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Happy Fence Friday contribution.

My contribution for this week's theme "presented on a plate".

 

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My contribution to UWA Transformations 2017:

I invite you to a small wander in second life through spherical panoramas : UWA, Paris 1900, Ville de Cœur, Cerridwen Cauldron, La Digue du Braek, Winter Trace, Silas Merlin Island, Arctic Express, Devin 2 and CK Ballyhoo, Watercolor Wander at LEA12.

It features artwork by Elicio Ember, Silas Merlin and Ceakay Ballyhoo, and funny items by Pandora Wigglesworth (Curio Obscura).

 

Transformations 2017, Will be the last Art event organized by the University of Western Australia before the regions close at the end of July. The Event starts on May 1st.

 

Visit this location at University of Western Australia (UWA) in Second Life

 

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Our contribution for The Challenge with the theme: Sport. The Basketball Chair. The Basketball Chair has LI 4 and holds 9 single sitting animations. The dimensions are: 1.3 x 1.3 x 1.4 meters.

The Chair will be available at 22769 ~ [bauwerk]. SURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wooden%20Bay/36/124/23

Our contribution for the new round of TLC The Garden: The Beatle Chair Comes in Rust (displayed) or in Metal and has a Texture Changer for the Leather parts (Red (displayed here), Army, Black and White). The chair has 7 LI and 18 single- and 9 couple animations.

TLC : Endless Summer starts 7th August.

SURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Remarkable/151/169/22

Webpage: www.liaisoncollaborative.com/

My contribution to this weeks theme "small" in the group Fotosöndag.

My contribution for this week's theme "work", for the Swedish photo group Fotosondag.

The Center for Islamic Civilization is the largest cultural, scientific, and educational complex in Uzbekistan. It houses a museum, a research institute, libraries, international partner organizations, scientific laboratories, centers of traditional crafts, and educational departments.

The centerpiece of the museum is the Samarkand Kufic Quran, one of the oldest surviving Quran manuscripts in the world.

The goal of the Center is to provide a comprehensive study of the history of Uzbekistan from ancient times to the modern period, with a focus on the region’s contribution to world civilization in the fields of science, culture, and spiritual heritage.

Taken in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Contribution to MM challenge for 22/7/19, theme: "Gone Fishing"

 

Another challenge involving food!! At least this time it's healthy. Or at least it was until I cooked it in a ton of butter and and drowned my salad with olive oil!

possible contribution (#1) to Macro Mondays challenge for 27/7/26 - theme: Movie (or film!!!)

 

SOME LIKE IT HOT

 

There are a few options for this one but this is a hint toward one of my favourite films of all time - Some Like It Hot which, along side Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, starred somebody called Marilyn Monroe.

 

The image itself is a spoonful (is that the missing spoon??) of smoked paprika. It isn't hot because I don't really like it too hot (food or weather!)

 

This is a rehash because the film itself is Black & White!!!!

My contribution for this week's theme «luminous»; for the Swedish photo group Fotosondag.

 

Mitt bidrag till Fotosöndag och veckans tema «lysande».

My contribution to the "album sleeves" group, Project #3

My contribution to Macro Monday's challenge, "Familiar", on 18 December 2023. HMM

My contribution to the InnovaLUG vignette collab! I tried to go for a log path look.

 

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UC San Diego 1999-2000 General Catalog. Updated annually until online tools rendered physical copies obsolete, this was the must-have reference for every student.

 

Even though it had been a long while since I graduated from and, a year later, became a full-time staffer at this innovative institution, I obtained, and saved, this copy for one reason only: a small contribution of mine to the cover art. Someone from the Registrar's office contacted my department to request, promptly forwarded to me, a reel of movie film for a photoshoot. The department could supply a reel of 16mm film, something I felt would be inadequate. Since I had already amassed a decent collection of 35mm films and supplies. I suggested using 35mm instead for greater impact. I brought in a full reel for the photographer to use. After a long wait upon getting the reel back, I finally saw the results, sitting on the letter g of the word catalog.

My contribution to World Cheetah Day.

 

©2019 Duncan Blackburn

 

Member of Nature’s Spirit

Good Stewards of Nature

Our contribution for the brand new event „Whimsical“ (opening 18th February): The Asian Pathways Building Set. The modules are laied out that every possible combination of pathways can be built. The Pathway Set contains the Landpart, the Arch Bridge, the I-Part, the T-Part, the X-Part and the Corner Part. Also available is the Stilted Gazebo which can be used for the Pathways but also as stand alone piece. The Set is completed by the decoration set containing water lotus flowers, cattails, a Fu Dog Statue and a Water Dragon Statue. Of course there is also a complete set available at Whimsical. All pieces are 25% reduced during the event.

