Weekly Photo Challenge

This weeks Challenge

 ”Landscapes, local, rural, suburban, historic or ?”  

Suggested by me:  PhotoGraphics

 

 

Moving right along!  My images are local (Cincinnati/Loveland) panoramic landscapes and I want to give my good friend Tim Beddard the credit for encouraging me to create panorama’s.  He is very persistent when he wants me to learn something new.  So, A total of three images made up of about 4 or 5 images apiece.  I took the shots at local parks we enjoy for little picnics and taking photos.  Both of these parks are fairly small but they have great spots for photo taking.  MY IMAGE DISPLAYS ARE SMALL BUT CLICK ON LINKS FOR LARGER IMAGES THAT ARE FUN and BECAUSE OF SIZE, MORE DESCRIPTIVE.

 

#1- is a view of the overpass at Lake Isabella County Park.  It dominates many of the views you notice there.  I find it to be interesting for photo taking.  See the image larger:  CLICK HERE

 

#2- The lake at Isabella sits more or less below the overpass.  If you look at the larger image you will see it in this photo.  The landscape at Isabella is ever changing due to seasons and weather conditions.  Sometimes the water is as cold and gray as a dead fish and on others the water can be a brilliant blue or a green that takes your breath away.  See the image larger:  CLICK HERE

 

#3- is Woodland Mound County Park and it sits on the Ohio River or parts of it do.  I love seeing the barges traveling the river and hope to get some really good photos from views here.  See the image larger:  CLICK HERE

 

Have a really good week and keep on taking photos.

 

 

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Weekly Photo Challenge

This weeks Challenge

 ”From the Couch”  

Suggested by:  MattBarber

 

 

My house is and has been such a mess for so long because of things going on I wasn’t sure I could put photos up for this challenge but being the stubborn person I am I played with it and have a few that don’t show just how really bad it is.  I know you have heard me say it before and believe it or not, things are improving a little at a time.  So, displaying some of my weaknesses,

 

Some of my photos …

 

I have a wonderful picture window that looks out into our little yard.  Not the greatest view but it’s a pleasant spot with a few flowers and a bricked area.  It’s a weakness of ours to sit outside to enjoy the air.

 

 

Panning to the left from my chair, my computer weakness, switched on of course with a graphic on the monitor and my perpetual cup of French press coffee at the right.

 

 

To the right of the window, an image I enjoy, a reflection of my lamp that hangs over the computer area.

 

 

and to the right again, some of my DVD and the television switched on with a favorite movie of mine, one of the Star Wars.  I’m a big fan of some of the ongoing sagas, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, OO7, Batman etc.

 

 

And, to the right again as the legs are hanging down in the above photo another weakness is dolls and in this case, clowns.  I have two sisters who were active clowns for a lot of years so these dolls are reminders of them and their endeavors in the entertainment field at church and in their communities.

 

 

For now, that covers this challenge and thanks always for your comments and visits to my site.

Keep on taking those photos.

 

 

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Weekly Photo Challenge

This weeks Challenge

 ”Inanimate Eye Catchers”  

Suggested by me:  PhotoGraphics

 

 

There are some inanimate objects that draw me to them.  I particularly like bridges, fences, and tall verticles.  I photograph a lot of scenes of this type.  My entry doesn’t have a big varitey in subject matter but each photo is one I enjoy peeking at now and again and exactly what the real fascination is for me I can’t say. 

 

My Photos

 

with no explanation, just images to do the talking for themselves.

 

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Have a super week and thanks always for your comments.  

 

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Weekly Photo Challenge

This weeks Challenge

 ”Unidentified Objects”  

Suggested by:  Gitarezan

 

 

A belated Blessed Easter Xanga photographers.

 

This challenge was a bit harder.  I had to do some real thinking to figure a way to work with UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT with my stockpile of images.  I decided UNIDENTIFIED was the key.   

 

My Photos:

UNIDENTIFIED

 

#1- You don’t have to see faces to take photos and the two girls with their girlish figures were walking past me as I sat taking photos of birds just off my sitting area.  I try always to take the shot and thought they were cute even though UNIDENTIFIED.

 

 

#2- Tons of UNIDENTIFIED people are at the malls doing similar to what most of us do periodically, grocery or ? shopping.  Few among us have not shopped with a baby in our arms.  and, THAT’S A CHORE.  UNIDENTIFIED deserves a medal.

 

 

#3- I loved this UNIDENTIFIED mom with her red hair flying to the side while she walks briskly to the doors with a redheaded baby in her arms.

 

 

#4- I’m guessing this stovepipe is a return headed back into the store.  I enjoyed catching the UNIDENTIFIED in the image.

 

 

#5- Actually, this man’s wife is shopping with him but she was plainly in view so I trapped him as the UNIDENTIFIED and you may have to hunt a little to find him.

 

 

#6- The groceries were packed out on their shoulders and loaded into the saddle bags for fun on the run, UNIDENTIFIED.  A few of you reading may do similar.

 

 

#7-  Mohawk and saddlebag on walk-about.  I nearly missed seeing him for the photo shot and its use, for the last of my images for this challenge. 

