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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.
Pablo Neruda
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There really is no risk in trying out this product. With a no questions asked money-back guarantee, if things don't work out as you expected you get what you paid back.
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Aegna, a small island that from its shores has always observed the Estonian capital Tallinn. It
hosted few settlements of fishermen in its golden days, a soviet base in the darkest ones, and
nowadays abandoned constructions along with wild nature. Now the population is accounted to be
of six people, who are not to be found despite any effort; mainland dwellers fleeing the city for a
greener place are instead the only humans that can be spotted. Exploring the island I've indeed
found a summer centre for Buddhist meditation and a couple of monks in spiritual retire, but then
only ran-down or even crumbling facilities of the soviet era, new built estates with the typical traits
of the Scandinavian architecture, spiritual spots for offerings to unknown deities, as well as many
other puzzling and inapprehensible things, like feathers scattered on a pathway for an instance. Not
the actual inhabitants though, except the ones buried in the local cemetery, which counts dozens of
tombstones on a musky field adorned by lichens. Here the people are at the best just an ephemeral
phenomenon, solely consistence of the residuals of their past existence.
A few train rides of my youth have a habit of sticking in the memory purely for reasons of drama - for instance, passing by the coke works just south of Chesterfield in the evening with the orange glow lighting up the carriage and sulphurous fumes seeping through the windows.
Another such ride was the one between Sheffield and Rotherham where you passed an almost continuous line of steel foundries and factories hugging the trackside along the 9 mile route. And, to complete the industrial scene, there were seemingly endless supplies of vapours escaping outlets and stacks, and mineral wagons parked alongside loading bays bringing in supplies.
Fast forward 40 years and it's no surprise there's little left of this once thriving activity, although some of the more specialist factories have survived (including Sheffield Forgemasters, pictured) and still make a muted presence alongside the railway line. The mineral wagons and sidings are long gone though with supplies now being brought in by road.
Pictured here is the now disused Brightside station, with steps from the footbridge removed, and offering a view to the Sheffield skyline. The gritty and industrial feel still remains but, looking in the other direction, the retail park of Meadowhall now occupies the area where factories once stood, and the grassy environmental transition is well underway.
The train sweeping effortlessly by is a Cross Country Voyager working the 10.35 Newcastle - Reading (1V87) service. No clickety-clack on 60 foot rail-lengths, or awe-inspiring view of the once powerful Sheffield steel industry for these passengers.
I guess the Voyager won't appeal to everyone but this section of track still stirs the memories for me and it was good to finally get down here with a camera.
5th April 2017
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 ♥
@Phipps Conservatory
The EF 85 f/1.8 has pretty strong green and purple fringing, as you can see. In most instances this would be considered an annoyance and would be dealt with in Lightroom (or your photo editor of choice.) For this particular image I think it creates a subtly surreal or slight fantastical vibe, so I left it in.
My 2 cats are very rarely hanging out together.....here is a rare instance. Both chilling in front of the patio door- lulled into relaxation by the chirping of all the songbirds outside. Quick cell phone shot with a bit of post processing.
Stockholm's Gamla Stan is almost custom built for portrait backgrounds - narrow alleyways with slight curves and high buildings helping to give an even light across wider spreads of backdrop than often afforded to the photographer.
Lars is a Stockholm native since 1938, and was able to fill me in on some of their stories. This one is Prästgatan, which features in a number of folk songs. He also noted the changes over his time here - sadly tinged with the same trends as so many places; one can't leave a door unlocked any more, for instance.
Picking his way through the dense crowds attracted to the city centre by the "Vattenfall World Triathlon Stockholm 2014", Lars had struck me both for his meditative, intelligent gaze and his angelic white glow. In the shadows of the alleyway I'd test shot for a background, I hoped he would offer enough contrast to claim centre stage, and have the presence to justify it! In the shot we used just the sunfire (gold/silver striped) reflector with a -2 stop pop of fill flash from an on camera softbox. Together, as the softbox is so high, I find you end up with a kind of guerrilla clam shell light set-up. It's maybe not the most masculine lighting set up, but I think it does a good job of giving lars and his chic blazer an even pop of highlight against the darker alleyway.
Often I would clone out the bokeh highlight behind him, but in this case it felt appropriate - a sort of "light bulb moment" look to it, in keeping with Lars' quick intelligence.
