Thanks - my daughter took it on her cell phone camera while she was babysitting and emailed it to me. I just cropped it and removed the color.

That one is simply priceless. Looks great as B&W.

That is a GREAT photo, Keith. Thanks to Trudes for posting it here.

Cher

They looked extraordinarily lovely against the blue sky this evening.


Hibiscus


Blaze


Tickle My Ribs

Thanks for looking!

Cher

Randoms...

nice stuff again kj. love the shovels.

Kiley, girl, I don't know what to say. You keep getting better. Did you stitch the pano together? I'm assuming #2 is a pano.

Cher

I especially love the rich colors and textures in Blaze. Tickle My Ribs is awesome, too.
the brick buildings and overcast sky looks like a painting. I love it!

here are a couple pics I've taken recently.

this is part of the roof of the library.


"Oh, and no ship that's not crewed by the damned and captained by a man so evil that hell itself spat him back out could possibly have black sails, therefore couldn't possibly be any other ship than the Black Pearl. Is that what you're telling me?"

thanks everybody for posting some astounding photos.
The colors of the hibiscus are brilliant.
I like the geometric theme in the library roof.
Kiley, I especially love the slightly blurry baby's face and the contrast of the baby's hand on the adult's arm.
The workmen photo is magazine 'photojournalist' quality, eh?
I wonder if you ever submitted a photo like that, would you have to get the permission of each person in the photo? Anyone know?

The way I understand it is that as long as the photo is taken in a public place and as long as all photographed are adults then no, permission is not necessary. However, I do carry forms with me so that if I do end up photographing people I can have them sign giving me the right to use the photo.

Cher

Love the library photo. The lines of the building look really cool against the sky. As for the pirate ship .... arggggghhhhhh, matey!

Cher

as i understand it, usage matters more than anything else. if they are used for "journalistic" and/or "news" purposes, no release is required. if an image is used for "commercial" and/or "artistic" purposes and the subject(s) are identifiable, a release/permission would be required. regardless of where the photograph is taken.

KJ your photos are fantastic!

Well.
Thanks, everyone! You have no idea how much I appreciate the fact that you look at my photos... let alone, your compliments.

#2 is not a panoramic... just one shot. Which is all I felt comfortable taking. Those guys were putting tar on top of the building next to where I work... some of them looked a little scary.

The baby is my new niece... she fell asleep on me, and had her hand draped over my arm. I just had to take a picture.

The shovels are just part of my job... we were black-toppin'.

Thanks so much!

a walk in the park tonight with lilly (and the new camera )...

Wow Bill! Those are great! I was going to pick out a couple favorites, but they are all fantastic. Looks like you're enjoying the new camera!

GREAT stuff, everyone!!

: )

Stunning, Bill.
My favorite is the one with Lilly...then the flower, the two trees in sepia, (fifth photo) and the stairs.
Great shots.

thanks ya'll.

very nice, bill.

Ditto!

Cher

i think i've mentioned that i live in an older neighboorhood in louisville called "the highlands." it's a great place to live, a real "neighborhood" with kids riding bikes, people walking dogs, walking to neighborhood stores, restaurants & bars. it's a really great place to live. one of the things that it's well known for is it's beautiful streets lined with old, fully grown, low hanging trees and it's unique architecture. there is a little of everything, no cookie cutter houses, everything is unique and different. i'd been wanting to play around a with a little architectural type photography and below are a couple of examples, i snapped these on my walk with lilly tonight, thought i'd share a few of the better ones...

Very nice!

i've never really been into taking picture of flowers but i seem to notice these everytime i walk past them on when lilly and i are walking. i think i like that they are so imperfect but so bright in color and standing tall above all the other flowers... almost like they are proud of and showing off their "imperfectness" (my word, seemed to fit).

i learn from the master.

very nice, william. if you would have taken those pictures 'round here, you probably would have been shot!

thanks kj, i just wish i had your eye, that can't be taught. you see stuff i never would. prob never will.

From yesterday:


Sunflower Blues Redux2

Funny how the mind works, isn't it? Everytime I look at this photo, I'm reminded of soft denim or a chambray work shirt. Not just a work shirt, but one with a flower tucked into the pocket. Of course, there's no shirt, but my mind tries telling me there is.

Thanks for looking!

Cher

It's getting near peak color here.
Here are some photos from today around Hudson, WI.













Enjoy

here are a few random photos for you...


Kids playing in the fountain at the Olympic Centenial Park in Atlanta, GA






Street corner at 1 AM or so in Campeche, Mexico.





In my back yard...







