Life is seldom simple so we must make sense of the twist and turns
From the monthly archives:
I reached back into my archives for this photo of the last moments of sunset at Victoria, BC, Canada. As usual, the photo doesn’t do justice to actually being there. I needed a tripod for a longer exposure time but I had to make do shooting this handheld.
Post-processing consisted of boosting the color levels [...]
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This is the female Black-and-Yellow Arglope occupying the same web I published a photo of in yesterdays “Weekend Photo” post. The female is considerably larger then the male arglope, on the web in yesterdays photo. The female in this case, front leg tip to back leg tip, spans at least 3.5 inches (8.89 cm)–rather large.
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Yesterday the weather was wet with a fine mist in the air most of the day. By afternoon, this spiderweb between two scrubs in our yard was brightly highlighted in water droplets.
The spider in the center of the web is a black-and-yellow Arglope. I believe this one was a male as I have a photo [...]
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Sometimes during the summer we’ll go for the day to an open air jazz and/or blues concert at one of the vineyards in the mountains of northern North Carolina or southern Virginia. During a recent visit there were food and craft booths at the concerts as well.
At one craft booth I spotted this guy sleeping [...]
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Earlier this year I took this photo of a Sea Lion sleeping soundly on rocks near the edge of the habitats water pool in the NC Zoo.
It seemed like a good photo to post on Friday afternoon when many are already thinking about the coming weekend.
I guess if animals have to be in captivity a [...]
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I’ve been thinking about Anita Jesse’s post “Constants” where she describes one of her favorite restaurants and stated:
…how comforting it is to have some constants in our life.
I can tell a blog post is pertinent to me when I keep rehashing the gist of the post long after reading it. I sometimes jokingly think of [...]
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Yesterday, the USS Bainbridge (DDG-96) returned home to Naval Station Norfolk, VA. The USS Bainbridge was the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer which responded when the Norfolk-based merchant vessel Maersk Alabama was seized by pirates off the coast of Africa in April 2009. This situation ended with the successful rescue of the captive Maersk Alabama [...]
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As I selected this photo I was thinking that over the last week I’ve posted photos perhaps reminiscent of Norman Rockwell type scenes of American everyday life:
Friends or family on paddle boats on the lake – this post;
A family on a carousel ride in a park – Weekend Photo;
A young child playing in a fountain [...]
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I was experimenting with longer exposure times while photographing a spinning carousel ride. I got varying results but this is one I liked. Kind of reminds me of the warp effects from some of the Star Trek movies. I wonder if this family realized how fast they appeared to be going?
A quote to [...]
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South Myrtle Beach Panorama – Amberle Moore
The photo is a fifty percent crop of a photo my daughter took on a stormy day at Myrtle Beach, SC, July this year. In the original photo there was building in the foreground that distracted from the curving beach panorama in the background so I changed the aspect [...]
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One way I can always tell if I’ve been “in-the-moment” is when I finally check the time I realize hours have passed when it seemed only minutes.
Relating this to my post of yesterday on the topic of play, I would often spend the entire day outside playing. Yes, this was long before video games and [...]
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SoFoBoMo '09
