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278/365. "True emotions" part 5...This was really fun to take even tho I about dropped my camera in the water a bunch of times. :)
doesn't require the constant sparkle and shine, the fresh flowers, and all that jazz. True love requires work and patience, and honesty to survive the test of time. Shot for CC December's most versatile - paper. Why you ask does this fit paper - because backdrop used was silver glitter paper, and the flash reflected off sheets of blue and red. Glitter paper from the dollar store, found in my magical cupboard. Moving it to my collection of papers so as not to lose it again LOL! Correction - can't use this for CC"s most versatile - the challenge calls for wrapping paper... I might have time to shoot again - thank goodness I hadn't put that bin away yet LOL!
The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae. Finches have stout conical bills adapted for eating seeds and often have colourful plumage. They occupy a great range of habitats where they are usually resident and do not migrate. They have a worldwide distribution except for Australia and the polar regions. The family includes species known as siskins, canaries, redpolls, serins, grosbeaks and euphonias. Many birds in other families are also commonly called "finches". These groups include: the estrildid finches (Estrildidae) of the Old World tropics and Australia; some members of the Old World bunting family (Emberizidae) and the American sparrow family (Passerellidae); and the Darwin's finches of the Galapagos islands, now considered members of the tanager family (Thraupidae). Finches and canaries were used in the UK, Canada and USA in the coal mining industry, to detect carbon monoxide from the eighteenth to twentieth century. This practice ceased in the UK in 1986. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finch
Costruito tra il 1856 e il 1860 nel bel golfo di Trieste, dimora di Massimiliano d'Asburgo-Lorena, arciduca d'Austria e della sua consorte Carlotta del Belgio.
I due regnanti non ebbero fortuna, a Massimiliano venne attribuito il titolo d' Imperatore del Messico dove si recò, assieme all'amata Carlotta, nel 1864, ma i messicani lo odiavano e dopo qualche anno (1867) lo fucilarono. Carlotta ritornò al Castello di Miramare e presto impazzì dal dolore. Per questo a Trieste si dice che visitare il castello assieme all'innamorata porta sfortuna e forse è vero, da ragazzino non conoscevo questa triste diceria, ma ricordo che, quando avevo 15 anni, ci andai col mio primo amore che amavo tantissimo, ma, poco dopo, la nostra storia finì
Dopo di allora io cerco di trarne vantaggio, ci porto le morose solo quando il mio interesse per loro non è proprio grande
Built between 1856 and 1860 in the beautiful Gulf of Trieste, home of Maximilian of Habsburg-Lorraine, Archduke of Austria and his wife Charlotte of Belgium.
The two rulers had no luck, Maximilian became emperor of Mexico where he went, together with his beloved Carlotta in 1864, but the Mexicans hated him and after a few years (1867) they shot him. Carlotta returned to Miramare Castle and soon she went crazy. This is why in Trieste they say that visiting the castle together with your lover brings bad luck, I don't know if this sad legend is true, but I remember that when I was 15 I went there with my first love and, shortly after, our story ended.
After then I try to take advantage of it, I only bring girlfriends there when my interest for them isn't exactly great
day 40/365 for a doll a day
Amaryllis shows her true colors in Squeaky Monkey, Eurotrash and Future Lovers.
We've been traveling and not on the computer much at all -- I'm looking forward to catching up with everyone a little over the next few days!
Rabooka plays with my camera. My head shakes at the thought of being photographed in a bib that states my true nature. :)
This was taken at a surprise proposal shoot just after she said yes. There is nothing like capturing raw, unposed emotion.
