Enjoy a sampling of the photographs I took this week:
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Sunday Snapshots
Enjoy a sampling of the photographs I took this week:
Weekend Wandering (4.10/4.11)
I took these pictures while wandering around this weekend.
The local historic site where my wife works had open grounds in connection with a home and garden show, making for some opportunities I hadn’t had before.
Weathervane
Stone Rooster
A Purple Flower
The Garden Path
Down the Lane
Down the Lane (B&W)
Baltimore Bricks
Baltimore Bricks (B&W)
Human Urn
Don’t Blink!
Brick and Iron
Reflection in Glasses
Low Brick Wall
Bricks and Hedge
Tulips
Flowery Angel Wings
Facade
Blacksmith’s Lantern
By the way, if you know what the (purple?) flower is in #3, please let me know!
Black and White at Gold
To say I’m behind would be an understatement.
As the Red Queen would say,
My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to
stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you
must run twice as fast as that.
The week began innocently enough with a decent Monday, as far as Mondays are concerned, but it had all gone downhill by Tuesday afternoon. I was behind in Photography 101, behind in my online college class, behind in grading and lesson planning, and students’ science and history projects were due.
Today I played catch-up, rising before the sun on a Saturday – my one day to sleep in – to take advantage of the Golden Hour at sunrise. OK, that isn’t entirely honest. The Wife headed out of town to a business conference and needed to meet her carpool. I simply stayed up instead of going back to bed. Hey, whatever works, right?
I wandered downtown for three hours, taking pictures and killing time until the library opened so I could use the free wifi – and make another dent in my TBR.
My online class completed, I tackled the morning’s photographs.
Check them out in the galleries below!
Monochrome Architecture
Movement
Landscape
I hope you enjoyed vicariously reliving my morning; for me it was time well-spent!
Stand Apart
Photography 101 has its challenges. Monday’s pop of color was no different.
I took another sunrise photo and thought that’d be it:
And then inspiration struck as I was cleaning out my supply cabinet and found a hoard of forgotten pencils – and just in time for standardized testing, too!
Stand Apart
by J.E.
People always say to be yourself until you do, then
you find that everybody lied to you: "Your hair is
too short, too long, too bright, too dark; your
music's too loud, too goth, too punk, too rock; your
art is too something; why can't you just be
normal like us? You're so fake, focused on the
external; fit back in the box in our monochrome
world where no one stands out, no sensitivities
curdled."
So we hide ourselves away behind a facade of what
passes for normal; believing we're flawed we put on
a show for the world to behold while the things that
make us us grow withered and cold. In a world that
sees in charcoal grey and midnight black we see in
bright neon hues and refuse to go back to the way
things were before. Choosing rather to wrestle our
innermost demons, we risk and dare all to be the
yellow pencil.
Personally, I like the first pencil photograph best; what do you think?
Photo Theme: Mystery
I struggled finding a subject that hinted at mystery using shadows and the so-called Golden Hour for dramatic effect.
Eventually I hit upon two possibilities.
What mysteries do you see?
Here Comes the Sun
The recent time change seems to have affected me more this year than any other year.
My colleagues tell me it’s because I’m getting older.
“Just wait ’til you’re our age!” they say.
But the benefit to the change is I can see things like this:
The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort. ~ Sir Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
Running In My Head 