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I see this lady walk past my front door every day, with the same smile on her face.
For the past 83 years, and despite of a hard life in the fields, her happiness is written in her wrinkles. I have rarely met someone as happy and at peace with oneself.
A true inspiration...
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The Dales are infamous for twisted windswept trees & limestone pavements; there are those well-known ones at Malham & Twisleton, but I prefer to seek out the lesser known gems. This one for instance, on the slopes of Norber, has superb views overlooking Clapdale yet remains surprisingly unvisited. I particularly loved the dappled light on my visit, and the splash of autumnal colour in the trees descending towards Clapham.
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A scenery I recently captured from Santorini island, in Greece.
The above photo has been shot with the Samsung NX10
Santorini also known as Thera is a volcanic island located in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast from Greece's mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago which bears the same name. It forms the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 73 km2 (28 sq mi) and a 2001 census population of 13,670. It is composed of the Municipality of Thira (pop. 12,440) and the Community of Oía (pop. 1,230). These have a total land area of 90.623 km2 (34.990 sq mi), which also includes the uninhabited islands of Nea Kameni, Palaia Kameni, Aspronisi, and Christiana (all part of the Municipality of Thira).
Santorini is essentially what remains of an enormous volcanic explosion, destroying the earliest settlements on what was formerly a single island, and leading to the creation of the current geological caldera.
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Just a Dream
A poem by Peter S. Quinn
Just a dream in the far-off glow
Drifting in time's infinity
Gleaming mist in horizon slow
Everything comes there to be
Weaving the ocean on and on
Dreams of its being in trance
Till those hours forever are gone
On to the color verve blanch
Daydreams of the evening sky
Playfully giving and waking
Reaching to dusk Greek lullaby
And to memories forever making
Breathing and torching leaving day
As it goes on to the night
In every shade and feelings play
That for a moment has flight
Like love boat on oceans past
Traveling on to the evermore
Times on the hillsides are lost
Thru its wandering on to shore
Billows that play in the deep
Giving and taking of their feel
Some instances is ours to keep
Before they again become unreal
The Ion Mystic Forms - Geometric Symbolism Part II - The Symbolic Duality Of The Circle by Daniel Arrhakis (2022)
The circle represents limitless things, among them eternity, unity, God, sanctity, infinity, and wholeness.
Unity – In some cultures, when people want to come together and support one another, they form a circle.
Monotheism (God) – Several cultures view the circle as a symbol of the existence of the one and only God they subscribe to. For instance, Christians refer to God as the alpha and omega, which means the beginning and the end. In this case, God is seen as a complete circle. In Islam, Monotheism is represented by a circle with God at the center.
Infinity – The circle is a representation of infinity because it has no end. It symbolizes universal energy and the continuity of the soul. The ancient Egyptians chose the ring worn on the finger as a way to symbolize the eternal union between a couple, a practice we still carry on to this day.
Sanctity – This symbolic meaning is seen in Judeo-Christianity, where deities and people considered holy are presented with haloes around the heads.
Heavens – This meaning comes from Chinese symbology, which uses the circle as a representation of heaven.
Containment – With the aspect of protection also comes containment. A circle is a representation of keeping contained what is inside. A good example of this is a ring; whether it is a wedding ring, religious or cultic, the ring stands for a pledge of fidelity.
With the powerful symbolism associated with the circle, it’s no wonder there exist numerous symbols and artifacts resembling circles and shapes. Some of these symbols include: The Enso, The Ouroboros, The Flower Of Life, The Mandela, The Yin And Yang, etc.
In the Mystical World of Ion The Circle and or the Sphere have a symbolic duality: Creation and Destruction.
The circle is often symbolized in the Mystic World of Ion by the shell of a nautilus and represents infinity, eternity, the notion of God as a universal spirit, the beginning and end of timeless cycles that renew themselves in infinite realities, the circle of generations, the light that illuminates the darkness, the universal knowledge of all things unattainable and immeasurable.
The prevailing scientific theory on the origins of the universe posits that everything began with a Big Bang.
In the moment after, a vast array of fundamental particles such as neutrons, electrons and protons were swimming around in a dark, invisible primordial soup.
In the beginning there was no light. ”The free electrons would have caused light (photons) to scatter the way sunlight scatters from the water droplets in clouds,” according to NASA. But over thousands of years, as the temperature cooled, the free electrons joined nuclei and created neutral atoms. This process eventually allowed light to shine through about 380,000 years after the Big Bang.
In other words, in the beginning, everything was dark for a long, long time. Then there was light, this sounds pretty similar to what’s written in the Bible !
All of existence started with an explosion from one point that is continually multiplying, according to Jewish mysticism.
we can see a strong relationship between the contemporary Big Bang theory and the Kabbalistic notion that the universe burst forth from a single point, which in mystical terms is the limitless light of the divine, or Infinite, known as the “Ein Sof" (“no end”).
So the divine, or god, is just another word for infinity.
