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
Website(s) of the Week: Same Hill Different Day by Paul Octavious
AndiF Random
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Angling for a Shot
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Cool Spring Mornings
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In the Pink
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olivia random (critter edition)
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Giant slug
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Sea turtle
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Cardinal
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Next Week’s Theme: Quiet
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
I love them all!! Andie’s in the pink and Olivia’s Cardinal are my favorites.
Thanks … 🙂
Thanks RF. Now if only you could tell me what that plant is.
I haven’t a clue, but its nice to look at.
Drat — I was hoping that you — as my fount of knowledge of all things Brown County — might have run into it before.
I have been experimenting more with the camera.
Rain drops
Reflections
Easter Lily
Ooooh—I love ‘Reflections’ … and the building reminds me of a piano! Very neat. Gorgeous lily. Does it smell delicious? 🙂
How are you finding the new cam now that you’ve had it for a bit?
Thanks!! I am getting more use to it and having a lot of fun. I am starting to try doing my own settings instead of letting the camera do everything. LOL
I’m with olivia on the reflection.
Love the lily’s bright orange.
I’m with everyone on “Reflections”, nice!
Hey! You’re showing the rest of us up! Nice shots all;-)
Some shots from the Everglades trip.
These are beautiful!!! There is no way I can pick a favorite.
Are we playing which one doesn’t belong in which case — I know! I know!
Of course, we could be playing which one ate the rest of them in which case — I know! I know!
That’s a nice shot of Dick Cheney at the bottom.
Just beautiful BobX — so how do you know to move if the alligator’s nostrils are not giving any bubble clues?
Is the last bird a baby?
I try not to get too close and use a zoom when possible, the rest of the time I’m hoping they don’t like the taste of titanium.
I think that bird was born this year as it has the tan feathers of a newborn.
Here’s a pic taken earlier in their life-cycle.
Good shot of the gator. It looks hungry.
Awesome shots! Looks like that one Egret (I think?) better watch out before he becomes some alligator’s lunch on the go!
(2nd from right) plays the recorder.
She looks quite intent — which isn’t really a surprise.
She goes to a very serious music “conservatory” which is what they’re called in France.
Here’s another, which would have been a good photo were it not a bit blurred.
A lovely and talented young lady indeed. My children were male, but now I have a granddaughter (6 yo) to spoil to make up for it.
A few random shots from today & by time machine going back.
Enjoy.
I`ve noticed some remarkable shots in this FFF, & will be back later with my exclamations.
ALL EYES ON YOU
A little Percula hiding in it`s preferred head of Torch Coral.
TOOTH STRIPS
A Tomato Clownfish in it`s symbiotic Purple Anemone.
GARDEN GODDESS
I took this today on a walk.
PIRATES COVE
Taken across from the “Garden Goddess”, on the road.
VIOLET RIG
My 1977 rig I bought 15 years ago for $1,500.00
I recolored it in PS.
It`s actually a sea green.
My workers drive it daily, but only I, do the maintenance.
UNCOMMON ATTRACTION
From my reef tank, a voyeur`s POV
SCARLET CLEANER
This shrimp, pictured here on a sponge, will climb on my arm & pick at my skin just like it would, on a fish.
MY BEACH
Looking West from Point Dume
MY BUOY
I hear the bell on this buoy from my house up on “The Point”
MERMAID ON THE ROCKS
One of two young ladies I met on my beach stroll.
MERMAID SCALED
POUNDING
THE VIEW
This home on the bluffs has an ocean view & a nocturnal sky viewing observatory.
Though I`ve been in many of the neighboring homes, I`ve always wanted to visit this one on a clear night.
I can hope.
A LEG TO STAND ON
A small shorebird I turned into a painting, as an artistic memory of a nice beach stroll.
THE TUTOR
Here, a Blue Legged Hermit Crab, in a brand new shell I provided , seems to be giving advice to a smaller Scarlet Hermit.
Within a year, the new shell will be coved in Coraline Algae
I just went to find the proof in my archives.
See below.
TENURED TUTOR
SCRATCH & SNIFF
A work by my daughter-in-law, Haylie.
BEACH BRAINS
BEACH NO BRAINS
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
A 3D STEREOSCOPE
WHEN IRIS EYES ARE SMILING
First and last for me this week — love the little Percula. And even though that wasn’t my favorite iris picture of the original set, it’s still a lovely and evocative photo.
