For this week’s Photo Challenge – Ephemeral.
A clematis bloom’s life is so brief. It can be seen like this for but a second; it shall never repeat.
Photo Challenge – Ephemeral
Category Archives: Flowers
Just Some Snapshots #12
It appears Spring has come a couple of weeks early to Southern California… Some photos of blooms from around my home.
Just Some Snapshots #12
Just Some Snapshots #10
There is such a thing as luck… but it never relates to winning the lottery, it seems.
But I did hit a jackpot – a photographic one. Its been busy trying to supplement my photographic artwork these past few weeks; being an amateur, it’s not easy.
As there’s been some dew on the flowers outside, I took to shooting them at first light. Fortunately, Lady Luck flashed a big smile as a number of them were selected for flickr.com’s “Explore” which showcases 500 photographs each day for “interestingness”:
Here are a few others:
Unbelievably, there’s been over 100,000 views in the past three days, now nearing 1,000,000 views in total.
It would be nice to have that many visitors to this blog!
Will Lady Luck flash her smile here too? 🙂
Just Some Snapshots #9
Writing about the firebombing of Tokyo during WWII based upon my aunt’s written notes and conversations has been a project in process.
My simple goal is to be factual; however, I hesitate as I am fearful some people may view it for what it not.
We’ll see.
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In the meantime…
For many of you, Autumn is in full swing. Here, in southern California, it is barely starting with daytime temps still in the high 70’s and 80’s. There is forecast of nearing 90F this week!
Here are just some recent snapshots taken here and there:
An aster Explored on flickr
A plumeria in B&W
A petunia petal in B&W
This cute pup always comes to sit on my lap while I wait at my local barbershop. Just too cute!
Enjoy your week.
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I hope you all are well and I pray for our young souls going into combat for our sakes.
In addition to investing time into reading WWII history books, my snapshot side of me still beckons.
“EXPLORE” is a featured group on the photo website flickr.com. Out of the close to 2,000,000 photo uploads daily, about 500 are selected for “EXPLORE” by the website for “interestingness”. Some of my photos have been fortunate enough to be “interesting”, 19 in total.
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The last four are below; hope they are “interesting” to you. Clicking on the images will take you to the actual photograph. 🙂
This is called “painting with light”. You leave the shutter open then use a flashlight to illuminate the subject.
A Lantana
A blue Balloon flower
An Amarcrinum Lily X taken at Descanso Gardens
A summary as of today of my photographs selected for “Explore” on flickr:
Airmen, Marines, soldiers and sailors – be safe.
A Vote… Please?
I’ve been a bit wrapped up trying to get an income stream going. I’m finding out photo editing chews up a lot of time…
Especially when you don’t know what the heck you’re doing. 🙂
But I entered a little photo contest (open to anybody!). Would you consider voting for my macro photography entry below? By clicking on the photo, it will take you to the “Tallenge” website:
This link will do, too!
Thank you.
Ewww….
As my little 11 year old Cake Boss would say when I would light up a cigar, “Ewwww, Papa! That’s gross!”
Well, you have no idea of “ewww” or “gross” until now.
Unfortunately, I used the last of the soap yesterday… It was too late when I stepped into the shower that I had forgotten to buy soap.
I was confronted with not washing at all…or…
…use my little Cake Boss’ soap… Excuuuuse me. Shower gel.
I now smell of Cranberry Twinkle.
No, I reek.
It stinks.
Ewww.
Gross.
And the smell won’t go away.
Gotta light up a stogie to mask this wretched girlie odor.
Wait a minute.
I can’t. It’s 1:30 AM.
Damn.
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Not that anyone should notice but my attention had been diverted away from WordPress the past month or so. I decided to try and build a small (potential) income stream by (possibly) selling my photographs on websites. You know. Like for prints, greeting cards, cell phone cases and the like. Frankly, I don’t know why anyone would want to buy a photograph versus a painting but what the heck.
So my days outside of dealing with the ex-wife – who thrives on interfering during my supposed time with my kids – has been focused on setting up a (cheap) studio and shooting macros of flowers and the like. Plus having been an amateur FILM photographer in my youth, all this “photo editing” stuff has been a huge challenge. I’m up against young(er) pros who all they know is digital photography. You know. Fred Flintstone meets Captain Kirk. Oh well.
I also don’t know why I focused on macro photography for a niche market since I never had attempted it before… and the only thing I know about flowers is how to kill them. Certainly, other niche markets like patriotism, sports and pets would be broader but macros would be doable and without much expense. Besides, nothing would have to die.
Anyways, here’s a few of my recent snapshots:
And for a finale… Isn’t this a face only a mother could love? It is an actual flower called a Cuphea, or a “purpurea Firecracker”. Aren’t you impressed with this old former mechanic?
One of my websites is here: Fine Art America.
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Time to light up a stogie.
I know. Ewww.
But it’s better than smelling reeking like Cranberry Twinkle.
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Putz’d around again around my tiny makeshift (and nearly killed) flower pots…
…and if you have the chance, please let me hear your feedback on my little store: http://www.zazzle.com/socalblooms*
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Since today was Flag Day and the 200th anniversary of our national anthem, a flag as a backdrop.
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Masako and Spam Musubi 