Photohunters: Yellow and Mirror

I had to go back to an old early November shot to combine yellow and mirror and it's a stretch at that. The yellow leaves (as well as the other colors) are mirrored in the lake.

Click here for the yellow photohunt and here for the mirror photohunt.

Combo Photohunters - Water and Abstract and The Weekend in Black and White

In case you are wondering, this is a three foot empty planter on my deck that filled all the way to the top with water overflowing from my gutters this Thursday. I took the shot around 7:30 pm Thursday evening.

Click for the Weekend in Black and White. Click for the Abstract Photohunt. Click for the Water Photohunt.

Photohunters: Streets and Sport

I dug up an old shot I took in Bedford, Virginia when we were driving on the streets and spotted a group of young people engaging in a sport.

Click for the sport photohunt and click here for the streets photohunt.

Photohunters: Flowers and Jiffy

I finished photographing the sign in a jiffy and then walked into the azalea garden to look at the flowers.

Click here for the jiffy photohunt and here for the flowers photohunt.

Combination Post: Photohunters and The Weekend in Black and White

To combine the two photohunt themes (traces and ink) I manipulated a photo using graphic tools (tracing as well as pin and ink). I figured tracing a photo worked for traces and the pin and ink tool worked for ink.

Below is the same photograph I used for the photohunt but this is what it looks like as a regular black and white shot for the weekend in black and white.

Last, the shot in full color. As a rule I'm not happy with the results when I try manipulating a photograph in a graphics program. However, in this case I like the way the first picture worked out using the graphics tools.

Click here for the traces photohunt, here for the ink photohunt, and here for the Weekend in Black and White.

Photohunters: Indigo Still Life

An indigo frame around a harvest still life I took many years ago is all I could think of for a combo photohunt. I found indigo in the color options I have in an old graphics program when framing the still life. When I converted to a jpg file, the color wasn't true to what I saw when I created the file in CorelDraw. I decided it was close enough to indigo to let it slide.

Click for the indigo photohunt and here for the still life photohunt. 

Photohunters: Ginormous Stones

I think the rocks at Linville Falls, NC qualify for ginormous stones.

In another stream in the NC mountains, I think the stepping stones across the water are ginormous in comparison to the thousands of tiny stones at the bottom of the creek.

Click here for the ginormous photohunt and here for the stones photohunt. 

The Family Rocks Photohunt and the Weekend in Black and White

When I saw that the two photohunt themes were family and rocks, I immediately thought of this old family shot. Bill took this shot of me and our baby in the mountains during the fall of 1985. I was rocking my baby on the rocks (actually it sort of looks like I was doing as much restraining as rocking). Normally I use my photography on my blog but since I had scanned this photograph that Bill took and it worked well for the themes, I'm making an exception.

Click for the Family Photohunt and/or click for the Rocks Photohunt.  Click here for the Weekend in Black and White.

Photohunters: Bird and Trees

The main problem I had combining the themes, bird and trees, was that I have too many choices.

I decided to narrow it down by picking one shot per year of a bird or bird(s) in a tree or trees.

I took the first shot on December 27, 2010; the second on May 28, 2011 and the third on November 23, 2012.

I didn't spend a lot of time trying to pick the best shots but I picked ones that mean something to me for different reasons.

I took the fourth shot on January 21, 2013 and the fifth shot on March 25, 2014.

For the trees photohunt click here and for the bird photohunt click here. 

Photohunters: Technical and Focus

 When I saw the two photohunter words I knew what technical work I would focus on.

Patterned by Nature is an exhibit in the Nature Research Center (part of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences). The exhibit celebrates our abstraction of nature’s infinite complexity into patterns through the scientific process, and through our perceptions. It brings to light the similarity of patterns in our universe, across all scales of space and time. 
  

10 feet wide and 90 feet in length, this sculptural ribbon winds through the five story atrium of the museum and is made of 3600 tiles of LCD glass. It runs on roughly 75 watts, less power than a laptop computer. Animations are created by independently varying the transparency of each piece of glass. 

 

The content cycles through twenty programs, ranging from clouds to rain drops to colonies of bacteria to flocking birds to geese to cuttlefish skin to pulsating black holes. The animations were created through a combination of algorithmic software modeling of natural phenomena and composting of actual footage.

An eight channel soundtrack accompanies the animations on the ribbon, giving visitors clues to the identity of the pixelated movements. In addition, two screens show high resolution imagery and text revealing the content on the ribbon at any moment.

The italic portions are taken directly from the NC Museum of Natural Sciences web site. The first three shots are of the work described but I also used some other shots at the end from the Nature Research Center that also focus on technical areas. Click for the Focus Photohunters and/or click for the Technical Photohunters.

Photohunters and The Weekend in Black and White Combo Post

When I saw the two photohunt words were animals and deluxe, I immediately thought about these deluxe birdhouses for the aviary animals.

I also thought these shots would work for The Weekend in Black and White. Therefore, I bring you two deluxe bird condominiums which house many birds who represent the animals theme.

Click here fore The Weekend in Black and White. Click here for the Deluxe Photohunt. Click here for the Animals Photohunt.

The Bad Weather & Colours Photohunters and Today's Flowers

This week the two photohunt words (bad weather and colours) worked well with Today's Flowers. Update: I accidentally used colors at first so I went back and changed the spelling to the photohunt word colours.

My daffodils above were beaten down by sleet and snow this Monday as well as by cold weather but the colours still shine through.

Pansies are particularly hardy and the one above was partially sheltered in a raised bed against an office building. 

In spite of bad weather the hellebore above was showing a bit of its colors. Click here for the bad weather photohunt. Click here for the Colours photohunt. Click here for Today's Flowers.