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: Rain or shine, drops or rays. What kind of weather has been filling your days?
Photo Blog of the Week: Photo Synthesis, “a rotating showcase of the best science photography on the web.”
AndiF Weather Story
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On July 4th, it rained for over 12 hours straight.
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On July 5th, it stayed overcast, cool, and damp.
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On July 6th, that water-laden air met warmer temps and the sunrise.
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olivia’s sun and rain
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Sunshine
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Raindrops
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Clouds
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- Next Week’s Theme is : Green. All things green, even if it’s green around the gills, the green-eyed monster, your green thumb, or green eggs and ham.
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
let’s see…
Over the 4th of July weekend we had…
Choppy water
Gorgeous Blue Skies
Clear Night With Full Moons (Long Exposure)
Fiery Skies On The 4th
And then getting home, the skies were still clear…
This is a biggie – you might want to click through to see what I mean…
Here’s the source page for the panorama with another panorama taken in 2007.
Gorgeous shots stand strong, really great work. I love that ferris wheel shot. That is really pretty. Looks like you’re having fun experimenting w/ your camera/shots.
It’s always fun with a camera in hand!
However, had I known about this really cool fireworks photography technique on the 4th, I might’ve had some really cool shots to show.
Next time, Gadget, NEXXXTTTT TTIIIMMMEEE!!
LOL
That looks like Chihuly glass!
Quite the ride those picture are taking us on — all the way from the flashy cityscape to the quiet lapping of water.
A carnivorous plant (the sticky “fingers” fold inward around its prey), still wet from the overnight rain.
yet alien looking!
Wow – that looks like a piece of jewelry!
Agree w/ tampopo – it looks like jewels. 🙂
Here’s a link to the full image that I posted at Wikipedia.
And here’s another of my photos of a similar species that grows extensively on our property.
And there little sundews (about the size of a dime each plant) I saw on a track at the Bay of Fires and have yet to classify.
Being a plant guy, both of these are very cool.
“Plant guy”, huh. So which is it, a hobby, an occupation, or very unusual parentage?
I’m more of natural sciences gal myself. Plants, animals, fungi, rocks – they’re all interesting.
University trained Master Gardener and co-own an allied trade supplier to landscape nursery business. So the first two.
Well, if your hobby/business ever takes you to Tasmania, I’ll show you around the plants. Like most islands we have a high degree of endemism. Plus, we’re one of the last chucks of Gondwanaland to stay separate from another land mass (which means we have lots of way cool fern trees, and other “primitive” plants).
Like this fine assemblage of “grass trees” we saw on the walk we took last weekend.
What a wonderful effect — a melting world.
Love the other shots too.
Well, hello everybody. Enjoyed the conversation about light in last weeks flog. It’s kind of funny but that’s what makes this medium so interesting to me.
Concave wall painting, Florida Museum of Natural History
The Casements Memorial Gardens, Ormond Beach, Independence Day 2009. Getting ready.
BOOM
BobX – I looked at the top photo for the quite a bit cause there was something odd about it, but I couldn’t figure it out. I read your description, ah, concave. And then it made sense.
Great fireworks – you’ve even captured the “kabooms.”
I, too, enjoyed the discussion on light last week. I have been trying all week “to ignore the colors.” I found it difficult unless I was really still, doing nothing but studying what was in front of me. Otherwise, I was noticing what the sun was highlighting or how it was pinking up the sky – like your second photo.
I shot a lot of b&w while I was going to school as a staff photog for the student paper. It took a long time for me to shoot it well. I think the best images tend to run on the high contrast side as opposed to sepia which tend to look better with soft images.
I was fooling around with some images and here are a couple of examples.
This was posted before as a color image.
I posted a diffent image in sepia once but I like this one better.
Thanks Bob – one of the joys of the digital camera is the immediacy of the feedback. Though I need the computer to really see what I have captured, it is much better than the wait to get film processed. (And much less expensive!)
I am still often surprised to find objects in a photo that I had ignored when taking the photo… telephone poles, buildings, cars, etc. I know I tune out sounds, but I hadn’t realized how much I visually blank out.
