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: Aphorisms and Quotes (h/t keres).
Website(s) of the Week: New Scientist Photo Galleries
AndiF Aphorisms
olivia’s aphorisms
Next Week’s Theme: Bridges (h/t Indianadem).
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling at you. Al-Mutanabbi
Happy Flogging everyone!
LOL, love the tongue and spotted nose.
Wow! How do you know Al Mutabbi?!
Mutanabbi.
“I’m known to the horses, the night and the wilderness. I’m known to the sword, the spear, the paper and the pen”, Al Mutanabbi
In all fairness I was looking for aphorisms when I found his work. Glad I did, now on my reading list.
Where have you been? Missed you and your photos.
Love the photo.
One more..
Falling leaves return to their roots. Traditional Chinese
Both of your pictures are very good (as usual) but this one is especially fine and the aphorism you found for it is just perfect.
I was lucky to get this as the leaves here usually just turn brown and fall off. With the cold snap there is foliage in January.
Beautifully done … love both the saying and your photo.
A very lyrical image.
“We’re Getting There” – unknown Southeastern Pennsylvania transporation authority
Very evocative. As always, you really make excellent use of perspective.
I agree w/ Andi – your photos always have fantastic dof and framing.
Wonderful framing, and I love the “web” of wires.
When the cat’s away, the mouse eats Kitty’s lunch.
Wow, what a great capture. And … poor kitty, what an insult. 😉
The cats do manage to get their revenge. Eventually.
LOL! Wonderful … 😀 How’d you capture this and not scare the little guy away?
It’s hard to inspire fear in someone who repeatedly craps in your slippers.
🙂
LOL!
He/she is daring.
Awwww.
Apparently Luna’s is no more of a threat than your cat. I believe that several generations of mice were taught that her bowl was the equivalent of a mouse pantry. That is, until an even bigger mouse came along, aka Lily.
Must be a tribal rite of passage ..
lol!
Many compliments on the great images so far — as well as the aphorisms!
“They also serve who only stand and wait” – Milton
“Ask not what your country can do for you” – Kennedy
“How high’s the water, mama?” – Cash
Very evocative, ID — especially the way the flag carries through the second & third image.
To be honest, the flag thing wasn’t consciously planned. I wanted to use the Johnny Cash line and needed to find a good match for it. We once met briefly long ago during the High Times and he always seemed larger than life to me, despite his troubles.
Cash is very quotable. The b&w is very fine indeed.
The Johns have served you well as you have them (boy, that sentences can sounds … um … ambiguous).
The middle shot is a terrific capture. Every face is a great portrait. The statues photo looks like something Knucklehead would have taken. And the third photo … okay, that’s one I’d just as soon forget.
The middle one is one of my personal favorites. Portraits are so difficult to get without someone noticing that the photo is being taken and striking a pose!
Great quotes ID. I like how you tied them all together. That water looks scary – how long did it take to go down?
Ours is an upland “headwaters” area, so the water never stays up for long, but for the blue house on the right it was one flood too many. It was torn down not long after the waters receded. Glad you liked the 3 Johns.
Rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno (‘a rare bird in the lands, and very like a black swan’) – Juvenal.
A metaphor, that for 1500 years, stood for “that which could not exist” (all swans are white), until black swans were found in Australia.
A very lovely shot, keres. Amazing!
Not so amazing when I see them hundreds of them every time I cross the Derwent river. I saw one swan today with an amazing number of cygnets – seven. The usual clutch of chicks is two or three.
Let’s hope this signifies a year of abundance.
All of your images/quotes are truly great!
‘Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.’ – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Very nice shot and quote!
What a perfect combination of image and quote. Just brilliant.
Love this … love the quote … wonderful!
‘A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.’ – Ogden Nash
And, because I simple had too – ‘Let sleeping dogs lie.’
I can’t resist adding another illustration of that quote.
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They really know how to chill, no?
lol … 🙂
The turquoise sea does a beautiful (literally) job of setting off the beautiful bird. Love the double quotes.
I’ve always really liked that quote, both for its imagery and its simplicity – and its flawed presumption.
It’s nice that you could provide it such a good image, then.
Though I like the bird, what I really liked was the way the waves in the top part of the picture look like fine lines drawn through the blue.
I missed it – it’s just a blue box now.
Andi and olivia, you’ve outdone yourselves this week! The sunrise shots are gorgeous, the”chia pet” is delightful, but isn’t owning a 3-holer rather pretentious? I’m jealous!
Seconded.
Thanks ID.
And given the state of that three-holer, I’d say their pretensions are very much down the toilet.
lol!
Thanks ID, keres. 🙂
great stuff fffloggers. kudos to all, and especially the hosts.
bobx… the leopard is priceless;
ss…l can’t believe those antique electric trollies are still operating somewhere. l remember riding them, or something similar, many decandences ago;
ww…the mouseketeer is a great shot…..and you’re right about the intimidation factor;
id…you can’t go wrong w/ the man in black;
and speaking of black; keres, the black swan is a magnificent shot.
and l especially like the elusive wild chia pet that ms o captured…tho they are a serious environmental threat in the southwest.
andi, your sunrise shot is exquisite, and the three holer…well, what can l say, when ya gotta go, ya gotto go.
later
d
Thanks d.
I`ve been a little out of sorts of late, so I hope I got the theme right.
I am feeling ‘betta’ now.
To BEE or Not

THINGS Go Better With Coke

A FRIEND INDEED

LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING

A SILK PURSE

BARS DO NOT A PRISON MAKE

PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS

BEWARE OF THOSE BEARING FRUIT

WHO PUT THE OVERALLS

(In Mrs. Murphy`s Chowder)
Those Who Live In Glass Houses

FLIES & VINEGAR

A BIRD IN THE HAND

It`s Bark is Much Worse

A Snail`s Space

You got the theme right and you sure couldn’t have done betta. (Also, very glad your sorts are back in stock.)
Love PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS. Great combo and I love the foregrounding of the plants.
And I don’t I believe It`s Bark is Much Worse.
AndiF,
Good.
I was trying to match aphorisms with images & vice versa.
“Paved with good intentions” is a road I used to travel daily for years.
I can’t resist A FRIEND INDEED (being another doting grandpa) and I’m with Andi on the road PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS.
Indianadem
My little buddy also appears in “Things Go Better With Coke”
I did that to fool my granddaughters.
That`s what they`re for, right.
You fooled me too! I should look more with an eye for detail. Bet she was tickled.
Hi Head … wonderful! I agree w/ Andi on the paved with good intentions photo. It’s a stunning view. And I love all the detail on the snail, wow.