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unfortunately I forgot my mirror and had to check my make-up - out of body experience is so useful when you need to quickly check if everything is still in okay ♥
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lel EvoX AVALON 3.1
[Heaux] Yooa - Browless - Blush *VE
identity faces - scars 9 //light// left
[TEAR] Nene Set (Lel EvoX)
DOUX - 2022 Christmas Hairstyle [S]
RAWR! Coil ELF FEMALE EvoX Earrings
Body:
[BODY] Legacy (f)(1.5.1)
VELOUR x VENUS for LEGACY (BLUSH/ATHLETIC)
*KUNDALA* Abdominal Muscles BOM A19 (Legacy)
[theSkinnery] BodyScars Addon 7 light 50%
Clothes:
Muse - Star Gazer - Legacy - Fur Shawl
Muse - Star Gazer - Legacy - Bra
Muse - Star Gazer - Legacy - Fur Sleeves
Muse - Star Gazer - Legacy - Loin Cloth
Muse - Star Gazer - Legacy - Thigh Garters
Pose on the second me:
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a nice store for poses. Visit it here in the Pixit-Mainsore
Picture is taken on Panjin
Beware: Axis-HUD in use
Cistus, common name is Rock Rose. Cistus (from the Greek kistos) is a genus of flowering plants in the rockrose family Cistaceae, containing about 20 species (Ellul et al. 2002). They are perennial shrubs found on dry or rocky soils throughout the Mediterranean region, from Morocco and Portugal through to the Middle East, and also on the Canary Islands. It grows well in areas of Australia which have a mediterranean type climate and is a useful addition to the garden.
"Useful Monument" marker at Bald Rock Heritage Preserve
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Bald Rock Heritage Preserve, SC 2021APR12 – Cleveland, SC:
A great picnic lunch spot...
...And at one of our favorite mountain view stops! We visited here on the way down, and in the evening on the way back up the mountain!
The best of our 382 captures are in a mini-themed album:
• Outing to Paris Mountain State Park, SC – 2021APR12
◦ Caesar's Head Spring, SC – 2021APR12 – Geer Hwy | US 276
◦ Bald Rock Heritage Preserve – 2021APR12 – Cleveland, SC
◦ Paris Mountain State Park – 2021APR12 – Greenville, SC
Hope you enjoy 34% of 44 captures we took, going and coming!
For 'Macro Mondays' theme of 'Damage'
This was the second shot I took for this week's theme!
The first was handheld using a camera I hadn't used before and with an autofocusing lens - I got the focus wrong and the exposure wasn't too good either. In all honesty I was hoping to avoid getting out my desk-top tripod and setting it up, after clearing a space for it.
So this is a second attempt now with the camera on the tripod and some better attempt at both focus and exposure.
Looking at the picture, the shadow seems a bit fuzzy, its textured really because the paper clip was on a piece of rather rough drawing paper.
Another case of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)
Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan f2.9 50mm
"Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man.”
-- George Washington (a Founding Father of the United States, military officer, and farmer who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797)
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Build for the Pick your poison category.
Criteria used in this build:
• Beaten Track: the track trough the snow between the bamboo.
• Going Alternative: I didn't use any bricks form the plant category
• Unstable Load: The norimono, a Japanese human powered transport for people is almost falling.
• Technically Useful: some tehnic panels are used for the snow.
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My fifth build into the unofficial "make a Japanese themed build" for the Summer Joust:
2021: flic.kr/p/2m6DeCQ
2022: flic.kr/p/2nzXjpM
2023: flic.kr/p/2oSmpNd
2024: flic.kr/p/2q5s5iF
2025: this build
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C&C always welcome.
My first build of the year is a little diorama featuring a very cute sea outpost combined with a very useful...um...outhouse.
Both the building has the same color scheme, medium azure for the walls, tan for little details and medium nougat for the roof. It's the first time I've used lavender plant leaves and I'm very happy with this color.
The little outpost is built half on rock and the other half on stilts. I added a handful of little details to let it fun and lively.
The white boat is inspired by that of Anthony Wilson.
Hope you like it!
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I picked these mildly hot Serrano pepper beauties for my fish chowder, omelets, crepes, and other dishes.
It ranks 10,000 on the Scoville Scale. The Scoville Scale is very useful in picking varieties of hot pepper seeds to plant or produce to buy.
365.2021
Day 43
February 12, 2021
Train Sketching
Panormou station
M3 subway Athens to the Airport
Gouache wash
A4 Maruman Sketch pad
September 30 2025
I had planned to use acrylic throughout this entire trip. But as an engineer my mindset often reserved room for contingencies. So unconsciously before I departed I put a package of gouache, a water filled brushpen and a light thin detachable sketch pad in my backpack. Such has proven more than useful as near the end of the trip nearly all my acrylic had exhausted or dried out so much that I could no longer achieve color saturation. This is such an example.
