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I took this photo after an April shower ,earlier this year. I couldn't resist those colourful feathers as he strutted about, and that lovely red teddy bear eye blinking at me!
I react intuitively. There is, I think, an electronic impulse between my eye and my finger. But even this is not enough. I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
said in 1966
Collector's edition of Life, the Eisie Issue
Ukraine Matters!
many petalled star magnolia, 'Waterlily', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Cropped this in so tight because the bird came all most up to my car while having a drive on a moorland road and couldn't fit the full bird in, not shy at all in contrast to a Cuckoo which I came across 50 yards along the road, I spotted it from a distance perched half way up a wall I stopped the car and even though I was some distance away off it went (so frustrating) anyway It landed further up on the top of the wall, I stopped even further back this time readied my camera and I should swear here but a blinking Meadow pipit chased it away tiny little bird!!! Thats my rant about the frustration of bird photography lol
A little triptych to enjoy the process: Take a pretty straight bokeh ICM image (image on left). Duplicate it and blow it up a bit (center image). Overlay the two and blend with "Difference" to create the abstract on the right. I liked it just like that, I liked the purity of the vibrant colors, the tonal gradients and the way the eye traveled down into the center of the image giving me the title. No further mixing for now! I also liked the original shot and how you could see the 60 Hz frequency of the AC voltage in the movement of the bokeh. With a triptych, I could show the starter image and how I got to the final, which often is a lot easier that you might think.
Love that it's my first post for 2022 and I get to post in in my favorite group, Sliders Sunday! HSS
Meyer Optik 50mm f/1.8 Oreston, single image shot at f/1.8 with straight line camera movement.
A blinking crystal Star
Falling on Earth from far
It illuminates the Earth with vibrant Colours
But why has it left its Cluster - one wonders
To be a lonely Star here forever ?
There’s Doubt if that was ever so clever !
(Caren)
😄 Happy Macro Monday 😄
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
1:1 Macro of the bottom of a small crystal bowl (2”x 2”)
taken on Aug 18, 2020 and uploaded for
Macro Mondays #Glass
ƒ/2.8
4.5 mm
1/60 Sec
ISO 400
[Text and image copyright Caren (©all rights reserved)]
please respect my ©copyright : Do not use any image or text without my previous written authorization, NOT even in social networks. If you want to use a photograph, please contact me!
Bitte mein ©Copyright beachten! Meine Fotos und Texte sind ©copyright geschützt (alle Rechte vorbehalten) und dürfen ohne meine vorherige und schriftliche Zustimmung NICHT von Dritten verwendet werden, auch nicht in sozialen Netzwerken. Falls Interesse an einem Foto besteht, bitte ich um Kontaktaufnahme!]
....until we meet again.
I need to take a break.
When darkness falls we venture out into the night
And realize our dreams and shed our human plight
And so the night
Moves lightly o'er the ground
Little stars like blinking eyes look down
Are they watching over us?
Teaching us to love and trust
The blinking eye or to give it, its proper title, the millennium bridge. This bridge crosses the river Tyne between Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead. It's a pedestrian bridge which tilts and lifts to allow boats to pass underneath it. I captured this shot just before the sun came up on a cold February morning, it was a privilege.
Regno Unito, Londra, Tower Hill, Estate 2015
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3F4zpOdK8
Bloccato in questa città spaventosa
I semafori rossi oscillano
e le linee telefoniche sono isolate…
…i cieli mi stanno facendo l'occhiolino
vedo una tempesta bollire dal mare
e sta venendo più vicino
e sta venendo più vicino
Stranded in this spooky town
Stoplight is swaying and the phone lines are down…
…Skies are blinking at me
I see a storm bubbling up from the sea
And it's coming closer
And it's coming closer
Z i b s k a
Wrought
& Wyot
... The time flies by
In the blinking eye
No matter how we try to make it last
But if souls are strong
They'll go on and on
And we will hardly know the time has passed
In a thousand years
I know that our love will still be here
So close your eyes, my dear
Knowing that our love is going to last
Wrought
available at Zibska Mainstore
Wyot (Flowers)
available at The Liaison Collaborative
from 3 to 26 Sept
"Multiverse", the largest and most complex light sculpture created by American artist Leo Villareal, may be experienced by visitors as they pass through the Concourse walkway between the East and West Buildings of the National Gallery of Art. (10/15/2016).
We all need to eat.
Peregrine falcon aerial food exchange.
The male caught a dove and he is giving it to the female. He just drops it, she catches it and goes to eat it. Looks a bit gory, the dove's head is hanging in the back of her body. The whole thing takes a second or two, so no blinking allowed 😀 Also, I wish she was facing towards me, but that's why we keep shooting, hoping for better shots.
Blinking is the perfect communication, a mutual glance and everything is already clear: stroking, cuddling...
