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Edinburgh Castle viewed from Craiglockhart Hill. Craiglockhart house - now part of Napier University - is nearby on the slopes and was turned into a psychiatric hospital for officers during the First World War. It's where two of the greatest poets of that conflict met, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. I wonder if they took walks up this nearby hill to take in views over this remarkable city, while discussing their poetry? Little pieces of history everywhere you walk in this city, not just the obvious of the Castle standing sentinel above its city, it's everywhere.
These artwork conflicts at times with our ideas of how art should look like; of how it meets the observer' s expectations. Clearly this art does not respond to the sciences of the Art Academies, does not imitate the real world, nor does it use conventional perspectives.
Mirit Ben-Nun transmits her inner world and its sounds, giving rise to an infinite number of artistic compositions, springs of dreams, an assortment of realities and perhaps her 'Unreality.
Her art is connected to her life and the real world, it is a back and forth between herself and the spectator. Her thoughts are expressed in a unique style and approach.
Mirit Ben-Nun's art usually exists independently of reality, she even dares to move it away. Her aggressiveness in the use of primary colors along with bright tones, reveal Her autonomy in relation to shapes. The lines, the points and the forms do not try to imitate reality but rather give each work a unique importance showing the emotional charge of the artist.The artist has a spirit of rebellion, new ideas, trying to overcome without seeking perfection, just looking for expression. Through her work she explores personal identity trying to redefine the art itself. Its purpose is to describe and illustrate or to reproduce the world and the nature of human civilization, focusing primarily on the dominant exposure of the expressive function.His art is made by an artist that reflects the complex problems that shape our diverse, global and rapidly changing world, trying to redefine art.
Dora Woda
Digital painting with Procreate five, iPad Pro, and Apple Pencil.
I’m not sure if this one is done or not…
A huge mural covering the side of a building in Manchester, England. The mural is located on the back of a building towards the top end of Port Street in a car park close the junction with Great Ancoats Street. The mural is by the Spanish duo Pichi & Avo, and depicts Hercules fighting the centaur Nessus against the backdrop of graffiti type scrawlings.
Two young chacma baboons have a spat over something. A moment later they were again friends and grooming each other.
Kruger NP, South Africa
Two sows sort it out...Its not just the boars who mix it up during breeding activity, sows routinely chase off, or wrestle(as here)when one or the other is perceived to have transgressed, transgressed meaning tried to move in on their male! Unfortunately my 70-200 zoom was out of reach when this match occurred leaving me no option other than the 300 prime...thus the second sow could not be fully framed...
This is one shot. Taken in a room with mirrors on all sides with a single snooted strobe stuck with a camera mount to the upper part of the mirrors.
Strobist: Canon 430 EX in gridded snoot upper camera right at 1/64. Triggered with RF 602s.
As CP 9732 rolls into Clinton,IA from the north with a unit train of fuel oil, UP 8075 comes into town from the east after crossing the Mississippi River with a load of containers and intermodal trailers. The CP tracks have to cross both UP main lines to continue south so CP9732 was stopped for :30 min while the UP cleared both main lines of east and west traffic.
A woman looks at a computer screen watching a dissenting Russian Channel One employee entering Ostankino on-air TV studio during Russia's most-watched evening news broadcast, holding up a poster which reads as "No War" and condemning Moscow's military action in Ukraine in Moscow on March 15, 2022. - As a news anchor Yekaterina Andreyeva launched into an item about relations with Belarus, Marina Ovsyannikova, who wore a dark formal suit, burst into view, holding up a hand-written poster saying "No War" in English. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
Made for Mobile Frame Zero, the Lego tabletop wargame where you can build anything you want! (Seriously...)
A couple of young women dressed in traditional dresses celebrating the "Fiesta de las Cruzes" walk down a crowded street in Granada.
Granada, Spain
A story of conflict from Lands of Classic Castle.
DISCLAIMER: No offense meant to my Loreesi builder friends...but you been talkin’ smack, and it’s time for your smack-down!
Sir Caelan Munro looked out from the shadows at the approaching invaders with a mixture of anger and regret. He did not want to do this, but it was both his duty and was absolutely necessary. The Loreesi army was neither justified nor welcome. Lenfald had sought peace, even as the opening battle began, but driven by a lust for power the Loreesi would not listen. At the Battle of Ainesford, Lenfald had fought the Loreesi’s game out in the open, and had been destroyed by his war elephants and cavalry. Now it was time to fight the Lenfel way, with brains instead of brawn. Today was payback time.
Caelan looked around at his own Scout Snipers, well-hidden in their green-dyed leather armor, with a mixture of pride and concern. He had trained them hard, they had done exceptionally well, and now he was about to put them in harm’s way for the very first time. He had formed them only three months ago along with his wily and highly-capable chief archer, Tavish. The King had just been murdered, and all the evidence pointed to the power-mad Loreesi. Their own prince had declared he could “be king in a fortnight”. Not likely, so long as Lenfald opposed him. And so Lenfald was targeted.
