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LACPIXEL - 2017
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With approximately 40 million users on Flickr, yours truly (thanks to all my Flickr friends) made #1 as Flickr's top photographer ( www.flickrooster.com/archive/2017/03 ) - yeah I'm tooting my own horn since no one else will... but I digress. That leaves the question: With nothing left to accomplish, what do I do now?
Hmm, got to be a bird in that image somewhere lol...
As a B&B host (not an Air BnB Superhost! no thanks) I get asked many questions: where to go, what to see, what's the weather going to do today, etc? Fortunately, having an interest in photography has helped me in that, as I regularly recce the area to check roads, where deer are, highland coos, etc, and taste the local whisky so that I know!
Sometimes I'm powerless to help. When people (French) travel from the south of France to the Scottish Highlands and then decide it's too far to go 25 miles to explore the end of the Ardnamurchan peninsula. Or they only bring white trainers and no walking boots with them as if expecting to only walk on city pavements and not across unspoilt and rugged Mother Nature. I despair sometimes with the lack of 'nous' or planning. Of course they also expect to get up late and then set off for a day trip of all of Skye....and haven't even thought to book a ferry in peak season.
Some, a few, arrive better prepared, some with teenage kids more interested in staying in the room and playing Call of Duty on the Playstation. To them, I might say, why not go far off the beaten trail out to Glendrian?
Your kids can get some lungfulls of pure, fresh highland air, some exercise and some education (why do people come here with big plastic bottles of Highland Spring water bottled from some drain near the Ochil Hills near Glasgow? How could it be more pure than what we have come out of the mountains around here? At least I'm reasonably confident our water hasn't already passed through several other human beings, and only filtered after flowing through the whole sewage system and chemically recycled).
Glendrian is an abandoned crofting township in the centre of the Ardnamurchan peninsula centred on grid reference NM480687. It is a Scheduled Monument, Historic Scotland describing it as “of national importance because of its potential to contribute to our understanding of post-medieval settlement and economy. Although only abandoned in the 1940s the settlement incorporates information for the earlier expansion and contraction of the community who lived here. The buildings are varied in date and style and contain evidence for the complex history of settlement on the site.”
Glendrian’s lands occupy the eastern half of the low land within the circle of hills formed by the main ring dykes of the Ardnamurchan Tertiary Volcanic Complex. Even in winter, when the vegetation has died back, the buildings are difficult to see.
But take your teenagers out there and ask them to imagine it was their home, completely isolated and cut off in the low land where there is total silence within the circle of hills formed by the main ring dykes of the Ardnamurchan Tertiary Volcanic Complex. There's no road to it. No electricity. The running water is in the form of a burn along the bottom of the shallow valley. No shops. And apart from feeding and tending to the animals kids still had to go to school in Kilchoan, six miles over the hills. And they didn't have modern water and windproof clothing to cloth them as they walked to school in winter darkness, and rain, hail and snow. And shock-horror: tell your teenagers they had no phone signal or wifi either!
People lived in Glendrian until the 1940's until the convenience of motorised transport links, shops and electricity lured them to living in towns and villages. 80 years on, if they were still alive would they move back, valuing the quality of life in Glendrian: no noise, no traffic, no crowds, no crime, no rape, no knife crime - a peaceful way of life? That's what 'civilisation' should be. Indeed the movement of people to live in towns and cities has heralded the end of civilisation! A visit to Glendrian can teach modern youth, and city and town folk a lot! I scuttled off home before the rain arrived.
A more comprehensive history of the settlement is here : heritageardnamurchan.co.uk/glendrian/
.Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Rainer Maria Rilke
What has probably happened here?
Why did the killer not taken his dagger?
Why he used an oriental dagger?
Whose is the wedding ring?
And most important is the question: Where is Mrs. Arlington now...?
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So, this is a murder mystery scene inspired by Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie novels.
(and yes, this ins't blood made by Lego...)
Nooroyd
A fitting day to send out a message of peace. Even though I may not be an American I still pay tribute and honor those who lost their lives 8 years ago today and in the subsequent activites that have happened since. I was in Grade 12 when the events of 9/11 took place and I remember every feeling, every sound, every emotion that went through my mind that day. I remember being woken up by my mom and watching the news in my parents bedroom. I remember walking with my little brother to the end of the street, noticing the eerie silenc of the skies above...they were a crystal clear blue and the absence of plane trails hit me quite hard. It was a day that I don't think anyone can ever really forget.
