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 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
Website of the Week: The Daily Coyote, a daily photo journal of the life of Charlie, “a wild-born coyote who was unexpectedly delivered to the me in April 2007 after both his parents were shot for killing sheep”. Be sure to go back into the archives to see Charlie growing up.
AndiF’s All Wet
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Cedar and sumac trees share raindrops Click image for larger version |
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Nifty effect courtesy of Giddy Click image for larger version |
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Tuolumne Falls, Yosemite NP
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olivia's Water Works
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Storm clouds over the Adriatic
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Wet-knee photography
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On the river at sunset
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- Next Week’s Theme: These are a Few of My Favorite Things: Pictures of people, places, and things that you love
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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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
Inaugural Foto Flog Song Titles, Song Lyrics Red Jest for Fun Critters! In the Frame Silhouettes and Shadows
Three states of matter.
Liquid

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Gas

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Solid

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Cool. The bottom one looks like the surface of some very alien planet.
Very nice set. Is there naturally-occurring copper or something in the water or rocks around the lake in the top picture to make it so green?
So when are you going to post some pictures? I’ve seen some of your very nice pictures of water.
Not copper. Glacial flour, tiny bits of rock ground so fine they remain suspended in the water by currents, makes the water turquoise.
I forgot to identify them.
Liquid was taken in 2005 at Lake Agnes, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
Gas was am old one taken in 1995 at Sunset Spring, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Solid was taken last winter at a creek in Brown County, Indiana
I really like all the contrasts in the “gassy” picture. The dark clouds to the left and blue sky to the right.
When I took that picture, I didn’t even notice the wild contrast in the sky. I spent several minutes waiting to get a shot with a bubble emerging from the spring where the wind would blow the steam away from me. It was only after we got the film developed that I realized how lucky I’d been.
the ‘gas’ is a gas.
amazing sky, and the contrast with the stark alkaline foreground is stunning. well done.
an aside, although, per your comment below, there were moments of serendipity with film, the flip side is that l’ve experienced too many “oh shit!” moments to mention when they were processed.. l think digital phototgraphy has been a great step forward in assisting getting the shot you’re trying for.
kudos
l’ve experienced too many “oh shit!” moments to mention when they were processed.
I’ve got a shopping bag full of those that I let the kids at school use as bookmarks.
at least you found a use for them. making lemonade.
mine were primarily slides so they ended up in the trash.
The third one looks like a fantastic piece of abstract art. Love the path of the bubbles through the ice.
I really like the “solid” photo – thanks for the identifying info as I was not sure what I was looking at, just knew I liked it.
I have thought about taking an unframed painting or photo and putting it on a wall, then painting the surrounding wall with colors that extend the photo or painting. Your “solid” is the kind of piece I had in mind. Just playing with the shades of gray would be interesting.
That’s a neat idea.
Jimf,
That`s a perfecta trifecta.
Excellent choice of pix for your imagery.
The solid one is ironic as it is the sum of all three (the frozen trinity), yet time will soon unlock it`s chilled stillness.
For now though, it remains The United States of matter.
The grandeur of the first two are (in my distorting mind) eclipsed by the immensity imagined in the last one.
The image puts no constraints on the mind`s figments.
A terrific image.
I`d hope to have the curiosity to go search out ice features, rather than sit by a wood stove, but this one & those incredible “frost flowers” of andif`s are (almost) inspiring me to seek out some frozen world.
I said, “almost”.
Continuing from last week the first three are all taken with CoolPix e2500 2mp.

This one is big as the water is the detail.(dialup warning)Click for big size!
Is that water coming out of the stem? How neat!
Love the bright colours in the photo, as well as the novel sculpture/fountain.
Yeah, quite the sculpture. Minneapolis Sculpture Gardens. 🙂
I thought I’d add a few. Tomorrow should see the inception of MyPhotography V2.0.
