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  3. More information about "unusual superhero"

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    Strange...I could actually see me reading, or watching, that. Who's that weird looking guy with the red paint in the corner though?

     

    thats the Evil Dictator of nuclear-winter post- apocalypse Paris, Choublanque.(or is it Choublanc?).

  4. More information about "Dedication to Seraphis"

    Dedication to Seraphis

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    Wow....

     

    Where is this?

     

    This is within the Yorkshire Museum in York. One of many artefacts retrieved from the City centre.An altar panel dedicated to Serapis.The museum stands between three structures shown in this album-and is literally a stone's throw from each, Bootham Bar (gate) , the Multangular Tower and the ruined Abbey,

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    Could this be the source?

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    conchoidal fracture lines, like the "dark " heads so I vote for chert (SI O2) , I think you were right in your earlier comment.The hardness is 7 on moh's scale (not Mo's tavern),and was the "must have" base material of many hunting people's, not least because of this specific fracture tendency.

  11. More information about "small item test 2"

    small item test 2

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    I have a digital Kodak with X12 optical zoom capable of unlimited video recording. :)

    I would say the gladius needs to be moved closer and change the bed cover with something lighter.

    That's no Gladius! As an American you should get it if you look closer :D

    Also my bedspread is not a disruptive pattern camo finish :D

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    Still so much better than my attempts!

     

    Can you take a birds eye shot?

     

    I dont know-you are taking one individual item, this is a grouped test to try and get texture and true colour , at present all id say is that a mid coloured "dull" background might be the best bet. Birds eye ill attempt, the two cameras are set up very differently -the Sony is excellent for anything from a plant (the arum maculatum shot-which I really like but cant believe attracted so much attention! ) to a landscape shot.The leica lensed linux seems to be good for the detail shots ( light grasp seems to be exceptional) up to biggish "things" such as railroad locomotives.

     

    feedback please anyone browsing-just trying to establish a regime for best display of small objects :D

  15. More information about "Wormwood (2)"

    Wormwood (2)

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    :D

     

    For the poor gentleman to be the only one left, he must have had quite a bit for quite a while!

     

    His sallow complexion hints at digestive disbiosis and a melancholic temperament, his black and yellow biles are not in harmony. I advise a purge of Asafetida and bathing in magnesium salts,the leeches are not required in this instance.Sacrificing to Venus is most important otherwise dire prodigies may result.Also I suggest a journey by sea to agitate the internal organs.

  17. More information about "Wormwood (Artemisia absinthum)"

    Wormwood (Artemisia absinthum)

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    Some Thujone would be fine if you had no history of personality disorder-actually I prefer the medieval "melancholia" its actually more apt than many modern descriptions.

     

    That's kind of the chicken & egg in respects to Vincent van Gogh and his mental disorder. He loved to drink absinthe but can that be blaimed as the main cause of his dementia? I do believe he drank turpentine & ate oil paints long before he was fond of the Green Fairy...

    I once wrote a paper on Ether abuse in rural Ireland, but turps Ive never come across, I can understand it in the context of an intoxicant inhalant-however as abuse of wintergreen ( as an additive to cheap distillates with a nasty methyl alcohol content) was commonplace in certain parts of New York society in the mid 19th C I can well believe it could be misused.Tolulene poisoning would damage most organs after heavy use.

    Eating oil paints-I hope he left the Prussian Blue alone-that could have been the key to his "derangement".

  18. More information about "Wormwood (Artemisia absinthum)"

    Wormwood (Artemisia absinthum)

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    Its amazing that the losers(drugdealers) still haven't tried to make this plants abilities into an addictive street drug yet.

    Have a look at my blog entry on Wormwood ,youll see a bit more detail. Pantagathus has correctly cited that this is a "deleriant" rather than an intoxicant.

    Some Thujone would be fine if you had no history of personality disorder-actually I prefer the medieval "melancholia" its actually more apt than many modern descriptions.

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    Sorry to bother, I still think your pictures needs a little bit more vertical height.( don't mind my opinion, but I took Design class and still progressing into architecture and we done projects where we have to balance or manipulate what the eye sees, for example, by focusing on the center, you can cover up the mistakes or unwanted things on the sides.) For example, the little house on the right has a bit of its bottom left corner cut off and it seems congested since having the horizontal line cutting a little bit through that corner. I would also cut of the sides a little to focuse on the center, id that black car on the right is unnecessary and that area doesn't look too nice compared to the scenery of the left and middle. On the left, I would cut off the part where the wall of guard rail doesn't appear any more, the focus would then be the wall lining down towards the center.

    Thanks FVC this is quite a wide weld and I think I reached the limit of useful visibility with the number of frames-as far as the actual framing goes you are quite right,I dont intend to leave this in the gallery ,I still want to get this process correct so I can get good shots of the walls at York and at Vindolanda.

  20. More information about "for Lost Warrior"

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    Ok -this is about a mile and a half from the waterfall photo that Lost Warrior liked, the area is called the 'Three Peaks" though this is just a nearby hillside adjacent to a hamlet called Feizor.The County is North Yorkshire, the historical tribal Kingdom was Brigantia .This was the fracture line between Brittania Superior and Inferior due to its unruly population The geology is magnesium limestone, so making walls is realativley straightforward as rocks litter the fields, the straight lines are stone walls dividing the fields into grazing areas.

     

    I hope my next set of photos will be at Vindolanda-you will see then that Hadrian's Wall is seriously substantial in relative scale to these walls.

  22. More information about "Pertinax Aspexit!"

    Pertinax Aspexit!

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    Oh, who's that man in the mirror with the camera. :ph34r: Oh by the way, whats with the skeleton on the thing.

    Ha ha Pertinax aspexit indeed! The clock -of which this is a tiny part is in the central hall of the Museum of Scotland-it is a huge construction with twirling and dancing figures and instruments.I will see if I have a full view of it.

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