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WE CAN'T BELIEVE WE'RE DONE!! This has been going on for MONTHS AND MONTHS. It's ABOUT TIME! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
SERIOUSLY -- This is the happiest we'd been in a LOOOONG time.
Notice how my sock has become a slipper -- close-up in a separate pic.
Actually, we still had some final touch-up sanding to do... But nothing that required wood stain, polyurethane, ventilation, masks, gloves, dropclothes, painter's tape, and all the hassle. Just some casual final touches with the least rough (400-grit) sandpaper to ensure that the finaly (usually 4th) polyurethane coat was smooth.
BACKSTORY: Anyone who reads our contract (link below) can see that it specified to move the closet and built-in shelves. But Virginia Design Builders's workers -- the workers hired by Daniel M. Lopez -- were unable to properly move the closet without destroying it. And they "accidentally" threw away our shelves. They also broke the trim at the edge of the closet.
And then guess what? The asshole refused to stain ANY of it, despite the fact that the only reason the color now didn't match was due to their inability to properly execute a contract. (It was a 3 month contract and was not finished for over 3 years.) This left us having to stain WAY more wood than we otherwise would have. It was quite literally a difference of several months' work, as we both had jobs (at the time), and spare time at home has been in deficit for awhile.
STAINING IS A PAIN: Just for reference, proper wood staining is a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR pain in the ass. The wood filling, the sanding, the pre-conditioning, staining, the wiping, the dropcloths, the multiple coats of everything, the (4) polyurethane coats [which often required holding a lamp in one hand, to reflect light on it to ensure evenness], and the final sanding. And don't get me started on the timing: Stain 20 minutes after pre-conditioning, but only for 2 hours; stain in 20 minute cycles consisting of 4 sub-cycles: stain area #1, stain area #2, wipe area #1, wipe area #2. Then break, get new gloves, and start over. A 20 minute cycle might equal 2 shelves, or 2 boards from ceiling to floor. Our spreadsheet had over 200 cells. At the end of the day, the only way to get stain off your skin was to apply paint thinner directly to your skin in violation of the instructions, common sense, and one's best interests...
celebrating, doing shots, standing, wood staining.
Cutty Sark, chair, newspaper, shelf, slipper, sock, stool.
dirty. happy.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
July 26, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
LEGAL: To see an official VA DPOR sanction of $500 (+$150) against Dan Lopez and Virginia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... These people were suing him for $400K last time I checked.
To see OUR contract with Dan Lopez / Virginia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... Just in case anybody doesn't believe me.
Chaenomeles x Superba - 'Rowallane' (Flowering Quince)
In the walled garden at Rowallane - this cultivar is named after the gardens. The bee hives are just the other side of the wall and there are a couple of feral colonies in the roof of the building beside the garden that seem to have overwintered extremely well judging from the numbers of bees coming out from under the roof there on Saturday.
The very out-of-focus yellow pollen load can be seen in this picture.
for my Honey bees on named flowers set set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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at Rowallane
For my Honey bees on named flowers set set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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I feel like this is the Common House Spider (Parasteatoda tepidariorum), but my spider senses aren't that acute (get it?). Anyway it clearly was on the site on the site the USDA National Honey Bee Lab where they have research buildings not houses. Photo by someone in the lab who did not fill out the photo spreadsheet. ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~
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Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
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Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World:
www.amazon.com/Bees-Up-Close-Pollinators-Around-World/dp/...
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
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or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
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301 497 5840
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12 politicians in Japan are against the inhumane decision by the ministry of education raising the limit of annual radiation exposure to the children in Japan from 1 mSv to 20 mSv.
