having been unsuccesful photography wise so far, i chose to change my direction ..

Yeah, I centered it. I like it that way. So there. Saguaro cactus at sunset, at Usery Mountain Regional Park, Arizona. Cropped but otherwise unaltered.

Cameratoss, NO PHOTOSHOP!

Super foggy night at White Rock lake. My first www.schmap.com/dallas/sights_water/#p=70864&i=70864_2...

An agave plant; something besides my usual over-the-leaves shot.

Taken on Edwards Air Force Base, California

Tiles on the NSERL building, University of Texas, Dallas. NO PHOTOSHOP. That's the real color.

Lancaster City Park -

Camera toss at neon, downtown Dallas, TX... "West End"

Camera Toss at the STARSHIP 2000, a carnival ride. It was dusk at the time, so the lighting really helped make this image pop...

Here is a "normal" picture that is almost exactly the angle I tossed from:

www.flickr.com/photos/etobicokesouth/182103512/

Here's a shot of the carnival ride in question: The STARSHIP 2000!

www.flickr.com/photos/69258915@N00/247949113/

~ William G. Golding ~

please view large

My son tossing water around at night at Saguaro Lake, Ariz.

"Best bubble maker ever," according to my son. This one really looks better large, I think. Taken at Red Mountain Park in Mesa, Ariz.

I took this during Fall of 2006 at Riverside Park in St. Cloud, MN. The colors were really good that year.

"Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. "

~ Elizabeth Lawrence

My son's eye at sunset.

Zoomed in on the sunset during our walk the other day. Taken from the side of Brown Road in Mesa, Ariz.

Camera Toss at a firetruck

This is the Inner Harbor in Baltimore Maryland. I walk by it almost daily. It has many moods and is one of my favorite subjects for photographs. Both the evening light and the morning light offer extremely interesting qualities. Come to Baltimore and I will take you there!

Hmm...Flickr was down when I first tried to upload these, but I should have been able to make the deadline. Hopefully it still counts!

Assignment 1

Cooking. I see lots of pictures of food all around flickr, but really not many of people cooking. All you pun masters can stop thinking now, This assignment should have food being prepared. I hope all of you realize we are building amazing stock photography portfolios. Everyone wants a picture of cooking in their kitchen, and if they don't the showrooms do. Tag with cwd191

The leafy sea dragon, Phycodurus eques, is a marine fish related to the seahorse. It is the only member of the genus Phycodurus. These creatures are native to the waters around southern and western Australia and generally remain in shallow, temperate waters. Their name comes from their appearance, with long leaf-like protrusions coming from all over the body. These protrusions are not used for propulsion; they serve only as camouflage. The leafy sea dragon propels itself by means of a pectoral fin on the ridge of its neck and a dorsal fin on its back closer to the tail end. These small fins are almost completely transparent and difficult to see as they undulate minutely to move the creature sedately through the water, completing the illusion of floating seaweed.

Much like the seahorse, their name comes from a chance resemblance to a known (in this case mythical) creature. While not large by sea monster standards, they are very large for sea horses, growing at least 18 inches (45 cm). They feed on plankton, algae, and other small flotsam, and are not preyed upon by any species other than humans. Females deposit eggs on the tail of the male where they grow to maturity. They have become endangered through pollution and industrial runoff as well as collection by fascinated divers who are entranced by their unique appearance. In response to these dangers they have been officially protected by the Australian government.

A related species is the weedy sea dragon, which is green and grows weed-like fins and can be much smaller than the leafy sea dragon, although according to the November 2006 issue of National Geographic magazine, leafy and weedy sea dragons may be the same species residing in a wide range.

Citing Wikipedia:

Leafy seadragon. (2017, July 20). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved

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Leafy Dragon Seahorse, Dallas World Aquarium.

#69 in Explore. Un-freakin-believable.

This is a shot I took of a friend with her own camera. I really like the feel of the photo, and the angle of her head. I chose not to touch it up at all, as I love the way it looks as it is.

A green tree frog hangs out at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, in their "Frogs: A Chorus of Colors" exhibit.

This is currently the most interesting photo tagged with "National Aquarium."

No photoshop!

I am not good because I am afraid of the consequences of my being bad.

I am not good because I have been told that I have been instructed by some mythical being to conform to some stale old code of ethics.

I am not good because I fear Death or Life.

I am not good because I fear the Law.

I am good because I have learned that, in life, sometimes things don't go as planed. When this happens, having help can make all the difference in the world. It can make survival possible.

I have received that help in the past and I will certainly need it in the future. So I will help you, with the best of my wisdom and knowledge and skill, in the hopes that when that day comes that I need help you will consider returning the favor. I will not be stingy with my help because I would not want you to be reluctant to help me or those that I love.

Some people go through life taking advantage of folks who think like I do, never repaying the kindness and trust that they are shown. I try to help them anyway, though not always in ways they might expect. For I believe that if we all follow this path together, helping when we can and being helped when we need it, we will discover the incredible potential that we hold within us and we will create a world that surpasses our wildest dreams.

P.S.

I'm quite fond of this group's work.

symphonyofscience.com./

Strobist info:

SB600 with a Honl snoot

full power

Triggered using CLS with built in flash

Multiple tosses at a firetruck. I think the symetrical pattern in the middle is caused by a spin in the opposite direction of the first toss, and the rest is just "normal" cameratoss activity, except for the dotted white rope strand at the bottom, the typical non-sweeping result of a catch during the exposure. One of the firemen came over after I got this image to inquire as exactly WTF I was doing... he thought it was pretty cool.

-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as most favorited.

View On Black

A Tony Bones graffiti mural in front of the White Rock Skate Center (at the ART institute).

check out the whole mural here

I originaly took this in color, but just recently opened it up in photoshop and converted it into b&w and thought it looked pretty good. Here is the original: www.flickr.com/photos/blizzard84/30422098/in/set-680665/

Explore: August 20, 2007 #488

Sept. 9-15, 2007 Like if or Not's Weekly Best of the Best Challenge Winner! Thank you everyone for voting.. it's a real honor!

A little fun watching the ducks at Red Mountain Park in Mesa, Ariz.