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.
This week’s theme is P
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Website of the Week: Life Magazine Photo Archive on Google — millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archivefrom the 19th century to today, many of the photos never published and available for the first time.
AndiF’s Patterns
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Bebo’s Checkered Past
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Patterns in patterns
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Catch the wave
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olivia's Patterns
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Original floor tile mosaics, Herculaneum
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Hall in the Palace of Versailles
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Clouds in Herculaneum
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- December 12th Theme: Tools and Machines:
if you build a picture of it, we will come look.
But remember, we’re not going to be looking until December 12.
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Here’s some new pattern shots taken in the last few weeks.
Boardwalk through the swamp.
Athens Theater, DeLand, Florida.
Pie for everyone!
I like the boardwalk and I’ll have a piece of that pie, please.
I like the way you shot that pie — the reflection really is nicely unexpected touch.
And I agree with Jim what’s his face on the boardwalk shot — the sinuous lines crossed by the straight lines and the hatched shadowed make for fascinating patterns.
Wow! I do believe that’s the fattest pie I’ve ever seen! Neat photo! What’s the featured filling?
That’s Mrs. BobX’s apple pie. She makes only one but it fed 7 adults, 2 kids and there’s still pie left over! She’s getting a good smile out of everyone’s replies.
Well please tell her the Indianadem household is mightily impressed!
When did BT become one of those sites?! What a great shot.
And I love the palm trees against the blue sky.
Hi BobX and Mrs BobX!
‘Clouds in Herculaneum’ is a super-cool photo.
Yes indeed – it’s awe-inspiring. I was completely stricken by it, didn’t become myself until I saw that pie.
It was a pretty awe-inspiring place.
Wind/snow sculpture by Mother Nature, southern Indiana, Feb. 2003
I remember when we had those weird snow rollers. Neat photos of a strange phenomenon.
Wow, I am really impressed with the middle one — I’ve never seen any roller that big before.
IIRC, these were about 8 – 10″ in diameter. I should have taken a shot with a ruler or some other familiar object next to one for perspective. They were the largest I saw that day and were in front of the antique shop just east of the 46 – 135 South intersection. At first I thought they might have been thrown off by snowplows until I saw them scattered across the nearby golf course, far from the highway and realized they were natural phenomenon.
I hope to never see anything like those ever. Brr.
… and your interesting weather r/t phenomena … lol!
That is bizarre ID!
The truth is out now. Bebo is a CGI dog; Andi posted the wire frame version.
Olivia, so many patterns. The mosaics and Versailles are great, but my favorite is the stone wall with matching sky.
Gosh, he looks so lifelike, too. Nice shots, all 3!
Yeah … one of those serendipitous moments … 🙂
windblown sand
vase on mosaic
Hope’s freckles
The sand is nifty, Hopey’s freckles are nice, but the middle shot is way cool, I especially like the slightly tipped angle and the mosaic reflection on the vase.
Love those puppy freckles & toes and sand ripples. I’ve never been successful shooting the ripples in sand. If the light isn’t just right, they don’t look like anything.
That mosaic table has given you the background for some wonderful pictures.
That mosaic table is fantastic!
Interesting patterns, olivia. I like the clouds the best!
I second the admiration of the clouds.
Canoes at the Camp
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Emerging Mayapples
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Snowy Tulip Poplar Bark
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I really like the canoes. It has the feel of a painting.
The thing that caught my eye and made me smile is that the canoes and their reflecitons form the outline of a canoe.
especially w/ the reflection … love it. And the emerging mayapples is such a great shot … love the perspective.
patterns
glass golden gate bridge
conservatory baskets
wall shadows walk w/ apple blossoms
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I love the splash of color at the top of the conservatory picture.
Those are all really fine but the simple elegance of the glass photo is especially striking.
then the golden gate bridge … followed by the apple blossom walk … 😀
I like them all. They all have rhythms as patterns must but something in each one break the rhythm and makes me notice it and the overall rhythm. Neat set.
