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Chinese paper lanterns come in various shapes and sizes, as well as various methods of construction.
In their simplest form, they are simply a paper bag with a candle placed inside, although more complicated lanterns consist of a collapsible bamboo or metal frame of hoops covered with tough paper. Sometimes, other lanterns can be made out of colored silk (usually red) or vinyl. Silk lanterns are also collapsible with a metal expander and are decorated with Chinese characters and/or designs.
When red lanterns are a symbol of Happiness and Prosperity, often being hang in front of Chinese homes / buildings during festive celebrations.
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Theme: Patterns/Repititions
So, this is a start to a couple series' I will be working on! This is inspired by this song from The Devil's Carnival (ignore the duet parts. I'm not sure why it's there.). Marcus showed me that movie a month or so ago, and while I admit I didn't enjoy the whole thing, the last three songs were incredible! I instantly wanted to create images accompanying them, this being the first. There will be about 4-5 images for each series, this one being 'Grief'. I can't wait to create my ideas and show you guys! I have big plans for these.
Anyways, with this theme, I had an entirely different idea, something more like my previous image in this project. But after seeing the movie, I knew this idea would be perfect for it. It's about a father who loses his son, and can't get over the grief of it. It kind of reminded me of an episode of Hoarders, too. There was a couple who lost a tiny baby girl, and she had a really hard time getting rid of her baby clothes and toys, and I kind of wanted to portray something similar with this, like it's a shrine, and instead of dolling it up with fancy manipulations, I wanted it to be very simple. In fact, hardly any editing went into this at all. I wanted the image to speak for itself, not the fancy editing.
Also, I'm in my new apartment! This is part of the living room. I'll be taking a lot of photos inside, now. It's such a photogenic place, at least so far. ;) And I'll have two more images to post throughout this weekend, too!! :) (They're older, but I'm already behind, so oh well. Hehe)
My cousin's feet. We were bored.
Tagged by a lot of peopleee! <3
31 Things I Like
1 Curling up in warm blankets and wanting nothing else from the world at that moment.
2 Doodling on anybody's skin, especially on my wrist.
3 The General Theory of Relativity.
4 Everything about banana bread, from its heavenly fragrance to the little chewy crumbs.
5 How incredible and amazing India's forests are.
6 The varying shades and patterns in people's eyes, the stories they tell.
7 The fresh smell of earth when it's just rained.
8 People who care enough to be nice.
9 Walking barefoot, letting the warmth from the ground tingle your feet.
10 All dogs.
11 Playing tennis until you think you're moving in a dream and become the thud of the ball.
12 The quiet sound of metal scissors snipping at hair.
13 How poetry makes my heart feel like it's swelling and slightly dizzy.
14 The little watery patterns inside round playing marbles.
15 The time in the morning when the pitch-black sky waters down to deep purple.
16 When a ray of sunlight catches in a strand of hair, making it glow and see-through.
17 That feeling of believing in yourself and then nothing in the world can hurt you.
18 Staying up all night with your closest friends at sleepovers.
19 The colour of the sea when it's sea-green.
20 Laying underneath billions of stars far far away from cities and realising what you're missing.
21 Knowing there's nothing in the world that could take away your parents' love for you, and vice versa.
22 Being in the countryside, reveling in what is left of nature.
23 Different kinds of handwriting, how they somehow match people's personalities.
24 Scuba-diving. How other-worldly it is, how it blows you away every time.
25 Highways at night, the sound and light from vehicles zooming by.
26 Drawing cartoons in your textbooks.
27 The amazing physics going on in the universe.
28 Braided hair.
29 Classical guitar.
30 FLICKR and all you incredible people.
31 How much I enjoyed writing this list!
Business Class
Explore Emirates A380: Business Class seat I Economy Class cabin I Forward stairwell I rear stairwell I bar
Crown Palace, Middletown, NJ (Rt. 35 North), a Chinese/Cantonese restaurant. Dim Sum is served in the extended lunch hours on Saturdays and Sundays.
dim sum samples, left-right, top-down:
1. fried leek dumpling
2. shrimp roll
3. shrimp wrap
4. beef tripe (yes, you heard it right, it's cow stomach)
5. tofu wrap (meat and veggie inside)
6. porridge of rice and preserved egg
7. beef meatball
8. steamed shrimp dumpling
9. shomei (shao mai)
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previous dim sum shot here.
