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2025 Weekly Alphabet Challenge - P is for Posy
This little ready made posy of silk flowers came from Hobbycraft about 18 months ago, and has sat on a table by my front door since then ... about time I changed them :)))
Uploaded for: Flickr Weekly Themes - Amazon
The human impact on the Amazon rainforest has been grossly underestimated according to an international team of researchers from Brazil and the UK, led by Lancaster University.
They found that selective logging and surface wildfires can result in an annual loss of 54 billion tonnes of carbon from the Brazilian Amazon, increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
This is equivalent to 40% of the yearly carbon loss from deforestation -- when entire forests are chopped down.
This is the largest ever study estimating above and below-ground carbon loss from selective logging and ground level forest fires in the tropics, based on data from 70,000 sampled trees and thousands of soil, litter and dead wood samples from 225 sites in the eastern Brazilian Amazon.
Read more:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140522104856.htm
Sasolburg
South Africa
Active Assignment Weekly - One Light Source
AAW - Sept. 15-22, 2025.
On a cutting board in the kitchen in natural light with the lights turned off. Shone a flashlight down from above and slightly to the left. Adjusted contrast and exposure slightly.
2025 Weekly Alphabet Challenge 13/52 ~ Mint
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2025 Weekly Alphabet Challenge 17/52 ~ Quay
The closest I can get for this challenge is from a book -'From Cornwall with Love' Photo by Bob Croxford.
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1. Faint Scent, 2. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”, 3. Painted Foggy Sunrise At The Golden Gate, 4. Joy Rising, 5. The ONE...! {Explored!}, 6. Radiant illumination, 7. morning fog, 8. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love., 9. [ لكل أزمة جانب مشرق ] Explore
1. an..., 2. you brought me here for this?, 3. new buggy 3, 4. Untitled, 5. The Doll, 6. Lady Rose Altered art tray hanging, 7. arrangement, 8. IMG_5038-2web, 9. Lace covered Jewelry Creamer, 10. Untitled, 11. Curious sheeps, 12. 100_3113, 13. laundry14.
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2024 Weekly Alphabet Challenge 14/52 ~ Nest
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2025 Weekly Alphabet Challenge 12/52 ~ Lost
Someone's lost their cute hat. Looks like it's been there a while.
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2023 Weekly Challenge50/52 ~ eXuberant
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Already the end of an amazing season of the Weekly Challenge! You guys have made this vision possible and even delightful, thanks to every single one of the participants, to put themselves out there, getting in and out of their comfort zone and inspiring one another!
Speaking of inspiration, this last challenge was a perfect timing to give you ideas for Halloween coming up! Thanks for the suggestion Drew!
And now, announcing our lucky winners of this week :
This week's prize is another FABpack from Hexz's, The Spirit Eyes ♡
Congratulations and I wish everyone a great, creative scary season!
Hello everybody and welcome back to 'Weekly Recommendations'! Now I know that it's been awhile, but I will explain all at the end of this. So anyways, let's get to the recommendations!
Castaway: The reason I decided to recommend this movie is that I'm going to see The Martian tonight and I super excited to see it because I heard it's really good! So look forward to seeing my review either tonight or tomorrow! So Castaway is probably my favorite survival film because it's so intense and emotional, I mean, this movie will make you cry over a volleyball! Anyways, if you want to watch a good survival movie, this one is a great one to watch and one of Tom Hanks's best performances!
Marvel Future Fight: Alright, now this game is probably my favorite Iphone game of all time, it feels like it should be a console game! It feels a lot like the Marvel Ultimate Alliance games, but there are so many more characters! At first when you play this game, it will feel like one of those games that you have to pay money to get characters, but once you get the basics and complete the first 20 levels, you will not need to spend a single dime! I've been playing all summer and I've almost got every character without using any money! The only thing that kinda sucks about this game is that there are no Fantastic Four or X-Men characters, but that's ok because you can be Ant-Man! This game is really great game and it's free, so pick it up on Iphone and Android.
