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The answer to the previous picture is: Potatoes!
Yes, that pretty purple flower comes from potato plant.
In fact it's the same potato plant which produced these lovely potatoes a few weeks later.
Growing in a little, 10 l bucket (that's about 2.6 US gallon).
It gave about 1.5 kg (more than 3 pounds) delicious organic potatoes.
They were pushing the top soil up as they were growing inside until some of the soil was falling out of the bucket and I had to dig them up.
Freshly dug up home grown potatoes are a treat, they taste so good.
A pretty bit of shoreline along Buntzen Lake.
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"You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours."
~Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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crown & collar . Ambrosios set / by Zibska @ WLRP until July 30th
eyeshadow . Ambrosios Eyemakeup / by Zibska @ WLRP until July 30th
lipstick . Ambrosios Lips / by Zibska @ WLRP until July 30th
piercing . Septum Pincher / by Spookshow
bikini . Heart of the Ocean gacha / by Lovely Alien
skin . Children of the Night V1 / by Sinful Needs
pose . O Fortuna / by NANTRA
eyelashes . Slay / by alaskametro
eyes . Grimalkin / by Devae.
hair . Oksana / by Truth
head . Catya / by Catwa
body . Lara / by Maitreya
particles . Soul Reaper set / by Cole's Corner
building . Ghost skybox / by Anxiety
ravens . Sorcerer set / by Uncertain Smile
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✭ CIRCA ✭ Lovely Alien ✭ NANTRA ✭ Sinful Needs ✭ Spookshow ✭ Zibska ✭
Image taken in the virtual platform of Second Life (tm)
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Resembling shadows, On a reflection objects,
Immense and tall; The fire that glows
Within itself, A storm that blows
The breeze needles away.
It came here on, To answer earths call;
From an underneath, Ever blazing sea.
"I think it fell from the sky" answered wise old Dennis
9/365 and for Happy Teddy Bear Tuesdays. HTBT
Back later to try to comment...hope Flickr is behaving today!
The teddies have their own album: www.flickr.com/photos/28992287@N03/albums/72157668214848195
Český ráj National Park, Czech Republic. Shot "in answer" to an image shot by Ming Thein, and then paid homage to by Gerner Christensen. I felt it might be difficult to tred the same path and somehow find an equal image...fortunately Mother Nature provided the inspiration...
Ming's image: www.flickr.com/photos/mingthein/16342571311/in/set-721576...
Gerner's homage: www.flickr.com/photos/125313758@N02/16667073857/
Manna was nervous, and afterwards she confessed that she had never before been that nervous. It was a frightening thought to sit down as for questioning. It was only her against these two confident ladies. Besides, Manna had never been to any job before and never in a job interview either! And there had been at least 20 better candidates before her! Ulla and Allu must have heard the same hopeful answers already too many times. They must be tired and bored already- and probably they've already found several suitable employees.
This can go nothing but wrong, Manna thought.
Earth raised up her head
From the darkness dread and drear,
Her light fled,
Stony, dread,
And her locks covered with grey despair
- William Blake
But this is how I feel..
Looking a little worse for wear, with many a scratch and blemish on the brass.
Objective from an old Prior microscope. I also took a shot of the lens as a possible Macro Monday (in photostream), but decided on this one instead (mostly because it is 42!).
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If you lost the fight between wrong and right
You can call on love to guide you!!
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Love will answer!!
Right key is always the answer. How often we find it? How often we have the courage to use it?
NYC 22
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso
2016 02 18 122546 Worcestershire Hanbury Hall PM1
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Album cover for "The answer", the last music album by the greek rock band 2L8, which was just released. It is available as a digital download and a limited edition compact disc, which comes in a lovely gatefold card case, featuring more of my photography.
**The band has decided that all income from selling the album that will be generated from online orders and at the band's shows will be donated to causes that support the refugee crisis in Greece.
You can listen to the full album online here: 2l8toolate.bandcamp.com/album/the-answer
Read more: nickiupstairs.com/the-answer/
We’re Here! -- Photoshopped, unusual, and off-kilter portraits and alter egos.
My collage is made up of the following photographs, somewhat or heavily altered with Paint Shop Pro and Nik Color Efex Pro 4:
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DeadBen01, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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Nadar, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Archives New Zealand from New Zealand, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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Skokloster Castle / Margareta Gaik / CC BY-SA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Tania Saiz, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
This photo was done in a single 30-second shot. ISO was 3200 (hence some graininess) but I couldn't shoot much lower ISO at that time frame with the lens I had without the stars moving too much. Karsten lit up the waterfall with his headlamp for the first 5 seconds of the exposure then turned his light down to follow the stream of water to the ocean briefly before pointing the light up towards the stars for the last 20 seconds or so. All while remaining as still as possible to not blur his silhouette! Good coordination on his part as well as a lot of patience as this required quite a few outtakes.
Lost my hard drive while I was uploading these photos on the 9th, with years of photos on it... until my husband found the program from Wondershare "recoverit". Highly recommended. If you ever lose a drive, use this before you do anything else. As far as I can see ALL photos where recovered! He bought the full version, in my opinion, well worth it!
recoverit.wondershare.com/computer-recovery/free-download...
Myths and legends have fed the imagination of Faroe Islanders for centuries. Stories of giants and witches, kings and battles, hidden people and magical creatures are found on all 18 islands.