He's a psychotherapist, and we talked about his work. He also showed me a book he'd picked up that morning; Death Of A Hero. It discusses the role of men in the modern world, in the light of recent trends in popular culture. Man, Lar notes, now graces our screens generally as an oaf, as a sports obsessed, greedy, lager craving beast. That's not to say that the portrayal of women has ever been adequately fair, he explains, just that the recent trend is aggressively pushed and men are left confused, challenged and in danger of losing their identity in the face of the media onslaught. It was a very interesting angle on the world to have explained with Lars' methodical intelligence and understated passion.
It's worth noting that world class cyclists were whizzing past us, about three metres in front of Lars, as we shot this. How on earth he maintains his serenity and focus, I don't know!
Lars - Thank you so much for your time. I hope you caught up with the rest of your party and like your portrait. Tack!
This is portrait #65 of my 100 Strangers Project - check out the group page and get involved.
Finally, I'm now live on Facebook; www.facebook.com/Flatworldsedge
Beauty is a reflection of divine bliss and, since God is Truth, the reflection of His bliss will be that mixture of happiness and truth which is to be found in all beauty.
Forms allow of a direct, 'plastic' assimilation of the truths - or of the realities - of the spirit. The geometry of the symbol is steeped in beauty, which in its turn and in its own way is also a symbol. The perfect form is that in which truth is incarnate in the rigour of the symbolical formulation and in the purity and intelligence of the style.
Beauty mirrors happiness and truth. Without the element of 'happiness' there remains only bare form - geometrical, rhythmical or other - and without the element of 'truth' there remains only a wholly subjective enjoyment or, it might be said, luxury. Beauty stands between abstract form and blind pleasure, or rather so combines them as to imbue veridical form with pleasure and veridical pleasure with form.
Beauty is a crystallization of some aspect of universal joy; it is something limitless expressed by means of a limit.
Beauty is in one sense always more than it gives, but in another sense it always gives more than it is. In the first sense the essence shows as appearance; in the second the appearance communicates the essence.
Beauty is always beyond compare; no perfect beauty is more beautiful than another perfect beauty. One may prefer this beauty to that, but this is a matter of personal affinity or of complementary relationship and not of pure aesthetics. Human beauty, for instance, can be found in each of the major races, yet normally a man prefers some type of beauty in his own race rather than in another; inversely, sometimes affinities between qualitative and universal human types show themselves to be stronger than racial affinities.
Like every other kind of beauty artistic beauty is objective, and so can be discovered by intelligence, not by "taste". Taste is indeed legitimate, but only to the same extent as individual peculiarities are legitimate, that is, just in so far as these peculiarities translate positive aspects of some human norm.
Different tastes should be derived from pure aesthetic and should be of equal validity, just as are the different ways in which the eye sees things. Myopia and blindness are certainly not different ways of seeing - they are merely defects of vision.
In beauty man ’realizes’, passively in his perception and externally in his production of it, that which he should himself 'be' after an active or inward fashion.
When man surrounds himself with the ineptitudes of an art that has gone astray how can he still 'see' what he should 'be'? He runs the risk of 'being' what he 'sees' and assimilating the errors suggested by the erroneous forms among which he lives.
Modern satanism is manifested, no doubt in a very external way but in the most directly tangible way and in the way which makes the greatest inroads, in the unintelligible ugliness of forms. 'Abstracted' people, who never 'see' things, none the less allow themselves to be influenced in their general mental outlook by the forms around them to which they sometimes, with astonishing superficiality, deny all importance, just as though traditional civilizations did not unanimously proclaim the contrary. In this connection the spiritual aesthetics of some of the great contemplatives will be recalled as evidence that, even in a world of normal forms, the sense of the beautiful may acquire a special spiritual importance.
Not gonna lie, I’m getting a bit sick of doing these Derby uploads so it’s a good job this is the last one, and even though I’ve been back to the city like 3 times since I haven’t sorted any of those photos so I don’t have to worry about it yet! Also I did substantially different things each time so at least I haven’t just been dying in Mickleovers like in this instance.
Consecutively numbered 314 and 315 are pictured side by side next to Derby bus station, with 314 having some weird glitch on its blind and 315 missing the lighter pink bit on the front next to the n/s light cluster. Tucked behind is one of the Ilkeston Flyers, just to ram home the fact that these 24 plates are bloody everywhere. As much as I like the liveries I’m tired of trying to stretch photos of the same few over several uploads!
