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... properly introducing her now she has a name. I really adore this doll.... and yes will put clothes on her soon. :)
*Thanks to my 11 year old daughter for showing me how to do the blurred edge effect. lol
Stuck with the new paint system ... can't seem to get those fully painted mirrors to work properly ..
A properly processed version of an earlier shot.
One minute it was just me on the harbour wall; the next time I looked up there were 5 of us all sitting in a line trying to take the obvious shot.
This was made using welding glass - the first time I've tried it with the Olympus Pen-F; it works well, probably because high-resolution mode involves super-sampling full chroma and luminosity at every pixel. The archive version of this is 85MPel, from 3 frames blended with hugin+enfuse.
Properly known as The Burnley Embankment, the 'Straight Mile' section of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal is built around 10 metres above the town centre. This was seen as a less-expensive alternative to constructing a series of locks to navigate the changes in height across the town. The normal method would have been for the canal to follow the contours of the land, but in this instance, there were significant objections from local landowners to having the canal traverse their land.
And the Mile isn't actually a mile, falling a little short...
Burnley, Lancashire, UK
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I've been properly bitten by this repaint bug now. Here's Flynn/Eugene. I resisted buying him at first because I really hated his smooth, shiny helmet hair, so after stripping the factory paint, I went at his head with some linocutting blades. I think he looks much more like himself now.
The seaside promenade in Lyme Regis is more properly known as Marine Parade. According to the blue plaque on the right it was created by the philanthropist Roger Hollis in 1771. The lower part next to the beach is known as the cart road. There is a number of beautiful old houses along here, mainly dating from the Regency period. The one nearest the camera is Grade II-listed and dates from the early 1800s.
The lamp standards along the side of the road have been designed to reflect the area's fame as a rich source of fossils, including ammonites. Mary Anning, who lived in the town when this house was being built, become renowned as a fossil hunter and discovered the first fossilised remains of a plesiosaur as well as numerous other creatures.
Peterborough Cathedral, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, and formerly known as Peterborough Abbey or St Peter's Abbey, is a cathedral in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. The seat of the Anglican Bishop of Peterborough, it is dedicated to the Apostles Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and Saint Andrew, whose statues look down from the three high gables of the West Front. Founded in the Anglo-Saxon period as a minster it became one of England's most important Benedictine abbeys, becoming a cathedral only in 1542. Its architecture is mainly Norman, following a rebuilding in the 12th century. Alongside the cathedrals of Durham and Ely, it is one of the most important 12th-century buildings in England to have remained largely intact, despite extensions and restoration, and is one the nations best preserved pre-Reformation abbeys.
Peterborough Cathedral is known for its imposing Early English Gothic West Front (façade) which, with its three enormous arches, is without architectural precedent and with no direct successor. The appearance is slightly asymmetrical, as one of the two towers that rise from behind the façade was never completed (the tower on the right as one faces the building), but this is only visible from a distance.
Do not go gently...
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Here's my yearly submission to the Vae Victis Halloween photo contest! This was taken on their lovely sim, found here!
Wish me luck y'all! This one may be my most gusty photo yet-- I've never done a picture with this level of photomanipulation and post-production editing, but I really do like how it turned out!
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Throughout the winter, I photograph hundreds of snowflakes, but many of them never get properly edited, as 4-6 hours of work typically goes into each one. This one didn’t make my Snowflake-a-Day project, but it did catch my attention a few days ago when I noticed snow in the forecast again. View large and zoom in! (Press the "L" key to view in Lightbox mode)
Late April might occasionally see a snowfall, and we’re in the middle of some nasty weather at the moment. The temperatures are too warm to take any useful photographs, and I know most people are cursing the white stuff when the flowers have already begun to bloom, so I present this snowflake to make up for the dismal state of the weather. It’s not all bad.
Snowflakes like this only fall a few times a year, when the conditions allow for stable and slow growth. Calm weather, cold temperatures (around -10 to -16C or so in the sky) and relatively high humidity can create beautiful crystals like this. The growth conditions were not completely stable however, resulting in a broader design at the beginning and faster growth as the snowflake grew bigger.
