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Paramore. :)
I'm finally adding a new image to that series thingy. it's my interp. of "Brick by Boring Brick" by the lovely Paramore. I'm using a teddy bear, because, for some reason, we have no baby dolls. Anyways, it's like the little girl in the video, how at the end she was all mad and hating her fantasies, and that's "her" throwing the doll, a symbol of her fantasies, on the ground in anger, like throwing them away.
And yes, I've built up a world of magic, and I'm never throwing it away.
SOOC
I'm going Lazer tagging in less than two hours. So excited.
Someone totally awesome should write me a testimonial. :) *hint, hint, poke, poke*
Because two celebrities just couldn't be enough - Michael Lohan, Hailey Glassman and Kate Major were also in attendance...
Only Lycabettus Hill has a better view over Athens than does the Acropolis, because from Lybabettus Hill you can see the Acropolis from above! On our last day of our Athens visit for the announcement of Aegean Airlines' joining the Star Alliance, two other journalists and I climbed the hill to the funicular railway tunneled into Lycabettus Hill so that we could get to the top quickly. The views were very spectacular and it was a very worthwhile two hours' jaunt. For more photos and articles on Greece, visit www.airlinesanddestinations.com.
Because of its lengthy shape, this titanite moves green, red and orange areas in waves through the yellow luster (as opposed to round stones which mix them all at once).
Palawan, because of the extensive sand and coral flats off its East side, has a lot of these, in a range of colours. Some may be of different species, but I can't be bothered just now to sort them out.
They use their 'foot' to jump out of the sand.
Spahats Falls is one of the highlights of Wells Grey Provincial Park in British Columbia. Its hard to photograph because it sits way down in the shadows of a deep canyon. I used the tonal contrast filter in Nik software to even out the tones a bit.
From Wikipedia: Spahats Creek Falls, also called Spahats Falls, is a waterfall on Spahats Creek within the Wells Gray Provincial Park of British Columbia, Canada, and the name of a picnic ground and viewpoint of the falls which is popular with tour buses. Common references place the falls at around 60 m (197 ft) tall, but taking into account the second tier, it is closer to 75-80 meters tall
Like the larger Helmcken Falls, Spahats Falls owes its foundation to the deposits of volcanic rock in the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field that were placed down in the valley of the Spahats Creek. Layer upon layer of fresh lava created flat areas, over which enormous floods flowed during the last ice age. These floods shaped the upright cliff in the lava flows over which the river now flows. The volcanic eruptions shaped the region and gave it its remarkable morphological features.
51°44′00″N 120°01′00″W / 51.733333°N 120.016667°W
I include these because I like the pose and because they are an excellent example of the focusing problem with my 28-135mm lens. You will notice the focus is tac-sharp just behind the group of prom-sters - note the bark on the trees. Frustrating, consistent problem with focus being behind the spot targeted by the EF. Manually focusing is possible, but due to Canon's manual system, it's hard to tell where it's truly sharp, esp. with shallow depth of field.
Kilnalahan is unique in terms of Irish Monastic history because it was the site of Ireland’s only foundation for the Carthusian Order. The Carthusians were founded by St Bruno who was born in Cologne in 1038. At an early age he was sent to France and he became a Canon of Rheims in 1070. Ten years later in 1080, he decided to adopt a life of solitude and silence, far from the turmoil of the world and in 1083 with six disciples, he went to Greenoble where they were given a foundation by St Hugh in the desert of Chartreuse. So began the monastery of Chartreuse; a name which has been corruptly anglicized to Charterhouse. St Bruno founded a second monastery in the desert of Calabria and there he died on 6 October 1101.
The Carthusian rule was akin to the old Irish monastic rule of St Carthach of Lismore. The Order is strictly contemplative – prayer, study, spiritual reading and manual labour filling up the intervals of the canonical hours. The Carthusian Day begins with singing Divine Office at midnight, one of the longest in the church, a chant both severe and slow, private office in cells and each monk retires to rest at 2.30 am. Up again at 5.30 am for Mass, meditation, spiritual reading and portion of office up to 10.00 am. From 10.00 am to 2.30 pm is given to intellectual and manual work except for 30 minutes for dinner. Vespers are sung at 2.45 pm and the monks retire to their cells at 6.30 pm. They generally live in their cells except for thrice daily Matins, Mass and Vespers when they go to the monastic church, otherwise a life of solitude. However, on special occasions, there is mitigation when canonical hours are sung together in the choir and when dinner and supper are served in the refectory. In 1265, a weekly walk outside enclosure was introduced. The first Carthusian priory in England was established at Witham by King Henry II in 1178, a second charterhouse was at Hinton, Somerset in 1227 and then another at Beauvale, Nottinghamshire in 1243. Kilnalahan was founded by John de Cogan with the patronage of Richard de Burgo in the second half of the 13th century which was after Hinton and the dissolution of Ireland’s solitary Carthusian foundation took place some years before the establishment of Beauvale. There is a direct line of patronage for the Carthusians involving the de Burgos and ancestral/marital connections right back to Ella de Longespee, Countess of Salisbury, who endowed Hinton Priory in 1248. Given the patronage connections, it would be no surprise that the first Carthusian brethren to set foot in Kilnalahan came from Hinton Priory. Proof of the Carthusian establishment in Kilnalahan is to be found in letters issued by Kind Edward I on 27 July 1282 which guaranteed English protection “for the prior, monks and lay brothers of the Carthusian Order de Domo Dei Kinalehin”.
This a detail shot of the story. In this photo, I used aperture priority mode because I want to use an aperture size f/8.0 that is not too small. This is because I want the background of the monitors to be slightly blurry. I also used a white balance of around 3200K because the lighting in the area was too warm.
**BECAUSE/PR**
KETTERING, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 13/07/2014
Tough Mudder held at Boughton House Kettering, Northamptonshire. Boughton House is home to thousands of acres of the UK’s thickest woodlands and natural water obstacles making the 12-mile course a real challenge. All competitors who crosses the finish line were given a refreshing glass of Ginger Grouse the 2014 Official Pint Partner to Tough Mudder.