YY24 HCA
YY24 HCC
26.4.25
This is another instance of persistence paying off. On my last night at the badlands I went out and had a bunch of problems with my intervalometer failing which resulted in a lot of wasted time. I finally got things going right before sunrise.
Image is a composite of about 50 photos to produce the trails. That resulted in some strange artifacts in the sunrise portion of the sky so the image was then blended with one towards the end of the series.
The word tattoo, or tattow in the 18th century, is a loanword from the Polynesian word tatau, meaning "correct, workmanlike". TheOxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of tattoo as "In 18th c. tattaow, tattow. From Polynesian (Tahitian, Samoan, Tongan, etc.) tatau. In Marquesan, tatu." Before the importation of the Polynesian word, the practice of tattooing had been described in the West as pricking, painting, or staining. Sailors on the voyage later introduced both the word and reintroduced the concept of tattooing to Europe.
This is not to be confused with the origins of the word for the military drumbeat — see military tattoo. In this case, the English word tattoo is derived from the Dutch word taptoe (OED).
The first written reference to the word tattoo (or tatau), appears in the journal of Joseph Banks (24 February 1743 – 19 June 1820), the naturalist aboard Captain Cook's ship the HMS Endeavour: "I shall now mention the way they mark themselves indelibly, each of them is so marked by their humor or disposition".
This is not to be confused with the origins of the word for the military drumbeat — see military tattoo. In this case, the English word tattoo is derived from the Dutch word taptoe (OED).
The first written reference to the word tattoo (or tatau), appears in the journal of Joseph Banks (24 February 1743 – 19 June 1820), the naturalist aboard Captain Cook's ship the HMS Endeavour: "I shall now mention the way they mark themselves indelibly, each of them is so marked by their humor or disposition".
The word "tattoo" was brought to Europe by the explorer James Cook, when he returned in 1771 from his first voyage to Tahiti and New Zealand. In his narrative of the voyage, he refers to an operation called "tattaw". Before this it had been described as scarring, painting, or staining.[3]
Tattoo enthusiasts may refer to tattoos as "ink", "pieces", "skin art", "tattoo art", "tats", or "work"; to the creators as "tattoo artists", "tattooers", or "tattooists"; and to places where they work as "tattoo shops", "tattoo studios", or "tattoo parlors".
Usage of the terms "skin art", "tattoo art", "pieces", and work" is gaining greater support,[citation needed] with mainstream art galleries holding exhibitions of both conventional and custom tattoo designs. Beyond Skin, at the Museum of Croydon, is an example of this as it challenges the stereotypical view of tattoos and who has them. Copyrighted tattoo designs that are mass-produced and sent to tattoo artists are known as "flash", a notable instance of industrial design. Flash sheets are prominently displayed in many tattoo parlors for the purpose of providing both inspiration and ready-made tattoo images to customers.
The Japanese word irezumi means "insertion of ink" and can mean tattoos using tebori, the traditional Japanese hand method, a Western-style machine, or for that matter, any method of tattooing using insertion of ink. The most common word used for traditional Japanese tattoo designs is Horimono. Japanese may use the word "tattoo" to mean non-Japanese styles of tattooing.
Anthropologist Ling Roth in 1900 described four methods of skin marking and suggested they be differentiated under the names "tatu", "moko", "cicatrix", and "keloid
Taken on my recent trip to Santorini with
More Santorini here:
www.flickr.com/photos/23502939@N02/sets/72157634265432341
more candids here :
www.flickr.com/photos/23502939@N02/sets/72157622769131641
Please do note fave my photos without commenting ( what do people do with thousands of faves, look at them every morning?)
Louisburg Square is a private square located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. It was named for the 1745 Battle of Louisbourg, in which Massachusetts militiamen led by William Pepperrell, who was made the first American baronet for his role, sacked the French Fortress of Louisbourg.
The square itself is a small grassy oval surrounded by a wrought-iron fence; access is generally not available. There is a statue of Columbus at the north end and of Aristides the Just at the south end.
The Greek Revival houses around the square reflect the rarefied privilege enjoyed by the 19th century upper class in Beacon Hill. One of the last private residences built on Louisburg Square was 2 Louisburg Square, built in 1847 for wealthy merchant and philanthropist Thomas Handasyd Perkins Jr., known as "Short-Arm Tom", who lived at 1 Joy Street. Among the famous people who lived there in the 19th Century were Atlantic Monthly editor William Dean Howells, architect Charles Bulfinch, painter John Singleton Copley, and teacher A. Bronson Alcott and his daughter, author Louisa May Alcott (who died there). Jenny Lind was married in the parlor of a house on Louisburg Square.
