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HSS! and HTMT too!
Especially for Sliders Sunday group, but lots of other artsy and painterly groups and also fall and autumn groups. This is about 57th & Main St. in Springfield, Lane County, Oregon USA.
I took this shot with my new Nikon Coolpix B500 camera, but when I put it in a photo program or two to *slide* it, it lost the EXIF Data. I shot the original this afternoon on Main St. in Springfield and it was only about the 6th or 7th shot I took so far with my B500 red.
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This is my favorite of these four. Which one, if any, do you like the best?
For Dave C. and other Flickr friends, I think the *soul* of this photo is the intense colors of the various autumn leaves.
These were real autumn leaves on vines clinging to a tall concrete wall. I slid them, but not completely without mercy...LOL You can still tell what they are. HSS
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Tenuous Link: a network of lines, wires & rigging with a purpose .. mine are for growing and supporting Hops.
This was taken with a Sony Mavica camera when they first came out. By today's digital standards, the resolution is pretty poor, but in the late 1990s and first part of 2000, it was a state of the art camera. I loved it.
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For the What's in the Background Group?, snow-covered Mount Hood is in the background. For the Small Town America group, this was taken near either Hubbard area or Brooks area of Oregon, and they are both small towns.
(7699annaatthedoorstoseesantaclaus) If you are going to be first in line, this is a good time and place to be it. All she asked Santa for was three yo yos, or one red yo yo.
ABCs & 123s group *D* is for Doors
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Tenuous Link: red doors
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Here is a little bonus riddle for you that like them... Anna is still 7 years old, but this coming Christmas on December 25, 2012 will be her 9th Christmas. How can that be???
This is a hand-held shot with a pint and shoot camera. I just noticed close to 3 weeks after posting this, that I typed "pint and shoot camera" instead of point and shoot camera. Does that mean one drinks a pint, and then takes a gun and drunkenly shoots anything around?
"My thin white border is not so much a frame as a defense against Flickr's all dark background"
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This looks better in the larger sizes, but no matter which size it's better if you let the picture open up fully. Otherwise the icicles just make it look like some poorly drawn lines.
Just as a note of interest, a long time ago I lived only about 1/2 mile from here.
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This is along Highway 99 in Junction City, Lane County, Oregon USA. Flickr's maps are terrible, so the location I marked is not even close, just as Flickr Maps are not even close. They seem to allow all kinds of ways to screw up, name a place wrongly, etc. but trying to delete my whole entry completely from their stupid map program just doesn't seem to be a choice I can find. You may notice that I no longer even try to place very many of my photos on their maps. I even called them one time on telephone, and after a long time on hold, got a human being, and he said it wasn't his department. Did he offer to get the man who could help. NO! Terrible company!
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This began as two photographs I took, each a Rainting. I purposely moved my camera vertically for the top part you see here and then horizontally for the bottom part. I pasted the two versions onto one picture and gave some cropping, minor adjustments and a Watercolor 4 technique.
I almost makes me think of some boats in a harbor at night.
For Dave C., For me, the *soul* of this one is that I knew ahead of time that I was going to make it artistic for Slider's Sunday. It began as 2 Raintings, and I combined those with some additional Watercolor techniques. It was fun.
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The border is a somewhat unique way I have of taking little sections of my photo and making them look like blinds; so they are not necessarily *painterly* but just artsy. The middle part, lots and lots of keys, has a watercolor technique from my photo program. Best viewed large to see the effect.
For ABCs and 123s group, K is for Keys
Tenuous Link: piano keys >> many types of keys (but not piano)
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A gorgeous place if there ever was one. My daughter, Jennifer, took this picture, and I enhanced it. She and Anna went down to the falls. I stayed further back. (022107watsnowpump06&07-080sahalietualot)
I'm posting this for my new friend. I'm sure if I have her gorgeous kitten's name incorrectly or the name of the breed, that she will tell me. ;o) She told me today that she will probably name him Star.
His owner told me July 6, 2017 that he is not going to be Button, or As a Button nor Star, but finally she has decided on Little Elf and calls him Elfie. I will see if she sticks with this name. Ha Ha!
She told me that soon his eyes would be starting to turn green, and sure enough, they are.
This shot is through a window; so there are some blemishes, but I still think he is adorable.
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He surely is cute, and the higher he had to reach up into that tree, the better he seemed to like the taste. I think his antlers are growing too much out to the side and downward, but what do I know?
EXPLORE: Highest position: 339 on Wednesday, August 23, 2017
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Was in Explore at #395, but I have no idea where it was before I saw it there in early morning of August 5, 2015.
I have heard of MACK trucks for years and years. I never heard of a MAC truck, though, and that is what this big, beautiful, shiny red truck said on it. Will someone please let me know the story is here?