Tomoko Abe (Member of the House of Representatives, Social Democratic Party 4th term)
Yoshifu Arita (Member of the House of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan)
Mitsuji Ishida (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party of Japan 1st term)
Tetsuo Inami (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party of Japan 2nd term)
Azuma Konno (Member of the house of Councilours, Democratic Pary of Japan)
Kusuo Oshima (Member of the house of Councilours, Democratic Pary of Japan)
Ryuhei Kawada (Member of the house of Councilours, Democratic Pary of Japan)
Ryoichi Hattori (Member of the House of Representatives, Social Democratic Party 1st term)
Makoto Hirayama (Member of the House of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan)
Mizuho Fukushima (Member of the House of Councilors, Social Democratic Party 3rd term)
Hiroyuki Moriyama (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party 1st term)
Makoto Yamazaki (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party 1st term)
Special Advisor to the Cabinet , Kosako Toshiso resigned today. He said that it's not acceptable for raising annual radiation limit for the children 1mSv to 20 mSv. He also criticized that the crisis management of the government is disorgnazed and haphazard.
www.mbs.jp/news/jnn_4712952_zen.shtml
There's no future for the country which neglect their children. - Masayoshi Son Softbank CEO and Donates USD$120 million to Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Efforts. Also he will set up an advisory group on the use of natural energy sources.
The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends that all radiation exposure be kept as low as achievable, and for the public, on top of background radiation and any medical procedures, should not exceed 1 mSv per year.
For nuclear industry workers, they recommend a maximum permissible annual dose of 20 mSv averaged over five years, with no more than 50 mSv in any one year.
However, on April 19th, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) notified the Board of Education and related institutions in Fukushima Prefecture to raise annual radiation exposure limit from 1mSv to 20 mSv. This is way to high for the children.
20 mSv per year is comparable to the legally recognized dose for inducing leukemia in nuclear power plant workers. It is also comparable to the maximum dose allowed for nuclear power plant workers in Germany.
If the government allows 20 mSv per year for the children, we will see many children suffer from thyroid cancer in five years like what happened on the children in Chernobyl.
Please click the link below and sign the petition for the children in Japan by Sat. April 30, 2011 at 23:00 in Japanese time (UTC/GMT +9 hours)
This petition is only for protecting the children from unacceptable level of 20 mSv
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This petition is being organized by: Green Action, Greenpeace Japan, Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, Citizens Against Fukushima Aging Nuclear Power Plants (Fukuro-no-Kai), Osaka Citizens Against the Mihama, Oi, and Takahama Nuclear Power Plants (Mihama-no-Kai), Friends of the Earth Japan
Thank you for your support and friendship.
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A Day Trip to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway for the Saturday of a 3 day Steam Gala,
As Usual, the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
There were 2 Visiting Engines and some of 5 of the Home Fleet Locomotives scheduled to run on an intensive timetable.
Here, on my first Steam Heritage Railway Visit of 2022, a Cab photo of Loco no. 41241, an Ivatt designed and Crewe Works built Class 2MT 2-6-2T after arriving at Oxenhope Station on my first Train of the day.
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Reto de La Familia FoteraAquí podéis ver al resto de participantes:
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Emily is curious as to what the grownups are always looking at on the computer. Unfortunately for her, Sebastian was the one just working on it, and it's spreadsheets full of numbers! Not very interesting...
Retos de la Familia Fotera: www.facebook.com/groups/retosfamiliafotera/
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Valerian (Valeriana officinalis, Caprifoliaceae) in Bryansford this afternoon.
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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Still flowering (it has been since early January this year) and still being worked by the bees!
Chaenomeles × superba 'Pink Lady' in Rowallane.
AKA: Japanese quince 'Pink Lady'
Rowallane gardens.
& in my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
& some music if you like
Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
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This week-end involved 2 Heritage Railways with the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
Here, after arriving at Holt Station on the front of the Class 9F Double-Header, I got a photo of Riddles designed and North British, Glasgow built Loco WD 90775 "The Royal Norfolk Regiment" joining 8572 to form another Double Header.
There were 6 Locomotives in Steam for the Gala Event Sunday.
For More Info about WD 90775 "The Royal Norfolk Regiment", see ...
www.nnrailway.co.uk/portfolio-items/wd-90775-the-royal-no...
