Digbeth, Birmingham, UK.

Under the railway arches off Floodgate Street, a group of very talented youngsters were performing break dancing routines much to the delight of quite a large gathering of followers; it looks as though this may be a regular Saturday’s morning form of enjoyment. Standing at the back I had to view the dancers on the screens of other people’s phones……!

Thank you for 600 of you following me. You all are amazing! Kisses

I have over 1,000 followers!

I will continue to enjoy posting.

Thank you so much!

Keep up the good work!

I've had this site for years but only as a sort of warehouse for various SL pics that I'd taken. I started to use it in earnest in April/May ladt year. Since then it's been a blast. Thanks to Devlin, my thousamdth follower. Apologies to vereybody who I've spammed and generally offended

Wow!! i just hit 300 followers! I cannot beleive it so thank you all ♥

Thankyou so much really!

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Woke up yesterday and realized I'd hit 2k! Celebrated with a fun and silly throwback to classic Sci-Fi Space Babes.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!

Taken @ Norderney

Nine Emperor Gods Festival is a very popular nine-day festival, held in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. It begins on the eve of the 9th lunar month of the Chinese calendar.

According to the traditional Chinese religion, the Nine Emperor Gods are the nine sons manifested by Father Emperor Zhou Yu Dou Fu Yuan Jun and Mother of the Big Dipper Dou Mu Yuan Jun. The Nine Emperor Gods are formed by the seven stars of the Big Dipper of the North Ursa Major. Over the time the worship to the gods declined, but the festival was brought from the mainland China to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, where it survived and got certain unique traits.

The temples of the deities hold a traditional ceremony to welcome the emperors. It's believed, that they arrive through the waterways, that's why festive processions are held from the temples to sea shore or river. The sending-off ritual starts on the last day of the festival.

Nine Emperor Gods Festival is also known as the Vegetarian Festival in Thailand and Singapore. The name derives from the vegetarian ritual, held on the eve of the festival. The followers abstain from eating meat during the festival to purify their bodies from sins.

Wow, I reached 800 followers! I'm actually shocked, I'm only 200 away from 1k! That's absolutely insane.

I really do appreciate everyone who favorites my photos.

Taking photos on SL is just something I do in my spare time, and I'm happy I've been able to support shops in the process.

I'm having a lot of fun!^^x

Thank you!:D

half way to world domination :o)

I didn't think I would have 2 let alone 200. Thank you for watching me explore creativity and sharing yours with me!

Artemis' house in progress :)

Edit: For who might be interested I used Wyrmslayer Enb 5.eh version: www.dropbox.com/s/2f99ljfw30uu3sa/Wyrmslayer%20ENB%205.EH...

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I'm amazed to have reached this milestone here on flickr, something I never imagined possible. So to all of you who enjoy my work - a huge "thanks!" from me. I treasure each and every one of you.

Zurich, Switzerland

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It's time for another party! Wow wow, 2k followers. I truly never thought I'd ever get even anywhere near 1k and now here we are.

All my love to all of you because if it hadn't been for your support, your kind words and ideas, I probably never would have kept on struggling through figuring out how to do all the things I do now. <3 You all are a bright spot in my virtual existence and I can't thank you guys enough. :D

Thank you so much despite the lack of content in my flickr. I'll try my best to upload more frequent.

Fotografiert auf dem Tjeuke Meer, Niederlande

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Thank you all :)

Pittsford,NY.

Thank you very much for your support and the many comments 😘

A bud in the middle of the flowers.

I have posted this image to a request from one of my followers. It is a mock-up of 13 of the club members that go to the Photographic group that I go to. I took each individual’s photograph while they were sat on a table in our club room, and then placed them all onto a girder situated above Manchester. The idea for the mock-up was taken from an old 1932 photograph (Lunch Atop A Skyscraper) of 11 workers having lunch sat on a girder high above New York, while working on the Rockefeller Centre. I can’t give credit to the Photographer because he is unknown. You can find the original photo and info here : aboutphotography.blog/blog/story-of-lunch-atop-a-skyscraper I am also on the girder, had to get someone to take my picture. Hope you find it amusing…..!

Thank you to all my friends and followers who have viewed, faved & commented on my latest work. You are, as ever, so generous to me and I appreciate your support so much.

This is just a little update to let you know that I will be getting back to you as soon as I can to enjoy your lovely work, as you know I like to catch up with all your galleries.

I am more behind than usual as I have just had to undergo some extensive dental work, as I have been in some discomfort for some time. But apart from my face still feeling numb from the anaesthetic a day on I am feeling much better! Bit more sleep will work wonders no doubt.

Then I will be getting back to you all.

I thought you might like to see an image of my latest purchase….recently, I have been converting what used to be termed a ‘drawing room’ [which basically meant it contained the telly and a sofa in it!] to a second ‘office’ and reading room for me, as my top attic space in my Victorian house in the summer is becoming like a furnace and far too hot to work in at certain times of the year. This downstairs room is perfect as it is the coolest in the house, and as we don’t use it like we used to, it made much more sense to turn it into something else where it will be used to help me in my endeavours!

So I bought a Mahogany Wood Victorian Desk. I had been looking for some time for the right one, and eventually I found this one - dated 1815 to 1890, when the furniture makers were in business, based in London.

So now it is sitting quite nicely in the bay window, with an early Victorian chair that I already had. I tried other modern chairs but they were the wrong height. This was perfect.

