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I've been working on a little project for a bit, and it's finally almost time to share it with you all. I very nearly set the opening for tomorrow for the lols, since it's 4/20. I figured a lot of people might be out celebrating though, and I don't want to get in the way of that lol. So 4/21 it is! We're not doing an event with a DJ or anything, just opening the place up to the public. So you can come and go as you please.
I've designed Opal Reef to be somewhat abyssal, but especially this brine pool spot my pal Adna and I are posing in here. It's something I've been planning in my head for a long time, as I've always loved abyssal waters and the creepy creatures that roam around in them. So don't worry if you see a few critters around that you're not used to, they won't bite. Unless I tell them to. 😈
See you there soon!
Here's what Adna is wearing:
Cynefin - Nemissa Tail
AviGlam Sinister Eyes - Wicked
Lelutka - Avalon Head
Enfer Sombre Dahlia Skin - Mermaid
Doux Hair - Bebe
FFS Merfolk Triton Nemissa Tail BOM Tattoo in Pink (body and scales as well)
Kio Kio Atlantis Gills
Bliensen + MaiTai Vilde Headpiece
LVL9 - Kraken's Reach Trident
Petrichor - Pearedine Makeup - Lilli
VoluptasVirtualis - Seren set for collar, top, and forearms
ContraptioN Bento Teeth - The Sharps
Here's what I'm wearing:
Head: Lelutka Halle
Body: Maitreya Lara
Hair: Little Bones - Infinite
Tail: Aii - Siren Tail
Skin: Maze - Frankie [tinted by me]
Scales: Izzie's - Body Mermaid Scales
Animated glow tattoo: [KENSHO] - Dragon Blood Tattoo
Glowies: Aii - Cosmic Crybaby
Jeweled collar: FAKEICON / mary gems collar / black / maitreya
Body gems: FAKEICON / poxic gemsuit / black (unpacked)
Eyes: Ikon - Immortal Eyes - Nymph
Rings and hand gems: Voluptus Virtualis - Heidi
Top: Violent Seduction - Nemissa Bra
Handheld crystal: Petrichor - Kinins Crystal [Obelisk-Float-L]
And here's what you can see of the build pieces:
Brine pools (at least that's what I used them as lol: Stormwood - Mineral Hot Springs
Ground texture: custom by me
Stones on the ground: LOVE - GEM STEPPING STONES - MOONSTONE
Tree: +Half-Deer+ - Deadwood Tree - Brown
Coral: 7PLUS
Stone walls: inVerse - Cliff Screen #3
Stone platform: :FANATIK: - LAND SHAPES - Ramp 04
Opal is the most beautiful and individual gem stone. It is the national gemstone of Australia. Good pieces with colour can be extremely expensive.
So, my mate Rich Bardey (centre) was the original bass player in Opal Butterfly. Also pictured are Allan Love vocalist( front left) and Simon King drummer (rear right). They made 3 singles for CBS between 1968 and 1970, none of which had any success, and they disbanded in 1970. However Allan later found fame starring in Godspell in the West End amid other notable successes, and Simon went on to join Hawkwind. Lemmy replaced Rich as bassist before the band’s demise before also joining Hawkwind. Rich returned to Horsham and worked in engineering having given up playing.
Anyway, for those two years they were together we had a hoot. They shared a one roomed bedsit in Clapham, them and all their gear. Up to six of us used to pile into a mate’s Vauxhall Velox some weekends and drive up to town. We'd somehow find a place to sleep in that one room amongst the amplifiers and drumkit. Sometimes they had gigs, sometimes they didn’t. When they did we’d follow them in the car, when they didn’t we’d hit the local pubs. On Sunday mornings the old lady who lived in the bedsit upstairs would make us bread and dripping. All of us sitting on her single bed.
Halcyon days them was.
Three opal rings... all three rings have bands with pierced overlay detailing and Andamooka Matrix gem opal cabs.
head – vista zoe
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trying out my new Vista Zoe head - Photo taken at whole wheat
This is my second in what I hope will be a series of pastel/charcoal drawings I will be doing to fill my moleskine. They are of my flickr contacts' photos. This one is for pastorfuture. His delightful photo which I used for this one is here www.flickr.com/photos/pastorfuture/1269933228/
If you have a second its worth a look on black View On Black
The Opal Pool is one of several strikingly coloured thermal pools in the Midway Geyser Basin in Yellowstone. On this shot I wanted to show the pool in its general setting. I have cropped it a little but the colours are as natural as I could make them. Yellowstone is a sort of natural Photoshop
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This one needs just a little more shaping and polishing to become a small pendant. 1.8 x .8 x .5 cm. Was 1.2 grams before I trimmed it. I think this is an Australian jelly opal, but I don't remember for sure.