That is a varied group of photos. Your daughter in law is very talented.
Another fantastic set! I like Pirate Cove. Do any people walk through the area at night? That could be a real “gotcha”.
probably late today, tomorrow or within the week. I got a new lens, the 35mm f/1.8 DX which works out to about a 52mm lens on my camera due to the 1.5x crop factor of my dslr.
The sweet point is that it’s an f1.8 so I get not only a sweet ass sharp lens, I get so much more control over depth of field and the ability to shoot in low and difficult light settings.
I’ll have some nice photos to show off that I’ve gotten already. However, I’m in South Jersey right now using a slow computer with no processing power, a lack of Photoshop or Camera RAW to import my RAW images, and two sons who I’m having too much fun playing with and taking pictures of right now to step away from for too long.
Mother Nature awakens from her long snooze to brighten our neighborhood. Listed in order of appearance.
Magnolia across the alley
A neighbor’s redbud
White trillium, money plant and red trillium near the front door
This is the first spring the lilac I planted out back three years ago has flowered
Chives in the little herb garden
A lone survivor, something has eaten most of the tulip bulbs
Another spring occurrence, the appearance of Mrs. ID’s super high-tech solar laundry de-moisturizer
My, those redbuds get really enthusiastic when they’re aren’t hemmed in by a forest. 🙂
It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood.
That magnolia is quite fantastic.
LEP has a nice shot of their magnolia over at ET as well.
ID — love all the spring pinks and purples! Had to laugh at Mrs. ID’s de-moisturizer.
Actually we share it. Today was my turn;-)
an equal opportunity high-tech tool 😉
These always make me think of The Cat in the Hat Comes Back:
Snow clouds:
Accumulated snow:
Those are beautiful! I wouldn’t mind the sidewalk petal litter at all. After all, in a few weeks, we’ll have a gazillion little maple helicopters on ours and they’re not nearly as pretty on the tree as your blooms.
I like your “snow” — what kind of tree is it?
I believe it is a decorative cherry tree. The blossoms look a lot like the flowers made from tissues in olden times 😉
They really are quite lovely, lasting for a few weeks if the weather holds in the not too hot, not too cold pattern.
I really like the critter clinging to the screen(?). What am I looking at? A moth? A mouse with wings?
Are the pink blossoms an azalea?
Gawd, mice with wings — as if it isn’t already hard enough to keep them out of the top shelves of the pantry.
And yep, it’s a moth on a sliding screen door.
And that’s definitely not an azalea but I have no idea what it is. Here’s a picture of it a few days later when it had sprouted up and the flowers had opened.
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I’m sure it’s some sort of evil invasive but in the 30 years I’ve lived out here, I’ve never seen anything like it.
Ack! We have one at one corner of our yard, just across from the flower shop. I’ve always thought it was a variety of bluebell, but the online bluebell photos don’t appear to have broad leaves like these. Hey keres! Got any ideas?
Maybe I should pull it up and take it over the nature center at the park to see if they know what it is.
The Bat
Theodore Roethke
By day the bat is cousin to the mouse.
He likes the attic of an aging house.
His fingers make a hat about his head.
His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead.
He loops in crazy figures half the night
Among the trees that face the corner light.
But when he brushes up against a screen,
We are afraid of what our eyes have seen:
For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings can wear a human face.
The sea turtle is wonderfully calming — a mermaid’s view.
Got some pics from two separate sets up.
First I captured some swing dancers in Rittenhouse Square today here in Philly. This couple had the show both for moves and costume:
The rest of that set can be viewed here.
But on Friday, I was in Millville, NJ for their own First Friday art events where, among others neat things to eat and see, we were treated to a demonstration of glass blowing at a local glass art shop that had a studio in the back:
That whole set can be viewed here.
And to close it off, an evening shot with the sun captured shining through a pond side reed:
There’s still more shots to be processed but I had to get some of them up. Hope you like ’em!
Looks like you had a great time with your new lens. I especially like the last glassblower shot.
Yeah, I really liked that one too. It was simply fascinating to watch how it was done, from heating up the blow pipe (for lack of a better descriptive term), to adding color crystals, to various artistic effects that infused and swirled the colors into a pattern in the glass, to manipulation of the actual piece of glass to further effect how the colors would look.
Another wonderful set — I looked at the pictures without reading, then read your descriptions. At first I thought the last picture was some really, really exotic glass item 😉