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He he! See the painting at: http://www.artwanted.com/imageview.cfm?id=531514 Oh, it was excellent! Really made my day!! Even though she is all pink; The Pink Dog is SOOOooo Shoubi!! Nice one indeed!! he he!! If I get any more decent photos of Shoubi, I'll upload them for you... -
I spend quite a lot of time in Bangkok. I usually prefer to just wander around by myself and do my own thing but, if I ever get some spare cash, I wouldn't mind trying one of Photojournalist Jonathan Taylor 's intensive photography classes. Street photography is something that has interested me for a long time and a bit of practical guidance out on the streets in and around Bangkok certainly wouldn't go amiss. I understand from his website that the courses can be tailor-made to suit the individual participants' areas of interest. If you are interested, just click on the link below and you can take a look at the website to see for yourself what is on offer: http://photographyschoolasia.com/
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From the album: Some more recent pastel paintings
From a photo that I took of a beautiful sunset - as seen through a group of coconut palm trees in Davao del Sur, Mindanao, Philippines. Pastel on watercolor paper. 21" x 29" (53 x 74cm) - 2007 To purchase a high quality print of this image, please visit: ArtWanted.com Various gift items and dozens of personalized products such as mouse pads, t-shirts, greeting cards, mugs, puzzles and a lot more besides are also available, customized with this image at ArtWanted.com© © Vic Rolfe
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Nice one! Is that the long viaduct on the North Luzon Expressway? (About 10km or South of San Fernando??)
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Green Clouds in a Tropical Sky at Sunset
smb posted a gallery image in Sunsets, sunrises, clouds and the sky
Well... This might not look much but I can tell you... NO special effects, PhotoShop (Pro or otherwise) or whatever have been used here. The image may have been cropped - but that is about it! Anyway, I have been sailing the seven seas since 1974 and these are the first and only green clouds that I have ever seen... Photo taken somewhere in Cavite Province, Philippines - (I can't tell you exactly where - or my Demonio Ex-wife - or even my hayop Abugado - might find out where I live) - looking out over the South China Sea - some time in the rainy season of 2006© Free use - just credit Vic Rolfe as the photographer
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NOT My PHOTO... (This arrived in my yahoo mail) But, as the sender says: And so I have!! With full marks to the original photographer, for a truly outstanding work of photographic art!
© © the original photographer
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Well... I'm glad to know that the tapayan is NOT reusable once it has been used to store a corpse. That IS good to know! But, I have to say, I like fresh maggots the best... Not the dried up ones? The fresh ones are more juicy and tender! Just like Tender Juicy Hot Dogs!!!!! Joking aside... I used to really love Tender Juicy Hot Dogs. I mean, AS IN!! ...until someone told me that hot dogs in the Philippines are made with worm protein?? Well, I did read the packet and nowhere does it mention worm meat as an ingredient of Tender Juicy Hot Dogs... But NO WAY! I just can't eat the things anymore. I still buy them. I even cook them; sure... I even like to appreciate that wonderful aroma that they have... But then I give them ALL to my dog. She seems to like them, though!!!!
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As per the image description, I gave the original of this painting away to Paloma. She very kindly bought me two bottles of cold San Miguel Beer in appreciation. Actually, this was only a practise painting. I used to go around the bars of Ermita, in Manila and get the girls to allow me to use their photos for these practise paintings. I always gave the results away - until, one day, a well-know artist friend of mine, Mr. Norberto Carating, advised me not to give any more away. Since then, I have never sold a thing. I am keeping all my recent paintngs for an exhibition that I would like to hold on Ermita, Manila some day... Anyway, I am always open to commissions. I could do a reproduction of the above painting - or do something completely new from any digital image that you would like to send me. All paintings are on an "approval" basis. IE, if you don't like the results, there is no compulsion to buy - but the painting and the copyright then remains mine, to be used for any purpose that I may desire. I can do a 12x16" (30x40cm) pastel on paper for 3,500 Philippine Pesos only and a 19x25" (48x63.5cm) pastel on paper for 5,000 Philippine Pesos Prices do NOT include the frame or shipping.
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Translates (very roughly!) as: "You know, at one time they used to use tapayan as vessels for storing rotten meat... They would keep the meat in there until it was completely full of maggots - and then they would cook it!" ...(A bit like Stilton cheese, I guess? ...The maggots make it soft and they add to the flavor!!!!!!!!!!!!!) And: "In other ("cases?") they used to use tapayan as a storage for the corpses of their relatives!" ...(Presumably, this was only an interim measure - until a proper burial could take place???? In that case, what happened to the tapayan after it had been used for such a purpose? I hope they didn't re-use it for that rotten meat thing???)