You can make an interesting observation from snowflakes like this. Notice how all of the outer branches have rounded and pointed tips, but the inner branches toward the center have rigid edges that contain roughly 60-degree angles? Faster-growing branches result in rounded tips, and slower-growing branches result in rigid tips. The inner areas of a snowflake will continue to grow even after the crystal has expanded outward, but with less water vapour reaching the inner branches, their growth slows and transforms the style of their growth in the process.
This image is created from 54 separate frames, each containing a tiny slice of focus. The snowflakes are photographed on an angle to reveal the fascinating surface detail and reflective properties of ice, but these features come at the cost of depth of field. Using focus stacking techniques and exhaustive editing to make sure the combination of frames is perfect, the entire snowflakes comes into focus after many hours of editing. This crystal took 6 hours to complete.
If you want to learn more about the exact photographic techniques in a step-by-step tutorial, or you find the science behind these winter wonders fascinating, check out Sky Crystals: www.skycrystals.ca/ - you won’t find a better book on the subject that caters to both photographers and science-minded people alike. :)
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This year I asked myself, like so many Sicilian and non-Sicilian photographers, where to go to take pictures for Good Friday, to discover one of the many popular traditions scattered throughout Sicily, in fact Easter in Sicily is a cathartic moment for those in search of traditional popular events, to be able to tell with words and above all (for those like me) with photographs, a research that may appear not without contradictions, for example for that great Sicilian thinker who was Leonardo Sciascia, for he Sicily cannot be called Christian, which he defined the Sicilian festivals, at best it is only in appearance, in those properly pagan explosions, tolerated by the Church; Sciascia deals with the topic as an introductory essay in the book "Religious feasts in Sicily" (a volume that is still found on flea markets at ever higher prices), illustrated with photographs of a young and still unknown Ferdinando Scianna (in the first edition they made a mistake also his name, Fernando Scianna can be read on the cover), a book that did not fail to raise some controversy precisely because of the introductory note of the Sicilian thinker, appearing in open controversy with the sacredness of that popular devotion (so much so that the book was the subject of a criticized by the newspaper of the Holy See, The Roman Observer), Sciascia writes “What is a religious feast in Sicily? It would be easy to answer that it's anything but a religious holiday. It is, above all, an existential explosion; the explosion of the collective id, where the collectivity exists only at the level of the id. Because it is only in celebration that the Sicilian emerges from his condition as a lonely man, which is after all the condition of his vigilant and painful superego, to find himself part of a class, a class, a city ”. Going back over the thought of Gesualdo Bufalino, Sicilian writer and poet, we find interesting indications on the meaning that the Sicilians give to these traditional popular events, he says "during Easter every Sicilian feels not only a spectator, but an actor, before sorrowful and then exultant, for a Mystery which is its very existence. The time of the event is that of Spring, the season of metamorphosis, just as metamorphic is the very nature of the ritual in which, as in a story from the “Opera dei Pupi” (Puppets work), the fight of Good against Evil is fought. The Deception, the Pain and the Triumph, the Passion, the Death and the Resurrection of Christ are present”.
In short, Easter in Sicily is a recurrence deeply felt throughout the island since ancient times, it has always had the moving participation of the people as its fulcrum, with representations and processions that have become rites and traditions that unequivocally characterize many Sicilian towns, which recall the most salient moments narrated in the Gospels and which recall the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, with processions formed by the various brotherhoods (sometimes with theatrical re-enactments) which have in themselves contents and symbols often coming from the Spanish domination, which in Sicily between the 16th and 17th centuries.
Returning to my question, expressed at the beginning, I had several suggestions from friends and acquaintances, among these a nurse friend of mine, originally from Leonforte, Vincenzo, managed to tickle my interest in a particular way, hence the photographic story that I present, made this year, is that of the Good Friday procession of Leonforte.
