Taken with the OLY SP-550UZ:


Indivisualism

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Cher

Like Kylie's shoe, this little montage caught my eye yesterday. It was lying in the Walgreens parking lot next to my car. I'm not sure what it was about it that I liked (who likes trash lying around?), but it did. Here's a montage of the montage in color, B&W, and sepia.


Chocolate Attack


Chocolate Attack, B&W


Chocolate Attack, Sepia

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Cher

Cher,
Very cool. I like all three but I think the one in color is the most striking. The yellow wrapper stands out against the otherwise rather neutral scheme.
You have such a good eye.
T xo

To me it looks as if the leaf is coming out of the wrapper. like a leaf candy bar.

Taken with the OLY SP-550UZ

Tonight's moon:


Evening Moon
Hand held, full zoom


Sunset Pine

And some shadows & silhouettes:


Shadowcasts2


Silhouette2

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Cher

The Gerber daisies are simply fantastic here this year. I stopped by a local greenhouse Monday evening and snapped a bunch of photos. Man, oh man, were the flowers and plants stunning. I stopped by yesterday afternoon and bought a couple of potted Gerbers to play with as still life subjects last night and here's what I came up with:

Taken with the OLY SP-550UZ:


Gerber47, B&W


Gerber54


Gerber17


Gerber38, B&W


Gerber31

Oh, and the Gerbers went home today with my desk clerk who'll be planting them in her yard.

All were taken with the OLY SP-550UZ.

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Cher

Cher, Your artistic creativity just grows. Love the daisies.

Thanks, Trudes, I'm currently working up a portfolio to submit to LensWork magazine. I was going to send in only the Bubbles photos (posted elsewhere here in the Orchard) but have decided to submit a Bubbles & Blooms portfolio and see what happens.

Thanks again!

Cher

Taken with the OLY SP-550UZ:


White Iris

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Cher

ok, this is not a "photographer photo"... just a quick shot outside our bedroom window this afternoon. I have a feeling it's gonna get noisy out this window soon...

the more i play around w/these the more i like them...

new york city - street art in soho...




buildings, lafayette street - the village

i like that last one, bill. so vivid.
...

so, there are probably a million photos out there like this:



and this b/c i liked it:

jones?

ha. yep.

Has Bruce taken up a part time job writing soda cap quotes?

How delightful!


~m

I knew it!

Taken with the OLY SP-550UZ in Nashville where I caught the 2 CJ shows at the Belcourt. You can see all my photos from both shows here if you like.


Music Row, Nashville


Thank You

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Cher

so many lovely shots! this thread wows me every time I come here!

here are three recent shots of mine that I especially like:



Ryan Feves


Eleni Mandell


Erin McKeown

thanks for loooooking!

wow, awesome shot of erin mckeown!

Awesome, indeed!

Taken with the OLY SP-550UZ

Michael & Margo Timmins:


Michael Timmins


Margo Timmins


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Cher

Put a little feng shui in your life:


Balance

This was one of those 'grabbed' shots. I happened to notice these 2 stones as I was driving by an area on campus. It's a staging area for young trees that are being added to landscaping around new buildings. The landscaping crew was pulling out big stones in this recently reclaimed area, and I guess someone had just stacked these 2. Later that night, I noticed that the small one had toppled off.

Taken with the OLY SP-550UZ.

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Cher

Taken with the OLY SP-550UZ.

I was bored one night and began playing around with taking a photo of a photo. This is a set of b&w Gerbers in a silver frame. I set it up in my light box and began messing around. Even though I wasn't using a flash, my reflection kept showing up aggravating me. So, I decided to focus on it and make it a part of the photo.

This is what I came up with:


Hands On5

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Cher

I finally got my new camera not long after the OtR shows at the 20th Century--it's a new camera from Panasonic--the Lumix DMC-FZ8. While these pics aren't up tp the incredible creative and skillful work of everyone else here--I just love that I finally have a camera that has such incredible capabilities--the first two pics are of the same sujbect--a boat out on the lake---in the first one-I have the zoom set to about what my old camera could do--then I zoomed in---the boat is almost a mile from me and the far shore is almost five miles distant---in the other pics--I took some shots of some geese taking off as I went down a channel in my boat and disturbed them and I did find a willing sujbect in the blue heron---thanks to the ability of this camera to zoom in so much--it says 12X Optic Zoom but it can do as much as 18X










This camera has the abilty to shoot pictures in many modes--I am still using the "Simple" or as I say--the "Stupid" mode!!!LOL

I am going to have fun learning how to use this camera and increasing my photo skills both technical and compositional...

Below are some of the many photos I shot the other day of the many sculptures located on the grounds of Pyramid Hill just outside of Hamilton, Ohio. This ia wonderful place to spend some time just exploring the grounds. The area is very hilly and has lots of incredible works of art and of nature:

On the same weekend I took the photos of the natural watering hole where the critters play--I also took some shots of wildlife of another kind at another kind of "watering hole" namely--the Thristy Turle Bar and Grill at Indian Lake, Ohio. A fundraising event was being held for the person in the first pic. A few months before--his family's apartment had gone up in flames and the family lost everything. The man was severly burned while rescuing his children. He spent several months in a hospital burn unit up in Toledo and lost part of one arm in the fire. The family had no insurance of any kind and lost all of their possessions, plus incurred some very large medical bills. The event raised about $6,000. A number of area bands performed for free at the event, and there were a number of raffles that also helped raise money...It was kind of fun taking photos of the event and the members of the different bands appreciated that someone had taken photos of them performing at the fundraiser.











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Blowing Bubbles


Edgy


Pots of Many Colors


Planet Earth, redux


Hellfire & Damnation

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Cher

Been playing around a bit more.

