Mono Monday
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Like a weed in the middle of your lawn there are occasional areas of grasses that pop through the wind rippled sandy landscape. Although I converted to mono - the original looked almost the same.
Happy Mono Monday!
Judging by the Hawkeye symbols - it looks as though some of the college fans enjoy these benches - cold and cruddy!
Happy Bench Monday!
Happy Mono Monday!
A chilly December morning for a couple of fishermen! You can even see reflection of some snow at top.
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Came across on a corner in a small town of less that 400 people - there may have been more people e but looks like they left this place for greener pastures. Happy Mono Monday (HMM)!
“The Greeting to the Sun” monument in Zadar, Croatia.
“… three hundred, multi-layered glass plates placed on the same level as the stone-paved waterfront. It consists of a 22-meter diameter circle, with photovoltaic solar modules underneath. Lighting elements installed in a circle turn on at night, and produce a light show. The monument, designed by Croatian architect Nikola Bašić, symbolizes communication with nature, …” —Wikipedia
Happy Mono Monday, a day late, and Happy Travel Tuesday! 😎
07:45 UTC; 18 July 2023
Monument Valley
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley
Our word “Navajo” was originally a Spanish pejorative term meaning “Won’t Go”, used to describe Native Americans who resisted relocation efforts by Spanish settlers. The people call themselves Diné. The map shows the location of the photographer. The view is to the South. Happy Mono Monday!
30 Jan 2023; 11:15 CST;
Sometimes the way back is steeper than the way out.
Island in the Sky, Canyonlands National Park.
Happy Mono Monday!
5 Dec 2022; 01:45 UTC; B&Wc 26mm ffeq
Part of the Fremont Canyon in Wyoming. The rock colors are a sandy and light reddish color - but really liked the mono version.
Happy Mono Monday!
Afternoon shadows in the Grand Canyon. Alternate title: “Rocks of Ages”. The last of a short series of Canyon photos exploring different styles, but there will be more after a digression to other locations.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
Happy Mono Monday!
20-11-2022; 00:20 UTC; converted.
This tiny blossom is less than 1/2 inch (1.27 cm) in diameter with tiny little satellites around the edges. So I did not know if to submit as Macro Monday or Mono Monday - so you get them both!
Happy Macro Monday!
Happy Mono Monday!
For scale, Lake Powell—shown here as a small strip of water at the bottom of the frame—is more than 166feet (50m) below full pool, where only the darker rock at the top of the frame would show. The Lake is only about 45ft (5m) above deadpool, which chokes off power generation and downstream flow. Full pool is 483ft (178m) above the Colorado River, so the first explorers would have seen an additional 317ft (128m) of section hereabouts, now submerged. Mind-boggling.
Light, shadow, line, form, texture. Hardly any color in the original, so i figure we’re getting enough art without it here. This is the 12 Pro Max portrait lens, 65mm full frame equivalent.
Happy Mono Monday!
10-10-2022; 00:10 UTC; iPhone
Water, Stone, Leaves, Reflection, Structure.
Rhythm, no hues.
Architectural detail of the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia.
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22-08-2022; 01:30 UTC; iPhone 399:50:12
The Old-timers are the trees, of course. The prominent clouds were only just being created at the time of the exposure.
Shot in Leica Profile Dynamic Monochrome. Saved the RAW file just in case, but I liked the B&W better. 24mmFFeq.
Happy Mono Monday!
2021-01-04; 07:52
With appreciation for:
R. Crumb, Mr. Natural, Zap Comix, and Blind Boy Fuller.
Mandevilla sp. Happy Mono Monday!
29 Aug 2022; 11:45 CDT; iPhone 262;37;3
Our back yard, just after Patty watered all the plants. Wish I could photograph the aroma.
Happy Mono Monday!
I haven't gotten out much lately so went to the old files to find one for Mono Monday. This old barn fell down several years ago and there is no longer any evidence that it existed.
Spruce Tree House under cloudy skies.
“Spruce Tree House, the third largest cliff dwelling (Cliff Palace and Long House are larger), was constructed between about 1211 and 1278 CE by the ancestors of the Pueblo peoples of the Southwest. The dwelling contains about 130 rooms and 8 kivas (kee-vahs), or ceremonial chambers, built into a natural alcove measuring 216 feet (66 meters) at greatest width and 89 feet (27 meters) at its greatest depth. It is thought to have been home for about 60 to 80 people.”
The ruins were re-discovered in 1888, by two local ranchers searching for stray cattle. They climbed down a tall tree—like those at center left—from the mesa top to the front of the dwelling. That tree was later cut down by another early explorer.
www.nps.gov/meve/learn/historyculture/cd_spruce_tree_hous...
Happy Mono Monday!
8 May 2023; 07:30 CDT;
White Cyclamen on my kitchen table, natural light.