Ok, now to start explaining the state of my Ant-Man Story, Weekly Recommendations, and This Week in the News. Now this year I'm starting my Junior year in school and so far, it's probably the hardest year of school ever. The homework load is so fucking intense that I can never take the time to work on any of my projects, and when I do have time, I just want to relax and play Mario Maker or something. So I'm so very sorry of the lack of content on my page and please understand when there is no Weekly Recommendations or This Week in the News, I really want to work on it, but school is just so stressful that I can't. Now don't worry, there these will return next week because I have Fall Break that week, but please don't count on 'This Week in the News' to come back tomorrow because I have a shitload of homework. Thank you all for understanding and see you guys next time on 'Weekly Recommendations'!
2025 Weekly Alphabet Challenge 22/52 ~ View
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Properly masked and safely socially distant, an essential worker checks out groceries for a customer at Trader Joe's grocery in Washington, DC.
I took a double exposure snap before taking lunch, hoping for an interesting mix. The result was more interesting than the lunch I had.
Y in the Weekly Alphabet Group
I moved these dangerously spiky plants to the front garden where I'm less likely to be attacked by them!
British postcard in the 'Film Shots' series by Film Weekly. Photo: Paramount. Sylvia Sidney and Donald Cook in Jennie Gerhardt (Marion Gering, 1933).
Sylvia Sidney (1910-1999) was an American stage, screen, and film actress whose career spanned over 70 years. She rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s, such as An American Tragedy (1931), City Streets (1931), Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage (1936), and Fritz Lang's Fury (1936) and You Only Live Once (1937). She later gained attention for her role as Juno, a caseworker in the afterlife, in Tim Burton's film Beetlejuice (1988), and she was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973).
Sylvia Sidney was born Sophia Kosow in 1910 in the Bronx, New York. She was the daughter of Rebecca (née Saperstein), a Romanian Jew, and Victor Kosow, a Russian Jewish immigrant who worked as a clothing salesman. Her parents divorced by 1915, and she was adopted by her stepfather Sigmund Sidney, a dentist. Her mother became a dressmaker and renamed herself, Beatrice Sidney. Now using the surname Sidney, Sylvia became an actress at the age of 15 as a way of overcoming shyness. She became a student of the Theater Guild's School for Acting. One school production was held at a Broadway theatre and in the audience, there was a critic from the New York Times who had nothing but rave reviews for the young Miss Sidney. On the strength of her performance in New York, Sylvia appeared in a play at the famed Poli Theater in Washington, D.C. More stage productions followed. In 1926, she was seen by a Hollywood talent scout in the production 'Crime' and made her first film appearance later that year in Broadway Nights (1927). During the Depression, she appeared in a string of films, often playing the girlfriend or sister of a gangster. 1931 saw her appear in five films, of which, City Streets (Rouben Mamoulian, 1931), made her a star. The sad-eyed Sylvia made a tremendous impact and her screen career was off a running. Among her other films, that year were: An American Tragedy (Josef von Sternberg, 1931), and Street Scene (King Vidor, 1931). She co-starred with Fredric March in Merrilly We Go To Hell (1932). Her other films included Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage (1936), Fritz Lang's Fury (1936) and You Only Live Once (1937), Dead End (William Wyler, 1937), and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (Henry Hathaway, 1936), an early three-strip Technicolor film. She appeared with Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, Joel McCrea, Fredric March, George Raft, and Cary Grant. During this period, she developed a reputation for being difficult to work with. At the time of making Sabotage with Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney was one of the highest-paid actresses in the industry, earning $10,000 per week—earning a total of $80,000 for Sabotage.