I had an interesting day today, I substituted in a Grade 2 class which was SO different than working in a middle school...hahaha. Since I still don't have a full-time job I've been working at a few places on-call which is helpful. Anyways, the students were so little and funny and I forgot how random little kids can be sometimes. Here's the best conversation I had today with one of the boys:
Student: "How old are you?"
Me: "How old do you think I am?"
Student: "17"
Me: "That's close enough for me" (I'm actually 25)
Student: "Are you smart?"
Me: "Well I think so"
Student: "What's 90 plus 90?"
Me: "180"
Student: "WOAH! You ARE smart! Do you watch Family Channel?"
Me: "um...no, let's get back to work now..."
It was so random and so funny and they kept trying to stump me with questions like "what's a million plus a million?" and they seemed genuinely impressed when I answered....
Hope you all have a good weekend and a peaceful friday!
11/365
TOTW: Heroes: John Lennon is certainly a hero of mine, but also this is dedicated/a tribute for all those affected by 9/11.
30 Songs in 30 Days: Imagine by John Lennon
Well, there isn’t much of a choice here as I see it. Nobody likes a naked cow.
I want my beef dressed. I am thinking a pink tutu and a bright red halter top with a nice scarf to accent the ensemble. The only question is the footwear. I don’t think ballerina slippers would be practical on a cow.. not with the field full of manure. I guess I’ll go with combat boots.
Think how much money some of these people are going to spend to have their cow dressed in formal wear. The cheapest outfit on the Beef’s ‘Dressed List’ is a two piece bathing suit because there is less material. But, if you are going to go with that the cow might as well be naked.
Happy Smile on Saturday.
The image is part of a series I did while I was a kid and six years old. All pics have been shot with a simple no-name plastic camera.
At that time we used to live in kind of social housing estate.
There are only some few pictures I've recovered a couple of days ago. The negatives show some fragmentary views of a child - its necessities and close relationships to sisters, parents and friends, as well as the surrounding urban environment in the late 1960s in the middle of Germany, at a time when Second World War wasn't really long ago.
My parents carried their individual posttrauma life-long..
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I've been questioned as to how old I am today. Well, I don't give that info out without a fight. Here are a few clues...
- I was born during Eisenhower's first term as president
- The first movie I ever saw in a theater was The Parent Trap, starring Hayley Mills. I was six years old and had a crush on Hayley Mills well into adulthood.
- Earliest TV memory is The Mickey Mouse Club, which came on at 5:00 p.m. EST and which I never missed.
- I was informed that President Kennedy had been assassinated by my 4th grade teacher.
Good luck!
I've been trying to paint X-23's face and I just can't get the likeness. I don't know why but it is just too tricky. What do suggest I change??
Question Mark Butterfly competing with the flies to get access to the holes in the Willow Oak bark.
This image was rotated 90 degrees.
Prime Hook NWR, Delaware.
Here's to new beginnings and new horizons on the eve of my birthday.
Here's to going ouside my comfort zone and to welcoming the shadow side of myself, the sometimes weak and vunerable and brave me.
Here's to being proud of small achievements like keeping positive when things are hard.
Here's to still loving even when times are uncertain and the future is yet to be revealed and only traces and hopes and echoes of what might be are all you have to hang on to.
Here's to being surpised.
Here's to being 37, a dad and still trying to figure things out and planting seeds and praying and cultivating that they come to life and even if they don't that I'll still ask questions and hopefully not find fixed answers but paper boats to sail ashore to my heart's new found melodies.
It's late here now, I've got to go to bed. Goodnight.
"See my question mark?" This punctuation sign can be seen in silver sitting right in the center of the butterfly's hind wing on this ventral view. The "question mark" design cannot be seen from the typical top view. This lovely leaf mimic butterfly will overwinter in a sheltering woodpile or similar outside hide.
“Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, Where is the director? I want to see him.” - Soren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher and Theologian. 1813-1855)
TGIF!!!
Photo taken at Eden Nature Park, Davao City, Philippines
This is the caterpillar of the Question Mark butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis). There is a tiny mark on the underside of the butterfly's wing that gives it the unusual name. I photographed this spiky creature at the Butterfly Haven in Pingree, Idaho.
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Before sunrise on a stormy Fall morning a bull moose crosses the Snake River at Oxbow Bend in Grand Teton National Park while two Trumpeter Swans languish in the morning's quiet time.
