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What are some of your favorite tales?
I find myself drawn to transformation tales of souls that become butterflies, snakes that become noble, and innocents that become birds.
I am wondering if 2015 could possibly be the year that I take Helene to a new level. So far since I began cross-dressing fifteen years ago, then age 41 with much smoother skin, I have transformed into my female alter-ego mainly in privacy and usually alone. I have rarely net another transvestite. I did venture out in public very briefly in 2002 but soon lost my nerve and since then have felt queasy at the prospect of going out in public while dressed as a woman.
I'm aware I have been fortunate enough to be complimented on my appearance when attempt the art of female illusion. My problem is I cannot quite see myself as others do, I feel a complete failure in my efforts but I’m not gloomy or down, far from it. I feel elation and joy and love to be dressed as a woman. I just feel I don’t actually look remotely feminine in any way. I wish I did.
However, I feel my fears on venturing out starting to recede somewhat more because I so enjoy the rare occasions I become Helene that part of myself is desiring to actually spend time actually being her out in the world. There is an enthusiasm starting to build within me.
The adorable and supportive Pamela Lennon has encouraged me for several years now and I am grateful to her. Another T-Girl, Claire Doolan, has also been encouraging me and I am grateful to her as well. The warm hearted Amanda McG has been truly wonderful and has really boosted my confidence considerably recently.
I now find myself musing on what I will wear and how I will style my wig for the day I venture out….there, I’ve said it…venture out…
Yes, I am now musing over the prospect and I’m not quite as fearful as I was. My problem is I genuinely want to be perceived as female not male. I do not want to be a man dressed up i want to be a woman completely when I venture out. Obviously, this is down to me getting the look right, getting my behaviour and mannerisms right and coming across convincingly as female. I want this so much I feel momentum to g through with it pushing me within.
I often hear remarks such as don’t worry about passing, just be who you are. Well who I am is a man that seeks to pass, that’s what I dream of. I don’t ant anything else. I want to go out and portray myself as a woman wholeheartedly for the period I am dressed and acting as one. It’s my goal. I‘m not keen on just settling for a lesser experience I have been heading for this one for all of my adult life.
This is a picture taken on the camera self timer last June. It was evening and I was trying my utmost to create a real world female appearance. To be honest I felt rather nice and excited in this outfit. I was aiming for a feminine nicely dressed woman look with (hopefully) nice enhancing make-up and a shorter contemporary hair style. I am not very tall as a person and my face is quite bland with a weak chin (all good for me as a transvestite). I feel a shorter hair style back combed helps create a slightly more elegant shape to my whole body shape. More importantly, I find when I wear a shorter wig style I feel more feminine, it feels more real to me than the favoured transvestite choices of long hair styles. Some aces suit longer hair but I find a shorter wig opens up my face ore and is a bit more feminine as a result.
I usually study real women that look stylish and feminine and I noticed the key is choosing a hair style that works with ones facial shape not necessarily a hair style one wants to wear because as transvestites it fits more our perceived ideal of how a woman should look.
I believe fervently that discovering what works and looks female is the key to succeeding in creating a convincing female appearance. We usually pursue a goal of that which we like, which is fair enough, one should be free to enjoy what they like, but often that does not mean it is going to work out for the best. My mantra for several years is ‘be the woman you can be, not the woman you want to be’.
If you are keen to become a convincing looking woman then being willing to have an open approach is the best way to proceed in my personal view. It’s all bot getting the mix right and finding the right combinations of styles and make-up application. So often transvestites just put on things in a hotchpotch manner and don’t apply their make-up with any kind of direction to making the most of feminising one’s face. Cross-dressing is fun but you if you seek to pass then some discipline and direction needs to be adhered to of one wishes to look realistically like a woman. It is an art form and becoming skilled in the art of illusion is a skill worth mastering.
I would suggest one does not become too drab and dowdy, nice clothes are out thee for women of all ages, why blend in so much one is invisible. I know my vanity likes the feeling of being admired as a woman. I like the idea of being seen as feminine and (hopefully) attractive and if at all possibly, stylishly dressed. I would enjoy admiring glances for these reasons. It is what I call the right kind of attention. I know many women certainly enjoy admiring attention. As Helene I too would like that.
I suppose Helene frees up suppressed flamboyant aspects of my persona. The dressing up, the make-up, the hair, the click of the heels, the swish f hem on a dress…yes, I want to catch peoples eye but I know it is all just down to my vanity. I do feel more emboldened as a woman so I wonder just how I will become once I have ventured out on a few occasions? Will the dam break? Will I thrive on being Helene the woman out an about? I cannot help feeling I will probably get completely at home with the persona, something within me feels sure of this though I cannot say why.
I’ve reached the point now in my life where women I see and admire and who are quietly confident and draw the admiring glances of both men and women have inspired me to the cusp of I too want to become one of them (albeit part time). I want to be waking along in a tailored skirt suit, legs on display clad in nude coloured tights, feet swathed in stylish high heel court shoes, a perfectly ironed tailored blouse and precisely applied make-up and a beautifully styled wig with my nails painted and a fragrant air of perfume. Yes indeed, I really would like to be such a woman.
