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: Trees
Link of the Month: Best Photography Blog Posts of 2012.
AndiF’s Ways of Seeing Trees
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Being among them
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Reflecting on them
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Getting close to them
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olivia’s Birds in Trees
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Junco
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House sparrow
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Cardinal
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Next Theme: (Friday, February, 2013): Winter Scenes (beach pictures accepted with pleasure).
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
Whiteout White Oak
Umbral Tree
Maple Flower
Twin Redwoods at Redwoods NP
Great set. Brings back fond memories (well maybe not the whiteout).
This was my favorite picture of that day. Don’t stick your tongue on it.
Tough to pick a favorite from this set, but I really like the whiteout oak a lot.
That was one of my last snow days.
I miss snow days until I realize that every day is a snow day now.
Great set! I love the second one especially.
That is one of my all time favorites. Due to changes at the camp, I’ll never be able to take that shot again.
The redwoods make me want to get to Cali, even just for a while.
I tried taking photos of whole redwoods, and they were terrible. I finally figured out that I needed to focus in on the details of the trees instead.
If you go to CA, make sure to let Andi know. She is an excellent travel planner.
Can’t decide between whiteout white oak, and umbral tree.
Interesting that the starkness of those is in contrast with the lushness of yours.
Awesome Jim. Love the Whiteout White Oak.
Snow-covered anything always looks so pretty from afar (and by afar I mean looking at my computer screen instead of out the window. 😉
Upside down trees
Recycled tree
Winter glory
Nice mix of trees. I really like the reflection shot.
That one is spectacularly tranquil.
Love the snowy fir trees!
LOVE the reflection shot!
The snow covered twin trees is my favorite. I wonder what it would look like in B&W.
Something like this:
Oooooooh – nice!
Black & White
Blue & White
I’m not sure it matters; its’ a great photo.
Thanks.
Lovely set ask. My favourite is Winter glory.
Trees
I love seeing such a different mix of trees from what I usually see. That sunset shot is especially fine.
That green water pool looks like a good spot for a gator hangout.
Ewwwww, gators.
You didn’t meet any on the canoe trip?
Down toward the outlet is loaded and accessible only by boat in the wet season, too shallow for even bass boats. At least it keeps people safe from themselves.:)
These are all wonderful. My favorite is the “trees in the mist” one.
Wonderful set, BobX. The lanes, water, and tree trunks lead our eyes into the photos.
Gorgeous set Bob!
My favorite of AndiF’s is the snowy pine grove. As a kid I always looked for them in the woods and imagined them as secret hideaways.
olivia, your bird shots are lovely. Would make a great holiday cards.
There a couple of really nice pine groves on Happy Hollow so if you feel the need to revisit your childhood you can always come by and I’ll take you to them. 🙂
Thanks! I may take you up on that one day, as long as your drive is snowless.
Thanks ID!
The above images are what makes this FFF series such a great event.
Thank you AndiF & Olivia.
Strangely enough despite my heavy workload, I just happened to have taken a few series over the last two evenings related to this night`s theme.
I may have a bit of a different definition of “trees” though.
On last night`s blustery evening, I shot this one in my cactus garden.
Beauty in the Wind
I took a series of marine trees last night.
Here are a few.
A Little Irish
Five Ball Cross-Side
Fluorescing Sprouts
Back Yard Palms at Sunset
(A composite of 10 shots)
And now a “Forest Dweller”
This unusual & rare shot shows a Percula in it`s territorial coral, making sure their symbiotic relation ship still stands by suckling on the corals poisonous tentacles.
I Love You Bro
(Taken about an hour ago)
Wonderful set as always. I’m particularly drawn to the “Fluorescing Sprouts” — such amazing color.
Great set, always love the sunset panoramas.
I like your “trees” just fine. Another great set, KNUCKLEHEAD!
I love the fluorescent forest especially.
Jim F & Andi F,
Here again, the fluorescing tentacles surrounding the oral cavity, surrounded by the pulsing lights on the predatory tentacles.
(I shot this image tonight, upon your comments)
Nocturnal Visions
How cool!
Looking forward to dayglo orange.
Jim F.
Watch for my acquisition of a “Day-Glo Orange” specimen.
Coming to your screen soon.
Can’t wait to to see it. If you get it before the next flog, I hope you put it up in the cafe.
Completely fantastic set Head. Love them all – especially the little wee palms in your sunset composite.
Riam Park, Musqat, `Oman, 2006
Hurria,
Now those are some trees.
The last one seems to have some beautiful fruit.
And my best wishes for a Happy & Healthy New Year.
Thanks KH. The last one is on the Corniche in Cairo. That’s Monica, my friend from Bucharest. I flew to Bucharest for a few days, and “kidnapped” her to Egypt. We had a terrific time!
Fantastic trees, Hurria. And also fantastical — they look like trees that should be in a fantasy novel.
They do, don’t they, Andi?
I wondered right away if the first and third were Banyan tress or a relative. I’m intrigued by the way the one your friend is standing by seems to reaching out across the walk for a little fertile soil elsewhere.
Not sure what kind of trees they are, but ther do remind one of banyans. If I could go back to that scene, I’d take some snaps of that “reaching out” – wish I had thought of it at the time!
I love the tree covered path. I want to walk there.
I do hope the nice lady in the last photo moved before the tree wrapped around her and absorbed her.
I used to go to that path for a rest during long walks I took. Somehow whoever designed the park managed to place those lines of trees and the path perfectly to pick up the air currents from the Gulf, and create a breezy, cool area, so on a hot, still afternoon you could go in there and it would be noticeably cooler, with a gentle breeze.
We managed to get Monica away from the tree to go back home for a lovely Iftar that night (it was Ramadan), and eventually return to Bucharest. 🙂
Wow – amazing Hurria!
Love all the photos!!!
Public Park, Aleppo, Syria, 2009
Thanks for sharing your views with us. I always enjoy your travel photos from Syria. Have not forgotten the amazing shots of Qal’at Salah al-Din (that’s correct, I hope) you posted awhile back.
Yes, that exactly correct! Not as easy for a westerner to pronounce, though. 🙂
Given the troubles in Syria, I hope those trees and the people in the photos are still safe.
So do I!
Spring princess
Topless
Head in the clouds
Treehouse
Perchance to dream
Good tour around the county as usual. I like Topless and Treehouse best.
I don’t want to go anywhere near that treehouse, thank you.
My brother’s treehouse
Whoa. That’s amazing.
I’m more comfortable with that treehouse.
Ha, great titles for the photos ID. 😀
Andi & Olivia,
What a tree-umphant bunch of photos.
Thanks Jim. I selfishly picked the theme, so this has been the best diary ever. 😀
Olivia,
I know you love my palm tree view, so I figured you`d like the overhead “smile”
Here`s a special smile for you.
Smiley Face
Can’t speak for O but I love it.
Aw, I love it. LOVE it. Big smiles, huge smiles. Thanks Head. xo