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 Month’s Theme: On the road. Suggested by Sven.
Link of the Month: Bookshelf Porn: A photo blog collection of all the best bookshelf photos from around the world.
AndiF On the Road
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On the Road … Slowly but Surely
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On the Road … Sharing with Others
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On the Road … From Under It
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On the Road: A literal translation by olivia
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Next Theme (Friday July 8, 2011): Summertime and the living is easy
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
Andi & Miss O: Truly wonderful photos — every one! The traveling animals are my favorites.
This is a great theme! Hope I can drop something in the box later on.
Thanks ww … Hope so too! 🙂
Two awesome surprises at once: today’s foto flogging day and you guys picked my theme suggestion 🙂 Especially like Andi’s second and Olivia’s last pic. Below is my interpretation of today’s theme:
U.S. Route 20, Brothers, Oregon:
Viale Richard Wagner, Ravello, Italy:
Paraty, Brazil:
Crescent Valley, Nevada I:
Crescent Valley, Nevada II:
Crescent Valley, Nevada III:
Lovelock, Nevada:
Mercado Popular, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California:
Avenue of the Giants, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California:
Sven, these are all great! Great color + perspective. I especially like the Golden Gate image & the Brothers image; each has a dramatic division that magically unites. All very cool.
Hi Sven – great theme idea. 🙂
Great set of images! The colours in the first photo Brothers are beautiful – love how the white line pulls my eye into the frame, and the repeating pattern with the lines in the sky. There’s an overall softness to it that really appeals to me. Love the view from above on the Golden Gate Bridge photo too.
thanks wilderness wench & olivia! the Golden Gate pic was taken on my return flight back to Europe after an extensive trip of the western US. I was very lucky to sit on the right side of the plane for this wonderful takeof: flying out onto the Pacific only to make a turn and fly by Cliff House and directly over the Golden Gate and then straight over the bay. The flight was even more spectacular in that it crossed the northern shore of Lake Tahoe, passed by Reno and then over snow covered Northern Nevada. More pics from the flight in this set.
The Viale Richard Wagner shot brings back fond memories of Europe. Love all your pix, but this one is my favorite of this set.
We found this ancient ovoid-shaped service station on the road in Holbrook, Arizona. It was fenced off, hopefully to make a snazzy cafe or similar.
Great take on the theme! You have a way of finding these interesting places on your travels. I like that faded and peeling coloured strip around the top.
Thanks Olivia! It seems like the southwest is a particularly good area to find relics like this.
Nice retro, b2!
AndiF & Olivia,
I got caught flatfooted today.
I`ll be back tomorrow to post some of my images.
Till then, good evening to you both.
Hi Head. Looking forward to it!
Then I hope you don`t mind that I was on a second “RoadTrip” today to my old house & that I snapped this shot for you.
I have more images from my voyage that I shall post tomorrow, though I did post some from my earlier trip out today.
They`re down lower.
Its beautiful! Do you know what kind of plant it is?
Indianadem,
Yes, it`s a vine called Snailwort. I should have taken an “over all”image.
This vine is growing on a large trellis I attached to the wall of my old house many years ago. There are many hundreds of blooms like the one pictured, all over the wall
Some scans from pre-digital days ~ Zaragosa, Spain
Hidden mural
Plaza de las Catedrales ~ some building detail
Moorish wall in background, about 400 AD, IIRC
another view of the wall
Monumento a Goya y torre de La Seo
My lovely and exotic traveling companion
What a treat! Looks like a beautiful place. Love the look of the trees – the very tall, upright evergreen trees, and the shape and form of the buildings as well. The hidden mural photo though is my favourite of the group — love that one. 🙂
Aragon is a fascinating area, with lots of history mostly neglected by secondary schools over here (at least the ones I attended). We took the mural shot on a stroll through the city at the beginning of siesta on a weekday and the absence of people was quite surreal. I hear Zaragosa has become more touristy in recent years. When we were there, we encountered very few English speakers. It was a fun and challenging excursion:)
Thank you for sharing it with us! Especially with those who are tethered to the homeland.
We’re hoping for one more trip over, if we can figure out how to finance it. I’d like to do some family history research in addition to just running around slack-jawed at every marvelous vista:)
Coincidently, today there was a navy destroyer anchored off the pier here in Malibu, in celebration of Navy Days.
A year in the planning of this quite rare visit, we decided to go down to the pier in hopes of going aboard.
