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Joe is a very talented nature photographer who shoots only on transparency film, and always has. Always will, too. He travels the art fair circuit selling his work. One of his photographs graces my bedroom wall. His photos are displayed under his canopy with a sign that reads something like:
"No digital photography. I don't create moments, I record them."
Does this imply a disdain and/or distrust of digital photography because, presumably, it can be surreptitiously manipulated, or that shots can be improved or corrected and are no longer accurate recordings of the moment? I don't know.
I do know that I've met him a few times. The fact that he's an extremely nice guy is the primary reason that I didn't grill him about the fact that he shoots Velvia at 40 ISO - a popular strategy employed to richly saturate the color (Velvia is rated at 50). The results are gorgeous, but not remotely accurate representations of the "moment".
I intend to give him a good-natured ribbing about the interesting conflict between his signage and his acquisition practices the next time I see him.
I'm that kind of guy. :D
All the pictures in this album are part of The Museumplein Project.
It's an ongoing project, I created it to give you a taste of the life of random people visiting Museumplein (the museums square) in Amsterdam.
I know that nobody cares about it, but just wanted to let you know what are you looking at :D
The talented and charming Mr. Gustafson www.flickr.com/photos/rich_eye/ ...we should all look this good and have so much energy and interst in life at your age..anyway like they say it is just a number..but you carry it well my dear. Wishing you all the best, always..I wish I could be with you on your special day but the next best thing is having couple of tequilas in your honor..salud! Besos!
actually there's an optical illusion, the leg is not protruding!
- Art de rue talentueux ...
en fait, il y a une illusion optique, la jambe ne fait pas saillie!
I appreciate every day that I am, but I have met some extraordinary Ladies here on Flickr! Here's to You!
To flip a good sized Blue Gill takes a lot of skill as this Belted Kingfisher demonstrated for several minutes at a pond in Kent Washington this morning. Too big to eat he tried to force it down but the fish needed some "fashioning" before he could gulp it down.
Besides being a phenomenal photographer, my Dad is an incredibly talented guitarist. I grew up hearing songs like Sunshine on My Shoulders and Rocky Mountain High. My dad used to love to take us camping as kids. Looking back I have no idea how my parents had the energy to pack up NINE kids in the van and go TENT camping. for fun?! but they did... I have the fondest of memories, so dear and nostalgic to my heart that even listening to John Denver brings tears to my eyes - I can close my eyes and picture my Dad sitting at the campfire, guitar in his lap, the sounds of laughter and busy chatter around me, the smell of the smoke curing 'round my shoulders like a throw blanket on a chilly night. The sun is still out but it is darker than it should be because the sun is hidden behind the forests of trees and is has sunk into the shadow of the mountain. My Dad's eyes are focused on the fire really without seeing though as he sings and plays his music. I remember him going through a few of the Joh Denver classics, specifically Sunshine on my Shoulders. All is safe, all is well in my flashback to being a child sitting at the fire. I was loved, I was surrounded by all of the things I loved best, set up against the backdrop of the fierce yet oddly comforting mountains.
I miss this place, my beautiful Colorado. But even if I were to go back it wouldn't be the same - would it?
There are people who have carved and imprinted memories with me in those mountains who are no longer here, life is different, I am different and I know this is how it must be. Although at times I impulsively wish it wasn't so. But it is so - and there are many things about present life that bring me joy and happiness including my own children and the memories we have made and will make together. I'll stop rambling for tonight and leave you with a few of my favorite parts of Rocky Mountain High (I know many of you know and love John Denver and probably know the words better than I ;)
Thank you for listening to me, I love you all xx
#Rachel
#But the Colorado rocky mountain high
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
The shadow from the starlight is softer than a lullabye
Rocky mountain high (Colorado)
Rocky mountain high (Colorado)
#Now he walks in quiet solitude the forest and the streams
Seeking grace in every step he takes
His sight has turned inside himself to try and understand
The serenity of a clear blue mountain lake
And the Colorado rocky mountain high
I've seen it raining fire in the sky
Talk to God and listen to the casual reply
Rocky mountain high (Colorado)
Rocky mountain high (Colorado)
This challenge is very late and it was called "A Blush of Colour". I think I got a little carried away with the colour...it's definitely more than a blush. I did have fun. I wish I would have used Permanent Rose for the underpainting instead of Scarlet Lake.