A close up of Evergreen Current (Ribes viburnifolium) San Diego County variety of native shrubs useful as a fire resistant plant.
NGC 6334, the usefully named Cat's Paw Nebula! Shot over 3 nights at Hawker, South Australia, this is the first serious target with the new Askar 130PHQ telescope with shots over 3 nights (rather than a couple hours!), shot with R, G and B Astronomik filters and an Optolong L-Para dual narrowband for luminance and finer stars. Warp Astron WD-20 EQ mount doing a good job when the wind wasn't catching the big scope, PHD2 guiding, NINA camera control, QHY268M camera, APP and PS processing.
Immagine "colore" originale no conversioni - "Colors" are original no conversions
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Sto cercando di trovare il modo per rendere la mia presenza su Flickr sempre più "produttiva" e utile. Per questo ho pensato di tentare un esperimento:
chiedo a coloro che avranno voglia di commentere questa/queste foto di esprimere un parere il più SINCERO possibile e commentare come segue
Cosa mi piace: bla bla
Cosa non mi piace: bla bla bla
Ovviamente ognuno è libero di seguire o meno questa indicazione. Come contropartita prometto che, nei limiti del mio tempo disponibile, commenterò allo stesso modo ed in modo sincero le foto di coloro che hanno seguito l'indicazione.
Vi prego di non interpretare questo esperimento come un atto di presunzione ma sono fermamente convinto che conoscere cosa sinceramente pensano gli altri ci fa crescere fotograficamente e penso sia il motivo principale per cui vale la pena spendere del tempo su Flickr.
Grazie 1000
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I'm trying to find a way to make my Flickr presence more useful and productive. For this reason I'm trying an experiment. I ask to who will comment this/these photo/s to be SINCERE as much as possible and to comment like this:
What I like: bla bla bla
What I dislike: Bla bla bla
I can ensure that, in the limit of the time I will dedicate to flickr, I'll comment in the same way your photos.
Obviously you're free to comment in any other ways and do not intend my initiative as to be "superior". I'm convinced that to know what other think about our photos hel us to photographically grow</strong
Thanx a lot
Gott ya, one of the delicacy's that the Dowitchers search for, I guess those bills come in so useful betimes
Loranco Valley, Valle Antrona. Ossola, Piemonte, Italy.
The hut "Bivacco città di Varese". At the basis of the East ridge of Pizzo Loranco, Mittleruck in German, 3363m. The summit of the peak is visible above.
This hut provides a very useful support for the people that want to climb the East ridge of Loranco, known as "Cresta Lago Maggiore", or the vertical East face, the toughest rock climbing route of this part of the Alps.
The hut is useful also for crossing from Loranco Valley to Troncone valley, across the pass called "Coronette di Camposecco."
Useful, no doubt, when lobster boats are tied up here, but nothing was on this rope today. There's no lobstering now, to protect endangered right whales in local waters.
Day 287/365:
14/31: October 2022: A month in 31 pictures
I picked this book up while on my walk yesterday. We have an old telephone box in our village that has been repurposed as a library. I saw this classic and couldn't resist. The writing is very small so I may struggle to read it but it's proved useful already....with my other new photo board.
In addition to the original MOC, I've prepared some close-ups of the techniques I used to build the jungle.
I hope you will find them useful, or at least interesting. Feel free to ask for more detail. :)
Useful gorse (Ulex europaeus) pollen loads on this honey bee.
Loads of bees on willow catkins today but there were also some like this one working the gorse. I watched some on coltsfoot flowers too but i couldnt get a picture - they were too fast ...or maybe I was too slow.
Good to see lots of pollen coming into the hives.
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I just love sunflowers. They are so bright and happy. Whether in a field in in the home, they are a pleasure to view.
Sunflowers symbolize adoration, loyalty and longevity. Much of the meaning of sunflowers stems from its namesake, the sun itself. ... Sunflowers are known for being “happy” flowers, making them the perfect gift to bring joy to someone's (or your) day.
Sunflowers make up the genus Helianthus which contains almost 70 different species. The meaning of sunflower is rooted in it's genus Helianthus- helios meaning sun and anthos meaning flower. Grown year-round, sunflowers have large flower faces and bright petals.
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"I choose:
To live by choice, not by chance.
To be motivated, not manipulated.
To be useful, not used.
To make changes, not excuses.
To excel, not compete.
I choose self-esteem, not self-pity.
I choose to listen to my inner voice, not to the random opinion of others.
I choose to do the things that you won´t, so I can continue to do the things you can´t." Samurai Philosophy.
