Welcome to Friday Foto Flogging, a place to share your photos and photography news. This month I’ll be taking over for AndiF and olivia and those are some pretty big shoes to fill.
This Month’s Theme: Spring – New Beginnings
A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period —
When March is scarcely here…
–Emily Dickinson
Link of the Month: Mountain Light Photography
Galen Rowell has always been one of my favorites, you can see his work and read about him here.
Bob’s Spring
Next Theme: (Friday, May 10, 2013): April Showers Bring May Flowers
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Your very welcome!
very nice reminders of spring you’ve shot there, BobX.
And I 2nd the motion of thanx. I certainly appreciate you taking over the fotoflog duties.
DOH! That shoud be you’re.
In agreement.
Love your beautiful green, Bob. We’re still weeks away from any thing like that but I appreciate the preview. 🙂
Thanks, it started to warm in January, froze in March, now there is some damage on the more tender plants. This spring was not our normal.
Hopefully they’ll survive!
Love the second photo of the leaves Bob … wow, that’s beautiful. The colours especially — blues and greens.
Great photo link too. Beautiful images there.
Everything looks so lush!
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I particularly like the water-planet universe!
It’s interesting the way the beads are drawn by the thread of the web. It’s a neat shot.
Little acrylic balloons on strings! Great capture.
So happy to see your signs … it’s coming! Love the softness of the first photo.
Thanks Bob!
Bryce Canyon Nat’l Park 03/14/13
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Oohs and aahs! That’s spectacular, NDD!
Thanks Indianadem.
Bryce is so photogenic, isn’t it? Love the combo of the white, white snow and the brightly colored hoodoos.
You were probably lucky not to have time to do any hiking — we went hiking there when the snow was melting off and it created mud that could suck your boots off.
Beautiful place and nice shots.
Thanks BobX. I enjoyed yours too. You’re the only one I know with an actual spring it seems.
Double lovelies: lovely place, lovely photographs.
Did you have a polarizing filter on when you took the last shot, or was it close to sunset?
Thanks AndiF and JimF.
I wasn’t using a polarizing filter, though it was late afternoon, and I was shooting 180 deg from the direction of the sun.
We still had time to drive to Zion and tour that before sundown. But it would seem that the angle of the sun was pretty much ideal for how all the colors turned out.
Wow … those are amazing. Love the colour tones!
Thanks BobX – I would really have missed the Flog! These are all from mid March.
Snowdrop sleepyheads
New bloomers
First peek
New home for Engine 15
You’re ahead of us in signs of spring — must be the difference in elevation from being down in the town instead of up in the hills. 😉
I think its usually just a bit warmer in town as well – maybe the thermal reservoir effect of all that asphalt. In other news, the annual pansy shipment arrived yesterday across the street. It keeps drawing me to the window when I should be working.
The crocus are up, spring is coming. Nice set.
Looks as if they survived the drought last summer without ill effect. The iris in a couple of beds really suffered, even though we watered for months.
There’s no substitute for the real thing when it comes to rain. We’ve got some woody ornamentals that were planted last year that are all suffering or dead even with irrigation. Florida sand is the culprit.
Two Wishes
I hope we see signs of the woods waking up this week. A friend up at Bradford Woods posted a photo of a spring beauty, but they are usually a week or two ahead of us. I think it’s the difference between their sandy soil and our clay.
I hope #15 spends almost all of its time in its new home and not visiting people’s homes.
Beautiful crocus … love the colour. It pops right off the screen. 🙂
New photos of 2013 are mostly icebound, and I’m tired of seeing them until we hit the 90-90s of summer. So here are my old new beginning photos.
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our niece in her newish joint in NYC with a newish friend
new growth after a fire
Nice fire foliage with the backdrop of darkened tree trunks. Hope the trees survived.
Sadly the trees didn’t survive. The trunks looked like this one. The fire began when someone left a trash fire unattended. You can read more about it here.
A sad sight indeed. Thanks for the link.
That’s my favorite shot. The 1998 fires here killed most of the trees as well, now they’re all coming back from seed and about 10-15 feet tall.
All good, but that one of your niece with her newish friend is my favorite. 🙂
LOL. I think I see another familiar face in that image as well!
I had a hunch that would be your fav.
Those are all wonderful, especially the middle one. 😀
Fantastic diary Bob! Love your green (we still have snow and then it’s all brown), and great photos from everyone.
I’ve got family visiting this weekend (niece’s hockey tournament) so haven’t been online much, but wanted to pop in to say hello. I’ll be back tomorrow with some of my photos. 🙂
Good luck to your niece at the tournament!
Thanks Bob. She did very well! They made it to the gold medal game today but lost, so they went home with a silver medal. My niece is the goalie and she got 2 shutouts. They had a good run. (They’re 7-8 yo btw.)
The only greens we have at the moment are the evergreen trees.
Snow still melting. Here are a couple of bird photos from the last couple of days.
Common redpoll. Click for larger
House sparrow. Click for larger
Here’s something to look forward to.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2013 Spring Migration
They are within 100 miles of us.
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Awesome.
The detail in that first shot is especially fine — I think I could count every feather.
Very nice shots. I was trying for our resident male cardinal yesterday morning, but he flitted away before I could get set up. He and his lady friend are busy setting up housekeeping already.
Beautiful shots. Hooray for the silver, there’s always next year.
BobX
I promised to come by this charter weekend to post some images.
I`m under strict Dr.`s orders to not leave my bed. (hahahahhaa) but must defer to him somewhat since I`m alone here, with Teri in Australia for 3 weeks.
If anything should happen to me, all my babies might perish.
I am being very careful though, & have sneaked out to get some fabulous photos for your Ist Edition of your FFFF.
Please come back tomorrow when I`ll have an assistant here to wake sure I load them properly.
Hey
I`m not an idiot, just an alcoholic.
The images are amazing.
I’ll check in to see tomorrow. Take care of yourself, sounds like a lot of people love and depend on you and besides, we would miss you around here.
Hope you are better soon. Take care.
Feel better Head!
Here’s hoping this finds you better. If you don’t make it, we’ll see you soon.
New day. Sunrise at 6.33 am yesterday.
Not much spring yet – still ice on the fjord.
Another from earlier in the morning. Sunrise chasing moonrise:
Beautiful, ask. Love the moon.
Nice pairing.
Beautiful shots — its looks so wonderfully serene.
There’s something magical afoot where sky meets sea. Thanks for the glimpse of your lovely spot.
The magic hour was upon you and great shots ensued. That gives me inspiration for a future flog, “Magic Hour”.