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Little Loreley by Niina Niskanen
smb commented on niina's gallery image in Drawings, sketches, cartoons - (any media, any subject)
This is brilliant! Thank you very much for this - and also for the nicely detailed descriptions... Good descriptions are a great way of getting your work exposed via Google et al searches - and they also get more hits for artfeaks.com (And more hits for artfreaks.com means more advertising revenue for the site - which, of course, translates into more free disc space for artists - and a happy site-owner!) -
He he! Is this photo right way up, now? (It's hard to tell!!) Tell me more about "tapayan" - what are they used for? By the way... If you look closely at the earthenware pot, you can see very light shades of pink, blue, green, orange, purple and violet... (Wala lang... it's just that I have observed that it is very important to capture all the different colors, tints and shades that you see in an object, if you want to really capture its realism when you try to paint the thing!)
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From the album: My early attempts at pastel painting
I started this one aboard c.s. Wave Venture, when she was alongside in Victoria, B.C. - in April, 2007 Due to pressures of work, I was not able to finish it until after i got back in the Philippines, in June, 2007 By the way... thanks a bunch to Mr. George BLOODY Hopkins for giving me a bad report - claiming (in effect) that I was a lazy bastard!! Anyway, this painting was far to long in the making and it has been totally overworked... Still, not to worry, at least it IS a painting. (As in, at least I finally managed to do something with my art and get back into some kind of creativity mode...) 12" X 16" (30cm X 40.5cm) Mostly Schmincke soft pastels - with some Unison pastels, on Canson Mi Teintes paper I'm not going to bother framing this one, (unless someone decides to buy it when I have my exhibition in Ermita, Manila - date not fixed yet: subject to available funds!) It'll just go into my portfolio case in order to preserve it for a future laugh! To purchase a high quality print of this image, please visit: ArtWanted.com Various gift items and dozens of personalized products such as mouse pads, t-shirts, greeting cards, mugs, puzzles and a lot more besides are also available, customized with this image at ArtWanted.com© © Vic Rolfe
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Wow! Very arty! (Not maarte!!)
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Try this! It's brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.sat-gps-locate.com/english/index.html Welcome to Satellite Tracking GSM mobile phone tracking system via the GPS-TRACK satellite network Based on repeater triangulation, the system tracks mobile phones using GPS and GSM technology We are not responsible for possible tracking errors that may occur. Approximate margin of error: 10 meters (max.) for mobile phones in Europe and the U.K. 25 meters (max.) for mobile phones in the U.S.A., South America and Canada. 50 meters (max.) for mobile phones elsewhere. This system will not work in countries without GSM technology networks.
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Life (and death) in the Philippines
smb replied to smb's topic in Intros and members announcements/advertising
Well. OK... It's not only in the Philippines that you have to pay for justice, I know. Same as it's not only in the Philippines where you have to pay for basic health care... Yesterday, someone came knocking at my door with a letter from the local Barangay (local government) Chairman, giving him permission to solicit for funds. I was just about to send the guy away when he mentioned something about a rape. Now the name Vic Rolfe stands for FREEDOM and one thing I can not stand is when one person forces his will on and abuses another... So I started to look at the bunch of papers this guy was holding. Medical certificates to prove that rape had indeed taken place. Court papers etc., etc... But wait. The girl that had been raped - by one of her neighbors - was only 5 years old Fill in the rest. p.s. I am not stupid and I have been in the Philippines long enough to know the lengths some, (it has to be said - a VERY SMALL FRACTION of the people here... but they do exist,) people will go to here to con you out of your money. You never can tell. Filipinos don't trust Filipinos that they don't even know - so why should I? It was this thought alone that prevented me from giving ALL my available cash. (I gave some and I'll happily give more if I find out that this is a genuine case...) p.p.s. This sort of case is very close to my heart... I found out, after 7 years of a living Hell on Earth that someone I had been very closely associated with had been raped as a child. By a neighbor. And this, as far as I am concerned, was THE cause of her schizophrenia and other personality disorders that I had to live with. I was eventually able to more-or-less get away from it - (bar the odd court case). But she will have to live with the damage for the rest of her life. -
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When I first visited Victoria in B.C., Canada, I thought that these cart horse rides were only for Christmas and the New Year. Apparently not! This photo was taken in May, 2007 - so this seems to be an all year-round thing. Very scenic and Olde Worlde though! Photo taken along the coast road, near Ogden Point
