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: Yellow or Yellow. Brighten our day.
Website of the Week: Backpacker Photo Galleries. Every month readers of Backpacker Magazine submit photos. Check out the resulting galleries — great shots, great hikes.
AndiF Yellow
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A Spot of Yellow
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A Peak of Yellow
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An Overdose of Yellow
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olivia’s Yellow
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Yellow graffiti
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Yellow freesia
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Santorini yellow
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Some things with yellow.
Very nice set, Bob. The first sunset is particularly lovely.
Thanks for the colorful display to start my day! The old house on 46 could certainly have been more tastefully done, like the similar home next to the little church just to the east of it. Perhaps they got a really good deal on the paint. I love the contrast in A Peak Of Yellow and the basketball graffiti is intriguing! Lovely sky shot, BobX.
Every time Jim and I drive past that place all we can do is go “What were they thinking?”. But at least it’s a lovely place otherwise.
Anyone up for some music?
perhaps I should’ve gone with this instead?
… beautiful.
The skyline is beautiful, makes the city look full of possibilities.
Beautiful and perfectly exposed — the random scattering of lights make a wonderful urban “starry sky” to set against the real sky.
Nice shot, beautiful vista.
The cello case is an eyeopener, and the skyline is beautiful.
What a fine cityscape! It has real depth, unlike others where the city looks like cardboard. Must be the perspective apparent in the lights. It looks very still under that vibrant sky, too, so it seems a little surreal.
stand strong,
A very well shot skyline. As mentioned above it does have great depth.
On the other hand, that yellow alien with the brown boots, seems to be following the young lady a little too closely for being in the big city.
LOL, nice catch on that one!
Morning stand strong.
I’m with Olivia, well spotted.
Somewhere along the line, I did a selective color on that one as well where I desaturated the entire image but held the yellow of the case.
It was neat and I’ve been looking for it.
Hi Bob.
I love the sky view — esp how you’ve framed it in the second photo!, but those yellow flowers are so pretty and take first place for me.
Thanks, those are the Mrs’s orchids.
Tell her they’re gorgeous!
I did and she thanks you. Here’s a couple more to help speed you into spring.
Whoops, went over the 500 sorry ’bout that.
Oh wow … those are stunning … and lovely photos — the colours are wonderful.
I love that red and yellow flower. Is it an orchid?
Yes, it’s pretty common to see them here in garden centers.
LOL, morning ID.
When Andi showed me that photo, I couldn’t believe the colour. To think there’s another in town that looks similar …….. that’s fantastic!:D
I think what ID is talking about is not another house that is the horrible color but that there a house is a nearby that is done in actual tasteful colors (I think he means a place that is white with very pretty blue trim).
Ah … oh well … I guess one is enough, right. 🙂
I think the same builder did both houses, the eastern one around 1904. A friend’s mother lived there for 30 years.
Just a little yellow.
I like the popcorn snow and yellow leaves picture a lot but I’d definitely like to have some of those flower IRL. I am ready for winter to be over.
Morning Kidspeak.
I’m with Andi — love the snow and leaves, but bring on the flowers (and grass and buds and leaves etc.) … 😉
Don’t you just love the colours nature throws togethers — that purple/magenta and yellow combination is beautiful.
Ginko trees are beautiful when the leaves all turn golden, but oh my their fruit stinks. They line the walk by my school, and kids track them into the building. Then, of course, they complain about the smell all day.
Ginkgo actually means “single sex”. Because their fruit is so foul that in Asia they are traditionally planted in single-sexed groves, to avoid the females getting pollinated and setting fruit.
I don’t think I have ever seen “popcorn” snow. Is it really snow or hail or some serious sleet?
I really like the flowers with all the cool blue greens surrounding – the yellow just pops out.
It’s amazing how many thing you photograph that are yellow.
Oh wow — that beautiful yellow eye against the blue.
I love that top parrot — fantastic eyes.
How did you expose the first shot to get both the stars and the brightly lit tree?
It looks like a two exposure overlay but it isn’t.That was more of an exercise in flex program and what it could do at night. I took several shots using different flex program, matrix metering ,iso settings on the D40/w 18-70 3.5-4.5 af-s lens/ manual focus set to infinity. The tree is up lit by two 20 watt, low volt landscape floods on our patio. I set the camera on the table, on it’s back, and using the timer let the shutter trip, each time changing the flex program setting. Each setting varied, this was about the best, but all were properly exposed at varying degrees of effect(some more stars/less tree).
