PICTURE PERFECT JUNE 12th, 2009 -----> LIGHT

The Theme that Cherie has given us this week is:

LIGHT

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THE LIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TUNNEL

Cave,  Shasta-Trinity National Forest, near Medicine Lake

I immediately thought of this one, it was taken, wow, it is five years now???!!!  I have no concept of time anymore.  This was taken with a Sony Mavica. 

 I   filled in on the right of the cave mouth with a cloning tool, to get the feeling of a small entrance.  And used the one differently color rock  near the center bottom of the entrance to make two other "figures", hopefully for a bit of a spooky feeling. 

IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING -- THE PEER GYNT SUITE by  Edward Greig  

 

  

PICTURE PERFECT -- The Letter "B" is the Theme.

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Oh Boy!!!  I was really looking forward to this one!!! Heather chose the letter "B" as our theme.  And what is the first thing a red blooded American male thinks of?  Well yes, it might be beer, and yes it might be baseball for some of us, but for the great majority of us, the eternally immature,  it is BOOBIES!!!  I headed down to the beach, as it was a beautiful day here, but it did not turn out as well as I had hoped.

(stock photo)

Who would have thought they would be so easily upset.

(stock photo)

So after they released me from the hospital, I found a much safer subject.

BLUE BOTTLE

INTRICATE PICTURE PERFECT

Some things are just a bit more intricate than you bargin for. . .

 

 

The camera is a Kodak EasyShare Z612, using the Macro setting

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COMMUNICATION PICTURE PERFECT

Wasn't sure I was going to come up with anything this week, but I went up to the airport to visit a friend  (former brother-in-law, but still a good friend), and there it was in all its' glory, COMMUNICATION!!!   It has lights, bells, whistles, not to mention some 20 odd antennas. Even two on the lower building, hard to spot though.  Here is the Monterey Airport Control Tower.  I was waiting for the airport police to show up and ask what I was doing taking pictures, I was thinking of answering them in broken English and some sort of heavy accent. . >

 

 

 

 

Just in case the large picture does not show up (through photobucket) 

 

 

 

 

The camera is a Sony Easyshare Z612

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P I C T U R E  P E R F E C T

 Each week a new theme will be posted here on Friday morning. You are invited to put up your best picture on your own blog with that theme in mind, and you do have the whole weekend to post your picture, so there is no rush

Remember it should be just  ONE and ORIGINAL, taken by YOU,and not off the internet,

Then come back and leave a comment on this page in the comment box so that everyone can link to your blog and see your photo. Don't forget to OPEN your page to EVERYONE for that day.

By all means mention your camera and lens used, and if the picture has been altered or enhanced in any way, so we can all learn and improve our techniques.

Try and post a decent size picture on your blog page for an increased WOW factor. Often so much is lost or distorted if the size is too big or too small.

Remember this is NOT a competition, this about being creative having fun and being supportive of one another.

Out of the box thinking is encouraged.

~ Have FUN out there! ~

PICTURE PERFECT OLD FASHIONED

Several Months back, our bay was graced with three Tall Ships on one weekend.  The replica of the HMS Bounty was one of them.  This is a photo of the Bounty's Figurehead.  I used the clone tool to cover a motor launch and the shoreline in the background, to give it an on the open ocean look.  Then used the B&W tool and played with the shading and highlights. 

I always wondered why Figureheads, if they were women or mermaids always seem to have such healthy bosums, little did I realize it had to do with luck.  I always thought it was to entertain the sailors after several months at sea.  And she has a riding crop, who says those Victorians weren't kinky. 

And look Heather, she is showing off her shoes!!!!!

Camera is a Kodak EasyShare Z612

This sideboard explains this particular Figurehead, and why the Figureheads were so well endowed.

Do you think Captain Bligh would have had better luck with his crew, if Miss Berthia had less clothes on??

PLEASE NOTE:  If you enjoy the Tall Ships, please visit Amalie2's site, her town recently had a gathering of more Tall Ships than I have ever heard of, and she has some marvelous pictures of the event.  The last photo in her Tall Ship page is a slide show.  Well worth seeing:

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PICTURE PERFECT ---- LOOK A LIKE

 

A row of abandoned warehouses on the former Ft. Ord military base.  These were built in the 1940s, so many memories they must hold of the young men and women who have passed through over the years.   I had hoped to capture a photo of the WWII barracks, as they look as if made from a cookie cutter,  but most have been bulldozed, and, let's just say the Federal Police have little to no sense of humor if they find people in some areas.

Camera is a Kodak Z612.   Used the B&W tool, and a contrast setting of 4.

This is what the original looked like.

Welcome to

PICTURE PERFECT

For more information click here ------>   http://fotofriday.multiply.com/

 Each week a new theme will be posted here on Friday morning. You are invited to put up your best picture on your own blog with that theme in mind, and you do have the whole weekend to post your picture, so there is no rush

Remember it should be just  ONE and ORIGINAL, taken by YOU,and not off the internet,

Then come back and leave a comment on this page in the comment box so that everyone can link to your blog and see your photo. Don't forget to OPEN your page to EVERYONE for that day.

By all means mention your camera and lens used, and if the picture has been altered or enhanced in any way, so we can all learn and improve our techniques.

Try and post a decent size picture on your blog page for an increased WOW factor. Often so much is lost or distorted if the size is too big or too small.

Remember this is NOT a competition, this about being creative having fun and being supportive of one another.

Out of the box thinking is encouraged.

