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Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour:
the West End hath need of thee;
she is a fen of stagnant water.
I’m on our way through
this interminable day of chill
and bluster but we're in
for a thaw, I predict. Galileo
has been pardoned. I cross
to the sunny side; it's easy
to be metaphysical in mid-autumn
as withering leaves drift about us.
A prophet holds a sign: Darkness
is not the absence of light. The flip side:
It's the absence of God. A bus gears
down, spraying those waiting with blue
diesel exhaust. My coffee shop
is across the way. I pause, sensing
the exotic aromas that beckon me to enter.
Yes, I am at the gate to Paradise, a step
behind Dante and the others, early-risers,
fast-walkers, not a lollygagger (whatever that is)
or people-gawker or dabbler like myself.
--Miguel de Ozarko
Setophaga discolor
Garrett Family Preserve at Cape Island Creek
Cape May, NJ
During my formative birding years, butterbutts were my best friends. As time passed, they became roguish, sparse, and unreliable, and so, I was forced to dump them in favor of a new friendship that I'd seemingly forged with the affable and abundant prairie warblers. During this particular south NJ visit, this bond was officially made iron clad.
I have now seen these lemon-lime lollygaggers in Florida, Maine, and in many states in-between. Still, I never would've guessed that NJ would come out of nowhere to steal the crown as my current GOAT prairie warbler shot by presenting me with one perched damn near an arm's length away.
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They are quick to get across the road when they have to. Of course there is always one "lollygagger" in the bunch.
I hope you know that I appreciate your comments and visits although I may not get back to you quickly but I will try my best.
I was playing around with the new Alien Skin Exposure X2 a bit this morning and I couldn't decide which version to post today so I put up both.
A morning sunrise view of some of Prague's many spires from the Charles Bridge. Captured in early October 2014 during our international Lollygaggers meet up.
Used the Olympus e-m10 for the shot and edited on the desktop in Photoshop using Viveza plug in for some fine tuning of the sky and foreground before taking the image into Alien Skin's Exposure X2.
There I twisted and turned the knobs and sliders until I got this black and white silhouetted image.
Shot at the Three Sisters Yardsale maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Miata/157/238/27 ... right next door to the Lollygagger Lane maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Agriopis/174/27/28
The Dancing House also known locally as Fred and Ginger.
It was really hard to get a good shot of this building. The intersection was incredibly busy at the time we were there. The best place to get a good shot was in the middle of the intersection. I was already making the drivers a bit upset with my darting about when opportunities presented a quick snap. I was being a very bad tourist which I try hard not to be.
Our group tried to get into the cafe at the top but they told us it was closed. There were people up there when I took the photo.
I think our motley band of Lollygaggers put them off.
Captured in Prague in early Oct. 2014, with Olympus e-M10.
Edited today on the desktop in Photoshop, Vivzea and Color Efex Pro.
The original was very weak and took a lot of work to pull out the colors and detail from how I remembered it.
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Here's what auntie Wikipedia says about the building.
The Dancing House (Czech: Tančící dům), or Fred and Ginger, is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building on the Rašínovo nábřeží (Rašín Embankment) in Prague, Czech Republic.
It was designed by the Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in cooperation with Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot. The building was designed in 1992 and completed in 1996.
The “Dancing House” is set on a property of great historical significance. Its site was the location of a house destroyed by the U.S. bombing of Prague in 1945.
The Dutch insurance company Nationale-Nederlanden (since 1991 ING Bank) agreed to sponsor the building of a house on site.
The “super bank” chose Milunić as the lead designer and asked him to partner with another world-renowned architect to approach the process.
The French architect Jean Nouvel turned down the idea because of the small square footage, but the well-known Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry accepted the invitation.
Because of the bank's excellent financial state at the time, it was able to offer almost unlimited funding for the project.
From their first meeting in 1992 in Geneva, Gehry and Milunić began to elaborate Milunić's original idea of a building consisting of two parts, static and dynamic ("yin and yang"), which were to symbolize the transition of Czechoslovakia from a communist regime to a parliamentary democracy.
The general shape of the building is now featured on a gold 2,000 Czech koruna coin issued by the Czech National Bank.