Our talented friend and birds' lover and photographer Joan sent me recently a wonderful gift... it's an old purse made out of pink glass beads, a fabulous and skillful work like those made many years ago...
I've tried several different settings for a still life which could pay a modest homage to the beauty of this feminine accessory, which once may have belonged to an elegant young woman... but none of them pleased me...
Yet, I wished to share with you this lovely object and I post today one of the pictures I made of it...
Thank you dear Joan from the bottom of my heart!
Today's special guest is one super cute and lovely girl among the most talented and appreciated young SL bloggers. In a very short time she could conquer many of the most famous Second Life brands with her talent and her fresh, adorable style. Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the cutest, the sweetest, the gorgeous (as well as my lil SL sis): Ms. Andie Panda !
Cla - Hi, sis! I've finally dragged you here hehe. Are you ready? Okay, let's get serious and let's start! First of all, thank you so much for accepting to be interviewed
Andie - Aw, thank you so much for asking me to be part of this series, sis. I’m super excited to tell a little bit of my Second Life story!
C. - Let's go back to your first steps on Second Life. Your partner Pengu in NSLS ep.2 told us how back in 2019 you and him started your SL together (www.flickr.com/photos/164400702@N02/52248516615/in/datepo...). What was, at that time, your first impression about this little magical word?
A. – Yeah! Um, I first became aware of SL a couple years before I joined. Only in passing though, I didn’t really know what it was other than being a virtual world. So, the first time I made an account and logged in I was pretty amazed by how expansive the world was. There is so much to explore, and to get involved in. Of course, for me, all the different clothes and mesh bodies and heads were what really drew me in. I was pretty immediately taken with the idea of creating this totally unique avi that could look like anything I imagined it to. To this day I love reinventing my look and exploring the endless lovely sims that make up SL.
C. - With time you got interested into SL photography and blogging. Now you blog for some important SL brands like Tres Blah, Foxy, Mellowcute, Foxcity and many others. Can you tell us how and when did your blogger experience begin? What is your style, the magic ingredient that makes your sl photography unique?
A. - It was really Pengu who introduced me to SL Flickr, and since then I have been in awe of the beautiful art that is uploaded daily. He got into taking pictures before I did, mostly because my laptop at the time was not able to keep up. I would take pictures and they would just be so pixelated, but I would post them on my Flickr and be so proud of my 10 likes!
I really got into blogging in June of 2021. That was when Pengu got his first sponsorship, and to be honest I was a little jealous! I spent most of that summer blogging for a couple newer brands and really focusing on growing my follower count and learning editing software and Black Dragon which changed my photography game immensely. Foxcity was my first major sponsor. Our mutual friend, Ethan Lane, pushed me to enter her blogging contest and I was one of the people chosen, I remember feeling really intimidated but that was when blogging became more than just snapping a cute picture. It’s really about representing brands to the best of my ability because I love their work.
As far as my style, I don’t know that I could nail it down in one specific category. I’ll go, you know, months of doing lots of girly and pink and pretty pictures and then on a whim I’ll want to do darker and grittier things. Last October I really embraced Halloween and did a lot of witchy, more gothic pictures. So, I guess what makes my style unique is that it is always changing!
C. - I know you like to "collect" SL mesh heads, just like me. Do you have a favorite one?
A. – Collect is a very nice way of saying ‘spend way too much money on’ hahahahahha. Um, much like with my style fashion-wise, I feel like I am constantly reinventing my avi to fit with whatever mood I am feeling at the moment. When you and I first met I wore Lelutka Ceylon pretty much all the time. Prior to that I was wearing a lot of Glam Affair skins and I loved the Genus heads. Right now, I’m wearing Briannon. As far as a favorite, it’s so hard to pick just one. I still have fond feelings for my Genus Baby head and the original Lelutka Evolution Nova head.
C. - We all know love is a great source of inspiration, and we can see your sparking creativity at its best in all your couple photos with your partner Pengu. Some of those pics are currently featured, until the end of September, at The Gallery of Photographic Art for the "Three couples telling their stories" exhibit (here the slurl for our viewers who'd like to visit it: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Goldbach/210/153/25 ).
Would you like to tell us something about your story? What is your (second) life with Pengu -and Pengy, the little penguin who joined your family- like?
