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Vas'ka is sitting on my desk. Under the cat is the Tesco voucher for £6.50 - and behind the cat is my keyboard with numbers and letters.
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No messing about this time with fancy vouchers for fancy food in fancy restaurants. If food were football formations this would be a no nonsense 4-4-2 featuring two full backs sporting prison haircuts and a pair of centre halves the size of shire horses with keenly sharpened size fourteen boots. Behind them, a goalkeeper that bears an uncanny resemblance to a bulldozer with shovel-like hands to match. None of your tika taka interchangeable diamonds in the midfield - just a pair of ferocious terriers flying into tackles - that sort of thing. On the wings, a couple of turbo charged whippets with blinkers on and an over reliance on either the left or right peg, depending upon which side of the pitch they’re stationed. Up front, a hefty lump with a prodigious leap, several missing teeth and a forehead shaped like an industrial steam iron. Just behind him, the only one who can actually play football, a Will O’ the Wisp waif whose job it is to dance through the opposition and give the ball to the big lad.
Yes, today we weren’t going anywhere near the upmarket open wallet surgery establishments designed to empty the pockets of wandering tourists in Mousehole or elsewhere. The Morrison’s cafe in Long Rock, a mile east of Penzance awaited our pleasure with its cordon bleu fish and chips covered in a healthy splat of tartare sauce, accompanied by a pot of tea - free refills on hot drinks if you didn’t know. Who needs filet mignon covered in pomegranate seeds and a glass of the ‘72 Chablis when you can have a full size plate of proper grub that’s been prepared by the good fryers of Morrison’s kitchen? Meerkat discount, that’s twenty-five percent off by the way. Two plates of decent nosh and a bottomless pot of tea for twelve quid. Last week we could barely get one starter for twelve quid when we finally used that voucher over at Gurnard’s Head. There’s no denying the quality of the food we had, but fine dining is for people with overflowing bank accounts and cultured palates.
And do you know what? The fish fryer at our chosen establishment does a fine job. Even Ali’s eighty-seven year old mother gushes with praise about the Morrison’s cafe at Long Rock, and she’s notoriously hard to please when it comes to eating out. In those fancy places we’re always on edge, convinced we’re being frowned upon by the waiting staff and our fellow diners, even though it’s probably just our imagination. Here, if you thank the team and tell them how much you enjoyed the fish, it really does seem to make them happy. Our standard tactic, made all the easier by our frankly slovenly attitude to mornings, is to arrive after two thirty, long after the lunchtime rush has been cleared from the tables and settle in for an hour or so, enjoying the peace. This works all the better in the summer months when you’re not in an enormous hurry to get to where you’re bound for. Sunset after nine - there’s really no need to rush.
And where weren’t we rushing to this afternoon you ask? Today we were going “down west” as we call it here, to the wilds of Penwith. A mini Dartmoor-on-Sea with ponies grazing among swathes of bracken, heather and gorse. Only once before had we parked at the old Carn Galver tin mine, and I’d been planning to go back ever since. On that afternoon we traced the natural coastal fortress of Bosigran Head, before following the footpath towards Porthmeor Cove and then back again via the quiet coast road, meeting small groups of ponies as we went. What we hadn’t done that day was to head inland and up the slopes towards the rocky tors of Carn Galver itself. From here, across a field of purple heather that glowed in soft summer sunlight, a series of headlands that ended with Pendeen Lighthouse disappeared into a dreamy blown out haze. And from that moment the deal was done. I’d come here to photograph Bosigran Head at sunset, but instead I’d be yomping up here again later with the camera bag. Ali declared she’d done enough yomping today and would watch the sunset from the van, so I returned alone. I had the place completely to myself. Well, apart from the steady chomping and the occasional whinny from our equine friends as they stomped about the bracken enjoying their own version of fine dining.
