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. School’s Out for Summer: Photos that make you think of free times, hot times, lazy times, fun times, or even Alice Cooper.
FFF’er Blog of the Week: boran2’s Saturday Painting Palooza series. Check back tomorrow — Saturday — morning for the next installment!
AndiF Random Pics
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Come on in — the water’s fine
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Race Ya!
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Just add paddles
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olivia’s signs summer has started
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Trees in bloom
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Canoe trips!
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Flowers
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- Next Week’s Theme: Flowers. What’s blooming in your world
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
Damn,
I thought we were on break.
We were going to be but then olivia didn’t get to go on her vacation. 🙁
But there’s plenty of time for you to hunt a few pictures for us.
No kidding, caught everyone flat footed. I’ll put some up in the morning.
Thank you, Ms.Olivia! 😉
Well that fits the theme just as well. 🙂
means it’s time to fire up the barbie…which we do year round at casa d…and enjoy some good food…kabobs are always good
first the veggies, red and green bell peppers, red onion, button mushrooms,
combined w/ marinated pork tenderloin and it’s ready for the grill
yummmmmm…sorry, no pix of the finished product, it didn’t last long enough.
Wow, now that is gorgeous food porn. I am so hungry.
What are you dada, a chef, or a food mag writer.
One more thing, when do we eat.
Great presentation. I`m drooling.
nope….just like to cook, and pretty good at it if l do say so myself.
l’ve always thought presentation was part of the experience…and you’re too late for this one…dinner’s usually around eight, so if you’re ever up here at altitude, l’ll fix something for you and teri, k.
dada,
You are right. Presentation is always a part of an eating experience.
Having had slop ladled to me behind bars, I know whereof I speak.
I`m not ready to travel yet, so I best not allow Teri to view your offerings. But I certainly will note your establishment, & invite, in my travel journal, for future reference.
Beirut, Lebanon
Arwad Island, off Tartous, Syria
Those are all wonderful but the first Arwad Island picture is especially fine — really good framing, beautiful colors, and great use of the runner to draw our eye in.
Public Park, Aleppo, Syria
Damascus
hurria,
What a great collection of normality.
I like the young girl next to the mechanical monsters spraying water, who has but one focus: find some ducks to feed.
Your images of everyday life in far off places help to diffuse preconceived ideas of “those people”.
We are them, hopefully.
She was there with her father, no mom in sight. Ditto the father there with his six kids. Not even a little bit unusual to see there – another stereotype exploded.
We are all humans, and all humans are the same at their core.
You are so good at taking pictures of people living their lives. The bottom one is my favorite of this group — a whole set of juxtapositions, all contained in one neat picture.
Posed pictures are nice, but I love getting shots of people just going about their business. They tell you something different than the posed ones do. But I miss SO MANY great shots either because of my efforts to go undetected, or because I do get detected and it’s too late. I heard about one photographer who had a camera with a lens that pointed away from where he seemed to be pointing his camera. That and a really good telephoto lens that could see through whatever – or whomever – gets in the way would be sooooo nice!
I noticed so many incredible faces this year, and really didn’t succeed in getting any of them well. It’s hard to get that close without being noticed. I’m going to try harder next year.
I’m with you — candids are more interesting than portraits.
Good luck in getting those close-ups of people without them noticing — especially since I hope I’ll get to see your successes. 🙂
The alpaca parade at the Hobart Show (the equivalent of a State Fair, which for some reason are held in the Spring here).
Spring Filly (Milo [dog], Kieara & her mother Cleopatra)
A profusion of spring flowers.
I wanna go to that parade!
I love the face between the filly and the dog.
Well AndiF, you did challenge me to go find a few.
Here`s some flowers for this week`s theme.
I sure hope I got at least that part right.
BLACK SUCCULENT
FIRE BREATH
SUNSET GLADIOLA
PAPAL SEE
CLOCKWORK ORANGE
ROSES ARE READ
COCKFIGHT
ADELLE`S DELIGHTS
MELTED CANDLE
MINT JULEP
OLIVIA`S WORT
LEMON PI
PETADENDUM
LAST FEEDING AT DUSK
FLY CASTING
HEAVEN SCENT
RED WHITE & BLUE
BELIEVE IT
FLY ME TO THE MOON
SUN CORALS
AGAPANTHA PANTHER
GROW A PAIR
ROCK PAPER SIZZLER
PARADISE FOUND
ANTIQUE ROSE
STEAL MAGNOLIA
COCK A DOODLE ROOSTER TAIL
SUPER NOVA
BALLERINA BALANCE
ETERNAL FLAME
POPPY POP-UP
Well, I just realized I screwed up.
I should have followed up on my reading & comprehension courses, which by the way, have really served me well through all these years.