As of 2014, it is one of the most expensive residential neighborhoods in the USA; townhouses on Louisburg Square sold for $11,500,000 in 2011[2] and $11,000,000 in 2012,[3] for instance. The square is often included in walking tours and guidebooks. U.S. Secretary of StatIe John Kerry owns a townhouse on Louisburg Square.
Duality - (noun) 2. an instance of opposition or contrast between two concepts or two aspects of something; a dualism.
I originally posted this to my IG account which I have since deleted. The background as well as the crow are from morgueFile, the bench was a creative commons image courtesy of dodsport (they have since deleted their Flickr account) and I believe the dove is also a creative commons image.
The Golden Lane is not a place where you could find golden pavements, streets or street illumination. This name is born by a street situated nearby the Prague Castle. It is formed by small houses with beautiful colourful facades which were built into a sort of a mural arch between the New White and Daliborka Towers. We can find it between Hradčany ramparts and the old Supreme Burgrave’s House. The lane originated in the late 16th century. At that time castle gunmen and goldbeaters settled here. Let’s have a walk along the lane, formerly known under the name Goldsmiths’ Lane.
According to an old legend, the name of the lane is associated with alchemists who used to serve at the court of the emperor Rudolph II. They were trying to find a method of gold produce. Interesting is that the legend also says that these people never lived there. In the 18th and 19th century, the lane became the residence of poor people and riff-raff instead of scientists and scholars. The houses were occupied until the World War II. The exquisite architecture evoking pleasant atmosphere had become the sanctuary for many writers and artists who were looking for inspiration. For instance in 1917 the house No 22 was occupied by Franz Kafka who wrote most of his stories from the compilation The Country Doctor here. Other famous Czech personalities used to meet in a nearby house No 12, whose walls remember for example Jaroslav Seifert, Frantisek Halas or Vitezslav
In this instance of the Renaissance heavy gold collar, I replaced the round pendant by a medallion featuring the sun God Solaris according to the lore of the medieval RP "Feodalis".
This collar belongs to the Hand of the Queen, a.k.a her principal counsellor, in the same vibe as in Games of Thrones.
NB: Intended to be submitted to SummerJoust 2025 but too late unfortunately.
I've had a few instances of misuse of my photos on other sites - so henceforth I have a new watermark. this is something I'd really would rather not do, but sadly it has become necessary.
this shot is straight out of camera (SOOC) apart from the crop and watermark.
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9 minute long exposure out on the edge of the ocean in the Bahamas. Storm clouds were building in the distance and it was pitch black. Another instance where I couldn't see or hear anything due to the crashing ocean water on the rocks.
Strobist: 1 offhand flash from right side of frame with a red gel and 1 offhand flash from the left with no gel. General light painting on dock for shadow exposure.
Photo by Russell Eck
Photo captured via Minolta Maxxum AF Zoom 100-200mm F/4.5 "Baby Beer Can" Lens. Spokane Indian Reservation. Selkirk Mountains Range. Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills section within the Northern Rockies Region. Inland Northwest. Stevens County, Washington. Early October 2021.
Exposure Time: 1/5 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 5812 K * Plug-In: Black Magic Preset #48 * Elevation: 2,463 feet above sea-level
First instance of a MHV on Route 164 - MHV40
London General MHV40 on Route 164, Wimbledon Francis Grove
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Volvo B5LH/MCV EvoSeti
"“Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on”
I'm going to take a big risk here and dedicate this shot to the one and only barbera*. She hates sunset shots. No, that's not true - she detests them! But earlier today she faved one of mine. Oh yes!!! So, Barbara, this one is for you with love, thanks and a little wink ;-))
NEW GALLERY - Please take a look at tanakawho's work in this new gallery.
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Over the years I have taken close to 25,000 photos of my feminine persona. If you consider that I have posted about 3,400 here, that is less than 15% of all the photos I have in my library. Cristy is quite photogenic and 99% of the photos I take are good enough for posting so, how do I select which ones to post? Simple, I select the ones I like based on what I consider acceptable feminine deportment and appearance.
