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ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONVENTION HELD IN MALTA The annual international photography convention by the Malta Institute of Professional Photography (MIPP) was recently held over three days in Malta (18 -20 Oct.) This was the ninth edition of the MIPP convention, … Continue reading
Although I may have my own webspace on WordPress and elsewhere, often folks redirected to those long forgotten corners of cyberspace, by my domain name would find nothing much to read on or about except for my CV. Well, maybe soon I might come round to be convinced, and decide to spend less time cruising on Facebook, and employ my creative juices here in this little nook of mine. This rant also is serving to test a new WordPress plug-in of sorts I got hitched to via Facebook, where else.
Fingers crossed folks, that this works, and in the meantime, thumbs up to you all.
THE CONS!
SKILLS, MAKE MOST OF THEM, AND OF WHAT YOU HAVE.
from http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3200210/Amazing-nature-photographs.html
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He adds: “I’d been photographing animals since the 1960s but it was not until the next decade that I realised that much of the more spectacular activities of animals – particularly of the smaller ones such as insects – were too fast to see and fully wonder at.
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a good tune that gets my toe cap tapping and my head moving,….I LIKE PLENTY PLENTY PLENTY (with apologies to Johnny The Cowboy from BLA COMIXXINN!!)
HERE’S A POWERFUL TUNE FROM “NIGHTWISH“, IT”S NOT JUST THE ROCK CHICKS THAT ARE CAPTIVATING.SOMEBODY OUT THERE HATES MY GOTHIC ROCK MUSIC MUSES, BUT I THINK THEY’RE PART OF MY MUSICAL TASTE’S MAKE-UP . . .
THIS IS A TUNE THAT ACCOMPANIES ME ON MY TRAVELS, AS I TAKE ALONG IN MY MP3-PLAYER’S PLAYLIST.
The vocalist is Sharon Janny den Adel: (born 12 July 1974, in Waddinxveen, South Holland, Netherlands) is a Dutch singer and composer, best known as the lead vocalist and one of the main songwriters in the Dutch symphonic metal/rock band Within Temptation. She has performed with various bands since she was 13, including a blues rock band called Kashiro,[1] and joined Robert Westerholt in Within Temptation in 1996.
Together with her husband, Robert Westerholt, den Adel is one of the founding members of Within Temptation. She has defined their work as epic and cinematic.[3] Her vocals play a major role in the band’s sound, despite having never received formal vocal training.[4] Sharon sings in the mezzo-soprano range but her vocal quality is light and lyric despite her range.[5] Before Within Temptation became famous, Sharon worked for a fashion company. As the band became more successful with their hit single Ice Queen, Sharon left the fashion industry to focus on music. She utilises her fashion expertise by designing her stage costumes and the band’s merchandise.
Sharon den Adel has performed on-stage and in the studio with several notable bands, including Armin van Buuren, After Forever, De Heideroosjes, and Delain. She sang the part of Anna Held in Tobias Sammet’s Avantasia projects, and the part of the Indian on Ayreon’s rock opera Into the Electric Castle. She sang the vocals of one Timo Tolkki song, “Are You The One?”, co-wrote and provided the vocals for the track “In And Out Of Love” from Armin van Buuren’s 2008 album Imagine, and sang on the track “No Compliance” for Delain’s album Lucidity, as well as working with the band Voyage on the track “Frozen” (not to be confused with the Within Temptation song of the same title).
Sharon den Adel and long-term partner Robert Westerholt have a daughter, Eva Luna, who was born on 7 December 2005. She was pregnant with Luna during the band’s The Silent Force tour. They currently live near Hilversum, in the Netherlands and they have two cats, Haplo and Lola. On 22 February 2009, Sharon announced that she was pregnant with her second child. The band’s website subsequently announced that, on 1 June 2009, Robin Aiden Westerholt was born. Going by the name of Aiden, he was born premature at 32 weeks and 6 days.
On November 26, 2010, Sharon announced that she was expecting once again. Due to complications with her previous pregnancies, their original 2011 tour dates are to be rescheduled to Fall 2011 as not to endanger her or the baby.
Was tinkering and toying about with my cyber-presence out here on the web, haven’t much to rant or blog off about, in the general usual bitching, moaning and griping mode of many, YET !!… So, watch out, you might be tickled by one of my muses soon, . . . .
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