Oh, also the front grille says KW. What's up with that?
OK>> I think my Flickr friends have cleared a lot of this up for me. The KW stands for Kenworth, a make of truck I have heard of forever. I just didn't know they used KW for the emblem. KW stood for the first and middle name of my great grandfather. He used them as a nickname and was called KW, strung together and pronounced as if they were still in an alphabet. I saw those two letters and my thoughts turned to him and not to the Kenworth name. Secondly, I think the word MAC on various places on the truck probably does refer to MAC Leasing, a company, after all and not a brand nor a person.
There is more information and commentary in the comments below. Kind of interesting and fun if you want to read.
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HTT on December 9 (I think) 2021
For Dave C., I confess to a small amount of guilt here because I already posted a similar picture approximately 12 prior to this one. It was horizontal though, and not vertical like this one. However, I only needed 1 gallon of milk which caused me to go out that morning in time to catch the sunrise, and I took more than 1 picture. I am going to have at least one more in the near future. It is going to be of the same two pylons, but sort of doubly reflected artsy stuff. Is it OK to get more than one picture per gallon? Do I need to pro-rate the *soul* or what?
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For ABCs and 123s (group) *P* is for Pylons
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A local kid enjoying the views from a rock next to the viewpoint on top of The Treasury.
WARNING: If you go to Petra and want to take "the photo" of The Treasury you may have to pay extra fees to local scammers or have an argument with them.
Of course they are Hippos or Hippopotamusses, I thought I was being pretty clever with the title. LOL I tried a watercolor technique with my Arcsoft5 program. I don't usually use it, but it was a nice change. This was the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Oregon. Two females.
For Dave C., the *soul* of this one was having fun with the title.
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Thanks to my Flickr friends who let me know, that yes, it is a dogwood tree. If need be, let it load for 2 or 3 more sconds than normal, and it should come out nice and clear.
HTMT to all
For Dave C., I think the *soul* of this one is that I didn't like the sky near the tree at all when I first drove up. It was really plain and drab. I took the picture anyway, and the plain sky just accentuated the beautiful dogwood blossoms.
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My entry for the CMF 2nd Countdown Challenge, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Guilds of Historica!
Sunrise, dandelions in my front yard, from ground level.
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Sisters ~ Long Hair Cats, I believe Moira was toward the window and Destine toward front. When people adopt cats at Heartland, they are free to change the names if they want, and these two were there over 10 years ago.
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This is SOOC at this point, and in my new Unprecedented Album. For an April Fool's prank, Big Huge Labs makes Scout Posters showing thousands of a person's photos as if they all got in Flickr Explore. This Rainting SOOC shot shows on Page 1. I'm not sure I can figure out how to get the other 71 some odd pages. And even if I figure out how to do it, I'm not sure I'm up for it. LOL It would be well over 30,000 of my images.
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This barn is old, and was most likely on either a Barclay or a Rickard Donation Land Claim in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, USA.
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Yes, I know he has had several names, in his very young little kitten life; but Little Elfie, or just Elfie, seems like it is going to stick. Elfie is a Silver Chinchilla Persian kitten.
This shot is SOOC or Straight Out of Camera, except for copyright/initials
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Late October 1975, my son and my daughter. I probably took this photo with a Kodak Instamatic Camera.
Flickr shows a Nikon Coolpix L820 but that is because I can't afford a scanner, and I took a picture of this old Kodak Instamatic shot with the Coolpix camera. The shot in 1975 was clearly not taken with my Coolpix camera.
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Real scene of pumpkins floating in a partially flooded field. I cropped it, but didn't do any enhancements at all.
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He's thinking that way he'll get an adoptive home first. Cute little rascal, isn't he?
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People seemed to like him when he was by a Pink Flowering tree in the woods; so I thought I would show him closer up. He actually has teeth! Best viewed large or at least medium large.
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For ABCs and 123s, A is for Alligator.
This crazy photographer gets my fur up!
EN: Red squirrel / Park of Versailles Palace
Attention! : 100% natural background (trees with autumn foliage against the light)
I want to point this out, because we meet more and more scammers who make up their image backgrounds with Photoshop on Flickr!
FR : Ecureuil roux / Parc du château de Versailles
(Animal de plus en plus inquiet que je le poursuive depuis dix minutes pour trouver le bon éclairage… A l’inverse des grands malades narcissiques du selfie, l’écureuil a toujours préféré la discrétion !)
Attention ! : Fond 100% naturel (arbres en feuillages d'automne à contre-jour)
Je tiens à le préciser car on rencontre de plus en plus d'escrocs qui maquillent leurs ciels ou détourent leurs fonds d'image avec Photoshop sur Flickr...
