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This is Devils Ditch on the Pegsdon Nature Reserve
3 Exposures at 1EV
This is my second proper attempt at HDR, in my first attempt I had problems with the foreground movement (flowers on a windy day) causing blur with the blended exposures.
The wind was less for this shot but still caused some blur in the foreground grass.
I tried the automatic alignment features in Photomatix and this improved the foreground but produced blur elsewhere in the shot.
So I blended both HDR conversions in Photoshop with a layer mask to help improve the sharpness.
how can you not love Japanese?they are awesomely cool..
the sub-culture of cosplay detected at Harajuku..
no wonder Gwen Stefani's dancers are called Harajuku Girls!!~
I've been reading a lot of Jack Kirby lately. Specifically his 70's material that was "Edited, Written and Drawn by Jack Kirby"
Until recently, I'd only read bits and pieces of the material through random quarter bin finds and loner copies from friends. I've read bits of everything but never a full run of any of it.
Now over the next month or so, I'm gonna read all of it in it's entirety!
So far I've finished the 1st Fourth World Omnibus and the Devil Dinosaur collection.
So far, I'm much more affected than I thought I'd be. The way the random Fourth World concepts weave in and out of each other is fascinating to watch. One idea is tossed out randomly as another is forgotten all while keeping the entire thing moving along a hidden track. Knowing how quickly the material was produced amazes me too. It's like some sort of Free Jazz experiment done in comics form. I look forward to see what's to come.
Devil Dinosaur in all it's wackiness has some really nice moments and some fun ideas. Time travel, alien robots. dino riders, and a bible parable are served out in primordial glory.
Having read the entire 9 issue run of Devil Dinosaur I thought I'd see what I had come away with. The brotherhood between Moon-Boy and Devil is the main focus of the series and what I tried to convey here.
Expect Inks soon.
Nick
This paper toy is Devil Cookie, an S-grade cookie that will transform into Super Devil after catching Spirit Jellies that fly around the game stages, from Line’s mobile game Cookie Run, the papercraft is created by Rafael García Juárez. There is another version on the site available.
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With the completion of the Hindhead Tunnel, this stretch of the main London Portsmouth road (A3) has been returned to nature
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Devils Tower in Wyoming in the Northwestern edge of the Black hills. It is formed of igneous rock, the solidifed lava tube of an extinct volcano. It is considered holy sacred ground by Native Americans of the area. (primarily the Lakota and sioux tribes)
Devils Tower in Wyoming in the Northwestern edge of the Black hills. It is formed of igneous rock, the solidifed lava tube of an extinct volcano. It is considered holy sacred ground by Native Americans of the area. (primarily the Lakota and sioux tribes)
This is Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. 22 beautifully crafted islands in Lake Superior positioned off the coast of the Bayfield Peninsula in northern Wisconsin.
Centuries of wave action, freezing, and thawing have sculpted shorelines throughout Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Some of the Great Lakes’ most spectacular scenery occurs where these forces interact with sandstone of the Devils Island Formation to create extensive sea caves.
Nature has carved delicate arches, vaulted chambers, and honeycombed passageways into cliffs on the north shore of Devils Island, Swallow Point on Sand Island, and along the mainland near the Lakeshore’s western boundary. The sea caves is Superior’s ever-changing handiwork.
Devil's Postpile, an example of columnar jointing in basalt. These unusual, symmetrical columns were formed by joints that developed when a river of molten lava contracted as it cooled slowly and evenly. The flow occurred nearly 100,000 years ago. The formation was exposed through erosion by glaciers and San Joaquin River. Devil's Postpile National Monument. Madera Co., Calif.
Lanna & I took this trip for our honeymoon.
October 12-17
This thing was weird. Story is, that they do not know where the water goes. They drop things into it, thinking that Superior is only 1 mile away that it would pop up in the lake. But it never does. Thousands of gallons of water every day and they dont know where the water goes? I think they do, but it'd ruin the mystery if they said.
My idea is that there is an underground cavern with an underground river system.
(note: I'm on the road using a laptop with uncalibrated screen. I'm aware some of these appear over saturated on some devices but will rectify it when possible.)
Hike to the top of Devil's Courthouse, along the Blue Ridge Parkway, south of Asheville, North Carolina. See guide at www.romanticasheville.com/devils_courthouse.htm
The Devil's Chimney is a limestone rock formation that stands above a disused quarry on Leckhampton Hill, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
It is named for its peculiar shape, that of a crooked and twisted chimney rising from the ground. It is a local landmark, but its origins are uncertain. In 1926 it survived an earthquake, but not without a few cracks. In 1985 it was repaired and protected from further erosion.
Legend holds that the Devil's Chimney is the chimney of the Devil's dwelling deep beneath the ground. Supposedly the Devil, provoked by the many Christian churches of the area, would sit atop Leckhampton Hill and hurl stones at Sunday churchgoers. However the stones were turned back on him, driving him beneath the ground and trapping him there so he could not further harass the villagers. Now he uses the mass of stones as his chimney to let free the smokes of hell.
In the past, when the “chimney” was accessible, visitors would leave a coin on top of the rock as payment to the Devil in exchange for his staying in his underground home and not leaving to create mischief and spread evil in the local area.
The 19th-century geologist S. Buckman suggested that the strange shape of the Devil's Chimney could be put down to differential erosion, involving the softer outer rock being worn away to leave only the inner harder rock remaining. However, this would require some explanation of why there was a column of harder rock there in the first place.
The truth is probably that the Devil's Chimney was left behind by 18th-century quarry workers, who quarried around it as a joke.
© Mike Broome 2022
Here are the raw inks for my Devil Dinosaur piece.
I'm not too sure on how the Volcano and smoke trail are treating the overall composition. There is a goddam volcano in every DD background so I figured it would be a crime to not include one.
The smoke may have to be simplified in order to not distract to much from the serene moment between DD and Moon-boy. We'll see.
I'm often surprised by how an awkward composition can be take on a completely different feel once you've colored it.
Staff's and Worcester Canal close to Stourton Junction not sure where the name comes from. Canal is overgrown with trees the sun was just lighting the rocks.
I'm not sure if these were herring/sardinella/anchovy or small mackerel.
Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob dies Heringe/Sardinen oder kleine Makrelen waren.
Dive spot: Dega Thila
I love deviled eggs. Today's recipe uses curry powder, toasted coconut, chutney, ginger, and cilantro.
The Devil's Slide in California is a promontory with a steep, collapsing slope just South of Pacifica. Here, the Cretaceous granite of Montara Mountain pushed against the Paleocene mudstone, a mix of marine shale, sandstone and conglomerate, of the San Mateo Coast. Though the fault is now inactive, the mudstone has for decades been collapsing into the Pacific. For years, HWY 1 ran through here, and the area had an sinister reputation of accidents and landslides that would close HWY1 and cut off Pacifica to the South (locals apparently dubbed themselves "the World's longest cul-de-sac"). However after the recent Caltrans project, the area has been sealed off from cars, and made into a hiking trail, though whether the area continues collapsing remains to be seen.
Coastal Trail at Devil's Slide, Pacifica, California