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Descent Chapter 21 Days went by without a visit from Silas. By the end of the week, she asked Helgi again if she had seen him. "No, he does his chores late in the evening and is gone before morning meal. She had considered searching the corridors for him but knew it was now getting more dangerous for her to be seen. He would either come to her when he felt he could or not at all. Still she missed him sorely and was ecstatic when Helgi joined them one night a week later, knitting in hand.
They had moved the chairs to the portico to catch the evening breeze, a lantern hanging on a wire frame between them. Helgi sat on a low stool.

Descent Chapter 23 "Tomorrow you will travel" Loki stroked the redness on her cheek where Thor had connected with her. "I shall charge Helgi with your care. I shall provide you with enough coin and set you up in Rialo with Ren until your time. Then you will rejoin me with our child. I will speak with Father as soon as you are safely away and when he sees you with that little baby cradled in your arms, surely he shall not be able to deny you."
She put her hands up to let him slide her robe over her head. He did so, ending up with his hands upon her belly. "I shall miss th

Descent Chapter 20 On the second shake, she opened her eyes to see Loki standing over her. "Get up, get dressed."
She lifted her head to look out towards the portico where the sun had not quite made the horizon. "It is so early." She flopped her head down on the pillow and was rewarded as the coverlet was thrown back from her.
"Get up," He shook her again.
She swung her feet around to the floor and groaned, "I am up, Odin's beard."
He handed her a pair of breeches and a tunic. "Put these on."
She looked at them, "A dress would hide me better."
"No one will notice you tod

Descent Chapter 17 Thus it came to pass a week later that Thor showed up at Loki's door one evening.
“If you will not venture out, I shall have to come to you, brother.”
Eidra had been sitting in her chair knitting, chatting beside Loki. Helgi had taught her to knit some weeks past when she had expressed an interest in it while watching her one night beside the kitchen fire. Eidra rose and walked to Thor, holding out her arms as he draped his cloak over them. While he straightened his tunic, she artfully draped the cloak over her chair, hiding her name carved there, and bowed to him.
“You are dismissed

Descent Chapter 11The young Alfari boy poked his head in the tent flap and peered inside, on his face a look of sheer terror. Loki gestured for him to come inside and he bolted through the flap bowing deep as he reached him and holding out a tied parcel. Eidra watched Loki take the parcel from him, walk to the writing desk and lift the lid and take out his pouch, open it and drop a couple coin into the boy's hand. The boy smiled, bowed again and ran from the tent.
Loki looked at the parcel in his hand, "I shall return shortly, I would like to read this correspondence in private."
Eidra nodded, "I will go out

Descent Chapter 9 It was not long before he returned. She had brought some mending to occupy her and was sitting cross legged on her cot when he threw the tent flap open and walked in with a cloth bundle in his hands. He knelt on the rug before her and set the bundle in her lap unwrapping it. Inside lay half a loaf of bread, a small capon, and a baked apple wrapped in it's own pastry.
"I daresay this is better than you will have had." He tore off a piece of bread and held it

Descent Chapter 8 She was startled from sleep by the sound of the chamber door being swung wide. She opened her eyes and raised her head to see Loki striding past her cot to draw the heavy drapes aside. The sun was not yet over the horizon but it was growing lighter in the sky. She sat up and stood from the cot, trying to steady herself.
"My Lord?" She followed him to the portico where he now stood, staring out at the city blanketed in a soft coat of snow.
"My Lord?"
When he turned to her, she could see the grey hollows beneath his eyes, the look of exhaustion.
"What is wrong?"
His frown frightened her,

Descent Chapter 25When Silas finally set the spade on the ground beside the tent, the sky was starting to brighten on the horizon. The camp was still quiet. He crept in and dropped down beside Helgi and Eidra. Helgi had her hand at Eidra's back, as if she had been rubbing it. Silas tapped Helgi on the shoulder,
"She is with Ren." He whispered.
Helgi's hand came up to cover his, "Dear boy, we are ever in your debt. Lay down and rest while you still can."
Silas lay next to Helgi, staring up at the roof of the tent, "How fared she after I left?"
"Mmm, it took much to console her. This will go far in easing h

Descent Chapter 24 “My dear, you should not worry yourself about such matters as these.”
Frigga glared at Odin, “Do not patronize me. I will worry as I please.”
Odin turned another page of the tome he was looking at and continued reading, drumming his fingers on the tall stand at which he stood.
“What is the use of worrying when it does little else but give you bad humors?” Odin leaned closer to the page, following the words with his finger.
Frigga wanted to throw the book to the side and jump atop the stand, screaming. Instead , she walked up to him and stood at his side. “The laws of the High Court of Alfheim?&r

