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Useful Beauty / Castelo Mendo, Portugal.

Una hermosa pieza de metal para sujetar una contraventana.

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A beautiful piece of metal to retain a window shutter.

No longer needed.

 

No longer wanted.

Around 5 weeks ago I bought this order, and it came today! I ordered a bunch of foliage, and some other useful pieces that will be used in future MOCs. Tell me what you think!

playing at the architectural side of salvage

I have no idea if this is useful.

Uses: Anything relating to finance and money.

 

Free Creative Commons Finance Images... I created these images in my studio and have made them all available for personal or commercial use. Hope you like them and find them useful.

 

To see more of our CC by 2.0 finance images click here... see profile for attribution.

The Battle of Durrough: The Black Swan

A story of rebellion against tyranny, from Lands of Roawia Castle Builders Game. Global Challenge 7, Unrestricted Entry.

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Commentary: GC7 was all the reason I needed to build the Black Swan, but what a build it turned into...one of the most challenging and largest of all my builds. The studs-not-on-top half-timber technique alone was a handful, not to mention that gabled roof. It all comes apart in levels too, including the roof.

 

Please read the story; I know it's long but it's action-packed and my best writing yet, I believe. Cheers!

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The Black Swan Tavern was known for its dark ale brew, catering to sea captains, high prices and outstanding hot food served using fresh ingredients. It benefited from its location next to Angus Square, which hosted an excellent market every weekend, with fresh fish from the Aines River and wares from all over the Provinces. On this day however, reputations would change forever, and what was once a peaceful cobbled square would soon be known by all as The Bloody Market.

 

Lord Oslet moved his men as silently as possible through the misty morning streets of Durrough, determined to catch his prey, one Baron Munro and his lackey of an archer captain, Tavish. Oslet had ensured everything was ready; he had chosen the best shots in the entire garrison, all armed with deadly crossbows. He carried one himself—except his had a little extra potency to it. His 100 hand-picked troops had soft boots and no armor or shields to cause noise, and they moved carefully in the pre-dawn shadows toward the meeting place, the tavern the traitorous Duke Cartney had referred to as The Black Swan.

Oslet had seen to everything, sending a troop of 50 more men farther east to circle back around and approach Angus Square from the opposite end of the city. He even had his best tactical commander, Captain Bladari, standing by with another 200 men in the Bastion on call in case there was trouble.

There wouldn’t be, of course. The Aines River was flowing swiftly, and no boats were in the immediate vicinity, leaving no avenue of escape for this Caelan Munro. Lord Oslet’s anticipation of ridding himself of a thorn in his side, the leaders of those deadly Scout Snipers, grew with every step, and by the time they reached the Swan he was in high spirits. His men approached cautiously, but all appeared well in the mist as they were well ahead of the reported meeting time between Munro and his disreputable spy-traitor to the Queen.

His vanguard moved silently along the wharf and up to the riverside door of the Swan, trying to open it quietly. It wouldn’t budge, and several of them set about trying to force it while the rest moved past the Swan and peaked around the corner into Angus Square. The mist obscured much, but what they saw made them pause, and then motion for their lord to see.

Oslet came forward and peaked himself. The square was heavily cluttered with barrels, wagons, and stands from the three Factions of Roawia, but no movement. It smelled heavily of fish, but there was nothing strange about that. Oslet looked at his men to see what they meant, and one of them whispered, “Too much here.”

“It’s Market Day, you dolt, what did you exp….” he trailed off, for approaching from the other end of the wharf were two cloaked figures moving cautiously in the shadows. As they drew closer it was clear the two forms had bows strapped over their backs and wore green cloaks.

“Early, are we?” Oslet mumbled, and motioned for his men to spread out in reception, as the two unwary men were headed straight for the Black Swan. Oslet smiled at the sight of his prey, and when the moment was right he called out, “It’s to be the gallows for you, Sir Caelan!”

His two targets froze, but as his mind registered this he heard a calm but firm voice call from only thirty feet to his left, “It’s arrows for you stupid.”

And then all chaos broke out. The fly of arrows filled the air, and all around him his men fell like stalks of wheat before a scythe. Windows opened above him, and he caught sight out of the corner of his eye forms leaning out and raining deadly shots upon his troops from the top floors of the Swan. Oslet felt a pain in his thigh, and instinctively rounded behind one of his men, who immediately caught in the chest an arrow meant for him. He made his way back behind his guards one at a time, and only called for a retreat after he had passed them to ensure he had human shields to absorb the shots meant for him. By the time he rallied what men he had left, well out of arrow range, he had less than half of what he came with to that bloody tavern. Without their armor, they were easy pickings.

