During spring migration season, I go into the woods from a different direction than the rest of the year. I enter on the Southwest end (Don, you know where this is) and walk North into the lower woods. This immediately puts me in tree lines most likely to have the songbirds.

The hike would take me through the entire lower woods. Two different choices here...one along the river shoreline, and the other through the middle of the woods, which is better for the birds in trees.

On this overcast day, a few opportunities...the previously shown Palm Warbler, and numerous Orioles. Not much else, though. This hike takes me to a stream too deep to cross without waders, so at that point I must clumb up a seven or eight foot gravel embankment to more across that stream.

In this part of those woods, the weeds are already knee to hip tall, and in another month will be almost impassable. I was pushing on through them when a red head popped up above the weeds, and began rapidly moving away from me. The head was bobbing up and down, forward and backward. I knew what it was, of course, and began photographing trying to follow.

Think of the raptors scene in Jurassic Park II...where they move in on the humans from all sides, through the tall grass. That was sort of what this seemed like. This turkey very quickly ran off...never trying to fly. I wasn't going to chase it, so settled for the shots I had gotten,.

This one is quite representative, and one of those photos which makes an otherwise routine outing a bit more special.

Yeah, you know how it is. She's that girl! The one who IM's your guy while the two of you are out shopping. And you're a goody two-shoes, smiling and being nice about it. Then you get a pair of killer shoes and suddenly you go all Christina on her ass. Gotta love those shoes.

(Thanks, Leia, for helping me out in the photoshoot! ummm, Sorry to slander you ... but the shoes made me do it!)

Breathe contest: Winner gets early access to the June Arcade. Deadline May 28th.

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Camera and Lighting:

Windlight Sky: London 2050

Pretty much as is except Leia does not have mesh hands so those are my maitreya bento hands pasted in with some color matching tweaking.

Setting:

Urban Street Scene by Scott's Fabrications

Me:

Pose: Hand on hip by Kaboom Karlfeldt

Belle Heels-Black M.Lara by Breathe

Leia:

Pose: Sleep by Ferran Brodsky

Face Animator by Laura Lyne Design

Asylum Leather Pants - Night by Barely Legal

Hopper Swimsuit Upper - Blackk/Gold by Barely Legal

IF bracelets full perm 4 cuir by Supernatural

Hair: Shout by Exile

Tango Mesh Breasts by Lolas

Angela Shape by WoW Skins

Michela Tan 01 Skin by WoW Skins

Luminous Eyes Raven eyes by Over the Rainbow

I know you all like when we have an "unidentified" photo for you to muse over, I strongly suspect you will be musing over this one for quite a while! It is nice to see a little colour on the stream for a change and it is quite a while since we had a Tilbrook photo, good luck...

While we thought we might finally have stumped the unstumpable group, Padraig Laffan (nokadoe) reminded us why we love LOVE this stream - and identified it as Drumgoff Barracks in the Glenmalure Valley area of County Wicklow. He even provided confirmation that it still stands. We have since learned that Drumgoff Barracks was built in 1803, in the years after the 1798 Rebellion, as part of a series of barracks intended to assist in controlling this relatively remote part of Wicklow. It was seemingly sold in the 1830s however, and used as accommodation for the Glenmalure's miners. I read in one source that it may now be part of a the nearby An Oige hostel. (But it is long since ruined, so you'd need more than a sleeping bag)...

Photographer: Richard Tilbrook

Collection: Tilbrook Photographic Collection

Date: c.1963

NLI Ref: Til636

You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

Hey everyone!

The candy table goes in the right direction :D

But I don't know where to find nor what fabric I'll get for the table. I thought yellow first, but now maybe white, or something striped? Or maybe I print something on fabric? aaah decisions!

And I also wonder if I should put the table in a wall+floor setting.

As you can see, I'm made of doubts ^^

La table de dessert va dans la bonne direction :D

Bon pour l'instant je ne sais pas quoi utiliser pour la nappe (ni ou trouver le tissu). J'avais pensé à du jaune, puis du blanc ou peut-être des rayures? Ou peut-être imprimer quelque chose sur du tissu? aaah!

Et puis je me demande également si je dois l'installer dans un duo mur+sol.

