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: Beginnings and Endings.
Website(s) of the Week: Hunting for the Oldest Living Things in the World.
AndiF Beginnings and Endings
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New Moss, Old Leaf
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Snow Melt
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Migrating Cranes
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olivia Beginnings and Endings
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Beginning: bud
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Beginning and Ending: circular path in the sunken garden
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Ending: sunset on the beach |
Next Week’s Theme: Power.
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
Andi, the moss in your first shot almost looks as if its glowing and olivia’s sunken garden is surreal in its beauty! Lovely!
I hope you’ll be by later to show us the beginnings of spring in Nashville.
A little local color and one not so local below.
It’s a special place, that’s for sure. Thanks ID. 🙂
Thanks for the comments last week. Here’s a few beginnings and endings.
Ending night, beginning day.
Ending summer, beginning fall.
Ending winter, beginning spring.
Portraits of my favorite entities! These are beautiful.
BobX — I really couldn’t come up with ideas for beginnings and endings. My mind kept going in circles 😉
And here you have captured three ideas that got me to say, “Of course!” Thanks for opening my mind. I can’t even choose a favorite, so I will say, “Yes!”
That’s one of the great things about these themes is that they are so interpretive that almost anything goes.
Great set, Bob. You did this week’s theme proud.
The summer fall shot is my favorite — I love the juxtaposition of the green and bright orange.
Thanks. Right place, right time on this one. Just happened by while the sun was setting the tree ablaze.
Great take on the theme Bob. And even though I love seeing the spring blossoms, that fiery tree is wonderful.
I am a novice photographer but here are a few of mine from the last couple of days. Click on them to see the full sized photo.
So pleased to see your images here, rf. These are great — especially the full/empty cup paired with the name of the real estate publication. There’s more than one good metaphor there ..
Thank you!!! I was trying to get an image that was different from the norm. I want to experiment as much as possible and not take just “normal” shots. LOL
Well done! I agree with ww about the multiple metaphors in your drinks photo a message softened with a smile.
Love the last two, RF. Just perfect. 🙂
Glad to see you post. Well done, esp. the coffee.
Hi rf … congrats on the new cam, it’s wonderful to see your photos. Love the boot, lol! 😀
Andi & Miss O, these are all lovely & inspiring shots. ‘Course, I love the snow melt image. So dear a sight to my heart!
The circular garden is a place from a dream. I’d love to know where it is.
Hiya ww. That’s Butchart Gardens in Victoria BC. It’s a gorgeous spot.
I just got home from Vancouver Island. The whole place is magical.
Ending a shoreline swim
The end of the afternoon
Wonderful!
Really nice captures. Were those taken near Philly?
At the very outskirts at the John Heinz Wildlife Refuge @ Tinicum.
That looks like a great place to go hang out and take photos … or just hang out period.
it is but if you truly value such open spaces, it’s also saddening. The Darby Creek feeds into the refuge and unfortunately, so does all the trash that gets dumped into Darby Creek. So while there are great expanses of water, there’s loads of trash, both new and old, sitting on the edge of the water.
It’s pretty gross the amount of trash there but they are having a clean-up soon and I think I might go.
That’s awful about the trash, but sounds like a rewarding activity to join in on, the clean-up.
It looks like a wonderful spot to spend time and great for photos.
I will confess that when I read the theme for this week I thought you might have decided to discontinue the FFF. Too depressing for words.
Instead, you have offered all these beautiful photos! And a theme for next week — thank you.
AndiF — I feel I should choose the moss and leaves as my favorite. It has so many qualities I gravitate to — rich colors and a density of form. But the migrating cranes look like a message in another language… really fascinating.
olivia — the bud is my favorite cause it looks like a miniature dinosaur or dragon to me. One of the droplets is an eye and the clear ones look like teeth. It is so whimsically comical that I can’t help but smile.
I’m sorry to have worried you. But glad we could make you happy once again. 🙂
That picture of the cranes is the kind of shot that makes me wish I used an SLR and had a 400mm lens. But thanks.
Hi tampopo … that’s funny, it does! 🙂
Also, I’ll pop this in here for Andi: Thanks for holding up the fotoflogfort (and posting this diary even though it was my turn) while I was gone. Thanks A. :*
End of the day, at the end of March
Yummy photo, NDD. That some Big Sky competition for Knucklehead you’ve got there.
Gorgeous clouds ND – love how they are both dense and wispy. 🙂
Here’s one from my collection, a 1950/51 Nash hood ornament, the beginning of the car.
lol b2 – another excellent take on the theme.
Nice shot. But I sort of think it’s a same not to put it on a car — think how it would jazz up the MM.
FUZZ TO BUZZ
BEGINNING
MIDDLE
END
BLOCK TO ROCK
DAY TO NIGHT
METAMORPHOSIS
BUG VIBE
(I saved the bug that created the vibe that caused the fish to congregate.
It was close, though)
FROM NOT TO POT
KNUCKLE`S THUMB,
KNUCKLE`S TOW
BULB, WORM, GLOW WORM
TEXAS CHAINSAW
MALIBU SKILLSAW
NEWBORN MOUSE
OLD DEAD CAT
This is a little baby mouse that was at the doorstep a few days ago.
Seemingly abandoned, we took it in till it was ready to proceed on it`s life journey.
Here it`s feeding off an artist`s brush, which acts like a nib on a pen, allowing liquid to flow into a mouth too small for our home nipple selection.
Below is our old Cat Milo who passed away last year, but we`ll be using that image to teach “Tootsie” about the dangers out in the WWW. (Wide World of Wonders)
Teri made a “Mouse House” for her, & she`s in heaven.
Lots of great envisioning of the theme, Head.
The sequence of the strawberry is wonderful — it’s lovely to see it change to lush red.
And I like Block to Rock because it reminds me how much I enjoy seeing those beautiful spaces you construct come to be.
Fantastic set Head. Love the strawberry too, like Andi. What kind of flower is that in Fuzz to Buzz? Would never have thought that flower would come out of that bud. 🙂
Hey Olivia,
Nice trip, see you next fall.
Those are “Monkey Clock`s” as far as I know. (which isn`t much)
Here`s what they look like in a group, & here`s what they look like from an OBGYN`s POV.
MONKEY CLOCK
Spring – new beginnings
Red Trillium
Pansys to plant
The Magnolia next door didn’t freeze this year
A good place for endings, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, CI
Photo by my brother
Indianadem,
Your brother did a great job of portraying “The End”.
A hill, looking out over a body of water, is my idea of a perfect resting place.
Personally, I`ve advised my close ones, to not go to any expense in case of my demise, (which will certainly arrive), since I plan to choose my own hill on which to rest. I`ve instructed them to simply walk away.
I`ll be fine.
Very nice post.
Wow, I can’t believe how far along your trillium are. I guess I’ll have to get into town for a green and other colors fix.
Your brother’s shot is really well done.
Hi ID. Wonderful to see all the greenery coming out – and I love all the different colours of the flowers to be planted.
Ahh … lovely colour, that pale pink/rose.
Nice to see you LEP!
I liked all your shots but this one really stood out for me with its effective combination of the caught action, vertical lines, the bright splash of red against the stark background