Field of Dreams

If you are an avid fan of photography, then you should be made aware of this fantastic event that occurs each week called Photohunts.  I've done many photo hunts with this group in the past and they find the most fantastic, out of the way, amazing sims!  I'm not sure how they find all of these wonderful treasures, but they do.  If you want to take a little peek at them, you will find them here.
Thanks to this group, I can also bring you this wonderful sim, which was featured back in February by the Photohunts group called Field of Dreams.  The amount of detail and the feel of the sim is blended perfectly together to create a rustic and charming atmosphere throughout the sim.  There is quite a number of great areas for photography at the sim, allowing for quite a variety of different shots that can be done here, keeping in mind that the land does have a moderate rating, so no xrated photos please.
As you will see from some of the photos I took while I was there, I had alot of fun with both windlight and angles on some of the shots.  I hope you enjoy!

Telrunya - Forest of Dreams

I admit, I have a deep fondness for fantasy themes that go with Fae or Elven.  It's probably from my days in roleplaying, when I first started in SL.  The outfits and looks were amazing and the only limitation was what your mind put on you.
Telrunya truly fed all those things in me and more.  To say that this sim is breathtaking does not do it justice.  The designer, Nessa Zamora; not only invites us into her dreams and fantasy world, she creates a dreamscape of color and composition that blends, flows together and allows her guests to indulge in a plethora of different areas filled with fantastic beauty and secret gardens.  As she states in her own profile, "A haven for  those who look for a tranquil environment, a home for fairies, fauns, elves and those who love to be lost in a dreamworld... "
**Side note:  the sim is not only amazing and beautiful to see, it is also graphically demanding.  This is not for those computers that are faint of heart or weak in the graphics card division."

Credit:
Sim designer and owner:  Nessa Zamora
Telrunya

Foul Whisperings: Etheral and Dark Beauty that it is.

     I recall coming across this sim a couple of years ago.  Foul Whisperings is hauntingly beautiful and almost ethereal in it's atmosphere.  According to the sim owners description, it's a symbolic treatment of the key elements or themes of Shakespeare's play, Macbeth. 
     I admit, I'm a geek; I love Shakespeare's works and in fact own a very impressive collection of his plays so a sim dedicated to one of his most well known plays is intriguing to me, to say the least. 
     The sim is designed with different scenes from the play, incorporated in the design to create an amazing experience all together.  This is a sim that honestly deserved to be explored slowly, so that you can discover all the different areas.  There is, according to the notecard that you can receive, an experience that has also been set up, so that you can fully be immersed in the atmosphere that they designers have produced.
For photographers or photo hobbyists, the sim sports some very impressive and diverse areas that are wonderful for different photographic themes.  From dark, maybe gothic look, to an ethereal and possibly even a macabre theme, it's all located at the sim for your pleasure.  
As you will see, I went with more of a fantasy/medieval theme for my own outfit, so there is a few more looks I hadn't mentioned earlier that is also doable at this fantastic sim.  Enjoy!

Credits for Foul Whisperings:
Developed by Kate Richards, Angela Thomas and Kerreen Ely Harper through a grant funded by the Australian Council for the Arts Literature Board, and sponsored by investor partner, the New Media Consortium.

Producer: Kate Richards (Nini Dubrovny)
Director: Kerreen Ely-Harper (Dorothy Porta)
Virtual Worlds Content Designer: Angela Thomas (Anya Ixchel)
Design Consultant: Adam Nash (Adam Ramona)

The Trace: A new beginning

Well here I am, putting fingers to keyboard once more and blogging again.  With several shake ups in my SL world happening, I needed to find an outlet for myself, since I found alot of time on my hands suddenly; when the sim I managed for 2 years suddenly closed.  Since I have an overabundance of LM's in an overly bloated inventory, I figured why not blog once more...
I choose The Trace since I have been hearing others mentioning this names a few times on both FB and inworld.  Curiosity piqued, I grabbed my handy dandy LM and popped over there.  Impressed is one word that does applied, along with Wowed.  The sim has been done with a beach style theme, with rolling hills and cliff sides placed in such a way that it blends perfectly.  With an eye to detail, the designer recreated something I would see in RL, like in a little town in Nova Scotia for example, with the waves gently lapping at the shore and seagulls singing in the sky overhead and fields of flowers waving in the breeze around me.  Picturesque and peaceful are two words that come to mind when I visited this beautifully done sim but don't just take my word for it, take a peek at the photos and do visit The Trace and see for yourself.

For the most part, I went with the windlight settings that the sim already has set up, though in the one of myself, I'm using Xanthe's Flawlessness windlight and in the photo of the seagull/horizon, that is the Barcelona windlight setting along with the glassy setting for the water.