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I've included a photo of my dog TWICE in this project and I know he's super cute, and I have sort of done the same thing but I haven't had ANY time to take photos and I'm still behind!
Going out to take this little fella on a walk now so!
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Part of the new park in downtown Houston; Discovery Green. This is the analog to the other stucture that is similar but blue based. The patchiness on the blocks are shadows from the tree branches. I'll probably reshoot on a sunnier day. BEST SEEN LARGE!
This is a model of the current BMW 530D saloon. The vehicle has full Durham police livery and even has a community policing logo on the rear upright (Just like the real thing). The model is based on a vehicle that is in service with Durham Constabulary at this moment in time and has the same roof codes, numberplates and marking set up.
The Crown Victoria for @tin___nguyen_ ‘s Spiderverse set didn’t change much between prototype and finished product. The main difference is the spotlights that the Jefferson’s car doesn’t have in the show, and some minor changes to clean up the volume.
For a long time I couldn’t live with the 4 wide cabin section, and that’s the main reason for the spotlight details, but now I got used to it.
I also tried to use cheese slopes for the rear lights, but everything I could come up with looked dumb, maybe one day I figure out how to cheeseslope that bit. On the other side, this thing was supposed to taste like the real Ford, without being it, and it does an okay job doing that.
If you've been around this photostream for a while, or maybe even know me personally (!), you'll know that my wife is from Poland. That means that pretty much all of our holidays are spent there with her family. It's an arrangement that I'm quite happy with as her family are lovely people and I still find the country very interesting.
It is beautiful, charming, pleasantly old-fashioned and some of the people are wonderfully creative. At the same time, it can be ugly, unwelcoming, frustratingly backwards and, as is being shown by the current political turmoil, dangerously ignorant.
But it's always interesting.
Over the last few years, as I've begun to try taking photographs more for their story telling than their LIKEability, I've thought that I'd somehow like to take pictures in Poland that explain how I see it and some of this contradiction. On a couple of visits I made a few snaps but never really managed to coalesce the idea I had.
Then, and I'm not sure how, I came across Mark Power's work, The Sound Of Two Songs. Here was an Englishman (and Magnum photographer) visiting Poland and seeing it in the same way I was; loving the place but being occasionally horrified by it too; and seeing a place in a way that only an outsider can*. The essays in the book and many of the photographs made perfect sense. I no longer needed to take any pictures, he'd done it for me!
Of course, I did still want to create my own version and probably even more so having seen this work. Also, the Poland that I knew differed to Power's in that the small town that Gosia's family lived in, and surrounding rural land, were not often represented in his book. I also lacked the large format camera and local guide to show me around. Instead, I was nervously taking pictures in situations where, if I'd been challenged, I would have struggled to explain why a foreigner was poking around with a camera.
Anyway, on our visit at Christmas, I took a few more photos that go some way towards what I was after. I've collected them in this Flickr set album, and will continue to add to it as I return in the future.
Before I'd seen Mark Power's work, I think that I was trying to do too much with individual photos. I was trying to tell a story, explain the country's differences and make pretty pictures. Seeing what he'd done, I began to understand that such bodies of work and photographic series build a mood and tell a story over the course of many images.
Some of the pictures in his book look like snapshots; like non-places and photographs that can be discounted, pages quickly turned. But, as I finally got into character, I found myself taking similar scenes, each of which contributed a small amount to the whole.
Some more of Melbourne's crazy architecture.
Canon 5D Mk III with Canon EF 24mm F1.4L Mk II lens. 1/110th sec at F8, ISO 400.
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I've never met a horsetail before... oh great, there's two huge lumps of the stuff in the garden as well. Joy.
Also in warm platinum black&white.
"It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done."
Matthew Arnold
aka America
This doll in my opinion, is one of the best releases of 2012, she takes my breath away, she's very sensual and sexy... she's easy to photograph and looks stunning all the time. Her jewelry is also to die for, perfection!! Her fashions are nice also... Finally, a Kyori I love.. After Xmas I want to hunt down Peak Season, she looks wonderful to me too...
