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Stretchy finger toy. 2.5” length. A child’s toy used to calm the nerves. It stretches and is cute. Taken for Macro Mondays.
( stretchy meshes and bad shadowing in places, wrist seams ugh... ) But I liked her face... and there it is.
I know its been ages since I posted... will not go into all the various reasons for my absence. Suffice it to say that I wish to try and screenshoot again and appreciate any and all who still like what i try to do. Thank you VERILY!!!
We're all feeling a bit lazy today, and besides, who would want to go outside in this bitter cold? Still, dogs have to go out, but when I tried to get them to go, Honeybear wouldn't even look at me, and Pokey reluctantly took a leisurely stretch before he slowly got up.
HSS- just a little bit of color sliding
(maybe you'll see more pictures from me this week as the coughing seems to be, thankfully, on the wane)
ODC stretchy
I spotted my cat friend Gracie Jo out on her wall, today. She does a lot of elaborate stretching as I approach.
In this one you can see a part of that special stretchy tissue called ventral groove blubber attached to their lower jaw or mandible of the Humpback Whale that I've been telling you about. When they lower their jaws to extreme angles and swim very quickly while feeding on small fish and krill, a drag force on this blubber causes it to expand to encompass a volume that can be almost as big as the whale itself.
But that's not what makes this photo so special to me. Perhaps you thought I altered the photo in some way ... selective colouring as you've no doubt seen in some photos. Well, I don't even know how to do that ... and, furthermore, I wouldn't do it anyway even if I did know how. No. What you're seeing here is what I saw ... what the camera saw. No embellishments whatsoever!
I've seen quite a few Humpbacks over the years ... but nothing like this! At first I thought it might have been some organic growth in the grooves of the lower jaw ... akin to barnacles. But on closer inspection it seems too regular for that. Then I thought it might be as a result of it being stretched so much ... blood showing through? Don't think so, though. So, maybe some pigmentation aberration?
Whatever it is, it makes for a very interesting photo. You have to check out the larger version. Also, I have a number of shots of this whale. Not just this one. In one of them, this ventral groove blubber is stretched even bigger!
By the way, there are four whales visible in the photograph.
Enjoy!
It's a sparkly stretch-ring that my wife has in her costume jewelry collection. It will stretch to fit any size finger.
Macro Mondays: "Ring" theme
HMM
I can never tell if other people are going to see what I see.
But I see a red, left sided stretchy mouthed ghost.
Looking at darker things lately, and finding a whole world there similar to macros that show us a world within the world.
And it's often surprising. This is my car fender/ghost.
I was bored one night and went outside just to click on anything.
Off to Arizona today......see you from there.
And Carl.......don't put your foot in its mouth. ;-)
Squirrels yawn from time to time and even do some stretching. This is Buddy, a female red squirrel (Squirrels-2020-4151.jpg)
Base image created using a Canon PowerShot camera and processed using Photoshop, Photomatix and Quad Pencil.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
Down at the marina, hanging on this fence-like structure,
were stretchy hoses and yellow thing-a-ma-bobs!
Anyone know exactly what these are?
"The hallmark of successful people
is that they are always stretching themselves
to learn new things."
~ Carol S. Dweck ~
UPDATE: I think the yellow thing-a-ma-bob is a PLUG!
Show off your curves and bare some skin in this sexy two-piece [Enchantress] Blossom Outfit. It features a glossy, stretchy, and fetish vinyl spandex fabric look for both the top and skirt.
Included within the set comes a color HUD with 20 color choices for the top, skirt, stockings, and heels.
This Blossom Outfit fits Legacy/Perky/Pushup, Reborn/Juicy, Kupra, and GenX/Curvy mesh bodies.
Direct MP:
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Taxi to Enchantress Mainstore:
Back in the saddle, delighting, of course, in the pleasures and imagination of abstraction.
Music Link: "Stretchy", Ozric Tentacles from their classic album "Jurassic Shift".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=csM8IIaXFYM
ToR Nov 17, 2013.