The notion of darkness containing light described in mysticism also illuminates black holes, places in space where gravity’s pull is so strong that even light can’t escape. As NASA explains, the gravity in a black hole has such a forceful pull because matter is compressed into a tiny space.
Scientists believe that when the universe began, small black holes also formed. We can’t see black holes with the naked eye, but we know they exist because of the effect they exert on the stars orbiting near them. Black holes bend light toward them.
In Kabbalah, a hole is called “rah,” meaning “evil” in Hebrew. Holes are portals from the domain of good to that of evil that suck up matter, energy, and knowledge from the universe.
In some cosmological models that black holes could be wormholes—portals to parallel universes, which is similar to the kabbalistic concept of holes as an entryway to “the other side.”
The Mystical World of Ion has cosmological or universal pantheistic vision, God or the Universal Spirit is present in all things, whether animate or inanimate.
In this view God is not the absolute creator but a universal spirituality that can be found throughout the cosmos, in every physical and chemical manifestation, in every element of nature and is everywhere, for he is the whole, universal and infinite. So he is creation itself.
In Ion's Mystical World Conception the notion of the Devil does not exist, he is a creation of man to try to justify his own misfortunes.
However, there is the notion of Primordial Chaos, the Infinite Void as well as Absolute Darkness often materialized in ignorance as a powerful force against organization, knowledge and light.
If God has an infinite and universal dimension, then so does absolute darkness, having been by this order of ideas earlier, older and omnipotent to a certain point - at least until the Light appears!
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As Formas Místicas de Ion - Simbolismo Geométrico Parte II - A Dualidade Simbólica do Círculo por Daniel Arrhakis (2022)
O círculo representa coisas ilimitadas, entre elas eternidade, unidade, Deus, santidade, infinidade e totalidade.
Unidade – Em algumas culturas, quando as pessoas querem se unir e se apoiar umas às outras, elas formam um círculo.
Monoteísmo (Deus) – Várias culturas veem o círculo como um símbolo da existência do único Deus que elas subscrevem. Por exemplo, os cristãos se referem a Deus como o alfa e o ômega, que significa o começo e o fim. Neste caso, Deus é visto como um círculo completo. No Islão, o monoteísmo é representado por um círculo com Deus no centro.
Infinito – O círculo é uma representação do infinito porque não tem fim. Simboliza a energia universal e a continuidade da alma. Os antigos egípcios escolheram o anel usado no dedo como forma de simbolizar a união eterna entre um casal, prática que continuamos até hoje.
Santidade – Este significado simbólico é visto no judaísmo-cristianismo, onde divindades e pessoas consideradas sagradas são apresentadas com auréolas em redor da cabeça.
Céus – Esse significado vem da simbologia chinesa, que usa o círculo como representação do céu.
Contenção – Com o aspeto de proteção também vem a contenção. Um círculo é uma representação de manter contido o que está dentro. Um bom exemplo disso é um anel; seja um anel de casamento, religioso ou cultual, o anel representa uma promessa de fidelidade mas também de proteção e segurança.
Com o poderoso simbolismo associado ao círculo, não é de admirar que existam inúmeros símbolos e artefactos semelhantes a círculos e formas. Alguns desses símbolos incluem: O Enso( Ensō (円相) é uma palavra japonesa que significa “círculo” e é um conceito fortemente associado com o Zen Budismo), O Ouroboros (um símbolo místico que representa o conceito da eternidade, através da figura de uma serpente ou dragão que morde a própria cauda), A Flor da Vida, A Mandala, O Yin E Yang, etc.
No Mundo Místico de Íon O Círculo e ou a Esfera têm uma dualidade simbólica: Criação e Destruição.
O círculo é muitas vezes também simbolizado no Mundo Místico de Ion pela concha de um náutilo e representa o infinito, a eternidade, a noção de Deus como um espírito universal, o início e o fim de ciclos intemporais que se renovam em realidades infinitas, o círculo das gerações , a luz que ilumina as trevas, o conhecimento universal de todas as coisas inatingíveis e imensuráveis.
A teoria científica predominante sobre as origens do universo postula que tudo começou com um Big Bang.
No momento seguinte, uma vasta gama de partículas fundamentais, como neutrões, eletrões e protões, nadavam em uma sopa primordial escura e invisível.
No início não havia luz. “Os eletrões livres teriam causado a dispersão da luz (fotões) da mesma forma que a luz solar se espalha nas gotículas de água nas nuvens”, segundo a NASA. Mas ao longo de milhares de anos, à medida que a temperatura esfriou, os eletrões livres juntaram-se aos núcleos e criaram átomos neutros. Esse processo acabou permitindo que a luz brilhasse cerca de 380.000 anos após o Big Bang.
Em outras palavras, no começo, tudo era escuridão por muito, muito tempo. Então houve luz, isso soa-nos bem parecido com o que está escrito na Bíblia!
Toda a existência começou com uma explosão de um ponto que se foi multiplicando continuamente, de acordo com o misticismo judaico.