Opal Creek burned in 2020. Perhaps the 1000 year old trees there survived. Photo taken in the Opal Creek Wilderness, though before that wilderness was formally established.
OPAL for Lelutka Zora.
A fantasy shape, a little bit quirky with a different look.
METIS SHAPESHIFTER..
Dare to be different.
Firstly, I should say again these are called Hibiscus Harlequin Beetles or may have other names, apart from their scientific name. But like I said yesterday, I like to think of them as opals as they have the intense colours of the very best of these magic gems. Red is best!
Unfortunately, conditions were so windy and difficult, I really had to freeze this shot but it impacted the DOF a bit, made worse by the angle of the leaf and proximity to the subject on which this crowd of baby harlequins was sticking together. Perhaps I should have pushed up the ISO but well, things don’t always work out in a blizzard! A bracket of shots at different settings didn’t improve things.
Wynnum Wetlands Reserve.
Whatever holiday you celebrate this season,
Happy Holidays!
About Amadeus:
He's the one I call "Wolfgang" in my blog. We created this alt Amadeus last year so we could attend parties and dance in public without compromising our private alts.
Many bird species, including hummingbirds, use spider web to build their nests, here an opal-rumped tanager is gathering a spider web.
My youngest daughter Opal love to pick the wild flowers while out for a walk.
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Fifteen minutes or so after this image was made, I fell and acutely ruptured my patella tendon and luxated my patella as well. It took over an hour to shuffle backwards, a few inches at a time, to the start of the trail and from there another few hours until I was seen at the ER.
It's been a little over eight weeks since that moment, and I've already manged a number of shorter hikes with my brace on. Today, my physical therapist let me get on the exercise bike. I call that progress.
Image made with my Hasselblad 500 C/M.
Love the emerald water at Opal Creek. Something I found while googling about Opal Creek, it was not named after the water color rather after a woman (a US forest service ranger's wife)
The soft, fine, sugar-white dunes of Opal Beach, part of the longest stretch of nationally protected seashore in the US, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Navarre Beach, FL
Opal Pool, Opal Creek Wilderness, Oregon
I am finally getting around to playing with photos again. I got a new laptop for my Birthday a few weeks ago since my previous one couldn't handle all my pictures, photoshop was extremely slow, and the built-in wifi cutout after about an hour.
I hiked this lovely trail Superbowl Sunday (I don't really enjoy watching sports on TV, I find it extremely boring and the commentators obnoxious) and despite the weather constantly threatening me with rain, it was a great hike surrounded by incredible nature. :) I will have to go back since I missed the turnoff for the Sawmill Falls, which I feel very silly about.
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Another one of the plethora of trails I have found myself along this past year. This one out in the Opal Creek wilderness. You have to love a densely lush patch of green forest.
The perfect calendar for me - 24 15g balls of sock yarn. Going to make Blythe sweaters and stripey socks.
cookie cutters in macro, natural light and shadow in reflection, a brighter view
A world of light awaits in the Opal World:
The sister world of smoke:
Over in the Blue World:
125 Pictures in 2025 #114 "Valuable"
This my wife's opal ring, bought when I was stationed in Australia back in the 1980s. It is more of sentimental value than cost (which I can't remember anyway).
Opal Key Resort & Marina - Key West Harbor
Mallory Square - Key West, Florida U.S.A.
The Florida Keys - November 25th, 2022
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - early - festive]
*[often find myself waking up before dawn, so I enjoy
heading into town (in the middle of the night!) for a
little night photography! It's always fun and festive during
the holidays. Above, is at 6:00 AM. Thanks for looking]
*[taken out my driver-side window during an early-morning
harbor-drive-by...before the sunrise. The sunrise was great!!
Months later; I never regret getting up early for 'this' or any
of the 'beautiful sunrises', here! It's always worth the effort]
*[used my car-window as a tri-pod support - worked well]
*[formerly: Key West Hilton & Margaritaville Resort]