Just playing around with some lights and reflections on an escalator at Cobo. I thought it came out pretty cool. Different for sure.
ODC - Intersecting lines
A concern a lot of us girls have in common is how to enjoy our female side at and around the house and not become a burden for people living around you. Of course we have every right to do as we please but we must also be good neighbors and not impose our lifestyle on them. A few weeks ago my neighbors found out about Lisa. I was coming home and have to pass close to their drive to enter mine and they saw me. I didn't try to hide and make it weird for everyone so I decided to be up front and say hello and explain it was me. The Mom and her daughter couldn't have been nicer and said they had absolutely no problem with it and complimented my look. The Mom had said that she saw me once before but didn't put one and one together thinking it was a female that I knew over visiting me. Today after coming home form shopping, they had just happen to be pulling in their drive right as I was. I didn't run inside but rather said hello to them. It was obvious from shopping bags that they had been shopping as well and like any woman would asked them where they went and what they got and they did the same to me. So we chatted for a few minutes outside their house and then THEY asked me if they could take a picture of me in my cute outfit! I said sure and asked would they mind posing with me for a few shots. We grabbed our shopping bags and posed for pictures on their front porch and agreed to go shopping one day and maybe go to dinner somewhere afterwards. Sometimes it just pays to be honest and makes It easier coming and going without fear of being seen!
Straight from the heart!
" I could start dreaming but it never ends
As long as you're gone we may as well pretend
I've been dreaming
Straight from the heart
Oh give it to me straight from the heart
Tell me we can make another start
You know I'll never go
As long as I know
It's coming straight from the heart
I'll see you on the street some other time
And all our words would just fall out of line
While whe're dreaming
straight from the heart ...."
Brian Adams
Enjoy your weekend my dear friends!~
Sending you love and hugs,
Thanks for the texture [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna] Lenabem-Anna
Thank you so much my friend!
Addy and ✞Alfie, (playing in "A cat everyday keeps the loneliness away")
The marriage between the modern and the ancient
8 pictures stitched.
Canon 5D MKII lens 16/35mm at 16mm
Explore Emirates' A380: First Class seat I First Class suite I Business Class cabin I Business Class seat I Economy Class cabin I forward stairwell I rear stairwell
One of my passions is abstracts!
This is inside the De-La-Warr-Pavilion at Bexhill-on -sea on the East Sussex coast near Hastings, Went with Louize, Jan (jankmarshall) also on flickr!
Yes, i really was upside down shooting this, but not tied to a wall. Hehe :P
I'll take you just the way you are
imperfect words inside the perfect song
I feel you closer than you are
I've been waiting far too long
too long
(CHORUS)
It's my declaration
to anyone whose listening
you're my inspiration
as I stand alone against the world
Cause you love
Can you bleed (?)
cause you stole my soul
and set me free
it's my declaration
do you care what i believe
or that i wear a heart upon my sleeve
sometimes i think you never knew
the only truth i see is you
it's you
Me and my other Daivd Cook loving friend figured this song was about someone who had secretly loved another for a long time and never said anything. But now, you dont even care if its too late youve just got to get it out and shout it from the roof tops. You dont even care if no one listens. And this is true for me. Personal. :( Hope you enjoy this and come back tomorrow for the next one!
Replaced old file coz it looked too blue when viewed with other devices.
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Eagle -- Crobidoll B-line Yuri
Elyse -- Volks SDgr Lorina
© Jeff R. Clow
Thank goodness that I had - and still have - a towering figure in my life that served as the quintessential role model for me. I salute her - and mothers everywhere - today.
Here's something I wrote about her a few years ago that still rings so true to this very second:
As I have aged, I have become more acutely aware of the impact my Mother has had on my development as a man. Simply said - I am the man I am today because of her.
Strong statement, huh? Surely a man is a combination of a lot of inputs over the course of his life. School, friends, events, successes and failures all create the man - don't they?
The simple fact in my case is that the foundation my Mother built below me during my formative years has supported everything that was later erected upon that firm ground. And I truly believe that her role as a Mother made her one of the most successful humans to walk on this planet. And no - she was not wealthy. Nor famous. But she was impactful....and that's the true descriptor for this magnificent woman.
What did she do to deserve such accolades? She set a loving, living example every day as a single Mother. She mothered her sons as if that was the most important role any person could ever hold. And she constantly taught. Sometimes by words...and often by actions.
