Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

KNOX the Garden Devil. I can't help but feel old, you see, KNOX knew who Mickey Mouse is but she did not know the song House of the Rising Sun. So I pulled up the version by The Animals. Then I had her listen to the historic presentation on the origins and possible meanings of the song. She was amazed. Sound like a bit too much, but it was important referencing for this garden series. In the background I placed a 'vent' from an old barn that I restore and painted to fit it's intended purpose, that of a rising sun, it is in the cold light of the sunlight.

In making this image I had used a 1930's Photogenic light, the fore runner of the now light called a 'beauty dish', but unlike modern beauty dish lights this is a tungsten 1000K light that can be focused, or the beam can be spread. (To see these in use and in an actual movie set, the last Inian Jones film has them scattered and illuminating the night scene at the start of the film). The digital camera has the white balance set in a lighting studio to the light's illumination. Then the light was placed to illuminate the model and fish sculpture. As the daylight is falling in front and behind the illumination is cold (cyan-blue) but he limited area of the Photogenic Light's illumination is warm after in Photoshop the models skin ones are brought back to a more nutria level (not completely as intended). This is what is expressive about mixing light souses and the great creative foundation of color photography in my opinion.

Of course, the high sun mimics the main point of 'The Rising sun'. The use of the devil costuming focuses on the feeling of loss and despair that Eric Burden captured in his rendering of the songs feel. I liked that the feel for the garden has that feel I have felt in the swamp lands of Louisiana and the plantations of that deep southern state. KNOX pulled the whole even/shoot off beautifully.

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KNOX, garden devil, House of the Rising Sun.

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riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas

Very well done Tim. She is a beauty but those damn shoes, oh gawd.
bruce

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Uh, OH! Bruce, you are NOT a girly girl type. They LOVE them shoes. I posted about teasing KNOX about the shoes. It is one thing that she directly asked about keeping when she moved out to be with her current boy. KNOX is a Latina (obviously) and here in San Antonio, it was not called Fiesta, it was originally called The Battle of Flowers. Women in general love being given flowers but Latina/Latin women expect you to bring flowers for and to any event! (Thank God for Travis Florist in SA). So shoes convered with flowers is for sure gaudy, but so appropriate o the way of e heart. Notice, they are NOT stripper shoes, big heavy wide heal so you can wear them anytime, even to dance in! And elevated to show off te leg and get them up in the air. As men, think truck, if you drive a pick up truck your up in the air much more than any car, even large ones. For women, big heels are their version of a pick up tuck! LOL!!!

By the way, chicks in Texas like Liz Ashley have big huge oversized pick up trucks! Liz is so tiny and the truck is so huge it is almost like se gets lost in it. I joked with her one time if the dude who sold it to her assured her he would include a Houston phone book, so she could ride high in the front seat, then asked if Darrel (her guy) had to put extensions on the peddles so his baby girl could reach the peddles! She almost hit me!

riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas

Yea Tim, at least hers has the heels that are wide enough to safely walk in. The ones with the pointy heels ?
Damn, they just seem so awkward to me, and the angle must not be good for the ankles and feet, but hey, it is a girly girl thing. Even in the street and business world buildings I see women wear these. They push up their butt so ? but ? Well, hey, I myself have enough trouble standing and walking in flat soled sandals and shoes so I could no way wear those damn things but I guess it is like learning how to ride a bicycle or walking a tight rope, they just get used to them. As far a imagery goes I have always thought they just look stupid and take away from the total full body image of a woman. Well that is my story for Friday the 13th, 2023.
But again, I just your images of her and VADA, shoes included Tim.
Sir Broose tha loose.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Oh MY GOD! Shoes, critical item for all cultured humans. Completely not understood subject. I know, more Tim stuff! LOL!!!

Shoes are at the base of one of the essential socializing elements in modern society.

Start with one of the proofs. Your watching a comedy film. Dad walks out the front door to get the morning paper, he is in only his PJ's, bends over to pick it up and the door slams behind him, he ties it and it's locked. He bangs on the door trying to get in and gets no where.

Why is this funny to every person watching regardless of age or gender. Have we been shown that he is uneasy about being in his jamies? No. Then why is this so funny to everyone, kids teenagers, adults, old folks. It's universal. But why?