After all was done, another gastronomic delight awaited me in the van. Eggy bread and a can of Brewdog Session IPA from the fridge. A very happy ending to this series of tales on the subject of dining out. It doesn’t get more comforting than eggy bread dipped in the contents of a sachet of brown sauce - which was liberated from Morrison’s at lunchtime of course. A fine way to end a day of food and cultural enrichment at the edge of the world in West Cornwall.
Ali was starting to feel the pressure. As far as she knew, the voucher code only had seven days left before it would expire in a puff of smoke, having been issued fifty-one weeks earlier. Last month’s abortive attempt to use it in Mousehole hung heavily in the air. We’d used a brief spell of drizzle as a good excuse to enjoy a far more relaxed version of lunch at the nearest Morrison’s cafe instead, before carrying on as planned, walking to Lamorna along the coast path and returning via the inland route. If you read the last story, you’ll know how that went. But now we were in a race against time. A few more days of procrastinating and the organisation would be laughing into their cash registers as another voucher expired without seeing action. We’re not into fine dining - far too fussy for us simple Redruth folk. And then there’s that twelve and a half percent “discretionary” service charge that gets automatically added to the bill. I’m sure there are kevlar skinned diners who are bold enough to demand its removal without batting an eyelid, but we really don’t like to make a scene.
But six weeks later, with just a couple of days to go until the schools broke, it was a case of now or never. This time we decided to abandon Mousehole completely and head for the sister pub that sits along the narrow meandering road between St Ives and St Just. It's wild, rugged, horrible to drive, and would be undoubtedly even more testing in a few days from now once the schools were out and the annual invasion snowballed into saturation mode, polyester Manchester United shirts, tattoos, orange bottle tans and all. And that’s just the Camborne lot. After a period of squeezing past oncoming cars and sitting patiently behind cyclists while our stomachs began to rumble, we saw the unmistakable mustard coloured building standing alone at the roadside in the landscape before us. Just a few more minutes. Although Ali insisted we needed to check the voucher code was still valid before our lunchtime order was placed. Any funny business and we’d be doubling back to St Ives for a sandwich, with the towering bonus of fish and chips at Becks in Carbis Bay much later.
The voucher was still valid. Lunch would be here in the big yellow shack at Gurnard Manning’s Head after all. It would be an expensive one, but we’d only be paying half the bill, thanks to last year’s birthday present from Ali’s niece and that long string of alphanumeric text that had to be typed into the till for validation. For the record, the food was as good as the eye watering prices suggested it might be, although portion sizes tended towards the nouvelle cuisine end of the scale. We really should have ordered a side of chips. Ali breathed a sigh of relief. That voucher had been hanging over her like the Sword of Damocles for almost a year. When we win the lottery we might go again, but until then we’ll stick with Morrison’s cafe thank you. We know where we are with them.
And now lunch was over, we headed down to the headland that the pub takes its name from. Just a few windswept hikers here on this peaceful Thursday afternoon. A few miles to the east St Ives was no doubt chock-a-block with sightseers, few of whom would ever venture in this direction. No amusement arcades or ice cream parlours here you know. No pasty vendors and no boat trips to Godrevy or the mysterious “Seal Island” either. Just the coast path, some noisy squeezebox choughs and a lot of bracken along these cliffs above a crystal blue sea. Down on the lonely beach at Treen Cove we could see a couple of people heading into the water for a swim. An angler perched on the far edge of the rocks, competing for the spoils of the sea with a small trawler that puttered idly between two sets of marker buoys. And apart from us and the odd passing walker, nobody else was here at all. In the middle of July. You can still find solitude here in high summer if you know where to look.
It’s not the sort of beach you’re going to bring the kids and your Great Auntie Nellie to. A steep path down through the bracken to the top of the rocks, from where you clamber even lower to the edge of a field of slippery green boulders. Pick the wrong time and you’ll be waiting for the tide to ebb before you can leave. But slowly we made our way down onto the soft white sands. I’d love to tell you that the sea was cool and refreshing, but that would be a lie. Ali lasted five minutes, while I managed about ninety seconds before announcing I was getting out. Enough to get “the tingle” that my cold water loving children are both forever harping on about.
