Eggplant
I couldn’t imagine what photos I’d find with eggplant in them–until I saw these photos I’d taken of sunsets and then it was perfectly obvious!!
http://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/02/02/color-your-world-eggplant/
NEW CROP: NET YIELD
No question which of these crops I like best. The closeup is by far my favorite, but you need to click on it to see a bigger version to appreciate the difference.
To see more “cropping” stories, go to Cee’s website:
http://ceenphotography.com/2016/01/27/cees-compose-yourself-photo-challenge-week-15-cropping/
Taking the Long Way Home
Class Reunion
Since we know where we are going so well,
let’s take the longest route there,
out past England’s Hill and that dip in the road we kids called lover’s leap.
Silly the traditions we tried to pretend––as though our histories weren’t long enough
to have attracted real ones. Now all of those old newnesses
are curling with age, discolored, cracking at the edges––
their roughness catching realities and dreams
and mixing them together so none of us
can remember the difference.
The Prompt: This Is Your Song–Take a line from a song that you love or connect with. Turn that line into the title of your post. (My song was “Long Way Home” by Tom Waits.)
Today a new little surprise cropped up on my blog. When I click onto my own blog from the Daily Post page, instead of getting a full page view of my blog, I get tiny images of the pages so small that I can’t read the writing. This does not happen when I click on any other blogs–just my own. Nor does it happen in the Reader or when I click on the blog from my own bookmarks bar. Has anyone else had this problem? So irritating. When I click on the blog posting I want to see, I can only get it to enlarge by clicking on a picture, but then I only see the picture, not the blog. If you have a solution, I would appreciate it greatly!!!
Pick of the Crop
I am really glad Cee has extended these “Compose Yourself” challenges to only two per month, as I’ve had a problem completing them in one week. The photos I’ve chosen all presented varied cropping choices, which I’ll discuss as I show them.
(Click on photos to enlarge.)
Cropping closely and adding exposure reveals more of the transaction going on in the foreground.
But bringing back the shadow in the foreground, helps to reveal more interesting action in the background.
And although the focus isn’t great, I love this cropped shot of this active little jogger.
http://ceenphotography.com/2016/01/27/cees-compose-yourself-photo-challenge-week-15-cropping/
The Prompt: A Bird, a Plane, You!––You get to choose one superpower. Pick one of these, and explain your choice:
I can’t think of any power greater than that of being able to make two people agree with each other. Imagine its impact on negotiations between countries as well as with terrorist organizations such as Isis. The only problem would be the life I’d have to live to make use of those powers. I would have to be a politician or lawyer in order to have access to people who can really make a worldwide difference, and with this power, I would be so effective that I doubt I’d have much of a personal life of my own as I’d always be traveling to solve one dispute or another.
On a personal level, to really enable people to see where those with opposing viewpoints are coming from would be of such immediate help that I can imagine being called in to mediate all sorts of disagreements between neighbors, friends and relatives. Messy divorces would be a thing of the past around me–either the divorce itself or the bickering over a settlement. Schoolyard bullies might be better understood and quashed. Gang activity could be ameliorated. Donald Trump could be brought to his knees and silenced, hopefully.
World peace would be reason enough to sacrifice my other two major “wishes” of being able to time travel and speak any language in the world. Guess I’ll have to save those wishes for the next inevitable repeat of this prompt.
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