Blackpoint Sunrise Across from VAB by Lutfi Shedraway
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BlackPoint is a wildlife reserve right across Cape Canaveral NASA. This area is rich with Wildlife and known for beautiful sunrise. The building across from where I stood, on the other side of the lake bank is the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). It is known for housing the Shuttle in a vertical position so technicians can work on a shuttle and prepare it for a flight. I visited the VAB multiple times in my early career days, and it is an impressive structure. Although it is further than the Orlando Wet Land, Blackpoint is a place to visit if a person visiting Orlando, wanted to see wildlife in nature and do some photography. It is about an hour drive from Orlando. There is also a Wild Life Preserve center where they rehabilitate injured birds or wild life to release them back in nature. Visiting the center, one may get lucky and see up close a bald eagle.
Holidays until the next year... Time for walking, cycling, hiking and photography! Fun under Florida sun.... This photo was taken at Blackpoint at Merrit Island across from NASA. Florida sunrise at its best.
my dnd campaign of twoish years just ended and OMG I’M SO HAPPY WITH IT? like everyone got their happy ending! Darva’s a history teacher and Percy’s finally a real healer and Treebreaker’s taking it slow for once and Blister is still improving still going and AAAUG.
I NEED to draw something for team Screaming Dragons I’m so. it’s so. they’re so.
I watched the short today!!! And, since I have a bit of free time before bed (read: im procrastinating going to bed) I drew my boi!!!!!
[ID: a black and white picture of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. He’s grinning broadly, with his ears alert above him. His elbows are resting on a surface, and his hands are stacked in front of him. End ID]
I have no good explanation for this except that somehow my brain rabbit-trailed onto how Hobart must be an extraordinarily walkable city and how the closest most City Between characters come to using a vehicle is the one or two times Pet takes a bus. And then things went from there and anyway, here's my best guess on major characters' driving ability.
Pet: I don't know what the legal learner's permit is in Australia, but she has definitely been living alone since before she reached it. Cannot drive; might learn post-series but even if she does, absolutely no one will ride with her. I love her dearly, but she does not strike me as being a safe driver.
Zero: Knows the theory; has never done it in practice. Has roughly the same feelings about cars as Kaladin (Stormlight Archive) has about horses.
Athelas: Knows how to drive (quite well, in fact). Can even produce a proper license or other paperwork with a name and picture on it that feasibly could belong to him. Does not feel the need to volunteer this information because it's much tidier to just go Between.
JinYeong: Learned to drive before he was turned. Is probably capable of doing it now. If asked, will insist that he is absolutely still a very good driver, how dare you suggest otherwise. Absolutely has not bothered to get a valid license, though, and is only marginally safer to ride with than Pet.
Tuata: Is the singular character (as far as I can remember) whose ability to drive is canon. Also, he's a cop, and I'm pretty sure driving is a required skill in that field.
Daniel: Knows how to drive, probably has a valid license, possibly even enjoys it, but doesn't do it much. Gas is expensive, and he probably makes minimum wage.
Morgana: Learned post-series from Daniel. During the series, was busy being [spoilers].
North: Depends how human she is that day, but generally, no.
Marazul: Do his legs work well enough to drive? I know he can't walk, but I feel like there's a space between "can't walk" and "legs totally nonfunctional" and I don't remember where he falls in that. In any case, would probably be a good (if slightly nervous) driver if he had a car adapted to his needs, but thus far has not learned.
Palomena: Doesn't like driving, but is capable of doing it (and even doing it well). Agrees with Athelas that it's much tidier to just go Between; has strong feelings about the difficulty of driving while in armor.
Sarah and Ralph: Are, last I checked, literal children. Sarah might be approaching learner's permit age? I can't remember for sure.
Abigail: Learned to drive like a normal human, but cars are annoyingly unsubtle and easy to track.
Blackpoint: Has figured out self-driving cars; is not interested in sharing this with the rest of the world because they partially run on magic.
Lord Sero: Driving is a mortal practice and is therefore beneath him.
The Golden Git: How dare you suggest that he would need to use a mortal invention for transportation? But also, how dare you suggest that he is incapable of doing so? If the mortals can manage, he certainly can too! (Newsflash: he cannot.)
The King: Can drive, but has a bad habit of lurking in people's blind spots and giving them heart attacks when they try to change lanes.
HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO TAKE THAT GOOD A PHOTO OF YOUR TRADITIONAL ART WHAT??????
It definitely does not look that even at first! It’s mostly a bit of adjusting in the after-photo!! Getting rid of the yellows and as much shadow as possible!! Im not expert by any means, but here’s just a tiny little video of what I do with the photos.
Basically, what you want to achieve is getting the background to look even using exposure and highlights, and if your phone has a blackpoint feature, that also helps a lot! And then once it’s all one shade in the back, all you have to do is desaturate it!!
I just edit my pics in my gallery, it rlly depends on the lighting of the pic. If the lighting is good I usually just turn the saturation down a little bit
But for pics w bad lighting I usually do this and completely eyeball it :
Alias: Winter's Lady
Born:148 (75)/Blackpoint, Nornland
Titles/Positions: Lady
Great Lady of Nornland
Dowager Lady of Nornland
Allegiance(s): House Canneck
House Sintkat
Culture: Northman
Spouse: Iver Sintkat
Issue(s): Sten Sintkat
Emerik Sintkat
Ingi Sintkat
Agnar Sintkat
Alda Sintkat
Father: Nanuk Canneck
Mother: Ylfa Baywell
Appearance
Runa has all the characteristics of people from House Canneck. She has tanned skin, dark hair (which she wears in multiple braids down her back and to the side of her head in loops over her ears) and eyes, a round face, and flat nose. She has small tattooed lines on her face, as is custom in the Black Mountains, that started out black but have faded to a grey-ish blue over time. As she's grown older, her skin has wrinkled and her hair has turned grey.
Character
Runa is a wise woman and was called "an old soul" for most of her life. She kept to the [northern faith], in particular, the Mountain Branch of the faith which is similar to the more well-known main religion but has more emphasis on [?????]. Her daughter, Alda, followed in her own beliefs.
Aldulthood
Later Life