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This flower was actually taken in SL awhile ago...it was taken at one of Cica Ghost's sims...this exhibition is gone now as she has opened a new one (maybe even two) since. But her genius and incredible imagination are alway so extraordinary. I do try to get over there when I can get in world....
This was taken of a single flower there....and as per always "this is what my mind saw!!!" 😊
The Craven County courthouse (Built 1883 ) is among North Carolina's finest examples of the Second Empire style. Architect was Samuel Sloan 1815-1884. The trees are Lagerstroemia, commonly known as crepe myrtle. The Courthouse lies within the boundaries of the New Bern Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Yeats made a prophecy in this poem over 100 years ago after World War I
....sadly our world is headed in this direction.
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
WB Yeats
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A second visit to Alners Gorse for another look at Brown Hairstreak. This photo was taken three days after the one linked below.
Celebrating Pride this month! *shake ya bootie*!!
Visit this location at Second Pride Park East in Second Life
A point at which the wind dropped. It picked up again and I never saw this lovely reflection thereafter
Washington series: Second Beach, Olympic National Park.
We spent a couple of days at Forks, waiting for a dramatic sunset with burning clouds, but all we got were cloudless blue skies, so we had to make the best of it.
Braking waves on Second Coast near Laide. Weather was constantly changing but the view from here is stunning over to Gruinard Bay and upwards towards Suilven.
This was one of the locations that I truly wanted to see, if I won a permit to visit the Wave. My only regret is that I didn't wait until sunset to get the setting golden hour light. However, as you can see though this picture there are some spectacular lines. To learn about this image visit my website to read the expose post article.
Oyasumi’s new main store is now open at the Shijima sim.
Each store on the sim will have Lucky Board items for the opening. This is my Lucky Board item for the opening.
Make sure to join the /oyasumi/ group to receive your Lucky Board item.
To keep updated with Shijima, be sure to join our Subscribo Machines as well, located near the Landing point.
Enjoy the sim and I look forward to your visit!
Here's to new ventures, new friends, and all the positives I'd like to carry from this year into the next one. I hope it's a much better year for everyone.
Unedited, firestorm
So, you might ask, as I asked myself, what is this picture about? Am I supposed to look at the graceful lines of the stem and leaves that occupy about half of the frame, or the crunchy details of the blossom? My answer is both; what's yours?
The result of a multi-image focus stack, this image should reward relatively close examination. It was taken on the top of my dining room table.
After owning this camera for over a year, I finally began to figure out how to use the feature I bought it for, what Nikon calls focus shift shooting. (It enables the camera to automatically take a number of images, each focused slightly further from the camera, so they can be stacked - here in HeliconFocus software - with the result showing everything in focus.)
This image is the product of twenty images, and it will reward very close examination. I hope you enjoy this first of my focus stacking images half as much as I do, as I find it very exciting to begin to master an important new skill.
My wife has been wanting to come out with me to see some Owls. Our days off coincided today and we ventured out. At first we had no luck but a second try at one venue paid off and I spotted this Short-eared Owl on a post. I was just about to press the shutter when two motorbikes screamed past and spooked it but we sat for a while, hoping and it gave us a second chance!