A. – Aw, Pengu. He is a huge part of my life in and out of SL. Our friendship first started when we bonded over a shared enjoyment of writing stories and from there, we found out we have a lot in common. He’s so funny and so kind. And he is endlessly supportive of me. He is the one who really gave me that nudge to start getting into taking pictures, and from there encouraged me to get into blogging. He makes me laugh and he always knows how to pick me up when I get down on myself. I could never say enough about what an amazing person he is and just how much I love him.
I think at our cores, Pengu and I tend to be more introverted unless we are around the amazing friends we’ve met in world. So, a lot of the time we are just quietly at home, planning pictures or going to shopping events. And of course, whatever we do, we cannot do it without Pengy. I like to joke with Pengu that Pengy is a bit of a diva, and that he has been in more collab pictures than Pengu and I combined. But I love the little guy. How could you not, he’s adorable.
C. - You also are a very good writer, and you just mentioned how you met Pengu thanks to your mutual passion for writing. Last year, this led you two to create a great romantic series titled "August" about two lovers who lose and then find themselves again (www.flickr.com/photos/pengu_wes/albums/72157719750391407). The story is very beautifully co-written by you and Pengu and masterfully illustrated by you both in your respective versions. Would you like to make more photo-series like that? Can we expect for more of those?
A. – Oh yes, the August series. That story was one that Pengu and I dreamed up together probably a year before we turned it into the photo series, and it was so amazingly fun to see characters we’d created be translated into a new format. It was just really special. As far as would we do another series, you know, I think that if the inspiration were to strike then nothing is out of the question. We have several other stories that I think would make for a fun, engaging series. So I guess we will see what the future brings!
C. - Is there one photo you particularly love, among all the ones you took, and we can watch on your Flickr?
A. – Oh man, it is difficult to choose a favorite! I have so many pictures that I love and that have done well, but I think the first one that comes to mind is www.flickr.com/photos/andie_panda/52014566831/in/dateposted/
It was such a fun picture to take, I love the vintage vibes, and I feel like it really captures Pengu and I’s relationship!
C. - Our interview is almost over. I'm gonna set you free, sis. But not before inviting you to ask yourself a question and give yourself an answer.
A. – I’m going to use my question to ask you a question, sis! I would love to know what picture from your Flickr is your personal favorite?
And thank you again for having me. This was so much fun and I am super excited to see who is next!
C. - Haaa, you got me, sis! Now I realize how hard is to respond this question. Well, the pics from my flickr I love the most are the ones I took with the ones I love. Those are certainly the most meaningful and important, my little memories. So I'm gonna take this chance to remember of our first pic taken together www.flickr.com/photos/164400702@N02/51357074571/
Thank you kindly Andie for answering my questions and let us to know better about the wonderful girl you are, your fantastic photo skills and your interesting sweet world!
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See you all in two weeks time for a new NSLS episode!
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Charlene Chartrand (just click her name in the tags) is not just a beautiful face. She's also a talented artist. Richard photographed her canvases earlier this year.
Door. by #imogenepeachart in our local shopping centre. Imogene has done a lot of murals in the area. A delightful and talented young lady.
Thursday Doors Day/ TDD/ DDD
A collaboration between myself and the extremely talented Jen Brook
Jen is a fantastically creative model who's been collaborating with Photographers for her 'Dream Catcher Project' for just over a year now. When I received the e-mail from Jen I was so excited to work with her and knew that it'd be a brilliant experience.
The way her project works is Jen sends a photographer a concept or idea she has in mind, and then as a team, they'll work together to create a polished outcome. Well for me it was a little different. I received the word 'Pumpkin' and I think there was something in there about 'muted tones' and so 3 months later, in the early days of September we shot a full conceptual story. I've been wanting to post these images since I shot them almost a month ago now, but we both agreed that it'd be best to release around October and the Halloween season!
This shoot took so much planning and organisation and I'd really like to thank everyone who was involved, particularly my contact at the Pumpkin farm who let us shoot there and have full freedom of his land! And my wonderful MUA who did an excellent job, despite being under the weather.
Plenty more images from this series to be posted, keep your eyes open!
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My talented wife's shot of some beautiful Coleus in a planter, overlooking one of the Lily Ponds at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York City.
You can visit this great institution and NYC destination at www.bbg.org.
Today's NSLS special guest is a very talented and complete SL designer.
I met him on my very first days on SL when everything on this little magical world was still unknown and kinda mysterious to me. He became soon a dear friend of mine, a trustworthy guide, a funny and nice neighbor and my SL brother.
