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more than a year ago I was given this gift by a wonderful and beautiful French photographer, Elodie Brunel. I've finally gotten it framed and it's hanging in the new baby's room (which we have painted too!). Check out her work here: elodiebrunel.fr/
I'm staying on the east coast of Iceland this summer and plan on getting back into my landscape photography while I'm here.
This is shot during a hike to StapavÃk near the village of Borgarfjörður Eystri. I don't know the name of this waterfall or even if it has a name.
i finally recieved my key and tags for the coop bike cage, after 4 months on the waiting list.
now i won't have to keep it in our little hallway, where it lived for those four months.
here it is in the hallway peeking into the shot. it left maybe half a meter of clearance on the side.
if you think i am making too big a deal of this, imagine squeezing past the thing for 4 months.
erin is very happy.
After waiting patiently, well not so patiently in my case, this little one finally turned up just as we packing our bags to move on.
I was so pleased as I haven't seen a red for a few year.
Finally! After 3+ months of waiting, my new car has arrived. A shiny new Hyundai i30 Turbo Diesel.
I'm very happy with it so far and it should last me at least 10 years or so before it's due for renewal.
Freshly baked date loaf with my coffee and crossword this morning.
Our French Onion Chicken dinner has started its eight hour stint in the slow cooker, the kids are watching Charlie & Lola... and finally I can relax in relative peace.
Finally, a decent kit of the Messiah from Frontier! Before, there was only the monstrosity available through Bandai.
Finally working on the Kona solids challenge! I need to get moving, our guild meeting is next week! :)
Last weekend I finally managed to sew something new for myself and I already wore it today to work.
You can read the story on my blog
This has been basted and ready to quilt FOR-EV-ER! I needed my basting pins for my single girl, so I finally sat myself down and quilted it. I slapped on some binding and voila! I have a finished quilt :)
Fabric: Blush by BasicGrey for Moda
Pattern: Coming Home by Camille Roskelley with some tweaks
Piecing, Quilting, Binding by me
these suckers came yesterday, but i forgot to post about it. i've been working exceptionally hard lately, and it's been stressful. i'm tired right now.
Studying for my Spanish final, I finally had enough and needed a break. A self portrait was just the ticket.
Strobist info: 2 SB900 in a Four Square soft box camera right set at 1/32 F5.6. A SB600 sitting directly behind me at 1/4 power zoom 50mm
Although I had caught ML039, the other track inspection vehicle, before, ML070 had evaded me on numerous occasions. Today at Strathfield, SPECIAL appeared on the board, followed by the surprise appearance of the railmotor, which I can finally say is on my card!
I'm completely in love with this fabric, and as such have been hoarding it a little, not wanting to cut into it. I know you all know what I mean. Today, finally, I came up with my hipster pants. Totally cool, wide-leg, modern pants. They look fab in this colorway. Can't wait to do a few more.
When Karen Ruane showed us how to piece some fabric together ...it took her a grand total of .... wait for it.....................................7 minutes. ('course....she has been at it for years..)
Finally after plenty of agonizing...and then re-watching the video about 5 times....I did it. Guess how long it took me?
3 hours and 7 minutes..... anal?...what?/////?? me??? hmmmm.....
EEC 2013 (Embroider, Embellish, Create)
I got this two days ago. I graduated in MAY. Yeah. Well.
I officially graduateduhmuh.
Yet my brain still feels so empty.
Finally got a good HDR photo that is printable. This has been the hardest project I have tried so far but I finally got it. Top right is still a little sketchy but I'm happy with it overall. This is Craig Hall at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The building has been condemned for years. The sky is a layered background photo that I took from, of all places, a Lowe's parking lot.
EOS 1Ds Mk III
Cannon 16-35mm
ISO 100
5 exsposures
Processed with Photomatrix Pro
Colors Processed and sky layered in CS4.
German postcard by ISV, no. R 32. Photo: Pierre Brice in Winnetou II. Teil / Last of the Renegades (Harald Reinl, 1964).
