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: Street, concept, or abstract courtesy of BobX.
Link of the Month: World’s Largest Photo.
AndiF’s Streets … Maybe
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No Passing Zone?
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Street Sign?
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Traffic Circle with Feeder Lanes?
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olivia abstracts
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Random abstracts (lines, circles, squares, triangles, etc.) taken over the last month.
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Next Theme (Friday September 9, 2011): Sky courtesy of NorthDakotaDem.
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
I think I can find something relevant to put up sometime tonight.
Excellent — although there isn’t any requirement to follow the theme; it’s just a suggestion.
I think your “Traffic Circle with Feeder Lanes” is just superbly done!
Thanks. That was my favorite too.
A great capture of an engineering marvel!
Looking forward to seeing them.
“Random abstracts”, well, wow, what a collection you’ve got there. I’m hankering to see them all as individuals, if’n that option is available. I’m particularly fond of the 3rd one, top row.
Yes, a nice set. I like the “bubbles”.
Road Trip: an empty road, a full tank of grass, and 500 feet by sundown
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Warning: Rough Pavement Ahead
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When you come to a fork in the road, ask Yogi Berra for directions.
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LOL – love pedal to the metal along with your title. 😀
As for the fork, if you take the High Ridge will you meet up again with the Low Ridge or do they separate completely?
There is a cross trail that connects the High Ridge & Low Ridge Trails, but the Low Ridge Trail connects with two other trails that go down to the lake, and the High Ridge Trail stays on a ridge line for 2+ miles.
I had to make sure I had a fast enough shutter speed for pedal to the metal. 😉
Forgot to say, I know what Yogi said on the subject of “forks in the road” ha ha.
“down to the lake”
Loch Lomond?
Lilly Lake at Happy Hollow Camp.
Besides enjoying the photos, I’m appreciating the humor in the titles. The first one was puzzling me a bit until I noticed the road warrior screaming along. I bet he was moving as you took the shot too, as he’s got one leg out ready to grasp and pull, as the other one has ended its movement. No doubt you had to set up at 1/000 sec or he’d a just been a blur;)
Thanks. He was motoring. 😉
These are great, Jim! I like the fork in the road the best — the dappled light, depth, skewed symmetry. Like ‘the road less traveled by’. Very, very pretty.
Andi & Olivia,
You two ought to work on a book of concept photographs.
Great Idea!
Soggy street
Street rod
Street life
Street ice
Street ~ interrupted
Was the first one from the 2008 flood?
Street Interrupted is my favorite title but Street Life is my favorite shot.
Yep, 2008. The blue house is gone now. One too many floods, the owner told me.
I wonder how many hours went into the street rod. Was the flood picture on Salt Creek Road in 2008?
The owners are friends and they said 16 years, a husband & wife project. I salute their patience! If Mrs. ID and I tried something like that, we would likely be dead from whacking each other with tools before the first year was out.
The flood shot was taken in town, two blocks south of our place on Johnson St. between Washington & Franklin. Thankfully, we’re on higher ground.
Earlier this spring we had a little problem
finding the streets.
Good thing you had telephone poles to mark them…
Yeah, and landmarks at all was helping. And taking that same stretch at night was a tad more challenging.
Wow. Looks more like the ocean than a river.
How long did the flooding last?
I’m amazed the flood waters are so blue and clean looking. Around here they’re all muddy and generally pretty yucky.
This is just incredible. Not only for the subject & great perspective, but for pure color!
Downtown Fullerton:
Black Hole Records – the last independent record store in Orange County:
That record (do they still sell vinyl?) store looks like a classic. I would expect to open up the door and be hit with the smell of sandalwood incense (which I would shocked, shocked to find was masking some other aroma).
They actually sell quite a bit more vinyl than CDs these days. The owner tells me that a lot of artists are releasing vinyl and then throwing in a CD as part of the package. The store started out as a punk/goth place about 3 decades ago and still sells a lot from those genres along with contemporary Britpop. They tend to be a bit pricey, BUT, they do know their music and their customers.
We have a local indie shop that could almost be interchangeable by the description. Great Shot.
Fullerton looks quiet – guessing from the shadows, an early morning shot?
It was actually a late afternoon shot. I don’t think traffic through there is quite what it used to be before the “long emergency” started in 2008.
