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The crows were everywhere and were enjoying the new little pine cones. They didn't mind me being under their trees but they made a cacophony of crows when Benni got close. (That should be spelled cawcawphony.) There are 5 eating and one flying away.
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Explore 237 : Highest position 104
This sheep and the previous sheep are both in explore on their respective posting days, can you make this sheep win the race ?-)
About
Reworked version after some very valuable critique and tips from
Josh Sommers, thank you very much Josh !!!
Most important changes :
° Much better edge selection of the sheep, starting by a mask made from one of the colour channels and refining it with an irregular brush and very high zoom levels.
° The front clouds are now completely painted in, loosing the details we had from the photo of far away clouds.
° I highlighted the face of the front sheep a little more to give it more expression.
° More stars.
° A little less saturation in the stars.
Strobist info: Shot on table top in living room, flash at 80mm zoom and -3 power at 2 0'clock. f/20 to get rid of most background. Use my homemade silver screen to bounce off some of the flashlight to the sheep's face.
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Music
Blade runner, after the novel "Do androids dream of electric sheep"
Extract from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy :
"Marvin counted 1600 trillion sheep before falling asleep... one second later..."
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All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are ( as always ) welcome.
° My photoshop tutorial on Layers, Masks, Selections & Channels.
taken last year....i was browsing my photos last year when i saw this one...reminds me to be always thankful for what i have..."COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS"...these flashed in my thoughts...even faced with a difficult situation always be reminded that there's always someone else whos having a much harder time than you...like this guy, he's quite old but he still needs to play in the streets of hua quiang bei, SZ....for him just to survive...
One of the dioramas depicting estate activities in the afterlife of Meket-Re, an 11th Dynasty (ca. 21st cent. BCE) high official buried in the cliffs of Deir al-Bahari, Thebes. The arrangement of the figurines is modern, but the maquettes clearly show cattle being driven by servants in front of a kiosk where Meket-Re and his son are seated; scribes are taking a headcount. The woodcarvers have carefully rendered the breed of cattle with long, curiously straight horns and a variety of piebald spotted markings. The cattle are male but quite small relative to the human figures, implying that this may be an annual cull of the young bulls prior to a feast.
Egyptian museum, Cairo
Imagine my delight at spotting an Orange-tip in powered down mode resting on a Dandelion clock. Wow!
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After I took this picture, I gave the man a dollar. He thanked me, put the money in his pocket and pulled out his cell phone. OH WELL
Count Bologna facing his interviewers, Emma, Jimmy and Myrtil. The urchins decided they wanted to hire a grown-up to deal with things they wanted done but couldn't do themselves, because of their child condition.
Dryope sylvan hairstreak (satyrium sylvinus dryope) at Pinnacles National Park photographed during a butterfly count. This species spends the afternoon perched on willows. Pinnacles, which has an amazing number of species of willow, has in several years found more dryope hairstreaks to count than any other butterfly count circle.
Counting money occupies quite a lot of time in Uzbekistan. 1000 som is the equivalent of about 60 US cents, so currency exchange and simple purchases often took on a life of their own. Soon I realised that the locals were just as bemused, and could often be seen checking out their currency holdings!! Another version of the great money count in the comment box.
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a really cool shot taken during Ablaze camp, one of the best time in my life had so much fun, and really encountered God
a photo from each month of this past year
1. Untitled, 2. elementary cooking, 3. it's a wrap, 4. Untitled, 5. nuit noir, 6. tire-toi donc une bûche, 7. little dears, 8. Untitled, 9. phone home, 10. Untitled, 11. 3 lamps and a disco ball, 12. Untitled
Poor Jekyll Jackson, he really wanted to be Count Dracula this year but what he doesn't know is that Holt Hyde is going to DJ at the Monster High Halloween Party Ball.
^.,..,.^ Happy Halloween!!! ^.,..,.^
i think this picture makes me look crazy, but here it is anyway. i never take on that many dolls at the same time but i had a pile of heads sitting in a box and couldn't find motivation to do them all. now my motivation is do this or not eat until it's finished LOL
one guess per person, first person to guess the correct number of heads gets a little something from me, shipped worldwide :]
only doll heads count- there are 7 ponies in total and they're all off to the far left. the only doll with a body is the girl on the far right, she doesn't count either.
also anyone who can name (as in exactly identify) 5 dolls that are in here gets a little something. until i run out of little somethings.
Zwei Tornados stehen nachts im Zelt auf der Air Base Incirlik, Türkei, am 29.06.2016.
©Bundeswehr/Thorsten Weber
I made a comment in an earlier photo that these coal trains were 75 cars long (Something I had been told) Today I decided to count - this one was 140 cars, I think that's over 16,000 tons.
'Amply 74', aka US Air Force 55th Reconnaissance Wing's Boeing RC-135W 'Rivet Joint' 62-4139/OF from Offutt AFB, Nebraska crosses Field Road whilst landing at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk.
Based on Boeing's own '739' airframe, these highly specialised SIGINT versions of the military C-135 have been in service since 1961 and with continuous upgrades are festooned with aerials plus those huge chin fairings housing sensors for gathering data from the 'Other' side.
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Through the early parts of America’s involvement in World War II, the United States forceably moved and imprisoned over 120,000 of its Japanese citizens. They were mostly taken from the West Coast to more inland places such as Idaho, Utah, and Camp Amache in Colorado, pictured here.
The camp, near the town of Granada, was opened in August of 1942. Over its three-years of existence, nearly 10,000 Japanese-Americans were shuffled through. The population at any given time was around 7,000.
Most of the prisoners came from the Los Angeles area. The were allowed only one bag per person, and were forced to sell homes, businesses, cars, pets.
Local white residents grew resentful when the Camp built a high school for its imprisoned children. They saw this as coddling.
But though they were prisoners, the history and reality of the situation isn’t so simple to digest. For example, their high school football team was treated like any other high school team, playing against other nearby schools (and winning all but one game in three years).
Words like “prisoner” and “forceably removed” are accurate and necessary, but – as will most history – there is nuance. The white culture of the United States is replete with racism. We’ve allowed it to soak into every page of our history. But white culture, like any human culture, also has empathy, goodness, and compassion. The mixture of this hatred with goodness, even love, is difficult to parse and understand. It never pleases either “side” in any debate.
History, it seems, has no sides. It just is. We can twist and interpret it to meet our ends, but ultimately, history doesn’t give a damn about us, and we should probably just accept it as it is.
All that is left today at Camp Amache is this watertower, a rebuilt barracks, a graveyard, and a sprawling gridwork of streets. It’s open to the public, and well worth a visit – as are all of the Japanese-American interment camps.
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‘Counts as Straw’
Camera: Ansco Color Clipper (c1950)
Film: Kodak Gold 100 (x-03/1996)
Process: DIY ECN-2
Granada War Relocation Center (Japanese Interment Camp Amache), Colorado