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Last week we didn't find much, but I was really happy with the little dolls cuz my dolls have been asking for some and a vintage drum for 50 cents YAY
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Grizzly bears have two types of hair. They have a finer undercoat with coarser guard hairs that protect their hide from damage. Grizzlies are variable in color, from blonde to dark brown and even black. The long, coarse guard hairs on their upper bodies and shoulders tend to be lighter colored.... with white, silver or cream colored tips.
When Lewis and Clark encountered these bears, they named them grizzly, describing the 'grizzled' appearance of their guard hairs. Later, when naturalist George Ord scientifically classified the species, he named them Ursus Arctos Horribilis (horrible bear), because he misinterpreted 'grizzly' or 'grisley' as describing their nature.
Now, I would not call this bear horrible at all but grizzly has passed the test as describing their appearance. I really like their appearance when wet, when their light tipped guard hairs really stand out. This photo was taken on a rainy day and I was very fortunate to capture a few close up shots during a break in the rain.
Our Daily Challenge - Break The Rules for 03.07.13 My rule break is centering the subject. (Well not exactly as I'm tired)
Day 66 ~ 365: the 2013 edition
Away most of day and tired, will catch up tomorrow or soon!
This shot was taken in Western Albemarle County, Virginia. The snow in this parking lot is about 15 inches deep.
This reminded me a quote from my youth in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Then mayor Jasper McLevy, fielding complaints about the city's snow removal efforts said, "God put the snow there, let him take it away." He was in office from 1933 to 1957.
The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a domesticated species of goat-antelope typically kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat (C. aegagrus) of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the animal family Bovidae and the tribe Caprini, meaning it is closely related to the sheep. There are over 300 distinct breeds of goat. It is one of the oldest domesticated species of animal, according to archaeological evidence that its earliest domestication occurred in Iran at 10,000 calibrated calendar years ago.
Goat-herding is an ancient tradition that is still important in places such as Egypt. Goats have been used for milk, meat, fur, and skins across much of the world. Milk from goats is often turned into goat cheese.
Female goats are referred to as does or nannies, intact males are called bucks or billies, and juvenile goats of both sexes are called kids. Castrated males are called wethers. While the words hircine and caprine both refer to anything having a goat-like quality, hircine is used most often to emphasize the distinct smell of domestic goats.
In 2011, there were more than 924 million goats living in the world, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
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Blackberry Farm Park is a family run farm park set in the beautiful East Sussex countryside. Their park offers a huge selection of outdoor play, farm animals and exciting rides for the whole family to enjoy. They also have a range of food outlets on offer as well as outdoor picnic areas.
It is the perfect day out for families, school trips or a Birthday Party. Annual Membership is available and allows you a number of perks and unlimited visits all year round.
Blackberry Farm Park is a great-value, jam-packed, fun-filled family day out all-year round, come rain or shine! They are open all year round, 362 days of the year from 10am-5pm.
Animal experiences, outdoor play and rides – this really is an action-packed day for all ages, with new attractions being added every year. You are guaranteed a warm welcome from their very friendly staff who are here to make your family day out as enjoyable as possible.
For further information please visit blackberry-farm.co.uk/
I was really looking forward to Top Gun 2 this summer. I had been waiting for a long time, not that I think the story will be any good, but I'm sure the action scenes will be worth to watch.
As it looks now, the movie is postponed till next summer - i look forward to that
Here is my 1/46 scale of Mavericks F/A-18E Super Hornet
I'm not really wild about the Winter light around here—lots of overcast grays. I used to joke that "there's nothing out there to see in the Winter," but people take it seriously and lecture me about it. It's just a joke, like the old line that, when you're photographing with a heavy view camera, there are no pictures more than thirty steps from the trunk of the car. (I first heard that attributed to Edward Weston, but who knows. Variations of it have been around forever and I've seen it attributed to many people.) Anyway, I've been taking random still lifes [sic] around the house as a way of unlimbering the camera and fiddling around with it.
I noticed the light on the soap and went and retrieved the camera and tripod. It was almost dark when I took this—note the shutter speed.
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Coming up on 19 years on the World Wide Web! With more than 10,000 posts and 300,000 comments so far.
i really like this,
for some reason.
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sorry,
i have a compulsive habit of;
delete,
upload,
delete,
upload.
i never told you guys,
i saw '500 days of summer' for my birthday and OH MY GOSH,
amazing amazing amazing movie.
SEE IT IF YOU HAVEN'T!
you will never regret.
oh and guess what,
according to my economics teacher i remind her of zooey deschanel,
never fails.
