Update [2008-9-6 17:37:36 by olivia]: The theme for next week (Sep 12th) is: Critters! Again, open to interpretation and imagination. 🙂
Welcome to Friday Foto Flogging, a place to share your photos and photography news. We were inspired by the folks at European Tribune who post a regular Friday Photoblog series to try the same on this side of the virtual Atlantic. We also thought foto folks would enjoy seeing some other websites so each week we’ll introduce a different photo website.
Thanks for all the great photos last week. As mentioned in the comments section, we’re introducing themes. This week the theme is red … post anything that comes to mind. (And if you don’t have anything red, that’s okay too!) If you have a suggestion for next week’s theme, leave a comment.
Website of the Week: Slobberspace – For all the doggie lovers out there, check out Anna Kuperberg’s photoblog, SlobberSpace. Anna has a wonderful ability to capture dogs in all sorts of interesting situations, silly to serious. From the About section of the site: “I made this blog to entertain you and to help you procrastinate your boring office work. There is no useful information on this blog, no training advice, and no breed analysis. Just happy, goofy dogs.” Take a peek!
AndiF Gets Red
Red sky at morning Click image for larger version
Red sky at night Click image for larger version
But hey sailors, it’s Tucson so no delight or warnings.
olivia’s Red
Field of poppies near
Milhaud, FranceClick image for larger version
Arena of Nîmes, France Click image for larger version
Candles in a church in
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, FranceClick image for larger version
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Photo by JimF
Can’t miss that one … 🙂
Thanks Jim.
ooh, I get all hummingbird buzzy looking at that.
Nice one.
Photo by JimF
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Gorgeous … and the colours as well.
Malibu Bayou
Repeated for emphasis: photo by Knucklehead.
In keeping with the “red” theme, I had to wait till my “Tomato Worm” sun-ripened.
ripe
That is cool.
Love it.
Sunset`s cycle through shades of red.
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Of the day`s dying, off to bed.
The nightbird`s call, & answering cry,
Plead for your stay, for the night sky.
What a view you have.
Oooooooh!
ms. Bu’s contribution: old red frisbee
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Looks well-loved … 🙂
It was very nice of Bu to be willing to share something she so obviously loves very much. 🙂
it’s her favorite, but she wants a new one…[don’t tell her l got it tho]…these are great cuz they float and are easy on the mouth, and she loves to get in the water.
red lens:
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dada,
I`d taken a lens shot also when the spider jumped down on it.
After I read yours, I figured I`d post my lens.
This is my turn signal lens.
Exit stage left.
These are animated gifs, so they shouldn’t be bandwidth hogs.
I know they aren’t red… sorry. I’ll post a couple of reds in a few minutes.
This is my parents morphing from the present to their wedding day:
And this is McSame:
And just a spot of red:
Both of these are beautiful (I love spiders and spider webs) but the morph of your parents is just wonderful.
The infamous hour glass … eek. 😉
Nicely captured!
Love the roses above.
Looks like you’ve got a lot of spiders … lol.
Love the silhouette photo!
Thanks. I like spiders, and my old yard was filled with them. I’ve moved, and now my yard is filled with crickets, silverfish, and stinkbugs, which I don’t like so much.
I’ve tried to sell some of my photos and graphics, including the silhouette photo, on Zazzle… but with very little luck. http://zazzle.com/mrboma*
Love the Grumposaurus Rex. Very cute.
Hmmm, yeah … I think the spiders would be preferable over those others. 😉
We had lots of Black Widows living around a retaining wall next to the house when I was a kid. Haven’t seen one in years.
Was that in Indiana? We still have lots of ’em in SoCal.
Yes, just about 2 miles from where I live now. We would take a garden hose and squirt the wall to make them come out where we could see them. Maybe the shortage is imagined and just the difference between kid vs. adult observations of life.
Very kewl … I love that one of your parents!
Are those mountains in the background?
The Italian Alps, no less. It was a stormy afternoon, so they’re just barely showing.
Makes me want to go back when I go through mine. 🙂
I really like the way you framed this one. Fascinating to look at.
Love the framing. The poor guy … hope he didn’t lose any of his appendages while he was in there. 😉
in the making of these photos:
That is a cute pic.
What a cutie! Now you have blackmail material for when he’s trying to be adult & sophisticated.
What’s kitty attacking there — a chicken?
LOL, it’s a mouse with huge feet.
A butte in Sedona, Az:
🙂
Was over at your b tonight, and it looks like you’ve got a lot of potential painting material!
Maybe a few. 😉
You didn’t by any chance see Richard Dryfuss hanging around the area?