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there was some solar explosion on the 14th of november. i was hoping to see an aurora or something on the sky. i was lucky. two days in a row it was clear sky and really quiet weather. and i saw.. "something". it was beautiful!
on other note.. could you take this survey? i need it for school :) thanks!
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This week-end involved 2 Heritage Railways with the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
Here, after arriving at the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway (EVR) and going on a journey behind Steam Locomotive "Henry Ellison" from Wirksworth Station on a train up the very steep 1 in 27 Ravenstor Incline, I went along the line to Duffield Station.
Here loco 80080, a Riddles designed, Brighton Works built 2-6-4T is at Duffield Station in the Head Shunt during the Run Round.
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This week-end involved 2 Heritage Railways with the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
Here, Eventually I got a train powered by 564 from Weybourne to Holt Station and then back to Weybourne where I took this Picture.
There were 6 Locomotives in Steam for the Gala Event Sunday.
Locomotive 564 is a Worsdell designed and Stratford works built for the GER as Class Y14 - 0-6-0 which was later for the LNER numbered 7564 as a Class J15.
For more info about Loco 564 ...
www.nnrailway.co.uk/portfolio-items/ger-y14-564/
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A Photo from the last Day of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
After an overnight in Doncaster, I went to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) for a trip up the 1 in 49 from Grosmont to Goathland.
Here, after the journey back down From Goathland to Grosmont Station, this is a Cab Photo of 65894, a J27 Locomotive which is maintained along with 3 others by The North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG) has an 0-6-0 wheel arrangement was Designed by Worsdell/Raven and built at Darlington Works as Class P3 when NER owned it from new in 1923 until LNER and later BR took over.
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In the walled garden at Rowallane.
showing pollen load - dull yellow colour
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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Nothing nicer than a cold beer on a beautiful sailing boat with your colleagues after a long day looking at figures and spreadsheets... Cheers!
Olympus OM-2n / Kodak Tri-X 400 (shot at EI 320)
Epson Perfection 4490
Self-developed at EI 400 in Kodak Hc-110 (dil. H)
'Dilutions spreadsheet' provided by Ralph Lundvall
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Blue Grape Hyacinths - Muscari armenicum
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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I just got home after having to work several hours late, all caused by a spreadsheet corrupting with a huge amount of information being affected that is vital to our daily work. Today has been spent trying to redo the past couple of days work, and has essentially ended up with me having to do about 4 days work in 1 day.
This is the best you're getting out of me tonight, but I have a plan for tomorrow. And you're going to love it.
p.s. thank you for all your lovely messages. I promise I'm going to get around to replying as soon as I get the chance/off the floor.
[edit] I am apparently more tired than I thought. I just managed to flood the kitchen. Today is a whore.
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A Photo from Day 8 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
When planning this "Rail Tour" I had hoped to go the Great Central Railway (GCR) at Loughborough but a lack of Timetables on their web site and a shortage of anything i viewed as attractive in terms numbers of Steam Locomotives in service on this day (Saturday) prompted a change of plan.
I decided to go to the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway (EBA) in the morning and I can move onto the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway (KWVR) in the afternoon. It is only about 30 minutes by car between the 2 railways.
As I was leaving Embsay Station, It had started Raining when I took this photo of MG Classic Cars which explains the MG headboard on Beatrice.
In the Background, No. 7 "Beatrice" is almost ready to set off on the next round trip .
"Beatrice" No. 7 is a Hunslet Works No. 2705 0-6-0ST loco.
Off to "ingrow West" Station next for the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway (KWVR).
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Don't tell me you didn't know that my street work can now be seen at my secondary Tumblr blog, www.tumblr.com/blog/smilefromthestreetsyoushoot. Amazing, isn't it? Enjoy it then, why not? Of course you will. I know, you know it.
Spreadsheets to write, then data to input. But first, important stuff. Nails to paint and coffee to drink!
