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Model: Skye McLeod Fairywren
Mesh Bento Head: LeLutka Chloe
Mesh Bento Body: Lara by Maitreya
Skin Applier: "Fleeting Fire" by Plastik & TRAP (The Fantasy Faire)
Hair: Last Night (flames) by EMO-tions
Eyes: Deadshine (Exposure) by IKON
Phoenix Crown & Wings: "Mad Queens" by LOVE Home & Garden (The Fantasy Faire)
Outfit: War Kitten (with texture HUD) by PFC (Pucca Firecaster Creations)
Bracelets (gold) "Betty" by JAS
Necklace: Maehwa Collar (dark) by Axix
Phoenix bird: Adult Phoenix by HEXtraordinary
Aura: Eternal Flaming Aura (orange) by Cole's Corner
Pose: Frost 09 by EverGlow
Sim: Mysts of Eyr @ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Krillian/99/234/28
Key West Harbor - Thanksgiving Day
Key West, Florida U.S.A. - Florida Keys
SUNSET - Autumn Rays 2022 - 11/24/22
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - sea-sunset vertical - seagull]
*[Ok, so we all know that it can be extremely hard to shoot directly into the sun, which usually results in an unattractive 'blown-out' sun that quite frankly is hard to look at! So many people on Flickr do this, even I do it at times, and it usually looks like crap! We really should stop posting them. - So, what I sometimes do (this photo case-in-point) is to dial exposure way down, almost to the point of darkness, to get that halfway decent sunset image. I'm not saying all of them, but one or two, and then I wait for the sunlight to change. It's pretty hard to get that sun ball drop photo that looks decent. Try this easy method and it just might help, it does for me. Thank you for looking]
Resurrection and Ashes: (by the Syrian poet Adonis)
"There is a bird in love with its death
Who, for the sake of a new beginning
Will burn itself alive."
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This morning's sunrise was through thick smoke from several large wild fires in Colorado. My local hawk was kind enough to fly across sun for this great photo op.
Taken with Nikon P950 in video mode, equivalent 1000m focal length, frames stacked and darkened in Photoshop. This whole event lasted about 1 second. No filter was used.
Side note: It was exactly 3 years ago that a total solar eclipse cross this country. On 8 April 2024, the next one will occur from Texas to Maine.
Picture of the Day x 5
Key West Harbor - Thanksgiving Day
Key West, Florida U.S.A. - Florida Keys
SUNSET - Autumn Rays 2022 - 11/24/22
Sail ship Vessel: Spirit of Independence
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - rays]
*[orange-haze - sun-stream - magical-light]
*[clouds moving left to right - sun going down]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_West,_Florida
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_keys
"Margaritaville" - Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4XtBiWgXLE
"It's Five-Oclock Somewhere" - Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett
Key West Harbor - Thanksgiving Day
Key West, Florida U.S.A. - Florida Keys
SUNSET - Autumn Rays 2022 - 11/24/22
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - sea-sunset vertical]
*[Ok, so we all know that it can be extremely hard to shoot directly into the sun, which usually results in an unattractive 'blown-out' sun that quite frankly is hard to look at! So many people on Flickr do this, even I do it at times, and it usually looks like crap! We really should stop posting them. - So, what I sometimes do (this photo case-in-point) is to dial exposure way down, almost to the point of darkness, to get that halfway decent sunset image. I'm not saying all of them, but one or two, and then I wait for the sunlight to change. It's pretty hard to get that sun ball drop photo that looks decent. Try this easy method and it just might help, it does for me. Thank you for looking]
“Out in the loading bay light
Watching the fog recede
Divided the flame you slowly gave to me
Sign of relief in my mind
But I only caught you the one time
Later, I'd watch you and wonder what it was like"
Phoenix - Big Red Machine (feat. Fleet Foxes and Anais Mitchell) (2021)
This 15m or so fissure represents the last rites of the Meradalir volcanic eruption, which began in south western Iceland on 3 August 2022. Unlike its big brother, Fagradalsfjall, which erupted for 6 months in 2021, Meradalir was over within 3 weeks. It stopped erupting just as I was flying out to photograph it, but them’s the breaks. After several hours of hiking up into the valley in the midst of the lifeless Reykjanes highlands, I was confronted by a smoking morass of cooling lava and an empty cinder cone. At the edge of the lava field, the foul stench of sulphur filled my lungs, but it was only as dusk dimmed the light that the final chapter of Meradalir was written. This last fissure, viewed with a drone, reminds me of a phoenix, that mythological, immortal bird which cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. The Reykjanes region is going through an exciting new period of intense volcanic activity, and there will be further eruptions - further flaming reincarnations. For me, however, the relief in my mind was tinged with deep frustration, for I only caught you one time, and later I’d watch you and wonder what it was like.