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26 Dec 2022; 01:15 UTC; Provia>B&W
“Spruce Tree House, constructed between about 1211 and 1278 CE by the ancestors of the Pueblo peoples of the Southwest, … contains about 130 rooms and 8 kivas built into a natural alcove measuring up to 216 ft (66 m) wide and 89 ft (27 m) deep. Thought to have been home for about 60 to 80 people.
…first discovered in 1888, when two local ranchers chanced upon it while searching for stray cattle.”
www.nps.gov/meve/learn/historyculture/cd_spruce_tree_hous...
Wait, what? Surely it was “first discovered” about 1211 by the people who engineered and built it, right?
Two exposures, blended end to end. Geotag is approximate.
Happy Mono Monday!
6 Feb 2023; 00:45 UTC
13:19 Thence and Whence traffic alternating on the two thick planks, now in a bit deeper water. Reminded me of a Scots expression for a stupid person: “As thick as a plank”, or “as two short planks”, when very exasperated. A steady flow of unsteady pedestrians. Nothing left now but a hard slog up a steep, rough trail in a cold rain, and a couple more photos. The foam is a natural consequence of high mineral concentration in the lakes, and the crashing waves over upstream rapids.
Happy Mono Monday!
07:15 CDT; 12 Jun 2023;
Fox Squirrel, Sciurus niger, on my roof, taking a dim view of my kitchen window photography. The blind is pulled part way down--she can't see me directly. With the flip screen out and the camera held at knee level, I can see her clearly.
Happy Mono Monday!
11 June 2022; 00:30 UTC; 397;73;35
Red and yellow tulips just below a line of spotlights, with Acros+Y film simulation in camera. SOOC, cropped to 16:9.
Happy Mono Monday, this Ides of March!
15 Mar 2021; 07:25 CDT
Snowy day, so time to play with some edits. One of the many wild mustangs we saw on the trip I spoke of in the last post. Happy Mono Monday.
Canna Lily, Canna sp.,
Happy Mono Monday! Happy Solstice!
21 June 2021; 09:30 CDT; Acros + R Filter with post
Bethesda Terrace, and guitarist, from the 72nd St underpass in Central Park. Handheld.
Happy Mono Monday!
25 Oct 2021; 09:00 CDT; Acros
Happy Mono Monday!
… a day late …
Seabourne Creek Nature Park, Rosenberg TX
31 Aug 2021; 10:40 PDT; B&W in post
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1 May 2023; 00:30UTC
Leaf, grass, connected.
Tossed by human hand, windblown.
Touching, briefly, here.
Mourning Dove, Zenaida macroura , preening on my back fence.
Happy Mono Monday!
1 Feb 2021; 08:46 CST
One human being, snug as a bug in a rug,
on “Billionaire’s Row”—W 57th St, Manhattan. Taken at 11:32 AM.
Happy Mono Monday!
8 Nov 2021; 09:45 CST;
272, 28, 4
Whose tree this is—I think I know—
Drove by just now, with tools in tow.
One lifted finger—no change of face—
Accepts our presence in this place.
At pavement’s end, the world divided
Looks much the same on every side, but …
Just one tree stands—it’s no surprise—
Waiting for the sap to rise.
(With apologies to Robert Frost, and poetry lovers generally.)
Post Oak, Quercus stellata.
Happy Mono Monday!
2 Jan 2023; 02:00UTC; Provia > B&W
Not just schadenfreude; not just consolation; not just the need to experience differences to awaken awareness. Really an essential characteristic of the world--yin and yang.
Waterlily in Riverstone Wetlands,
Happy Mono Monday!
08-08-2022; 02:00 UTC; Velvia conv 328;51;16
A parable for our time.
Hard to grasp the scale of the Houston Medical Center: 61 medical institutions, serving more than 10 million patients each year--compared to 2.3 million residents in the city, and 7 million in the metropolitan area. MD Anderson Cancer Center is only the 3rd largest of the 21 hospitals, with many more buildings than the one shown here. Still, Cancer is a growth business.
Happy Mono Monday!
06-20-2022; 01:00 UTC; iPhone converted; 362;47;3
On US Route 66 in Williams AZ, a cafe that calls to mind the popular rhythm and blues song composed in 1946 by (African-)American songwriter Bobby Troup, following a cross-country drive with his wife from Chicago to Los Angeles. Covered by many singers, most famously Nat King Cole. Also an American adventure crime drama television series that ran from October 7, 1960 until March 20, 1964, following two young white men in a convertible on the same route. The show had a different theme song— by Nelson Riddle—because the TV producers did not want to pay royalties to Troup.
The statue of Elvis posted earlier stands in the courtyard of the restaurant.
Happy Mono Monday!
7 Nov 2022; 01:15 UTC; converted. 440;50;5