I jealous of Bebo’s sunshine. Can he send some this way?
<Ottoman era mosque entrance, Old City, Damascus, Syria</b>
Look closely and notice the Arabic calligraphy. These are passages from the Qur’an.
Wow. The entrance has a 3-D quality. It looks like a roof top.
It is 3D. This is quite a common type of architectural feature from the Ottoman period.
Beautiful!
Hi Hurria — thank you for posting your photos in the foto diary. I’ve enjoyed seeing them in the other diaries here at BT.
What a spectacular piece of architecture! Great shot.
When I first looked at your photograph, I thought I was looking down on a large dome. But I couldn’t make the horizontal banding make sense. Finally a shift occurred in my brain to realize I was looking up at a dome from below. I think this is the optical illusion I was experiencing.
I wish I could have gotten a shot of the entire entrance from the ground to the top, but the street was too narrow, and my camera did not allow me to zoom out enough. The door itself is not that interesting in any case. The interesting architectural features are all above the doors.
You might have been able to do that with multiple shots that you stitched together with software, but it might not have worked with the perspective in that scene. Nonetheless, it’s a great picture.
Bridal shop, Suq Al Hamidia, Old City, Damascus, Syria
I liked all your pictures so it was hard to pick a favorite. I especially liked the sweep of the cathedral and the wonderful mosque entrance but this one won out with its wonderful use of perspective and light.
Courtyard Umayid Mosque, Old City, Damascus, Syria
I only have a couple that I was going to post for fotofair 2006. One you’ve seen and one you haven’t.
Wicker Table
Concrete Swirl
Cool beans, FM. I like how the concrete waves are a human-made match to my geologic ones.
Hiya Andi.
I didn’t think of it until you mentioned it, but you’re right. Plus it matches SN’s sand picture.
Love how your two photos work together — similar colours, similar curved patterns, but different substance.
That caught my eye too, Olivia. Very nice companion shots.
Hi Toni and thanks.
Hi Olivia.
You’re talking that photo talk again, and here I thought they were just nice pictures. 🙂
Thanks.
I like that piece of wicker. I looks like curved patterns were on your mind today. The concrete does remind me of Andi’s sandstone and SN’s wind-rippled sand.
Hiya Jim.
Those were taken back in 2006, and I was trying to think up something for the fotofair. I’ve always liked that piece of wicker too.
Aisle of trees, Riam Park, Musqat, Oman
Salah Al Din (aka Saladin) Citadel, Tartous, Syria
Last weekend, we took a tour of the parade warehouse and and I found these:
A Display wall
An eye on a float
LOL, those are great! What’s a parade warehouse?
Every year, Detroit has a big Thanksgiving Day Parade, organized by the Parade Company. The warehouse is where all the floats, balloons, and costumes are stored. My college alumni association arranged for the tour.
That would be an interesting tour!
Don’t let Andrew see that eyeball — it’ll give him nightmares (well that’s what I’m expecting anyway).
Modern cathedral, Lebanon
Graveyard of the Martyrs, Falluja, Iraq, 2004
This was a soccer field. In April, 2004 it was turned into a mass graveyard for the victims of the first American Falluja massacre.
That’s quite the building — where was it taken?
Hi Olivia. That’s the Tower of Montparnasse in Paris.
Love the lines — they were accentuate the soaring sweep of the building.
Maria Island (pronounced ‘Mariah’) is just off the east coast of Tasmania. And, more importantly, about a 40 minute drive and 30 minute ferry ride from us.
The whole island is a park and it has no electricity, no stores, etc. You can go for the day, or if you want to stay overnight you can rent one of the old convict bunk rooms, or camp in a tent. There was a small hotel there early in the 19th century but it’s now a museum.
The Painted Cliffs
Cape Barren Goslings
Silver Gulls
Those gulls are amazing!
