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I have been experimenting with self portraits
This is a double exposure shot using a print screen
An abstract playing with the idea that when one
person or situation leaves us feeling bruised we
need to remind ourselves of all the people that love us
A little while ago I was invited to help photograph a Cerebral Palsy fund raising gala. At the event there was this very lively auctioneer. No, lively doesn't cover it - he could pass for the love child of Richard Simons and Jerry Lewis. Anyway he was running around, telling jokes and convincing people to raise their bids like he was on speed. I watched this poor signer trying to keep up. Didn't know whether to laugh or feel sorry for him, but he sure worked up a sweat trying to keep up with the auctioneer.
Raphael "Raffi" Mikelstein as Christopher Robin from "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"
Costume is designed by moi.
Props by moi
Behind the scene photography by Jillian Direktor (Seen in her album)
Raffi looks extremely younger than his actual age in the photograph, (and if you know him, he already looks younger than his age). That's just my opinion.
The line "When you never forget." is inspired by the conversation between Christopher Robin and Pooh Bear.
"Promise you'll never forget me."
"Oh I won't Christopher Robin. I promise."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir4Zm5KVe7Q&feature=related
I included all of the classic characters:
Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Owl and Gopher (who's not in the book, so in the movie he repeatedly says "I'm not in the book!")
...i was born and bled for you to hold...
lyrics from Ben Harper 'please bleed'..
Explored #188
Don't worry i'm fine! i'm actually really happy :) no real tears i promise x
Its my day 100 (woo! triple figures) and last night we played dress up for halloween at work on the bar... i showed you my outfit yesterday but the fake blood tears got added last minute when i got to work and so i stole the fake blood to bring it home for todays shot :)
Only 265 days left to go.. *sigh* :)
I have been living in London area for two years now and the only one thing I hate and really dislike is the rain. I know I know everyone gonna keep telling me e7md rbk eno fee rain o e7na fe al7ar BUT over here when it rain everything fade and It get too depressing. You know what they say, never trust England weather ;)
P.S ele byz3jni 3ala al3amod ele fe alno9 baksr ra9ah okay :@ it was raining couldn't get a perfect shot (A)
Today is my 12th Trannyversary… the day when I celebrate the anniversary of the first time I ever fully dressed up in 2011 and became Penny.
The pic on the right is from 10 years ago, and was when I finally found the look I wanted for myself after dressing up for a couple of years. I kept pretty much the same look until two years ago when I had a revamp and went blonde, changed my eye makeup, and did my lips differently.
Living in the sunshine for three and a half years has made me way more tanned now… I didn’t realize how pasty white I used to be!
Unley. Mornington Mansion.
In 1861 Luther Scammell senior, a doctor and practising chemist, formed a business partnership with Francis Faulding. When Francis Faulding died in 1868 the company was taken over by Luther Scammell senior. The company continued to grow and prosper and by the 1890s it had branches in NSW, Western Australia, London, South Africa and India. The company continued to expand in the 20th century and it was only taken over by another company in 2001 but some products still bear the name of Fauldings. Their signature commercial products were perfumes and talcum powders, Solyptol soap and disinfectant, Epsom salts and Saline, eucalyptus oil, extract of malt, baking powder, Camphor Ice, tooth paste, Senna powder etc. Their most famous product Solyptol was a contraction of “soluble eucalyptus oil”. Luther Scammell junior and his brother William took over the Faulding chemical business from their father in 1888 and expanded it considerably.
Luther Scammel senior and members of his family was buried in Mitcham Anglican cemetery as the worshipped at nearby St Michael’s Anglican Church Mitcham. Despite the German sounding name Scammell was born of English parents in 1826. He migrated to South Australia arriving at Port Adelaide in 1849. In 1856 he married Lavinia Bean at Trinity Church North Terrace and their son Luther Scammell junior (who is often confused with his father Luther Scammell senior) was born at Port Adelaide in 1858. For most of their married life Luther and Lavinia lived at Mornington House Unley but they began their married life at Port Adelaide and then moved to Hackney in 1860. By 1863 they were domiciled at Unley. They leased Mornington House as a large nine roomed Georgian house in 1863. Presumably Jacob Pitman built the house around 1857 to 1860 by its appearance. Pitman was a brother to Isaac Pitman who developed shorthand in England and Jacob worked as a builder and architect in Adelaide and NSW. In the 1850s he had contracts for bridges and works for the Port Adelaide and Gawler railways. He left Adelaide to live in Melbourne in 1870 but moved back to SA in 1874. In 1874 Jacob Pitman entered a government competition for architectural plans for the Institute and Museum on North Terrace. Pitman won second prize in the competition but his designs were not the ones built of course.
