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: Walls, fences and fields. h/t boran2 and Wilderness Wench
Website(s) of the Week: 40 Striking High Resolution Photography Wallpapers Or just enjoy striking photos from the National Geographic.
AndiF’s Walls, Fences, and Fields
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Brick and Wrought Iron Fence, Columbus, Indiana
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Rail Fences and Fields, near Stanley, Idaho
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Riding Ring Fence, Brown County, Indiana
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olivia’s wall, fence, field
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Next Week’s Theme: Black or White or Black and White Interpret the theme literally, symbolically, or like a shot from an old brownie camera
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
Fence & Wall
Sawtooth Mountains North of Stanley, ID
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Field and Wall
The Garden Wall from Logan’s Pass
Glacier NP
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Walls Closing In
Wire Pass Canyon & Buckskin Gulch
On the Utah-Arizona border near nothing
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Wonder walls.
And that’s my idea of a great portrait of me — my back from a distance.
Be careful!!! My Mom use to always turn her back to the camera until my aunt took a close up of her butt in a plaid pair of pants. LOL
Wonderful pictures!!! You and Miss Andi take some of the best pictures I have ever seen.
For my part it’s location, location, location.
Being a real sucker for fields of flowers, I liked number 2 the most, but enjoyed all three!
Alpine meadows are awesome for fields of flowers.
Gorgeous.
I’d love to see that canyon. Wonderful photo.
Andi and I can give you directions. It is surprisingly easy to get to, just very isolated.
I really like the fence and mountains of Stanley, ID. I have noticed at Weather Underground that Stanley will be the coldest place in the lower 48 states. It was interesting to see what the area looks like.
We were in Stanley in July and did most of our hiking in long pants and often wearing flece sweaters at the start of the hike.
Definitely. Love the perspective and especially the Septa sign.
The SEPTA sign almost didn’t make it in. I was going to take the shot from a concrete Subway entrance but it was a little too high with the camera on the tripod for me to reach so I took it from the sidewalk and when I looked through the viewfinder, it just all happened to land like this in the frame.
3 shots later, some processing, and voila!
This is beautiful!!!!
Thank you!
and completely forgot about them.
Fenced In
Fenced In
A Break In The Fence
Sticks and Stones
Beak in the fence is beautiful!!! It reminds me of my youth as sometimes I looked through fences and could only imagine going through to the other side.
All of them are great shots but I particularly like the composition of a break in the fence — very nice framing, use of the vertical lines and color.
Love the fenced shots … esp the top two.
Great set. My favorite is the first one with the SEPTA sign.I like the vibrancy of the colors in the signs, the sky, and the buildings; and the natural colors of the lighted windows in the buildings.
Very cool perspective.
The green circle sets it off very well.
That’s an awesome shot!
Wolfgang Puck, Orlando
Amir Leopard, Central Florida Zoo
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Great photos. I especially love the tiger looking through the fence.
Thanks for the comment. I wish I could do the leopard over again. Long slow lens and manual focus made for a slight movement in the camera, but better to have it than not.
I think the photo is also just wonderful! The way both pupils are visible, the way the fence wire disappears at different points, the color of the eyes, the fur shimmer… thanks!
Seconding refinish — the leopard shot is outstanding.
Thirding … gorgeous shot.
I believe the leopard is singing “Don’t Fence Me In” you ….
Beautiful and reminds me so much of my youth in NC.
Beautiful stone wall.
I just love the simple red gate.
Perfect for that wall also.
Love that red gate too.
That looks so green and inviting!
How lovely and invited … and so very green. Sigh.
Nice framing on these. They invite me to explore along the wall and maybe stop to lie back in that lush grass for awhile. It really looks like a peaceful spot.
Goats in Mannheim, Germany:
What a great sequence.
🙂 nicely captured.
Andi and I saw some pronghorns doing the same thing in Colorado.
City wall in Osnabrueck, Germany:
Wall in Mannheim, Germany. Translation of the graffiti: “impulsive people know no boundaries”
The Wild West in Zuerich, Switzerland:
Tarifa, Spain:
Anti EU graffiti near the University of Oslo, Norway:
Liege, Belgium:
Very nice variety. The last shot is my favorite — the lines of the brick do a great job of enhancing the perspective and the slight rise of the street draws me even more toward the door.
Agree w/ Andi, love the alley shot. I love the colour of the bricks and the trees.
Churchyard cemetery in Millstatt, Austria:
Picket fences on Santa Catalina, California:
Mannheim, Germany:
Placard on a fence in Venice advertising a modern art exhibition:
Little Church of the Crossroads in Lamoille, Nevada:
Old Cemetery, Dayton, Nevada:
Mannheim Castle, Mannheim, Germany:
Another fascinating set. I keep going back to the Dayton, Nevada cemetery — I guess I can’t resist the combination of wrought iron and mountains.
