Chapman beach at sunset...HTT!! :))

Hove beach hut shadows. There was a bit of a photoshoot going on...but what they didn't realise was that what they were creating with their own shadows was actually more interesting...well, to me anyway! ;-) Shame the guys elbow got in the way though!

HSS at Chapman beach...:))

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HWW!! :))

HBM!! :))

Yes this is a Connecticut beach cottage...HWW!! :))

Grandpa with the grandkids in Connecticut...HFF!! :))

There she was just a-walkin' down the street,

Singin' (Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do)

Snappin' her fingers and shufflin' her feet,

Singin' (Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do)

She looked good (looked good),

She looked fine (looked fine)

She looked good, she looked fine

And I nearly lost my mind

Rosanna's daddy had a car she loved to drive

Stole the keys one night and took me for a ride

Turned up the music just as loud as it could go

Blew out the speakers in her daddy's radio

 

She was shakin' (oh-oh-oh-oh)

Snappin' her fingers (oh-oh-oh-oh)

She was movin' round and round (oh-oh-oh-oh)

That girl was shakin' (oh-oh-oh-oh)

 

We started drinkin' wasn't thinkin' too straight

She was doin' 80 and she slammed on the brakes

Got so high we had to pull to the side

We did some shakin' 'til the middle of the night

 

Shakin' (oh-oh-oh-oh)

Snappin' her fingers (oh-oh-oh-oh)

She was up and down and round and round (oh-oh-oh-oh)

Shakin' (oh-oh-oh-oh)

Shakin' (oh-oh-oh-oh)

(Oh-oh-oh-oh)

(Oh-oh-oh-oh)

(Oh-oh-oh-oh)

 

I got a little nervous

When she took her coat off

She looked so pretty

Ah, yeah

 

I'm always talkin', baby, talkin' too much

I love that little girl and I just can't get enough

It takes a lonely night with nowhere to go

Just call Rosanna and it's a hell of a show

 

And she's shakin' (oh-oh-oh-oh)

Snappin' her fingers (oh-oh-oh-oh)

She'll be movin' round and round (oh-oh-oh-oh)

Oh, she's shakin' (oh-oh-oh-oh)

 

Shakin' (oh-oh-oh-oh)

Snappin' her fingers (oh-oh-oh-oh)

She'll be movin' up and down (oh-oh-oh-oh)

Round and round and round

And shakin' (oh-oh-oh-oh)

 

Sha-sha-sha-sha-sha, she was shakin' (oh-oh-oh-oh)

Sha-sha-sha-sha-sha, she was shakin' (oh-oh-oh-oh)

Sha-sha-sha-sha-sha, she was shakin' (oh-oh-oh-oh)

Sha-sha-sha-sha-sha, she was shakin' (oh-oh-oh-oh)

 

-Eddie Money

A still-life of a vintage Kodak Instamatic X-15 camera along with some old photos, 35mm film strips, passports, photo albums and a book.

 

Developed and color-graded with Darktable 3.6.0.

[walkin', talkin', snappin' with the extraordinary Jessiqua yesterday at the Seattle Center....]

So I got a DM with my last post the other day, asking if I'm still snappin' more then little profile shots....... Yes, Yes I am and sometimes I surprise myself in such a beautiful way. :)

Lobster at the Monkey Farm...Happy Tasty Tuesday...:))

A sneak peek to where I'm traveling later this summer...Happy Throw back Thursday!! :))

(Me and my sister 1970)

A sneak peek where I will be next week...can you spot which one is me?? 1969-HBM! :))

A sneak peek at where I will be traveling to at the end of summer...(me on the right end) HFF!! :)) 1969

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A sneak peak to where we are headed at the end of summer...can you guess which one is me?? HFF!! :) 1969

My Nonna and Zia Rita on the roof top deck back in 1970...they couldn't speak English and we couldn't speak Italian!

Happy Throw Back Thursday :))

 

Heading back here tomorrow...

Is that Xavier flashing the photobomb?

Wishing you "All The Best" Flickr Friends for 2021 .The Future Looks Bright ( Yep! It's Me ) Be Positive ..Happy Snappin.

Some all-hot half-shot was headin' for a hot spot

Snappin' his fingers, clappin' his hands

And some fleshpot mascot was tied into a lover's knot

With a whatnot in her hand.

(Bruce Springsteen - Blinded by the light)

With flags snappin' in the wind, CP 2246 and the 2023 Holiday Train, approaches mile 90.8 on the Windsor Sub, St. Joachim Ontario.