I really like the tulips in black and white. Interesting to observe where my eyes travel and what I notice which is different than when there are colors.
The sepia has a whole different flavor again. I’m finding I need to expand my descriptive vocabulary 😉
When at the paper, the school actually funded us, which was really cool and allowed a few of us lots of darkroom time and what seemed like an endless supply of film and paper, it just had to be of school function, mine was sports.
Yeah, those objects weren’t in my viewfinder either, who put them there LOL! Sometimes the viewfinders on certain cameras crop a good portion off, so you can’t see the edges and have to crop them out after. My big cameras don’t do this, my smaller cameras do. Manufacturers do this to save money. I wish they would figure out how to do both, at least 98% coverage, NIKON. On the other hand sometimes there’s something smack near the middle that I could swear wasn’t there.
Thanks, The tulips were rather uninteresting until I added blue-green filter to bring the highlights down and increase the detail in the petal veins. Playing with the color filters after B&W conversion brings interesting results and you may see details that were hidden in a simple conversion.
Hi Bob. Love that top shot. It looks like a real field the way it narrows into the distance, and the way the light comes through the clouds onto the grass. Great fireworks too. 🙂
Thanks, that’s a really neat room. It was done by students in the Fine Art Dept. at The University of Florida. I’ve never really seen anything like it.
Really nice shots, Bob. I especially like the top shot — what great framing.
Thanks, sun rays at the bottom is a nice shot. I’m usually in a moving car when I see this, and don’t get the opportunity.
I really like the diagonal line in the first photo, baby ents reaching out. The third photo has music with it.
My favorite is the second one, all that green and sparkly water drops is refreshing.
Thanks tampopo. That “weed” is one of my favorite plants — I love it’s spiral spikiness. Someday I’m going to find out what it is.
What am I looking at in the top photo? Spider plants? In a kind of frame? Is this for real?
I really like “Raindrops,” with the story in the water’s reflection.
Hi tampopo. Yes, it’s hanging live plants in a botanical gardens. The sun was shining through the windows, top left.
Morning Beams
very cool. Are they taken through a light-filtering window blind? I think I have those same ones. 🙂
Thanks – we replaced the regular screens with sun/heat resistant screening material. It works very well, plus it is impossible to tell if the windows are clean or not.
Great eye tampopo! I like all the patterns that are happening.
What a nifty effect. It looks like a a woven piece of art.
I like the multiple patterns w/the beans behind, still in some focus.
California
Syrian Coastal Mountains
Orontes Valley is to the right.
View of the Orontes Valley from Near Harf Al Mseitra, Syria
Excellent use of the theme. I love misty mountains.
The slope of the second Syrian Coastal Mountains picture is really appealing.
Beautiful views Hurria. I like how the landscapes fade away into the background.
All the rain we endured last Saturday coaxed out some new color for us to enjoy this weekend.
Oh how lovely (I especially like the last one). That’s one of the nicest parts of coming to town — all the gorgeous flowers.
Ah… the benefits of water. I really like all the raindrops on the geranium, the vivid color, and the shadows… joyful.
Very pretty … definitely one of the best parts of getting a lot of rain.
Hi all. Great photos. I especially like the B&Ws.
The kids camp near us minus the kids and several dozen degrees F.
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I love this photograph, Jim. Very eloquent. (Dare I say elegiac)?
Yesterday the humidity arrived. It has been an unusually cool and dry June and July, so I shouldn’t complain… but I am going to anyway.
I find your photo cool. I like the subtle colors of winter and the exposed “bones” of the landscape.
Lovely in its starkness. It’s such a change from the lush growth you have around you currently.
Between the raindrops.
Blueberries and a peony?
The barn should have been your 4th of July post: red barn white clouds, blue sky. 🙂
I knew they were blueberries before reading the comment & about your excellent suggestion for the fourth.
Good call, & nice photos.
Great pictures — glad you got a rain break so you could take them. 🙂
Love the blueberries.
Wonderful set!
As with AndiF’s Almost Milkweed, I think the (Almost) blueberries are reminiscent of marzipan treats. I also understand the desire to decorate hats with such beautiful things as berries.