Silver Gulls are our “local” gulls. You see them everywhere, especially anywhere they can bum a meal, like around fast food parking lots and especially at the garbage dump.
A graduate student at the University of Tasmania published a study a few years back comparing “urban” gulls to their more wild living cousins, and predictably found the former to have all the “modern diseases” that plague urbanized humans. Some were even so fat they couldn’t breed.
So it’s always nice to see them on Maria living as nature intended.
Only one gull, the one furthest out, is an adult. Adults have a silver eye and a red bill. The juveniles have a dark eye and dark bills, plus some tan in their wings.
Not nearly as kewl, but they surprised me by flying directly overhead…
I love pelicans, especially seeing them on the wing. The Australasian ones are here for the summer so I frequently see them in the Derwent estuary on my way to and from Hobart.
I do miss seeing the Brown pelicans.
The painted cliffs are just gorgeous … wow!!
I love them too, and have every intention of being there some day when the light is in the west at low tide. Unfortunately, you can only walk out along the rocks at low tide, and I’ve never been there when the right light and the tides coincide. For some reason I have not been able to convince Imogen that planning an entire weekend trip should be based solely on this single criteria. The Painted Cliffs are an hour or so walk from the convict quarters, so that has to be factored in as well.
All four of them are spectacular — as always your bird pictures are amazing but the one I’m in love with is the Painted Cliffs.
I adore the gosling rumps:)
Yeah, they look soooo soft, and it’s so tempting to want to pick one up – except for hissing charges of their very diligent mothers. Each of the momma geese have staked-out a portion of the native grass areas around the ruins, and defend their spots against all comers. It makes getting to you quarters a bit of an obstacle course at times.
Cape Barron Island geese are one of the most attractive geese species I’ve ever seen, and easy fall into the ‘pattern’ category themselves with their wonderfully suede grey feathers.
How many floods, how many sandstorms created those paper thin layers in the stone? Love those pages of stone.
The prevailing forces are actually wind and tide, but yeah, a lot of years are on display.
Oscar and Albert. They really were “snuggle bunnies” – nearly always touching each other.
A series on patterns should obviously start with a shot including multiple patterns.
The first one has weathered wood patterns, & a tortoise shell pattern on the snail shell. (ironic)
The wood grain pattern on the knife handle, which has a serrated blade pattern upon which a snail with it`s unusual skin pattern glides, rounds out the first image.
The rest follow in random pattern.
Enjoy
CLOUD PATTERN
GEOLOGICAL PATTERN
DECEPTIVE PATTERN
PATTERN OF RECKLESSNESS
DOT PATTERN
FINGERPRINT PATTERNS
SWEET PATTERN
GROWTH PATTERN
TIME TRAVEL PARALLEL PATTERN
PURPLE POLYP PATTERN
Nice growth pattern ya got there, knucklehead…
It throws my eating pattern all out of whack though.
zowie!
:-O
Hi Head … 🙂
Doesn’t surprise a bit that you’d have a slew of great pics for this theme. Great shots and great fun. I’m particularly enchanted by FINGERPRINT PATTERNS.
Love that shade of purple!
Thanks Indianadem,
Every circle of tentacles surrounds a little mouth. This is a colony of polyps.
Are the fingerprint patterns a coral?
I would have thought the jelly beans would have come after the “growth pattern.”
Yes Jim,
Here it is full size, with a 1 1/2″ fish for scale.
Or this invader.
These were all just wonderful!!
Tampopo,
I`m thrilled you enjoyed them.
All of them.
This is a great spot to view people`s take on things, in images.
Thank you again KH not only for your beautiful photos, but also for your gentle humor. Your photo titles made me smile, as did your photos.
It is such a pleasure to see what everyone chooses to share given a word or so as the “topic.” No right or wrong! And I see the world differently after looking at what others have seen and shared through their photos – soul food.
Maybe these amazing photos will tide you over.
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