Every single person responds in kind. It is your reptilian brain talking to you. We all know he is necked! And why do we know this? Because just like Pavlov and his dog training with a bell and food,. your mother and all the women around her trained you that you are dressed if you have your shoes on, if not, your necked, socially.

I'm not going into all the details but this is so well documented by social scientists that you can find studies on it out the wazo on his subject. So now, why are you just now hearing about this? It's like shop for girls and one economics for boys, no one thinks it is important. They are full of do-do. Your boss calls you at home, and your spouse tells you who it is and you groan, there goes the weekend you think. Before you answer the phone what should you do? Put your shoes on! The studies show that you are at a disadvantage by 35% to cave just because you do not have your shoes on! That includes your negotiation skill set. Same as when you are called or confronted by anyone at all, including an intruder!

So, when I work with women, I take them through the basics of psychology and the studio (long before any camera stuff). The first and most critical thing that I tell them is that if they have their shoes on (any shoes, what they regard as shoes in their social sense), then their reptilian instinct is that they are dressed for a social condition, that their mother and all the women around them taught this to them and that it was modern social science that discovered this. And of course I explain that it really was women who got the link between babies going out into their first social setting with their shoes on (mean while, Daddy gave up, "The kid can't walk, not even crawl, but SHE insists the baby have shoes on! I mean the kid will grow out of them in a month or sooner, then another $25 bucks for another pair of shoes...) Dads never really get it, this is why they want to bronze the baby's first shoes, it's all they are good for!

So, you now know one of the great secrets about all humans. Plus, just think, now you know why women needed so may shoes! It was not just her mother, but all the line of women who insist on shoes! AND MORE shoes!!!

Mystery of the universe explained! On to Quantum entanglement!

riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas

Uh,,,, well Tim you exposed me for who I am. Yes, I am reptile, actually a little one with a little bitty brain and I sit on the fence during the day. But I can access UHH. Well I am working on camera settings for Saturdays eclipse. I have two cameras I am working with and this is all a new project for me.
Being a reptile, things go much slower for me than normal humans. Please bare with me on this. IF IF things go Ok I will post some images and I already have about my home made solar filters.
I have been called a lizard before but I just do not like the taste of flies, not much protein in them.
But anyway back to fence and camera, thanks for taking time to reply back. And pet the kitty for me.
b

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Bruce, your NOT a reptile, I'm referring to our reptilian brain, back of the brain that takes care of a lot of things we don't usually care to bother with. It is what you can say is "Automatic think".

riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas

Yea Tim I know, I was just having with with you. Comic relief and humor are a free service I provide.
Oh boy, I GOT A FEW HUNDRED pictures of the eclipse today. Got to sort'm out bro and run through light room to clean up.
Keep it real bro.
Bruce.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

So Bruce, you naughty boy, here you are more girly snaps. One where KNOX is honoring her 'girls' with a message!

Giving the 'girls' attention, and a kiss to all.

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riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas

Hey thanks Tim. I wish she was looking at me. Hey, one thing I really like and admire about your outdoor setting is all the lovely plants and greenery. So much life. It really very much adds so much life to your models and photo settings. I gotta get back to my eclipse photos, I just got started this morning.
This is the setup on my small patio. I used the towels some to cover my head and camera so I could see the settings better. I changed shutter speeds quite a bit to be sure I caught a good one.
Thanks for the pic of KNOX, she is a beauty.
broose tha loose.

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Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

You split your bucket! Your Toshie all right? No 'bite' from that split in that seam? Get you an old cushion man, better safe than sorry!

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Oh my God, I figured out the problem! It's your backyard. It is no good for neckadity! I have nude women in my back yard all the time and the 'fence' keeps the neighbors from seeing in (like I care!), so it just goes on and on. Even other photographers and nude models, sometimes in the past a dozen male photographers and one to three nude women, and before the garden got over grown even a bouncy Castel! Know what happens if you spray a bottle of dawn detergent into a bouncy Castel. All them air holes pump the Dawn detergent into a huge environment of bubbles ten feet tall, then you get to wounder around in the whole bubble world looking for necked girls! It is so fun! Even with a camera in a plastic bag!

And to make it more fun, use a water proof camera and give the girls a long garden hose and let them squirt water and that makes more, higher, bubbles! That is when the girls pull off their bathing suits cause no one can see nothing!

Uh OH, Idea, paid shoot in the bouncy castell in the front parking lot! Oh man VADA is going to love this idea!