In other words, I’m getting my first DSLR. Anyways, here’s a couple recent shots I’ve taken. And I shoot all sorts of things.
All images (should) be click-able to take to their own page where they can be viewed larger.
Oooh, what are you getting?
the Nikon D60
Obviously, I read a little bit too fast. My apologies for the non-themed images.
All your shots are great. I especially like the night shots. I’ll be interested to see what you capture with your new DSLR.
I assume it’s going to take me some time to really get a feel for the the SLR. When I first got my current cam, it was well over a year before I actually got interested in photography enough to really pay attention to what shots I took, how I took them, and what the capabilities of the camera were and how different settings affected the appearance of my shots.
I assume the learning curve will be much shorter this time around since I’ll just be building off of what I’ve learned in the last 1 1/2 years but, with new equipment and a totally new approach, I still assume it’ll be a short while before I’m getting captures I’m really happy with.
And don’t worry about the non-theme posting. Although we have a theme, any picture you want to post is fine.
And besides, I enjoyed looking at all your photos. I particularly like the rower photo’s ability to make us see the rower’s rhythmic strokes.
Great to see your photos here … 😀
Like Andi said above, we go w/ the weekly theme to add some fun and a bit of a challenge, but everyone can feel free to post any photo they’d like.
Your night shots are fantastic — nice and crisp. The last one w/ the fountain is particularly striking! Love the X glare over the sun in the first sunset photo.
Congrats on making the jump to the DSLR — D60 you’ve said above. Looking forward to following your progress. 🙂
as a matter of fact and it’ll probably be a couple days until I can actually get out and use it but from just the handful of test shots I took indoors and around my building last night, I’m going to be very….very happy.
And I was able to pick up the two lens VR kit so I’m pretty psyched about that as well.
Looking forward to seeing your pix! Just read the full scoop at your blog. I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on both lenses once you’ve had time to use them.
A few old ones:
Is the third one a waterfall or waves crashing?
I like the second one. When we vacation near the ocean, we usually try to spend some quality time with tidal pools.
It’s a well known waterfall.
Here’s another.
Great pics, ask. I especially like the middle one with its “sneak a peak” framing.
A lot of energy captured in the third photo … amazing — where is that taken?
I like the first one — looks like a nice place to enjoy the view. 🙂
Hi olivia,
Just got my connection back (down since last afternoon). Shot where? See this comment.
Okay, I give — what is the big red whatever it is?
It was part of a Dale Chihuly installation at Fairchild Tropical Gardens, Miami. Quite a show.
Here’s another.

We went to the Chihuly at the NY Botanical Gardens in 2006…I loved those walla-wallas there too.
Here’s one of my favorite pieces from that: LINK
This picture and Teacher Toni’s of the pearl pond downthread make an interesting pair.
reminscient of “the prisoner”…for those fans of old british tv series.
“l am not a number!”
after it was catapulted off the spoon (in the pic above) … 😉
LOL
Taken with D40 and 18-55 kit lens.
I like the way the breaks in the clouds mimic the way the land breaks up the water. Is that a fresh water of salt water marsh?
It’s the fresh water part near Sanford, Florida. I took a series after the 25+ inches of rain from Fay flooded the area.
Beach boy the elder:
Fish boy the younger with a red drum in his cast net (not sure why the pic is tiny):

And an old favorite:

All great shots, but “Beach boy the elder” is my favorite. I like the way he, his shadow, and his reflection give 3 different views of him. It also remins me of this Henri Cartier-Bresson photo.
so what took you so long? 😉
I’m with Jim, the top one is a great photo but I have always loved that bottom one for its great use of framing and its lovely feeling of stillness.
Every time I look at that picture, it gives me the same feeling of peace that I get when I’m there for vacation every year.
ps…I have to go shoot stuff for my photo class homework this weekend…
There’s a great convergence (and yet separation) of the sky with the water and the marsh. It’s all very smooth and flowing.
What’s it shot with?
