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Petite Blythe dolls
1:12 treat bags
scrapbook paper brick
Houses - one is a new gift bag. Two are crafts that my son and I made a few years ago.
Sony FE 90mm Macro G OSS - f/3.2
Image is 2.28" W. These are post-it notes folded and shot with a shallow depth of field. I'm not exactly sure what happened here, but I believe I focused on the back part of the object, which made the foreground out-of-focus. Foreground Bokeh !!
In photography, bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image, caused by circles of confusion. Bokeh has also been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light". Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause very different bokeh effects.
Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all regions of an image which are outside the depth of field.
Just in time for Halloween, a freak October snowstorm brought heavy wet snow to our region.. strange to see the trees peaking with autumn color suddenly blanketed in snowfall!
I had to buy a life sized doll to model this vintage Halloween costume with this awful mask because, well… it was just too good not to use in a photo! Growing up, I never had a store bought Halloween costume. My mom always made us costumes… and sometimes Dad even made them. Mom sewed. Dad was a carpenter. And yes, sometimes he “built” costumes! How I wish I had pictures… Every year there would be a Halloween parade through town, ending at the school where there was a costume contest, Needless to say, my sister and I took home prizes most years! I did the same for my kids, but could never top the costumes that my parents made!
**Tried to add this from my phone last night.. .and it showed up multiple times. Had to delete a few! I guess it's going to be ONE OF THOSE DAYS!!
Winterish Allure is ready to trick or treat.
I spent some free time sewing Blythe Halloween dresses in August knowing I would not have any time in October. This is one of them. The pumpkin fabric is from Joanne's. It is a knit.
Blythe Winterish Allure
Dress, headband, and bag made by me
Background - place mat
Gravestones - Dollar Tree (many years ago)
Trees and black branches - Target and Dollar Tree (this year)
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Hello everyone,
Second Life and I teamed up to create a spooky Trick or Treat video for the Halloween season. Enjoy!
Fashion & Misc. Credits
Ananas - Homemade Halloween Pumpkin Head
Shown life-size, at least from my perspective. I hiked the Pump Station Trail on nearby Eno River last Saturday to perhaps catch the last of the local autumn color. Working my way off the trail to the river to look at a possible composition sent me through a tangle of old spider webs. Keeping my eye on the path, I ran headlong into a web spanned across tall milkweeds that was, how shall we say, occupado. I realized it about the time one of these critters came into focus appearing quite this size at the bridge of my nose. I startled it likely more than it did me… it retreated behind a dried leaf as I bounded through its web. I can imagine her watching me approach through eight compound eyes, “Oh, yeah. Ohhh, yeah! Oh, no!” That pretty spider made for a more fitting composition. There were many more hanging around in their webs, just waiting to have their pictures taken. “Smile… and don’t blink.” This is an Araneus marmoreus spider, commonly known as a marbled orbweaver, but it’s also known by some other names… any guesses? If you thought pumpkin spider or Halloween spider, you would be right. One of my contacts pointed out that it has candy corn legs. I'm not ashamed to admit that I love candy corn, though in small quantities. It may be more an issue of good memories of Halloweens past when I was a kid. With that in mind, I'm throwing in candy corn spider, too... it just fits. It's backlit in this image, and the web is refracting the light like strands of rainbow.
Lucy:"All you have to do is walk up to a house, ring the doorbell, and say 'tricks or treats.'"
Sally: "Are you sure it's legal?"
Lucy: "Of course it's legal."
Sally: "I wouldn't want to be accused of taking part in a rumble."
It was all treats for railfans from the Canadian Pacific on Halloween this year, but maybe a little bit of a trick for the crew of this Toronto-bound manifest/ballast train. They had made their way down the last part of the Mactier Sub and onto the North Toronto within the first hour of daylight, but were halted at Leaside due to a major train traffic jam getting into Toronto Yard ahead of them. 4 eastbound trains, 2 westbounds, plus 4 continuous RC Yard Jobs always up to something. Eventually at around 11:30am, they were instructed to run around their train and head to Lambton instead. This made quite a few eyes turn as the lone SD40-2 in this consist was facing west and would end up being the one leading into Lambton. And here they are, sitting in the Lambton 5 yard track shortly after the crew hopped on a taxi to take them back to Agincourt. What a day!
Hullo gals&ghouls!
The lovely Ms. Casey Wilder and myself have come up with a cute little set of trick or treat buckets for you!