During the 1940s, the career of Sylvia Sidney diminished somewhat. In The Searching Wind (William Dieterle, 1946), Sidney played a newspaper reporter with convictions who was the alter ego of playwright Lillian Hellman. The film was based on a Broadway play but it just didn't transfer well onto the big screen. The film was widely considered to be too serious and flopped. The following year, she appeared in another flop, Love From A Stranger (Richard Whorf, 1947). In 1949, exhibitors voted her "box-office poison". In 1952, she played the role of Fantine in Les Misérables (Lewis Milestone, 1952), and her performance was praised and allowed her opportunities to develop as a character actress. Only three more films followed that decade. There were no films throughout the 1960s. On TV, she appeared three times on the anthology drama series Playhouse 90 (1956-1960). In 1957, she appeared as Lulu Morgan, mother of singer Helen Morgan in the episode The Helen Morgan Story (George Roy Hill, 1957) featuring Polly Bergen. Four months later, Sidney rejoined her former co-star Bergen on the premiere of the short-lived The Polly Bergen Show (1957-1958). She also worked in television during the 1960s on such programs as Route 66 (1961-1964), The Defenders (1962), and My Three Sons (1969). In 1973, Sylvia returned to the big screen in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (Gilbert Cates, 1973), starring Joanne Woodward. She received an Academy Award nomination for her supporting role. As an elderly woman, Sidney continued to play supporting screen roles and was identifiable by her husky voice, the result of cigarette smoking. She was the formidable Miss Coral in the film version of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Anthony Page, 1977) and later was cast as Aidan Quinn's grandmother in the television production of An Early Frost (John Erman, 1985) for which she won a Golden Globe Award. She played Aunt Marion in Damien: Omen II (Don Taylor, 1978) opposite William Holden and Lee Grant. Sidney also had key roles as Juno in the mega-hit Beetlejuice (1988) directed by longtime Sidney fan Tim Burton, and Used People (Beeban Kidron, 1992). Her final role was in Mars Attacks! (1996), another film by Tim Burton, in which she played an elderly woman whose beloved records by Slim Whitman help stop an alien invasion from Mars.
On television, Sylvia Sidney appeared in the pilot episode of WKRP in Cincinnati (1978) as the imperious owner of the radio station, and she appeared in a memorable episode of Thirtysomething (1989) as Melissa's tough grandmother, who wanted to leave her granddaughter the family dress business, though Melissa (Melanie Mayron) wanted a career as a photographer. She also was featured on Starsky & Hutch (1976), The Love Boat (1981), Magnum, P.I. (1983), and Trapper John, M.D.(1984). Her Broadway career spanned five decades, from her debut performance as a graduate of the Theatre Guild School in 1926 at age 15, in the three-act fantasy Prunella to the Tennessee Williams play Vieux Carré in 1977. In 1982, Sidney was awarded the George Eastman Award by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. In 1998 she appeared as the crotchety travel clerk Clia at the beginning of each episode in the short-lived revival of the classic TV series Fantasy Island. Sylvia Sidney died in 1999, from esophageal cancer at the Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, a month before her 89th birthday. Her remains were cremated. Sidney was married three times. She first married publisher Bennett Cerf in 1935, but the couple divorced six months later in 1936. She later married actor and acting teacher Luther Adler in 1938, by whom she had her only child, a son Jacob (1939–1987), who died of Lou Gehrig's disease while his mother was still alive. Adler and Sidney divorced in 1946. In 1947, she married radio producer and announcer Carlton Alsop. They divorced in 1951.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Welcome back to 'Weekly Recommendations', everyone! Now I couldn't really think of a movie this week so instead I'm going to recommend... A TV SHOW! So in the words of my idol and mentor, let's check it out!
Check it Out! With Dr. Steve Brule: Now I recently discovered this show and it has immediately become one of my favorite shows of all time! It's so damn hilarious and I always rewatch episodes because they're soooo good!!! Now the ways to watch this show is with some clips and episodes on youtube, or on adult swim, or you can get all three seasons on itunes!
Pokemon Soulsilver: Now this game is up there with Fire Red, Y, and Omega Ruby with me because this game is soooo good! It's so cool that you have one of your pokemon follow you around on your adventure! And if you want to talk about an amazing post-game story, this game let's you play through the entire Kanto region which is incredible!! If you would like to start somewhere in the pokemon series and you have a DS or 3DS, GET THIS GAME! And get Soulsilver because Lugia is better than Ho-Oh.
Well that's all for this week folks, tune in next week for more great recommendations, and if you have any suggestions for themes, leave them in the comments below!
My idea is to try and photograph a different imported beer each week.
Week One- Oettinger one of Germany's best sellers.
Shot using Nikon Creative lighting system. One SB910 behind with a shoot through umbrella at 1/128th and a SB700 to camera left with a diffuser at 1/100th to camera right a white reflector.
I found this in a folder of ancient homework and handouts from grade school circa 1972. Teachers would hand these out and make the students read them QUIETLY so they could cadge a smoke in the teachers' lounge.
Active Assignment Weekly: All about Ernst Haas
This photo is about colour and slow shutter speed, blurring the movement of this dog playing in the Lake Ontario shallows. I usually use very fast shutter speeds, so this was a change for me and I think I got some nice captures that look different to what I normally take.
WIT: I have cropped the image and I brightened the image a bit.