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: Blue. Bring us the blues … literal or figurative, solid or sensed.
Website of the Week: Has this ever happened to you?
AndiF Shoots the Blues
 |
Banff in Blue
Click image for larger version |
 |
New crayon color: Utah Blue
Click image for larger version |
 |
Dog in Blue Fog
Click image for larger version |
olivia’s blues
 |
Blue dome, Oia Santorini
Click image for larger version |
 |
Canoeing
Click image for larger version |
 |
Blue paint, Mykonos
Click image for larger version |
- Next Week’s Theme: Morning, Noon, Night. Show us the times of your day.
Info on Posting Photos
When you post your photos, please keep the width at 500 or less for the sake of our Bootribers who are on dial-up. If you want to post clickable thumbnails but aren’t sure how, check out this diary:
Clickable Thumbnails. If you haven’t yet joined a photo-hosting site, here are some to consider: Photobucket, Flickr, ImageShack, and Picasa.
Previous Friday Foto Flogs
White-faced Herron in the Derwent estuary, Tasmania.
Betty the Blotched Blue-tongued skink, who lived with us awhile.
Male Superb Fairy Wren on Luna’s dish.
Swamp hen at Gould’s Lagoon, Tasmania.
An orphaned Pademelon Imogen found by the side of the road.
Sunset on the Indian Ocean at Ningaloo reef, Western Australia.
Good night all. I’ll be back in the morning to see what you’ve posted.
Great critter collection (plus sunset). The orphaned Pademelon shot is wonderful.
Nice selection, keres. Australia has such a different set of wildlife from the northeastern US.
Mighty fine critter shots, and you’re making me lonesome for summer!
Love Betty’s blue tongue!
It makes me envious. But not envious enough to get my tongued tattooed. That’s taking envy a bit too far.
LOL
Speaking of tatooing — conversation at work today veered into the pros/cons of tatooing the inside of one’s bottom lip. The cons won in this particular group, mostly due to pain factor.
Orphan blues has got to be the most intense of all. I got ’em from looking at that face.
Fortunately Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Services do a fine job of licensing volunteer wildlife carers. Which means you can call one phone number and within a few hours get a call back with the location of a carer willing to take the animal you’ve found. This little pademelon (a very small and squat kangaroo) went to one such person the morning after Imogen found him and has been re-released by now.
We have pademelons that live on our property, and regularly come near the house to graze. Sometimes we’re lucky enough to see a joey tumble of the pouch and bounce around mum for a bit.
Your photos are all so good! I do find the heron and all the water surrounding it very calming – a visual reminder to pause.
I love that train! Where is it?
The last picture is entrancing. If I had that in my room, I might never leave.
It’s called Day Out With Thomas and it happens all across the country.
This one was at Strasburg, PA.
yeeehaaaaw! Those flying saucers really do fly!
Hmm, my tailbone tingles just thinking about it!!
Hi stand strong. 🙂
Love the train too. Have never heard about the Day Out with Thomas. Neato.
I really like the joy and energy of the “airborne” photo.
This week’s kind of a hodgepodge, enjoy.
Anhinga
Ponce Inlet
Tomoka River
Michel Innocent
I love the portrait of Michael Innocent — I feel like I’m there. And the bird is a great capture.
Here’s a couple more, he gave me a lot to work with.
Oh, what a gorgeous bird! Love how bright the blue ring is around the eye. Have never heard of those birds so checked out the wiki page — aka Water Turkeys! LOL … they seem much more elegant. 😉
My thought too.
mostly blue, right?
taken 01/30/09 9:03AM CST
at 9:30am?! you in way north north dakota, or what?…..that’s a brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr inducing image.
sharp eye dada mahn!
Time correction — it’s more like 8:03AM, seems my time stamp is off by an hour on these photos, and then add a little dyslexia making :30 to :03… is that perfectly clear now? ha!
However, we are about 75 miles south of the Canadian border, not the Arctic Circle.
Great to see you posting!
That’s a beautiful sunrise — wow! What was the temperature, do you recall?
Wonderful shot and even more wonderful to see you here.
Black walnut/wild cherry trees
Neighbor’s roof
Winter sky
Hi there!
I like the light contrasts on the tree and those vs. the evergreen.
Thanks. What a treat to “see” you again!
Your sunrise photo is magnificent!
The shimmer on the Neighbor’s roof photo is wonderful — and I like the reflections. Beautiful blue sky — and as ND pointed out, the bare limbs next to the evergreen. 🙂
Great shots — I love the combination of shadows and sparkle in the second one.
Nice periwinkle (a word I don’t get to use often enough) sky.
dushambe teahouse
[
getting the interior was impossible without a tripod and and lights, you can see some shots of it here…it’s really quite spectacular.
and this is right next to it. look!…up in the sky, it’s a……
…mystery to me.
clik images to enlarge
I recognized it right off, dada, it’s a ten speed bicycle seat for Paul Bunyan.
