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A group of bushy, late flowering, herbaceous perennials with narrow green leaves covered by clouds of daisy-like flowers; either singly or in sprays. The name of this useful late flowering plant is taken is from the Latin word meaning star - indicating the shape of its showy flower heads, borne in profusion from late summer onwards.
Exposure row
It had rained the whole day like from tubs. Actually, I planned, the Neist Point, the small peninsula
to take photos on the Scottish island Skye in the southwest in the sundown. But the weather meant it differently.
When I wanted to make a few test shots Late afternoon, it heard to rain for one moment on and the sky opened
for a short time before the coast. From approx. 100 admissions, were at the end only useful.....
We encountered this "sculpture" in the middle of a Lofoten ferry harbour and although I do not know the story behind I thought the reflections to be most intriguing :)
The [useful] friend that i can remove or rezz everywhere, to change skin...or mood . To scream at or delete , to tell my fake story before i logoff...
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All I have or should
want to be but never could
It's coming at, it's coming at, it's coming at my heart
To spoil my soul with fire
All my eyes can see is
born out of your imagery
It's coming at, it's coming at, it's coming at my heart
To scorch the earth with fire
Tell me who you really love
Tell me who you really love
Thank you so much buddy, it's always a pleasure to take photos with you! Watch out for Edu's amazing version!
"A person who thinks all the time
Has nothing to think about except thoughts
So, he loses touch with reality
And lives in a world of illusions
By thoughts, I mean specifically, chatter in the skull
Perpetual and compulsive repetition of words
Of reckoning and calculating
I'm not saying that thinking is bad
Like everything else, It's useful in moderation
A good servant, but a bad master
And all so-called civilized peoples
Have increasingly become crazy and self-destructive
Because, through excessive thinking
They have lost touch with reality
That's to say
We confuse signs
With the real world
This is the beginning of meditation
Most of us would have
Rather money than tangible wealth
And a great occasion is somehow spoiled for us unless photographed
And to read about it the next day in the newspaper
Is oddly more fun for us than the original event
This is a disaster
For as a result of confusing the real world of nature with mere signs
We are destroying nature
We are so tied up in our minds that we've lost our senses
Time to wake up
What is reality?
Obviously no one can say
Because it isn't words
It isn't material, that's just an idea
Reality is
The point cannot be explained in words
I'm not trying to put you down
It's an expression of you as you are
One must live
We need to survive, to go on
We must go on!"
This is the canal which links the Cagliari salt evaporation ponds (now dismissed) with the harbour. The salt collected in the ponds was loaded into barges and then a tug carried the train of barges to the harbour where the salt was unloaded to be shipped.
In ancient times the barges were pulled by horses.
The theme for MM is hand tool. My tiny scissors are just right for daisy cutting!
Thanks for views, favs and comments, much appreciated 👍💕
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♥ kunglers » Sayuri earrings @cosmopalitan [¹] //new//
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earrings (l,r)
texture hud w/6 crystals 1 [top], 6 crystals 2 [bottom]
exclusively at cosmopolitan → jul.12 ‐ jul.24, 2021
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shown with:
ears » ava ears - ivory
freckles » ava freckles (a) 50%
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♥ lelutka » evo-x fleur head-fleur 3.1 [bom] ⁰ //update//
shown with:
eyes » evo-x 3.1
teeth » 3.1
new in the 3.1 evo-x release
hud updates includes:
≕ evolution classic heads have now been updated to 3.1.
≕ evo and evo x toggle buttons available across
all heads.
≕ options to blend or mask lashes have been updated.
≕ save slots have been removed for eye socket, lashes,
hd brows, hd eyelids, and hd lips and replaced with
a new, standalone style hud.
≕ 6 new eyes have been added for a total of 18 eyes.
≕ 2 new eye brows have been added for a total of 6 eye brows.
≕ 2 new eye shadows have been added for a total of 8
eye shadows.
≕ alpha mode has been added to the lip area. now when you
use the mask option, you will be able to manipulate
how much of your lipstick will show.