Blinking love!
Dear friends, to all of you all our best wishes for a happy, peaceful and above all healthy year 2023!
These Stars must always stay together
Together they can stand all kinds of weather
Within these golden, blinking Stars
The odd one is the Sun - and not the Mars
The Sky belongs to the Stars at Night
But disappear in the early Morning Light
Then it’s the Sun which may come up
The Time for you for waking up
(Caren)
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
😄 Happy Macro Monday 😄
Macro (<2.5” x 2.5” incl neg space) taken Jan 29, 2020 and uploaded for #MacroMondays #TheOddOne
ƒ/2.8
4.5 mm
1/8 Sec
ISO 400
[Text and image copyright Caren (©all rights reserved)]
please respect my ©copyright : Do not use any image or text without my previous written authorization, NOT even in social networks. If you want to use a photograph, please contact me!
Bitte mein ©Copyright beachten! Meine Fotos und Texte sind ©copyright geschützt (alle Rechte vorbehalten) und dürfen ohne meine vorherige und schriftliche Zustimmung NICHT von Dritten verwendet werden, auch nicht in sozialen Netzwerken. Falls Interesse an einem Foto besteht, bitte ich um Kontaktaufnahme!]
THIRD EYE
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Clover - Insight eye shading
A fully mesh, Blinking, FULLY BOM third eye. Is mapped to use your skins texture on your forehead (LELUTKA ONLY), and includes a shading layer tatto. The eye will also only use your eye texture on your avatar, if you touch the eye blind, really amazing for your daily outfits or for your amazings pics or costumes, come on to clover store and buy your Third eye
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OUTFIT
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Really incredible male set,this creation from petrichor and Ersch store are available for buy on ersch store come on and get your oujalara set, the oujalara male and nip are separate to wear can use the two at same time or for separate
"i dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. and that simply by blinking my eyes, i shall make pictures. then, i think, i shall really have become a photographer."
~ alfred eisenstaedt
Blinking Billy Point in the Derwent River near the finish of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. This shot was taken about half an hour before the first yacht, Comanche, crossed the finish line.
Manchester Orchestra - The Silence
"...
Little girl, you are cursed by my ancestry
There is nothing but darkness and agony
I can not only see, but you stopped me from blinking
Let me watch you as close as a memory
Let me hold you above all the misery
Let me open my eyes and be glad that I got here."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bento Mesh Head: Classic Face (BOM) by Genus
Face Applier: Dany by [Mignonne]
Body Tatt: The Scythe Rune by Evermore
Hair: Mila by FABIA
Ensemble: Sally's Friends (4 commons, 1 rare, 2 styles) by Les Sucreries de Fairy for the Sense Event (10/18-11/08)
Half Pointe Ballet Slippers: Astralia
Blinking Skulls Earrings: EarthStones
Briar Bow: Remarkable Oblivion
Lipstick: Jelly by Genus
Spring Eyeshadow: Izzie's
Giselle Eyes Applier: .euphoric
Dancing Skeleton (w/ 5 dances, 2 sits, available in "disco", "gold", "natural", & "pink") - attach to avi and you both dance - I love this skinny animesh dancin' dude!! We're doing the "Thriller" dance here :D ) by BOUDOIR
The Crisanta Trees - Red by ~ASW~
Skellies on a swing: Pacifique (from Prophecy Hunt sponsored by Fallen Gods)
Happy Halloween Banner: Jodilyn Jewell
Creepy Tree 08: MINIMAL
Dark Fungus: Harshlands
Skelly Dinner Guest - Eat: *Shai*
Skeletal Pirate NPC: StudioDire
skele with organs: Meryet Amat
Mystical Witch Cauldron: Rhy Paragorn
Orange Halloween Trees: irrISIStible
Various Halloween Grasses: irrISIStible
SIM: IPPOS @ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ippos/54/19/21
Should have gone to see Floetry. How did I not know about Santigold at the Neptune? I just can't keep up anymore.
Bento Mesh Head: LeLutka Korina
Bento Mesh Body: Maitreya Lara
Face Applier: Gen2 Fala by .:Soul:.