 

 

I’m a bit slow on the uptake but I hate not playing soooooo badly.  If I hadn’t taken and saved my group of images, all taken from the UNIDENTIFIABLE back waiting for this  particular need of “Unidentified”, my entry would be not only invisible but non-existent as well as UNIDENTIFIABLE.  This was CHALLENGING and FUN and I’m happy I got to play. 

 

Thanks always for any comments and keep on taking your photos.

 

 

 

 

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Weekly Photo Challenge

This weeks Challenge

 ”Moving, Rippling Waters”  

Suggested by me:  PhotoGraphics

 

 

I decided to attack this challenge in a single direction, all of my photos are from the little county park lake we visit frequently, Lake Isabella.  With as little dialogue as possible, 

 

My Photos

 

 

This photo was taken in the Winter and the lake ripples are kicked up by the breezes that cross the lake.  Isabella isn’t our most beautiful or largest county park but it is close to home and it offers nice sunny picnic spots and open views of the men who come to fish.

 

 

 

Early in March of 2008, Isabella flooded.  The waters missed entering the boathouse by inches and the water stayed high for months.

 

 

 

Fishermen could care less about floods, they put on their waders, make a seat of water covered picnic benches, throw in their lines and make ripples. 

 

 

 

Ducks don’t care about floods either, they move about the water making graceful waves and ripples as they go.

 

 

 

Little Boys are a different story.  The waves and ripples they make are with rocks making a contest of a good aim to either take out a fish or a duck or each other.

 

 

 

Some little guys just like to splash around.

 

 

 

When the water is near glassy smooth, most ripple-makers are gone home for the night.

 

 

 

But the real fisherman, he will fish late into the night for the fish you see on the line, its head just breaking the water.  We all know the best part of fishing is the fight and the wildly splashing, rippling waters.

 

 

 

I would love to throw in a line and sit day and night by a fire but I am just as happy staring into the soft wavy waters under the deck of the boathouse, watching the reflections roll.

 

 

 

Another of my graphics, made from a photo my good friend Tim took at a beautiful grounds (Wedgewood) in the U.K.  He presented a small group with the challenge to do something interesting with the image as if it wasn’t beautiful enough.  I added the ripples and the fishermen to the image from photos of my own. 

 

 

Here is Tim’s photo, much smaller than we had to play with.

 

 

Have a great week and thanks for your patience, and always your comments.

 

 

Weekly Photo Challenge

This weeks Challenge

 ”Roads, Trails and Paths”  

 

Suggested by:  WakeUpLaughing

 

 

My Photos number a few more than usual.  I put the smaller images on my entry to allow the page to load.  You should be able to bring them up larger by clicking on the image of interest. 

 

I picked a single route to take on this terrific subject.  I concentrated on the word “path”, going with some of the oldest paths in existence.  The paths I have photographed date back hundreds of thousands of years

 

This image probably looks like any path anywhere in the world.  This particular path leads to a very old path in Remington, Ohio.  You can see a bit of it near the bottom right hand corner of the photo.

 

 

Here the brush has opened up to give us a better peek at what we couldn’t see in the above photo,  the Little Miami River (Remington, Ohio). 

 

 

The Little Miami (Loveland, Ohio) is only a tiny part of the river system in the United States which numbers over 800 rivers, great and small that criss-cross the country. 

 

 

These rivers are fed by rivulets and creeks that number in the hundreds of thousands that follow paths ages old, like this stormy run  (Indian Hill, Ohio) only a few miles from our home.

 

 

And this creek in one of our Hamilton County parks, Sharon Woods.

 

 

And this frozen Winter run, not 100 feet from my front door.

 

 

All of these water flows move towards greater rivers (the Ohio River in Ashland, Kentucky) 

 

 

(the bend in the Ohio River, Cincinnati, Ohio) which follow their paths

 

 

   to even greater rivers (the Mississippi River, Dubuque, Iowa).

 

 

Some rivers spill into lakes like Lake Michigan (photographed from the Chicago shore) and

 

 

they all spill into one of the greater oceans like the Atlantic seen here, photographed from Virginia beach.  There are great waters, like the beautiful Pacific or the Gulf of Mexico or beautiful oceans, lakes and rivers on the shores of the beautiful countries where you live. 

 

Waters from all over the world churn and run, intermixing with water from the balance of the world, uniting us for the best or the worst, whatever it is we choose or allow. Billions of years to create the paths the waters have followed (read here) and in barely over 200 years technology, created by man, has stripped them of their dignity.   I can’t help but think of what our photographs will become if natures guidelines are continually swept to the side of unimportant, as they have been for much too long.  

 

A personal testimony to this sad state of affairs is in the trash I have picked up on all shores everywhere I have had the privilege to visit and the sickening sudsy float on the waves that crash on the beaches and the grime my feet have testily had to touch in the sands, when walking bare.  I have to wonder just why it has come to the current state of affairs.  Are we so unfeeling of the future that our personal paths have wandered so far from a better course?

 

Keep on taking your photos, thanks for your comments and

have a good week,