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I've been looking at paintings, and I found a clip light, and I was still and quiet in the night-time... learning.
Top 5 Things I Learned
5-you do not have to sweep your hair very far to one side to show a bit of shoulder.
4-although hung perfectly for my room, I would have prefered the bag higher for the photo.
3- lighting! yum
2- my appreciation for particular pieces of art deepened and changed with knowledge of the artist, the period, and intent.
1- my heart burning low feels like the beginning of sensual heating... gentle and continuous is nice and makes me smile.
Graveyard
Halsey
It's crazy when
The thing you love the most is the detriment
Let that sink in
You can think again
When the hand you wanna hold is a weapon and
You're nothin' but skin
Oh, 'cause I keep diggin' myself down deeper
I won't stop 'til I get where you are
I keep runnin', I keep runnin', I keep runnin'
They say I may be makin' a mistake
I would've followed all the way, no matter how far
I know when you go down all your darkest roads
I would've followed all the way to the graveyard
Oh, 'cause I keep diggin' myself down deeper
I won't stop 'til I get where you are
I keep runnin' when both my feet hurt
I won't stop 'til I get where you are
Oh, when you go down all your darkest roads
I would've followed all the way to the graveyard (No, oh)
You look at me (Look at me)
With eyes so dark, don't know how you even see
You push right through me (Push right through me)
It's gettin' real
You lock the door, you're drunk at the steering wheel
And I can't conceal
Oh, 'cause I've been diggin' myself down deeper
I won't stop 'til I get where you are
I keep runnin', I keep runnin', I keep runnin'
They say I may be makin' a mistake
I would've followed all the way, no matter how far
I know when you go down all your darkest roads
I would've followed all the way to the graveyard
Oh, 'cause I keep diggin' myself down deeper
I won't stop 'til I get where you are
I keep runnin' when both my feet hurt
I won't stop 'til I get where you are
Oh, when you go down all your darkest roads
I would've followed all the way to the graveyard
Oh, it's funny
How the warning signs can feel like they're butterflies?
Oh, 'cause I keep diggin' myself down deeper
I won't stop 'til I get where you are
I keep runnin' when both my feet hurt
I won't stop 'til I get where you are
Oh, when you go down all your darkest roads
I would've followed all the way to the graveyard
Guess who's turn it was to clean the kitchen. But chocolate milk and cigarettes were begging for consumption first!
The only crazy little thing I could come up with on short notice was Papayahead. White Sands Resort, (not-at-all-like) Mombasa, 25-Mar 2007.
Created for Kreative People ~ August Contest ~ PEOPLE~
TV-set with the woman upon it, is from a commercial poster from Philips.
Also
Created for Digitalmania ~ Influenced by Cathy Horner
Please view LARGE for detail
Like the dust that settles all around me,
I must find a new home.
The ways and holes that used to give me shelter,
Are all as one to me now.
But I, I would search everywhere
Just to hear your call,
And walk upon stranger roads than this one
In a world I used to know before.
I miss you more.
Than the sun reflecting off my pillow,
Bringing the warmth of new life.
And the sounds that echoed all around me,
I caught a glimpse of in the night.
But now, now I've lost everything,
I give to you my soul.
The meaning of all that I believed before
Escapes me in this world of none, no thing, no one.
And I would search everywhere
Just to hear your call,
And walk upon stranger roads than this one
In a world I used to know before.
For now I've lost everything,
I give to you my soul.
The meaning of all that I believed before
Escapes me in this world of none,
I miss you more.
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering - 1976
4/365
“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.
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...
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
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
Here is a vertical from Maroon Bells. The hardest thing about shooting this scene is keeping everyone else's tripod legs out of your composition!!! The guy next to me had a very mean dog, and would tell everyone who started to get close that they better not because the dog might bite. It was genius plan and I don't think he had the issues I did:)
Jim Boud came up from Texas and wanted to shoot some stunning Colorado scenery, so I thought the Bells would be just the place. Luckily it was the one morning in the three days that he was here that was good for photography.
Thanks for dropping in!!
Not HDR. I used a grad ND filter and processed it in Lightroom.
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