A Man Can Never Have Too Many Hats
For Cee’s Odd Ball photo and those of others, go here: http://ceenphotography.com/2015/12/13/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2015-week-50/
A Man Can Never Have Too Many Hats
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Art Fusion: Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge, Week 49
Art Fusion
The funky Gecko Gallery in Ajijic, Mexico, has a perfect solution to an overloaded electrical circuit and it only cost ten pesos (two five pesos coins) to solve the problem! I hated to ask to photograph the art, but I had no compunction about photographing their fuse box! Art is everywhere. I enjoyed my friend Mario’s two shows opening on the same night in Ajijic, and enjoyed other spontaneous photography “finds” as well.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/12/06/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2015-week-49/
Odd Ball Photo Challenge 11/22/15
I couldn’t resist this little succulent in the tuna salad tin!!!
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/11/22/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2015-week-47/
Fortunate Photography: Odd Ball Challenge 2015 Week 45
This picture was captured as a result of a photo shoot for “Thursday Doors.” I was leaving a writer’s group meeting at a local hotel/restaurant when I saw a doorway with lovely flowers and birds surrounding the door, along with some other surprises I discovered when taking pictures of the details. At first, I didn’t realize that one of the details was merely an impromptu visitor. Luckily, he stood still as I snapped a few closeups. Reality is happier than fiction, for this grasshopper escaped the hummingbird’s beak, even though this picture might tell a different story!
You’ll see the entire mural in next week’s Thursday Doors.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/11/08/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2015-week-45/
Accidental Oddball: Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge
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
Pagans in a Modern Age: COB Challenge
Pagans in a Modern Age
A few years ago, three friends and I went on a scouting party to find new artists for the Maestros del Arte Feria. Somewhere near Puebla, we took a back road and chanced upon this strange sight. We never did figure out what to make of it.
It was in farm country–no rare commodity in Mexico, where rural is the norm. This farm looked modern in most respects.
But as we zeroed in on the details, it felt as though we were going back in time to some pagan rite.
Was it a joke? Some local custom? A random coincidence of someone finding the doll’s head and sticking it on the stick in the middle of the crop rows? We’ll never know, but as you can see, I couldn’t resist pulling over to take a few shots. Not the weirdest thing that happened on our trip, but certainly the weirdest sight.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/11/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2015-week-41/
Trick Photography Made Simple: Cee’s Oddball Challenge 2015, Week 38
Trick Photography Made Simple
Can you guess what this image is? It is something in my house. I took the shot and then worked with light, color,saturation, contrast, cast, sharpen and definition in the Photos editing bar on my Mac. Last, I used the retouch (bandaid) and by option/clicking, chose details to duplicate and paste over portions of the photo to “paint” with details of the photo. By enlarging and decreasing the areas chosen to copy and rotating the photo, I was able to get more variety in copying and pasting different sections. There is something about the photo that reminds me of my dad’s old flintlock rifle.
But actually, this is the original–just a detail from a photo of a drawer in my kitchen.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/20/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2015-week-38/
Sacrificing Color: ( Cee’s Oddball Challenge, Week 36, 2015)
Sacrificing Color
I went to the DiF center in Chapala for a ribbon cutting for a new mural by my friend Jesus Lopez Vega this week. (He did the murals around my house doors, on my garage door and nicho, the detail work around all my arches in my house and many of the paintings you’ve seen inside my house.) During the two and a half hours of speeches, folklorico and indigenous dances, I got caught up in the interaction and contrasts between the dancers and the characters in the murals, which depicted the different social services that the DIF center offers: education, medical care, food for the aged and needy and support of indigenous cultures. My settings weren’t right to catch good detail with all the movement, so I started cropping and playing with light, detail, filters and saturation and found that often, in spite of losing the brilliant and varied colors, that switching to sepia brought out the narrative in the pictures. Here are some of my “finds.”
This was a so-so shot of the drummer, but even more interesting to me was the contrast between the woman taking the picture with her smart phone, the little girl and the drummer.
And I thought the narrative was better expressed through cropping and the use of a sepia filter.
Both croppings of the sepia of this photo remind me of a magazine illustration in the fifties or perhaps of an etching. I’m interested in which version you prefer!
I don’t know what Jesus had in mind when he placed this scowling little boy in his mural, but he seemed to me to be expressing extreme disapproval with all that was going on.
And in this shot, seems to have cloned himself and to have entered into the dance.
This little girl was in complete contrast to scowling mural boy. She expressed total delight all afternoon.
I think this dancer looks like he’s standing in line to be seen next by the dentist.
Below are a few more color shots of the afternoon.
Really wonderful odd balls here this week: http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/06/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2015-week-36/
Unfortunately Masked: Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge 2015, Week 32
Unfortunately Masked
Most of the masks kids made at our week-long camps for kids were stunning and you’ve seen a number of them on past blogs. There were a few, however, that definitely qualify as oddballs!
When all else fails, just slap a feather on the end of your nose and call it art!
Perhaps it is that one sinister eye peering out or the odd misalignment of the placement of the mask that gives this one an oddball aura. I also like placement of the painting behind which gives him the appearance of having one horn that parallels the drooping ear. Does that look like a goober coming out of his nose and a little green creature reaching up to grab it?
Darling, but definitely oddball!!!
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/08/09/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2015-week-32/
Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge
I cannot imagine this guy’s story. He flew up to ogle our tortilla chips when we were sitting facing out over the bluffs of San Carlos Bay, Sonora, Mexico. This toothpick or porcupine quill-shaped object was poking straight up out of his skull and must have been embedded there.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/04/26/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2015-week-17/
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