“Did you get him?” Sir Caelan looked up at Captain Tavish, perched atop the Angus Fountain to improve his shot advantage.

“Nah, I missed the blighter I think…perhaps grazed him.” Tavish shrugged, “Hard to tell in this mist.”

“Mist?” Munro pretended to object, “You’re slipping.”

Tavish frowned. “He kept duckin’ behind his men, the coward!”

“It’s not manly to complain, you know.” This received Tavish’s most undignified look yet.

Caelan moved forward to see better and to wave congratulations at his 25 men in the Swan. Behind him were 75 more, all having hidden amongst the “clutter” and buildings surrounding Angus Square. The remaining 25 Scout Snipers under his command were farther to the east, serving as rear guard to oppose the encircling Queen’s troops no doubt trying to cut their path of retreat off. They would soon be getting the same brutal treatment Caelan had just given Oslet. Before him lay numerous bodies and wounded crawling away to anywhere they could. Some of his men were sniping those still able to aim their crossbows. They just couldn’t resist one of their primary roles they had been trained for: counter-archer fire.

 

One hundred yards west, Oslet cursed furiously, mostly for his lost dignity and little for the loss of his men. He had suffered only a flesh wound in his thigh, but had suffered greatly in the eyes of his command. When he learned however that Caelan was neither pursuing nor retreating, he brightened and immediately sent for Bladari and his 200 men, including his best unit, the Silver Spears. They were fully armored, and that alone ensured victory, so long as Caelan stood his ground.

And he did. As Bladari came up and saluted his master, Lord Oslet stated, “I have to admit they surprised us and we lost most of our crossbowmen, but the great fool has decided to stay and fight—pride, no doubt. Now we get them all—how stupid, a major threat in the countryside but now hopelessly outnumbered and outclassed in street fighting. Either way, I must ask the Silver Spears to storm that tavern and square. Kill them all.”

Captain Bladari indeed tried valiantly. His men moved in like a landslide, charging forward into a hail of arrows. The sun had come up, burning the mist off, and now the Spears were charging toward the east with the sun directly in their eyes. Their armor did help tremendously, until close range was reached. Then the Scout Snipers’ accuracy made any opening in their armor fair game.

Much worse waited for them in the square however. The Snipers had stacked the deck, for in the time in between attacks they had slammed open the many barrels they had brought, and out poured fish oil, the stuff of slippery nightmares on cobblestones. Just at the point where the Silver Spears should have made contact with the Snipers, the soldiers slipped perilously instead, and blood now mixed freely with the fish oil.

Up on the fountain, Tavish had a field day. He took particular delight in shooting whoever carried the Silver Spears’ banner, and after four fell in succession as they picked it up to lead forward, the spear-tipped signal remained on the ground for the rest of the fight.

The Snipers inside the Swan however had no such fish oil barrier to help them. Bladari’s men were able to withstand enough shots to approach and break through the windows, and the ones that lived to see the other side made it to the door to move the blockade keeping it closed. In addition, Lord Oslet was carefully taking those Snipers shooting from the windows out with shots from his poisoned quarrel bolts. The ten Snipers who held the bottom floor were overwhelmed as the Queen’s troops poured into the Swan, only happy to avoid the meat grinder in the square. Only two Scouts made it up the stairs before the others blocked it off with tables, but now their attention had to be on survival, and Bladari’s men were able to storm the wharf almost unopposed.

Sir Caelan only had a handful of pikemen to hold the attackers off for the Snipers to have shooting room, and they paid heavily for their bravery. Caelan’s squire, Sholto, was standing off to the side, taking an occasional shot with his short bow when he could, but to him it looked like they would soon be overwhelmed. Then he watched his knight charge forward into the fray in Lenfald armor, fighting two-handed as was his method, and swiftly four more of the attackers fell.

One who caught sight of this action was Captain Bladari, who immediately recognized that he could end this madness if he could down Caelan. He moved carefully forward as to not slip on the oil while relying on his full plate armor to deflect every arrow. The two exchanged quick glances and then went right to work without any words. Bladari’s broadsword made brutal impact with Caelan’s armor, but with such a heavy weapon he couldn’t keep up with his opponent’s longsword with long dagger follow-up. Caelan eventually gave him a deep slash to his right thigh, then his left knee, and Bladari went down fighting. He continued swinging until Caelan slashed his sword hand and that was it. Expecting a death blow, he stared up at the young Baron defiant, but was surprised when Munro charged forward instead, leaving him wounded but alive. What he missed was the arrival of Duke Cartney at the head of his own Durrough men-at-arms, who swept all before them.

