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This was a summer day in Srinagar, where I saw this old Muslim man probably holding his grandchild in his lap, sitting outside the Hazratbal Shrine of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. His son sitting next to him waiting for the bus to arrive to take them to their destination. They look tired, but the old man has a slight smile while looking at the child.
India is home to 100 million elderly people today. Their numbers are likely to increase threefold in the next three decades. Many elderly people in India are not aware of their human rights due to high occurrence of illiteracy & lack of awareness and this contributes to the infringement of those rights. Life is sad, life is tough, life is a burden, life is lonesome, but in the end, life is to live!
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Portrait of an old Saadhu at the Garh Ganga Ghat, wearing traditional clothes with a turban. Wrinkled with a frown, eyes innocent and intent and gleaming with a little smile.
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While on an evening stroll along the Lidder river bank saw this man taking his herd of sheep back home after taking them for grazing in the green pastures of Pahalgam. Seeing me with my camera, he stopped to look at me a couple of times while I was capturing his emotions in my camera. He looks visibly tired as the day comes to an end and he has to walk back his sheep home. Accompanying him were his two dogs, who were helping him keep the sheep from straying.
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Manpunzel, Manpunzel, let down your beard.
I knew Vincent was going to become a great friend the moment he showed me his 7 ft beard extension. It was one of those moments that's simply too bizarre and delightful to be reality, and yet there it was in all its beard-y glory. So of course, we had no choice but to make him into 'Man'-punzel, after all, it is No-Shave-November.
This was shot at the Watkins Glen Flickr Gathering hosted by the ever-talented, magically-creative Robert Cornelius.
#WGFG2015
Mt Gretna, Pennsylvania
I was on my way to Middle Creek to see the snow geese and spotted this guy in the field near Mount Gretna.
My second squad of characters. Now its Engi.
"Still, them Engineers can cast a good cannon, and they know how they work like no one else. You want to land a shot on a Goblin a mile away, ask an Engineer to lay the gun for you, and he'll ask you which eye you want to hit."
—Durgrim Redmane, Longbeard
Dwarf Longbeards of the “Grumbling Guard”
“Longbeards have fought in more wars, beaten more enemies and endured greater hardships than any young Dwarf can possibly imagine. They constantly grumble about how today's Goblins are far smaller and weedier than they used to be and how nothing is as well made as it was in their day. No young Dwarf, as hot-headed and tempestuous as he might be, would dare gainsay a Longbeard; after all, they have much more experience - and the beard to prove it!”
I built these guys over a year ago with some modified @brickwarriors, lego, and @greenstuff. Finally got around to painting them.
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Monochrome "bandicoot" conversion of a close-up natural-light street portrait (outdoor head shot, full-face view) of an elderly Sino-Burmese man with long grey hair and a traditional long Chinese beard;
Loikow, Kayah State, Myanmar fka Burma.
More context:
Converting Colour to Greyscale (photo blog).
Gyrocopter
Organ Gun
10 Thunderrers
10 Ironbreakers
6 Longbeards
2 Gunners
1 Gyrocopter Pilot
1 Runepriest Dwalin Forkbeard
1 King Fundi Grudgebearer
Close-up natural-light street portrait (outdoor head shot, full-face view) of an elderly Sino-Burmese man with long grey hair and a traditional long Chinese beard;
Loikow, Kayah State, Myanmar fka Burma.
More context:
Post-processing Street Portraits (photo blog),
Sporting a Pious Beard (photo blog).
Steamcopter:
“A dwarf’s feet should never leave solid stone” this old time dwarven teaching is constantly directed and the youthful and adventurous beardlings. It is meant to teach patience and an adherence to the older, more traditional ways of doing things. The energetic younglings role their eyes as the longbeard’s go on to tell them about how the centuries have made the dwarven race more soft, and how the past ways of doing things were always tried and true. The dwarven Engineers would have a thing or two to say about the adherence to the old ways, and also about dwarven feet never leaving the ground…
The engineers always looked to the ceilings of their immense mountain caverns or across the wide mountain valleys and thought of ways to traverse these impassible obstacles. They wanted to be able to mine the mineral veins at the top of the ceiling or be able to traverse the mountain valleys in no time at all. Always seeking out ways to be more efficient and effective, the engineers would study the only large flying beasts that they knew of at the time, dragons. Dwarves and dragons have a fierce and bitter hatred for each other, for each covet gold and seek to rule the mountains.
The engineers wanted to replicate the dragons flight pattern to be able to take to the skies like the large, terrible beasts that plagued their lands. Outfitting a large steam engine, with several pistons that turn a drive shaft at amazingly fast speeds, onto a crude platform and attached with several hovering blades, the first Steamcopter was born. Barely even considered a prototype by engineers of todays standards, this mechanical marvel was one of the most crucial inventions in dwarven history.