The coin completes a series called “Ten Centuries of Architecture”
Late night @ Lollygaggers Lane
Wearing (Left)
Heart: Andore
Crown: Toksik
Hair: Amitomo
Necklace: Yummy
Dress: Mikunch (The Arcade)
Bag: Mikunch (The Arcade)
Wand: Yokai
Tights: ACT13
Shoes: Breathe
@ Lollygagger Art Center.
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Agriopis/77/52/37
Thank you for the visit! <3
After photographing the lighthouse at Peggy's Cove from every possible angle, while dealing with dozens and dozens of lollygaggers, I somehow had the presence of mind to swap out my wide-angle lens for my 70-200mm lens and capture this image of the village itself before the light disappeared completely. Hope you like it.
Many thanks to all who have taken the time to award, comment on/or select this image as a personal favourite. Cheers!
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At the AM Radio at the IDIA Laboratories in SL - there you can draw on train cars. This is one I did of my friend Balt, he took me there, so it was only nice of me :)
Monarchs are still dribbling through and stopping in my zinnias. But nothing like Randy's big numbers still on the move up hear Toronto! This may be one of his lollygaggers. It's getting late for them - frost is around the corner in the East and they need to move on. OTOH this long staggered movement protects them from catastrophe from Fall hurricanes across the Gulf and southern states.
This male's wings were rough but he was still flying well - their wings are amazingly strong. I don't think he'll make it to Mexico but he's trying. I almost walked into him when I walked out to check the flowers - so I stopped to get some shots before running errands. When I got home, he had already continued his journey south. Flowers are getting harder to come by even down South ... what faith, or drive, Monarchs must have to leave a sure blossom to head ever-southward into the late October unknown.
>> male Monarch in my zinnias, North Georgia, 10-23-17
Yesterday was a lot like every other day in the past few weeks, crazy in it’s own special way. It seems as if I have been racing from one place to the other and arriving to my destination just in the nick of time, no matter my departure time. I could attempt to blame traffic, road conditions, weather, construction and the like but the true problem has been that damn camera in the back seat!
Not knowing exactly what time I would be leaving work yesterday, I informed the family of my Hosparus patient that I would be there as close to 4:30 PM as I could for a visit. Knowing that I was taking an unfamiliar rout during rush hour, my drive time to their home was truly a guess-timate so I decided to authorize myself to drive fast. Passing a few lollygaggers along the way, I was making great time and was ahead of schedule along Highway 135 through Washington County. And then from a quarter mile away, I saw it!
Sitting in a long ago deceased tree just off the highway and right next to Lake Salinda was a male Bald eagle preening itself! A split second later I was quickly reducing my speed from its illegal level, steering with my knee and reaching into the back seat to grab my camera bag…my 57-year-old body was much more contorted than it was designed for. I whipped up under it, turned down the radio, rolled down the window and started taking shots. He stopped for just a second, looked deep into my lens and then went about his business, to my amazement, as I was remarkably close. Shooting several shots through my 100-400mm zoom I knew I had some good shots but I also had my 600mm in the back seat so maybe, just maybe I could get some great shots!
Still well under two minutes from my arrival time I found myself pretty much wedged between my seats attempting to reach behind my head and unzip my big boy lens bag. Throwing lens hoods, caps and covers all over the place, I now frantically mounted the lens to my camera body and stuck it out the window of my car. He continued to preen under his wings in the heavy afternoon winds. Suddenly he looked into my lens and was noticeably shaken by the change in glass size. Immediately he started shuffling his feet to prepare for launch. Something inside of his little birdbrain said small lens, or eye as it must look from his vantage point, non-threatening…big eye…very threatening! He leapt into the wind without flapping his wings, twisted sideways and was blown out of sight.
I walked into my patient’s home at 4:26 a blessed man.
I was playing around with the new Alien Skin Exposure X2 a bit this morning and I couldn't decide which version to post today so I put up both.
A morning sunrise view of some of Prague's many spires from the Charles Bridge. Captured in early October 2014 during our international Lollygaggers meet up.
Used the Olympus e-m10 for the shot and edited on the desktop in Photoshop using Viveza plug in for some fine tuning of the sky and foreground before taking the image into Alien Skin's Exposure X2.
After creating a few straight black and white versions I thought I would try something different.
There is something about this version of the image that I really really like.
Maybe it is the darkening shorter days, or the crazy winds of Autumn that have been blowing in the last few days, that is causing my thoughts to turn inward.
Maybe it is the passing of time and the fading of memories of the trip that reflects back into this image.
