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Featuring:
----- The Look -----
Head: Catwa Uma Head - Feat Catwa Mesh Eyes.
Body: Maitreya Mesh Body
Shape: Space Enigma Shape - Aria
Skin: [PUMEC] - Cleo "December"
Ears: Swallow - Magic Pixie Ears
Hair: Lamb - Bliss
---- The Outfit -----
- .epoch. - Eden Top
- *CK* - Super Hot Skirt
- Reign - Fishnet Stockings
- Reign Arianna Sneakers
- [ NikotiN] - Twisted Joint
---- The Stage ----
~ dust bunny ~
- potted cheese plant
- papasan stool . brown wood .
- papasan chair . brown wood . adult
~ Foxwood ~
- Puggies - Cosy pair - white
~ Oubliette ~
- Witch Tapestry
~ Nutmeg. ~
- Pile of Vinage books Group Gift
~ crate ~
-Dylan Daze Bong n Buds
~ +Half-Deer+ ~
- Indoor Lighted Trees - Dark - Big Wide
- Grass Rug - Dark Green - Oval
~ Scarlet Creative ~
- Huntsman Manor
For this weeks Macro Monday theme-contraption. This steel fridge magnet is 2" in length, and is a note, list or card holder. This is a side view of it on it's back but when upright the sliding bearing holds paper in place! Quite useful except that I never use it! HMM!
Here is the video of the school children making this remarkable garden chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz/359/ and the announcement for the award they won goo.gl/FEO52N
Sometimes a note appears in my head. I guess I will write them down in my Moleskine from now.
I love drawing. I will draw again.
I love working. My friend called me Buzzie. I like it. Busy. Busy. Buzzzieee.
I feel unsafe every time I'm in my comfort zone, so I guess that's why I always change.
You change. I change, too.
Nahh. Actually you don't. But I do.
My favorite spot to shoot sunset reflections again.... I'm scheduled for cataract surgery tomorrow so may be missing from flickr for a while as my eyes adjust. Hopefully it won't be a long break...
working on a little "something" if u want me cotinue i will and if u dont want me to i will :P
also faction
Note: this couple was walking down the street from Amsterdam Ave to Broadway, along the northern side of 96th Street, as the sun was dropping down toward sunset ...
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Sep 29, 2015.
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This is the continuation of a photo-project that I began in the summer of 2008 (which you can see in this Flickr set), and continued throughout 2009-2014 (as shown in this Flickr set, this Flickr set, this Flickr set, this Flickr set, this Flickr set)), this Flickr set)), and this Flickr set)): a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue. These are the people in my neighborhood, aka "peeps in the 'hood."
As I indicated when I first started this project six years ago, I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a zoom telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me. Sometimes I find an empty bench on a busy street corner, and just sit quietly for an hour, watching people hustling past on the other side of the street; they're almost always so busy listening to their iPod, or talking on their cellphone, or daydreaming about something, that they never look up and see me aiming my camera in their direction.
I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep my camera switched on, and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject. Indeed, some of my most interesting photos have been so-called "hip shots," where I don't even bother to raise the camera up to my eye; I just keep the zoom lens set to the maximum wide-angle aperture, point in the general direction of the subject, and take several shots. As long as I can keep the shutter speed fairly high (which sometimes requires a fairly high ISO setting), I can usually get some fairly crisp shots -- even if the subject is walking in one direction, and I'm walking in the other direction, while I'm snapping the photos.
With only a few exceptions, I've generally avoided photographing bums, drunks, crazies, and homeless people. There are plenty of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. There have been a few opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. This is one example, and here is another example.
The other thing I've noticed, while carrying on this project for the past six years, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, far more people who are not so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... unfortunately, there was just nothing memorable about them. They're all part of this big, crowded city; but for better or worse, there are an awful lot that you won't see in these Flickr sets of mine...
Just realized this is possible and wanted to keep it for future reference, as I have no direct need for it now. Hope others find it useful too. This should allow for reasonably decent angled stripes too because you could continue to go diagonal with multiple 2x2s, 3x3s or 4x4s in a row.
There are slight gaps, but not large enough to fill with ½ plate elements. Those gaps can be used as subtle greebling, so it's not that bad if you can make it work for you.
Note I did not have a 3x3 plate at hand but it's not required: the solution shown here is one plate higher than a single 3x3 plate would be. If you want to cover things with tiles, the extra plate height is unavoidable for 3x3 and 4x4 anyway.
You can do this with larger wedge plates too, obviously.
My computer has crapped out. I cant get it to even pull up Second Life. My husband will try to fix it in the next few days. Please bear with me and I am sorry for the lateness of posts.
I figured it was time to start my Christmas shopping yesterday, even though it was a day earlier than my usual habit. I decided to bring my camera along and catch a few street scenes as well.
I played with some of the special presets on the trial copy of Lightroom I downloaded here.
For Macro Mondays "Crime".
My husband was nice enough to make me a ransom note, although he went a little overboard. I will save the entire thing in my "props" drawer for another day. But here is part of it through a small magnifying glass, fitting within the 3 inch limit.
The magnifying glass is about two inches above the paper, prompting my first stab at photo stacking so both glass and words would be in focus. I had hoped to play more with angles to show the distance between them, but alas, no time.
HMM!
9th roll of film
Kodak gold 200
Canon AE-1
Canon FD 50mm f/1.8
Scanned with Plustek Opticfilm 8200i
Re-scanned and re-uploaded in better quality
... to self: the sun always returns.
(8th March and 15th May 2016, © Lise Utne)
For a few weeks in the dead of winter, the sun is too feeble to climb the hill behind the house; but it always comes back with renewed strength.
On the left is a reproduction of Amaldus Nielsen's painting "Ny Hellesund" from 1899. Nielsen enjoyed great success here in Norway during his own lifetime (1838-1932).
... on the shape of things as another winter draws closer:
The leaves were swept off the ash tree across the road overnight.
27th and 28th October 2016, 12:27 and 09:33
Relevant reading materials:
... about the ash tree.
... about the perils threatening the ash tree in Europe.
... about Yggdrasil.