Some time after Lavinia and Luther Scammell had purchased the property they started to add and enlarge it. They were certainly living in Unley from 1868 onwards and by then probably owners of Mornington. Luther Scammel was a wealthy man when he leased Mornington House just two years after he had formed a business partnership with Francis Faulding and five years before he took over the Faulding Company as sole owner. (Francis Faulding died in 1868 and Luther Scammell senior then took over Fauldings.) Lavinia died there at Mornington in 1904. When leased in 1863 Mornington House was a fashionable mansion with Georgian and classical lines, blind windows, etc. It was undoubtedly designed by the architect owner Jacob Pitman. Pitman who was also the first Swedenborg( New Church) minister in South Australia built his residence at Unley but went through bankruptcy proceedings in 1858 and the house was put up for sale in 1859 so it was presumably built around 1857. It was made of Glen Osmond stone but did not sell and was subsequently leased to Luther Scammell by the mortgagees. Mornington finally sold at auction on 18th December 1863 for £625 presumably to Luther Scammell senior as the obituary for Lavinia Scammell said she was resident of Unley for 42 years - ie from 1862. It was a symmetrical two storey block building with two blind and one glass windows on the Thomas Street façade and two glass and one blind windows on the Unley Road façade. These features of the house can be seen in the photographs. Its original frontage was to Thomas Street Unley with extensive gardens. The bay window by the front entrance was added some time after the original construction when bay windows were all the rage around 1880. At that time the whole large western wing of the house was added. The crow’s nest cast iron walkway on the roof would also have been added at that time. Luther Scammell senior was elected as Mayor of Unley in 1873 and served several terms. After Luther Scammell died in 1910 Mornington remained in the family as the home of Miss Lavinia Scammell until she died in 1915. Possibly some of their gardens became the Unley War Memorial gardens. Today Mornington is owned by SA Housing as emergency housing for the disadvantaged.
This is what happens when a photo goes completely wrong but strangely has worked out like a line drawing showing the characters rather better than my carefully taken shot.
So what happened was i was taking a perfectly straight shot, no fancy flash or any other effects and along came Jones with a flash and stood right next to me i.e. in my pocket! and fired off his flash at the exact split second i took mine.
Since this graff piece seemed more to do with proper graffiti i think it deserves a bit more respect than its getting.....know your history maybe?
Anyway i'm showing it like this because i like his work and i like this and i kind of like this accidental line effect and its clarity. Even though what ever realism i was aiming for went clean out of the window.
RIP, remembering for Wantz and Ozone
These may seem a little odd, but yesterday morning turned out to be very, very interesting for me.
I was just working on my comic at my computer, hearing the local bus (#80) that runs past the front door of my house coming up the hill, when all of a sudden there was the most outrageous bang followed by the bus stuttering for power, it then limped to a halt outside my front drive in a fog of acrid black smoke, whereupon the driver immediately opened the engine bay door and started dousing the street with sand from what had apparently been a fuel leak.
Passengers were unloaded, and Country Bus sent up another two buses to cover. Eventually their engineers arrived in their company coloured LDV Convoy, as did a local hero of the roads, the Count of Heathfield, a gigantic tow truck used to rescue HGV's and Coaches.
The bus is a 2004 Dennis Dart SLF with SC Coachbuilders body, and is a regular on this route. I overhead one of the engineers mentioning something to do with the 'Big End', which is part of the Connecting Rod, and connects to the bearing journal on the crank throw.
Seasonal change in magical colors.
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When's it gonna stop being so dang hot, Momma, cause I wanna be outside, sniffling the flowers and chewing the grass and Willow's legs and barking at all the neighbors and just hanging out!! This is from the archives but it seemed to fit what is happening weather wise. Only very short bursts of play time outside...His ears have gotten so much better with the new medicine for his allergies! Yippppeee!! I am keeping my fingers crossed that we can go down on dosage or to every other day soon. He still has to have his allergy shots, but, I'm hoping those will be spread out more and more too! Have a wonderful evening. I'm going to go eat and enjoy my furkids and furgrandkids :)
When out walking Charlie, m'small brown chum, always looks out for benches, logs and tree stumps for me to rest upon. He is such a considerate, thoughtful caring little chap racing on ahead, hunting for just the right spot for me to retire, checking the base first himself and on approval, shows me the seating arrangements for the day with a smile and bark. Today he picked a Willow stump by a lovely rhyne at Skylark meadow.