The procession begins in the late morning, which proceeds from the Oratory to the Mother Church, through the Piazzale Matrice, during the short journey the Stations of the Cross are meditated on; the procession that advances towards the Cathedral (which will represent Golgotha, because it is there that the Crucifixion of Christ will take place) is started by a large Cross, behind it proceed two long lines of sisters and brothers, there are those who carry cushions with nails, the crown of thorns, and the sheet of the deposition with a "Red Rose" on it; then we find Christ with an uncovered face supported by five brothers, followed by the Virgin of Sorrows, carried on the shoulders of the confraternity of the same name. At noon, inside the Mother Church, once in front of the Cross, the statue with jointed arms is "crucified". When dusk comes everything is ready for the procession, which starts from the Mother Church with the rite of the deposition of Christ down from the Cross, which is taken care of by the priests; the procession winds along an estimated route of just over 7 km, involving the 13 churches of Leonforte (thirteen as there are stations of the “Way of the Cross”), a procession called "'U Mulimentu", a term that indicates the sepulcher which it guarded for three days the body of Christ before his Resurrection (The procession of the “'U Mulimentu” can be dated around 1650). This itinerary also includes the lighting of a huge bonfire placed in the square in front of the " Great Fountain of Leonforte" (built on the remains of an ancient Arab fountain), from whose 24 spouts water does not come out only on Good Friday, as a sign of mourning the death of Christ.
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Quest’anno mi ponevo la domanda, come tanti fotografi, siciliani e non, dove recarmi a realizzare fotografie per il Venerdì Santo, alla scoperta di una delle tantissime tradizioni popolari sparse in tutta la Sicilia, la Pasqua infatti in Sicilia, è un momento catartico per chi è alla ricerca di eventi popolari tradizionali, da poter così raccontare con parole e soprattutto (per chi come me) con fotografie, una ricerca che può apparire non priva di contraddizioni, ad esempio per quel grande pensatore Siciliano che fu Leonardo Sciascia, per lui la Sicilia non può dirsi cristiana, che definiva le feste Siciliane, al massimo lo è solo in apparenza, in quelle esplosioni propriamente pagane, tollerate dalla Chiesa; Sciascia affronta l’argomento come saggio introduttivo nel libro “Feste religiose in Sicilia” (volume che si trova ancore sui mercatini dell’usato a prezzi sempre più alti), illustrato con fotografie di un giovane ed ancora sconosciuto Ferdinando Scianna (nella prima edizione sbagliarono anche il suo nome, sulla copertina si legge Fernando Scianna), libro che non mancò di sollevare qualche polemica proprio per la nota introduttiva del pensatore Siciliano, apparendo in aperta polemica con la sacralità di quella devozione popolare (tanto che il libro fu oggetto di una stroncatura da parte del quotidiano della Santa Sede, l’Osservatore Romano), Sciascia scrive “Che cos’ è una festa religiosa in Sicilia? Sarebbe facile rispondere che è tutto, tranne che una festa religiosa. E’, innanzi tutto, un’esplosione esistenziale; l’esplosione dell’es collettivo, dove la collettività esiste soltanto a livello dell’es. Poiché e soltanto nella festa che il siciliano esce dalla sua condizione di uomo solo, che è poi la condizione del suo vigile e doloroso super io, per ritrovarsi parte di un ceto, di una classe, di una città ”. Andando a ripercorrere il pensiero di Gesualdo Bufalino, scrittore e poeta Siciliano, si trovano indicazioni interessanti sul senso che i Siciliano danno a questi eventi popolari tradizionali, egli dice “durante la Pasqua ogni siciliano si sente non solo uno spettatore, ma un attore, prima dolente e poi esultante, per un Mistero che è la sua stessa esistenza. Il tempo dell’evento è quello della Primavera, la stagione della metamorfosi, così come metamorfica è la natura stessa del rito nel quale, come in un racconto dell’Opera dei Pupi, si combatte la lotta del Bene contro il Male. Sono presenti l’Inganno, il Dolore e il Trionfo, la Passione, la Morte e la Resurrezione di Cristo”.