The visits were restricted due to some higher levels of security.
Myself, accompanied by Teri, her daughter Haylie, & little Finny ( who by the way, spoke to me by my name Tony, for the first time) decided to have a great time anyway.
As an added surprise, Larry Ellison (the owner of Oracle) had his sailboat anchored nearby.
Here are a few shots of today`s road trip.
As an added feature, I also added a link to some driftwood I saw on Biomes Blog.
I shall include the image, but do invite you to click the link.
Here we go.
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2010/06/driftwood-at-la-push-washington.html
The John Paul Jones
(505 feet)
Electronic Communication Specialist
I wasn`t too happy about this.
Our pier, bedecked for the welcoming of the 270 sailors & their families.
Carapace
(The colors remind me of AndiF`s shot of the tortoise foot.)
Irish Moss?
The smell of napalm in the morning.
(Apocalypse Now)
Reminiscent of the little Vietnamese girl in the iconic photo of that war.
Luckily she`s safe on our local beach.
I see a metaphor for humankind in your surfer photo, KH. Beautiful work!
Nice set, KNUCKLEHEAD! Better luck next time with the fishing.
Indianadem,
The reason I was “unhappy” was that the fisherman had a hard time removing the hook, & then threw the fish in his “catch”bucket.
I mean, hell, their wasn`t enough fish there to feed a cat.
Oops, I forgot Ellison`s sailboat.
On the road.
Potential setting for a mystery, maybe? I like the mood.
Thanks, ID. That’s right here on Red Hill: ‘The Case Of The Missing Internet.’
That’s a wonderfully moody shot, ww.
Glad you like it, b2. We’re definitely getting our usual share of moody this season. Maybe you are too?
I love this shot, Wench.
Thanks! Glad you like it. It is a lovely spot, too.
I’m on dial-up. Three tries and 11 minutes to load the page and worth every second of it (WW I am impressed that you always come to visit the Flog — what fortitude).
I really enjoyed everybody pics — the perspective theme in Sven’s photos; b2 derelict road vista, IDs Spanish tour, Knucklehead’s great collection — especially the surfer/navy vessels and the fallen tree (sorry about the lack of notice but I’ve been having connection problems since Thursday), and WW mood-creating photo (it had such a sense of a former time, I expected the car to be a Packard).
After spending a month in dailup land, I can honestly sympathize. I hope that you’re out of there soon, Andi.
That sounds horribly frustrating! Even here on DSL I’m experiencing intermittent slow page loads where everything just hangs for several minutes. Don’t know where the issue is, though, it just comes & goes. Adding my hopes for speedier connections for you both;-)
I’ve heard similar things about DSL elsewhere. DSL traffic is increasing, so eventually I think you’ll see the same problems as dial-up has now. Where it stops nobody knows ..
Thankfully we’re with a new DSL carrier now and it’s working well.
b2, I wanted to compliment your image. I’ve always liked those left-behind places; now, there are fewer & fewer of them.
I couldn’t seem to comment under the shot; all text under the photo, including the reply box, vanish when I try. Just like rating comments, nowadays. It’s like whack-a-mole!
Thanks ww! I especially love old obsolete roadside architecture. This particular structure is probably the most unusual that I’ve seen.
If you’ve got more images like this, we’d love to see ’em!
Well, there is the teepee motel, also in Holbrook. Let me see what I’ve got.
We’re off dial-up now but still waiting to get the satellite back up — we got a cell modem with a router from Verizon which gives us a pretty speedy 3G connection but has a big usage limitation. It makes for a hugely better backup for outages (which happens when it rains more than a drizzle) than dial-up.
The car is probably the usual old Volvo.
🙂
Glad you like the image!
Hope you can leave the world of dial-up shortly. ‘Til then it’s best to take the Zen approach.
😉
My Zen for today is to plant another maple in the yard, hopefully to give someone joy somewhere down the road of life. If my geezerhood lasts awhile, it might even be me;-)
A red maple for the future.
One of the best everyday things any living person can do, to my mind. One tree makes such a difference, considering all the life it supports over time. Good for you!
Andi & olivia, once again its difficult to pick favorites from such enjoyable images, but this time around, Andi’s would have to be Sharing… and olivia’s, the lone Quebec City kitty.
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Fanks for the Friday Foto Flogging – I finally found fabulous fotographs for framing!
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