Well thank you kindly young man, tiz a fine view from here to be sure and a great spot to sit and stare. The swallows flying overhead, a tractor bringing in the hay way off in the distance, a speckled wood butterfly and common darter perched on the brambles, a feint whiff of autumn in the air and the rustle of the plastic bag filled with treats being gently tugged out of my coat pocket ..."Oy..you little blighter..no wonder you're so close to the ground..stop thief!"
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"when the last teardrop falls" by blaque
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Diptych #10: When the last teardrop falls
Diptych collaboration with Zmedia.
Top pic: mine
Bottom pic: Zmedia
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It's getting hard to wake up these days. It's getting colder. This week, the alarm of my cellphone was not able to wake me up on time. It did alarm though ...
So today i went to search for a good alarm clock. It took me an hour to do that, shucks such a waste of time. Anyway, i'm happy with the clock. I hope it wakes me up on time tomorrow!
HGGT!
I had noted that this location was going to be filled with Spring colour so took the first opportunity to be in place when the weather permitted.
When the sun goes down,
The sun is jealous of the moon
When the sun goes down
The sun will have his revenge soon
When the sun goes down
The sun puts in plan in hand
When the sun goes down
It rises up again .!
This elderly gentleman came dressed in period clothing to watch a vintage football game at Douglas Park in Rock Island, IL today. This field was the site of the first NFL game in 1920.
When I was at the top of the Bank which is in sight of the road below I got my first ever horn beep. What a buzz that was. he he he.
When the plant life is dormant, that's when the glowing ones come out. --Secret botanist proverb. -- /eyeroll
~'Paradise' Coldplay.
this is part of a three day series. last night two nights ago i watched the sky for an hour and a half, waiting for the sunset, and when it finally happened i grabbed my camera, a globe, and my sister Hannah and we ran down to a field with a view until we were breathless. we managed to catch it at it's best. out of all the photos i took, three turned out good, i'll be uploading them in the next two days, the last one tomorrow so keep checking.
i loved these when i took them, now i can't seem to appreciate the colour. i just want to turn them black & white. sorry.
∞
this morning i received a flickrmail which made me cry whilst getting ready. if you've been reading my descriptions, you might know how i'm feeling right now. someone lovely sent me a message which cheered up my day so so much.
until...
i had photography today and i processed the film i used over the summer. it had photos for my 100 STRANGERS on. photos for my GCSE PHOTOGRAPHY EXAM PROJECT. a project that has to be over by december. it had 18 of the 25 photos i have taken so far on it, and they went. all of them. processed wrong, and that's it.
i nearly broke down in tears in the darkroom. it was worse once one of the art teachers, who is my form teacher, asked and i explained and she started hugging me. worse that my friends were in the darkroom when i pulled the film out of the spiral and saw it was blank. worse that everyone knows i learnt the SPANISH, thanks to a helpful spanish flickrfriend, to 10 of those people in mallorca and got photos of them.
i wont point fingers.
but im just so upset:(
Me: In three days.
Duna: Do I have to wait for so long?
Me: I'm afraid you have to.
Duna is really excited as some of her cousins are coming home on Sunday. She is quite impatient indeed.
--ooOOoo--
Duna: ¿cuando será domingo?
Yo: En tres días
Duna: ¿tengo que esperar tanto?
Yo: Me temo que si
Duna está realmente nerviosa porque algunas de sus primitas vendrán a casa este domingo. En realidad, está impaciente
Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
From 10 to 17 September 2011, Voronezh celebrated its 425th anniversary. The anniversary of the city was given the status of a federal scale celebration that helped attract large investments from the federal and regional budgets for development.
On December 17, 2012, Voronezh became the fifteenth city in Russia with a population of over one million people.