Actual settings from exif data:
Aperture: 3.5
Shutter Speed: 30s
Exposure Mode: Programmed Auto
Exposure Compensation: -0.7EV(I leave this here all the time for the d40 over exposure glitch)
Metering: Matrix
ISO: 400
Thanks, it’s actually a sunrise. I’m up before the sun and I caught a glimpse of color out the window, this was just a particularly spectacular morning.
Great theme, I love all the pics so far. Yellow is a favorite color and my be THE favorite color this time of year. But that house that Andi posted is really …. yellow.
And it’s a bed and breakfast. I can’t imagine what their guests think the first time they pull up and are hit with the full in person yellow blast.
Reminds me of the colors you see in South Florida and the Caribbean, a sense of color adventure.
anenome[?]
sam
green ash in fall
I don’t do flower identification but Jim says that’s what it look like to him.
I love the simplicity and definition of the green ash shot.
And Sam looks sad — somebody needs to let him in.
Nice dof in that flower shot d. Poor Sam! 🙂 Love the blue sky in the ash photo.
So was the dog out there to discourage the Girl Scouts from trying to sell cookies?
nah…old sam never met a stranger…one of the best natured german shepherds l’ve ever seen.
There’s something naggingly familiar about that house number…
there is a bit of irony in that one, eh.
the watchdog sleeping on 911…
What a variety! I like the shadows on the flower.
Sam is charming – waiting patiently? Watching the world go by? Very calm.
“Green ash in fall” is so vivid – I like the shapes of the tree, the cloud and the sky.
No mattter what it’s mood, it’s a lovely flower but what really attracted my eye are the curves and edges of the leaves.
Beautiful LEP … maybe it’s sad b/c it’s all alone … hopefully others will pop out of the ground soon … 😉
You are a poet Olivia 🙂
I think I can hear the howling here. 🙂
Lovely.
Wildflowers, Baalbek, Lebanon
Scotch Broom, Behind the House in Harf Al Mseitra, Coastal Mountains Above Jebleh, Syria
Field of Daisies, Jebleh, Syria
Produce Market, Mutrah District, Musqat, `Oman
Riam Park, Musqat, `Oman
I do love the way you do “local” color. 🙂
Those are great Hurria — agree w/ Andi. You really give us a treat each week w/ all these wonderful images. I love the view from up high in the Scotch Broom photo.
That’s a nice view behind the house.
I took that from my “reading rock”, a large, flat rock I would sit on and read in the morning. I had another reading spot behind the house under a tree for when it was too warm to sit in the open. Hopefully I will be back there when I visit Syria this year.
Hurria,
The 14th shot down in my post is also a Scotch Broom.
It was a surprise to me.
They only grow here in a certain location at a certain elevation.
Strangely enough, they are just coming into bloom now. I was up in the hills with NDD, just a few days ago, & pointed them out to him.
Thanks!
Poppy Pollen
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Yellow Columbine
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They Call it Meadow Yellow
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Hi Jim. I love that columbine. It looks like it’s glowing from within. And the third photo — is that a field of wildflowers?
The third shot was taken at a large meadow full of flowers by Crumbaugh Lake in Lassen NP, California. I’m not sure if the yellow ones were mule’s ears or arrowleaf balsamroots.
I have to choose the “Poppy Pollen” as my favorite. Love the colors and the varied textures. The green center could be a candy.
Good Morning everyone.
Taken a few minutes ago. This sunflower was the sole volunteer from last year’s crop. Considering it’s outside the raised bed and not watered it’s done surprisingly well.
Look close and you’ll see the a very busy honeybee covered pollen.
Wow, it’s really drenched. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like that.
I tried, and failed, to get a photo of her in flight. She really was bright yellow-orange all over.
The curled petals of the flower and the pollen laden bee are gorgeous shots.
Oh – I really like this photo – there is a richness to it.
Also from this morning.
Two young male Green Rosellas.
LOL … nice shot!
These two males are hanging out separate from the larger group. The older males may have given them the boot.
Only the males are yellow underneath, and the older they get the more brightly yellow they become. I’ve only seen one really old male in this flock.
