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"Are you gonna be much longer with this? I’m a busy dog with a schedule to keep…"
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Get the shots while you can is my motto. The previous shot was more spontaneous. This one was barely 2 minutes later and I’ve already resorted to bribery…
Now that Malaya (my cat) is anti-social since I moved in with my cousin I have a new subject Penny, and she is too stupid to know better, haha. Judy was out for the night, and I had just yelled at Penny for doing something and she was like this the rest of the night, ugh! So I got the ears and took advantage of it, this is not a dog, except for all the damn licking I hate, it's like a person.
A RELUCTANT PROMISE of SPRING...
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The meagre wind pulls around my ears
My hair dancing like snakes around the head of Medusa... LOL
Beginning of April, most trees still skeletal, here and there a promising blossoming beauty.
April gives and takes, one day, warm sun caressing your Winter skin, the next, scarves and a biting wind.
Have a lovely day, M, (*_*)
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I have been reluctant to post anything new, as I've been so inactive in replying and commenting on others' photostreams......
Here's one from a sunrise visit to Chalky Beach (near Swansea, NSW; Australia) yesterday morning.
Overcast conditions and a decent swell helped create the drama and waterflow you can see here.
I got swamped by a rogue wave during my shoot - a quick dry and some cursing later - so far the camera seems to be O.K.!
Hope you all have a great weekend - I will make a greater effort to catch up in the next week......
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There's a story behind every picture. Here's the one of this photo.
On a bitter winter day in early 2014, a friend and I hauled our photography equipment to the top floor of the campus library late one evening. We wanted to learn how to take headshots using flash and umbrellas. After taking a series of photos of each other, this beautiful student walked by and disappeared into the ladies room. I waited patiently and when she came out, I asked her if she would pose for some practice shots. Phanitha seemed leery at first but quickly warmed up to the idea. Then, to our surprise, she started striking a variety of poses without any coaching... as though she was a professional model! When I asked her about it, she said that she had posed on many occasions for a friend who was a photographer in India before she came here to the U.S. for college. Subsequently, I invited her to model in the studio while two professional photographers coached our photography club on portrait photography. This photo was taken at that session using a Canon 60D and a kit lens. In this particular shot, she was looking at another photographer in the group but I liked the shot anyway.
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I wrote this in my head...
The meager wind pulls around my ears
My hair dancing like snakes around the head of Medusa... LOL
Beginning of April, most treasure still skeletal, here and there a promising blossoming beauty.
April gives and takes, One day, warm sun caressing your Winter skin, the next, boots and gives and biting wind.
Have a lovely day, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
trees, blossoms, skeletal, nests, Daffodils, Spring, grass, landscape, "Nikon D7000", colour, horizontal, "magda indigo"
Tried to chase this little guy away from eating the bird seed in a dish on our porch. He was reluctant to go. We let him eat some but he would eat the whole dish if we let him.
When I returned to my car, to leave Sunset Bay, this squirrel jumped up on the wooden post right in front of my parking spot. He peered inside my windshield. I had let him eat sunflower seeds out of my palm an hour earlier. Seemed reluctant to let me go. Took his photo, promised next time and left. From the looks of his plump little body, he is not missing any meals.
Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger)
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Somewhere in the middle of last week, a curious thing happened to me. I found myself in the mood to do something useful about the place. Normally a week on leave means a holiday somewhere else, and nothing ever gets done as the house gradually falls down over a period of years, but like the rest of you I haven't been very far from home in over a year now. So at the moment a week of leave means a period of inactivity at home, perhaps with the odd photography related jaunt in my plans. But the weather has been too good for photography during this particular break from the hamster wheel. No clouds, no wind, no rain. Perfect for lounging about in a garden chair, but rubbish for grabbing a moment of drama from an insolent sky.