カメラを持って知り合いと訪れた横浜は、いつも雨でした。去年のCP+ の時は、雨を通り越して雪でした。今年は夕焼けに染まる横浜を撮りたいな。撮れるかな。
『JPCO Gallery Spring 2015 / 日本の写真文化を海外へ』
今週の2月11日(水・祝)から2月22日(日)まで、横浜みなとみらい駅構内の「SUBWAY GALLERY M」で、グループ写真展『JPCO Gallery Spring 2015 / 日本の写真文化を海外へ』が開催されます。出展者の在廊予定表はこちらですので、お越しの際はお気軽にお声掛けくださいね♪
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A Photo from Day 2 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
At Didcot Railway Centre, their "Diamond Jubilee Gala" had 4 steam locomotives with 2 each on the "Main Demonstration Line" and the shorter "Branch Line." 2 diesels powered some early morning and evening trains.
Several Steam Locomotives were also on Static Display and it was possible to go round the sheds.
Here, Left to Right are :-
1340 - "Trojan" - 0-4-0ST
5051 - "Drysllwyn Castle" later Earl Bathurst - Castle Class - 4-6-0
5900 - "Hinderton Hall" - Hall Class - 4-6-0
6998 - "Burton Agnes Hall" - Modified Hall Class - 4-6-0
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Closer again. Tonight's attempts initially started off as a test for my calculations and recordings spreadsheet that I've spent the last few days trying to write. I learned some excel to do it. Seeing as it seems to give me close estimates of timings, I had a good try to get a certain shape. Not there yet, but a step closer at least.. I just need to get a grip on the controller now.
Wooden finds from Castleshaw Roman fort, late first cent. AD.
Top: despite being identified as a possible pommel, this looks more like the crossguard of a Roman sword (6.7 x 4.6 cm).
Right: pommel. Identified as a Roman dagger pommel, it probably belonged to a sword (4.6 x 4.3 cm).
Left: fragment of oak (7.5 x 4.5 cm).
In The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, UK. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uLf_h8NFma7jEUpc7dmVbX67C... (nos 194, 197 and 196)
Laura, from the "Portrait Analog Photography Workshop"
Olympus OM-4ti / Zuiko OM 50mm 1:1.4 / Ilford Delta 100
Dev. in Kodak HC-110 Dilution "B"
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Okay, I suck. I haven't been updating Flickr and my pain in the neck store manager is on my case - she even made a spreadsheet!. Please go to Nuke's flickr page and tell her to lay off poor, overworked, tired Sliye. Extra points and maybe free stuff if you call her a hobag. xox
This is the [RnR] Montana Bench - it was released at our beloved Cosmo two weeks ago, but now you can pick it up in store :)
It comes with menu-based texture changes, and they're interchangeable, so you can have dark wood with light leather, or light wood with dark leather or inbetween or all dark or all light! Fancy!
Rhyme nor Reason Main Store:
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Don't forget, RnR is running a photo comp, any photo containing an RnR item that tags us on flickr is eligible to enter and voting will be done at the end of month live music event in the Paracosm club beneath the store. Last Friday of the month at 7am SLT. Lovely L$ and lots of fun stuff up for grabs. :)
health and store update!
I am recovering from health concerns, slowly but surely! Seeing doctors now only every 3 weeks instead of every week. Sweet sweet progress.
Real life also has me swamped. Am having a studio built for me in my backyard to work on: real life art (painting/photography/collage/hand made jewelry/crafts), streaming set up, possibly teaching one-on-one art classes, and content for my patrons on Patreon. As well as re-opening my online store! We've had a great number of set backs when it has come to the studio construction. Oy vey! But electric gets finished this week, then hvac, the RE-DO the plumbing, and we get to start on making it pretty.
With studio coming up, I am also re-learning a whole lot about new online store set ups, different ways to stream, new (to me) programs, making new graphics/logos, and digital content creation. My head ASLPODE.