And then back up the rocks, to a grassy flat area in front of an abandoned stone ruin where I finally found the separation I needed for this shot to have a chance of working. Higher up and the big lump at the back sat uncomfortably close to the horizon. Further down and the two groups merged into confusion. To our left a woman sat alone with a pad of paper and watercolours, painting Gurnard’s Head, lost in her art. A vision of serenity, we left her alone as I pointed my camera in the opposite direction. Not for the first time this summer it was a brand new composition that I’d never even seen before, hidden in plain sight on the tourist trail just a few miles from St Ives. Without that voucher we probably wouldn’t have come here at all. Although we’d need to stop at Marks and Spencer to trawl the reductions section for supper later. Nouvelle cuisine isn’t really designed for people with rustic appetites, you see.
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Christmas shopping with vouchers - bargain! Enjoy.
The Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) ♂ male, one more bird photo before I mix it up again and throw in a Landscape or two! ;)
A well photographed branch in the southwest, 5 points and an expired voucher for a chocolate T Pot to anyone who can identify it? ;)
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BORDEAUX STUDIOS GIFT VOUCHERS are NOW AVAILABLE! Due to my price list expanding and experiencing price change after the New Year these will only be sold through the end of the current month December. More details on marketplace description! Enjoy ♥
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The Asylum Gacha
The Asylum built in 1863 which stayed open upto the late 1960s has a long history,
Throughout its past many tragedies occurred and could possibly explain the hauntings here
From the painful screams of the mentally insane to the cries of sufforing, every room inside the building is said to be haunted..
The Asylum gacha consists of 49 Items to collect , In total OVER 150 seperate decorative items!
The ads can't really do them justice please concider visiting the DEMO here
It is devided into 2 seperate gachas with one focusing more on the medical interior and the other on the office interior
Available at Epiphany
IMPORTANT! the Asylum RARE is a voucher for exchange it is too risky to drop a no copy building of the magnitude into a gacha.
We have it double packed for safty so you will always have the original box with scripts inside your box even for resale.
The Asylum itself :
Height 44
width 58
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2140 Li with shadow hallways
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We are still in Huesca (Spain), but this time we move to Ordesa-Monte Perdido National Park to follow the route to Cola de Caballo waterfall. Here you can see Arazas river almost at the end of the route.
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Seguimos en Huesca (España), pero esta vez nos movemos hasta el Parque Nacional de Ordesa-Monte Perdido para hacer la ruta que nos lleva hasta la cascada Cola de Caballo. Aquí podéis ver el río Arazas casi al final de la ruta.
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My Friend Sarah & My two Auntie’s, went for afternoon tea in a hotel in Emsworth. We had vouchers buy one get one free, so was a bargain and most delicious too.
Firstly, we think each and every entrant was wonderful and wish you all could win. But these folks went the extra mile to be extra creative, make exceptional pictures, and/or tell a story that touched our hearts! See below for samples of their work. We will send the Linden prize right away and prize vouchers within a few days.
With the holiday season right around the corner we'd love to remind you about our personalised gift voucher service - which has replaced our standard gift cards.
If you want to gift your loved ones FOXCITY store credit, as well as send them a special message card in-world, this is for you!
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(Ambystoma tigrinum). East Texas.
Consult most published range maps for A. tigrinum and you will be convinced that they occur throughout eastern Texas. In truth, it is probably one of our rarest terrestrial salamanders. Determining the true range of this species in the Southeast is a bit tricky, as the popularity of the larvae for fishing bait has led to their release in areas where they previously would not have occurred.
There are, however, several records that I believe are of true, native populations. These primarily occur in a band of sandhills and savannahs at the confluence of the Pineywoods and Post Oak Savannah toward the western edge of what is traditionally considered as East Texas.
