52 WEEK PHOTO THREAD

[SonomaTim]

26/52
A great little band playing Cuban music in a small town bandstand on a warm summer afternoon. Fun music, dancing, and ice cream. Life is good!

 

[OldCrow]

Nice! How did you do that?

I used a LCD flashlight attached to the diamond shaped light wand you see at the bottom of the picture. Keeping my arm stiff I raised the wand above my head a few time and made some swirly motions around my waist. The image was lopsided to the right so I cropped the good part, pasted the crop on a new layer, flipped it and then moved it so I got the mostly symmetrical image you see there. It wasn't planned that way but I like how it came out.

Life is generally better with good music and ice cream. Like the black and white.

 

[SonomaTim]

I used a LCD flashlight attached to the diamond shaped light wand you see at the bottom of the picture. Keeping my arm stiff I raised the wand above my head a few time and made some swirly motions around my waist. The image was lopsided to the right so I cropped the good part, pasted the crop on a new layer, flipped it and then moved it so I got the mostly symmetrical image you see there. It wasn't planned that way but I like how it came out.

Life is generally better with good music and ice cream. Like the black and white.

Great bit of light painting. I'm too uncoordinated to make anything symmetrical light that...even with photoshop.

 

[OldCrow]

27/52 Great start to the week with this hawk posing for the camera on our light post.

 

[CNP]

So one of those spots that keeps drawing me back is Lundbreck Falls. There are 2 or 3 standard views, though most folks I see are so busy taking selfies they forget to actually enjoy the falls.
This is not one of the cliché views but it is one I like.
Bob


What keeps drawing me back are all the other possibilities. This one kinda has me scratching my head. Do I print and frame it and hopefully exhibit it with some of my other images or is it an old fashioned cull?

 

[OldCrow]

28/52 Building a nest

 

[SonomaTim]

28/52 Building a nest
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Ugh! I hate those things.

 

[SonomaTim]

Week 27/25
I'm a little behind on posting. This fish got stuck in a deep section of the creek. The creek is rapidly drying up leaving small "ponds" which will also dry up quickly in this heatwave we're experiencing.

 

[SonomaTim]

Week 28/52
Was in San Francisco this week to escape the heat wave. It's over 100 at home, but in the 70's in San Francisco.

 

[CNP]

At the risk of offending the woke crowd, I'll go ahead and label this as Indian Paintbrush.
I thought they were beautiful when I first saw them 70 years ago and that opinion hasn't changed.

 

[OldCrow]

29/52 Swalowtail in the garden

 

[OldCrow]

30/52 Light Painting Abstract for this week

 

[SonomaTim]

30/52 Light Painting Abstract for this week
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impressive symmetry!

 

[OldCrow]

Thank you.

 

[SonomaTim]

Week 29/52
Went down to the Irving Penn photography exhibit at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. Took a photo of the stairs. Go figure.

 

[SonomaTim]

Week 30/52

My wife's latest garden project; growing potatoes in bags.

 

[OldCrow]

Had never heard of that before. Then my thumbs are not very green. Colorful pots.

I suppose that would work for tomatoes also?

 

[SonomaTim]

Had never heard of that before. Then my thumbs are not very green. Colorful pots.

I suppose that would work for tomatoes also?

Yes, the potato grow bags can be used to tomatoes. It was more of a fun experiment with the grand-kids since we had that space available in the garden this spring. The bags are available on Amazon. I think we paid around $15 for an assortment of bags and we're getting about 1/2 dozen potatoes per bag. They are reusable.

 

[CNP]

Last year my wife planted a couple of burgundy colored lilies in our small flower garden. They were good last year and are spectacular now.

 

[SonomaTim]

Week 31/52

More stairs...