July 31, 2009
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Weekly Photo Challenge: “Spring Colours” and “What can bring a tear to your eye?”
Weekly Photo Challenge (2 entries)“Spring Colours” suggested by StixAndStonzand”What can bring a tear to your eye?” suggested by Ataris822“SPRING COLOURS”: the joy of renewal comes with colorful/colourful Spring Flowers.
My Photos
Spring brings out the sellers and the buyers.
Then, flowers are planted everywhere which is great for photo taking.
I replanted the area around our porch with Impatiens,
Pansies, Petunias, and some dwarf Zinnia.
This is one of my pots filled with Impatiens. I love Spring.“TEARS”: I have shed tears because I was hurt, sad, happy or fit to be tied with bouts of rage/outrage or fear. I have cried when provoked through real encounters, reading books or watching movies.
I love movies. Movies, in my estimation, to be good, must elicit emotion from the viewer. Some movies are tears jerkers for part of or all of the above mentioned reasons and I enjoy taking part in the tear jerking experience. If I laugh or cry or get angry, I know I realized what the screenplay writer wanted me to feel and maybe a bit of what he didn’t.
A few of my photos from movies that make me emotional as I like them well enough to watch them over and over. The images were taken with my Canon Digital Rebel as I watched the television screen. (Don’t zoom in, it makes the lines show up more. Take photos at an angle not straight ahead and use a very slow shutter speed plus the light needed)
A much shortened list of some of my VERY FAVORITE MOVIES after the images.
Excitement, elation, awe, and a few tears in the Ring movies.
A photo from The Lord of the Rings: “Return of the King“.Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn 
Harrison Ford in “Blade Runner” a story of Replicantsdeveloped as slaves for man’s use but who become so intelligentthey develop feelings and a sense of survival.
Some fear and tears and more in this movie.
Ken Watanabe in “The Last Samurai“, one of myvery, very favorite movies, a real tear jerker for me, it’s terrific.
Patrick Swayze in “Dirty Dancing” and it’s filled with emotions.
I love super hero movies, good over evil.
All the Batman movies are filled with excitement
and lots of special effects to keep you alert, amazed, emotional.
The color in Batman 3 is so exciting it can’t help
but keep you emotionally appreciative of the art involved.
Dick Tracy is another movie I love, filled with color and surprises.The list of movies below all bring tears and just thinking about some of them will do it.1- Bridges of Madison County w/Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.2- The Last Samurai w/Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe3- Amistad w/Morgan Freeman4- Braveheart w/Mel Gibson5- Brokeback Mountain w/Keith Ledger6- 50 First Dates, a really nice love story and well done comedy that brings some tears w/Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.7- Yentl w/Barbara Streisand and Mandy Patinkin.8- Million Dollar Baby w/Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman9- Unforgiven w/Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman10- The Lion in Winter w Katherine Hepburn and a 2nd w/ Glenn Close, both great.11- Witness w/Harrison Ford12- One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest w/Jack Nicholson13- Easy Rider w/Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda14- The Notebook w/James Garner15- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington w/Jimmy Stewart16- Message in a Bottle w/Kevin Costner with a tear jerker of an ending.As you can see, I love variety. I own hundreds of movies including from better children’s stories to the dramatic and scary. I have shed a lot of tears while being entertained and at the same time, done some learning, from a tremendous lot of viewpoints within the movies and gone places I could never get to in any other way.“Have movies, will travel.”Tears to all of you and keep on taking those photos.
Comments (12)
spring really has arrived when the flowers pop open in bloom- really vibrant colours you have caught here. what an interesting idea to catch images from film. there are few films that I enjoy- most often like books the ending is just to sloppy for me, as if the writer just got tired and wanted to end the whole thing. that and I can’t handle violence or horror….
I love the photo of the greenhouse! And I love that swan planter. : )
The photos of flowers brings joy , light and colors . Springs and summer colors , I think . They are the best seasons .
The images of the emotional movies are terrific . You have such a talent , Becca .
Thank you for your kind comments and for the warning about having aspirin at hand in case ….
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Michel
Beautiful photos. I wonder how Patrick Swazees health is these days. All of those trashy tabloids say he is fighting for his life with a heart attack now on top of the cancer.
@stixandstonz - the only site I go to for actor info is the IMDB. They have personal info on all the actors but how complete I’m not sure. I did know he is fighting pancreatic cancer from reading on that site some time back. Apparently he is still active. Seems something is going to kill us all, some of us more painfully than others.
Spring and tears. What a combination. I find Spring can bring me to tears with all the natural beauty blossoming around me. Greenhouse on wheels? YES!
I like your flowers. We are not great gardeners so don’t have much colour in our garden. Enjoyed looking through the list of films too and your shots – they got me thinking.
I second: LOTR, Bladerunner, The Last Samurai, and several in your list. I would add a few that I remember having an effect on me the first time I watched them…
The man who would be King, Laurence of Arabia, Shoreshank redemption, The Wind and the Lion, The Deer Hunter and the Usual Suspects.
@rojobe - Hi, thanks for your comment. I have all the movies in your list you added except for “The Usual Suspects”. I’ll add it to my “to get list” as I did some reading on imdb and seems it’s one I should see and add to my collection. I have most of Sean Connery movies and nearly all the Academy Awards Best Pictures plus tons of oddballs and lots of other favorites I work on building. Movies are a great entertainment for me and I always try to follow up on suggestions. Had to redo my comment to you, I hated the misspel I did of Sean’s name.
Stunning as ever!!!!
Excellent graphical illustration Becca. You certainly have done well in your garden. Like the swan planter, in fact all the flowers are lovely. Good movie illustrations as well. Not a great movie lover as you know but I have seen Return of the King and the last of the Samurai. As for tear jerking usually keep away from that, as I’d hate to be seen to cry, actually I am that much of a Baby, just could not compromise my masculinity with floods and rivers of tears, and yet I know I would if the loss was great enough! ~ Tim
Thank you Becca for the food chart for an improved health , received today. Good ideas to pick up .
Love
Michel
Hi Becca, lovely selection of photos, i presume the greenhouse is where you but the plants from, well taken shots from the Tv too, thanks also for the food chart, as Michel says interesting reading.