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Latin for 'Gods feed the Ravens.
I am very lucky to have some Ravens who sit in trees around my house from time to time. These birds are rare in my part of the world as old superstitions nearly had them wiped out completely by overzealous medieval hunters. I was taking this pic as one of them started to call out, fitting considering the theme of this image. The saying is quite an old one, related to battlefields.
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Hotdog+Nekros - Bad luck charm (Bird feet and bones necklace - hud included) 15% off at the event.
At the Warehouse event until Sept 17th 2021
Nefekalum Tattoos - Ancient (Materials face tattoo)
At the Main Store - Mournful Mondays
Nefekalum Tattoos - Divine Messenger (Black)
[Salal] - Visionary (Eye tattoo BoM) - design continues down left leg.
At the Main Store - for the Mournful Mondays event
::Static:: - Rakish Crown {Natural}
At the Ritual Event until Sept 22nd 2021
Zibska - Morrigan Orbit (with full colour hud nd copy/mod)
In the Mainstore as part of the Mournful Mondays event
*TSM* - Hexxe Eyes - S.E Mournfully Rageful
At the Main Store - for the Mournful Mondays event
Dura -- Anime07 Hair
At the TMP event till Sept 30th 2021
Noble Creations -- Commander Harness (Black)
At the Age of Avalon event till Sept 30th 2021
cinphul // tempest ii [earring]
L'Emporio&PL -- ::*Judah*::Armour Sleeve-Belleza Jake
[CX] x BUENO - - Welded Eye - Silver ( Belleza Jake )
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Shape by me
Head Lelutka EvoX Devon
Body Belleza Jake V3
Pose by me
égo, dego, deo (logudorese) - deu (campidanese) - éiu (sassarese) - eu, ghjè (gallurese) ... in quanti modi si dice "io" in sardo?
Una scappata nella Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta di Carignano.
Andando a ritirare l'auto dall 'elettrauto
Genova
Adesso, in tempo di coronavirus, è un evento anche poter entrare in una chiesa...
When I look at this scene, with that glorious cross of golden light projected by the rising sun, I cannot avoid a sense of awe, and the adventure of post-processing could only confirm and deepen that feeling. One could think that I could express some pride for such a work, but it would be inappropriate. Nature is the author of this wonder, and I am only an humble means to tidy it up a bit and offer its beauty to everyone would take the time to have a look. And it makes me wonder about how God sometimes reveals Himself in special moments - and we are sometimes lucky enough to be able to capture them with a camera.
At last I realized that I had this lesson by a great mentor, and I decided to tell it to those who, intrigued by the Latin title of the photo, will decide to continue reading.
"Soli Deo Gloria" is a Lutheran Latin motto meaning "Glory to God alone". Johann Sebastian Bach was a very proud man when dealing with wordly powers, but he used to put this motto at the end of his works, humbing himself in front of God. One day someone asked him how could he produce such an awful lot of great music - a provocative question, since Bach's work was on the old-fashioned side of the music of the time, to which Bach provocatively answered: "By working a lot". So he was stubborn and proud, but he was also aware that all his genius and hard work was not for his own glorification, but rather a way to induce people to perceive God, to sincerely glorifying Him. Bach made it all crystal clear in the Musical Offering BWV 1079 (1747), one of his last works and one of his very few published ones. The Musical Offering is definitely not a sacred music work, nonetheless it is a treatise about the real status of the supposed worldly glory of Man. It is formally dedicated to Frederick II the Great and is, basically, the devastating response to a humiliation that Bach had suffered at the hands of Frederick some months before. It was not simply a challenge between two quite different musical worlds, but a clash of two mutually incompatible worldviews. The Musical Offering is full of provocations and ironic remarks to the king - who, at our knowledge, was fully unresponsive to the challenge. The typical procedure is as this: while apparently celebrating the glory and greatness of the king through Latin mottoes like "Ascendenteque Modulatione ascendat Gloria Regis" (as the modulation rises, so may the King's glory), the actual music tells a vastly different story (the rising modulation, through subtle artifices, is actually perceived as descending). So, even if Frederick did not care a bit of Bach's powerful response (maybe he did not even open the luxury dedicatory copy Bach sent to him), we are left with a deep reflection about the glory and power of this world. A lesson still to be learned by the posterity.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.3/0/+1.3 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 processed with Darktable 3
"IGNOTO DEO"
«Que beleza mortal se te assemelha,
Ó sonhada visão desta alma ardente,
Que reflectes em mim teu brilho ingente,
Lá como sobre o mar o sol se espelha?»
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1886, Antero de Quental in Sonetos
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«What mortal beauty resembles yours,
O vision which my soul has dreamed
And which reflects in me your gleam
Like sunlight on the ocean’s mirror?»
gar do Chill Áirne, Contae Chiarraí/ Bóithrín na Marbh (Lôn y Meirwon), Achadh Deo, ger Cill Áirne, Swydd Ceri/ Aghadoe, near Killarney, County Kerry
"The Barnyard Nest: "a farm where kids can work and learn about Christ". Mt Sterling, Ohio.
Nikon F80
As it is a 6-Nations weekend, one from the archives:
Aer Lingus A320-214 EI-DEO in all-over Irish Rugby livery about to touch down at DUB.
04th August 2019.
Re-processed and posted as part of my #lockdown2021 set
O little town
of solitudes
here the wind
gathers itself
and swirls elms
autumn oaks
and here
along the river
hills rise
and ripple
west toward the prairie
a horizon away. Here
we sing with sparrows
read the jewelweeds'
runes and here
we dream
new dreams
after old ones
break down.
I will never find
my voice or lose
my discontent. And
some nights I pray
until my tongue bleeds.
--M deO
Mur géant à Strasbourg, à l'occasion du festo Contre Temps.
Avec 17 writers:
Love Mantra Valer Hoes Weng Deos Sirup Ollie Jupe Baske Renso Vega Wise Jaek Stone Riots Nask Atos
+ de détails prochainement sur notre blog :
What will you do now, Bowman!? You are forsaken. No help will come...
As a conclusion to the final Hobbit movie, and to Middle Earth...
The poster for the final Hobbit movie, the Battle of the Five Armies, built in Lego!
Finally! After 2 months of work, hours of set up, buildings crashing/rebuilding, and adding lighting, it is finished!
I built the Hobbit Poster for the Final Hobbit movie in Lego (excluding Smaug). Poster link. I had tons of fun building this, probably my favorite (but most tedious) part of this is the water and fire effect with it. I hope you like it too!
Also my first and maybe last entry into the CCCXII
4th Wall:
Backstory:
My friend and I are doing a collab of this poster, and were going to enter it into the CCCXII. I was going to build Laketown in the picture, and he was going to build Smaug. I decided not to build the exact poster, but added my own artistic flare with the stone. Also, I don't have that much brown. :P What you see is basically everything, I have basically no more plates or tiles. I did have a ton of fun building and designing it however, which is most important. :)
Problem
Unfortunately, Smaug is not ready. We are going to take pictures of both sections together at a later date, but after the CCCXII is over.
However, I still wanted to enter into the CCCXII.
Conclusion
so after we talked about it, I took the photo of Laketown, excluding Smaug. So this is only HALF of the collab. We will take photos of that at a later date.
So this is my section, I hope you like it! In case you are wondering, this is what I have been working on for a while. :)
Enjoy!
Also,
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Soli Deo Gloria!
~Matthew~