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she sells sea shells at the sea shore

2010-05-10T01:59:00.000-04:00

While on our cruise TSO, RugbyGirl (our roommate in Avalon) and I came up with a few photo assignments. I was hoping that by sharing these assignments we could all ressurect this blog. The first theme I actually got pictures of were seashells. These are mine:

These pictures (up and down) were taken outside a tourist shop in Nassau, Bahamas. Shells for sale.

This is an old conch (pronounced "konk" shell) found on the shore, Nassau, Bahamas.

sufficient reasons for going

2009-07-16T21:52:00.004-04:00

"When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me," he begins, "I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch...When the virus of restlessness begins to take possesion of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find in himself a good and sufficient reason for going..." ~Travels with Charlie, John Steinbeck

Can we get this picture blog going again? Please? TSO, Mummy Dearest and I are surrounded by lovely Bershire scenery. Kim, take pics of Detroit falling apart! Tizzy and Esquire take photos of NYCity in all its glory. Starpilgrim, Scotland--photos please!!

So, to ressurect, let's start with something simple: roads that lead somewhere.

defibrillator

2009-05-09T23:48:00.002-04:00

Hello?

I am sitting across from TSO and just suggested axing this blog since it has been lying dormant.

In hopes to keep this going, I would like to suggest a new assignment. Transportation.

Any takers?

The Picture Show

2009-02-06T12:30:00.002-05:00

I already posted this on my blog, but wanted to share it here too, as the focus is on photography!

Also, we are all falling by the wayside...come back...post pics...I want to see where everyone is in life!!

I heart NPR. I love their articles, their movie and music reviews and The Picture Show, where they highlight different collections of pictures. Found so many good shots, wanted to share them all!
NASA Earth Observatory
American Teens by Daniel Levitt
Civil War Photography
Street Art Snapshots
Scurlocks and the Smithsonian
A Vibrant Past (the U.S. under FDR and the New Deal)
Photographer's Field Day (pics from the Inauguration of Pres. Obama)
Something in the air

snow swallowed bridge

2009-01-21T13:42:00.004-05:00

This is a really cool bike/walking-path bridge not far from where I did my Undergrad in Rochester, MI.

Unfortunately, I was not brave enough to face the freezing temps to climb down this incline to take an upclose picture--though some people were, apparent by the footprints going down in the snow!--but I thought that the pics taken from the top look cool. As though the bridge is being swallowed up by snow. I love the cars zooming by in the second picture.

Also, time for a new assignment? I have a random one...what about dinosaurs? Ha ha ha...could be amusing...thoughts?

Window... yes, i'm late on this

2009-01-17T20:17:00.003-05:00

Views out my back window before I headed off for work yesterday... I miss the sunrises on the farm! It is nice that the sun is coming up earlier... it is hard to wake up in the dark!

so... now what?

2009-01-15T17:25:00.000-05:00

Hey, Kim. Think it's time for your flashy new idea?

unexpected

2009-01-09T16:12:00.005-05:00

Here's my bridge assignment. This bridge spans the Houtzdale Line Rails-To-Trails in Ramey, PA. The plain concrete structure gives no clue to the beautiful grafitti beneath.

assignment, the next

2008-12-27T09:22:00.003-05:00

Read this.

What should our next assignment be? I was thinking of bridges....?

P.S. I am at work and bored...really wishing it were tomorrow and I were on the way to the Farm. I played with the template a little. If you don't like something, change it.

through the looking glass

2008-12-21T10:06:00.007-05:00

These are pics taken at the library I work at.

View from the reading room. I love the stain glass panes we have at the top of the big windows.

You can see one of the city's churches across the road from us.

This is a winter project I did with my kids. Window painting for the holidays. These kids did an awesome job! My favorite window; note Snoopy's dog house and Charlie Brown!
I love that it looks so dark and sleepy in this picture. I intentionally took it this morning before the Library opened, so the lights were all still off. Thought it gave the window a sleepier quality, like what you might see through the window in the early morning, if you were waking up here...hmm...

This window also looks out at the church across the road.

barn windows

2008-12-16T22:00:00.006-05:00

I suppose this is a series. Or maybe just three photos related by the barn.

Outside A Window

2008-12-15T01:21:00.002-05:00

new assignment, anyone?

2008-12-12T14:56:00.001-05:00

So... are we ready for a new assignment? Because I have a neat idea. Maybe. It could actually be crap. Anyway, when I woke up this morning, I looked out my window to see the world covered in snow and I thought, "wouldn't it be neat to share what we see out our windows?" So, that's my idea. The world outside the window. Take a picture of what you can see out of a window. Any window onto any scene. Yes? Do we like?

2008-12-10T20:55:00.003-05:00

Here are my two pictures. I really liked this assignment, and only wished I had a better camera beyond my phone, because I think some quality pictures oculd come from this place.