These myths and legends may hold truths that can unlock the secrets of our ancient origins.
This is the story of Kópakonan, the seal woman who was trapped on land as a human after shedding her seal skin.
The legend tells that the seals around the Faroe Islands were once upon a time people like you and I; sad souls who have taken their own lives in the sea.
Once a year, on the twelfth night of Christmas, these seals are allowed to come ashore. And there they will take off their seal skin, and play, sing and dance, recovering their human shapes – but only until the sun rises.
The legend tells of a young farmer from the village of Mikladalur on the island of Kalsoy who had heard that there was a seal cave south of his village. Here, it was said, was the place where the seals gathered for their one night as humans. Wanting to find out if this was true, the young man decided to go and have a look.
As night fell, he hid behind a large rock and watched in astonishment as a large group of seals approached the shore. One by one they popped their heads above the waves, checking it was safe to come out of the sea. And then, they came onto the shore, slipping out of their seal skin and recovering their human shapes.
This twelfth night, there were many seals – male and female, young and old – and they began to sing and dance and play, not knowing that they were being watched.
Suddenly, the young farmer noticed a young female seal, approaching the rock where he was hiding. She took off her sealskin and was transformed into the most beautiful woman he had ever laid his eyes on. Fascinated, he watched her running along to play with the others, and an idea began to grow in his mind: “This woman shall be mine.” He crept out from his hiding place and snatched the seal skin she had cast onto the ground.
At dawn, when the sun rose, and all of the seals began to hurry back into the ocean, the beautiful young woman couldn’t find her skin. Desperately, she searched for it while the other seals waited in the water, calling out for her. But she couldn’t find it, and without it, she was trapped on land. Now, the farmer came out from his hiding place with her sealskin in his arms and the beautiful seal woman realised that she had no other choice than to follow him.
The farmer and the seal woman came home to the village and into the farmer’s house, and the farmer immediately locked her seal skin into a big chest. And from that day on, he always carried the key to the chest in his belt.
After a time, the farmer and the seal woman were married and, soon enough, they had children. For some years, the seal woman lived among the people in the village, doing all her duties as a housewife and mother, trying her best to adapt to life on land. But every day, she went down to the seashore and every day, a big male seal came swimming close to the beach, as if to greet her.
One day, when the farmer and his men were out fishing, he suddenly noticed that he had forgotten the key to the chest with his wife’s sealskin in it. He shouted out to his men to row home as fast as they could, or else he would lose his wife.
But when he came home, he found his children sitting all alone in the kitchen. They were quiet and did not answer when he asked them where their mother was. But he noticed that she had put out the fire and she had placed all the sharp knives on a high shelf, so that the children wouldn’t harm themselves when they were alone.
In the living room, the farmer found the chest was open and empty, and he realised that his wife had left and would probably never return.
Time passed and one day, the men from Mikladalur planned to go seal hunting by the seal cave, south of the village. On the night before the hunt, the seal woman appeared to the farmer in his dreams. She told him that the big male seal, guarding the outside of the cave, was her mate, and the two little cubs, asleep inside, were her precious sons. She begged him to spare the lives of her mate and cubs.
But the farmer did not listen to her plea, and the following morning, the first seal he slaughtered was the male on guard by the cave. Then the villagers went inside, killing every living creature they found, and when the farmer reached the back of the cave, he found the two cubs. And in anger over losing his wife, he struck both of them dead.
That same night, all the villagers gathered for a big feast to celebrate the good catch and eat the good seal meat. But as they were about to begin, the door suddenly burst open and the seal woman entered in the shape of a horrible banshee. Upon the table she saw the head of her mate and the flippers of her cubs, laid out on a plate.
The seal woman let out a terrible wailing scream, cursing the farmer, the villagers and all of their descendants. As revenge for their cruelty towards her loved ones, she foretold that so many people from Mikladalur would lose their lives at sea, that the drowned would be able to take each other’s hands, form a ring and dance around the island of Kalsoy.
And as it happens, from this particular village, Mikladalur on the island of Kalsoy, many, many boats have wrecked, and many people have fallen from the cliffs or otherwise lost their lives at sea.
If the ring of drowned people has reached all the way around the island of Kalsoy today, or if the curse of the seal woman still lingers over the island, we cannot be sure.
But the children that the seal woman had with the farmer grew up and begot children of their own. And still today, we can see who is descended directly from the seal woman. In the Faroe Islands, many people are born with webbed toes, which is a proof and a sign that the legend is true and that Faroe Islanders carry in their veins the blood of seals.
This version of the well-known story of Kópakonan, the Seal Woman, was written by Ria Tórgarð.
Camera: Pentax 67II, medium format, 75mm f2.8 SMC, Lee orange filter and medium grad 0.3.
Film: Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 II, developer: Ilford DDX, 1+4, 20C, 10min. 2 inversions every 30 sec.
Me at age 29.
I just had to go see Canada. All of it.
Newfoundland, west of Corner Brook.
July 21, 2003
he walked, occupied by the simple mechanics of a meal. a green shirt, chosen without thought. behind him, a metal curtain held a question and an answer painted in the same shade of green. a face looked on, frozen in contemplation. it was a perfect, accidental harmony of color and code, a random variable in the city's vast equation that, for a single, unobserved second, produced a solution. then he was gone, and it was just a wall again.