 

Lord Oslet was quite pleased with himself now that he was clearly winning the fight, when a runner arrived and announced that the North Gate of the city had fallen to Sir Haymar Glen, and an armed horde of Lenfel troops was storming down High Street. “Who the deuce is Haymar?!?” he yelled in surprise. “How can this…” and his eyes suddenly set in the distance upon Bladari’s men scrambling in full rout toward him. Right behind them were Lenfels in full charge, and leading them was Duke Cartney himself. All came clear to him; the entire engagement was a trap set by Duke Cartney himself with his lies of an easy ambush on Caelan, and he now knew full well that the entire city was in rebellion against the Queen.

“To the Bastion!” he screamed as loud as possible, holding up his crossbow for all to recognize him, and cries of retreat echoed his command. But he did not turn with the others immediately. Instead he lowered his weapon with poisoned quarrel loaded, and aimed it straight at the approaching Duke Cartney…

…To be continued in the next build, Battle of Durrough: Cobblestone Bridge

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Previous Caelan stories:

Sir Caelan Munro Background

A Hostile Invite

Great Northern Gray Wolfpack

Gathering Intel for the War

Fall of the Ice Wizard

Restoring A River Guardian

Lenfald Scout Snipers Taking Down A War Elephant

We Will Not Yield!

Rewards and Regrets

Friends in Low Places

Go Where No One Else Will Go

Cloak and Dagger

Vipers in The Garden

Prelude to The Battle of Durrough

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Useful, Missouri, USA

 

I haven't been able to find anything out about the curious name of this town. If anyone knows anything, I'd be happy to hear about it.

 

UPDATE: janwalkerimages rocks. See her information on the town and its name origin below.

This is a video that I had forgotten I did that special weekend in 2018. I am wearing this very outfit and, for a change, talk a bit. Now don't get your spirits up because, as has been the case in recent videos, I talk nonsense. Here is the link for those not interested in my thoughts about why I do less videos these days:

 

youtu.be/uQAcH7NICc0

 

I have been asked why I don't do videos anymore. I don't have a clear answer but maybe it has a lot to do with the time involved and that I have ran out of useful things to share. Another thing that comes to mind is that I have become lazy when it comes to dressing, resulting in less opportunities and less time to do vídeo.

 

It was never an easy thing to do because I had to focus on three things that don't come natural to me, at the same time. First I had to focus on moving in a feminine way, then I had to focus on sounding feminine and finally, and perhaps the hardest, improvise a meaningful message since I never prepared a script. You might have noticed that in recent years, the message is always the same and quite meaningless; generally just a simple greeting. It was different when I had an experience to share like the times I went to the therapist or out with my sister in law, but that was only for a short period of time.

 

I'd like to think that my videos might have been useful, inspiring and educational in the early years since not too many of us where sharing our experience in motion. Today, the Internet is filled with all sorts of videos sharing tricks of the trade, makeup tutorials and even transition stories that are far more useful and have better quality. Wait, maybe that is the main reason I stopped doing mine! No, seriously, I appreciate all the support and encouragement I have received on my videos over the years. As a matter of fact, every time I meet people for the first time, it is my videos they remember, along with the experiences I shared in them. That alone makes me realize that it was all worth the effort.

 

You have no idea all the work involved in getting the videos up in those days. The first years I taped them with a digital tape camera and then had to download the movie from tape to the computer in a workable format. After that some clipping, editing and sometimes even some text and then upload them to Youtube. Internet speeds and format quality were not even close to what we have today so you can imagine. Add to that the fact that almost every video was done twice, one in English and the other in Spanish! I have no idea how I found the time to share close to 150 videos in that cumbersome way! What matters is that I enjoyed doing and sharing them and they served a purpose at the time. It am proud for having done my part when I had the chance and, again, for all the amazing people I got to meet because of that.