Location: Manhattan, at Wall Street Stop on the 4,5 line(s). Literally, at the top of the subway stairs, between Wall Street and the American Stock Exchange is this cemetary. Alezander Hamilton is buried there, or so says the stone. I'll post the full range of pictures at another locale.

Why these two pictures? Well one, because it shows the juxaposition of modern subway with graves, and because I didn't know that guy was there when I took the shot. Freaked me out when I reviewed it. Had to double check it wasn't a ghost!

The second picture, shows the grave, with a flag and the American Stock Exchange in the background.

Monster, I get points for going at night!

my cemetery rock

2008-12-09T11:35:00.003-05:00

I don't know what to call it, if anything. I also wanted to go out and get a better one at some point. I did not.

And for the record, Tizzy did stop at the same place. We took pictures of the same monument! Zoom in and read the inscriptions if you don't believe me.

2 for the show?

2008-12-04T21:51:00.004-05:00

I thought first tall monument was quite stately.

The second is more simplistic and got me thinking...and I almost wondered if I should like to have myself remembered in just such a way... as someone's son... Anyone who visited would know be my name and the place I held in my family - that is all.

cemetary schmetary

2008-12-04T09:46:00.004-05:00

This is from the little cemetary right off of the Taconic Parkway and 23 in Hillsdale, NY.

TSO and I stopped to complete the assignment en route to GF last Tuesday, after a painfully long car ride. I always wonder at the sense of renewal just knowing that I am so physically close to the farm. It was a nice place to stop, in spite of the rain and know that we were in the Berkshires!!

So glad to have spent a week with you all. Can't we all move back soon!?

P.S. The pic made me laugh because I thought of GF Steve when I saw the headstone!

Water Pics...

2008-11-19T17:35:00.003-05:00

The second is near Staffa, one of the neighboring islands. The first is near Camas, our sister-center on Mull (the large island next door). Disclaimer -- I just got my camera up and working, so these pictures are ones I took 4 years ago. The next assignment I'll use current photos... =)

Macabre assignement # 2

2008-11-17T13:54:00.004-05:00

While we are waiting for Mummy's picture to be posted...and maybe StarPilgrim's (?), can I throw out an idea for the next set of pics?

Since this looked WAAAAYYYYY too hard, though it did sound cool, can we take pictures of: HEADSTONES!! Any headstone in a graveyard/cemetary will do. Props to whoever is brave enough to get a picture at night!!

Morbid maybe? Macabre perhaps...I just read about Stephen King's newly released book and the idea just struck me!

2008-11-16T12:32:00.003-05:00

There are two candidates. The first, is only "unique" because it shows a puddle in Times Square in the rain. This is not an ordinary puddle, it's the one the subsequently doused me after not one, but two taxis in a row drenched me.

The second, is not technically unique, but in the City, leaves are a rarity. They've gone from Green to Yellow, to the Ground. Here they are floating in water on the side of a street.

I'll do better next time.

Dew drops

2008-11-15T13:56:00.003-05:00

What I find love about photos is that you can't hide anything from the camera. We have a light in the kitchen that has three bulbs and if you click on the photo and look, most of the waterdroplets have the three lights reflected in them... Some have two sets if the light reflects twice and others have a sliding perspective of the light.

this ain't the real thing

2008-11-10T09:40:00.004-05:00

No, this is not Crystal Clear Pepsi, for those of you who still remember that.

Sorry, this is late. I couldn't think of what to take a picture of.

"Splatters on the Kitchen Counter"

2008-11-09T21:42:00.008-05:00

2008-11-09T10:14:00.002-05:00

I guess I'll start with my attempt, although I'm not even sure I like it that much. :-P I call it "Through the Nalgene Bottle."

Assignment #1

2008-11-02T23:30:00.002-05:00

Be creative, be unique, I want to see water, but in liquid form. Think outside the box to take your picture(s) from an unusual angle or capture it in an unusual perspective. For this assignment, you must take this picture after you see this post, it cannot be one you have taken in the past... Please title your submission! *Click*

a little splash of paint, maybe some snappy wallpaper...

2008-11-01T13:58:00.005-04:00

Wow, it's so big and empty in here!

And echo-y...

Well, soon we'll have this place all spruced up and full of fun pictures!

Anybody else I forgot to invite? Know anybody else who wants to join?

OK, then. Here are the guidelines I thought of and I guess we can start with them. They'll be here on this first post if we ever want to check them out again (but we can always change them or get rid of them whenever we want):

A different member chooses an assignment each week.
Each person can contribute up to three photos per assignment.
No photos of exclusively 2-D artwork (in other words, all compositions must be your own and nobody else's, and you can't take a picture of somebody else's painting or photograph, etc.)

If everybody's ready, we can start anytime. Tizzy, you sounded like you had an idea for an assignment, so post it on up and tell us what to take pictures of!