She taught her two sons that whether they lived in a small house....or a large one....didn't matter one bit. And she taught them that success and failure were simply two different sides of the same mirror. She taught them how to laugh and when to cry. She taught them optimism and courage. And above all - she taught them that what really mattered... above all else.... was her belief in them as individuals. She constantly reinforced in them that they could do anything they wanted to do in life. And she transferred that belief...one day at a time....until that belief resided deep inside of each son.
And, of course - as is so often the case in self fulfilling prophecies - the boys listened...and learned... started believing....and prospered. They both became over achievers in school...and in their careers. And if you peel back all their layers....you would surely uncover the inner core inside of each man. And that core was planted, nurtured and allowed to grow because one woman realized that her eternal legacy would be her children. And instead of leaving the maturation of those children to chance....she made their evolution to adulthood her prime aspiration.
In fact, if there is such a thing as a doctorate in motherhood - my mother achieved it with highest honors.
Thankfully, this wonderful woman now is passing on that inner strength...that inner resolve....to a new set of her descendants. And surely those grandchildren will one day experience the realization that much of what they are is directly attributable to the effort of one remarkable woman.
Motherhood....truly God's best gift to mankind.
Once inside the forgotten and hidden away Abbey, Rob found a picture in the piles of debris. Sshhhh... remarked that he bore an uncanny resemblance to Robin Williams, so atop the bike he went , once more the wind could rush through his hair as he embarked upon one more paper round haha.
Taken with a vintage Golitz Meyer Optik 50mm with m42 to EOS mount. I find these old 60's lens' are perfect for taking pictures of vintage things.
Lens gratefully donated by Dale Gothfather
Model : Irina Ion
Make-up : Perrine Soriano
Hair : Christophe Versolato
Assistant : Benoit Jacquot
light : two elinchrom flash.
Place : loft personal.
With the cooperation of Marina Muller - Reyan Events.
Taken for Our Daily challenge: PIECES, the Topic for Sunday, 9 February 2014
When the challenge of preserving the 1897 schooner proved too great, it was dismantled and the planks that had been preserved before the waterline were fashioned into this sculpture. The 11,000 pound sculpture hangs from the ceiling of the new Museum of History and Industry in Seattle, usually baffling visitors and prompting murmurs of "What the...?" I love going inside it and touching the smooth old wood (it's an "interactive"), but many people are still waiting for it to grow on them.
For some pictures of more of the piece, see here: seattletimes.com/html/picturethis/2019542379_johngradeswa...
The Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is found at 2027 Fairmount Avenue between Corinthian Avenue and North 22nd Street in the Fairmount section of the city, and was operational from 1829 until 1971. The penitentiary refined the revolutionary system of separate incarceration first pioneered at the Walnut Street Jail which emphasized principles of reform rather than punishment.[5] Notorious criminals such as bank robber Willie Sutton and Al Capone were held inside its innovative wagon wheel design. When the building was erected it was the largest and most expensive public structure ever constructed, quickly becoming a model for more than 300 prisons worldwide
Area:11 acres (45,000 m2)[1]
Built:1829 (closed in 1971)
Architect:John Haviland
Architectural style:Gothic
Governing body:State
NRHP Reference#:66000680
Wallington is a country house and gardens located about 12 miles (19 km) west of Morpeth, Northumberland, England, near the village of Cambo. It has been owned by the National Trust since 1942, after it was donated complete with the estate and farms by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, the first donation of its kind. It is a Grade I listed building.
The estate was owned by the Fenwick family from 1475 until their financial problems caused them to sell their properties to the Blacketts. The hall house was rebuilt in 1688 around the ancient Pele Tower house for Sir William Blackett and was later substantially rebuilt again, in Palladian style, for Sir Walter Blackett by architect Daniel Garret, before passing to the Trevelyan family in 1777. Charles Philips Trevelyan inherited the property from his father George Otto Trevelyan in 1928.
After Pauline Jermyn married the naturalist Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, they began hosting literary and scientific figures at the Hall. As a cultural centre, Wallington visitors included the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Set in 100 acres (40 ha) of rolling parkland, the estate includes a wooded dene (valley), ornamental lakes, lawns, and a recently refurbished walled garden.
