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True Blood dvd release is a horror drama.True Blood follows Sookie Stackhouse, a barmaid living in Louisiana who can read people's minds, and how her life is turned upside down when the Vampire Bill, walks into her place of employment two years after vampires 'came out of the coffin' on national television...
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.”
John Ruskin(English Writer and Critic of art, architecture, and society, 1819-1900)
Discovery Green Park, Houston Texas
In true British summer tradition today we have had more rain than one would wish to shake a stick at.
It also marks the end of the week and probably what is in store for us over the weekend.
Once again I have enjoyed myself no end in taking part in this 7 days run even though my mind hasn't quite been on the task in hand. I would like to thank everyone for their lovely comments and I promise I will work my way through everyone's contributions over the next few days.
Take care everyone and will see you in the Autumn (that sounds depressing {Autumn})!
Everyone loves a good nudie.
Thats the most page views on my Flickr EVER in one day. Even on my Explored days!
hahahaa
not saying much for me, but whateverrrr
<3
Check out my brand new FB fan page with lot's of new stuff:
www.facebook.com/GergelyZakanyPhotography
Canon 7D + Helios 44 (58mm - manual - Russian lens)
Light: Natty light + 110 cm silver reflector
2009 Latin Summer Fest
Trout Lake Park
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Aug 16, 2009
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Elsa Rojas Marquez
Originally from Cordoba, in the state of Veracruz in Mexico, her Spanish/Italian roots blend an authentic sensitive art and naive charm with a fiery expressive performance!
Elsa has performed since childhood as a singer as well as in poetry recitals and oratory contests. She performed frequently in theatres around the state of Veracruz, in notable venues such as Agustin Lara's Little White House and Museum where she was fortunate to sing in the "Miercoles Bohemio" (Bohemian Wednesday). She has been accompanied on the piano by the famous musician and composer Memo Salamanca who worked with world-renowned Latin American artists such as Celia Cruz, D醡aso P閞ez Prado and Jos?Jos? She also performed in Cordoba, Veracruz as the lead singer of the Culture House Chorus. Elsa has sung as a solo artist with Mariachi bands, Trios and Marimba groups and folkloric events for over 20 years.
After moving to Vancouver in 2001 Elsa joined the Lions Gate Chorus (Sweet Adelines), but found that her true passion lies in her Spanish roots as a singer of Latin American and Flamenco music.
Elsa's unique style combines great emotional power as brought out by the Mexican "Ranchero" song and the Flamenco "Cante Jondo", along with the delicate sensitivity of Spanish "Boleros" and "Baladas" and then the spicy touch for the singing of Rumbas! Elsa never ceases to gain passionate applause with the sincerity and raw emotion of her performances.
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"Nizzam" from Watersport Unlimited, Bandos Island Resort - Maldives
If you wish to watch a preview about the video we shot there:
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tyEPhhpzSLQ
©2006 by Steve Gatto - Folgarida
steve_steady64@yahoo.it
"So true funny how it seems
Always in time, but never in line for dreams
Head over heels when toe to toe
This is the sound of my soul
This is the sound
I bought a ticket to the world
But now I've come back again
Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
Oh, I want the truth to be said
I know this much is true
I know this much is true
With a thrill in my head and a pill on my tongue
Dissolve the nerves that have just begun
Listening to Marvin all night long
This is the sound of my soul
This is the sound
Always slipping from my hands
Sand's a time of it's own
Take your seaside arms and write the next line
Oh, I want the truth to be known
I know this much is true
I know this much is true
I bought a ticket to the world
But now I've come back again
Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
Oh, I want the truth to be said
I know this much is true
I know this much is true
This much is true
This much is true
This much is true
This much is true
This much is true
I know, I know, I know this much is true
This much is true
This much is true
This much is true
This much is true
I know, I know, I know this much is true
This much is true
This much is true
This much is true
This much is true
This much is true
This much is true
I know this much is true
This much is true
This much is true
Come on, come on, come on, yeah
This much is true
This much is true
Oh I say, ooh I say come on
This much is true
This much is true
This much is true
This much is true"-- Spandau Ballet
The Iron Crown of Lombardy (Corona Ferrea) is both a reliquary and one of the oldest royal insignia of Christendom. It was made in the Early Middle Ages, consisting of a circlet of gold fitted around a central iron band, which according to legend was beaten out of a nail of the True Cross.
The crown became one of the symbols of the Kingdom of Lombards and later of the medieval Kingdom of Italy. It is kept in the Cathedral of Monza, outside Milan.
The Iron Crown is so called from a narrow band of iron about one centimetre within it, said to be beaten out of a nail used at the Crucifixion. The outer circlet of the crown is of six segments of beaten gold partly enameled, joined together by hinges and set with twenty-two gemstones[1] that stand out in relief, in the form of crosses and flowers. Its small size and hinged construction have suggested to some that it was originally a large armlet or perhaps a votive crown; according to others, the small size is due to a readjustment after the loss of two segments, as described in historical documents.
