Thursday, December 31, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Some redeployments in the fleet
Some of the ships of the Wild Fleet have moved to different ports in the last days.
It started when Giz asked me for some naval support at the new Lost Lagoon of Hematite Island.
I moved the Star of Winter there and I think she is contributing to the beauty of the place.
Then , the Hunting Star finally came back to the Beaumont Sea after a long cruise of almost two monts who took her to the celebrations of the Fleet Week and in the northern waters of mainland.
And last but not least, the ships of Task Group 2.2 ( *grin* ), the Fighting Star and the Exploring Star, usually patrolling the high seas are now in the Bay of Mishra for some resupply, graciously hosted by Miss Alpha.
So long
W
It started when Giz asked me for some naval support at the new Lost Lagoon of Hematite Island.
I moved the Star of Winter there and I think she is contributing to the beauty of the place.
Then , the Hunting Star finally came back to the Beaumont Sea after a long cruise of almost two monts who took her to the celebrations of the Fleet Week and in the northern waters of mainland.
And last but not least, the ships of Task Group 2.2 ( *grin* ), the Fighting Star and the Exploring Star, usually patrolling the high seas are now in the Bay of Mishra for some resupply, graciously hosted by Miss Alpha.
So long
W
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Tinies Caroling
I think that a group of tinies singing their own version of the Chrismas Carols is something nobody should miss !
Friday, December 25, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
the Christmas Ball at Wild Castle
The ball was great fun mainly thanks to Miss Snook's wonderful musical program.
Happy Holidays to all !
Happy Holidays to all !
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
White exhibit at the Bright Star Gallery
In order to celebrate the season, I set up an exhibit of First and Second life images with the common theme of the snow, at the Bright Star Gallery in Winterfell Laudanum.
Enjoy :)
W
Thursday, December 10, 2009
the day the Beaumont Sea froze
the are some great pictures being posted for the Winter Fell Photo Contest, and I invite all to have a look and even join and enter your work. Today this image appeared, by Anuneo, and I find it particularly nice, having captured my ships in a beautiful winter scenery.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Christmas Ball at Wild Castle
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
a visit to Wild Castle
I have started building a castle rather soon in my SL experience and I have almost always thrown them away after a few days or weeks.
Wild Castle must be my fourth or fifth attempt. It did not start seriously and grew very slowly. I think I laid down the first prims over a year ago. For many months I kept the prims there always ready to delete them should any need arise. And once or twice per month I went there fixing a prim here and changing a texture there.
And after a while I realized that the castle had taken shape and I had began to like it and I was ruling out the idea to delete it any time soon.
The castle is up in the sky, 3000m above Winterfell Ebonshire. Not because of any particular privacy concerns but because I like Ebonshire as it was originally intended by Miss Serra, a place of forests and small cottages.
It is not as "beautiful" or elegant as many other castles you can find in SL but I like the solid look it has when looked from the outside, while I have worked (and I am still working) more indoor where elegance is concerned.
Outside the main door there are some gardens. Not a big space, they are constrained by the shape of the parcels, but the give a good feeling when approacing the castle proper.
The main door gets you inside the Grand Hall. It is a big space decorated with paintings of sailships and naval battles.
The Grand Hall is big enough to be a ballroom and I think it is worth to host a Ball soon there. :) I am organizing an event close to Christmas. I hope it works out well.
The first floor is made by a living space. I haven't finished to furnish all the rooms, but I have always considered it to be a place of knowledge, so books are at home there.
The most significant rooms are the Library and my Study Room. Other rooms to be decorated and furnished soon
Wild Castle must be my fourth or fifth attempt. It did not start seriously and grew very slowly. I think I laid down the first prims over a year ago. For many months I kept the prims there always ready to delete them should any need arise. And once or twice per month I went there fixing a prim here and changing a texture there.
And after a while I realized that the castle had taken shape and I had began to like it and I was ruling out the idea to delete it any time soon.
The castle is up in the sky, 3000m above Winterfell Ebonshire. Not because of any particular privacy concerns but because I like Ebonshire as it was originally intended by Miss Serra, a place of forests and small cottages.
It is not as "beautiful" or elegant as many other castles you can find in SL but I like the solid look it has when looked from the outside, while I have worked (and I am still working) more indoor where elegance is concerned.
Outside the main door there are some gardens. Not a big space, they are constrained by the shape of the parcels, but the give a good feeling when approacing the castle proper.
The main door gets you inside the Grand Hall. It is a big space decorated with paintings of sailships and naval battles.
The Grand Hall is big enough to be a ballroom and I think it is worth to host a Ball soon there. :) I am organizing an event close to Christmas. I hope it works out well.
The first floor is made by a living space. I haven't finished to furnish all the rooms, but I have always considered it to be a place of knowledge, so books are at home there.