…Et ceci sans même le signaler à leur “public”, ce qui est particulièrement malhonnête !
...Et hélas autant de gogos naïfs qui n'y voient que du feu et qui les y encouragent !
Heureusement, ce n’est pas le genre de la maison ! (Photo toujours "Bio et sans colorants artificiels")
ABOUT RAINTINGS
Rainting is a word I coined describing a painterly effect, achieved by photographing the subject through glass that is being rained on, like a windshield or other. It achieves an oftentimes pretty or soft flowing effect, and sometimes other-worldly. It is usually creative, fun, and fluid, seldom harsh in my opinion. I have an album of them on Flickr. Rainting is already in "The Urban Dictionary" but I would like it to also be in a more sophisticated/educational type of dictionary. I started a public Flickr group of Raintings on New Year's Day 2020.
The more collegiate type of dictionaries say that the word has to actually be used by people before they're likely to publish it. So if you like the word and my idea, say it loud and say it clear and take a few Raintings and post them to my new group. Using my word and trying my new group are not inclusive of one another.
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This intersection is 54th & Main in Springfield, Lane County, Oregon USA but believe me, they go all the way West to Downtown and all the way East to probably other counties.
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For Dave C., I can still get sort of like this shot, but the *soul* is I can never get it quite like this again. A tract of new houses has been built in front of this view. Their rooftops cover up the bottom part of all these tree trunks (maybe 15 - 20 % of the height of each tree) of this whole row of trees.
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ABCs and 123s group >> W is for Whitewater
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IN ENGLISH BELOW
La Torre Magdala (Tour Magdala en francès) fou construida amb aparentment misteriosa financiació un pobre mossen d'un escarransit poblet de les dures terres de les Corbieres, entre Carcassona i Perpinyà. Com aconseguí els diners per a edificar-se aquest complex senyorial?
Tota aquesta historia altament sobredimensionada per l'ocultisme giran entorn el famós mossen Berenger Sauniere. El seu gust estetic és altament discutible, però molts hi han vist una simbologia ocultista fonamentada en totes les falornies que s'han escrit entorn d'aquest mossen ultraconservador que feu de les seves per aquí a inicis del s. XX. Deien deien deien que havia trobat un tresor restaurant l'església o el cementiri, ja que feu tal nivell d'obres en un poblet de 200 habitants perdut en un racó aillat de les corbieres que semblaria no poder-se explicar. Sauniere redecorà tota la església, es construi una rectoria prou luxosa, uns jardins, hivernacle i una torre neo-medieval anomeanada Tour Magdala, que li feia de biblioteca privada. Dècades després de la seva mort, una colla d'exageradors, vividors i estafadors (Noel Corbú, Pierre Plantard, Gerard de Sedé, Henry Lincoln) varen anar fent creixer la bola ,vinculant el "tresor" amb el Priorat de Sió, la descendencia de Jesucrist i l'hereu del regne de França. I tot plegat resumit per a fama mundial per el Codi DaVinci.
Investigadors més seriosos donen la clau de la fortuna de Sauniere en el que ja va investigar el bisbat de Carcassona: que era un estafador enriquit pel trafic de misses. En fi, val a dir que les vistes des de Rènnas valen prou la pena.
Us recomano "Prohibido excavar en este pueblo", d'Oscar Fàbrega.
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This neo-medieval tower is known as Tour Magdala, and was built (at considerable cost) by a humble priest of a tiny hilltop village in the impoverished mountains of Les Corbieres, in southern France.
All began with the famous padre Berenger Sauniere. His aesthetic taste is highly debatable, but many have seen an occultist symbolism based in their works, based on all the stories that have been written around this ultra-conservative priest who resided here arround the 1900. They said that he had found a fabulous treasure, since he made such a level of work in a village of 200 inhabitants lost in a corner isolated in the Corbieres range that it would seem to be unable to explain. Sauniere redecorated the whole church in dubious taste, ordered the building of a fairly luxurious rectory, gardens, a greenhouse and this neo-medieval tower, which was his own private library. Decades after his death, a group of exaggerators and scammers (Noel Corbú, Pierre Plantard, Gerard de Sedé, Henry Lincoln) were going to grow the ball, linking the "treasure" with the Priory of Sion, the offspring of Jesus Christ and the heir of the kingdom of France. And all this summarized for world renown by the DaVinci Code, by Dan Brown. Some even dare to say that Sauniere found the tomb of Mary Magdalen or Christ under that church! The world is mad.
More serious investigators give the key to the fortune of Sauniere to what the bishopric of Carcassonne already in his lifetime suspected and investigated: he was a scammer enriched by the traffic of masses. In short, it's worth saying that the views of the landscape arround Rènnas are worth the trouble.
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