Simplifying Las Vegas
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Tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies.
-- Walt Whitman
Photo processed with Photoshop, Topaz Simplify. Texture has been modified and is from texturelabs.org
Image created with Dream by Wombo and textured with my textures plus Distressed FX Plus
Prompts:Bouquet of Poinsettias, holly, pine boughs with ornaments, clear glass vase, old dark rough wood table, still life, black background, only dark moody soft warm back lighting
Style: Soft Touch
Only one more week until Christmas so I've got a bunch of Wombo holiday images on the way!
Thanks in advance for taking a closer look, for your faves, comments and invitations!
I collected about two dozen beautiful and varied leaves last night from the trees at Costco. My husband loaded our groceries while I wandered the parking lot searching for treasures. When we got home, I carefully laid the wet leaves on towels and put heavy pans over them to keep them from curling up and getting crunchy. I had dreams all night about what I could create with them.
On dreary days it's comforting to know that this is near my doorstep and I can't wait for the next visit.
location: taal, lemery, batangas, philippines
image info: nikon d90, 18-200mm@200.00mm focal length, manual settings w/o circular polarizer filter, iso:200, exposure:1/400s, aperture:f/5.6 and handheld
shot taken last: december 28, 2010
photo process info: natural light, with crop and no hdr. pp in adobe cs2 (adjustment of brightness/ contrast, exposure, shadows/ highlights and color balance), picasa 3.0 (adjusment of sharpen, tuning and watermark) and neat images (reducing noise).
That is my motto in life. Simplify. When things get stressful that is what I do. Here's to keeping it simple.
Blue Dasher, Pachydiplax longipennis. The last of a very satisfying series of photos taken in Cullinan Park a year ago, and my last post with Canon equipment.
26 July 2021; 08:50 CDT; RAW+post
2025 is a very special year for Merrythought Bears. It is their 95th anniversary, which is a significant milestone when you think that this business has survived all the turbulence of the mid to late Twentieth Century and beyond.
As part of their celebrations, Merrythought have released their 95th Anniversary Commemorative Teddy Bear. Mine arrived today!
Marrying Sapphire (45th) and Golden (50th) anniversary years, the Merrythought 95th Anniversary Commemorative Teddy Bear is a most distinguished bear, who has been beautifully hand-crafted from two tones of the finest golden mohair, combined with pure cotton velvet. Merrythought’s stunning 95th anniversary colours subtly feature throughout the bear’s design, including the simplified logo embroidered upon his left paw. A special edition 95th anniversary foot label is stitched on his right paw, marking what is a significant milestone in Merrythought’s longstanding history. The Merrythought 95th Anniversary Commemorative Teddy Bear. is adorned with a luscious double satin bow, in the centre of which is a detailed twenty-four carat gold-plated pendant embellished with the iconic Merrythought wishbone, framed by sapphire crystals. The reverse is engraved with the Merrythought logo, and ’95 years, 1930-2025’
Each Merrythought 95th Anniversary Commemorative Teddy Bear. is individually numbered as part of a limited edition of 1930 pieces to mark the year of Merrythought's commencement. Mine is number 23.
The story of Merrythought began in 1930. William Gordon Holmes, owner of a spinning mill in Yorkshire called ‘Holmes & Laxton’, recognised the opportunity to make premium soft toys from the luxurious natural fibres they sourced. He found a beautiful brick foundry building in Ironbridge, Shropshire, home of the industrial revolution, and with the help of a team of skilled local seamstresses, Merrythought was born.
The first collection was designed by Florence Attwood, a remarkable pattern maker who overcame many challenges associated with being deaf and unable to speak, to create some of our most iconic designs. This included the original Merrythought and Magnet teddy bears, which still have a strong influence upon the designs they create today. With cheap imports increasingly affecting the traditional British toy sector in the 1970s, Merrythought focused on the growing teddy bear collectors market. Impressive collections of beautifully-designed limited edition bears were created and sold through British retailers, and also distributed across new export markets, including the United States and Japan. Even His Majesty King Charles III has a Merrythought hippo, gifted to him when he was still the Prince of Wales during a royal visit to Marks and Spencer’s flagship London store in 1982. Today the Merrythought teddy bear is still widely regarded as the ultimate childhood toy, treasured by children and adult collectors across the globe. The company’s timeless traditional characters continue to be hand-made in the original factory, alongside stunning limited edition bears that commemorative occasions such as the Olympic Games and Royal occasions.
La capacità di semplificare significa eliminare il superfluo in modo che solo il necessario possa parlare.
Hans Hofmann
Toni caldi al tramonto, in un cielo senza nuvole, sopra i canali di Padova
Buona serata
#padova #canali #tramonto #toni #tones #shades #semplicità #simple #essential #essenziale
Hidup ini nikmat, nafas ini nikmat, rasa ini nikmat, dunia, alam semesta dan segala isinya ini adalah nikmat...
Maka bersyukurlah.
This, too, is taken in the gardens near the rose garden at Point Defiance Park, located in Tacoma, Washington. I think I'm having a difficult time deciding which I like more, roses or dahlias! They're both so beautiful! Hope you all enjoy!
Point Defiance Park
Tacoma, Washington
090223
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