The most significant rooms are the Library and my Study Room. Other rooms to be decorated and furnished soon
The roof level is an open space where I am considering some gardens and fountains. It also gives access to the top level of the towers, where I am creating some guest room, should the need arise.
Enough for today ... have fun with your first and second lives :)
Cheers
W
Friday, November 27, 2009
the Star of Winter
My new ship of the line, from the Black Spot Shipyards, moored in Winterfell Eventide
Thursday, November 26, 2009
the Hunting Star moored in Mishra on her way back from New Babbage to Winterfell
I stopped in the Bay of Mishra with the Hunting Star on the way back to her home port in Eventide. Okay, if you look at the grid it is not exactly the shortest route but SL allows you to do that ;)
The Fleet Week was extremely successful for my TSS Brigg. Despite losing the final of the Windjammers Race the ship was voted as the winner of the Shipbuilding Contest. Well, I did not even know that the ship had entered the contest, so I was quite pleased that among so many ironclads in a Steampunk region, a sailship was voted as the best. Of course I have no merit at all, since I just bought the ship and the the credit is due to the skilled builder, Martina Lewsey, who I visited at the TSS shipyard, in Jabberwock, to share the news and to congratulate.
Some of the Mishra residents tell me that they enjoy the presence of the ships in the bay from time to time, so I thought to allow them to admire this beautiful ship for some days
And after all , there is something new in Eventide to be taken into account. But this is for the next time ;)
W
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Video of the Fleet Week
This is an absolutely astounding video about the Fleet Week in New Babbage.
Thank you Loki !
Thank you Loki !
Sunday, November 22, 2009
the Windjammers Race
The Tall Ships Race was, together with the submarine race and the Uniform Ball, one of the Saturday Events of the Fleet Week in New Babbage.
The event was fun, with 3 match races: two semifinals and a final.
There were just 4 entrants, but that did not make it less interesting: Mr. Tinus Koskinen, Miss BlackOpal Galicia, Admiral Bridget Jennings, and yours truly, Captain Wildstar Beaumont. There was also a good diversity in the ships that entered the race: a Schooner from the Black Spot Shipyard, a Trudeau, a ship from the the Southern Cross Shipyard, and my TSS Brigg.
The sail field was challenging. A loop around several sims, with some tricky crossings that let you out of control for several seconds, a narrow path with many gates to go through which made it difficult to pass, once one was behind and a very tricky area where one had to sail into the wind with the danger of getting stuck.
In the first match race I faced Miss BlackOpal. It was a strange race: I believe her ship is not SL-wind propelled, which gave her an advantage at start, and I had to trail for a while. However, once my ship was up to speed it looked clear to me that the physical vehicle was sailing smoother and faster than the non-physical one. It is a pity that Black Spot ships do not work with SL wind. They are probably the most beautiful sailships in SL.
The second race saw Admiral Jennings with her SCS Battle Schooner to prevail on Mr. Koskinen. I missed the details of the race because I crashed right after my my stage.
In the final I had to face Admiral Jennings. There is little to tell. After the start, when we were head to head, she took the lead and I was not able to close the gap. On the side opposite the start line I had hope for a while to be able to catch her, but after a while the sailed away again and I was able to see her just from a distance.
Congratulations to Admiral Jennings for a perfect race.
The crowd filled the viewing area and seemed to have a lot of fun, greatly enjoying the event.
Being busy in the race I did not have much time to take many pictures, but I invite everybody to visit this wonderful selection of PJ Trenton's images
The event was fun, with 3 match races: two semifinals and a final.
There were just 4 entrants, but that did not make it less interesting: Mr. Tinus Koskinen, Miss BlackOpal Galicia, Admiral Bridget Jennings, and yours truly, Captain Wildstar Beaumont. There was also a good diversity in the ships that entered the race: a Schooner from the Black Spot Shipyard, a Trudeau, a ship from the the Southern Cross Shipyard, and my TSS Brigg.
The sail field was challenging. A loop around several sims, with some tricky crossings that let you out of control for several seconds, a narrow path with many gates to go through which made it difficult to pass, once one was behind and a very tricky area where one had to sail into the wind with the danger of getting stuck.
In the first match race I faced Miss BlackOpal. It was a strange race: I believe her ship is not SL-wind propelled, which gave her an advantage at start, and I had to trail for a while. However, once my ship was up to speed it looked clear to me that the physical vehicle was sailing smoother and faster than the non-physical one. It is a pity that Black Spot ships do not work with SL wind. They are probably the most beautiful sailships in SL.
The second race saw Admiral Jennings with her SCS Battle Schooner to prevail on Mr. Koskinen
In the final I had to face Admiral Jennings. There is little to tell. After the start, when we were head to head, she took the lead and I was not able to close the gap. On the side opposite the start line I had hope for a while to be able to catch her, but after a while the sailed away again and I was able to see her just from a distance.
