Seraphim visited Dya’s Abandoned Vacation Spot, today… the place was fairly packed, snuggling couples and wandering explorers everywhere, she’s not used to those kind of numbers when she explores, she’s also not into de-rendering other avi’s, so it was a bit tricky getting good angles for good shots, but, she managed. The place has very nice, broody beach scenes…

… there’s an inland element, of bucolic lanes…

… but it was the shore scenes that Seri liked…

… a lovely feel of odd emptiness, that post-apocalyptic-event feel that SL creators do so well…

… a delightful sombreness…

… a place where all manner of strangeness could have happened/be happening…

… birds wheeling in an odd sky, the only witnesses to where all the people went.

Seraphim has found no really photo-worthy destinations to visit, recently. She’s gone to several she would not normally have visited, because they looked better than having nowhere to go, but has not found any with more than one or two decent scenes. She decided to go back to Tralala’s Diner, again, in hopes the horrific lag she has always encountered there, might have lessened…

… on arrival, she saw that there was a new landing area…

… a beautifully textured little gazebo, with a piano…

… the lag, however, was instantly so horrendous, she couldn’t even turn from one side of the room, to look at the other, without it becoming a major exercise in guessing how many times to click the arrow key, without the end result being facing where she started from… it took multiple efforts just to get out the door, having to get exactly lined up with it, then even getting out it, while it was open, before it closed in her face, due to the lag. Taking the picture she wanted was also nearly impossible, because the lag effected her camera, too… she gave up just after she actually managed to get out the door. Tralala is a beautiful place, a photographers dream, but it is also THE most laggy sim Seraphim has ever visited, which just destroys any enjoyment in visiting it, sadly.

Seraphim visited her favourite sim, again, yesterday, the Mopire City/Tokyo-WindHill City/Reiri Town sprawl. She adores this amazing build, for it’s mysterious, un-attainable far riverbank…

… for it’s industrial/wild near shore…

… with it’s rugged public space…

… for the way the wild area morphs into the commercial area…

… where there is still plenty of nature. This area morphs into the huge…

… concrete landscape of the Tokyo-WindHill City/Mopire City area, with it’s stunning detail, and, in Mopire City, huge buildingscape…

… Seraphim never tires of coming here, the place never ceases to blow her mind with it’s meticulous detail and ridiculously high standard of construction. She highly recommends you visit here… this is SL, the place might be gone, tomorrow!

 

Seraphim visited ‘Little World‘, today. Little World has several distinct areas…

… a beach area, with a horizon of glittering sky-scrapers…

… a very nice grunge/neon area…

… the avi on the bus-stop roof just stood and watched Seraphim, turning to follow her as she passed. Seri didn’t bother saying ‘hi’… sometimes, she’s just not in the mood, and, of course, the other avi never said a word…

… the neon/grunge area is very pretty. Once you traverse that, there is…

… gorgeously textured urban architecture…

… Seri has seen these buildings in other builds, but they still look beautiful, here…

… she spent a good hour, here, and took 173 photos. Little World would make a wonderful set for an urban story, even one with a scifi element, given the neon strip and the glittering cityscape on the horizon.

Today, Seraphim visited Lost Town-La Citta’ Perduta. She hasn’t been here for a long time, possibly years. When she first visited here, she saw it as the setting for the kind of trendy, dull SL ‘art’ photos she has no interest in, and does not do. Trendy SL artists have zero interest in Seraphim’s photography. Seraphim, whose human has a degree with honours in Computer Graphic Design, knows her photography is at LEAST as good as theirs, but the SL ‘artists’ convince the SL punters that theirs is the ‘real’ art. On Seraphim’s  previous visits to this place, she wrote it off as a backdrop for trendy wanker photography. It was the textures/lighting of the above image she first saw, here, so she never really looked any further…

… she totally missed all this aurora-type lighting…

… and crisp background elements…

… she has to admit, she shouldn’t have written the place off, just because she loathes what passes for ‘art’ photography in SL…

… she thinks she got some nice shots.

Today, Seraphim visited Russia…

… she found a beautiful sim straight out of her human’s dreams…

… not because the human has ever been to Russia, but because the human often dreams about these kinds of wonderful, empty, earlier-time, nostalgic streets…

… there are gorgeous perspective lines everywhere…

… wonderful old cars and communist-style architecture…

… which includes gorgeous interiors…

… there are derelict vehicular hulks everywhere…

… Seri had to climb a lot of fences to get these shots. She worried about being sprung by zealous Russian thugs… worried, not because she was scared, but because she’s over killing mortals, and dreaded having to slaughter dozens of mindless soldier puppets… just as she would in any American facility.