Podemos ver uma forte relação entre a teoria contemporânea do Big Bang e a noção cabalística de que o universo irrompeu de um único ponto, que em termos místicos é a luz ilimitada do divino, ou Infinito, conhecido como “Ein Sof” (“ sem fim”).
Assim, o divino, ou Deus, é apenas outra palavra para infinito.
A noção de escuridão contendo luz descrita no misticismo, também ilumina buracos negros, lugares no espaço onde a força da gravidade é tão forte que nem a luz pode escapar. Como a NASA explica, a gravidade num buraco negro tem uma força muito forte porque a matéria é comprimida num espaço minúsculo.
Os cientistas acreditam que quando o universo começou, pequenos buracos negros também se formaram. Não podemos ver buracos negros a olho nu, mas sabemos que eles existem por causa do efeito que exercem nas estrelas que orbitam perto deles. Buracos negros desviam a luz em direção a eles.
Na Cabala, um buraco é chamado de “rah”, que significa “mal” em hebraico. Buracos são portais do domínio do bem ao do mal que sugam matéria, energia e conhecimento do universo.
Em alguns modelos cosmológicos, os buracos negros podem ser buracos de minhoca (wormholes) – portais para universos paralelos, o que é semelhante ao conceito cabalístico de buracos como uma porta de entrada para “o outro lado”.
O Mundo Místico de Ion tem uma visão cosmológica ou panteísta universal, Deus ou o Espírito Universal está presente em todas as coisas, sejam animadas ou inanimadas.
Nessa visão, Deus não é o criador absoluto, mas uma espiritualidade universal que pode ser encontrada em todo o cosmos, em cada manifestação física e química, em cada elemento da natureza e está em toda parte, pois ele é o todo, universal e infinito. Então ele é a própria criação.
Na Conceção do Mundo Místico de Íon a noção do Diabo não existe, ele é uma criação do homem para tentar justificar seus próprios infortúnios.
No entanto, existe a noção de Caos Primordial, o Vazio Infinito, bem como a Escuridão Absoluta, muitas vezes materializada na ignorância como uma força poderosa contra a organização, o conhecimento e a luz.
Se Deus tem uma dimensão infinita e universal, então a escuridão absoluta também tem, o que pela ordem das ideias explicadas anteriormente, é assim mais antiga e omnipotente até certo ponto - pelo menos até que a Luz apareceu!
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Background landscape made with AI Art Generator Using NightCafe Studio's Online and light textures made with Amberlight 2.
Elements from stock images and images of mine.
This is a repost of an image I initially posted in February of 2014. I edited this instance by simply rotating it 90º to make it work as the new banner. Let's see how it looks!
Here's an image from my 2014 archives!
This stretch lace minidress does let me show off my legs quite well! I hope you like the view!
I'm sometimes a little modest with what I wear but I do like to tease you too! This stretch lace minidress gives both you and me the best of both!
This black stretch lace minidress is from a new vendor I've discovered, sinsofskin.com! They have the type of minidresses that I like, their prices aren't too high and their selections is pretty varied too!
I've matched my new minidress up with my nude Bodywrappers Under Wraps Microfiber Camisole leotard from nydancewear.com, super shiny Platino Luxe 40 denier pantyhose from shapings.oom over Hanes Alive Barely There pantyhose from onehanesplace.com and finished off with my black open toe T-strap platform pumps from venus.com
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A couple of hours after the previous shot of a Class 197, unit 013 is seen again, this time at Ferryside. As part of the training regime, the units replicate exactly what it would be expected to do when in service, in this instance it is slowing for a brief stop whilst working 3E22, the 15.55 Carmarthen to Swansea.
Photographed on 6 February 2023 as the last rays of wintry sunlight cast shadows across the platform. The train was running about 20-minutes late and a service train was quite rightly, allowed to run ahead. Immediately behind me is the signal box and the 'bobby' very kindly opened his door to tell me what progress was being made, very kind of him.
Joan Welsh says, your health depends on which one you take, two at a time :) It's fun to separate the weak from the enfeebled by monitoring their climbing behaviors.
On a different note, while brainstorming for a caption, I discovered there are many fun yet deep quotations about stairs out there. Take this for instance:
“An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You would never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.”
or "The Queen (Elizabeth) is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.”
Chayanot Building, Dhanmondi, while on assignment from The Independent
Not all dragons have friendly tendencies all at once... this Stormbringer, for instance, haha! It did not exactly take kindly to the idea of Cole and Wu stealing its food...
Aand, the last of our set Mods from the Hunted season! To be honest, I'm a bit Hunted-out at the moment, but I will admit that this dragon was fun. That new-ish yellow/orange looks so nice here!
Check out the whole dragons article on Innovalug (including Kai's Firstbourne mod as well)! :) Thanks for viewing, C&C are welcome as always!
