I engaged my other favourite photog Yannick Sands - hush Berry; you know I still love you - to create this for me. My brief was exactly this "windswept white vampire lord with heaps of pale skin out being pretentious and moody and all deep with feelings and crap" and as you can see, he totally nailed it!

SO HAPPY WITH THIS.

Notes - hair is Editorial Western Wind by Tableau Vivant, cape is Serenity from Cureless, skirt is Atlas by Titzuki. Pose is new from Del May. The collar is an OOAK by Miamai and not available, sorry!

Just a cloud...

I thought I’d shoot this as it looked lovely against the blue sky, with the setting sun behind it. When I uploaded from my camera to my iPad, I realised that there were pearlescent edges around the cloud: Wiki informs me it’s a type of photometeor, a topic in atmospheric optics...Apparently, this phenomenon is caused by individual water droplets or ice particles diffracting sunlight.

Aye, I just thought it was a wee fluffy cloud.

I almost called this shot, “Lenticular Iridescence” but thought that was a little pretentious...Well, it IS named after the shape of a lentil...😉

Ghost In The Music - a beautiful song by Nancy Griffith:

“Tell me, where is ...the refuge for these poor and these fallen?

It rests in the lines like a ghost in the music

The soul of America’s pride.”

Hoping for peace at all the borders around the world.

From my garden,

South Carrick Hills

SW Scotland

>> [Consent] - Nadine

ツ Release @ ACCESS Event!

❣ Credits:

☑Blog: brendiuxkaru.blogspot.com

Bec de l'aigle: eagle's beak

Pretentious, moi?

For Macro Mondays theme 'Small and Smaller'.

Two shells of the common cockle, Cerastoderma edule.

No cockles were harmed in the making of this photograph.

camera: Zenit 122 - Industar 50-2 pancake lens

film: Kono delight -100 ASA hand tinted film

No- edit (straightened).

A bold and pretentious hand tinted film which works best with strong colored scenes and contrast.

"Mrs. Grayson's farm" - Ides of march from Berwyn Illinois.

Sorry for such spasmodic visiting and commenting, but duriing my house move I am struggling with a very slow and unreliable Internet connection. I hope it improves.

Thanks Alan (eye of Einstein) for your suggestion of a title --- maybe a little pretentious?

Out back on the deck.....

And speaking of decks, after many years I found it's not a deck at all, but a veranda, since it's totally covered by the roof of the house..

Tho we still call it a deck.

Bento Mesh Head: Catwa Lona

Bento Mesh Body: Maitreya Lara

Face/Body Applier: Mona by Glam Affair

Body Tatt: Skalie by JUNA

Hair: Felicia (B) by Exile

Macabria Hairband + Chains: ::Axix::

Ensemble: Epic Pretentious Halloween (incl. a dancing gold skeleton & a sitting gold skeleton) by BOUDOIR

Lush Lipgloss by *League*

Pumpkin Candy Hiding Kitten Hold RARE: [Black Bantam]

Tinkleton Morningstar Companion: *HEXtraordinary*

The Lost Time Backdrop: Serenity Style

Delilah Chaise Lounge

Darkness: Serenity Style

Halloween jar: heart - rare: Khargo Tip Jars

Lestat - Sette: Dahlia

Red Roses in Natural Vase: ~The Green Door~

The Last Vampire - Candles: Pitaya

The Last Vampire - Rug BLACK: Pitaya

Rose Petals - floor/red: .Florix.

Spooky Goth Stone Fireplace: Swank & Co.

Tania Fall Side Table: {moss&mink}

Shadow Craft Globes: {moss&mink}

Derain- Varane's antique chair: {anc}

Bow of Roses: Tentacio

Hanging Roses [red]: *LODE*

Build thanks to Kitty Von Cat ♥♥

How's this for a waterfall?

Single exposure in bulb mode with an ND filter. Not HDR. Not cropped.

When I read the name, "Cathedral Falls" on the map, I thought to myself, "Ok that is a tiny bit pretentious. This had better be one damn fine waterfall." When I saw it in person, I was blown away. This waterfall absolutely lives up to the name.

Painting the backside of buildings where nothing pretentious happens, just civic decency.

