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Lucy's booth is living in a Barbie world...
Barbie: "...new girls can do everything but I'm always in this teaching pose. I can't enjoy a park bench with a handsome man or eat an ice cream because my legs and arms don't bend!"
Lucy: "Be flexible! You know a reed will survive a storm because it bends, but a mighty oak will break and fall. Maybe you're an oak!"
Barbie: "My back itches and I can't scratch it!!!!"
Lucy: "Maybe you're poison oak!"
Barbie: "Waaaa!!!"
Lucy: "That will be five cents please!"
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The Booth!
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Myosource Cheer Combo that includes Kinetic Bands plus a free stunt strap to help Cheerleaders improve jumps and stunts. Visit www.myosource.com/cheer-gymnastics-dance/ for more information
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#28 (best position)
It's monday...weekend flexibility is completly over....
HMB & Happy MondYay!
The agile LM 400 is a flexible, mid-sized satellite bus customizable for military, civil or commercial users and designed to enable one platform to support multiple missions, including remote sensing, communications, imaging, radar, and persistent surveillance. Lockheed Martin invested in common satellite designs to support demand for more proliferated systems, high-rate production, and affordable solutions. The LM 400 is scalable and versatile starting at the size of the average home refrigerator, with capability to grow for higher power and larger payloads and packaged to enable multiple satellites per launch. The LM 400 bus can operate in low, medium or geosynchronous earth orbits, providing greater flexibility than other buses in this class, and is compatible with a wide range of launch vehicles in a single, ride-share or multi-launch configuration. The first space vehicle – coined the LM 400 Tech Demonstrator – is the first of a planned regular series of self-funded on-orbit LM 400 technology demonstration missions to accelerate the technical maturity of our satellites and advanced payloads, as well as showcase how new capabilities can be delivered quickly to customers. More information: www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/capabilities/space/lm400.html
Discovered this connection, which locks tight and would make a great flexible joint.
Come join me on
Keep Dreaming in Bricks!
Personal work with model Caroline Anne - yogi and gymnast. Shot upstairs at the Peacock Gym, East London.
Setup: Key light is Profoto D1 through a beauty dish, with a grid, to cmaera left. The backlight is another D1 through a 60cm square softbox (a zoom reflector in a couple of shots), mounted at the very back of the room, and aimed down at the floor. The clip lights are a B1 each side of Caroline, one with a zoom reflector (back left) and the other with a strip softbox (back right).
Photoshop: Bit of cleanup to remove things from the walls/background etc, played with lookup tables, and hue/sat colorise adjustment layers, plus a bit of desaturation. Burned around the edges to focus attention on Caroline. Some work on skin with curves to add a bit of sculpting.
Not very good setup shot here.
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First you get out one of those long dresses you haven't been able to wear for five years, but can't yet let go of because you keep telling yourself that maybe all the weight you've packed on is just a bad dream and surely any day now you are going to wake up and be that skinny size 6 you used to be again. Bring the dress into the kitchen and lay it out on your counter, and look around for something tall that you can drape part of it up over. As an example, one of those big coffee cans work pretty well. Be carefull of the excess fabric that is piled over onto your stove. Try not to cuss to loud when you knock over some of the other stuff (on the one and only tiny little counter) that you didn't move out of the way because in your tiny little kitchen, there really isn't anywhere else you can put it. Remember, it is late at night and your doors are still open. Where applicable, take a moment to shoot a dirty look at the stationary excercise bike that is now parked in your already crowded living room, and to date has served no purpose other than something to stub your toe on. Breathe... you are on a mission, don't lose track. Go back to the closet / pantry room and get out your handy-dandy flexible gooseneck desk lamp. Stop thinking about those damned Cheetos, also in the closet / pantry area. Bring the lamp in the kitchen and set it up on the TV tray that you've placed over half of your double sink. Pat yourself on the back for having come up with that bright idea for additional counter space.
Rewind to the little yellow flower that you picked earlier in your landlord's yard, a reward to yourself for having once again made it back and forth through his dangerously cluttered back yard and driveway without falling down and killing yourself, and try not to be too ticked that that is the only possible route to your mailbox, which doesn't seem to bother him in the least... just be grateful that you don't get much mail, and depending on whether or not your last TV Guide was a double issue, you only have to go to your mailbox once every week or two... and that besides your mailbox and all his piles of junk, he also has flowers in his yard. Having already placed said stolen flower in a pretty, but impractical, salt shaker that doubles as a vase, move the arrangement from atop your microwave to the fabric draped countertop, positioning it just so in front of the also draped coffee can. Turn the lamp on and squiggle it around till the light is directed right. Be careful of the cord, which is dangling atop the sinks faucet, a stretch to the nearest electrical outlet. Whisper a quick prayer that nothing slips and makes a big mess while you quick grab your camera from your purse, which hangs conveniently from a nail in the doorway, just a couple of feet away. Don't you dare go back into that little room with the Cheetos in it. Go instead to the macro setting of your camera, take aim, and... CLICK!!!
