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Do your best and forget the rest....any P90Xers? You know the saying.
Just one of those days where nothing aligns. My favorite spots in Rock Creek are closed to traffic on the weekends. The wind was blowing the trees around. Long exposures were pretty much nil. This is the only decent one I got off today, and even this has some movement in the branches. Basically, I got my waders wet por nada.
I made a 2hr early morning drive to this location yesterday, thinking that 30% chance of showers meant that I might have nice reflections to play with. But it went the other way, there was no real dawn, the wind was gusty and clouds were hanging very low with no real texture to them. A grey day overall. So, I have a couple compositions to share that emphasize the graphical nature of the location instead of my hoped for Fall colors. #itiswhatitis
Image made with my Olympus OM-D e-M1.2 with the m.Zuiko 12-40mm f2.8 Pro lens and NiSi polarizer, mounted on my meFoto Globetrotter tripod. 4shot HDR using Olympus Hi-Res shot combining 8 RAW files into an 80mp RAW file (77mp after minor crop for leveling). Processed in On1 Photo RAW 18.5 with a couple roundtrips into Nik Color Efex & Silver Efex Pro and finished in On1 Layers.
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TGIF to all my dear Flickr friends. Thank you for your kind comments, your friendship and humour. Have a great weekend, whatever you happen to be doing.
"As the light lies on these white walls"
These portraits of plants, have been made for many different reasons but always for the JOY of it. All of my photographs are daytime, made in city parks and gardens and virtually straight out of the camera with the absolute minimum of post processing.
This on going photographic odyssey that I call TERRA INCOGNITA has helped me notice what is always present in my life
it's been in the high 70's for about a week now which clearly necessitated a trip to the beach this weekend. sunsets and ocean waves and the smell of cotton candy on the pier do a heart and mind good.
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i saw this Banished Word List (from Lake Superior University) shortly after the New Year and loved reading all the words and snark accompanying them and thought i'd share some of my favorites. enjoy!
EPIC
"Cecil B. DeMille movies are epic. Internet fallouts and opinions delivered in caps-lock are not. 'Epic fail,' 'epic win', 'epic (noun)' -- it doesn't matter; it needs to be banished until people recognize that echoing trite, hyperbolic Internet phrases in an effort to look witty or intelligent actually achieves the opposite." - Kim, Des Moines, Iowa.
FAIL
"Fail is not a noun. It is not an adjective. It is a verb. If this word is not banned, then this entire word banishment system is full of FAIL. (Now doesn't that just sound silly?)" Daniel of Carrollton, Georgia.
"It has taken over blogs, photo captions, 'status' comments. Anytime someone does something less than perfect, we have to read 'FAIL!' The word has failed us all." - Aaron, Ishpeming, Mich.
SWEET
"It became popular with the advent of the television show 'South Park' and by rights should have died of natural causes, but the term continues to cling to life. It is annoying when young children use it and have no idea why, but it really sounds stupid coming from the mouths of adults. Please kill this particular use of an otherwise fine word." – Wayne, Manistique, Michigan
IT IS WHAT IT IS
"This pointless phrase, uttered initially by athletes on the losing side of a contest, is making its way into general use. It accomplishes the dual feat of adding nothing to the conversation while also being phonetically and thematically redundant." – Jeffrey, St. Paul, Minnesota.
CHILLAXIN'
"Horrifying overuse, even in face-to-face conversation… It should receive bonus points for its ability to exhort the opposite reaction from the receiver." – Bret, Cincinnati, Ohio.
WATERBOARDING
"Let's banish 'waterboarding' to the beach, where it belongs with boogie boards and surfboards." – Patrick, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
I'M JUST SAYIN'
"'A phrase used to diffuse any ill feelings caused by a preceded remark,' according to the Urban Dictionary. Do we really need a qualifier at the end of every sentence? People feel uncomfortable with a comment that was made and then 'just sayin'' comes rolling off the tongue? It really doesn't change what was said, I'm just sayin'." - Becky, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
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"Supposed to resemble a heart, or stand for the word 'love. Used when sending those important text messages to loved ones. Just say the word instead of making me turn my head sideways and wondering what 'less than three' means." - Andrea, Chicago.
....but I don't know what it is. However this is an old flour mill that has been converted into flats on the Birmingham Canal Navigation. This word art is across the City and I have featured it in several of my pictures in the past.
I bought this statue many years ago, it was totally black. A friend thought it would look better with some gold leaf so he took it away and added the gold. I was informed that I had bought a statue of Anubis. Being a human Magpie, I simply bought it because it caught my eye. It appears Anubis is the Egyptian god of mummification and the afterlife as well as the patron god of lost souls and the helpless. Sounds a tad gloomy but it is what it is!