That’s quite the artwork on the teahouse, is that in your local? I’ve got to go try your link – and have a tea while it loads.
kinda looks like one, eh. reminds me of tongue on a stick…or a s/hoe last/. l really don’t know the title of the piece. it’s quite large, maybe 12-14′ long.
the teahouse is adjacent to central park in downtown, right next to the creek…in the flood plain…it’s really a local treasure.
LOL
Love the detail work on the teahouse shots. Followed your link — what a a beautiful place.
I love the framing of the second one — all those lines and edges met by the sharp angle of the curtain.
That is nicely framed.
As I Fine Arts major I feel fully qualified to say “Hmmmm”.
Wonderful! Thanks for the link too. Oh to have arts and crafts be our primary export and import – even “mysteries”
Here’s a cute little guy that comes to visit once in a while.
Lake Erie from Huron, OH. Look closely and you can see Perry’s Monument on South Bass Island. Nice of the State of Ohio to add the arrow to help with locating it.
And one of my favorite blues in the whole world bringing my President (aka The Main Man) to Washington to take care of us all.
That’s a fantastic show of the jay. Love the look he’s giving you … hehe. 🙂
He’s making sure I stay behind the window and don’t come any closer to him. I’m so glad they are rebounding from the West Nile virus that hit them about 5 years ago around here.
I’m glad to see I wasn’t the only one who actually took pictures of the TV during the inauguration! 🙂
I couldn’t help myself. I was so excited. I set up the tripod and clicked happily away. Love digital photography! I got a bunch from the inauguration too.
Wow, the bluejay is so sharp and detailed — I can never get that close to them.
He was outside on our deck railing. I shot through the livingroom window. He saw the movement and that’s why he was giving me the eye.
That jay is a “wow” photograph.
Thanks, Keres. They are on the rebound now. They and others of their species(?)such as crows were hit really hard by West Nile Virus about 5 years ago. I’d glad they made it.
I also really like the your blue jay photo – easy to imagine the squawking that could have followed.
By the way, I appreciate your sig line advice for dealing with stress. Some days a minute isn’t near enough!
*sigh* 🙂
Hi LEP. Lovely cloud puffs.
Are things back to normal after the strike last week?
Hi Olivia. Yes, everything was normal the next day.
Great shot — and they must take a lot better care of the windows on the planes you fly; every plane I fly the windows are always a mass of scratches.
Or tiny little stress fractures – which are oh, so reassuring.
Love the stockings. 🙂
What a happy picture. And such fine, fine socks. 🙂
Including the ones you had posted at the ET photo diary LEP.
Tahnks. I got about 70 decent photos but I only posted a few. Here’s one I haven’t posted which captures the mass of humanity.
Oh yes. Looks like it would be hard to move around. 🙂 Were the crowds in a jovial mood?
They were either jovial or angry. But there was no threat of violence. I didn’t even see any cops, perhaps because the protesters were everyones’ mothers and grandmothers (or fathers and grandfathers.)
But, just in case, I didn’t bring my Nikon D-80. I used my old Kodak bridge Z640 which has a very effective 10x zoom.
One more time.
I just posted these, but then they got ‘renditioned’ I guess.
These are “blues” from my color pile.
68 1/2
PERCULA BLUES
BLUE LABIA
INHUMANITIES` ORPHANS
URCHIN “EYE”
THE BLUE QUEEN
COMPOUNDED BLUES
POLE DANCER
BLUES CAPTURED
VAPORIZER
BLOOTOOB
SHOCKWAVE
BLUE TOUCH-UPS
WIRED BIRD
BLUE VASE’LEAN’
BLUISH BREEZE
PICTURED WINDOW
VINTAGE
BLUE PANELS
BLUE CHRISTMAS
LADY & THE BLUES
I have newfound awe for The Blue Queen. 🙂
And I love the feather-y Blue Christmas — wow.
Good Olivia,
The Blue Christmas tree, is a Christmas tree worm, & is less than 1″ tall.
It`s part of the reef system.
Are the feather parts how they capture food? Thanks for giving the size. In the close-up photos they look so large. 🙂
Olivia,
Yes, they are filter feeders. They filter food through their comblike heads. When they capture something, usually too small to humanly notice, they retract into a tubelike housing. Here`s another similar one, although much larger to show the detail of their food gathering heads.
This one is called a “Feather Duster”. (Obviously)
They’re beautiful. How many do you have in your new aquarium? And what are they called, besides Christmas tree worms … 😉
Olivia,
I don`t have these anymore.
The blue trees are from my search in my color archives to comply with the theme.
Here`s Mark`s diary link though.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/18/185534/73/523/674775
How happy I am that Head has got the blues. 🙂
I love the dragonfly.
the Great Hall in Union Station, D.C. during the Latino Gala
Very cool. Is that where they held it?
yeah, they had a music stage in one corner, and another stage with a podium for the muckety-mucks to speak in another. it was packed in there, but beautiful with all the blue and gold lighting through the ceiling.
When we walked through on Saturday night they were setting up, they had the stage up and signs up – but it still looked like a train station great hall. It’s amazing what a little lighting will do 🙂
It’s amazing what a little lighting will do 🙂
Definitely.