≕ layer materials (none) and hd complex toggle buttons
have been added under settings:
≏ clicking hd complex removes materials from
hd brows, both hd eye shadow layers, lashes, eye sockets
≏ clicking hd lips removes materials from the hd lips
≏ note: when materials are removed, the glossiness (if any)
on these layers will be removed.
≏ note: use the repair materials button (if necessary) to fix any
unresolved materials issues
tip: removing materials is useful to eliminate hair/head alpha
interaction (if hair has materials enabled), leaving
your head layers, alpha clipping free.
scripts updates:
≕ scripts have been polished to reduce lag, and make
the hud and heads operate smoother and respond faster.
additional 3.1 head details
≕ see all of the female and male evo-x heads: lelutka sl
≕ ready to buy? head over to the lelutka mainstore now.
≕ questions? see the faq for evo and evo-x
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stelthic » verge hair
maitreya » lara v5.3 base + petite v1.0 addon
[glam affair] » body skin [maitreya ivory]
tone 2 » ubu nature shadows vineyard colors for evo x
tone 2 » sweet lips for evo x
. accessories .
dead doll » rya hairband
. setup .
lelutka » axis hud face [head, neck, eyes]
lumipro » lumipro 18
. endnotes .
⁰[bom] → see: bakes on mesh by jeremy linden
¹cosmopolitan event → jul.12 ‐ jul.24, 2021 ↪ teleport
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I was a lonesome cowboy
Lonesome as I could be
You came along, changed my life
And fixed what was broken in me
I was a lonesome cowboy
I didn't have a friend
Now I got friends comin' out of my ears
I'll never be lonesome again
You can't be happy when you're all by yourself
Go on, tell me I'm wrong (you're wrong)
When someone takes you down from the shelf
And plays with you some, it's wonderful (wonderful)
From the film Toystory....which I watched at the cinema with my grandson Leo just prior to Covid.
The lady reflected was rushing along the street in St Ives just as I was taking this reflections shot, now if that was woody in the the window he would have rushed to her aid in a heartbeat i'm sure :))
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
— T. S. Eliot
Lately I found my mind wandering as we wind ourselves into the new year of 2023. I decided to do a more thoughtful pose to work with some PS tools I've neglected for far too long to get the hang of them. Maybe, hah. Working in extreme closeup made me appreciate the work put into the eyebrows and eyes by Landgraff (his Unholy eyes are really cool), the brows alone are nicely detailed down to the tiniest hair and added scar. I'm wearing Cubic Cherry's spectacles to add to the haughty look.
⦿[CX] - Diablos Aries Horns (with colour hud, unrigged to allow for personal fitting)
At the Midnight Order Event Jan 2023
Creator's Flickr
⦿[Cubic Cherry] - {Philo} glasses base metal pack (different metal styles included)
At the Warehouse Sale Event Jan 2023
Creator's Flickr
⦿[Cubic Cherry] - {Alaris} tattoo (Fade add on included; dye to any colour you like)
Creator's Flickr
⦿RAKE - Ralph- Black EvoX (all hair colours included)
At the Men Only Event Jan 2023
Creator's Flickr
⦿Landgraff - Darius Eyebrows TINTABLE (several styles included)
At the Men Only Event Jan 2023
Creator's Flickr
⦿Landgraff - Unholy Eyes (many colours included in hud)
At the Men Only Event Jan 2023
Creator's Flickr
⦿Badwolf - Ram Septum
⦿toksik - Loner Shirt (Legacy M) (Snake)
⦿DURA - NA22 hair
Head: Lelutka Skyler
Face & lip tattoos: My own
Texas Master Naturalist luxuriating in a field of Bluebonnets mixed with Switch Grass, an ideal, drought-resistent prairie plant with roots 12 feet deep, useful for preventing flooding, located 16 miles NW of Edna, Texas.
Taken at the Great Central Railway in Loughborough, found this old, though still useful shed - I liked the way the light fell on the doors.
Some bubbles are pretty, but others are created to be useful!
Close-up of a spirit level.