Love it or hate it, the second-generation Chevrolet Monte Carlo (this one's a 1974) was the gold standard for the mass-market "personal luxury" coupes of the day. Even the upmarket Chrysler Cordoba borrowed heavily from the Monte, in both concept and execution. (I like both cars.)
My very first next-door neighbors in Flint, in the Evergreen Valley subdivision, owned a lime-green '74 Monte Carlo alongside their Ford Country Squire. The Monte exuded class and substance, even in as wild a shade as that color green.
I've got nothing against NASCAR, but today, it's easy to forget that the Monte Carlo began life primarily as a luxurious, Chevrolet "Thunderbird for the masses" and not as a quasi-sporting machine.
My famous Man-Thing, as seen in Toyfare's Twisted Mego Theatre.
He's a custom Famous Covers figure of the Hulk with a skin made from some weirdly textured gardening gloves!
This wonderful machine is owned by the Stroud RE Group, and has quite a colourful past. Delivered to Bristol Cityline in 1976 as C5033 (JHW107P), she lasted about 3 years on city services before being sent to Weston-Super-Mare depot to work on the Weston & Wells services. in 1985 she was sent to Eastleigh (Hants & Dorset Works), and was de-roofed permenantley for the "Newly Established" and pioneering Bath Tour.
She then became BH8615, and spent many a year trundling round Bath on the City and Skyline tours. Nearing retirement, she was sent where most First vehicles end up, and that was down to Penzance to see out her days working the arduous Lands End/St Ives Open Top services.
Once First F&D decided to sell her, she was soon snapped up Chepstow Classic Bus, and has been plying her trade with them for the last year, before Mike Ede (Stroud RE Group), came in and bought her, and put her in this de-reg City of Gloucester livery, which of course she never carried, but if you ask me, she looks very smart in!?
Now Mike and the boys have the same thinking as me and the lads in our group, which is "Its my bus, I shall paint it as i see fit!", unfortunately this has only gone on to infuriate the purists, most of which dont own vehicles, and want to see eveything back to Bristol Green or Tilling Green and Cream, not me!
All I can say with this vehicle and many others that I know of around Bristol, and are owned by young and like minded enthusiasts such as myself is "WATCH THIS SPACE!" (LOL) ;-)
The latest thing to arrive at NS! New in April that year is lasted with LT until 86, then went to Sunderland and Guernsey beifre being bought by an aquaintance, sold for spares and scrapped 2002. I wish I'd snapped the SMS as well, I never got a shot of one in the area.
Virgin Australia Boeing 777-300ER VH-VPH sitting idle at Brisbane Airport at the old International Terminal not knowing whether it will fly for an Australian carrier ever again.
Love comes in many forms if we try to be ourselves, and not playing hard to get or despiteful. Love its part of our emotion as well, were it could link us to someone we love, such as in sickness, loss of a friend or family member. And how many times we are watching a movie or TV and before you know it, you'll see a tear in your eyes to the emotion of the story you're watching on the screen. Same as sometimes you read a love story on a book, and you become emotional, and before you know it, you'll see the same tears in your eyes, it’s all love emotion. And the way I see it, because you're a loveable and caring person.
Love it can be seen as a joyous excitement in involvement with someone else, myself, I have Carmelina in which we see this love in a special form of joy in which up to now it kept us together for 48 years and six months. Because when we feel loved, we usually also feel bliss with joy, of course there is time when a recurring fear of losing the loved one, which it could happened to be one of us. Sometimes we see ourselves as young couples in love, growing old together, strolling along the beaches boardwalk at lakeshore, Toronto, in this beautiful summer evening, hand in hand. Sometimes holding hands is a physical power that we have to touch and be touched, to love and be loved. This simple gesture between Carmelina and I holds the promise of all those possibilities of remaining as young lovers. Beside when you hold hands is something like electricity when you put the switch on, the muscular and nervous system are connected, and therefore you could feel that love inside you towards each other.
