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I didn't have an opportunity to take a new photo today. So... here are two photos from yesterday!
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"Does your husband know the way
That the sunshine gleams from your wedding band?
Well, I will never end up like him.
Behind my back, I already am."
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Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet - Fall Out Boy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzgfLaJazSA
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Production notes:
Two shots of my right eye.
One flopped.
Slide blended together in the center with a gradient layer mask.
Otherwise, unretouched.
Location: Unknown
Date: July 7, 1997
Photographer: Unknown
A wonderful Soo Line scene with no information on the slide mount other than a dater.
From a digital scan from my personal slide collection.
The Slide
Unnamed stream
High Rock Hideaways
Hocking County
Last month my wife and I took a much needed vacation with our pup Maggie to Ohio's Hocking Hills region. We stayed at a cabin at High Rock Hideaways located not far from Ash Cave. A recent post I had seen in the Hocking Hills group intrigued me when I saw that the property boasted 9 waterfalls on their own trails. Booked. Our first day there Maggie and did some exploring on the trails so I could get a feel for the area but some light drizzle had me thinking we better return and it was a good idea. Within 15 minutes of arriving to the cabin it was raining. The next afternoon I headed out to explore these waterfalls more closely. The first falls I visited was called The Slide. Arriving at the top, it was a steep cascade waterfall that dropped at least 40 foot into a mini slot canyon. While standing there I noticed an undocumented arch in the cliff opposite the falls. Going to take a closer look at the arch I discovered a manageable scramble downstream from the falls. The scramble took me past two more waterfalls which were not really worth shooting. Once in the gorge I had to do some creek crossings and then a short scramble up the base of the falls which was a short dog leg to the main drop. Wow! I couldn't believe my eyes! Hands down one of the regions prettiest waterfalls and was the icing on the cake of a great trip with my wife and pup!
Ohio
Admired and captured this sideboard at the Central Museum Utrecht and experimented with sliding the original into a decent black and white.
This marvelous piece of furniture was designed by Rietveld in 1919.
Wikipedia: Gerrit Rietveld
"Theodore Too" comes to life in Erieau, Ontario! :0)
What is the story behind Theodore the Tugboat?
It started with a bedtime story that Andrew Cochran, the creator of Theodore Tugboat, told his son. A story about the boats in the big harbour and how they interacted with everyone. Later, these bedtime stories became the inspiration and basis for the original television series, Theodore Tugboat.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
Pedal cars at the Pinery Flea Market, Grand Bend, Ontario in 2012.
Pencil water colour edit.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
Subtle fisheye effect on a country road photo snapped just outside of town back in late winter of 2014.
Happy Slider Sunday!!!!..HSS
I played and played with this one and I'm still not happy with it. I went to all the trouble to add the clouds and than I ran it through Topaz Simplify and lost the details in the clouds..:( I know the fix, but I just got tired of messing with it..:) It still has a painterly look to it and that's kind of what I was looking for.
I finally found a translator program. It's one of those in the Chrome store, for free. It's a little strange in the sense that it wants to translate everything..:) Even if I click on something in English, it translates it into English...:) Oh well, now I have one..lol..
This is from Bull Creek Greenbelt in Austin. We had those two heavy rains back to back, the first one washed the trash into the creek and the second one flushed it out. Presto, clean water..:) Gotta love it!!
Sliders Sunday
Autostadt (CarCity) is a delivery center for new cars and an amusement park of Volkswagen (VW) in Wolfsburg.
Ice fishing at Mitchell's Bay.
It's consistently cold enough to do so for the first time in recent memory.
My friend Anneliis found a box of slides in a garbage one day. They ended up being paparazzi photos from the 70-80s, some of super famous people. They are amazing. She projects them onto the wall and has friends stand in front of them. She had us over Friday and had me bring my camera. These are the bests.
This is a rescue from my On This Date files. The bright sun created snow glare which required use of chrome and all the sliders to bring out details. HSS
Light caroms off the closely set walls of upper Paria Canyon, and brings out striking colors and textures from the facets of Slide Rock Arch, Paria Canyon Wilderness, Utah; day 1 of 3-generation backpacking venture. It is difficult to appreciate the scale here, but full-grown people can readily pass through the arch walking abreast.
The day started out auspiciously enough, with a great deal of racing about in the water by my 7 year-old. I had stocked him up with a large packet of gummy bears that was meant to last him the entire 5 days, and we had decided to store those precious sugary bears in his hip belt pocket on his pack, for easy access. However, as it transpired, he decided to leave the zipper on the pocket open, apparently because it 'just takes too long' to have to unzip when you're jonesing for a piece of gummy foodstuffs (he cracks me up, really). Combined with his energetic navigation of the shallow river channel, it was really no surprise, at least not to me, when he discovered that the bears were no longer in his pocket at all, and had gained the freedom of the river channel, probably deciding to swim for it, rather than risk a pocket-bound journey with my son as their overseer.
At this point, we had probably hiked only a mile and a half or so from the car, and the look of sadness on his face was so profound that I hastily dropped my pack in a willow thicket by the side of the canyon, and decided to run back up the channel in search of silty gummy bears. As it happened, I didn't see them on the way up, and ran all the way back to the trailhead, as the noon temperatures began their crescendo. Of course, I didn't bring any water with me, since I foolishly thought I'd find the bears before I made it back this far. So, I turned around, and began the hot jog back to my pack, eyes still scanning the channel that stubbornly refused to reveal its gummy foods - the silty water makes this a somewhat easy feat, really. But lo! There they were just coming out of a deep pool in which Kieran had been exuberantly splashing some 45 minutes previously. Ah sweet success. Sweet silty success. As they took on water, the bears also took on silt and sand, and this had fused them into one giant mineral-rich, sugary, gelatinous mass. I hoped Kieran would be happy, but I didn't hold out high hopes.
Upon returning to my pack, I gratefully grabbed a water bottle and drank a liter. It was then I discovered that the willows in which I'd stowed my pack had also played host to a dead animal at some relatively recent point in the past, and the putrescine had been strong enough to infuse my water bottle spout with eau d'mort. But damn, I was thirsty, so I had to fight through that wonderful sensation. So that's what kind of day it was going to be, then, eh? But no, all these tribulations ceased once the afternoon light began to play on the red sculpted walls.
Chicago, Illinois skyline. I may have played around with this one to much. Adding the clouds was a last minute thought.
The workshop went well. Since Austin, Texas, where I live, has become a hub city, the growth of people is just crazy. And, people are bringing plants that don't work here in the Austin area. So, the city needs volunteers to help track the development of the invasive plants or weeds and to help maintain growth of plants along the creeks. Of course, that's where I became interested. The plan is to encourage plant growth along the banks, 10 foot, on both sides so as to improve the quality of the water and preserve the banks.
It sounded like a worthwhile project to me. I'm in..:)
Hope you have a great Sunday
One of the last series of photos my Samsung Grand Prime cellphone would ever take. The last useable feature, the camera, finally failed this past Friday. :0(
The park surrounding the North Carolina Museum of Art is a blend of field and forest surrounding a pond, filled with many large permanent sculptures, and a changing array of large canvases sheltered under trees along the trails. This image has been cropped, chromed and tweaked to bring focus to these two large works:
This composition features two artists. The three ellipses, Gyre by Thomas Sayre, are created on site with reinforced steel arranged in a trench over which concrete was poured. The iron oxide and dirt residue from the earth casting provide the color. 1999
The 200 pottery columns are wood fired Piedmont clay created by Daniel Johnston, and form a 350-foot-long open wall with a level top line, but which vary in height from several inches to six feet to follow the slope of the site’s terrain. 2019