A couple of years ago I bought a new camera, a Fujifilm Finepix. It had a times 50 optical zoom power. I bought it because I wanted to take night photos without a tripod. As such, I thought that a stronger length would work. It works most of the time. Lately, it seems we live in the shaky camera era. All the movies are done with hand held cameras. The issue with that method is that people's hands tend to shake. As such I recommend knee held camera, or head held cameras. When I want to steady my camera, I...

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Giving it some thought, I do not remember seeing a lot of red headed women in paintings. This is in part of due to the general belief that the read heads were demonic. They also did not take too lightly to left handed people. This superstition still continues in the UK. Some families were even bullied out of the neighborhood. It's a bit silly how these things may continue in Europe.  Then again, Europe has always worn two faces. Behind all their glorious glamour there is a dark underbelly that is slowly rotting them away. It has always been so...

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Here is a somewhat old drawing featuring British knight of sorts. This was the sort of fashion that was popular in the British court. They would not battle in those outfits. Rather, they would sit and chat with their fellows about the weather, hunting and occasionally diplomacy. The rapier was also part of the outfit. It evolved from the Spanish, Espada Ropera.  Original specimens are shorter, but extremely sharper. They can pierce right through a pig in one trust. That is how those swords were tested. Poor, pigs. Anyhow, the rapier that evolved from it, took on many forms. Most...

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Here is a nice little maiden in pink. I like pink a lot, it's like my favorite color. I rarely see anything good in pink. Designers tend to avoid it like the plague. The shade of pink in this dress is known as bubble gum pink. The red was like a nice contrast with the lighter shades. The entire ensemble with the gloves and the flowers was pretty common in Parisian party life. The French impressionists were to prominent in popularizing leisure. It was a direct response to the factory life that surrounded them. People needed a break from time...

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Here is a nice little drawing featuring a magic man from a picture book I saw. Originally, his costume was in black and white. In my version, I added a bit of color to all his aspects. I thought he looks interesting enough. During the 1910s, it was the golden age of book illustrations. Books were designed with fancy illustrations to be given as gifts in Christmas. This trend died with the stock market crash. Even when the economy recovered, fancy books became too expensive to produce. As such, it was abandoned by the publishing companies. There are notable exceptions....

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