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Sony a7m2 with FE 28 70 OSS. edit in Adobe Lightroom and GIMP
#child; #dog; #black and white; #blackandwhite; #bw; #contrast; #door; #mystery; #curiosity; #discover; #entrance; #enter; #wait; #trust; #intodarkness; #bambina; #cane; #bianco e nero; #porta; #mistero; #curiosità; #scoperta; #entrata; #entrare; #attesa; #fiducia
The Into Darkness Launch Party
Prince Charming: Psst, hey.
Cinderella: Uh, hello.
Prince Charming: You, uh, you feel over-dressed, too?
Cinderella: Very.
Prince Charming: Good, Then I’m not the only one... You, um... you look lovely though.
Cinderella: Thank you… You too.
Prince Charming: Cool, thanks. So… uh, This Is Love then?
Cinderella: This is love?
Prince Charming: Uh, haha, no, the song. So This Is Love, right?
Cinderella: Oh, I don't know it. Hmm... it's beautiful.
Prince Charming: You wanna dance?
Cinderella: Oh, but everyone is already staring…
Prince Charming: Then let’s give them something to stare at. So my names Henri...
#DerPuppe
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This picture was shot hand held in RAW. Processed file in Photoshop CS6. Removed original background and replaced with a textured one. I decreased the overall saturation with Hue/Saturation. Curve adjustment to decrease the overall contrast. 1 layer mask in soft light mode at 50% gray, using brush tool to lighten and darken some areas of the image, to bring out details.
This is a California Condor captured at the Oregon Zoo.
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Sony a7m2 with FE 28 70 OSS. edit in Adobe Lightroom and GIMP
#child; #dog; #contrast; #door; #mystery; #curiosity; #discover; #entrance; #enter; #wait; #trust; #intodarkness; #bambina; #cane; #porta; #mistero; #curiosità; #scoperta; #entrata; #entrare; #attesa; #fiducia; #SonyAlphaAnimalPortrait; #IT_ILC; #a7RM2;
Star Trek - Into Darkness 2013
This is a marketing souvenir from the movie on its 2013 launch weekend.
All those attending were given a metal lapel badge of the communicators as worn by the actors in the movie.
Week 47/52 - Movie Title
A screen-used phaser from the 2013 Star Trek movie Into Darkness.
The hand phaser is one of the most iconic props in Star Trek. There have been many different versions (movies, television shows, and streaming shows). I certainly have my favorite ones.
1. Star Trek The Original Series Phaser
2. Star Trek 3 The Search For Spock
3. Star Trek 5/6 The Final Frontier/Undiscovered Country
4. "boomerang phaser" Star Trek 7/8/9, Deep Space Nine, Voyager
5. Star Trek Reboot 2009/2013 (pictured above)/2016
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Cosplayer:Aigue-Marine
Character: Dr Carol Marcus
From: Star Trek: Into Darkness
Photographer: Lucas Ambrosio
Country: Germany
Cosplayer:Aigue-Marine
Character: Dr Carol Marcus
From: Star Trek: Into Darkness
Photographer: Lucas Ambrosio
Country: Germany
Cosplayer:Aigue-Marine
Character: Dr Carol Marcus
From: Star Trek: Into Darkness
Photographer: Lucas Ambrosio
Country: Germany
Cosplayer:Aigue-Marine
Character: Dr Carol Marcus
From: Star Trek: Into Darkness
Photographer: Lucas Ambrosio
Country: Germany
Cosplayer:Aigue-Marine
Character: Dr Carol Marcus
From: Star Trek: Into Darkness
Photographer: Lucas Ambrosio
Country: Germany
Firstly, sorry to repost this so quickly. However, I think the updates to the design certainly warrant something so soon. But this is definitely the final version - I compared it to the blueprints (something I should do more often) and it's pretty much perfect now. I hadn't realized how off my previous version was, though until I did this one. But I'm glad I did.
Cosplayer:Aigue-Marine
Character: Dr Carol Marcus
From: Star Trek: Into Darkness
Photographer: Lucas Ambrosio
Country: Germany
Pouring Out Your Heart in Lament to God
by Debbie Przybylski
“It seems to me that we do not need to be taught how to lament since we have so many models in Scripture. What we need is simply the assurance that it’s okay to lament. We all carry deep within ourselves a pressurized reservoir of tears. It takes only the right key at the right time to unlock them. In God’s perfect time, these tears can be released to form a healing flood. That’s the beauty and the mystery of the prayer of lament.” - Michael Card
Dear intercessors,
Did you know that even in sadness you can worship God in prayer?
