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  • So you want to -- get better images of the Moon

    Stargazer95050
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    The Moon not only is a stepping stone for humankind's exploration of the universe. The Moon also is a good stepping stone for your astrophotography and often the first distant target people shoot.

  • So you want to -- get a better shot of the Sun

    Stargazer95050
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    NASA's images of the sun show so much more detail & texture -- and they can see those not only because they have million dollar equipment and put it into space. These details also are visible to mere mortals -- once you focus onto very narrow bands of light with appropriate filters & technique.

  • Color Palette/Crazy Quilt Journal/Bead Journal Project Challenges, December 2012

    Carol Harper
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    completed December 6, 2012

    The Color Palette Challenge threw a curve ball this month --- mono chromatic! It doesn't FIT with all the other eleven challenges and so I'm thinking I won't count it in my Quilt Journal or Bead Journal Project Challenges. Instead, I will search out fabrics and trims used in the past eleven Color Palette Challenges and make a "composite" block that does fit... Anyway, here is my monochromatic block, using the block 12 grid from the "I dropped the button box" crazy quilt on PinTangle: I… (read more)

  • Flickr refugee or not?

    PhLB - Luc Boonen
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    Recent changes in Flickr forced a lot of people to move out, in search of better virtual places to hang around. Ipernity has a look and feel, familiar with the old Flickr. I decided to give it a try. After a few months I realise you have to build a new network from scratch, it takes time and a lot of effort. Flickr, on the other hand, corrected some of their worst mistakes, one gets acquainted to the new look. At this moment I use them both. Ipernity looks cleaner, a better platf… (read more)

  • Tulips, Hills & Alternative Lenses

    Graham Hughes
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    Looking West On Kara Road

    I find myself jaded somewhat by the digital world, and at the same time caught up in the bustle that can make an analogue heart dance in the simplicity of digital light. I don't have the latest and greatest digital cam, but I do have some clean and some fungus filled old lenses from analogue times, lenses that when mounted on my old GH4, I have a small feeling of resistance and having some quirky input in the image captured. I love these old lenses. Here is a sampler.

  • Bye bye baby...

    Roberto Ballerini - traveling
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    This is what remains of my beloved EF50f1.8: and I don't know what happened to the body lens ring : I'm unable to remove the lens from the body. Incidentally it was my preferred lens and the one with whom I took this shot: "Monochrome summer 37286 little jewel" by Roberto Ballerini - traveling [?] and many more... SIGH!!!

  • Color Through the Ages - Chinese Colors

    Carol Harper
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    Qing Dynasty collar

    I was having a mental block on color choices for this one --- the examples shown in the instructions didn't resonate with me, somehow, perhaps because of all the Chinese "stuff" we accumulated in Beijing, a lot of which was on white backgrounds and even more of which was almost monochromatic But I started checking out the embroidery pieces we acquired while there and decided to use two of them as my guide for color choice. First is a Q'ing Dynasty embroidery collar for a child. It was done in… (read more)

  • Dot's new gadget

    Mickey fez
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    Dot has a new gadget to play with and as it is more technical than turning on a light I am test pilot again. This arrangement comes in handy because when they break it which they surely will I will have some idea how it works so I can fix it. The latest toy scan negatives and turns them into photos,colour and monochrome. I decided to try an old negative first. This is a very young looking Margaret in Dublin circa 1962. I think the young lady with her must be from the hotel they stayed at is ce… (read more)

  • 2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week One

    Carol Harper
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    basic block

    Over on Cross Stitch Crazy , it seems the theme for 2013 will be "reconnecting" and reconnecting with my cross stitchery is really in my goals for 2013. In addition, I want to get some finishing done, to bring down the size of that stack of stitchery which is stitched but otherwise put away... So this week, I set about tackling these and other goals! First of all, I assembled the basic block from my Crazy Quilt Journal Challenge 2013 piece. Monochromatic --- this block being all yellow wi… (read more)

  • Some January Completions - a wrap-up

    Carol Harper
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    Jewel Mitten

    First completion this month was the sock from Janet Perry's "Mittens & Mini-Socks". It's called "Jewel" and is posted here ... Second was the companion mitten for "Jewel", completed January 21, 2013: Also completed on January 21 was the January piece for Bead Journal Proejct 2013 - a beaded butterfly on snowflake fabric which I call "Snow & Ice": Completed on January 23 was the January block for the Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2013 - a monochromatic yellow piece: And… (read more)

  • 2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Four

    Carol Harper
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    January 27, 2013