The invading army was forced to use this road, for it bypassed a boggy marsh and skirted a thick forest. That made this road a “choke point”. The forest was now at the Scout Snipers’ backs and would allow a quick escape through hidden paths which the desert-soldiers of Loreos would not easily find.
The lead army elements came and passed by their position, completely unaware of the two dozen Scout Snipers waiting to strike. Then the main target came into range: the first war elephant, all dressed up in flashy Loreesi gold and red trappings. Finery would not save it.
Caelan did not give the order to fire. That would be decided by Flannery, formerly of Lenfald’s logging industry. He knew how to cut a large tree so that it barely stood with just enough trunk left, waiting for the final blows. And Flannery timed it perfect. The moment his enormous axe struck the first hit, every archer, including Caelan, let fly. They had each been tracking a selected target, and Caelan had sought a burly Loreesi marching right by the elephant. Out of the corner of his eye he watched his men strike their targets suddenly out of nowhere, shocking their victims even when they missed, which was rare. Tavish shot a knight right in the neck and the nobleman tumbled backward off his horse. But not Caelan. He shot wide and to the left...archery was never his strong suit.
For the Loreesi, shock and dismay spread as seconds flew by in chaos. That chaos got much worse as Flannery’s second blow brought the great tree down. It came crashing down on the elephant, which tried to avoid it by lumbering to the right, only to crash into another tree and trample several men in the process. Flannery’s tree still nailed it squarely in the back, after crushing two of the four men riding it. The great animal was down, and despite it’s struggling would clearly never rise again. It would also never be used again to crush Lenfels under foot.
Three shots. That was Caelan’s rule, and then mandatory rapid withdrawal into the forest. He hated it; he far preferred a stand-up fight with his longsword and dirk, but with thousands of Loreesi here, it would be suicide. He aimed and took his second shot at one blindly charging their position. And missed. Meanwhile Tavish felled another knight. Caelan’s third shot was at the same man as before and he so close now that the young Lenfel knight could make out his eye color...finally a hit, yet only in the leg!
Caelan quickly glanced around and saw that some of his men were still shooting. “NOW!” he yelled at the top of his lungs and they turned in unison and quietly faded into the paths they had used to arrive. Behind them he could hear the Loreesi charging. They crashed into thickets, vines, and thorny bushes to no avail, their eyes not used to the low-light of the forest. For all their frustration they could find nothing, except Flannery's axe and his message left on his implement of destruction: "You want our trees? Here is how you get them". By the time they stumbled onto anything that looked like a path, the Scout Snipers were already at their horses and mounted, having seen their first action. Not a single Sniper was wounded. Over three dozen of the invaders would not live through the night.
Postscript.
While riding to their next ambush site, Tavish looked at Caelan and stated, “Sir, your archery has not improved in spite of much practice. How is it that a leader of archers is such a bad shot?”
Caelan returned the stare. “How is it your arrows only find noblemen?”
Aware of how sensitive this issue was in their society, Tavish merely grinned, “Only Loreesi knights. They hardly count anyways.”
2nd DISCLAIMER: No real elephants were harmed in the making of the MOC.
Previous Caelan stories:
One Eagle attacked another and kept knocking it into the water. Or the one Eagle was trying to hang onto its fish and the other tried to drive it away. Not sure. This went on for quite a while.
Culprit: MGS3 OST - Return of the MiGs
Technically the second operational Beleran jet fighter, the WiG-16 is an exceptionally-balanced gun platform, even if it can only hit Mach 1 in a dive. While it has been relegated to pilot training in Beleran service, it was widely exported during serial production, and can be found in many backwater conflicts or in active service with countries sporting more frugality, sense, and taste than the capitalista. Shchiskabov-Golbin still produces the airframe to order, hand-crafting them somewhat in excess of the original specification with such modern amenities as an ejection seat that only fails half the time.
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You too can produce tube fighters in an evening. Basic !MiG-17 for D&C11's commie build pool.
A man looks at an Ukrainian armored personnel carrier (APC) BTR-4 destroyed as a result of fight not far from the center of Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, located some 50 km from Ukrainian-Russian border, on February 28, 2022. (Photo by Sergey BOBOK / AFP)
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I abandoned this challenge I started in the beginning of the year. But my conscience's been heavy lately about not finishing this task. So, yeah.. I'm picking it up... again. At least I'll say I accomplished something this year, right?
30-Day Song Challenge.
Day 13: A song that is a guilty pleasure
Oh, yeah! The girl in the photo is Elena. 'Cause I like playing with myself.. hmm.. nope. Scratch that.