There was still a family party of six Willow Tits at my local reservoir yesterday and I still don't know whether it comprised 4 youngsters and 2 adults, or five young and one parent. I know this picture is horribly cluttered but I thought it was worth recording how the parents fed them in this instance. The young were constantly begging for food by giving special calls and shivering their wings with their beaks open. As the party moved through the undergrowth, the parent(s) would find insects, usually caterpillars, and feed one of the youngsters. How they ensured each one got its share I do not know as it seemed rather chaotic. Here the parent bird swung trapeze-like on the bramble branch below its chick so was hanging upside-down while it fed its upright fledgling. This was a split second after feeding when the adult bird turned its head for the camera. Incidentally, the word fledging is a verb that describes the time that young birds leave the nest. But add an l and you get a noun fledgling that describes a young bird that has recently fledged.
Across most of their Eurasian ranges the Marsh Tit and Willow Tit are easy to separate as Willow Tit is a cold, frosty grey, whereas Marsh Tit is a warmer buff colour. But in Britain the kleinschmidti race of Willow Tit is warmer with buffy flanks, just like Marsh Tit. Marsh Tit usually has a pale spot at the base of its dark bill and Willow Tit usually has a pale wing panel, though my understanding is that no single feature is 100% reliable for separating them apart from call. Though the adult Willow Tit here has an astonishingly bright wing panel, but confusingly has a tiny pale spot on its bill like Marsh Tit. Marsh Tit was described new to science in 1758, but it was 69 years later before Willow Tit was described in 1827. But it was an incredible 70 years later (1897) before people realised Willow Tits occurred in Britain. Willow Tits have declined massively in Britain but still occur in West and South Yorkshire where Marsh Tits usually do not occur. Willow Tits are the most rapidly declining resident bird in the UK. The British population fell by 91% between 1967 and 2010. Research on reasons for the decline is ongoing, but we know they prefer scrub to woodland, and also need standing dead wood as they excavate their own nest holes. The endemic British race kleinschmidti is the smallest and darkest of numerous races. The latest population estimate of the British kleinschmidti is 3400 pairs, but it continues to decline.
In some instances, a world spiraling out of control can be a beautiful thing. I made this capture of a magnificent spiral stairway at a local winery by lying on my back and shooting up 3 stories into the dome of the silo. A very wide-angle lens was required to get all of the subject into the composition, as the space was very high and considerably constricted width-
wise. This abstract rendering was what I came up with. It will have to do until next time, when I may pull another lie-down treatment out of the bag.
"Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
I just thought the quote was appropriate for that "stubborn" shadow. :)
I am trying to make my way through your streams my friends. I eventually will get the hang of moving around well enough again, some time soon. I hope. Have a great day!
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In all these instances, the Hebrew word for “mercy” is hesed, which has the connotation of undeserved kindness or grace. In Exodus 34, the word for “merciful” is rachom, derived from rechem (“ womb”), and implies caring for another in the way that a woman cares for the child in her womb. The pervasive sense that Scripture gives of God’s maternal compassion makes the fifth Beatitude a summons to imitate it.
-Evolving humanity and biblical wisdom : reading scripture through the lens of Teilhard de Chardin, Marie Noonan Sabin.
My inspiration song for this pictur:
SCHAMANISCHES Tribal Drum Journey
Message for you:
Even when the wolf sometimes disappears deep into the forest, he always finds his way back home. May the power animal Wolf guide and lead you because in the last instance we will always follow the call of our soul.
Together we go our Soul Path the Queen of Swords and the Wolf as companions you will meet again and again and strengthen each other's backs because that is the deal and the goal.
Botschaft für dich:
Auch wenn der Wolf manchmal tief im Wald verschwindet findet er immer wieder den Weg nach Hause zurück. Möge das Krafttier Wolf dich leiten und führen, denn in letzter Instanz werden wir immer dem Ruf unserer Seele folgen.
Gemeinsam gehen wir unseren Seelenweg, die Königin der Schwerter und der Wolf als Gefährten werden sie sich immer wieder begegnen und sich gegenseitig den Rücken stärken denn das ist der Deal und das Ziel.
How we see echother:
Ich und Du - Anna Depenbusch & Mark Forster
Egzod & Maestro Chives - Royalty
Sam Tinnesz - Leading The Pack
Valley Of Wolves - Take It All
Soul Mates enter your life some stay for just one page others for a whole chapter and then there are those who are there for the whole story.♥
Since we have met each other I have always seen us as very polarizing and as strong personalities, two alphas who respect each other even if we sometimes snarl at each other.
Like the Bremerstadt musicians we couldn't be more different but we are connected from cradle to grave by a strong bond.
We are there for each other come what may and YES come what may.
We are never alone on the path we each take. I was allowed to grow on and with you and that is incredibly valuable to me. ♥
We know each other for what feels like an eternity now and I am incredibly grateful that you are a part of my life. You make my life more colorful and even more worth living.♥
Thank you for being exactly the way you are because in my eyes you shine in all your facets and it is pure joy to be able to experience this. Friends like us are very rare and I appreciate this gift very much.♥ Together we accompany each other on our way and Yes I am proud to have a friend like you at my side!
