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Ello its mii!! and back with a new picture. I felt that we needed more Leon and look how edgy and cool hr looks am I right!?! But anyways, I was pretty much busy so I couldn't keep up with my photo stream sorry in advance. However, since the school year is ending for me soon, I can rest assure that I will be back on my account more frequently so don't worry ;3 but I want to how how your life is going? I'm curious. Gotta go and...I don't have anything witty this time around o go with it X3-Channie (yo)
I like how the blush lace softens the leather/vinyl media of this skirt to make it appropriate for multiple functions. I bet I could even get away wearing this outfit to church. Ok, maybe a Saturday evening service at best.
Bebe bodysuit and mini skirt.
Bebe bodysuit and mini skirt.
I went to Africa and all I got was this new favourite piece of Catholic High Modernism – and one designed by a Belfast architect to boot.
Located in the heart of Joburg’s ‘edgy’ Hillbrow neighbourhood, so it gets few visitors, the Cathedral of Christ the King is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg.
From the outside, the Cathedral is impressive for its sheer bulk and scale, but not perhaps the most visually exciting structure. Inside, the glory of the glass and its multi-coloured refractions are instantly striking, especially in early morning or late afternoon sun. The colours on the concrete give the impression of a painted interior of a medieval cathedral. All windows in the cathedral were executed by Patrick Pollen of Dublin.
The architect was Belfast-born Brian Gregory, who merits an entry in the online Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940 as Patrick (Padraig) Bernard Gregory. Born in 1886, his parents had moved to Colorado by the time he was nine and had remained there for at least four years, but by the time of the 1911 Census his mother had returned to Belfast with three of her children and was living with her sister who ran a grocery business. He commenced independent practice in Belfast in 1906, and worked independently or in partnership in various city centre locations until his death in 1967.
The Dictionary of Irish Architects says of Gregory: “A committed Catholic, he designed many Catholic churches throughout Northern Ireland and was responsible for the original scheme for the Cathedral of Christ the King in Johannesburg. He also designed the altar cloth for the great mass which was celebrated in Phoenix Park at the Dublin Eucharistic Congress of 1932.”
The plans to build the cathedral were envisioned in 1937 by David O'Leary, the first South African-born Catholic Bishop of Johannesburg; due to the Second World War and, presumably, other factors, construction did not commence until 1958 under Bishop Whelan, with consecration taking place soon after in 1960.
Modern in its detailing and construction, the cathedral has a traditional Latin cross form with a 20-metre-high nave. transepts, crossing and sanctuary. The nave is 58 metres long and can seat 1,500 people with a further 130 in the gallery, which I was unable to access on my visit. The side chapels are flat-roofed single storey spaces that wrap around the perimeter of the nave. The building rises 25 metres from the pavement level on Saratoga Avenue. It is now behind high walls and there is security at the gate – very friendly security when we visited.
Liturgical foci – the altar, baptismal font and holy water fonts – are constructed in solid Botticino marble. The canopy over the high altar is constructed of edge-grained oregon pine with sapele mahogany fascias, in the form of a hyperbolic paraboloid supported on laminated sapele mahogany columns
The organ is a fine instrument but currently out of action needing repair, and the Cathedral is actively seeking a relatively local organ-builder capable of repairing it.
Christ the King is, as I have already noted, located in one of Johannesburg’s tougher corners. We arrived ‘on spec’ having read on other blogs (which I can no longer find) that there was secure on-site car parking and the Cathedral was open during the day. We were welcomed as we arrived by the car park security and the cathedral was indeed open – unfortunately we were the only visitors during the whole half hour we were there, at about 4 o’clock on a humid early December afternoon. When I started flashing my camera around, the site manager did ask who we were and said it would have been better if we had cleared the visit with the diocesan office beforehand, although he was happy enough for me to keep taking photos.
And if you’d like to take a guided walking tour of Hillbrow, Dlala Nje at Ponte Tower offer one every day—I have meant to do it on my last three visits to Joburg but never quite managed it. Perhaps next time!
This description incorporates, with gratitude, text from the English Wikipedia and the online Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940.
a foot past these wildflowers is a nice thousand foot drop down to the HooDoo's you see in the background. HBW
I like how the blush lace softens the leather/vinyl media of this skirt to make it appropriate for multiple functions. I bet I could even get away wearing this outfit to church. Ok, maybe a Saturday evening service at best.
Bebe bodysuit and mini skirt.
Bebe bodysuit and mini skirt.
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Designed by the renowned Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron and Fong & Chan Architects in San Francisco.
My attempt at making knitting a little less nerdy and more edgy. I could have done a way better job on the Photoshop if I'd had a little more time. It kills me to leave it this way. I'm a wee bit of a perfectionist.
For Roulette and "NERDS".
