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“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
William Morris
textures thanks to Jai Johnson and spektoral addendum.
After some useful advice from bison bill, I have managed a better shot of the goldfinch.I will keep trying to improve on these. I haven't seen goldfinches in my garden for many years and I want to encourage them.
A strong but tired barn is slowly losing its grip on a useful life as deteriorating boards and shingles begin leaving gaps in its structure. Though it appears a fresh coat of paint and a little repair might make it the center of farmlife again, the sad reality is it will continue to decline until it becomes dangerous to walk in and an occupant of the farmsite will tear it down.
Cupolas, lightning rods, milkhouses and silos are now all vestiges of what once was. As my dad entered his 80s, one vestige of his farming career remained strong, striped bib overalls. He told my mom he wanted to be buried in a pair but my mother said that was one decision she was going to make by herself.
My mother's diaries from her first couple of years of marriage to my dad recounted buying him blue work shirts and a pair of new bib overalls that back in the 1930s only cost a dollar.
Dad felt the most comfortable in work overalls with a plier pocket and a hammer loop and his nod to a special occasion was to wear a new pair to it, much to the chagrin of my mother. The later years of his life he had little to do with farming but the familiar fit of striped bib overalls was a cocoon that held his farming memories tight.
(Photographed near Cambridge,MN)
Very useful indeed. Looking forward to Mr Dixon’s shot of the groynes, looked very good on the back of his camera!
Located in Southern Alberta, the Bethlehem Luthern Church of Dalum is a favourite prairie church of mine, still seeing useful activity. This early 1900's Danish architecture is magnificent every season, it's impossible to drive past the Dalum intersection where it proudly stands without walking the area. It's attention grabbing for you'll discover little else in the area.
I can only imagine it decorated within a wintery hoar frost afternoon, the reds blazon against those pure snow whites. That's another prairie chapter.
[Dalum is an unincorporated community in Alberta, Canada. It is situated 15 kilometres south of Drumheller, Alberta, at the intersection of Highway 569 and Highway 56, at an elevation of 875 meters (2,871 ft). It was established by a Danish group called the Dansk Folksamfund. The settlement is located in census division No. 5 and in the federal riding of Crowfoot. It is administered by Wheatland County.]
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Taken for Saturday Self-Challenge on the theme of "old but still useful". This is my husband's stereo with tuner, CD player and twin cassette deck. It still works, despite the dust and paint spatters!
Somewhere we do still have the turntable - not sure that will still work, and it will definitely need a new stylus before we could play any of those new fangled vinyls that the kids are all going mad for now...
Useful misty day means nearly empty carpark and less traffic!!
Photo stop here on my 96(s)miles yesterday..
if it’s all three, they stopped making it yesterday :-)
Mignon McLaughlin
lotus blossom, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Hello Flickr friends. This is a recent shot of a wreck i'd had on my bucket list and the tides were favourable so i headed out super early to check it out. Google maps were useful though what seemed in planning very straightforward turned in to a bit of an adventure! The obvious path from the cliff down to the beach was difficult to navigate by torch and came to an abrupt end with sinking sand from a fresh landslip stopped me in my tracks when half of my leg became submerged i thought it wise to try another way down! I had noticed the security guards van and light in the building of a nearby holiday park on the way here, so i trekked back up the cliff for advice as there was no one else about and the site was closed. The knowledgeable security man described a land rover route i could use which in the Summer months took the families safely down to the bay.
I made it only just in time to see the pre dawn glow over the cliffs and early mist, which i took a quick shot of while making my way towards the old ship wreck...
Laura was a collier carrying coke from Newcastle to Trieste. She came aground in thick fog on the 21st November 1897. All that remains above the sand is the eyelet through which her propellor turned, a stern post, plus parts from her boiler. The captain remained on board while the 24 crew were rescued so he could attempt to re float the vessel on the next high tide but this proved unsuccessful. Tugs then tried to pull her off the sands but the ropes broke, the Laura shifted position, also breaking her back by the force of the tide. Some of her metal was subsequently salvaged according to www.filey.co.uk website, where i took these notes from.
Thankyou for viewing, with best wishes to all as i slowly catch up with everyone, in the meantime wish you all a fantastic Christmas.