 

I am not saying that I will not do videos any more but when I do them they will, most likely, be less meaningful and more along the lines of my most recent mute walks back and forth. I just realized that that is how I started out; with mute videos showing me walk. Well thank you if you read all the way till the end and I am sharing the link here too to save you the effort of scrolling up :)

 

youtu.be/uQAcH7NICc0

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Este es un vídeo que no recordaba haber hecho en aquel fin de semana especial de 2018. Llevo puesto este atuendo y, como cosa rara, hablo un poquito. Eso sí, no se emocione porque, como es el caso en mis vídeos reciente, digo puras tonterías. Aquí está el link para quienes no tienen interés en leer mi sentir en cuanto a por qué ya no hago tanto vídeo en estos tiempos:

 

youtu.be/uQAcH7NICc0

 

Me han preguntado muchas veces por qué ya no hago vídeos como antes. No tengo una respuesta clara pero creo que tiene que ver con el tiempo que involucra y que ya no tengo experiencias útiles por compartir. Otro factor es que me he vuelto muy perezosa para propiciar oportunidades para vestirme, lo que resulta en menos oportunidades para hacer vídeo.

 

Hacer vídeos no era cosa fácil porque me tenía que enfocar en tres cosas que no me son naturales, al mismo tiempo. Primero me tenía que enfocar en moverme de manera femenina, luego enfocarme en producir una voz femenina y finalmente, probablemente lo más difícil, improvisar un mensaje con sentido ya que nunca hice libretos. Se habrán dado cuenta que en los años más recientes el mensaje es generalmente el mismo y carente de significado; por lo general un saludo breve. Era diferente cuando tenía alguna experiencia que compartir como mis visitas al psiquiatra o salidas con mi cuñada pero eso se dio durante un periodo corto de tiempo.

 

Quisiera pensar que mis vídeo sirvieron de inspiración y ayuda en aquellos tiempos ya que no muchas de nosotras compartíamos nuestras experiencias en movimiento. Hoy día, Internet está repleta de todo tipo de vídeos en los que se comparten trucos, experiencias, instrucciones de maquillaje y hasta historias de transición que son mucho más útiles y están hechos con mejor calidad. ¡Esperen, tal vez es por eso que dejé de hacer los mío! Ya en serio, agradezco el apoyo y ánimo que recibí por mis vídeos a través de los años. De hecho, cada vez que conozco gente por primera vez, mencionan que recuerdan haber visto mis videos y las historias que compartía. Solo con ese hecho, me doy cuenta de que valió la pena el esfuerzo.

 

No tienen idea de todo el trabajo que implicaba subir los vídeos en aquellos tiempos. Los primeros años los filmaba con una cámara que usaba cinta digital y luego tocaba pasar el vídeo de cinta a un formato que permitiera bajarlo a la computadora. Luego de eso editarlo, a veces ponerle textos y luego subirlo a Youtube. La velocidad de conexión y la calidad de los formatos no eran ni siquiera cercanos a lo que tenemos hoy así que ya se imaginan. Agreguemos a eso el hecho de que hacía casi cada vídeo dos veces, uno en español y el otro en inglés. ¡No tengo idea de dónde saqué el tiempo para compartir casi 150 vídeos de esa manera tan arcaica! Lo importante es que disfruté mucho haciéndolos y compartiéndolos y que tuvieron algún propósito en ese momento. Me siento orgullosa de haber contribuido con mi granito de arena cuando tuve la oportunidad y, de nuevo, por todas lla gente extraordinaria que he conocido a través de esto.

 

No quiero inferir que no haré más vídeos pero cuando los haga, seguramente serán menos significativos y más como los que he hecho recientemente en donde solo camino de un lado a otro sin decir algo. ¡Acabo de percatarme de que así es como empecé; con videos mudos en los que solo caminaba! Gracias por haber leído hasta aquí y les comparto de nuevo el enlace al vídeo para que no tengan que volver a buscarlo :)

 

youtu.be/uQAcH7NICc0

Since Flickr is an useful tool for organising photos and it's easier seeing which vehicles I do and don't have pictures of on here than on Windows, I'm in the process of uploading photos of buses that haven't appeared on my photostream yet, along with extra or better shots of ones that have. I've started with the midi fleet and this time around it's Enviro 200s I'm focusing on.

 

Here I've got two for the price of one with ex-blue line 'long' E200 388 passing purple line 'short' E200 372 on Parliament Street.

 

28.1.17

Valletta, Malta

 

The jury is still out with respect to my final thoughts on the tiny Viltrox 28mm AF lens. I think it's useful for some things, but the image quality is a bit all over the board depending upon lighting conditions. It's a fun lens to 'play with', but I don't think it's living up to expectation on my APS-C camera, at least. I really expected it to be a stronger performer on an APS-C camera based on the reviews I've seen on the 'net. It is the perfect 'normal' focal length for me on APS-C, however, and that's why I'm still trying to see what I can/can't do with it. I'm suspecting there is a lot of copy variation with this cheap lenses.

