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The Visiting The Past Series . One of the most powerful graffiti artworks i have ever seen . Taken near Brick Lane in London and sadly no longer there. I including the man walking by to give a sense of scale, a little depth and to add my own mark .
P. S. Never did find who the artist was : )
On the morning that I was getting ready to leave my hotel and head home, I stepped out on the patio and grabbed this shot. After I looked at it for a while, I almost feel like it would be a pretty good shot without the boats.
..lol..I love you guys..;) So, no, I've never owned goats. When I was 5 the people next door to us had goats and I use to ride them..;) Anyway, I just remember goats being fun. Probably wouldn't be as much fun now. I just has a little nostalgic moment. And, no, I don't have anyplace to keep them.
Since it looks like we're in this virus thing for the long haul, I got 3 new pairs of sweat pants..:)
Pose: Cuca Design - Jeremy 7 Male bento pose with mirror
Hair: UNORTHODOX - Gabby hair w/All Scalpz
Face tattoo: DON'T DUP -Helpme group gift tattoo @ TOKYO ZERO
Outfit: [Mazzaro] - Billy Shirt @ TMD
[Mazzaro] - Benny Pants @ ACCESS
Sneakers: VERSOV - Screamov sneakers @ Equal10
Accessories: Hipster Style - Cole Male bracelet @ ManCave
Furniture @ Decor: K&S - Couch cover
Rezz Room - Crow animesh
Switzerland, May 2021
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
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Leica M-E / Carl Zeiss Tele-Tessar ZM 4/85 mm
Kronborg Slot Helsingør, Denmark
This picture is like my feeling in the long times of COVID-19 lockdowns. Isolated and and a unsharp piece in a big see of loneliness and sadness.
Credits
Unholy&JTM - Tears of Blood BOM only for LeLX
product at mainstore maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Salamander/245/153/3006
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Pose: DNS. POSES - DAMIAN
NATIVE URBAN - Destroyed Shirt Ivory
Backdrop: VARONIS - "Don't go out!"
She's my buddy for everything. Here she's sitting with me while I work on model trains. She helps me do decals or weathering.
She's full-grown now, but she still looks so tiny, like a kitten. She loves the soft lining of this jacket of mine so I will set it where she likes to be to keep her happy.
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i've put this image into as many groups as i could - posting this image is for me an ethical/moral choice - it's not the sort of work that i've been showing here but it felt like the right thing to do - go to the sites listed above, learn as much as you can about what is happening - see how it makes you feel . . . . . . . do what you can - gary
Hi all !!
And this time, here is a photo with my Coxy !! This time, I worked on two characters. Something that I still find complex. Hope you like it!
Thanks for watching and your support ! ♡
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@ Necklace : "L'Emporio&PL::*O-Ring*::Choker+Necklace" at L'Emporio Mainstore.
@ Bandage Rings : "L'Emporio&PL::*Kick It*::Bandage Rings -Male-" at L'Emporio Mainstore.
@ Claws : "L'Emporio::*Damned Claws & Rings*" at L'Emporio Mainstore.
@ Shoes : "L'Emporio&PL ::*Ravage*::-Combat Boots-" at L'Emporio Mainstore.
@ Smoky : "A! Smoky Eyeshadows BOM" at Absinthe! Mainstore.
@ Eye right : "A! Eye Bag Removal BOM" Absinthe! Mainstore.
PETER:
Oleg...Oleg...We have to do something for Odessa.
OLEG:
How's that?
PETER:
She's shocked. The Russians attacked the city of Odessa!
That's the city she is named after
OLEG:
That's very...very bad Peter.
We will go straight to Odessa to help her
Grab as many medical products as possible and put them in the rickshaw.
PETER:
Yep...I do!
OLEG:
Do you have everything Peter?
PETER:
Just checking....bandage, thermometer, plasters, disinfectant...
I'm ready... we can leave.
By the way....where should I sit Oleg...the rickshaw is completely full.
OLEG:
Um...well...just climb on my back.
Careful Peter, don't wiggle too much.
PETER:
Jihaaaaa....here we go!
There are moments in life that you feel yourself sinking into nothing.