The crown was certainly in use for the coronation of the kings of Italy by the 14th century, and presumably since at least the 11th. The manufacture of the crown dates to the 8th or early 9th century. Since almost thirty European countries lay claim to fragments of the holy nails, Blom (2002) holds that "Constantine also understood the value of these objects in diplomacy"; Several were sent off to various dignitaries, one of whom was Princess Theodelinda. She used her nail as part of her crown, the famous Iron Crown of Lombardy
Here is a link to the history of this ancient crown
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Crown_of_Lombardy
And a high resolution photograph of the crown
Quase acabando o dia mas ainda consegui postar. #HAPPYBIRTHDAYMADONNA
Eu já fiz todas as homenagens possíveis hoje e já disse o quanto você é importante pra mim. Obrigado por tudo Queen.
Bom, quem sabe como é a capa original de True Blue sabe que é apenas uma foto, nada de especial e eu quis manter isso, mas colorindo uma foto no shoot que na verdade é preta e branca.
Ficou bem simples, espero que gostem.
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Almost done the day but I still managed to post the cover. # HAPPYBIRTHDAYMADONNA
I've done every award possible today and has said how much you matter to me. Thanks for all Queen.
Well, who knows the original cover of True Blue, knows that's just a picture, nothing special and I wanted to keep it, but coloring a photo of the shoot that is actually b&w.
It was pretty simple, hope you like. Check it out the transformation.
"Kiss Me True" is enjoying her date with her boyfriend.
She loves him very much because he always ends the date with his sweet kiss goodnight!
Her fashion is a blue glittery mini dress with a champagne gold bustier inside.
She matches a black rider's jacket, a cool belt and boots on the dress.
The dress has an asymmetry layered skirt, and the gold bustier inside adds a nice color to her outfit.
She wears a black belt with a buckle to mark the waist.
On the dress, she wears a faux leather rider's jacket.
The length of sleeves and body are cut short, so it is not too hard rock.
You can match the jacket to many kinds of outfit you have!
© 2012 Paul Newcombe. Don't use without permission.
Near Bretton Clough, Peak District, UK.
This is something I've not done in a long, long time. And something I usually avoid doing. Taking a photograph where there is no direct light hitting the landscape. But maybe light isn't everything, there are other aspects to a photograph. This is what it's like most of the time recently. Maybe it's time for me to show the landscape in it's true colours.
This was taken approaching Bretton Clough (seen in the distance). It's a lovely walk, starting from the Barrel Inn (the highest pub in Derbyshire). I was hoping to to photograph the White Peak much more over spring, but it didn't happen due to the weather.
Needless to say, I have a bag full of compositions and I'll be back with the weather conditions I usually like.
"ERECTED OCTOBER 1912 [in Keith Park and relocated to Wiess in 1926]
BY ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON
CAMP No. 75, U.C.V.
AND THE CITIZENS OF BEAUMONT
IN MEMORY OF THE
CONFEDERATE SOLDIER
RENDERED IMMORTAL
BY HIS DEEDS OF VALOR,
SACRIFICES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
- 1861 - 1865 -
WHICH ARE WITHOUT A PARALLEL
IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD."
"HE WAS A WARRIOR
TRUE AND TRIED
WHO BORE THE FLAG
OF A NATIONS TRUST.
HE FELL IN THE CAUSE
THOUGH LOST STILL JUST
AND DIED FOR YOU AND ME"
But, for a reality check, here is the shameful truth about that "cause though lost still just", from the Secession Convention of Texas:
A declaration of the causes
which impel the State of Texas to secede
from the Federal Union
The government of the United States, by certain joint resolutions, bearing date the 1st day of March, in the year A. D. 1845, proposed to the Republic of Texas, then a free, sovereign and independent nation, the annexation of the latter to the former, as one of the co-equal States thereof,
The people of Texas, by deputies in convention assembled, on the fourth day of July of the same year, assented to and accepted said proposals and formed a constitution for the proposed State, upon which on the 29th day of December in the same year, said State was formally admitted into the Confederated Union.
Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated States to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquillity and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people. She was received into the confederacy with her own constitution under the guarantee of the federal constitution and the compact of annexation, that she should enjoy these blessings. She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery--the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits--a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time. Her institutions and geographical position established the strongest ties between her and other slave-holding States of the confederacy. Those ties have been strengthened by association. But what has been the course of the government of the United States, and of the people and authorities of the non-slave-holding States, since our connection with them?
The controlling majority of the Federal Government, under various pretenses and disguises, has so administered the same as to exclude the citizens of the Southern States, unless under odious and unconstitutional restrictions, from all the immense territory owned in common by all the States on the Pacific Ocean, for the avowed purpose of acquiring sufficient power in the common government to use it as a means of destroying the institutions of Texas and her sister slave-holding States.
By the disloyalty of the Northern States and their citizens and the imbecility of the Federal Government, infamous combinations of incendiaries and outlaws have been permitted in those States and the common territory of Kansas to trample upon the federal laws, to war upon the lives and property of Southern citizens in that territory, and finally, by violence and mob law to usurp the possession of the same as exclusively the property of the Northern States.
