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Lighthouse Shaped Chimney Cap

Here I am standing in front of one of my largest chimney caps I've built at over 11' tall, just before it shipped to my client in Michigan. He hired me to design and build this custom copper chimney cap in the shape of a lighthouse. What do you think?

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Black and White Photography

Sun Jul 19, 2009, 10:11 AM
What is LOVE? They say you cannot love others if you do not love yourself, but this seems to be a huge problem, doesn't it?

I still feel it is like The Emperor's New Clothes, and no matter what sort of fancy spin you put on it; B&W still looks like crap in 99% of the shots I've seen, like a bad dream. At least give it some sort of colored sepia-tone for goodness sake. The only reason I would even sepia-tone a photo is if the color is so bad that no adjustment can fix it to make the image look close to the natural colors we seem to see with our naked eye.

I do not mean to tell other's what to do here of course. Just sharing my opinion for seeing it for what it is. I know too much of the history of B&W photography to see it for anything other than just a cheaper film, processing, and easier developing for young photography students. Which unfortunately has somehow spilled over into the digital photography era as if it were a sign of class. I rather say a rose is a flower, and a turd is just feces.

I am only referring to the use of B&W in the final presentation, so do not take this as any slam on someone's skill or the subject matter. I would personally be embarrassed to show off a B&W image; as if I were just covering up the fact that I did not have decent lighting on my subject and could not even fix it in post production. Many may not realize my grave mistake, but there would be some who do.

Live LOVE
Darrian
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I was raised as a Mormon in Utah and was a bit of a geek who thought it was best to be nice to girls. Silly me. I've worked long and hard to recover from the oppressive Dogma of Mormonism and feel much better now as a Pagan. I have a better sense of ethical responsibility than pretty much any other Mormon I've met, so that pretty much shows how that faith to be a sham: [link]

I was married for 14 years before I met Tia, and had 3 Daughters with her, but towards the end discovered she was not just different, as I had expected women to be, but she was actually mentally ill. We were encouraged to get her on SSI for mental disability by the psychologist and psychiatrist I was having her see.

She ran off with the kids and money on May 25th 1998, which was the best blessing for me, since I would never have gotten rid of her otherwise. I finally got to clean up the house and literally hauled 7 tons to the dump in just 3 weeks of nonstop work.

5 months later I met my Soulmate Tia on-line through a cheesy dating site called match.com in just less than 2 hours after posting a sarcastic ad. We both felt such a connection that we handfasted and exchanged gold rings just 14 days later, and we had not even kissed yet. Although just an hour or so later we had mind-blowing tantric level sex: [link]

We are still happily together and have a Son as the product of our love. I do not own her; I am just fortunate she still likes to hang with me. Life is good.

She is fulfilling her dream to be a Midwife and is working as a Doula now: [link]

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*fischerbessi Nov 18, 2009, 6:25:21 AM
You, sir, are not just an idiot, you are a thief. DO NOT USE MY ART WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!!! I WANT YOU TO DELETE THIS IMAGE!!! And you should try to improve your own dreary snapshots before you DARE to fuck with mine.
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*DarrianAshoka Nov 18, 2009, 11:39:45 AM
Wow, such hostility. Do you kiss your models with that mouth. (LOL) I was going to remove it as you requested, but I see you already got it removed by the DA staff's automated system.

I did not steal your art. I did not try to claim I had taken this picture and had given you full credit. I would not want to have taken credit for that silly.

Sorry you took such offense that I fixed your image up. I had hoped you would take it as some constructive criticism. I had tried to talk to you about this issue before if you recall.

I will remove you from my friends list, so it does not bother me any more. Sorry you are so uptight and feel the need to slander my good name like this with your lies and insults. You would do well to seek help in this area of anger management for the sake of your own future relationships if nothing else.

I still wish your well.

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Live LOVE
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*fischerbessi Nov 18, 2009, 3:06:34 PM
Art Theft is using someone's art WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION. That is exactly what you did. Do not do it again.
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*DarrianAshoka Nov 18, 2009, 8:22:58 PM
If you hate me so much why did you choose to watch my gallery submissions. Do you really think I would bother to resubmit one of your images again. Trust me, I have no desire to have anything to do with you or your images. You are clearly way to uptight about such issues and I am not here to piss people off.

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Live LOVE
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*fischerbessi Nov 18, 2009, 9:23:40 PM
Excellent! I am watching you because you can't be trusted. You require watching.

And i have no hate for you, only pity.
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