Sep 2, 2013 | Images, Sightseeing
I woke up today to the sound of a car alarm going off somewhere in the neighborhood. It was far enough away that we weren’t certain of the location, but close enough that it was extremely difficult to ignore. Eventually it stopped, I suspect either the owners finally came home or the battery gave out, but after listening to that for so long it seemed like a good idea to go somewhere quiet, peaceful, and free of car alarms.
I’ve been seeing Roche in various photo streams I follow, but I hadn’t managed to visit before. I thought I’d leave all of the shots totally unprocessed and uncropped, and just show the sim as I saw it when I was wandering around. (more…)
Aug 29, 2013 | Images, Sightseeing
I’m a little late to the party with this weeks blog meme, but even without a challenge I’ll always jump on the chance to share pretty shots. Strawberry Singh‘s blog challenge for this week is to share some of our favorite places in SL, so I began looking through my landmarks and thinking about the places I like to visit. This quickly turned into me being nostalgic, and a little sad when I tried to look up a landmark on the map and found that it was no longer on the grid. Like many people I was in love with all of the sims that AM Radio designed, and I’m delighted to know that The Far Away is still on the grid, I will definitely be revisiting it.
Here are the instructions if you’d like to join in:
Meme Instructions: Share 1 to 5 of your favorite places on the grid. I feel like exploring and discovering new places. Share places you think everyone should visit and also tell us why they are your favorites. Don’t forget to leave a link to your post in the comments (on the original post here)!
I was tempted to dig into my old images and find some of my favorites, but instead (with one exception) I thought I’d take a fresh look at some of the places I’ve always enjoyed I typically edit pics because I like to play with color or add filters, but I left all of these untouched except for cropping (again, with one exception) just to see how things would turn out using only windlight settings. These are in no particular order.
Calas Galadhon
Of course everyone knows about these sims, but I have to mention them anyway. I love all of Calas Galadhon. I love to wander around, and look for interesting camera angles, and just sit sometimes and imagine that I’m really in this lovely setting. This pic was in Dimril Dale, and I think (it’s a couple years old so I’m not totally sure) that I used the viewer depth of field and the only extra processing was the vignetting (and probably cropping.) This is one of my favorite images out of the SL pics I’ve taken over the years. I am really looking forward to seeing the sims open back up in September, this is one of the places that the hub and I have had a lot of fun exploring.
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Aug 12, 2013 | Chatter, Images, Monday Memes
This week the Strawberry Singh blog meme for Monday is short and easy, it’s about our inventory. I always think mine is out of control, but I have a feeling it’s really not too bad. I recently went through and deleted all of the aging demos I’d been holding on to forever, which dropped it down by a couple thousand items. I think that was safe, pretty sure at this point I’m not going to go back through demo hair from 2008 and dash off to see if it’s still available for sale… (more…)
Aug 7, 2013 | Chatter, Images, Monday Memes
Weekly meme time has come again and this week Strawberry Singh is curious about our opinions on astrology. While I’m not very knowledgeable about any zodiac symbolism beyond my own sign I do enjoy reading about it and I can never resist the blog memes. I did look around a bit to see if I could find something astrology related in my inventory for pics, but I don’t have anything at all, so I just thought I’d lay under the stars and look for signs. 🙂 (more…)
Aug 5, 2013 | Chatter, Images
Joining the gazillion other items I wish I had in my real life inventory: the Little Haven camper from What Next that I found at the Home Show last month. We’ve always wanted a tiny little camper to take out on the weekends, and this is so darn cute. It would be perfect parked in our RL driveway. (more…)
Jul 30, 2013 | Images, Monday Memes
What time is it? Monday meme time! Well, okay, technically it’s Tuesday by now, but you know what I mean! It’s time for Strawberry Singh’s Monday Meme. 🙂 Today we are taking Flat Rodvik with us on adventures around the grid 😀
Rodvik turned out to be very convenient and portable.
If you have kids, or friends with kids, you may have been introduced to Flat Stanley, a little paper cutout boy who gets mailed to friends and relatives in other cities, and they send back his photo adventures. (more…)
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