Wandering Jew
For more flowers, go here: http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/17/flower-of-the-day-september-17-2015-magic-moment-dahlia/
Wandering Jew: Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 9/17/2015
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Something Fishy: Shannon’s Creative Photo Challenge
Something Fishy
I don’t eat fish, but couldn’t resist photographing them in the Lima, Peru Fish Market!
http://abstractlucidity.com/2015/09/09/shannons-creative-photo-challenge-food/
Oscar and Carmen Play with Flowers (Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge)
Oscar and Carmen Play with Flowers
I think there were twelve of us in my full-sized van that day, off to see the wildflowers and rocks of Tapalpa. This series of pictures is all about Carmen and Oscar. Oscar is the little boy you saw diligently doing his English homework at my dining room table a few days ago. He is now nine. In these pictures he is two. Carmen is his sister and stylist.
Oscar was pretty happy with his handful of pristine white flowers
But Carmen had a better idea.
She looked beautiful in her cosmos garland, in spite of the sun in her eyes that gave her a wistful look.
But she had further plans.
And I’m not too sure how Oscar feels about his sister’s attempt to spruce up his look, but I thought he looked adorable!
For more gorgeous flowers, go HERE.
Selfie Challenge
Selfie Challenge
My prior selfies have been word-oriented, but in this challenge, the assignment was to do a photo selfie, so here are a handful!
For more selfies, look here: http://bulldogtravels.com/2015/09/07/calling-all-selfies-bulldogtravels-self-portrait-photo-challenge/
Terra-cotta
Terra-cotta
These photos were taken at what used to be my very favorite place. It was a large outdoor studio where they made pre-Columbian replicas–huge pieces fired in three colossal wood-fired kilns.
Some of the one-of-a-kind pieces were handmade by a doctor who preferred sculpture to the scalpel. He had become a doctor for his father, but his heart was in the clay studio. His pieces were amazing and much more expensive than the other pieces which were lovely but mass-produced. Luckily, I had the good sense to purchase several of his as well as dozens of their other pieces.
The last time I went back, the place was closed. A huge locked gate was as far as we could get. These pictures were of their refuse pile–pieces that had blown apart in the kiln that they had not yet reassembled and painted. I used to beg them to sell me pieces from this pile, which I loved. It felt like my own archeological expedition. Sometimes they did!
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/monochromatic/
Greens: Flower of the Day 9/8/15
Greens: Flower of the Day
I love the fragility of these green palm blossoms. Soon they will fall like rain.
Some leaves, such as these on jade plants and other succulents, imitate flowers. 
To view Cee’s flower and others, go HERE.
Birds of Paradise: Flower of the Day, 9/7/15
More Orange Bougainvilleas: Flower of the day
More Orange Bougainvilleas
Okay, more orange bougainvilleaS, but this time with the real flowers : (Click on photos to enlarge.)
Each of those little coral pistil-looking rods is actually a flower bud getting ready to open. Since my last bougainvilleas post, most of them have opened, giving the bougainvillieas a fluffier look! I like both stages–sparse and frilly! In Mexico, they are bugambilias and they have many namesakes: housing developments, shopping centers, movie theaters.
See more flowers here: http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/06/flower-of-the-day-september-6-2015-dahlia/
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/
First Blush: Bougainvillea–Flower of the Day Challenge 9/5/15
First Blush: Bougainvillea– Flower of the Day Challenge
This bougainvillea has a different look from my others. I love its simplicity, color, and the three pistil-like protrusions. I know that literally, these are leaves, not flowers, but somewhere within their makeup they contain what will become flowers!
More flor: 5/09/05/flower-of-the-day-september-5-2015-orchid/
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