Millennium Bridge, London
Yesterday a group of random Flickrites descended on London for a photo shoot and social meet up.
Many thanks to everyone who managed to make the journey down to London. It truly was a great day out and made all the organising worthwhile, so much so, that I'll definitely consider arranging another one, but one with a slightly less ambitious route! To those that couldn't make the day... I hope we get the opportunity to do it again and add to our group - you are all on my itinerary list!
I personally didn't take many photos myself as, for me, it was more about the social side of our hobby and meeting people who I follow on Flickr. So this is a humble upload at the start of our grand tour.
Must mention some names at this point -
Thanks to Mark W and Geoff for staying the distance after their very early start. Mark D for making the long journey from Liverpool with the Manchester posse. Terri, Martin, Jerry and Richard (not found you on Flickr yet Richard) for your local knowledge and expert skills - most useful for me personally.
Emily - what can I say... a pleasure!
Mrs R for carrying my tripod some of the way... B+ can do better!
And last but not least Eddie and Pete, special mention for the education on the way home... apparently we all travelled up to London and down to Manchester!
These are most of the poles left standing, useful nowadays only as bird perches.
Seen at Kalochori, Thessaloniki, at a protected natural park area. View Large On Black
Texture credit to Skeletalmess www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/ . Thanks!
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I love the Crepe Myrtle tree in all seasons. It's flowers are soft and pretty like crepe, but in Autumn its leaves turn a lovely orange red color, just a slightly different shade to many other autumn leaves.
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Mules and donkeys are absolutely essential in the narrow streets and passages of Moroccan medinas. Unfortunately, they are not always treated as these so very useful and patient animals would deserve.
banana leaves are very useful in the rural philippine kitchen. they can be used to wrap food like meat, fish and rice before steaming, grilling, boiling, frying or even baking, and gives food a very unique refreshing flavor. aside from that, they may also serve as plates! in some festivities, banana leaves cover tables and food are served directly on clean fresh leaves. no need for plates and cutlery. you eat with your hands. just remember to wash your hands thoroughly before and after! lol!
please see the rest of the set if you have time: www.flickr.com/photos/doctony/sets/72157600790721548/show/
Just two weeks before the Summer Joust kicks off! We're super excited for this year's installment and hope you are too!
Full details will be revealed in the contest group and Discord server on June 1st.
If you're new to the event, there's a useful video on Youtube explaining how it all works.
A quick summary being that it's a castle themed contest running through June and July with 7 different categories offering challenges for rookie and experienced builders alike, plus a slew of great prizes.
You're welcome to join the contest Discord server and chat with other competitors while awaiting the contest launch.
And you can also follow the Summer Joust Instagram account for updates.
If you're curious about the history of the event, or want to get inspiration from past entries, check out the previous installments:
Credit for the poster goes to Jonah Schultz.
Being emotionally transparent is one of my flaws, or one of my best assets, depending on who sees me thru. I am not able to conceive anger, joy, delusion, worry. this can be very useful at times and quite "dangerous" at others. at the same time, people close to me often fail to see and understand my mood. perhaps cause they're busy with themselves, which is only normal.
sometimes it is easy to make someone feel transparent by ignoring them. sometimes it's easier to concentrate on yourself and forget that you are hurting the ones close to you.
We need a new world-culture, a global synthesis of interconnectedness and global consciousness. We need a global citizenship movement that will promote social justice and social transformation. We must fight for fundamental human rights, over all national law and cultural identity—there must be equality for everyone! Global citizens are not born; they are created through social engineering. Children, you lack a global perspective on shared humanity, but we will indoctrinate you over time. Since you are part of this cult, you must help bridge the gap and rectify all misinformation. Remember, we global citizens are New World Order ambassadors. We must not only reflect on the virtues of globalism, but we must also act on them. As we reeducate the sheep, we must live a lifestyle of activism. True leaders are global citizens, whether they are CEOs, prime ministers, or just like you: Children of the Corn (Children of the Beast).
The number one (propaganda) issue that underscores our interconnectedness is climate change. The earth depends on our collective stewardship, which transcends all geopolitical borders and economies. One of our most important duties is to protect and enforce our global(ist) compacts. The health of the planet and society depends on useful idiots like us to lead the charge.