Ok a little back story...my mother's parents were from a little town in Sicily called Floridia. My grandfather had 7 brothers and when my grandfather and grandmother came over to America a brother stayed in Italy. One year after my mother graduated from Juliard school of music (piano) she was sent to stay with her uncle in Sicily for a few months. My mother's aunt had surgery and my dad was a surgeon making a house call to my mother's aunt when my mother was visiting. Long story short they fell in love and because my mother was raised in America but with Italian immigrant parents she spoke both languages and therefore was able to communicate with my dad. They wrote letters back and forth and eventually got married and my dad moved to America but his mother (my nonna and his sister (my Zia Rita) stayed in Sicily. My dad had to learn English and get relicensed in America to practice medicine as a surgeon in New York City. He bought a summer home back in Siracusa and as a child I spent many summers with my dad and Nonna in Italy. Can't believe after all these years I'm finally going back and am excited to show Tim where I spent many a summers growing up! Wish I was visiting my dad, my Nonna and my Zia Rita but of course they have long passed…

 

Leaving tomorrow morning and will be back September 14...see you all then! :))

Goin through the dolly closet and bringing back some dollies who haven't seen the light of day for years!!

 

Since convention is just a week or so away, I decided to start snappin pix of my convention dollies.

 

Ah Lillith & Eden. They were the dolls I HAD to have at the Dark Romance convention. They hold a special place in my heart because they were the first dolls I bought in the souvenir shop at my very first convention. Ah memories.

Self portrait.

The next stop is Chatham as CP 2246 02H-26 Holiday Train approaches Euphemia Line at mile 41.3 on the Windsor Sub at Bothwell. With a brisk headwind, the flags were snappin' sharply.

I went out for a drive this morning as it was dry for a change. Didn't see anything worth snappin'....well, except for these Clematis seeds which were right outside my front door. Could've saved myself some diesel and not left the house? :)

It's been a bit grey and miserable recently......not many opportunities to get snappin' so this one's from a few weeks ago. I liked the sun reflected rather than at the top of the shot :)

 

Explored 11/09/17 #15

snappin pics foh da Flick

  

Well maybe/maybe not. This was our villa in Vietnam. I played with it in Analog Efex. Gotta get this project started again! I took a series of photos of the curtain moving in the breeze and tried to put them on top of each other but it just wasn't working. I should have done the double exposure in camera. One day I will have time to learn processing and also have time to think through shots. Though, I do wonder if I did have time whether that would change anything - I am just a mad snappin' fool.

drivin', walkin', talkin', snappin' with the lovely Qua last weekend in Seattle....we came upon this location

that she discovered a couple of years ago and where she took this photo:

 

www.flickr.com/photos/jessiqua/3437007/

 

For a variety of reasons, not all of them rational, I have decided to mess around in Facebook. You can find me at:

www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1384040437&ref=name

  

View On Black and Grande

 

Here I am snappin' shots in GDL.

-->> ..

 

..hatin' ..mutatin' ..

 

..my whine just ain' waitin'..

   

..mama confuse me ..mama 'buse me ..

 

..mama gon' used me ..

   

..she left shattered,hurtin',stinkin' and quakin'..

 

..she took my heart;squeeze,popped it n' shaken..

   

..they all fear Snapper .. they all take for 'bad' ..

 

..they all hate tOkKa ..n' think he's gon'mad..

 

::

 

.."He's ugly,he's stinky,incomprehensible brute !!"..

 

.."He's the mental n'ill..he's th'one we should shoot !!"

   

..too prickly to be pals.. too frightening to be friends..

 

..ain' nobody luv tOkKa and that's how it ends..

   

.. some take me in, luv me..make tOkKa cry..

 

..then they scorn tOkKa n' leave him to die ??

   

..me numbskull ain' thinkin'..n' i know 'NOT QUITE RIGHT'..

 

..but when 'm attacked i'm itchin' to fight..

   

..see; mama was mighty,ghastly,n' crazy..

 

..but din' raise this Snapper to sleep n' be lazy..

   

..maybe me 'snap' ?? Attack EVERYONE ?!

 

..they'll make'm bleed bloody soon as i'm done ??

   

..naw :'on the attack' to much headache-ie it makes..

 

..tOkKa gon' runnin' now..

 

..too much heartache-ey it breaks..

   

..not ever think'n clear..

 

..but THEY stay on the attack !?

 

..gee now ya see why ..::'SPIKES are all over m'BACK ' ..

   

..Run run .."GO AWAY.. " i don' wanna fight !!

 

.. **ow.. !!

 

..not back to the zoo .. not ever NOT NOW !!

   

..Mama went runnin' ,Rahzar did too ..

 

..Peoples try to take tOkKa back to the zoo..

   

..the peoples n' persons try take tOkKa away ..

 

..snappin' n' fightin' ..i thought hope'd i'd stay..

   

..but my tounge is all tired..n' beak gon' all dry..

 

..tOkKa so angry and sadly ..me just needa cry..

   

..not time for that now tho'.. sum' hunt me down..

 

..if i miss'slip..i'll die bloody..face first in this town..

   

..breakin' my tail ..to find who i loved..

 

..will love, will hope..that's not there 'above'..

   

..dunno what i am.. dunno what i be..

 

..loosin' ambition with the monster i see..

   

..dirty and slimey..with nuthin' to loose..

 

..hatred in bein ?? Retromutagen ooze..

