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This Month’s Theme: Metaphors/Similes/Synecdoches
Website of the Month: Seriously jaw-dropping picture of the Sun from Discover Magazine.
AndiF Metaphor/Simile/Synecdoche
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Metaphor: The Edge of Disaster
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Simile: Like a Goth Kid with a New Mohawk
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Synecdoche: The Silence of Feather on Water
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olivia
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Herd of cats on the hunt
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Smooth and sweet as vanilla icing
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Like a gourmet at a 12 course dinner
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Next Theme (Friday April 8, 2011): Random / Your choice
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
create a relationship between metaphors, similes and synecdoches when it comes to my photos. Care to help me out if at all possible?
‘Angel’
‘Danger! Danger!’ (Or, I suppose, being on the ‘cutting’ edge)
‘#Anonymous’
Stand strong: these are all quite beautiful. As for similes etc, I’m afraid it’s too early in the day.
I understand it being early. It could be 2p and it’d still be too early for me.
That empty suit standing for the current state of american politics would make a fine syndecdoche.
The second picture is a great metaphor for protests by the folks in Wisconsin cutting the oligarchs down to size.
I got nothing right now for the first one.
OTOH, we never require anybody’s pics to match the theme. 🙂
What Andi said about the empty suits.
I greeted a religionist with a chain saw in hand before when they wandered down our lane. It served to cut short the conversation.
Who had the chainsaw, you or the religionist?
I like them all, Stand Strong. Chainsaw dad is a great portrait and I think I got the reference to #anonymous, am I right?
tho this was what I had in mind when I took the shot
Miss Andi & Miss Olivia: these are all great images! Love them all.
Having been confused with “smiles” & “similes”, I figured that some photos from my trip to The Getty Villa Museum would hopefully make you smile at the simile.
The museum is just 20 minutes from my house, overlooking the ocean, & I went there with a friend & his wife, where we spent 7 hours.
This is a friend I met a few years ago online.
We came to the conclusion that it should have been at least a two or three day visit. The museum was just fantastic.
Here we go.
(BTW, there is no flash photography anywhere, & some exhibits don`t allow any picture taking at all.
These are also on a Do Not Touch basis, but most of the pieces can be touched & felt.)
So all images are taken at very slow speeds.
I didn`t want to up the ISO, so these could have been better.
Zeus
(He would have had a scepter in his right hand & a lightning bolt in the left)
Diana
(Surprised from the side)
Diana
(detail, surrounded by pumice stone from the volcano)
Hercules
Hercules
(Different sculptor)
Getty Grounds
And the new Prince in my tribe
Leo the Lion King
That’s a powerful set, KNUCKLEHEAD, but the last one is the greatest! Congratulations!
Indianadem,
Thank you.
I have to go comment on that Jabberwocky.
The museum tour was just grand but not nearly as grand as that grandbaby.
Yep, agreed! That last one will melt your heart!
As for the others… should I be so fortunate as to pass by your domicile again I’d be mighty pleased if’n you’d drag my sorry butt off to Getty.
NDD,
I was thinking of you & Ms NDD this morning while reading of many being stranded in a major snowstorm/blizzard.
The museum is free to visit but with a $15.00 parking fee.
One can simply load 15 people into a passenger van & park for the same amount, making the visit to a world class museum only $1.00 apiece.
Make sure you give me a few days notice on your arrival here & I shall call in reservations.
We got reservations the day before our visit there, btw.
These simple images do not reflect an iota, on the marvelousness of this museum & its artifacts.
That`s my niece Valerie & the new baby Leo.
Here she is leaving for the hospital, as a new snow storm is just starting.
I should have mentioned that the first image has had eyes inserted.
I’ll give it a shot. Um, we are grading on a curve here, aren’t we?
Steady as a lifelong friendship
21st Century Jabberwock
Out on point for spring’s platoon
You did a an A+ job. 🙂
I particularly like the last one.
Well thanks ~ the crocus opened up this afternoon, 5 days earlier than my 1st crocus pics from 2009.
Andi & olivia, your portraits of nature are delightful, as always. Love the punk hair & cattails!
March 6,2011 Looking East – No Prairie Crocuses here yet (:
March 7,2011 Looking North, my driveway starts at the mailbox on the right.
This road was completely blocked by drifts some 3 ft high, as Friday=>Saturday morning we had several more inches of snow and wind gusts to 40 mph from the NW.
So this afternoon I spent a few hours making a single lane pass through. Maybe a photo of that Sunday.
We’ve about had enough of winter
Getting snow when it’s supposed to be heading toward spring is like getting underwear for your birthday. 🙁
Hey there AndiF, thanks for the help with those metilecdochesy thingies!
It’s worse. It’s like getting dirty underwear for your birthday.
While carving out this pass yesterday afternoon, I got plenty of fresh air, as my snow blowing tractor (1970 4020 JD) has no cab.
Looks a little better for the coming week;
Monday 38° F | 31° F Partly Cloudy
Tuesday 40° F | 25° F Partly Cloudy
Wednesday 43° F | 31° F Partly Cloudy
Thursday 41° F | 22° F Partly Cloudy
Just the thought of it is shriveling.
Hoping you have a nice even melt without too many April showers.
Thanks for the good wishes JimF.
I have friends in in the Red River flood plain in Fargo. They are bracing for another flood, potentially as bad as 2009. So a “cooperative” weather pattern over the next several weeks will be essential.
yesterday:
Old (out of use?) rail line near the Philadelphia Airport near Fort Mifflin:
Inside one area of the fort
Outside the fort:
and my personal favorite, an abandoned rail line leading to an open rail bridge that will eventually be closed so that a bike path can be continued over the bridge.
Nice set but I especially love that second shot — the light, shadows, textures, and angles all play very well together.
this was the entrance to the casements: (#9)
Analog & digital metaphors
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