Comme vous pouvez le voir, je suis indécise ^^

xx

Stéphanie

I know this isn't my normal picture. This picture isn't edited AT ALL It's just a straight shot from SL. I was just going to post tomorrow when I got home from work but I figured that was unfair to all of you! I'm sorry I'm behind today, I've gotten overloaded with work in RL & SL but now that I'm caught up things should be back to normal! No more late weeks promise! So here's Week 5! I'll also update this photo tomorrow with the proper edited one and another more stylized picture <3

Week 5 Dory From Finding Nemo! Check out StyleMinions to find out all the information!

I don’t know how the Valley of Dreams got its name -- perhaps from the German explorers who found it (joke! (the Germans seem to know more about the desert southwest than we natives do)) -- but it seems to me to be appropriate. It is an inaccessible place that can be reached only by driving down about 15 miles of dirt road, then a couple of miles of sandy jeep trail of varying quality, and finally half a mile of no trail at all.The view in this photo is looking north from the southern edge. Just over the hood of the car you can see the first stand of hoodoos. About half a mile beyond that one sees the second stand, and half a mile further north (where you see the red hills) is the third and most impressive area.

My truck can make it to the middle set. I was parked there, sitting in my folding chair in the shade of the truck and trying to wait out the late afternoon heat, when I saw on the horizon a large white panel truck. It was located near where I was standing when I took this photo. I watched it drive back and forth for a while and considered that it was probably a local rancher moving some cattle or horses, but it didn’t seem like the kind of truck for that purpose.

Eventually I lost interest in the truck and went to take some shots of the hoodoos behind me. Later I came back to my chair. I noticed a person walking toward me from the panel truck. He was far away and I had some time to speculate on his intent. I began to wonder if I should be afraid. This area is a checkerboard of patches of BLM, private, and Navajo land, each about a square mile in area. It’s so mixed up you can’t know for sure where you are with regard to property boundaries. So I wondered if the person coming toward me was a local rancher who was going to tell me to get off his property, or a crazed drug addict who would rob and murder me, or just another photographer.

As he came closer, I noticed that he was wearing knee-length shorts, which led me to believe with some relief that he belonged to the final category. Indeed, this was the case.

I rose from my chair as he approached and we shook hands. He asked me how I got my truck there and if I knew whether I was on BLM land or not. We discussed whether his truck could make it and decided that it probably couldn’t. He said that he would just have to carry his equipment from where the truck was parked on the horizon. He told me that he was getting footage for an IMAX movie about the Southwest. I offered to drive over in my truck and load up his equipment but told him I wouldn’t be available to help him carry it back. He declined the offer.

I told him that I was about to set up for a time lapse sequence during the night in the hoodoos behind us and hoped that we wouldn’t interfere with each other. He headed back to his truck and I went over the hill to set up my camera and get the time lapse started. Later I saw his truck moving again. After darkness moved in I didn’t see him or the truck until the next morning. As I was eating breakfast, I saw him coming again from his truck. He had a large shoulder pack. He told me that he had gotten stuck in the sand during the night and had to call a tow truck. He must have had a sat phone; I didn’t ask. I did ask about his equipment for shooting IMAX. He uses a Red Epic Dragon, a nice piece of equipment that shoots 6k video and probably costs more than my truck. He uses a Nikon D750 for star photography because of its low noise floor.

He said he was just walking around to explore the area. He had maps and instructions on how to reach promising locations. He knew about most of the prominent features that attract photographers to the area. I gathered that he would be in the area for some time.

After breakfast, I left for the Bisti area.

I did not know

when I kept walking

I just walked on

as everyone does

with our so called life

I did not know

if it would leave

me all I never wanted to be

I did not know

if I had looked back

I would always regret

to what I have become

still I had to walk on

so I walked on

towards my unforsaken destiny

where I left you behind

where I left all the good behind

where I left myself behind

and I just walked on...

Washington D. C. 8

Yes, I know... The CCC's been over for some one month. This is my last entry - but now I present it to you in the fully finished and refined form.

This is my next attempt, after last year's 'Tower of the Storms', to build a sinister-looking place. The clue feature here are the shingle roofs with black minifig flippers. I finally managed to collect a considerable amount of those - and still, a handful more would come in handy. :)

At the moment when I submitted this to the contest, there was no interior yet. Instead, only some random yellow and red techni bricks scaffolding (as always). I decided to rebuild the castle completely - starting with the ground level, up to the roof. I hope the effet was worth the effort.

