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The Beginning. Part I
There was once two twin sisters who shared a horrible secret. The secret had a mind and soul of it's own and clawed them apart from the inside out. The secret broke their spirits and new ones grew in their places forcing the torn souls to flee from their rightful bodies. The twin souls, now free from the torment of the invaders, forever plot to take back their bodies and become alive again as ghosts.
This is a little project me and a friend decided to start where I do a photo with a piece of the story then she does a photo for the next piece, then me again.. and so on a so on. (: I'll give you guys a link to where you can find her part when she posts it. (: but for now here is my part.
When i was thinking of what to do for this photo I was like.. okay.. This is getting complicated with the hands touching each other but it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be and I like how it turned out!
you should probably listen to this song because the piano in it inspired the mood in this processing haha.
ALSO. I really need to post some photos more often haha. just have to re arrange how and when to do them now with work and stuff. :3 so hopefully i wont be such a bad contact
Meeeh >__<
PART II of the story with link to her photo and photo 3 and PART III of the story by me.
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All photos taken att the WRC - World Rally Championship. Sweden Rally, Opening Ceremonies / And start at Färjestad Travbana in Karlstad.
Canon 650D and Tamron SP 70-200 f/2.8 Di VC USD
This image may not be fine art or the best photo I've ever taken. It does contain two stories though. One, a story, story and the second a church story!
The story, story;
"Enter the Snaesfelljokull crater, which is kissed by Scatari's shadow before the first of July, adventurous traveller, and thou wilt descend to the centre of the Earth."
Journey to the centre of the Earth, Jules Verne. Well the mountain in the background is Snaefell and its Jokul (glacier)
Church Story.
This unusually black church dates from 1703. Built by locals it was not ordained until much recent times due to religious politics, Churches in Iceland are of two distinct flavours. This kind of traditional shape. But normally white with red, green or turf roofs (go to Hof for the later). Or they are more recent affairs made of concrete, large in size and of what I would describe as a look at me I'm the only church in the village style!
Al Sabo, Texas Corners, Michigan.
These are the original colors of the infrared image. Contrast enhanced.
Tech: five images (DNGs developed in ACR into 16-bit tifs) taken with a tripod mounted Canon A590 running CHDK and Hoya R72 filter mounted, stacked in PhotoAcute Studio for noise reduction. Levels adjustment layer, PercepTool and sharpened.
ISO 80, f3.7, 1/2 sec, 6.6 mm. White balance made from some pretty scraggly, almost green grass.
In 2015, two of my new firefighters sort out a small rubbish fire involving flytipping.
Their kit won't be so clean for long!!
The red sticker on the helmet denotes they are in development for their role
They have now been in service for almost 7 years...where does the time go!!
During the festivities of the cities birthday (and others) in June it was great fun to watch all the parades, costumes and the music. That night twobands were playng on the main square, competing to see who was best.
We're brothers. Not by blood, but by blood shed.* When we see action, we see it through. Together. Always together.
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Maybe that's why army stationed me here, too. Maybe if we hadn't stuck together, he'd be the only one marooned for his actions. In this tin shack in the desert.
The shack is sturdy. We have the corrugated walls to thank for that. But it's also hot in that thing. So we sit out here. Waiting.
When army put us here, they told us our orders would arrive promptly. After his incident, I didn't understand what they were thinking, how they could still be considering using him. He needs another mission like he needs a gun to his head. Now I know exactly what they were thinking.
That day, for whatever reason, he jerked up. He towered above me, then and now. He towers over most people, actually. Him coming at you armed isn't exactly a welcoming sight.
He took a few steps out. His limbs swung in choppy motions. I could tell he was sore. We'd spent months on the hard, unforgiving terrain, lying or sitting. Always in discomfort.
He looked out across the dunes. Nothing. I asked, "what are you hoping to find?"
He responded wistfully, "Closure."
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*This is the opening line of a written piece I've been working on for a long time. Is decided to re-use it here.
Building with two sets of large bay windows on Main Street in Towanda, Pennsylvania. I like the five decorative bricks near the top of the building.
Two very different looking school buildings in Hanen. Centrum Vux in the foreground with Riksäpplet in the background.
The Pohjola Insurance building is the former headquarters of the Pohjola Insurance Company at Aleksanterinkatu 44 and Mikonkatu 3 in central Helsinki. Primarily designed by Gesellius, Lindgren & Saarinen and constructed in 1899–1901, it is a prominent example of Finnish national romantic architecture. It was acquired in 1972 by Kansallis-Osake-Pankki, now succeeded by Nordea.
The Pohjola Insurance Company (precursor of OP Financial Group) was founded in 1891 and specialised in fire insurance.
They held a competition for the design of their headquarters, which would also house another Fennomane insurance company, Kullervo, with the specification that the building must be of fire-resistant stone.
Based on the submissions, they commissioned Gesellius, Lindgren & Saarinen to design the exteriors and major interior spaces, but Ines and Ernst A. Törnvall were responsible for the plans. It was the first commercial building by Gesellius, Lindgren & Saarinen.
The building is national romantic in style, with façades of rough-hewn soapstone, red granite and serpentine decorated with sculptures of vegetation, squirrels, and figures from Kalevala, and on the street corner a tower with a pinecone-shaped roof.
When it was built, a reviewer dwelt on its "Finnish-naturalistic" style, but in form the exterior may have been influenced by contemporary American buildings: Henry Hobson Richardson's Cheney Building similarly uses a corner tower, and the use of windows resembles that in Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Building.
Another Finnish architect, Bertel Jung, criticised the romantic elements as embodying "primitive, partially crude and untamed force".
Other reviewers praised it for its comparability to buildings in other countries and to their use of ornament.
Lindgren, the member of the firm who appears to have been most attached to national romanticism, greatly influenced the ornamentation of this building.
The main entrance, designed by Hilda Flodin, a pupil of Rodin, is flanked by the names of the two insurance companies, both from Kalevala, and by devils, monsters or trolls; bears, the symbol of the insurance company, top the pilasters and also appear in the interior decoration.
The door itself is deeply recessed under an arch, and the vestibule continues the allusion to medieval architecture, with vaulting and with carved animals topping pillars.
The rest of the interior also used rustic and folklore motifs, with doorways by Erik O. W. Ehrström, iron wheel chandeliers by G. W. Sohlberg, and a circular main stairway with a cast-iron banister with pine-tree motifs; the newel posts and the benches on the landings were carved wood depicting fern leaves and, again, trolls, and the stained glass featured ferns and owls.
The service hall on the first floor was given red pine panelling and a central pillar styled to resemble a tree trunk.
However, it has a steel core;behind the façades the building is brick with structural steel and from the start had Swedish-made lifts as well as an electrical generator.
The structural engineer was Elia Heikel, who was also working at the time on the Lundqvist Building opposite, which is seen as the first modern commercial building in Finland.
The building originally had flats on the upper three floors.
It was acquired in 1972 by Kansallis-Osake-Pankki, a bank which has subsequently been merged to form Nordea, but until 1987 Pohjola Insurance still had some customer service operations in the building. The customer service hall has since then been used as banqueting space. The tobacconist's Havanna-Aitta has been in the ground-floor commercial space for decades.
Ivatt and Riddles 2MT 2-6-0s 46521 and 78019 pass near Quorn on the Great Central Railway during a Timeline Events photographic charter. The similarity in the two designs is quite apparent with the BR Standard version being a development of the earlier Ivatt locomotive.
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