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New, spooky shorts! True Boos!
The story you're about to read is based on a real event. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. Locations have been changed to protect the curious.
Who Goes There?
"I didn't realize there was so much driving involved in camping," Seth remarked, looking out of the passenger window of the truck, at the seemingly endless evergreen forest.
"We did say it was a backwoods camping trip," Teddi reminded him.
"And I said there'd be travel involved," added Erebus.
"I guess I didn't plan for time travel versus distance travel," Seth replied.
"Time travel?" inquired Erebus.
"Two hundred miles in a plane takes less time than in a truck," explained Seth.
"They wouldn't let me put the truck on the plane," said Erebus.
"Too bad," mused Seth, staring at the trees.
Erebus threw a grin at Teddi, seated between him and Seth, and she grinned back, shaking her blonde head.
The trio continued through the dense, Pacific Northwest forest like this for another hour before turning onto a disused, dirt fire road, and driving for almost another full hour until Erebus took an even more narrow dirt side road off the fire road, and the trees parted as if by magic, revealing a lovely vista of mountain meadows, and a serene little lake.
Erebus announced they'd reached the spot where they would make camp for the next two days.
Seth collapsed on a mossy spot, near the picturesque lake, while Erebus and Teddi built the camp around him.
"Now, this is more like it," sighed Seth, lying back against a tartan blanket draped over a mossy log, gazing at the crackling fire around which the trio of friends sat. "I could sleep right here."
"Probably not a good idea," cautioned Erebus. "Remember that puma we heard while we, while I was collecting kindling?"
"And this is bear country," added Teddi.
"And coyotes might come through here, but they're less likely to attack," mused Erebus.
"Pumas, coyotes, and bears?" asked Seth.
"Oh, my," teased Teddi.
"I'll be in the truck," said Seth, pushing away from the log. "Thanks for the fish and s'mores. Me and the plastic bag of domestic wine bid you good night."
Later that night, Teddi sat up in her sleeping bag, looking around. The interior of the back end of the truck glowed with pale blue ambient light from a battery powered penlight taped to the center of the canopy. Erebus and Seth were sleeping, the gentle slapping sounds from the lake and cricket chirps making the whole scene peaceful enough. She was about to lie down again when there was a distinct snap of a small branch from the forest side of the truck. All of her attention was laser focused on the back of the truck, waiting. After several moments, when whatever it was decided the breaking branch hadn't been heard by the occupants of the truck, footsteps approached the vehicle.
Teddi's head turned to follow where the footsteps walked, certain this wasn't any of the predators they'd teased Seth with. None of those predators would care that they broke a branch. They'd have kept walking. Well, she reasoned, a puma might pause, but she wouldn't hear a puma taking a stroll around and around the truck. Once or twice Teddi thought she heard pawing, or fumbling at the truck doors, and at the tailgate and canopy, but the vehicle was locked up tight, and whatever it was gave up.
She didn't intend to sleep, but she did doze off. And in the morning she told the guys about what happened. They would have teased her, if it weren't for the footprints that circled the truck, around and around. Bare, human footprints. And dirty handprints on the handles, doors, and windows.
"What was the name of that hotel we passed, coming up here?" asked Seth.
"Hot Springs Hideaway," said Teddi. "Sounds cozy. Had a lot of cars parked there."
"Sounds crowded," observed Erebus. "I'll drive. Everything loaded?"
Seth shook out the tartan blanket, tossing it into the back of the truck. "Loaded!"
"Fire out?" asked Erebus.
"Yep," said Teddi, as she slowly poured a bucket of lake water into the shallow fire pit they'd extinguished before turning in that night. "Just to be safe," she told him, tossing the pail to Seth, who chucked it into the back of the truck then closed and locked the tailgate and canopy.
"Hot springs, here we come," enthused Erebus, and the trio hastened to climb into the truck, leaving the serene little campsite to who, or whatever, called it home.
(Thank you to Erebus and Seth for camping out with me, and special thanks to Bailey for being our professional dresser!)
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One of my still lives at candle's light to celebrate the cherries harvest.
Cherries are the fruit I prefer and also the true protagonists, the most precious fruits of my area.
I like to display cherries in a rustic way, on wooden trays or bowls but in this new Still Life shooting, I have been willing to lend what cherries represent in my area, pure jewels, more than the best chocolate pralines... An unforgettable gourmet delicacy for both taste and eyes. An experience that only lasts 2/3 weeks in the year, the time they are mature and picked up. Something unmissable...
