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Date: July 2021
Medium: Digital Photomontage
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
Dimensions: 15” x 20”
© 2021 Tony DeVarco
Credit: Left panel: "Idealized female portrait/Simonetta Vespucci as a nymph" by Sandro Botticelli. Tempera on wood, 1480. Pixels captured while visiting the Städel Museum in Frankfurt Germany.
Right panel: foundation layer is a detail from a scanned 4" x 6" photograph of my beloved bride Bonnie, captured by my father Don DeVarco on our wedding day September 4, 1993 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
St Mary’s Church, Tetbury.
Most crosses in protestant churches tend to be bare, symbolic of the risen Christ. Crosses in Roman and Orthodox churches, in contrast, tend to depict the suffering of Jesus during the crucifixion. Both aspects are a necessary parts of the whole story.
For most churches, by convention, the altar is placed at the Eastern end of the building, not because of a need to face Jerusalem or anything like that (which would be curiously Eurocentric in any case!), but simply because it faces the dawn. The idea is that in the first service of the day the priest and congregation would have the reminder of the prospect of Christ’s return - the new dawn.
Not all churches and cathedrals can be built this way though because of location constraints. In a rather amusing manner, this is got around by calling the altar end of the church the liturgical East in architectural terms, whatever its geographic orientation.
At its core, Christian belief is centred on a simple substitution: Christ’s life for our deaths. So Jesus (a name that means God Saves) died on the cross in our place, and we can share his life. So that's why the cross is important to Christians and Easter the most important Christian festival. It’s more significant than Christmas even though you wouldn’t have one without the other.
I’ve always wondered why Good Friday was good, when to my mind it is the most sad and painful day in the historical narrative, commemorating as it does the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Hardly good, one would think. But the day’s name goes back a long way - the good has an old English meaning of pious or holy, so it’s good in the sense of holiest (or most set apart and distinctive, which is what holy tends to mean in a Christian context).
This image was taken at the beginning of February, one of a series of shots in this grandly beautiful town church which, incidentally, has one of the tallest spires in England.
Taking pictures inside churches is a real challenge, especially in dim light towards the end of the day as this one was. The modern consumer camera sensor, and our LCD screens for that matter, can handle about 5 EVs of brightness level (dynamic range). In contrast (excuse the pun) our eyes can accommodate about 21 EV of dynamic range, given a little time to adjust. That’s a huge disparity, especially when you consider the EV scale is logarithmic… sigh...much for the hope of photorealism :)
One approach would be to merge a series of differently exposed captures together in an HDR image. But doing that without a tripod was beyond me…
Much tweaking of Curves and brightness layers ensued. Still not ideal but I rather like the dark interior look.
So, on this Good Friday may I wish all my friends, of differing faiths and none, a happy weekend (albeit a little strange!) and God’s blessing on your lives.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Easter! :)
[Handheld in suffuse ambient sunlight.
Developed in Capture One with careful tweaking so as not to blow out the highlights, particularly in the blues.
Selective enhancement of the window colours to counter the relatively intense backlighting.
A heavy adjustment to the keystone perspective to get the verticals vertical (the window is very tall).
Processed in Affinity with more light and colour work in Curves, and the use of a gradient mask to brighten the top.
The result was quite noisy, particularly on the dark walls, but that was fixed using Nik Dfine 2.]
© 2012 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott
I got this powerful image of one of the "Maid of the Mist" boats entering the "teeth of the dragon". I had been on that same boat a few hours earlier, so I toned this image with the feeling that you have going into that vortex. You watch these boats as they throttle up just to try to hold their place against the fury of the current and waves. In this image you can also see one edge of the torrent descending upon the boat below. Niagara is nothing but beauty from many angles, but there is violence in that beauty...
Technical info: Canon EOS 5D MK2, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS, Hoya Circular Polarizer, Processed in Adobe Lightroom 4, toned in OnOne Perfect Layers, signature added in Photoshop CS5
See other new work at: www.dustinabbott.net/ including the new Photo du Jour
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further practise. removed the tacking from the under collar, back neck facing, front facing and sleeves. then cut out another undercollar, attached it to the back neck facing and machined both to the blazer neckline, continuing on to the front facing
critique
for the photo i should have opened the collar down to where the first button is to be positioned. never mind, next time
the collar, lapel and front are machined but still have to be edge stitched. that's for another day, as are the making of the button holes and covering the buttons in the same fabric.
happier with the collar and lapel though the angles are still not quite symmetrical.
hoping i don't mess up when i edge stitch.
reset and machined the sleeves to lose the puckering on the shoulder.
