Royalty
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Tee design for Filthy Panda Design Team. Medium: Illustrator CS2. Filthy Panda is Burnsy, Willo, + Billmund Please love us. <3>
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Princess Bat by Lyuda. / www.lavrentyeva.com
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Shirt Version! “Bow Children! Your Queen is Born.”
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Miss Rodeo Okotoks, Aaron Courchesne, at the High River Senior Pro Rodeo April/08. SC and PS work. NOVEMBER 2008 UPDATE Courtesy Okotoks Western Wheel! / Miss Rodeo Okotoks captures Canadian crown in Edmonton / She’s living her dream. / For Aaron Courchesne, Miss Rodeo Okotoks 2008, her dream was realized on Nov. 4 when she was crowned Miss Rodeo Canada 2009. / “I’ve been striving for this for about seven years, when I entered my first rodeo queen pageant,” she said. “Even if I wasn’t going to be queen I knew I was going to rodeo. I knew that it was something that is never going to change about me.” / Courchesne, 24, loves rodeo. She loves the spirit and camaraderie of the sport. / “It’s the only sport where, if your horse is hurt, you can jump on your competitor’s horse — they help each other so much.” / Her goal this year, as Miss Rodeo Canada, is to inspire young people. / “I want all kids to know that even if rodeo isn’t their passion, to find their passion and run with it. Never let anyone tell you to quit. If you want to do it, just go for it.” / As an ambassador for rodeo, and for Canada, Courchesne will put in her fair share of appearances across the country, in the United States and overseas. / She’ll attend more than 300 events over the year. / She’ll be educating the public, inspiring young minds and signing autographs, trying to motivate rodeoers and ensure the tradition of rodeo stays strong. / “You are judged on your speaking abilities, your horsemanship, their appearance and you take a written exam on rodeo knowledge.” / Courchesne had some help from her favorite equine. / “Everyone from Okotoks will remember my Palamino mare, Hope,” she said. “(Hope) was one of my queen horses, and I gave riding lessons on her and I barrel raced on her. She’s definitely one of my best horses.” / ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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“Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.” ~John Muir:
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Digital manipulation of two stories (the text)... King and Queen stand waiting, passing Judgment / Aloof and estranged from the people they rule / No matter, no worries, no respite…
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Re-posted dut to previous incorrect description, St. John’s Chapel, or the Chapel of St. John the Evangelist, dating from 1080, is the oldest church in London. A beautiful Romanesque chapel, situated in the White Tower, Tower of London, it was constructed from stone imported from France, and has a tunnel-vaulted nave with an east apse and groin-vaulted aisles, and the gallery above curves around the apse. Thick, round piers support unmoulded arches, notable for their simplicity. The Chapel was routinely used to store state documents, though by tradition it was the scene of some of the great events in British royal history. In 1503 the body of Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII, lay in state in the Chapel after her death in the Tower during childbirth. It was also here that Henry VIII’s eldest daughter, Mary was betrothed to Philip of Spain by proxy in 1554.
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Natural black and white. All work ©Lisa Gelazin– All Rights Reserved / No image may be reproduced, copied, transmitted or distributed by any means without prior written consent. All violations will be pursued with legal action
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This is a restored and digitally transformed image of an original vintage photograph, which was taken before the first world war. It is a beautiful piece, which can make a wonderful addition to any collection. The photograph is also available in its original form and can be ordered as a: print: / 4X6 inch print / 4X6 inch postcard / 5X7 inch postcard / 5X7 inch print / 8X10 inch
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The second artwork in my new ICON series. The royal panther is resplendent in purple against a golden background. The original artwork measures 11×15” and is rendered with oil pastels, woodless colored pencils, art pens, metallic paint pens, and embellished with colored foil. I used a heavy textured Strathmore Artist paper (dark purple). The colors on this artwork scan are not quite true to life, unfortunately, but this is the closest I was able to tweak it.
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Lady Diana as she then was, days before her wedding in 1981.
