of the major factors that will dampen the spirits of the creative mind.
Please don’t assume that this arduous journey into the unknown will be a walk in the park, or that you will ever arrive at a destination. No for it to be worthwhile, the further you venture into this barren wilderness without a map or even a compass, the more lost you must become! So why bother? Why put yourself through this arduous emotionally charged journey?
Well paradoxically, the more work you invest in creative development, the more you face those egotistical creative defence mechanisms, the greater the rewards towards an enriched creative experience.
Anyway this is all very well, but how can we force that new direction. How can we break that photographers block! Well you might want to start with guidance, in the form of deeply considered and sensitively applied feedback. It can do wonders if intelligently administered, but best of all from somebody that knows how and when to offer it to you as an individual. All too often people only offer their particular views, just replicating what they would do. (“This is wrong, you want to do it like me” kind of rubbish). But feedback that is given that comes from somebody that has taken the time to understand your creative direction and merely taps into and confirms a pre-existing subconscious knowing, with the main objective of it is to sets your imagination into overdrive, then it’s working.
Anyway, there are many other ways to stimulate inspiration, and many of them will be different for each of us, but the key factor is to enjoy the journey, and what a complex, enjoyable journey it can be.
As always, if you fancy coming along on a workshop, I have some day courses in the north of England and a seascape weekend workshop with Antony Spencer coming up. See my profile for details if you’re interested...
The view from my back porch tuesday night. Me with my camera and one terrified dog And me also being aware of the "don't you know how dangerous that was lecture I will get from my husband and from Chris at NOAA, but doing it anyway because the lightening was too great to pass up..
Stimulated by Han Solo movie released last weekend in Japan, I built an original two-legged walker in Star Wars style. Also I tried a tandem mech to improve my building skills.
Trying to help stimulate what is left of the Bunny with a simple reenactment of the Ruth Snyder Execution. Role playing helps my mom and me deal with the real chance of my future internment at Sing Sing for elder abuse. Sometime in the near future there will be prisons filled with the 65 year old children of 87 year old parents who just couldn't bear sending them off to a nursing home to be beaten and shocked and decided to to it themselves...
www.wbur.org/npr/134363396/Veteran-Star-Helps-Shine-Light...
The visual stimulation offered by gazania flowers is second to none. A favourite is this solid orange variety in my garden. Beautifully bright, warm and glowing.
And end of summer moment in time, capturing a visit by a hover fly, also enjoying the blooms.
Hover fly 8 mm length. Possibly Melangyna viridiceps.
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For our Joy and the Glory of Jesus, through whom all things were made (1 Thessalonians 5:16 & John 1:3)
Highly encourage you to check out this tutorial if you'd like to try something similar. Its same editing process to get false color with an Infrared Image (flipping the blue and red channels) just with an added step of inverting the image and with a blending mode of Hue. And bam! False color, no camera conversation. I’m still hoping to get my converted though
digital-photography-school.com/simulating-false-color-inf...
The base image, is the first comment on this image
#5063 - 2021 Day 314: After an extremely stimulating chat this morning with Caroline, and in which I cited this book, I thought I'd find an interesting and alternative way to see the cover. It is called "Perception and Imaging - Photography as a Way of Seeing" by John Suler and Richard D. Zakia.
We are apt to see things for how we know them as objects, what they're called and how we use them. And so we photograph 'things' and places. In my courses we aim to take away labels and to see in the raw, as it were, as a child might see, in terms of visual elements. And what I saw when examining the book from different angles was a mix of colours and lines, with white shapes we would understand as words.
The image on the cover might still be discernible and the words readable, but an oblique viewpoint gives a new perspective and by no means the only one. What have you looked at obliquely today?
Camera Model Name: Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Lens: EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Tv (Shutter Speed): 1/200
Av (Aperture Value): 11.0
Metering: Evaluative Metering
ISO Speed: 100
Focal Length: 31.0 mm
Flash: Off
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DAY 16
Distance & Time: By car - 86 km / 3 hrs.
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The two words that make up the name of the spectacular glacier that is slightly away from where we stand can be translated to have multiple meanings in Tibetan language. One closest to my liking is “straight in his presence”. It is spread over several kilometers before twisting to disappear at the bend behind the huge wall of rock. That area is heavily cloaked in mist preventing visibility and perhaps the source point of generation of the forceful wind that lashes against us.
Along the crazy road and the deep plunge to the surface of the glacier, there is no barrier. Everything around is bleak and arid. The mountains on all sides stark and forbidding, lacking any sign of habitation.
