New years clean ups

First, let me clean out my save photo folder and post links to stuff I did and never took photos of!

First up, an temporary sim installment called if I recall correctly, A Touch of Red, I don't remember who created it. But I do remember it was about the Phantom of the Opera. And I enjoyed it immensity. I loved the stylized art and the incorporation of letters with lyrics from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical scattered about. http://www.softpaw.org/LJimages/SL/Touchred/index.html

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Next we have a bunch of random photos from around Steelhead before it disappeared. Among the random nonsense and dance shots are shots of the last dance in the teahouse, what my Nevermore plot used to look like, and the very last dance in Steelhead.

http://www.softpaw.org/LJimages/SL/steellast/index.html

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And lastly, some photos I took while at Pandora's Box of Dreams when it was still the Del Mar dream. I was there for contest photos but ran into a large turtle that comes up, lays eggs then leaves and the eggs hatch, and then baby turtles head into the ocean! I got the whole sequence captured

http://www.softpaw.org/LJimages/SL/turtle/index.html

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And now that those are out of the way. Time for future of this blog talk.

My plate is, considerably less full, this year. For reasons I don't want to talk about. So I am going to give the 52 themes a try again. Starting Tomorrow in fact! A theme a week posted on Wednesdays.

Starting with

Week 1 January 6th

Theme

Birthdays!

Some of the weeks will be repeated themes, on different weeks of course. And I will take new photos and go to new sims to give new interpretations of themes I did in the past. I've also changed around a few, removed a few and added others.

Other bloggers are welcomed to join in, but I'm really doing this more for me to keep me posting weekly. I do still have a flickr group for it though, which is moderated as some flickr bloggers just dump into all their groups and don't watch to make sure its one that fits the group.

Also due to my new free time I hope to be more involved in Relay this year. I really hope to be on the blogger list for Fantasy Faire again. I SO love doing that.

And that's all my updates from 2015 and plans for 2016.

~Pandora Box of Dreams~ Dream 006: Dreams of Secrets

And here we have the fifth dream from Pandora's box of dreams, a glorious autumnal dream, Dreams of Secrets.



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Outfit	*EC* Siofra Fairy	SLURL
Hair	""D!va"" Hair "Sienna"	SLURL
Pose	Sari-Sari - Star Lantern (gold speckle)	SLURL
Sim	~Pandora Box of Dreams~ Dream 005: Dreams of Secrets	SLURL

All my photos of this dream are at this link

I have enjoyed every single Dream this sim has given us. I am hoping for one last one, a winter holiday dream, for a good round six dreams, but this autumnal one may be the last. But if they do have another you can be sure I'll photograph the heck outta it! And I hope dreams keep coming next year too!

I admit this dream does not have some of my better photography work in it. I think its getting time for another graphics card upgrade, SL's moving slow on me again. That will happen once I get the money from working Haunted Castle in Muskogee this past October. And I hope that fixes it, if not, saving up for a new motherboard and processor!

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This dream was a calming mountainside forest in full fall glory, with many winding paths and streams to explore, a few hidden buildings and little nooks and crannies to discover. I think I found all it's "Secrets" and if I didn't I'd love to know what I missed!

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Pandora's box of dreams photo contest

I got personally invited to enter this contest, because I have taken shots of the sim in the past. So I took 6 shots, three in my normal form and three in catfish form.

I want to show them off so here they are! I had fun taking them and even played with Depth of Field for a couple, which I usually don't mess with. So that was a new experience and I will have to play with it more in the future.

I forgot to write down the poses I used, most of them I got at this months round of Enchantment though. The none mermaid outfit is Aloha, eh? by deviousMind Slurl

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~Pandora Box of Dreams~ Dream 004: Del Mar Dream

Finally the post about the sim I took the photo here at!

I am just in love with this sim and how they change the build completely every so often. This time the dream is an amazing tropical island. With all manner of cozy nooks and fun things to do.







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Outfit - tail	JOMO Female mermaid tail(Pink)	SLURL
outfit - Shell bra	*BOOM* Atlantean Shells (fantasia)	SLURL
Hair	""D!va"" Hair "Ariel"	SLURL
Pose	I uh, forgot to write that one down. oops	SLURL
Sim	~Pandora Box of Dreams~ Dream 004: Del Mar Dream	SLURL

In photos when I have legs I'm wearing Lumina Mermaid - Water Nymph By Evie's Closet *SLURL*

Del Mar dream is packed with things to do, you can fly with a parrot, have a picnic, go hang gliding or even Jet skis if you can find them!

But it's also just a stunning sim. The palm trees swaying softly, the sound of the animals and the waves crashing. Bring a special someone for a nice date out. Or go by yourself for some relaxing alone time. It's an amazing summer getaway in Secondlife.

You can see all my photos of Del Mar Dream at this link and highlights of my photos at my Flickr page

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