In Second Life, I am not absent! Just quiet. I am doing and re-doing a lot of behind the scenes changes for major overhauls (and this was even BEFORE the E2V news. man! So much change!). New content creation has been put on hold in SL till I get all the back end stuff done. I have big spreadsheets, elaborate checklists, boxes in boxes... it's nuts but chipping away at it a bit at a time!
You will know when I am getting close to done when I post the new blogger search! Hopefully within the next month.
There is so much more to say and so much left out, but I thought a quick overview to say I am still here and working in SL, just quiet like on the new content end. I am a one woman (plus 2 dogs and a bird) team, so it all goes as fast as it can but also as slow as it will.
Thank you for being understanding. *paper moon* thanks you for still caring and loving what I make.
You can always see what I am doing outside of SL on Instagram, Patreon, Twitch, & Facebook!
Blue Grape Hyacinths - Muscari armenicum
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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I am conditioned to big numbers. They're my thing. I don't blink.
Numbers on a page, in a spreadsheet, in a formula are one thing; easily rationalised.
This is another thing. Everyone of these painted hearts isn't a number. Each was just a single digit in the enumeration of the COVID dead. Except each digit was just a placeholder for a life lost and each their stories, what made up each one is orders and orders of magnitude as a multiplier to this simple head count.
Think of the relationships, the social networks, the health of entire communities impacted.
I blinked.
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A Photo from Day 3 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
The Swanage Railway runs trains from Norden via Corfe Castle, another station and a halt to Swanage Station or the other way round so there is some very pleasant scenery to look at and photograph when travelling along the line.
There is ample car parking at the Norden end of the line so I started there.
The day I went during the sort of main summer holidays, there were 2 trains running both hauled by Steam Locomotives.
Here, 31806, a Maunsell designed SR U Class 2-6-0 loco has just run round the train to get ready to go back to Norden.
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Spreadsheets to write, then data to input. But first, important stuff. Nails to paint and coffee to drink!
I am taking my time with these reviews, as nothing is really happening at the moment. I am demotivated to do previews as IT changed the strategy and is revealing a doll by a doll, or very small (capsule) collections, and and I really loved having a full collection to preview, like 6 dolls and when you make a spreadsheet it really looks fun to write about. Also, we are waiting for so many preoorders and of-course convention is right behind the corner, so more dolls to wait to be shipped. All of that somehow killed the buzz for me for new dolls, so I am going through previously released dolls that I skipped and I keep adding them to my collection, so I will do reviews of some older dolls!
Anyway, this was a lottery doll offered to Wclub members. Edition size 1,500 offered for $180. Pretty steep, right... But, than I thought FR2 dolls were $175, so $180 seems fine for a doll with same body and sculpt, and screening.
Makeup & Hairstyle - this is a 7th Elyse with Dark Swan screening and the first one with pale skintone since Flawless and Engaging. It took only 11 years to see her again in this skintone. Even though this is my favorite screening for Elyse (could be for all sculpts too) I do not feel her. Before this NRFB I got a nude one for a makeover. That one had much yellower head and her paint was lighter. This Elyse though does not have that yellowish tint and her paint is much more darker and somehow lush. Still, I do not feel her. As I used to have Engaging, I can tell you, yes, screening is the same, but paint application, and probably paint quality make a huge difference. She has the same hairstyle as Vendetta Agnes. Not sure what to think about it, at one moment I like it, at the other... What I would do different: change color of eyebrows - lighter ones would be better; change color of lips - this shade of red seems so dated; change eyeshadow below her eyebrows - why yellow?!? she doesn't have anything yellow in the outfit! Pale mint green would be so much better and light lilac lips. She would also look great with red hair. 8.5/10