I am glad that you wash my head from time to time ^^ and still let me be who I am. ♥
You strengthen me and give me the courage to handle everything because you simply believe in me, thank you for that. ♥♥♥♥♥
Thank you for all the emotional and wonderful moments I was able to experience with you, whether good or bad, both are part of it. ♥
I have found my best friend in you because you are friend and girlfriend in one what could I wish for more ^^
Love you my BBF Friends for Ever SL & RL ♥
Seelen Gefährten treten in dein Leben einige bleiben für nur eine Seite andere für ein ganzes Kapitel und dann gibt es noch die die während der ganzen Geschichte dabei sind.♥
Seit wir uns getroffen haben, habe ich uns immer als sehr polarisierende und starke Persönlichkeiten gesehen zwei Alphas die sich gegenseitig respektieren, auch wenn wir uns manchmal anknurren.
Wie die Bremerstadtmusikannten könnten wir unterschielicher nicht sein und dennoch verbindet uns ein starkes Band denn von der Wiege bis zur Bare sind wir alle miteinander verbunden.
Wir sind für einander da komme was wolle und JA wolle was da komme.
Überwegs auf dem jeweiligen Weg den jeder einschlägt sind wir nie alleine. Ich durfte an und mit dir wachsen und das ist mir wahnsinnig viel wert.♥
Wir kennen uns nun schon eine gefühlte Ewichkeit und ich bin unglaublich dankbar das du ein Teil meines Lebens bist. Du machst mein Leben bunter und noch lebenswerter.♥
Danke das du genau so bist wie du bist den den in meinen Augen strahlst du in all deinen Facetten und es ist die Pure Freude das miterleben zu dürfen. Freunde wie wir es sind sind sehr selten und ich weiss dieses Geschenk sehr zu schätzen.♥ Gemeinsam begleiten wir uns auf unserem Weg und Yes ich bin stoltz einen Freund wie dich an meiner Siete zu haben!
Ich bin froh das du mir ab und an den Kopf wäschst ^^ und mich dennoch so sein lässt wie ich bin. ♥
Du stärkst mich und gibst mir den Mut alles in Agriff zu nehmen weil du einfach an mich Glaubst danke dafür. ♥♥♥♥♥
Danke für all die Emotionalen und wundervollen Momente die ich mit dir erleben durfte ob nun gut oder schlecht beides gehört dazu. ♥
Ich habe in dir meinen besten Freund gefunden denn du bist Freund und Freundin in einem was will man mehr ^^
Love you mein Bester Friends for Ever SL & RL ♥
This year, the weather in our globe is very un-predictable. One instance it is spring.
On another day is winter back again. With the weather changing dramatically, it is very easy for people to get sick & feel low on the emotional cycle.
I have been observing the plants' flower's boomming & their cycle of becoming fruit's. I found out that plant's are very much affected by the hot & cold ; especially it change between a single day of more than 20-40 degree F.
The Bees' are dying as well for the reason of too much disturbances from the cell phones frequencies according to some bio-scientists. I would like to comment that the dramatically change of the day & night temperature would have cause the death of the bees.
Thus, it would be more difficult for plants' to harvest fruits.
With these in mind. We have to think seriously about the effect of Global warming & to take action & rectified the situation now; before it is too late.
So Go Green...
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This image was taken with wind speed 15mph.
Camera is setted on tripod.
Sun light from the back of the subject.
A white paper tower is held on the left hand to bounce more light.
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It dates from the XII century, it belonged to the Císter's order, who owned the land thanks to the privileges granted by kings as, for instance, Alfonso IX.
During its epoch of magnificence the influence of this monastery went so far as to conditionate the
future of other monasteries in the area, as it is the one of San Clodio. Towards the end of the XIX century, it fell into decline, basically due to the effects of the ecclesiastical confiscation and adverse climate conditions. Nowadays it is in private ownership.
The church, of latin cross, presents three longitudinal naves with semicircular apses, the chapel's head is made of a major chapel surrounded by an ambulatory, opened to three semicircular apses which convey to the major altar. This model of head, which is unique of Galicia, recalls, by its likeness with the monastery of Oseira, to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. The style of the Císter's order is easy to notice in this monastery due to its remarkable austerity.
Pirated, poorly applied instances of my designs brought to you care of SCAmazon 1 of x (with x being a large number I'm afraid)
Some of these would be laughable if there weren't so many of them - and if they didn't mean so much work by me to issue take down notices - costing time & energy that could be better spent doing other things.
Flickr Spoonflower Discussion Group on the issues here: Copyright Issues on Amazon
And here's yet another designer grappling with the same issue of Spoonflower theft on Amazon: karapeters.design/copyright/
The irony is that Spoonflower - my publisher - hosts its designs on AWS - yet has no business-to-business relationship that could protect its investment. I guess that's the free market for you! Meanwhile Jeff Bezos buys a $114m house! Nice one Jeff!
