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Barbie Basics 2.5 Model #14 (louboutin) redressed in a dress I made from some scrap fabric. Gold chains accent it. It has a mermaid skirt but I couldn't photograph it in a way I liked. (This was the third bodice I made for the dress, the first two got ripped by my evil sewing machine)
Love the picture from her <3 :* www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3pH_MBlOIM&feature=youtu.be there are more picturtes :D
A desktop wallpaper I made since December 2009. The Barbie Basics dolls by Bill Greening with a black Barbie logo on top. I even gave the dolls names, myself.
The dolls pictured are Models No. 03, 08, 05, 02, 12, 01, 11, 07, 04, 06, 09, and 10 from Collection 001.
Image and logo are owned by Mattel.
Feel free to download. :-)
Woah shoeies! Drool - look at those shoes!
I think this is 3 separate colour coded Accessory Packs - I think the copper is the best! Though I hope I can get them all!
No this is not my picture - go check out the cheap dollies at the website that is in the watermark!
Im so glad with the final edition from Basic, but I gotta tell you..I miss a lot the model nº 01, so I decide to create my own version of her, with the model nº 15 =)
I was lucky enough to be gifted three of the basics girls for Christmas from my children.
1 redressed in a My Scene top and basics jeans
7 redressed in a basics top and skirt Best Model Milan
Why so soon!? So soon when I don't have the money. Aargh! Apparently 3.0 collection is now available at the BC.com. So it's official, I'm getting Lara, Mbili and Louboutin and the accessory packs. I support the Basics line to the full extent because this has what made me (re)consider collecting Barbies and I can't help but to be opinionated and be passionate about it. 3.0 is a great continuation to the line but what it fail to do was be consistent with the number of dolls released. To make up for the draw back is the addition of accessories within each doll. But each one has the same assortment of accessories which is a total let down. The decrease in the number of dolls might be (I'm making a theory right here. LOL) is that, they MIGHT just release Collection 3.5 and increase the number of dolls from there. After all this is the last collection, they have to end it with a bang! Technically 3.5 is still part of the 3.0 collection, right? The .5 collections are just extensions of the existing main collection but with an added flare or twist. So I'm really hoping to see the 3.5 and the Red Target collections. I hope my theory is right. Le't all cross our fingers on that!
Moon was my fav subject when i first owned a bridge camera SX10 IS with 20x optical zoom. I learned a lot on metering, focusing and hand holding for such a huge zoom with it. With my new arsenal (:p) i have to go back to basics to learn that again.. and this time it was lot easier than what i had to go when i started.
A cropped version so that you can see the details on moon. You can still see large here
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 800
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
This is my rocker chick! I missed this facemold from the Black Dress series, now I have two of her in the Jean version. The one in the box has better hair!!
The body is from one of the medium-dark color tone Darius'. The ken head is brighter than the body, as it has a bit more caramel in the color tone. But, it will work for now, asI am not likely to find an affordable better matching FR head for it and I have another Darius already.
Model:
Barbie Basics #1 - 001
Fashion credits:
outfit: Barbie "Cynthia Rowley"
shoes: barbie top model
bag: Poppy Parker Lilac Frost
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The New Mexico Photography Field School Landscape Photography Class.
I am deeply grateful to my teacher Craig Varjabedian and his workshop assistant Jay Packer. They were wonderfully skilled guides in helping me to orient myself to the basics of landscape photography. Their understanding and grasp of technical and aesthetic aspects of picture taking and the ineffable mysteries of photography are simply awesome and a delight. www.photofieldschool.com/craig.html
Craig Varjabedian is a fine-art photographer of the lands and peoples of the American West and Southwest and is Director of the Field School. He was born in Canada and began photographing at the age of thirteen. He has subsequently sustained an artistic career spanning over thirty years, which began in earnest in 1971 and involved studies with Phil Davis at the University of Michigan and Paul Caponigro in Santa Fe. Varjabedian’s first one-man show was at the Albuquerque Museum in 1994. Since that time he has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States. Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the McCune Charitable Foundation have been awarded to Varjabedian over the course of his photographic career in recognition of his powerful imagery. His pursuit of an intensely personal vision has culminated in images of moments made extraordinary by light and life. He approaches his subjects receptively, preferring to utilize an intuitive approach rather than arranging forms and recording surface details. In the final analysis, Varjabedian’s photographs allow viewers to share in the authentic experience of an artistic process which celebrates luminous and heartfelt experience.
Upcoming books of his photographs include Four & Twenty Photographs: Stories from Behind the Lens (Spring 2007) and a book on Ghost Ranch (Spring 2008), both with Santa Fe author Robin Jones, which will be available from the University of New Mexico Press. The late Beaumont Newhall, preeminent photographic historian, wrote, “The remarkable photographs by Craig Varjabedian are not only beautiful but also extremely valuable documents of architecture, culture, and lifestyle of Northern New Mexico.”
www.photofieldschool.com/craig.html
I took this photo at Ghost Ranch where Georgia O'keefe lived and painted. It is said that she claimed that if she painted a nearby mountain enough times god had told her that it would be hers. She is buried there. This is a spiritually and artistically inspiring awsome place.
Ghost Ranch was part of a land grant to Pedro Martin Serrano from the King of Spain in 1766. The grant was called Piedra Lumbre (shining rock). The name "Ghost Ranch", or the local name Rancho de los Brujos, was derived from the many tales of ghosts and legends of hangings in the Ranch's history.
"When I got to New Mexico, that was mine."