Enjoy!

Just started deboxing and taking pics of all the new additions. This girl was under the tree this year.

I know I have mentioned it before, but this little poppet has T1 diabetes. Her Mum has had to put her midwifery course on hold till next year, because the responsibility of someone else looking after her at night is huge, and she has to do nights to qualify. There are other issues, such as Eve not always being Hypo-aware etc. We are trying to raise funds for a service dog for her, one that is trained to sense when she needs attention. If you have time, please look at the funding page, and even if you don't wish to donate, please share among people you know who might... Eve, and her Mummy, will be eternally grateful.

www.letsgofundraise-uk.com/fundraiser_detail.php?fundid=1...

The Kingsbury-Humber discharge tanks, as you can plainly see with a Shed up front and not a Tug, crosses the River Witham, giving a somewhat fuzzy reflection as it does so.

Later on, and I must point out that I've only just found this out, the Colas Rectory Junction which RTT said was cancelled, ran. This is now becoming horribly obvious to me, a very difficult train to photograph. Of the three times I've headed out in this direction, twice it has not run due to whatever problem and this last time I drove off fully understanding it had been cancelled and as already pointed out, it ran. At the precise moment it crossed where this shot was taken, I was stuck in traffic heading for the A46. My horoscope said nothing about this in my future, not a single sausage... Mystic Meg, I need help! The stars WILL align one of these days.

If anyone fancies meeting up in Lincoln to track this damn train down, let me know.

Ex oil, and water I guess.

Forever you're my foundation I know

I can keep

Told I was good for nothing

Branded a cheat

Now I know why you listen

I can help you anytime

Love is all there is

I wonder what you people do with your lives Hey!

Oh! I wonder what you people do with your lives

Once more this will be forever

I can't withhold secrets

I know I'm going where the sun always shines

I know my son we've made it

It can't escape my mind

I know my star is a brighter star, brighter star

Forever be in my arms

This could be a myth in the making

Under a spell

Down to ambition

I guess you could even call it a miracle

I see my true love coming

My little bundle of joy

I can help you realise

IT'S US AND US ONLY

I know I'm as good as my neighbour

A starter for ten

I can't promise I will always be with you

I promise I'll always be there

When you find it, you'll feel it

I'll give you all of my love

Hold it, Don't lose it, Misuse it

As long as you believe enough

My mind is multiplying

I have so much to give

I wouldn't estimate you for the way that you want to live

- Forever, The Charlatans

Where do reflections of trees and shadows cross a rocky bottomed pool? The Shadow knows.

No need to go out too far. This is the view from my front door.

I know that climbing Mount Kinabalu probably an easy climb for some of you but for me its an amazing achievement. I made myself wondered with my ability, i now believe the skies is the limit. Seen here is my legs hahaha...i'm enjoying the view before the summit of Mt. Kinabalu (4,095 metres (13,435 ft) above sea level ) It was hard but very-very cool experience...i'm very proud of myself :o). I can't believe i was up there even though i was raised and grew up at one of the village at the foothills of Mt.Kinabalu. Yeah, i'm a lousy Sabahan lols. I didn't take many photos..i'm too tired already! but no altitude sickness..thanks goodness!

Oh..i was there with few more flickr friends..i'm sure they going to post their picture very soon too :) Thanks for the fun and the support guys!

****Mount Kinabalu (Malay: Gunung Kinabalu) is a prominent mountain in Southeast Asia. It is located in Kinabalu National Park (a World Heritage Site) in the east Malaysian state of Sabah, which is on the island of Borneo in the tropics.****

I know this is a total overload, so just ignore me... I couldn't believe I found this folder with so many images I took while walking through the mansion in 2017... I just want to get them into my Flickr Planting Fields album...

If you decide to look... I hope you enjoy seeing how the rich and famous lived....

Did you ever stop to think what controls the universe? Did you know there is more water on earth than land? How is the ocean able to stay in its rightful place without flooding the earth? How was water created and from what source? What would be its purpose? We know the moon's gravity controls the tides of the ocean but what force causes the moon to gravitate and control the tides of the ocean and why? For what purpose? Just because? By chance? Why would chance care? How did it come to exist? Who or what was the earth and heavens made for and why?