No, but here’s a photo a couple of days earlier where the Sedona sky looks like something from that same flick.
At last. 🙂
Boran2
Very nice. I love southwestern landscapes.
Critters!
Again, open to interpretation and imagination. 🙂
And the couple is still living together!
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Our Make-A-Wish kid who wanted a fire engine ride.
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That car is cherry! (Geezer test: you know you’re a geezer if you’ve said that phrase unironically and without referring to color.)
Love the photo of the boy in front of that huge grill.
We didn’t really make him ride out there;-)
A glowing end to the evening of July 23.
Hey there, how ya doing? Seen any good trees lately? Or any trees at all. (I know, I know, I’m so predictable.)
Nifty pics.
ya, vell den you smartalecks! Vee half a few left!
Is that the last tree, or are you not done with them yet?
(I had to follow Andif`s lead.)
I saw the glowing embers last night but when trying to comment, the site shut down.
I`m impressed by the clarity of the shots, & will have to go check the “info” on them.
Very cool.
I used a tripod, of course, for a 13 sec shot, and I do believe I was using time delay.
Well, at least the two smartalecks above give compliments – thanks be for that!
But you’d think a guy stickin’ is little ‘ead up out of the cattails for the first time in many months would get a some RESPECT
Olivia, where are ya? Send help!
Trees? One of these days I’ll get a friend to fly me over ND’s Pembina Forest, I’ll take some shots, and then you’ll see a “few” TREES ha ha!
Good to see you indeed. 🙂
You’re going to have to get those overhead shots to convince Andi, I think.
Great focus on those glowing embers, as Head mentioned … using the 18-200mm?
Hey I thought we were partners — you’re supposed to take my side in the teasing! 😛
don’t want to go too hard on him … 🙂 But, my first thought was similar to Head’s – wondering if that was the last tree burning in the embers … 😀
yo nd!
good ta see yer bad self around here again.
it’s coming on the time of year the warmth from those embers is gonna be welcomed.
later.
Olivia & Andif,
Thanks to you both for setting up a space where we can all share our images.
A very good idea, thanks to dada, was to incorporate a suggested theme. This is important in getting our imaginations to work a little harder, while making it a little easier, since there`s a focal point as a loose guide.
I just dropped in to see what the spin was on the web today.
I like it, so don`t be a fly, & enter the parlor next Friday.
I hope there are some edible critters.
Gotta go, someone`s pulling my string.
Btwn you and mrb, you’ve got the 8-legged critters covered. 🙂
This one is a beauty.
Well, his t-shit is red!
LOL, he’s so big! And look at that, already going to work in a suit … 😉
(Great to see you!)
Good to see you too! This is a great idea. I’ll be sure to be on the look out for critters for next week.
His cheeks look pretty rosy too. 🙂
Andif,
I love your sun shots at the top of the page, especially as it seems you just waited about 12 hours, turned to face the other way & took the next shot.
My question then is, did you stay all day, or all night?
Beautiful shots.
Well this was right outside the place we were staying so no effort was required. And based on our stay, skies like that are pretty much a regular thing in Tucson — so basically you just need to be there.
And speaking of skies, yours were spectacular. Love the spider too.
You and Jim have posted some beautiful shots here!
PS – Andrew starts Kindergarten on Monday.
That last sentence just sunk in … wow, time goes by way too fast, doesn’t it.
A Winnie the Pooh power tie. Niiiice.
No kindergarten outfit is complete without it!
the photogs at ET have taken note…104 comments on No.51……ya’ll up to the challenge? :{)
dada,
What`s the program? When & where?
I think I`ll post this & see if anybody can guess what it is. I bet none of all the posters here can get it right. As a matter of fact, I throw down the gauntlet to the “across the ponders”.
it looks sea-sluggish.
I call it “Cheney`s Bypass”, but dada is right.
It`s one of my Brittle Stars. Tip to tentacle tip, it`s over a foot long.
But I also do have some pretty long slugs.
Maybe in a while, I`ll post a few. Gotta get the count up.
well…l don’t know the frequency kenneth…but that’s a brittle star fish…up close and personal.
Well if I were still 10, I’d be pretty sure that it was the monster under my bed just waiting for me to go to sleep but I might want to check under there anyway because it’s so spookily beautiful.
Yes Andif,
I would still check under the bed for “spookily beautiful” things that might therein lurk.
Most people who do see it in action are fascinated by it`s movement.
It still amazes me. when it “charges” out of the rock work at feeding time.
It seems to roll out with the spokes of it`s arms on an invisible rim.
It will grasp the smallest of food particles with the end of an arm, curl around it, then hand it from spike to spike, all the way to it`s oral disc.