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: Things that Sparkle
Website of the Week: Strobist A site all about learning how to use off-camera flash.
AndiF Sparklies
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Water and Sun
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Water and Sun
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Water and Sun (frozen edition)
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olivia’s sparkle
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Wheat
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Sunlight-on-leaves bokeh
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Web
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Next Week’s Theme: Random Whatcha got?
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
But, how can I take a photo of my personality? 🙂
LOL. 🙂
You can just a self-portrait and let the charm shine through. 🙂
Here’s the Hudson River instead. I see this view every day on my commute to the west side of the river.
Really pretty commute.
But I still want the self-portrait.
Heh, I’ll get right on that.
What a great shot, b2! Love seeing our foot-hills from that perspective. A lovely composition, too.
Sparkly fireworks.
Nicely done. I like the second one especially. Looks like something we’d see on APOD.
Explosively sparkly.
I like your first image very much, Bob. I see flowers or fruiting trees, not dangerous explosives.
🙂
patterned glass
ice
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Nice. I like the icicles … coming soon to those in the cooler climes.
but it’s shaping up to be a nice fall. l’ll take it.
As always, you can do more with black and white than I can with the entire spectrum.
but…but…those are color shots.
albeit with it a lot of contrast and harsh, directional lighting, so the spectral range is very limited.
But … but “As always, you can do more with a lot of contrast and harsh, directional lighting which limits the spectral range than I can with the entire spectrum” loses the sincerely hyperbolic impact of the original.
non-hyperbolically speaking, you do a pretty damn good job with the entire spectrum.
l prefer to work around the edges.
Well thanks but I’d kill (okay hyperbolic again so maybe just wound) for your ability at those edges.
Love these shots, dada. Very elegant.
Another pic from the ice forest (I don’t think this one was posted before):
Glittering fjord w/silver ocean above:
Beautiful, ask!
Those are both really gorgeous, ask. But I have to admit that the bottom one is much moer appealing. 🙂
Thanks – it’s another easy one from the porch at the cabin.
Both your and Andi’s ice capture the brisk air. I can smell it!
Thank you for sharing this lovely spot with us, ask!
Lake Tekapo, NZ
Frosty car
From our New Years Eve party 2004
I love the frosty car!
I agree with SN about the frost car — it’s a great shot. But I also like the effects of the New Years party shot.
Your capture of those ice crystals is really superb!
… but here goes any way.
A year of sparkles.
Summer Sparkles
Fall Sparkles
Winter Sparkles
Spring Sparkles
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Top and bottom ones are my favs.
Then I’ll take the two in the middle. Gorgeousness.
Of course you can’t just post ONE web… 🙂
Very cool!
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You just have to one-up everyone.
All your webs belong to me.
Well your spiders sure do share well. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many in one spot.
I’m not sure what kind of spider made these webs, but for about a week they were all over our cherry trees. And then they were gone. I’ll keep an eye out to see if they come back this year, and maybe get a look at the actual critters.
Speaking of critters, I did manage to get a photo the other day of a Red-bottomed bee (Exonera bicolor). They’re maybe a quarter of an inch long – and quick.
Wow. Kudos, keres! An amazing shot.
Another Exoneura (known collectively as “Reed bees”), probably robusta. With a honeybee for size comparison.
And a Lasioglossum species.
They have to compete with introduced honeybees and bumblebees, so it’s good to see them doing well in our yard.
It’s an irresistible bad pun but it’s also true — I’m completely buzzed by your pictures.
These are wonderful!
I spent a lot of time with my first digital camera sitting in wait for bees. I found photographing them a very nice meditation.
I wish photographing them was more meditative. Like said before, these little buggers are speedy. They’re not like the big lazy bumbles or the industrious honeybees, who are both enjoying the profusions of flowers the winter rains have wrought. One tree is so covered with blossoms that you can hear the bees buzzing from about ten yards away.
Ah Spring.
Ah, Spring is right. I wonder if it would be possible to just travel between the hemispheres, experiencing one springtime after another.
It would probably be something like an all-cupcake diet.
