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“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colourless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again.” - Barbara Kingsolver
Part inspired by the Flower Fairies illustrations, I grew up with these as a kid and always identified with the Blackthorn Fairy most, because she looked totally badass! Climbing on thorns, tattered clothes, my kinda fairy.
Today has been lovely, I woke up pretty shattered from yesterday's wedding and went to do some couple portraits about an hour's drive away - I'm able to sing in the car again (loudly) and I feel like this last week I've felt really grateful to be alive again.
That was one of the hardest things to get my head around after he died, I had no idea how I was going to ever WANT to be in this part of my life again. I read somewhere that life is only ever comparisons - the state of oneself with an old self, circumstances with other circumstances, etc etc. I loved life SO much before him, with him, that I couldn't see how it would ever compare. Letting go of the idea of comparison has been huge, moments are only ever moments, so if I want to sing loudly in the car then I will damn well sing until the moment comes to an end. And as my collection of wonderful moments grows, hopefully so will my overall perspective on the "enjoyableness" of my current present! Boom.
And yes, I was totally naked in a boggy moor on the roadside, here. RIP, my dignity.
Radisson, Peter St, Manchester
Having struggled with Elements 12 for god knows how many years and only upgrading to Photoshop CC late last year I thought it was about time that I tried to get to grips with it properly as most of my uploads follow the same tried and trusted process flow.
So one of my many 2018 New Year resolutions is to try new things and see where it takes me. I'm not tying myself down to a 365 or a 52 week project but will post images in the hope of some good tips from you all. So here's my first attempt... I don't know if this is colour popping or selective colouring but it was far easier than I thought although I'll have to go back to the videos and make notes as I've a memory like a sieve or is it a goldfish... see I've forgotten already!
About the picture, we were just on our way for coffee and cake when Mrs R spotted this pink taxi... that's a bit different! Out came the camera and no sooner had I taken the first shot the taxi driver spotted me and wound his window up and turned his back on me... must be shy I thought! I rushed off to catch up with Mrs R who was on a mission to find the biggest cake, but checking my framing in the rear screen I wasn't happy with the symmetry (you know me) so went back for another go. Oh boy, was that taxi driver unhappy with me... he got out of his cab, shouted something, waved his hand in an ungentlemanly manner and stormed off to the pavement - that's him on the left.
Well... if you want to go unnoticed... don't paint yer cab pink!
A build/figure a long time in the making. Longer than I think I realize. I’ve been brainstorming on how to make a good looking Swamp Thing that didn’t make use of a big fig base as I wanted him to be more scaled down than the monstrous stature that is a big fig. I feel like this is a good middle from a normal figure and a big fig. The build, with how the legs are posed, stands only a head above a normal figure, giving the build a menacing look. I have plans to use this base for future characters which will be fun to figure out.
Caught in a death grip.
This weird looking thing is ship 4 in my melee Blacktron fleet. It’s great for opening up the hulls of passing enemy ships, or giant cans of tuna for the Blacktron space cat.
This might be it for this fleet. It's definitely it for this year. Plus, I think the Neo Classic Space guys will be needing a melee fleet of their own soon..
great time this afternoooon in nodar. uploading my mind drive with wonderfull and powerfull red lines... by Evelyn Müürsepp
I know everybody is doing thing but
1. I forgot my tripod at my moms
2. I saw somebody do this months ago but my scanner didnt work so... (#hipster)
On the rare occasions I get to photograph this view there is always something in the way! A couple of years ago it was a flock of Geese. This year - the big green thing!
Somehow this started as a picture of trees and wound up as a Bird Thing. I try to go where the image takes me and hopefully it works out. You don't want to see the one's that don't.
Selfie in an old abandoned water tower plinth. This is a structure which once supported a huge water tank as used in the age of steam.
Shot with a Sony 14mm G Master lens tilted way back towards the sky and a top tip for making yourself look considerably slimmer than in real life ;-)
I heard on the grapevine that there was a couple of otters in the local lake, so I thought I would go see..
