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Take time to be alone with your thoughts. Try only to embrace those which make you happy, and leave the rest behind!
If you love places to sit, soak up atmosphere, and revel in the creativity of others... head to.. ~Big Sky Over Florence~
I thought I'd try an action shot for Macro Monday this week as the theme was party. Be simple I said, set up the camera with a sound activated trigger, have a couple of practice shots and hey presto !
20 Party Poppers later I had no action shot, but a pile of the contents of the Poppers !
"Plans of mice and men" springs to mind.
Macro Mondays, theme # Party
124 Pictures in 2024, theme # 60 Kaleidoscope of Colours.
Thought I'd update you on the latest member of my furry 4-legged family - little hammie's been with me just over a week now. I named him "Pippin" (after the hobbit in Lord of the Rings, it just suited him - he's an adventurous little thing!). I'm so pleased with how well he's settled in... I'd been told in the shop he wasn't yet tame and worried he'd be shy. However, whoever bred him handled him well (or he's just an exceptionally confident little hammie!) cause from the start he's been a happy and nosy little character... After 24hrs, I started stroking him, then a little while later, gently scooping him up in my hands]. At first, he scurried off quickly, but now he will happily sit or walk over my hands for a few minutes at a time. He's never once tried to bite or anything :)
He goes out for little adventures each evening in his ball. Of course it's hard to tell with such a tiny creature but I think he really enjoys the explorations around our downstairs. He rolls up and down the hall, the living room and the kitchen, stopping only to sniff an interesting item in his path, give his face a quick wash... or, to investigate Barney!! I'd originally planned to keep dog and hamster apart, particularly when Pippin was in his ball - as Barney is ball obsessed and also a hunter of voles when we're on walks (albeit a very ineffective one!). However as Pip likes to roll everywhere on the ground floor, it wasn't really feasible, so I've taught Barney to be very quiet and calm when Pip's rolling around.
After one quiet but firm "settle down" from me, (he looked a bit too interested on the first evening) he has been good as gold. He actually tries to keep away from Pippin but there's no escape! Pip will spy Barney from up the hall and make a beeline straight for the big dog. He will then sit right up against Barney, sniffing at his paws and fur with obvious interest. Pippin doesn't seem scared, he's happy to groom right next to either dog and doesn't freeze or try and run off... In fact, if I move him away, he often rolls straight back to Barney! Barney lies quietly, deliberately not looking at the hammie and gently moving his paws out the way from time to time. Don't like everything the "Dog Whisperer" says but to use his phrase, Barney's the model of a dog in a "calm, submissive state". Obviously, I wouldn't leave them alone though, it's nice they seem to be co-existing but I wouldn't want Pippin to get hurt...
Anyway, Pippin seems happy in his new home, the dogs have accepted him and he's being very friendly and confident. All going very well really, now, if I can just clicker train him to pose for the camera.... ;-) Haha, will try getting some nicer pics soon, maybe of the odd pair together, reminds me of Bolt and Rhino (if you've seen "Bolt", you'll know what I'm talking about!)
More than ever, I hope that all my friends and followers, the ones I watch and admire, will have a healthy, thoughtful and happy New Year.
I wish many people will experience a year with adequate reflection, consciousness and sense of realism. Calmness, in which each can grow and experience satisfyingly, how meaningful it is to give love and to receive it. A year in which humanity takes over from aversion, from unhealthy attachment or delusion. In which we are willing more frequently, to imagine the pain felt elsewhere.
I wish that we will be able to use our talents and creativity sustainably, by investing in nature instead of plundering it, that national representatives increase their willingness to cooperate in a global way, so that the natural environment stays clean and attractive for our children and grandchildren.
I hope that politicians are prone to set a good example, by creating more possibilities for scientists, science matters, for teachers, to continue and inspire students, for nurses, to take care of the vulnerable and for artists, because art expands our mind and keeps us upright.
I wish that you, my best Flickr friend, are going to meet a year, in which you will find more opportunities than you expected, to unfold all your creative photographic possibilities, so that we can enjoy what you made.
Happy New Year,
Frans
52 WEEK OF STREET
L'ironia del destino vuole che
io sia ancora qui a pensare a te
nella mia mente flash ripetuti
attimi vissuti con te
e' passato tanto tempo ma
tutto e' talmente nitido
cosi' chiaro e limpido sembra ieri
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZPe2-ZQRwc
DA VEDERE ONBLACK
Home Thoughts, from Abroad
O, To be in England
Now that April 's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England—now!
And after April, when May follows,
And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
Hark, where my blossom'd pear-tree in the hedge
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge—
That 's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower
—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
IMG_0574-1
6 Mar 10
Double exposure shot using Polaroid Spectra, isolating the model first and then overlaying with a grafitti wall.
Expired Impossible Project PZ-680 film
So I've been in an identity crisis as of late, and I think I may retire my native avatar for now and go back to being a gothic queen! I haven't been this pale in forever, but I'm really enjoying it again. So what do you all think? Stay native goth or go pale gothic queen?
PSA:
Just a quick little edit 😈😘
Also - new liners coming soon to SANGRE.
"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
Michel de Montaigne
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أي تعليق مع صورة غير شعارات القروبات سيتم حذفه
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I thought of uploading something, NOT new >.<" ! just to let you all know I'm doing fine :D .. I'm almost there..
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. I loved that a random street performer's bubble was floating by for this shot. It had to remain in colour to really highlight that bubble and I love the result. Enjoy!
Thought i'd start writing something in here from now on...hopefully :)
I woke up this morning to drop my wife down the train station at 5:30 am, and to my surprise the sky was absolutely stunning. It was lit up from the sun hitting the dust in the sky creating a misty effect, but only a million times better.
I threw the camera and tripod in the car and heading down to the lake where I knew the jetty would make a perfect shot with this dust storm. I have a few other shots which I will post in the next day or so but thought i'd start with one of the better ones.
What a crazy start to the day. Bring on more of this unpredictable weather.
Shot with my Sony a350 + Sigma 10mm - 20mm, which I havent had much of a chance to use yet but am very pleased with it so far :D However it isnt so new now as it got covered in red dust from shooting!
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Also, I discovered this great app. called 'imageblender' for those of you interested in layering your mobile photos.
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.
Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
@ Winter Moon
If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny. - Comedian Steven Wright
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Barrow’s Goldeneye drake (Bucephala islandica) Mission Creek on a sunny afternoon, Kelowna, BC. 142➛156 7279
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