Thanks for posting, great shots.
Love the Nevada shot too … The Mannheim shot is funny.
All images are clickable.
LOW STONE WALL
BEACH FIELD MEMORIAL
(RIP Dusty)
KENDRA & THE KAMEL
FIELD STONE
WOODEN FENCE
STONE WALL
FENCE RAIL LILLY
FIELD OF FINGERS
LIZARD-SKIN FENCE
MALIBU FIELD
(By Kendra)
MALIBU FIELD
(By Knucklehead)
BRONZE FIELD HORSES
FIELD HUNT
(Misdirection)
CAPTURED
FIELD HOUSE
TILTING FIELDS
MALIBU FIELDS
FORCED LANDING FIELD
(Wounded On Board)
JANUARY SUNSETS (Field Of Color)
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Lots to love as always, Head. Blennies, the wooden fence setting off the very green fern, the lovely light on the stone wall, the horse statues, and all those luscious sunsets.
AndiF,
I couldn`t post a field without a blenny in there for you.
The bronze horses were in someones front yard around the corner here, but they may have moved around back.
And the sunsets, I posted them to prove a point.
If you watch them, they will come.
Fantastic light in CAPTURED!
Thanks Indianadem,
This was not a posed shot.
The bottles were filled with water by my dear departed friend who owned this place, for fear of fires.
Lizard skin is neat, how did he ever get it there?
Bob X,
It was caught up in a roll of hardware cloth that I then roughly flattened.
My yard is home to hundreds of these lizards, Blue bellies, Alligator lizards, Skinks etc.
The colour your bring to my eyes each week is so appreciated. Gorgeous set Head. I love LOW STONE WALL the most this week … it looks private and cool but still warm and full of colour.
Olivia,
Like an idiot I forgot to post images I`d specifically gone out to shoot for this week`s theme.
PROVERBIAL BRICK WALL
HONEY SUCKLE FENCE
SPLIT RAIL FENCE 1
SPLIT RAIL FENCE 2
SPLIT RAIL FENCE 3
FENCE 4
I really like “Honey Suckle” fence. I just love how plants will take over human made things.
I really had to study the last photo… I knew it was there some where 😉
Tampopo,
While shooting these images of the Split Rail Fence, a trucker stopped to ask where a certain street was. After I`d directed him, he had to turn around, allowing me time to get a shot of his rig.
I then changed his plate designation to reflect the “Fence” theme.
I`d say it`s called “poetic license (plate)”.
Am I a comedian, or what?
Olivia,
That`s at my old friend`s Orchid Ranch.
http://frenchpirate.blogspot.com/2009/12/ladies-night.html
I especially love those Malibu field photos! But they’re all wonderful.
Thank you Boran2,
Many people wouldn`t imagine fields in Malibu.
There are fields & mountain meadows everywhere & at certain times of the year are just fantastic.
Oh, my,
Sunset collage.
JimF,
I hesitate to even open some of my full resolution panels like the one posted.
It`s at 72 whereas my original is at 300 res, I could print it at over 8 feet long at 300 res, if I had the printer to handle it.
Many of the individual pix in it are composites of up to 16 individual images.
I might put a few of my panels on a DVD & bring them somewhere to print a few.
My personal printer can`t even handle some of the individual images, & I have a printer that can do 13×19 or 13 x many feet with roll paper.
Thank you for checking it out.
If you guys are ever out here, I have the designated spot for Malibu Sunsets, so stop on in.
One of the reasons my neighbor has the fence:
summer shadows:
firefly zoom (lower left):
snow flake zoom (today):
the other side of olivia’s squirrel:
Tampopo
I love your try at the firefly.
All the images you posted have a great sense of humor, although Olivia`s squirrel might think you made it`s butt look fat.
Thank you KH. I am quite fond of fireflies. Last summer was a good one for them (relatively cool and moist), so they lasted longer even into August. I would see them, then click. Or count, guessing when they might flicker, then click. It got rather silly, but I had a very good time.
There is much in this world that brings a smile, eh?
I like the firefly. And I’m wondering about the neighbor and the fence…
The black berry brambles are on my side 😉 I am very casual about mowing. And I have really enjoyed letting things grow to see what they are. So my side of the fence is not very neat and clipped.
The shadows on the fence are lovely and the squirrel’s butt is one big grin.
dada’s photos really got me paying attention to the lines of the fence and the shadows of the fence itself and the nearby trees.
And yeah, the squirrel caused a laugh here too.
“Does this tail make me look fat?”
There is no good answer to that question, is there?
Agree w/ the others – great set! Love the firefly zoom … that’s so neat.
And animal butt pix are always a win … 😉
Thanks olivia.