The females are all-over green, except for the blue wing and cheek feathers and red crescent above the bill.
Our other rosella, the Eastern Rosella, is a bit showier, but doesn’t come up to our block. They seem to like the flats better.
After a dismal winter like ours, I can’t imagine anything more delightful than sharing the neighborhood with these birds!
They’re very fond of the Hobart Domain, which is a prominent hill between the city of Hobart and the Derwent estuary which has been retained as a park and recreation area.
That’s where I photographed the above bird.
Which means, should you ever find your way to Tasmania, they are very easy to view in the ‘wild’.
Hi keres.
Love the way sunflower petals curl. That bee is saturated. 🙂
The morning sunlight had just hit the flower. It stands up more and uncurls a bit when the sun has been up longer, unless it’s overcast, which it just became few hours ago.
I hate it when you wake up to a gorgeous sunny day and then it goes all gloomy. 🙁
Hot Iron
Remembering Summers Past
Hazy Day On The Ohio
Nice mix of shots (I can’t wait for the flowers to be this year’s bloom). And boy, that’s some truck.
That is one bright yellow paint job!
So with the paint that was left over from the house in Andi’s photo, there was enough to paint a truck.
Heh – apparently so!
That is one yellow blown chevy.
Hi ID … I’m w/ everyone else — that truck is something else. 🙂
Some truck!
I really like the touch of yellow in your “Hazy Day on the Ohio.”
The colors are wonderful and I really like the way the light is hitting the awning.
Nice.
And yeah, I’m with Andi, the crepuscular light (coming from dawn or twilight) cranks the whole thing up a notch.
Maybe you’ve heard there’s a rather interesting Maori legend connected with the light phenomenon. I remember some spectacular examples from the sunrises over Cuba, many years ago. Someday I’ll drag out my Ektachromes from that period and scan a few. Don’t remember if there are any sunrise shots that survived.
Seeing fruit displayed like that and in Huria’s produce market makes me want to buy it even if we don’t have a need for it.
No doubt that’s the whole idea. It’s a science.
The depth of perspective in this photo draws me right in & invites an imagined narrative. Also, the play of warm color in the foreground is wonderful, contrasted with the metallic blues. It’s a lovely image.
Love the buildings in the far background!
Do you notice the ‘horses head’ partially blocking the view of the ‘mairie’ (city hall) of the 18th arrondissement of Paris. The horses head signifies a butcher who specializes in selling horse meat. While not super popular, there are still many people in France who like horse meat. I’ve never tried it (knowingly).
Ah – I was guessing it was bovine!
On further examination you might be right. The next time I’m over there I’ll take a photo and post it here.
The butt pumpkin is orange but the wall behind it is yellow.
And the light reflected on top of the “butt” looks yellow to me. So did you carve two different designs in the cheeks?
Hah!. Strangely enough I had this pumpkin until about a week ago when it finally had to go into the compost.
We usually nickname our Halloween porch pumpkin Mr. Punkin. This one would have to be Joe the Plumber.
LOL!!
Just lovely (setting aside the idea of butt) – very warm.
I like the glow you caught on the clouds in the sunset shots.
Bab Touma, Damascus, Syria
Fatma, Sialkot, Pakistan
Great portrait — her personality just shines out of that photography (and I love that chair).
What a delightful expression!
Agree w/ you ID — cutie!
Here`s some mellow meme for your yellow theme.
I believe all the images in the “Bunch Of Bananaz” link back to the original shot if one wants to see the details of individual component shots.
For Hurriah, I included a “Scotch Broom” shot, to show detail of the one she posted. Her shot from across the globe, identical to mine from Malibu.
I`ve never seen any other images of this flowering plant, that has one of the most memorable scents, nor would I have ever imagined to see one from so far away. It does bring us closer, in a way.
Your blue/yellow combinations turn me on enormously, ‘Head. I think you’ve covered the entire yellow spectrum, too.
Superb!
Thank You Ms. Wench
I didn`t have time to do a more varied search in my archives, because I have to save time to be able to transfer them all onto a word document, then erase part of each url(?) so it will post properly & I`m a very poor keyboard user to boot.
I`m very pleased you liked my selection though.
It`s very encouraging.
I also make note of what “turns you on enormously”.
It does make one easier to approach. (I`m teasing)
You’re right, of course.
