During my day off last week, I took a dawn walk at the lake and came across this lone fisherman at the marina. The temperatures were in the twenties and I wondered how he could endure sitting in that kind of cold. Walking was keeping me warm enough, but just sitting? No thank you. I don’t want fish that much.
I hope that you never tire of seeing these images taken in the natural light of the windows at the farm. It seems that I don't tire of taking them. Though, you are probably surprised that this one is not of Debbie. This is one of those images that you find while organizing your images. I had forgotten about it. So, I re-cropped it and re-processed it. Now, I think I really like it.
Have a wonderful week everybody.
OK then, we have established that the flamingos are number one on my list of favorite critters at the zoo. Number two are the huge bats. Flying foxes. They are almost canine until you remember the enormous wings that envelope their bodies as they hang down from the ceiling. Each like a giant webbed hand.
I do like the bats.
As you can see, I have been to the zoo again. I don't keep flamingos in the back yard. Really, I don't think they would like the cold or the snow. Every time I visit the zoo, I spend time with the flamingos. They have that vibrant and saturated shades of coral color that I don't see in my every day experience.
So, I have a whole flock of flamingos standing in the bright sun. What can I do with that scene? Maybe the challenge is one of the reasons that I like the flamingos so much.
The first thing I always do is break the big picture into it's smaller parts. I like to find the details and the individuals within the flock and focus on them. I usually leave the big picture up to others and go small.
I think this approach worked out pretty well. How about you? How would you tackle a large flock of flamingos at the zoo?
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Just how cool is that video? It’s little gems like this that I use to justify my hours of surfing. Seriously!
I was tickled to see that this heating grate was painted to match the wall. Because, now it’s camouflaged and you can’t see it. Can you? These walls are treated vwith a mixture of paraffin and sand that was tinted in earth tones. Pretty interesting process.
Sometimes my simplest photographs are my favorites. A simple straight forward subject combined with soft natural light is the way I like to go whenever possible. Such are my feelings about this image of period clothes hanging in a closet. I know this image is no form of high art in photography. It's not even framed particularly well. It's just simple and I just like it. That's all.
My friend Jim Nash is a docent at the Westcott House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and located here in Springfield, Ohio. I visited the house on Sunday camera in hand. There was a heavy snow fall going on outside, so we pretty much had the house to ourselves. I love Wright designs with their clean horizontal lines and rectangular geometries.
However, every time I visit a Wright home, I think about the fact that the man had to make concessions to design elements that don't fit his style, such as these heavily ornate heating registers. The same is true of many other elements like sinks and faucets, stoves, etc. Poor man probably had nightmares about all of this victorian era objects in his revolutionary designed homes. Maybe that's why he had a reputation for being difficult.
My cats love windows and they like that spot on the floor created by sunshine coming through the windows. This makes them normal cats. And to tell you the truth, I think that if I were a cat, I'd like that spot on the floor as well. The problem is that as the sun moves, so does that spot. I would have to constantly get up and move to the new spot. Because, well you know, I would be a big cat and I wouldn't have much spot to spare. Just saying.
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