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OurDailyChallenge "From Below"
This shot taken while lying on my back the the sun almost directly in my line of vision. In fact, I really could not see the subject for the background glare. I took a bunch of shots, conserned that the sun would overcome the meter, but this is my first and best shot.I had to rotate it 180 degrees but other than that and a bit of light level adgustment, it is straight from the camera.
Oh!... This flag flys from a pole attached to the front of our garage.
Seen at Minter Gardens in Rosedale, B.C.
Unfortunately, this will be the final season of operation for Minter Gardens! The last day of operation will be Monday, October 14, 2013, and, for one, will sadly miss my visits there. (13-08-13-5838)
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We were playing, with her whole body on my lower legs. She was up in the air and her hair flaired out like this. I knew I had the picture of the day. :)
The stark, brutal Passion Facade of the Sagrada Familia, almost completely at odds with the over-wrought that is the Nativity Facade on the other side of the church.
ugh! what a trip, really hard, really fun. From this angle the exercise took me twice the time, and there are plenty of distortions (errors). I only discovered today that Christine & Craig are twins.
This tree scares me. It towers right above my parents' garage... growing up right beside it. I really don't like this tree. It is super-tall, and there aren't any others around to form a windbreak. Like so many other trees in the Pacific Northwest (Washington in particular) this is top-heavy. It has virtually no branches until about halfway up... and then you see this - a huge head of heavy pine-needle-laden branches, reaching out over the roof of the garage, part of the side yard, and part of the neighbor's yard.
I have been trying to get my parents to cut it down for ever. My biggest fear is that it will get blown over in one of our notorious fall windstorms... and that it will land directly on the house, the trunk probably falling diagonally into the garage, living room, and my parents' bedroom... with the branches engulfing the rest of the house.
There are a few other trees around their house as well, one of which is directly in front of the room I used to have, before I got married. But this one has so far caused the most problems. Every single year, this thing decides to shed some of its heavy arms, and sometimes they land in the street, sometimes in the driveway - but there have been times (too many for my comfort) that large branches, as long as (or longer than) 5 ft long have fallen onto the roof itself. One particularly memorable occasion was when I was visiting with my son, in the wintertime. The snow was particularly heavy on said branches, and small chunks of it fell off every now and then, in the occasional breezes. My little boy (about 3 or 4 at the time) and I were having a good ol' time, playing in the somewhat deep snow in the driveway. I was down the slope a little bit (their driveway is short, about 2 cars long, but steep) and my son was up in front of the garage door. We played around, throwing bits of snow at each other and giggling up a storm... when all of a sudden, it happened. A loud creaking sound, like a step on an old wooden board... then CRACK, BOOM!! a huuuuuge branch broke away from the tree and plummeted towards the earth.
It landed on the very edge of the gutter/garage roof... right above where my son was standing. It landed lengthwise, but at an angle, so that about half ended up extended over the edge. To this day, I believe angels kept that limb from falling right on the head of my boy. I'm not sure he would've been killed had it landed on him, but he would definitely have been seriously wounded... I shudder to think of it.
As you can see, the tree is still there... and we are now heading right into the midst of our windy season. Soon we will be seeing the streets littered with needles, leaves, and parts of trees... rain will soak the ground, leaving it unstable; and some trees will crack and break from the extended autumn blasts, while others will rob us of our electricity when they lean too hard on the powerlines along the roadway. And this tree will shed more of it's branches... hopefully none too big, and none too close. And maybe someday, my parents will listen, and get rid of it altogether. :)
He's the best when it comes to humoring me :)
I liked the geometrical shapes that all of the lines were forming..
Yes, in my cynical shell there is a romantic spot.
Last weekend I have been in a place that rises up until 1600meters. It was very fascinating watching how nature (season) went backwards. I saw trees that just started to get their first fresh leaves, and somewhere I even spotted snow! Maybe for someone reading this, snow in april is the most normal thing, but for me it was so incredible (specially because it was 20°C and I was in T-shirt) that I had to touch it to really believe it.
I can imagine being a tiny bug living under this canopy ... reminds me of the 60s & 70s "Jetson" style architecture.
That's a 100 ft tall ponderosa pine trunk in the background .... we're very tiny here ....
Part of the set, almost black and white nature.
I posted the following poem in the description for a second pic in this series, both shot at the same time I wrote the poem, so I thought I would share it here as well:
Wild Parsley
I lay my cheek down on
cool green blades
and watch flickering sunlight move
through disks of wild parsley
inhale spring sap perfume -- yes,
scent hangs sweet and redolent from
cottonwood buds -- heavy
like a cloud of old memories
I listen to a swishing
crinoline gesture in the distance
branch-dancers rise beneath
the always-flow of water music
my thoughts float
on the surface of years ago ...
carried over and over through the repeated questions
of some bird's one-note-song
each repeated stanza rises at the end
like a bedspring in the forest,
creaking under the weight of
so much life
insects float and twirl,
their translucent wings
are dust motes
beckoning wild unstructured
the way memory sometimes starts
and stops -- in fits -- and
broken soundings yet
comes back to the light
copyright M. Shaughnessy 2006
Another detail of the front of the Wanamaker building in Greenwich Village. The signage was designed by Paula Scher.
An interesting view of a tree trunk in Belvoir Forest (where else!?).
The texture of the bark on this tree caught my eye, especially as it seems to be accentuated by some kind of lichen perhaps, growing on the surface.
I also particularly was drawn to the light shining through the leaves.
This photo is from a single RAW file, replacing the original multiple raw combination. The result is more satisfactory now.
Best viewed at Large size.
On the ceiling of an entrance hall of the Freer Gallery of Smithsnian Institution (pretty good Asian art museum, though not compareable to the ones I visited in France).
Sigo de vacaciones - disfrutando de las buenas vistas que se vé cuando uno sale con la camara (!!!). Paso a saludaros antes que tiro para Madrid y el concierto de AC/DC. A ver si, cuando vuelvo, me concéntro y empiezo a ponerme al dÃa con todo ustedes. Hasta entonces ......... besukes grandes ;)
I'm still enjoying my holidays and making the most of the excellent views (!!!) you can capture with your camera whilst you're out and about in the company of someone you love. Just thought I'd drop in and say Hi to you all before I zoom off to Madrid on Tuesday for the AC/DC concert and a few days of sightseeing. Hopefully when I get back I'll be able to spend a bit of time catching up with all of you and letting you see what I've been snapping during my break !!! Until then .... hugs from me to you ;)
At the power station by the Rochelle Railroad Park
Rochelle, Illinois
September 2008
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An alternate photo can be found in the comments. Can't decide which one i like better......
they're up on the balcony. you can see the railing they lean on in the previous and next photos. Me and racey were on the street down below. It was around 3 a.m. and they wouldn't let us back into the bar cuz it was trying to close :(
The palm trees in the center room can grow to 100 feet tall. This is a problem, because the dome is only 80 feet. In 2002, the Belle Isle Botanical Society funded the removal of a tree that threatened to break through the glass.
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I had a real hard time taking this photo. Trying to stand with your phone pointed straight up over your face, at a spinning ceiling fan (going fast because it's frikkin' hot) and centering it so that you're directly underneath...
I almost lost my balance, quite honestly. ;) I wasn't able to center it in-frame, obviously, but I like it a bit offset anyway. :)