"She rose from the ashes, spread her wings and soared...."
Pose- Attitude
Taken @ Sunnys
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunny%20Photo%20Studio/53/...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDZbroaQDc
Fall Out Boy Lyrics
"The Phoenix"
Put on your war paint
You are a brick tied to me that's dragging me down
Strike a match and I'll burn you to the ground
We are the jack-o-lanterns in July
Setting fire to the sky
Here, here comes this rising tide so come on
(Put on your war paint)
Cross walks and crossed hearts and hope to die
Silver clouds with grey linings
So we can take the world back from the heart-attacked
One maniac at a time we will take it back
You know time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start
So dance alone to the beat of your heart
Hey, young blood, doesn't it feel
Like our time is running out?
I'm going to change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix
Wearing our vintage misery
No, I think it looked a little better on me
I'm going to change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix
Bring home the boys in scraps, scrap metal the tanks
Get hitched make a career out of robbing banks
Because the world is just a teller and we are wearing black masks
"You broke our spirit," says the note we pass
So we can take the world back from the heart-attacked
One maniac at a time we will take it back
You know time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start
So dance alone to the beat of your heart
Hey, young blood, doesn't it feel
Like our time is running out?
I'm going to change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix
Wearing our vintage misery
No, I think it looked a little better on me
I'm going to change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix
Put on your war paint
The war is won before it's begun
Release the doves, surrender love
The war is won before it's begun
Release the doves, surrender love
The war is won before it's begun
Release the doves, surrender love
(Wave the white flag, wave the white flag, yeah)
The war is won before it's begun
(Wave the white flag, wave the white flag, yeah)
Release the doves, surrender love
(Wave the white flag, wave the white flag, yeah)
Hey, young blood, doesn't it feel
Like our time is running out?
I'm going to change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix
Wearing our vintage misery
No I think it looked a little better on me
I'm going to change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix
Hey, young blood, doesn't it feel
Like our time is running out?
I'm going to change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix
Put on your war paint
Key West Harbor - Thanksgiving Day
Key West, Florida U.S.A. - Florida Keys
SUNSET - Autumn Rays 2022 - 11/24/22
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - rays]
*[orange-haze - sun-stream - magical-light]
*[clouds moving left to right - sun going down]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_West,_Florida
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_keys
"Flight of the Phoenix" - Grand Funk Railroad - 1972
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm5QwCAyg5c
"Margaritaville" - Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4XtBiWgXLE
"It's Five-Oclock Somewhere" - Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett
Key West Harbor - Thanksgiving Day
Key West, Florida U.S.A. - Florida Keys
SUNSET - Autumn Rays 2022 - 11/24/22
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - rays]
*[orange-haze - seagull - magical-light]
*[clouds moving left to right - sun going down]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_West,_Florida
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_keys
"Margaritaville" - Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4XtBiWgXLE
"It's Five-Oclock Somewhere" - Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett
Photographing in my backyard...10 min from home.
He doesn't stand far from where i live. For the location it's my favorite windmill "Krimstermill" but also known as The Phoenix. Original build in 1807, burned to the ground in 1903 and rebuild in 1904.
Yes, still winter in Holland...it's a miracle ;-)
Enjoy...