[Poorly pirated stolen care of SCAmazon_1ofx]
For Instance: For the devil in you...wicked pink - When you are too angelic...textured off-whites - Hunting instinct up? Helanca stretch leotards - When you go all little-girl...stockings in very young blue.
Chemstrand Nylon
yet another instance where it's hard to compete with the pros, but I'm happy I got to take a shot at it
I went into today anticipating 1/4000s shutter speeds and ended up with sub 1/100s for most of my shots because of the heavy cloud cover.
Fortunately by combining multiple images I was able to blur out the clouds and get a clearer view of the sun.
The Coopers Rock lookout near Morgantown WV. Most times when standing on the lookout one would tend to look the other direction across the valley that overlooks the Cheat River, but in this instance turning around with my back to the valley gave us beautiful morning light cresting over the mountain.
27/52 By some unspoken rule, the "special needs" boarding cats - for instance geriatric or diabetic cats - have become my responsibility (under the doctors' supervision) on the shifts I work. Many cats don't eat for a day or two when they first come to board because they are too nervous. I feel bad they are so nervous but I know they'll be OK. However, diabetic cats MUST eat. As you may be able to tell from this picture, Magic spent his first 24 hours under his towel - NOT eating. I tried every variety of prescription diabetic food we have - wet and dry, pate and "savory selects" in gravy and nothing. I tried tasty junk food and nothing again. I tried slipping his food under his towel with him and still nothing. We were getting to the point where we were going to have to test his blood glucose level to determine if, or how much, insulin to give him. I was just about to walk out the door at the end of my shift and have him be someone else's responsibility when I saw him peek outside his towel and eat some of his Purina DM Savory Selects wet food for about 45 seconds and something huge inside me lightened up. I was so thrilled to see him eating that I, of course, didn't want to open his cage door to get a better picture of him. Any cat who eats while boarding is a happy, little thing.
By the way, if you ever have to board your cat and the vet asks for your permission to give an appetite stimulant if needed - please say yes. For those who feel reluctant to give their cats medication, know that the appetite stimulants used are very safe and the risk of the medication is so much less than the risk to your cat of not eating - especially if it is overweight or diabetic. Often one dose is enough to get a cat to eat and that first meal is all it takes to jump-start their appetite and no further doses are needed.
There are several instances when long hood forward locomotives are the better choice, and this is one of them. Not because the 4619, a first gen GP9, was set up to run LHF, not for dramatic effect, either, but because the other short hood end is really ugly. This old veteran was originally a Grand Trunk Western GP9 and wore the old olive and gold. It also served time on the Central Vermont, then came back home. I don't know who or when the lobotomy was done, but it wasn't the best work the loco doctors had ever done. It came out with a nice streak of unpainted rust around the top of the chopped nose and was never painted over or repaired. So be happy you don't have to look at that end. The crew aboard the 4619, the Griffith local, may not have been happy, but then they're inside the beast and not outside having to look at it...
It's difficult photographing works under glass. But in this instance I decided to go full reflective mode and incorporate myself into the photograph. I saw the pattern of light and dark in the original photograph created an interesting abstract effect with my reflection on the glass. It also plays with the idea of a photograph within a photograph.
The original photograph by is by John Kauffmann from 1920 and entitled The National Bank. Comparing this to his 1914 overtly Pictorialist photograph I showed you in the previous collage, it marks a shift to a Modernist approach in photography that was being popularised in America by Paul Strand (1890-1976).
How to create an impression of a naked person? Like this for instance. She looks naked, but are far from it. It's all a matter of posing and what clothes you wear.
Another shot from my Cornwall holiday in St Ives last July, a place that's a veritable cornucopia of captures, and this is one of my prime spots for people photography, the pier, a stage for all sorts of everyday dramas. In this instance I was watching these three people (mother, son-in-law and daughter) walking their dogs, it was an okay shot with a nice touch of symmetry but it just didn't have that special 'moment' that makes a street/pier shot work, then the mum and son-in-law paused and turned around to look back at something...*click*...I like that the daughter chose to walk her shades rather than the dogs. :-)
Instance.
After many failed attempts, tonight I managed to create an image I've had in my head for an age.
It needs a bit of tidying up but I've got plenty of time to do that.
I wanted to create a kind of black hole sucking a stream of matter into its core.
Cheers to Chris T for the final piece of the jigsaw.
Three lenses, two tripod positions, pin pricked card, blue lp brushes filter attachment el wire, breath and my mobile phone.
Single long exposure black hole exploration.
The north shore of Lake Superior has gorgeous scenery but feels remote. For instance, there is only one Tim Hortons in the 587 km between Sault Ste. Marie and Nipigon.
In 1960 Wawa became one of the last towns to be linked to the Trans-Canada Highway. A local entrepreneur built a large Canada goose statue by the highway to encourage travelers to stop. The first goose, made of plaster, didn't weather well, so it was replaced by a steel goose in 1963. The goose has become a famous landmark, so we had to stop to see and draw it.