A couple of years ago some friends discovered this population in a series of fishless upland ponds in a sandy post oak savannah. I believe this to be a true native population, as it is located in extremely high quality habitat in a remote area that is isolated from any suitable fishing grounds. The habitat is similar to other areas where the species has been vouchered and determined by very knowledgeable herpetologists to be native.
If tiger salamander populations were really spread across large portions of Texas as fishing bait, I would suspect that a large portion of the animals in East Texas would be Ambystoma mavortium, as this species is very common in the central and western portions of the state, and I believe they would be easier to obtain and transport to this area than A. tigrinum. A. mavortium also displays a high degree of neoteny, and aquatic individuals would be easier to obtain than the larvae of A. tigrinum which are not neotenic in Texas or surrounding states. The animals from this population and other populations in this region of East Texas are clearly A. tigrinum.
In East Texas A. tigrinum are late fall and early winter breeders. This individual was found in a breeding pond following a significant rain event.
G-LAUD Loch Lomond Seaplanes Cessna 208 at Loch Lomond - Scotland on the 15th of December 2017 with Captain West heading into the snowy mountains
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Had a lovely day out in Northamptonshire yesterday visiting Canons Ashby House then used a Christmas gift voucher given by our son to enjoy an afternoon tea at nearby Fawsley House Hotel.
This is the cat who presides over the Stables Tearoom at Canons Ashby
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Asparagus officinalis (Asparagus)
Voucher 130618 01 fruit at N Kihei Rd Kealia Pond, Maui, Hawaii.
December 08, 2013
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Also placed in Liliaceae.
December 24th, 2012
The cool evening breeze blew gently down the now quiet high street. The people of Denver were finishing up their late-minute Christmas shopping, rushing to get the best deals and cheapest gift vouchers for their supposed loved ones.
In all the madness, one man walked calmly through the crowds of people.
This man was Dr. Saul Erdel, a brilliant scientist who worked in a private laboratory just outside of the city.
As he wandered aimlessly down the street, he thought to himself what exactly he was going to do this Christmas.
As he thought to himself, he came up to a quiet clothes shop front and gazed into the window.
The fancy suits positioned in the ever so slightly grimy window caught his eye first. Saul walked up to the window and sighed.
He wished he could afford something decent to wear. Unfortunately, his career choice did not make him enough money to spend on luxuries, in fact, it barley gave him enough to afford the basic essentials. That also meant no fancy bird for tomorrow's Christmas meal.
Even the promised festive discount in the window was not lenient enough for him to afford something nice to wear.
He let out a sigh, and continued to make his way down the street towards the local grocery store.
When he arrived at the store, the smell of the freshly cleaned floor hit him first.
He made his way down the narrow aisles and gathered the supplies he needed. Now fully stocked up, he wandered over to the checkout and picked up a newspaper.
"Will that be all, sir?"
He looked up at the man behind the counter and smiled.
"Yes, thank you."
The cashier scanned everything through, and placed it in a weak plastic bag.
"That'll be five twenty-five, please."
Saul sighed and looked up.
"Oh, damn. Could you make it four? I'm a little short on cash at the moment?"
The cashier frowned and shook his head.
"No, I'm sorry my friend. No can do."
Saul sighed and nodded.
"Okay. I guess I'll leave the tins."
The cashier re-scanned the items, now without the tins of boring, conventional rubbish of beans and sweet corn, and Saul paid the correct price.
When he arrived home, he stood outside the front of his apartment door and searched his pockets for his keys.
After a few seconds of flustered searching, he found his keys, opened the door and dropped his shopping bag in his small kitchenette.
He made himself a cold chicken sandwich and crashed on the small armchair in front of the TV.
He looked over his shoulder at the time.
Nine thirty.
He grabbed the remote off one of the chair's arms and flicked through the various festive shows and movies. After a few minutes of searching for something decent to watch, he felt his eyes getting heavier, and eventually, he fell into a deep sleep.
