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My art/photography- a few favorites of mine. Some new & older ones.

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I was going to add a photo of myself but for some reason igmur is not letting me load it. Maybe later. 

Edit: I wanted to post a cool "so metal" photo of me at Duff's bar in Brooklyn but igmur apparently hates it so here's a boring selfie instead. ?

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12 minutes ago, lia_kat15 said:

I'm wondering if our image embedding protocol changed behind the scenes recently. From what I can see, yours should be showing up as images, but all I have are links. Hmm... nope, it works fine for me:

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Maybe it's a formatting issue? If it matters to you, try editing your post; if you copy the actual image url it should embed properly. This one reminds me of Altar Of Plagues' last album cover a little.

Here's an amazing little creature my wife brought in for a minute today after rescuing it from the side of the road:

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It looks like a curled-up leaf from even a couple feet away.

 

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19 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

I'm wondering if our image embedding protocol changed behind the scenes recently. From what I can see, yours should be showing up as images, but all I have are links. Hmm... nope, it works fine for me:

I3YpjCx.jpg

 

Maybe it's a formatting issue? If it matters to you, try editing your post; if you copy the actual image url it should embed properly. This one reminds me of Altar Of Plagues' last album cover a little.

Fixed! & thank you so much!! ??

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49 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Here's an amazing little creature my wife brought in for a minute today after rescuing it from the side of the road:

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It looks like a curled-up leaf from even a couple feet away.

 

Omgg what a cutie! Reminds of the green little caterpillar that was on my door yesterday. They're so beautiful. 

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39 minutes ago, lia_kat15 said:

Omgg what a cutie! Reminds of the green little caterpillar that was on my door yesterday. They're so beautiful. 

This one was really impressive, it was about 3.5 inches long and its camouflage was excellent. Hungry little thing, didn't stop munching the whole time it was inside. A timberline hornworm, apparently.

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6 hours ago, lia_kat15 said:

My art/photography- a few favorites of mine. Some new & older ones.

I3YpjCx.jpg 

S0c7tSh.jpg

triNpPz.jpg gMvgwno.jpgYq5ApBE.jpgaUrKiGQ.jpg

I was going to add a photo of myself but for some reason igmur is not letting me load it. Maybe later. 

Edit: I wanted to post a cool "so metal" photo of me at Duff's bar in Brooklyn but igmur apparently hates it so here's a boring selfie instead. ?

KmNHnEE.jpg

 

Pictures of trees are kvlt!  They are literally my go to picture thing whenever I go anywhere.  I think I put some up from my visit to Fairy Glen a couple of years back somewhere on this thread.

Like the reflections photo in particular too.  Cool stuff.  Reminds me of an artist I follow on Instagram who used to be called Old Hag but has had issues with her stuff being stolen so she changed her account and I can’t remember what it is called now.  She’s married to the guy out of Arckanum.

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On 8/2/2020 at 11:14 AM, lia_kat15 said:

My art/photography- a few favorites of mine. Some new & older ones.

I3YpjCx.jpg 

S0c7tSh.jpg

triNpPz.jpg gMvgwno.jpgYq5ApBE.jpgaUrKiGQ.jpg

I was going to add a photo of myself but for some reason igmur is not letting me load it. Maybe later. 

Edit: I wanted to post a cool "so metal" photo of me at Duff's bar in Brooklyn but igmur apparently hates it so here's a boring selfie instead. ?

KmNHnEE.jpg

 

Great shots. I love those images, especially the shadowy depictions of animated darkness. 

And the metal shot of yourself is awesome. :) I'm on the previous page if you want to square the odds. 

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