CREATIVE ARTS WEEKEND
CREATIVE ARTS WEEKEND
We're Baaaaaaaak! Another opportunity to post your creative artwork, whatever artwork, in fact just plain WHATEVER. Post a vote up, a comment, a photo, a painting, anything at all that the NT rules and A.Mac's rules allow.
We just celebrated Chinese New Year and are in the midst of the Spring Festival. About 5 or 6 years ago we took a walk through a Chongqing park during Spring Festival, and back then I posted on Creative Arts Weekend photos I had taken at the time. However we went nowhere this time, so I am posting again some of the photos I took back then.
RED BOX RULES: AN IMPORTANT REMINDER
From time-to-time, I should remind all members of NT, etc., that when posting photos, artwork, etc., it's important, when posting, that you own, and/or legally represent the licensing, copyright, etc., of what you post, and TO PROTECT YOUR WORK, TO INCLUDE YOUR COPYRIGHT SYMBOL/INFORMATION; and/or, WHEN POSTING COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY BELONGING TO PARTIES OTHER THAN YOURSELF, TO …
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• IF/WHEN SUCH PERMISSION HAS BEEN GRANTED, TO PROPERLY AND CLEARLY ATTRIBUTE THE COPYRIGHTS TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNER(S).
VERY IMPORTANT … IN THE FUTURE, I WILL REMEMBER TO POST THIS CAVEAT REGULARLY.
Thanks, A. MAC
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Remembering Spring Festival in a Chongqing park around 5 or 6 years ago.
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Nice group of photos. China certainly is a photographer's bonanza.
China is a magical land of brilliant colours, ancient tradittions and fantastic culture.
Will there ever be PEACE on our planet? Or must we endure WARS OF CONQUEST for eternity?
Please respect the fact that this is not a political group or article.
Spain
(All images © G. Gam)
Is the first image a combo of 2 images? The second image is kind of spicey. Where was the third image taken?
The first image is a single image looking through a window. The third image is from Segovia.
Nicely framed.
By the way, I have been to Spain, but it was around 60 years ago. One of my clients who was a dealer in Leitz products lent me his Leica M2 and I used it to take colour slides, but they're all back in storage in Toronto.
I've been to Spain twice for two plus weeks both times. Great place to visit.
I've only been to Malaga for the lectures, Marbella to see a real bullfight, Toledo to see a magnificent El Greco painted on a wall, and Madrid for the palace, the Prado, the flamenco, lots of sightseeing and a fabulous dinner at Hitler's favourite top floor restaurant.
I was in Lloret De Mar in March of... I want to say '85. A whole bunch of us in our unit (US Army in Germany) took the trip. We spent a day in Barcelona. I wasn't quite 19 at the time and had a bunch of fun. The ladies were beautiful!
Yep, give me one with those dark eyes and dark hair anytime - I've got one now.
I was there, long ago. As an undergraduate I took my Junior year off, hitch-hiked around Europe. I had been living in Paris and taking a 1 month course in conversational French. When it was over I decided I wanted to go to Morocco so I hitch-hiked down to the Spanish border then down to the ferry to Morocco from Algeciras.
En route spent a few days in Barcelona, then stayed a while in Alicante ...
The Law Lecture tour I indicated above included Gibralter and Morocco.
We were in Barcelona for two weeks in September/October 2018 during an extreme heat wave. Even the locals were complaining. There were, however, a lot of skinny, very pretty young ladies with long black hair wearing, well, not much.
Thjat cathedral in Barcelona, now, THAT'S creative art.
These are the current state of all of my basement aquariums. The photography isn't great... too much glare. One of these days I'm going to do individual short videos on each tank, but that will take some time to coordinate.
My newest tank... 40g nature style with a handful of checker barbs and 3 bristlenose plecos. I put a handful of cherry shrimp in here and now I have a small colony of them.
What started out as an iwagumi tank is now a riparium with a waterfall on the right side. This is the oldest scape I have going and I really like how the christmas moss has grown up the rocks around the waterfall. I wanted cherry shrimp only tank, but there were some endlers and ember tetra I couldn't catch. Of course the endlers are multiplying. Every once in a while I see an amano shrimp or two.
A 47g rimless tank I bought from a guy on FB. This is the second version of a forest scape. It's getting overgrown again after a year and a half. I may need to rescape it. I have new ideas on the 'trees' and the planting.I tried to put female endlers only in here along with cherry shrimp. Sometimes I find a male and try to catch it. I also have 3 albino bristlenose.
The largest tank I have is a 75g yellow lab cichlid tank. The rock work is covered in black beard algae and I don't really care. The fish are happy. Along with the 10 or 11 labs I have a single male jewel cichlid. I have some narrow leaf java fern in here, but it struggles. The water temp is too high for that plant.
This is a 60g cube with a 40g sump. I struggled to balance this one for a long time, but it's doing pretty good now. It's mostly anubius and crypts. I have a few red eye tetra that are getting pretty old, rummy nose tetra and xray tetra fill out the tank. I've been thinking of someday swapping everything over with the 75g. I've seen at least one amano shrimp in here.
This is my last home tank running right now. It's a 50g shallow. From this front on angle you can't see the second ginseng ficus in the back. I'd like to recreate this in a slightly deeper tank. It's really growing in now though. It's mostly val and smaller crypts, but there's a little of a lot of stuff. I have male endlers and CPSs in this tank along with a few cherry shrimp.
Wow. You've created paradise environments for your fish. I wonder if they thihk that you're God.
The food does rain down from above. LOL!
Sustenance from their saviour.
The fish know the difference; it is humans who do not know the truth.
Although this is not my photo, I was so impressed by it I had to share it with everyone else. It is of this year's New Year of the Horse celebration in San Francisco. I saw it on the web, but it could be AI generated.
That's definitely not real.
I suspect that. I thought that the bridge was too perfectly placed and all the men holding the dragon are all too equally posed.
You can see a view of the Bay Bridge, not the Golden Gate Bridge, from one street in Chinatown in San Francisco that looks somewhat similar but that's not it. Also, lots of other elements in the picture are obviously painterly rather than photographic.
Creative Arts Weekend will be closing in a few hours, so if anyone is thinking of posting something, now's the time to do it.
Repeating the title of Andrea Bocelli's keynote song - "It's Time to Say Goodbye". Thanks to those who posted images, comments and votes up - you keep A.Mac's group alive for him, for when he is able to return. See you next weekend.