His creations go from clothes, to accessories for the avatar, from decorations to buildings to furniture and everything is always made with the best design and quality.
Ladies and gentlemen, directly from BinaryHearts City , it's a big pleasure to introduce you to the incredible: Mr. Meejay BinaryHearts !
Cla: Hi bro! How are you? I'm very happy to have you here and grill you a little. First of all I want to thank you for hosting this NSLS episode in your beautiful BinaryHearts City!
Meejay: Hey sis, I'm fine even if i'm about to be Grilled by my own sis! You have all my gratitude for this as I love the concept a lot and welcome to BinaryHearts City to all the NSLS audience!
C.: You officially started your Second Life in 2010, but I know you have been around even before. What was SL like back those days? How did you like to spend your time there?
M.: Yes, you are right, I've been around since 2006. I was on SL with all my real life Family back then, Mother, Sister and Father.
My very first avatar is dead to day because one day I stole my mother a lot of L$ to buy a primy boat, I was not even having a sim to rez it but I liked it too much and I was a stupid young kid...
They got refunded but the boat's creator asked Linden to delete my account just to be sure I was not having any copy of the boat in my inventory.
So one year later, I created a new avatar and started building my own boat made of prims, because I really wanted a boat so much!
I've never stopped building things until this time, but in the past I was building for myself, to furnish my little house, to create my space station, etc, so my Second Life was mainly building things.
Then one day my sister made me discover clubbing in SL, live mix and party, and because I was starting to play with my birthday gift, a Hercules DJ Console RMX, but without an audience, I started mixing in SL clubs.
C.: At some point, you took the plunge and you started your own brand, to make your beautiful creations for all the SL people (like the top I'm wearing, the cute cat on the desk, the mask on your head, they all are made by you) and you opened your BinaryHearts store ( maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/BinaryHearts/128/124/35 ). Tell us better how this project was born and how you developed it, what was your first creation?
M.: At some point I wanted more than building primy things and djing in clubs. I started roleplaying, it was at that time I created my Space Station (The Tic Tac Station) and I met a girl named Aiko who made me discover new things as well. With her we've created an Airline company on the Second Norway sim in the Blake Sea.
That was cool for a while, but playing with aircrafts everyone else had, was starting to be boring. We wanted something more unique than just our liveries on our airplane's shell!
And so she started to build on SL a 747, real sized.
And I started to learn scripting for real, to make this baby fly
Working alone on a big baby like a real sized 747 when you are not a pro is time consuming, and each little default was making Aiko crazy, so I tried to learn 3D as well to help her on the construction of that big baby, using the same tool she was using (3DS Max), and I felt like I would love to use 3D Software to do mesh, the potential was unlimited, though that software was not made for me, its concept was really not my cup of tea.
But since we started to build the 747 we had to finish it, so I searched for a 3D Software I could like and discovered Maya. This software is really different from Max because it's like an evidence for me, and I started to learn how it works, I spent a lot of time, days & nights on learning it. At the same time I was starting a new job in Real Life, so I kinda abandoned Aiko and we lost contact for a while.
Some time after all that, I got in a real life relationship with Shinkura, and because 3D was now a passion for me, I showed her how it works and what we can do with 3D software. Shinkura had about Maya the same feeling I had about Max some years before.
She loved the possibilities but it was not the right software for her.
She found her own software by herself, ZBrush, and she started to do 3D like I did.
That's how BinaryHearts saw the daylight, because we had to put a name on the products made out of our passion.
At StClement, my aunt sim, we used to build things for the sim and we were having a dedicated sandbox for our own creations.
My first product was the Lake Port Meshkit, made for StClement, a lake city sim.
But that was not my first 3D model
I actually started with a boat www.flickr.com/photos/145256455@N08/32555999221/in/datepo...
It always starts with a boat.
C.: Hehe seems so! You mentioned your partner Shinkura Sasaki, who is also the other half of BinaryHearts. How do you share the tasks between you two?
M.: Chaos!
C.: Lol
M.: That's how we share the tasks :D
So, basically, 3D is made of 2 things, soft and hard mesh. Soft mesh is organical things, clothes, sheets... Hard mesh is furniture, vehicles, houses...
Usually, Shinkura does the soft mesh. I do the hard mesh, my software is stronger for Hard mesh and her software is stronger for soft mesh.