Taken with the OLY SP-550UZ:


Giant Dandelion


Sunflower Blues, redux


Mesmerize

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Cher

nothing really special, but i kind of like it. a dummy in a vintage shop that i saw while hanging out w/mariesa last saturday...

Now, Bill, that's not very PC of you. Think of the poor dummy's, errrrrrmmmmmm, mannequin's feelings! Great shot, BTW.

Cher

You know, it occurs to me that the amount of photographic talent around here borders on being silly......

Great shots everyone!

Wow.

Silly, as in this .... ?


Cracked



Thanks!

I see somebody got Photoshop.

here are a couple pics I took earlier this month. architecture with tree.

Yup, I remember saying not too long ago on another Forum that I wasn't going to get into PP-ing. Guess who's eating her words? Anyway, I got PE 5.0 and am digging it!

Thanks.

Nice photos, BTW.

Cher

nothin' special.

The babies are within a few days of flying off. Both have made it this far, but are getting pretty impatient in the nest. Momma and Dad are visiting less frequently these days. I just missed a rare opportunity to get both parents in a photo with the babies this afternoon. Right after the photo with one adult, the other flew in. I had just turned the camera off and could not get it turned back on in time. Was a very cool site to see all four together on the nest.


This photo was taken just seconds before the other adult lighted on the nest.


And this one is right after both parents left. You can almost see the expression "hey, where'd everyone go?" from the babies, no?


I'm gonna miss the little buggers outside the bedroom window.

More here if you like.
J

another from saturday...

I love the manequin pics--they are really cool---

I hope everyone did not mind the pics of the fund raiser event--they are not so much artistic as being sort of journalistic in nature---one of the things I have done in my many "lives."

I do have a question for you folks who have been at messing around with pics for awhile--I have not yet invested in a good quality photo software program--I was wondering what everyone's suggestion would be---Corel, Photoshop (not the full boat version) or some other one---

I want to be able to do some photo editing, changing pics to black and white from color, doing those effects that allow you to make a photo look like an oil, pastel, or watercolor painting---things like that---

The real thing I want to be able to do---take some pics in RAW of city skylines/cityscapes and manipulate them to be used in a fairly large format poster ---do some surrealistic effects to such pics---

I would appreciate whatever advice anyone can offer me--I am having trouble making up my mind--I did not have as much difficulty figuring out which camera I would purchase---but trying to decide upon which of the different photo software programs to buy has not been so easy for some reason....

I am getting my own photo printer too---I pretty much am set on an Epson or an HP

mike, picasa 2 is a free program available from google @: http://picasa.google.com/download/ that i use quite a bit.

it is a pretty cool "file management" program and has some pretty nice and easy manipulation features also, including some of those you mentioned. and, the price is right. obviously photoshop is pretty much the state of the art, if you have a spare grand or so lying around, but in my efforts to use it, i found it to be a very difficult program to master. but man, if you master it, you can do some amazing stuff.

i did some very minor manipulations on the mannequin pics, like color saturation, cropping, etc with picasa. thanks for the comments.

Thanks for the info Bill and also your are welcome about the manequin pics---

Oh no-I can't swing a full boat Photoshop--I was thinking more along the lines of Photoshop Essentials-it sells for like $99 retail, but right now they are offering a ten dollar rebate---

At the different newspapers I worked for--we had the full bore on Photoshop that was tied to our newspaper production system--that one was like three grand and even the one offered to the public is like $700---I just don't need one that extensive---

I will have to try the one you use---that price is sure right---

Thanks again---

You guys should know that if you are a college student (or have access to a student- wink wink) you can get big discounts on Adobe programs and other programs. All you usually have to do is provide a copy of your schedule or something like that. You can check in your college bookstore, or I know many people that have ordered through here:
http://www.academicsuperstore.com/

And if you are really looking to save some $$, here is a helpful video on how to replace the expensive apps in your life:
http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-27240.html?tag=bubbl_3

-- Jeffrey

Did anyone catch "Mindfreek" this week? Your mannequin photos reminded me of it because Chris fell 'in love' with a mannequin and carried her around everywhere. He put her back in the window and asked that she be dressed in a little black number. Once she was set up, he kissed her, she came to live and walked out with him. Freeked everyone out!

Cher

Trust Jeffrey on this one and go to the link he posted. See what Photoshop Elements 5.0 is going for there, and if you can swing it get that one. It's what I have, and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE what I can do with it.

Cher

The nest is empty.



Turns out I did get that family photo after all. Looked at the short videos I took yesterday and found this. You can see both parents at the nest for a second or two then they each fly away.





And, as always, there's more on the blog.
J

To beforesunrise---is that building the one that once it was built---it caused a number of traffic accidents thanks to excessive glare at certain times of the day which reflected back into the eyes of drivers????

I think the building was designed by Frank Gehry if I am not mistaken----

Great pics by the way!!!

mpgarr, yes, the building is the Walt Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry. =) I hadn't heard about the traffic accidents/glare thing (I'm not native to this area) but I wouldn't be surprised. I had read one description that it looks like a Transformer crapped on downtown, but I think the building is beautiful. I had seen lots of pictures of it but when I explored it for myself it completely dazzled me. it looks like music.

here's one more, in honor of last night's season finale of Lost.

Some photos from this past weekend.


BOM CHICKA BOM BOM


Tree Swallow


What Are You Looking At?

TTTS...Amazing bird shots. Beautiful.

Tonight's sunset taken with the OLY SP-550UZ:


Sunset1

and from yesterday:


Quenched2


Free Air


Flag32

Thanks for looking!

Cher

I have no more non-cliche words for the awesomivity of photographic art in our Orchard. Cher...the Sunset is my new wallpaper. Will give you the kudos when people ask! wow.