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 11/07/2010 10:19:59 AM · #176

Day 7

and because I am enjoying myself so much, here's a re-do of an image from earlier in the week - amazing how the final result can change so much.

11/07/2010 10:45:16 AM · #177
11/07/2010 11:19:40 AM · #178

11/07/2010 11:24:52 AM · #179
11/07/2010 12:12:51 PM · #180
11/07/2010 12:33:33 PM · #181
*Yawn* - morning...late:-) Quick post since I have several million things to get to and not enough time.

:-) :-) So who can tell me where Hy Brazil lies?:-):-) :-)


Where the Wind Blows
 11/07/2010 12:58:13 PM · #182
Joining in the fun! I love overlays so I just could not resist throwing in a few images : ) Don't know how many I'll be able to post. We'll see.





11/07/2010 01:21:42 PM · #183
Is it just me, or is anybody else getting a bit addicted?
 11/07/2010 01:28:51 PM · #184
Originally posted by CNovack:
*Yawn* - morning...late:-) Quick post since I have several million things to get to and not enough time.

:-) :-) So who can tell me where Hy Brazil lies?:-):-) :-)


Where the Wind Blows


As per Wikipedia:

Brazil, also known as Hy-Brazil or several other variants,[1] is a phantom island which features in many Irish myths. It was said to be cloaked in mist, except for one day each seven years, when it became visible but could still not be reached. It probably has similar roots to St. Brendan's Island. The names Brazil and Hy-Brazil are thought to come from the Irish Uí Breasail (meaning "descendants (i.e., clan) of Breasal"), one of the ancient clans of northeastern Ireland. cf. Old Irish: Ã: island; bres: beauty, worth; great, mighty.[2]
[ edit ] Searches for the island

It appears that as the north Atlantic was explored, the name of Brazil may have been attached to a real place. A Catalan map of about 1480 labels two islands "Illa de brasil", one to the south west of Ireland (where the mythical place was supposed to be) and one south of "Illa verde" or Greenland. Expeditions left Bristol in 1480 and 1481 to search for it, and a letter written shortly after the return of John Cabot from his expedition in 1497 reports that land found by Cabot had been "discovered in the past by the men from Bristol who found Brasil".[3]

Some historians[who?] claim that the navigator Pedro Ãlvares Cabral thought that he had reached this island in 1500, thus naming the country of Brazil.[citation needed] However, Cabral didn't choose the name 'Brazil'. The country was at first named Ilha de Vera Cruz (Island of the True Cross), later Terra de Santa Cruz (Land of the Holy Cross) and still later 'Brazil'. The generally accepted theory states that it was renamed for the brazilwood, which has an extreme red color (so "brasil" derived from "brasa": ember), a plant very valuable in Portuguese commerce and abundant in the new-found land.

The island has also been identified with Terceira in the Azores, which was at one time named Brazil, while another phantom island sometimes known as Brazil was the Isle of Mam.

Others[who?] claimed to have seen the island, or even landed on it, the last supposed sighting being in 1872. Roderick OâFlaherty in A Chorographical Description of West or H-Iar Connaught (1684) tells us "There is now living, Morogh O'Ley (Murrough à Laoí), who immagins he was himself personally on O'Brasil for two days, and saw out of it the iles of Aran, Golamhead, Irrosbeghill, and other places of the west continent he was acquainted with."

On maps, the island was shown as being circular, often with a central strait or river running east-west across its diameter. Despite the failure of attempts to find it, it appeared regularly on maps lying south west of Galway Bay from 1325 until 1865, by which time it was called Brazil Rock.
 11/07/2010 01:31:02 PM · #185
Originally posted by salmiakki:
Is it just me, or is anybody else getting a bit addicted?


I've always been an addict but once these things get going, I just go crazy. I already have another one but I'm refraining, since I may not have one for tomorrow if I don't. LOL I love the complete freedom of creativity I'm having.
 11/07/2010 02:56:55 PM · #186
11.7
11/07/2010 06:02:33 PM · #187


It's raining here today...
 11/07/2010 06:06:27 PM · #188


sorry - Bear made me crop it. Here's the new version



Message edited by author 2010-11-07 18:16:55.
 11/07/2010 06:19:00 PM · #189
nonononoNO!

See the little, tiny strip across the bottom where the texture didn't reach the bottom edge? Like, 2 or 4 pixel strip? THAT's what I mean :-) The FOREGROUND on the original version is beautiful, don't you dare crop it out...

In fact, how can you believe I would have suggested that? LOL...

R.

Message edited by author 2010-11-07 18:20:13.
 11/07/2010 06:24:45 PM · #190
Fine! You should know by now that my eyes are good enough to catch that. Here ya go. Now you have to transfer you wonderful comment from the original to this one so that I can keep it. :)



Message edited by author 2010-11-07 18:35:09.
 11/07/2010 06:30:16 PM · #191
Originally posted by vawendy:
Fine! You should know by now that my eyes are good enough to catch that. Here ya go. Now you have to transfer you wonderful comment from the original to this one so that I can keep it. :)



You can just reload this version overtop the other one. That way you don't lose views/comments! That's what I do.
 11/07/2010 06:33:50 PM · #192
Originally posted by Kelli:
Originally posted by vawendy:
Fine! You should know by now that my eyes are good enough to catch that. Here ya go. Now you have to transfer you wonderful comment from the original to this one so that I can keep it. :)



You can just reload this version overtop the other one. That way you don't lose views/comments! That's what I do.


I've actually tried that before, and couldn't figure out why it didn't work. Now I realized that it worked fine, I just needed to reload. Thanks!

getting rid of the other one.

Message edited by author 2010-11-07 18:35:01.
 11/07/2010 06:45:47 PM · #193
Originally posted by Jutilda:
Originally posted by CNovack:

:-) :-) So who can tell me where Hy Brazil lies?:-):-) :-)


Where the Wind Blows


As per Wikipedia:

Brazil, also known as Hy-Brazil or several other variants,[1] is a phantom island which features in many Irish myths. It was said to be cloaked in mist, except for one day each seven years, when it became visible but could still not be reached. It probably has similar roots to St. Brendan's Island. The names Brazil and Hy-Brazil are thought to come from the Irish Uí Breasail (meaning "descendants (i.e., clan) of Breasal"), one of the ancient clans of northeastern Ireland. cf. Old Irish: Ã: island; bres: beauty, worth; great, mighty.[2]
[ edit ] Searches for the island



Give the lady a Banana Split with a cherry on top! :-) Oh and thanks for that link there were some neat things I did not know in there too.

Hmmm, I am beginning to see a pattern of mythical, magical, otherworldly or fairytale take on this SC Overlay challenge.

Message edited by author 2010-11-07 18:48:13.
 11/07/2010 07:10:37 PM · #194


Sorry I've been such a lame contributor. Struggling to find time, and get inspired to create meaningful overlays. I'm on the fence about this one.
 11/07/2010 07:13:08 PM · #195


I went out of town this weekend and have been working on two challenge entries. So I am a bit behind. This WAS going to be my triptych entry, it didn't look half as good without the overlay. I have been a slacker on commenting, just so many good entries it is hard to keep up.
 11/07/2010 07:54:45 PM · #196


Ok. One more before I go out.
 11/07/2010 09:05:19 PM · #197
Having so much fun that I will have caught up with other participants tomorrow. Nothing like some overlay fun to salvage photos you thought had no potential :)




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