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Silvertip badger hair after 15 years of use. No question about it, it's not over yet!
Asahi Super-Multi-Coated Macro Takumar 100mm/f4 @f16
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I don't usually put an outfit on Dennis (aside from useful clothes). But this outfit were just TOO cute! I just had to get it so I can use it in a photoshoot. He really IS a "wolf in sheep's clothing" too, so it fit his personality perfectly!
He didn't mind having the costume on. :) He was pretty happy because I had treats, haha!
“Mock strawberry plants or False strawberry or Snake berry or Indian berry or Barren strawberry or Duchesne indica very useful Medicinal herb with yellow flowers in a small garden on the the shore of Lake Ontario in squires beach in Ajax , April 27. 2024”
“Mock strawberry plants or False strawberry or Snake berry or Indian berry or Barren strawberry or Duchesne indica very useful Medicinal herb with yellow flowers in a small garden on the the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario in squires beach , Martins photographs , Ajax, Ontario , Canada , April 27. 2024”
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“False strawberry”
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It was inevitable that the cheeky face of Thomas the Tank Engine would feature as a 'squared circle' and here he is!
The city of Mandalay, the capital of the Mandalay Region, Myanmar, lies on the eastern (true left) bank of the Irrawaddy River some 575 km (357 mi.) north of Yangon. Mandalay Hill (224 m, 735 ft,) rises some 135 m (443 ft.) above the northern part of the city. I took this shot in the Su Taung Pyae Pagoda, which lies on the summit of Mandalay Hill.
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I have figured out some tricks to get Shyla to look more engaged while I photograph her, which I'm sure can be boring for her. One trick is that I toss her a treat for every shutter click. In this one, she'd heard the shutter click and was wide-eyed waiting for the treat toss!
Recently we travelled to southwestern Wisconsin to help move our granddaughter to UW-Platteville where she will be a freshman this fall. On the way home we took a detour on some back roads and came upon this scene. That barn looks abandoned, but it is being used to store hay.
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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.
Old military truck, now slightly useful as parts. Turned out to pasture and the pasture is about to take over. I love boredom on train chases.
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)
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." George Bernard Shaw
I have to tell you about Dave. Not my brother Dave - you know about him already if you've been reading these adventures and keeping notes. I'm referring of course to the other Dave - the one who procures a wadge of tickets for rugby internationals in exchange for spending half his spare time volunteering at his local club and tells me to stand outside my house and wait to be collected on the evening before the game. On such evenings we will head just past Plymouth to Gareth's house where we will always have a Chinese takeaway before heading to Twickenham the next morning. Dave and Gareth have been doing this in metronome like fashion since they were teenagers in 1972. Greater quantities of beer than I'm used to or are good for me are generally involved. It's a routine I always look forward to, even though I'm a lifelong football nut and only have the vaguest grasp on what's going on in between those strange H shaped posts during the big match. Somehow I've been inveigled into their gang by stealth. I feel like the slightly younger clueless looking one on "Last of the Summer Wine." Apologies if you're not from the UK or you're under 45 as that last statement isn't going to mean anything to you.
Dave likes music as well. Because he's twelve years older than me he's seen all the bands I love the most. He was there to see the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon and John Bonham before they succumbed to their excesses. Just recently he shared with me a poster from the Bath Blues and Rock festival of 1970 where he saw among others, Led Zeppelin, Santana and Pink Floyd. Gareth usually went with him to events such as this so I tend to get the stories in stereo to make me even more envious of their superior vintages. Sometimes I wish he just wouldn't tell me stuff like this. I was only 4 and my parents wouldn't have let me go anyway. Besides which I hadn't fully familiarised myself with all of their albums at that stage. I was still busy getting to grips with Bill and Ben.
Dave is a useful person to know, but at the same time I've become accustomed to knowing that his call will result in substantial amounts of open wallet surgery, in exchange for which I will be entertained. One day he told me to book a long weekend because we were off to see the Foo Fighters at the Olympic Stadium in London. Flights, accommodation, river trips and a Billy Idol concert the following night in Brixton cost me the price of a decent second hand L lens, but it was three days I won't forget in a hurry.
