Welcome to Friday Foto Flogging, a place to share your photos and photography news. We were inspired by the folks at European Tribune who post a regular Friday Photoblog series to try the same on this side of the virtual Atlantic. We also thought foto folks would enjoy seeing some other websites so each week we’ll introduce a different photo website.
This week’s theme is: In the Frame. Using human or natural structures or a combination of both to create an opening through which one views the focus of the photograph.
Website of the Week: Photomicrography at Nikon’s Small World. Photography through a microscope.
AndiF's Fotos In the Frame
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Sculpturing Sculptures
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Peeking at Fall
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Joist a Glimpse
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olivia's Fotos In the Frame
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Woman through the door, Dubrovnik Croatia Click image for larger version |
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Cat through the gate, Oia Santorini Click image for larger version |
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View of the gardens through one window in the Hall of Mirrors Palace of Versailles, France Click image for larger version |
- Next Week’s Theme: Water. From a raging river overwhelming its banks, to a few drops slipping down the side of a glass. It’s all good so long as it’s all wet.
The theme for October 31st will be: All Things Halloween. Spooky things, dressed-up things, candy things, orange things, Thing things … 😉
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A nice afternoon in the bar:
Oh to be sitting there. 🙂
Hi ask.
Hi olivia!
I love your pics above; recent Euro-trip?
Yup, miss that place, here’s another (should have posted 2 weeks ago as “Wish You Were Here”, but I guess the palm fronds qualify as ‘frame’):
Went this past summer. We stayed in the South of France for almost a week, went to Venice for a couple days, then went on a Med cruise (Croatia, Greece, Turkey) and ended back in Rome where we flew to Paris and stayed there for a few days. It was Heaven. 🙂
That palm is framing the next best seat after the bar stools above … 😉
Great shot Ask — we’d all like to be there.
Ooooh…this is so calming – one to look at when a mental rest is needed.
How did you avoid getting one of those drinks with an umbrella in it in the photo?
It’s a shot that reminds me of the pleasure of watching the light change over a body of water, Pacific Ocean or pacific pond.
Sometimes I really miss the ocean, but not enough to move back to the coast;-) That spot looks like a great place to spend a harsh midwestern winter, though.
Delicate Arch, Arches NP.
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Love the colours in this photo – the redness of the sand and rock against that blue sky.
The thing that I notice in that photo is the cloud bank over the La Salles. They dumped two feet of snow in a day and pleted us with popcorn snow on hikes for the next day or two.
I also wish I could have panned a little farther to the left to take a photo of the hundred or so photographers with massively expensive equipment perched on a ledge waiting for the light to be just the right. Imagine starlings in fleece on a telephone line of red rock.
“Imagine starlings in fleece on a telephone line of red rock.
Heh – I love that mental picture! I’m glad they didn’t encroach upon the lovely photo above.
Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
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I had never heard of the Chaco Culture – thanks. When I see images of what people have done in times past, I often wonder how the idea formed and how the buildings came into being. Someone piling stones said, “I have an idea”? And how did they convince others to do so much work? Were there some who argued that such structures were not natural and therefore, not of the gods?
I really like this photo.
Chaco is just about our favorite* of the ancient ruin sites of the southwest. It’s a bit hard to get to so it isn’t overrun like Mesa Verde, the ruins are outstanding, and you are free to wander on your own and to hike to other ruins in the backcountry. It’s a fascinating place with a lot of mystery about its origins and purpose. There are several good books about it (and other ancient cultures in the southwest); one of the more offbeat but very good ones is Craig Childs’ “House of Rain”.
* can’t pick between it and Hovenweep.
That is wonderful.
I`ve wandered through some ruins in Joshua Tree, & this image takes me right back there, about 8,000 years ago.
The lighting is superlative.
If you’ve ever got an excuse to go to northwestern New Mexico, I would definitely suggest you put Chaco on your itinerary.
We haven’t been to Joshua Tree NP yet, but we love going to ruins. Probably our favorites are on Cedar Mesa in southern Utah.
I can’t really remember what the light was like the day I took the photo. I do remember that both Andi and I got horrible sunburns our first day at Chaco.
Heh. I thought that I was going to wreck our car on our first drive out there. Twenty miles of rutted dirt road certainly keeps the attendance low.
The road from Cuba to Chaco is just there to keep the riffraff out.
Chaco is a mystery. Hundreds and hundreds of rooms in several pueblos that don’t seem to have ever been permanently occupied. It seems that it was a ceremonial center. Roads lead to it from many directions. Signal towers surround it. But no one has yet figured out why the Anasazi it built.
Thanks for all the great mojo last week, great photos from everyone.
For anyone who is lurking that thinks their photos aren’t good enough or you need expensive equipment to take great photos this is for you. Post your shots ’cause we want to see ’em!
All of this weeks pics came from a Nikon CoolPix 2mp point and shoot.
Sculpture Garden, Minneapolis, Mn.
I love this shot — it’s just perfect framing and great use of perspective.
And everybody pay attention to what BobX is saying — you don’t need to have a splashy camera to post pics. And I take all my shots with point-and-shoot too.
What an interesting effect – uphill, downhill, flat – a brain teaser.
We`re on the same team. I`m glad you invited lurkers or self-conscious photographers to post. This is a comment I posted elsewhere a few months ago.
Your capturing of the perspective is genius. The optical illusions have started to formulate mental questions on how to see & shoot them. I`ll be back with possible results on a future flog.
