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Shanghai, China
March 2014.
I begin my Shanghai series with this photograph showing the very recognizable skyline with the Dong Fang Ming Zhu Ta (Oriental Pearl Tower) on the Pudong side during blue hour. I was in Shanghai recently for a short work trip and I squeezed in some time to capture the city.
This was my very first trip to Shanghai and I returned to Singapore very impressed by how modern and just how international Shanghai is. It is a cityscape photographer’s haven with endless opportunities, angles, and compositions. It really is quite an amazing city and it’s a pity I had so little time there. I certainly plan to be back :)
I didn't get clear skies all the time while I was in Shanghai but had a couple of nights where light was sufficiently decent, thankfully. I was expecting the city to be completely blanketed by smog 24/7!
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I always wanted to try a D810 with 36 megapixels.
That was back in 2014 when it was released - before I realised what sort of photography suited me best. Back in the day all those pixels came with a weight (980g without a lens),
This shot was in 2016 and I had just bought a used Olympus OM-D E-M5 with a single battery that had run out and I spent a whole day shooting with this Lumix LX7 with a mere 10 megapixels. At the time a didn't appreciate how liberating it was.
Oslo, Norway.
I see him rolling - I hate him.
I see him running - I hate him too!
Why is that silly bird so awfully fast?!
Meep-meep!
Toy Project Day 2206
"Me and the ____
We, we are free
You set me high
High, high, high
You set me high"
Love And Rockets - I Feel Speed: youtu.be/DHPDfJK-MjM
...it was hiding under the stairs. I don't know if I should grab it, though it looks very warm and inviting.
Enjoy your week!
Ed Sheeran - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fngvQS_PmQ
I must say that I have a little crush on Ed Sheeran, supremely talented voice. I'm going to see him play live in April :)
مآلڪ بدآآلي ۈآنآ مآآلي بدآآلڪ .. }
τεкεи вч : мε .. }
εdเт вч : ΤfDαk. 3eney .. }
мσ∂εℓ : ( ℓ o ℓ i ) .. }
When I was little, I believed I could fly. The problem was I never really thought about my technique. I just jumped. It turns out, I used the wrong technique and immediately retired from flying.
The woman to whom I was once married gave (as opposed to "gifted"... sheesh!) this hat to me as, I think, an Easter gift many, many years ago. I wore it for a couple of summers at outdoor events as a matter of keeping the sun from burning my scalp, but otherwise it sat on our bedpost. Likewise since our divorce (I got the bed).
The edge has been torn like this for some time, so naturally, I've not had an inclination to wear it, but for no good reason, I've not gotten rid of it. Even after I gave the bed to Zachary a little over a year ago, the hat hung around, and its raison d'être seemed to be as a dust collector, moving from the top of the TV to the top of my dresser to wherever it ended up next.
I've not ever had a particular attachment to the hat. I'm not really much of a hat wearer as it is, although winter and clear summer skies occasionally require protective measures, and since the hat is damaged, it's not like I'm going to wear it again. Still, I hang onto it.
I simply have problems disposing of things which have some sort of personal history involved.
This is why I still have drawings that the kids made when they were much younger. Of course, in my defense, I feel that I'm somewhat a protector or archivist of their histories; 'one day,' I think, 'they'll appreciate that I saved these things.'
I am overly sentimental.
There is nothing innately wrong with that, I suppose, but I've come to think that it requires living in a really big house — not a two-bedroom apartment!
So, as I continue my attempt to purge my life of the unnecessary and further whittle my life to the basics, the hat goes.
*No... not literally!
I really forgot how much I loved to read. I used to read a lot before I got married. Not sure what happened! LOL Anyway... I'm taking advantage of my "reading" mood because it doesn't seem to come around much anymore. =)
Another shot taken today.
I drink about 3-5 cups of green tea every day. I'm addicted, but what better thing to be addicted to?
|-Come back :))))))))))-
-|úp thôi! buổi văn nghệ francophonie 20-3
,,, cực vui!
-w''' friend(mấy chã khroái chụp) tớ ko có
-Tình hình là h thấy suy sụp sao ấy chả có cái gì làm mình hé cười :(((((((((((- cố cười thôi m.ng ạ :(-
-Pic tớ tự des !!! Tớ đứng giữa bãnh ko(ôi a áo xanh handsome thật)!!!!!
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Đã rất lâu rồi,tôi đi lạc trong số phận...
*Tôi không biết rồi sẽ phải mất bao lâu nữa để tìm thấy điều mình thật sự cần?~
*Dù rằng có đôi lần tôi đã cố gạt bỏ mọi vướng bận để những niềm tin đến gần nhưng vẫn không sao thấy nơi cho sự tuyệt vọng dừng chân...