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One of a pair of nest-building birds, (some kind of North American Swallow or Swift?) that chose a rather unfortunate place to build home... The little ledge they chose must have seemed ideal - south-facing and out of the wind - and the ship that it was on hadn't been anywhere for a couple of weeks already... Little did this hapless couple know, that they had set up home on a ship that was just about to set sail across the Pacific; on a three week voyage from the West coast of Canada to Japan. NOT a good place to try to bring up a nest full of fledglings, especially if you depend on insects for your food?! Well, luckily, they hadn't yet laid any eggs when their little nest was discovered... It was with extremely heavy heart that I removed their lovingly crafted home and threw it into the dock, water. But sometimes, you have to be cruel to be kind? Better that they were evicted and forced to build a new home somewhere else, than for them to have to abandon a nest full of fledglings to starve to death, as the ship sailed out across the Pacific Ocean... These birds were mightily annoyed with me at the time, though - for destroying days of work and countless flights back and forth fetching bits of grass and mud. Ever thought of putting a ledge someplace on your house for swifts and swallows to build their nests on? At least, your house isn't going anywhere soon! Photo taken aboard c.s. Wave Venture at Victoria, B.C., Canada - May, 2007
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A pair of nest-building birds, (some kind of North American Swallow or Swift?) that chose a rather unfortunate place to build home... The little ledge they chose must have seemed ideal - south-facing and out of the wind - and the ship that it was on hadn't been anywhere for a couple of weeks already... Little did this hapless couple know, that they had set up home on a ship that was just about to set sail across the Pacific; on a three week voyage from the West coast of Canada to Japan. NOT a good place to try to bring up a nest full of fledglings, especially if you depend on insects for your food?! Well, luckily, they hadn't yet laid any eggs when their little nest was discovered... It was with extremely heavy heart that I removed their lovingly crafted home and threw it into the dock, water. But sometimes, you have to be cruel to be kind? Better that they were evicted and forced to build a new home somewhere else, than for them to have to abandon a nest full of fledglings to starve to death, as the ship sailed out across the Pacific Ocean... These birds were mightily annoyed with me at the time, though - for destroying days of work and countless flights back and forth fetching bits of grass and mud. Ever thought of putting a ledge someplace on your house for swifts and swallows to build their nests on? At least, your house isn't going anywhere soon! Photo taken aboard c.s. Wave Venture at Victoria, B.C., Canada - May, 2007
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One of a pair of nest-building birds, (some kind of North American Swallow or Swift?) that chose a rather unfortunate place to build home... The little ledge they chose must have seemed ideal - south-facing and out of the wind - and the ship that it was on hadn't been anywhere for a couple of weeks already... Little did this hapless couple know, that they had set up home on a ship that was just about to set sail across the Pacific; on a three week voyage from the West coast of Canada to Japan. NOT a good place to try to bring up a nest full of fledglings, especially if you depend on insects for your food?! Well, luckily, they hadn't yet laid any eggs when their little nest was discovered... It was with extremely heavy heart that I removed their lovingly crafted home and threw it into the dock, water. But sometimes, you have to be cruel to be kind? Better that they were evicted and forced to build a new home somewhere else, than for them to have to abandon a nest full of fledglings to starve to death, as the ship sailed out across the Pacific Ocean... These birds were mightily annoyed with me at the time, though - for destroying days of work and countless flights back and forth fetching bits of grass and mud. Ever thought of putting a ledge someplace on your house for swifts and swallows to build their nests on? At least, your house isn't going anywhere soon! Photo taken aboard c.s. Wave Venture at Victoria, B.C., Canada - May, 2007
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This is the ledge that a pair of nest-building birds, (some kind of North American Swallow or Swift?) chose to build their home on... The little ledge they chose must have seemed ideal - south-facing and out of the wind - and the ship that it was on hadn't been anywhere for a couple of weeks already... Little did this hapless couple know, that they had set up home on a ship that was just about to set sail across the Pacific; on a three week voyage from the West coast of Canada to Japan. NOT a good place to try to bring up a nest full of fledglings, especially if you depend on insects for your food?! Well, luckily, they hadn't yet laid any eggs when their little nest was discovered... It was with extremely heavy heart that I removed their lovingly crafted home and threw it into the dock, water. But sometimes, you have to be cruel to be kind? Better that they were evicted and forced to build a new home somewhere else, than for them to have to abandon a nest full of fledglings to starve to death, as the ship sailed out across the Pacific Ocean... These birds were mightily annoyed with me at the time, though - for destroying days of work and countless flights back and forth fetching bits of grass and mud. Ever thought of putting a ledge someplace on your house for swifts and swallows to build their nests on? At least, your house isn't going anywhere soon! Photo taken aboard c.s. Wave Venture at Victoria, B.C., Canada - May, 2007
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Photographing the Photographer outside the Nagasaki Peace park
smb posted a gallery image in Members Albums - Index Page
From the album: People Photography and Street Scenes
That was me photographing the photographer! When I uploaded this, over 18 years ago, I referred to the photographer as an Old Japanese man. Now, at the time of writing, (October 2024), I am 66 years young myself! When editing this image description, I also realized that the Photographer could well be Korean, Vietnamese - or even an American Citizen, for all I know! So here we go, with an updated, (2024) description of this image... A spritely young man taking pictures of "sakura" (cherry trees) in full blossom, in the Peace Park outside the Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Japan Photo taken in spring - (cherry blossom season - obviously!) - 2006© Photo by Vic Rolfe. Not copyright. This is a free-use photo
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