View Large on Black.
What Next - "Lasagna" new release, and on part of the Fifty Linden Friday Sale!? Do not pass on this great sale item with plenty to share with your friends, family and fellow swimmers too. Available in-world plus MP thru the weekend and does all that sharing stuff, and obviously super stretchy. While you're there, check out all the fun Spring decor waiting for your home sprucing.
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leslie is visiting with her fambly, and we spent the afternoon hanging out, playing guitar, eating blue chips and tzatziki, drinking beer, laughing and being silly.
and then she put a stretchy rubber sea anemone on her left boob.
the end.
June2025. Backyard cat. Little Rock Arkansas USA. RolleiRetro400.Minolta8000i.MinoltaA-135mm.OrangeFilter.Diafine3+3.Washed:AGOFilmProcessor.CameraScan:FujifilmXH1
Trumpeter swan cygnet giving that neck a workout! That pink beak is so adorable! And of course the whole cute and fluffy part!
Just a little casual stretching here. Not something I normally do on a daily basis.
Here's a heel stretch! Not as bad as I thought it would turn out
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While hanging onto the stair post for dear life with a happy grin: "Just jumping in for a naughty or nice check!"
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Crazy Tuesday: Flexibles
Thoughts of amore turned to crushing disappointment as Milo realized that the curvaceous purple beauty was not a lady millipede, but rather, a taco holder.
Stretchy sticky toy by Incredible Novelties Canada, on silver glitter paper. Taco holder from the kitchen drawer. The holder is also somewhat flexible!
…that there’ll be no need of a tie. Or shoes. Also, the only suit you’ll need is the kind that has stretchy parts. Inter-office mail will from here on be replaced by inter-blanket chatter, and subject matter should range broadly, but not include topics related to alarm clocks, rush-hour, or fluorescent lights. Again, we are sorry, but that’s just the way it is.
Stretchy, bendy with very sticky feet. Hmmm ... it has to be a Red-eyed tree frog. :) Taken at a photography day with CaptiveLight in Bournemouth.
This was an example of a pattern that was both typical and unexpected: tight stretch pants, a bright stretchy t-shirt ... and high-heel shoes? There may be some straightforward explanation for this dress style, but it wasn't obvious.
While almost everyone walking past had a simple, straightforward combination of pants/dress, shirt/sweatshirt, jacket, and shoes -- there was also a "pattern" consisting of a number of odd exceptions. Strange hats (sometimes tinfoil), strange shoes, strange pants ... all kinds of strange things. It makes you wonder whether people actually pay any attention to the clothes that they throw onto themselves, or whether it's a deliberate attempt to gain attention on the street.
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As I’ve mentioned in a couple of recent Tumblr blog postings, I’m working on an exercise for a new class that I’ve started taking at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in the fall of 2015.( You can see the earlier Tumblr postings here. and here.).
In addition to taking a bunch of photos (see the other Tumblr postings for details and descriptions of what the photos are supposed to illustrate), we also have the task of editing our images down to a maximum of 10 “presentation images” that we will share with the ICP class next week. When our instructor, Joanne Dugan, asked me last week if I anticipated having any problems with this aspect of the assignment, I shrugged and said, “No, I do this all the time …”
Well, yes and no: I do do a lot of editing/winnowing of my photos before deciding which ones should be shared with anyone else. But I had forgotten that I also do a lot of cropping, color-adjustment, tweaking, and general post-processing before I upload my photos to Flickr, Facebook, or even Instagram. For this particular ICP exercise, we were also told not to crop the photos, and not to do any post-processing. That makes things a lot more difficult …
On the other hand, part of the exercise is to assemble and share a maximum of ten photos that collectively tell a “story” of some kind – and to “tell” that story with anywhere from a word, to a sentence, to a paragraph for each of the photos. That makes things a lot easier … after all, if a photo has to be presented in isolation, then it truly stands alone. And it is intended to be viewed without any accompanying text, then it really stands alone. There’s nothing wrong with that; indeed, one might argue that that’s the whole point of photography: a picture should “tell” a story all by itself, without any extraneous verbiage to “explain” what might not be obvious to the viewer.