 

Specs:

 

Asian Pathways:

Land Part: 2.9 x 9.0 x 3.9 meters, LI 9

Arch Bridge: 8.0 x 2.6 x 6.5 meters, LI 13

I-Part: 2.8 x 8.0 x 3.9 meters, LI 7

T-Part: 5.6 x 8.0 x 3.9 meters, LI 8

X-Part: 8.0 x 8.0 x 3.9 meters, LI 8

Corner-Part: 5.6 x 5.6 x 3.9 meters, LI 7

 

Stilted Gazebo: 5.5 x 5.0 x 10.5 meters, LI 24

 

Decoration Pack:

Fu Dog Statue: 1.1 x 1.6 x 2.6 meters, LI 4

Water Dragon Statue: 0.8 x 10.0 x 4.0 meters, LI 7

Water Lotus (with Blossom): LI 4

Water Lotus (without Blossom): LI 2

Cattail: LI 2

 

SURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sideways/127/122/53

 

Event starts: 18th February

 

My contribution on the theme "row" for the Swedish photo group Photo Sunday.

Contribution to MM challenge for 7/9/20 - theme: "Footwear"

 

Steel toe DM. Often (even at the age of 50 something!) essential gig going footwear.

 

I've got a strange addiction to big crowds of people/strangers with one thing in common, whether it be the band or the team. One thing I'm not addicted to is having my toes stood on. Of course I could just move my ageing bones away from the crowd but where's the fun in that!

My contribution to Photo Sunday (Fotosöndag) on the theme shell.

My contribution to Macro Mondays' challenge, "Vegetables", on 17 Feb 2020.

My contribution to The Temple of Aphrodite: "Chit Chat texture Contest"

 

Thanks to Dimitri Depaepe for the original photo :)

  

My photostream, admin contributions, and montage artwork have all suffered a bit lately while I have been making preparations for a much anticipated road trip. Once again I will be driving from California across Nevada and Utah to visit my daughter and grandson in Colorado. And this time I will be packing them up and driving some more to Lander, Wyoming where we will be accommodated in “The Bunkhouse” on a llama ranch. I will keep up whenever possible, but until I return toward the end of August my comments and participation in all my favorite groups may be a bit catch-as-catch-can. Apologies in advance!

 

We’re Here!: Floating Away.

 

My contribution on this weeks theme 'odd' @ Fotosöndag is about an unique birding event that most Sweedes know about

 

The gathering of thousands of Common Cranes and people wathing them @ Lake Hornborga every spring & autumn is - in positive terms - a very unique phenomenon. The photo shows my son climbing in front of the lake, a symbol that birding can be a great family event! During the pandemic the number of people visiting the lake have been less, so social distancing were not a problem

 

The reasons why so many cranes makes a pitstop at this lake is a fascanating story, you can read about it at my photo Important Wetland

 

@ The outlook point "The Crane Dance", South side of Lake Hornborga, Bjurum, Sweden, 20/3, 2021

Leica Leicaflex SL (1974), Leica Summicron R 50mm/f:2 (v1), Fuji xtra400, 400 iso

My contribution to Macro Mondays' challenge, "Photographic equipment", on 25 November 2024. It's been a while since I used any of these, and not just because I no longer have a 72mm lens.

My contribution to the Swedish Group "Fotosöndag". The theme for this week was Negativ Yta/Negative Space

Mitt bidrag till veckans Fotosöndag/My contribution on this week on Photosunday on the theme Favorit/Favortie

 

This is a work of Ditte Ejlerskov (DK)

The Cuba Room 2020

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Last but not least, a photography journey of life time for a trip to explore South Island of New Zealand and Africa.

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My intended schedule may estimate about 1 month round trip self drive traveling down scenic Southern Island of New Zealand for completing the most captivating landscape photography and wander into the big five, the wilderness of untamed Africa nature for my project 2016 before my physical body stamina eventually drain off.

 

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My contribution for F unit Friday is this good looking FP7A from April of 1978. Tight quarters forced this nose heavy shot at the engine house, but it seems to accentuate the graceful lines of EMD's classic design. Schiller Park, for me, wasn't one of those places where I could linger and explore different viewing angles. I guess that for every three times I was there, one of those times I was asked to leave. (I was starting to get a complex!) Of course, I was trespassing, but it was a different world back then. More often than not, at most places, the employees would either ignore you or stop and talk trains. Yep, times have sure changed.