My old Sony P&S, which has been retired (it survived a swim in the canal while kayaking, and then finally died).
I have a D40 (and love it), which I’m learning to use more effectively in a night school class.
sensor, I’d get that. Of course, I could get the D40x but not in a store anymore.
I’m still considering it, to be honest, along with the D60 and the Sony A300, though that’s the least of the picks and more than likely not likely to be the final decision.
i got mine at B&H Photo, and their prices and service are excellent.
I haven’t minded the 6MP, but that’s just me.
I’ve purchased through them and had excellent service.
B&H is a great place.
and if you’te looking check out the new canon xsi, 12.2MP.
l’d recommend you buy just the body and get something like the canon EF-S17-85mm lS lens as the basic pkg.
l think l’m one of the few canon shooters here, but l’ve used them for 30+ years and really like them. currently using the 8.3MP xt as the main cam…which is a very nice rig, and very affordable now…w/ 18-55mm [it was the kit lens, and not one of their highest achievement imo], 17-85mm, 55-200mm lenses. the 17-85 is the one l use most as a ‘walking around lens’, l only carry the 18-55 if l’m traveling and l take it w/ me ‘just in case’.
my 2¢ as an admittedly biased photog.
as I said upthread, I got the D60 but I seriously considered getting the Canon XT. I liked the feel, it was slightly larger than the D60, and the viewfinder (at the time) seemed a little bigger and brighter.
However, now that I have the D60 out of the box and have fired off some random shots, I’m happy nonetheless.
Hi CG — yay, finally get to see some CabinPhotos. 🙂
I love the stillness of that bottom photo, the clouds, the dock.
How are you finding the photog course?
It’s been very interesting. Who ever knew what white balance was? Or that I could mess with the color of the twilight sky with it?
This week was the histogram and exposure stuff…I missed class because we were at the Change Rocks concert, but the handout was pretty good, so I’ll be experimenting with it tomorrow.
I’m guessing that if I have any questions, there are plenty of experts here to answer them for me. 🙂
This is a very good one. I hope there is a larger version (I`ll check in a minute).
It looks like a spit of land cantilevered out into space.
Surrealism is a fact that can only be imagined.
Very cool.
Love the b&w – colour treatment.
Very cool.
I like doing that type of mix.
Creative curiosity at it`s finest.
The things you learn while removing boundaries is what makes photography so intriguing.
I really like the middle one. What kind of plant is that?
They are hostas. We have tons of them in the yard, ranging from small to ones with leaves the size of turkey platters.
Around here we call them deer food. Hostas are one of their favorites.
The water droplets on the top picture are just perfection.
I love the second one, with the way the petals are coming off to the left.
Agree w/ the others – the water drops are lovely. I like the first one on the leaves, the veining in the leaves.
I love the water drop raceway in the first picture.
The water drops planted in contour rows is great & it`s nice that Ken was saved from certain death.
Was Barbie to blame?
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Very cool. Are those glass floats?
I don’t think so. I think they are small buoys attached to lines.
Aww! How time flies…
His head smells all clean in this shot 🙂
Well, that’s just mean. Now I have to go ask a complete stranger if I can smell their child’s head….
I wonder if Nancy Grace will do a special on people who smell children’s heads.
Best mohawk ever!
In the future he will hate that picture, but his spouse will think it is adorable.
It will be great in the slide show that I create for the wedding.
Now that’s what I call curriculum planning.
Hi Toni.
Perfect photo for that … 🙂
swords of damocles
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first snow
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This one gives me shivers … not snow already … eek. I was hoping you had a white roof … 😉
rest of the time it’s grey.
here’s the more abstract ps/b&w/hc version…
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It would be neat to see them framed hanging next to each other.
fog, low clouds and a big rock
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I was having a hard time deciding which one I like better — this one or the icicles but the big rock won. It’s so magnificently elegant.
Size does matter. That “flat Iron” image is great.
The icicles are hands on nature`s clock, like stalagmites (rising) &
stalagtites (falling).