18/365
So yesterday was a really, really shit day. I was adding the finishing touches to a couple's wedding photos, when I noticed the formal group shots weren't there. I did a quick scope through my folders - nothing. They'd gone. As a photographer, let alone a wedding photographer, this is a nightmare come true.
I had a meltdown, my friends calmly talked me through card recovery software, still nothing. My amazing second shooter on the day got a couple of pictures of the bride's family, but nothing else. I was distraught, to say the least. My photography is my life. The thought of losing that too - I have never felt more incompetent, more of a failure, and more of a terrible person for not upholding my standards in what I offer to people. Even if this IS a hard time of my life, it doesn't excuse it, it doesn't put ANYTHING right.
So yesterday I drove round to the couple's house, showed them a slideshow of the rest of the photos, then watched their joyful, excited faces crack into sadness as I told them I'd somehow managed to lose the formals. This wedding was so important to them. I couldn't make it right. How do you make that right? You can't. And these lovely people - they didn't get angry at me. They gave me hugs and were honest about how devastated they were, but at the same time told me they would not deal with it "with fire and brimstone" as they put it, but with time and kindness. I offered all I could - a full refund, a re-shoot, all future events covering, editing any shots the guests had taken. Anything, everything. I've never messed up before and I never imagined it would happen, I couldn't even remember wiping the card, I didn't know how I fucked up so bad, but I fucked up.
Learning to hold my hands up when I fuck up, take responsibility, tell the truth and not try and cover my back or blame people, is the single scariest lesson to learn. I felt defeated, I felt like I'd let everyone down. And myself.
And then I posted my 365, and I read all the amazing, kind, uplifting words you guys had for me. I cried and cried and felt very unworthy, but that didn't stop me realising just how many wonderful people are out there - my couple VERY much included. It's not always easy to be kind, but somehow, you lot were, they were.
This morning, I got up with dread filling me right to the bottom of my toes. I just had to sit with this pain I'd caused, sit with the dread and the failure.
I went to a photoshoot I'd been booked for, and thought, "well, I'd better take my back-up camera just incase I fuck today up, too."
I got to the studio, went to load up my card, and there in my back-up camera, was a card containing all the formal shots.
Cue relief like I've never felt.
And this is all wonderful, and I count myself incredibly lucky that this situation is resolved, and the couple are now over the moon and I didn't fuck up after all, but I still fucked up. And if an absentminded card-wipe and a bit of luck is all that separates the two situations, then damn, I can't really take too much credit for this.
But what there is to celebrate today is kindness. Kindness from my amazing couple, kindness from a bunch of friends and family who picked me up and carried me through the last two days (Mum, Adam especially) and a bunch of wonderful strangers who felt compelled to use their own experiences with defeat to pick me up during mine. For what? I don't know, perhaps just the kindness embedded in their souls. But know that today I am celebrating - finding the wedding pictures of course - but mainly I'm celebrating the kindness that is present, and all around me in this world. And I am going to take this experience, learn from it, and be as kind kind kind as I can, whenever I can. Especially when people aren't kind to me. I'll look for the good in things I can't change, and I'll do my best to find some good when I screw up.
So, thank you all. You threw kindness around like confetti, and here it is in my 365 today :-)
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Just as the best light of the morning arrived, an old man came up to me for a chat. At the time I was working on finding a decent composition of the pier, looking out to sea. In the end I didn't get anything as the early comps are clearly not fully explored.
This was a shot taken just 5 minutes earlier. I liked the curve of the light on the sand. My only half decent shot for a fortnight!!! :-(
Really-really liked how the photo turned out that I wanted to feature it separately from my product release material <3
Credits: Jazz Moe Dress by Chateau D'Esprit
Photo taken in AERO golf club, Second Life
I really love Portuguese beaches, but there is one thing to dislike: artificial lights everywhere you are. There are almost no possiblities to do night-exposures with natural light, because of street, house or parking lamps. Here you can see more than 6 different sources of light plus the light of rising moon, light from coastal settlements and some light from the setting sun.
I am highly amused every week at the supermarket checkout to read the sensational headlines on the rag newspapers.
Sadly people buy these rag newspapers and believe the contents......but they did get his age right :D
Todays PoD and #118/119 The Written Word.
119 picture in 2019.
Explored #3 Front Page thanks!
somewhere near unmarked area on highway 30 in the southwest of Maui, Hawaii
I was exploring the area off the trail to find an angle for shooting sea cliffs when I found this rusty car a few feet from the cliff.
I do not know the story behind this car, it's pretty surprising to find it there
special thanks to Sylver... for the title :)
Nikon D40X · Tokina 11-16mm · f8 · iso 100 · 40s manual exposure
Lee Filters 0.9 GND Hard
BNSF really set themselves up for a foamer bombardment by running a warbonnet Dash 8 on lead, on a local, and on a holiday.