Title: To a Wild Rose
Artist: Karen Zhang
Category: Intermediate
Age: 13
Materials Used: Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils (Crimson Red PC 924, Canary Yellow PC 916, True Blue PC 903, Black PC 935, White PC 938, Colourless PC 1077), 400 series 9 in x 12 in Strathmore Drawing Paper
Photo reference taken by me
#cpmchallenge @jerrysartarama
Credit here
Outfit: Forever True - Keeping it cool T-Shirt/ Shorts
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Hair: Foxy - Gigi
Pose: Crystal - GI(Friends 3)
Accessory: Junkfood - Horizon Tea
ChicChica - FruitWater
Body: Legacy Classic
Suntanned, windblown
Honeymooners at last alone
Feeling far above par
Oh, how lucky we are
While I give to you and you give to me
True love, true love
So on and on it will always be
True love, true love
For you and I have a guardian angel
On high, with nothing to do
But to give to you and to give to me
Love forever true
A true friend is with you through thick and thin, hell and high water, break ups, deaths, valor, and disgrace.
Santa Elena Augusta
Flavia Julia Helena Augusta
Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady on Thorns (Aranzazu)
Municipality of San Mateo
Province of Rizal
Philippines
SantaCruzang Bayan 2008
May 25, 2008
About SAINT HELENA
Venerated in:
Roman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodoxy
Oriental Orthodoxy
Lutheran
Anglicanism
Canonized:
Her canonization precedes the practice of formal Canonization by the Pope or the relevant Orthodox and Lutheran churches.
Feast:
Roman Catholic: August 18
Lutheran: May 21
Orthodox: May 19
Coptic Orthodox: 9 Pashons
**Finding of the True Cross: May 03
Symbol: Cross
Derivatives: St. Helena of Constantinople, St. Helen, St. Eleanor
Patronage: archeologists, converts, difficult marriages, divorced people, empresses
Flavia Julia Helena Augusta, also known as Saint Helena, Saint Helen, Helena Augusta or Helena of Constantinople (ca. 250 – ca. 330) was consort of Constantius Chlorus, and the mother of Emperor Constantine I. She is traditionally credited with finding the relics of the True Cross.
Family Life: Helena's birthplace is not known with certainty. The sixth-century historian Procopius is the earliest authority for the statement that Helena was a native of Drepanum, in the province of Bithynia in Asia Minor. Her son Constantine renamed the city "Helenopolis" after her death in 328, giving rise to the belief that the city was her birthplace. Although he might have done so in honor of her birthplace, Constantine probably had other reasons for doing so. The Byzantinist Cyril Mango has argued that Helenopolis was refounded to strengthen the communication network around his new capital in Constantinople, and was renamed to honor Helena, not to mark her birthplace. There is another Helenopolis, in Palestine, but its exact location is unknown. This city, and the province of Helenopontus in the Diocese of Pontus, were probably both named after Constantine's mother.
The bishop and historian Eusebius of Caesarea states that she was about 80 on her return from Palestine. Since that journey has been dated to 326–28, Helena was probably born in 248 or 250. Little is known of her early life. Fourth-century sources, following Eutropius' Breviarium, record that she came from a low background. Ambrose was the first to call her a stabularia, a term translated as "stable-maid" or "inn-keeper". He makes this fact a virtue, calling Helena a bona stabularia, a "good stable-maid". Other sources, especially those written after Constantine's proclamation as emperor, gloss over or ignore her background.
It is unknown where she first met her future partner Constantius. The historian Timothy Barnes has suggested that Constantius, while serving under Emperor Aurelian, could have met her while stationed in Asia Minor for the campaign against Zenobia. Barnes calls attention to an epitaph at Nicomedia of one of Aurelian's protectors, which could indicate the emperor's presence in the Bithynian region soon after 270. The precise legal nature of the relationship between Helena and Constantius is unknown: the sources are equivocal on the point, sometimes calling Helena Constantius' "wife", and sometimes calling her his "concubine". Jerome, perhaps confused by the vague terminology of his own sources, manages to do both. Some scholars, such as the historian Jan Drijvers, assert that Constantius and Helena were joined in a common-law marriage, a cohabitation recognized in fact but not in law. Others, like Timothy Barnes, assert that Constantius and Helena were joined in an official marriage, on the grounds that the sources claiming an official marriage are more reliable.