Since the beginning, my intention has been to share my feminine illusion efforts with likeminded people; not to get comments but rather to contribute to set a standard of tasteful and respectful emulation. Poise, attitude, choice of clothes and accessories, are among the factors I take into consideration. My inspiration comes from every single woman that I see and admire for her presentation and deportment. For me it is not a fetish for any item, but rather a representation of how women, my age, currently present. For instance, I don’t wear nylons because women do not wear them anymore and not because I don’t like them.
Fashion is important to me, but I select my clothes based on what I like and consider that would look good on me while reinforcing my feminine illusion. I wear mostly French manicure on my fingernails and toenails because that is what I like. You will never catch me wearing any unusual or trendy nail color or ornament, just because it is in fashion. A woman who is confident in herself wears what she likes and not what a trend sets, or others suggest. That is the kind of woman that I’d like to think I represent. I post old photos along with more current ones because it is not about how I look or what I wear today; it is about the art of feminine illusion regardless of time, fashion or whether it is the first or the Nth photo in that outfit and location.
After explaining my approach, I hope that when you look at my photos, you can see beyond what I am wearing and appreciate or criticize how I am wearing it, and how I measure in performing the feminine role based on that approach. Thanks to my approach, I have always received respectful comments and, over the years, l have deleted very few of them and have had to block less than a handful of people. I read and appreciate every single comment and even more so when they address what I had in mind when posting the photo. However, you should not feel obliged to comment unless you really feel like it and believe that you got something positive, or negative, from the photo, the title, or the text that goes with it.
From now on I will try to share why I choose the photo I am posting and will start with this one.
This photo is the first I will share of a long series of photos taken before and after my first ever religious service as Cristy (more about that in the future). In general, I’d like to think that my choice of clothes was appropriate for the occasion and that I was able to blend in, although I realized that I was a bit overdressed. A very feminine fit and flare dress with colorful flower print, by Maggie London, was, in my opinion, quite suitable, as were the Kate Spade flats that completed the look for Church. Nothing flashy or revealing here, as it should be. This dress would look great with a pair of heels too but would not be appropriate for attending Catholic Mass. For the pose I tried to be as demure as possible with my hands resting on my lap and my legs crossed in a very feminine manner with my feet pointing down (something that I find hard to do because my articulations are quite rigid).
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A través de los años, he acumulado casi 25,000 fotos de mí personificación femenina.Si consideramos que he compartido aquí cerca de 3,400, esto es menos del 15% de todas las fotos que tengo en mi colección. Cristy es bastante fotogénica y el 99% de las fotos son suficientemente buenas para compartir. ¿Cuál, entonces, es el criterio que uso para elegir las que comparto? Sencillo, elijo las que más me gustan con base a lo que considero una apariencia y presentación femenina aceptables.
Desde el inicio, mi intención ha sido compartir mis esfuerzos en ilusión femenina con personas como yo; no para obtener comentarios sino para contribuir a establecer un estándar de emulación femenina respetuoso y de buen gusto. Postura, actitud, elección de ropa y accesorios, son, entre otros, los factores que tomo en consideración. Mi inspiración viene de cada mujer que veo y admiro por su presentación y desenvolvimiento. Para mi no se trata de un fetichismo por algún tipo de prenda, sino que de una representación de cómo una mujer, de mi edad, luce en estos tiempos. Por ejemplo, no uso medias porque las mujeres ya no las usan y no porque no me guste usarlas.
La moda es importante para mí, pero elijo la ropa con base a lo que me gusta y considero que se vería bien en mí y que contribuya a reforzar la ilusión femenina. Por lo general uso esmalte de uñas en estilo francés porque es lo que me gusta. Jamás verán mis uñas pintadas don los colores drásticos que están de moda, con distintos adornos y colores en cada uña, solo porque está de moda. Una mujer segura de sí misma se viste como ella quiere y no como lo dicta la moda o le sugieren otras personas. Este es el tipo de mujer que quisiera pensar que represento. Subo fotos viejas junto con recientes porque no se trata de compartir cómo luzco hoy o qué llevo puesto, sino que se trata de emulación femenina sin importar la fecha, la moda o si es la primera o enésima foto con esa ropa y en ese lugar.
