Be silly – Maybe be Rudolph – see who smiles at you.Train your pet cow to sit in the back seat instead of the drivers seat.
Kiss a dog – a friendly one of course!If you are into computers more then Rudolph and animals – Learn PhotoShop so that you can create fake photographs like this one. – or you could make some really silly ones if you learn PhotoShop.
Or how about just doing a silly dance in front of the camera?Or find a statue or piece of art work and see if you can imitate it!Or run outside and smell a rose – or do it at the grocery store – or just walk into a flower shop and smell the roses and walk out – not saying a word! That would be silly enough!or Ride a sleeping horseor if you can not find a sleeping horse – do shadow photography – I was only standing beside this horse.I am not sure you should be this silly – well maybe it would be OK.
“You gotta watch, they sneak up behind ya”“If they do – turn around and scare them”“Love me for my character – and of course my good looks““Get out of my way”“Did you not hear me? – Get out of my way”“What is it? – Is it safe”Pictures only??? I love to add my own captions. But, i will let you add your own here – Hey, kids, that is how you got here and I think you have made this world a fun, better place!
Back stage concentration = antidote to anxiety.Eyes-shut concentration = creation.Three concentrate – they are listening.Concentrate on your concentration each day – just a little bit!
The nice part of street photography is if no one is interesting you – Lift your head, smile, and find a character in the sky to photograph.Back to the Marquette art and street show. Good young performer. BUT – Street stories happen in the audience and back stage!Audience – All but the dog love to watch the girl in red play the fiddle on stage.Backstage – It is the girl in red, then the beauty queens, then me – “Just get into my own world – ignore them – keep the jitters away!”At the church – After the performance I walked the streets of Marquette. Do think the tow person is really Mr. Wrecker? Would the church lie just to scare parking violators away?The end – What are some of the life events honored here – other then the obvious?Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. Jonathan Swift
Of course, you knew it was a modern garbage can in Titusville, FlWhat are they doing on this board walk – Could they have been doing it 10 years ago?They are flying a drone taking photographs from as much as 1000 feet in the air to create promotional videos for Melbourne businesses.Why is this friend of mine checking out the Max Brewer Bridge in Titusville, Fl.She is not – we are birding – Well not me – I am peopling!Bet you see clouds flying over I95 heading out of Titusville, FLI saw an angel – arms outstretched protecting all drivers!Looks like I am out in my golf cart just riding along looking a the beautiful lake and homes on the other side.Nope, I am looking for my golf ball YIPES!!!
Is it a house? – I do not know – but – I see a goofy bird’s head?
Art in a cave: was it a city, public place??? – The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic, Late Stone Age) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. Very broadly, it dates to between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, roughly coinciding with the appearance of behavioral modernity and before the advent of agriculture.“Art of several media combined to create one – wood work, wheelwright, oil paint, wood carve, color pallet, wagon designer – where’s the horse?”“We love our dogs and want you to enjoy bath time with them”“We build outside cave walls to tell stories of our beloved animals” 17,000 years from now, humans will spend hours interrupting the meaning of the writing’s on this wall.What where those dwellers 17,000 years ago saying on this inside out cave wall?- Did they not have iPads with cameras? “We have inside out caves on rails”
The city left a mystery “17,000 years from now they will try to find long buried seeds to try and bring this vine back to life”Giant tool to press the cloths of local dwellers – where did the giants live?17,000 years from now archeologists will search for the green giant – they will say they found records of Jolly ones that lived in gardens?The art of the meal. 17,000 years from now they will search not only for vines but for a plant that has such a beautiful flower
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a gallery of human leavings. The Asheville gallery is a beauty because as Plato said “This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.” In Asheville they are artists, they laugh in their Cafe’ and they welcome all.
Study a rose and you see details in it’s petals – Study a city’s gallery of street art and see details of it’s life.
Artist and Animal lovers are among the most interesting people in my life. But I am not talking of horses today – I talking of artists – That is why I love Asheville, NC. We are all defined by our personal trappings – our cars, our hair, the colors we choose, our pets, the coats we put on, and the decorations in our house ……would you hang this painting by Jonas Gerard on your wall – I just hung it in our entry hall – well only in my mind using just a few pixels.- But even that helps define me – Bright bold colors on walls pick me up – make me smile. But it is not a painting to put on the wall at all – It is the artists van. Found on the streets of Asheville.
The drivers side – You know, I think artist’s are better defined than boring people – of which there are none in AshevilleHair, coat, shoes, jewelry all help his definition on the streets of Asheville.on.
