Haven’t really been up to much lately, I’ve been in a little (ok long) creative slump, BUT I did want to let you know of one thing that I have worked on.

My partner Liz Gealach has a build up at Burning life called Soul Evolution and I did the animations for it. Liz had asked for something joyful and leapy without the bounds of gravity. So I made up five little animations for her.

Please stop buy Soul Evolutions and check out the build (Up til November 1) it really is a lot of fun and a nice place to sit and think.

From the notecard:

Soul Evolution
by Liz Gealach

This creation or area to reflect is a 3D interpretation of reincarnation and the evolution of my soul.

I believe that each person must use their time on earth to learn or enlighten their soul. Once we move on we have a brief time to reflect and gain awareness of what we learned so we can then in turn use that knowledge in our next lifetime. “Soul Evolution” is a reflection of that time we have between lives … a time we can see the knowledge we have gained and share it with other souls.

Please come inside and walk through time. Reflect on what your soul has learned and what it may be learning right now. Sit on a small colored disc to rejoice in your souls evolution. Hope, Forgiveness, Generosity, and Compassion are all journey’s of learning our soul must take to truly understand and experience the ultimate knowledge of LOVE.

SLurl:Soul Evolution – Rabbithole Burning Life

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This past week in one of my bestest friends in SL had a wedding, well a Celebration of Love. It was a great event with friends, music, dancing and tears of joy. I think it was a beautiful event. I’ll post some pictures later on, I still need to get the photos to the happy couple, so it would be wrong to give you all a look before they got to see them

I had been to a few weddings in world, ones of people I knew and then ones of friends of friends.The one thing that made this one different for me personally is that my friend asked me to take some pictures, to which I said yes of course. I would have anyway, but now I had a mission and a shot list. I have photographed a few wedding in real life, well just enough to know that I don’t really want to do them for a living. Even with that experience, I thought “oh this would be a fun way to give back to them” and happily clicked away during the ceremony and the following reception.

As I was going through the photos, I started thinking about how photographing virtual weddings are in ways similar and also very different. So here’s a little list I made up…

At a real life wedding, you never have to worry if the couple and guests are fully rezzed in each shot
At a virtual wedding if you don’t like where the sun is in a shot you can move it, unless the couple have decided on a windlight setting
You can get amazing angles without ever leaving your seat or blocking any other persons view at a virtual wedding.
At either wedding, someone will dance into that amazing candid you were framing up.
The only crashes you have to worry about in a real life wedding is from drunk party guests.
The a fore mentioned drunk guest won’t be bumping your camera in a SL wedding.
Pose balls…might make RL wedding photography easier.
Forgetting to “/1 hide” the unused pose balls during the first dance
Two words that make RL wedding photography better…Motor drives!
and the thing that is absolutely the same in rl and virtual weddings… If you ask me to do shoot your wedding and I say yes… then you are someone special to me

Photo Info:

Skin: Gala Acorn— [Light] Sunny-Umbra 1
Hair: TRUTH— Ana – Copper
Hat: LeLutka— AUDREY Hat Black
Glasses: FNKY!— Luna Glasses White
Dress: Musashi-Do— Waving Heart (Night Passion)
Shoes: Maitreya Gold— Esprit-Xtd Noir
Necklace and Earrings: Evangeline— Coal
Bracelet: Zaara— Pallav Clear Bracelet
Cameras: [Lyndz-Matic]— L1 (in development…let me know if you are interested in one and maybe I’ll finally finish them )
Gazebo: custom by Parker McTeague
Location: Sky meadow in Thistle designed by Liz Gealach

I saw over on JuicyBomb where Gogo had ran her avatar through the Facial Beauty Analysis at Anaface.com

So being one that always likes to pick apart my avatar I decided to follow the crowd and give it a go.

So I logged in and took a snap and uploaded it, placed the markers, (fairly easy enough, though I wonder if being bald would have made it easier) Pushed the button and out pops a score of 8.81 out of 10? Really? It thinks my ears are too long for my nose? and my mouth is too wide for my nose? but still gives me an 8.81 [just for reference it gave my rl picture a 7.7, both Lyndz and I have ears that are too long for our nose, hehehe.]

Does it really matter? No, not really. I like the way I look minus some grumbling about my nose depending on the skin of the moment. That and well obsessing over my mouth, making sure my upper lip isn’t to thin, after it was pointed out, in real life, that I have a preference for people with thin upper lips so I felt a need to make sure Lyndz’s lips were more balanced (hahahah).

It’s funny to see what the “experts” say, but is it gonna make me change or worry about anything? Nope, no ear shorting or mouth narrowing/nose widening in my future.

Now I can go back to worrying more important things, like that I am too tall around my friends but too short when I head out on the grid.

• Skin: Curio Acorn [Light] Sunny – Umbra 2
• Hair: Truth Sable – Expresso
• Eyes: MADesigns EYES Intense – Patient

A little darker (ok a lot darker) image and I mean that in the luminance not the subject matter.

Just exploring a lot of different techniques, I think on this one I really got the lights where I wanted them and shot them in different places so I could blend the images together. I am also still playing with the lens blur but not as much blur, plus I will go in and work the blur in or out in places.

Plus I had a lot of new outfits to play around with so I have been in a picture taking mood.

• Pose: [Lyndz-Matic] Just Relax
• Skin: [the oBscene] BRAELYN Seraphina OP Gift ~ Tone 3
• Hair: [the oBscene] Trish (custom tint)
• Lashes: Total Betty Meeme Lashes
• Outfit: G111 Ruby Body
• Boots: BAX Prestige Boots Black Leather
• Location: my Workshop in Thistle

I’ve been a little distracted as of late, both with fun things and other things so I thought I would put up a photo that I started a few weeks ago. As you can see I’m still playing with the depth maps, still fine tuning the process. It’s been a lot of fun experimenting

I had been out shopping with my friend Noe and pulled this outfit together out of pieces I had, trying to match the smexy outfit she had on. The only new purchase was the shoes from Maitreya, to give a little bit of color to by monochrome look.

• Pose: [Lyndz-Matic] ANTM_6
• Skin: Redgrave Leona 03 Deep Tan
• Hair: Sirena Drip Brown-”Sandy”
• Hat: [LeLutka] Audrey Hat
• Glasses: FNKY! Luna Glasses
• Jacket: *COCO* Jacket & Shirt -Black & White
• Pants: *COCO* Cropped Pants _Black
• Belt: *COCO* Wide Belt (Embossing) _ Black
• Shoes: Maitreya Frenzy Banana _ Sangria
• Location: my Workshop in Thistle