And guess what, I'm residential AND Commercial/manufacturing so forget SAWES (San Antonio Water System) I can use water DURING the water restrictions! LOL!!! Got any idea just how much water is in the Edwards Aquafurry? Bazillions on Bazillions! And water restrictions do not apply to commercial sites, it's business, plus pumping millions of gallons into the river walk every day!

She is going to love this, just need a bunch of cold watermelons!

VADA in the bubbles!

riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas

Thanks for the reply buddy. The bucket was already cracked, I picked it up off the side of the highway last year or so. But I did put a cushy on it because it was getting to be a longer shoot than I thought.
But this morning I woke up to a sore ass and neck because I finally had to raise the post on the tripods and cushion up the bucket. Old Nikon D300s and Lumix FZ300, had to work at keeping them on target and focus. I used spot meter so you know the deal.
You guys had the full ring of fire effect due to full passage of the sun, we had about 85 percent so not ring of fire.
Now, April 8th 2024 we are going to get the full solar eclipse and you guys will be on the very southern edge of it.
Ok, now, that bubble bath looks so inviting, I should come down there and hop in it.
Dude you got the life. Thanks for the pic, I just finished 250 pics and this is just the start. I will share some with you if you want me too.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Of course we want photon stories, "Are ya daft man!" Here at photon central we is all photon junkies, don't matter what it is, got ta have some! LOL!!!

This is what I saw, in the garden (asphalt base), these are the shadows made by the eclipse as it shown from the sky as the sun shown above down through the tree's leaves. This is a critical part of the eclipse. The other is the neutralizing emotive effect it has on we humans. Notice how all the animals go quiet and they settle, birds stop flying, and the kitties get quiet and crawl under covered locations at ground (they do not climb into higher locations). All the animals go to ground and stop movement and remain their quietly.

It's ok but humans are basically to socially inept to grasp the wounder that s happening. We have lost our touch with nature, well most of the human race. Here is proof of just how stupid people are. In Connecticut there was an annual marathon. How blatantly out of it do you need to be to schedule your marathon for an event?

Ok, now a disparaging comment, guess where VADA was? You got it, at the marathon. Oh yes, she is a vary special and close friend but she will hear from me about this one. marathon, running, she LIVIES right where an eclipse is going to occur, and she jack-asses thousands of miles for a marathon.

This is unforgivable STUPID!

This is what has gone wrong with our social structure. Take a day and turn off the cell phone. Take a week or a month and disconnect from social media, but then reconnect back to the world of what is really nature and being human. Learn to trusts a close friend, not the one who pats you on the shoulder or holds your hand when someone close dies, no, the pain in the ass (Timmers) who takes your ass down several notches and tells you that your life is out of control and needs a vary real "Come to Jesus" encounter. That is what VADA needs and will receive. And it has to be delivered in a devastating manner.

No, Tim does not get these from people, the belief world punches me up just great! How, a 'girlfriend' who shape shifted in front of me. The West Wind that became my confidant. Walking away from the rebus, having an afternoon visit from a succubus. And of course that conversation with a spirit form as a 10 years old, while being questioned by the Catholic clergy over ideas about religion. It took a long time but I finely discovered that it was the guardian, my guardian, speaking through my sticky self. (This is Haitian VODOU).

Yes, Timmy is nuts, he is crazy! "Crazy like a fox!" as my mother would say. I know who I am and where I am. I live in one of the great spiritual centers of the US, called San Antonio Texas. I live in a studio, a property protected from the demonic form. All that you see in movies and read about in scary books like that guy Steven King. only tat energy wants in and it cannot get in. My close friend and spirit animal Bubble (the ig cat) sealed the garden and the studios from all of that.

So, for that eclipse coming, ignore cameras and such and get in tune with what is truly going on in your back yard", you will be better served for it. Biological awareness is a lot more important than most understand it; the world is a most mysterious place, live in it, don't just keep sleepwalking through your life!

This last image was Performance Art by Patty, a Vodou driven Hitain Witch who models and raises awareness through her work, a photo group shoot at my studio, (currently in London England), "Sorry if this offends, Patty doing ritual magic at a workshop in my studio, with a dozen 'normal' white male photographers."

In the garden, Saturday 11142023 at 12:04

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Bubble prowling in his garden

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"Sorry if this offends, Patty doing ritual magic at a workshop in my studio, with a dozen 'normal' white male photographers."

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