   

..i keep thinkin' of Ratman ..he made Mama 'Deader'..

 

..him n' those Roun'backs ..::"Defeated the Shredder"..

   

..when i find'em ..i'll crush em' .. n' make em' bleed ooze..

 

..but that's if i find'em.. or if find'em i 'CHOOSE'..

   

..but no time to lament..or think about bitin' ..

 

..gotta run to survive ..this battle i's fightin'

   

..run into the night..bleedin' n' runnin' til' day..

 

..gon' un-un-love-ED .. n' that's just the way ..

   

..entropy NOW ..entropy stay ..

 

..the swamp may sink me ..swallow tOkKa one day..

   

..i'll go wrestle with fishes,chomp,pull thru' with m' part..

 

..but can't now..cuz look:: my spike-ie just pierced my heart..

   

..>V<

   

..tOkKa don' ever get the acclaim of lil' Miss Moonshine..but bein' an underdog,i'll ahve ta do with the shoeshine.

 

Boy .. peoples really do like them :: Devotchka www.devotchka.net persons!! They providin' the tune for tOkKa's whine n' ryme up there !! Maybe heard it before ?? Hear it again if ya wish..

 

--Click here ,only if you wish to listen to 'HOW IT ENDS' by Devotchka !!--

   

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**Lyrics**

   

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..crayon,ball-point pen,correction pen,Ph.shop,colour pencil,magic marker,inks,Fireworks,Retromutagen Foot Ooze..

  

© 2007 tOkKa,http://www.terrible2z.com ..all other elements © their much respected owners..please respect the copyrights..

 

There she was just a-walkin down the street,

Singin, do-wah diddy-diddy down diddy-do

Snappin her fingers and shufflin her feet,

Singin, do-wah diddy-diddy down diddy-do

She looked good, looked good

She looked fine, looked fine

She looked good, she looked fine

And I nearly lost my mind...♫♪♫♪

 

~Manfred Mann

 

Out at the car show last night with Lynnie and Jackie.

Drive by snappin on my way to sedona.

film, sooc.

once again..thank you so incredibly much emma for snappin this one.

i felt like alice running through these gardens.

doggies digging

kiddies splashing

mamas gossiping

papas relaxing

tugboats tugging

breezes breezin'

grasses growing

cottonwood fluff floating

me joyously snappin'

he enjoying

a perfect moment in time.

 

and I know its not officially summer yet but here is Mungo Jerry singing "In the Summertime"

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM

 

Old mower at Inman farm Heritage Days, Inman, Georgia

Leica IIIf with Voigtlander Color Skopar 21mm f/4 lens.

Ilford HP5+ film.

Well he couldn't ride or wrangle

And he never cared to make a dime

But give him his guitar

And he'd be happy all the time

And all the girls

From nine to ninety

Were snappin' fingers

Tappin' toes

And beggin' him don't stop

And hypnotized

And fascinated

By the little dark-haired boy who played the

Tennessee flat top box

And he would play

I had been watching the Yosemite web cams all week while the storm lingered. Finally on Friday I couldn't stand it any longer. I threw my sleeping bag and several blankets in the rolling toaster and went for it. The forecast was changing daily, but a lot of snow was projected. I just hoped and prayed that there would be a few breaks in the storm. When I got to Yosemite Valley it was raining. In the evening the rain turned to snow. Lots of snow. As I lay wrapped up like a burrito in my car I dreamed of waking up to a winter wonderland. And I did. But it was still snowing. And it kept snowing. I drove down to the Valley View and waited. I waited from 5am until 9am. I sat in the car. I walked around in the snow. I walked along the river. It didn't look like the weather was going to change, but I was determined to be there if it did let up. It was a long morning. I met alot of interesting people...most of them were other photographers. They had come from all over the country. I kept thinking that I was so spoiled to live within a few hours of such an amazing place like Yosemite. It's easy to forget things like that.

 

So anyway....a little bit of light started to break through the clouds around 8:00am. I stood in "my spot" that I had staked out. Guarding it like a gold claim. Just when it seemed like there was going to be a break it would start dumping again. I stood in the snow behind my tripod...plastic trash bag over my camera. Occasionally I would shake the trash bag and knock the snow off. Then stick my hands back in my pockets. Other photographers came and went. We would chat for a while. "Where are you from?.....Indiana?....wow....that's a long way.......oh...leaving eh?.....yeah...looks like it's snowing again....take her easy..."

 

Then finally around 9:30am the sky broke open and I actually got to take the bag off the camera and start snappin. I didn't get the amazing sunrise I was dreaming of, but still...it was a nice Saturday morning. Really nice.

 

God is good

  

Technical junk: 4 images stitched together to make a pano. Canon 5d2. Canon 17-40L lens. 4 stop Cokin ND filter and 4 stop Cokin ND graduated filter to allow a longer exposure.

drivin', walkin', talkin' and snappin' with the Qua in the Southwest a little over a week ago....