🙂
Well good,
Because I now feel that I was right in considering it an invitation of sorts, having been supplied with the inside scoop.
Isn`t it amazing how signals & how they`re perceived, have started wars, or have been the beginning of dynasties.
But for a simple twist of fate.
I have a different perspective on things that might have started this week, when a BooMan tribune member stopped in & spent a few days here at my place & I realized that my online persona might be seen as something completely different than what I am perceived to be by one who has seen the truth in person.
I`m impatient to see what that person thinks regarding the difference, if any. I hope there is none from his perspective. If none, then you`ll know that I`m serious about having a leg up, on how to approach someone but also that I`m teasing, (one of my tactics of seduction, by the way) It`s nice talking to you Ms. Wench.
I still see you as the image I portrayed you as, in the bunch of people I assigned christmas decorations to, some years ago.
That `s a compliment.
Good night.
Another wowsa set (as usual, of course). I like the “starburst” flower but my eye keeps going back to the lovely starkness of a yellow flowers against a blue fence.
Hi Andi,
Strange how a fence meant to separate, can unify an image from the sum of different & disparate parts.
Thank you.
BTW, NDD thinks you have a “mouth” hah, but I think you speak the truth in your way.
I believe it was about Medicine Hat & the Arches.
He`s going to kill me for this.
He was laughing at the time though.
Well I’m not surprised that NDD might be taken aback by me — once a Norwegian bachelor farmer, always a Norwegian bachelor farmer (being married has no effect on that). 😉
I’m with Andi, the sunflowers against the blue fence are the fav of that set.
Thanks Bob x
Contrast is our friend.
What ww, Andi & BobX said! In addition, I liked the stalking leopard, what appears to be B-17 nose art (Liberty Belle?) and the very sensuous final flower.
Indianadem,
A friend`s children were over & left one of the toy animals they were playing with, on the hammock on the deck.
Actually a lot of my shots are things I spot just passing by.
The “nose art” shot is from some work I did for a POW in WW2
Dick Sawyer, pictured, is a very nice man I`ve known for many years.
He`s in the hospital now & in his eighties.
We spent many hours here at my place as we recorded & designed cover art for the DVD`s of his interviews for history & the paintings of his friend`s planes. I produced many maps of airfields & mission paths for the missions he was on.
But more than that, throughout all the time we spent together, I was able to pull information out of a great man made more so, by his humbleness in the recounting. There is so much more I did not know about this horrific episode in our history
The patches in the pic I made for him. These are the final embroidered ones from my designs I created with his input. (I did not do the Liberty Bell one)
You can see I used the guard tower from the Vietnam Vets patch.
Dick was an engineer top/gunner on these B17`s & was shot down on his 25th mission. His story is quite amazing & he was interviewed for a historical accounting of his experiences along with many others to get the records for history.
The other images of paintings, some commissioned by Dick for his fellow crew members, I shot & enlarged for him from very small transparencies. You can see a paper clip holding one in front of streaming sunlight from an open window, so I could shoot the fine details. You can see the “Square J” on the tail of the planes, designating the squadron these planes were associated with. You`ll see the same “Square J” on the patches, and on the planes in the paintings.
I do have more of the paintings I reproduced in image form.
The Liberty bell shot is a before & after of the plane taken of a centerfold in a magazine. His friend owns that one & is shown flying after a complete restoration.
Wounded On Board
Dusk Return
Dick Sawyer
(my old friend)
History Remembered
Liberty Belle
Freedom is Not Free
After & before
Original transparency
Sorry to hear about your friends illness. We could learn a lot from people like him, but not many listen, it seems. Soon their voices will all be silent.
Thanks for these from an old airplane nut. I was crazy about ’em as a kid and spent time flying military up until 87. I was in a group here for awhile made up of mostly WW II Army Air Corps. We called ourselves the Bald Eagles and got together occasionally for dinner, drinks and stories. We once chartered a couple of buses and went off to Dayton to the Air Force Museum. Everyone spent the day looking over their old birds. I think a lot of those guys are gone for good now. Since my active duty was 62 to 65, I was the youngest of the bunch. Someday I want to dig out the old color slides from those days and try scanning.
Hi Head.
I guess I’ll add my name to the sunflower and purple wall list. The sunflowers are really cheery and nice to see.