Very cool pix.
Anticline, flatiron, or a wild ride down the mountain?
it’s called a ‘flatiron’ and it can be all of the above.
it’s an easy climb technically, 5.4 ims, it was one of the first tech. ascents l ever did and is considered one of the premire rookie routes locally…and the view is awesome.
but there’s always the bonehead fringe, many who think they can just scramble up it without protection. some of them survive the ‘wild ride’ to the bottom when things go south…proving conclusively that “darwin’s law” doesn’t always function.
eh…speak of the devil and whataya know…the “wild ride” gets another notch on it’s coup stick.
Ouch.
Sorry I’m late to the party, just got back into town!
Ocean view, Acapulco, Mexico
Water or sky?
Last night’s sunset, Leelanau State Park
Love the colours in the photos — the aqua colour of the water in the first photo, and the sun hitting the clouds in the last photo. Love the cloud reflections.
Thanks olivia 🙂 I just realized that I mislabeled the first picture, it is Cancun, not Acapulco. But both have some beautiful areas!
Well if you’re going to bring us photos like these, I think we can forgive you a bit of tardiness.
Water or sky is a really fine shot.
Thanks Andi. I took that at Sprague Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. It’s one of those lucky photos that the environment makes great, requiring no skill on the part of the photographer 🙂
I wanna go all these cool places you’ve been going to!
A perfect example of the variations in color of water & sky, & their complimentary, or symbiotic relation.
The last one is like an oil painting of the sky being dipped into a real ocean.
Great.
Errands are over, so I can relax and contribute to the sogginess now.
A riverfront wedding, 2 grandchildren in the past
Empty nest – or is it?
Office pool material – when will it go?
Love the office pool picture. So how long did it take it to go?
Actually, it hung on for days IIRC. The building is an unheated garage. We used to enjoy watching the snow slides off the metal roof on the flower shop across the street until they ruined it by installing rain gutters.
Office pool
Funny.
The riverfront photo is really nice — looks like a beautiful place to have the ceremony.
It (the riverfront) was lovely and it stopped raining just in time!
I`d bet that when it does go, nobody should be beneath the hanging sword.
You can usually tell if a hornet`s nest is empty or inhabited, by knocking on it with a stick. The person who gave me that advice was mumbling as if he had a mouthful of marbles & for some reason his face was disfiguredly (not a real word) swollen.
Here’s some frozen water.
Oh damn that’s great!
Can I have some snow down here please. 😉
FM! You’re back! So good to “see” you. I hope that you’ve been okay.
I’m doing fine Boran and thanks for asking.
OK, where’s the snow! We only got up to the low 60’s today and tonight we’re only supposed to get to the mid 40’s. Oh, how I love this weather!!!!
I’ve told George he had better grow some fur, because I’m not going to stand out there all the time while he has to go.
Ohhhhh I want snow!!! 🙂
Our temps seem to be almost identical right now.
I’m wondering this winter will I be able to send George out into the snow? I’d really like to because I’m sure it would get him back in a lot sooner. 🙂
The photo is actually of my front lawn last winter.
You will get snow.
Last year we got it for a day or two and it was gone.
Now I understand how it is to live in a place that gets snow all the time. Heck, I lived in a place that I had to dig my car out to go to work and then dig a place to put it back after work.
I just miss it. It gets cold down here and I think with the cold at least a little snow.
Then again, laying in a hammock in the Caribbean isn’t that bad of an idea. 😉
I’m afraid we’ll be seeing scenes like that before we know it. I’ll send some ice your way in a month or so, FM;-)
ID send me ice or snow.
You know down here, I might be in shorts during the winter. If you can send anything down here that will help my AC bill, then I would appreciate it.
We’ll see what we can arrange. I hear we may be short on road salt this winter, so the more ice we can get rid of, the better. Of course when its icy, there’s always the option to stay home and practice the slacking.