After about an hour, Saul awoke. He turned the TV off, and wandered over to a beaten-up chest of drawers.
He picked up a dusty picture frame and used his sleeve to wipe the murky glass.
The picture was of his wife, Tracy. It was taken on their wedding day, roughly thirty years ago.
She had died a few years back, after a hard battle with cancer.
He'd loved her very much, and wished he could spend just one more Christmas with her again.
Sighing, he realised how lonely he was.
He had no friends, his parents had both passed away years ago and he had no family living nearby.
Unable to sleep, he grabbed his coat and headed downstairs to his car.
The dark night sky welcomed him outside, partly lit with the orange glow from the centre of the city.
He climbed into his car, turned the key and headed out of the car park and off to his lab.
He used to be an astrophysicist back in his day, but now he privately worked on various different experiments, each one as big a failure as the last.
He hadn't told anyone (not that there was anyone to tell) about his latest project. He knew that if it did become something that resembled a success, the government would come knocking.
He parked up outside, and hurried into the lab.
Turning the bright, blinking lights on, he made his way into one of the main rooms and put his grimy white lab coat on.
He pulled up a tatty blue chair and sat at his desk, computer monitors blinking on front of him.
He had constructed a large, glass cylinder with fancy looking machinery around it. Thick electrical wires hung around the room, gently buzzing with energy. He picked up a Dictaphone, and started to speak into it.
"This is Doctor Saul Erdel, commencing experiment number one hundred and nine to find extra-terrestrial life."
He put the Dictaphone down, plugged some numbers into the computer monitor, and activated the machine.
A loud buzzing filled the air, followed by a loud puff of displaced air. A cloud of mist filled the glass cylinder, and after a few moments had passed, Saul deactivated the machine and picked up the Dictaphone.
"Attempt number one hundred and nine has shown no results."
He continued to turn on the machine for another few hours, with disappointing results.
He scribbled every unsuccessful test down on a piece of paper, until the floor at his feet was covered with scraps of badly torn paper covered in scruffy handwriting.
After running out of notes to record his useless experiments down on, he sighed heavily and banged his head against the desk.
"Merry Christmas, Saul."
He kept his head on the table, and eventually fell into a deep sleep.
One day he'd find something, he thought to himself. And maybe, just maybe, that day his loneliness would end.
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Well, here's my Christmas MM issue. Granted, it's not completely Christmassy, but I wanted to focus a bit on Saul's background.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it, and be sure to comment if you favourite.
Merry Christmas!
Also, fun fact: The lighting used in the second panel was actually the video below on my phone :P
Ficus macrophylla (Moreton Bay fig)
Voucher 080608 09 at West Beach Sand Island, Midway Atoll, Hawaii.
June 14, 2008
Hemigraphis reptans (Red flame)
Voucher 090702 01 at Chings Pond Hana Hwy, Maui, Hawaii.
July 06, 2009
Schefflera actinophylla (Octopus tree, umbrella plant)
Voucher 080601 14 at 4211 Commodore Ave Sand Island, Midway Atoll, Hawaii.
June 14, 2008
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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.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
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
surrealistic hues,
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
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
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.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
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We have selected pictures on our website, but can always add more depending on the requests we do get and the current trend in the world of luxury fine art:
We do once in a while have discounted luxury fine art, please do keep checking:
Fine Art Photography Prints & Luxury Wall Art:
We do come up with merchandises over the years, but at the moment we have sold out and will bring them back depending on the demands of our past customers and those we do take on daily across the globe.
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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.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
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
surrealistic hues,
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
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
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.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
The voucher card for the Limited Edition Aurora 17'' Doll. I got it when I purchased the pre-order for the doll in my local Disney Store on Monday July 27, 2014. It has changed design from a folding card with a pocket for the paper voucher, to a stiff card to which the voucher was to be stapled. There is still a full color photo of the doll on the front of the card. The store couldn't print out the paper voucher, so stapled the receipt instead. The voucher card and receipt are to be brought back to the same store on or after Oct 7, to get the doll herself. Hopefully they will let me keep the voucher card, but we will see.