Will I finally become such a woman?
This year? Maybe…
Serie: Sanatorium
Muere lentamente quien se
transforma en esclavo de sus hábitos,
quien no se arriesga,
quien evita una pasión,
quien no arriesga lo cierto,
por lo incierto...
quien abandona antes de empezar,
quien se queja de su mala suerte,
quien no viaja, no lee, no sueña,
quien no confía, quien no lo intenta,
quien no ama...
Lo contrario es estar vivo.
This is the queue in the Liverpool One shopping centre when the Transformers Roadshow came to town. We spent a happy afternoon working our way through this lot twice. The joys of being a grandparent!
Me he transformado en horrocrux (horcrux en su versión original), un malévolo objeto que describe Rowling en Harry Potter para explicar…narrar o simplemente informar de algo que me indigne y más viniendo de tantísima sangre muggle como viene.
Esta explicación no va dirigida a ti, que has llegado a ti por casualidad. Ni a ti, que ya sabes de qué va el asunto. Ni a ti, que hablas inglés y probablemente no entiendas más que palabras sueltas. No te preocupes, para ti tampoco, ya sé qué piensas tú de mí y de lo que hago y por eso sé que estás aquí.
No, en absoluto.
Esta explicación va dirigida a ti. ¿Te sorprende? Sí, a ti, no disimules, sabes muy bien que me dirijo a ti.
Te preguntarás por qué, o quizá ni siquiera te lo preguntes (a lo mejor son muchas inquietudes seguidas, bastante con leer un párrafo tan largo ¿no? Ya, ya sé que no eres una persona acostumbrada a ‘tochos’ tan largos, pero eh, merece la pena).
Y es que me hace gracia. Y digo gracia para que lo entiendas. Me hace gracia cómo te ríes de lo que hago, de lo que practico y de lo que soy. Cómo se te llena la boca al criticar, cómo te gusta regodearte en ¿exactamente qué? Porque dime, hay algo que no termino de entender de tu hilarante discursito ‘habitual’
Y es que te rías de mis fotos y las critiques. Vamos, por favor ¿de mis fotos?
Estoy segura de que serías capaz de pagar por una cámara mágica que hiciera algo similar a lo que hago yo cuando meto magia en mis fotos.
Si tuviera un giratiempo seguro que te encontraba alabándolas y hasta…
Espera un momento. ¿Cómo es posible? Ah sí, esas fotos que tanto criticas tachándome de torpe y de falsa artista a día de hoy ¡sigues usándolas!
Porque hay que ver, lo bien que quedan en tu foto de perfil. Seguro que alguna hasta la has impreso para poder verla en papel. Seguro que hasta cuando te han pedido una foto para mostrar quien eras, has utilizado una de las mías.
Porque te lamentas por dentro al pensar que se van a quedar atrasadas las únicas fotos en las que te gustas. Y ¿por qué será? Ah sí. Porque soy buena.
Porque he visto tu corazón y sé cuáles son tus complejos, sé cuáles son esos detalles físicos que quieres modificar. Y los he editado a placer para convertirte en algo bonito frente a mi cámara.
Que sí, que se te puede llenar la boca diciendo cuanto me odias, lo malvada que soy y las fotos tan patéticas que hago según tú. Pero bien que siguen ahí presidiendo manualidades, avatares, fotos de perfil de tus múltiples redes sociales. Y mira que ha pasado tiempo ¿eh?
Pero pensándolo bien, dejando aparte la hipocresía, supongo que en el propio ‘pecado’ llevas la penitencia.
Porque sinceramente, no sé qué es peor: si el hecho de, a pesar de odiarme tantísimo como lo haces, no poder terminar de desprenderte de mí y no conseguir que desaparezca porque sigo en muchas de las cosas buenas que tiene tu vida…
O saber que nunca nadie te sacará en una foto cómo yo lo hice.
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¿Ves? ¡Y ya está!
Que nadie se dé por aludido porque probablemente, a quien esto va dirigido no se entere. No se trata alguien que me lea habitualmente y habrá pisado mi flickr veces contadas. Mucho menos pararse a leer algo que no esté establecido como obligatorio para clase.
Pero tenía que decirlo.
Inspiración para esta foto (imagen del horcrux de Harry Potter 7 parte 1)
Y… SORPRESA! a petición twittera… Sesión de fotos rescatadas de ZAHARA de 2010 en… desatandolosrelampagos.blogspot.com
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Top Row: Magnetic Motion; Hacking Infinity; Wilderness Embodied
Middle Row: Voltage; Hybrid Holism; Micro
Bottom Row: Biopiracy; Synesthesia; Crystallization
From a pet to a working dog. Every spring Fritz changes from pet to working dog. He protects the mine from bears or other animals that may want to visit.
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.....Hanmer Forest has transformed from summer through to autumn, lovely golden shades.
For the All New Scavenger Hunt #10 Transformed
Slowly getting back into Flickr.
Strobist: 580exII in gridded softbox above camera, wl1600 bare bulb behind model. Both triggered via pocket wizards.
Webb is clearing up a space mystery!