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New additions to The Hidden Land Collection; best viewed larger but take a step or two back from the computer as I intended these for larger print applications :) 5 cm high Amethyst crystal; back & front lighting to create the front & interior of the “cave” /
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New additions to The Hidden Land Collection; best viewed larger but take a step or two back from the computer as I intended these for larger print applications :) The last of the series for the moment; until I build up my shots again :) This is Cinnabar. The crystals are translucent with adamantine lustre and recognizable by its bright scarlet coloration. It was used as the mineral pigment vermilion and is considered a rare mineral. As for the title, or the lack thereof, it’s not a case of running out of ideas, but finding the right one out of many. I’ll update when I’ve decided. If anybody has an idea, feel free to trow it my way. As with the entire collection, the only manipulations I used is a tweaking of tone curve, a bit in saturation and a bit in contrast to make the details more appreciable.
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South-arabian Yemeni bronze statue, about 2500 years old. This lifesize statue, first robbed from an unexcavated site in the desert of Yemen, finally ended in the store room of the National Museum in Sanaa, after years of mistreatment where it lost its hands and feet. A cooperation agreement with the Louvre Museum allowed its coming to Paris for restoration and study, before being sent back to its motherland Yemen for exhibition. The inscription engraved on the stomach in sabean language (a south-arabian pre-arabic culture associated with the still fabulous Queen of Sheba), names Hawtar‘athat, son of Radaw’îl, a member of the elite families of the old city of Naqshum, one of the small kingdoms sharing the power over the land of Yemen in the 1rst mill BC.
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This is a fossilised fern specimen, my last shot of fossils from the Australian Museum, Sydney (for now). I did a bit of post processing with this one as the original lighting isn’t much for photography. So had to adjust the Tone Curve, Saturation and Gamma to add some drama and interest to the shot; what I saw in my mind as I was photographing it. / Best viewd larger…really Ferns / Ferns first appear in the fossil record in the early-Carboniferous period. By the Triassic, the first evidence of ferns related to several modern families appeared. The “great fern radiation” occurred in the late-Cretaceous, when many modern families of ferns first appeared. / One problem with fern classification is the problem of cryptic species. Cryptic species are those which are morphologically similar to another species, but which differ genetically in ways that prevent fertile interbreeding. A good example of this can be seen in the currently-designated species Asplenium trichomanes, the maidenhair spleenwort. This is actually a species complex which includes distinct diploid and tetraploid races. There are minor but unclear morphological differences between the two groups, which prefer distinctly differing habitats. In many cases such as this, the species complexes have been separated into separate species, thus raising the number of overall fern species. Possibly many more cryptic species are yet to be discovered and designated. / Ferns have traditionally been grouped in the Class Filices, but modern classifications assign them their own division in the plant kingdom, called Pteridophyta. from: Wikipedia
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I’m back to uploading more of my The Hidden Land collection. / These were also taken from the Australian Museum’s collection of rocks and minerals; the handicaps and limitations of the shots are the same – behind glass cases and limited lighting. As before, this collection features rocks and minerals highlighting their unique properties and formations. I always try to take as macro a shot as I can without loosing too much information about my subjects. Some post work was needed to bring out the textures and balance the lighting – Tone Curve, Saturation and Gamma. Best viewed larger…really Celestite / Celestine or celestite(SrSO4) is a mineral consisting of strontium sulfate. The mineral is named for its occasional delicate blue color. / Celestine occurs as crystals, and also in compact massive and fibrous forms. It is mostly found in sedimentary rocks, often associated with the minerals gypsum, anhydrite, and halite. / The mineral is found worldwide, usually in small quantities. Pale blue crystal specimens are found in Madagascar. / The bodies of Acantharea are made of celestine, unlike those of other radiolarians which are made of silica. / In carbonate marine sediments, burial dissolution is a recognised mechanism of celestine precipitation Celestine geode section. / The largest known celestine geode is located near the village of Put-in-Bay, Ohio on South Bass Island in Lake Erie. The geode is 35 feet in diameter at its widest point. It has been converted into a viewing cave, and the crystals which once composed the floor of the geode have been removed. The Crystal Cave has celestine crystals as wide as 18 inches across and weighing up to an estimated 300 lb. from: Wikipedia
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I’m back to uploading more of my The Hidden Land collection. / These were also taken from the Australian Museum’s collection of rocks and minerals; the handicaps and limitations of the shots are the same – behind glass cases and limited lighting. As before, this collection features rocks and minerals highlighting their unique properties and formations. I always try to take as macro a shot as I can without loosing too much information about my subjects. Some post work was needed to bring out the textures and balance the lighting – Tone Curve, Saturation and Gamma. Best viewed larger…really This image has Azurite (blue) and Malachite (green), two of my most favourite minerals. The variations in specimens has a wide range, from clear crystalline to fine-feathery structures to suede-like, but all having their characteristic colours. Azurite / Azurite is a soft, deep blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits. It is also known as Chessylite after the Chessy-les-Minesnear Lyon, France, where striking specimens have been found. The mineral has been known since ancient times, and was mentioned in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History under the Greek name kuanos (“deep blue,” root of English cyan) and the Latin name caeruleumThe blue of azurite is exceptionally deep and clear, and for that reason the mineral has tended to be associated since antiquity with the deep blue color of low-humidity desert and winter skies. The modern English name of the mineral reflects this association, since both azurite and azure are derived via Arabic from the Persian lazhward, an area known for its deposits of another deep blue stone, lapis lazuli (“stone of azure”).Azuritcrystals are monoclinic, and when large enough to be seen they appear as dark blue prismatic crystals. Azurite specimens are typically massive to nodular, and are often stalactitic in form. Specimens tend to lighten in color over time due to weathering of the specimen surface into malachite. Azurite is soft, with a Mohs hardness of only 3.5 to 4. The specific gravity of azurite is 3.77 to 3.89. Azurite is destroyed by heat, losing carbon dioxide and water to form black, powdery copper(II) oxide. Characteristic of a carbonate, specimens effervesce upon treatment with hydrochloric acid.Azurite was used as a blue pigment for centuries. Depending on the degree of fineness to which it was ground, and its basic content of copper carbonate, it gave a wide range of blues. It has been known as mountain blue or Armenian stone, in addition it was formerly known as Azurro Della Magna (from Italian). When mixed with oil it turns slightly green. When mixed with egg yolk it turns green-grey. It is also known by the names Blue Bice and Blue Verditer. Older examples of azurite pigment may show a more greenish tint due to weathering into malachite. Much azurite was mislabeled lapis lazuli, a term applied to many blue pigments. As chemical analysis of paintings from the Middle Ages improves, azurite is being recognized as a major source of the blues used by medieval painters. True lapis lazuli was chiefly supplied from Afghanistan during the Middle Ages while azurite was a common mineral in Europe at the time. Sizable deposits were found near Lyons, France. It was mined since the 12th century in Saxony, in the silver mines located there.Azurite was distinguished from (the much more expensive) purified natural ultramarine blue by heating (as described by Cennino D’Andrea Cennini). Ultramarine withstands heat, whereas azurite turns black (copper oxide). Gentle heating of azurite produces a deep blue pigment used in Japanese painting techniques.Azurite is used occasionally as beads and as jewelry, and also as an ornamental stone. However, its softness and tendency to lose its deep blue color as it weathers limit such uses. Heating destroys azurite easily, so all mounting of azurite specimens must be done at room temperature. Malachite reference is in The Hidden Land – Forest Canopy from: Wikipedia
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...Frech for To be Alive. / A different angle and stage of development of the Waratah flower. / I used tha same post processing adjustment for this image. / The info below is the same as the first on this series. Waratah / Telopea speciosissima, commonly known as the New South Wales Waratah or simply Waratah, is a large shrub in the Proteaceae family. It is endemic to New South Wales in Australia and is the floral emblem of that state. It is renowned for its striking large crimson inflorescences (flowerheads) in spring, each made up of hundreds of individual flowers.The New South Wales Waratah is a large erect shrub up to 3 or 4 metres (10-13 ft) in height with one or more stems. It has dark-green leaves which are alternate, usually coarsely-toothed and range from 13 to 25 cm (5-10 in) in length. The inflorescences, which appear in spring, are large and crimson coloured. They consist of a 7-10 cm (3-4 in) diameter domed flowerhead ringed by bracts which are 5 to 7 cm (2-3 in) long. These are followed by large seed pods which eventually turn brown and split open revealing winged seeds inside. / The species is found on the Central Coast, South Coast and nearby ranges in New South Wales. It usually occurs as an understorey shrub in open forest on sandy soils in areas with moderately high rainfall. / The New South Wales Waratah was first described by botanist James Edward Smith in his 1793 A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland, from “very fine dried specimens sent by Mr. White”. He gave the species its original binomial name of Embothrium speciosissimum. It was given its current name of Telopea speciosissima by botanist Robert Brown in 1810. / The specific epithet is derived from the Latin word speciosus meaning ‘beautiful’ or ‘handsome’. The common name of waratah was first applied to this species before being generalised to other members of the genus Telopea and, to a lesser extent, Alloxylon. It is derived from the Eora Aboriginal people, the original inhabitants of the Sydney area. / Although they grow naturally on deep sandy soils, the species has proved adaptable to other deep, well-drained soils, especially where natural slopes assist drainage. Despite their natural occurrence in woodland, waratahs flower best in full sun. / They are a popular cut flower and are grown commercially in Australia north of Sydney and in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne. They are also grown commercially in New Zealand, Hawaii and Israel. from: Wikipedia
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This is the last batch of my The Hidden Land collection from the Australian Museum. As before, the handicaps and limitations of the shots are the same – behind glass cases and limited lighting. This collection features rocks and minerals highlighting their unique properties and formations. I always try to take as macro a shot as I can without loosing too much information about my subjects. Some post work was needed to bring out the textures and balance the lighting – Tone Curve, Saturation and Gamma. Best viewed larger…really Jaspilite; Banded Iron Formation / Banded iron formations (also known as banded ironstone formations or BIFs) are a distinctive type of rock often found in primordial (Precambrian) sedimentary rocks. The structures consist of repeated thin layers of iron oxides, either magnetite (Fe3O4) or hematite (Fe2O3), alternating with bands of iron-poor shale and chert. Some of the oldest known rock formations, formed over 3,700 million years ago, include banded iron layers,and the banded layers are a common feature in sediments for much of the Earth’s early history. The formations are abundant around the time of the Great oxygenation event,and become less common after 1.8 Ga.The reappearance of BIF conditions at 1,900 million years ago,and in association with Snowball Earth 750 million years ago, is problematic to explain. / The total amount of oxygen locked up in the banded iron beds is estimated to be perhaps twenty times the volume of oxygen present in the modern atmosphere. Banded iron beds are an important commercial source of iron ore, such as the Pilbara region of Western Australia and the Mesabi Range in Minnesota. / The conventional concept is that the banded iron layers were formed in sea water as the result of oxygen released by photosynthetic cyanobacteria (bluegreen algae), combining with dissolved iron in Earth’s oceans to form insoluble iron oxides, which precipitated out, forming a thin layer on the substrate, which may have been anoxic mud (forming shale and chert). Each band is similar to a varve, to the extent that the banding is assumed to result from cyclic variations in available oxygen. It is unclear whether these banded ironstone formations were seasonal, followed some feedback oscillation in the ocean’s complex system or followed some other cycle.It is assumed that initially the Earth started out with vast amounts of iron dissolved in the world’s acidic seas. Eventually, as photosynthetic organisms generated oxygen, the available iron in the Earth’s oceans was precipitated out as iron oxides.At the tipping point where the oceans became permanently oxygenated, small variations in oxygen production produced pulses of free oxygen in the surface waters, alternating with pulses of iron oxide deposition.Until 1992, / it was assumed that the rare, later (younger) banded iron deposits represent unusual conditions where oxygen was depleted locally and iron-rich waters could form then come into contact with oxygenated water. An alternate explanation of these later deposits is undergoing much discussion as part of the Snowball Earth hypothesis. This hypothesis states that an early equatorial supercontinent (Rodinia) was totally covered in an ice age (implying the whole planet was frozen at the surface to a depth of several kilometers). In this case the Earth’s free oxygen may have been nearly or totally depleted during a severe ice age circa 750 to 580 million years ago (mya). Dissolved iron then accumulated in the oxygen-poor oceans (from seafloor hydrothermal vents, say). Following the thawing of the Earth, the seas became oxygenated once more causing the precipitation of the iron. / Another mechanism for BIF-formatíon, also proposed in the context of the Snowball Earth discussion, is by deposition from metal-rich brines in the vicinity of hydrothermally active rift zones. / Alternatively, some geochemists suggest that BIFs could form by direct oxidation of iron by (non-photosynthetic) autotrophic microbes. from: Wikipedia
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