I think that any of these photos I`ve posted are exclusively from either one of my “point & shoot” cams.
“That`s what I meant when I mentioned the 120,000 images taken mostly with a point & shoot. Anybody with a large ,high mega-pixel D series Nikon (as an example), who looks down on point & shoot users, is not a photographer.
He`s an idiot with a camera.
I use both kinds, a cool-pix 5400, a P5000 & a D2H, but shoot me if I ever put down somebody for the tool they use.
I refer a lot of people to Ansel Adams & his photo lab on a mule”
It’s really surprising we don’t have more posting on a Friday. Anything I can do to coax them out I’ll try. Thanks for your comments. After looking through a viewfinder for a while, some photos present themselves. I just happen to be there to capture them with whatever I’ve got in my hand. You just know it when you see it. Other times I think it’s going to work and it doesn’t. Never stopped me from going back out. Try new things, experiment. Maybe some week we could do a photos that don’t work, I’ve got plenty as examples.
I’d like to see more people posting pictures as well. Maybe I’ll try
beggingdropping hints in the open threads.I’m a Coolpixer too. Great minds and all that…
I like the low angle you shot this at. It accentuated the arch but kept the people in proportion too.
Hi Bob.
That is a beautiful space! Love your perspective leading us down the stairs … nicely done. 🙂
Thanks, This is a favorite place of the Wife (that’s her in the first shot with her Mom) and I to visit while we are in Miami. Lots of neat garden to shoot.
Last Thursday, I was with my 6th graders on a field trip at the Lilly House (as in Lilly pharmaceuticals) on the grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. When the kids were directly in front of the house, I had them turn and look at the view from the house rather than looking at the house. The landscape architect had used planting to frame a natual scene toward a fountain. Your photos reminded me of that view.
Long’s Peak, as seen from Castle Rock. Rocky Mountain National Park.
The view from my chair, Acapulco, Mexico.
Main temple at Chichen Itza, Mexico.
ej – you do get around! (I understand there is a China diary in the works.)
I really like the mountain photo – the outcropping on the right looks like a critter is emerging. I also like the changing colors. A photo I would notice something different each time I looked.
Hey tampopo!
I’m not sure when I’ll get to the China diary – but I do have my pictures online on my website. If you’re interested, you can check them out here 🙂
I especially love the RMNP pic.
And no, I’m not going to do the obvious and say something about the China diary … oh … oops. 😉
Thanks Andi 🙂
I’m heading out of town for about a week today, so I won’t get to it over that time. I definitely want to write it before the election, as I think it would provide a nice bit of ‘a little something different’ as the campaigns really go into overdrive.
Great photos all, but I love the way the branches echo the lines of the temple at Chichen Itza.
I really like the top photo – but what am I looking at?
The metal stuff is part of sculpture that was in the “yard” of a vacation place we rented outside of Tucson. I was out playing with taking pictures of it one evening when I was realized it would be more interesting off angle and framing the landscape.
My favorite is the gate – the gate itself appeals to me with all the swirls. A guard cat?
There were a lot of stray cats, and I think this area was his turf. He was trying to get passersby to feed him … 🙂
Here’s another shot:
lighthouse at sunset/golden gate bridge:
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Love the colour of the sky and the detail in the girders.
It looks like a creature from Dr. Who is attacking.
Exterminate!!!
rainy day doorway:
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church, garmisch,ger.:
ettal monastery, ger.:
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Both of these are beautiful but the second really creates a mood of silence and meditation which, I think, is heightened by the sense that the framing gives that we are just visitors who are being kept from getting too close.
What Andi said.
interesting take andi, thanks.
the mood…or perhaps more appropriately, the memory…they evoke for me is how brutal cold it was when l took them. and it was very quiet and abandoned in feeling in a surreal kind of way, because there was literally no one else about… all the smart people were in the village gasthauses drinking.
(She is so good w/ words … 😉
Love the mood/atmosphere of these two photos.
I’m cold now.
I`ve been framed.
FISA
Love the door picture with a picture.
As for the flowerotica … well … it’s flowerotica.
Andif,
I did a tutorial last year on BooMan, on this image.
You can take a look at it here.
It gives a step by step, from beginning to back to the beginning.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2007/6/24/17311/4508
Andif,
It`s flowerotica, but it`s OUR flowerotica.
I love the red door too … GMTA. 🙂
Oh the spectacular sand dollar.
Oh the spectacled skull.
Oh, oh, oh, oh the orange orifice and it inner bit.
Brittany, August 2008.
When I first looked at that, I thought it was a black sand beach in Hawaii.
🙂
Hi LEP!
My feet enjoying the ocean (yes I know they’re gnarly)
The absolute perfect framing … oh Jim says, to be perfect there would need to be one beer bottle along side each foot.
An oldie
The photo of the womans legs in the door makes me want to know her story. Great shot.
Was the cat McCavity or was it Noods withdrawal that drew you to it?
Posted here a while ago, Bryce Canyon framing the sky:
I think a lot of people don’t realize that Utah’s rocks are a frame for its amazing skies.
that looks like moab. an amazing place. did a couple of mountain bike trips there a decadence or so ago.
the slickrock trails are spectacular and challenging.
It is the Boulder Mail Trail between Boulder and Escalate, way west of Moab.
Olivia, my favorite is the Croatian woman through the door, but I enjoyed seeing all of them!