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Thought I'd try my hand at the ''stamp'' collecting...LOL I have yet to come up with the ''political'' or like stamp, but I like dragons, so here's one of my fractal dragons from my Dragonflight series--"Dragonflight IV" [link] .*patrx
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Thanks much!! That's quite a collection...including those in the news story..
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I only have my free subscription for one more day, but I added this most awesome stamp because I LOVE IT!
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Thank you for the 
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Awesome stamp! I would like to add it to my journal page too! You know, when I make stamps, I post a larger copy, 500 x 300, just so people can see the detail, especially if it is a fractal or flame! Then of course the thumb fits! But actually I have made some of my stamps larger .
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I never thought of that...how do you post two different sized pix??
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It is easy, you just set the size for the post, and DA sets the thumb size!
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I thought one would have to submit 2 different sizes..one for the preview window and then the actual size. I think all the stamps are a standard 99x56pixels
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no, apparently not, let me see if I can find one of mine and give you the link!
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This is beautiful.. I have added it to my journal.. I love dragons..
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Thank you...glad you like it!
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Welcome.. I hope you don't mind, my adding it to my journal..
Wonderful dragon stories.. I read them as they were published.. She has always been my favorite writer.. I still go back to visit now and then.. I'll read most anything with dragons in it..
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Not a problem...I guess that's what stamps are for...
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Mine is too.. I miss reading, but having a computer and fractal programs makes up for it.. My only access to books is online, and with my funds it is impossible.. Whe Ido manage to get to a bookstore with a little money I buy everything I can find.. Then I make it last.. I allow myself no more than 10 pages each evening..
Thank you for the stamp.. I love them..
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I used to get Analog magazine which quelled my SciFi craving, but the price got a bit high, but I still get the Readers Digest...but the computer even cuts into my reading it, too.
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I used to be able to read like that, but now it's impossible.. There isn't a bookstore in this town that has anything worth reading.. Every one here reads romances.. Yuck.. I like adventure SiFi and Fantasy.. This town thinks I'm nuts.. 
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I know what you mean. But, we now have a couple good sized bookstores here, but I don't get into town much, being in a wheelchair. But, there's always Amazon.com which I've used on occasion. It's a nice thing about the 'net....lot's of choices. And, the bookstores here have 'net links. Considering the cost of getting a ride on the local Transit bus, mail is a lot cheaper doing my shopping.
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I use Amazon a lot.. They have some great prices on used books.. It's the only way I get anything to read.. I am just a little old fashioned.. I love to pick up a book and peek inside.. It's one thing I miss with.. It also makes it hard to find new authors.. I grew up on the Tom Swift, H.G. Wells and Jules Vern in my grandfather's library.. There was a huge collection of books in my room at his house.. I have been reading, since before I started school..
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You sound like me....I started out my reading with an Encyclopedia collection that the folks bought when I was about 4 or so.
Some neat books that my grandparents had were these "Little Big Books" that were like...Little Orphan Annie, Mandrake the Magician, The Phantom and stuff like that.
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Oh yes.. There were the Doyle Fairytale books and the original Wizard of Oz books... A book on the history of the world and a full set of encyclopedias.. The most interesting reading, were the famiy diaries.. Written on the 1830's, detailing the wagon train trip from Rochester, New York to Clinton County Michigan.. What an adventure they had.. I loved spending time at my grandparents.. My parents always had private libraries, as well.. Reading was important.. Books are your friends, was the motto.. I remember the polio scares.. Some of my classmates got it.. Only a few survived.. I went to a one room school.. One teacher, 8 grades..
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I think grandma was most concerned because my uncle had a mild case of polio when he was young. He beat it and I remember watching him run in track meets when I was in grade school. He says he'd cough up blood after them, sometimes when he pushed himself. Grandma had also spent time in a sanatarium for TB when she was young, as well as one of her cousins and an uncle. Reading the obits of some of the ancestors on that side mentioned that a number of them died from complications of TB, too. It seems like it was prevalent back then. We all got tested for it when I was in grade school, too. I remember getting those polio shots when I was in grade school...boy I hated shots back then and would conveniently lose the forms on the way home...LOL
One of my classmates from highschool used to teach in one of those ''one-roomers''. I think there still is one or two still in existence here in North Dakota. We had one of those original Oz books, too. I think one of my sisters has it now. It was a big book...with a mess of stories of Oz. One of dad's sister's gave us a whole library of fairy tales and folk tales. There must have been close to 15 of them or more of tales from around the world. We had lots of neat books. Then, the folks also subscribed to the Readers Digest condensed books which gave me lots to read, too. When dad became editor at the local newspaper, publishers would send him books to review and we got some great books that way, too. One of them that I have is a 2 volume History of WWII written by Winston Churchill....it was a neat set.
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That history sounds fascinating.. Probably much more truthful than what is being taught in school these days.. I just love old books..