Why do you thing I love the winter so much. Down here if there’s anything like snow or ice—we slack. 🙂
The winters are the most slacking months I know.
Hi FM,
Nice seeing you.
I did wonder about the reason for your wish.
I should have known better. I must be slacking off.
Ah, that’s looks so nice … from a distance of time and space.
Brrrrrrrrr … are you prepared for it again … (I’m not)!
Boran2,
That frozen scene looks like it was taken underwater.
Very nice.
My Friday is your Thursday.
“Water water everywhere, & all the boards did shrink.
Water water everywhere, & not a drop to drink.
As silent as a painted ship, with neither breath nor motion.
As silent as a painted ship, upon a painted ocean.”
The Ancient Mariner
This is water as I love it, as I live it & as I live from it.
Obviously, Andi gets the first one.
“A crab a Blenny & a clam walk into a bar…..”
A little blues for Olivia.

Love the blenny, of course. The tornado is amazing. The picture of the pond is mesmerizing. But the clown fish is absolutely amazing, spectacular, gorgeous, wondrous … oh and just every other superlative I can think of.
P.S. Jim wants to know if you were shooting through the glass or did you actually have the camera in the tank?
I only shoot through the glass, but do sometimes shoot through the top, but never underwater.
Actually, I have shot some below water level with a piece of very clear plastic bag stretched over the lens.
No matter what, there are so many reflective surfaces in a tank & the outside of the tanks, that the easiest way is to be right against the glass & that there is not a clear shot to the back of the tank. (reflections will ruin your day.)
To get a lot of the surface reflected shots, I shoot with the camera upside down, otherwise the flash is negated by the light canopy overhanging the water level just enough for it to be hidden. A slight tilt upwards (very slight) usually does it. In most cases though, a fish will not stay long at the surface without good reason. In this case the clownfish will not leave it`s charge no matter what, whereas, any other fish would be hiding in the rocks, on seeing a black box with a big round mouth, coming at them.
That’s a good technique, Shooting through glass is always a challenge.
I think Boo should have a new rating: WOW!!! or SPECTACULAR!!!
Jim, you are too generous.
Wow, what everyone else said! Very enjoyable!
Indianadem,
Thank you for repeating what others have said.
Repeat away.
Gorgeous images. Love the blues — the minimal colour theme and the way you’ve composed it. What is causing that blue line?
I also really like DSCN3437 – the pink bubbles on the tips.
Olivia,
The blue line is the edge of the orchestra pit, at the bottom of the Adriatic, where the aforementioned “Blue Notes” score is being played.
If you look into my baby blues, you`ll see the ocean & the blues also.
But that will be for another cruise.
Smooth sailing.
The bubble tips of the tentacled torch, were definitely showing themselves off as an underwater blossom waiting to be thrown to a future bride. I really have never seen them show this fragrant pale mauve before.
It must have been from overhearing the blues, & the raging storm overhead.
…. Thanks, Olivia
🙂
Again, now that I have the DSLR, I can’t wait to get out and start getting some shots.
Andi, I love the balance of the cedars and sumac photo. I think it was a good choice to use Giddy as your photo assistant instead of Bebo; reflections are more interesting than mud.
Olivia, both the storm clouds and the canoe on the river are so peaceful. I have had those knees and belly many times, but I never thought to take a photo of them. What a hoot.
Thanks for the FFF.
Andif,
The pix you have up are great. The cedar & sumac frame the water perfectly & give up solitude to the voyeur peeking through the dropping replenishment of it`s self.
I must assume that an animal you are familiar with, has decided to check the water temperature before you bath.
Thanks, Head.
That animal is a malamutt who like to sleep in snow. No way is she ever checking my water temp.
Olivia,
As has been a reoccurring phenomenon, the blues notes I dedicated to you, are the music score to the drama playing out in the Adriatic.
The blues know no limits of time & place.
A beautiful & very strong image that captures nature`s blues formidably.
🙂