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I don't have the time to really write tonight, I have to run here in a moment to go teach a class and if I don't post this now it will be really late by the time I get the chance to post again.
I will say that my assignment I will be giving the class tonight will be to choose a location close to home, somewhere within say, a five minute walk, somewhere they could easily go to every day, and then go to that place as many times as they can this week and to make photos. The idea being that on the second, third, fourth or fifth trip to a spot you look at it differently. It is an exercising in learning how to see. This bridge is my spot. I go there again and again, reminding myself that every time I go to look at it with fresh eyes no matter how familiar it may seem... it is never really the same bridge. This practice has served me well over the years, hopefully it helps my students too.
P.S. Saw a short video on-line today about Abelardo Morell. Do your inner photographer a favor and look him up. He has been a favorite of mine for many years now but his more recent tent camera work is so intriguing.
Innova 6x9 pinhole / Kodak Ektar 100
When I took this photo I didn't realize he'd caught a gopher and a good sized one that appeared to be quite heavy for him. Over a distance of about 200 hundred yards he was in the air and back on the ground 3 times before landing on the 4 foot fence at the tot lot at the end of the park.
When out surfing with a friend, a 2nd cycle American Herring Gull camped out on our Iron Cross Surfboard. I couldn't resist the opportunity to snap a picture of the little dude. Can't think of anything more San Diego :)
Sony A7 Carl Zeiss 28mm f2.8 Biogon ZM T
Shot of a couple as they were wondering in the park on an autumn day. It was a foggy day which created this beautiful light.
Amtrak's Empire Builder was a few minutes into its trip to the Pacific Northwest as it zips across Techny Road back in 2002.
Two P42DCs and a F40PH had a long train full of passengers and mail and express heading through the northern suburbs of Chicagoland.
When my friend and I decide to meet up and take photos, you can guarantee it will rain or blow a gale. It was pouring today but we decided to head out anyway, we ducked out of our car when the showers stopped and I at least a angled a photo of the day.
When I was a child, handwritten letters were commonplace, but I rarely see one now. The letter in this image was written in 1832, folded and then sealed with red wax. The envelope beneath it is not connected, but was posted in 1896. These pieces of paper are links to real people from the 19th century. Nowadays we even have to wonder whether communications we receive were actually written by a human being at all. How times have changed.
For this week's Macro Mondays group theme, Paper.
even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat :-)
Mark Twain, letter to Gertrude Natkin, 1906
HFF!!
blue dasher dragonfly, waterlily, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Four minutes before the sun disappeared below the horizon behind me, the light was dropping quickly. Owen Conservation Park, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, January 8, 2025, 4:37 PM.
When I came home at lunch today a large flock of waxwings were hitting the neighbors ornimental fruit trees.
I'm not sure what the mating habits are but many of the birds were paired off and were feeding each other. So maybe spring will come after all.
But hard to think of love at -10f
The desert blooming.
We have had some rains in the last two months and the island is incredibly blooming.
I don't know if Fuerteventura have ever been in this way, maybe not. I see people going in the new fields taking photo just like they have never seen something like this.
When a young woman with a ponytai heard my word, "You have a pretty hairstyle," she immediately turns her hard to her right and then looks directly at me with wide, smiling eyes.
This happens just after she made her purchase order to a seller of convenience store at a village in Subic, Zambales, Philippines.
Serendipity is when you unexpectedly stumble across something good. And that is what happened yesterday when I was out walking on the moors with a friend and a Short-eared Owl popped up in front of us. Short-eared Owls usually breed on the Peak District Moors so I often see them in summer but they are pretty thin on the ground in winter. Most Short-eared Owls leave the higher ground to spend the winter in lowlands, especially around estuarine saltmarshes. Though the BTO Bird Atlas says that birds in the Uists, Orkneys and the Pennines appear to winter close to their breeding grounds, yet I rarely see them in winter. There was a bit of snow on the ground yesterday but not enough to hamper its hunting. We watched it for about five minutes, and it did appear to catch and eat something, then it slowly headed south and out of sight. I did manage some closer shots but I quite liked this one showing the winter moorland habitat.