What controls the laws of gravity? The scientists say some technical theories of this and that and its cause by some physical source and number or chance but how did it come to exist and where? why? Can scientists explain that? When you look at earth and all its creatures, how were they able to come into existence and why? Why are they there? Why are there so many different species? Why are we here? Are we here just by chance or are we here for a reason to be in a relationship with an all powerful highly intelligent spiritual being who created all things for him and by him for his pleasure and glory and which longs to have an intimate and personal relationship with his children.

How were the planets, stars and galaxies in the heavens formed? How did the heavens come to exist? Did something by chance just happen and it came to be? But why? From what matter did it come to exist? What was its purpose to come into existence? Can people see that things like this just don't happen by chance? Why can't people believe that there is a living and powerful spiritual God and that He is the beginning and the end, and a loving, forgiving and longing to have a personal relationship with his children whom he created.

What controls the movement and orbit of the earth and the heavens? Why does the sun rise and set on earth and what would be its purpose? Why is there light? Why is there oxygen? What would be its purpose? What would be the purpose of light? Did light come to be by chance? Did chance create human beings? And if so, why? Does chance see, feel, hear, create, love? How did chance come to exist and why would it care?

When you see the earth God created and its beauty of colors, trees, sky, vegetation, mountains, seas, rivers, lakes, his creatures, and people, isn't that enough to see that it was put there for a reason? That there is a God who created all things by his Word and hand. A God who wants us to enjoy the beauty of his creations whom he loves. If all this was by chance then why? How did chance come to exist? Why would it care? What would be the purpose of chance?

Why do we have emotion? How is it that we are able to feel, think, love and reproduce? Does chance care? Why would it? What would be its purpose of life? Do you think we actually come from monkeys? And if we did, why did we evolve to human beings? Do you think life started by chance by evolving from cells, fish, monkeys, etc. How did life come to exist and why? That is a question scientists cannot answer because they don't know the answer and would rather choose to make up their own ideas and theories of how life and creation came into existence denying there is an all powerful God who created all things in the heavens and the earth and that he is sitting on his throne above watching us and heartbroken that some of his children choose to deny who he really truly is.

How great is God---beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out.

Job 36:26

He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.

After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.'

So that all men he has made may know his work, he stops every man from his labor...

The breath of God produces ice, and broad waters become frozen.

He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.

At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them.

He brings the clouds to punish men, or to water his earth and show his love.

Job 37:3-13

"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.

Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone---while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?

Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, when I said, "This is far you may come and no farther; here is where you proud waves halt'?

Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?...

Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?

Tell me, if you know all this.

"What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside? Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings?...

What is the way to the place where the lighting is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?

Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm, to water a land where no man lives, a desert with no one it it, to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?

Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?

From whose womb comes the ice? Who give birth to the frost from the heavens when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deeps is frozen?...

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God's dominion over the earth?

"Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?

Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'?

Who endowed the heart with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind?

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together?....

Job 38:4-38

For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods.

In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.

The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land...Today if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts...

Psalm 95:3,4,5,8

Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.

Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day...For all the gods of the nations are all idols, but the Lord made the heavens.

Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and glory are in his sanctuary.

Psalm 96:1-6

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You know, there are lots of other websites out there for hosting and sharing photos online, but the thing that really impressed me about Flickr from the very beginning was the strong sense of community the site had. It's definitely the people that have kept me coming back and sharing my vision of the world around me for the better part of three years now. And the coolest part of this whole "social networking" thing? Meeting the people whose photos you comment on, are inspired by, and who spend their time commenting on yours.

Today I was lucky enough to spend my afternoon and early evening with Kiyoshi-san on the first day of his seventh visit from Japan to Vancouver. We walked around, shot lots of photos, ate some food, and had a pretty damn good time. And we were treated to this amazing play of light and clouds on the south face of the Burrard Building as we turned off of Burrard onto Alberni. A quick glance skyward and cameras instantly snapped to our faces... we revelled in the 90 seconds or so of truly glorious light. Vancouver, BC. September 1, 2009.

“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.”

~Rosalia de Castro

I suppose that I had inadvertently taken a ton of path shots when I was at Allegheny last weekend and didn't even realize it! This is at the very bottom of campus next to Carnegie Hall, which used to be the chemistry building and is now the psychology building. From science to philosophy!

I hope that you all have a great weekend!!!