The German Western Winnetou – 2. Teil / Last of the Renegades (Harald Reinl, 1964), also known as Winnetou: The Red Gentleman, is one of the Eurowesterns in the series based on the novels by Karl May. Stars are Pierre Brice as Apache chief Winnetou and Lex Barker as his soul mate, Old Shatterhand.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Europe was left in ruins, and so was the European cinema, especially the German film industry. There was a strong backlash against those filmmakers who had remained faithful to the Nazi party, while many of Germany's best filmmakers had moved to America in the 1930s. In the 1950s, the German cinema struggled gradually back to form. Low budgets and, at first, a lack of international markets were the reasons that the most popular productions were the Heimat films and later also the Sissi films with Romy Schneider. Large audience figures meant that the film studios were gradually able to increase their budgets, and by the 1960s, big-scale films were back on the cards. And even some of the directors who had fled to Hollywood returned to work in Germany, including Fritz Lang. The Karl May novels were, and still are, highly popular in the German-speaking world, telling of adventurous exploits in the Wild West and the Orient. Film adaptations of the books had been made as early as the 1920s, and again in the late 1930s, and discussions had been made about shooting some of the Wild West stories - indeed, a final script for a Winnetou film was approved in 1944 by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels but never went into production. Timothy Young, in his 'Mondo Esoterica Guide to: The Karl May Westerns': "With German audiences filling cinemas, and desperately wanting more home-grown films, the Karl May themes seemed like a perfect money spinner for producer Horst Wendlandt. A key player at Rialto Film, he had successfully produced a series of adult-targeted films based on the Edgar Wallace thriller/horror novels." Wendlandt now sought to target the younger markets. His idea of shooting European Westerns was unheard of at the beginning of the 1960s - the Spaghetti Western rage started only a few years later with Sergio Leone's Per un pugno di dollari / For a fistful of Dollars (1964). Instead of using the Spanish locations of the Spaghetti Westerns, the Karl May series was shot in Yugoslavia. Films like Winnetou II. Teil (1964) took great advantage of the barren landscapes, mountains and rivers. In return, the films made Yugoslavia a popular holiday destination for many Europeans.
Horst Wendlandt's first Eurowestern was, appropriately enough, Karl May's first Old West book - Der Schatz im Silbersee / The Treasure of Silver Lake (Harald Reinl, 1962). The novel had to be altered for the screen - scenes set aboard an American paddle steamer proved too much for the budget, while the graphic details of Colonel Brinkley's savage nature had to be toned down for the family market - but it still retained the charm and feel of the original stories, and proved a massive hit with audiences across Germany. Impressively, the distinctive soundtrack proved equally popular and became a bestseller. The studio quickly commissioned a second film, and following the order of the original books, Rialto produced the prequel story Winnetou 1. Teil (1963), which told the origins of the Winnetou and Old Shatterhand characters who played the major role in Der Schatz im Silbersee / The Treasure of Silver Lake, secured actors Lex Barker and Pierre Brice in their respective roles as Old Shatterhand and Winnetou. According to Timothy Young at the Mondo Esoterica Guide, Winnetou 1. Teil / Apache Gold (Harald Reinl, 1963) proved equally popular to the first, and stands as the best in the series - boasting a rarely bettered set piece with a full-scale railway locomotive being driven through a saloon building. Winnetou II. Teil (1964) followed on, continuing the series' popularity. Again, Harald Reinl directed the sequel, and he could work with a very good script by veteran author Harald G. Petterson. Composer Martin Böttcher made a new lead theme, the Winnetou-Melodie, which became a massive hit. Lex Barker and Pierre Brice were joined by a cast of excellent actors. Karin Dor plays Winnetou's greatest love, Ribanna; British actor Anthony Steel plays Forester, a ruthless oil baron, and among his gang members is the enigmatic Klaus Kinski. Lt. Robert Merril, one of the good guys, is played by a blue-eyed Italian hunk called Mario Girotti, who would become one of the best-known Spaghetti Western stars under the alias Terence Hill. Also remarkable is the small part of Gojko Mitic as White Bird. The muscled Yugoslavian actor later became the superstar of the Eastern European Western. Finally, there is comic actor Eddi Arent as Old Shatterhand's sidekick Lord Castlepool.
Sources: Timothy Young (Mondo Esoterica Guide to: The Karl May Westerns), Wikipedia (German and English) and IMDb.
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Finally got some sketching in. Just used a water brush, did not want to bother with pulling out my good brushes.
Finally Punk headlining the Sex is Disgusting record's Dudefest at the Hobgoblin, 28 June 2009. The spirit of 1979 invoked to great and joyful effect - great band.
I finally had time to shoot some with my Nikon D90. I was getting really sick of posting all of my less than good Iphone shots. Let me know what you think! ;)
This page took a very long time to come together - there are many, many layers of stuff on here. But once I added that gigantic flower in the middle, it all seemed to work.
I love it when a plan comes together.
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