Lactuca sativa (Lettuce, prickly lettuce)
Voucher 060405 05 at Molokini, Maui, Hawaii.
April 05, 2006
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Includes Lactuca serriola.
Here are photos I took of the promo placard and display dolls at my local Disney Store today. They were only supposed to display the Cinderella doll (which is actually the second doll to be released). But the manager brought out the Snow White, Jasmine and Ariel dolls from the back so I can see them and take photos. They have not yet received the last two dolls to be released, Tiana and Belle. The placard lists the release dates and photos of the dolls, along with their edition sizes. They will be released one per week on Saturday, starting on October 6, rather than the usual Tuesday. They will start to hand out vouchers starting an hour before store opening and lasting about 30 minutes. They will then announce the winners of the raffle about 20 minutes before store opening, who may then purchase the doll being released that day. The online release will take place at 12:01 AM (Pacific time) on the morning of that same day. Each doll will cost $109.95.
The schedule of releases (for the US and Canada):
Snow White, 10/6/2018, LE 4100
Cinderella, 10/13/2018, LE 4400
Jasmine, 10/20/2018, LE 4000
Ariel, 10/27/2018, LE 4500
Tiana, 11/3/2018, LE 4000
Belle, 11/10/2018, LE 4500
The official announcement was made by the ShopDisney Facebook page this morning with a video of the dolls:
Disney Designer Collection: The Premiere Series
ShopDisney announcement
2018-09-10 9:32 am
Introducing, Disney Designer Collection: The Premiere Series. Inspired by the runways and red carpets during each beloved Disney heroine's theatrical debut, each doll's iconic fashion and accessories are carefully designed to capture a moment in fashion history.
Each doll releases every Saturday from October 6 to November 10 online at 12AM PT and through in-store lottery.
More photos and information at the ShopDisney website:
Disney Designer Collection: The Premiere Series
The UK Shop Disney Facebook page also announced the series this morning, with different release dates and procedures than the US/Canada stores.
Disney Designer Collection is proud to introduce The Premiere Series
The Disney Designer Collection is proud to introduce The Premiere Series, inspired by the runways and red carpets during each theatrical debut. Disney Designer Collection - Premiere Series – Snow White will be the first doll to be released from the series on 9th October and will be £95. There will be a global edition size of 4100, with 929 available to Europe. These will be available in selected stores* and online from 8am. Limited to 1 per Guest per household.
Release dates as follows:
Cinderella – 16/10
Ariel – 30/10
Belle – 13/11
Jasmine – 27/11
Tiana – 11/12
*Champs Elysees Paris, Lakeside West Thurrock, Oxford Street London, St Enoch Glasgow, Metro Centre Tyne & Wear, Bullring Birmingham, Grand Arcade Cardiff, Manchester Arndale, Westfield White City, Liverpool, Bluewater, Grafton Street Dublin, Puerta Del Angel Barcelona, La Vaguada Madrid, Juan De Austria, Parque Sur, Milan, Rome, Florence, Naples, Colombo, Munich, Stockholm.
For more info: Disney Designer Collection
Check it out on black.
Having posted a vert shot of this place the other day, I had a search for one of the landscape versions of this place too. I found this one which I shot using a polariser and 3 stop ND grad plus a 0.6 soft grad. That was enough to hold back the exposure and give a dreamy and slightly timeless feel to this awesome place. The last light on those teethy mountains really was something to behold.
I still have loads of shots to share from this location and many more from the trip. Thanks for looking.
P.s. I am currently selling an 11 ink HP Designjet Z3200 ps Large Format printer. (up to 8m long prints at 44" width!) It is virtually new and unused. It is not actually mine unfortunately :( Please mail me for more info.