I like how all your photos are plant created 😉
Walls
Mississippi flood wall, Cape Girardeau, MO with high water marks at left of opening
Brown County Public Library, Indiana
Fences, above and below
Madison, IN
Field with a fence, Brown County, IN
And one without, Monroe County, IN
Great shots, ID. I’m always partial to your library shots but I like shot of the fence at the park a lot too.
I wish I could have gotten that one before the road was cleared, but then those neat shadows wouldn’t have been there.
Your library is so pretty … 🙂 And I love the fence in Field w/ a fence. Quite the construction!
Lots of character in the houses from Madison, even w/out the Halloween decorations … 😉 Great set ID!
Thanks! Here’s one of the Halloween haunters a little closer up.
I must say how charming I find the houses you post. The ironwork, the brickwork, the colors… just beautiful.
Parts of Madison are like a little New Orleans. A library historian once told me that a lot of the decorative NO ironwork was manufactured in Madison.
I grew up with my mom’s stories of the ’37 flood on the Ohio. They lived on a small bluff about 5 miles from the river, and she remembered the waters nearly at the house. Andi and I went to college in Evansville and various buildings in the 70’s still were marked with the high water mark of the ’37 flood. When we moved to south central Indiana, I sort of thought that we’d left high water behind. Then there was 2008.
At least it won’t be soggy at your place. If it ever goes under, the rest of us will already be swimming;-)
Indianadem,
That flood wall is a little too much for me.
Although that`s an impressive image, I think I`ll stick with earthquakes, wildfires, mudslides & ocean storms, & no walls.
I guess there`s an abundance of fence material there since I`d make a straighter fence with material supplies in mind.
It is a beaut though.
Speaking of mudslides, is everything ok around your place? I heard there was some recent earth-moving north of LA.
Indianadem,
Yes we are just fine here.
The areas affected are those communities that are immediately below the burn areas of the “Station” fire of last year.
The rains wash down all the rocks & soil no longer anchored by the grasses & tree roots that normally hold the hills stable.
Another shot along my fenced Hudson River overpass. Apparently, once again, my white balance was improperly set, but with good results.
This is your way to and from work, right? If so, you’re definitely a lucky commuter in the view dept.
Yep. I actually took this through the passenger window of my car while waiting for the light to change.
Cool!
Having lovely views is a nice tradeoff for having to go to work.
Beautiful view, and a nicely captured TTW (through the window) shot.
Is this something of another possible theme? Through the glass, into the glass .. ?
Lovely work, b2!
Living here in the technological boonies has its advantages, no?
🙂
Life is a series of tradeoffs. 😉
Please click for a wider field.
Well I said you’d have a field day and you certainly met my expectations. 🙂
It’s a great selection of pictures. The composition of the shot with pony peeking through the fence is just wonderful. And I love the light (and the green) of the third picture down.
Hey ww — I really like the top photo. There is nothing I can see to date the photo. Timeless in a different way from your woods and stone walls. The black and white adds to the timelessness and to the sense of cool, even in the summer.
As usual, my pick for favorite is the ethereal, misty mountain, old stone wall shot.
How many people who’s last rites were in the first picture were because of the second picture?
Great set!
Once again: beautiful work, folks!
Andi & Olivia: I like your ‘field’ pics the best, because of the warm palette they share.
These days I’m turned on by anything evoking warmth — for some odd reason.
I can definitely sympathize with that feeling. It’s 13 degrees here now.
Agreeing with ww — I really like your field photo. The different perspectives of your photo and Jim’s of Stanley were very good.
The two places aren’t that far apart but they are on opposite sides of the road Jim’s is the view looking west and mine is the view looking east.
And here is a picture of (a good bit of) the town of Stanley. It’s a ranching town turned into a tourist town but it’s a very low-key and picturesque one (the Salmon River runs along the town).
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Thanks for the info. Seems to stay right nippy in Stanley, even through the summer!
Stanley’s elevation is 6300 ft so that helps keep thing cool. When we were there the temps were pleasant during the day but it really cooled off in the evening — we had the blankets piled up on us at night.
Wow, so many beautiful pictures.
I just got a new camera, hopefully I’ll have something to post soon!
We’ll look forward to having you join us.
Busy week.
Roof of the Australian Parliament house in Canberra. The whole roof and shoulders of the building are covered with lawn.
Another view.
This looks more like an architectural rendering than a picture. But with the obvious wind blowing from the flag, and the hot air generated inside, wouldn’t it be a great place for a wind turbine or few?
I like this view better — I’m entranced by all the patterns in it. There’s just so much to look at.
It’s a fantastic building.
Too bad there are fences across the tops of the lawns, or you could somersault all the way down.
The view from the top.
The view from the top is a top full of view (and patterns).
The perspective on the first picture is nifty.