There are photos that we plan, photos that we find, photos that we improvise, and then there are a few photos that we dream of. Perhaps for some reason or other, the latter are the most difficult to achieve, but at the same time, they are the most special and those that justify totally dedicate to travel and landscape photography. When I get them and see the final result of the post-processing on the computer screen, the satisfaction and pride that I feel are enormous.
This time, it was the third attempt, after failing the previous days. Two days earlier, because the rain was so intense that it was impossible to focus the farthest buildings, and the night before because of the large number of people and cars passing through this famous street in Kyoto. I had no choice but to wake up at 4 in the morning and walk very fast for 40 minutes from my hostel up here. I had to get there first to prevent other photographers from being placed in front of or in the same place where I wanted to place my tripod. For a couple of hours I photographed this wonderful place in almost total solitude, I will never forget so much harmony and beauty. Another goal achieved! I thought. Fortunately, there are so many dream photos that await me, and I will not stop until I get them.
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"Yo elijo:
Vivir por elección, no por casualidad.
Estar motivado, no manipulado.
Ser útil, no utilizado.
Hacer cambios, no excusas.
Sobresalir, no competir.
Elijo la autoestima, no la autocompasión.
Elijo escuchar mi voz interior, no la opinión aleatoria de los demás.
Elijo hacer las cosas que no harás, así puedo seguir haciendo las cosas que tú no puedes." Filosofía Samurai.
Hay fotos que uno planea, fotos que uno se encuentra, fotos que uno improvisa, y luego hay unas pocas fotos que uno sueña. Quizás por unas u otras razones, son estas últimas las más difíciles de conseguir, pero al mismo tiempo, son las más especiales y las que justifican totalmente dedicarse a esto de la fotografía de viaje y paisaje. Cuando se consiguen y se ve el resultado final del procesado en la pantalla del ordenador, la satisfacción y el orgullo que se sienten son enormes.
En esta ocasión, se trataba del tercer intento, después de fracasar los días anteriores. Dos días antes por la lluvia tan intensa que hacía imposible enfocar los edificios más alejados, y la noche anterior por la gran cantidad de gente y coches que pasaban por esta calle tan famosa de Kyoto. No me quedaba más remedio que despertarme a las 4 de la mañana y caminar muy rápido durante 40 minutos desde mi albergue hasta aquí. Tenía que llegar el primero para evitar que otros fotógrafos se situaran delante o en el mismo lugar donde yo quería colocar mi trípode. Durante un par de horas fotografié este lugar maravilloso en casi total soledad, nunca olvidaré tanta armonía y belleza. ¡Otro objetivo conseguido! pensé. Por suerte quedan tantas fotos soñadas que me esperan aún, y no voy a parar hasta conseguirlas.
A couple of males in disagreement over something or other. This was pre-dawn so I wasn't at all sure the images would be useful. But, under the circumstances, I'd have to call this acceptable.
Scene from trip to a favorite haunt, Olde Good Things in Scranton, PA
Postprocessed with Snapseed using portrait preset, contrast, local adjustments, and Lightroom to desaturate. .
Useful fruit, pomegranate.
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha
Keep going on and take care my artist friend,
Sunny
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This portrait of Katherine Parr is clearly from a template produced for multiple portrait copies of the queen to be hung in the halls of English nobility. It seems to generally fit the overall image of Katherine as reddish-blonde-haired, blue eyed, healthy, and attractive.
Portrait painted by an unknown artist, possibly a follower of Hans Eworth, in the 16th century.
Oil on panel. Collection of Appleby Castle.
Philip Mould: "As the famous rhyme suggests, Katherine Parr’s record as the last of Henry VIII’s six wives was unique. She survived. Though Anne of Cleves, the sad ‘Flanders Mare’ unable to arouse England’s most insatiable monarch, lived on until 1557 it is only Katherine who was neither divorced, beheaded, or died. She was by any standards a remarkable woman: beautiful enough to marry the King of England, despite having neither royal nor court background; shrewd enough to remain his Queen, despite court plots and an attempt on her life; and courageous enough to sustain the Protestant cause, despite Henry’s latent sympathies for the Roman faith. She was Regent of England during Henry’s invasion of France in 1544. And with her publication of religious works such as Prayers or Meditations in 1545, she became not only the first English Queen to publish a work of prose, but the first woman to do so in the sixteenth century.
Katherine became Queen of England in July 1543. Henry was her third husband, but, on this occasion, not her first choice. She had instead fallen in love with the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour, and was understandably wary of Henry’s past form when it came to marital relations. Five wives had failed – what chance did a sixth have of success? Nonetheless, to turn down the King’s offer of marriage was unthinkable. Katherine, a deeply devout woman, determined that if she was to be Queen, she would be Queen with a purpose. That purpose was to further the cause of the Protestant Reformation.