But sometimes she does the hard mesh and I do the soft mesh.
All in all what else to do, when you want to do something like a stone cat and you only use Zbrush... You just do what you want and make the stone cat! And when I wanted to add a sail on my little lake house, I learned how nCloth works on Maya and I just did my sail :)
About our creations, I do the texturing part, the rigging process (needed for clothes) and the UV (needed for the textures) because it has to be done on Maya.
And because Shinku is not comfortable enough with our texturing tool.
Last but not least, I do the scripting part, never used someone else scripts, I do everything especially for our products so they are optimized for the use they are made for.
C.: Talking about scripts, I know you are a very good scripter, can you explain us what does a scripter do?
M.: Nice transition sis! :)
Well, when you build a house on SL, you also have to make the doors... and when the doors are made, you can hit your avatar on them for a long time hoping they will open by magic, but with a script it works better.
A scripter makes the scripts, basically he will make scripts that will answer a need like "My door should be able to rotate on one of it's hinge, to be opened, when someone click on it or when an avatar hit the door"
I'm not just a scripter because i do more than just scripts, i'm a programmer since i'm making softwares.
When I need to make scripts for a house, I will make interconnected scripts that will interact together, one of them will manage all the doors of the house, another will manage the security like the permissions of who is allowed to click on the door, who can be in the house... And all those scripts will make a bigger system, a software made for the house itself.
C.: Is there some other SL creator you like or you'd like to collaborate with?
M.: I'm collaborating with Neurolab Inc., OnO Zinner (Neurolab's owner) is a long time friend and he needed a programmer for his new projects. We already made some cool things together like the Ganzer Gun, with its own combat meter and fun anims, we did the Manta and the Razorback as well, a kart and a quad, with our own engine, and we did a racing track HUD that allow you to do the track you want, or click on a preset you like and see the track being builded in front of you by itself, like you could see in racing games with track editor.
He prefers to work for a long time on his creations, in order to release something perfect rather than releasing a sloppy product per week, that's a nice thing because on my side I can continue my own projects with Shinkura and when OnO is about to work on something new, we can do a little pause and I join him to complete his project with my scripts.
C.: Sounds cool! And is there something on SL you would have liked to create?
M.: Ow... Well... A lot of things...
Basically when I want to create something, I create it.
But sometimes, some projects are taking way too long, so we pause it and start something else that could be released quicker.
Our goal is one product a month, sometimes we are able to do it, sometimes we are not, but I prefer to release something well finished than something poorly done each month.
That's how my Edelweiss Kitchen was cancelled some years ago.
But you know how it is, I have a real life job that takes most of my time so I cannot give all my time to my passion, but maybe one day we will be able to work at BinaryHearts as our real life job as well.
C.: I wish that for you, bro! How much are bloggers important for your work?
M.: Making the best product is something, letting people know you did the best product and that's available "right here" is something else.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I'm making the best products, I'm just making the best products I can and I put all my heart in them from conception to realisation, but what's true in my previous sentence is that even if I make THE best product ALL SecondLife would want, if nobody knows it exists and where to find it, it's like it does not exist at all.
That's why bloggers are important to me, they are the main lighthouse that could enlighten our creations!
We are giving them materials to express their art, they are giving us visibility and nice pictures that we are displaying in our store with pleasure.
C.: And I know you have a great bloggers team! Bro, what is missing on SL, in your opinion?
M.: A real 3D engine that could make our creations be exactly like they are in our 3D Texturing Softwares.
More features in LSL (Some good ones are coming soon, starting with LinksetData that will be a little revolution!).
Less limits, I know limits are needed, but when you know that 64Kb is the maximum memory a LSL Script can handle, and we have to create 2, 3, 4 scripts that will be consuming 20Kb of memory each just for the data exchange is a bummer!
That's a bummer because those limits are not working with today standards, creators will just find every possible way to achieve what they need, and it will be using more resources as we need to store the metadata of each texture instead of one 2K or 4K, like we need to use 20Kb of memory to exchange the data between multiples scripts...
If it's about not having 4 times bigger textures on their asset servers because it's 4 times more memory used on their disks, why not just increasing the cost of textures if they are bigger than 1024x1024 (like 40L$ for 2K textures) it would be more optimised for everyone and everyone will be winning from that. People that do not need big textures will use smaller ones because they will be cheaper, and people that need to do big structures with Ambient Occlusion, who cannot use repetition because of that, will not have to do a heavier mesh with faces above faces to display their AO separated from the repeated texture, they will just be able to import their 2K textures. That would be beautiful.
