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NGC 7380 in Cepheus. Also known as Wizard Nebula, Hidden Treasure 106, SH2-142, Flying Horse Nebula and probably other names. North is up.
Hubble Palette.
SV130
SFF7-21
CGEM
Starizona Micro Touch
St8300M @ -5 C
FW8-8300
Baader filters
Red = 22 x 20 min SII filter
Green = 12 x 20 min Ha filter (best 12 out of 33)
Blue = 21 x 20 min OIII filter
Guided by PHD, Orion SSAG & ST80
Captured with Nebulosity 8/26, 8/28, 8/29, 8/30, 8/31, 9/01, 9/02 of 2011
Processed by Pixinsight & Photoshop.
I made this quilt a year ago. The Wicked Witch Profile was made from a sketch of mine I doodled one day with my graphics tablet. The rest is basically taken from screen caps or freehanded.
Crossposted to my Wizard of OZ lens on Squidoo.
Still can't believe that color. Amazing blue! What a vacation.
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Just looking through the photos this evening, seeing if there is anything I have not processed yet. This is last light on Wizard Island on the last day we were there. It's not legal to do, but I would love to camp on Wizard Island and experience the isolation in the knowledge that I am inside the caldera of a volcano and completely separated from land by the frigid waters of Crater Lake. Alas, it cannot happen. (And that is probably for the best.)
Not to toot my own horn too much, but take a chance and view it large. Let your eye roll over the blues and take a moment to enjoy the reflection of the island in the lake. Now tell me that you didn't smile.
my wizard of Oz collection got bigger!
I got two Wicked Witches of the West and East, two Dorothys, and the Vintage inspired Wicked Witch of the West
Wizard World New Orleans 2017
Morial Convention Center
Central Business District
New Orleans, Louisiana
The wizard is the leader of the group, he prefers potions to weapons. His dark magic has left a mark upon him that can never be repaired.
This is part of my Death Knights group. They are loosely based on the types of characters you see in World of Warcraft. That game sucked up almost 2 years of my life at one point! Here is the entire group : www.flickr.com/photos/29237490@N02/6877415194/
Wizard World New Orleans 2020
Ernest Morial Convention Center
Warehouse District
New Orleans, Louisiana
Wizards (1977) - Ralph Bakshi
Peace/Necron 99 with Assassin Squad.
Ian Miller Background.
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my sister wanted a wizard of oz cake, the shoes, bird and yellow brick road are fondant, everything else is buttercream.
The Metolius River flows beneath the bridge at the Wizard Falls Fish Hatchery near Camp Sherman, Ore. Spring-fed and pristine, the Metolius is a favorite of fly fishers casting for salmon, steelhead, and trout.
The Leaky Cauldron is a dark, shabby pub and inn for wizards, located on the Muggle street of Charing Cross Road in London, offering food, drinks and rooms to rent. It was founded by Daisy Dodderidge (1467–1555) in the year 1500 "to serve as a gateway between the non-wizarding world and Diagon Alley." The current barman and innkeeper is a wizard named Tom.
On the main floor, the inn has a bar, several private parlour rooms, and a large dining room. On the upper floors, there are a number of rooms available for rent; Harry has stayed in Room 11,[
Wizard World at America’s Center in St. Louis Missouri by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera with a Canon EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at ƒ/5.6 with a 1/60 second exposure at ISO 1600. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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WIZARD BOOTS -
During a moonlit drive through the hills of Austin, Texas with Hillary, Chris had a moment of clarity and saw the way forward. He elaborates, "We were listening to Nick Drake and I suddenly became aware of this thread connecting that and a bunch of other records I'd been playing around the same time. The Moody Blues, Syd Barrett era Floyd, Leonard Cohen, Robyn Hitchcock…. pretty much any kind of interesting metaphysical folk psychedelia. It was anything you could imagine an old man with a long white beard and a flowing hooded cloak singing on a windswept hillside. It was…Wizard Music, and I wanted to create my own little world within that world." Chris took advantage of the Casa's empty back office, turning it into a recording studio, which was utilized in mapping out the new directions he'd begun to explore. The awkward melancholy "I Miss You" was the first song to materialize under the moniker of Wizard Boots, followed quickly by a string of oddly dissimilar new recordings running the gamut from whispered lunacy ("I'm Naked") to spaghetti western splendor ("Screaming At The Stars") and depraved lecherous ravings ("She Used To Fuck Me"). Accomplished songstress Desiree Anastasia contributed vocals to several Boots compositions during a very loose recording session that yielded the Radiohead-on-acid insanity of "Magic 8 Ball" and the ethereal "Lost Lovers". With a stockpile of new materiel, obscure cover tunes and re-arranged El Kabong crowd pleasers in his constantly evolving repertoire, a return to the stage seemed imminent.
Chris chose his home turf, Casa Del Covington for the first official show on December 10th 2005, unveiling the new project in the cavernous photo studio/disco beneath a shower of mirror balls and laser lights for an invitation only group of about twenty close friends. The single voice/acoustic guitar instrumentation was a radical departure from the electric bombast of El Kabong, but his twisted sense of humor and adventurous showmanship remained a part of the new direction. Later bringing Miss Hillary aboard to play tambourine for a hilariously inappropriate appearance at The Grapevine Bar, Wizard Boots continued forward as a duo for a few shows around Dallas. The pair also traveled north for a gig in Chris' hometown of Fort Smith, Arkansas in March of 2006, his first performance there since the days of Voodoo Moon twelve years earlier. Things seemed promising and creativity was high, but a sinister undercurrent of chaos seemed to be lurking just beneath the surface and some performances were spinning out of control. As Mr. Boots puts it, "Sometimes I just don't know when to keep my mouth shut…. I could transform into quite the vicious bastard after a certain amount of drinks, and encouragement from an audience is sometimes just as bad for me as provocation." Returning to Fort Smith in April for a very long and chaotic set at Roosters, Wizard Boots ended the evening with a verbal battle against a roaming group of drunks that nearly turned violent. He laughs about it now and remembers the night as "A sign of things to come.