The line work was done on location while the rest of my party checked out the red-roofed tourist information center and the mosquitoes checked me out. The sketch was colored later from notes. I forgot to make any notes about the color of the rock base of the statue, so it is geologically very inaccurate.
Drawn July 10, 2017
Wawa, Ontario, Canada
The Saddest Poem
by Pablo Neruda
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."
The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
On nights like this, I held her in my arms.
I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.
She loved me, sometimes I loved her.
How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.
To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.
What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.
The night is full of stars and she is not with me.
That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.
My soul is lost without her.
As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.
My heart searches for her and she is not with me.
The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.
I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.
Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once
belonged to my kisses.
Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.
I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.
Love is so short and oblivion so long.
Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,
my soul is lost without her.
Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her.
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View your artistic mission into photography as an epic odyssey of heroic poetry! Take it from Homer in Homer's Odyssey: "Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them. " --Samuel Butler Translation of Homer's Odyssey
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I have struggled for about a month to post this photo, as I think it is quite beautiful, but it also shows my lady friend who suffers from the brain disease SCA 1. She is vulnerable, but also a very tough, brave and intelligent woman. Today I once more had to see her suffer in several ways and decided to post this photo.
This photo was shot in an ancient watermill. My friend had been there often when she was young. As we passed the watermill she said “I can’t get in there anymore. I will never see it again.” It does have an almost one-meter high step in the door. “Can’t” is something that does get very hard into my brain, so I lifted her with wheelchair and all into the watermill. Not my smartest move of the day, but if you look closely, you can see she gives me her best smile.
SCA 1 is an autosomal dominant disorder, meaning each person of a generation has 50% change to get the disease. In case of my friend both her grandfather and her father died of the disease and both she and her brother will die of the disease. This has led her mother into psychosis. Technically SCA 1 is caused by a mutation in the ATXN1 gene, resulting in malfunctioning of proteins in the cells of the cerebellum (little brain). The effect is that slowly all control on muscles is lost. Extremely short description of the disease! For more see for instance ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/spinocerebellar-ataxia-type-1
What does it mean in daily life? It starts with a swaying walk and declining articulation. People start to react on you as if you are drunk. Slowly hand-eye coordination starts to fail (Get yourself very drunk and try to put a key in a lock). You won’t be able to stand or walk anymore after a while. By this time, you won’t have colleagues anymore, very few friends will be still around, and your partner might have left you. Control over your bladder gets lost. Eyesight will leave you soon after, once again very slowly. You will get problems with swallowing. Imagine yourself choking multiple times a day. In the end you die from pneumonia or suffocation. My friend’s father choked on a biscuit.
So, can you help? As a matter of fact, you can. The 17 or so families that suffer from this disease in The Netherlands and Belgium have raised about €250,000 and our government has added 1.5 million more. Research has started and has made some progress. To continue research bucket loads of money are needed though, as the research is complex because of the rarity and the 36 variants of SCA. If you feel the need you can donate: NL18 INGB 0000 0008 60 on name of Hersenstichting, The Hague, citing “SCA 1”.
Edit: On May 20th 2021 my friend died of the consequences of her disease at the age of 36.
In this instance, RML stands for Leyland-engined RM. One of the prototypes for the classic London bus visited the Isle of Wight Beer & Buses Weekend this year. Seen in between trips to Ryde sitting at Newport Quay alongside a former London chum, DMS550.
There are many instances in Stanley Park Vancouver BC where new growth has flourished in decaying tree stumps left from the 1860's on logging. Looks like this one may have met death by saw.
The Stanley Park of today, while still managed, is cared for in a far less invasive manner than in years past. Trees are removed on occasion for safety reasons or to suppress fires. Dead and dying trees in certain portions of the park are often felled and left to decompose, providing nutrients for other plants in the ecosystem. Gone are the pest and predator elimination programs of the past (between the 1910s and the 1960s, the Vancouver Gun Club was licensed to shoot crows on Sundays).
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Public Distance is 12 ft or more.
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This is a REAL instance of ice even without vaccines and it's not the Trump ICE lockup and covid super-spreader site for migrants and kids in Denver. A while back, I grabbed more Clover Basin ditch shots down at Willow Farm when I hauled my D700 back down even though the sky was blank blue. I therefore had no choice but to point the camera downward for captures and keep the sky from the shots. Just like today and tomorrow and tomorrow! I decided that I needed some better originals to edit! I liked this view as well as the other. I got few real duds in my "action" takes of the ditch but I do have several NORMAL shots of the ditch now (they call it Willow Brook) but I call it a ditch. It's not much of one either. Let's face it, most of the St. Vrain stream and ditch flows have been ripped by the towns and cities to water blue grass instead of agriculture.
I can't figure why anyone would cut a ditch this darn squirrely. Drunk diggers, probably, though Longmont was a temperate colony at the time. Not so now When I first saw it, It was nearly impossible to follow the reasoning for this ditch but it does seem that the floods scoured this ditch somewhat. I think I noticed the colors of the reflections and contrasts and decided to take advantage. They seemed to oversaturate in this case but that's about everything posted on Flickr. The water course was a bit torn up but there must have been no serious flooding here.
