Venezia, where I recently opened another gallery, is a very pretty sim…
… there is a wonderful combination of grand and humble architecture…
… plenty of opportunities to employ perspective in your photography…
… there are lots of colourful old buildings…
… plenty of waterways, of course…
… gently lapping against ancient blockwork…
… which can be crossed using the many little footbridges.
Flutter and I visited ‘Birdlings Flat‘, today. This is apparently based on a NZ, South Island beach, which I’m guessing is somewhere South of Christchurch…
… there’s plenty of Kiwi treats, here. Kingfishers…
… and the ubiquitous hawk on a country road fence post…
… the hills…
… the ‘Save the Eels’ sticker…
… my favourite kind of isolated beach…
… rugged sheep…
… there is much Zen-like natural simplicity, here, it’s very beautiful…
… this could be a coastal walking track, almost anywhere in NZ…
… once again, a wonderful scene sculpted with minimalist precision…
… this is a very uncluttered environment…
… there are even Pūkeko here (:
I hung some new work in my Soho gallery, today…
… this series is called ‘Strange Roads’…
… these images are darker, more surreal than the images in ‘Roads to Nowhere’…
… the images in ‘Roads to Nowhere’ are kinda benign… in these images, stuff is definitely happening.
I just hung a new exhibition in my home gallery…
… this series is called ‘Roads to Nowhere’…
… the images are dark, rich, and subtle, and reward prolonged study (:
I am almost always taking pictures. Often when I’m out exploring/shopping, I see really photogenic backdrops, and have to get pictures…
… these images are all from a few hours, this morning, when I was doing some casual exploring/shopping…
… I find a lot of cool places, this way… when I’m in a shop, and it is on a sim, I always have a look outside, to see if they have done any interesting landscaping, or if there are any other nice shops around…
… some creators have very pretty builds around their stores, making the whole scene much richer, more enjoyable than just shopping…
… I love when I get great pictures as well as new clothes!…
… there is so much to see and do in SL, so many amazing places waiting to be discovered… often, literally, just around the next corner.
In the fullest spirit of joining them if you can’t beat them, I have finally succumbed to the call of the Halloween-themed destination…
… finding, to my delight, places like Traitors Wood, with it’s wonderfully lurid colours…
… and dramatic lighting…
… which makes for plenty of interesting photographic potential…
… and just plain fun…
… ghosties and all…
… my Halloween-resistance has been laid to rest (:
Flutterbye and I visited Nimbrethil, yesterday. It is, given what time of year it is, Halloween-themed… yes, I finally gave in and joined the herd!…
… I even dressed for the occasion…
… but Nimbrethil doesn’t push the season down your throat, there is plenty of gorgeous, photogenic-to-the-max scenery to explore…
… beneath an equally gorgeous astral canopy…
… the colours and windlight here are fabulous…
… there’s a castle and a graveyard, but we preferred to roam the beautiful purple and golden woods…
… which eventually give way to this very picturesque shore…
… with it’s mysterious, veiled Isles in the purple mist…
… this is a beautiful destination, and we highly recommend a visit, especially for photographers (:
So, as I mentioned in my last post, I spent today hanging my new work…
… there are eight works, called ‘Snake Bite Series’ in my home gallery…
… this work is nothing like my previous work, and, obviously, not everyone who liked my previous work will like them, but I love them!…
… there are another eight at my Soho gallery…
… ‘Snake Bite Series II’…
… and five at my Artemis gallery…
… ‘Snake Bite Series 3’. Each series is slightly different from the previous, as I tweaked the ‘prompts’, but still very much on the same, mutant ‘Snake Bite’ theme (:
We visited ‘Four Bridges Homestead‘, yesterday…
… this sim is covered in absolutely gorgeous, autumnal forest. We kept seeing what we thought were sun dogs through the canopy, but we later realised there is an aurora effect in the sky…
… but it was the spectacular, autumn forestscape that mostly held our attention…
… there were places where the leaves were whirling around so actively that Flutter had trouble flying, and I had trouble seeing…
… but even those places were beautiful…
… in a growing swamp of Halloween destinations, this place is an oasis of photogenic magnificence…
… a balm for the soul…
… at this stage, we still hadn’t realised what the ‘sun dogs’ actually were, but we liked them, they were like rainbow bokeh…
… the richness of the autumn foliage, here, is just stunning…
… we felt we were in a Maxfield Parish painting…
… as my human is a cancer survivor, we always support the cancer-fighting causes in SL, but this is the first time I’ve actually bought a T-shirt… I wear it proudly!…
… it wasn’t till evening set in, coinciding with us reaching a high place, that we saw the full aurora (:
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