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: Random. Whatever you feel like posting.
Website of the Week: The Life of a Photograph by photographer Sam Abell.
AndiF Picture Windows
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Viewing Idaho
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Viewing Arizona
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Viewing Tennessee
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olivia’s bee randomness
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Next Week’s Theme: Vacation or Staycation, share your adventures.
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
The way this Friday is starting off more like a Monday, I could lay in bed all day with a dog right now.
Although I wouldn’t advise trying to share a bed with a Pyr. They take up all the room and have a tendency stick their big scratchy paws in your face.
lol keres, love the filenames … 🙂
They’re only playing, of course. But you can see why I’ve never been burgled.
That puppy face in the bottom pic is so completely unhappy it makes me want to cry.
Lily’s a natural when it comes to manipulation – she can really work those eyes (and the heavy sighs).
Your puppy pix are always fun and many times I’ve shared them with my co-workers. A woman in the office next to ours also has a Pyr and sometimes she will bring her to work for a visit. I’ll try to get a photo sometime.
I’ll try to get a photo sometime
Cool.
Very beautiful dogs.
Lightning over Philly
Evening sun
Zoe Kravitz
Shelf cloud over Philly
A dog, icon of a local business
A recycled, but now tonemapped image I took
Great set … love that evening sun shot. Heard a hallelujah chorus in my head looking at that one. 😉
You’ve mastered the lighting shots it appears … nice!
The shelf cloud is amazing. Looks like something from The Day After Tomorrow.
Great set. The lightning shot are spectacular but Shelf cloud over Philly was the one that I found most visually appealing.
That one actually made it to Flickr Explore, albeit briefly.
A lot of people liked that one, apparently, and it was really neat to watch! I hope we get to see another one soon so I can get better pics of it.
Had I seen it coming from a distance, instead of when it was right on top of us, I would’ve run to the roof to get an unobstructed shot!
Very evocative set.
Stand Strong,
I think your “Evening Sun” is simply fantastic.
The scale of the sky with the sky-lined buildings is perfect in composition.
Great Flog last week! Way too many good ones to comment on all of them so consider this my thanks.
I’ve had a little time to mess with Photomatix and make a couple of faux HDR images. These were made with one raw photo, stepped by -2EV. Usually three exposures are used, I kinda cheated and only used two. Results are pretty amazing. You can read about it here. Link
The original followed by the overlaid and tone-mapped image.
high res here
High res here
Interesting experiments, Bob. With or without the mapping, I really like the bottom one(s) — the sweeping curve really draw my eye in.
Thanks Andi,
Curved peak is really nice, The framing of it by the trees sets the scene.
And thank you, Bob. It’s always nice when nature does all the work of framing your picture for you. 🙂
Bob, those are so vibrant. I love that sky in the bottom photo – wow.
The second is my fave too. Thanks.
those are very nice bob….the faux HDR process you did accentuates the scene without making it cartoonish…for lack of a better term.
most HDR images lose that naturalness, ergo, they become caricatures…my 2¢.
well done, kudos.
Thanks. That’s actually a really good way to describe what happens to poorly executed HDR images. I met an artist doing the show circuit here in Florida who was doing some very nice HDR and got a few tips from him. You can easily over-saturate and ruin what might have otherwise been a good shot. It’s a tool in the box, not the toolbox.
So “Random” is the theme, eh?
I`ll try.
LITTLE FEAT
BIG FEAT
(AN UNUSUAL CLOUD FORMATION)
KOMING KARMA
PAINTED SHADE
GOLD NECKLACE
BIG SISTER
BIG SISTER SUNSET
MAGNIFIED REALITY
SILVER BANGLES
HORN OF PLENTY
MY OCEAN VIEW
ROYAL SISTERS
DRAGON FLY LAMP
EMERALD SCARAB
LAWNMOWER BLENNY
TUBE ANEMONE
GREENHOUSES & COASTAL SNOW
HERMAN`S HERMIT
HORSE COLLAR MIRROR
BLACK ROYALTY #8
MALIBU SUNDOWN
IRON CROSS
GROUP THERAPY
WING FEATHERS (SHOW OFF)
I feel like I’m gazing at a virtual (word with multiple meanings intentionally chosen) cabinet of curiosities. Great set, the flying birds are my favorites.