Wilson's River Valley NSW Australia

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♡POSE♡

BREAK 203 CAR MODEL SET

 

Here is some useful information:

 

All poses are read and modified for your convenience.

 

- Facial expressions for all poses were obtained with the corresponding head hud.

- Make sure you stop all the huds controlling your hands, otherwise they will replace the bento pose.

- Please be aware that some minor changes to your form may be required to adjust poses.

- Car + cigar included

- Contains 7 single poses

- No transfer

 

All poses with accessories were configured with other people's usability in mind. Therefore, all of them come with the objects configured to be rezzed at the time of use.

  

♡PURCHASE IN-WORLD♡

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This is where Mirai proves to be useful in daily life - charge my phone. The long cable when not in use can also be rolled up and placed in the satchel bag around Mirai's shoulder.

 

View more at www.dannychoo.com/en/post/27352/Smart+Charge+Mirai.html

This model is based on one of my all-time favorite DTM cars, the #7 Dekra 155 Alfa.

 

This is the first build using my DTM sedan chassis which has a few qualities that I’ve found useful. It has a one-stud extension between the fender/wheel wells to create more length in the body, and utilizes either or both 1x2 bricks and 2x2 plates with side studs at each end of the chassis to enable mounting of the face and the rear of car so that the studs are facing horizontally. Obviously, I make variations on this based on what the form dictates, but it gives a relatively flexible starting point.

 

For this chassis, I have vertically staggered the wheel arches so that the rears are one plate lower than the front giving the car a downward rake towards the front which is frequently an aesthetic found on DTM and touring sedans, especially those prepped for track duty.

 

I had immense trouble creating a bi-level rear wing that looked like the ones run on the Dekra cars. Capturing the ultra thin wing at the right angles proved evasive, and I ended up using the wing design from the #24 and #28 black cars seen in the later years of Alfa’s DTM run with the 155.

 

One detail I was particularly happy about was capturing/hinting at the Alfa logo nose shield using two cheese wedges clutched-in behind the bumper.

 

I used 1/32 scale aftermarket waterslip decals for the race livery, as well as some leftover Lego red stickers to create the A, B and C pillars as well as the small angled detail found at the inboard base of the tail lights.

 

Custom white letters round out the wheel treatment to capture that DTM look. I achieved a deeper dish look with the wheels by cutting away the center ridge in the SC tires that forces the tire to align with the central gutter of the wheel, therefore allowing you to offset the tire.

Margherita

 

Enough with violence against women (1/4)

 

In an attempt to present something socially useful, Michele & Miriam have chosen to address the theme "Enough with violence against women", sadly a topical topic.

Gender-based violence often occurs close to us, invisible and more frequent than we suppose. It remains silent and persistent, not casual as when it appears on the news or when it is remembered on special occasions.

Psychological and physical violence, condemnation and liberation are featured in this unpublished photographic series, presented at the group exhibition "Coetus: multiplicity" in San Donà di Piave - Venice Italy in the year 2022.

 

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Basta con la violenza sulle donne (1 di 4)

Nel tentativo di presentare qualcosa di socialmente utile, Michele & Miriam hanno scelto il tema "Basta con la violenza sulle donne", argomento, purtroppo tristemente, di attualità.

La violenza di genere avviene spesso vicino a noi, invisibile e più frequente di quanto percepiamo. Rimane silenziosa e costante, non episodica come quando compare nei telegiornali o viene ricordata nei giorni ad essa dedicati.

Violenza psicologica e fisica, denuncia e liberazione, compaiono in questa serie fotografica inedita, presentata alla mostra collettiva "Coetus: molteplicità" a San Donà di Piave - Venezia Italia nell'anno 2022.

I like to be useful in the kitchen.....

a spot of exercise in one's lunch hour.

Happy Fence Friday! HFF

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Dainty pink purple fuchsias in a garden with a black and white background. I chose selective color for this image to make these colorful fuchsias pop.

 

Fuchsia is a vivid purplish red color, named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which took its name from the 16th century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs.

 

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A sunny winter afternoon capture of a farmland property inland west of Macksville, New South Wales, Australia, showing an old rustic barn and old metal farm gate at the top of road / driveway.