Congratulations to Admiral Jennings for a perfect race.
The crowd filled the viewing area and seemed to have a lot of fun, greatly enjoying the event.
Being busy in the race I did not have much time to take many pictures, but I invite everybody to visit this wonderful selection of PJ Trenton's images
Saturday, November 21, 2009
the Fleet Week Review
Here are some images from the Fleet Week Review that took place yesterday in New Babbage. The naviees of the steamlands nations showed themselves in an hour and a half of display of naval beauty.
Some of the captains assembled, before the review:
The review field :
Myself, overlooking the review from a nice spot
Ironclads were the majority of the ships displayed there :
Here is the Hunting Star flying the colors of Winterfell
Cheers!
W
Some of the captains assembled, before the review:
The review field :
Myself, overlooking the review from a nice spot
Ironclads were the majority of the ships displayed there :
Here is the Hunting Star flying the colors of Winterfell
Cheers!
W
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
taking the Hunting Star to New Babbage
after some thinking and some testing of the sailing field I decided to take the Hunting Star (the TSS Brigg) to New Babbage, for the Fleet Week.
The Battlestar (SPD Frigate) would have looked better, but she is too challenging to sail in such a narrow field
Here are two images of myself on the deck ready to take the ship from Winterfell to New Babbage.
W
The Battlestar (SPD Frigate) would have looked better, but she is too challenging to sail in such a narrow field
Here are two images of myself on the deck ready to take the ship from Winterfell to New Babbage.
W
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
the Fleet Week in New Babbage!
I still have to decide which ship I will take there but I will be there for the events ! :)
W
Friday, November 13, 2009
the Iron Star
The Wild Fleet did not have an ironclad. Until now. Here is the new flagship of the Steam Squadron: the Iron Star! ;)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Exhibit at Venetia Landing
I have been invited to display some of my images at Venetia Landing in Winterfell Reverie.
Miss Tracy Yiyuan and Miss Midnyte DeCuir have been so kind to wish me to display my photos in their truly beautiful portion of Winterfell.
I happily agreed and I setup some of my images on a lovely spot in the middle of the area.
You can read more information about the exhibit in the online Visitors' Guide. and it will be open until Christmas.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Winterfell%20Reverie/90/49/21
See you there !
W
Miss Tracy Yiyuan and Miss Midnyte DeCuir have been so kind to wish me to display my photos in their truly beautiful portion of Winterfell.
I happily agreed and I setup some of my images on a lovely spot in the middle of the area.
You can read more information about the exhibit in the online Visitors' Guide. and it will be open until Christmas.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Winterfell%20Reverie/90/49/21
See you there !
W
Monday, November 9, 2009
A new stage in my sailing tour
After quite a while I sailed a new stage of my circumnavigation of Gaeta, Corsica and Nautilus. I had last moored the Star of Faeria in the sim of Gumtree, on the western shores of Gaeta, and it was time to cross the channel liniing the two continents, back into Corsica waters.
Here is me after just entering the channel and just before meeting some other long distance sailors who were pursuing the same route.
And here is the Star of Faeria back in Corsica waters, in front of the impressive yachts on display at Star Bay Yachts.
The north eastern coast of Corsica is quite nice, well kept, with some lovely shore where woods reach the beaches and some impressive and nicely made buildings
It looks like that for some the Christmas Season has started already :)
The target of this rather short stage was the sim of Esterhal, home of the Dumpling's Country Club, where I spend a good amount of my Saturday afternoons with the lovely soundtrack of DJ Rosa.
I was lucky enough to find a place where I could rezz just nearby, so I did not have to look for too long a place where to moor the boat. Despite being oftern at Dumpling's I had never looked at the area closely and I was surprised to realize that this is quite a developed pirate area, with many vessels and even a ghost ship!
Next stage, Borgenite, once home of HRH Princess Ivory and Master Peck.
See you soon
W
Here is me after just entering the channel and just before meeting some other long distance sailors who were pursuing the same route.
And here is the Star of Faeria back in Corsica waters, in front of the impressive yachts on display at Star Bay Yachts.
The north eastern coast of Corsica is quite nice, well kept, with some lovely shore where woods reach the beaches and some impressive and nicely made buildings
It looks like that for some the Christmas Season has started already :)
The target of this rather short stage was the sim of Esterhal, home of the Dumpling's Country Club, where I spend a good amount of my Saturday afternoons with the lovely soundtrack of DJ Rosa.
I was lucky enough to find a place where I could rezz just nearby, so I did not have to look for too long a place where to moor the boat. Despite being oftern at Dumpling's I had never looked at the area closely and I was surprised to realize that this is quite a developed pirate area, with many vessels and even a ghost ship!
Next stage, Borgenite, once home of HRH Princess Ivory and Master Peck.
See you soon
W
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