Back in Texas, Wizard Boots mutated once again with the addition of heavy hitting drummer, Paylyn 66. The trio, now billed as Wizard Boots & The Sex Zombies, made an explosive debut in late May of 2006 at Rack Daddy's in North Dallas. They also hit the studio, slapping a sinister sonic stamp on several reworked El Kabong tunes as well as a handful of new Wizard Boots compositions. Stoner metal epic "The White Witch (This Is The Last Time I Sing Happy Birthday To You)", pyromaniac love story "Gonna Set U On Fire", the Spacemen 3 inspired "Raining Frogs" and the garage psych droning "Sex Zombie Theme" were all captured on tape during this period. The Wizard was primarily playing electric guitar again and experimenting with an extremely loud, bottom heavy reverb drenched sound that meshed with Paylyn's brutal drumming and took the mayhem of the live show up several notches. "We seemed to have set off down the path to the dark side." Chris recalls, " I was having a lot of fun, but burning myself out at the same time…my breaking point was coming and I didn't care." Miss Hillary had already reached her breaking point and left the group in June, leaving the tambourine slot to a rotating cast of hooligans from the Assassination City Roller Derby League. The lovely Tank eventually became a fulltime Sex Zombie; Mia Hammer and Jessika Doom filled in for some shows. Casio keyboard flourishes, sampled electronic beats and a bizarre karaoke style cover of Wham's "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" all began to surface in the live show, evidence that Wizard Boots was still pushing forward creatively even as he maintained a collision course with a complete mental breakdown. He elaborates, "We were tearing up the pool hall circuit and making good money, but that scene is more suited for proper cover bands and here we were doing whatever the fuck we wanted and getting away with it…. no one was going to stop us, so naturally we had to stop ourselves. Can't speak for anyone else, but I was an absolute mess at the time." Following a particularly drunken performance at Coyote Ugly in Deep Ellum, Wizard Boots tried in vain to claw his way out of the downward spiral. He led The Sex Zombies through the rest of July's shows completely sober and to great effect, but couldn't shake the overwhelming depression and paranoia that had set in. Accepting that he couldn't hold himself together any longer, much less a band, Wizard Boots announced he was leaving Texas just a few weeks after a final WB&TSZ's show in Hurst on August 12th 2006. Despite the unraveling of his personal life, Boots now recalls more good times than bad during the brief Sex Zombie era. "We had a lot of fun, caused a whole lot of trouble, did quite a bit of damage and made a hell of a lot of noise while that whole period of the band lasted only 3 months. It's all a blur of violent sound and chaos looking back…sort of the "Motley Crue: Behind The Music" era of Wizard Boots."
A solo acoustic version of Robyn Hitchcock's "She Doesn't Exist", which turned out to be the final song recorded in the Casa Del Covington studio, truly captured the fractured state of the Wizard Boots psyche around that time. Completely lost and hopelessly detached from the world, Chris packed up the van and moved back to Fort Smith, deflated and feeling the sting of surrender. "I felt like Wizard Boots had gone the way of El Kabong and died." He recalls, "It was horrible. I'd lost all interest in making music and was considering technical college for welding." However, a second coming of Wizard Boots was just over the horizon and he was about to find himself in exactly the right place and time to make a gigantic artistic leap forward. That story and more when we pick up in the next chapter kiddies…time for a cocktail.
--Larry Steve
Wizard Island is a volcanic cinder cone in Crater Lake. Pretty different from the cinder cones I photographed in Hawaii.
It was cold (40˚F) and foggy at Crater Lake National Park. There was a surprising (to me) amount of snow still on the ground, drifts by the road that were 8–10 feet deep. It alternated between rain and sleet.
I always feed him a cookie when I get into the saddle. Teaches him to stand verrry quietly! And then he turns his head around with his mouth open like a hippo, waiting for his treat.
In deep sky photographs the Wizard Nebula (Sh 2-142) along with its embedded star cluster NGC 7380 makes for an impressive picture. Through a small refractor the brighter stars of NGC 7380 easily mark the location of the nebula, but visually seeing the nebula is not guaranteed. In fact, I was expecting defeat the night of the drawing. Some sources claimed that even with a nebula filter you need at least a 10-inch telescope to see the Wizard Nebula. I was pleasantly surprised when I was able to detect the northern section of the nebula with my 4.3-inch refractor using an OIII nebula filter. It just goes to show that sometimes it is worth pushing your scope and eyes to their limits.
The Wizard Nebula glows mostly due to the magnitude 8.6 eclipsing binary star DH Cepheii. The Wizard Nebula got its name from the shape of the extended nebula as seen in photographs, however, I have never been able to make the wizard out regardless of how long I stare at the photographs. In addition, Stephen O’Meara in his book “Hidden Treasures” refers to the Open Cluster NGC 7380 as “Harry Potter and the Golden Snitch”. This too remains beyond my imagination.
Regardless of your imagination abilities, this cluster/nebula combination is worth searching out visually. Even if you fail to see the nebula proper the surrounding star field is intense with starlight and loaded with double stars. Don’t let the astrophotographers alone claim this section of space.
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