Well, that's how I did it. From there on out, you are on your own. After just a little tweaking with my ACDSee photo edit program, I went to Picnik for mirrored frames, three of them... I love the look of depth that they give. Oh, and I returned the lamp and dress to the closet / pantry, while still avoiding those Cheetos. I'm sure I'll have use for the lamp again. And the dress... well, you just never know.
Note: Author / Photographer does not advise picking flowers out of other people's yards, without their prior knowledge and permission. Usually. LOL
Life's a hoot if you let it be :))
~kplf
For our anniversary, my wife and I took a Navajo-led trip into some back country in the Navajo Nation on the Colorado Plateau. It was just us and our guides.
We drove and toured in a 4 wheel drive truck for about 4 hours on an old 1940’s uranium mining road to get to our campsite. It’s generous to call it a road. Most of the way there was no road at all, having washed away decades ago. Our Navajo guide, Shaye Holiday, scrambled us up steep boulders, slid us down stomach-churning sand dunes, crept along harrowing ledges, slid through bright red mud and scaled bony sandstone staircases. At times he had to get out of the truck and scout the path to see if we could even make it, since it had stormed here two days prior; often I was convinced we wouldn’t make it but we always did. At one point we all got out and did a little road building by piling rocks into crevices that were too deep for the truck. It would have been a scary trip, but it was clear that Shaye knew what he was doing and where he was going. Ok, it was still a little scary. During the drive we talked about Navajo culture and our personal lives and fell into an easy camaraderie. The conversation was thoughtful and interesting.
Eventually we arrived at this rocky ledge near the top of the mesa, overlooking the entire Monument Valley. Shaye built a fire, set up a couple of chairs, pitched a tent for Steph and me and one for himself and his wife Nizhoni and proceeded to grill a scrumptious dinner of steak, beans, corn, squash, and bread. Shaye and Nizhoni did everything they could to make sure we were happy and comfortable and they succeeded. Both of them are respectful, kind, and relaxed. Everything we needed, aside from a toothbrush, clothing, and flashlights, was provided.
A few years ago, Shaye’s dad built this fire pit and brought a table up here, but that’s all there is. This is nowhere…There’s no bathroom… you have to make do. The litter box in this picture is where you wash your hands. There is absolutely no one else and nothing else on this mesa. Yet, since it overlooks Monument Valley, there is a cell signal here (though there isn’t for most of the drive up).
We watched the sun set, ate dinner with Shaye and Nizhoni, and went to sleep. While sleeping, I left my camera out on the edge of the mesa with the shutter open for about 900 thirty second exposures to capture some star trails. You can leave your gear out in the open, out of view, yards away, while you sleep.
The next morning we toured some more, hiking a slot canyon where there was no trail and no other foot traffic to a triple sandstone arch, and saw some ancient cliff dwellings. To visit any of these places, you have to be a Navajo, or be with a Navajo guide. The Navajo Nation forbids travel alone by outsiders except in a very limited area around the monuments on the valley floor. From what we could tell, the Navajo don’t really visit them much either, because they are so remote.
Shaye and Nizhoni brought us back to our vehicle about 24 hours after starting. We bought them lunch and talked about them coming to visit us in California. I hope they do.
It was an amazing experience, highly recommended. If you’re interested, here’s the webpage to get started:
www.monumentvalleysafari.com/hunts-mesa
You want the 18 hour overnight tour. It’s longer than 18 hours because the road has changed since the website was made. Don’t bother with the day trip… it’s not much cheaper and it’s way too much off roading for a single day. The people at Monument Valley Safari are very flexible so if you want something different and it’s possible, they will do it for you.
There's a lot of preening going on in the bird world at the start of the breeding season and I love watching the shapes they can get their bodies into. This juvenile herring gull practically folded himself in half, backwards!
Wishing everyone a peaceful barefoot Christmas and new year! Thanks to all those who have faved, commented and followed my barefoot adventures :) Here's to a barefoot 2020 for us all!!
The amazing Belle, showing why she is a great dancer, and reminding me that I am not. www.instagram.com/hsubelle/