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Female leopard (Panthera pardus) born March 2018 who has taken up residence in the north-western part of Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa - adjacent to her mother's territory. Conservation Status: Vulnerable
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery” (Anaïs Nin)
**because some people lack it and need to learn it**! .:LAVAROCK POSES:.Fem Bento Pose Set-31
at Mainstore! (Chair prop with av sitter system included)
**pose edited to fit in black dragon**
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Every person on this earth is beautiful, talented and amazing.
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Breast cancer death rates declined 40% from 1989
to 2019 among women. The progress is attributed
to improvements in early detection.
This picture is dedicated to all women in Flickr please auto explore and you can save your life!
I tried to approach stealthily, but even though I had some foliage between us, this song sparrow knew I was there. I find that there follows a short time that, unless I move on, the bird will. This was during that window.
Am I out of my head?
Am I out of my mind?
If you only knew the bad things I like
Don't think that I can explain it
What can I say, it's complicated
Another brisk day, woke up to 0°F after a surprising full 8 hours of sleep (I normally average 6 1/2). I have to admit that as much as I dislike the cold I have become aware of the wonderful silence that accompanies it. People and their animals stay inside so there is very limited noise pollution from vehicles running, dogs barking, birds chirping, and even leaves rustling in the trees. It is stillness and silence and peace.
Oh, the tea is "pomegranate burst" green tea from Good Earth, it is one of my favorites! Also, the journal has returned since that was my goal this week to include it in every shot. My daughter and I have been drawing together for 30 minutes each morning before she goes to school. I have very limited drawing skills and hope that I will improve with practice if not, that's ok, I just love spending the creative time with my girlie.
For the bees baby!
My nephew @bladingforbees (on IG and FB) is rollerblading 9000km across Canada, to raise awareness of the importance of bees to the environment. 🐝
We need bees!
Follow his crazy adventure at:
www.instagram.com/bladingforbees/
He's aiming to break a Guinness World Record in the process too!
Anything Goes 2021: Bees and Butterflies
Right now we are all aware of whats happening in our RL but here in SL we still want people to be aware of the dangers and ~Mikki From ~Bold Llama~ has come up with this tee for us...
Yes we can't get it here in SL but its still affecting us all in some way or another... Just be safe everyone and have some fun here in SL with the ~Stupid Cupid Hunt~ to keep your mind off everything else..
The Hunt runs from the 3rd of February until the 28th.
The Bold Llama Company Love Is In The Air Tee
7 Deadly Skin Sweetheart Apricot
Magika Hair December
Maitreya Body Tweaked by me
Lelutka Head Lilly
Props
DIVIA's Designs Christmas Village
Shot at
Background:
"Forget ME not" was created to raise awareness about M.E (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) - an extremely debilitating, life changing, complex chronic disease that has received shamefully low attention and fundings for research for decades. Patients are being disbelieved, misunderstood and dismissed. There is no treatment and no cure.
Over 20 million people across the globe are affected and in the aftermaths of COVID this number is quickly rising (many Long Covid patients end up being diagnosed with M.E).
During our events in May we will create awareness, break the stigma and fundraise for the "Open Medicine Foundation" who conduct research into M.E, Long Covid, Fibromyalgia and related chronic conditions. They are a registered, US based non-profit organization that has been around for over 10 years.
You can also support by wearing this blue ribbon exclusively made by Enewa, when you click the information box at the Forget ME Not sim.
Get it here in-world: Forget ME Not events place and exhibit 💙
To know more about the event and how you can raise awareness and support the cause to research and find cure for ME/CFS, link here: Facebook: forgetMEnotSL 💙Flickr group: forget ME not SL
💙 Website and donation page: Forget ME Not SL site
Here's a companion piece to the previous running Coyote; again, no contact with the ground. In this case, however, it was my camera's mirror flipping up that made her jump. Odd, because I took more than 200 shots of her as she dug a calorie bonanza of frozen fish out of a shallow pond, and she seemed well aware and accepting of me. Still, this is a wild animal. Her senses are razor-sharp. I bet the shutter mechanism was loud to her in the stillness of a cold winter day.
I was NOT in my car when I had this encounter, having tracked this Coyote quite far from the road - and at times had the tables turned and found her tracking me. This shot came toward the end; the sun was sinking low in the west. I was sitting. Camera was on a tripod, the only option when using a big heavy lens for an extended time, and still the best way to ensure optimum sharpness in most situations with a long lens.
Photograph from Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2014 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Did you know that over 8 million tons of plastic flow into our ocean every year? By 2050 it is expected that there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.
I've been thinking a lot about these stats recently and what I can do to raise awareness and give back - especially considering today is Earth Day.
So all sales from this weekend will be matched and donated to "Ocean Blue Project", a nonprofit committed to removing plastic from our ocean and beaches.
