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"We're only young and naive still
We require certain skills
The mood it changes like the wind
Hard to control when it begins
The bittersweet between my teeth
Trying to find the in-between
Fall back in love eventually
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Can't help myself but count the flaws
Claw my way out through these walls
One temporary escape
Feel it start to permeate
We lie beneath the stars at night
Our hands gripping each other tight
You keep my secrets hope to die
Promises, swear them to the sky
The bittersweet between my teeth
Trying to find the in-between
Fall back in love eventually
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"
The Naked And Famous - Young Blood
Head: LeL Evo X
Body: Lara X
Hair: DOUX - Hwasa hairstyle [BLOGGER PACK]
Eyes: IKON Lucidity Eyes - Eternal Pack @ Cosmopolitan Event
Outfit:
Dhoma - Whitney Lingerie Set # 10
Jewellery:
[AlternatiVe] Aimee Necklace
**Stylovely**Seet Bow Necklace in 7 Colors
Made at Sunny's Studio:
BG: KaTink - Free studio backdrop
...sorry no current images...too cold outside:-)
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"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
- Author Unknown
Some trees are more interesting without their leaves.
When I begun to process this exposure bracketing, I thought that I knew what I wanted to attain. I was perfectly wrong. Indeed, these RAW files kept a few secret bits of beauty which I was not aware of when I selected them for processing – and they changed the course of the journey I had foreordained.
I was in a gloomy mood, for both personal and general concerns, and the RAWs looked rather duller than the average – taken: they appeared to accurately mirror the state of my soul. At worst, I would have wasted some hours of pointless procesing work before deciding to look for something better. Nobody would have known. However things were to contradict my expectations. I got some good news (a rarity in those tough days) about the health conditions of my brother and my “adopted brother-in-law” (i.e. my brother’s brother-in-law); on the other hand, Darktable – that wonderful software – gifted me with a few unanticipated treasures. My thoughts were growing more and more positive and the processing of this bracketing were proceeding accordingly: a hidden beauty was unfolding before me, my own persisting unawareness of it notwithstanding. At last I found myself with a picture that had apparently self-processed itself*, while I was busy exploring uncharted thoughts that kept emerging along the way
* Admittedly a bizarre phenomenon, which Maurits Cornelius Escher would have loved – think of his Drawing hands.
I would avoid to nag you about this incredibly wonderful location: you can take a look at my album Silent banks, the complete collection of the photos I have taken there; the attached narratives are rich in information about the place, if you are curious enough.
This location is especially renowned for its legendary morning mists, but only a thin layer of milky mist floated above the water that morning. On top of the hill in the distance, beyond the river, lays the sanctuary of the Madonna della Rocca ( = Madonna of the Rock), already brushed by the first light pouring from the Eastern horizon.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then, as usual, I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a possible final contribution to the processing. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwithstanding, is pretty simple to implement) often holds interesting results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities. In this picture I have exploited this technique in a very frugal, yet effective, way – just some touches where needed.
RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising with DFine 2 and the Gimp (denoised and original images blended by lightness).
A B&W analog picture of my Great Uncle I took over 40 years ago. He actually used to process color film and print at home.
Nikon F2SB with Nikkor 55mm f1.2
...about posing with this gentleman?
Um, maybe.
Seen at the Michigan Renaissance Festival a few years ago
Manchmal weiß ich nicht, wo mir der Kopf steht... Manchmal gibt es Schatten, manchmal gibt es Licht... Manchmal grinse ich, obwohl mir gar nicht dazu ist... Und manchmal vergesse ich sogar, mich zu rasieren...😉 Meine erste Langzeitbelichtung mit Blitz habe ich mit mir selbst ausprobiert. Bevor ich jemanden anderes damit verunstalte, ganz nach dem Motto:
„Es gibt keine schlechten Bilder von dir; Manchmal siehst du einfach nur so aus.”
(Abraham Lincoln)
sending warm thoughts to all my Flickr friends stuck in this awful deep freeze that's gripping the country.
Stay safe folks!
"The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you."
Cory Booker
This is Leo relaxing on the roof terrace in the early morning and letting his thoughts wander. His paw protected one of the catnip toys I had bought for him and his brother Charlie.
With the rumours of the potential demise of Flickr I have been giving some thought to where I might find another place like it ... and I don't have a good answer.
Flickr has been (and hopefully will remain) a place to share and to be inspired unlike any other place I have encountered in 'cyber-space.' Although I have been critical of many of the changes that have been made to the site over the years (and complementary to other changes) I have remained a steadfast participant on an almost daily basis for close to 10 years now. Why? It's simple really ... because of the people I have 'met' here. Many good and some great photographers yes .... but much more importantly many good and some truly great people who ... although we will likely never meet face-to-face ... have been an almost daily part of my life in a small but important way. Flickr managed somehow to successfully mimic a true community and achieved just about the right mix of intensity and casualness of interaction that allows a truly international and marvelously varied group of individuals with a common interest to connect in a very human and supportive way!
To all my Flickr friends (you know who you are) ... without Flickr as a connector we are in real danger of 'losing touch.' I promise I am not a sentimental (old) fool ... I might be rightly accused of being old but I doubt I have ever been tagged as 'sentimental.' I have thoroughly enjoyed our sometimes daily, sometimes weekly, and sometimes less often 'meetings' over the years and don't want to see it gone. The solution escapes me for the moment ... suggestions?
Please feel free to share this 'question' that I pose ... no doubt in the vast number of connections that we have collectively made there is someone with a bright idea. I hope the discussion goes viral and in-so-doing Flickr gets recognized as a worthy 'meeting place' that can be sustained and maybe even made profitable?
- Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -
P.S. I don't think Facebook is the answer. :)
www.dpreview.com/news/5785088732/flickr-may-be-up-for-sal...
CarlZeiss Y/Contax Planar T* 1.4/50
YUKATA Portraits @ Tokyo, Japan
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Deep in thought.
He stood there alone his only companion was the sea.
It was as if he was sharing his silent thoughts with the waves as they rolled in and perhaps in is mind the receding waves would wash away his thoughts.
North Coast, New South Wales, Australia.
Un uomo si giudicherebbe con ben maggiore sicurezza da quel che sogna che da quel che pensa.
Victor Hugo
DA VEDERE ONBLACK
A shot from my archive of photos that I never uploaded for one reason or another... Spring is on my mind!
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