Looking close... on Friday! ~ Bubbles (2022/01/21)
first night photography with my Nikon d500. The tamron lens is a bit weak but useful tilI step up in Nikon glass. tis was the entrance to our spa in Henlow this evening
be Motivated, not manipulated
To be useful, not used
To make Changes, not excuses
To excel, not compete
I Choose self-esteem, not self pity
I chooses to listen to my inner voice
not to the random opinion of others
I choose to do the things that you won't
So I can continue to do the things that you can't.....
I'm revisiting images of the many faces of Keefer Lake, my home. This is a 'redo' of a photo taken in April, 2009. The thickest and strangest fog/mist formed over the ice on the lake in a pastel 'winter blue' I had not seen before. It was like being inside a Salvador Dali painting! Although we often have ice fog we have not had anything quite like this one ever since.
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What follows is a (very) short story of mine written in the same year the photo was made ... the story and the photo seemed related somehow - at least to me?
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'Finding it, solving it, living it.'
Cool blue seemed to describe what he was seeing. It was soon dark and with it he feared he would be left to himself and he knew from experience that was not safe. How to feel it seemed always to be the fundamental problem but there were countless other difficulties that he constantly confronted and tonight seemed no different. Why is it that the ordinary takes priority over the real issue? Laziness, he supposes … do what is in front of you and brighter in your eyes rather than deal with the shadows in your mind, the things that are off to the side.
With the passing of those thoughts the blue was already gone and only patches of grey lined the horizon and shaped the trees and lake in front of him. Black and white would be easier he mused, grey was the problem of course. Joseph had always known that the lake would be the place where he found it and solved it. However, there was little warmth yet and more to be done. It wasn’t a case of deciding where to start because he knew already there was no beginning. He wasn’t even sure if there would be an ending? What to do at any given time about it he had concluded is about energy and attitude and distractions. The right proportions are essential and even distraction is needed in a measured and timely way. He had not seen in any sustained way that magical place … only glimpsing it from time-to-time although that was enough and it kept him coming back. Joseph often claimed that his only enduring trait was curiosity although he was credited by others as having more. He didn’t seem to care or need their praise and usually shrunk from it when it was offered … shyness perhaps, perhaps not? He reasoned that it wasn’t relevant anyway and wouldn’t help with finding it.
Idleness is, a friend of, maybe a prerequisite to the pursuit of it and Joseph had time on his hands now. You had to be sure though that the distractions of idleness didn’t overwhelm the quest. It was too easy to see them as reprieves when really they were quest busters. Peace of mind was not the same as the lack of stress that sometimes accompanies idleness and Joseph believed it was all about finding peace of mind. The glimpses of it had shown him that idleness only provided a useful means for having time to chase after the peace. “Maybe it wasn’t so much as chase, as follow” Joseph concluded. Curious people are often alone with their thoughts and comfortable in them. Thinking is not being idle although it might appear to be that to those observing.
MJH (2009)
A damp start to a day - and one of those days when you appreciate just how useful a tailgate on a car can be for sheltering under to take a photo!
© Dominic Scott 2022
What a treat to get a glimpse of this bird, especially in such lovely early morning light. This gives a useful size comparison.
Thank you to all who fave and/or comment on my photos it is much appreciated.
The wide angle lens is probably the most often used, but also misused, lens in landscape photography. It is a powerful lens, as long as it is used with forethought and for the right scenes. In my article I share with you useful tips for composing powerful wide angle images and I hope it encourages you to go out there and capture the beauty! Please feel free to read the article at this link. I hope you enjoy!
120 in 2020
113. Useful
An useful way of up cycling an old tyre!
Spotted in the woods on my walk last week, this home made swing was designed and made by two 11 year old girls. And no, I didn't take up their offer of trying it out!
Famous, enchanting and highly toxic, Fly agaric is the home of fairies and magical creatures and a lover of birch woodland, where it helps trees by transferring nutrients into their roots, but if eaten can cause hallucinations and psychotic reactions.
Native to the UK, it grows in woodland and heathland on light soils among birch, pine or spruce.
