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: Book or Poem Titles. We’re sure everybody has a picture that makes them think of Gone With The Wind.
Website of the Week: Still Life With’s Tips for Shooting a Party.
AndiF Lit Picks
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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower by Dylan Thomas Click image for larger version |
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A River Runs Through It by Norman McClean
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And I couldn’t resist …. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Click image for larger version |
olivia’s literature inspiration
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A Bird Came Down the Walk, Emily Dickinson
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Walden (Pond), Henry David Thoreau
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The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
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- Next Week’s Theme: Yellow or Yellow. Brighten our day.
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
I had a hard time w/ the theme this week, so I wanted to remind everyone that posting a random selection is okay too. 🙂
Yeah, this is a tough one, especially considering I read far more websites and magazines than books.
Frog’s Eye, by Booman ;p j/k. It actually makes me think of Alice In Wonderland now that I think about it.
Funny picture.
I’m sorry this was hard. I figured everybody would reverse engineer it — pick a picture and then find a book or poem title that fit it.
Hi stand strong. LOL, yeah both of those titles work! 😀
Love the deep/rich reds w/ the green and beige. Some of my favourite colours.
Frog of Frog and Toad?
I really like the depth of color and sense of texture in your photo.
I had never heard of Frog and Toad until a couple of weeks ago. I went to a High School musical production of it (apparently there was a broadway play).
Now I see references to it everywhere 🙂
I didn’t know there was a musical or a Broadway play 😉
Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad Together has two of my favorite stories: Cookies and The Dream. It is also a Newbery Honor Award book.
LOL, neither have I heard about a musical version. That’s fantastic. 😀 I’m trying to imagine how that would look.
Frog and Toad Are Friends is my favourite. The illustrations are wonderful too.
“Cookies” was my favorite scene. And my favorite song. We decided we needed to learn that song for xmas cookie baking next year.
If I can find it I’ll post it in the cafe.
The Frog Prince – waiting for the princess to come kiss him.
That’s a good one. A Frog Prince is a variation on the story with illustrations with much the same depth as stand strong’s photo. (The Google Preview is new to me at Powell’s. You can see the cover and some of the story/illustrations.)
It makes me think of this one.
Olivia, your cat is amazingly tolerant!
Hi Kidspeak — I bribed him w/ treats. Sometimes it works, lol.
For real?! This wasn’t done with the magic of photoshop?!
It is wonderful! Makes a great birthday card.
Hi tampopo … no PS. He wasn’t exactly thrilled w/ me but he let me take my silly photos … 😉
Poetry was always rather uncomfortable for me in school. Thinking back on it, I don’t remember any teachers who were passionate about poetry.
A few years ago I heard an interview with Billy Collins. He read some of his poems – wow! One in particular just resonated, so much so, I went and bought his book.
Forgetfulness
The name of the author is the first to go
followed obediently by the title, the plot,
the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel
which suddenly becomes one you have never read,
never even heard of,
as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor
decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain,
to a little fishing village where there are no phones.
Long ago you kissed the names of the nine Muses goodbye
and watched the quadratic equation pack its bag,
and even now as you memorize the order of the planets,
something else is slipping away, a state flower perhaps,
the address of an uncle, the capital of Paraguay.
Whatever it is you are struggling to remember,
it is not poised on the tip of your tongue,
not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen.
It has floated away down a dark mythological river
whose name begins with an L as far as you can recall,
well on your own way to oblivion where you will join those
who have even forgotten how to swim and how to ride a bicycle.
No wonder you rise in the middle of the night
to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.
No wonder the moon in the window seems to have drifted
out of a love poem that you used to know by heart.
Billy Collins
Not sure what photo would go with poem 😉
This is beautiful, tampopo. Thanks for sharing it!
So many images come to mind — I’m sure someone can offer one.
That’s wonderful tampopo. Haunting.
This is a wonderful poem, though not the best to read just when I was struggling to remember where I’d put my grandmother’s cookbook – but I could remember Frog & Toad Are Friends practically word for word.
I must read more stuff Collins wrote.
Oh! I love this poem and can well identify, now that I’m just a few months away from official geezerhood.
Another Emily Dickinson, The Bat
Bat’s with an attitude. That’s all for this week we’re traveling today, I’ll check back later.
What a great picture! They truly look like flying foxes.
Great capture, Bob! It’s great that you could get resting like that.
Hope you travels are pleasant.
Travels were good, but Tampa traffic, ugh!
It was cold the day I took this and they were all huddled under a heat lamp and they were a little more active than usual.
Hi Bob.
Those are incredible — they do look like foxes as Kidspeak mentioned. You even caught one w/ its tongue poking out! LOL … 🙂
Happy and safe travels.
The juvenile delinquent of the group.
Are you sure it’s not Dracula?
actually Stellaluna.
Great shot!
Oh, one of my favorite children’s books. I know a child who read that book over and over. She told me it made her feel safe.