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Especially for this shooting:
Wrapping and display is important if the content is.
So, this time, I have been using as display tools only silversmith handmade author's jewellery.
Here to the right, a mini sterling silver bowl for the whipped cream, to the left a mini sterling silver fondue holder to melt chocolate and then deep inside a cherry. I made it for real, so in this photo chocolate is melting, well, maybe boiling and the candle blown up very quickly. I could not replace it as it's not a regular tealight, it's a customized mini tealight made especially to adapt to this miniature sculpture.
I built some candle's stands using some old camera tripods and fixing the candle holders on top of them. Apart this, well, I have an appointed personally conceived "technique" to display further candles in the angles where I need this particular natural light.
The ice cubes or the dry ice gas would eventually complete the special sweet fondue.
The cherries had just been picked up from the tree, I hurried up to shoot them in all their splendor of freshness.
This vision and this flavour are never possible when buying cherries from the groceries.
Zero km food is in most cases the very best food.
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True Pepsi Lover very old Pepsi cooler riding around on this VW roof rack, always in easy reach, found in North Carolina .
In the life of flowers, perfection and symmetry are their forte, but aging gracefully shows their true character and heart. How they dance as they curl, dry, withdraw. Even quite dead and dried, they are fascinating to me. These two are still on the plant.
Un verdadero regalo para la vista el tren de las gachas de este año 2025. La composición de este año, además de la locomotora 269-324-0 la formaban los coches Br4x-10803 y Bc10x-9628, ambos en decoración "danone" y los coches BBL-9606; Bc10x-9651; BBR-9805; AA-9006; AA-10012; WL26x-7128 y el furgón DD-8150. Casi nada. Fotografiado a su paso por Castillejo-Añover.
This year's porridge train, 2025, was a true feast for the eyes. This year's lineup, in addition to locomotive 269-324-0, included cars Br4x-10803 and Bc10x-9628, both in "Danone" livery, and cars BBL-9606; Bc10x-9651; BBR-9805; AA-9006; AA-10012; WL26x-7128, and the baggage car DD-8150. Photographed as it passes through Castillejo-Añover.
May your dreams come true
In a year of undoubted difficulties and at the gates of the next, I wish you with all my heart that your dreams come true.
A hug, Merry Christmas and happy 2022.
QUE SE CUMPLAN TUS SUEÑOS
En un año de indudables dificultades y a las puertas del próximo, desearos de todo corazón que se cumplan vuestros sueños.
Un abrazo, feliz Navidad y prospero 2022.
...always and forever......x
Love....
....it can leave you soaring so high, like a Lark singing with joy to the world below....
....it can also leave you so low, sucking the breath from your lungs, the energy from your muscles....
Love is such a brutal emotion...... and yet i'm so grateful to have it in my life, it lets me know that i'm alive, not just stumbling from one empty day to another.......
I feel things so intensely......... i know what true love is......
This was taken at a surprise proposal shoot just after she said yes. There is nothing like capturing raw, unposed emotion.
True Blue
Technical Notes:
I started in Photoshop CS5 . . . UNIMPRESSED - Adobe dudes.
Next, I processed it in Lightroom 5 . . . Unimpressed Adobe.
Finally, I procesed it in CaptureOne, and polished it in Nikon Capture NX2.
I almost relegated this photo to permanent storage.
A gentle reminder about copyright and intellectual property-
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“Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!”
― C. JoyBell C.
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SUNRISE - NORAH JONES
THE SUNSET TREE
I sit beneath the sunset tree
and watch the sun go down
or sit and watch it rise again
far from the madding town
I lose myself along my beach
dance barefoot in the rain
I pick up my guitar to sing
and find myself again
I wish upon a rainbow
I telephone a friend
We let our tears flow freely then
it helps our hearts to mend
There's beauty all around me
it's everywhere I look
in the tiniest of flowers
in the sharing of a book
I feel connected to the Earth
feel sand between my toes
I love to splash in puddles still
and stop to smell a rose
but most of all I'm thankful
to have a friend in you
You recognise yourself in me
we'll make our dreams come true.
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It's true. Especially when the pretty camera is photographed by another pretty camera. This is Vanessa's Mamiya, which is soooo very bright and shiny, as seen by my Hasselblad.
I "oooh" and "aaah" over this camera every time I see it. Much like I coo over puppies and flowers and (on occasion) babies.
Oh, and. Vanessa creates some pretty amazing photos with this camera, so go take a look at them. (This one is perhaps my favorite.)