Sorry about the pretentious title :-)

Some very subtle bokeh for bokeh Wednesday this week. It's been very wet here today so there was no chance to take some new bokerish shots.

HBW everyone!

View On Black

A bit pretentious?

Sorry...

I couldn't resist

A back lit barn owl against a dark background

Not classic wildlife photography I know., but still a beautiful sight!

The Geneva people are often seen as a bit pretentious by their compatriots!

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pretentious

wanna see her face?

Top : +CHANDRA+ Bushyasta Top @Sabbath

Skirt : {minuit} Jennie Set @Sabbath

Gloves & Eyeshadow : YINN. Pretentious @Sabbath

Helm : Pixel Art - Mausohren Helm @Sabbath

platforms for transient light events.

sounds pretentious, not my intent.......

Taken at Rosa Scotia.

I couldn’t let today pass without some kind of post about motorcycles and riding…. Well, scooter in this case, but hey, artistic license. RIP bro.

There have been several moments recently I wish I could get back to a time when I hadn't been taking photographs for so long, a more innocent time when I didn't worry about developing an artistic vision and other such pretentious rubbish and photography was just fun and not much else. It seems now it fills just about my entire day with thoughts different locations, weather maps, sunrise/sunset times so much so I usually end up crippled by indecision and get nowhere. On Sunday morning just gone I did get somewhere even if it was the very short journey to Chemical Beach. It didn't look particularly promising at first but some nice cloud came along and it turned out to be a really good morning, fun you could say. Unfortunately the clock can't be turned back and I'm sure I'll soon be back to unhealthy levels introspection and indecision.

Cars parked at the Guggenheim, Bilbao. The building is fantastic, the art inside is so pretentious!

Excuse me if I am being pretentious, but I came across this word which I didn’t know recently and I like it.

Jasper sometimes spends an evening down at the Old Kennel Klub. We've warned him that the place seems a bit stuffy and pretentious, but he insists that its not. Yes, they have a dress code and yes, they only serve the finest water, but at the core the members are just a bunch of good dogs. I saw Jasper tip his waiter a big bone so I know he treats the staff well.

Winter seas are often a problem for Aberystwyth, its low promenade and sea defences have taken many a pummelling.

Standing with a folding vest pocket camera to photograph an angry sea alongside people wielding the most up-to-date of Nikons and Canons is a peculiar experience. Almost fraudulent or pretentious. Yet I cannot deny liking this particular frame.

Aberystwyth, towards Constitution Hill, December 2021. Voigtländer Bessa-I, Fomapan 400 in ID-11.

Tune<3

"Take me to the rooftop.

I wanna see the world when I stop breathing, turning blue.

Tell me love is endless, don't be so pretentious.

Leave me like you do."

Pose - - space cadet - pack 4 .. pose is called Mami @ Space Cadet Mainstore.

Hair - pr!tty - Jude - -Short- [Fatpack] :boxed:

Top - .miss chelsea. Zora Tank Inappropriate

Do you make or take a photo? It’s not derogatory question I’m curious, a bit of fun. The general term is to take a photograph, but that’s too simple for some and try to infuse they own contribution to the process. The great Ansel Adams would insist that he made a photograph rather than took it. I have noticed highly regarded landscape photographers of today using this term. I myself have dropped into the language of making a photo, when I’m rather pleased with the composition I’ve crafted out, but the more I think about it, am I being pretentious. Make means to create, to force, to cause to happen, what if anything in this photo I took last night fit’s that description. The sea stack has been created by thousands of years of erosion, the sea and its movement has been caused by the tide and the dynamics of air and sea currents. Can standing in the right place with a mastery of the gadget in my hands capturing the scene in front me, be described as making a photograph. Did I make a digital image, no the camera did that. Did I make a 20 by 16 print, no my printer did that. At the end of the day I think it comes down to your confidence in your photography, are you creating a piece of art or catching a moment. Myself I think I’m more comfortable to using the verb take, how about you?

Great word, isn't it? Just rolls off the tongue. While its use might admittedly fall under the heading of pretentious for those very few who might somehow know its meaning, it remains a tragedy what is happening to our language and the ever increasing disdain and lack of concern for vocabulary. Do the schools still teach it? Do standardized tests still recognize excellence in it? Or have we become so "woke" that the only things that matter are recognition of our "unconscious or implicit racial bias" or that gender is something that can be chosen by our children from 70+ options. I think we all know the answer to that.

