Fueling the imagination
As Fire is the theme for this week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge, I started taking a look through some of my images for what I might use in respinse to this particular theme.
While I’ll hold back the shot that I have in mind for this week’s round up, here are some of the ones that I came across.
I look forward to see what other entries come up over the weekend…
Have a wonderful weekend!
Hip, hip, hoera!!
When you start counting your dogs as family, there are many things that you enjoy with them; compared to humans, dogs are pretty straightforward with their emotions and will usually be happy to see you and greet you with a wagging tail. If that tail is not wagging, you know that something is wrong…
We have a canine family that is comprised of four Cardigan Welsh Corgis ranging in age from 3 to 15. They are a lot of fun, and they have it pretty good with us, as they will even get massages and chiropractic treatments. My wife trains our dogs to compete in agility, herding, obedience, barnhunt and rally. As long as they enjoy it, they get to compete.
Our birthday girl is retired from competition and living the good life. Her name is Bette (Visions ‘The Marked Woman’), as she has Bette Davis eyes 🙂 The blue eye is a mismark in this coloration of the Cardigan, which is one of the reasons that we got her; we’re not big fans of breed shows, as for us it’s all about the dog having fun.
Reaching across dimensions
I’d love to see what some of the creative people would write to go along with this image…
In response to the WordPress Daily Post Prompt of Someday.
Guess who’s coming to dinner…
It’s great to participate in Week Fifty of Three Line Tales run by Sonya of Only 100 Words!
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Dinner table set,
Harvest produces magic.
Transubstantiation.
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Thank you to Sonya of Only 100 Words for coming up with Three Line Tales.
You’ll find full guidelines on the TLT page, but here’s the tl;dr:
Happy three-lining !
Out of the fog…
In the first post of this series from last Wednesday, I mentioned my abstract photography and shared one of the images that has come forth from those endeavors. There will be more coming up from my Kryptomorphaics in future WW posts, but I figured a slight detour was in order this week, as one of your comments inspired me to do so.
The particular comment mentioned taking multiple images of herself in the same photo, which caused my mind to go back to a particular image that I captured on a November morning several years ago. The visual mind is funny that way!
The occasion was a photography trip to Chincoteague, which is absolutely fantastic to visit and capture. Our plan was to photograph the sunrise from the beach and hopefully have some cool clouds to work with to really make it worthwhile to get up early. On this morning, the weather gods decided to play tricks on us: there was a heavy sea fog that did not want to burn off. So, I turned my mind to doing something a little different with the conditions that were presented…
Yes, there is a spectral apparition coming in from the waves! It happens to be yours truly. With this much fog, I thought it might be interesting to set up for a long exposure (about 10 seconds for this shot) and slowly walk in from the ocean toward the camera. It took a couple of attempts to get the look that you see here.
The result of this experiment was pretty fun; I twisted the coloring of the shot a bit in post-processing to make it a touch more ethereal, and, voila!
Pretty warped, and another experiment. Have you ever tried experiments of this nature? Would be fun to compare notes!
Do you have a burning desire?
Welcome to Week 39 of the Tuesday Photo Challenge. First of all, a great, big thank you to all of you wonderful participants who made week 39 the biggest and best week yet! Clearly, the theme of Cold grabbed each of you in one way or another and tickled some creative instinct to produce such wonderful entries!
Of course, the logical progression in themes after all this cold work would be to opt for hot, but that might just be a little too straightforward for this creative crowd! So, this week’s challenge is Fire! Keeping in mind that this doesn’t have to be physical fire, but could be allegorical or cleverly imagined in any of many ways, go out and create something novel.
To kick off your creative processes on this one, here’s something a bit abstract that may just bring forth the fires of creation in a galaxy far away…
This image came from my being somewhat bored around a campfire and wanting to do something a little different in my photography. I messed around a bit with timing and zoom blur to create this shot and kicked off my first abstract image, which led to many more over the years.
The full rules of this challenge are in TPC Guidelines, but here’s the tl;dr:
This challenge shouild keep you warm, and very much fired up! If you decide to play with fire, please be careful; take it from a former firefighter, fire is risky! Oh yes, please have fun!
This image was captured with a Canon EOS 1D MkIII using an EF 24-105 f/4L lens. Exposure settings were at f/16 and 1/3 second with 100 ISO. A twist of the barrel with a steady hand produced the streaking effect.
Floating in Elm Park
In the town of Worcester, Massachusetts, which is close to where I live, we have for a number of years had an art exhibit aptly titled “Art in the Park” in Elm Park. The installations for this exhibit are imaginative and truly impressive.
One of the fun aspects of this exhibit is that it’s a great opportunity to do some different photography, as these works of art can be very inspiring. There have even been competitions for photography that captures these art works well and in unique ways.
This installation of shiny objects is called Water Rings and created by local artist Lisa Barthelson, whose work is extremely imaginative and can be seen in numerous exhibits within our area.
This post was inspired by the WordPress Daily Post prompt of Shine.
Cool photos and text!
It’s still pretty chilly here in New England, and we even received some nice fresh snow to brighten up the landscape. Despite the chill, the participation in this week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge theme of Cold has been phenomenally hot!
There was a great mix of both new and long-time participants, and each of you provided your own very cool interpretation of the theme, ranging from icy leaves to glaciers and cold sand!
Here’s a little touch of Winter from a couple of years ago on a rather cold day…
I drove by this scene on my commute on a sleety day, as I caught view of the canoe out of the corner of my eye; the splash of color in an otherwise drab landscape stood out.
The following were this week’s participants in the challenge with links to their posts:
Thanks to each of you for your participating in this week’s challenge. I really appreciate the wonderful posts that you have put together and the creativity that you have put into each of them!
It has been rather chilly here in New England over the past couple of days and we were visited by a bit of a storm that made its way up the Atlantic Coast. This is one of those unusual storms that deposits more snow on the coast than further in-land; unusual, because our weather pattern usually has storm scoring down from Canada out of the West, which deposits much more snow in-land than on the coast.
As a result we were blessed with approximately 4-6 inches of snow over the past 24 or so hours, which makes for a beautiful landscape with a blue sky to grace it (even though with a temperature of about 15F (-9C), it is a bit on the cool side. This landscape reminds me of this image…
This view of the Yoga Tree was under similar circumstances as today.
How do you like snow? Do you enjoy it?
Have a great day, as I’m off for a little jog.
Up, up and away!
Every so often, I check the prompts that are provided by the fine folks at WordPress, and when I looked about 10 minutes ago, I was struck by the Discover challenge that asks to talk about your Superpower!
Of course, each of us has Superpowers, even though they may be latent, which is why the idea of having a Discover challenge is even more appropriate. I have several, and the one that I will share with you today has to do with a little levity…
Yes, I have the power to levitate people without any risk to them whatsoever. This is also a great responsibility, as I should never raise them into the sky too high, for there is the fate of Icarus that might befall them.
What is your Superpower?