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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 .
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
Mamiya 645J. 55mm 2.8N (I think ... it might've been the 45).
Exposure unrecorded, but probably a minute and half at F8ish, on Portra 160.
Scanning: Epson V600.
If you scroll back through my photostream, there are a couple of digital takes on this house. I like this film version, but it's edging close to straight-up Todd Hido territory. (Honestly: I'd been doing the Suburbs At Night thing for a couple of years before I found out about him)
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
you make my heart sing... A Bald Eagle taken at the Hawk Conservancy at Andover a couple of years ago. It's a super place to visit. They do a lot for conservation and re-introductions to the wild. They also have several flying displays with some of their birds each day.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather - John Ruskin
Part 2 of the comic train !
The Thing wagon !
Nikon D700
Nikkor 24-70mmf/2.8
Lightroom 3.2
Nik software HDR EFEX Pro
"Blue-eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
You can sew it up but you still see the tear
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Baby's got blue skies up ahead
And in this I'm a rain cloud
Oh this is a stormy kind of love
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing"
I will one of the 3 judges for the 2nd Annual Love Poetry Contest (All poets will be given to be anonymously)
Second Annual Love, Love Poetry Contest
The Blue Angel, Merope Madrigal, is pleased to announce The Second Annual 5000 Linden, WINNER TAKE ALL, poetry contest.
To Enter:
Write a poem of no less than 15 words and no longer than 50 lines which must center on the theme of "LOVE".
ONLY ONE ENTRY per person. (Please do not use alternate IDs to enter more than once.)
Participants must put their own original poem on a Second Life inventory notecard with full permissions enabled and transfer a copy to by 4 pm SLT, February 13, 2021.
The notecard description must include your avatar's ID and the words - Dive Contest Entry -
Submitting a notecard grants Merope Madrigal the right to read the entered poems aloud during the open mic event on Sunday, February 13, 2021, and e-mail the poem to the judging panel.
The poems will be transferred by Merope Madrigal onto a Word docx file with identifying labels removed and e-mailed to the judges.
The judges will vote on their choice and eventually select only one poem from the entries. They must communicate their winning choice to Merope Madrigal before 4 pm SLT, February 20, 2021 when the winner will be announced during the open mic event.
The contest is open to all SL residents, the poet must be at least 18 years of age in reality.
Any poem with racist, obscene, or sexually explicit content that is offensive to the judges and Merope Madrigal, or is against the Linden Labs Terms of Service will be disqualified and not read aloud during the open mic on February 13th.
PLAY FAIR AND PLAY SAFE!
Picture credit: Ally Ha'ani
This is my much loved Ferrari Testarossa. Not the real thing, but a prized, die cast and rather rather large 1/8th scale model.
It was made "way back" last century by a company called Pocher, (sadly no longer in business) who made the most amazing and detailed large scale models. This is actually one of the less detailed kits with just over 500 parts. It includes such detail as pop up headlights, fully opening doors, bonnet (hood) and boot (trunk - which is actually at the front of this car, being a rear engined one). The fully working steering wheel is linked to the front wheels and it has full suspension. The engine has amazing detail with real rubber fan belts and the like. It is a treat to view on its own. Inside, the seatbelt material is real, and the gear lever moves through that wonderful chrome slotted H pattern gate. The seats move fore and aft, and even have reclining backrests! It even has a tiny key on a keyring which will unlock and open the doors! Some of the other more detailed vintage models go as far as having working brakes, and have real leather upholstery.
My model is in a bad way and needs some tender loving restoration. Through moving house no less than nine times, it has suffered a little with every pack and unpack. Normally it would have lovely wing mirrors, but both have broken off several times. I still have them but need to do some detailed work to get them back on again.
I will hopefully present it again one day in a better setting and with a little more attention paid to getting the forced perspective right. Here it is in our front garden under the dappled shade of our silver birch tree. In over 30 years of owning this car, this is the first time I have photographed it. I even washed and polished it (with real Meguiar's car polish) just for the occasion! (What a geek!)
I took a photo just like this last year (see it here) when I went on a fall camping trip around the same time. Being from Miami, I haven't seen many fall colors in my days, so when I have the opportunity to see them I take it. The colors weren't peaked but we still had an amazing time. This photo in many ways signifies how when I look back at my life and where I've come in the past few years, I am utterly amazed at what God has done in my life and how much it's changed because of Him in college. For most of my life I knew God was real and knew we were meant to know Him personally and that He loved us, but I was surrounded my legalism and false religion. I was told you shouldn't do this or that and if you do these things, God will be happy with you and you'll go to heaven. I was told all the ways I could "reach" God, yet I feel no one was actually able to do it. That's because it's impossible, He's perfect and we're not - but the beautiful thing is God doesn't ask us to reach Him, He stepped down off of His perfect throne in heaven and came into a world full of evil and hate, because He loves us that much and wanted to show us all He is willing to do for us if we are just willing to say yes to Him. I think about how I used to think I was a good person and now I know that I fall so short of that, but that Christ is showing me what it means to truly love and helping me show that to others. I think about how I wasn't even planning on going to the college I'm at now and how I am so thankful I was led there because now I have the most amazing family who has encountered Jesus and been wrecked by Him and not living another day for anything but Him. I go to what many people consider to be the biggest party school in the country, and I tried those things and saw how deeply unsatisfying they were, and am now in a place where I experience indescribable joy, love, and peace. I cannot begin to describe how incredible it is to know the God of the Universe so closely and deeply and if you have any desire at all to know Him too, you absolutely can and please inbox me and I will tell you more about my story and how you can know Him!
A trio of sequentially numbered ARR Geeps, 3005-3004-3003, are on the short end of their 12 hour day. Seen here climbing Potter Hill at sunset 10 miles from tying up and calling it a day.
trying out some ideas for upcoming exhibitions in 2026
please be respectful and do not use my work without permission.
"Scientists to the last—what had they done that we would not have done in their place? Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star-spawn—whatever they had been, they were men!"
of the belle of the ball
((I am a moron. I accidently deleted this pic. I didn't even get to read the new comments :(
Hiawatha National Forest (technically County) Highway 01, Chatham, Upper Peninsula, Michigan - August 3 2024
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