The one word that our present culture wildly accepts and inappropriately and indiscriminately uses begins with "f" and was, above all others, taboo when I was young. Is this a sign of an advancing culture or one in decline? A rhetorical question, but I, for one, still cringe when I hear it. As our language coarsens, so does our civility. In a time of equal parts tragedy and nonsense, it's truly a shame to see all our cultural norms and mores decline so quickly.

And from what I understand defines being "woke," count me as soundly asleep.

There is an old Japanese proverb that reads as follows.

Those who accomplish the most are the least pretentious.

Taken @ Beautiful Elvion

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Elvion/18/135/26

Take me to the rooftop

I wanna see the world when I stop breathing

Turning blue

Tell me, love is endless, don't be so pretentious

Leave me, like you do

Taste me, the salty tears on my cheek

That's what a year-long headache does to you

I'm not okay, I feel so scattered

Don't say I'm all that matters

Leave me

Deja vu

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie2Xv2dD1Bg

Das Barockhaus Neißstraße 30 ist ein bedeutendes Handels- und Wohnhaus der Barockzeit in Görlitz, das nach dem Stadtbrand zwischen 1727 und 1729 errichtet wurde.

Seit 1951 wird es als Teil des städtischen Kulturhistorischen Museums genutzt. Es befindet sich inmitten der Altstadt .

Das Portal des Hauses besitzt einen mächtigen Giebel mit zwei Giebelfiguren und einer reich verzierten Kartusche. Die Inschrift in der Kartusche lautet:

„I.U. MUSEUM S.L.L.S.“

„In uno Museum Societatis Litterarum Lusatiae Superioris“

„Das ganze Gebäude möge eine Stätte für gelehrte Studien der Oberlausitzischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften sein.“

The Baroque house Neißstraße 30 is an important trading and residential building from the Baroque period in Goerlitz, which was built between 1727 and 1729 after the city fire.

Since 1951 it has been used as part of the city's cultural history museum. It is located in the middle of the old town.

The portal of the house has a mighty gable with two gable figures and an ornate cartouche. The inscription in the cartridge reads:

"I.U. MUSEUM S.L.L.S. "

"In uno Museum Societatis Litterarum Lusatiae Superioris"

"The whole building may be a place for scholarly studies by the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences."

(Wikipedia)

Diner's evolved for the need of quick food in busy areas be it factory districts, busy city areas or along busy highways. Many of the older diners were built from converted buses or passenger rail cars. But during the 1950's with the building of the Interstate highway system combined with the prosperity of the era large scale diners started being built providing non pretentious comfort food with large mega calorie portions and heart attack caffeine levels in their coffee to wake up sleep deprived patrons with a long day of work ahead of them all at a reasonable price. Spending nearly fifty years traveling though the whole lower 48 I have stopped at far more diners than I possibly remember. Oh course not all diners are great and some are down right horrible but when in doubt always use the parking lot test. A good quality diner especially by evening should have a nearly full parking lot. Go to a diner or any restaurant for that matter by early evening and there is only a handful of cars and it's usually for a reason and it's best to pass it by.

Gouthwaite.

Pately Bridge.

Crappy old Ricoh 500G with grass in the viewfinder.

The first shot on a roll of Ilford FP4 at iso 250.

Developed with Ilfotec stopped and fixed then and hung above a bath after the missus had showered.

Walked the Dog.

Had a beer.

a few more.

Went to bed. Next day, scanned Neg.

Given pretentious sepia tone.

Zzzzz

Skin: Josh - Stray Dog at Access

I kinda feel like this guy has his 15 dollar avocado toast "bio, organic, fair-trade, and gluten-free" from a pretentious food truck right by Venice Beach. Right after using the outdoor gym for multiple reps of a workout that can only be called "The Brag."

And he definitely, definitely "gives a fuck."

....sometimes it's important to be random...or pretentious...meh

Taken at "Pretentious art gallery" (Crestwick Island) in the current exhibition "MEN"

Taken at Midnight in Paris.

