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 Month’s Theme: Colour
Website(s) of the Month: SHOOT IT AND EAT IT WORKSHOP at my niece’s shop Sweet Revenge.
AndiF Colors
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Streaking Color
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Reflecting Color
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Exposing Color
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olivia ranunculus colour
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Next Theme (Friday March 11, 2011): Metaphors/Similes/Synecdoches
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
Green:
Blue skies (through side window of car in motion):
Ask, I can almost taste that luscious green. Thank you!
Also love Andi’s streaking color & Olivia’s lovely inner bits.
Really need some color about now!
Love those ferns. I’d love to be among them right now.
Wow, what a contrast! The snow & ice shot is beautiful, but a carpet of lush, green ferns would certainly be welcome here right about now.
It’s the season that whenever I see anything as green as the ferns my mouth waters.
Ask,
That winter scene is so representative of winter, it gives me a chill.
Oh that green! Oh, oh, oh. Love it.
Love ’em all but I love that last one so much I think I’m gonna have to ask it to marry me.
It’s yours. Free love, baby.
🙂
So glad you like ’em!
Andi, I agree with you … ww, the last shot is gorgeous. I love it too!
Thank you for your compliments, Miss O! I’ve missed your photos too.
Positive feedback on that last image (early New Year’s Day 2011, post-party) actually surprises me a little!
These invoke memories of being a wide-eyed tot on the streets of NYC with my grandpa. Lots & lots to take in! Love the last shot!
What a great compliment. Thanks, ID!
Love the colors and subjects of your street photography. Subjects of street photography out here are mailboxes, poison ivy vines, cedar trees and yard art.
Yard art! Hey Andi and Olivia, there’s an idea for a future FFF.
Hey, at least you have streets.
🙂
Do cars on blocks count as yard art?
Wilderness Wench,
It`s nice to see the colors on city streets.
I like how you made color an addition to your shots as subtle reminders that cities are not just black & white places.
No, they’re definitely not! Especially not in vibrant neighborhoods.
Wilderness Wench,
Well that certainly proves it.
Very nice.
Hi ww. 🙂
So good to see your photos – I’ve missed them!
Love all the colour to be found in the city.
the them is color and all I’ve been doing lately is black and white! Well, that’s the fun stuff. For documenting what I do, I suppose I have some color shots.
These are some shots from my recent visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It was Elliott’s first time there.
Let’s hope this Flickr slideshow works:
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I particularly like the fountain — I think you got everything out of that shot that could be gotten. And how nice of that person with the yellow bag to come by and give the reflection and rings just a little bit of standout color they needed.
Did Elliot enjoy the museum?
Had some interesting questions about “who that guy on the cross was and if he was alive.”
I had to deal with the answer given the next day.
Like the museum shots, especially the two cherubs, who, my imagination says, seem to have been caught at some mischief, judging from the “oh oh” facial expressions.
Thanks and please see my comment a little further down thread in reply to Knucklehead for the full painting of the two children.
Love the photo of Diana. Museum photography is hard.
It’s hard but having a 1.8 makes it more feasible but having a five year old in tow is somewhat of a counter-weight to that feasibility.
;p
stand strong,
Although I like all your submissions, the character of your composition is so well captured in the last one.
You`ve caught the anguish very well.
The little cherubs are my next best choice. What mischief have they been into?
I was shooting with the 50mm so I wasn’t able to get the entire wooden carving of Jesus but my god, what detail! The appearance of emaciation in the ribs area was so perfectly pronounced, it was as if the statue had bee a human but petrified over time.
As for the two little cherubs, since a couple seemed to like it, here’s the full shot:
You’re right about the eyes — the detail is amazing, they look lifelike.
I love the framing of the fountain. Really nicely captured.
OOPS,
I`ll be back tomorrow.
I thought today was Thursday.
We’ll be here, patiently waiting. 🙂
KNUCKLEHEAD’s photos are always worth waiting for;-)
Indianadem,
What a nice compliment, Thank you.
Here’s a few shots, great flog last month thanks for all the comments.
Love the rose portrait!
Thanks ID!
I agree with ID on the rose but I do love the bottom picture — what a great capture.
Thanks Andi, it took some patience to get that one.
Great shots all, but what did you do to offend that bird?
I think just taking the photo did it. It has been one of the hardest to shoot as it spends most of it’s time under the azalea bushes and when it does come out it is really skittish.
BobX,The startling contrast on the bird`s breast is fantastic.
I always wonder, who made the decisions to do it this way.
Agree with Head — that pattern on the breast is really striking. Love the details you captured there and the rose too, the veining. Beautiful set.
Last summer’s color ~ not so long ago, it just seems so.
Oh ID, I am so ready to see some of that glorious color live and in person.
Thanks for the reminder of summer. Maybe school will be out sometime during the summer.