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Technical Details;
Camera; Canon EOS 1Ds mkII
Lens; Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L USM
Exposure; 1/160 sec
Aperture; f13
Filter; Polarizer
ISO 100 RAW
Tripod; Gitzo 3541L
Ballhead; RRS BH-55 with B2 AS II clamp
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Live ballet performance at the occasion of the inauguration of my Exhibition "Luxury Vintage" at the Gentile Theatre in Fabriano, during the "Creativity Forum - Fabriano Makers City", September 2014
This photo is not edited. The blue colour of the stage is as real as we saw it, I think stage shadows, shades & colours were obtained with the back projection system.
Ref. DSCF9693
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Australia August 2025
Northcote Theatre, Melbourne
support: H09909
Shot for: Silver Tiger Media
Promotor: The Phoenix.au
Australia August 2025
Northcote Theatre, Melbourne
support: H09909
Shot for: Silver Tiger Media
Promotor: The Phoenix.au
This is an older shot. I processed this from a single RAW file in SE Pro2 and LR3. I then compared with my earlier HDR version. I totally impressed. The above image is much more evocative and cleaner than the HDR version. The amount of localised control that SE Pro2 gives you, is quite remarkable to say the least. Looks like my HDR days are coming to an end.
On a plinth in a pond stands “The Phoenix” by Baroness Yrsa Von Leistner. Baroness Yrsa Von Leistner is a German sculptor and painter, her sculptures are scattered around the world from Salzburg, to Goa, to Melbourne. Yrsa Von Leistner’s sculptures are influenced by Rodin’s modernism; the simplified form, the rough and materiality of her figures all indicate his influence. The sculpture is a gift from the 40th International Eucharistic Congress Melbourne February 1973. Feathers, or flames, that were once attached at several points over the body of the sculpture have broken off and only fragments of two remain.
Mount Benben, according to Egyptian mythology, was where the creative god Atum sat. Benben stones are those that are at the top of the pyramids. This one was on the pyramid of Amenemhat III (aka. The Black Pyramid : flic.kr/p/Pi2Ktw ), the Temple of the Phoenix.
The inscriptions say something like, "Open your face to the king, so that he can see the lord of the horizon and can cross the sky".
In the Pyramid Texts, e.g. Utterances 587 and 600, Atum himself is at times referred to as "mound". It was said to have turned into a small pyramid, located in Heliopolis (Egyptian: Annu or Iunu), within which Atum was said to dwell. Other cities developed their own myths of the primeval mound. At Memphis, the god Tatenen, an earth god and the origin of "all things in the shape of food and viands, divine offers, all good things", was the personification of the primeval mound.
The Benben stone, named after the mound, was a sacred stone in the temple of Ra at Heliopolis (Egyptian: Annu or Iunu). It was the location on which the first rays of the sun fell. It is thought to have been the prototype for later obelisks and the capstones of the great pyramids were based on its design. The capstone or the tip of the pyramid is also called a pyramidion. In ancient Egypt, these were probably gilded so they shone in sunlight.
Many Benben stones, often carved with images and inscriptions, are found in museums around the world.
The bird deity Bennu, which was probably the inspiration for the phoenix, was venerated at Heliopolis, where it was said to be living on the Benben stone or on the holy willow tree.
According to Barry Kemp, the connection between the benben, the phoenix, and the sun may well have been based on alliteration: the rising, weben, of the sun sending its rays towards the benben, on which the benu bird lives. Utterance 600, § 1652 of the Pyramid Texts speaks of Atum as you rose up, as the benben, in the Mansion of the Benu in Heliopolis.
From the earliest times, the portrayal of Benben was stylized in two ways; the first was as a pointed, pyramidal form, which was probably the model for pyramids and obelisks. The other form was round-topped; this was probably the origin of Benben as a free standing votive object and an object of veneration.
During the Fifth Dynasty, the portrayal of benben was formalized as a squat obelisk. Later, during the Middle Kingdom, this became a long, thin obelisk.
In the Amarna Period tomb of Panehesy, the benben is seen as a large, round-topped stela standing on a raised platform.
The pyramidion, which is the capstone of a pyramid, was covered with inscriptions and religious symbols. Some of these were scratched off, leading researchers to conclude the pyramidion was never used or it was defaced during Akhenaten's rule.
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Benben was the mound that arose from the primordial waters Nu upon which the creator deity Atum settled in the creation myth of the Heliopolitan form of ancient Egyptian religion. The Benben stone (also known as a pyramidion) is the top stone of the pyramid. It is also related to the obelisk.