You can worship Him in the midst of difficulty through a prayer of lament. There are many of these kinds of prayers in Scripture. All the major Bible characters poured their hearts out to God in lament. This is a type of prayer that we rarely hear about, yet at times, it is a necessary part of each one of our prayer lives.
When experiencing the dark night of the soul, prayers of lament are so helpful. We live in a broken world where things do not always go right. There are times when we don’t know what God is doing or which way to turn. Bringing before God a prayer of lament can make all the difference in the world, because God actually changes us during these times when we pour out our hearts to Him.
Prayers of lament are a form of worship and faith. We worship God even in the midst of pouring our difficulty out before Him. Instead of backing away from God during a hard time or a dark night, we face the pain and worship Him with it. As an act of love, we offer it all to God. We lay everything before His Throne.
“Lamentation is a powerful, and meaningful, form of worship because it places our love for God above even the worst of circumstances in our life… God does not ask us to deny the existence of our suffering. He does want us to collect it, stand in those things and make Him an offering. The Holy Spirit, our Comforter, helps us to do this: He aligns Himself with our will and says, 'I will help you to will to worship God.' The glory of the majesty of God is that He helps us will and do.” - Graham Cooke
The following is an example of a song of lament that has touched many of us throughout the years. The Spafford family lost everything they owned in a fire. Making plans to rebuild, they moved from Chicago to France. Horatio Spafford carefully planned the trip from America to France and booked tickets on a huge ship for his wife and four daughters. He was planning to join them a few weeks later. On the voyage, the ship was rammed by another vessel and sank, carrying his wife and four daughters to the bottom of the ocean. All his plans suddenly were crushed.
In grief and lament as his ship passed over the watery grave of his wife and four beloved daughters, he wrote this famous hymn, “It is Well With My Soul”. Many of us know that hymn and have been touched deeply through the words expressed in every verse. Horatio Spafford knew the power of the prayer of lament in that instant. His words have helped multitudes face their own sorrows.
He refused to let God go in the midst of difficulty and grief.
Prayers of lament may look like prayers of complaining, but they can still be prayers of faith, because this type of prayer refuses to let God go even in the hard times. God may seem absent, but He is not. Prayers of lament are honest before God and bring us face to face with Him as we try to understand what is going on in our heart. Job was one who prayed deep prayers of lament. He had lost everything—his family, friends, home, and health. Yet he wrestled through with God and clung to Him as he sought for meaning to his struggles. He held onto His faith in God and turned to Him with all his heart. He wanted to see God in the midst of his pain. Job did not let God go. He said:
I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eye—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! - (Job 19:25-27)
In the end God gave him back so much more. Job was able to see God in a far deeper way than before his trial. Not letting go and bringing our heart to God in the midst of pain is an act of faith. Well-known musician, Michael Card tells us how we can learn faith from Job’s prayer of lament:
“Finally, we see in Job one of the most fundamental lessons we can learn from lament: that protesting and even accusing God through the prayers of lament is, nevertheless, an act of faith. The lament of faith does not deny the existence of God. Rather, it appeals to God on the basis of his loving kindness, in spite of current conditions that suggest otherwise. Job simply would not let go of God—in spite of death, disease, isolation, and ultimately, a fear that God had abandoned him.”
How to Write a Prayer of Lament
Habakkuk 3:17-18 is a well-known example of a prayer of lament. Habakkuk was living in difficult circumstances but through a prayer of lament, he was brought to a place of peace. In chapter one his prayer was prayed in frustration; he was asking God “how long” and “why” regarding his circumstances. He was not denying the existence of pain. He was bringing it before God. Perhaps the situation sounds similar to our day.
“Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted” - (Habakkuk 1:3-4).
Through Habakkuk’s prayer of lament, God changed his heart. He didn’t immediately change his situation. God had directed his attention to His long-range plans and not the present circumstances he was facing. He told Habakkuk to wait and to live by faith. By the last chapter he prayed:
“LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy” - (Habakkuk 3:2).
Though his circumstances were difficult, God met with Habakkuk in his prayer and changed him on the inside. He began to see from a new perspective. He began to put his faith in God’s eternal hope, and his prayer of lament was a form of worship to God. In lamenting, you actually worship God with your sorrow. We read in Habakkuk 3:17-18:
"Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.”