“Was this the bright vastness the poet Bashō saw when he wrote of the Milky Way arched over a stormy sea?”
― Yasunari Kawabata
I sat in my car and looked at the little gift shop. This was the first time in all the years that I have been coming here, that I have seen it open. Of course, I usually stop here in the middle of the night, so it's no wonder. I thought, I really don't need to buy anything, and I almost pulled out of the lot... and then that old familiar tug at my heart saying, "go in... there might be something wonderful in there!" So, I listened to my heart. When I walked through the door, directly in front of me, one of the first thing I noticed, was photographs, beautiful matted photographs. They reeled me in because I always need to see what other people see... do they see things the way that I do.... what do they see that I am missing? The beautiful photos seemed familiar to me... like I had seen them before. I looked at the signature. I knew that name! I smiled. This person that I "knew" from my Flickr pages, had her photos for sale, in my favorite place! How fabulous! When I left the little gift shop... I pulled out my phone and left a quick comment on her Flickr page. To my surprise, I quickly had a response to my comment telling me that she lived right around the corner and asking how could she get in touch with me? Being technologically challenged, I couldn't figure out a way to Flickr mail her my phone number, so I just threw it out there on her page and within minutes we were in contact and a few minutes later we had plans! Dinner and a night sky shoot... in my very favorite place! What could possibly be better?!!
For my birthday weekend... I followed my heart to a place that I love, to do what I love to do. And there... the Universe gave me a wonderful birthday gift... a new friend, with whom I spent a perfect evening.... eating pizza, shooting the sunset, talking about things we love, shooting the night sky and making new plans. And I know we will do it again!! Thank you, Universe!! Thank you Joan for a really fun night! ♥
Oh....and one last fun thought.... remember synchronicities?... those fun little unexplainable coincidences? Earlier this day I walked along the edge of a beach, not the water edge, but near wooded edge... and I happened to notice a little path through the woods... I wondered where it led. Later, I found that.... it leads to Joan's house! We are all connected in ways... sometimes by words on a Flickr page.... sometimes by paths in places you've never been. How cool is that....? : )
Follow your heart.... ♥
My new and very talented friend, Joan ... go say hi!
: www.flickr.com/photos/joanatkinson/ I bet some of you already know her!! : )
Falls in Idaho Falls as the Snake River course through downtown. The Idaho Falls Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is seen in the upper right.
For the first few years WC power ran around in a number of paint schemes and getting a lash in full WC paint was far from the rule making catches like this June 17, 1991 view all the sweeter. 6534 and 585 leads train LO-34 west of Trout Lake on a beautiful summer evening.
“When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true.”
Explored!!
When we arrived at the Grand Hotel in Kookynie (built in 1902) there was no sign of this horse. We wandered around a bit, and upon our return to the hotel and the car, there was our friend, patiently waiting at the front door for the hotel to open. There was nobody in sight and no harness or the like on the horse.
Kookynie today is pretty much a ghost town with the hotel being the only aspect recalling the days of the gold rush era in the early 1900's.
We visited as part of our July 2019 father/son drive of the 1,000 km Golden Quest Discovery Trail in the goldfields of Western Australia.
A graphic that can represent different things: the power of two, united, working together, soul mates, togetherness, duality, etc.. . .
When it rains, I don't mind being lonely, I cry right along with the sky
When it rains, I don't pretend to be happy, I don't even have to try
When it rains, Some people get down, They're sporting a frown, so I fit right in
Yeah, the sun may brighten your day but if I had my way, I'd take the rain
A Very Old Pic, And yes thats a rain drop.
When I work I carry a portable navigation system. It shows me the channel, my ship and other vessels with an accuracy of about one meter. It can be set to draw an outline of my ship at intervals. These photos were taken of the screen during replay of a maneuver. They represent the actual position of the ship drawn every ten seconds.