Hi Olivia,
I`m glad the sun shines through in those flowers.
I believe those were from parrot food that was flung out of the area, by Coconut, in a fit of enthusiasm while he was looking for a favorite nut at the bottom of his food dish.
Blame him for that fortuitous blossom grouping.
That makes it ever more special … 🙂
It is always difficult to pick a favorite from the collections you post. The cheetah is so whimsical that I had to laugh out loud – since is the grumpiest time of the year for me, I will choose the laugh.
I know a Scotch broom that is salmon/red colored. If it is going to bloom, it will be in about two and a half months. I will try to capture the color and share.
Also, my apologies for not responding two weeks ago to your question on whether I had seen the movie, “El Topo.” I looked through the links you provided and knew it was not a movie I would choose to see (I won’t watch violence, scary or stupid which narrows the choices considerably). I did ask a friend about it. He had seen it multiple times when it came out in the early 70’s, and then again a few years ago – wasn’t quite the same experience. 😉
Hi Tampopo,
No worries
I`ll be waiting for the Scotch Broom.
In honor of their appearance above the fresh new soil ..
.. and things to come.
You have daffodils already? We have some wild ones out in the woods (they’re at old homesites) but all they’ve put so far are shoots.
Love the delicacy of butterfly.
Your fungus, though, ain’t among us — the link doesn’t work.
We had a handful in bloom Thursday afternoon. I was naughty and cut them to bring in to my best girlfriend.
Apologies for the bad link. Let’s try again.
As for the daffodils, no, we definitely do not have flowers yet. The new plants have just appeared over the soil-line, which made me happy enough to post their wonderful yellows.
Your daffs are blooming? Wow! Lucky ww … 🙂
That second shot is fantastic … love the colour tones as much as the content, gentle butterfly sipping nectar.
I’m so pleased that you like it, Miss O. Can’t wait to see the butterflies again this year.
We have a few more weeks ’til the daffodils bloom, also. The pic is from my prior digs.
I thought you lived in Brigadoon with everything always misty – the butterfly is my favorite.
I’ve misled you, tampopo. It’s only misty about 20% of the time here — but I’m always out in the mist with my camera.
It’s very appropriate to my general state of mind.
Two more from the autumn woods.
Very nice. I love the pattern of the ferns.
I also think the fern patterns are perfectly shot.
Very nice.
The ferns are wonderful!
I like the fungus flower – the textures and variety of colors appeal to me, both of the fungus and the surroundings.
Phew! Think I’ve got it, after a whole day of teaching an old dog (moi) new tricks. Now I’ll be a relentless P.I.A.
So glad to have you posting her, Alice. Really and truly.
And love the angle you used for that picture — it plays well with the little streak of light and the chair leg.
So glad you persevered! I really like the sunlight on cat fur.
I’m surprised to find that there is some yellow around here.
Free jelly beans for anyone who still has their Donovan albums
Snow still hanging around out there.
Bunny the cat
From my fabulous art collection: Georgia O’Keefe “Cottonwood Trees in Spring”
Yes, I DO remember
I thought so – all mine!
Not so fast young lady.
I have albums too, you should know, & I also have beans to gamble.
Love Bunny … 🙂
Olivia,
I thought we were to keep our nicknames private.
Aren`t I the troublemaker.
🙂
We still have our dylan albums, our baez albums, our phil ochs albums, our buffy st. marie albums, our tom paxton albums …
Whew! Some sunrise! I thought it was a sunset too. Such a dramatic sunrise is rather rare in my part of the world. There is a leafless tree – is this in FL?
The bits of flower look like they are floating away from the center or maybe they are being pulled in. Lovely.
Thanks for the comments, yeah, it’s Florida. That’s a sweet gum tree that doesn’t leaf until April and produces no gumballs. The local tree service guys come every spring and offer to cut it down because they think it’s dead.
This house reminds me of a Dan Flavin exhibit!
If the owners saw that, they’d probably be jealous that their yellow was so tame. 🙂
I find myself gravitating to your freesias – I especially like the two petals peeking out of the bud. Reminds me to pay attention to the changes happening right now… patience.
I really like “A Spot of Yellow” – an upside down world which takes me a while to orient myself. There is a kind of “work” in looking at this photo – “work” in a good way 😉
Thanks. That pond is wonderful for reflections because it’s very still.