Luego de exponerles mi enfoque, espero que al ver mis fotos puedan ver más allá de lo que llevo puesto y aprecien o critiquen la manera en que lo llevo puesto y que tan bien logro mi objetivo en desempeñar el rol femenino, con base a este enfoque. Gracias a este enfoque, siempre he recibido comentarios respetuosos y, a través de los años, he tenido que borrar muy pocos y he bloqueado a menos de 5 personas. He leído y apreciado cada comentario recibido y más aún cuando se relacionan con lo que tenía en mente al compartir la foto. Sin embargo, no tienen por qué sentir el compromiso de comentar a no ser que realmente piensen que obtuvieron algo positivo, o negativo, de la foto, del título o del texto que la acompaña.
en adelante intentaré compartir los motivos por los cuales elegí compartir la foto que subo y empezaré con esta.
Esta foto es la primera que compartiré de muchas que me tomaron antes y después de mi primer servicio religioso como Cristy (y ales contaré más en el futuro). En general, quisiera pensar que mi elección de ropa fue adecuado para la ocasión y que pude integrarme al entorno. El vestido muy femenino, ceñido arriba, falda amplia y estampado floral (Maggie London) era muy adecuado en mi opinión, así como las zapatillas sin tacón de Kate Spade que completaban el look para asistir a la iglesia. Nada llamativo o revelador, como debe de ser. Este vestido se vería muy bien con tacones pero no habría sido apropiado para asistir a la misa Católica. En cuanto a la pose, intenté lucir relajada con mis manos sobre el regazo las piernas cruzadas en forma femenina y sencilla, mientras intento apuntar mis pies hacia abajo (algo que me cuesta mucho porque mis articulaciones son muy rígidas)
Lucky instance...
Launched in September 2021, the HertsLynx concept (operated by Uno) uses a set of Mercedes minibuses to provide an on-demand transport service between a number of towns and villages across a wide area of north and east Hertfordshire.
Bishops Stortford stands at the eastern most side of the travel network, with Mercedes Benz 516CDi/EVB RJ21XDB seen passing along a dull Hadham Road leaving Bishops Stortford behind heading back west 30/12/21
On my way to Chinley, I spied a single track lane that disappeared steeply and jaggedly up a hill, and so, decided to take it to see what kind of views would be afforded. Finding a place to park off the road, I walked to the nearest footpath and this is the view that greeted me. The crepuscular rays lasted just long enough for me to set-up my camera, snap a few shots, then were gone.
A black and white edit seemed to work better in this instance.
Photo of the Similkameen River and the distant North Cascades Mountains and Region, in the far background, captured via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 24-50mm F/4 lens and the bracketing method of photography. Okanogan Highlands Region. Inland Northwest. Okanogan County, Washington. Early February 2018.
Exposure Time: 1/250 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: +1 / -1 * Color Temperature: 6650 K * Film Plug-In: Kodak Portra 160 NC
All these photos were taken on the same day as my earlier post about Hans Op de Beeck's exhibition at the KMSKA, though I spread them over two days. This time, I focused on the visitors rather than the artworks.
I noticed how often smartphones dominated the scene, not just capturing quick snapshots but fully immersing users. For instance, two women sat in a carefully arranged room surrounded by art, yet the only light came from their screens. It raises the question: what's the point of visiting a museum if your masterpiece is on Instagram? Of course, technology can enhance the experience, but that day, it felt like there were two exhibitions—Op de Beeck's dreamlike universe and a never-ending flow of notifications.
Hello everybody :)
Here´s my part of the Castle Collab I made together with my friends for the Lego exhibition in Mondsee (Austria). Make sure to check out their accounts to see more pictures of our Collab.
My part was between the Castle from Markus and the mine from Kofi. I tried to focus on medieval agriculture, therefore I made a watermill and a small farm. Moreover their´s also a enclosure for pigs and a part of a corn field (which is continued on the creation from Jonas, RC_1136 and Kofi)
Furthermore I also tried some new techniques, for instance for the roof or for the stork´s nest. Their are also some easter eggs in my creation, on the right their´s a small cave with some golden coins and between the two buildings is an outhouse (toilet).
Credits to Emil Lide (www.flickr.com/photos/emillide) for the trees made out of small olive green leaves and to Simon NH (www.flickr.com/photos/138986803@N03 ) for the use of the croissants as wings.
