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: Random
Link of the Month: Haunting Shipwrecks Around the World.
AndiF’s Random
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Terrarium
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Behind Bars
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3D Topography
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Olivia’s Random
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Next Theme (Friday January 13, 2012): Whatever Janus the two-faced god suggests to you.
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
Random Seedhead
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Random Moss Growth
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Random Craters
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Random Ripples
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I really like the underwater leaves and the moon shot too.
Thanks. The color was what caught my eye too. It wasn’t until I was playing around with the polarizing filter that I noticed the little ripple lines. I probably took 20 shots of the moon that afternoon, all hand-held, and just got lucky that at least one came out sharp enough to use after I cropped it.
Jim, love the moon shot.
Now just to show off some more, albeit only verbally, there `s a total Lunar eclipse occurring right now.
My “spotter” Teri just woke me up to check it out.
Thanks, Knucklehead. I’d read about your left coast lunar eclipse. Arches National Park put a neat photo of it in their Twitter feed.
Oh, great set (underlying connection of random theme throughout the photos). Love the seed head fluff – looks like feathers, and the detail in both the moss and the moon. Random Ripples is gorgeous — the movement, the rich colour — love it Jim!
Thanks, Olivia. It wasn’t until I had the pictures selected and saw them together that I noticed they all had an element of randomness in them. Or was my mind subconsciously selecting them because of their randomness?
So random, as CBtE would say. 🙂
Love the moss and moon shot.
I know this FFF is supposed to of a “Random” theme, but this is all I got.
Have a great week end, & enjoy.
Footsteps in the Sky
Little Jewel
Cactus Bloom
Meditating
Mellow Yellow
Hover-Round
Niece & Son
(Taken by my nephew)
Rock Hound
Burning Sky
Finn the Frog
(My grandkid)
Coconut Sunset
Coral Banded Shrimp
Roadside Memorial
Pippy Longstocking
(Olivia`s friend)
Blenny F
(Andie`s friend)
Three Dimensions
Sky Blue Blenny
A New Day
Tuning In
Kendra, Going Green In Lithuania
Gingrich`s Law
A Capella
Turquoise
(Heh Heh)
Mind Expansion
Naval Conflict
Lil` Miss Sunshine
Change of Dreams
Thanks for plenty of blenny!
That first shot is mind-blowing.
And clearly “Finn” is another word for adorable child.
Clearly. 🙂
Knucklehead: I love them all, but especially the green in Lithuania shot.
CabinGirl,
Kendra is my young friend from Malibu, the daughter of one of my friends` & client.
She has spent all of her vacations in countries like Lithuania (mostly Lithuania, but also India & Central America) helping out in orphanages.
She is now at Duke University, but still spends her time between semesters overseas doing what she loves to do.
She is a gift to the planet.
Wonderfully random set, Knucklehead. I love the little “eyebrows” on the blineys; I’d never noticed them before.
All wonderful shots to look at! I especially like Change of Dreams and Niece and Son. Our niece had her first last Tuesday ~ a little girl called Ruby.
Ruby – aw, that’s a pretty name!
Hi Head! Beautiful collection of images. It’s great to see Pippy’s lovely stockings again, and wow – that bottom photo is stunning!
I like the texture of the leaf and the contrasting textures of the bottle and the wooly stuff inside it, Andi.
The weird shot of the bubbles in the ice reminds me of something seen under a microscope lens, Olivia.
Thanks Jim. I’ve never seen ice bubbles like that before. Here’s another view:
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Taken within the past 15 minutes.
6 shots. Click & go to “original” size for best viewing.
Wow!
Double wow!!
Now, you’re just showing off. 🙂
Jim,
You`re darn right.
I think I get some of the best sunsets from my deck as any other place in the world.
I don`t have to go anywhere to enjoy them.
From my office desk, I look over across the living room to a very large mirror hanging over the fireplace which reflects the sunset back to me from a floor to ceiling picture window behind me.