Here is my contribution to the Super Flower Blood moon total

lunar eclipse on 5-15-2022.

We drove about an our east to the grassland plains of Colorado. We found just the rights windmill for a bit of foreground to go along with the different phases of the lunar eclipse. This is a composite of the moon phases starting at about 8:00pm and ending around 10:30pm. Luckily we had clearing skies and subsiding wind. It was a beautiful night under the moon.

Nikon D850 with Nikkor 300mmF4 PF lens. Various shutter speeds, apertures and ISO’s. Each moon and windmill are individual shots, combined by hand in Photoshop.

 

This is my contribution to the Macro Mondays theme of Kitchen. My pasta machine that cuts Fettuccine and Tagliatelle, as my mama used to say HMM

Contribution to Macro Mondays group theme "Just White Paper"

 

single sheet of A4 paper slightly twisted (my best attempt at origami) and lit using some little lights a also resting on a light source. WB set manually (can't remember details already - see EXIF if it's in there but probably set at around 2700K)

My second contribution to the 'EXO-COLLAB' built for Skærbæk Fan Weekend 2025 together with a bunch of my fellow designers! Working together we managed to revamp just about the entire Exo-Force theme with our MOCs, which will all share a grand display at the event - we will of course be posting group shots as well soon!

 

You might have seen individual mechs being posted by some fellow pilots and robots already!

 

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At the turn of the last century a Lady named Sarah B Cochran amassed a great deal of wealth selling coke to the steel mills in Pittsburgh. She was, in a large part, responsible for the village of Dawson being a spot on the map. One of her greatest contributions to the town is this church. I've only been inside twice when my wife was singing in a coral group that held concerts in various venues in the area. The floor of the sanctuary is decorated in ceramic tile. On each tile is a depiction of different versions of the Christian cross. I got a bit of a start when I noticed one of the crosses is a swastika. Since the church was built between 1922 and 1927 that symbol hadn't yet been completely corrupted by the evil that was to come in the 1930's. For more info go to this wiki.

"Macro Mondays" contribution "Translucent".

 

A gracile and very thin "Edelstein" porcelain cup (Germany, about 1960), filled with tea. Even without a strong light source the cups of this set ("Astrid") are translucent. Width of the cup detail in focus: 6,4cm.

 

Eine wunderbar zarte und dünne Tasse aus unserem "Astrid"-Service der längst untergegangenen Marke Edelstein aus Küps (Oberfranken). Gerade weil die Tassen so wunderbar durchscheinend sind, sind sie meine Lieblingstassen und werden auch regelmäßig benutzt. Der Abwasch von Hand ist allerdings Pflicht, um die Schönheit des Sets zu erhalten ...

 

Lens: A.Schacht S-Travelon 1:1,8/50mm @ f/22 + extension tube;

 

Lighting: remote flash at 1/2 power, handheld about 15cm above the tea cup.

Alder (Alnus glutinosa) catkins, male and female.

 

Processing: for this image I didn't use DxO PureRAW because of the pink cast it introduces to specular highlights. As a general rule it seems best to avoid DxO in any image with rain drops catching the light. Apart from that, this is basically standard LAB (see About), with the addition of a live Denoise filter on the Background layer applied to the A and B opponents only. Parameters Luminance 20%, Luminance Detail 50% and Luminance Contribution 100%.

 

In the Curves layer the A and B opponents are separated (though still pinned at the origin); A opponent steepened in the lower left quadrant and B opponent steepened in the upper right quadrant to emphasize the red stamens and yellow pollen (respectively) in the male catkins. This adjustment also deepens the attractive chocolate brown of the buds.

Well, strictly speaking this scene is a sunset, so one could question the title and the attached meaning... But it was a radiant Umbrian sunset just after a long, powerful thunderstorm, so I will stick to my idea.

 

As the WHO has declared the state of pandemic Covid-19 is spreading everywhere and is reaping its dreadful harvest, bringing whole nations and economies to their knees. Believe me, it is even possible that the darkest hour is still to come. But I think that this incredible planetary experience has the potential to change our way to live. We have taken for granted too many beautiful, precious things (and beware, when you take something for granted you are lessening it). This humble, unaware virus is teaching us values we had drowned in our running digital hedonism - solidarity, self-sacrifice, collaboration. It is teaching us the fundamental value of truth and of scientific research. It is reminding us that we are just a small part of a wonderfully complex world - and that we are not nearly as powerful as we like to think to be. After all, the immediate means to limit infection are exactly the same as they were for the epidemics of the past - quarantine, avoiding close contact with one another, clean your hands frequently, limitations to gatherings, public events, and so on (and everything is worsened and sped up by our global network of transportation). On the other hand science, unavoidably, needs time to find real solutions. So we are experiencing a new sense of being frail - something we used to think of as a relic of the past.

