Nosegay
Where did I find this nosegay? Not real, but pretty?
On this sugar skull made by one of the few kids who braved the threat of the weather to come to the sull decorating yesterday. The afternoon session was cancelled, schools shut down and I was advised by Proteccion Civil to leave my house as they feared landslides. I’m back in my house after a big and frustrating adventure which I am about to write about.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/23/flower-of-the-day-october-23-2015-dahlia/
Unrealized Toys
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Out of Your Reach.” Was there a toy or thing you always wanted as a child, during the holidays or on your birthday, but never received? Tell us about it.
I have written to this prompt before. go HERE to read about what toy I secretly yearned for but never received.
Wood
I’ve been waiting for the opportunity to use this picture of a dugout canoe taken on the Amazon in Peru. Black and White is not the right challenge for it, however, as it needs the contrast to green to stand out from all the foliage and other undergrowth rubble.
I thought perhaps cutting out some of the background would help, but there is still just too much business going on!
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/22/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-things-made-from-wood/
Accidental Oddball
I wish I could take credit for this picture, but I don’t have the least idea how it happened! I was using a digital camera, so it can’t be a double exposure–can it? At any rate, we were in Guadalajara having a wonderful time shopping near the Libertad Market. We were having fun trying on these wild watches, and then I saw this girl trying on glasses and thought it would make a good shot. Little did I know. Life loves an oddball, I guess!!!
For more Oddballs, go HERE
Hide-And-Go-Seek
The rain started while we were watching an incredible Iranian film at the Lake Chapala Society. When we emerged, the rain was a surprise, even though we’d been warned about the big tropical storm about to hit–a long arm of Hurricane Patricia that is predicted to arrive with full force at midnight tomorrow. I have started to prepare–butane camp cooker, bottles of water freezing in the freezer, candles and oil lamps out, cooking food ahead as I’m about out of gas and I know I have a gas leak. How could I use $200 worth of gas in three weeks?
Anyway, we decided to be kids and enjoy the block long walk to the car in the rain and were rewarded, when we ducked under cover of the little outside restaurant that was halfway to the gate of LCS, with a view of an incredible orchid tree. (My name. I don’t know what it is.) An added bonus was that I was under the cover of the roof of the open air little restaurant and so I didn’t have to risk getting my lens wet.
It was only after I got home and started playing with the pictures that I spied the various little characters hidden in the flowers. See if you can find them.
Can you find the koala bear? Some may think he has more in common with a polar bear.
Mr. Frog is enjoying the rain.
Little bird is hungry, but old grandfather mouse is just wet and disgusted.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/22/flower-of-the-day-october-22-2015-dahlia-backs/
Seven Vital Words
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Seven Wonders.”Khalil Gibran once said that people will never understand one another unless language is reduced to seven words. What would your seven words be?
Love, Unity, Empathy, Compassion, Karma, Understanding, Laughter
Keeping it Simple
Show us 4 to 6 photos that you have taken that are extremely simple. Show us your uncropped and unedited versions. Sharpening and saturation is allowed.
This is some sort of strange antenna that was coming out of a very old building. I would love to crop off that bottom fuzzy part, but the rule is no cropping! I was in the car, stopped at a stop light, so couldn’t back off to get a further view but may to back to do so. So strange, the juxtaposition of the old and new.
The plant itself isn’t simple, but the fact that it is a single object and the simplicity of the background caused me to include this picture.
Extra credit for Gold Star Award
Cropping: show us one before and after cropped simplicity photo.
Color vs. B&W: show us the same photo one color and one black and white photo.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/21/cees-compose-yourself-photo-challenge-week-4-simplicity/
More Unruly Punctuation
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “By the Dots.” We all have strange relationships with punctuation — do you overuse exclamation marks? Do you avoid semicolons like the plague? What type of punctuation could you never live without? Tell us all about your punctuation quirks!
Since I’ve answered this exact prompt before, please go HERE to read my poem on this subject and remember that the punctuation marks that are not meant to be merely functional (the ones in blue and boldface) are meant to be pronounced in full.
Spanish Dancer at Midnight
The name of this variety of hibiscus really is Spanish Dancer! Another of my shots taken after midnight with the help of a flashlight. From this angle you can’t see the pinkish red at the center of the inside.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/21/flower-of-the-day-october-21-2015-dahlia-bud/