If I don`t happen to look up to the mirror, Teri will invariably shout, “Bring your camera” & by her tone, I can tell another doozy is happening out from the deck. She invariably brings the birds in from the aviary at sunset so she`s my spotter.
Beautiful!
Random chilly
First snowfall Nov. 29
Swords of Damocles
“Christmas Vacation” at the neighbors
Poor Rudolph
Sunset on library hill
Winter green
Fun set (and the last one is particularly lovely).
I think Rudolph looks like he’s happy to be frolicking in the snow. OTOH, the neighbor’s place looks like it’s the first frame in a horror scene where all the lighted things turn out to be hungry creatures from outer space.
The darn things move, so maybe you’re closer to the truth than not. I’ll keep an eye open for pods.
Lovely set of photos. Since we don’t have our standby generator yet, I can do without the snow and ice.
Library Hill looks like the place to be for meteor showers. The Geminids are coming up on the 13th. Here are next year’s.
We watched the Perseids from Weedpatch Hill in the state park ~ our favorite for meteor watching. Unfortunately, there’s just too much light pollution around the library. OTOH, if I could locate the switch panel for the outdoor lighting…
BB guns and pellet rifles were our favorite ways of reducing light pollution 50 years ago.
Oooh, First snowfall is so pretty. As much as a pain as it is, snow can look so pretty, esp the first few falls of the season. Those icicles are long enough to pass for curtains! 😀 Love Winter green — that stained glass hanging really adds a wonderful touch of colour, and all the plants look so good next to the show outside.
This is a perfect set for the weather we’re having here this weekend – it’s finally gotten cold, and the snow can’t be that far off.
Andi, Terrarium brings memories of bottle hunting around old homestead sites. A random greenhouse;-)
Olivia, the red berries against the white background is my favorite shot of the set. The one just below that one is quite intriguing too.
There are a lot of old bottles where this one but most of them are pretty uninteresting.
Thanks!
Missed you guys last month, great flog by the way, buried under orders for Xmas. Here’s a couple from the summer.
Nice proboscis. Great colors. Color is missing here for the next few months.
Hi Bob! Agree with Jim — great colour. Hasn’t been long, but I’m already missing it.
Glad you made it back for this one — the gorgeous colors are greatly appreciated.
Love the zinnia with small companion. I miss ours already (the flowers).
Mystery Fungus?
I’d never seen one of these before, so I really have no clue what it is.
It was about 3 inches and almost that wide. After a few days it disappeared.
Cold Mushroom
I have a plastic bucket that catches the defrosting water in an old frig,
and that tends to freeze into a large chunk.
So periodically I set it out on this post to see what nature will do with it.
Hey, everybody, lots of fantastic shots.
I think my bread is ready. Time for the first hot slice with butter only.
We have a fungus that looks something like that — kind of like a coral but I don’t know what it is. Like the way you shot it.
And your ice is nice. I’ll bet your fresh-baked bread is too.
Thanks. The shot was a bit of a challenge due to clouds interfering with sunshine that day.
NDD,
How nice to see you.
That “shroom” looks a lot like one of my corals.
I like the whiskey cooler ice glob too.
Please extend my regards to Ms.NDD, & Happy.
see JimF’s comment below, as it seems there are such things as coral shrooms. Weird how nature repeats itself structurally on land and sea.
Ms NDD and Happi say howdy and woof, respectively.
Andi and Knucklehead reminded me that there are a group of mushrooms called coral mushrooms. It looks to me like it is one of the many species in the genus Ramaria. A lot of the sites I looked at don’t even try to identify the species they just use Ramaria sp. as the identification.
Coral Mushrooms at that link looks just like it all right. Thanks for the link. I’ll have to peruse that a bit more later.
Hello NDD! That mushroom is amazing. Great eye spotting it.
Interesting fungi. I wish our former circuit judge, quite a character both on and off the bench, was still alive to see the photo. He was quite a mushroom buff and spent many hours roaming the woods for specimens, both edible and not.
I see the bucket ice sculpture as an inverted Hershey’s Kiss;-)