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Polygonia interrogationis is on my deck!
This is the winter form. It’s getting ready to overwinter and show up early in the spring.
Midtown Tulsa, OK
Fear comes.
I place it on the coals.
Self-loathing comes.
On the coals.
No questions.
No sorting.
Breath in.
Breath out.
Ash cools in the bowl of the body.
Nothing left to carry.
In everything we do we are challenged with the question of: Is this right? Is this good? Will this be accepted? And in all of those questions, it is easy to be tricked into thinking that the answer is what we are seeking. But I believe what the artist's soul looks for is not an answer to AM I GOOD ENOUGH, but instead a way to break the question entirely.
www.promotingpassion.com/quieting-yourself/
If I try to answer the fundamental question of "Am I good enough?", inevitably the answer is irrelevant. That the question is asked at all proves that we seek validation to what we create. In an attempt to break myself from that validation, to stop the person inside of me who would silence my more adventurous spirit, I will be creating new works. The question will not be if it is good enough, but instead, is it enough - for me.
Model: Steph Pez
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.
Went to mini golf with the family. Though Aurelia's form can be questioned, her taste in dresses is top notch.
Paris - MEP
LACPIXEL - 2016
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Dear Journal,
I feel the time has come to shed some light onto the exact nature of my perilous quest.
The sought and found item in question is a 24-carat white gold tablet, 10x10" in length, with many complex wordings and symbols engraved on it, adorned in the center with a warlike mask - perhaps some great hero of the past.
After several day's worth of examination and several trips to the library, I concluded my previous suspicions as to its purpose were justified. It is, in fact, an ancient map which hopefully will lead me to the greatest archaeological find in our history... the lost city of Eusebia.
However, dear Journal, I mustn't continue without further explanation.
Cartography in the Isles of Aura is an exceedingly complex process. I will summarize the basics for you. Since about 2,300 years ago, all navigation has been based solely upon the stars. With a few year's training (and a heap of various advanced equipment for extra precision), you can find any place in our known world, regardless of height or depth. It is said that "One can never be lost if he is at home among the stars."
Fortunately, I have spent much of my life in these skies and and know these heavens well. It wasn't always like this...
Before 2,500 years ago, most historians agree that Aura was one massive continent floating wherever it pleased. And at some point, for reasons unknown, this great land mass broke apart and scattered across the known world. And this, journal, is where my problems really begin to stack up. For starters, Aura is incredibly difficult to map. It is a turbulent and ever-changing land and all charts must be revised every 50 years or so. This would be no problem if the map I have found calls upon the stars. However - it does not. it is based solely upon a series of complex landmarks and the distances and directions between them!
What's worse is that all charts on record are simply not old enough to correspond with the age of this artifact. And these distances it describes are too large to be anything but the now-extinct, afore-mentioned "Super-island".
On a side note: the start of the map is a capital city of an ancient civilization named Arravia that dominated Aura for centuries just before the great divide. This map is essentially a trade route from Arravia to Eusebia.
In conclusion, dear journal, this is my dilemma. The beginning of this trade route has long since disappeared with no accurate ways of finding it or any other of these dozen or so long-extinct landmarks and therefore the end (which is the Eusebia) is impossible to find.
But - there is one small chance. If I can find one of these landmarks and if it is in geological stasis, finding the rest of these landmarks would be child's play just by using the stars. Until one of these landmarks is discovered, this map is useless.
So... I shall write down these coordinates and donate this piece to the library of Alabastro for safekeeping!
There is now nothing I can do but continue my quest and hope to find unlikely favor in my search.
Signed,
Zenas Abbington
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.
Question: How many cables does it take to hold up the ten lane Port Mann Bridge?
Answer: 288
Project 365-085
Polygonia interrogationis is on my deck!
This is the winter form. It’s getting ready to overwinter and show up early in the spring.
Midtown Tulsa, OK
"Déplacements pour l’assistance aux personnes vulnérables"
Ne peut on pas considérer que des photos de sa région, partagées sur les réseaux aident les personnes en manque de sortie quotidienne et permettent de rendre supportable ces semaines de confinement ?
De là à en déduire que les photographes ont un rôle social à jouer dans la vie quotidienne des gens. Ne serait ce pas normal dans ce cas que les photographes soient autorisé par l'état à jouer ce rôle à fond.
Je demande que l'état brise le confinement des photographes locaux en les autorisant à se balader dans leur commune respective !
N'ai je pas raison ? 😅
Le Fort-Bloque - Ploemeur
Time to ask a silly question on the blog! I'd love it if you could find a moment to offer an answer!
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After waiting over a month, mom finally got to Toronto and into the Apple Store to buy her Mac. (The shopping was part of the present.)
We booked a personal shopper, Dave, to help with the process and he was great! Totally worth calling ahead to have someone like Dave (or Dave himself) there to help you go through the purchase process and all the little questions that are sitting in the back of your mind.
(These are going to be used together in a flickr slideshow on unsweetened.ca)
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??
Seasonally dimorphic, the fall form of this species with strong lavender edging and predominantly orange coloration on the dorsal hind wings will overwinter as an adult. It will be one of the earliest butterflies to fly in spring and may even be encountered on warm winter days in early February. This butterfly does not rely on floral nectar, but prefers to sip flowing tree sap, carrion and dung. Male butterflies love to puddle and are notoriously territorial meeting any intruder that enters their territory.
Question to all of you: why does my EXIF information show sometimes, and other times it does not. I use Lightroom Classic for all my editing and the data shows there. Does anyone else have this problem?
After a disastrous captive breeding programme this year, I may have success with a batch of 10 Question Mark butterflies. This 40mm final instar Polygonia interragationis larva is about to pupate; the other nine caterpillars have already formed their chrysalis on the Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) food plant.
The Question Mark is a nymphalid butterfly and is the largest of the Polygonia (Comma) species from North America. It lives in wooded areas, city parks, generally in areas with a combination of trees and open space.
Thanks for your visit… Any comment you make on my photograph is greatly appreciated and encouraging! But please do not use this image without permission.
When it comes to shorebirds I struggle with accurate identification. My technique is usually shoot and ask questions later. Thanks for the help with the ID.
this is one of my favorite pictures from an entire day at warped tour.
i have a lot of live performance photos to edit and i'm not looking forward to it. a majority of them are horrible! i love concert photography, i just despise having to upload them.
i'm seeing the summer set tonight! :) fun fun.
fact #5: it's upsetting to know that people i've never spoken to personally perceive me to be the person i am not.
Here is an example for the first weeks lesson assignment. This is a wide angle landscape image from Great Falls National Park in Virginia.
I shot this with a D300 (aps crop sensor) and used a 12-24mm wide angle lens. Notice the sweeping perspective created by using this lens at its widest setting.
In order for these wide angle landscape to work well, you need to get in close to your foreground. For this image I choose the rock as a great foreground and positioned the lens within 2 feet of it. This creates what is known as a near/far composition. This image works well also because of the dramatic clouds at sunset. If the sky would have been clear, this image would not be nearly as strong and I would have need to consider shooting a completely different composition with much less sky in the shot.
Technical details:
Nikon D300
Nikon 12-24mm f4
Singh Ray 3 stop ND grad hard edge
raw capture at ISO 100
2 seconds at f16
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ignore my awkwardness wooo.
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