the hemming of the front, back and sleeves has not been done. i'll only do that on the actual blazer
tomorrow i'll prepare the green linen for the actual blazer
i'm following the classic blazer pattern downloaded from this reference book flic.kr/p/2q55djV
'the dressmaking book' by alison smith mbe publisher dk
alongside the reference book i use you tube tutorials that i search for when more explanation is needed
How to Sew Darts | Beginner & Advanced www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9x-i-txyfo
5 Tips on how sew non-pointy darts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8M_TLn_do4
How to Sew an Invisible Zipper
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaza9t-CAiQ
How to Sew an Invisible Zipper - Updated
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG8CSr11kjA
How To Sew Invisible Zipper On Shirt / Dress | Sewing Technique Tutorial
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHNrRoCSxaE
Invisible Zipper
www.youtube.com/shorts/npDSSAMzNNc
Super clever invisible zip trick
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UyfKL5G-Bw
how to understitch www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFz4tsplENI
what is understitching?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnRDeKqKgto
ten top stitching tips www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDRXfYgkU4k
Top and Dress
Detailed Sewing Tutorial For A Beginner : Simple Linen Top, Bias Binding Neckline【Free Pattern】
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cFiT8UcU54
Download the Pattern
www.madebysachi.com/2021/09/27/super-simple-top/
LINEN DRESS DIY【Free Pattern +Easy Draft】Step by Step Guide for Beginner /back opening /Skirt Pleats
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDFRlF_yEtA&t=0s
Download the Pattern
www.madebysachi.com/2021/09/27/super-simple-top/
BASIC SEAM POCKET
www.madebysachi.com/2022/07/09/basic-seam-pocket/
How to Sew Pleats | Box Pleat, Knife Pleat, Inverted Box Pleat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlHcPh38MY
Forming Box Pleats
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNXJ_BIsb1E
Inverted Pleat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfdE3DlJdFQ
setting the sleeve www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqo-SIy8MXY&t=178s
coat pattern instructions www.sewmag.co.uk/free-sewing-patterns/serena-wool-coat#lo...
How to properly sew a shawl collar jacket/sewing techniques for beginners www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjeqgIfSt9c
Easy Way To Sewing shawl collar | Coat Collar Tutorial Cutting and Stitching | Sewing Tutorial www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsUZjA9JErI
my sewing machine JL220 flic.kr/p/2odruLA from john lewis www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-jl220-sewing-machine-pepperm...
sewing machine maintenance flic.kr/p/2q9GVTh
How to Use your SEWING MACHINE (for Beginners)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaZBTMzkoY
A Beginners' Guide To Using Your Sewing Machine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=imryOl_LNaw
Beginners Sewing Course - Day 1 - The Basics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGITrkYdjJs
Seam Finishes
10 SEAM FINISHES Without a Serger || Basic to Couture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYt7JxC_bIc&t=596s
7 Seam Types and How to Make it- Sewing Lesson for Beginner
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax6JDDP_6O8
French Seam Pockets
How to Add Pockets to a Side Seam using French Seams
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aatWJL_aAYY
Lining
How to add lining to ANY dress pattern | Sewing Tutorial
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENKI3fSBQBo
How To Sew a Slip Stitch by Hand
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjky55Cp1_I
Buttonholes
3 Sewing Tips to Make Buttonholes Neatly and Quickly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oOz28Ybk8I
How to Machine-Sew and Custom-sized Buttonhole
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6P-TKK3tjg&t=135s
Place and Sew Hooks and Eyes Correctly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d06GhQx_Wg
How to Fix a Low Neckline
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U-W6W5fh-4
Interfacing
How to fuse iron-on interfacing to fabric
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7idVbAkUBTU
reference books
i'm a complete beginner at dressmaking. posting photos of progress to encourage myself to continue www.flickr.com/photos/connect2012/albums/72177720305370633/ i'm not making any recommendations ...
Life is not always a gift.
But with a laugh,
We can face it.
Have a great week end, dear Flickr friends :)
Highest Explore Position #373 ~ On Saturday May 30th 2009.
Atlantic Puffin - Farne Islands, Northumberland, England - Tuesday May 27th 2009.
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Well, a bonus image tonight as I have thousands of photo's from my 5 days away...and could end up still posting them come Christmas..lol
Especially as I could get a few hundred more images if I find somewhere to go over the weekend during my trip back home to Colchester..:)
Sooooo...I hope your all having a wonderful evening / night wherever you may be..:)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ~ The Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) is a seabird species in the auk family. It is a pelagic bird that feeds primarily by diving for fish, but also eats other sea creatures, such as squid and crustaceans. Its most obvious characteristic is its brightly coloured beak during the breeding seasons. Also known as the Common Puffin, it is the only puffin species which is found in the Atlantic Ocean. The curious appearance of the bird, with its colourful huge bill and its striking piebald plumage, has given rise to nicknames such as "clown of the ocean" and "sea parrot".