Alongside the beautifully furnished interior, attractions inside the house include the desk where Thomas Babington Macaulay, brother-in-law of Charles Edward Trevelyan, wrote his History of England, a large collection of antique dollshouses and eight murals in the central hall depicting the history of Northumberland, painted by William Bell Scott.
The National Trust also own the estate of which the house is a part; the produce from these farms, as well as others in the region, is sold in a farm shop on site. The farm shop shut in 2012.
Kittens and their nails. Kauhu (Horror) was also born with nails and kittens are for long unable to hide them. That's why the nails are always on the way and poking on wrong places like inside sister's nostril, mouth or eye
It had been a few hours at the party, and I bumped into an old friend. We talked for a while, and I couldn't help but notice that he changed his look.
I asked, "So what's up with the word Caution on your forehead?"
He said, "Well, I wanted to give everyone to be aware that I have focus, you know? Just that I've got a new gig going on."
He looked over my shoulder then moved closer asking,
"You haven’t seen Cobra Snake around, have you?"
La máquina de coser Singer es una de las primeras máquinas de coser de la historia, siendo una versión perfeccionada por Isaac Merritt Singer del modelo de Elias Howe.
Isaac Merrit Singer y Edward S. Clark., fundaron en 1851 la empresa fabricante de máquinas de coser, I.M Singer & Co
This so reminds me of the Thriller dance....The part is at 2.56 on the video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG6oy46qKE4
Hehehehehehe.....This was the first time Hiccup encounterd Critter inside the house....I wasn't expecting any action so wasn't really prepared to take these shots but I love that I got her in this pose.
The inside of the lobby at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. This place is magnificent with it's beautifully painted frecoes and wall-to-wall marble and gold. If you're in Vegas, I highly recommend stopping in for a look around!
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When you're walking around the medina of a Moroccan city, you realise how much you're missing, being on the outside. For all the activity of the markets and squares, you realise that life is mostly lived in private. Windows rarely open onto streets; they turn inwards. Everything is hidden, tucked away behind large wooden doors that might open up onto the plainest, or most astonishing house inside. There's almost no way of telling, until someone opens the door and invites you in.
Inside, in the courtyard of a riad, there's a calm, quiet peace and light you'd not have expected when you were squeezing your way through the madness of mopeds and mules in the souks.
pinhole, 75mm wooden box camera, 4x5 inch Ilford FP4+, 30 seconds-ish exposure
When people see me
they see a man who is comfortable with himself
A man who is successful
A man who wants for little.
When I look at myself...
Part two of my reflections series
Very much enjoyed creating this concept. It was quite the challenge for me, I had the idea several days ago, tried a shoot but didn't like it much when I downloaded to my computer. Did another shoot two days later. Had some usable images at last. A couple hours of Photoshop and finally something I liked. I hope everyone enjoys! I did, my bathroom is a little worse for wear however...
Inspired in part by soccersnyderi's recent opening castle... an opening inn! This was really a lot of fun to build, especially the yellow roof. It fits together very nicely and is remarkably sturdy - for me. ;P
My first time trying out a roof like this, also I think my first time using this sort of mottled technique for the walls.
Self Portrait
so much is going on now but I refuse to slow down because I know time isn't going to stop for me, life isn't going to pause, and neither is my surroundings.
i don't mean to push everyone away from me but it feels like instinct to handle everything on my own. i know it seems impossible to face the world head on but i'm doing a damn good job trying
..the worst things in life make you a stronger person, right?
Week 1 for 52 weeks
This ones been bouncing around inside my head for weeks, and i finally got round to making it happen, still not entirely happy with it, but it was great fun to make,
The pop up book of nightmares is a real book, one of the many treasures in my collection.
I love books dearly and have collected many weird and wonderful specimens through the years
This was my first saunter into creative lighting, i used my swivel lamp with a daylight bulb, attached to a spare tripod and a tube of cardboard to create a spot light positioned it at an angle directed down towards me. worked OK,
who needs thousands of pounds of lighting equipment...........well me.... but this will do for now.
If you decide to comment... thank you very much but please i would prefer an insight or opinion rather then just some groups flashy soulless Giff,
after all I'm interested in what people think of my work not digital awards
just a note: everyone seems to like the veins in my arm's, this was not intentional but a side effect of the processing i used, i work out allot and after repeatedly sitting under a hot light and and holding the book as tight as i could to reduce movement (low shutter speed) they came out of there own accord i think their pretty gross but it seems to work in this image