Two days later, with a head full of tunes and a soul full of memories from as fantastic weekend as it's possible to achieve with two men in their mid 60's, I looked outside the window as the plane came in to land at Newquay. The sky was doing beautiful things and I was stuck in the air. I sighed as I gazed at an intense orange sunset through the plate glass window.
So the following evening, Lee, Dave - my brother Dave this time - and I headed to Bedruthan and watched the sun disappear behind a bank of cloud in an unpromising sky. We looked at each other doubtfully and groaned about having missed the previous evening. But as in the song, just as you think it's all over and you're about to head for the pub, something happens in the sky and suddenly it was all worthwhile. Well those aren't the exact words to the song but, you know.....
Very useful indeed. Looking forward to Mr Dixon’s shot of the groynes, looked very good on the back of his camera!
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Da diese Vögel als Aas- und Schädlingsvertilger äußerst nützlich sind, liegt es im Interesse der Menschen, sie vor Verfolgung möglichst gut zu schützen. Ihrer weichen Unterschwanzdecken des Brutgefieders wegen, die in der Modeindustrie und seit je her in der Kriminalistik Verwendung finden, sind diese Vögel in manchen Gegenden stark bejagt und gefährdet.
Noch heute werden zur Sichtbarmachung eines Fingerabdrucks bei Tatortaufnahmen der Kriminalpolizei diese Federn verwendet. Mittels der Federn wird Rußpulver auf den möglichen Spurenträger aufgetragen. Die Federn ermöglichen einen schonenden Auftrag des Pulvers, so dass Rußspuren in den abgedrückten Papillarleisten hängen bleiben
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Since these birds as carrion and pest exterminator are extremely useful, it is in the interest of the people, to protect them from persecution as well. Because of their soft undertail coverts of the breeding plumage , in the fashion industry and since the forth in the forensics find use, these birds are heavily hunted in some areas and endangered.
These springs are still used to visualise of a fingerprint at crime scene photographs of the judicial police. By means of springs, carbon black powder is applied to the possible carrier of traces of. The springs allow a careful job of powder so that traces of soot in the pressed down papillary strips stuck
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"Knowing your enemy is only half the victory"
I'm glad Square Enix has made another hitman game, being someone who loved Absolution and Agent 47 in that game I wanted to remake my Agent 47 custom that had been one of my first customs on flickr. And a fact that Agent 47 is also one of my favorite video game characters.
Used a Bruce Wayne face but erased a little off the tips of the mouth and added some lines to the eyes to make him more angry. I had to paint his signature bar code on the back of his head and it was surprisingly easy to do. Made the tie 3D using leftover trench coat fabric.
Now for the accessories, his silver ballers are actually brickarms PPK tactical spy pistols, I always wanted to get some of those. His breifcase I painted on the Hitman symbol on it to make it look like one from the game. His last accessory is his fiber wire which is pretty useful for Agent 47, I used a rope piece from a Miner minifigure from CMF series idfk.
I'm not sure if i'll buy the new Hitman game right now as I haven't heard amazing things about it, plus part of me would rather buy Twilight Princess HD. But I just wanted to make this minifigure and boy am I please with how it came out.
This is also an entry to Ancient Robot Customs's contest
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Here's a classic California sunset taken a couple of miles from my home. I remember back to when I shot this one, I had an errand to run and I wasn't sure if I was going to be back to the house by sunset so I had brought my camera pack with me. Unfortunately, I spaced out and left my tripod at the house (classic newbie mistake) so I sat the camera on the roof of my car on a mini tripod that I had in the side pouch of my camera pack then used a flashlight from my glove box with an AM/PM soda cup over the end of it to light the lime trees in the foreground. I added some more green coloring to the foreground to help complete the rainbow of colors. :)
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Tubes are useful for the little things.
I’m still preoccupied with Hot Toys hands. I love those tiny little freckles. No offense, but I have to put a mental block on the fact that they belong to a guy named Barney.
It took forever for the cherries to arrive. They were worth it:
When I saw that necklace, I thought of those lips and decided they needed to meet each other:
A passion lens based photographer shows the way while the "subjects" roam freely behind. Jokes aside, a brilliant young photographer lead the photowalk and gave us useful tips .