Descent Chapter 22 "I have never been so uncomfortable in my life." Eidra groaned. She straightened in her chair and held up her finished blanket, "And so proud. Look, my first big piece."
Helgi fingered the blanket, "The green and yellow edging are lovely, a royal coverlet."
Eidra proceeded to fold it in her lap, "I had to order Loki to go with Thor riding today. He was at the door this morning, demanding that Loki come with him. I stayed seated with the blanket on my lap and he scowled at me but I did not waver. I thought he was going to upbraid me for being so impudent but he simply grabbed Loki's arm and dragged him out of

Descent Chapter 13 The disc twirled on the leather thong back and forth as she spun it, the colors in the opal reflecting the firelight.
Loki leaned back on his hands, his legs out straight covered by his robe, his bare feet warmed by the fire. Eidra sat beside him, facing him, her back to the fire.

Descent Chapter 10 Voices outside the tent roused her from sleep. She had turned to her side in the night and now was facing into the tent interior, Loki's arm wrapped tightly around her waist, his forehead pressed against the nape of her neck. She made to push his arm from her and he clung tighter to her.
"My Lord, let me go," She whispered, frantic, "There are people outside."
She made another push and felt his arm let loose. She threw the blankets from her, pulling them over him as she darted away and reached the side of her cot just as the tent flap opened.
Odin trained his good eye on her. "My son

Descent Chapter 7 That morning when she took the tray for his morning meal, he announced to her that she would be an attendant that evening at the feast of Mabon. "It is high time you learned. You will be pouring wine for myself and for other guests. You shall have need of a better dress than that of a chamber maid. Have Helgi provide it for you."
"My Lord, I do not know how to be an attendant. I am just that, a chamber maid."
Loki stood from the bed. "You will learn. I have ordered it thus you have no choice. Now go, bring the tray to the kitchen and speak with Helgi. I have a meeting with Father and the oaf

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CP Rail Holiday Train 2009by ~funygirl38

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An HDR shot of this year's CP Rail Holiday train sitting at the Fort Edward Train station. I hope I didn't blow this one out..the original was too staid for a grand engine and a wonderful event as this.

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~Quipith Oct 21, 2010

Aww! CP Rail!

~funygirl38 Oct 21, 2010 Hobbyist Photographer

Anything but Guilford...

~Quipith Oct 21, 2010

I have always liked the CP liverys..

~funygirl38 Oct 22, 2010 Hobbyist Photographer

Yeah they have a nice paint scheme, I always liked the D&H scheme too although they're all but gone.

~ebbixx Apr 15, 2010 Professional Photographer

Nicely done. I'm awed that you managed to get the people in the shot without motion artifacts, at least none that I could see. The HDR adds a lot of interest to this shot, for instance, emphasizing the sort of rainbow reflection from the left windshield panel. It bears a lot of repeated examination!

~funygirl38 Apr 15, 2010 Hobbyist Photographer

Thank you, I did the HDR from one shot done in RAW format and used Photoshop's Topaz plug in. I do like that utility. I thought HDR would help this shot shine a little more since it was such an overcast day and the original had a rather dull cast. Thanks again for the compliments, they're much appreciated!

~ebbixx Apr 15, 2010 Professional Photographer

Ah, that makes sense then. Don't tell anyone, but I've been finding tone mapping of single exposure RAW images tempting as well, at least in some cases.

I'm sure that torques some of the purists doing 7 precisely bracketed exposures, but in a lot of cases it seems like the preferable approach, if one avoids overdoing things (or if you just want some of the characteristics of the tone mapping process without hours of manipulation by hand).

~funygirl38 Apr 15, 2010 Hobbyist Photographer

Lol. Secret's safe with me. I did a little tone mapping myself but Topaz seems to really get them spot on..and don't get me wrong, I like doing several exposures too, just sometimes one has to plan to do the thing then execute it...maybe with the weather improving I will get out a bit more to experiment..and you're right, HDR from a single image or multiples can go horribly wrong if you blow out the highlights or the saturation, too much or too little noise..so many variables and so much to keep learning, that's half the fun.

~Archangelical Dec 29, 2009

I love the texture of the sky in this shot, and that wreath is adorable!

~funygirl38 Dec 29, 2009 Hobbyist Photographer

HDR is such fun to use, I'm glad I decided to walk to the end of the train to get the pic.

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