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GhostWorks Texture Competition #49
Texture with thanks to Skeletal Mess
Thanks to Dove for the Model
dove-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/#/dfnuzm
Background: my own
Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2012)
3449x1940 || 2xSSAA || ToCA EDIT (freecam/no-HUD/FOV) || SweetFX 1.4 (tonemap/curves/vignette/technicolor)
needed some motivation and inspiration, and what better way than buying new flowers and shoot some photos!? :)
Where am I going? Why doesn't life offer any guidelines, ever? You need to guess it all the time, step by step. And whenever you seem to catch a glimpse of route, a semblance of plan, an idea of layout... its gone before you can catch its tail.
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Camera: Lomo LC-A
Film: Kodak Color Plus 200
There's more over at my LomoHome bit.ly/ADGlomo
Junco and Male Cardinal
Touch of texture from Kirsten Frank www.flickr.com/photos/kerstinfrank-design/7536586870/in/s...
Needed to be super close to this swan (with this lens) to get this shot.You need to be careful as they often bite but got away with it today.
Wifey set up the beach so we had to snap a pic. Summer is officially here in the SL.
Hair: Truth/Carla
Glasses: [Atomic] Mermaiden Shades (Collabor88)
Earrings: Bowtique - Palm Tree Earrings
Jacket: Ison - Plastic Bomber Jacket
Top: .miss chelsea. Nova Bikini top army
Rings: (Yummy) Sea Treasures (C88)
Bottom: .miss chelsea. Nova bikini bottom army
Shorts: Blueberry - Lana - Rolles shorts
Copyright Susan Ogden
Hello to my favorite group on Flickr! i am sorry i have been a lousy visitor to your photos but things...good things for a change...are happening in my life right now. I need to focus a bit here and see them through, because they are things i have dreamed of for a very long time. I recently have begun to REALLY try hard to make those come true. I seem to be in the right place and at the right time, stars are aligning...reinforcing my idea that i truly was a misplaced southern soul when i was in Jersey. i promise to get back into this, as soon as the dust settles here.
My artistic endeavors are beginning to pay off, and i could not be more excited (or scared!!). i love the thought that people are intrigued and accepting of my art here, and i am getting used to that....now comes the hard part. Stepping out of the teensy tiny comfort zone of being in front of people. I am making slow progress...and it gets a tiny bit easier as i go...but it really does give me pause when i have too much time to anticipate it! I will always be much more comfortable alone, with just with one or two friends or my cats, or books for company. I just need to get to the point that i can self talk myself thru the hopefully limited outings i need to do in front of people!
Thanks in advance for your patience while i make this journey ...i promise i will get back here with the friends and family i have made here...where i am comfortable! (((HUGS)))
I need to keep on posting my bike shots. My collection is growing :-).
On a different note, are you guys liking the new flickr format that caters to bigger photos? I believe it tries to display the photograph as big as it can but limited of course to the size of the photo you uploaded and the size of your screen/browser window.
100 Bikes project. This is entry #9.
HBW!
Just recently, a new park and maritime art display has opened along old wharf areas near Eat Street in Northshore, Brisbane. It's so new, there is not a lot of information available as yet online to explain it.
One of its features is a very rather large mural that has been painted on the ground, so large in fact that it is almost impossible without a very wide angle lens to take it in and then the perspective is really all wrong. So this is just a bit and this part depicts some sort of scary person (highly technical jargon there)! To be honest, I couldn't even really make out what the rest of the mural depicted.
I guess a ladder might to the job but then I would need a Ute to carry it in. Or a drone! Hamilton North Shore, Brisbane.
Yep, another shot of my bike. I really need to get out more on my bike and as the weather is improving, a bit, hopefully this will be the case.
HMBT
Why do I love becoming a woman? A question I often ask myself as well as hearing from others who know of my liking to take ion a female persona. Do I regret being a man that desires to dress as a woman? Where is it all going to end up?
Questions, questions…
I accept we all have our own motivations and aspirations for expressing our desire to dress as women and which can also be a desire to inhabit a female persona. I have my personal feelings, emotional needs and ambitions for my female alter-ego which are not necessarily a reflection of how others feel about their own situation. For me, I have a need to actually pass as a woman and be perceived as being female when I cross-dress. I will admit to frustration over the years through a combination of my lack of skills in the art of male to female transformation, limits imposed by my physicality (being male) and I’m sure well meant advice telling me to forget passing and just enjoy it. To forget passing undermines everything that motivates my female side. When I become Helene I want to be a woman not simply a man dressed up. I dream of having a feminine appearance and emotionally being female rather than male. If this all sounds like serious transexual characteristics and an urgent need to start transition then let me say with utter certainty that is not what I want.