If you would like further information about the 1 to 1, and small group workshops I run in Cornwall, then please contact me through my website. Links to which are on my profile page. www.flickr.com/people/24562498@N03/
With the Easter break fast approaching, it would be a perfect time to book! I am making 1 year workshop vouchers available too so you can choose the right time.
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure 33
Aperture f/16.0
Focal Length 24 mm
ISO Speed 100
Lavatera maritima (Tree mallow)
Voucher at Enchanting Floral Gardens of Kula, Maui, Hawaii.
April 27, 2012
The Luxury of being yourself
We have selected pictures on our website, but can always add more depending on the requests we do get and the current trend in the world of luxury fine art:
We do wedding photography and videography:
We do once in a while have discounted luxury fine art, please do keep checking:
Fine Art Photography Prints & Luxury Wall Art:
We do come up with merchandises over the years, but at the moment we have sold out and will bring them back depending on the demands of our past customers and those we do take on daily across the globe.
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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.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
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
surrealistic hues,
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
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
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.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
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Erect-spreading shrub to 45 cm high x ca 75 cm wide.
Photos: Jean
Flowers May, August - December depending upon rain.
August 2019: This plant was shifted from the Leucopogon genus to Styphelia. Old name Leucopogon aff. glaucifolius
In partnership with the World Food Programme, the UK invests significant funding to support innovative and cost effective mechanisms to provide food and other essential assistance to displaced families in Darfur.
Traders are provided with a point of sale (POS) machine to enable beneficiaries to purchase commodities at their stores. The e-vouchers can be used like debit cards and the trader reconciles payments received on the POS machine with WFP, and WFP then transfer to the traders bank account the value of items sold using the vouchers.
The UK is the single biggest donor to the WFP voucher programme, providing over £15 million over the course of 2015/2016 to enable access to food directly from local traders for thousands of vulnerable households in Darfur, and we are currently exploring the possibility of moving from the provision of vouchers to the transfer of cash directly to targeted households to increase the level of choice and flexibility.
Whilst the value of the vouchers remain relatively small they provide an essential contribution to the households ability to meet their food needs, but also provide greater choice and a more cost effective mechanism to provide food assistance in a complex context.
Picture: WFP Sudan
Donated by David Jonathan Ross for the benefit auction / holiday party to raise money for the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.
More info on this print is available on DJR’s page for Manicotti.
Some ephemera from Chevron's relatively short time as a retail brand in the UK—never more than a few hundred petrol stations, most of them inherited from Regent in 1967 and most then being passed on to Texaco in 1983-4, at which point there were 216 Chevron sites in the UK, almost all owned by the company itself with just 30 or so dealer sites.
The most interesting thing here perhaps is the rarely-seen logo on the earliest (undated) receipt, the original one used on the UK launch of the Chevron brand in 1967-8. This logo only lasted a short time in the UK before being replaced by the more familiar 1969 logo seen on the other receipts, and was a version of the 1950s-60s Standard Oil of California logo as seen in some of the older images here. In the US, SoCal / Chevron had a complicated branding strategy between dealer sites and company-owned sites (as explained in Tim Russell's excellent book Fill 'er Up) until the standardisation (ha!) that came with the new 1969 logo. Chevron Oil (UK) initially retained the name of Regent's 'Supreme' petrol grade but by 1970 was using their own US-style terminology including the 'Formula F-310' additive. (EDIT: Although I see that Chevron also used the Supreme name in the US, so maybe Regent's use of it in the UK was actually adopting an American name, via Caltex)
The earliest receipt here has columns for £ s d, but has been made out in decimal currency, so was actually issued in 1971 or later, probably from a garage using up old stock. The fact that it is labelled Chevron Willenhall, as well as "Forrester, Webb & Forrester, March End Service Station, Wednesfield" suggests perhaps that the receipt pads were being re-used from a different site nearby (Wednesfield and Willenhall are nearby, but it seems unlikely that a garage in Wednesfield would have been renamed with Willenhall in the name, along with changing its phone number). The name "Chevron Willenhall" also suggests a company-owned site.