Photos of an abandoned house in Southern IL.







"Born Again" taken in La Paz, Costa Rica







Taken last week at my brother's new house the day before we began gutting the place. The house was literally the most falling apart and trashed place I have ever seen, and it amazes me that anyone could look at it and see something beautiful. After over a week of intense work, the place all ready is begging to look amazing. Even though some things I see look hopeless, nothing is beyond redemption.

not photoshopped, by the way. :-0




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ugh....sorry about the huge size of some of them...

Joel, I love all of them.

those are all very nice.

those are really nice joel.
i love the one of the kids playing in the water, it's so cute.

everyone is taking such great shots.
just awesome.

Joel, your photos are awesome. Are they digital or SLR? I especially like the kids in the fountain. Great job! Where in S IL is that house? How much PPing dod you do with them, if any. Again, great phtoso!

Cher

Kent - I enjoyed them all, but this is hands down my fave of the bunch!

Cher

np: Sweetheart Like You - Bob Dylan, Lonely Weekend Mix

Well, Cher...yes and yes. My camera is digital AND an SLR. I had a normal digital camera for a while, but I love photography enough that I finally decided to drop the $1,400 or so for a good used digital SLR and some lenses. It was the best $1,400 I have ever spent.

The house is just outside a town named Sparta; it is a little over an hour southeast of St. Louis.

How much do I photoshop my images? It depends on how well the camera captured the picture I saw in my mind when I shot the frame. Out of the ones I posted here, the only ones that were moderately adjusted were the one of the flower (background colors were dulled) and the one of the house (the sky was not quite as blue when I shot it). All the others posted were basically just sharpened a bit (all digital photos usually need sharpening even with very good lenses)


Some people hate the idea that photos are retouched at all and say they almost feel 'cheated' when they learn that. They will say that if the photo is not 'just the way it was' then it is fake and not worth even really looking at. Well, i strongly disagree...all art takes crafting to lead it upwards. Honestly, a few of my favorite photos of mine that were bound for the delete bin until I dropped them into Photoshop and just started messing around with them. I do love it when I can take a photo that needs no adjustment at all, but they usually always require a tweak or two to get them looking as good as they can. People before just did the tweaks in a darkroom; now we do our tweaks in the digital darkroom

Here is one photo that I loved but because of one obvious problem, would not have been usable. Well, 1 hour of time and major photo 'reconstruction' later, the photo is quite usable (and was actually in an art gallery over the past summer).

Funny thing about this photo is that I had spent 20 minutes the day before shooting all sorts of photos of this door and got some really great shots. We were driving by a few days later (as we would drive by it several times each day), I saw the woman standing there and shot 2 frames as we were driving by. We were still moving at 30mph when I shot this...hehe. This one was by far my favorite over all the ones I took the day before. You never know what photo you take is going to end up being the one you love...








I think I answered your questions and then some...

Joel~

Yes, you certainly did answer my questions and then some. THANK YOU! I've been strongly thinkikng of investing in a DSLR myself and after seeing your photos, I'm convinced one will be my next purchase. I've already started researching brands and reading up on them.

Again, your photos are simply stunning. Hoping to see more soon.

Cher

Zach and I went driving to The Lake of the Woods one day in September and I seen this dock jutting out into Red Lake. Needless to say I slammed on the breaks, put it in reverse and pulled in and took this.

Woop! My mom tried scanning in a print for me at work and it worked!

So, it's not my best picture ever, but I'm excited anyways:



I thought maybe some of you might appreciate the little Ohio relation there... Those are gates in front of a historic house in Plymouth.

Found this in my old Star Trek archives

lol. very trippy

From a horsehow yesterday:


Capture the Flag


A Boy and His Pony

Thanks for looking!

Cher

Here's a very recent picture of one of my all time fave singers Grace Slick at the Virgin Airlines Jefferson Airplane plane logo dedication......

whoa....Grace Slick got old...


Nice photos Cher...I especially like the first one

So, I went to these train tracks to get some shots for a photo contest and had some other ideas and no model. So, I used muh-self. This is "manipulated".



You might be wondering what I'm contemplating, and that would be... wait, I don't remember.

whoa. i dig it.
you look gorgous.
i love the composition.
Rule of thirds.

now that's a nice photo KJ
it looks like it should be an album cover.

and nice photos cher, joel and rachel and anyone else i missed
thanks for sharing

kent, i forgot to tell you how much i loved the colors in your photos.
great job.

lol, i thought the same thing. kylie, you got the cover, now you just have to make the record.

thanks guys!

so much.