The quality of love is so important to us all and to modern life, I believe that love helps us see and accept others, just for being. We could feel very warm and loving inside and this feeling is easily transmitted to other people. These feelings just arrive spontaneously. How many of us considered being a cold person, probably few of us, and yet if we could be warm loveable we could feel as if there were a glowing warm fire in our heart, which acts to make us warm and to make other people warm. This increase in love is not a matter of pretence or mood making. It has to be real, for love is the most innocent quality of life. It cannot be contrived; either it is there or it isn’t. Love is the spontaneous expression of a full heart, and lack of love denotes lack of life-content. Because real love can only be innocent and spontaneous, the show of love without genuine love is a shame to life in my opinion. Or may I say how a person can give love if he or she doesn’t first have love within himself or herself.
We are all aware that in these days of tremendous social upheaval, when so much in life, present and future, is impersonal, unstable and uncertain, it is only natural that we put great energy and hope into our personal relationships. If we could developing inner stability, and expanded our awareness and more loving heart, it will provide us much foundation for more successful, meaningful relationships. The deep, natural rest and relaxation brought about by the practice dissolves restricting stress and tension, which cause fear, loneliness, jealousy, anger, depression and other forms of negative reaction in life. Carmelina and I, we worked out the many personal differences that have arisen, due to the kids, but our love keeps growing deeper and deeper. We are further developing tolerance and compassion for each other, for everyone and everything. We are happier than ever but not as happy as we shall be, because we worry too much about our children.
One time I knew these beautiful young couple in which they’re both madly in love so they was telling me, and yet they constantly fighting and arguing, and never reaching any agreement in which I couldn’t help it by staring at them both, and asking them both if they really love each other. The answer they gave me was, “we both love each other and we are looking forward to get married.” With a smile I told them, that both of you have to change your attitude toward love, and learn to trust each other, because if there’s no trust there’s no love. Three weeks later I saw them again by the church after the mass. And they both thanked me for my advice, they told me, that now we are in peace within, and we are able to function harmoniously as friends, lovers, man and woman in which it won’t be long before we get married. Now it seems that they can look forward to a world in which actions are motivated by love and are performed by individuals who have fully developed their minds and their powers of perceptions and understanding in which I’m really happy for them.
Living and loving is a concept that many of us have found troublesome, is also a necessary aspect of the fulfilling human struggle. That includes being faithful to us, to our words, and to our spouses.
You must have a positive love flows freely when you’re feeling good inside, there’s no worry at the time, you’re not thinking, or wondering if you love him/her a lot, I hope he/she loves me too or I’ll be miserable. You’re just feeling, and the feeling is wonderful and the other person feels it too, everyone feels it! The feeling shines from your face. The negative or undermining love leaves you more with thoughts like, where is he/she tonight? Will he/she love me tomorrow? And even when the good feeling comes it’s partially choked and overshadowed by the underlying fear. If you love someone and want to have a good healthy relationship you have to express your feelings, as my friend once said to me “my capacity to tolerate negativity with sincere compassion and love has grown to a level of unflinching and natural gentleness. This is how I have always wanted to be but in the past, whenever my temper was tested or I found myself in a situation of conflict, I always gave way to the emotion of anger and reaction. Now this is past. My capacity to love seems as high as it could possibly be. And yet, If we could learn to trust and love everyone without hate, we could gain so much in life, in which it will gives us hope and beautiful dreams, and most of all happiness, and it cost nothing. The word Love you’ll find it in all bibles, scripture or any teaching of faith. Love yourself so you could love others. And this applies to all countries in the world that if we learn to trust each other and Love each other’s there should be no problems anywhere, because love could conquer everything if we just believe in it. Charles Bray.