Early in our cosmic history, gas in the universe shifted — over hundreds of millions of years — from opaque to transparent. Only when the gas became clear did light travel freely through the cosmos. But how did this change happen? Webb proves the answer lies in galaxies from the early universe.
Astronomers looked into galaxies so far away that their light took almost 13 billion years to reach us. That made these galaxies the perfect window into what the universe was like about 900 million years after the big bang, just before it became fully transparent.
Webb witnessed these galaxies heating up and ionizing the gas around them, turning their surrounding regions transparent. These transparent “bubbles” were about 2 million light-years in radius! Scientists believe the bubbles of transparency eventually grew and merged, creating a transparent universe. Learn more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-s-webb-proves-gala...
This image:
More than 13 billion years ago, during the Era of Reionization, the universe was a very different place. The gas between galaxies was largely opaque to energetic light, making it difficult to observe young galaxies. What allowed the universe to become completely ionized, leading to the “clear” conditions detected in much of the universe today? Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found that galaxies are overwhelmingly responsible.
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joyce Kang (STScI)
Image description: Four-part illustration. First illustration: Tiny teal irregular blobs appear over a lighter medium blue background. Some are very tiny and more distant, others are slightly bigger, but none are touching. Label: Stars form and galaxies assemble. In the second illustration, the irregular blobs are all bigger, but still have varying sizes. The middle two are overlapping, but still complete circles. Label: Galaxies begin to change the gas around them. Third illustration shows bigger irregular blobs that still have varying sizes. Some have hazy spiral shapes at their centers and light orange-yellow smaller circular blobs adjoining them. The majority of the bubbles are overlapping and appear to be merging. Label: Areas of transformed gas expand. Fourth illustration has a continuous dark blue background. Hazy spiral shapes appear in various colors across the scene. Label: Clear universe, end of reionization.
My original painting (24" x 20" vertical) was in yellow with patches of pink and light blueish green. I transformed it into this mixed media horizontal image with the magic of Photoshop. Copyright © 2010 ArtsySF . LINK to the ORIGINAL painting:
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As ever we had a wonderful evening at the Carrington Hotel in Katoomba.
Great friends, wonderful dance music and over the top hospitality.
Transformal number nine was a great success.
Patrimoine architectural de la rue de Vaux.
~~L'Hôtel construit dans la première moitié du 17e siècle et transformé au milieu du 18e siècle puis à l'époque contemporaine. Les salles anciennes conservent des décors de plafonds peints vers 1630.
~~Hôtel Richer de la Jousserie - Inscrit M.H partiellement.
This is the second image, taken four days after posting (Transform) to Flickr.
If God willing this will transform into a beautiful Gulf Fritallary (agraulis vanillae) Butterfly.
Its amazing the that I am able to document the total live span of these delicate creatures. Thanks.
Sara Pantuliano, Managing Director, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom, speaking during the session, Transforming Humanitarian Finance, at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 25, 2018. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
These old barges on the river normally look quite dull and uninteresting (unless you particularly like old barges!) but yesterday's morning light and mist transformed them into something of real beauty.
Looks like I don't have time again :( Hope you like these small guys, two of them weren't shown before.
Yay, it my first Flickr year gone into the past...
Hopefuly I'll be able to make a comeback in december!
"Light Transformed"
The cool thing about a camera sensor is that it captures light over time, which we cannot do since we observe light in real time. This is a composite of at least 4 long exposure images involving pond ice, a plastic snowflake, a laser pointer, various flashlights and an evening moon photo from last year. What does it conjure in your mind?
Back in 1959-60 this was part of the last 1/3 of my High School Cross-Country course. It was just barren rolling hills of hard-packed adobe clay.
The 23'' Brave Mama Bear Plush Toy, released by the Disney Store online and in stores in the US and Canada on May 14, 2012. The price is $39.50 US. She is the transformed Queen Elinor, has a soft crown on her head, articulated arms and legs, soft black fur, faux leather nose and paws, and embroidered eyes.
Her legs rotate 360 degrees about the hip joint, and her arms are bendable, with internal wiring. When her legs are rotated so she is standing, they are not sturdy or stiff enough for her to be stable free standing, so she needs a bit of support to stand. However, she is very stable sitting down. She is a hefty doll, weighing in at 3 pounds 2 ounces (1.417 kg). Her fur is VERY soft, and looks and feels like real fur, and her body is soft and cuddly. As she is handled, some individual hairs come loose, but there is very minimal shedding.
She is a very accurate depiction of the mama bear in the Brave trailers shown so far. The tag on the bear actually says ''Mum Bear'' which the (mostly) British way of saying Mother (or Mama) Bear.
transform, 2001, 60"w x 40"h, mixed media painting on canvas
transform = transformation = transmute = transubstantiate = metamorphose = translate = convert = change = mutate = reform = modify = revolutionize = tweak
*Exhibited at Sandra Goldie Gallery, Montreal, Canada, group show. Nov15-26.05.
"My healed chest wound
Transformed into a gate
Where I receive love from
Where I give love from…"
*Björk*
He's so big, guess he needs a little help.
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