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Starting November 1st the theme at Spotlight Your Best will be “Nighttime” featuring night photography and night themed photo-based art.
Until then Spotlight Your Best is featuring scenes from "Autumn" during the month of October.
I remember doing this kind of still life before using an apple as a book mark. Thought I would give it another try for this month's challenge. My biggest challenge was not getting the book wet. ;o)))
Scavenger Challenge - Books
The Spotlight Your Best theme in July will be "From the Garden."
Until then share your "Mostly Yellow" photos HERE
"Reading strengthens your brain - Reading increases your ability to empathise - Reading helps to prevent age-related cognitive decline." - T. Broomhall.
That last point is most important for many of us. But let's not forget that reading allows your brain to engage directly with the story, self-imagining every scene in a way that a movie does not.
For this challenge, my mind went straight back to fifth grade...when I learned how to make these corner bookmarks. Simply cut the corner from a sealed envelope, decorate, and slip onto the page. So easy. This one's for my 8 year old daughter, who is on a quest to read every "Magic Tree House" book in the series. The bird is mounted on a little accordion folded strip of cardstock, so that he pops up when the books is opened, yet lies flat when the book is closed.
bird stamp--Hero Arts
saying--computer generated
pom pom trim--JoAnn's
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller
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I keep a pile of cookbooks for evening browsing and bookmark recipes that I would like to do.
And then I go over it again, and say ...oh yes....I really want to do that one......and another bookmark goes in. Sticky post-it notes torn up for the bookmarks.
#7/125 Theme Bookmarks
4/52 Weeks
Quand on fera l'histoire des erreurs humaines, on trouvera difficilement des exemples de cette force et on restera étonné que des hommes aussi compétents, aussi spécialisés, puissent, dans leur propre science, demeurer aussi aveugles, aussi stupides.
(L. F. Céline)
Just closing off this section.
Some more regular and infra red photography from tomorrow.
* "Shakespeare's First Folio" Folger Library facsimile from my collection. Published by Norton (1996). 36 x 25 cms.
For Crazy Tuesday a selection of Bookmarks. From a 3D one of Crocodiles in Cape York ( Far North Queensland) to a Women Who Change the World bookmark, to an Astronaut Fantasy bookmark list from a local library. They are all useful as I often have several books on the go at once. Using my Lensbaby. HCT
Image created for Macro Mondays challenge, "Bookmark." Shot on a Canon 6D Mark II with a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 1:1 macro lens and a Raynox 250.
An antique Chinese vase.
Starting tomorrow I will have a series of still life and table top photographs.
Now that the border has reopened between Tasmania and Victoria, I have to travel to Melbourne to visit my elderly father in hospital. He went into hospital for a routine operation and an overnight stay. Five weeks later he is still there and recuperating.
I'm not sure how long I will be away, although I would hope to be home by Christmas. I am glad to be able to spend time with him and support my sisters in assisting my mother. I will be taking my camera with me but my laptop is unable to process any photographs.
I will be checking into Flickr when I can, and will post some Infra Red shots I took at Bridport, and a few other re-edits from earlier in the year that I have on file. But apart from that my mind will be on other things.
I wish you all well, and hope that your preparations for this festive season are going well.
John.
Looking close…. on Friday Theme: “bookmark”
1930’s Silver Souvenir bookmark from the Bergen Steam Ship Company S/Y Meteor BDS Cruise Yacht.
The book is Brighton Rock by Graham Green 1938
Thanks to everyone who took the time to view, comment, and fave my photo. It’s really appreciated. 😊
Wish people would use book marks in books instead of folding the page corners (resulting in dog ears) Here is more on that : joezachs.blogspot.com/2021/06/a-habit-like-reading.html
At this stage I will be in Melbourne until nearly Christmas. My father is making a slow recovery, but we are hoping to have him home by the end of next week.
I am sorry that I can't take the normal time to visit your page and comment effectively, but hope to be able to get back to that soon. Over the next week I will post one photograph a day that I already have in the can.
I folded bookmarks from the shield volcano molecule. the big one came first and I found it a bit too big and so the less big one came to be :-)
the opaque pictures a rather over-exposed and thus the pattern cannot be seen well. I'm sorry for that.
**SPECIAL NOTE** It's time for Action against Bots!
A recent Reddit article listed this social media platform as one of the most bot-ridden sites on the internet. A bot is short for "cyber-robot", a piece of software that people who buy the service have trawling the pages of Flickr building up massive followings and views for their photographs. You should know by now that I have been involved with the group Anti-Bots and Anti-Fake and our mission is to identify and block all known bot users. I invite every honest photographer on Flickr to join us in our campaign. www.flickr.com/groups/anti_bot_anti_fake_photo/
We have many discussions and lots of information on why bots are a scourge we do not need. We have likened bot users to drug users in sport, getting an unfair advantage by not bothering to visit our pages and not really looking at our photos, but trying to collect us as their followers or to get us to fave their shots. Well no more! It's time to take action and it's time to block these cheats. We call it cheating because they let their bots do all the "dirty" work for them and collect all the benefits.
Now as soon as I first mentioned this in the comments below this morning I immediately lost two more followers. Every single time I have done this I have lost more followers. Some people can't handle the truth. And today I will lose more followers again because I am going to block at least 7 of the people who faved this Bookmark today. (Since this has been done of course they dropped off the list below).
Here is why!
I understand that some people might have faved this Bookmark because they fave in the feed looking for a reciprocal visit from me without even opening the photo. But they have not really looked at my page, and one of the things we want people to do is to start really looking at photographs again.
You see we can detect the number of average faves given out per day by bot users. Now what would be a normal rate of faves given out per day: 20? 50? 150? What if I told you that we have discovered people who give out 1,000 faves a day, or even 3,800 faves a day. You know that is not possible manually. These are bot driven faves designed to attract your views and following. It means most of the stats on Flickr are in fact fiction. Come on! The only way to clean up this mess on Flickr is to identify and block Bot users.
So I have chosen a minimum level of 300 faves out per day as the point where I will block someone because they must be using a bot. I hate doing this. It loses me followers. But then again these people insult us by not really looking at our work anyway. I encourage you to do the same. Block these people or they will continue to infest Flickr and destroy real relationships.
To all good honest photographers on Flickr we at Anti-Bots stand with you to restore some honesty and transparency in our social media dealings.
....don't like bot-comments and bot-faves? Join us and post your picture/s there.
Please post it to the Anti-Bots and Anti-Fake group.
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In the meantime the comments below relate to my earlier post about watching Super Bowl LV. Congratulations to Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Super Bowl Champions in a very tough year!