I picked up Sam in Lincoln and met up with Ryan in Gretna in the morning before heading up into Iowa to spend the day following the Bayard local back. After hearing yesterday that it would be leading the trip back to Omaha, we weren't the only ones that made the holiday trip out. At peak foam, I believe there were eight of us total following this train.
The train recrewed at Manilla, and the crew that took over could be heard over the scanner taking about opening the door and hanging toilet paper out the window to ruin our shots like a former coworker. Thankfully, that never happened, and after they saw the shenanigans we were putting ourselves through to get photos of a old crusty ATSF unit (you can pack six guys with cameras into the bed of a Ford Ranger to get above the weeds for photos without lifting the front end up, shockingly), they had a good chuckle and left us be.
We all (well, almost all) of us, including the crew, had a smooth, nice trip back down the line towards Council Bluffs as the sun set to end a good day of railfanning.
BNSF B40-8W 539 leads the Bayard local westbound on the Bayard Subdivision outside Portsmouth, Iowa, September 5, 2022.
Really should be viewed large!
Sunbury was once a quiet country town. But its growing. In the background we can see farms on the hillside that may one day be covered with housing. In the mid-distance there is a bridge that is almost as old as Victoria. This area was settled early, and this train line was the first out of the settlement that became Melbourne.
ok for ABCTV Weather.
This was built for the afrofuturism contest on Lego Ideas.
I was heavily inspired by different African architecture. I spent a lot of time looking at different designs of windows, color schemes, patterns, and other elements. I wanted to incorporate a lot of greenery and plants to give the city some pops of color. I also wanted the city to look like it was just a small chunk plucked out of an even greater futuristic city. I wanted the city to look like it could be located anywhere in the world. Sustainability is important to me so when thinking about afro-futurism and how I was going to incorporate some of my own values into this contest, I wanted to use my inspiration of modern sustainable architecture to influence the structure of my design. This was a very fun build and am happy with how it turned out. I hope you enjoy!
I really should be processing more of my Africa shots, but couldn't resist playing around with this one from my road trip with Amanda this weekend. This is near the Great Sand Dunes.
really cool overflowing bookstore in nyack
super noisy but i don't care
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this is where i bought the perks of being a wallflower; it's a great book and you should definitely read it
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Arte Digital - Digital Art
Photoshop (Ps)
Image-editing
Effects - Texture - Collage
Double Exposure
Software: Pixlr; Windows
A partir de foto original em 02/12/2019
Parque das Aves
Foz do Iguaçu
Paraná, Brasil
Another from this incredible morning of shooting. I really wanted to emphasize these incredible shapes in the ice on the lake, so I tried out a lot of different compositions here. If I got any lower, the circular formations became less obvious and the shot suffered.
I have all of Thanksgiving week off of work and school, so I'm hoping to spend a lot of time out shooting. I can't wait!
Not really a new waterfall but with such a dramatic collapse it seems like a new waterfall.
The Niagara Escarpment began to take shape over 450 million years ago as the bed of a tropical sea. During the millions of years that followed, the sediments were compressed into rock, mainly magnesium-rich limestone (dolostone) and shale.
This is sitting on blue and red clay. Which is very visible in the photos.
This waterfalls like Niagara Falls over time recedes when the exposed rock falls. I feel what we are witnessing is a once in a lifetime event
The photo on the left was taken a few years ago, while the one on the right shows the dolostone cap missing.
Not really, this was shot about 8:30 or so in the morning....directly into a bright sun and a steam rising from the lake on a 26 degree morning...darkened it a bit and added a vignette for the effect I was enjoying....
Baby really hurt me, crying in the taxi
He don't wanna know me
Says he made the big mistake of dancing in my storm
Says it was poison
So I guess I'll go home
Into the arms of the girl that I love
The only love I haven't screwed up
She's so hard to please, but she's a forest fire
I do my best to meet her demands, play at romance, we slow dance
In the living room, but all that a stranger would see
Is one girl swaying alone, stroking her cheek
They say, "You're a little much for me
You're a liability
You're a little much for me"
So they pull back, make other plans
I understand, I'm a liability
Get you wild, make you leave
I'm a little much for everyone
The truth is I am a toy that people enjoy
'Til all of the tricks don't work anymore
And then they are bored of me
I know that it's exciting running through the night, but
Every perfect summer's eating me alive until you're gone
Better on my own
They say, "You're a little much for me
You're a liability
You're a little much for me"
So they pull back, make other plans
I understand, I'm a liability
Get you wild, make you leave
I'm a little much for everyone
They're gonna watch me disappear into the sun
You're all gonna watch me disappear into the sun
Liability
Song by Lorde