In this way Georgia O'Keeffe described her instant love for Northern New Mexico, a love that lasted the rest of her life. The time was 1917, the event was a trip O'Keeffe and her sister Claudia took to New Mexico and Colorado from their home in Canyon, Texas. Yet it was 12 years before O'Keeffe returned to New Mexico and even longer before she found her way into the beautiful valley that would eventually become her summer home.
In 1929 O'Keeffe went to Taos at the invitation of friends Dorothy Brett and Mabel Dodge Luhan. There she heard of Ghost Ranch and once even caught a tantalizing glimpse of it from a high plain. In 1934 she finally found the ranch but was dismayed to learn that it was a dude ranch owned by Arthur Pack. However, a place was available for her that night in Ghost House and she spent the entire summer at the ranch.
That established a pattern she would follow for years, summers at Ghost Ranch exploring on foot and on canvas the beauty of the place, winters in New York. Because she was basically a "loner," she soon sought Ghost Ranch housing that was somewhat isolated from the headquarters area. Pack offered to rent her his own residence called Rancho de los Burros; this suited her very well. One spring she arrived unexpectedly and found someone else in the house. She demanded to know what those people were doing in her house. When Pack pointed out that it wasn't her house, she insisted that he sell it to her. Thus she became the owner of a very small piece of Ghost Ranch land: a house and 7 acres. (In later years she told a ranch employee doing roadwork near her home, "I wanted enough land to keep a horse - all Arthur would sell me was enough for my sewer!")
But Rancho de los Burros was a summer place and also a desert one. O'Keeffe wanted a garden and a winter home. Eventually, she bought 3 acres in the village of Abiquiu. She spent 3 years remodeling and rebuilding the crumbling adobes before the place was fit for human habitation. After her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, died, O'Keeffe left New York to make Abiquiu her permanent home.
In 1955 Arthur and Phoebe Pack gave Ghost Ranch to the Presbyterian Church. O'Keeffe was aghast. The Packs should have sold her the ranch, she thought, and besides, she never cared much for Presbyterians anyway. Her precious privacy would be gone. However, from the very beginning of this new relationship the Presbyterians respected and tried to preserve the privacy of their famous neighbor. Visitors were told, as they are today, that Rancho de los Burros was on private land with no public access. Gradually her fears were allayed and the relationship grew warmer. Office personnel sometimes did secretarial work for her; Ghost Ranch folks replaced the pump on her well. O'Keeffe became friendly enough with long-time ranch director Jim Hall and his wife Ruth to have Christmas dinner with them.
She made a money gift toward construction of the Hall's retirement home on the ranch. When fire destroyed the headquarters building in 1983, O'Keeffe immediately made a gift of $50,000 and lent her name to a Challenge Fund for the Phoenix campaign which resulted in replacing the headquarters building and adding a Social Center and the Ruth Hall Museum.
During the last few years of her life O'Keeffe was unable to come to Ghost Ranch from Abiquiu. Eventually she moved to Santa Fe where she died in her 99th year, reclusive to the end. "I find people very difficult," she once said.
Ghost Ranch gave her the freedom to paint what she saw and felt. Knowledgeable visitors can look around and identify many of the scenes she painted. Red and gray hills like those across from the roadside park south of the ranch headquarters were frequent subjects. Kitchen Mesa at the upper end of the valley is an example of the red and yellow cliffs she painted many times. Pedernal, the flat-topped mountain to the south, was probably her favorite subject. "It's my private mountain," she frequently said. "God told me if I painted it often enough I could have it." And of course, the Ghost Ranch logo, used on everything from stationery to T-shirts, was adapted from an O'Keeffe drawing.
Well there isn't free space as usually, so I made my Basics Wall to display some collections. Black Basics are finally complete. There could be my Fashionistas wall sometimes too : P
Back to basics. Pen in a Moleskine. I did this one relaxing in the hammock in the backyard around 3 in the afternoon. A beautiful day. The tree was backlit which was tricky to depict using just black line with no grays.
Moleskine Japanese accordion 3.5 x 5.5 inches, Micron Pigma 02 pen, and Micron Pigma Brush pen both black. #inktober
Today were here with the first eliminated girl of MNTM, the lovely Lana Schwartz!
MK: Thank you Lana for sitting down with us for a quick exclusive!
L: Pleasure..
MK: How are you feeling now that it's been some time since you're elimination?
L: Well, now I feel better, but I was extremely frustrated and upset when it happened.
MK: I'm glad to hear that. You were basically eliminated for not getting enough public response, or should I say "votes"..what do you think happened?
L: To be honest, I really don't know..initially I thought I had this in the bag, but I was wrong. The judges really loved my look, and praised my ability to be a successful model, also when the first promo shot was released, lots of fans had their bets on me to make it to the final four!...then after the makeovers, I wondered if the public would agree with my new look, and if I could pull it off, but apparently I couldn't...so maybe it was the new do' or maybe they weren't ready for me yet. It's hard to accept, but hey, these things happen, and all I can do is grow from this.
MK: It was indeed a shock, since you garnered quite some positive response from the promo...is modeling something you'll still consider in persuing?
L: Even though I do regret this experience a little, yes I would...it's just going to take me a bit longer now.
MK: Since you spent a little time with the other girls, who in you're opinion could win this cycle?
L: I didn't really get to know them that well, but in terms of public support and general skill for this profession, I'd have to say Marissa, the public loved her, and she has the right look to fit in with today's standard of models.
MK: Lana, thanx again for the interview, hopefully we'll be seeing more of you soon.
L: Thank you, I appreciate it.
The competition is about to start, the first photos will be up very soon!