Sleeping Beauty:
Ah, the very definition of blissful relaxation.
After our last discussion, I went to take a picture of our bark pealing sycamore for the next time you showed up but it accidentally became of picture of dogwoods instead. 😉
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Impressive! At first (until I put my glasses back on), I thought it was a shagbark hickory.
As it happens, I have a picture of one of those too (but without dog).
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Hickory nearby! Lucky you! They’re wonderful trees.
I love all of our posted images today. We seem highly inspired.
(Note: I read the website link for this week as ‘Tips for a Shooting Party’, which inspired thoughts of The Angler.)
Apparently, I read ‘hickory’ for ‘sycamore’ too. Time for geezer-glasses.
The first one is a sycamore but the second one is a shagbark hickory. So no need for geezer glasses … yet. 😉
And they make for such lovely heat in the woodstove. 🙂
Very important, since you’re probably not making your own axe-handles.
🙂
I really like this one, Andi.
Reminds me of the Ents in Lord of the Rings.
The angle makes the tree be saying “Don’t Climb me!”
Hi Kidspeak.
Aren’t cats just the best … lol. Great title to go w/ your photo. Looks like Splotch is set up next to your computer (can see the keyboard there), so she can keep an eye on things while in repose … lol.
Duh! (smacks forehead)
The Sound of Music! which is a musical and a book.
LOL, there ya go.
Gorgeous photo. I like all the little points of light, and the colours.
Go check it out! You can’t get access to the interior without having an actual ticket to a show, or in my case, just showing up and taking the free tour!
The tour guide was friendly, very knowledgeable and brought us in both Verizon Hall and the Perelman Theater, as well as some other areas within and around the two theaters.
Totally worth it, even if it was just to get those shots.
Great picture. Love the lighting, especially on the balconies.
I think I can contribute to this one. Talk about a natural match!
Mending Wall
In Hardwood Groves
Birches
I like all of these but especially mending wall.
I’m glad you like them, maryb. Whose woods these are I think I know & they’re a very fine place to be, too — always poetry.
Good to see you again.
I’m so glad to see you posting pics. I love them all but especially Birches.
I only wish the picture could match the majesty of the poem — or that I’d chosen another pic of birches, of which I have many.
I may link to larger files, too, so that there’s a bit more clarity.
‘Course, I’m using an ancient,beat-up, 2.1 mp camera too.
In any case, it’s a start. Glad you like them as is!
ww – these are marvelous! Well-matched with the poems. It is too difficult to choose a favorite.
Thank you!
This could get addictive, really ..
Hi ww. I’m happy you were able to post your photos and what a lovely selection for the flog. 🙂
I love the mistiness of the three … but I think my favourite is the In Hardwood Groves photo and poem.
In Neglect
Great picture. Beautifully framed and it suggests a thousand stories.
I’m staying at a place now that was once a working farm. This is one of two old barns that are still standing, built between the mid 1800’s & early 20th Century, of post & beam construction, massive timbers, no nails. Three have fallen down & only the stone foundations are left. It’s lovely here; everything speaks.
That sounds wonderful. I can’t wait to see it in spring.
How ’bout this?
The Soul selects her own Society
Ooh, lovely. But a little spooky too.
Also … sigh. I am ready for spring.
We’re getting a little Spring right now. You are too, no?
‘Course, we know it won’t last. Follow the bouncing ball ..
The pic is of an antique 2-holer that originally stood outside the girls’ schoolhouse serving this valley. The graffiti scratched on the inside of the door is probably 100 years old or so. The owner of the place had it brought over years ago, before there was reliable plumbing in the farmhouse.
I’m hoping the warm lasts but even if it does there won’t be much green around till mid to late April — though I’ll be happy to just see some leaf buds.
then I tend to get impatient for the green of spring. Today’s temp was 72F. Your “green fuse” is just a perfect example of what I begin to crave – lovely. Is it a jack-in-the-pulpit?
Yep, that’s what it is (with a trillium behind it).
The temps are warm here now too but as far as the woods go it’s still gray and brown. 🙁
A particularly fine image.
Beautiful.
I’m glad you both like this image. The snow was thigh-high that day.
I’m very pleased to be able to post again, Miss O — despite the fact that I’m still figuring out the host site.
I love this one.
“Christine”
That one is just perfect. See it wasn’t that hard after all. 😉
The funny thing is this was shot in like Buttfuck, New Jersey one week.
Two weeks later, in a totally different section of Buttfuck, New Jersey, I came across a big rig with a similar style grill, face and all.
I wanted to stop, I should’ve stopped, I could’ve stopped…
..but I didn’t. And I can’t remember where I saw it.
I think boran2 should paint this …
Actually, I’m intrigued by that white car in the background.
She’s beautiful, really.
This shot reminds me of b2’s car shot from last week — machines aging gracefully because they’re transformed.
Maybe that could be something of a theme ..
