Saturday, 30 October 2010 Last Post for PHOTO THREESIXTYFIVE

Okay, this is late, but I had been trying to get down to the cafe where I'd seen this and it just took me a while. This is the picture that I was inspired by - it is the reason I want to learn how to use Photoshop. I love taking pictures and I also imagine I'll enjoy manipulating my own pictures to create new images with them. As it turns out, the cafe owner knows the artist who created this fascinating image above. And it is not photoshopped!!!!! This is a polaroid that is somehow floated in a liquid... then... not really sure what was told to me... but the polaroid separates and a flimsy film holding a translucent image is then draped across a page... I just love it.

Pumpkin Festival Pumpkins

In my humble opinion, the caliber of pumpkin carving has gone done since I stopped running the event. However, these few amused me....

Pumpkin Carving

(Cricket's)

(Patrick's)

(Kelly's)

We always start out with great enthusiasm,
picking elaborate designs which end up taking forever.
We swear we'll pick an easier design the next time,
until the next time rolls around
then we bite off more than we can chew again.
A vicious Halloween circle.
(submission for 10/29/10)

Jack Frost's velvet

I preferred alternative meds

until I actually got hurt! These are nice. But the label is misleading, there is no maybe about it: they certainly cause dizziness!

Bittersweet

12 years of soccer,

watching a boy turn into a man.

One night to honor all he has become,

captain, teammate, friend.

A celebration,

but the beginning of letting him go.

Bittersweet.

Symmetry

(submission for 10/27/10)

done catching up!

Wednesday, 27 October 2010

Monday, 25 October 2010

Sunday, 24 October 2010: Okay, so I wasn't able to figure out how to do a small video. Maybe in our new game... just one small movie...

a partial catch up

Tuesday, 26 October 2010: not a clear as yours... but...

Saturday, 23 October 2010: not the moon...

Friday, 22 October 2010: can't do much, may as well study

As far as the 24th and 25th, I had planned on submitting a couple of short videos... but can't figure out how to make the files small enough. Then planned on swiping a still from the videos for a post... can't figure that one out either. Will have to post something for those days tomorrow.

Stunned

I think this little nuthatch ran into my window and was stunned as a result. It sat in the mud-bog of our yard (we are getting ready to re-seed) for quite awhile before it recovered enough to finally go on its merry way.

More local fall fun

Makes me laugh every time I drive by

(submission for 10/25/10)

Fall foraging

(submission for 10/24/10)

Hunter's Moon or Patrick's Envy?

Patrick has been trying for the last 20+ years to get a good picture of the moon. I have rolls and rolls of film/negatives devoted to his attempts at a moon shot over the years. I took this one without a tripod, standing along the side of the road where I had stopped to take a shot. I guess I am finally learning how to use some of the manual settings on my camera? Patrick is totally jealous....sweet! :o)

Still leaning & dissolving

Just taken during a different season.

Perhaps I'll have to kayak out in the winter to take a pic of it then for contrast.

a nighttime visitor and a couple of snugglers

Standard Fall Pictures

I couldn't decide between these two shots so I opted to submit both. I realize they are pretty standard Fall pics, but as we near the end of our 365 journey it seemed appropriate to come full circle and return to where I started almost a year ago now - typical fall shots.