In breve, la Pasqua in Sicilia è una ricorrenza profondamente sentita in tutta l’isola fin dall’antichità, essa ha sempre avuto come fulcro la commossa partecipazione del popolo, con rappresentazioni e processioni divenuti riti e tradizioni che caratterizzano inequivocabilmente numerosissimi centri Siciliani, che rievocano i momenti più salienti narrati nei Vangeli e che ricordano la Passione, la Morte e la Resurrezione di Gesù Cristo, con cortei formati dalle varie confraternite (a volte con rievocazioni teatrali) che hanno in se contenuti e simbologie spesso provenienti dalla dominazione Spagnola, avvenuta in Sicilia tra il XVI ed il XVII secolo.
Ritornando alla mia domanda, espressa all’inizio, ho avuto diversi suggerimenti da parte di amici e conoscenti, tra queste un mio amico infermiere, originario di Leonforte, Vincenzo, è riuscito a solleticare il mio interesse in particolar modo, da qui il racconto fotografico che presento, realizzato quest’anno, è quello della processione del Venerdì Santo di Leonforte.
La processione inizia in tarda mattinata, che procede dall’Oratorio fino alla Chiesa Madre,attraverso il piazzale Matrice, durante il breve tragitto vengono meditate le stazioni della Via Crucis; ad inziare la processione che avanza verso il Duomo (che rappresenterà il Golgota, perché è li dentro che avverrà la Crocifissione del Cristo) è una grande Croce, dietro procedono due lunghe file di consorelle e confrati, ci sono coloro che portano i cuscini con i chiodi, la corona di spine, ed il lenzuolo della deposizione con sopra una “Rosa Rossa”; poi troviamo il Cristo a volto scoperto sorretto da cinque confrati, segue la Vergine Addolorata, portata in spalla dall’omonima confraternita. A mezzogiorno, dentro la Chiesa Madre, giunti dinnanzi alla Croce, la statua con le braccia snodabili viene “crocifissa”. Quando sopraggiunge l’imbrunire tutto è pronto per la processione, che inizia dalla Chiesa Madre col rito della deposizione del Cristo giù dalla Croce, della quale se ne occupano i sacerdoti; la processione si snoda lungo un percorso stimato in poco più di 7 Km, interessando le 13 chiese di Leonforte (tredici quante sono le stazioni della Via Crucis), processione chiamata “’U Mulimentu”, termine che indica il sepolcro che custodì per tre giorni il corpo del Cristo prima della sua Resurrezione (La processione del “’U Mulimentu” è databile intorno al 1650). Questo percorso prevede anche l’accensione di un enorme falò posto sul piazzale antistante la “Gran Fonte di Leonforte” (costruita sui resti di una antica fontana araba), dalle cui 24 cannelle non esce acqua solo il giorno del Venerdì Santo, in segno di lutto per la morte del Cristo.
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Still waiting on a few more Bricklink orders to come in... I have an event I'd love to take this to on April 4th! Might have to take it as is and put a big sign saying WIP on it. HA!
Among the best known halo types are the circular halo (properly called the 22° halo), light pillars, and sun dogs (in photo: one to the left of the sun) – some of the many more are fairly common, others (extremely) rare – the ice crystals that cause the 22° halo, often just called "halo", appearing as a large ring around the Sun or Moon with a radius of about 22° (roughly the width of an outstretched hand at arm's length), are oriented semi-randomly in the atmosphere, in contrast to the horizontal orientation required for some other halos such as sun dogs & light pillars: as a result of the optical properties of the ice crystals involved, no light is reflected towards the inside of the ring, leaving the sky noticeably darker than the sky around it, and giving it the impression of a "hole in the sky"; the 22° halo is not to be confused with the corona, a different optical phenomenon caused by water droplets rather than ice crystals, and appearing as a multicolored disk rather than a ring
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Fort Mill, SC – 2017NOV18 – Solar Halos
High thin cirrus clouds drifting above our heads produced ice halos displaying a range of atmospheric and meteorological optics from the familiar circle around the sun [or moon] – also this rare and prized event: the sky webbed by intricate arcs – plus a sun dog!
