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When I see someone wearing a cute outfit that I'd love to wear, a "hobby" of mine kicks in... "hunting" online to find the exact same outfit... at a ridiculously low price!
I found the Jeggings on sale for $10 and FINALLY (after 4 years) found the same tunic at an online consignment store... for $3!
Yay!
I woke up Friday morning and saw Emma Watson’s post about her book club going public.
Once she announced the title of the first book, I immediately went out to buy it, same day.
So here it is. Not only that i’m driven by it, I also see myself growing more inspiration through it.
It is crazy how you can get that from practically everywhere.
Sometimes it’s not about you finding inspiration, but more about the journey that took you there.
And let’s be honest; usually, you don’t find. It finds you.
Inspired F
Ural Owl (Strix uralensis) Hungary flight_w_9227
The Ural Owl is a large owl with a round head, no ear-tufts, and a relatively long tail with a wedge-shaped tip. Light and dark morphs are known to occur, with the light form being more common.
Description: Light morph: The prominent, round facial disc is uniform dirty whitish to pale ochre-grey. The rim around the disc consists of rows of small dark and light, pearl-like spots. The relatively small eyes are dark brown, with the rims of the eyelids pink to reddish. Cere is dirty yellow and the bill is yellow-horn. The throat is whitish.
Upperparts are pale greyish-brown, mottled, spotted and streaked with whitish and dusky. The scapulars have large areas of white, forming a row across the shoulder. Flight feathers are conspicuously barred light and dark. The dark brown tail is relatively long and somewhat wedge-shaped, with 5-7 broad greyish-white bars. The central tail feathers are also barred.
Underparts are very pale greyish-brown to dirty white, heavily streaked brown.
Tarsi and toes are thickly feathered pale greyish-brown to dirty whitish-cream, and the claws are yellowish-brown with darker tips.
Size: Length 50-62cm. Wing length 267-400mm. Tail length 201-317mm. Weight 500-1300g. Females are heavier than males.
Habits: The Ural Owl is active mainly at night, with peaks at dusk and just before dawn. Roosts during the day close to a tree trunk or in dense foliage. They are normally not shy, and can often be approached quite closely. During the breeding season they can become quite aggressive near the nest.
Voice: The song of the male is a deep rhythmic sequence of notes with a pause of about 2-3 seconds after the first double note - wuhu huwuho-huwuwo. This phrase is repeated at intervals of 10-50 seconds. The female has a similar higher-pitched song which is hoarse, giving it more of a 'barking' quality.
There is also a heron-like kraoh that is uttered by both sexes, as well as a rough barking series of nasal notes that is given in aggression. A hoarse kuwett is likely a contact call.
Hunting & Food: Ural Owls feed on a wide variety of mammals, birds, frogs and insects. The main prey are voles (60-90%), shrews, mice and rats. They will also take other mammals up to the size of small hares. Surplus food is stored at the nest or in nearby caches. This owl hunts mainly from perches.
Breeding: Males claim territories by singing from different perches, and during courtship may be heard dueting with their mates. These owls generally pair for life and maintain the same territory for many years.
Nest sites include large natural holes in trees, cavities left by large broken-off branches, hollow trunks, fissures and holes in cliffs or between rocks, and holes in buildings. They have also been known to use stick nests of larger birds as well as squirrel dreys. In Finland and surrounding countries, there are a vast number of artificial nest boxes used by these owls.
Egg laying is from late March to mid-April, when 3-4 (sometimes 1-6) white eggs are laid directly on the bottom of the nest at intervals of about two days. Eggs are white, and are 46.5-52.3 x 39-44mm and weigh 46-48g. The female incubates the eggs alone, beginning with the first egg, while the male provides the food. Incubation lasts 28-35 days, and the young hatch at the same intervals as the eggs were laid.
Nestlings leave the nest site when they are about 35 days old, and can fly fairly well at about 45 days. They are cared for and fed by both parents for about two months after leaving the nest, and reach sexual maturity before 1 year.
Habitat: The Ural Owl lives in mature, but not too dense, deciduous and mixed forest with clearings. In the northern part of its range, breeding habitat is open coniferous or mixed forest with tall trees and some clearings, often near bogs, and often mixed with alder and birch. In southern parts, this owl occurs mainly in mature beech forests.
Distribution: Northern Europe from Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Baltic Republics through northern Russia and Siberia to Korea, coast of the Okhotsk Sea, Sakhalin and Japan. Also locally in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and Balkan countries.
Taken from: www.owlpages.com
Same aircraft as before but with new or titles... Always location, date and photographer are unknown. B&W large negative scanned...
[Today I leave home for a few days. I will resume uploading on Monday, August 4, or possibly on Tuesday. Thank you for your understanding.]
