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Hairy Kids: Cee’s B&W Challenge,Pets

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Hairy Kids

(Click on first picture to enlarge and for ease in seeing gallery.)

I love looking for the story in a photo and sometimes crop to accentuate the story.  Cropping a different way often tells a different story.  Two of these photos, with a light colored dog or dogs trying to compete with a black element in the story or an equally light background, seemed to work better in sepia, although it destroys the effect of the gallery collage.  See if you can choose which title goes with each shot:  New Family, Zsa Zsa, Loyal Friend, Hopeful Waiting, Uninvited Guest,Traveler, Shadow Reflection, Bad Hair Day.   If you have a better title for a shot, please let me know! Some of the shots made small by the gallery view need to be seen in their enlarged view to see the story.

http://ceenphotography.com/2016/02/11/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-pets/

Crack! Attack

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Crack! Attack

The habit I’ve most often cursed???
Cracking knuckles is the worst!!!
I cannot stand the ghastly tone
of the sound of bone-on-bone.
So if you simply have to do it,
please make sure that I don’t view it;
and if you feel a cracking nearing,
that you’re well out of my hearing!
Please put a notice on your shelf
to KEEP YOUR HABIT TO YOURSELF!!!!

The Prompt: What habit drives you crazy? https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/quirk-of-habit/

The Morning the Fish Came Back

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The ocean has been too warm for fish in the three weeks I’ve been here and as a result there have been practically no fishermen nor birds. This morning I woke up early and went out to my porch to encounter a few more of each than usual.  Here are some of the pictures I took: (Click on first picture to see enlarged gallery.)

This picture of Rick was taken yesterday when he caught this rooster fish standing just offshore. Looks like he has another witness to the fact! More pictures later.

I asked the fishermen what they were waiting for and they said, “Evidence of fish.”  I didn’t have to ask the gulls and pelicans.  They were waiting for the fishermen to catch fish and give them some.  Guess they are retired, too.

 

Brrrrr: Cee’s fun foto Challenge (Things That Are Cold)

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Brrrrr

At the beach, this challenge took a bit of ingenuity to complete, but cold may be found even in the subtopics.  Thanks to my morning smoothie, here’s how:

(Click on first photo to enlarge and enter gallery)

 

http://ceenphotography.com/2016/02/09/cees-fun-foto-challenge-things-that-are-cold/

Monochrome

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Monochrome

https://smallbluegreenflowers.wordpress.com/2016/02/07/garden-photography-monochrome/

Color Your World Goldenrod

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http://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/02/09/color-your-world-goldenrod/

Gold Revisited

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Gold Revisited

After I posted my “Gold” post, I imported pictures from both of my cameras and found more photos I’d like to submit for that prompt. Click on pictures to enlarge.

http://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/02/08/color-your-world-gold/

Gold

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Gold

A lady I met at Daniel’s Sunset Beach Bar was sharing this bottle of Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey. It was actually quite good in small doses, but yes, it did burn! What I was captivated by, however, was the bottle and burned-edge labels.  First of all, the dragon on the front, but when I looked at the back of the bottle, I realized that what looked like a white label with a black dragon on the back was actually a cut out on the label.  That white area and black dragon were actually on the back of the front label and we were looking through the bottle to see it.  So cool.  The bottle was almost empty so I’m wondering how it looked when viewed through a full bottle.  Guess I could add water and food coloring and see. What a unique design.  Love it.

http://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/02/08/color-your-world-gold/

Condensed Love Story

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Condensed Love Story

New love blogs extreme attraction.
Experience posts a retraction.

The prompt is to write about love, but to keep it short!
https://lynnmlovewords.wordpress.com/2016/02/07/love-nudge-competition/

“Nomenculture”

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Illustration by Isidro Xilonzochitl for my book Sock Talk

“Nomenculture”

The names called across playgrounds in 1952
were “Lynn and Rita, Sharon, Karen, Sheila, Portia, Sue”.
But the kinds of names that mothers now choose for their daughters
are all names we never called out from our teeter-totters.

“Emma, Ava, Mia, Hannah, Isabella, Addison, 
Sophia and Olivia, Amelia and Madison,
Harper, Lily, Mia” are the sorts of names girls call
out to one another via texts or in the mall.

“Harper, Ella, Mia, Emily and Abigail”
are the names that girls today most commonly use to hail
each other on their smart phones via tweets or via text.
It’s hard to predict what may be the names that moms might next

choose to call their daughters.  Perhaps Venus, Saturn, Mars
will be the sort of names our daughters’ daughters call from cars.
Modern names for modern girls–– monikers so cool
that giving names like Betty, Pat or Judy would seem cruel.

Today, names must be Biblical or characters from Austen.
Or the names of cities from Madison to Boston.
“Judy” is a boring name, silly, old-fashioned, dull––
the sort of name that nowadays never makes the cull.

Those of my generation may seem rather out of date,
perhaps because of how we dress, our language or our weight.
Some women opt for face-lifts, saying wrinkles are to blame,
but I think it would be easier to simply change my name.


The Prompt: Say Your Name––Write about your first name: Are you named after someone or something? Are there any stories or associations attached to it? If you had the choice, would you rename yourself? https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/say-your-name/