I believe that this pandemic will change everything, more than a war: this is not an enemy endowed with evil projects for mankind but, rather, a natural phenomenon which is putting us in the right perspective in the world. So I believe that this pandemic will change everything. But, in the meantime, we have to manage to get out of these dark times. I would like to dedicate this photo to the people who are suffering because of this ordeal, and to the heroic people who is wrestling with the effects of the infection*: my humble contribute to remember that the darkest hour - whenever it will come - is just before the dawn.

 

* Sadly in Italy we have seen a growing trend of threats and assaults to physicians during the last years. Many people doubted the good faith of physicians, scientists and medicine in general. I'd guess that this tide is quickly changing.

  

This photo is closely related to my A neverending story. To be precise, it has been captured some 5 minutes earlier. This view, however, is somewhat narrower and, after a bit of cropping in the foreground, lays a greater emphasis on the glorious cloudscape.

 

Explored on 2020/03/20

 

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 I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. RAW files has been processed with Darktable.

A good contribution to the post-processing of part of the foreground came from a cool trick by Boris Hajdukovic I have found rather serendipitously on the web. I have cloned out an obnoxious young olive tree at the center of the foreground dancing a bit too freely in the residual wind.

  

I am afraid that colours and tones of this picture might be pretty close to the edge of looking overdone (this seems to be an inherent feature of the bracketings I captured of this sunset, since I always post-process from scratch). It all depends on your screen, of course: the picture looks safely good my HP screen, but I am afraid that it can easily look a bit over-the-top on other screens.

Now we know that a picture cannot possibly look right on every screen - the factors affecting the results are simply too many, including largely unpredictable ones, such as personal display settings. Admittedly one should not think too much about this, but when a photo is close to the critical boundary one should struggle to find the better balance between what she would like the photo to be and the risk of looking overdone. Since this photo is important to me, I would be grateful for comments about this matter, to help me realise if I have to downtone it :-)

 

Thank you very much in advance!

please accept hereby a humble contribution for

a new world full of colour and empathy.

 

free from copyright in the name of the dream

 

drawing: natalie de cock

dreaming: rosita

foto: frank vranckx /aka schaaflicht (slö)

 

(rosita is a streetchild from the "seefhoek")

 

........................................this happening was part of a spontanious activity by the antwerp artcollective "de schaaf"..............................

 

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may rosita's dream

also be:

 

an open invitation for some

street communication

 

daily streetlife

 

rampart

melting pot

universal routes

 

all connected

joyous roots

  

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My contribution to the Swedish group Photo Sunday (Fotosöndag) on the theme excitement of spring.

Colegiata Santa María la Mayor de Toro, Zamora, España

 

Iglesia de estilo románico-gótico. Su construcción se llevó a cabo desde el último tercio del siglo XII. Posee tres naves y crucero rematado por un cimborrio, y su portada septentrional es una de las más notables aportaciones del románico de los siglos XII y XIII.

Se pueden distinguir dos épocas: un primer maestro utiliza piedra caliza clara, creando un estilo románico evolucionado; y el segundo maestro, que finaliza la construcción y cubre el templo, que emplea piedra arenisca rojiza y elementos arquitectónicos románicos menos evolucionados.

Son significativas las portadas. La portada norte de la Colegiata de Toro nos muestra al Cristo en Majestad junto a la Virgen, San Juan y los 24 ancianos de la Apocalipsis, en una representación del Juicio Final.

 

Collegiate Church Santa María la Mayor de Toro, Zamora, Spain

 

Romanesque-Gothic style church. Its construction was carried out from the last third of the 12th century. It has three naves and a transept topped by a dome, and its northern doorway is one of the most remarkable contributions of Romanesque architecture from the 12th and 13th centuries.

Two periods can be distinguished: a first master uses light limestone, creating an evolved Romanesque style; and the second master, which completes the construction and covers the temple, which uses reddish sandstone and less evolved Romanesque architectural elements.

The covers are significant. The north portal of the Collegiate Church of Toro shows us Christ in Majesty together with the Virgin, Saint John and the 24 elders of the Apocalypse, in a representation of the Final Judgment.

Galileo Galilei was an important Italian scientist, physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. His scientific contribution started a new era in the history of astronomy, he was the first astronomer to access new knowledge using the telescope. He defended the concept that the Earth was not the center of the universe.