Built during the early 1100s, the parochial church of the village of Merlévenez features a very interesting set of so-called “broken” or “pointy” arches in the nave, instead of the more traditional barrel arches. Contrary to what some internet sites claim, the “broken” arch was not invented by the Cistercians. It is a pure product of Cluniac architectural research, therefore invented by the mainstream Benedictines and not by their Cistercian offshoot. It is probably not the Cistercians that brought that shape to Brittany and built this church, as all those examples supplied by such web sites of Cistercians foundations using that same pointy arch date from 1130 at the earliest, when Merlévenez was probably almost completed already. Those web sites mistake the effect for the cause: it is indeed likely that the Cistercians found their own inspiration in Merlévenez, instead of having inspired it, or else (and perhaps more likely) they simply found that inspiration in Cluny.
In addition to this architectural feature, this church also offers some very interesting sculpted and historied capitals that have interestingly archaic characteristics, even though one must of course also account for the difficulty inherent in sculpting granite.
Naive, archaic human faces on capitals in the nave.
Same subject as my photo: Venn im Abendlicht. This one is not cropped but made with the same angle only closer by the nymphes in the stagnant pool. I think this one is a bit sharper but the composition is not as strong as the refered photo :)
www.flickr.com/photos/74029863@N06/7198059680/in/photostream
Tried to go somewhere new today but this was the only place that had any cloud at dusk and the moon had come out to play.
5 second exposure using ND8 filter and ND4 grad.
Nice to get out as the weather was behaving itself albiet bloody freezing
Same COE Peterbilt I posted last week. This time he's SB on I83 in York, PA in '83 or '84. Original equip bumper and air foiler.
Here was a stroke of luck - a really interesting vehicle, tucked away in Pleasure Beach coach park, but with just enough space around it to be able to take a shot ! But scanning the slide has brought to light an anomaly - I have always had it in my notes as being with Executive Diner of Chingford, London, but I now see that the lettering on the front states "Executive Travel of Harlow". Is that the same operator re-located, or had it really changed hands ?
What we do know is that was new to World Wide Coaches of London, the country's largest buyer of Mercedes Benz O302 integral coaches.
Same image as purple leaves posted a few days ago, but with the normal colors.
Texture by Joel Olives.
same concept as the other, though it wasn't taken from a shaky bus! this time it's day, and this is what my friend Hayley sees from her window when the rain's there:)
I tried a few focuses - the rain or the trees - but I was more interested in the rain itself. I love how it runs and reveals little bits of the outside.
The Horizon Fleet equipped Hoosier State rolls north through Lowell, Indiana on this fine morning. Everyone's favorite hogger, Dave Allenson is piloting the rocket today. The only thing that helps the look of this thing is the fall color. I think everyone around here misses the chocolate brown and orange of IP. Oh well...
Pretty Goddess modeling the new Sony A7R ! Swimsuit Bikini Model Goddess Shooting Stills (Sony A7R with 35mm F/2.8 Carl Zeiss Lens) & Video (Sony NEX6) at the same time with the 45surfer philosophy bracket! I use it on every shoot, as there is so much beauty in the world and so little time! :) Writing a book on it! :)
Here's some video shot at the same time as stills using a Sony A7R for the video camera:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiOMrZIEzg8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7gq_gCk0jE
Photos shot with the Nikon D800E and Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II AF-S Nikkor Zoom Lens with the B W 77mm XS-Pro Kaesemann Circular Polarizer with Multi-Resistant Nano Coating filter. I always, always shoot with a CP filter--even on cloudy days!
Enjoy the pretty goddesses and all the best on your epic hero's journey!
Modeling the black & gold & American flag "Gold 45 Revolver" Gold'N'Virtue swimsuits with the main equation to Moving Dimensions Theory on the swimsuits: dx4/dt=ic. Yes I have a Ph.D. in physics! :) You can read more about my research and Hero's Journey Physics here:
herosjourneyphysics.wordpress.com/ MDT PROOF#2: Einstein (1912 Man. on Rel.) and Minkowski wrote x4=ict. Ergo dx4/dt=ic--the foundational equation of all time and motion which is on all the shirts and swimsuits. Every photon that hits my Nikon D800e's sensor does it by surfing the fourth expanding dimension, which is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions, or dx4/dt=ic!
The models were tall, thin, fit, and gorgeous beach goddesses! A blond and a brunette with long, long silky hair! Poseidon would approve! If he were shooting them, he'd want to capture simultaneous photographic stills and video at the same time too.
Best on your hero's journey from Johnny Ranger McCoy! :)
Falling in love with the full frame 36 megapixel e mount Sony A7R! The models make pretty photographers. :)