This is a mainstore collab! Out now @ both mainstores!
All three buckets come bento holdable, as well as unscripted to go along with the full pose.
Catch a ride to either location here:
Honey Lemon:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Starry%20Isles/155/120/3501
Space Cadet:
An earlier B&W Pano-Sabotage piece referenced to classic Science Fiction writer, John Wyndham's short story, "Confidence Trick" in it's notes. I'd decided not to name that image after the story but the idea of doing so with the kind of big city imagery that I do stayed with me until I went with it with this one.
Briefly, as with most Science Fiction, the story is really a proposition of philosophical ideas being worked out through a speculative narrative. Does that make the idea any less rigorous? It's the idea not it's vehicle that's the all-important gist.
Wyndham's story examines the notion of a kind of solipsism wherein one man begins to doubt what he sees as reality, thinking that it might just be a construct of his own consciousness.
As the story goes on he lays out all the thoughts that lead him to that conclusion. One day on a busy city street he decides that what he sees is a 'confidence trick' and he that he's going to pull his investment from it to see what happens.
He stands on the street and with the full force of his intent he starts to declare that he no longer believes what he sees. Before he can finish his sentence, the world in front of him begins to crumble and dissolve.
Flicker artist Solano Snapper raised the question of whether this was all in his mind or if it was literal. Fantastic point for discussion. This would make an excellent topic for University or College philosophy and/ or literature classes to debate.
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Black and White Pano-Sabotage continues. "Pano-Sabotage" is the technique of deliberately MIS-using the smart phone's pano camera function to create marked and unique effects WITH THE CAMERA. Some post processing is done for balance and contrast etc, but the EFFECT of the "facet-ized" imagery is done IN the camera, AT the moment of shooting.
See the Flickr group, "PANO-Vision" for a gallery of said imagery as practiced by a small roster of dedicated, serious artists who are pushing this medium into fantastic new places.
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Does anyone know the zipper trick? If you pull your zipper up and down when the Northern Lights are in the sky, it will make them dance! They sure were dancing last night!
Explored
These little dolls are available at the Scare Me Silly event:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Water%20Haven/194/246/22
(I should have mentioned that earlier for anyone who wants them. Sorry, I'm not a blogger.)
This is an un-posed, in situ photo of a western black widow I found yesterday, the day before Halloween, literally living under a decorative Halloween pumpkin on our front porch. If you look closely, you can even see one of her fangs. After taking her picture, I relocated her to the garden, since this pumpkin will only be around for a couple of weeks and isn't a good long-term home for her.
The yassification of Michael Myers...and it's my first post in ages. Hi again!
Inspired by this scene from Stranger Things: youtu.be/-24hF4P-lBM
Fit credits:
Hair: Faga
Shirt: Seul
Walkman: Sari-Sari
Jacket: COCO (not sure if they still sell it lol)
Pants: Erratic
My beloved virtual dog: Rezzroom
xx
amazing makeup for halloween , true beauty . I made so many more pictures but don't dare to upload them . Promise to not send more of them . Was a great early Halloween for me . Wish you all a great night sleep :)
seen at Kiwi bar in amsterdam
Well, you didn't seriously expect me to do anything but a pink Halloween, did you? :)
The tiny jar is only just over ½" high and it's filled with minute hundreds and thousands (sugar cake decorations), which were individually placed using tweezers to make sure I only got the pink ones. The petals on the lower shelf stuck to the tweezers, so it took quite a while to get them where I wanted them. Oh yes, this one was fiddly!
For this week's Macro Mondays group challenge, Halloween.
This is an older image form Caldwell Idaho, but seemed fitting to post. The real trick here is getting the image without the throngs of people that were there too. The dragon breathes fire, but I did not get the right kind of exposure to be able to use that image. Neat to see though.
Location: Scarborough beach near Cape Point.
Description: Here’s another MV (Minimalistic Vertorama) which I captured on a recent sunset photo-shoot at Scarborough beach.
While I was looking through my lens and concentrating on capturing the lower image of this Vertorama… I suddenly noticed a dark blur whizzing past the front of my lens! When I looked again… the stick was gone!? Huh? I turned around to see a small black dog running fast, towards a very apologetic-looking owner… with MY stick in its mouth!
Heh heh… that Disappearing Stick Trick is a pretty cool trick!
Click here to view this one large.
Click here to check out my Vertorama tutorial.
Equipment: Nikon D300 (Sigma 10-20mm)
Date: December 2008