Indianadem,
Here I thought we had the best in flowers.
Thank you for proving me wrong.
Beautiful set.
Oh, ID! Thank you for this feast for the eyes … 😀
Can’t wait ’til the weather welcomes them back.
I really enjoyed seeing your nice sets, Andi & olivia! Lilly Lake made me smile & the depths of olivia’s flower mysteries seem boundless.
Thanks ID. When I saw those little tips of yellow on the sign, I wanted to use them for this theme but there really wasn’t enough color showing to justify it and then it I realized how to make that work perfectly for this theme.
Thanks ID! I’ve often thought how great it would be to fall into a few flowers over the years. 😉
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Another great contrast, Hoosier Mania flanked by scenes of serenity!
JimF,
I`m impressed with the color captured, along with the stopped action, which seems in movement.
Very cool.
You get some beautiful skies behind those trees. 🙂
And I agree with Head (again) … great action shot, with the ball!
Andi & Olivia,
Love the grids, lines, and layers of colors in a monochromatic season.
Thanks Jim. Do you think we can hold on ’til the world is in colour again? 😉
I shot these gladiola images this afternoon.
It`s 80 degrees & beautiful.
OLIVIA`S POUT
Some very recent sunsets.
CASUAL DRESS
I’m not jealous of your 80° temps. We got halfway to 90° today. The surface of the ice is really slushy. I am jealous of your pictures. They’re lovely.
Thank you JimF,
Don`t be jealous, come out here & shoot them yourself.
Every day the light is different, & new plants & flowers come up,
& no two sunsets are the same.
Oh! & bring AndiF.
I love the way the light makes the petals and leaves look translucent in the 2nd picture.
AndiF,
While I was shooting the Gladiola, I took a few shots from the back, hoping to see the green paths to the color.
Something has to feed the beauty.
Gorgeous glads — and you caught the petal shimmer. They’re lovely, Head. 🙂
(As are those palm silhouettes … can’t get enough of those.)
Vase of color.
Note, it is colored only with ducks, Escher style.
That is too cool.
JimF,
Yes isn`t it.
I have quite a collection of vase shots, & vases.
I should have posted more images of these vases though.
These don`t belong to me.
That’s a beautiful piece of pottery. Was it done by a local artist?
AndiF,
I don`t know.
I shot them on one of my projects.
When I`ve completed a project, its often dressed up to maximize its potential. I often don`t get the opportunity to investigate or ask questions about the objects used.
I always have the keys to the projects & prefer to shoot them without anyone else around.
Let me seeIf I can go find more from this series.
Thanks for recognizing what I think is nice also.
A little more color.
RABBIT FISH
IN ESTRUS
The last picture seems a distilled essence of your reef — wonder and color.
AndiF,
Thank you.
You`ll notice that “In Estrus” is a detail of the reef shot.
I flipped it upside down for better effect.
Reefs are fascinating to me.
Fascinating to us as well. I’ve discovered so much from your reef photos and posts, and thank you for sharing them. 🙂
AndiF,
The images you posted are terrific.
The light exposed through the roof slats, could be played as a keyboard for a color organ.
As the earth moves, the notes change.
Natural visual music.
AndiF,
The modern scaffolding, an evolution of older architecture, is keeping the old afloat, & reaffirming it`s roots, by mirroring it`s past.
Very good shot
I love it.
AndiF,
I love the series of “Global Warming” showing it`s true colors.
Hopefully, some will see the reality of this warming & take action sooner than later.
An eye-opener to the color of truth.
Hey, that`s how I see it.
On its own, its a beautiful triad.
Thanks for all three comments on the pics. I seem to have inspired the poet in you — and I think your comments were actually better than my pictures.
Olivia,
You seem to be so capable of mixing the beauties of the topside world into the mysteries of the underwater one.
The first & last one resemble the oral cavities of some of my corals.
I always find it wondrous that the repetitiveness of nature extends beyond boundary levels of our ability to readily see them.
The Origami of nature amazes.
This is a true color image of one of my plants.
Compare it to yours & you see the similarities.
Amazing world full of wonder, isn’t it. 😀
That is a gorgeous colour, wow.
Olivia,
You might imagine what a black rose looks like.
I think these black plants of mine may be flowering.
I`ll check in the morning.
They have huge yellow blooms that contrast with the black very well.
Thanks Olivia.
I hope you liked the pouting Mandarin.
with shots from my museum trip so now that a few days have passed, here’s a few more.
I especially like the first and last shot — there’s a flat affect to the top shot that works really well with the subject and the lighting and depth of field in the bottom shot create a moody sense of mystery.
Stand Strong,
The second image made my mind flash to the cops beating the Rutgers(sp?) students.
I guess that a lot of these wonderful works of art were the tubes of those days.