    What I have to show here isn't a whole lot different from what I reported for WIPocalypse but there has been progress in two projects... The inner border of "Red Thai Mandala" is now complete and that pesky hard-to-see DMC318 blackwork is finished~ YAY And I put some buttons and beads ontp the February Crazy Quilt Journal Project block --- heart shaped ones becasue February, although not an "orange" month (let's face it, if I do yellow, orange and red monochromatic blocks this year, N… (read more)

  • 2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Nine

    Carol Harper
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    March 3, 2013

    In between an esophageal endoscopy (which pretty much wiped out Monday as a useful day - but so far as I know, this was also a positive result) and a mammogram (which really set my Wednesday off to a WONDERFUL start --- but at least it was a positive result!) which bracketed the first day of a nasty icy four day winter storm, I did manage to accomplish a little in the way of stitching. I did manage to get all the blackwork done on "Red Thai Mandala": All that is left now is a lot of l… (read more)

  • I think I'll take Tuesday off...

    Carol Harper
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    Mug Rug (front)

    Two more "small" finishes for me... My "Mug Rug" which is 9 x 12, and (GET THIS) I did some needleturn applique on the front and QUILTED IT MYSELF! WAHOO! MY FIRST EVER QUILT, even if it is only 9 x 12! LOL I even applied the binding by machine, at least partly --- but found it wouldn't work for stitch-in-the-ditch for the back side so I hand stitched that part...I can't believe this --- I will now HAVE to go to guild on Thursday, despite the pot luck part, and show this one off! Front (… (read more)

  • 2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Twenty-three

    Carol Harper
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    June 9, 2013

    I finally got in some stitching this week. My eyes sort of lose focus after a couple of hours, though and so I couldn't do long stretches of stitching. But the flashing and aching eye muscles appear to be a thing of the past (knock on wood). Besides TAST and finishing my May butterfly (have to get cracking on kitting up the June one), I put in a few stitches on the borders of "Midnight Garden": and started a piece for the fair's special category, "In the Kitchen". It's a Casey Buonaug… (read more)

  • WIPocalypse - June 23, 2013 (the Super Moon)

    Carol Harper
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    Monochromatic red - June 2013

    This month's themes were: Designer – Teresa Wentzler, Style – Summer, Colors – Black and Green ... and again, I don't have a single piece in progress that fits in with those themes. Also, I still seem to be in recovery from that eye surgery as my eyes don't seem to have any stitching stamina *and* I seem to have lost my stitching mojo as a result of the four weeks I had to lay off for recovery. Still, I did get SOME stitching in this month. Completions included: The Crazy Quilt Journal… (read more)

  • Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2013

    Carol Harper
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    Monochromatic red - July 2013

    Got the July block finished on Monday - yet another monochromatic red block!

  • October Crazy Quilt Journal Project Block

    Carol Harper
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    Monochromatic red - October 2013

    The last of the monochromatic reds: Experimented with "ribbon embroidery" although it doesn't work as well with the ribbons I had as it would have done if I had had silk ribbon but... -there is a dragonfly more(or less) "after" the one described by Let's Learn Embroidery's Twisted Ribbon Dragonfly (My grosgrain would NOT stay twisted! The ribbon that did - a sparkly dark red, would have looked fabulous BUT it wouldn't go through the fabric so I had to settle!). t doesn't stand out as mu… (read more)

  • WIPocalypse 2013 - October

    Carol Harper
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    For October 2013, the WIPocaplypse themes are: Designer – Ink Circles, Style – Autumn, and Colors – Black and Orange. I do have some Ink Circles in my to do bag --- 8 different mandalas along the same theme, with pone more to come --- an online class called "Roll Your Own". But while I've chosen my color scheme and kitted it out, I haven't started stitching yet. Autumn is my favorite season and I have stitched autumn-style things before but nothing this month (or this year, for that mat… (read more)

  • The November Crazy Quit Journal Project Block

    Carol Harper
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    Monochromatic orange - November, 2013

    The last monochromatic orange: Heavy on the buttons, low on the stitchery. Hope it fits with the others but I suppose I can always embellish it more later if it doesn't... Snowed last night. Not a lot but enough to cover the grass and cars and roof... Guess winter is well and truly here!

  • 2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Forty-Six and IHSW November 15 - 17

    Carol Harper
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    This week, I managed two more completions --- my November monochromatic orange crazy quilt block for the Crazy Quilt Journal Project and the two TAST stitches that were assigned. Otherwise, I tried calculatiing how to place the nine Roll Your Own Mandalas and think I have come up with a plan, using Iris Garden overdyed 32ct linen (even though my husband is no fan of the fabric) and the Tropical Ocean color scheme. The I forced myself to work on two neglected pieces --- the Chinese Coins quilt a… (read more)