Fly agaric is poisonous and infamous for its psychoactive and hallucinogenic properties, but reports of human deaths are extremely rare. It was traditionally used as an insecticide. The cap was broken up and sprinkled into saucers of milk. It's known to contain ibotenic acid, which both attracts and kills flies – which gave it its name.
Scientific name: Amanita muscaria.
So pleased to find this on one of Marnie and my walks. I didn't have my 'proper' camera with me so used my mobile phone.
~ Edited in Topaz Studio - no actual 'texture' and actually, the original is alright but can't resist trying for better ! I'm sure you know the feeling ! ~
Thanks so much, as always, for your comments and just for looking - autumn is REALLY here now in our northern climes.
The pair of scissors and knife fit in the credit card sized multi-tool kit which I have had for many many years and have never actually used.
For Crazy Tuesday "cutting instruments / tools"
6/52 in 2023 challenge: black
and
69/123 pictures in 2023: no bigger than a credit card.
Don't you just love it when you can tick 3 challenge themes in one photo!!
In April 1865 The Eastbourne Pier Company was formed with a working capital of £15,000. Work began in April 1866; Four years later Lord Edward Cavendish opened the pier although it wasn’t completed until 1872.
The pier is 300 meters long and built on stilts, which rest in cups on the seabed allowing the whole structure to move during rough weather.
The piers entrance was originally built on the lower promenade but due to the rough storms in 1877 it was swept away; it was then rebuilt at a higher level. In 1888 a 400-seater domed pavilion was built and just two years later a 1000-seater theatre, Bar, Camera Obscura and Office Suite replaced it, that same year two saloons were built in the midway.
During the Second World War decking was removed to host machine guns to provide a useful advantage point to repel enemy landings. In December 1942, an exploding mine caused considerable damage to the pier and nearby hotels; it had been tied to the stanchions by the local police, who were under the mistaken impression that it was fitted with a safety device
Information by Eastbourne.com
Texture's & Effect's by William Walton & Topaz.
🎧 celtic ladies → greensleeves ❥
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package includes:
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package includes: 9 color options, ankle socks [white]
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package includes:
≕ 60 hd appliers [plain,4 different cuts w/12 tones]
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♥ tuus » kaya 3.1 lizy v1.0 [shape] //new// maybe soon
♥ lelutka » evo-x head-kaya 3.1 //new// 🎅
≕ 3.1 evo-x release and hud updates include:
≕ evo and evo x toggle buttons available across
all heads.
≕ options to blend or mask lashes have been updated.
≕ save slots have been removed for eye socket, lashes,
hd brows, hd eyelids, and hd lips and replaced with
a new, standalone style hud.
≕ 6 new eyes have been added for a total of 18 eyes.
≕ 2 new eye brows have been added for a total of 6 eye brows.
≕ 2 new eye shadows have been added for a total of 8
eye shadows.
≕ alpha mode has been added to the lip area. now when you
use the mask option, you will be able to manipulate
how much of your lipstick will show.
≕ layer materials (none) and hd complex toggle buttons
have been added under settings:
≏ clicking hd complex removes materials from
hd brows, both hd eye shadow layers, lashes, eye sockets
≏ clicking hd lips removes materials from the hd lips
≏ note: when materials are removed, the glossiness (if any)
on these layers will be removed.
≏ note: use the repair materials button (if necessary) to fix any
unresolved materials issues
tip: removing materials is useful to eliminate hair/head alpha
interaction (if hair has materials enabled), leaving
your head layers, alpha clipping free.
scripts updates:
≕ scripts have been polished to reduce lag, and make
the hud and heads operate smoother and respond faster.