Today Voronezh is the economic, industrial, cultural, and scientific center of the Central Black Earth Region. As part of the annual tradition in the Russian city of Voronezh, every winter the main city square is thematically drawn around a classic literature. In 2020, the city was decorated using the motifs from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. In the year of 2021, the architects drew inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen as well as the animation classic The Snow Queen from the Soviet Union. The fairy tale replica city will feature the houses of Kai and Gerda, the palace of the snow queen, an ice rink, and illumination.
when she dances
earth and sky
bend with her
fire leaps
like hands
telling stories
river moves
in calligraphic
graces
mist shrouds
mountain shoulder
hidden
Drawing from both his tenure at a Catholic School and his youth as a Lower East side Punk rocker, John John Jesse presents his newest opus, ‘American Dreamer,’ opening April 16 at Opera Gallery in NYC. Each piece presents a voyeuristic peek into the retooled recollections of the artist; created on wooden panels with a interesting and incredibly executed mix of mediums, including spray paint, gouache and graphite, the latter of which creates a luminescence that contradicts the self-destructive natures of the apathetic heroines. This rebellious turmoil is framed within the surreal metamorphosis of youth, as many of the elongated figures appear on the tenuous cusp on adulthood, a time when the synthesis of sexuality and experimentation fevers.
hifructose.com/2011/04/14/john-john-jesses-american-dreamer/
“When you try your best but you don't succeed, when you get what you want but not what you need.
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep, Stuck in reverse…”
Song of the Day:
By: Coldplay
Theme: Guitar Tuesday
Year Ten Of My 365 Project
When I first saw these young people, dressed in their eye catching performing dress fashion,I could not help but think of Cyndi Lauper's song from the 80's "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" this energetic dance group certainly depicted that mood.
Mamiya 645 lens Secor C f/1.9 at f/1.9 on Fuji X.
No edits.
Used 2 adapters: KIPON Mamiya 645 to Nikon mounted on the K&F Fuji X to Nikon G, mounted on camera.
Post mill (Dutch: Wipmolen - German: Kokerwindmuehle) De Blokker at the Blokweer Polder at Kinderdijk-Elshout, Zuid-Holland (South Holland), Netherlands
Some background information:
The windmills at Kinderdijk are a group of altogether 19 windmills in the Alblasserwaard polder, in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. Almost all mills are part of the village of Kinderdijk in the municipality of Molenwaard, but one mill, De Blokker, is part of the municipality of Alblasserdam. Mostly built in 1738 and 1740, to keep water out of the polder, it is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands and one of the best-known Dutch tourist sites. The mills are listed as national monuments and the entire area is a protected village view since 1993. The mills have also been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
The post mill De Blokker on my picture is the 19th mill in the ensemble. It was already built in 1521. De Blokker burned down a few times, for the last time in 1997, but in 2001 it was completely restored. Today De Blokker is one of the windmills at Kinderdijk, which is still operational.
Kinderdijk lies in the Alblasserwaard, at the confluence of the Lek and Noord rivers. In the 13th century problems with water became more and more apparent in Alblasserwaard. Large canals called "weteringen" were dug to get rid of the excess water in the polders. However, the drained soil started setting, while the level of the river rose due to the river's sand deposits.
After a few centuries, an additional way to keep the polders dry was required. It was decided to build a series of windmills, with a limited capacity to bridge water level differences, but just able to pump water into a reservoir at an intermediate level between the soil in the polder and the river. The reservoir could be pumped out into the river by other windmills whenever the river level was low enough. The river level has both seasonal and tidal variations. Although some of the windmills are still used, the main water works are provided by two diesel pumping stations near one of the entrances of the windmills site.
No longer being of use for bridging water level differences, some of the windmills were converted into private residences. Their owners keep them in good repair, gird them with beautiful, well-groomed gardens and therefore make them a lovely sight.
Kinderdijk is a village in the Netherlands, belonging to the municipality of Molenwaard, about 15 km (9 miles) east of Rotterdam. The name Kinderdijk is Dutch for "children dike" and derives from a folktale which is said to have been occurred during the Second Saint Elizabeth Flood of 1421.
In the course of this flood, the farming region Grote Hollandse Waard flooded, but the Alblasserwaard polder stayed unflooded. It is said that when the terrible storm had subsided, someone went on to the dike between these two areas, to see what could be saved. In the distance, he saw a wooden cradle floating on the waters. As it came nearer, some movement was detected. A cat was seen in the cradle trying to keep it in balance by jumping back and forth so that no water could get into it. As the cradle eventually came close enough to the dike for a bystander to pick it up, he saw that a baby was quietly sleeping inside it, nice and dry. The cat had kept the cradle balanced and afloat. By the way, this folktale and legend has been published as "The Cat and the Cradle" in English.