Enigma Eyes Applier: .euphoric
Hair: Burtonette (Funky) by Tableau Vivant
Ensemble (gacha): Sugar Skull *Turquoise* by Devious Mind !dM now @ The Hallow Manor event (includes body & head tatts, hairpiece roses, body roses) @ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Corrupted%20Innocence/175/... . Gacha includes 10 commons plus 2 rares
Eternal Flaming Aura (blue): Cole's Corner
Compatible Nails: Astralia
Blinking Skulls Earrings (white): EarthStones
POSE: Invitation 2 by Astalianda (w/ some tweaks for the prop)
Drink Prop: DarkDelice #7 by :::ChicChica:::
Sphynxie Sugar Ghost: Culprit
Halloween Pumpkin-A6(light-on2 dark): G.Field
Halloween Pumpkin-A5(light-on1): G.Field
Pumpkin Animesh: [Rezz Room]
RFC-Pumpkin Witch: Nyree Rain
Carved Pumpkins Stacked: Artisan Fantasy
Soul Whispers Dead Tree: Serenity Style
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[ zerkalo ] Billiards Z - Hanging Lamp
[ zerkalo ] Full Metal - Tackle Block (RARE)
[ zerkalo ] Bar Z - Bar Z Sign - on/off blinking
[ zerkalo ] Billiards Z - Cards Frame
[ zerkalo ] Biker's Place - Helmet Rack
[ zerkalo ] Bar Z - Darts
[ zerkalo ] High Pressure - Do not lean
[ zerkalo ] Biker's Place - Mailbox
[ zerkalo ] Industrial Spot - Recycled Fan Clock - Dark
[ zerkalo ] Industrial Spot - Milk Can Table
[ zerkalo ] Apokalyptic Fridge - Adult
[ zerkalo ] Full Metal - Whiskey
..::THOR::.. Amsterdam Car Flag
..::THOR::.. NY Coffee Table
..::THOR::.. PizzaLounge Boxed Pizza - Slices
..::THOR::.. PizzaLounge Stack Of Pizza Boxes
..::THOR::..Old's Cool Hanged Jacket
220ML - KWJ Steampunk Gacha [Peepsi Box]
"SOURCES" RUG 36
[Bad Unicorn]x Birch Mary Jane 'Potted Plant'
[Bad Unicorn] Weed Jar - I'm Blunt Set
[Bad Unicorn] Bong - I'm Blunt Set
[Bad Unicorn] Grinder - I'm Blunt Set
[Bad Unicorn] Nov's Crystal Pipe - I'm Blunt Set
[Bad Unicorn] Rolling Papers - I'm Blunt Set
[Bad Unicorn] Ash Tray - I'm Blunt Set
[Bad Unicorn] Spliff (lit) - I'm Blunt Set
[Bad Unicorn] Pipe - I'm Blunt Set
[ kunst ] - Godness eco six-pack
[ kunst ] - Godness can
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Quite captivating to stare into any animals eyes, but to get the stare from a beautiful Golden Eagle is unforgettable. The intensity, non-blinking gaze... what is he thinking? What am I looking at? Lol!
I'm ready to argue with the whole world.
I'll swear on my head.
That all flowers have eyes,
and they look at you and me. For those who don't believe, I invite everyone to the garden.
Look, barely blinking.,
They look at people trustingly.
All the flowers look like babies in a cradle.
The flowers of the earth look into our soul,
The kind gaze of everyone who is with us. Don't pick the flowers, don't!
Their delicate fragrance
Filled the air of the garden,
They decorate the garden so sweetly!
It’s a bit like a country within a country here in Snaefellsnes. I could easily spend an entire trip mooching around, trying old stuff and new. Besides the blinking obvious, Kirkjufell and the Black Church of Budir there are waterfalls, beaches with sand in various shades of black, red or even traditional white (take your pick), epic roads across silent fjords, views to the north and the Westfjords, lone buildings, dunes, craters, lakes, twisted lava fields and plenty more. Oh yes, and if you’re lucky and arrive on a clear day, there’s a monstrous brute of a glacier, flanked with a white and blue ice cap that dominates the landscape from almost everywhere you go, reaching up to touch the very heavens. Tog or normal well balanced member of the public, there sure is a lot of stuff to keep you occupied on Snaefellsnes.
In the hostel, we’d got talking to Trevor, a veteran of several visits to the area who complained he’d never seen Snaefellsjokull. Some may ask, “how can you not see an enormous white lump, almost 1450 metres high that’s visible from Reykjavik on a clear day?” And the answer is in the last two words. “Clear day.” I’m sure the locals get to see the beast at regular intervals, but on our previous visit in 2019, the entire peninsula was painted in a drab grey sheet of gloom. Nothing doing. But this time around, on the second day of touring Snaefellsnes in a car with a back seat full of primed and loaded camera gear, we got lucky. Unfortunately for Trevor he’d gone north that very morning in search of the Aurora Borealis in the Westfjords. Mind you he found it, so I think he was happy in the end.
By now, we’d already stopped at two locations and made merry with the conditions. We didn’t get more than a couple of miles further through the day before coming to another unscheduled halt on top of a small mound of scrubby car park when the possibilities in front of us became apparent. No epic light in the middle of the day of course – that would come later – but while some images might work in mono, others seemed to offer themselves up in full glorious technicolour. And then we got to the lone church of Ingjaldsholl, close to Hellissandur at the edge of the map. And look who wasn’t bothering to hide behind the clouds? Yep, all fourteen hundred and forty-six metres of the beast, with a couple of interesting lumps and ridges in between for good measure. Who doesn’t love a glacier cloaked monster after all?