Late 30s Packard survivor taken by the b2 boy a few years ago in Winslow, Arizona. (Of Eagles fame.) He was using his old 3.1 megapixel Polaroid.
Just looking at that makes me want to go find it some nice restorer to make it all beautiful again. In high school, I dated a guy whose dad had restored a 1923 Packard. It was gorgeous.
Hopefully, someone did something with it. It would be a shame for it to be still sitting out there in the sun.
It’s not that hard to restore a 5-year old car, is it? (Sorry 🙂
Was he scouting for painting subjects for Dad?
Heh. Well I did suggest that he take this photo. 🙂
Wow, now that’s a car! Can’t you just see Bonnie & Clyde tooling around in that?
I see their spirits in it, definitely — traveling ghost roads.
Makes me consider the idea that the narrator of the song (such a fine sight to see) might actually be that ol’ Packard.
As for the 3.1 megapixel camera, that would definitely be an upgrade for me.
🙂
NYC, May 2010.
Some very nicely different perspectives of the streets. I especially like the feet shot.
I like it too — even though it’s basically a nothing shot.
You’ve captured the “feel” of NYC, at least for me. I’ve always felt (culturally) as if I was in another country when visiting there, more like a European city. Especially like the background scene behind the phone caller.
Thanks for the compliment, ID. The ‘feel’ is probably unavoidable, since I was born there/lived there 30 years or so. Unfortunately, it feels like another country to me, too, now. So constantly changing, so dynamic, so incredibly crowded ..
More for you downstream, from lower Manhattan.
I’m originally from Hempstead, LI. Used to go to the “city” often with my grandfather, who worked over on the lower west side. Mom was born in Brooklyn.
The best folks are from Brooklyn.
🙂
We lived near Hempstead, in Baldwin, for a little while in the mid ’60s. I went into the city with my mother all the time. I remember the LIRR very well. What did your grandfather do?
My cousins grew up in Baldwin – small world. They’re all in CA now. Grandpa was an exec for a paint & varnish company. Dad used to say he “married the shellac king’s daughter”.
Good for your father!
🙂
Where was the shellac king’s office? Do you remember?
I had cousins in Merrick who eventually went to CA too.
Me, I haven’t been out to the island since about 1970.
Andi: your ‘No Passing Zone’ gives me a tranquil feeling. The form & colors are really nice.
Miss O: these abstracts are terrific. What a great set! Fantastic color. Really cheeriful!
Thanks, WW (and thanks to the fog for creating the shot).
Awesome pics everyone.
Here’s a few.
Absract
Capitol
Castle In The Clouds
I know this one violates the size rule but I did compress it so it would load even on dial up.
Some other info about this photo. The original is 50,0604px x 3066px, 15 image stitch, 150mp. 586mb tiff. Print size approx. 10.5″x160″.
Blue Ridge Mountains, Asheville, NC
Man, what a view! The skyline is a bit like that around here in spots, but the hills aren’t nearly so high.
What a sweet shot. That’s ‘home’.
That’s something I miss, the color, what a nice shot.
These are just great.
Thanks especially for the Blue Ridge view! I lived in/around Asheville for a while & often miss it. Where were you when you took the shot?
Thanks, that’s from the veranda at Biltmore.
On another note the truck w/ the Chinese characters is my favorite so far this week.
Wow. Glad you like it!
Great set, Bob. That pano is magnificent but there’s something about the textures and lines in that second photo that I find very appealing.
Thanks,a couple of times a year the street is closed for an art show and there are really interesting things down there.
Having had personal setback, my images I shall diary later in the week.
I’m so sorry. I hope things are better soon.
Looking forward to it, KH.
More NYC flava ..
I love all those angles in the second from bottom shot.
The Euro-style subway kiosks are great for that. Add Tribeca’s Industrial Age buildings & relatively wide spaces & you’ve got an interesting visual environment.
Given your experience with dramatic natural places, I’d love to see what you could do with West Broadway.
🙂
It’s probably not what you had in mind but I love the Flatiron Building.
I’d love to see your take on the Flatiron Building. It’s one of NY’s most wonderful buildings.
Totally agree on that sentiment. And maybe the next time I visit my niece, I’ll go take a try at it.
I’d love to see it.