Outfit & Accessories - Similar to her face and hair, her outfit is also an unusual combination of things. If you go back to older versions of Elyse/Elise you will see that her appearance was fitting for a role she has as a principal of a school. It looked like she has a good sense for style and fashion. This time she looks like a crazy lady that picked up different items (not necessarily from her closet, but some kind of old clothes container) without much meaning. Yes, I love the lining on her coat, yes, I love fabric they chose for her skirt, and yes, I do like the color of the sweater. But, cut-outs on her skirt are just too much with naked belly and artsy shape of her coat. The coat closes below on her neck. The sweater has a strange fit, although I like the nod to the older outfits. Also, the sweater does not have a closure (just a small button on the top of her back. So, you will have to put it over her head. Now, they didn't think much about her hairstyle, as they just put a lot of product on the bun, so when you put on the sweater it messes her bun even on the first try. She has new pair of earrings, which are not in scale with her head, they would probably look good on 16" dolls. The bag is interesting, quite popular at the moment, but I do not see it with the shoes. I am totally confused by this outfit and I have no suggestion how to make things better. 7/10
Production Issues & Quality - everything is pretty good here. This doll belongs to Maison FR Paris Collection, but she does not come with a story card. That is a big minus for me. FYI my second doll has pretty big difference between the color of her body and head (yellowish). Still, this one is pretty perfect. 10/10
Overall - she is just OK, yes, there are bits and pieces you can use for redressing and yes, she has this famous screening, but unless you are a vivid collector of Elyse or this particular screening, I say pass. The risk to give us something spectacular did not pay this time. 8/10
Spreadsheets to write, then data to input. But first, important stuff. Nails to paint and coffee to drink!
Tati.
La Macarena, Bogotá (COL)
Rolleiflex 6003 Pro (Zeiss Planar 80mm 1:2.8)
Kodak TXP 320 (shot 200, dev. 320 in Kodak Hc-110 Dil. G 1:119)
Minolta Autometer IVF / Epson 4490
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alerian (Valeriana officinalis, Caprifoliaceae) in Bryansford this afternoon.
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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Ilex cornuta is commonly called Chinese holly.
This one is a 4 metre tree at Rowallane.
It flowers much earlier than our native holly and it has smaller leaves.
The bees were working it hard and seemed to be getting both nectar and pollen. A small pollen load, whitish cream in colour is visible here,
A new one for my Honey bees on named flowers set set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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The last standing porn theatre in Bogotá.
(1950) Voigtländer Vito III (lens: Ultron 50mm f/2) - waist-level
Kodak TriX 400 @ ISO 1600
Minolta Autometer IVF / Epson Perfection 4490
Self-developed with Kodak Hc-110 (dilution B)
'Dilutions spreadsheet' provided by Ralph Lundvall
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Voigtländer Vito III (lens: Ultron 50mm f/2) / waist-level
Kodak TriX 400 @ ISO 3200
Minolta Autometer IVF / Epson Perfection 4490
Self-developed with Kodak HC-110 (dilution H)
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Semi-stand: 45 mins at 20 Celsius (a huge thanks to drasticgroove for his contribution, helping me getting the proper developing times on this one.)
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La Macarena, Bogotá (COL)
Rolleiflex 6003 Pro (lens: Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm 1:2.8)
Kodak T-Max 100 (shot ISO 50, dev. ISO 100 in Kodak Hc-110 Dil. H) / Minolta Autometer IVF / Epson 4490
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(1951) Rolleiflex Automat MX (Tessar 75mm 1:3.5)
Kodak Tri-X 400 / Sekonic L-398
Developer: Kodak Hc-110 dil. 'H'
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Success, of sorts.
The snowdrop is badly overexposed but at least I got a picture.
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
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A Photo from Day 2 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
At Didcot Railway Centre, their "Diamond Jubilee Gala" had 4 steam locomotives with 2 each on the "Main Demonstration Line" and the shorter "Branch Line." 2 diesels powered some early morning and evening trains.
Several Steam Locomotives were also on Static Display and it was possible to go round the sheds.
Here,
6023 - "King Edward II" - King or 6000 class 4-6-0
and
29 - The Lambton, Hetton and Joicey Loco on loan from NYMR
No 29 is in steam and will later run on the branch Line
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