*Nhưng muốn hay không,tôi vẫn phải sống
*Sống để biết cuộc đời không yên bình như dòng sông
*Sống để nếm hết mùi vị kiếp người như ý trời mong
*Hôm qua vui, hôm nay lặng ngày mai tan vào hư không..ừ hữ@~
*Tôi lun cười nhếch mép mỗi khi bị số phận ngược đãi"""
*Tỏ vẻ lun cứng rắn vì tôi ghét bị thương hại..!~
*Dù có chuyên gì xảy ra tôi cứ lẳng lặng cho qua__
*Cười haha rồi đêm về dằn vặt tìm cách chấp vá...có đôi khi
*Mặc kệ bao nhiêu cảm xúc đang hành hạ trong tôi...boring
*Tôi vẫn chỉ muốn tìm ra…câu trả lời…cho từ “Tại sao ?"...Why?
*Tại sao dù đã giam cầm suy nghĩ trong sự yên tĩnh...Nhưng chẳng bao giờ cuộc đời cho tôi tìm lại được chính mình....|@@|
*Tôi muốn gì?Tôicần ai ? Nơi tao thuộc về sẽ là đâu...:((-
*Và những điều tao chọn ở hiện tại sẽ mang lại gì cho ngày sau,,,
*Hàng trăm câu hỏi đặt ra nhưng chẳng thấy đáp án
*Tất cả dường như vô định chỉ ngoại trừ dấu chấm than....(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
*Chưa 1 phút dám ngẩng đầu lạc quan từ bỏ sự suy sụp....hic
*Đã từng cố sống bình thường như bao người để…che đậy những vết xước,,,
*Tôi rơi vào bế tắc và không còn biết làm gì khác
*Ngoài việc thú thật với chính mình,những người thân xung quanh
*Thậm chí kể cả những vị khách không mời!~~~
*Trước giờ có lẽ họ đều biết tôi lun là người mạnh mẽ mỗi khi bước
*Nhưng từ nay xin hãy cho phép tôi hèn nhát để nước mắt...được nghỉ ngơi...End
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P/s:-Nhiều lúc muốn xa những ngày đang sống, nhắm mắt ra đi trong yên bình~
-Vì chẳng thấy đâu là màu xanh lá~
-Chẳng nói chi,cứ bước đi…cứ ngẫn ngơ~
-Xác xơ…như lá khô…nơi ven đường~
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Kill me now :((...
You could too :)
So recently I found out that if you follow some of the stores on Second Life on their Facebook pages, you could actually win some prizes for just putting a comment/liking and sharing the post.
*mind blown*
Seriously, I guess I've been living in my own happy little box. But yeah, I won a set of rings from Ysoral whose products I've been picking up for a while now.
We had just recently got our partner rings from there and I had noticed that a lot of other ring sets from other merchants would cover it up. Which made me less than thrilled. Ysoral's rings gave me the option of turning off the one that would have covered it.
It's a little thing, but it made me happy.
RINGS: ~~ Ysoral ~~.:Luxe Set Rings Sindy :.(Maitreya)
So yeah, their Facebook is www.facebook.com/ysoral.officiel
Ysoral SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fang/68/221/21
Ysoral MPURL: marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/128234
(Yes, I know, two posts in one day, dont kill me!)
OTHER CREDITS
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TATTOO: .: CORAZON:. Tattoo KIYOHIME:.
CORAZON SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tiamo/14/21/4002
SHIRT/GUANTLET: ::GABRIEL:: Cross obi tops & Gauntlets /Lavender
GABRIEL SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GABRIEL/128/127/23
HAT: Air_Rokuyou_black+silver
AIR SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Goguryeo/79/48/64
EARRINGS: Vibing -- Blair Earrings -- Silver
VIBING SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cosmos/188/233/1778
NAILS: Pink Hustler - bento nail #096
PH SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ember%20Isle/76/141/4001
SKIN: [Glam Affair] Demi Specter Skin
GA SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Beauty%20Avatar%20couture/...
HEAD: LeLUTKA Ceylon Head 3.0
LeLUTKA SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LeLutka/91/135/24
BODY: Maitreya Mesh Body - Lara V5.3
Maitreya SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Maitreya%20Isle/207/165/26
SHAPE: all mine, and still a work in progress
I havent uploaded in the longest time, sorry!! My camera lens was broken :( But I got it fixed and got a new camera!! I miss all you guys and all of your photos so very much!! I can't wait to post more photos I have a bunch of new ideas!
This photo is like my others:) Just posting to tell you guys I'm back!!:)
- go to bed. but I sit here, looking at the shots from this morning.
- go easy on bidding on lenses for a while. have to spend some time getting to know the ones I have.
got a lens in the mail today, a Soligor zoom macro 70-160mm, f3.5. Old m42 mount, so it's all manual. Can't wait to try it out for real, outside in real light.
