In life, pain is inevitable, the suffering is optional - updates being added..., originally uploaded by tapperboy.
awesome capture!
Showing posts with label beautiful. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beautiful. Show all posts
04 February 2009
Flower: In life, pain is inevitable, the suffering is optional -updates being added...
In life, pain is inevitable, the suffering is optional - updates being added..., originally uploaded by tapperboy.
26 January 2009
Sky: Finished work
hello vincent van gogh!
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The Pannonian Plain is a large plain in Central Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system.
The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half.
The plain is divided among Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.
Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields of rich loamy loess soil could feed the whole of Europe. For its early settlers, the plain offered few sources of metals or stone. Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade.
The precursor to the present plain was a shallow sea that reached its greatest extent during the Pliocene, when three to four kilometres of sediments were deposited.
The plain was named after the Pannonians, a northern Illyrian tribe. Various different peoples inhabited the plain during its history. In the first century BC, the eastern parts of the plain belonged to the Dacian state, and in the first century AD its western parts were subsumed into the Roman Empire. The Roman province named Pannonia was established in the area, and the city of Sirmium, today Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, became one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panonian_plain
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21 January 2009
19 January 2009
Sky: Foster City Double Rainbow
a double rainbow, now how rare is that or what!? stitched from 4 frames.
Water: Moon Rainbow
I'm a real sucker for waterfalls so expect to see quite a few on this photo blog! :) You can almost hear the waves crashing...
17 January 2009
Water: Cape Cod Winter
Snow in the row boat - now that's a frigid ride out onto the waves! beautiful!
16 January 2009
People: Awesome Shirley
Photo by Denny Lyon
Shirley and her awesome self! What positive attitude AND beauty!
People: Shirley portrait closeup
Photo by Denny Lyon
My friend Shirley who worked at one of GM's first African-American dealerships (Atlanta, Georgia). She was full of life and the camera could barely keep up with her.
She heard I was taking portraits and the minute I came in to visit with the office staff she decided to pose. Her laughter was contagious. She jumped up onto a stack of office supplies and started posing wildly. Of course, she was photogenic.
I didn't have a flash and the lighting was terrible, that florescent garbage lighting typical in old offices. But Shirley's bright spirit shone through it all where I still acquired a great portrait.
People: Robin's portrait in the trees
Photo by Denny Lyon
My friend Robin was just 19 years old here. Her favorite hobby was the Renaissance Festival and created her own costumes. She was six feet tall and yet didn't feel pretty.
So, since I was in my portrait and art phase I convinced her I could show her just how pretty she really was. We spent one fall afternoon at Stone Mountain, Georgia state park and the rest is history. She looked lovely and her confidence grew. That was in the mid-80's.
At this time I never used a flash for portraits whether they were indoors or outdoors. I just worked with the natural lighting no matter what the conditions. People are more relaxed to model for portraits too if you aren't sticking bright lights in their faces making them uncomfortable and artificial. This autumn light under the canopy of trees that early afternoon was soft and wonderful!
15 January 2009
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