What I found meditative about shooting the bees was the fact that they generally are pretty speedy — they’re really not slow unless it’s an early Autumn morning, like this one here, & they’re sluggish. The meditation involves staying focused enough to capture them as they busy around.
I couldn’t resist — I love taking pictures of spider webs and those are my two favorites.
I can see why. They are particularly fine photos.
Thanks. Or course, the spiders did all the hard work. 🙂
These are just stunning, Andi. The colors in the web threads are just gorgeous. Combined with their forms, these are just gorgeous.
See? I’m practically wordless.
I think you’re practically gorgeous. 😉
And thanks.
Just wait ’til I post a shot of my jack-o-lantern grin. You’ll love it.
🙂
These are beautiful, Jim.
I love the world we live in when I look at these.
SPARKLER
SPONGE BATH JACKIE
CHLOE
RED SPARKLER
YOU DID WHAT!!
MIRRORED TOP
TULLULUBELLE
ICE CAVE COMFORT
GROUP THEORY
Well it’s really no contest this week to pick my favorites. 😉
Here they are again after a severe beating.
Yep, I can tell they are really suffering being around their oh-so-cruel grandpa. 😀
Wow! These kids really know how to sparkle.
Wildernesswench
I think I know how to light them up.
These are my two granddaughters.
I yell, scream at them, beat tables with a big stick & insist they not put baskets on their heads & that laughing is absolutely not acceptable.
Then I take the shot.
They obviously don`t take me seriously, but I think they know what I`m really doing.
Smart little cookies.
Truly a couple of sparkling gems you have. We are very lucky grandpas, you and I.
Yes Indianadem,
I believe grampas have a quite special place in the universe.
Without our little jewels we would not be who we are.
They are adorable and they certainly do sparkle.
Thanks Boran2,
I love nothing more than to spend more time with them.
When they`re here, time stops. I only have eyes for them.
They have their own accounts on my computers & download music from my libraries to their little iPod shuffles I gave them for their respective birthdays.
It`s amazing how different their musical tastes are.
We spend most of our time outside though.
Morning dew
Yet another spiderweb
Frosty hills
Nice addition to the web collection. And the dew on the flower is gorgeous.
But I like the snow scene best. Was that shot from the library?
Yes (its really difficult to get around the power lines up there).
That’s a lovely winter scene, ID. It actually inspires me to look forward to the coming chill — which I’m generally not.
I can tell I’d feel right at home against that view.
The topography here is nice and rolling (see Andi and JimF’s photos too). The ice age glaciers stopped about 2 miles north of where we live and from there its pretty much flat all the way to Canada.
Like an advancing army with second thoughts ..
I’ve always felt very much ‘at home’ with Andi’s forest pix. They seem to offer a reflection of my own environment, cast through a different viewpoint.
Our world glimmering.
They all have a magical quality, but I like the barn attic shot the best. The peony(?) is just gorgeous!
Yes, peony. All gone now.
my self-serving desire for you to get your ‘puter functional has been satiated in the best possible way with a great set of pictures. The barn is my favorite — a gorgeous mood-creator.
The barn shot is the latest one — late day sun through aging siding.
I repeat: I greatly appreciate your willingness to help with Miss Cranky.
I was more than happy to do it. I’d have been happier if I’d really been able to help, though. 🙂
Not to worry. Any information added to my very limited knowledge is a definite help.
Someday soon I know I’ll wake up & find a new iBook under my pillow. The tooth fairy owes me big time.
Andi, I truly adore your winter-frost image. The harmony & beauty you’ve captured is just luscious.
Miss O, your web shot impresses me enormously. The same serene beauty on a smaller scale.
Thanks WW. The great thing about it is that all I had to do to take it was step outside on the deck.
This is why we suffer rural life, no?
Yep, it is.
in the way of sparkly pictures but here’s a few that I think definitely fit the description! 🙂
Sparkles with starbursts even! Very cool!
Great collection!
Those are fantastic — you are the Edgerton of Philly. 🙂
I particularly like the last one — the extreme light changes on the water droplet are really effective.