Since then, the Steamcopter has been improved upon and developed into what it is today, a terror on the battlefield. Able to hover over enemy lines or shoot across the battlefield at quick speeds, the Steamcopter is truly a marvel to behold. Now it is outfitted with more powerful and durable steam engine that has many gears and pulleys that spin the main rotor and the tail rotor. In the cockpit sits an engineer that controls the pitch and thrust of the aircraft with a series of levers, switches, and gauges.
The real might of the Steamcopter, however, comes in its battlefield weaponry. It can be outfitted with a armory’s worth of weapons, from carronades to grapple hooks and air spears, the Steamcopter is able to hover above enemy lines before unleashing a salvo of death. Front facing firepower isn’t all that the Steamcopter possesses, however. On the bottom of the hovercraft hang a small payload of Ironbusters, which are explosives devices filled with the famed black powder that the dwarves covet so much.
Truly a force to be feared on the battlefield, the Steamcopter is an magnificent marvel indeed.
My man Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. Not actually in this photo, but thought he'd look good here. Car image by Steve Sexton, www.flickr.com/photos/dmentd1/. Best viewed at the largest size. Hot Rod Art by Rat Rod Studios, www.RatRodStudios.com.
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Dwarf Longbeards of the “Grumbling Guard”
“Longbeards have fought in more wars, beaten more enemies and endured greater hardships than any young Dwarf can possibly imagine. They constantly grumble about how today's Goblins are far smaller and weedier than they used to be and how nothing is as well made as it was in their day. No young Dwarf, as hot-headed and tempestuous as he might be, would dare gainsay a Longbeard; after all, they have much more experience - and the beard to prove it!”
I built these guys over a year ago with some modified @brickwarriors, lego, and @greenstuff. Finally got around to painting them.
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#myrdred_the_builder #legominifigure #instalego #minifigures #bricknetwork #legohub #legoart #afol #paintingminiatures #legophotography #legogram #fantasyart #highfantasy #greenstuff #dwarves #paintingwarhammer #toyphoto #toyphotography #brickcentral #legomoc #moclego #fantasy #custommade #miniaturepainting #dawi #warhammer #longbeards #warhammertotalwar #totalwarwarhammer #dwarfwarrior
Manpunzel, Manpunzel let down your beard.
Yep yep yep, I'm still giggling over this shoot. Definitely one of my favorites to date! Anyways, enjoy Vincent Minor and his fantastic, whimsical, burly, lumberjack beard of glory.
#wgfg2015
Hill Dwarves:
The Hill Dwarves are an interesting sect of dwarven culture. Centuries ago, certain adventurous clans ventured forth from their mountain holds in search of riches and glory, or were exiled from the holds for some wrongdoing or broken oath. These clans either failed at their vision of constructing a new hold or were not allowed to settle back in other holds, for once a clan leaves the mountains, it is, by law, never allowed to return. These clans then had to fend for themselves and over the centuries began to band together on the Foothills of the great mountains.
They built trading posts, logging villages, and forts along the popular trade routes that connect the lands of men to the dwarven elddoms. Over time, these places began to house more and more clans and now are an important trade network along the rocky landscape. The dwarves of the true mountain hold rarely interact with the Hill Dwarves, never allowing them into the mountains and only trading with them for wood, pelts, and other objects of value found in the harsh wilderness of the Foothills. Most longbeards, elderly, dwarves do not even consider their distant kin to be actual dwarves, but a stained reminder of great failures.
However, the Hill Dwarves gaze upon the towering mountains, ever remindful of their failures and always hopeful that someday, a chance will arise where they can prove their valor and regain entry into the glorious holds. The truth, sadly, is far from that hope. The Hill Dwarves have become a removed lot, changed by the centuries spent living with the dregs of human society. However, this has given these dwarves a certain level of tenacity that can be useful in combat.
When an army throng is called, most Clan Eldds regretfully recruit the help of the Hill Dwarves as a frontline harassing unit. These dwarves are a raucous bunch, often times engaging in battle with a brew in one hand and a crude axe, club, or pick in the other, thoroughly drunk. They hoot and holler as they saunter towards the enemy, shouting insults and letting loose their fury on the foes they face.
Most Hill Dwarves don’t wear armor, for a full set of chainmail or plate armor is far too expensive for the poor clans, and opt for leather helms and furs to protect them in the heat of battle. Their weaponry is crude by normal dwarven standards, and is often found to be chipped and rusted. A tough lot indeed, the Hill Dwarves fight with a stubborn fury that most dwarves would begrudgingly admire.