*pointing at the camera* I hope you'll hear that, Lindens. This one is for you guys!:)
C.: Haha... oh my gah, this is called a very direct message! Okay bro, as you know, I end my interviews asking my guests to ask themselves a question and give themselves an answer. Would you like to?
M.: Okay sis, lemme ask me something and answer to myself
- Hey Meejay, was the interview great ?
- Yeah Meejay, indeed it was!
- Splendid Meejay! Nice to hear that!
Thank you so much Meejay, for your time and for entertaining us with this witty interview, letting us know better about yourself and your precious work that makes our second lives more enjoyable thanks to the awesome products you can create for us!
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See you all in two weeks times for a new episode of NSLS
Cla's outfit by BinaryHearts
Hair by Amitomo (edited)
—Toad the Wet Sprocket
This is for Karo, Joel Olives (Balls), and zoo♥gal, who are so talented and whose butterflies ALWAYS astound me!
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Awesome, talented bloggers of SL :)
Birth is looking for new Bloggers for our skins, eyes, animated shenanigans and growingly diverse range of products.
Apply directly via Blogotex:
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Or Tp inworld to Birth Mainstore and click the Blogotex sign on your left on landing:
If you have time to chatter
Read books
If you have time to read
Walk into mountain, desert and ocean
If you have time to walk
Sing Songs and dance
If you have time to dance
Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot
--Nanao Sakaki
1. Brothers :), 2. v-day series...., 3. peaches and cream, 4. Humbled..., 5. son, 6. New ..., 7. Soon to Be 4, 8. Brotherly love..........lol!, 9. Cheeky, 10. playing with my scarf, 11. light patterns of disneyland, 12. In Deep, 13. aussie summer, 14. J-4, 15. A Birthday Out-take, 16. summer, 17. 5/366 Mr Eyelashes, 18. A Glimpse of yesterday's.., 19. With rainbow sprinkles, please..., 20. Silhouettes in the Dusk, 21. Baby Steps., 22. Winter Fence Line., 23. #0015, 24. Night Glow..., 25. Untitled
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Have a good weekend everyone.
If you are ever near Swallows, please take some time and watch them fly. They are so fast and erratic. And so talented.
Bugs were everywhere and so were the Swallows. And the Swallows ate them.
Tree Swallow
Tachycineta bicolor
Member of Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
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Just some ridiculously talented Mo'fo's around here. Check them out!
1. The hamburglar spend's 15 years inside., 2. Untitled, 3. 107/365 My Schwarz is Bigger Than Yours, 4. 55. Everything you are, in every single way, i'm pushing you too far..., 5. 314. your heart was dying fast and you didn't know what to do, 6. 2010pad-52: He Hates This Trick, 7. Untitled, 8. 257 - / 365 "Even though i am no better than a beast, Don't i have the right to live?", 9. 056-365 : slipknot on the iPod..., 10. 049 "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.", 11. ., 12. i watch you from nowhere, 13. 57/365: W is for water, white and wordless.
When we visited Central park recently we saw this guy playing this instrument, he was really talented, we did ask what the name of the instrument was, but sounded like something bigger than wheelbarrow and harder to pronounce let alone spell, the sun has finally made an appearance here hope it stays for at least some of the weekend
UPDATE- thanks to Michelle in NY for telling me the instrument is called a dulcimer, they way he said it it sounded a more complicated name to me LOL
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On a recent trip to France and was about to wrap up my walk-around shooting day in Montpellier, France. All a sudden, I ran into this gorgeous artist. She put up quite a performance on the street, I was immediately attracted by her dance, thank you very much for the great performance, wish you all the best in pursuing joy of dance.
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My tribute to Bond Girly. Where to start when you get someone that talented to tribute? Not an easy task for me as I looked through her shots and admired her, her camera work, her children, her dog, her house ..... I almost forgot what I was meant to be doing! Anyhow, I settled on a self portrait because (a) BG does a lot of lovely ones, (b) I don't do very many of them and (c) I noticed the other day just how freckly I am these days.