I know a writer used this desk originally, as there are ink stains in the drawers, which I absolutely love, so I feel that the desk has come back to a Victorian home where it hopefully belongs.

Writing and taking photographs is my life, so I am hoping to share more of that journey with you. But now...its time for some more painkillers!

All my love for now, Shelley x

And if per chance, you would like to see more of my work, have a look at my website at:

www.shelleyturnerpoetpix.com

Big thank you to my first 800 followers! I've not been in Flickr long and I am so thankful for you all for your love and support, awards and kind words! I love you all! Cheers To You!! ♥♥♥

Thanks very much for this 200 followers goal! ♥

Thank you ALL so much for sticking with me over the past 2 years with your love and support.

Thank you so much everyone! My friends, acquaintances, blogger managers, and designers. I have gone through a lot to get here, and I'm so happy that you are here with me to do so! And for that, I thank you all. Because of this milestone, I am going to think of what to call all that follow me. Maybe something floral (we will see lol).

My friends and followers already know how very fond I am oif tunnel crossings :) Now this one was on our way from Djupivogur toVBorgarfjordur Eystri on the Icelandic East coast. The tunnel seemed to go round and round and round ... so much joy to be had :))

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I'm humbled to have reached 2000 followers!! I appreciate all of your comments, awards, words of encouragement & support! Thank you all so much for the love! ♥♥

Looking for few testers. PM me if interested. I want to know if there are some issues or sugestions (much welcome).

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Uhmm... guys, I meant three hundred...

Are you looney? How do I fit 300 people in here?

No, no, it's hundred, they are not hungry!

But we are! I'll have a burger and fries please!

A Currywurst!

Isch hän a Broiler

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Apologies for my Minifigures being a bit daft. I asked for a picture with three hundred peolpe, celebrating my 300th follower, with waving flags, flying hats, cheering - but this is what they came up with. *sigh*

Thank you everybody for following, faving, commenting (though I don't always comment back) and bearing with my moods.

Toy Project Day 2211

Sleazes, dirty stinking sleazes.

Not so much of a deep and meaningful artistic image this, more just vocalising a point that's been driving me nuts for ages. Having become a follower of numerous 365 projects, both guys and gals, and those of a non-self portrait nature, I've noticed one glaringly obvious fact. Wherever there are female self portraiture artists, or people posting regular images of pretty ladies, out come the perverts.

Now if we're being blatantly honest, any guy on earth who's seen some of these shots (and I'd wager a fair few women too) will have had a look at some of these images and done the metaphorical whistling out loud and muttered something along the lines of 'hell, that's quite nice!' It's human nature. Doesn't matter which sex, if there's a photo of them looking a bit attractive, someone, somewhere will be appreciating it in a purely "yummy!" kinda fashion. The way Flickr peeps seem to vocalise this varies though. We get those who skirt all around the houses to avoid saying 'yummy,' we get those who are perhaps a little less guarded, either by their own personal confidence or the anonymity of the internet, or by the fact that they feel their work will speak for itself, and utter a more honest and flirtatious 'yummy.' Then we get the people out there who are blatantly just sleazes, who you just know spend their every waking hour surfing for porn and Flickr for images of women in a state of undress or allure. These are the same people idling quoting Celine Dion lyrics and the same catchphrase they've used all week (see above) to every damned girl they feel like leering over, as though doing so will somehow mystically enchant the photographer/model/girl into thinking they're actually alright instead of being sat behind their computer god knows where with their pants round their ankles making themselves Blind. Point being that in many cases these subjects or photographers are almost always people who tirelessly work at their images and the meaning behind them, working their asses off to take the shots that these people then use as a cheap way to get their rocks off. It's rude, and more than a little creepy.

I'm not trying to say that any one area of looking at photos of people in a voyeuristic fashion is more acceptable than any other, but the wealth of porn that seems to be apparent both here and online in general is at least basically designed to be viewed whilst doing your business. Many of the self portraitists I see being plagued by these comments and pervs are becoming friends via this site, and although I'd always steer well away from assuming its any of my business, I do feel a sense of protection and disgust for them. So for those of you out there who haven't got the subtle references in this spiel, go back and read again for clues, and good luck with keeping your stream pervert free! ;-)

I guess it comes down to the age old idea that you studied in class when learning about photography, or at least banged your head against when teaching yourself. We steer dangerously close to feminism, and perhaps how all guys shooting women, or looking at images of them are being exploitative. For me personally, I never felt intelligent enough to actually argue one side or the other there, more content that I knew it existed and that I remember the ideas every single time I look at or shoot a woman. It's probably not enough, but I feel less guilty and ignorant by at least knowing some things. The bit about it that I really resent is how the pervs of this world, and if we're being blunt, of Flickr are making it such an issue that in order to be accepted as a genuine viewer and commenter of *insert photographer here*'s images, you have to almost prove yourself, either by the words you say or the images you display. It's not the fault of the women/photographers who are like this, faced with such a barrage I'd be the same, I just resent the fact that by association as a man looking at pictures of women, I'm apparently a sleaze first until proven otherwise. So thank you Flickrpervs for making this website more difficult than it needs to be! ;-)

(Yes I am aware of the irony in ranting about this over a picture of some breasts...:-P)

(Note this image is actually my editing of someone else's photo, used with permission. In absence of access to a ladychest of my own, and knowing my own mancleavage isn't so pretty, a friend 'loaned' me hers. She wishes to remain anonymous, but thank you. You know who you are.)

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