We hit the end of autumn then and the chills came through but we hit the 60s after Christmas - so no coat. I won't go down to shoot ice today - it hit the 67 degrees in early December and await the 80s later in the week. No Coats in the 60s, no Clarks either. I've still got a lot of captures in the temp directory in today's stretch of no skies. I found Willow Farm on Google maps when searching for a barn I glimpsed and made some trips down there and added some more weird captures to temp stash. This is a shot of Willow Creek, another ditch, IMHO. I went back down with my D700 to see if I could capture some shot of the barn. I may go out soon if we can retrieve some skies and clouds at all.
Here is a normal, if not fairly slow hand held exposure. I already posted other shots that were "action" shots and they were the better shots. I grabbed a couple of slices in Lightroom and dropped them into Photoshop to see what might appear.
Not a friendly handshake in this instance though… lol.
(This picture is in this week's [Sat September 20th 2014] Amateur Photographer Magazine on page 21 :)…. Yay, I'm in a national magazine!!! They picked it up from the BWPA and have published several pictures they liked from the awards. Thanks to Rob Williams for informing me.)
Not really good IQ on this because of bad light, I just thought the pose was interesting! I hadn't intended to take this sort of shot today (which is why 700mm) but the starlings were so distracting I couldn't help myself!
I was in the hide for an hour and a half, took over 800 photos, it was a lot of fun, there's lots going on there at the moment and there are still good photos to be had even in bad light.
It's interesting how sometimes I can go through old photos and feel the same way I did when I was taking them. Like, for instance, this photo that I took 3 years ago. That feeling still has a place in my heart, ever glowing--dimmer now--but there all the same.
It's just.... interesting.
I had a bunch of Tree Swallow shots from a trip earlier this summer that i've been meaning to go through for awhile. I had to edit this shot much more than I usually edit my shots, and these sorts of instances really make me want to shoot raw and use lightroom rather than iPhoto.....well, maybe one day.
One of many instances observed this past summer at the Homer Lake Wetland of spiders of multiple species appropriating the empty exuviae left behind by emerging dragonflies. For more information see hlwetland.blogspot.com/2021/08/nature-abhors-vacuum.html
There have been a couple of instances lately that a pile of feathers have been left on the grass. Today I saw this fellow as I looked through the window. Thoughtfully he waited while I went to get my camera. I don`t know whether he got his meal or not as I ran out of time waiting. Certainly not a bird today. Possibly a field mouse or vole or even left hungry?
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He is one of the best street singers in the world. That old and talented man is playing almost everyday in the centre of Brussels. He has become a living monument in the city, everybody loves him!
Please, also have a look at THIS VIDEO showing him playing 2 of his favourite songs (I recorded them yesterday!).
The above photo has been shot with the Samsung NX10, which has been provided to me by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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Your Songs
A poem by Peter S. Quinn
Your songs are so beautiful
Like roses and gardens sapphire
With their moments never dull
As days come clearly in desire
The sweetness of your singing
In pomp and circumstance
With every street front bringing
In days of embrace and trance
Like love-song of the minions
In silences and tone bend
For the street daughters and sons
That colors mix and blend
In every footstep going
Where everyone once is for all
In the songs and words knowing
That comes in their daily call
Your voice rises from sleep
Onto the banquet of its time
For the days onward to keep
From guitar’s strumming rhyme
O love songs of the streets
Among the folks there walking
Of pure instances stepping feet’s
And in all its audibly talking
Many town loves have been torn
Inside endless dispute and flow
And each their sound newborn
In beginnings of daybreak's glow
When feelings are low and blending
During endless time and space
And on to the futures commanding
Within your tone blend and grace
Like love-song of the minions
In silences and tone bend
For the street daughters and sons
That colors mix and blend
In every footstep going
Where everyone once is for all
In the songs and words knowing
That comes in their daily call
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In one of those divine instances that a family so graciously welcomed me into their home, I was able to marvel at her up-close. This beautiful piece of sculpture, with [by my personal preference] the unmatched visage of a grieving mother -with the right age, unlike very youthful looking Dolorosas- is a gem of Philippine Ecclesiastical Art.
She is enshrined in her urna, assembled on a separate bust, wearing her pre-war faded cobalt blue ensemble -the sequins made of actual pressed metal plates, not synthetic...
This photo is a little like the where's wally pictures. in this instance its a case of where's the barman?
It wont take long to find him.
These last few outings have been rather good for photos not that any of them are mine because I never take a camera that is any good. Its so nice to show people that we can get out and about in the real world and look darn good doing it. have to say we were a bit underdressed compared to some of the young girls out that night. I saw a least two party dresses al chiffon and floaty and a couple of cute body con numbers and very few jeans and t shirts.
Have you found the bar yet?