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: What is it? This is a game invented by NorthDakotaDem. All you do is post a picture and have people guess what it is. It can be a close-up of something that makes it tricky to recognize or something unusual that people might not recognize or a different view of a known scene or place or anything else you can dream up that you think will be fun to guess.
| See comments section below for Andi’s and olivia’s What is it? |
Link of the Month: Photography in the Style of Traditional Chinese Painting by Don Hong-Oai.
Next Theme (Friday March 9, 2012): Brought to you by the letter “M”
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
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It looks like the head of a come-along pulley type thingamajig.
Right species, wrong breed. But close enough. 🙂
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How was the view from that perch?
😀
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A maple syrup collection bucket, the one right after # 9.
Bat Nest # 10, the pail catches the guano…
You’re closer than Knucklehead but still wrong.
It`s a trail camera.
A prop from an old Bo Derek flick?
Funny guess. Well worth being very wrong. 🙂
How about a float from a canoe mooring?
Bluebird house with pole guard.
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A large bowl of translucent jello, into which someone dropped some objects… a disk, and egg, etc, before it solidified.
Looks like someone is spinning a liquid inside a large beaker.
Yep — it’s Happy Hour with John Boehner.
Knucklehead, you’re on the right track with the spinning liquid.
007’s favorite cocktail ~ extra large version.
Photo taken at the Columbus, IN Commons indoor playground.
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The link took me to a really interesting specimen of red-tipped flora of some sort, but no cylinder.
Try this one.
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Not sure how that happened.
Ah, that’s better. Still not sure what the thingamabob is, though. A learning illustration?
It’s a tornado maker. The girl is turning a crank, that spins a propeller (part of which could be seen in the close up), that causes the water in the cylinder to climb up the wall, and eventually form a vortex.
Cool! I’ve got to see that sometime.
Mystery # 1
Some part of a combine?
Not a part of a combine.
It looks like some sort of corrugated metal. So far, that’s all I’ve got.
OK, that’s true but what does it do?
I’m working on that (but not getting anywhere) — it appears to have slits and if that’s right then it’s something that needs ventilation.
Galvanized metal sheathing.
True, but what’s it’s use?
I love this photo. It’s beautiful!
No idea what it is, though — aside of the sunlight.
The sunlight on this particular day caught my attention, but it’s part of nearly all or all farms in this area.
Very clean tire tread on a show car?
Hmmm, nope.
Grain storage bin?
Ahh, the winnah!
Answer # 1
see Answer # 3 also
Mystery # 2
Windblown snow?
Windblown snow or you blew a seal.
Frost patterns .. ?
Nightscape as seen from a few feet below the surface of the Sargasso Sea.
Answer # 2 Yep, wind blow snow.
I thought that one might be a bit too easy, but fun to try anyway.
What caused the pattern? # 3
I have no clue what caused the pattern but I love the photo.
Thanks.
I wasn’t sure this one would be much of a challenge… So far so good.
Something to do with frost? Agree with Andi, very interesting pattern!
Yeah, frost is one of the elements of this photo.
Getting ready to unroll the sidewalks, in the morning.
There’s some sorta glass or plastic in front of your lens. .. ?
Large tree falls on building and when repairs are made, you find the original color has sadly been discontinued.
Nope to all prior to this time stamp, Andi, O, KH, ww, I-Dem…
The dark roof areas look as if they might be shadows cast by the roof lines of other structures, early in the day as the sun is rising, peeking between the buildings to light up and thaw the frost from part of the roof.
And another winnah!
Answer # 3
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A drum head?
A chocolate fondue.
Pot on a gas stove?
One of the La Brea Tar Pits ~ bird’s eye view.
Oh boy, that is a tricky one. I’ll try turtle bean soup, but what ever the container is, is alien to me.
Some kind of eye?
This is the peephole in the door (see below) at night. The light from outside was shining through, lighting up the metal sides. Condensation had formed creating the bubbles. I took the photo using a phone camera.
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What the heck might this be.
It reminds me of some of your lovely and colorful reef friends. A type of jellyfish perhaps?
Kidding aside, great mysteries, everyone!
Someone inside your yurt is using the Shop-Vac.
The shadow is the water level on the other side. The vac is a very large wet-vac.
2100 gallon portable water tank used for water supplies in rural areas where there are no hydrants. We were doing live fire training that day and had invited families & friends of the firefighters. Had lots of spectators, including a female newspaper reporter who we suited up and took inside the fire building with us. She was impressed.
Apologize for the tinyness. I didn’t have a close-up shot but thought it might be fun to use anyway.
From my geezer eyesight point of view, it looks like a frisbee on a car’s grill.
Bingo on the grill, but not a car.
hmmm, I’ve seen that “critter” on the emblem somewhere before, I think…
Maybe an AC unit.
AndiF is warmer with her guess.
Old-fashioned wailing type fire truck siren (as opposed to the newer electronic variety).
And lastly, an abstract…
Looks like a close-up of wood grain … so it probably isn’t.
Close ~ its (mostly) a wood product, I think, not produced by human hands.
Some sort of hornet nest.
Ta Da! I’ll be back later with the photo.
Not-so-welcome visitors to the garage. Amazing how quickly they can construct one of these things.
I have to beg off on this FFFF since I`m having major problems with my computer machine.
I also have my brother here at my place celebrating my birthday.
He`s a Snowbird down from Canada, & in Yuma Arizona.
He took a few days to come out to California & we just spent the evening,(me mostly) teaching the “girls” how to dance.( a lotta girls)
So to prevent anyone from beating themselves silly trying to guess what it was I posted, here is the full image of two Martini Glasses of Waterford Crystal.
Sorry about the ‘puter problems.
Great choice — I would have never guessed it.
Wishing you a very happy birthday, KH! Sounds like a real good time.
Here’s to another trip around the sun. (clink!)
Happy Birthday KH!
Hope you had a great birthday!
I was so distracted by the beautiful glasses and the computer problems, I forgot to say:
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday Head! Hope your brother is having a great visit (and if possible, send him back with some of that warm weather to our neck of the woods). 🙂