„... I wrote this one when I was still alive... Was habe ich gestern geschrieben? Das das Zurückkehren und auf mich Wirken lassen der Orte bei meiner Wiederkehr ein wichtiger Aspekt für mich ist? Nicht nur, um mich mit der Umgebung vertraut zu machen und mir Gegebenheiten einzuprägen...? Ja, so ist es wirklich. Und dann sind da auch manchmal diese Momente der Erneuerung. Die Spuren wiederherstellen, die der Ort in mir und die ich an diesem Ort hinterlassen habe. Dieses Geben und Nehmen ist keine Einbahnstraße. Meine Handlungen dagegen sind es schon... Ein einzelnes Highlight nachzuziehen ist manchmal das wirkliche Highlight in der Nacht... Etwas zu Erschaffen und dabei gleichzeitig etwas zu Zerstören. Das ist die Schizophrenie meines Daseins. Wenn Du Dich in etwas unsterblich verliebt hast und durch diese Liebe fürchterlich alleine bist... Morgens früh mit Atemnot durch die Dunkelheit. Mir fehlt nichts außer einem Notausgang für den Geist der Straßen, der mich seit Jahrzehnten vor sich her treibt. Das hier ist mein Weg der Erlösung. Der Moment der Selbsterkenntnis. Das Realisieren der Sucht, die mich so hat werden lassen, wie ich heute bin. Dabei habe ich mich nicht einfach einem Rausch hingegeben, sondern habe mich durch Kreativität in einen Rauschzustand versetzt. Das ist kein Rechtfertigungsversuch, sondern der Moment, in dem mein Blick in den Spiegel für einen Moment klar und ungetrübt ist. Ich warte seit 13 Monaten auf einen Therapieplatz und doch frage ich mich: Würde ich das, was ich hier geschrieben habe, jemandem ins Gesicht sagen können? Was sagt das über mich aus? Das ich dem Blatt Papier vertraue, das hier vor mir liegt. Aber mich abgesehen von einer Ausnahme niemandem sonst Offenbaren kann. Die Dunkelheit in mir hat einen Ursprung. Aber wen kümmert das? 200 mg Opipramol bringen mich durch den Tag. Und an guten Tagen funktioniere ich einwandfrei. Meine Gedanken sind dabei in Watte gepackt. Die an schlechten Tagen zu den Wolken am Himmel hinauffliegt und sich forttreiben lässt. Was dann zurückbleibt? Ich und meine Gedanken, denen ich mich stellen muss... You make me wanna understand your graffiti
You're tryin make me feel like somebody needs me.. And that's what we suposed to do I guess
Spread love 'til you've used your last breath...“
Atmosphere - Graffiti
And I can't wait to see you again. Soon. xoxo
HBW!
So I hear that this made FP today. :) Another brief stay I'm sure, so you'll probably just have to pretend you saw it there. haha
Made Explore #14
(Paleto) / SBBH-N Backdrop
(Eaglelux) / Giorgio Hairbase @Alpha~Ends 17th August
(Maca) / Endrick Sweater
(Kalback) / League Shorts @Alpha~Ends 17th August
Hee-hee....I couldn't resist. sorry.
Lauren and I purchased cupcakes to use as photo props at Fernando's house. He has bitchin' window light, that is why. She purchased the xmas tree cupcake and I purchased this here snowman. The cupcakes were gently packaged and we hand held them all the way home. Everything was in tact, until I opened up my cupcake package and broke his arm. Poor snowman. I think he has character with the broken right arm.
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs,
A palace and a prison on each hand:
I saw from out the wave her structures rise
As from the stroke of an enchanter’s wand.
--George Gordon, Lord Byron
feet need fresh air too.
this will surely be my last upload for a while...it think.
i leave tonight at midnight to the airport. i think im the most nervous kid in the world. im still packing bags! i'll be taking a lot of pictures while i'm out and hopefully i'll have time to edit some and upload them onto here. well it's been a busy week and im off to prepare even more for the trip :D
this picture was kinda awkward to take as it was like one of the first times where i take a picture where many people pass by. every time a car would pass by i would just sit down and look at my cell phone acting as if im doing nothing...haha. it was really humid and hot outside and i was sweating soooo much! but whatever i got the picture done. :D
wish me luck on my trip :D
strobist info: sb-600 shooting up towards camera, sb-900 shot through umbrella camera right
Adult female Crucifix Frog portrait.
Taken with a legendary vintage Contax RTS 3 35mm SLR camera coupled to a Contax 60mm/2.8 C/Y makro-planar T* 1:2 lens from Japan and using 3 Contax TLA flash units with Fuji Provia ASA 100 colour positive slide film. Professionally drum-scanned and outputted as a thirty meg 8 bit Tiff and converted to Jpeg with minimal basic adjustments.