AndiF,
My house is a curio cabinet.
It`s where I shoot most of the images I post.
Thank you for noticing.
I still have many boxes of things to unpack, from my collections, though I`ve moved here almost two years ago.
I`m the “cat lady” of stuff.
Beautiful set Head! That dragonfly lamp is a gorgeous piece of art.
The Dragonfly Tiffany is right on my desk on a shelf one level up from my keyboard.
I look out over the living room with the sunsets to my back.
I just shot tonight`s one. A fantastic end to my day at the beach for my friend`s gathering.
I`ll post the day on the blog this coming week.
I saw your post from the gathering. Thanks!
The hummingbirds are fantastic!
Thanks BobX, I`ve enjoyed shooting them for years.
not holes
shit happens…sometimes it’s interesting…
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This is one of my happy accidents. This is the San Francisco skyline at night.
Sweet serendipity.
That’s some cool shit ya got there.
That first image looks like a sculpture of a woman.
I was reading an article online today about deliberately soft-focusing. It’s interesting what people do w/ it!
…looks like a sculpture of a woman…interesting…can’t say that l agree, but it’s always intriguing to hear what others see in a photograph.
l liked it because of the implied 3D quality of the graining and the way it weathered. it’s a flat board, there’s no physical relief at all.
as for #2, it was truly an accidental shot…was saving the cam from my grandson…long story, happy ending, at least from the camera’s viewpoint.
as for #2, it was truly an accidental shot…was saving the cam from my grandson…long story, happy ending, at least from the camera’s viewpoint.
LOL … knowing that, it certainly adds a bit of spice to the photo.
Just took a trip to Big Sur along the central CA coast. If you don’t know Big Sur, it is an amazing place with a beautiful, rugged coastline and valleys filled with redwoods. Though Ansel Adams is known for his Yosemite photos, Big Sur is where he chose to live.
This is the view from Nepenthe Restaurant… kind of looks like Care Bear Land:
This waterfall overlook is one of the iconic images of Big Sur… you will see photos of it in almost every Big Sur guide book ever published:
Zoomed in a bit on the waterfall:
While standing at the railing taking photos of the waterfall, this little bird alit upon the railing next to me:
We were going to take other hikes, but most of the trails were closed due to fire damage.
Just gorgeous. Sorry about the lost hiking opportunities though.
Ah, the Western Scrub jay. They’re one of the world’s best campground thieves. That young one was hoping for a hand out, or for you to momentarily leave food unattended.
Nice photos.
Gorgeous view … wow.
Fantastic,
Thank you for the beauty of the northern coast.
Nice shots, The Sur pics really make me want to make the trip. Every time I’ve been on the west coast it’s So. California. The jay looks similar the scrub jays we have in Florida and very similar to keres’ description.
Stands out from the background.
Big Sur is truly one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world.
a number of years ago l was doing a project in san luis obispo, and scheduled a meeting late in the week. flew into SLO, did the meet, met my lady and we spent the w/e and following week driving up the coast to SF. actually had brunch at nepenthe’s, and the view from the deck is absolutely amazing.
thanks for the memories.
Red Canyon, Utah, earlier today. The is the actual color.
Ah, you are really stoking my red rock lust.
Looks like your vacation continues to be spectacularly and geologically gorgeous.
The gray-blue-greens in the foreground really highlight the red rock. All of these beautiful landscapes make me want to be somewhere else, at least temporarily.
Me too.
In your picture I can smell the sage, feel the scratches of the blackbrush, and hear the brushing of the Mormon tea as I look at it.
That is beautiful, b2. Looks like you’re having beautiful skies overhead on your trip.
I get to round out the weekend with one shot of lightning..
and a link to go see the rest.
😉
That’s an amazing and impressive and awesome (in the old-fashioned sense) set of photographs.
I was essentially live-tweeting the shifting and ultimate arrival of the storm and every time I got a capture and viewed it on the LCD, I would shout out “That’s fuckin’ AWESOME!”
LOL! Love it and fantastic set.
Amazing shot, Stand strong
AndiF,
The three “picture windows” are fantastic.
Thanks Head!