Maybe all of the above.
Started off with the Petzval Lens option located in the Bokah presets. Then made some adjustments to the settings.
The description for it says based on the 1840's Petzval Lens which causes a swirly blur and vignette and a split tone reminiscent the Daguerreotype process.
An impression of the exhibition location of Ziki Questi’s exhibition „Line and Shadow“ at Enoki.
Read more at zikiquesti.blogspot.de/2015/09/line-and-shadow.html
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About Ziki Questi (by exhibition info)
Ziki Questi is a blogger and photographer whose works have been widely featured in Second Life exhibitions.
She was a featured artist at SL12B with her exhibition Matter and Memory. Her works have been exhibited at Amore Perduto (2011-2013), Artists for SL (2012), the Avalon Arts Initiative (2011), Dryland (2012 and again 2013-14 for exhibition Lost Second Life), the Eagle Eye Gallery (2013), Holtwaye ArtSpace (2014-2015), Lollygagger Lane Art Center (2014-2015), Plusia Ars Island (2013), Red Lines Gallery (presented by Tanalois Art and torno Kohime Foundation) (2013), RoHaus (Radio Days tribute to AM Radio, 2011), Serena Imagine Arts Center at Wolves Land (2014), Serenity Gallery (2011), the Skywalk Gallery at The Station (2014), the Town Hall of Dee (2011) and the Virtual Chelsea Hotel Gallery 23 (2013). She maintains a galleries of her work in Dreamworld North and has also maintained galleries at Avalon Town, Aakriti Arts and Babele Fashion, and also has a small gallery of free items at Remood United Portugal.
She participated in the sim-wide "A Rusted Development" (2012-13) at LEA1 with her work "All the Alruses of the Which Ones," at Burn2 (2012) with the installation "lippes in smiling mood, kiss akiss after kisokushk (thank you Mr. Joyce)," and at HaveIt Neox's sim-wide build "Stirring the Dreams" with her installation "The Bridge of Quests" (2012-ongoing). She curated an Avalon Collector's Circle exhibition (2012-2013) at the Avalon Art District Exhibition Hall. With her partner Kinn, she curates AM Radio's The Far Away.
As a blogger, Ziki Questi writes about the arts, destinations and other Second Life subjects. She was a staff writer and photographer for AVENUE Magazine (2012-2013) and serves as an adjudicator for the University of Western Australia (UWA) 3D Art Challenges and Machinima Challenges (2013, 2014, 2015).
As a performing artist in real life, Ziki Questi's human has presented work throughout the United States and Europe, has collaborated with other artists in dance, music, television, film and theatre, and has been published and cited in books, journals and other media.
Blog: zikiquesti.blogspot.com
Gallery:
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/zikiquesti/
Vimeo: vimeo.com/zikiquesti
Twitter: twitter.com/zikiquesti
Plurk: www.plurk.com/zikiquesti
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The "Somewhere in sl" picture series (or "The Adventures of WuWai in Second Life") is my guide and bookmark folder to wonderful, artful, curious or in other way remarkably sims of second life with travel guide WuWai Chun.
(More pictures of WuWai's adventures: Follow this link)
You can find more pictures (raw caps) with slurls to sl-destinations at my travel logue
in the photo section of my second life profile (my notebook and private destination guide):
or the same raw pictures in higher resolution following at:
my.secondlife.com/wuwai.chun/snapshots/
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The circle is going to be closed. :)
I am happy to announce an exhibit inworld and you are all invited for the opening party on Saturday, 2-4 pm SLT.
Oh, as I was asked about it more than once already - there is no dress code but clothes are appreciated. ;)
One of my favorite RFL teams, Standing Tall for a Cure, held an art show
with works from my friend Kake Broek. Neat.
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Captured in Prague, Czech Republic during the Lollygagger's meet up, in early Oct. 2014 in front of the Kafka museum with an Olympus e-m10.
Edited this morning on the desktop in Photoshop for general image corrections, Viveza for over all image tuning and Alien Skin's Exposure X for Black and white work. Lots of fiddling with knobs in all the apps.
This was a fun animated sculpture. The top portions of the body move slowly from side to side causing the fountain water to move a long with it.
The bodies were created in layered slices and had lots of bright green oxidation. The folks in Europe do have fun with the peeing statutes.
Do we have any peeing statues in the US?