184 - Leading the pride

Dim Sum looks behind her to make sure that the pride is still following her. She'll have to recruit more lions and lionesses to make her "pride" bigger. (As though it could get any bigger.)


I had to derender a willow tree and the background mountains, because the alpha bug and the shadows are making the willow tree look like cylinders. Well, it *is* made of cylinders, but you know what I mean. Then I decided to delete the mountain because the windlight is making it look flat. Better with some clouds there instead.

location: Maria Lynn Falls

Technical notes

windlight: [TOR] BIG SUN - Variationz (modified)

183 - The pirate and his hostage

Dim Sum listens to the pirate tell tall tales while his lovely hostage rolls her eyes.


I was just setting up when I got a ding-ding. And then another. The first turned out to be from a pirate, and the second from his hostage.

The very charming (and very funny) couple agreed to be in my picture, so while I was playing with composition and windlight, the pirate regaled us with stories about how he kidnapped his lady love from Caledon and demanded a large sum of Lindens and an Egg Mcmuffin. Apparently, nine months later, he hasn't gotten the ransom yet. Instead, he has a bounty over his head now.

Soon, the conversation went to tuna, mermaids, zombies, chihuahuas, zombie chihuahuas, ....

The pirate said, "You know, I once had a zombie chihuahua head as a pet."

And his hostage replied, "I'm going to stop being surprised by the things you say. It just wastes energy."

LOL

models: Callidus Waydelich and Iolanthe Greymoon
location: Maria Lynn Falls

Technical notes

windlight: [TOR] SUNRISE - Clouds indifferent (modified)

182 - Well of Secrets

Dim Sum tries to extract the secrets of the well from the bunnies, but they just sat there nibbling at who-knows-what.


Same spot, different windlight. Actually, it's the same windlight, but more fog with the second one.

location: Maria Lynn Falls

Technical notes

windlight: Phototools- Thalia Light 01 (modified)

181 - Spotted deer

Dim Sum spotted two bucks and wonders what on earth they find so appealing about plain grass.... Blech! ... On the other hand, if it were catnip, ....


Two spotted deer.... Spotted two deer.... I couldn't make up my mind. :)

Mz took me to this spot after the photoshoot yesterday, and the view of the valley from up here made my heart leap up to my throat, so I thought I'd make it my next photo. :D

location: Maria Lynn Falls

Technical notes

windlight: Places Cornfield (modified)

180 - White cats and Mz

Mz, Dim Sum, and Matty, the white Bengal tiger, quietly enjoy a lovely morning under the warm Indian sun by the banyan grove.


Mz Marville sent out notecards inviting people to check out her newly redecorated sim, which she shares with Autom Nightfire. She promised to show me the secret place, so I just had to go. She was logged in and IM'd me that she found Dim Sum. :D

I noticed that Matty, the white Bengal tiger, was floating above ground a bit, so she came over and gave me permission to edit her objects. (The girl trusts me too much.... *evil snicker*) Anyway, we ended up chatting about

This was yesterday morning. We ended up chatting about mermaids, machinimas, mesh, and everything else for hours after that, until we were both too tired (around noon PST), so I just went to bed and didn't get a chance to upload until now.

model: Mz Marville
location: Maria Lynn Falls

Technical notes

windlight: Annan Adored Light Explosion I (modified)

179 - Fishing hole

Dim Sum wonders what kinds of fish are in this river as she peers into the water.


I really don't know what the original windlight is. I modified a previous modification of another previous modification of some windlight. At this point, it's likely so far away from the original anyway.

And for some reason, it feels like I've done this image before, or something similar. Kinda like a deja vu. Maybe it's the colors. Or the subject matter.

location: Runestone / Syrinx

Technical notes

windlight: [TOR] BIG SUN - Slips through walls 5(?) (modified)
water: Default ( modified)

178 - Stairway to a heavenly meal

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.

Dim Sum makes a note to Google the recipe for blackbird pie. But she needs "three and twenty" more blackbirds. If only she had thought of catching all the blackbirds she had seen all over the grid.



Sunshiny day! I couldn't get it quite right though. But I think this is the first time I've used windlight with the sun set to noon or close to noon. But there were too many trees behind the camera so this was the best way to light up the front. I could have turned on the local lights (that yellow thing in the middle is a light), but it felt incongruent to the time of day.

Maybe I should file a jira to request a feature to tone down the strength of local lights in Firestorm. Or to pick and choose which local lights are turned on or off. One day, when I have time....  ;)

location: Runestone / Syrinx

Technical notes

windlight: Phototools- Lo Light 03 (modified)
water: Default (modified)