MONO MONDAY PLUS #38 (MM # 52) ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Has it been a whole year already??!!  Where does the time go? What can one say that has not probably been said already.  Of course thanks to The Gator for launching the ship, and keeping a hand on the ship's wheel.  Not only is and has he been a teacher/mentor to us, but also has become a friend, which is the most important thing as far as I am concerned.  And thanks to all of you for teaching, leading, making us laugh, sometimes cry with your creations, and many ohhhhhhs and ahhhhhhhs along the way.  And again, many have become friends on this photo journey too.  Just like Picture Perfect where I found the Mono Monday, where else could we have met so many wonderful people from around the world?  Where else could people meet thousands of miles away from each other, across seas and countries, both PP and MM have become a way for people of different cultures to dialog and learn from each other, to become better people, and again, friends.  Friends we may never meet in person, but friends indeed.  God bless us one and all.

 

Gator teaching one on one during a recent MM retreat.

 

I do not have all of my MM pictures from the beginning, I broke the three first rules of digital photography:

1) BACK UP    2) BACK UP   and     3) BACK UP

I lost a lot when my computer crashed a while back,  but following are some of the things that have been done over the past year. Looking forward to the next year!!

I was able to get two MMs from this one picture:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the pictures I took when the Bounty and another sailing ship were visiting, I used three:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And another from the Bounty shoot, but a Plus from the waves and sun reflection:

I do not tend to name a lot of my pics, but this one is: BLUE HEARTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And early shot into B&W:

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of my favorites, The Ghost Tree:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A couple of the flights of fancy I did not loose (forgot to mention, these two are not original pictures that I took, just did the modifications):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How come Gators do not have a forked tongue like other reptile types?

 

A rock floor in DotJean Cave, made to look like water and rocks:

 

One of the early ones, bringing out just a bit of color:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And my favorite for last:

 

 

  

MONO MONDAY PLUS 28 HIDE AND SEEK

HIDE AND SEEK

Our minds are wonderful creations, Gator's challenge this week is to let our minds wander,and wonder, and see.  Rumor has it, he also has contracts with several institutes and sanitoriums depending on our answers. . .

The Original was an ocean setting:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I used the mirage tool

I rotated it 90 degrees, cropped, and used a Navy Blue mask, to keep a water feel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the outcome: