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Your talent is so amazing, @obsidian_cicatrix. I am in awe.

 

Ta! But honestly, take enough pics and mess with them enough and something half decent is bound to show itself, sooner or later.

 

Nope, not like your incredible work.

 

@obsidian_cicatrix I love that horse picture! And connemaras are famous for being amazing horses over here too. I'd love to go riding in Ireland one day, on those green pastures..

Speaking of horse pictures. I'm fairly sure we're supposed to share good pictures here, but I thought I'd share how a horse picture usually comes out... I think they know we're trying to take a picture.

Tatra, a Finnish Warmblood and a Grand Prix dressage horse.


This is Lotte, an ex race horse. She won a lot of money in her heyday, and you can feel it when you let her run even today. She was interested in everything else except looking in the camera.

 

I had a like from @minstrel and @Cave Troll so I've got show my face now XD
Here be me face: (I'm fully aware I look twelve on the both of these, but its all I can do for now)


Edit: what did I just do?

 

Ha ha...yes. Horses aren't usually very cooperative, I've got a few pics with turned heads or full-on whinney teeth. Dogs, on the other hand, are posers.

 

I was hearing either Huey Lewis or Dead or Alive in my head when I saw those pictures....

 

So about a month ago (that long ago already, damn!) I went with my bf to a macro photography workshop.

I don't actually have a macro lens for my SLR, but I thought I'd show a photo of each of the subjects we got to take photos of.


Crested Gecko


Tree Frog


Praying Mantis

These are all female subjects, and the instructor was very keen to not handle the mantis too much (they bite).

 

My poor doggy doesn't like the thunder.

 

At long last, the real minstrel in human form!

 

I thought you were younger.

 

I turn 56 at the end of this month. Good to know I post younger, at least!

 

You don't look like the type to hate southern Ca.

 

I figured it was about time I showed what kind of vermin I am since all that's been revealed was I like deep reds; mummy. I like carrots in the garden and septic Nile in the bedroom.

 

I've never understood the appeal of abstract art, so I decided to make some. Threw on some tunes, sparked up, and let spill my unconscious mind.


Bidding starts at $1,000,000.

Edit: Good god, can I make these smaller?

 

I would much rather have the first of those adorning my wall than this:



Mommy didn't want to admit that that kid was just a little slow, as they used to say, so she hung it on her fridge and invited all the neighbors over to see it. To make her feel better, one of them bought it off her for $37,000,000.

If I had $38,000,000, I'd buy yours, but I don't, so I guess I can't afford it, sorry

 

Whaaaaaaat. I was being facetious! And now I'm...some bitter mix of disappointed yet optimistic because while that sold for 38 mil, I'm just as capable of making an 8 figure painting. If I just churn out enough of it and have a gritty enough backstory, I'm sure I'll make bank.

 

Royal Poinciana Upon Terrazzo (2017)

 

Behold!! The city of Mobile!!!! My hometown!!

 

Passion fruit at the top, Caribbean avocados at the bottom, and a mamey fruit in the middle. In the summer the property is an embarrassment of riches.

 

What's a mamey fruit?

 

So, there are a few different, closely related species and there is one fruit that only superficially resembles the group in question, but is also called a mamey, depending on the country you live in. In Puerto Rico, the most common mamey fruit is large, round, (the one in the middle in the picture above) and when you open it, it looks like this:



The meat of the fruit is very similar to a peach in flavor but has a much firmer texture and bite.

 

A giant peach that doesn't run down your arm when you bite into it?? Sorcery!