Here are the links to the other builders of the Castle Collab:
Sanel Lukovic: www.flickr.com/photos/92767814@N02
Markus1984: www.flickr.com/photos/71475401@N07
Hellboy: www.flickr.com/photos/hellboy95
Jonas: www.flickr.com/photos/jonasobermaier
Kofi: www.flickr.com/photos/kofi_82
RC_1136: www.flickr.com/photos/rc_1136
Dr. Zarkow: www.flickr.com/photos/dr-zarkow
A overall picture of our Collab is coming soon :)
I hope you like it :)
Another instance where you think you have more time than you really have. There I was tucking into my Beef and Ale pie in Weaverham thinking I had half an hour in hand when a brief glance on my phone revealed this was on the move 21E dispensing with the pathing stop at Ditton. Jacket on, camera in hand and a sprint across the field (well quick walk/run) and as I arrived at the bridge my heart sank as 'something' diesel hauled passed through the cutting out of view. A quick check of RTT though revealed the Pullman was held at Weaver Jct, so it was back on.
Five minutes later DB 67021, getting a move on, came into view and the sun came out ... there is a God!
At this instance, the wasp has made a total of 9 separate trips (back and forth between nest and hunting ground) to catch and immobilized 8 different individual caterpillars as depicted in this composite image. The caterpillar is caught and then injected with a precise dose of venom which to put it into an eternal sleep mode to avoid any potential jailbreak.
The groggy caterpillars are to be served as live food for the wasp larvae entombed in the sealed nest. The nest would then sealed up when the desired stockpile is reached. Once the metamorphosis process is completed, the juvenile wasps will emerge from the nest and later repeat the cycle of life once again.
The wasp is observed to bring back a caterpillar once every about 20mins from 0700 to 0900 hrs and then it grinds to a halt. The wasp is seen to disappear into the nest probably to take a much needed rest only to emerge occasionally to take meals and chat with friends. The process is repeated for 2-3 days. Then after the nest is sealed and the wasp's duty is done leaving the natural development to occur within.
This tiny drab wasp is rather inconspicuous, measuring about 5mm in size.
The nest in this case, is a cavity within a bamboo stick.
The equally tiny caterpillar species though, is yet to be determined.
observation : 23-26.10.2021AD
Juve wasp emerge : mid Nov (incubation period approx 3 weeks)
I enjoyed tremendously shooting these tiny wasps carrying those equally tiny caterpillars in flight. Their secret lives is now partially exposed. I now know what they are doing all these while which I have not managed to observe in detailed due to their tiny size and inconspicuous activities. Prior to these captures, I have absolutely no idea that they are actually fetching those tiny live loads back to the nest.
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Photo of Wahkeena Creek captured via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 24-50mm F/4 lens. On the Wahkeena Creek Trail #420. Wahkeena Canyon. Mount Hood National Forest. Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Columbia River Gorge-Area. Cascades Range. Multnomah County, Oregon. Early April 2017.
Exposure Time: 0.4 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/22 * Bracketing: None
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For instance, from Huffington Post, Nov. 5, 2009:
EXCERPT: While thousands of at-risk Americans wait, some big Wall Street banks have already secured the hard-to-find H1N1 vaccine for their employees.
Building on a story that BusinessWeek broke, NBC reports that employees at the New York Stock Exchange, bankers at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, and employees at the Federal Reserve have all received swine flu vaccine doses to administer to their employees.
In particular, NBC reports that Goldman Sachs has received 200 doses of the vaccine -- the same amount as Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.
VIDEO & full text at: www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/05/swine-flu-vaccine-banks...
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Blame for this lies squarely upon Bait & Switch Obama & the vicious corporatism which he is using all of his power to advance (witness the golden pigs he put atop the nation immediately under himself, such as Larry Summers & Tim Geithner).
~Franklin P. Jones
Let me tell you, my patience was measured today. I deserve a medal or at least a gold star.
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The ham doing her thing a few years ago: www.flickr.com/photos/diyosa/131246453/
Taking advantage of a nice blacked out space. You can't tell without anything for scale reference, but this is about 10ft in diameter.
Not for the squeamish... This Northern Saw Whet Owl was enjoying a lunch of fresh caught deer mouse. I have had opportunity to watch them catch and eat a number of times, and in almost every instance, after picking away at the top half of the mouse, they then swallow the back half in one piece, which is quite the feat for such a small owl.
It interesting to see the size comparison of the mouse to the owl... though it will take the owl over an hour from start to finish he will eat the whole mouse...
All constructive comments are appreciated.
To see more pictures of Saw Whet Owls that I have taken please visit my Saw Whet album at www.flickr.com/photos/black_cat_photography/albums/721777...
"So it happens, for instance, that a man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time that he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a threepenny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll hand him over cold-bloodedly to the police."
― Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera
NEW JERSEY 2017 BALD EAGLE PROJECT REPORT
ANOTHER PRODUCTIVE YEAR FOR NJ’S EAGLES
by Larissa Smith, CWF Wildlife Biologist
The Conserve Wildlife Foundation of NJ in partnership with the NJ Endangered and Nongame Species Program has released the 2017 NJ Bald Eagle Project Report. In 2017, 178 eagle nests were monitored during the nesting season. Of these nests 153 were active (with eggs) and 25 were territorial or housekeeping pairs. One hundred and ninety young were fledged.
In 2017 the number of active nests was three more than in 2016, but the number young fledged decreased by 27 from a record high of 216 fledged in 2016. The productivity rate this season of 1.25 young/active nest is still above the required range of 0.0 to 1.1 for population maintenance. Productivity could be lower this season for many reasons including weather, predation and disturbance to the nesting area. In 2017 nest monitors reported several instances of “intruder” eagles at nests which did disrupt the nesting attempts of several pairs. One of these “eagle dramas” unfolded at the Duke Farms eagle cam watched by millions of people. An intruder female attempted to replace the current female. This harassment interrupted the pairs bonding and copulation and no eggs were laid.
This year’s report includes a section on Resightings of banded eagles. Resightings of NJ (green) banded eagles have increased over the years, as well as eagles seen in NJ that were banded in other states. These resightings are important, as they help us to understand eagle movements during the years between fledging and settling into a territory, as well as adult birds at a nest site.
For more info: www.conservewildlifenj.org/blog/2017/12/06/new-jersey-201...
New Jersey Bald Eagle Project Report | 2017 may be downloaded here: www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/ensp/pdf/eglrpt17.pdf
Federation Square often used as a large advertising venue, this instance for Jet star, Australia's budget Airline. For What it's worth this view has completely changed, thanks to the new Metro Tunnel under construction at this date 2023-03-21.
One of several projects, that explore photography as evidence amongst other ideas.
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In this instance the word refers to what are essentially 'shock absorbers' between two heritage carriages on the Hoorn–Medemblik heritage steam railway in the Netherlands. Access was allowed onto the open platforms between carriages. The trick was to focus on the equipment rather than the track ballast whilst the train rocked and rolled along the 20 km or 12 1/2 mile journey.
The photo was taken two years ago.
Sony A7RII Fine Art Zion National Park Autumn Winter Subway Hike! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape Photography!
An important thing to remember is that even though pixel sizes keep getting smaller and smaller, the technology is advancing, so the smaller pixels are more efficient at collecting light. For instance, the Sony A7rII is back-illuminated which allows more photons to hit the sensor. Semiconductor technology is always advancing, so the brilliant engineers are always improving the signal/noise ratio. Far higher pixel counts, as well as better dynamic ranger, are thus not only possible, but the future!
Yes I have a Ph.D. in physics! I worked on phototranistors and photodiodes as well as an artificial retina for the blind. :)
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And all the best on Your Epic Hero's Odyssey!
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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
All the best on your Epic Hero's Odyssey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
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The Zion Narrows!
Another instance of seeing a friend wear something cool (like sweet glasses) and informing them that we needed to do a shoot!
For the Strobist...
Flashed synced to the camera with remote radio slave.
Behind her to the left is a 10 by 5 foot (vertical) chimera bank with two flash heads in it, set to half power. Another of the same bank, is behind her on the right. A small beauty dish set to a 4th power mounted to the ceiling just a little behind her. Also a big octobank in front of her slightly off to the right, set to half power.
Minute Man National Historical Park
The North Bridge, often colloquially called the Old North Bridge, is a historic site in Concord, Massachusetts, spanning the Concord River. On April 19, 1775, the first day of the American Revolutionary War, provincial minutemen and militia companies numbering approximately 400 engaged roughly 90 British Army troops at this location. The battle was the first instance in which American forces advanced in formation on the British regulars, inflicted casualties, and routed their opponents. It was a pivotal moment in the Battles of Lexington and Concord and in American history. The significance of the historic events at the North Bridge inspired Ralph Waldo Emerson to refer to the moment as the "shot heard round the world."
Not enough catnip garnish, for instance, and not one cheezburger on this week's menu! The horror!
Keeping the girls off the counters is impossible. I pretty much wash them (the counters, not the feline overlords) down with straight vodka before prepping food. The worst Ben ever did was beg from a distance...and he was given occasional scraps. The girls never did learn from their noble collie brother, and they get no scraps.