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when I was admiring and photographing this cactus in someone's front yard, the homeowner came out and we started to talk. She was a lovely older woman with a fabulous head of silver hair done up in an elaborate chignon. Her charming accent was Dutch, she told me she had been born in Holland. Her garden was immaculate, filled with cacti and succulents and Canna lilies in full boom. There was also a glass walled patio attached to the back of her home and it was filled with even more Cacti varieties. And it was all so pristine, no fallen plant debris of any kind, I was gobsmacked, so much so that I took zero photos while I was given the tour, but I haven't forgotten it.
seen two years ago in Beach Grove BC
because you've growled all day long :-)
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malus, flowering crabapple, 'Hopa', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham north carolina,
One thing that has always puzzled me about visiting some of my contacts' streams... is when they write in the description of their photos... "Listening to: Errol Garner's Concert by the Sea" (or some other favourite musician and compilation)? I always wonder whether they mean that they were listening to this music while they were taking the photograph... or while they were processing it (or neither)?
That always gets me thinking whether the type of music that is played while viewing a photograph has any influence over the viewer's perception of the image as art? Can a photograph be more beautiful while I'm listening to a particular song? Should I be listening to the music album as suggested by my contacts while viewing their photo... or can I play one of my own favourite tunes instead?
What song would you think would be most suitable for this image? Something slow and mellow or something upbeat or groovy? I'm not too sure what I'd choose... I didn't listen to anything while shooting or processing this... but I do quite like to listen to Errol Garner's Concert by the Sea. :)
Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm at 14mm, aperture of f11, with a 1/160 second exposure.
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"When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true."
At the Magic Kingdom they have a fireworks show every night called "Wishes"-- it is amazing, strangely very moving, and a pleasure to photograph. More from my recent visit to the Happiest Place on Earth here.
When looking at the activity on this sunflower, all I could think of was a clock & the bees are the numbers;):). I love all the interesting insects attracted to a sunflower:). VIEW ON BLACK if you have the time:):)....
When I grow up.......
Created for Ruby’s Treasure Challenge 52
Girl with thanks to Rubyblossom
Created for Faestock Challenge 109
The Rainbow Works June 2015 Texture Challenge
Textures by Elné
Horse - arabian horse stock by-hotnstock-deviantArt
Performer by faestock- red dancer 2 and dancer 16
When I dropped the Bread and Butter work off at the blasters and painters I noticed this, I made this some 10+ years ago but never got a picture, apparently it will be all gilded!
When I brought home this very girly, very Laura Ashley, very non macho bed spread which I might add is named Josephine Duck Egg, The Canadian make a rather crude comment about me removing his "manlihood". Although of course, he did not use the word manlihood. AHERM.
I think its fabulous!
When I visit my brother in Cornwall I always look forward to seeing wildlife that I don't see at home. So, on my latest visit early June I excitedly when looking but , alas, I didn't see anything new but I'm still most pleased with this photo of a Speckled Wood all the same!
Have a fab weekend dudes and dudettes!
The good old Arc de Triomphe - what an impressive construction! So massive, old, everybody loves it - when I grow up ill be the same :)
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Alberta, the farthest place I have travelled away from home, is still a largely wild and untapped province with exquisite landscape. Images from Fort McMurray have revived both fond memories of my trip in this part of the world in 2013 and saddened me with the anguish of the people there. Trusting that the worst is behind them now.
When your on the road without access to a PC or the ability to upload a DSLR image, you begin to appreciate the merits of built in wireless capability. In the mean time, an iPhone image will have to do. This was taken with the Dramatic B&W app.
You should've seen by the look in my eyes
That there was something missing
You should've known by the tone of my voice
But you didn't listen
You play dead, but you never bled
When I said that I love you
I meant that I loved you forever
And I'm going to keep on loving you
Because it's the only thing I want to do
I don't want to sleep
I just want to keep on loving you
Before starting their snow busting journey south to Eagle Bridge the Batten Kill Railroad Alco duo had to spot up some loads at the Cargill plant and cleat the mainline. The SNE RS32 runs remarkably clean but still will give a bit of that signature Alco smoke when throttling up. But you have to be ready and quick with your camera to capture it!
This was my first time getting to shoot the privately owned Southern New England Railroad unit working here since the day earlier in the year when I was lucky to shoot her arrival to the Batten Kill dead in tow. SNEX 5012 is ex Atlantic & Danville Alco RS36 (blt. 12/59) and is coupled up with Batten Kill's own G&J 4116 an RS3 (blt. 9/52) built 1952 for the D&H that has spent all of her life on the rails for which she was built.
Salem, New York
Saturday December 19, 2020
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change
ourselves.
Viktor Frankl
when I was a kid I loved to help my mother hang our laundry on the clothesline that was strung from our porch to a pole in the back of the yard. I still have a thing for clothespins and love it when I run across the occasional clothesline in some stranger's backyard with their unmentionables flapping in the breeze :)
The Southernmost Tip of Africa Prayer Centre was never open when I was in the area, so I never worked out exactly who ran it or what it was all about. It is in the little town of L'Agulhas about 1½ km/1 mile from the southernmost point. I photographed it mainly for its thatched roof.
When the purple sandpipers weren't playing ball by sitting on rocks completely inaccessbile to anyone without a boat there was quite a large flock of turnstones to keep me entertained :)
Have a great weekend my friends!!! Will go out tonight to watch Karate Kid, I'll check your stream once I get back.
Thanks for your visit, comments, and faves!
This is my LC Verse Carnage, I decided to keep the torso and legs for him because I thought it suited him more than anything I tried out. I gave him a more "Superior Carnage" look to his head and tentacles rather than the simple venom looking one. I also changed his name to something I found kind of interesting. The people who created Carnage were apparently going to call him "Ravage" but decided to change it to "Carnage". I thought this suited him quiet well however so decided to go with it.
Tell me what y'all think! My version of his backstory is below!
LC Verse Spider-Man
Ravage - Cletus Kasady
- Normon Osborn realised after the "betrayal" of Parasite (Agent Venom) he needed a more savage version of the creature. One who doesn't have a cool head to gather his thoughts, because that's what caused him to lose Parasite to join Spider-Man when he was convinced by the hero to be good. So Norman used his OSCORP facilities to genetically alter Banshee (Scream) so she produced 1 offspring through Asexual reproduction. He then realised that the symbiotes mimicked their hosts personalities so he decided to select a crazed individual and who better than a psychopath?
- Cletus Kasady was approached by OSCORP and was fused with the symbiote, immediately it took on the savage personality and radiated with rage. He called himself Ravage and now follows Norman Osborns orders to kill Spider-Man.
I promised myself that I would restrain from posting images that were...sub par. Unfortunately, that would severely limit the amount of shots that I could post! I wanted to throw up (no pun intended) a few more 'autumn-ish' type images. This one in particular made me laugh when I came across it because of my EX-photographic assistant's partial profile that was caught in the lower left side of the frame. That was the LAST day that he was allowed to come with me...well...at least for a while anyway. He still hasn't redeemed himself from the days' behavior "issues". :-)
This structure (complete with musical pigs) is currently a "Red Hot and Blue" BBQ Restaurant in Annopolis, MD.
Texture by Skeletalmess: www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/sets/
Created for the NVP Building Photo Challenge.
Springbok bracing themselves against wind and rain, Kij Kij, Lower Nossob, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa
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