The other two receipts, from 1975, are easier—Woodlands Service Station, 356 Wake Green Road Moseley was still in business until at least the 1990s (there is a newspaper report of a theft in 1992). Now replaced by Brandon Court goo.gl/maps/cAtuSq4ZMp7DiTWP8
Midlothian Garage (Yorks.) were a well-known car dealer in the Holmfirth area, presumably with a number of sites and forecourts (the voucher / coupon here has drawings of a Renault 16 and a VW Beetle). According to Streetview there are currently two Texaco sites on Huddersfield Road Honley, one of them a Co-op (a former Somerfield goo.gl/maps/peU31rdam8Rc1Uag6 — and before that, Margram as I photographed in 1993) so I am guessing that the other Texaco, Alpine Service Station goo.gl/maps/gVjXN5ZzV63hs6t48 might be what was once a Midlothian Garage Chevron site. But I don't know.
(EDIT: Looking again at the Midlothian voucher, I see that the Chevron logo is not quite right — the font is different to the official logo, and the chevrons are wider and further apart. Still, not a bad effort!)
Behind the Disney Store registers, after I bought my Jasmine doll and Aladdin tsum tsums. Unused LE Jasmine voucher cards and line cards. Store lighting.
I got to a local mall about 7:40 am, and went to the Disney Store to wait for it to open at 10 am. They had the display Jasmine doll and a promo placard on a shelf behind the counter, and bins full of Aladdin tsums on the floor behind the counter. There was already a man and his young daughter in line ahead of me. They were waiting for the Aladdin tsum tsums, and didn't know about the Jasmine doll. The next person in line was with a friend, and worked at Disneyland. He was also there for the tsums, and didn't know anything about the doll. But he was curious, and after talking to him about the LE doll line, he decided to get one for a "friend." LOL. Later a fellow collector that I knew joined the line, and we chatted for awhile. Then a regular at the LE doll releases and his family came and we also chatted. He was very surprised by how many people were there, but was relieved when he found out that almost all of them were for the tsum tsums. The line was getting very long. Security came around 9:30 and told us to stand up.
At about 9:45 a CM came out and told us the ground rules for the release. Then she gave out line cards for Jasmine. They had 20 dolls, and she gave out 16 cards to those waiting. Naturally, I was #1. Right after the opening ceremony, we formed two lines. One was strictly for tsum tsums (which was where the original line was at). The other, much shorter line was for the Jasmine dolls, and we could also order Aladdin tsum tsums at the same time. I got my doll, and the CM never asked me for the line card. This the first line card I've been allowed to keep. Afterwards I was allowed to take photos of the doll. But it was very cramped behind the registers, and I didn't want to get in the way, so I only took a couple of photos.
I then went to another local Disney Store, and was lucky enough to get another Jasmine, for a fellow collector. They had 16 dolls, and sold 8 of them before I got there. I also took some photos of the doll, using flash this time, as there were annoying shadows across Jasmine's face.
My pre-order voucher and voucher holder for the Limited Edition 17'' Ariel doll. Between October 1 and December 31, 2013 I am to go back to the same Disney Store and present the voucher and proof of identity in order to get my doll.
My haul of new The Little Mermaid merchandise by the Disney Store, on July 29, 2013. Includes the pre-order of the Limited Edition 17'' Ariel doll and Diamond Edition TLM, lithograph set, plush dolls, and jewelry. More detailed shots coming soon.
Corchorus olitorius (Saluyot, bai po)
Voucher at Kohala, Hawaii, Hawaii.
June 21, 2014
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Also placed in Tiliaceae. Leaves used in Asian cuisine.
Metrosideros polymorpha (Ohia, lehua, ohia lehua)
Voucher at Kulamanu Kula, Maui, Hawaii.
August 17, 2011