You may want to write down your own prayer of lament using the words “though” and “yet” to begin to phrase your lament. Do this when you are facing difficulty. Save this exercise in prayer for the hard moments in your life.
Find a quiet place with God - Being alone with Him is a necessity for this kind of prayer.
Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you - He will lead you in a prayer of lament. He will open up your heart to God.
Be in God’s presence - We are often so much in a hurry but a prayer of lament takes time spent in God’s presence. Give yourself wholly to God.
Write down the “though”circumstances in your life - What difficulties and challenges are you right now facing? What pain or grief do you feel? These are the “though” circumstances.
Offer these things to God - Offer God the hard things as a sacrifice. Don’t ask for anything.
Worship God by completing the phrase - “Though these things have happened, yet _________.”Worship God in a series of yet statements. Bless and praise Him even in spite of the difficult things.
I guarantee that this will have a great effect on your life.
I had some very difficult moments in my life nine years ago. I was facing cancer, several surgeries, and a lengthy recovery. I learned that through pouring out my heart to God in prayers of lament, my heart was changed. I began to look at things in a much more positive light.
Praising God in the midst of difficulty is so powerful because God stands in the moment with us. The thing that I can testify during those moments of difficulty—when I brought my pain directly to God and walked with Him through it—was the reality that God was really there, and He gave me a deeper revelation of Himself.
Watch the following video and let it speak to your heart. See how this father lovingly sacrifices and cares for his beloved son. Know that Your Redeemer Lives and lovingly cares for you every moment in your pain.
“If you are in mourning, you have the opportunity to worship in the most powerful way possible: lamentation. This worship isn’t done in order to have God remove the pain. It simply recognizes that God stands in the moment with us. Lamentation elevates God in the presence of our enemies. It brings out a side of God that other forms of worship simply cannot touch.” - Graham Cooke
Together in the Harvest,
Debbie Przybylski
Intercessors Arise International
International House of Prayer (IHOP) KC Staff
deb@intercessorsarise.org
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Cosplayer:Aigue-Marine
Character: Dr Carol Marcus
From: Star Trek: Into Darkness
Photographer: Lucas Ambrosio
Country: Germany
Into Darkness - Close to Oblivion.
A souvenir badge from the latest Star Trek movie - "Into Darkness"
A superb action film from start to finish.
Certainly a journey to the dark side.
Cosplayer:Aigue-Marine
Character: Dr Carol Marcus
From: Star Trek: Into Darkness
Photographer: Lucas Ambrosio
Country: Germany
Enterprise consists of 9.238 bricks, starship black support and two shuttles included.
The dimensions are 114 cm (44.88 inches) long x 54 cm (21.26 inches) wide x 32 cm (12.60 inches) tall.
13 months of works!!
If you want to know more details about Enterprise, you can read the description on Enterprise Album.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Bye.
Angelo
The saucer is probably the biggest change. This thing is pretty much a 100% rebuild, now, of my original attempt. No part except a small bit of the warp nacelles is shared between them.
Another angle that just looks far better. I added a couple more details to the warp nacelles in order to keep the model from becoming a block of white - I'm glad I did.
U.S.S. Enterprise - NCC 1701
Enterprise consists of 9.238 bricks, starship black support and two shuttles included.
The dimensions are 114 cm (44.88 inches) long x 54 cm (21.26 inches) wide x 32 cm (12.60 inches) tall.
13 months of works!!
If you want to know more details about Enterprise, you can read the description on Enterprise Album.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Bye.
Angelo
If there is one thing I learned when watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, is that anything out of the ordinary was called an anomaly. I would classify storm clouds behind Space Mountain at Tomorrowland in the Magic Kingdom as an anomaly. Not sure the new crew of the Enterprise have used this word yet. Maybe this weekend in the new movie, Into Darkness, they will.
This photo was taken with a Super Zoom lens which is my favorite travel lens to use, especially at Walt Disney World. I know many people feel differently. Click the link to learn about more ways to use this type of lens.
Enterprise consists of 9.238 bricks, starship black support and two shuttles included.
The dimensions are 114 cm (44.88 inches) long x 54 cm (21.26 inches) wide x 32 cm (12.60 inches) tall.
13 months of works!!
If you want to know more details about Enterprise, you can read the description on Enterprise Album.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Bye.