I got out my handy cell phone for some (fuzzy) captures!
Hope you enjoy the 46% of 13 photos I took here this day!
Standing on the shore of Loch Ness, in the Scottish Highlands, Fort Augustus Abbey is seen from across the water and the nearby B862.
Fort Augustus Abbey, properly St. Benedict's Abbey, at Fort Augustus, Inverness-shire, Scotland, was a Benedictine monastery, from late in the nineteenth century to 1998.
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"Exeter Cathedral, properly known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, is an Anglican cathedral, and the seat of the Bishop of Exeter, in the city of Exeter, Devon, in South West England. The present building was complete by about 1400, and has several notable features, including an early set of misericords, an astronomical clock and the longest uninterrupted vaulted ceiling in England." - from Wikipedia.
This summer I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos. I recently got through my initial sifting through my photos and I'm now ready to share some of my favourites.
One of these days I'll get this properly captured.
Interstate 55 in St. Louis, MO, USA. Just North of Bayless Ave exit.
After nine days at home, making sure my stitches from minor surgery healed properly, an invitation by friends Cathy and Terry to go birding the day before yesterday (7 March 2014) was welcomed with open arms - as it always is! What a great day we had, searching SE of the city, and finding some really neat birds. Most were impossible to photograph because of distance, but also because we had "heat wave" distortion all day long, making it difficult to get photos that were sharp. It was one of THOSE amazing days, out of the house from 7:15 a.m. till about 8:15 in the evening. By the end of the day, we had seen a total owl count of 19, from three species - 8 Short-eared Owls, 8 Snowy Owls, 2 Great Horned Owls and one mystery owl. We couldn't decide if the latter was a Snowy Owl or a Short-eared Owl, as it was perched on top of a metal silo, way off in the distance. In fact, this silo can be seen in my next image - the coloured spots from the sunburst leading ones eye to it. We missed a good photo opp with one of the Short-eared Owls, when we were pulled over, further down the road than several other photographers. We did see one down on the ground near the edge of the road in a different place, hiding in the dried grasses, but, again, my photo is blurry.
The Snowy Owl in the photo above was the closest Snowy we saw. We were driving past a small backroad that had been cleared and, like all the roads, had snowbanks along both sides. These are very uneven, with all sorts of weird and wonderful shapes on the top. Just past the entrance to this road, I looked back slightly and wondered if one of the shapes was in fact an owl. We decided to turn back and check it out, just in case. Sure enough, there was this beautiful, pure white male! Funny, I had even jokingly said that we should find a couple of black pebbles or bits of wood and add it to the snow shape - and then we realized that this "snowman" shape had eyes of its very own, ha!
Also saw a Prairie Falcon perched on top of a metal silo and lots of Horned Larks - the latter constantly in flight or down on the road ahead of us. The "heat wave" distortion made it impossible to get anything but rather blurry shots of these, but I might be able to slightly improve one of them enough to post later.
As you will no doubt agree, it was an amazing day! Thanks so much, Cathy and Terry, for another rewarding day (which had started off rather slowly down in that area). Lots of fun!
Wow, it's supposed to get up to 14C this afternoon! Meanwhile, it is 10C. Temperatures for this coming week are expected to be between +4C and +10C. The following week, the forecast so far is for temperatures just above 0C - with snow.
For many years, I observe this ritual (oviposition of golden-ringed dragonfly) without being able to photograph it properly
This time i was lucky and the result is better but I will try to do even better ;)
Properly known as The Burnley Embankment, the 'Straight Mile' section of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal is built around 10 metres above the town centre. This was seen as a less-expensive alternative to constructing a series of locks to navigate the changes in height across the town. The normal method would have been for the canal to follow the contours of the land, but in this instance, there were significant objections from local landowners to having the canal traverse their land.
Burnley, Lancashire, UK
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