≕ for indepth technical details see the faq for evo and evo-x
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. anatomy, hair, and makeup .
ag. » luminous eyes - aqua
tram » k1208 hair(b) @c88 [¹] //new//
[glam affair] » lizy layer c [lelutka evox,fair]
≕ available for l$0 w/group tag until → dec.24th, 2021! 🎅
maitreya » mesh body lara 5.3
glam affair » body skin [maitreya, fit, fair]
omega system » installer - lelutka
. scene .
dats » white wood panel texture set 1466 gen 2 [p8]
hive » fluffy spring rug [fatpack,white]
[rezz room] » german shepherd puppy (companion)
diversion » ladder [rez version]
+half-deer+ » christmas set - princess - full tree
shown with:
≕ princess tree skirt, wreath, presents [big & small]
+half-deer+ » christmas stocking [fatpack]
+half-deer+ » fairytale fireplace [fatpack, pink flame]
+half-deer+ » fireplace tools [fatpack, silver]
+half-deer+ » peacock fireplace screen [fatpack, silver]
. setup .
le poppycock » makes your head spin
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At first glance maybe an unusual spider? lol! This is a "bear claw," one of two that I use to retrieve a large, stuffed turkey from the oven twice a year. Yes, Thanksgiving and Christmas. ( I think it would make a great weapon, too if I encountered a burglar in my home)! Super sharp! Happy Crazy Tuesday everyone!
One of the little red lights that tells you a ring is hot/still hot on a ceramic hob. Always appears to be very round until you look closely.
HMM
For 120 pictures in 2020 #113 "Useful", this is a set of 4 mini-whisks I use mainly for beating scrambled eggs (I am the only one in the house who eats them, so only two at a time). But they are also great for mixing in any small bowl or container.
Útil versus bello. Una polémica recurrente en la arquitectura contemporánea, donde parece que estos términos han empezado a excluirse mutuamente. Sin embargo, durante siglos existieron espléndidos ejemplos de arquitectura utilitaria que no renunciaban ni a la belleza ni a la estética, especialmente en el periodo clásico. La Cisterna Basílica (Yerebatan Sarnıcı) de Estambul es un ejemplo perfecto. Concebida para almacenar agua potable —que llegaba desde el acueducto de Valente y otras fuentes—, podía albergar hasta 80.000 m³. Fue construida en el año 532 d.C., por orden del emperador Justiniano I. Desde el exterior nada anuncia su presencia, pero al descender nos envuelve una escena inesperada: un bosque de 336 columnas de mármol que sostienen una bóveda de ladrillo. El juego de luces, los reflejos en el agua, la penumbra... todo contribuye a crear una atmósfera de misterio casi sobrenatural. Parte de su encanto reside en su imperfección: muchas columnas son recicladas de templos antiguos, y sus capiteles variados aportan carácter y humanidad al espacio. En la penumbra dorada de la imagen, las columnas parecen repetirse hasta el infinito, reflejadas en el agua quieta. El visitante —pequeño, casi invisible— se pierde entre sombras y luces como si caminara por una ciudad subterránea fuera del tiempo.
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Useful versus beautiful. A recurring debate in contemporary architecture, where these concepts often seem mutually exclusive. Yet for centuries, functional buildings did not shy away from beauty — especially during the classical period. Istanbul’s Basilica Cistern (Yerebatan Sarnıcı) is a perfect example. Built in 532 AD by order of Emperor Justinian I, it was designed to store drinking water brought from the Valens Aqueduct and other sources, with a capacity of up to 80,000 m³. From the outside, nothing hints at its presence. But upon descending, we are met with a surprising scene: a forest of 336 marble columns holding up a brick vault. The play of lights, the reflections in the water, the shadows... everything contributes to a magical, almost otherworldly atmosphere. Part of its beauty lies in its imperfection: many columns were repurposed from ancient temples, and their diverse capitals give the space a unique, human character. In the golden gloom of the image, the columns seem to repeat endlessly, mirrored on the still water. The visitor —small, almost invisible— wanders among shadows and light, as if walking through a timeless underground city.
Useful in finding small magnetic objects that could be difficult to see or reach. Powerful too! Extends from 7" to to 30.5" as well as 17.78cm to 77.47cm.
photo size: 3"w by 2.67" h and 7.62cm w by 6.79cm h
Theme: "magnets"
Thank you for taking the time to view this photo, and for the faves and comments you make, thank you.