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week 29/52
i might have accidentally gotten a week behind on this project, oops. my garden has grown heaps since it was attacked by the gardeners so i got some ideas flowing. this was more of an experiment than anything but it's better than nothing. thank you for everything <3
A layer of Crocidolite Asbestos outcropping in a section of Banded Iron Formation (BIF). Photographed in the Pilbara region of Western Australia - March 2012.
Note: Blue asbestos is dangerous, always leave it alone! Don't touch it as you risk breaking it apart and inhaling the small fibres that can eventually cause cancers and other medical issues.
Crocidolite is the fibrous form of the amphibole mineral riebeckite.
Edward Elgar and his bicycle. Hereford Cathedral.
The composer lived in the town from 1904 to 1911 when he was at the height of his popularity. In many ways it's ironic that this sculpture stands in the grounds of an Anglican Cathedral - Elgar was a Roman Catholic and his choral work, "The Dream of Gerontius" was based on a Roman Catholic text and caused some disquiet in the Anglican establishment.
This is an spoiler of the L session I made today. ^^ I will upload full session soon. ;)
Kisses to all of you! :***
turns out i'm pretty hopeless at 365 projects!
but my boyfriend says he still loves me anyway.
(to be fair i have been taking a picture each day, they were just totally uninspiring so i didn't upload.)
"Take notes"
Hué (Vietnam)
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To Customers & Followers,
I know I've been on the quiet side. After some health issues I had a step back from Secondlife and didn't feel like logging on anymore. It happens, everyone needs a break every once in awhile. Mine just ended up being longer than I expected. As far as Glamrus goes. I am not sure if I will keep on with it. I'm still back and forth on the thought if I have time or not due to me going back to College in January. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed making poses a lot. It's just very time consuming.
Though, I do plan on sticking with my landscaping and decor for a little to get myself back into the Secondlife kick. It's something that I have always loved doing in Secondlife and would like to do more of it while I can.
I thank all of my Glamrus Diamonds for always sticking by me. I really hope you understand if I do happen to let Glamrus go. I'm not completely sure but hey, maybe there will be pose releases here and there. I'll come to a conclusion soon.
Thank you so much again, and much love ~ ♥
- Royalty
---- some "Sicilian photographic notes " about the beginning of this hot summer ....(occasional portrait of Artist) .... ----
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Local real estate agents mail these out on a regular basis (in hopes you will phone them when you list your house, lol). They come in handy!
Weekly Theme Challenge... PAPER
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Jun 8, 2015.
Technically, this is not a "couple" in the familiar sense of the word. But the bond between a grandparent and grandchild (which is, I think, what we're looking at here) is a pretty special one ...
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This is a continuation of Flickr sets that I created in 2014 (shown here), 2013 (shown here)
2012 (shown here), 2011 (shown here), 2010 (shown here), 2009 (shown here), and 2008 (shown here) -- which, collectively, illustrate a variety of scenes and people in the small "pocket park" known as Verdi Square, located at 72nd Street and Broadway in New York City's Upper West Side, right by the 72nd St. IRT subway station.
I typically visit a local gym once or twice a week, and I get there by taking the downtown IRT express from my home (at 96th Street) down to the 72nd Street stop. Whenever possible, I try to schedule an extra 30-60 minutes to sit quietly on one of the park benches, and just watch the flow of people coming in and out of the park -- sometimes just passing through, to get from 72nd Street up to 73rd Street, sometimes coming down Broadway to enter the park at 73rd Street, but mostly entering or exiting the subway station.
You see all kinds of people here: students, bums, tourists (from New Jersey and from all four corners of the globe), office workers, homeless people, retired people, babysitters, children, soldiers, sanitation workers, lovers, friends, dogs, cats, pigeons, and a few things that simply defy description. Sometimes you see the same people over and over again; sometimes they follow a regular pattern at a particular time of the day, which always makes me smile — even though I never go up to them and introduce myself.
If I focus on the people coming south on Broadway, and entering the park at 73rd Street, and then continuing to walk southwards toward the subway entrance, I typically have five or ten seconds to (a) decide if they're sufficiently interesting to bother photographing,(b) wait for them to get in a position where I can get a clear shot of them, and (c) focus my camera on them and take several shots, in the hope that at least one or two of them will be well-focused and really interesting.
While you might get the impression that I photograph every single person who moves through this park, it's actually just the opposite: the overwhelming majority of people that I see here are just not all that interesting. (It's not that they're ugly, it's just that there's nothing interesting, memorable, or distinctive about them.) Even so, I might well take, say, 200 shots in the space of an hour. But some of them are repetitive or redundant, and others are blurred or out-of-focus, or technically defective in some other way. Of the ones that survive this kind of scrutiny, many turn out to be well-focused, nicely-composed, but ... well ... just "okay". I'll keep them on my computer, just in case, but I don't bother uploading them.
Typically, only about 1-2% of the photos I've taken get uploaded to Flickr -- e.g., about 5-10 photos from a one-hour session in which a thousand, or more, people have walked past me. There are some exceptions to this rule of thumb -- but in general, what you're seeing it is indeed only a tiny, tiny subset of the "real" street scene in New York City. On the other hand, it is reassuring to see that there are at least a few "interesting" people in a city that often has a reputation of being mean, cold, and heartless...
This image is the last in a series of three capturing the amazing sunset and "freaky" clouds in NYC one evening last weekend. If you missed the first two, you can check them out here and here.
This shot was taken just about 8 minutes after the previous one. The sky's color turned from deep orange to purple and red. The freaky clouds have all but disappeared. The joggers and business people who had previously stopped to look up and take pics with their phone cams have all departed to resume their journey home. It's too bad though because they missed this. The spectacular sunset and clouds were like rewards to compensate my travel woes earlier in the day.
I think this is a record for me - posting on three consecutive days! Of course, I'm sort of breaking my own rule of not posting the same type of scene/images twice or more in a row. Oh well...
Better on black.
Highest Explore: #117
الذكريات كلمة تحمل احداث السنين بل العمر كله
الذكريات كلمه لطالما ابكت الكثيرين
الذكريات كلمة فيها ما يفرح القلب وما يعيد الألام
الذكريات...الذكريات....الذكريات
كلمة ولكنها عن الاف الكلمات
قليله الحروف كثيرة الاحداث ما اقسى بعض الذكريات عند مرورها او تذكرها فقط
وما اجمل بعضها ولكنها قليله للأسف
صصوري ملك للجميع دون ازالة الحققوق
الصصورة الجايية عن تَخررج اختي زهررة
تتتخرجها بكرة ان شَاءء الله
23/6
تتخرج من تمهيدي ان ششاء الله
تتنتظر تبريكاتكم
A lot going on here, but to be honest, I was completely out of my element with these dunes and had a hard time deciding how to compose my shot. The nice dunes were all stomped out from people walking all over them, and after hiking around for quite awhile, I settled on this spot...
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I attempted to fix the top of this image; lightened the sky and mountains a bit, and uploaded this newer version...
Canon 17-40L
Polarizer - GND