~ Have FUN out there! ~

 

PICTURE PERFECT -- 10 MINUTES FROM HOME

 

Camera is my trusty Kodak EasyShare Z612

This is at the Frog Pond in Del Rey Oaks. Easily within ten minutes driving time.   It has a very well maintained and beautiful hiking trail that loops around the entire Preserve.  This is on the back side of the Preserve.  I am fascinated by trees that over hang a trail, or form a canopy, embracing over the trail from both sides, perhaps with vines intertwined among the branches. I do want to go back on a day that is not overcast, so the colors will be a bit more vibrant. This specific spot always reminds me of Robert Frost's poem:

 Road Less Traveled.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth

Then took the other as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet, knowing how way leads onto way
I doubted if I should ever come back

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference

by Robert Frost


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Welcome to

PICTURE PERFECT

For more information click here ------>   http://fotofriday.multiply.com/

~ Each week a theme will be posted up on Wednesday, and you are invited to put up your best picture with that theme in mind, it should be just

 ONE and ORIGINAL, i.e not off the internet,

Then come back and post a comment on this page
so that everyone can link to your blog and see your pic.

By all means mention your camera and lens used, and if the picture has been altered or enhanced in anyway! Out of the box thinking is encouraged!!

Please open your page for viewing for all for that day...and then visit as many others as you can! Try and post a decent size pic on your blog page, so much is lost if the pic is too small or too big.

The entries will close at midnight on Friday

 This week's theme is a little unusual... a challenge, if you will.

The International Photography Walk is taking place this week. I decided we could all take part in a small way.

Your challenge is to walk, run, cycle, fly, jump, drive for 10 minutes and take a photo at that point. I'm sure we can all spare 10 minutes : )

oOOo 10 Minutes  oOOo

PICTURE PERFECT --- PRECIOUS

PRECIOUS

Precious, ever since reading, and then seeing, LORD OF THE RINGS, I cannot help but think of Gollum and his Precious.  What is precious to us?  Is it false?  Is it true?  If false will it  keep its'  hold on us, even taking us to our end, as it did Gollum?  I like to think, that most of us, will see some light at the end, some illumination, setting us right.

 

 

When the light is dimming,

and  vision blurred,

When the end is near,

and darkness closing,

What is most precious to us

in all we possess

Becomes crystal clear.

Camera is a Kodak EasyShare Z612,  found a tintype on Google Images, which I altered and printed out to use in the picture. That pretty lady sure looks familiar.  I put the picture into B&W, played with the exposure, and then put it into sepia,  painted in the gun smoke, and this was the outcome.  The hat is mine, from around 1970 or so, it doesn't fit too well now, I had more hair back then.  The knife is a butcher bladed bowie, and the revolver is a Ruger Old Army .44.  The bag is my leather possibles bag for a black powder rifle. The pocket watch is mine, a coleman brand.  And the money I need to get back to the bank before morning.

(Sorry, the Icon is the closest I could come to finding opus in a cowboy hat.)

PICTURE PERFECT

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 ONE and ORIGINAL,

 i.e not off the internet, 

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REFLECTIONS -- PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY

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"For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known."      1 Corinthians 13:12

 

This was a surprise, a picture I took on a lark, holding the camera over the rail and hoping it took what I wanted.  A rather calm day on the bay, the calm before the storm, broken clouds overhead, massive storm clouds on the horizon, enough sun peaking through the cloud breaks to make an ever changing palate of picture possibilities,   boat and mast reflections on the still Marina waters,  Sea Lion  images mirrored in the bay as they slept on large mooring buoys,  sea birds flying in unison with their upside down water reflections,  

The shot above was interesting to the eye, could not look through the view finder as I had to hold the camera over the rail and click.  It is of a gangway going from wharf level down to  water level walkways in the Marina. Reflections of beauty, thoughtful reflections, mental and physical reflections that flow and intermingle with one another, one being the catalyst for the other.  This picture to me shows physically how reflecting on our walks can be.  One person is walking down, not neccessarily a bad thing, while in the reflection that same walk down for one, is a walk up for the other.  Or perhaps when I thought I was walking down, in the long view I was truly walking up.  Life is strange and funny, we all are part of it, and all those ups and downs, lefts and rights, highs and lows, tears of laughter, and of loss, and even those times we have fallen in the water, we are who we are because of it all. 

"There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven. . ."Ecclesiastes 3:1

Welcome to PICTURE PERFECT

a weekly photo-blog

rules (not that anyone pays them the slightest bit of attention) for the newbies

Each week a theme will be posted up on Wednesday, and you are invited to put up your best picture

with that theme in mind, it should be just

 ONE and ORIGINAL,

 not off the internet,

then post a comment on PICTURE PERFECTS PAGE 

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so that everyone can link to your page and see your pic.

By all means mention your camera and lens used!

Open that page for viewing for all...and visit as many as you can!

The entries will close at midnight on Friday.

Most importantly....have fun out there!

(Rules borrowed from Picture Perfects page!  Thank you Heather)

 

FOTOFRIDAY -- FALL

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FALL

We do not have the fall colors like most of the nation.  I did not realize how beautiful the change was until I spent some time in Wisconsin during the Fall.  

We do have a lot of fallen trees in our Monterey Pine forests, Deadfalls.  When I lived in Humboldt County several years ago, an old Logger told me they were called Deadfalls because they sometimes snag  and hang up on other trees.  A wind can dislodge them so in effect they become like a Deadfall trap on a human scale.  It is easier than saying a Precariously Perched Piece of Pine.  

But then it is all part of the circle of life.  The old fallen giant breaks openings in the brush and lets more sun onto the forest floor for new growth.  The old trunk and branches provides home and shelter for innumerable creatures, and finally the insects and fungi reduces the old man of the forest to mulch and nutrients, and the circle starts again.

 

 

The camera is a Kodak EasyShare Z612, and the picture was  taken at Jack's Peak County Park.