Smart cities are the engines of global control. They are full of opportunities, which we’ll exploit. This is a classic case of global multidimensionalism, which not only involves all facets of life, but is also omnipresent (The internet is borderless, and so is globalization). The most successful city is a smart city, because it’s interconnected globally. It reaches to the corners of the earth through smart technologies like the Internet of things, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. Now we are faced with a secular humanist phenomenology and a new age cosmology in which we must develop new and efficient methodologies. This paradigm shift is in perfect alignment with the values of global citizenship.
Take the jab, take the Mark. Be a sheep, awaken the dark. Bow the knee, bow in submission. Worship the Beast, son of perdition.
Children of the Corn—deeply rooted, widespread. Children of the Beast—tares uprooted, twice dead.
Matthew 24:4 “Then Jesus replied to them: ‘Watch out that no one deceives you.’”
The Luxury of being yourself
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
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A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
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a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
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In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
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I have been experimenting with processing after receiving some very useful tips from flickr.com/photos/jeremycowart/ . What is new here is that the sky has remarkably little noise. And yet it is extremely dark which normally would give excessive noise. The image was take during the flickr photo outing with with flickr.com/photos/hkvam and flickr.com/photos/arntr . The rock is called karl (a man).
Ascendant Lords
Classification: Melee
Armaments:
(1) SW-MALACHITE
(1) SH-DIAMDXX
The Paragon α serves as the epitome of the Paragon series and is a culmination of Ascendant Lord technology. The α had its total weight reduced compared to its predecessor for better handling and extra boosters were added all throughout the unit to address mobility issues.
The previous PA-LNCPRGN lance was replaced with the SW-MALACHITE sword with a blade made of concentrated Quorus and the shield was upgraded to the SH-DIAMDXX.
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acceptance in the Greek national photo competition (category:color) organized by the Hellenic Photographic Society of Crete ||
This is a project that includes items which have been useful in the past and likely favorite for their owners. Now they have become useless and rusty, but still fascinating, because of the memories they bring and the stories that hide beneath their rust
You can see the complete project here:
This may be old news, but this old hinge plate is perfectly suited for building walls with an angle. The white SNOT brick can slide stepless between those two positions but the fixed position at the end of the hinge plate also works to align the wall sections.
Hi to all my contacts , Please kindly assist me with useful information to migrate to Nordic region like green land, Iceland and it nearby as someone with vast photographic background in Singapore .
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Leaning Tower of Pisa
Disruptive technology
Bold capability
Focus
Freedom
Challenge thinking
Stealth
World view
Modules
Space
Wine
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A freebuild for Loreos in the Lands of Roawia LEGO roleplaying game.
Crewed by members of the Royal Loreesi Navy, these warboats are both light and very manoeuvrable, allowing for sailing in both deep and shallow water.
I've had this ready for ages, but was seriously debating whether or not I should upload it, as I'm not too happy with the design. Due to lack of pieces and skill I haven't done that great a job on it. I decided to put it up anyway, though, as I did spend a long time working on the darn thing. ;)
Thanks for viewing and have a great day!
Use freely for personal, educational and charitable use - Useful as a Fill in Layer - For best results enlarge massively when filling. Adding further blur can help too. Created by Foggyray90
'Useful photography' is the name of the magazine. It showcases photography without artistic pretensions, it's only meant to be practical.
Here you see the modern target posters anyone can order by Internet for shooting practice: terrorists, bank robbers, all sorts of attackers in a cliché outfit.
One of the editors of the magazine, Frank Schallmaier, collected them. They were on exhibit, last fall in The Hague, and when the visitors mingled with them, this happened...
Valletta, Malta
The jury is still out with respect to my final thoughts on the tiny Viltrox 28mm AF lens. I think it's useful for some things, but the image quality is a bit all over the board depending upon lighting conditions. It's a fun lens to 'play with', but I don't think it's living up to expectation on my APS-C camera, at least. I really expected it to be a stronger performer on an APS-C camera based on the reviews I've seen on the 'net. It is the perfect 'normal' focal length for me on APS-C, however, and that's why I'm still trying to see what I can/can't do with it. I'm suspecting there is a lot of copy variation with this cheap lenses.