And the peony (pee nee) is just luscious – frothy and delicate. Maybe it is because I was looking at Paris Fashions cause looking at your photo, I keep thinking there is a dress in there somewhere 😉
Your barn photo looks like a present with cloud ribbons – Americana at its best.
That’s so true tampopo, re the haute couture dresses and peony ruffles.
So lovely ww — the barn shot is wonderful.
Hi everybody.
I`m late to the party this week but composited a bunch of shots at my place to show you my weather.
For Tampopo, I have a whole set for you, but have been so busy here, I have not set the images up to post.
Please allow me another week.
I think you`ll enjoy what I`ll bring, at the expense of my tardiness.
I always enjoy what you bring and am absolutely delighted that you bring it, regardless of when it shows up.
And I hope everybody clicks on that image and then brings up the biggest size so they can experience the full and splendid beauty of it.
Thanks for the hat tip.
The original size is much better to view.
That reminds me of the picture at Astronomy Picture of the Day yesterday. What time did you take your shot?
Hi JimF.
It is strange that the linked shot is similar, though the sun was still above the horizon when I shot these images.
I think there are six images that I manually merged together in the composite posted.
I was expecting a fantastic sunset reflected under these cloud formations but that didn`t happen.
I`m very glad that I did take a bunch of shots in pre-anticipation though.
Oh my! How do you manage to do anything besides sit and stare in wonder? 😉
I would be glad to give you another week (or more) – please, take your time and don’t stress yourself on my account.
Tampopo,
Believe me,If I had my druthers, I`d do nothing but admire the magic, & sometimes sleep & eat.
The set I have for you, was shot in exclusivity, & no one has seen any of the shots, or resulting games I played with some of them.
The folder is “TAMPOPO WORK” & on my desktop.
But Friday, it shall be revealed.
Hah,
I don`t mean to make it secretive, though I did shoot it for you.
I am truly honored – thank you.
Jeez,
I hope I do well, then.
Hah.
IOW`s I hope I can be of help to your use of your camera.
Remember, your camera is not the instrument of success, it`s only a tool you use.
You are the director.
Stunning … your views are amazing and I’m happy that you share them w/ us. 🙂
Olivia,
See, I knew you were fine.
Thanks Olivia.
Looking forward to see the set when you get it posted. 🙂
without sharing this with everyone here.
I’m fascinated with lightning. I love seeing fierce and violent storms and love absolutely crazy ass lightning storms. For several years, I used my little DV video camera to capture storms that rolled through West Philly, isolating lightning strikes, and I even posted a couple on YouTube. Those can be seen here and here.
However, one of the things I’ve so desperately been waiting for has been the return of the summertime storms and a chance to use my SLR to capture lightning. Since I got my camera in October of last year, we really haven’t had too many of the violent storms here like those that accompany the warmer months but that is already beginning to change and last night we had one hell of a doozy.
I got many shots, most from distance bolts, but than I got a couple shots that were more up close and personal…
And I look forward to producing more shots like this as the summer continues rolling on and storms continue rolling in.
Wow!
I can’t tell you how many times I said WOW! last night while trying to take these shots. I’ve been dying for a storm like last night’s where it rolls in from a distance giving me time to take pictures as it rolls in.
If you don’t mind my asking, are you taking these from a hill? A building? A building on a hill?
They are quite spectacular – glad you had such a thrill and shared the results. I agree with Bob, intense lightning is scary. Hard to take photos with ones eyes squeezed closed and hands over ears.
and faces both west and north so I get two vantage points from high up.
Lightning capital of the world here. Scares me, almost got hit in the kitchen, the microwave and coffee maker took the hit. Great pics though.
Yikes!
Double wow!
Awesome!
Congrats! Those are fantastic!
garden gate
orange milkweed
stars
wow, how many ants?
lots of activity
The “garden gate” feels like the beginning of a story… very inviting.
I only recognize milkweed when it is in its floss phase. Your photos are showing me what I have been missing. They’re gorgeous.
That orange milkweed is amazing! And I love the ants crawling all over (but I didn’t try to count them).
Agree w/ Andi – that orange milkweed is stunning. Great colour.