Description ~ The Atlantic Puffin is 28–34 cm (11-13.5 in) in length, with a 50–60 cm (20-24 in) wingspan. The male is generally slightly larger than the female, but they are coloured alike. This bird is mainly black above and white below, with gray to white cheeks and red-orange legs. The bill is large and triangular, and during the breeding season is bright orange with a patch of blue bordered by yellow at the rear. The characteristic bright orange bill plates grow before the breeding season and are shed after breeding. The bills are used in courtship rituals, such as the pair tapping their bills together. During flight, it appears to have grey round underwings and a white body; it has a direct flight low over the water. The related Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) from the North Pacific looks very similar but has slightly different head ornaments.
The Atlantic Puffin is typically silent at sea, except for soft purring sounds it sometimes makes in flight. At the breeding colonies the birds make a deep growl
Distribution and ecology ~ This species breeds on the coasts of northern Europe, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and eastern North America, from well within the Arctic Circle to northern France and Maine. The winter months are spent at sea far from land - in Europe as far south as the Mediterranean, and in North America to North Carolina.
About 95% of the Atlantic puffins in North America breed around Newfoundland's coastlines. The largest puffin colony in the western Atlantic (estimated at more than 260,000 pairs) can be found at the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, south of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Predators of the Atlantic Puffin include the Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus), the Great Skua (Stercorarius skua), and similar-sized species, which can catch a puffin in flight, or pick off one separated from the colony. Smaller gull species like the Herring Gull (L. argentatus) which are hardly able to bring down a healthy adult puffin, take eggs or recently hatched chicks, and will also steal fish.
Diet ~ Feeding areas are often located 100 km (60 mi) offshore from the nest or more, though when provisioning young the birds venture out only half that distance. Atlantic Puffins can dive for distances of up to 70 m (200 ft) and are propelled by their powerful wings, which are adapted for swimming. They use their webbed feet as a rudder while submerged. Puffins collect several small fish, such as herring, sprats, zooplankton, fish (shellfish), sand eels, when hunting. They use their tongues to hold the fish against spines in their palate, leaving their beaks free to open and catch more fish. A popular, but untrue, story claims that puffins neatly line up the fish in their bills with the heads facing alternate ways. Additional components of their diet are crustaceans and mollusks. A puffin can sometimes have a dozen or more fish in its beak at once.
Reproduction ~ Atlantic Puffins are colonial nesters, using burrows on grassy cliffs. They can face competition from other burrow nesting animals such as Rabbits, Manx Shearwaters and occasionally Razorbills. They will also nest amongst rocks and scree. Male puffins perform most of the work of clearing out the nest area, which is sometimes lined with grass, feathers or seaweed. The only time spent on land is to nest. Mates are found prior to arriving at the colonies, and mating takes place at sea.
The Atlantic Puffin is sexually mature at the age of 4–5 years. The species is monogamous and has biparental care. A single-egg clutch is produced each year, and incubation responsibilities are shared between both parents. Total incubation time is around 39–45 days, and the chick takes about 49 days to fledge. At fledging, the chick leaves the burrow alone, and flies/swims out to sea, usually during the evening. Contrary to popular belief, young puffins are not abandoned by their parents (although this does occur in some other seabirds, such as shearwaters). Synchronous laying of eggs is found in Atlantic Puffins in adjacent burrows.
The Riverside Museum is located on the banks of the River Clyde to the west of the city centre of Glasgow near to the SECC, Armadillo and the Glasgow Hydro concert venues.
This image was shot at the rear of the museumand uses the reflections in the glass panels and shiney black marblesque facade of the building. The doorway reflection shows part of the Tall Ship in Glasgow.
The Glasgow Riverside Museum is currently the home to the Transport Museum which had its exhibits moved from the Kelvin Hall Museum when it was being refurbished. Having visited both locations I would strongly urge the curators of the Transport Museum to move back to the Kelvin Hall which was a much better venue for the transport museum.
Barcelona. Catalonia.
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Barcelona (English /bɑrsɨˈloʊnə/, Catalan: [bərsəˈɫonə], Spanish: [barθeˈlona]) is a Spanish city, capital of the autonomous community of Catalonia and the second largest city in the country, with a population of 1,620,943[1] within its administrative limits. The urban area of Barcelona extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of around 4.5 million,[2][3] being the sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, the Ruhr, Madrid and Milan. About five million[4][5][6][7][8] people live in the Barcelona metropolitan area. It is also the largest metropolis on the Mediterranean Sea. It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs and is bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge (512 metres (1,680 ft)).
my neighbor's horse, watching the sun rise...
(actually, he was annoyed that i, a stranger, was so close to him while he was eating breakfast -- but i stayed on my side of the fence)