Compelling moment of madness forces to discard factors such as cracks, crevices, complete lack of training, absence of gears and equipments to look beyond the mountain bend. Observed earlier in a road sign, which read, “Leave nothing behind, even your footprints.” The overwhelming desire to do the same is gripping, to disappear in the mist without leaving behind any trail. The cautious, less impulsive and levelheadedness of my travel mate helps in vanquishing the thought.
Outside the Polar Regions the greatest glacial concentration occurs in the Trans-Himalayas, Greater Himalayas and southern Tibet. With an estimated 475 small and large glaciers, it is one of the largest reserves of water in form of ice and snow.
Physically and technically collecting and collating scientific evidence on retreating glaciers of the Himalayas was near impossible and technically difficult until recently. Optically stimulated luminescence and cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating methods have enabled glaciologists to determine the age of many glaciers and the Himalayan glaciations period.
Enough evidence points towards the conclusion that in current times the glaciers of the Himalayan region are under environmental threat. China is the only country in the region, which has been conducting long-term mass balance studies of some glaciers. A research team from the country verified a couple of years ago that approximately about 5% of glacier retreat has occurred of the 20 glaciers they have been studying for past 45 years in Tibet Himalayas except for one.
Glaciers are a result of accumulation and transformation of snowfall over a number of years, which are extremely vulnerable and fragile; they react in a complex way to climate variations. In 21st century the rapid rate of glacial retreat has been a cause of considerable alarm. It is accepted in the expert community that anthropogenic causes have most likely caused the escalation of earth temperature to 2.4˙ C / 36.32˙ F compared to the pre-industrial surface temperatures. This is impacting the glaciers.
The studies of length, breadth, mass balance, growth and shrinkage are visible indicators of how healthy a glacier is. There is a line of snow accumulation that demarcates the zone above which no melting takes place, this is known as AAR or accumulation area ratio. When the AAR begins to shrink, it can be concluded that a glacier is in recession.
Survey conducted by a foreign NGO in the villages of Ladakh for a period of 65 years in addition to meteorological data collected and analyzed by them reveals that there has been an estimated temperature rise of 1˙ C / 33.8˙ F during the winter months coupled with a sharp decline in snowfall and increase in mean summer temperatures. Glaciologists are in agreement that rise of 1˙ C / 33.8˙ F in temperature result alpine glaciers to shrink as much as 40% in area and 50% in volume and the Himalayan glaciers are retreating at the rate ranging from 10-60m / 32.8-196.8 ft. per year. An increase in summer air temperature not only enhances ice melt but also significantly reduces the accumulation by altering snowfall according to rainfall.
The ‘Atmospheric Brown Cloud’ phenomena explains that in addition to greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, other climate warmers like methane, halocarbons and black carbon soot rises and envelops the atmosphere in a haze; these are eventually washed down by the rainfall to darken glaciers. Many glaciologists are not only worried at the presence of black carbon particles on glaciers even at an elevation of 3, 900 m / 12, 795 ft., but also believe that it is crucial to examine the result of such ice or snow melt on environment and human health.
Almost all of the rivers originating from the Himalayan region are glacier fed, thus consequence of increased glacial melt can have serious implications for the hydrology of the associated river systems. The long-term impact on vegetation and affect on the ecosystems of deciduous and temperate forests are serious factors bothering environmentalists. Another major cause of concern is the formation of lakes resulting from fast melting glaciers that can trigger floods. Such phenomena known as GLOF or glacial lakes outburst floods have already occurred in Himalayan region causing much devastation and loss.
Some preliminary efforts are being made to counter the problem of receding glaciers such as building high-altitude water conservation channels that freeze as artificial glaciers to beat the lack of water in the trans-Himalayan region. The environment ministry of India has shown interest in commissioning study if the trucks and army convoys plying on the highways of the Himalayas are contributing the carbon deposits on the glaciers as suggested. However, comprehensive science based study and climate change adaptation of the entire Himalayan region cutting across national boundaries is crucial. There is an urgent need by scientists and policymakers to have a larger understanding of using resource conservation technologies and practices for promoting social and environmental benefits.
The three San Diego Zoo polar bears—Tatqiq, Kalluk and Chinook are now getting a special monthly enrichment ----10 largemouth black bass. Though polars eat high fat seals in the wild, these fish are intended to encourage natural hunting behaviors and present additional opportunities to engage the bears in stimulating activities. This is 17 year old Tatqiq who has learned to corral the fish into the shallow end where they’re easier to catch. San Diego Zoo.
Conservation status: Vulnerable