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New ((Krature)) releases at our mainstore for Wanderlust Weekend!
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Rings is my first ever custom mesh creation. Its everyone's least favorite piece of harmful trash - soda can rings.
Included are
✨ Two hold versions with pose sized for M/F
✨ One placed version that lines up with the string on RIPTIDE
✨ One Unrigged/Unscripted Version to Rezz in world or wear as you like.
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Trash is a mermaid tail applier HUD for RIPTIDE by Aii & Ego. It's created on the Alienwaves. RIPTIDE applier system, so if you have tails from other stores who use the same applier - no need to reinstall the scripts in your tail!
Trash is designed to look like black plastic bags wrapped around the tail, and the fins have custom materials which resemble the ever popular convenience store "THANK YOU" plastic bags.
This is my first release for this tail, I hope you enjoy it - I am excited to make more.
**Designed Exclusively for the Aii & Ego RIPTIDE Tail, you will need to buy this tail to use this product. You can purchase it from their mainstore**
I thought the colors of this Venezuelan Troupial were just so fascinating, to include that spectacular blue eye patch. After noticing this, I became aware of it on several other birds. Quite beautiful!
Taken 9 February 2024 on Puerto Rico
everything is a projection
only the screen is real
the screen is consciousness
awareness.
It contains all
it can accommodate all
it can also accommodate nothing.
it is not born and never dies
the source of all
and their destiny.
God, Love, Heart
are some if its names.
...
work on words in progress
When I begun to process this exposure bracketing, I thought that I knew what I wanted to attain. I was perfectly wrong. Indeed, these RAW files kept a few secret bits of beauty which I was not aware of when I selected them for processing – and they changed the course of the journey I had foreordained.
I was in a gloomy mood, for both personal and general concerns, and the RAWs looked rather duller than the average – taken: they appeared to accurately mirror the state of my soul. At worst, I would have wasted some hours of pointless procesing work before deciding to look for something better. Nobody would have known. However things were to contradict my expectations. I got some good news (a rarity in those tough days) about the health conditions of my brother and my “adopted brother-in-law” (i.e. my brother’s brother-in-law); on the other hand, Darktable – that wonderful software – gifted me with a few unanticipated treasures. My thoughts were growing more and more positive and the processing of this bracketing were proceeding accordingly: a hidden beauty was unfolding before me, my own persisting unawareness of it notwithstanding. At last I found myself with a picture that had apparently self-processed itself*, while I was busy exploring uncharted thoughts that kept emerging along the way
* Admittedly a bizarre phenomenon, which Maurits Cornelius Escher would have loved – think of his Drawing hands.
I would avoid to nag you about this incredibly wonderful location: you can take a look at my album Silent banks, the complete collection of the photos I have taken there; the attached narratives are rich in information about the place, if you are curious enough.
This location is especially renowned for its legendary morning mists, but only a thin layer of milky mist floated above the water that morning. On top of the hill in the distance, beyond the river, lays the sanctuary of the Madonna della Rocca ( = Madonna of the Rock), already brushed by the first light pouring from the Eastern horizon.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then, as usual, I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a possible final contribution to the processing. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwithstanding, is pretty simple to implement) often holds interesting results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities. In this picture I have exploited this technique in a very frugal, yet effective, way – just some touches where needed.
RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising with DFine 2 and the Gimp (denoised and original images blended by lightness).
When I first got married it was so exciting to go the mailbox to get my mail. In fact, I would enter contests, send for coupons, order magazines anything just to fill my mailbox. Nowadays other than junk mail, my mailbox doesn't thrill me like it once did. Most of my bills are sent electronically and there is hardly any correspondence sent through the mail. Trying to be more environmentally aware last year I opted to skip mailed holiday greetings. I do miss the days of picking out special stationery and hand- writing letters to family and friends.
Everything in our society feels so urgent, we don't seem to want to wait for anything anymore. Do you remember mailing away your film and how exciting it was to get your photos back in the mail? I wouldn't want to go back to that but I think we need to learn about waiting and being excited again. Anticipating something is almost better than getting it.
Maybe not everybody's cup of tea. But I was excited after I got home and found this image of the stag beetle on my SD-card. The largest insect of the Netherlands is not common. In fact I only found them a couple of times. This male with it's huge antler-like jaws looked tired after mating season was finished.
I hoped for a close up with shallow depth of field of the impressive jaws, and this is what I got.
Enjoy!
(do yourself a favour and click L for a full-screen)
*Image is under copyright by Bram de Jong. Contact me if you want to buy or use my photographs
E' una parola giapponese intraducibile in italiano.
E' la sensazione struggente che si prova quando si sta vivendo un momento di grande bellezza, che si sa effimero e destinato ad esaurirsi velocemente.