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... as soon as you cut it, your hands will know, your throat, your eyes maybe. And all because of a tiny chili

In der Music City geht dieses Wochenende die Post ab. Neben dem großen CMA Music Festival gibt es auch das 6. Spiel um den Stanley Cup in der NHL. In der Serie Best of 7 steht es zur Zeit 3:2 für Pittsburgh. Nashville hat am Sonntag die Möglichkeit zu Hause auszugleichen. Dieser Parkplatz am Broadway wird dieses Wochenende sicherlich nicht mit Autos, sondern mit Massen von Zuschauern gefüllt sein.

Nashville, I stand with YOU!

About the pic: I know this pic is really simple, but thats what I love about it. Sorry its not in focus, but it was taken from the car. 100% natural no modelling! Me and my friend were also fighting while I took the pic, so that made it even harder to take! Don't ask!!!!

Hope you like the words to go with it, please tell me what you think...........

I believe the children are our are future

Teach them well and let them lead the way

Show them all the beauty they possess inside

Give them a sense of pride to make it easier

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be

Everybody searching for a hero

People need someone to look up to

I never found anyone who fulfills my needs

A lonely place to be

So I learned to depend on me

I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadow

If I fail, if I succeed

At least I'll live as I believe

No matter what they take from me

They can't take away my dignity

Because the greatest love of all

Is happening to me

I found the greatest love of all

Inside of me

The greatest love of all

Is easy to achieve

Learning to love yourself

It is the greatest love of all

And if by chance, that special place

That you've been dreaming of

Leads you to a lonely place

Find your strength in love

I know most of you won't see this photo because of Flickrs contacts bug, but I still wanted to post it because it's one of my favorites. Sure it's setup, but this was an out take of another shot.

Sometimes the outtakes are better.

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So yesterday we had to head down to UCLA medical center (yes, where Britney Spears went) to have something done. I was with the boys in the waiting area, next to this long hall, and a woman with young daughter go walking by... just giggling and having fun. Then the dad, who seemed quite a bit older, 5'5", dark leather jacket, dark complexion, on his cell phone with VERY projecting voice, "OKAY... YES, THEN CALL ME, OKAY..."

Looks over at me, I *head nod*

They come back down the hall together a couple minutes later. Mom goes into an office, leaving dad and daughter alone.

"Dad, lets play Red Light, Green Light".

"How is that played, sweetheart?" (she tells him)

.

.

.

"A RED Light... now it's a GREEN light!"

"Red light again, okay GREEN LIGHT!"

Almost shouting, but not really. Just a loud, projecting voice.

I see our 8 year old playing along with him, starting and stopping on his command.

About 20' away I say to him, "who doesnt' like a good game of red light, green light?"

"YES, THEY ALLLL LIKE IT". Not yelling, but not using his 'hospital voice' either. Smiling back at me, noticing my son playing along.

Nurse walks by, turns and looks at the man, and keeps going. The nurse then goes to the counter around the corner (close to where I'm standing) and whispers something about the guy in the leather jacket.

They continue Red Light, Green Light in the hall. Eventually the mom comes out, and then head to the elevator and leave.

10 minutes later, non chalant, I go to the counter and ask the nurse,

"So, who did the nurse say that guy in the leather coat was?"

"Oh, that's Al Pacino"

The girl was his daughter, and the mom was his... ladyfriend of many years, Beverly D'Angelo - Mrs. Griswold of Vacation fame.

Bottom line - Caiden gets to tell his friends years from now, that he got to play Red Light, Green light with Al Pacino

Long know for manufacturing the finest wheeled and non-wheeled bikes, Harley Davidson's most popular offering was this retro-custom chopper-style speeder bike. Based on the famous Sportster motorcycle, the Clipster uses the latest in proto-magnetronic propulsion while having the look and feel of a custom chopper. Powerful, lightweight, and highly maneuverable, these bikes quickly became popular among both law-abiding Federation citizens and outlaw biker gangs.

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Another classic space-style speeder using a lot of clips, hence the name. Hope you all enjoy it!!

the pimp chronicles

Pub: XIX

8/24/10

Thank you flickr!

Thank you so very much.

Thank you for giving me the reason and know-how to create compelling pictures. High five. Sloppy gross tongue kiss. Slap on the ass. To the entire fucking website. That includes explore, yahoo, the fuckers who made the site, and even you. Yeah, you reading this shit. YOU are a superhero for sitting through my shit. I commend you.

