yep, just off dundee.

Cher -

My impression of your green/yellow hose photo - Salvador Dali tackles:

Is this a subliminal Green Bay statment?

Nice shot!

Awwwwww, thanks, Adriana, but the kudos go to Bill not me.

It is a GREAT shot, Bill. Gotta love those "fall-in-your-lap" opportunities!!!

OOPS!!!!!

Sorry, Bill. I'm so used to Cher posting photos that I didn't see you were the photog.

(Seriously, I've GOT to get some sleep tonight. My brain's turning into mush.)

no problem adriana.

nice catch, bill.



blue sky blues.

SWEET!

nice one, kj!!!

and it is SOOO GOOD TO SEE YOU!
(mmmwah)
d.

Can you hum a few bars? A very, very nice shot!

I've got a feeling I'll be using it a lot to design my own personal cards this year. Here are a couple I've got ready to share with my 2 staffs this weekend after move in is complete:


For the guys


For the gals

A few from my trip to the arboretum on Tuesday:











And welcome back, kylie!

Wow! Jeanne, those are great photos. Thanks for sharing them.

Great shots everybody.
Jeanne your niece is getting so big!!

My favorite is #2. What a beautiful photo!

Isn't it? It looks like the surprise lily is shaking off water like a dog does! Wicked good stuff!!

I've discovered ANOTHER great, fun site through Flickr:

BigHugeLabs.

Here's a couple of samples of what you can do there:


Hockneyized


Warholized

There are gobs and gobs of things to do at this site ... dig it!!

Thanks for looking!
Cher

It's a good thing I love you, Cher. You're evil!

Yeah, she's 10 going on 20. We're getting in some quality time before she has to start the fifth grade in a couple weeks.

Just a few random photos from Indian Lake, Ohio taken over the course of Summer 2008--now winding down!!

Some photos of OtR at the Fraze in Kettering back in July

Greg plays the Bluebird at Bloomington:



John Prine at the Belcourt in Nashville, TN.



The Cowboy Junkies at the Music Mill in Indy:



For those interested, these were all done here.

Ha. Well, I know where they were all done. Thanks again for being the bad influence that you are. I spent hours last night playing on that damned site.

Bwahahahahahahahaha!!

Not far from where I live in Dayton--there is one of those nice locally owned place that sells flowers, produce, and in the fall has lots of events going on----at this time of the year--their crop of sunflowers matures--they grown several acres of them--and it is a favorite spot for people to take lots of pictures--I took some last year and could not resist stopping to take just a few this summer.











I took these photos midday during a bright sunny day----now that the sun's angle is getting sharper and we are heading towards autumn--a favorite time of the year and a great time to take photos thanks to the qualty of the light--I need to take some photos out there in the evening or early morning.

I've been toying with writing something around this line for about 3-4 weeks now. So far, it's simply a bunch of words saved to a Word document. I'm thinking that something will mesh sometime. For the time being, they seem to fit with this funky photo. It's an out-of-focus photo of my sunglasses which were laying on my car seat earlier today. The small round circle is the sun reflecting off the lens. All I did was to crop the photo and then play around with tones and colors in the Olympus software that came with the digi. The text and image was added in Picnik.


The Exuberance of a Scream

If you want to know a little more about the story behind the words. Earlier this summer I was driving to the park and saw a young girl on her bicycle riding on the sidewalk. She was flying, and her blonde hair was streaming out behind her. Her mouth was wide open and she was simply screaming for the sake of screaming. I remember screaming that way myself, and it made me think of how exhilarating it was. Thus, "the exuberance of a scream" was born.

i radio heaven
i get mixed signals
i move the antenna
i switch the channels
i lie in this bed
my satellite dish
is there room in the universe
for one last wish
(i say)...

revised a bit...


i radio heaven | i get mixed signals | i move the antenna | i switch the channels
i lie in this bed | my satellite dish | is there room in the universe | for one last wish
(i say)...

Nice theme going there, Bill! One of my favorites of theirs.

I was at the bar getting a soda and lime when Greg Brown's show order came in:


Wet Your Whistle

Thanks for looking and/or commenting.
Cher

Just a few nice photos of dusk earlier this evening:

I love the quote and the photo. Really nice composition, Cher!

Thanks, Adriana. Poor, Virginia, her connection was really quite fragile ... no?

Here is another place to post photos and possibly have them published in a new photo centered magazine called JPG. You can also write stories relating to photography in some fashion--which in turn--might also be published in the print magazine as well.

http://www.jpgmag.com/

Okay - so I don't want to shoot senior portraits OR wedding photos, but what to do when the daughter of my business associate asks me to shoot hers? She's not comfortable posing for photos, and I'm not comfortable shooting portraits, so I told her that it would either be a good morning or a bad one. Together, somehow, we made a little magic today.



I think she and her parents will be happy. I know I am!

After playing around again in Picnik:







Click on the photos to view a larger size if you want.

I really love this photo. It truly is magical.

I do wish she had looked up at the camera from this position. That would have made a gorgeous part 2 for this shot.

Nice job on the photos of the young lady Coldtea----they came out fine--I am sure she and her family will like them and are pleased with the results.

Well--hard to believe it---but on the lake here in Ohio I spend much time---Summer 2008 "officially came to a close" last night with something like the 20th year of a tradition on this lake (am not quite sure how it started) but it is a fun and interesting one called "The Ring of Fire."

All around the 30 mile shoreline of the lake--at approximately 9 pm on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend---people light off 30 minute railroad flares. It is very pretty to go out and see most of the shoreline of the lake aglow with the red light put out by the flares.

It might not be the WEBN fireworks down on the river in Cincy--but it is a nice way to say goodbye to summer-at least the summer season here on the lake.

Here are some photos of our little part of the lake from last night when we and our neighbors here on "Dunn's Pond" were burning our flares.

this is soooo great!

MIchael - first, thanks for your words; they mean a lot. Your 'ring of fire' shots are indeed lovely ... an almost paganish (and I mean that in a most respectful way) farewell to the summer season.

Thanks, Adriana.

As the genie in the bottle is purported to have said, "Your wish is my desire."

Very nice pics!

Speaking of Senior pictures, our best friends have a 15 year old daughter that started living life with a camera around her neck. For her birthday, they purchased her a Nikon 40D. She got her first real gig this week and nailed it. A friend of hers, asked her to take his Senior pictures. His parents agreed. Some how, they ended up in an older part of town where a couple of trains passed by purely by coincidence. She snapped some amazing pics of her subject standing in front of a moving train. There's graffiti on the car and it frames him perfectly. Upon presenting the pics, the parents wanted to buy them all, but she was photoshoping them and didn't have time to do all of them so they agreed to a 13 picture package deal. I'll try to get a couple of the pics to post.

Sweet! I hope your subject loves her photos. I think you did a great job.

Good on her! Please do! I'd love to see them.

We're doing the rest of the shoot this weekend. This one will be with a friends black & chrome motorcycle, and her in a Marilyn Monroe-type dress (the white one over the heating grate). I'm thinking of using an abandoned roller rink (outside) as the backdrop. Then I think we'll move to the bandstand at the city park for a few while we're at it ... if she's comfortable with the thought.

Oh, and THEY all LOVE the photos so far!!!

Thanks for looking!