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Timeworn but magnificent, dilapidated but dignified, fun yet maddeningly frustrating. Havana is a city of indefinable magic - Havana, Cuba
The almost Full Moon beside Jupiter as they rise out of clouds and are reflected in Maskinonge Pond at Waterton Lakes National Park on June 16, 2019. I shot this during a photo workshop I was conducting that night. This was a very contrasty scene requiring HDR techniques (what I used here) or luminosity mask blending.
This is a 5-exposure HDR stack to record the dark foreground and bright sky, merged with Adobe Camera Raw with ghost removal off – with it on it left patches of high noise areas where the image came from only one exposure. Vignette applied with Zone System Express, noise reduction with Neat Image, and a soft Orton glow applied with Luminar Flex.
Timeworn but magnificent, dilapidated but dignified, fun yet maddeningly frustrating. Havana is a city of indefinable magic - Havana, Cuba
8 by 8 Vignette for the Series 8 Red Cheerleader. Built for the Eurobricks Mega Building LEGO CMFs Contest.
In 1986, the district association of the west part of the city funded a competition for a new outdoor sculpture to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the city of Reykjavík.
Jón Gunnar’s Sun Voyager won the competition, and the aluminium model (42,5 x 88 x 36 cm) was presented to the city for enlargement.
The full-sized Sun Voyager was unveiled on Sæbraut Road on the 200th birthday of the city of Reykjavík, August 18th, 1990.
The work is constructed of stainless steel and stands on a circle of granite slabs surrounded by so-called “town-hall concrete”.
It is a common misunderstanding that Sun Voyager is a Viking ship. It is quite understandable that many tourists think like this when travelling in Iceland, the land of the sagas. Nonetheless, it should be stressed that this was not the original intention.
Jón Gunnar was himself very ill with leukaemia at the time the full-scale Sun Voyager was constructed, and he died in April 1989, a year before it was placed in its present location.
Some people have suggested that Jón Gunnar conceived the work during this period, at a time when he might have been preoccupied with death, and argued that Sun Voyager should be seen as a vessel that transports souls to the realm of death.
While this is a nice idea and might be imagined to have some validity, it actually has little truth (at least from the point of view of the artist).
Sun Voyager was essentially envisaged as being a dreamboat, an ode to the sun symbolizing light and hope.
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Neat vignette seen in a shop window. Added a vintage feel to it in processing.
Here is a link to the book if anyone is interested: www.amazon.com/Exams-Very-Totally-Wrong-Answers/dp/081187...
I've had these done for like a week I was just procrastinating finishing Geonosis. I've been really interested in the early Clone Wars recently, and this is mainly how I expressed it.
From top to bottom: Geonosis, Jabiim, Christophsis, Kamino
Speeding on a long tail boat on the Chao Phraya River whilst the monarchy is watching. The magical reign of King Bhumibol ended on October 13, 2016. The king served as the symbol of Thai unity and stability and his departure has left a gigantic hole in the Thai political landscape. To the Thai people, the king meant everything. After his passing away the entire nation fell into a state of endless mourning and Thais were told to wear black for a year. His succesor Rama X does not enjoy the same love and respect from the public that his father commanded. He lacks moral authority and charisma; he has shown little to no enthusiasm for working with democratic institutions or being a democratic advocate and his eccentric and lavish lifestyle is legendary. Will the new king stir up a greater sense of anti-monarchy? If he trys to forge the same kind of mutually beneficial alliance with the military like his father that may very well be the case and his reign may not survive. On the other hand, if he decides to start working with the democratic government, placing the monarchical institution strictly within the constitutional framework, the chance of the monarchy becoming a viable institution is bright. Net-net, Thailand is standing at an important crossroad. Let’s hope for the best for this beautiful country and its friendly and generous people – Bangkok, Tailand.
This is just a small vignette, that I've made while waiting for the bricks for my next building series. I wanted to build something small to display my lions family, I got some time ago.
Check out the details on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/zc1mAK0QFk0
This is just a small vignette, that I've made while waiting for the bricks for my next building series. I wanted to build something small to display my lions family, I got some time ago.
Check out the details on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/zc1mAK0QFk0
Hue is the capital of the Nguyen emperors. A city that still resonates with the glories of imperial Vietnam. The key landmark is the Imperial Enclosure, a citadel-within-a-citadel. It was housing the emperor’s residence, temples and palaces, and the main buildings of state, within 6m-high, 2.5km-long walls. What’s left is only a fraction of the original – the enclosure was badly bombed during the French and American Wars. A couple of minutes away from the citadel, just north of the Trang Tien Bridge, is Hue’s largest market, selling anything and everything – Hue, Vietnam.
Capture of the 'The Elk' Fountain and its centerpiece dressed in the season's wear.
'The Elk' is located at Southwest Main between 3rd and 4th Avenues, between Chapman Square and Lownsdale Square in Portland's Plaza Blocks. It was donated by former Portland mayor David P. Thompson in 1900 to commemorate the elk that once lived in the area.
So here's the entire vignette of this scene.
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Still working through my photo backlog. This was a model built for the Vignette Swap activity at BrickFair Virginia 2021.
Each vignette is placed inside a box with internal dimensions of 12 studs x 12 studs x (37 plates + 1 tile), and boxes are swapped among the players.
An 8x8 vignette of the final confrontation in Chapter 13 of The Mandalorian "The Jedi" where Ahsoka Tano faces off against the Magistrate by her pond.
Ahsoka's white lightsabers glow in the dark, but it's hard to show in a picture.
My little LEGO vignette of the medieval Old Town of Regensburg, Germany, a UNESCO World Heritage site. I built this for the 12x12 category of Brickscalibur inspired by a recent trip to the city. It is akin to a skyline model but in a more crammed 2-dimensional layout. Thus it's not an actual reproduction of the city's layout rather than an agglomeration of various points of interest, specifically:
• The Old Town Hall with its high tower and the adjacent Imperial Diet Hall where the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire assembled.
• St. Peter's Cathedral as one of the most significant Gothic cathedrals in Germany.
• The Baroque Justitia Fountain bearing a sculpture of Lady Justice.
• The Stone Bridge across the Danube as a milestone of medieval bridge architecture and oldest existing bridge in Germany.
• The Bridge Tower as the remaining one of once 3 guard towers along the Stone Bridge.
• The Salzstadel and Amberger Stadel as historic salt storages next to the Bridge Tower.
• The Historic Sausage Kitchen as probably the oldest continuously open public restaurant in the world.
Due to its small size the model doesn't really make any pretense of accurate proportions or a consistent overall scale. It is to be understood more as an homage than an accurate reproduction.
Building instructions and further details can be found on Rebrickable.
(With regards to the Brickscalibur contest, I acknowledge that not all the buildings might fit exactly into the required period of ~500-1500, but each of them could have existed at this time if it was a more generic city and the model nonetheless has a rather medieval core idea.)