At times like this, which have really only been over the Christmas break during the last twenty years, I've found myself deciding to "try something" towards the end of the period of rest. One year I decided I'd try my hand at making falafel, but the only thing I achieved was to part with more money than necessary and leave the kitchen looking like a bombsite the day before returning to work. The falafel was more of a chickpea soup. I promised Ali I wouldn't try again.
Many years ago a colleague told me that whenever he felt like doing a spot of DIY, he'd lie in a darkened room until the sensation had passed over. It's always been the same with me too. In fact I've always called the art of home maintenance "D-I-Won't." From a distance I've always been slightly awed by those men who spend their entire weekends in a set of overalls tinkering away at whatever needs doing. The sort of men who can take the briefest glance at a problem with your plumbing and say something like "oh yes you'll need a flange sprocket for that. Hang on a moment - I've got one in the shed." Then they'll race off in the direction of their toolkit in a fit of excitement as I stand by, watching like an innocent child and wondering whatever on Earth a flange sprocket is or does. Of course if I were to hand them my camera the chances are they wouldn't know what to do with that either, but then I often wonder whether I do myself - and more to the point, the skills they've acquired during their leisure time are actually useful. I might occasionally make a pretty picture for Ali to look at, but the shed roof still leaks in the rain doesn't it?
So during this week of leave, I corrected the error of my ways and earned some brownie points. On the drive we now have two cars with mirror like bodywork that we can still see our faces in three days after I cleaned them. Because Tesco had run out of wash and wax, I ended up buying an expensive alternative online that produced rather pleasing results. During this period I learned that I wasn't washing the cars. No, I was in fact "detailing" them. I've no idea what the difference is, but even Ali's 86 year old father remarked upon how clean her 10 year old Hyundai was looking on Thursday. I have solemnly agreed that henceforth I will continue to "detail" the cars. One day I might learn the distinction too.
For my second act of usefulness I produced an unexpected piece de resistance, obtaining and arranging the necessary materials in such a way that the roof of the woodshed won't leak next time it rains. So shocked am I that I actually did this, I have to keep peering out of the living room window to check that the new roof really does exist. At one point a rogue branch decided to spring forward from its place and try and cause some damage, but luckily it was stopped in its tracks by my bottom lip. It's probably a good job you weren't present to hear my choice of vocabulary at that point. Ok, we're admittedly talking Basil Fawlty's "O'Reilly" levels of workmanship here, so if you were wondering whether to get in touch and book my services I'd urge you to reconsider. But it does seem that we will have dry wood for the fireplace next winter.
I was going to cash those brownie points in today but the sky has gone from one extreme to the other and completely clouded over, so I'm going to watch the FA Cup semi final instead. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow. Apart from Monday's outing (and thank you for helping to propel the image from that adventure onto the Explore page), there has been no photography of note this week. Last night's outing confirmed that it's still too early for bluebells as well, so I've returned to that wonderfully icy and windy evening a couple of weeks ago at Easter when the beach was empty and the sands untouched by humans at low tide. The colours brought the perfect opportunity to try the ten stop in the blue hour. It was one of those evenings when I knew it had been a good session and I was happy with the results. A little bit like this week's out of character foray into useful pursuits.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend everyone.
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Jackson is posing in this spider outline at the insect mural in downtown Provo.
To enjoy my other creative project, please visit my funny short stories website: 500ironicstories.com where you can read or listen to new stories each week. I have also curated the stories into three different selections:
Stories for Kids - 500ironicstories.com/stories-for-kids Love Stories - 500ironicstories.com/love-story
Moral Stories - 500ironicstories.com/moral-stories
You never run a valuable work horse. The guides - in order to stage this shoot - have walked the path before looking for marmot holes.
Leaving the beautiful and wonderful Death Valley National Park. Headed west for California Mountains.
I am out, traveling for the week. Try as I might, I may not be able to visit your stream in time.
Thanks for the visit and have a lovely week ahead.
This maple tree in my garden is turning into its autumn yellows so slowly this year .... a hint of summer greens still remains.