The Federal Government, while but partially under the control of these our unnatural and sectional enemies, has for years almost entirely failed to protect the lives and property of the people of Texas against the Indian savages on our border, and more recently against the murderous forays of banditti from the neighboring territory of Mexico; and when our State government has expended large amounts for such purpose, the Federal Government has refused reimbursement therefor, thus rendering our condition more insecure and harassing than it was during the existence of the Republic of Texas.
These and other wrongs we have patiently borne in the vain hope that a returning sense of justice and humanity would induce a different course of administration.
When we advert to the course of individual non-slave-holding States, and that a majority of their citizens, our grievances assume far greater magnitude.
The States of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa, by solemn legislative enactments, have deliberately, directly or indirectly violated the 3rd clause of the 2nd section of the 4th article of the federal constitution, and laws passed in pursuance thereof; thereby annulling a material provision of the compact, designed by its framers to perpetuate amity between the members of the confederacy and to secure the rights of the slave-holding States in their domestic institutions--a provision founded in justice and wisdom, and without the enforcement of which the compact fails to accomplish the object of its creation. Some of those States have imposed high fines and degrading penalties upon any of their citizens or officers who may carry out in good faith that provision of the compact, or the federal laws enacted in accordance therewith.
In all the non-slave-holding States, in violation of that good faith and comity which should exist between entirely distinct nations, the people have formed themselves into a great sectional party, now strong enough in numbers to control the affairs of each of those States, based upon the unnatural feeling of hostility to these Southern States and their beneficent and patriarchal system of African slavery, proclaiming the debasing doctrine of the equality of all men, irrespective of race or color--a doctrine at war with nature, in opposition to the experience of mankind, and in violation of the plainest revelations of the Divine Law. They demand the abolition of negro slavery throughout the confederacy, the recognition of political equality between the white and the negro races, and avow their determination to press on their crusade against us, so long as a negro slave remains in these States.
For years past this abolition organization has been actively sowing the seeds of discord through the Union, and has rendered the federal congress the arena for spreading firebrands and hatred between the slave-holding and non-slave-holding States.
By consolidating their strength, they have placed the slave-holding States in a hopeless minority in the federal congress, and rendered representation of no avail in protecting Southern rights against their exactions and encroachments.
They have proclaimed, and at the ballot box sustained, the revolutionary doctrine that there is a "higher law" than the constitution and laws of our Federal Union, and virtually that they will disregard their oaths and trample upon our rights.
They have for years past encouraged and sustained lawless organizations to steal our slaves and prevent their recapture, and have repeatedly murdered Southern citizens while lawfully seeking their rendition.
They have invaded Southern soil and murdered unoffending citizens, and through the press their leading men and a fanatical pulpit have bestowed praise upon the actors and assassins in these crimes, while the governors of several of their States have refused to deliver parties implicated and indicted for participation in such offences, upon the legal demands of the States aggrieved.
They have, through the mails and hired emissaries, sent seditious pamphlets and papers among us to stir up servile insurrection and bring blood and carnage to our firesides.
They have sent hired emissaries among us to burn our towns and distribute arms and poison to our slaves for the same purpose.
They have impoverished the slave-holding States by unequal and partial legislation, thereby enriching themselves by draining our substance.
They have refused to vote appropriations for protecting Texas against ruthless savages, for the sole reason that she is a slave-holding State.
And, finally, by the combined sectional vote of the seventeen non-slave-holding States, they have elected as president and vice-president of the whole confederacy two men whose chief claims to such high positions are their approval of these long continued wrongs, and their pledges to continue them to the final consummation of these schemes for the ruin of the slave-holding States.
In view of these and many other facts, it is meet that our own views should be distinctly proclaimed.
We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.
That in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding States. By the secession of six of the slave-holding States, and the certainty that others will speedily do likewise, Texas has no alternative but to remain in an isolated connection with the North, or unite her destinies with the South.
For these and other reasons, solemnly asserting that the federal constitution has been violated and virtually abrogated by the several States named, seeing that the federal government is now passing under the control of our enemies to be diverted from the exalted objects of its creation to those of oppression and wrong, and realizing that our own State can no longer look for protection, but to God and her own sons - We the delegates of the people of Texas, in Convention assembled, have passed an ordinance dissolving all political connection with the government of the United States of America and the people thereof and confidently appeal to the intelligence and patriotism of the freeman of Texas to ratify the same at the ballot box, on the 23rd day of the present month.
Adopted in Convention on the 2nd day of Feby, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one and of the independence of Texas the twenty-fifth.
[Delegates' signatures]
“True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.”
I am happy to finally being able to share some of the photos from the last wedding i have been doing over the Christmas period. I have to say this one was a little tricky as i have had no second shooter and there were in excess of 200 people at the wedding and the couple only had an hour for the photos in between ceremony and reception. But they were great and we had a lot of fun :).