So I was feeling a little blue this morning so decided I needed some Gevo therapy (yeah that's not worth much) so drove to Palmer and lucked out with a pair of eastbounds on the old Boston and Albany.
I hadn't been to my favorite 'Tree At 83' in a bit so decided I'd go for my classic all season frame in the old dead white birch. When Q022 came into view highballing toward Worcester I thought at first that the nose door on ES44AC-H 30304 was open which would make sense if perhaps their A/C wasn't working on this already scorching morning. But a closer look revealed that no, it was closed, but is just simply filthy. How exactly did that happen? What is the story? Why is the rest of the nose clean excepting the exact outline of the door. I simply don't get it. Anyone care to offer a hypothesis?!
Palmer, Massachusetts
Monday June 7, 2021
"I CAN FLY
NOT FAST
RATHER SLOW
VERY LOW
I SPREAD MY WINGS
I LEAN ON THE WIND
AND MY BODY ZINGS ABOUT
A FEW LOOPS
AND TURNS
NOTHING SHOWY-
BUT FOR THE MOST PART
I JUST COAST.
HOWEVER,
SINCE PEOPLE ARE PRONE TO TALK ABOUT IT,
I GENERALLY PREFER
UNLESS I AM ALONE,
JUST TO WALK ABOUT."
`FELICE HOLMAN`
I'm loving this amazing hair from Discord Designs at 24 .
(Thank you Bewkie for pointing it out to me!)
I've always had an interest in exploring this idea of identity in a medium such as second life - this theme of uniformity and the homogenic is a fascinating one.
Over on Flickr I've started a new group that is themed around this idea of clones and repeats in virtual images. Check it out !
Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
(Murakami)
Explored 14/5/11 - thanks so much everyone!
Please note: my images are NOT for use on third party sites such as stumbleupon.
I love my people
singing in they sun rise blow your wissle o no
i love my people singing in the sun rise
with a reason o no
la la la la
This image is a result of pure flickr inspiration! I admire people who can get those amazing bokeh on the background, but I have no such luck. Then I learned about the "fake" bokeh by merging two layers. So, here it is! So fun!
These keychains were given to me from someone I met at the workshop last week. She came all the way from Russia to attend this workshop and she brought everyone a cute souvenir (I luckily got two!).
“I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.”
Ian Frazier
DSCN9028-002
I know the truth is blinding,
I know the love is binding,
Like a landscape painted in the heart
Every stroke is a beat that may never be
Yet, beat it shall, and does in part
For this life entrances deeply, as far as I can see
Beyond burnishing golden sunsets
And calligraphic Norfolk reeds that Winter never forgets
This solemnised souvenir
Dropping slowly, with a level initialed
Curiously appears crisp to the tear
It's sign written like a sepulchral inscription thus discipled
And that mellow sound beyond even my wildest cares
A subtle flavour of warming tint for my wears
Single lines of vertical tendency arise
From the still Wensum tonight sleep
It's mid-November beyond, can you hear my sighs?
Through a mood of two decades plus a feeling deep
Written in relief beyond a diffuse glow I saw
You, given in flaunting tone a cherishment let me adore
With eyes a haunting this time, freedom rather than precision
Is key to a beauty faintly grooved
Nature is home to open-windowed scripts of sound and vision
As Her foresight so often proved
Need not a pen await the very right to papered landscapes -
Of imagination and quill, the ink passing through the heart of Her dreamscapes
Take me there, for I want to be with Her once more
She inscribed in stone, in me, the finest ornament
Now seen symmetrically, for my mind opened Her very door
Smooth to the touch Her greeting seduced my capital alignment
To match with Hers this very being, this entitlement
Developing my illumination to a solid stem of contentment
Eyes close for the invisible creep and twine of every finger
Upon the soft, silent surface of hitherto unscripted reflection
Now She the border for me the engraver where our design shall linger
Upon the thread of Autumn to sew in the hearts of many a very great resurrection
by anglia24
17/11/2008
©2008anglia24
I Spy 3. (Passengers on the ferry)
Not sure if its the Coronavirus or missing their Sea Legs but they aren't risking being inside either way....
I've walked past this natural landmark countless times and I see and feel something different here every time.
I walked in the early days of the first lockdown and paused here to call my late mum to talk her through taking her medications. She was recently widowed at the time and was in the early stages of Alzheimer's and dementia, so she was having to learn again to be independent, with support.
Her late husband had done everything for her (out of love)
At this stage in the walk I will have done the uphill slog up through East Farndon village, and then the walk evens out across vast open fields following the Jurassic Way long distance footpath on my way to Sibbertoft.
This walk has become a kind of pilgrimage that I've walked sometimes with loved ones, but often alone.
It gave me head space throughout those difficult days of Covid and brings me pleasure now, especially as it's a walk that I can do from my own doorstep.