Well, that said, not that this picture here is my magnum opus by any means. It’s just me lying on my fucking bed. But in the years I have spent on here, I have gone from taking pictures of flowers to producing what I think are some bang ass cool pics.

"pimp, shut up, what is your point you asshole"

Damn, okay. The reason I’m saying this is that over the weekend I was out wine tasting in a very touristy part of California. The Napa valley.

And do you know how many people I saw standing up proper, back straight, modestly smiling all so very perfect conventional for every picture they took with their digital cameras? EVERYONE!

Word to the wise: THIS IS B O R I N G!

Standing by “Welcome to Napa” signs with their stupid cameras just smiling like a bunch of jerkoffs.

Standing in front of a winery with the mom and kids holding a waiting smile with daddy douchebag flagging down another banal family to take their shot. Just so they could return the B O R I N G favor.

YAWNnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Think outside the box people. Go lay down in the street or something. Go steal some grapes from the vineyard and smash them on your spare t-shirt and get dirty. Act drunk or just fucking get drunk and run around the valley and roll down the hill and take a picture of that.

ANYTHING BUT STANDING IN FRONT OF THAT DAMN SIGN SMILING LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. PLEASE! FOR THE LOVE OF THE PIMP JUST STOP!

Sadly.

I think I used to be the smiling family idiot too. I think. Kind of.

I still do occasionally. But you know my motto. Mix it up. Try something new. Don’t stick to what’s comfortable. Or at least I try to uphold this brainchild idea of mine.

I mean look at what flickr did for me? I’ve come such a long way that I have this textured ugly picture of me laying in my bed. At least I’m not smiling in front of a winery.

Right?

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sooc 35mm film.

these pictures aren't extraordinary or anything, but i just really like them.

I know it's a rubbish shot but WOW...!! It's taken three weeks to get a shot of a youngster. Taken in near darkness, hand held from miles away so I'm chuffed you can actually see what it is.

And today, the Somerset Wildlife Trust have 'gone public' with the story. Another fantastic first for the Somerset levels.

Read more here: www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/Wildlife-Trusts-Night-...

www.birdguides.com/news/night-herons-breed-in-britain-for...

And on the BBC news webpage.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-40802437

I know these might not look like spectacular pictures, but they’re incredibly difficult to take. Ever heard the expression “quick as lightning”? So in the same split-second, you have to spot the lightning bolt in a sea of black clouds from 400 km above, aim at this minuscule white dot with your viewfinder and a big 800mm lens, focus (in the dark), and shoot. Needless to say this is impossible unless you figure out another technique… Oh well, maybe looking at the thunder striking the planet from above the massive night clouds doesn’t impress you, but I find it excessively beautiful and menacing, like swimming in deep dark waters at night and wondering what’s below you… Huge respect to Andreas Mogensen who only spent eight days on the ISS but still managed to capture a lightning strike and an even more elusive blue jet erupting upwards from it. His photo (well it was a video still actually) encouraged the "space storm hunter" ASIM facility that is now outside the Columbus module. It is purpose-built to take pictures like this, but they are not so beautiful as they use different wavelengths that are much more interesting and useful to scientists. Also it takes 720 pictures of our planet a minute... continuously, how can we compete with that? Come to think of it, Andreas must be an extremely lucky guy! ;) ASIM is revealing things nobody knew about thunderstorms, explaining new phenomena and discovering new ways of how lightning is interacting with our atmosphere and influencing our climate! www.esa.int/asim

Survolés de nuit, les orages sont spectaculaires, à la fois magnifiques et un peu inquiétants – un peu comme nager de nuit dans des eaux sombres sans savoir ce qui se cache dans les profondeurs... On devine la couverture nuageuse qui recouvre les lumières des villes et donne une texture ouatée au noir du sol, et puis de manière aléatoire, une espèce de boule de lumière s’allume ici et là et dessine les contours du nuage jusqu’ici complètement indistinct dans l’obscurité.

