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Soooooo you'll never guess what happend today, I open my mail box an BOOM i gots me a package...whos it from...heck i have no clue its all in Japanese! WOOO LAUREN SENT ME A GIFT FROM JAPAN! and let me tell you what folks, you think that she writes awesome photo descrips, well her letters are even better so sincere....wow what can i say shes all around awesome, so if you don't know Lauren Takes Pictures, then check you're missing out on life.
The gift, yeah its an awesome dinosaur hat, Just when i thought halloween was going to be a bust....look at this!!!! WOWZERS this rules. haha
this most certainly will make its way into the remainder of my 365 many many times, and also I am available for Collaborations starting....now.
I really enjoyed this frog pattern, it was effective without many difficult folds. I really liked that the front had enough details to get fingers and that the back was kept simple to give a childlike whimsy to the model. I'm tempted to fold it again and try to add toes to the hind legs. But who knows if that'll actually happen :)
Pattern is: "Frog" from the book "Advanced Origami - An Artist's Guide to Folding Techniques and Paper" by Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander
Actually, not really THAT seedy
Along Wilson Street
Batavia, Illinois 41.849636, -88.306552
November 25, 2021
This is reshoot of this picture
www.flickr.com/photos/jimfrazier/23317230/ from 2005. Slightly different perspective.
There will probably be another attempt on a day when there are absolutely no cars. This was on a Sunday morning and there was still a van out of the frame. Maybe Christmas or Easter?
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Really a rainy spring this year, I hope weather will change soon!
HGGT my dear Flickr friends!
Taken in Sant'Olcese, Italy, during a railway trip with "Ferrovia Genova-Casella".
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I really have lost focus in school. I'd rather have fun and take pictures rather than do essays every week. Can anyone really blame me though?
I wish I was the kind of person that RIGHT when I got an assignment, I did it. Unfortunately, I'm the opposite of that person. I do the assignment the night before it's due.
So, either tomorrow or Wednesday, I'm going to be showing you something I bought from The High Museum of Art from the Salvador Dali exhibit. :) It'll be a part of my picture. I'll also talk a little more on the exhibit, because it was AMAZING. :)
I hope all is well with everyone!
QOTD: (since I'm procrastinating)
What is your favorite TV show, and what is your favorite website to go to? :)
My favorite TV show: Family Guy. But also shows like America's Next Top Model, because it inspires me when I model AND take pictures :)
My favorite website: Flickr is pretty awesome :D Lately I've liked WIMP.com check it out! :D
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I really love how the water has a true shine on it in this capture.
Today I dug deep in the camera bag and found my old but excellent 24mm f2.8 lens, hooked up the Eos1DX a fresh battery for the cold conditions and headed out for some different pictures.
Here you can see selection of my best photos - www.flickr.com/photos/jup3nep/albums/72157603856136177
Really neat cab detail on 1747; You can see the 4701 number that was applied when it was first painted in Family Lines for SCL after rebuilding, the SBD patch that came next, two sets of sublettering for CSX and CSXT with 1747 in their font, and finally the CWCY sublettering.
Don't really need to go into the details on this one. You know the train, you know the place.
I love a good "low and wide" shot with an elevator in the background. But as in the case here, they can be absolutely frustrating.
For starters, lenses distort the crap out of straight lines making them look curved. This can mostly be corrected in post. But what I can't figure out how to correct is the damn foreshortening. Lines closer to the camera look bigger than ones farther away. So in the end, either the headhouse will look like it's falling over or the locomotives will. I split the difference and hope no one notices.
Secondly, balancing the frame can be tricky. If the elevator isn't long enough, you're left with it dominating one side of the frame and bunch of empty space on the other. That is the big offender here (the gons on the head end certainty don't do any favors either). Best way to deal with this is to try and center the elevator in the frame as much as possible. Which maybe I would have done if I had more than 15 seconds. But this was a spray-and-pray operation. I should really be thankful I even got a usable frame.
One thing I gotta admit though is that it's really cool to see these 70s on their home turf almost 22 after the fact. This is something I want to last forever. But like everything good in this hobby, it's time will come...
I really liked the way that these Peregrines were looking straight into each other's eyes, and that he was flying just a few cm above her. But I'm pretty sure that look of love is family love as the young male above was the offspring of the adult female below. I had been watching the two birds just playing in the air together for several minutes, though it was nowhere near a nest site so I can't be certain they were mother and son.
We really didnt have any plan to shoot the Big Boy as it made its way from Boone to Cedar Rapids. Leopard wanted to shoot the Osky Job heading south out of Marshalltown. Well unfortunately the Osky Job was annulled, so that left this in play. Here the Big Steamer chugs upgrade thru Legrand.
Was lucky to get a shot with the sun going down, unfortunately the sky was a little blown out, as to my decision to not leave it in color!
Hope you like this image!