(This photo was on Flickr Explore's #1 position on 19th May 2010!)
Peeking into Peoples' Bags is Now Acceptable
I'm totally exhausted after a week's stay in Shanghai setting up the new store, our first store in China. I did carry a lot of useful stationery tools in a travel pouch in and out of the dusty store where I breathed in and out hovering particles, making props and arranging displays, but here's what's in my other bag which might interest you more.
This other bag is one made by Lomo called Sidekick, which I have magically put all my essential stuffs inside. I can lose the pouch but I can't lose this one so I was seen carrying at least one bag all the time, worrying it being stolen if I leave it somewhere. You know, in construction site, anything can happen. It contains my most treasured communication, GTD and photography tools: Canon F1 film camera, Panasonic GF1 (I used it to take this shot, with an adaptor I can can use the Canon lens on my GF1), films, Macbook Air, iPhone, pens, name card in case, USB finger, watch, Moleskine sketchbook, mind.depositor 3, diary, etc. Check out the flickr photo to see in details. No wonder I needed those RMB$68 massage sessions after work, my shoulder hurts, even now.
Months ago city'super and Moleskine Asia sat together pounding our heads trying to find a better way to present the two series that would be arriving almost at the same time - Folio Professional and 18 months diaries (after the highly successful Passions journals). We took the "What's in your bag?" concept and here we go, showcasing and peeking into people's bag, it is fun. The campaign is still going on, you just take a picture of your bag's content preferably with a Moleskine product inside, together with such a flyer you pick up from our stores, upload to city'super's facebook (preferably "liking" it too) and you get a chance to win a full set of Folio Professional products worth a HK$3,714. I'm yet to see some quality photos or creative ways to do such shots, so do play with us this little game, see who's photo is the best! Don't worry about eligibility, if your shot is great, I'll find a way to maybe send you some Moleskines.
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Nightcafe AI creation
I tried every which way to get something useful out of a small and blurry input image of a drawing of mine I found. - No luck. But the idea intrigued me, so I ran a few prompts without a input.
This one, in wide screen, with my 'Trained Drawing Lora'.
PROMPT:
Surreal Fantasy Drawing by the Mystic Otto Rapp under the Influence of Ernst Fuchs, H.R. Giger and Beksinski, graphite on paper, black and white, detailed pencil strokes, psychedelic collage, cryptid taxidermy in Bogomils Universe
Soapwort contains soap-like chemicals called saponins, that create a lather when crushed. In Europe, soapwort was grown near woolen mills and used to wash the wool. Because it is a gentle detergent and contains fungicides that aid in the preservation of cloth, it has been — and still is — used to clean delicate fabrics and tapestries, most famously the Shroud of Turin. Early American colonists brought soapwort from England to clean clothes, pots and pans, hair and skin, and even wash away poison ivy oils. [Source: www.seacoastonline.com/story/lifestyle/2008/07/30/soapwor...]
This is my entry to the Eurobricks Flower Show! It's also a freebuild for Mitgardia in the Guilds of Historica.
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As an aspiring herbalist, Sigrid used to find most of her ingredients in the forest that surrounded the village.
But while gaining experience, she felt the need to grow her own garden. She needed to keep the most useful plants within easy reach - and also wanted to make experiments with flora that would not grow natively in the Mitgardian mountains.
In a few years, she had managed to gather many medicinal plants from Mitgardia, and to acclimate a few ones from Avalonia. And her graden kept growing : there were still so many plants to learn about!
I haven't contributed to the Macro Monday group for a while, so it is my pleasure to wish you all a HMM!
Having just bought my first Speedlight, I would like to say a big thank you to my friend Di (PhotosbyDi) who has provided me with useful and helpful material to help get me started. This is my first attempt with it and there is much to learn, but it has been a lot of fun experimenting this evening!
Magnificent in all seasons.
Many thanks to Di for pointing me towards 'orientation' to straighten up photos - I had never noticed those tiny arrows before - so useful especially when out with the camera after a glass of wine!!
Pictures from our first days in our home on Worsham. Useful to see progress over the 18+ years we've been in the home
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!