Obviously, I should be posting vacation pix next week.
Enjoy, Please.
It’s okay, the diary police are off tonight. 😉
Thanks Boran2,
But I wonder if they`re simply off bugging some other peaceful hippies.
Somehow, I don’t think it’ll matter all that much. Some spectacular stuff, KNUCKLEHEAD!
Indianadem,
Ssshhh, Maybe it`ll throw the cops off.
Thanks bud.
Great stuff Head and who cares about the theme (besides, once school’s out, there’s more time to spend in the garden).
Wow! Holy hot diggity-god-DAMN are those some gorgeous shots!
Stand strong,
There sure are a lot of “d”`s “G`S” & ” iggities”s in that.
Thanks.
Your sunset rays are awesome but you know I mentioned that elsewhere.
I just might drop down & check those images yo posted again.
Secret places and misty rivers
Clifty Falls State Park, Madison, Indiana
White River near Butler University campus, Indianapolis
Remains of old White River lock & dam circa 1850 at Mt. Comfort, Illinois
“Big Muddy” at Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Ohio River at Madison, Indiana
The Ohio further down river at Mt. Vernon, Indiana
Nice tour, ID. I have a real fondness for the Ohio. Jim and I were in Evansville for 8 years (undergraduate and masters degrees at UE) and I loved to go downtown where the river made a big and sharp turn and watch the barges work their way through it. Some of the really long ones would have to make three or four forward-and-back up moves to get around it.
My family has a lot of history in Evansville & Mt. Vernon. They apparently floated down from eastern Ohio around 1820 or thereabouts and operated a riverboat around the time of the Civil War. I was extremely lucky to find a photo of the “Kate” at the LSU riverboat archives several years ago. Kate was my ggg grandmother who came to Ohio from Guernsey Island about 1806.
The Kate Sarchet (at far left, her initials are at the top of the smokestacks)
That’s really cool. It’s amazing that you found a photo. My ancestors were rambling around the Ukraine at that time.
Hey, mine too!
(Actually three out four; just for diversity there’s also a Lithuanian.)
I feel really lucky to have found it, since the family doesn’t have a single photo, as far as I know and doubly lucky to have ggg granny’s initials on the stacks to help authenticate it. The Mt. Comfort lock & dam photo above is where she sank after the pilot made the stupid decision to try to bypass the lock (and accompanying lock fee) by running over the top of the low head dam instead.
The pilot was maybe a Scotsman. The same one who was caught sneaking under the pay-toilet door.
Great shot of your family history on the water.
It`s nice to have your gggreat grandma on the stacks, too.
Cool find.
He must have been a real tightwad. Lost the boat and cargo for a pittance, although some of the cargo and timbers from the boat were salvaged later. One story says a local judge wound up with some really nice hardwood flooring for his home that overlooks the river.
I`m sort of notorious in a way.
When I build something for my clients, I often bring in “special” lumber, that usually has an origin tinted by gossip & myth, mostly of the houses of ill repute, that had to be demolished due to puritanical laws, & done so by a friend of an uncle who also was a bootlegger.
If you put your nose real close to the wood in the judge`s office, you probably could smell the subjects of some of my stories.
It gives the lumber a little more cost, & the client has been seeded with an ever expounded upon story to brag about how much it cost him to have his private office built.
Now what was your Steamboat Captain grandfather`s name again.
It sure will come in handy.
That is so wonderful that you found that picture.
Next time we get together for fried biscuits we’ll have to reminisce about Evansville (or not — I loved the school and the river; the city not so much).
My ggg grandmother (and several other family members) are buried at Rose Hill Cemetery. I’d like to go back and spend some time at the Willard Library, which was closed the last time we visited. Ever run into the resident ghost there?
Blue Ridge Mountains
Old Ironsides
Minneapolis Park
Minneapolis Sculpture Gardens
Kit Carson National Forest, New Mexico
Chapel, Heritage Park, San Diego
Old Town, San Diego
“What? You think I’m going anywhere?”
Good selection, Bob. My favorites are the Minneapolis park and, of course, the kitty (great caption too).
Thanks Andi!
and I really missed not have FFF last week but, and although these aren’t quite “School’s Out For Summer” shots, I got these last night and thought they were gorgeous!
And then last Monday, we had one heck of a storm fly quickly through the area. It was pretty intense, with lightning, thunder, hail, wind, rain, you name it. But every ugly event doesn’t go without a bright spot…
Oooooh! Nice!
I`ll go with the second from the bottom this time.
I`ll bet there were a lot of people enjoying the aftermath of the storm.
Too bad they didn`t bring their cameras.
Very good capture of nature`s power to show-off.
Who cares about theme when there are such amazing photos to be shared.