I don’t buy into the simplistic view that if you have a powerful desire to be a woman then the only answer is to transition. Nothing is that straightforward that you can boil it down to a one or the other answer. There exists a huge area of crossover. I genuinely like my male life and like being me. The idea of killing off my male self and only existing as a woman is not something I want. If I were to indulge in being simplistic, I could say I want it all, to be both a man and a woman. However, I know, especially now I am sixty years of age, how my feelings operate in terms of my transgender feelings. I can see now I have real intense moments of wanting to be female and this are all consuming when they occur. I do understand though, that these intense desires being too diminish and I am happy to return to being a man again. I would say that is reasonably creative cut as to why transitioning would not be a happy course of action for me.
I doubt I am alone in having these intense moments of wanting to be female forever but knowing they will at some point ease off. I will admit that it is these feelings that drive me to want to actually look convincingly female and to behave as a female both physically and emotionally when I transform myself from a man into a woman. It’s a fundamental part of my being and needs to be set free now and again.
In recent months my focus and aspirations for my female self has shifted towards passing myself off in a believable way as being a real woman. I find myself observing real women more and more and noting their choices in clothing, footwear and make-up. I also observe what men find attractive in women they encounter My goal is to be accomplished enough to be perceived as being a female and I too want to behave and respond as a female with any social interactions be that shopping, a polite hell, having a coffee in a cafe, visiting a gallery, having a meal and even creating some intrigue and desire with men. In short my aim for the few hours I take on my female persona I want o be able to cease being a man in every way and exist as a female.
Having outlined my feelings and aspirations does that answer any of the questions I began this narrative with? I think it partly addresses them. I do have many regrets about being a man that dresses as a woman. I kind of regret I never accepted this part of myself throughout my life. It caused me a lot of angst and made me a shy not very sociable person. I think I was far more transexual as a teenager and young man than I am now. Once I settled into a career I liked and a relationship that means more to me than my own inner desires and then had a family, everything took on a different level of contentment and also responsibility. My wife and family far outweigh my lifelong desire to become female, I would hate to cause any disruption to that. I do regret my cowardice as a young person not to act on my inner feelings in regard to desiring to be female. I chose the easy option of denial and suppression. Inevitably, I failed in that attempt at self control and had to come out as being transgender at the age of forty one. I do have regrets that certain people I came out to have used it against me, I misjudged their trust. I have regrets I don’t have breasts, a female body and look female, I dream of being feminine. Im not feminine though so this does distress me somewhat and I regret the lack of femininity.
Despite the regrets, they are not enough to crush me as I do enjoy my life, it’s an aspect I can handle, I know it is down to my own inaction that these regrets exist. I try to not let them intrude as I do enjoy my rare moments as a woman and find each opportunity incredibly rewarding and fulfilling.
Recently I was asked by a female friend where all of this was going to end up? It really made me think and I wanted to answer as honestly as I could. At the moment I think in the next few years I will start to spend time out and about as a woman not a man. This is a reflection of where I am going emotionally and also I do have personal ambitions in regard to the challenge of existing as a (part-time) woman. I want to do it well and never be considered as a man when I head out as a woman. I therefore see an increase in this kind of activity and a change in my wardrobe, hair and make-up to reflect this. I did consider what would occur if I were single. I don’t want to be single but it was a hypothetical scenario I felt I should muse over. I believe I would likely spend a lot more time as my female self if I were single but I’m pretty certain I would not transition. I still like my male self so I see such a scenario as being a less inhibited opportunity to fully express myself more freely.
It has taken me pretty much fifty years to accept myself and I don’t feel I’m still quite there yet, there is a lot more self acceptance I need to embrace. I think it’s my fear of damaging my relationship with my wife and family, who all know I have a female alter-ego, that prevents me from pushing things further. Al I can say is I do feel a lot more at ease with my inner female self than I did in past decades.
Chevrolet Camaro SS
Location: Miami, FL
Equiped with Nikon D90, Sigma 10-20, Nikkor 50mm and a shaky-ass 1,5 foot long tripod!
No extra lighting or nothing like that.
Just pure sick car, pure sick location and Me...! :)
Looking to use TMX100 with the 'blad 500CM and 50mm lens for shadows and texture. The latitude with this film is really wonderful, and I've had good luck using semi-stand with Rodinal. The quirks with the Hasselblad are especially manifest with cold temperatures - especially when said persons behind the lens aren't prepared with things like gloves. Ah well; the numbness goes away after awhile. Thanks to all those who continue to share and inspire the rest of us!
A lesson in a small school for street children near Howrah Station in Kolkata, India, April 2007.
Photographed for NEED magazine, published in the 3rd issue.
More on my website: www.maciejdakowicz.com/editorial-assignments/the-hope-fou...
Need around 3 more participants for this planned collab. Must be attending BFVA 2017 and be of proper skill set. This thing is going to be pretty detailed and of decent size. I don't want a Kursk repeat *shivers*.
Do I *need* more dice? Certainly not. Do I *want* more dice? Not when asked that way. Do I all-too-often acquire a particular interesting die? You bet!
Taken for Macro Mondays "Guilty Pleasure"
Socked Italia parked on a side street just off Edgware road.
What do you think about the shot?
Any feedback comments are appreciated.