There are moments that nothing seems around us.
And when everything seems to be over, a hand you don't know is ready to save us.
It's our hand!
"Santa needs new reindeer.
The first bunch has grown old.
Dasher has arthritis;
Comet hates the cold.
Prancer's sick of staring
at Dancer's big behind.
Cupid married Blitzen
and Donder lost his mind.
Dancer's mad at Vixen
for stepping on his toes.
Vixen's being thrown out—
she laughed at Rudolph's nose.
If you are a reindeer
we hope you will apply.
There is just one tricky part:
You must know how to fly."
- Timothy Tocher, "Help Wanted"
Wicca's Originals - Scavenger Coat, LeLUTKA Halle Head 3.1, Moon. Hair // - Buffy.
Wicca's Originals @ Salvage Station // Nov 20th - Dec 20th maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Syndicate/136/45/27
Prized as a medieval banquet dish. Decimated by hunting - plus the loss of its reed bed habitat - The Bittern became extinct in the UK in 1886
Our ancestors were such a caring bunch!
But it's back., and hearteningly (with the help of contemporary humans) numbers are rising!
Hopefully another 'wrong' put 'right'
There...somewhere deep..inside the earth...lives another world. Dark world. The world of the living dead. And there...in the darkness...lives their king.
New post for "Don´t dup" store. Check "credits" mentioned down below to get items from this picture.
Hope you like it. Have an awesome day!
For the Macro Monday challenge "In a Bottle” (April 17th 2023)
A miniature vintage glass bottle ... with a heartfelt message!
I thought of Alice in Wonderland and the "Drink Me" bottle ... but I didn't have a stopper!
As a guide the paper scroll is under 2" long
My 2023 set: Here
My Glass set is: Here
previous years of the Macro Mondays challenge:
My 2022 set: Here
My 2021 set: Here
My 2020 set: Here
My 2019 set: Here
My 2018 set: Here
My 2017 set: Here
My 2016 set: Here
My 2015 set: Here
My 2014 set: Here
My 2013 set: Here
"I think I'm all tangled up in these weeds and branches. I could use a hand !"
Don't worry, Goldilocks knew better than to fall for that stupid line!
Southern Pacific SD40M-2s No. 8685 and 8648 are point helpers, leading a 75-car Roper to Grand Junction Forwarder along the Mapleton Bench near Spanish Fork, Utah the morning of Feb. 19, 1995. The flared and speed lettered MK rebuilds will cut off the ROGJF at Soldier Summit.
Special Duty Semaphore on the Siskiyou on Sunday. The manned rear end helper of an SD T-Motor and a Rio-Grande SD45 pass the Type-B blades that were once common along the Siskiyou line. Up front are three more T-Motors and a Rio Grande GP40, then a manned mid-train help is a trio of Tunnel Motors and two SD45s. In between all this power was about 90 box cars and flat cars loaded with Oregon produced lumber. Long before the DPU of today.
Right in the gut of rugged Rock Creek Canyon on Rio Grande’s Craig Branch, an eastbound coal train exits Tunnel 45 between Crater and Volcano, Colorado, on September 8, 1992. Four Tunnel Motors are up front, with two more as a swing helper in the middle of the train, with a symbol of AINNC (Axial mine to Nixon in Colorado Springs).
Outfit incl dress, ribbon, socks, rosette, bonneet : Insomnia Angel - Night Heaven Gacha. At The Epiphany.
Shoes : Breathe - Mikako Heels (common). At The Epiphany.
Hair : Olive - the Eva hair. At The Epiphany.
Head : Lelutka - Simone (new update in main store)
Skin : Glam Affair - Ophelia - 26 (exclusive). At The Epiphany.
Decor :
Post Office : Serenity Style - Santa's Post Office Gacha. Soon at TLC The Liaison Collaborative.
Telephone Booth : Madras - Snow Telephone Booth.
Cart : Serenity Style - Painted Holiday Cart. Soon at TLC The Liaison Collaborative.
Christmas Tree : DD Dreamland Designs - Frostine Peach Christmas Cuddle Tree. At Perfect Ten Event.
Dogs : Jian - Santa's Samoyeds. In main store.