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"We're only young and naive still
We require certain skills
The mood it changes like the wind
Hard to control when it begins
The bittersweet between my teeth
Trying to find the in-between
Fall back in love eventually
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Can't help myself but count the flaws
Claw my way out through these walls
One temporary escape
Feel it start to permeate
We lie beneath the stars at night
Our hands gripping each other tight
You keep my secrets hope to die
Promises, swear them to the sky
The bittersweet between my teeth
Trying to find the in-between
Fall back in love eventually
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"
The Naked And Famous - Young Blood
Head: LeL Evo X
Body: Lara X
Hair: DOUX - Hwasa hairstyle [BLOGGER PACK]
Eyes: IKON Lucidity Eyes - Eternal Pack @ Cosmopolitan Event
Outfit:
Dhoma - Whitney Lingerie Set # 10
Jewellery:
[AlternatiVe] Aimee Necklace
**Stylovely**Seet Bow Necklace in 7 Colors
Made at Sunny's Studio:
BG: KaTink - Free studio backdrop
"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
- Author Unknown
Some trees are more interesting without their leaves.
When I begun to process this exposure bracketing, I thought that I knew what I wanted to attain. I was perfectly wrong. Indeed, these RAW files kept a few secret bits of beauty which I was not aware of when I selected them for processing – and they changed the course of the journey I had foreordained.
I was in a gloomy mood, for both personal and general concerns, and the RAWs looked rather duller than the average – taken: they appeared to accurately mirror the state of my soul. At worst, I would have wasted some hours of pointless procesing work before deciding to look for something better. Nobody would have known. However things were to contradict my expectations. I got some good news (a rarity in those tough days) about the health conditions of my brother and my “adopted brother-in-law” (i.e. my brother’s brother-in-law); on the other hand, Darktable – that wonderful software – gifted me with a few unanticipated treasures. My thoughts were growing more and more positive and the processing of this bracketing were proceeding accordingly: a hidden beauty was unfolding before me, my own persisting unawareness of it notwithstanding. At last I found myself with a picture that had apparently self-processed itself*, while I was busy exploring uncharted thoughts that kept emerging along the way
* Admittedly a bizarre phenomenon, which Maurits Cornelius Escher would have loved – think of his Drawing hands.
I would avoid to nag you about this incredibly wonderful location: you can take a look at my album Silent banks, the complete collection of the photos I have taken there; the attached narratives are rich in information about the place, if you are curious enough.
This location is especially renowned for its legendary morning mists, but only a thin layer of milky mist floated above the water that morning. On top of the hill in the distance, beyond the river, lays the sanctuary of the Madonna della Rocca ( = Madonna of the Rock), already brushed by the first light pouring from the Eastern horizon.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then, as usual, I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a possible final contribution to the processing. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwithstanding, is pretty simple to implement) often holds interesting results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities. In this picture I have exploited this technique in a very frugal, yet effective, way – just some touches where needed.
RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising with DFine 2 and the Gimp (denoised and original images blended by lightness).
I thought it was time to take a break from the relentless Adventure series and I managed to sneak out yesterday morning with the camera.
This is one of my favourite places to sit and watch the world wake up. Although a new sign has appeared on the gate you have to go through
No Access
No Footpath
No dogs
No people
As it doesn't mention photographers hopefully I will be OK:-)
A 5 frame pano of a misty Piton Lake, part of the Croome estate landscaped by Capability Brown
...about posing with this gentleman?
Um, maybe.
Seen at the Michigan Renaissance Festival a few years ago
Manchmal weiß ich nicht, wo mir der Kopf steht... Manchmal gibt es Schatten, manchmal gibt es Licht... Manchmal grinse ich, obwohl mir gar nicht dazu ist... Und manchmal vergesse ich sogar, mich zu rasieren...😉 Meine erste Langzeitbelichtung mit Blitz habe ich mit mir selbst ausprobiert. Bevor ich jemanden anderes damit verunstalte, ganz nach dem Motto:
„Es gibt keine schlechten Bilder von dir; Manchmal siehst du einfach nur so aus.”
(Abraham Lincoln)
"The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you."
Cory Booker
CarlZeiss Y/Contax Planar T* 1.4/50
YUKATA Portraits @ Tokyo, Japan
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Deep in thought.
He stood there alone his only companion was the sea.
It was as if he was sharing his silent thoughts with the waves as they rolled in and perhaps in is mind the receding waves would wash away his thoughts.
North Coast, New South Wales, Australia.
Un uomo si giudicherebbe con ben maggiore sicurezza da quel che sogna che da quel che pensa.
Victor Hugo
DA VEDERE ONBLACK
A shot from my archive of photos that I never uploaded for one reason or another... Spring is on my mind!
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Taken during the Lytham 1940s Weekend 2024 (Lytham, Lancashire, August 2024)
Full album: Lytham 1940s Weekend (August 2024)
The Lytham 1940s Wartime Weekend took place between Saturday, August 17 and Sunday, August 18, 2024.
The two day spectacle saw thousands of people re-live the 1940s wartime era with a weekend of forties singing, dancing, weapons displays, historic vehicles, military charities, vintage traders and more.