To know more about the sand castle above and to see other sand castles, go Here.
To see other shallow depth of field photos by others, go Here
Sunday Stills: Shallow depth of field
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I posted two of these recently in the WordPress Weekly Challenge: Refraction, so I apologize to those of you who have already seen them. On the other hand, I’ve looked at the below picture of the jellyfish a hundred times and never get tired of seeing it; and they are so perfect for this challenge that I just have to use them again.
One Word Photo Challenge: Clear
for more photos, go here: http://jennifernicholewells.com/2014/11/04/one-word-photo-challenge-clear/
Hard Drive
The Prompt: Buyers, Beware? The year is 2214, and your computer’s dusty hard drive has just resurfaced at an antique store. Write a note to the curious buyer explaining what he or she will find there.
My Retablo, “Autobiography”
If you long for mystery,
poems, facts and history,
long perambulations
and wild exaggerations,
recipes and letters and
episodes of Homeland,
Elementary, Sherlock, Friends,
a blogging site that never ends,
Emails, Youtube, Facebook notes,
starts of novels, copied quotes,
OkCupid pictures of
possibilities for love,
notes from nice guys, threats from creeps,
notes from guys who play for keeps,
friends who only write when drunk,
chain e-mails, jokes and other junk,
two hundred drafts of my third book,
(each one different, have a look),
kids stories and their illustrations,
the Christmas plans of my relations,
photographs of my whole life—
its happiness and pain and strife—
some successes but also follies,
fireworks, insects, gardens, dollies,
travel snaps and friendly faces,
rooms at home or foreign places,
birds and children, beaches, skies,
the camera lens is true and wise
and not as given to fraud and lies
as writings filtered through the eyes
of one who feels the joys or pains
of what she witnesses, then deigns
to try to change her reader’s mind
to accord with the type or kind
of thoughts she carries deep inside:
pride’s cutting edge, love’s waning tide—
things lovely, funny, jarring, rare.
So read this hard drive if you dare,
but if you fear a life laid bare,
I have one word for you. Beware.
Weekly Photo Prompt: Descent
Photo Prompt: Descent—This week, show us your interpretation of descent.
You’ve seen this shot of a hot air balloon that has burst into flame and that is plummeting toward earth once before, but it is so perfect for this prompt that it is appearing for an encore performance. I guess I should mention that it was unmanned!
Searching for a place to land on Candelabra Island, Peru. I believe these are cormorants but I’m open to correction! One lonely pelican seems to have gotten in with the wrong crowd.
Peru Desert, descending to an oasis.
More Peru desert
Amazon Sunset. Does the descent of the sun count?
During the rainy season, flying termites descend by the tens of thousands, entering houses under sliding glass doors, through keyholes and hairline cracks. They swirl around any light like dervish planets, then chew their wings off and worm their way into any vulnerable wood. I think they mate somewhere along the way as well, or perhaps they chew their wings off in frustration over being those wallflowers left without a mate. At any rate, I was dumb enough to leave my pool light on and the next morning awoke to find thousands of insects such as these, pinned upside down by their wings in the water.
Those nimble few who had managed to chew their own wings off then stood on their detached wings or the wings of others as they helped them to chew their wings off.
Once free of their wings, they either swam to safety, found spare wings to use as flotation devices or swam off to aid other termites held captive by their wings in a crucifix position. It was both ghastly and fascinating and a huge cleanup operation!
Another Candelabra Island, Peru descent.
Thousands of white pelicans winter on Lake Chapala, Mexico, where I live. These are a very few making a landing after their descent.
Photo-a-week challenge: Livestock
Lovestock
Right after my husband Bob died, I moved to Mexico. Every morning, I would take a 2 hour walk on the dry lakebed shore of our rapidly drying-up lake. Immediately, I started to find hearts everywhere. Small plastic hearts, stones in the shape of hearts. Once I found a flip-flop used as a fishing net float that had been distorted into a perfect heart shape by the tight rope that held it to the net. The strangest category of hearts that started to pop up with regularity, however, are pictured below. Look carefully and you’ll spot them. For the rest of the story about “Finding Lost Heart in Mexico” you’ll have to read Chapter 21 of my book, Lessons from a Grief Diary. How’s that for shameless self-promotion?
Oh, and another thrown in for good measure (Don’t look for a heart in this one):
For more livestock pictures go Here
Other excellent livestock pictures are Here
One Word Photo Challenge: Scarlet
This week’s One Word Photo Challenge is Scarlet!
Fish Market, Lima Peru. Does anyone know what this is?
And then, he flew away!
Light Play
Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge: Vibrant Colors
These photos are posted in response to Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge—Vibrant Colors. To see other photos submitted, go to:
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/10/14/cees-fun-foto-challenge-vibrant-colors/
Dreamy
And here is my very favorite dream—one that really did change my entire life: : https://judydykstrabrown.com/2015/10/20/waking-up/
Weekly Photo Prompt: Dreamy—A misty morning, your handsome spouse, your grandmother’s house that’s also your elementary school and the Eiffel Tower — this week, show us something dreamy.
Sunday Stills: Water
My water-themed pictures were taken at la Manzanilla beach, the Amazon River in Peru, Candelabra Island in Peru and my own pool/terrace overlooking Lake Chapala in Mexico. Obviously, I couldn’t choose and actually could have posted hundreds more. Water seems to be my “thing.”
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