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A pyramidion (plural: pyramidia) is the uppermost piece or capstone of an Egyptian pyramid or obelisk, in archaeological parlance. Speakers of the Ancient Egyptian language referred to pyramidia as benbenet and associated the pyramid as a whole with the sacred benben stone. During Egypt's Old Kingdom, pyramidia were generally made of diorite, granite, or fine limestone, then covered in gold or electrum; during the Middle Kingdom and through the end of the pyramid-building era, they were built from granite. A pyramidion was "covered in gold leaf to reflect the rays of the sun"; during Egypt's Middle Kingdom pyramidia were often "inscribed with royal titles and religious symbols".
Very few pyramidia have survived into modern times. Most of those that remain are made of polished black granite, inscribed with the name of the pyramid's owner. Four pyramidia – the world's largest collection – are housed in the main hall of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Among them are the pyramidia from the so-called Black Pyramid of Amenemhat III at Dahshur and of the Pyramid of Khendjer at Saqqara.
A badly damaged white Tura limestone pyramidion, thought to have been made for the Red Pyramid of Sneferu at Dahshur, has been reconstructed and is on open-air display beside that pyramid; it presents a minor mystery, however, as its angle of inclination is steeper than that of the edifice it was apparently built to surmount.
Australia August 2025
Northcote Theatre, Melbourne
support: H09909
Shot for: Silver Tiger Media
Promotor: The Phoenix.au
The Phoenix was on its way to a scrap yard in India on Monday night, 25 July 2011, when its anchor line broke causing it to drift off course and run aground at Sheffield Beach in Salt Rock, north of Durban, South Africa. Three helicopters were used to lift crew members one by one.The ship has a cargo of oil that has remained intact. The location of the ship, just in front houses, will make salvage operations extremely difficult.
It was raining quite heavily with gale force winds when I got to the scene. I had to wait for at least an hour before I could get my camera out and shoot in light drizzle. It was simply impossible to shoot a long exposure.
Australia August 2025
Northcote Theatre, Melbourne
support: H09909
Shot for: Silver Tiger Media
Promotor: The Phoenix.au
Warming up on a frigid evening at the Phoenix, enjoying a little jazz and a Cosmopolitan.
(For the stocking devotees, yes, those are full-fashioned smoke grey 10 denier stockings she is wearing)
One of the pieces in the "Greek Monsters" exhibition at The Onassis Foundation on Fifth Avenue.
Une statuette dans l'exposition "Monstres Grecs" a la Fondation Onassis a New York.
L'Oiseau Phoenix ... un oiseau sacre dans beaucoup de civilizations anciennes, Grece, Egypte, la Chine, l'Afrique du Sud, Israel.
D'apres Hesiode, l'oiseau vivait en Phoenicia et chantait d;une belle voix ... quand il chantait, meme le soleil s'arretait pour l'ecouter. Mais l'oiseau avait aussi l'unique abilité de ressusciter de ses cendres ...
Les anciens greques honoraient le Phoenix en relation avec le dieu Apollo et le culte du soleil.
Highest Explore position: 307 (24th June 2010)
Technical info: f/22.0, 30 sec, ISO 320, 22mm
Best View On Black
Phoenix rising
These two boats were lying in the grass and looked almost as old as the ruins of Laugharne Castle; both were full of water and the red one had a good crop of grass growing in the bow!
On a plinth in a pond stands “The Phoenix” by Baroness Yrsa Von Leistner. Baroness Yrsa Von Leistner is a German sculptor and painter, her sculptures are scattered around the world from Salzburg, to Goa, to Melbourne. Yrsa Von Leistner’s sculptures are influenced by Rodin’s modernism; the simplified form, the rough and materiality of her figures all indicate his influence. The sculpture is a gift from the 40th International Eucharistic Congress Melbourne February 1973. Feathers, or flames, that were once attached at several points over the body of the sculpture have broken off and only fragments of two remain.
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Australia August 2025
Northcote Theatre, Melbourne
support: H09909
Shot for: Silver Tiger Media
Promotor: The Phoenix.au