Helena gave birth to Constantine I in 272. In 293, Constantius was ordered by emperor Diocletian to divorce her in order to qualify as Caesar of the Western Roman Empire, and he was married to the step-daughter of Maximian, Theodora. Helena never remarried and lived in obscurity, though close to her only son, who had a deep regard and affection for her.
Constantine was proclaimed Augustus of the Roman Empire in 306 by Constantius' troops after the
latter had died, and following his elevation his mother was brought back to the public life and the imperial court, and received the title of Augusta in 325. Helena died in 330 with her son at her side. Her sarcophagus is on display in the Pio-Clementino Vatican Museum. During her life, she gave many presents to the poor, released prisoners and mingled with the ordinary worshippers in modest attire, exhibiting a true Christian spirit.
Sainthood: She is considered by the Orthodox and Catholic churches as a saint, famed for her piety. Her feast day as a saint of the Orthodox Christian Church is celebrated with her son on May 21, the Feast of the Holy Great Sovereigns Constantine and Helen, Equal to the Apostles. Her feast day in the Roman Catholic Church falls on August 18. Her feast day in the Coptic Orthodox Church is on 9 Pashons. Eusebius records the details of her pilgrimage to Palestine and other eastern provinces (though not her discovery of the True Cross). She is the patron saint of archaeologists. The names "Saint Eleanor" and "Saint Eleanora" are usually synonymous for Saint Helen.
Relic Discoveries: In 325, Helena was in charge of a journey to Jerusalem to gather Christian relics, by her son Emperor Constantine I, who had recently declared Rome as a Christian city. Jerusalem was still rebuilding from the destruction of Hadrian, a previous emperor, who had built a temple to Venus over the site of Jesus's tomb, near Calvary.
According to legend, Helena entered the temple with Bishop Macarius, ordered the temple torn down and chose a site to begin excavating, which led to the recovery of three different crosses. Refused to be swayed by anything but solid proof, a woman from Jerusalem, who was already at the point of death from a certain disease, was brought; when the woman touched a cross suddenly recovered and Helena declared the cross with which the woman had been touched to be the True Cross. On the site of discovery, she built the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, while she continued building churches on every Holy site.
She also found the nails of the crucifixion. To use their miraculous power to aid her son, Helena allegedly had one placed in Constantine's helmet, and another in the bridle of his horse. Helena left Jerusalem and the eastern provinces in 327 to return to Rome, bringing with her large parts of the True Cross and other relics, which were then stored in her palace's private chapel, where they can be still seen today. Her palace was later converted into the Santa Croce in Gerusalemme.
The reliquary of Jerusalem was committed to the care of Saint Macarius and kept with singular care and respect in the magnificent church which Saint Helen and her son built there. Saint Paulinus relates that, though chips were almost daily cut off from it and given to devout persons, yet the sacred wood suffered thereby no diminution. It is affirmed by Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, twenty-five years after the discovery, that pieces of the cross were spread all over the earth; he compares this wonder to the miraculous feeding of five thousand men, as recorded in the Gospel. The discovery of the cross would have happened in the spring, after navigation began on the Mediterranean Sea, for Saint Helen went the same year to Constantinople and from there to Rome, where she died in the arms of her son on the 18th of August of the same year, 326.
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Unbelievable but true . . . I was in the yard taking photos of birds when all of a sudden all the birds (about 50, mostly sparrows) disappeared. I thought there might be a hawk nearby so I started to look around. Low and behold only about ten feet to my right was this huge hawk perched on my birdbath!
It did not notice me until it heard the click of the camera shutter. It was gone in an instant.
Then I started worrying that it was too close and closer than the minimum focus distance of my lens. I was pleasantly surprised to find nice sharp close-up photos of this hawk. Now I’m off to check my guide books to try and ID it! Hooray!
Update: Its an Immature Cooper's Hawk!!! It was huge! Thanks to Stylurus (Darrin) for the ID help!
“In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.”...... Hans Nouwens