 

Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy, on February 15, 1564, son of Vincenzo Galilei and Julia Ammannati. His parents noticed Galilei's great intelligence and special aptitudes from an early age. The boy showed an interest in the arts and performed excellent paintings, demonstrating manual skill and creativity to manufacture toys and contraptions. He played the organ and zither with aplomb. Thus, Galilei excelled in studies at the Sunday school in Vallombrosa and planned to enter the monastery, but his father did not agree with the idea and enrolled him to study medicine at the University of Pisa. Two years after joining, he dropped out of the course and went to dedicate himself to the study of mathematics. The move did not please his father, and Galilei ended up dropping out of the University in 1585. He did not complete any degrees, but in the same year he went to Florence and began giving private lessons to support himself. He stood out for his research in geometry and continued with his mathematical studies.

 

It was at this time that he invented the hydrostatic balance, a mechanism that would be published in a detailed treatise in the year 1644. In 1589, in recognition of his scientific contributions and brilliant reasoning, he was appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Pisa. He was not welcomed by teachers, as he was only 25 years old, had incomplete academic training and publicly discredited Aristotle's established theories. In 1590 Galilei published a treatise on the motion of bodies. In 1591 he was removed from the professorship, after succumbing to intrigues and disputes with Aristotle's supporters. In 1592 he was appointed by the Senate of Venice to teach mathematics at the University of Padua, a position he would hold for 18 years. In 1609 he built a telescope based on the one previously invented by Hans Lippershey in Holland. Galilei made meticulous observations of the sky and incredible discoveries: he located the four largest moons of Jupiter and the mountains and craters on the Moon's surface. And when he detected spots present on the Sun's surface, the discovery helped to prove his theory that the star rotated on an axis. He investigated Saturn and observed what appeared to be two fixed moons, which were the edges of Saturn's ring system, but Galilei's telescope was not accurate enough to determine exactly what those points were.

 

His findings were collected and published in March 1610 in the book “The Messenger of the Stars”. The work was acclaimed and also generated much controversy, as Galilei publicly defended Nicolaus Copernicus' theory that the Sun was the center of our Solar System, not the Earth. At that time, the Catholic Church fully controlled science and held the opposite view, that the center was the Earth.

 

In 1616 Galilei was cornered by the authorities of the Inquisition and threatened with the death penalty if he did not publicly deny the scientific truths he had proved. He was expressly prohibited from teaching and propagating ideas that were contrary to the position of the Church. Even so, in 1632 he published the "Dialogue Concerning the Two Greatest Systems of the Universe", causing the Church's total rejection and intolerance. Prevented from continuing with his research and theories, the scientist retired to his castle located in Arcetri, a village near Florence, where he dedicated himself to pursuing his experiments alone.

 

Galileo Galilei died on January 8, 1642 in Arcetri, Italy. He was almost blinded by the observation of sunspots done without adequate protection for decades. Three hundred and fifty years later, through Pope John Paul II, on October 31, 1992, the Catholic Church formally recognized the legitimacy of Galilei's theories.

  

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He is reburied here:

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This IS a Contraption!! At one stage, I made a number of really FUN Steampunk cloth dolls ( from commercial patterns- by 'Frowning Francis', for the Crafters among you) I collected tons of rusty bottle caps, pieces of rusted metal, springs, a derelict watch that a Dear Friend donated to the cause ( I dismantled it with difficulty) etc! I created this 'thingamy' but never got round to fastening it together. Anyway, for what it is worth, it is my contribution to MM's 'Contraptions' prompt. It is an Alternate Sponser- as, if it WERE all connected, I feel certain that it would Sponse, alternately!! And so it should!! ( please note- any similarity between an Alternate Sponser and Alternate Facts is purely coincidental!!!)

My contribution to Thursday Monochrome this week.

 

Camera: Mamiya 645AF

Lens: Mamiya Sekor 80mm 2.8

Film: Kodak 100TX

my contribution for Dust&Dessert www.dustanddessert.com/

Mitt bidrag till veckans Fotosöndag med tema /My contribution to this week on Photosunday with theme /Färgklick /Color click

My contribution to this weeks theme "Light" in the group Fotosöndag.

Contribution to Thursday Monochrome.

 

Have a nice day!

 

Macro Mondays contribution 28 November 2016 - theme beetles/beatles.

 

chose this as my subject as it was no1 the day i was born. no other reason to it! The subject is the original 45 once belonging to my sister.

 

I actually thought there was a lot of scope this week - maybe too much, which in a way makes me feel lazy but time was/is against me.

 

HMM!!

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