I really am an angel... my jelly dick tells me so all the time!
I thought I'd grab this great outfit from GIZ SEORN (KImmy Outfit) in the Hello Tuesday sale, L$50 each for top and skirt, and while I was shopping, I had a notice in from RAWR about a free gift... my little friend here, Xmas Jelly Dick. No need for a group join either!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for choosing my picture as the cover of the group! I feel very very honored 💙🌹
Kisses and hugs 🌻🍁
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I don't really feel like photographing much these days. I feel not only like a crappy photographer, but that I've lost my "spark". :P This is a newly edited photo I took a couple of months ago. Kajsa off-leash on a feild again, playing (again) :P
Hope I get my "spark" back again, so I can start photographing again! (The studio lights I got, I sent back because of the bad flash duration. I'll be ordering new ones as soon as I get my money back. So I bet I'll be uploading studio photos instead.)
Balsams make really nice, and fragrant, Christmas trees... string together some of those berries from the mountain ash to get a head start on decorations!
I may be preaching to the choir here as I point out that Joyce and I are always quite busy this time of year. I’ll be scrambling around today for last minute ingredients for meals I’m preparing for a Christmas gathering of international students from Duke University with International Students, Inc tomorrow evening at our church’s fellowship hall. The meal is potluck-style, with many members of our church pitching in, as we may be feeding 150+ people. We must be concerned about dietary restrictions of some the students, Muslims for instance, so I’m making a huge pot of gluten-free rotini pasta with Bolognese sauce and southern-style chicken and dumplings… comfort food. Others will be making vegan dishes and desserts. I will be there early to coordinate the kitchen and the food… Joyce will be there to help with finishing touches on holiday decorations.... after she returns from Boydton, Virginia, where she's also setting up decorations at the historic Boyd Tavern along with the mayor's wife... she knows how to hobnob.
At this gathering last year, I sat at a table with a few first-year engineering students from China. Engineering is something I understand, so we had a pretty good conversation going on. That conversation led to issues of regionalism and colloquialism that we found quite funny. "Regionalism" eventually reached across the world when they asked me what I thought of them. I'm sitting there with science-minded young adults brilliant enough to attend one of the most elite schools in the world from a country that insists communism is their only God... and yet, I was able to explain God to them and why we celebrate His birth at Christmas. In doing so, I explained how God tells me that I can't say that I love Him without also loving them... that's much of the theme of the Book of James. They sat silent for a bit after that, though I could see something was whirling around in their heads. As I gathered my stuff to leave that evening, they were lined up at the door to thank me and hug me for talking to them... and one of them now attends church with us. Time spent with God never returns void.
After church this Sunday, we're both headed back to Boydton, a little over an hour away on the far side of Kerr Lake, to participate in the open house Christmas activities there. I will be taking photos of kids with Santa Claus... which should up my ante on the naughty or nice quotient. Time will tell.
An early start was required to catch our flight from Liverpool to Belfast for a day to pay our respects to that fine piece of engineering, the Bristol RE.
Citybus provided us with four of the beasts that worked services radiating from the City to the suburbs. Here 2527 of 1984 vintage approaches a bus stop full of cranks who had similar ideas to us. Minutes later the RE would make some wonderfull musical sounds from its nether regions, working harder than it would usually do on an early Saturday morning due to the standing load on board.
"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
Henry Rollins
Have a great saturday out there! Take care!
If you turn north off the Capricorn Highway 42 kilometres west of Emerald in Central Queensland and drive about another 20 kilometres you come to the small towns of Sapphire and Rubyvale in the Sapphire Gem fields. There are also a couple of fields to the south of the highway. As the name implies, the 900 square kilometres area contains one of the largest and best quality sapphire fields in the world.
Like other gem mining towns in Australia, these gem fields and their towns are quite quirky (if you have been there, not dissimilar to Lightning Ridge and Coober Pedy. You can take a mine tour, do fossicking yourself, tour the area by bike or car and see its other attractions or buy yourself a nice sapphire or jewellery.
Discovered in the 1870's, for about 100 years Australia supplied 80% of the world's sapphires. Since the 1980's an active tourist industry has developed and the towns are fully services with all amenities. Strangely, they are also very welcoming and friendly.
The "Pride of Queensland" is the largest cut yellow sapphire in the world and at 169 carats is owned privately in the USA. A large Blue Black sapphire known as the "Black Star of Queensland" was recently offered for sale at $90 million - the gem was found by a 12 year old boy in 1938 and the palm sized stone weighed an incredible 1156 carats and spent the next 9 years languishing as a doorstop at a nearby home!
Also well known are four very large and special sapphires carved as American President's heads and weighing more than 1700 carats each! These are on display at the Smithsonian in Washington DC, USA.
Frustratingly, when we arrived in the Gemfields, it was pouring rain leading to flooding so after a quick look around we continued on to Emerald.
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!
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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