In doing so Katherine, literally, risked her life. Never afraid to exercise her sharp mind, Katherine had become accustomed to discussing religion with Henry VIII. Though this was at first welcomed by the King, the conservative factions of court and church were terrified of any radical words whispered into the Royal ear - that after all was how Anne Boleyn had first led Henry towards Lutheranism. To conservatives like Bishop Gardiner and Chancellor Wriothesley the answer seemed obvious – Katherine should meet the same fate as Anne. At first, Henry, increasingly irascible from ulcerated legs, indicated that Katherine’s days were numbered. An arrest warrant was drawn up, and, amid rumours of ‘a new queen’, arrest could only have been followed by death. But Katherine succeeded in persuading Henry of her good faith and innocent naivety. “Is it even so, Sweetheart?”, said the King, “Then perfect friends we are now again…” Thus did Tudor Royalty kiss and make up.
Katherine’s victory checked any conservative renaissance in the final years of the King’s reign. From now all eyes turned to the future (Protestant) reign of Edward VI. Here, Katherine appears to have been less successful, and for once followed her heart rather than her head. With ill-considered haste, she took Thomas Seymour as her lover within weeks of Henry’s death in 1547, and married him just months later. In doing so she lost any chance she may have had in exercising power during Edward’s minority. And yet, perhaps her final and most enduring success was yet to come, for in helping to restore the Princesses Mary and Elizabeth to the line of succession she had extended the Tudor dynasty by half a century. Katherine died after giving birth to a daughter in 1548.
The iconography of Katherine Parr is of particular interest. It is ironic that so few portraits of the Queen appear to survive, given that she was the foremost patron of portraiture in mid-Tudor England. There are several reasons why the Queen liked portraiture, not least because she evidently liked art. But perhaps the most intriguing reason may lie in Henry VIII’s habit (undoubtedly annoying to Catherine) of repeatedly portraying himself with Jane Seymour. Was Katherine’s jealousy manifested in art? Was her decision to commission the first full-length portraits of Elizabeth and Mary as Princesses, part of her desire to elevate them from illegitimate bastards to heirs of the English crown? Whatever the reasons, her legacy to the advancement of English portraiture cannot be doubted.
There are five recorded certainly known portraits of Katherine Parr that survive. The first is a miniature formerly in the collection of Horace Walpole (now at Sudeley Castle), which is probably by Lucas Hornebolt. The second and third, in the National Portrait Gallery, are a full-length (once erroneously called Lady Jane Grey) by Master John, and a half-length by an unknown artist. A fourth (Lambeth Palace) shows a young Katherine in the 1530s. And now the present example represents a fifth, and shows the Queen towards the end of her life.
And yet, Katherine’s own records show that she commissioned at least more than a dozen portraits of herself; “give me one of your small pictures”, her fourth husband Thomas Seymour wrote, “if ye have any left…” The contrast between Katherine’s commissions and those extant portraits gives a useful indication of how little survives from the sixteenth century – in this case less than a third. The Queen’s chamber accounts show that John Bettes the Elder painted up to seven miniatures – none survive – and nor apparently do any other miniatures by Hornebolt, aside from the possible Sudeley example.
Records also show that Katherine was painted by Hans Eworth, the Dutch artist considered the closest thing to Holbein’s heir . Such patronage was an indication of Katherine’s desire to support the new, for Eworth had only arrived in England c.1543. His earliest known work is dated 1549. The almost enamel-like flesh tones and bright colouring of the cheeks in this portrait, together with the distinctive modeling of the eyes, may suggest that the artist of this picture was influenced in some way by Eworth’s now lost original. The accomplished handling of the detail in Katherine’s out-turned collar, and the delicate portrayal of her hair, is also reminiscent of Eworth’s Mary Neville, Lady Dacre (National Gallery of Canada). That the jewelry Katherine wears in this portrait is similar to that recorded in her inventories, not to mention the intelligent depiction of Katherine’s slight physique, further suggests that it is based on a contemporary ad vivum example."
Long timber crossing over One Stack Brook and surrounding marsh. Throwback shot to an early September '24 gravel adventure. Thank you snowmobile club members for maintaining this useful crossing for all-season usage.
Macro Mondays theme for today is "A Spoonful..."
If I ever tried to suggest to Mum that I wasn't feeling well before school, when she knew I was fine, she would head for the medicine cupboard and get the Milk of Magnesia out. Easily enough to send me to school!
I didn't have MoM, but I did have a bottle of cough mixture which was only 15 years out of date, so it proved useful before being ditched.
Crossed polarisation thanks to monitor screen and polarising filter... Screen laid flat and protected with clear perspex, and yes, it would have got very sticky.
Measured shot in comments... Exactly 3" across long edge.