Angelo
This image is intended to accompany the Inventing Interactive post "Interview: Jorge Almeida (Star Trek Into Darkness)" -- about the design of the UI sequences in "Star Trek Into Darkness." The full post is online at www.inventinginteractive.com/2013/05/16/star-trek-into-darkness/
I went a few days ago on my birthday.
It was excellent!
I really don't have any serious complaints, aside from that I'm not sure it's really all that worth it to see it in 3-D. i think i've been permanently spoiled on 3-d by Avatar, so far nothing has quite matched that experience for me.
I'm sure I will get many comments/complaints from Trekkers after posting this. I am already quite familiar with some of the nitpickery surrounding this film so here are my pre-emptive responses to the most common nitpicks from Trek purists:
1) Complaint: Khan is not played by an Indian!!
Response: Nor was he in TOS! Honestly, this doesn't bother me since the actor playing him did such a great job. Besides who is to say how "ethnic" looking someone who has had their genes massively tampered with will end up looking? There is always the possibility as well that this is not really Khan - perhaps the wrong Augment was awakened and he then led them to believe he was Khan?This would be a cool plot twist for a future film, although I don't know if they will go there.
2) Complaint:The movie is not an original story and borrows too much from "the Wrath of Khan"
Response: I disagree, while the part involving Kirk's death closely and intentionally mirrors WOK (cleverly, in my opinion, reversing Kirk and Spock's roles) the overall plot of this movie and the themes it deals with don't really resemble WOK at all. If anything, it works better as an alternate version of "Space Seed" (what if someone else found the SS Botany Bay?). To me it, sets us up for an alternate reality version of WOK at some point in the future, while paying homage to that film.
3) Complaint: I figured out how they would bring Kirk back too easily and therefore his death scene had no impact on me.
Response: Congratulations for figuring out the plot you clever person you! I didn't have to figure it out, I already knew most of the plot going into the film, yet still found myself getting choked up during that scene because the performances were so good. Does knowing what is going to happen in advance prevent you from living in the moment and getting swept away by good acting? Once you've seen a movie, do the dramatic parts completely lose all their emotional punch when viewed a second time? If so, then that sucks, I'm sorry for you, you will probably have a difficult time enjoying any piece of entertainment more than once!
I guess what I'm trying to say is that yes, while this plot point may've been a bit predicable for the cleverer audience members out there, it was so well executed that it didn't matter to me or detract from my enjoyment of the story significantly - but that's just my opinion.
4) Spock's "KHAAAAAN!!" moment - just too hammy!
Response: I already knew it was coming from reading reviews/comments on the UK premier a week earlier, and was prepared to be turned off by it. Then I got so wrapped up in the movie I forgot about it until it happened. When it did happen, it actually seemed to go along pretty well with the emotion of the moment and I didn't understand what all the fuss was about. I liked the Kirk/Spock role reversals and WOK homages in that scene. What made it so powerful to me was seeing this generally unemotive character get so emotional for a change.
So yes, this film was not perfect, but no movie ever is.
I really enjoyed it, more so than the first film. In fact I haven't had such a good time at a movie in awhile.
If I really wanted to, of course there are always a few little things I could find about it to pick apart, but I had a good time so I'm not terribly inclined to do so. I have found that overanalyzing things tends to make me enjoy things less, not just movies - but everything! It makes life horrible - stop it people!
I'm jazzed that they are finally going out on their 5-year mission so we can see more exploring of "strange new worlds" on the big screen in the future (my only big complaint about these new films so far is that we have seen far too much of Earth), I can't wait for the next one!
I now release the Kraken of Komments! ( oops! wrong franchise!)
May I remind those that deign to comment that the opinions expressed herein are just that, opinions, and everyone is entitled to express theirs as long as they do so in a civilized way. Keep it civil - I know some people get crazy protective about "their" Trek! If you didn't like the movie, then that is OK and it is OK to say why. I will probably still think you are wrong, but who really cares what I think? I'm just some old guy with way too many toys!
Cosplayer:Aigue-Marine
Character: Dr Carol Marcus
From: Star Trek: Into Darkness
Photographer: Lucas Ambrosio
Country: Germany
This image is intended to accompany the Inventing Interactive post "Interview: Jorge Almeida (Star Trek Into Darkness)" -- about the design of the UI sequences in "Star Trek Into Darkness." The full post is online at www.inventinginteractive.com/2013/05/16/star-trek-into-darkness/