When I was younger I remember my gran having lots and lots of freckles to the point where they all seemed to merge to give her a pseudo tan. As I have grown older I can see that I've inherited this from her and it's kind of nice actually, an echo down the generations. If I was a model they'd be airbrushed out I'm sure, but I'm not, and I'm more than happy to showcase them!
This is my best/favorite painting that I had ever done. It was a photo of a horse on the cover of a magazine, and I liked it, but I completely changed the background color LOL
I did it for our art exhibition way back when I used to be at school (Grade 12). It took me a month to complete it, I used to work on it in my breaktime, and in art classes!
it's the last painting I've done, I haven't painted or sketched anything since 2002!! I feel like I can't do it anymore, and I feel like I lost it.. college work took my time and attention..! :s allah y'3arbel el klyeh !!
this one is dedicated to "Le'3z" (This is the painting) LOL
Tulsa Okey is burning down the house using his unique style that simply put takes one through past time and and with a new sense of purpose wonders... Just Peace... is that really so much to hope for?Bring it on Mr.Tulsa Okey!
A wonderfully talented graphic designer and I worked on a project together creating an album cover for The Portland Cello Project, and the final product looks pretty sweet!
On a different note, I'm stoked to be leaving tomorrow to go on a week long photo camping trip to Port Townsend! I'll be assisting most of the time, but hopefully I will be able to sneak in a couple conceptual photos while I'm there! Here's a video of the trip they went on last year.
Made of recycled Auto parts.
Well executed as well!
Artur Bordalo (b. 1987), also known as Bordalo II.
Learn more about this super talented Recycled Trash Artist of Portugal : www.bordaloii.com/bigtrashanimals
The most talented military leader that Tennessee, and perhaps the United States, ever produced was General Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Confederate Army. Born in Bedford (now Marshall) County, Tennessee in 1821, Forrest's only military experience prior to 1861 was an abortive attempt to join the army of the Republic of Texas when he was 20 years old. During the period from 1841 to 1861 Forrest settled in the Memphis area and became a prominent & wealthy citizen, businessman, and planter, amassing a substantial fortune dealing in livestock & cotton. In 1861 Forrest, at 40 years of age, joined Captain Josiah White's Tennessee Mounted Rifles as a private. However, his status in civilian life dictated that he be given a command of his own. In a few weeks he received a commission as a lieutenant colonel and was authorized to raise his own company. Over the next four years Forrest acquired a reputation of invincibility among both his own men and the enemy. Though often misused & mistrusted by the professional soldiers of the Confederate high command for the strong streak of insubordination that Forrest often evinced, he always enjoyed the respect & begrudging admiration of his opponents. This was perhaps best illustrated by the affectionate nickname "that Devil Forrest" frequently applied to him by General Sherman. As Sherman himself elaborated:
"He had never read a military book in his life, knew nothing about tactics, could not even drill a company, but he had a genius for strategy which was original and, to me, incomprehensible. There was no theory or art of war by which I could calculate with any degree of certainty what Forrest was up to. He always seemed to know what I was doing or intended to do."
Of Forrest's younger years, only the barest outlines and several anecdotes are known. His grandfather, Nathan Forrest, settled in what became Marshall County in 1808 when William Forrest was ten years old. William Forrest married in 1820 and Nathan Bedford Forrest, named for his grandfather, was his first born child. The house in which General Forrest was born, according to a source interviewed in the 19th century by one of Forrest's first biographers, was torn down. In 1830 William Forrest acquired a tract of land from a Mr. W.S. Mayfield. The log and frame structure which still stands on this property is the only home still existing associated with Forrest. It was young Forrest's home for three years. In 1833 William Forrest sold the property and moved his family to Mississippi.
The photograph above shows the entrance to the property with large stone plaques on each side that read:
"Boyhood Home of Nathan Bedford Forrest - Lieutenant General Confederate States of America" -- left side
"He rode from here into the legend of the land."
Quotation from Jack Knox, Editorial Cartoonist at the Nashville Banner, who was an artist, horseman, & Forrest admirer -- right side
At the end of the just over two thousand foot gravel road is an excellent representation of a mid-nineteenth century rural Tennessee or Southern farmstead with amazingly little or no intrusion from the twenty-first century such as electricity or running water. And, for its historical connection to Forrest, the highly representative example of folk architecture of this particular time period and place in Tennessee history that the property is, and its wonderful preservation, this site was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on July 13, 1977. The information above, and more, was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/8ce5812c-f929-4b35-b60...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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