Now that would be tricky! 😀
LOL … good one!
the raven, edgar allan poe
recited by
christopher walken
Gorgeous, dada. And how perfect to find a version read by Christopher Walken.
Thank you – a great combination! I enjoyed listening to the poem, very shivery and sad. Your photo is beautiful.
Hi d.
Fantastic photo – love the white background, and nice touch with Walken’s reading.
I love the simplicity of this image — because it hints at the eternal.
Perfect!
Rabbit Run
(Hector)
Rabbit Redux
(Albert)
Rabbit is Rich
(Hector)
Rabbit at Rest
(Oscar & Albert)
Rabbit Remembered
(Albert)
Wonderful, keres. Just great.
Those are fantastic keres … Wonderful to see Albert again. I sure do miss that ‘ol guy. :/
Hector’s galloping in the first photo is marvelous. Nice catch on that one!
And now I’ve say finally said something good about Updike’s Rabbit books.
Rabbit Redux is my favorite pic.
I’ve never read them myself, but the titles were such a gimme.
It’s funny, no matter how many times I watch a rabbit washing his face, it’s still entrancing – especially when he washes his ears.
Oh, just too good! Now you’ve made me want a rabbit fix.
Foul Shot
by Edwin A. Hoey
With two 60s stuck on the scoreboard
And two seconds hanging on the clock,
The solemn boy in the center of eyes,
Squeezed by silence,
Seeks out the line with his feet,
Soothes his hands along his uniform,
Gently drums the ball against the floor,
Then measures the waiting net,
Raises the ball on his right hand,
Balances it with his left,
Calms it with fingertips,
Breathes,
Crouches,
Waits,
And then through a stretching of stillness,
Nudges it upward.
The ball
Slides up and out,
Lands,
Leans,
Wobbles,
Wavers,
Hesitates,
Exasperates,
Plays it coy
Until every face begs with unsounding screams–
And then
And then
And then,
Right before ROAR-UP,
Dives down and through.
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Great photo (and a funny poem).
What a great pairing! Brilliant.
The Grapes of Wrath. Actually these are my rather bitter tasting (and not especially well photographed) grapes from last summer.
Supposedly there are grapes growing on hillsides everywhere here (Sullivan/Ulster border), but after 20+ years I’ve yet to see any — so it’s nice to see yours.
That sunlight & color looks so inviting, too! It’s easy to imagine the warmth in the grapes.
Hi ww. I hadn’t heard that. I’ll have to ask the guy I know in Narrowsburg if he’s seen any.
It will be nice to have things warm enough to grow grapes again.
My God, yes. This winter has been very long. We had our first major snowfall before Halloween. Even the old timers are complaining this year.
I look forward to more photos from your garden, if you care to.
Do you grow grapes?
I have only the single vine seen in the photo. The grapes have unfortunately been rather tart.
Ah — I was hoping we were going to be offered Wine by B2.
Here in the city, they are a scourge, taking over too many lovely old bushes in our neglected parks. Not as bad as kudzu or phragmites, but not welcome as they once were.
These are obviously not my work, but I hope you’ll indulge me.
Miracles from Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman
My mother (age 2) and grandmother
Mom at Traphagan School, Manhattan (age 19)
Mom at age 22
Lovely photos, ID. I’m really struck by her wonderfully expressive eyes. You can really see the resemblance to her mother in the last picture.
Thank you for sharing these photos with us, as well as Whitman’s poem. This seems to be an appropriate time to appreciate his celebratory work, which is also so full of tenderness.
These are lovely pictures. Your mother was stunning!
I wish her peace in spirit.
Thank you for sharing ID. Your mother and your grandmother were lovely women.
Beautiful women.
Damn,
It`s nice to be back.
Here are some of my books.
THE DECEASED
UFO
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
BLUE PLANET
WIRED
BACKDOOR MAN
THE PEACEMAKER
HISTORIES MYSTERIES
LITTLE MISS MUFFET
OUT OF AFRICA
SPEED
CLOCKWORK ORANGE
BALI “HIGH”
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS (First Flight)
FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
(“Kidspeak`s Flight”, temporarily canceled)
STEEL MAGNOLIA
McNAUGHT’Y’`S COMET
(From my yard)
CARBON FOOTPRINT
AARP
THE WIRE
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES
THE MALTESE FALCON
THE KING & EYE
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
CAPE HORN
Lots of good stuff over the three posts but my heart belongs to Little Red Riding Hood.
Thank you Andi,
Yes, I too, love “Little Red Riding Hood”. I know you probably read most of these books in the past, but I put some of these titles in for those who just learned to read.
Some nice shots in there.
Thanks Bobx,
I like all your swamp monsters.
Back shelves deserve to be brought out from time to time. Great pictures, KH.
Hi Kidspeak,
I hope you`ve been getting my occasional emails.
They may be on your back shelves.
Nice to ‘see’ you.
Salah Ad Din liberating Jerusalem
Heroic statuary always cracks me up — just another example of why my mother never wanted to take me anywhere. 😉