Hi maryb.
Very kewl indeed! Love the blue and gold combination — magical.
i wish i could’ve gotten clearer shots of the ceiling, it really was magical.
That’s gorgeous. The blue just shimmers.
7:06 PM
Those are really pretty … especially with the lights.
Cool beans. I little the glitter effect. And I’m resisting making comments about fetishes and bottles with long necks. 😉
Ewwww, Andi, I’m shocked.
I shocked you?!? Well I’ll be writing this day down on my calendar. 😉
I really like the vivid colors of your collection.
Here’s what happens when you leave the white balance on the incandescent setting while shooting photos of snow outside. Vibrant blue shadows.
That’s funny … and pretty.
I’m actually going to try and paint this scene. I do like that blue.
I do like that blue too. I look forward to the painting.
I’ve done that too … 🙂 You’re right, it created beautiful blue shadows.
A couple from my little brother – St. Peter Port, Guernsey, CI
Butterfly at dusk
Blue box with cat
That coastline is gorgeous.
Did you or your brother take the butterfly shot? It’s wonderful.
The Guernsey shots are my brothers – the butterfly & cat are mine. I’m still jealous of his trip to France & Channel Islands, BTW;-)
LOL, love ‘Blue box with cat’ … it sounds like an art installation … 😀
Those bright blue flowers are really pretty.
Thanks! The flowers are pink in full sun.
“Blue Box with Cat” brought a laugh out loud. I was reminded of a book, Our Cat Flossie by Ruth Brown, which includes Flossie in a box.
The “Butterfly at Dusk” is my favorite. Are those hydrangea flowers? I was surprised to see you write they are pink in the daylight. I have also seen blue ones (something to do with iron in the soil?) and I assumed these were blue deepened by the fading light.
Hi tampopo! Our cats are a constant source of entertainment and occasional annoyance as well;-)
The flowers were a gift from a friend years ago. She brought starts from her garden to share with us when we moved to our current home. I’m no flower expert, but I think they might be a variety of Phlox. Here’s how they look in full daylight.The stems are about 30″ – 40″ tall.
They definitely look like phlox.
As Andi casts off cameras, I take them to school. I give my kids who want to use them a quick lesson in their operation and some pointers in framing and composition. They can take them out at recess. At the end of the year I’ll burn a DVD for each of them with a couple hundred of their photos and mine from school, and give it to them as a present. Here are three that they took at our last outdoor recess.
Monkey Bars
Click for larger
Into the Blue
Click for larger
Waiting for Godot in Indiana
Click for larger
wow, what a great idea, Jim! How come I didn’t have a teacher as cool as you?
I really like the middle one — someone’s got a really good eye.
What fun for the kids (and you). My 6th grade teacher allowed us to have guinea pigs, snakes, frogs, pretty much anything we brought in had a home in our classroom. We were expected to care for them and made a science project out of the guinea pig babies, weighing them every day and charting their growth. We even had power tools (gasp!) and made wooden name signs as gifts to our families. Needless to say, I never forgot the guy. We had a very nice visit last year in Bloomington.
What a great idea for your kids!
I really like the “Monkey Bars” – the colors are so vivid and there is a sense of both pausing and movement.
Nice, Jim. Nice Jim.
😉
The Corniche, Mutrah District, Musqat, `Oman
View of the Gulf From Riam Park, Mutrah District, Musqat
From Blue to Green and In Between, Mutrah District, Musqat
More Green Than Blue – The Mediterranean, Beirut, Lebanon
Beautiful. The wall in the first Beirut picture is wonderful.
You know, I cannot remember or figure out exactly where I was standing for that shot. I was not planning to stop in Beirut this year, but I might have to now just to go back and remind myself!
And you need to go at different times of day to see what kind of glow you get on the wall and the water. 🙂
Very cool colors.
Is this where my favorite raisins come from, Musqat?
BTW, I`ve been reading but not commenting.
They (the diary & those who write them, ) have been very informative.
You know, I have wondered about the grape question for years. I had less than a week to spend in `Oman, and did not leave the Greater Musqat area. In my wanderings did not see any evidence of grape growing, or terrain that would be suitable for grapes or any other crop. As you can see from the pictures, it is mostly very dry and rocky. The beautiful landscapes and gardens are kept alive mostly by drip irrigation. So, one of these days I will have to find out about how that grape variety came to be named after the city. I really want to go back to `Oman one day, and spend a lot more time there, but my preferred destinations these days are farther north. It is frustrating to have only a limited time each year to travel – so many destinations, so little time!
Thanks for your comment about the diaries. There are a number of people here who are well-informed about different aspects, and it broadens and enriches the discussion significantly.
Hurria,
I do hope you keep everyone informed of your future travels with more wonderful images.
You are absolutely right about broadening & enriching the discussion.
Thanks for the part you play in that.
Hi Hurria. As AndiF mentioned above, the pattern on the wall is fantastic.