But not very many things exist in complete isolation of the rest of the universe, especially in today’s interconnected world. I suppose some people would debate that point quite vigorously; and some people might argue that a photograph of a person, place, or thing should be able to “stand alone” without anything else. I certainly have seen photos that fall into this category, and I suppose I’ve taken a few like that, too. Or, maybe if I never intended my photos to be considered in complete isolation from one another, perhaps that’s how some people prefer to look at them …
But for me, that’s a pretty rare phenomenon. Almost always, I find myself telling a story. The photographs obviously present one “dimension” of the story, in a visual form; and I’ve been trying to remind myself lately that videos can present can present one, and sometimes two, additional dimensions (motion and sound) that can add enormously to the viewer’s understanding and appreciation of the underlying story.
But even if one uses only traditional photos, I find that it’s almost impossible for me to crate (or make, or take) one photo by itself; invariably, I take dozens, if not hundreds or even thousands, which collectively tell a story. It may be a story about someplace I’ve been, or some event in which I’ve participated, or some individual (or group of individuals) that I want the viewer to know and appreciate in more detail than would be possible to communicate in a single photo.
And then there are the words … maybe it’s because I spend part of my time as a writer and teacher that I find it almost impossible not to augment my photos with words. Lots of words. Indeed, sometimes far too many words; and sometimes clumsy words, or the wrong words. And I do realize that there are times when the situation would be improved if I would just shut up, and let the photograph do all of the communication. But for better or worse, I guess I’m a photojournalist.
With that in mind, I began the process of editing the photos for my recent ICP assignment. Here’s what I found:
1. It’s not as easy as one might think, when you start with a large number. I began winnowing the original images when I had 2,700 (after 9 days of shooting), and I still had 5 days of shooting left).
2. It’s much more difficult than I had imagined, given the constraints of my ICP class: no cropping, no post-processing, and a maximum of only 10 images. I’ve worked within those constraints for the final images that I’m submitting to the ICP class; but for these Flickr uploads, I’ve ended up with 40-45 images – and they have been heavily cropped, tilted, color-corrected, noise-dusted, and tweaked in various other ways. C’est la vie…
3. Using the collection of photos to “tell a story” is both easier and harder than I thought it would be. I’m including these background notes in all of the photos that get uploaded to Flickr … because I’ve learned (form past experience) that some visitor will zoom in on just one particular photo, without necessarily looking at all of them, and/or without seeing the overall notes for the entire album. And I don’t think I’ll find it difficult to write a few sentences to provide the background details for each photo … but whether they “flow” and create one overall, coherent “story” remains to be seen.
4. Aside from a narrative “story,” there are some “themes” that I noticed throughout this entire two-week exercise. The most significant one was exactly what I had anticipated: patterns. If you are lucky enough to sit in the same spot at the same time, day after day, you see the same rhythms, the same people, the same repetitions of life’s little actions and emotions. Many people have the opportunity to see these patterns, because they do follow the same schedule, day after day, on their way to their job or their school. But some of us have irregular routines, and any, most of us don’t pay any attention. If you slow down, and pay attention, you’ll see the patterns.
But sometimes the pattern involves uniqueness – i.e. strange and unusual people or events that seem to happen only once. But I have to keep reminding myself that my visits have lasted only two weeks; if I was here for a month, or a full season, or perhaps an entire year – then perhaps I would see these strange incidents repeating themselves
5. Another theme – which I did not anticipate, but was delighted to see – was the pervasive sense of affection and caring between and among everyone on the street. Mostly it was apparent in the interactions between parents and children; but sometimes it was between dog-owners and the dogs they were walking; sometimes it was between friends who happened to be walking along together; and sometimes it was between complete strangers and me, as the strangers would smile and nod and say “hello” if they noticed I was watching them. It was a great experience.