Cool and cloudy at North Cascades National Park today. Two nights ago I was returning from Bellingham and had just turned onto the short, narrow lane that leads to my trailer when a mountain lion crossed the path in front of me. Last night I heard a huge crash of trees and brush in the forest close by...My hairs were standing up all day yesterday, especially when hearing some sort of animal prowling around. My trailer is backed up to thick forest and tall trees. Does he live there or is he just visiting - that is the question. Tomorrow I take a boat ride up Ross Lake to Hozeman for a weekend camping trip and a Canadian holiday. Looking forward to this trip and the photo ops.
Orto Botanico di Padova, Serre
taken: 25/05/2009
canon a-1; Canon FD 24mm f/2.8
Black&White film
i love the result on the window and on the wall ♥
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foto scattata per un lavoro dell'università
spero che alla prof le foto piacciano, così posso tirarmela un po' ahahah
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Bimba nei pressi della fontana in un villaggio nel cuore della giungla cambogiana.
Explore #440, Dec 18, 2011
If I'd have been shown this photo I would have assumed it was an Orca attacking a Dolphin. But all is not as it seems, as this male Orca is one of the salmon-eating "residents" off Vancouver Island. "Transient" Orcas (aka Bigg's Killer Whales) feed on seals and dolphins but these Pacific White-sided Dolphins were pestering the Orcas to try and steal salmon. Fish-eating Orcas are highly vocal and we dropped a microphone into the water to listen to their "singing", which was amazing. But mammal-eating Orcas are largely silent in stealth mode when they are hunting. The two Orcas look rather similar but the Dolphins clearly know the difference as they would have high-tailed it out of there if these were Bigg's Killer Whales, presumably recognising them by their silence. For interest here is a Bigg's Killer Whale and I wrote about them in more detail under this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/53180099539/in/photolist
This photo of a Dolphin and Orca together was taken in the Johnstone Strait off the NE coast of Vancouver Island in Canada a few days ago. And the title "What's Going On" was of course from Marvin Gaye's 1971 single and album (but without a question mark).
Ok, so first of all, the photo is completly irrelevant. People like IW so you know, I guess it's 'clickbait' in a way. Also, I guess, sorry for not posting, I'm on holiday so, you know. Plus all you lads follow lots of lads who post like 5 times a day so, you got lots to look at. Ok, on the the question...
So, I've been thinking about this for a while. Would you guys rather have quality, or quantity. Like would you rather have like one or two customs that take like 5-8 hours to make, a week? Or like five or six trash figures a week? I personally like to take my time with my figures. Like, my AK Scarecrow took me like 2 weeks of on and off work to make, and I think it came out really good. Compared to my Kingpin figure which took me like two days and I really don't like the look of him.
So really, quality or quantity?
Post your thoughts below mates.
Oh, and don't be a prick, don't post a photo saying "OH SNAP ______ DIED IN INFINITY WAR. OH SNAP." Because me, and lots of other lads don't want to get the biggest movie of our lives spoiled.
Not a wet paeony :)
What is reality? Is it an image? A reflection of an image? Or is it what we see?
Well... no to all of these. So the question remains an intriguing one. And the more I read about human perception the more intriguing it becomes: our minds don't see what our eyes do…
(And if, perchance, you find your curiosity piqued, ask yourself the question why are tiger and zebra stripes vertical and not horizontal. It’s not an accident and nor a creative whim, and the answer is relevant to photography too….)
This is for the Smile on Saturday group’s Reflection on Black theme.
It’s a visual tease of course. There are three questions in the puzzle:
What is it?
Which way is what?
Where’s the mirror?
All easy to answer, but if your eyes pause even for a moment as they work it out I will feel I have succeeded in my objective.
Curiously, for me, I found it much more obvious looking at the thumbnail than at the full-screen version. And that itself is a comment on our perception I think....
I read somewhere, and it’s true for me, that a photograph that takes the mind a little while to work out generally will be perceived as a more interesting one. And that is why we find record shots and clichéd images less engaging than the creative ones - sometimes just changing the viewpoint makes capture interesting (we all take our images at head height don’t we lol.)
This is part of a set I took 18 months ago, though I only processed this particular perspective today. If you want confirmation of what it is you can rummage through my photostream to find out...
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Smile on Saturday :)
[Tripod mount; delayed-release. Black background on black glazed ceramic tile, side-lit with LED torch.
Processed in Capture One using levels to make things blacker and then balancing the light to give some detail in the reflection. Enhanceds colours, particularly the blue and the orange. Because I like them :)
Used a gradient masked layer to brighten the reflection part to decrease the disparity in lightness against the source.
Nik Color Efex Pro for a Classic Soft Focus effect to introduce a glow to the highlights. This was a bit over the top so I blended the effect layer back into the original using Darken mode.
Flipped vertically. For fun.
Then we were done :)]