Pendant ma première mission, je n’ai jamais réussi à prendre d’orages en photo de nuit, pour la simple raison que la durée d’un éclair ne donne pas le temps de viser, faire la mise au point et prendre la photo… Cette fois-ci j’ai changé de tactique : je vise une zone d’orages intense avec une mise au point qui devrait être la bonne et je prends les photos au hasard en espérant avoir la chance qu’un éclair claque au moment où j’appuie sur le déclencheur (et que mon exposition et ma mise au point sont correctes). Pour une fois, après 5 minutes de mitraillage, je ne suis pas revenu bredouille de la chasse aux éclairs. Mon collègue et ami Andy Mogensen a quant à lui réussi à photographier des jets bleus jaillissant par-dessus un orage pendant sa mission en 2015, dans le cadre de l’expérience THOR, et a ainsi permis de lever le voile sur un phénomène jusque-là resté très mystérieux. A la suite de son cliché, l’ESA a fait installer l'équipement ASIM sur l’extérieur de la Station, capable de mitrailler les orages (longueurs d'ondes différentes et 720 photos par minute !). On a encore beaucoup à apprendre sur la foudre, notamment comment elle interagit avec notre atmosphère et influence notre climat.

Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet

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I know, I know, I see mushrooms and I immediately think of fairy houses.

Actually, doesn't every one!!!

We've been having an Indian Summer and yesterday was one of those divine days that was picture perfect in every sense.

Having had the first crop of mushrooms on our lawn last week, I knew if I poked around in my fave forest I was bound to unearth some more.

The forest, despite recently being thinned out, still has a very dense tree canopy and its like being in a dark green tunnel with the occasional splashes of sunlight, just perfect for fairy houses to spring up.

Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this log, covered in all kinds of mushrooms and splashed with sun light (I've put the image in my comments).

I had a jolly good scamper round the log, camera clicking away until I suddenly remembered I am now shooting in raw and I didn't bring my spare memory cards.

This is where I have seen the benefits of shooting in raw because I have photographed in this particular spot many, many times and always been disappointed with the results.

Oh the joy of finding a tool on one's camera that really does the job!!

1. i don't know why i like this so much but it makes me like creeped out but then not at the same time. like something you'd find if you were in a horror movie. like one of those pictures they would look at and be like "huh wheres this" and then something pops out. i like it a lot and i like the shadows. twitter? tumblr?

anybody know the word MOCKOGRAPHY? can't look it up though it was given to me as a translation of KLECKSOGRAPHIE which i only found when I googled RORSCHACH-TEST

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klecksographie

www.beyars.com/kunstlexikon/lexikon_35.html

Abklatschverfahren = depressing methods??? - Abklatsch = poor copy (that's more like it)

# 02 out of QUICK REFLECTIONS multiple, 2016 - pastels painting & pencil drawing on bamboo paper, 30x15 cm

I know Lisa now since 15 years. She was pregnant back then when we first met. Really made me happy to meet her again. Good thing in a world where photography has become so superficial.

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Don't wanna know who you really are

Don't wanna know what you want, what you're begging for

The pheromones eating through your blood

Break down, break down

Break

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I know I normally don't announce this but since I will be working/finishing on some trade hats and commission order tonight, I do not know if I will have time to have any update...so in case there are some people waiting or surfing around, enjoy the rest of the night or morning wherever you may be. I also want to take this chance to say I really do not wish anyone to be staying at the computer all day for hats. I feel bit stress if there isn't anything and I also dont' want anyone risking their health or attention of their families. Of course, these may just all be in my head but just to put it out there :P

If anyone knows her than please tell me. I would love to trade for her name. DM me if you know her and would like to trade.

i know where this incredibly gorgeous azure kingfisher "lives" now... so i am hoping to go back one day soon and find it with better light. still... any day you see a kingfisher is a good day, indeed!

Silhouette means a dark subject against a Brighter Background ....

The life of a Boat man is like that...

After all the day long of helping people passing the river for all the happy moments of life.. ( Meeting Someone , Job , To earn money and more )

The Life of a boat man remain the same.. It's always in the dark.. they hardly smile... their life as it is...

We took some mind blowing picture of the river and the sky from his boat... We also take picture making him as the subject...

People say WOW... That's great... But what happens to them no one know.. A Click never change their life...

Their life remain in the black as they were ...

That's why i made this concept..

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Against all these magic of the sky and nature he is the silhouette.. the darker part of the image...

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Location : Burigonga River ....

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...Everything I know, and anywhere I go

It gets hard but it wont take away my love

And when the last one falls

When it's all said and done

It gets hard but it wont take away my love

I'm here without you baby

But you're still on my lonely mind

I think about you baby

And I dream about you all the time...

Here Without You - 3 Doors Down

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