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I think my oldest is an 1883 or5 edition of Alexander Dumas' "Daughter of Monte Cristo"..
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Mom has a set of English encyclopedias published in either the late 1880's or early 1890's.. I would have to get them out of the garage and look.. I think there are a couple of books older than that.. My grandparents foolishly burned all the old books, and other things in the house when they renovated the old kitchen.. For some reason they thought no one would want them.. It hurts to this day.. All the old family photos, gone.. What few we have are treasured.. I wish they had asked.. Some of the books there were published in the early 1850's..
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I know what you mean....I hate to see old books destroyed. And, the pix....that should be unforgiveable... The only thing that gets me in all the pix that I recently ''inherited'' is that there is not identification on most of them. And, some of them still have tape and adhesive marks indicating that they had been in albums at one time. I guess grandma's cousin ran out of time writing notes on them before she ended up in a nursing home prior to passing away. Then I guess her husband packed everything up in a box and that's where they stayed until he passed away and his relatives dropped the boxes off at the museum there in Neillsville to collect more dust...
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Mom and I go through all the old pics and identify each one.. I am working on getting everything on disk so that if the originals are lost, I will still have the pics.. I go to the local antique store once in a while and buy old photos.. Seeing them there unloved and unwanted hurts.. I may not know who they are but they are cared for with me.. Some I will use for photomanipiulations and other's just to have.
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I belong to a group that hosts a county website in Wisconsin where my mom's mother grew up and on occasion, they post old pix with a "who is it" tag, looking to see if someone recognizes the people in the pix. On occasion, I edit pix for them to make them more viewable in articles and such that appear on the website....kind of a clean and repair job..
One of these days I have to go through my mom's boxes of slides to see what are there. I don't have a projector, so I have to get myself a viewer or do a one-by-one on my scanner which will be a slow job. Now I wish I hadn't given my nephew my 4'' magnifying glass which I could use with the little light table I have, with which I could view a mess of slides at one time. It always seems to be maΓ±ana....never getting done.
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That sounds like quite a project.. No one in my family ever got into the slides or movies.. I have set about restoring old family photos to that they can be put on disk.. This should help some of the younger members know where they come from and maybe tragedies like what my grandparent's did, won't happen again.. Each image will have an explination of who the person and the realtionship to the family.. There are also more family reunions, this helps too..
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Mom and I used to shoot everything on slides as it was cheaper to process the pix...under $2. But, I noticed that the dye colors in them have been shifting on the pix with age.
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Many of the pics that were taken in teh 60's and 70's have suffered greatly from color change.. I have been able to save some but most are a total loss.. Thisgs just wereen't done quite right.. I dont' know if it was the paper, or the dies in the inks, or a combination.. I have saved what I could, and have them on disk.. I just hope the disks hold up....
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Storage is a big deal with photos. Moisture can be a killer, as well as sunlight/ultra violet. Black and whites hold up better than the color of past years. And, the type of paper can make a difference, too. Archival type of photo paper is the best and is the most permanent. The newer disks are better than the early types of them. Just remember to keep them in their cases and it helps to have copies as backups in case one scratches one of them.
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Everything is backed up at least three times.. I learned the hard way..
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This is beautiful.. I have added it to my journal.. I love dragons..
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to bad it's a bit small (and that i can't put stamps in my journals
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All the stamps are this size. It was made using my "Dragonflight IV" wallpaper for the subject.
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yeah you'r right sry 
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Maybe adding a preview that's larger might help...I don't know...I haven't tried that. You can see the full sized pix of the stamp in my gallery. It's name was "Dragonflight IV" I'd post the link here, but the gallery feature is temporarily down on a maintenance thing...or something.
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i once commented on one of your dragonflights (atleast i think
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I'm sure you have. I think I remember your name from earlier comments.
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whiiii i got subscribed so i'm gone put this stamp in my journal !
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Yay!!
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*sticks it in her journal* Sheer loveliness, I'm going to enjoy my trip through the rest of your gallery muchly methinks.
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Thank you...my first stamp collector...LOL Hope you enjoy the trip through my gallery, too!
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I've enjoyed your gallery so much I've featured you in my journal. 
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I'm glad to hear that! Thank you!! My gallery is kind of a history of my progress in fractals. Once I found that I could make fractal transparencies with the Apophysis, I really started having fun making collages of them to produce larger pictures.
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Mmm, I remember when I was taught how to do transparancies. I was utterly over the moon. I'm ever so addicted now, Apodiction.
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The transparencies sure make it easy for my collages. And, yup!! What an addiction! The one thing that I love about fractals in general, is that one never seems to know what will emerge from them next....always something new! I can't seem to go a day without opening the Apophysis at least once to see what turns up.
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It's a rare thing when Apophysis isn't open here, my fiance and I both have and use it often.
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LOL
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