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: Transitions.
Website(s) of the Week: The Big Picture. News stories in photographs.
AndiF in Transition
olivia’s transitions
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Basil, rooting to pot
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Knitting, skeins of wool to scarves
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Tea
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Next Week’s Theme: Gates, passages, doorways, paths … Thanks to wilderness wench and KNUCKLEHEAD for the theme idea. (Next on the list will be keres’ suggestion of Aphorisms.)
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
Very scary to read about Teri and the accident. I hope that she heals quickly and isn’t in too much pain. Sending healing thoughts your way, and safe travels to you too.
We’ve gone w/ the gates theme for next week but if you need to postpone for a bit we can switch it up w/ keres’ idea. Let us know!
Olivia,
Thank you for the good healing thoughts.
They are working in concert with all the other good wishes I received for her, through the tubes & wires.
I did not have the time to search through my archives, or come up with image ideas to compliment the wonderful submissions here tonight.
The good news is that she is back from the hospital as of a few hours ago.
I do have some fish though.
As for the gates theme, another week would suit me well.
I`ve already started shooting some, but I still have to go on a drive-about to shoot many I have in mind, which always leads the way to some gates I hadn`t noticed before.
Big Backup

Three Dimensions

Rush Hour

Double Support

Orange Lurker

So pleased to hear the news, KH. Wishing Teri good healing.
Knucklehead,
So sorry to hear of the accident, here’s to good thoughts and quick healing.
Some transitions…
Spring to pool.

White to black.

Road and sky to horizon.

Hi Bob.
Great expression of the theme – love the rich colours in Spring to pool. White to black is great, lol! My favourite though, is the last one. Gorgeous leading lines, interspersed w/ those opposing electric cables.
Thanks for the comments. I thought the street would be popular.
The basil is neat. Our parsley always gets eaten by the black swallowtail butterfly caterpillars. It’s awfully hard to grow herbs here.
Very nice set, Bob. I especially like the last one. Gorgeous sky, great lighting, perfect framing.
Thanks, Curving Through Time is a nice series, what an interesting tree to photograph.
Love the street scene; glad you’re not road kill.
Thanks, I took that rolling down the crown of the street. Good for me the street was closed at the time.
Bobx,
The first one, “Spring to Pool”, is amazing in it`s depth.
A beautiful shot.
Thanks ‘Head, I took that on a footbridge over the run. Didn’t really look at it ’till much later. One of my luckier shots.
great set. l really like the white to black one, especially.
but l do have to ask, as a player with 3 guitars laying around….a kitchen counter seems an odd place to keep an “axe”.
Ha, it’s funny what others perceive in photos that you would never think of. That was taken at a sidewalk art festival, early in the morning. The white and black borders are actually the intersecting booths. In between were the still subjects, sitting on the street. I thought that the contrasting booths with the still subjects in-between would make for an interesting composition.
‘Transitions’ as stated at the top or ‘Gates, passages, doorways, paths ‘ as stated at the bottom?
;p
Thanks … 🙂
Near to Far
Foreground and Background
Oh, nice framing and dof in the first shot, past & present. And love the rounds of light in near to far … 😀
The thing I like the most about the top shot (and it wasn’t framed how I actually wanted it to be due to a delivery truck parked on the shoulder) is the incorporation of the trolley mural on the wall off the street:
I plan on retaking the shot again for better framing from a different angle and I think this mural just goes naturally with a modern day trolley shot.
Oh neato – I can see it now after viewing the full mural. Yeah, if you could get a bit more of the mural on the left into view it would be really clear. Hopefully you get another shot sans delivery truck as it’s a great idea.
I like the low perspective of Past & Present. Street photos taken that show street from low angles are always interesting to me.
The top shot is nifty but it’s the last one that really caught my eye — it’s a very witty shot.
The bridge shot is amazing. I’d love to see the shot in a before and after.
The bridge shot was actually a layered and post-processed shot. It didn’t quite come out the way I wanted it to but looking at it again today, would probably be a great subject for HDR – not to capture any hyper-realistic look, but just to get a proper exposure.
Our back yard, which ends about half way between the railing and the spot fire on our neighbors property in the first photo.
Ooh that’s such fun to look at. I love all the subtle and not subtle at all differences.
Yes, but did you spot Luna twice?
I love sitting at my desk with this as my view.
We got a particularly spectacular view last year when the peak closest to us caught fire from a lightening strike (which I saw, and promptly reported to the fire department). It took three days to be put out.
Fire on the Mountain
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Pete Seeger, Lee Hayes, and Solomon(?) would approve.
Oh, keres! What a beautiful, nourishing spot! You’re so very, very lucky!
Maybe I can be the next animal you adopt .. ?
😉
Sure, but I recommend coming in on a human visa. Animals have to spend six months in quarantine.
No time off for good behavior, eh?
Andi & Olivia,
Looks like you two were on the collages wavelength this week.
Andi, I love the curvature of space time.
Olivia, you can sure spin a yarn.
Liquid to Vapor,

Granite to Sand
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Dead to Living

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Binary Transition

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I love that fireweed shot.
The balancing dog standing on it`s shadow counter balance is fantastic.
Great set! Love the Bebo shot!
Nice contrast with the burn/growth.
The transition to winter. This scene was photographed earlier this week. This car is rear wheel drive and sat at home that day.
Not so much a transition as a very rude intrusion. 😉
How about ‘trauma’ ?
Once again, you’ve all been absolutely inspired.
Transitions might be the name of the photo essay I hope to be working on next week, when I take the train from New York to Florida.
However, we all know transition is a constant thing ..
Hope you have a fine visit with your mother.
That farmhouse is wonderful — makes me want to move right in.
I’ve certainly had days when I felt just like that self-portrait. 😉
Thanks for good wishes, Andi.
The house is indeed a very friendly place to be. I’ve been fortunate to have a room here.
As for the dark spirit’s emergence, I hope you don’t feel that way too often.
Love the misty woods and the emerging poppy. Happy holidays! Wish I could be in Manhattan for a few days right now. Ah, childhood memories.
Unfortunately, NYC is a very different place than it was when we were kids.
It may be ‘cleaner’ & ‘safer’, but it’s also lost its gritty rainbow heart.
I wish you & yours a happy holiday as well!
The black and white leaves are a classic shot. Well done!
Thanks, Bob! I’m honored by your compliment.
Winter weather blowing in

Icy water on a journey to the Gulf

Another great shot from the library. Did you help them pick out the site when they built the new building? 🙂
I’ve been haunting that hill since the 1950’s when the town street urchins, myself included, raced our homemade soapbox cars down the slope that later became Locust Lane. Guess there’s some sort of spiritual connection there. Maybe its all the blood we left in the dirt at the curve at the bottom when there was fence line running east to west there instead of a through street. We were all Indy 500 drivers in our dreams;-)