(It’s a joke, ever since i was little and watching Monty Python, they always made fun of the French, and it’s stuck with me as a funny stereotype)

The Devil's Bathtub is the name given to a local natural land formation (a glacial hole) in Mendon Ponds Park. Otherwise, this photo would be in the running for the most pretentious image title on Flickr.

My biannual profile picture update. My last one was all tattooed and modern but with this one I decided to hearken back to one of my elder vampire lord titles, The Bone Death.

Yes, I really AM that pretentious. Still. I'm not even sorry.

Give me your wondering eyes

and I'll peer into the roots of things.

Give me your skilful hands

and I'll sow the seeds of your dreams.

Give me your chestful of thoughts

and I'll pour its treasures through the sky.

Give me your breath of life

and I'll spread my wings to fly.

Give me your awestruck silence

and it'll ease the agony of absence.

Give me your warm, glowing heart

and I'll be alive, at last.

Hi my friends, here it is another sunrise from Umbria, Italy - actually, same time and same place as one of my previous uploads (Then Someone drew the curtains and..., as you can easily see from the warped trunk of the oak tree near the center of the scene).

If you are thinking that it is a bit more than pretentious that an Italian is composing verses in English, you are in part right - only in part, though, since I do not assume that I have written good verses, but I felt like trying to convey the emotions that went with the adventure of processing this scene. Hope that the result is at least decent.

I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.3/0/+1.3 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4 (and a little trick of mine involving a bw version of the photo). Raw files has been processed with Darktable.

OK...pretentious title, but listening to a Prom with a theme of space travel...so feeling arty.

youtu.be/YtNJybve8j4

If I ever write my

Ode to Freedom

It will be in prose that chimes with me

It would be a simple

Ode to Freedom

Not pretentious, but with dignity

I would like to think that freedom is

More than just a word

In a grand and lofty language

Odes to Freedom often go unheard

If I ever wrote my

Ode to Freedom

Being privileged and spoilt for choice

Then I fear that you would

Be suspicious

Of the cause to which I'd lend my voice

It's elusive and it's hard to hold

It's a fleeting thing

That's why there is no Ode to Freedom truly worth remembering

I wish that someone would write an Ode to Freedom that we all could sing.

Songwriters: Benny Goran Bror Andersson, Bjoern K. Ulvaeus.ABBA

Shawn Wasabi – LEMONS

- Lyrics -

I just gotta be honest

I don't like the way she dresses

Or the way that she pronounce her "S"es

And I'm just sayin' what they thinking

'Cause they don't, they don't know you, no

Like I know you, no

I'm not tryna be pretentious

But we know we had was the bestest

Now, you hidin' behind white picket fences

And she know she don't know you, no

Like I know you, no

Not that I'm supposed to be

Nice and everythin'

On some feminism shit, yeah

Not that it's not for me

Maybe it's jealousy

Maybe it's not

I just think she's kinda ugly

I'm not trying to be cruel

But the way she calls you hubby

Before the altar, alters you, uh

And you know I'm not tryna waste your time

But I know if I had some I would change your mind

I just think she's kinda ugly

And that she's not the one for you

Let's not get this confused

Look at her and look at you (Yeah)

She'll mess up your genetic pool

And I would never do that

I would just improve that

Not that I'm supposed to be (Oh)

Nice and everythin' (Oh)

On some feminism shit, yeah

Not that it's not for me (Oh)

Maybe it's jealousy

Maybe it's not

I just think she's kinda ugly (I just think she's kinda ugly)

I'm not trying to be cruel (I'm not trying to be cruel)

But the way she calls you hubby

Before the altar, alters you, uh

And you know I'm not tryna waste your time

But I know if I had some I would change your mind

I just think she's kinda ugly

And that she's not the one for you, for you

I don't know if I'm like, more concerned, or confused

That's the thing

It just doesn't make any sense

But why?

Why would you do that though? Like

I just think she's kinda ugly

I'm not trying to be cruel (Don't need to? Why?)

But the way she calls you hubby (It just seems unnecessary to me, it's fine)

Before the altar, alters you, uh

(I'm not even mad about it, I'm not mad, not even mad)

And you know I'm not tryna waste your time

But I know if I had some I would change your mind

I just think she's kinda ugly

And that she's not the one for you

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