Sadly they were nowhere to be seen, but I did manage to shoot this "Big Bird Thing...
Think I could get into this wildlife photography lark...
This Male Smew was photographed at Dungeness RSPB . Where he has been keeping his distance whilst sheparding two females around , this image was taken as he flew back to them . He has taken to feeding on one of the small lakes first thing in the morning .
Around one to two Hundred Smew Visit the UK each winter only around 30 to 60 of these are Male .
While we were watching tele Baa wandered off by himself. We weren't worried because the door was closed so he couldn't get out and wander onto the road.
Next thing we knew he had found the secret biscuits and was helping himself!
Brunch is my favourite meal. This one's brought to you from Portage Bay Café in Ballard, Seattle. Not sure if that's a permanent quote on their chalkboard, but it sure did delight me.
Is this thing representative of my life? Looking a bit like a jellyfish. Notoriously difficult to handle. There's a central core, quite hard and inaccessible. Who knows what's in there? And then there are some stringy bits that flop and dangle, hanging from it. It's not easy to know what they are for, or do. They lack direction, blowing in the wind, wetted by the rain, warmed by the sun. They are pointless.
And yet they make up this 'thing'. Weird looking. Strange. curious, Interesting? There's something about it. Does it have life? Alien life, perhaps?
I really have no idea.
Street art/sculpture in Funchal, Madeira
Took this one quite by accident while snorkeling off Eleuthera, Bahamas. Was having some trouble underwater and paused to fix the problem when the shutter snapped this photo.
Tested this thing out today. The photo mode is quite an improvement, but camera inertion (and other minor stuff, too) really gives me a headache when trying to fine-tune here and there. I'd say that Forza's solution still pretty much owns pCars2's in terms of careful & accurate camera positioning, which is much more important at times than image filters and Saturation sliders. Just sayin'.
===Project C.A.R.S. 2, PC
4k (downsampling), in-game Photo mode===
-No Photoshop or any other post-process editing, just in-game tools & filters;
-No ReShade and stuff, because why even bother when the game has lots of post-proc sliders to practice with;
-I also forgot to re-set MSI Afterburner's screencap feature to grab a lossless .png shot, and took a standard .jpg instead. But hey, it adds a bit to the atmosphere (according to filter I chose there, I think) :D
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I wish that without me your heart would break,
I wish that without me you'd be spending the rest of your nights awake.
I wish that without me you couldn't eat,
I wish I was the last thing on your mind before you went to sleep.
I couldn't decide which crop I liked the most, so there's a close-up and an uncropped version in comments!
School starts tomorrow and I'm sad because I loved this summer, I did a lot of cool things and met so many lovely people. I joined two flickr meet-ups and it was such a nice experience.
But I'm also happy to meet some people of my class again, and there's one person I really look forward to meet more often when school starts.. I'm tired, I feel like sleeping and lazying around all day. I hate this feeling, it's a negative one.
I'm going to Gill's now, we're gonna have a BBQ and laugh and dance and talk.. I haven't seen her in a while (not once during the vacation) and I miss her and her family so much.
Hope you all had a nice week!
xx
"Somebody in this camp ain't what he appears to be."
('Norris Creature' by McFarlane Toys / Movie Maniacs Series 3)
Diorama by RK
Sometimes, when I can't find anything to shoot, I just sit down in the yard somewhere and take shots of whatever I see around me. It's surprising what you see, sometimes...
The tricky thing about these squares is that you end up needing to create two black areas of 1×17 plates for their sides, which is tricky enough. On top of that each square is then 17×17 plates, which makes it hard to fit in system.
If you put two close together and add a 1×17 plates white area, the total will be 35×17 plates and 35 plates = 14 studs. That makes it a lot easier to fit in system with minimal parts used to fix it all up!
I'm planning to use this in a pit-lane for my F1 Space Racer. That will have 4 mobile antigravity devices used to keep the ship in the air when it's in the pit. These will need a place to stay when not in use, so I plan to use this to mark 4 places to put them.