We were probably only here for twenty minutes, moving a couple of hundred yards from east to west over a patch of bare open ground as we tried to line up the elements, waiting for the sun to dapple the scene before us, whilst taking the utmost care not to tread on the moss. They really don’t like you walking on the moss in Iceland you know. It’s right up there with armed robbery and carjacking in the grand scheme of things. Not that we tested that out of course. You can’t take landscape photos when you’re locked in a cell, and when the trip is costing you something north of a hundred pounds a day even though you’re on the most stringent of budgets, you don’t want to be wasting any time being detained at the pleasure of the Icelandic Government.
Once again I found myself wondering at just how isolated so many of these simple and striking Lutheran churches are. Take this one for example, a mile out of both Hellissandur and neighbouring Rif. It’s not even placed directly in between them. I hope that in the days before cars, the locals had sturdy boots for those winter treks to morning prayers. And while Hellnar’s church may be surrounded by a handful of homes amid the tourist accommodation, Budir goes hand in hand with the only slightly less well known hotel of the same name. Not a house or farm in sight. Yet the village of Arnarstapi, a veritable metropolis in comparison to the rest of the settlements on the south west coast on Snaefellsnes, doesn’t have a church at all. Although it does have a fish and chip van, which depending on your belief system may or may not be far more important. At the end of the trip we visited Strandarkirkja, totally isolated by a thin thread of asphalt from the cluster of shacks that didn’t seem to be occupied by anyone at all. Still, they make for good subjects don’t they? And besides being dwarfed by the mighty Snaefellsjokull, this is the only one of them that was supposedly visited by Christopher Columbus. So the story goes (although historians aren’t of one accord on the subject), he spent a winter here fifteen years before his more famous adventure to check out the local intel on crossing the Atlantic. Leif Eriksson had made the voyage several hundred years earlier, and the Icelanders are well known for handing down stories from one generation to the next.
In writing this, I’ve just remembered that one of Iceland’s five prisons is right next to Kirkjufell. Not because I study such things in detail before choosing my holiday destinations of course. But if you take the single track road to the immediate west of the mountain to try and take pictures from another angle, you can’t help but be aware of the signs telling you which route not to follow unless you have plenty of time to spare and a very plausible explanation. I could have pointed the camera out of the window of my cell if we’d been sent there. Although I suppose they’d have confiscated it.
I wonder if Columbus took his resident landscape artist with him and got a sunset canvas of Kirkjufell in front of the waterfalls?
ok EXPLORE fanatics....thx for your attention BUT please NO BLINKING or in your face AWARDS....they will only get trashed as soon as I see them.
Thank you for your kind understanding.
Can’t stop these feet from sinking
And it’s starting to show on me
You’re staring while I’m blinking
But just don’t tell me what you see
I’m so over all this bad luck
Hearing one more “Keep your head up”
Is it ever gonna change?
So let me just give up
So let me just let go
If this isn’t good for me
Well, I don’t wanna know
Classic sign, classic burger menu, classic lunch counter and round top seats. Ovaltine Café was rated among ’50 greatest cafes on Earth’. Of course you have to take it with grain of salt, some pepper and ideally with jalapenos, as that news came from Britain's Telegraph. Originally a Post office, Afton Hotel building (1912 arch A.J. Bird), where the café is located, is now a rooming house. Attracting tourist would be tough sale on East Hastings.
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The millennium bridge with the sage and tyne bridge in the distance on the Newcastle upon Tyne quayside.
Spaghetti tongs, a small blue blinking light (for the key ring), a white paper and a little LED torch.
When the sun finally came out today I had only just finished my 'shadow' captures, which would have been much easier with bright sunlight than trying to keep the lights in place, focus on the point and keep everything balanced ;)
But this challenge is still a lot of fun.
Have a happy Easter MMonday and stay well, dear Flickr friends. 💙💙💙
The 8 story tall and narrow building is standing since 1913 on East Hastings. Build by architect F.N. Bender (for Mr. Mills). These days it is occupied mostly by permanent residents rather than tourist. Interestingly until it was sold in 2015, it was owned by Iranian immigrant who was celebrated as he created clean and safe bar for retirees and other seniors. The building is only 25 ft wide, basically the width of small house in the city. Another Vancouver old fashion neon sign is hanging there since 1940's.
I was wondering if these vintage neon signs were all created by the same firm and yes George Sweeney set up such a company in 1924 and employed art school graduates. Most of the 19,000 neon signs which lit Vancouver at one time, were product by that company. Of course now only few dozen remain.
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