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The trails that I hiked in Palo Duro Canyon State Park are among the best-marked I have seen. Signs appear every one-tenth of a mile & provide both the distance to the trailhead as well as the trail's name, I guess in case you have forgotten. (JC= Juniper Trail-Cliffside.) They're easy to see, and each trail sign has its own color; helpful if you've remembered to bring the park's hiking guide along. All kidding aside, this is not a place to wander far from the trail or hike aimlessly.

Thanks to Ids de Jong for some useful C&C on this one, because I was preoccupied it took a while to retake pictures but it's finally done.

Not sure if you've had enough of these kites, but the light was so good the day I went to Nant yr Arian I can't help posting another one! There were nearly always two or more birds coming down for meat on the water which made for untidy pictures, but in this instance I thought it worked in the composition as well as showing the behaviour.

 

I read a review of the 7D MkII the other day, written by Andy Rouse, and in it I learnt something useful that I hadn't known before and which applies to all Canon (and maybe other) cameras. I'll mention it here in case its useful to anyone: The default Picture Style is Standard, and I've always left it on that with all the cameras I've had, but he points out that this style sharpens the whole picture slightly even when you're shooting raw. If you choose the Faithful Picture Style it won't do that. Its useful because you will probably want to selectively sharpen your images rather than sharpen across the board, so you can leave the background nice and smooth…. I've immediately changed my settings, but I haven't taken any pictures yet, since changing it!!

 

Because there is some doubt about what I've said above about Picture Styles, this is the quote from the Andy Rouse article:

 

"Now a little about the processing. It was shot with a "Faithful" picture style which applies 0 sharpening. This is a really really important point and you need to understand its significance. If you set the style as " Standard" then sharpening is applied to the whole image. If you leave this untouched then the RAW converter, Canon's DPP in this case, will sharpen the RAW during processing to the same degree and you will get a TIFF that has been sharpened across the whole image. This means all the noisy bits have been sharpened too!!! Myself, and many pros like me, never ever ever do this. We sharpen only the bits of the image that need sharpening, i.e. the deer here. This means that I switch off all sharpening, by using "Faithful" and ensure that the RAW converter does the same at processing time. Then, when I am finished my colour correction in Photoshop I sharpen only the deer using Nik Sharpen on a layer. That way I avoid any background noise being sharpened. I have done this with every single camera I have ever used and I have applied it here to the 7D2 as well."

 

Colorful decorative pumpkins at a pumpkin patch, useful for fall projects and backgrounds

Keys are useful. They do so much. They can take you on adventures, unlock mysteries, keep things in/others out and get you home.

Yeah, these are all of my BrickArms prototypes. Most were gifts, others were prizes, and a few were traded "gift for gift."

 

But now that I have your attention, I'd like to say that I'm "back" again, for now. I've been swamped down with schoolwork after coming off of 15 days of being sick with Bronchitis. Gosh those were some horrible days.

 

Now that I have less work, and more free time, I'll be a bit more active.

 

Thanks guys!

 

-Chef

Talons are useful, but you have to use them carefully.

Barred owl (Strix varia) at Dillant-Hopkins Airport, Swanzey, NH

(23 Noveomber, 2024)

A Barn Owl stretching its wing from inside its tree-trunk home

Useful little things until you knock half a box of them off a shelf and into your printer!

These rockers were at the front door of the lodge, they made you feel very welcomed...

Useful for drilling exploratory holes in asteroids (or enemy ships).

Camera: Zeiss-Ikon Contessa 35

Film: hp5+ 400 asa (expired)

Print: Agfa BH312 Brovira (very expired not useful for normal prints)

Developer: Moersch easy lith 1+50 30 minutes

Visitors lounging upon Mary Heilmann’s “Sunset” installation on a terrace of Whitney Museum

Proving how useful to have a water source in your garden or balcony - not just for the birds !!!

This video explains how to set up Categories on the CatTech website. Categories allows you to name and create specific buttons for your products on the Cat Hud. This is useful if you sell a variety of items and you want to group them accordingly. Categories makes it incredibly easy for customers to find what they are looking for. You can filter Adult items and For Sale items and Categories can be added or deleted.

KT actually making herself useful!

Now I've got the Alien³ bug...tooling around with some bits and pieces. I always wanted to build some scenes of the surface but at the moment I don't have a clear design in mind so I'm not sure if I wanna do micro or forced perspective, a vignette or a full dio 🤔

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