The gradients in the sky are probably from using a polarizing filter for this film shot. The waves of the Pacific roll right up to these sandstone cliffs! :-)))
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Christmas illuminations - Regent Street, London, UK
Taken at the end of my session at Boys Will Be Girls. I so loved this edgy and glamorous look that I didn't want to take it off! I'm sure that I would have got a few stares on the train... 😅
Not to mention the many angry questions from my nearest and dearest once I got home. 😔
Believe it or not, this long, luminous streak, speckled with bright blisters and pockets of material, is a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way. But how could that be?
More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1930a/
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ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko, R. Jansen
1-year-old baby girl
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A 1-year-old baby wearing a luxurious Chrome Hearts baby dress, featuring intricate gothic embroidery, delicate silver accents, and lace detailing. The dress includes subtle cross motifs and is paired with a small headband adorned with tiny silver charms. The baby poses in a dramatic yet warm studio with soft lighting, vintage velvet furniture, and gothic-inspired decor . . Ultra-detailed 4K quality with an elegant, edgy atmosphere,
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A summer evening view from the edge of the Mogollon Rim
- Coconino National Forest, Arizona
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Season of Photographic Eye - picture 11
Week 50, Wednesday
The photographic eye, which I've been discussing for whole season, is all about learning your own way of seeing things, applying it to your photography in a more conscious way and bringing greater depth & personal style to your photography. The opposite of using the photographic eye are the numerous images we often take which just 'snapshots' or uninteresting in other ways. Now, when it comes to taking interesting images that in some way manifests one's photographic eye, I'll be first one to admit that most of the shots I take are 'snapshots' indeed and only few of many really satisfy me. I find myself often thinking that a good image cannot be just a flat representation of the reality. Instead the photographer has to add something to it by using photographic means which lifts it beyond a snapshot. The obvious following question is, of course, how one should to do that?
At the simplest level adding something to image might be the skillful construction of the image. With a skillful construction I refer to images that are good in both technical and conceptual level. Carefully chosen subject, good exposure and sense of light, satisfying sharpness, correct choice of the used focal length, etc.. While these might sound pretty basic things, I wouldn't underestimate their meaning and sometimes basic things are enough. One should also remember that there are no rules carved into a stone (even the famous rules of third). There are certainly rules, but I would like think them as a flexible repertoire of suggestions that are pretty often broken as well. One also learns his/her own way of translating these rules into photography. Personally I like, for example, to use 50mm lens (equivalent of 75mm on a full frame) for many pictures because it gives me a bit of telecompression and lets me often isolate convenient slices from reality. I have learned to translate many of the photography basics around this focal length and it shows in my photography. That being said, I often feel I would need to know the basics much better to be able to come with a skillful photograph from any situation.
Another way to way to lift photographs to another level is to create images that evoke reactions. (Indeed, Captain Obvious!) Snapshots of course don't evoke much of reactions, but then again there are loads of technically great photographs that don't evoke those reactions either. It's because we become tired of seeing similar images, visual motifs and tropes - even if they are perfectly realized. While 'the perfect sunset' and many others are old clichés, there are also new ones created everyday as well. Personally I feel, for example, that certain kind of edgy wide-angle landscapes with post processed skies and distant horizon have become a bit too widespread to evoke reactions anymore (you see these often at the cover of photography magazines). They are admired from technical point of view, but their quality as photographs are reduced because they have become new clichés. Personally I like to, just like many others, add a bit of dark sublime character in to my photographs when possible, but I make sure that I work on a border of interpretation where it is not so explicitly pronounced. Often just a little bit of underexposing the scene to make shadows and contrast stronger is enough - if the subject is already fitting for it.
Where things get hard, is trying to create pictures that offer more than one level of experience. This is the most powerful way to bring greater depth and own vision into photographs, but it is also perhaps the hardest. Sometimes one can have a concept in mind which will create another level on interpretation, like juxtaposing different elements for example. Sometimes it happens by accident and is only noticed when pictures are viewed later on from the computer screen. When I create 'a concept-image' I have often already taken that image before without the concept and my idea springs up when viewing it from the screen. Some image might be perfect in my mind if it had lemons in it, for example. If the concept is doable and sounds like a fun idea, I pack my packs and go to take it again with a new idea. Some of the best images I've done have required at least couple of tries on different days to get it right, but it's most often worth it.
Ps. I haven't explained much of the posted images as they have been pretty self-explanatory. This one, however, benefits from little explanation. For this picture I went to local ice swimming house and while it isn't quite a street photography, it isn't very far from it either: the ice swimming house is situated very close to central and it happened to have more traffic than the main street. Before swimmers descend into almost zero degrees water they warm up in sauna. This particular day there were so many of them that they were in lines walking down to chilly water.
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Bald Cypress at the Edge of the Water
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On my Edgewater walks
Edgewater by Del Webb
Elgin, Illinois, USA - Near 42.0109, -88.3477
December 8, 2024
Shot within 30 minutes of sunset on a nice, clear, sunny day.
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