Oh, his hat and dog add to the definition. – In the streets of Asheville.In the streets of Asheville – across from the 5 and 10 cent store, I thought I would define myself with a colored hair look. I tried the silver one – I decided to save my money, do not buy the wig and do not go to the barber – Presto in two months, I will be defined in the streets of Florida – There are a lot of us silvered haired humans here in retirement cities of Florida..Some artists in Asheville do not put on a coat of many colors – rather they want to be defined by a single color. – Life is simple for these type of artists in Asheville – No decisions -“Think I will wear my green shirt today” Bet she loves green pea soup – at lunch at vegetarian restaurant we tried what was advertised as green V8 juicer – This young artist most like filled her drinking vessel at the same vegetarian restaurant here in Asheville
A street photographer’s – oops I mean a street reader’s – dream, each street in Asheville is like the pages in book – the individuality of artists make each street tell it’s own unique story!
Here we are – ready for our photo adventure – This Blog posting, though, focuses on the lady in blue, standing in the back of the boat.Now up close with my iPhone camera. This is our Captain of the boat, Lynn. Lynn of course is the only one on the boat that is working – The 25 photographers are recreating. – Lynn is Focused (concentrating) on her announcement, making sure that we are relaxed, safe, and ready for a fun ride – That is part of her “work”.Backing out – Lynn is concentrating. That is her “work”.Part of Lynn’s job is to find dolphins for us to photograph – There is a pod of dolphins about to surface just off the starboard bow of docked cruiser in front of us. Lynn in concentrating on positioning her boat so the we can get a good shot. That is her “work”.Here we are. Photographers with their long heavy lens. With my iPhone, I catch Lynn concentrating on getting the boat positioned just right for the photographers with the heavy lens. That is her “work”.Being a perfect host – with open water in front of us, I photograph Lynn talking with and entertaining customers like me. WOWing us. That is her “work”. She is relatively new to this Captain’s job. For ten years prior to this she says, “I swam to work every day.” WOW, what was your “work” then. I was a professional deep sea diver – working for a company doing treasure hunting – diving to ships that were sunk prior to and during the Civil War. She said that kind of “work” took real concentration.Interesting careers – swim to work each day, finding treasure, telling us retired office workers stories of life on the high seas – That is her “work”
Nancy – Thanks for organizing this trip for the TGO Photo Club. At the Sugar Mill Ruins we see, discuss what we photographed, we learn of the life of those before us. “Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.” Christopher ColumbusI grabbed this moment of the center stage star – The star sharing an experience – holding a Horseshoe – Just as Jerzy Kosinsk has quoted: “In my photographs ,it is apparent that there is no posing at the moment I released the shutter.”I got lost in a focused photography moment. To photograph, one is encouraged to experience the moment the shutter is released – I did. As I set my camera for this shot, the camera eye made my mind think — How would a hungry dolphin see this?, — What would this fish think when they saw the dolphin? Unlike Vernon Howard who said “Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.” Sometimes I think truth IS truly a matter of personal viewpoint.Next, the photographers ride 180 horses – to see a little closer what the world may look like to a dolphin raising to the surface for air.I have no way of knowing what the dolphin saw – Of course they speak, they even have names for each member of the pod, they call to each other, they chatter – sort of dolphin tweet – but their language is as magic to me as the iPhone is magic to me! Around 1914 author Arthur C. Clarke said “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” in 2014 I say “The iPhone is indistinguishable from magic” One hundred years from now will the magic be that the “dolphin language” is automatically digitally translated into our minds – so that we communicate with the animals – and find a source of real intellegence”To pilot a photo cruise boat, the Captain is focused – to to grab the perfect shot the photographers are focused – all lost in their own world of the moment at hand – not another worry in the world!!!After the period of challenge and focus – appreciating the natural unposed moment – the shutter is released. Now it is time to share – and enjoy the comaraderie of sharing the photography experience.
And, we saw a light house. Come to our club meeting on Friday Friday 21, 2014. 3:00 pm HobbyLand
Home is where it all started. Since this horse and cow barn of my growing up years, my own family’s lives (Son’s, daughters. Grand kids) have been enriched with dogs, cats, emus, lamas, parakeets, rabbits, turtles, chinchillas, gerbils , ponies, horses, guinea pigs, hamsters, and I am sure some I do not remember – oh, now I recall a few more – lizards, tadpoles, fish, snails, peacocks plus wild friends that adapted us – we enjoyed each day – but we never caged them – some we fed some we did not – like the current back yard alligator – like bumble bees (one named goofy who could never make a good landing), deer, armadillos, snakes raccoons , quail, fox, squirrels, roadrunners, and more…. My family of 15 has spent un-told hours caring for, watching, and enjoying our animal friends.Watching a Belted Galloway Mom and Calf – Less then 15 minutes old – on my J bar G Ranch in Texas 15 or so years ago.
I will share an e-mail I got today – She is a better story writer then I am – Poor, dumb dogs. Good moral story – Do not be fearful kids – Just be careful, check the water for sharks before you jump!!! Hello, This am I thought about your animal theme on your blog. You taught me – growing up – to enjoy and observe animals and our pets are a big part of our house hold and are important and amusing family members. I like to watch the interaction between the dogs and the cat. The cat is clever and the dogs are…. well … dogs. But anyway, in the morning, I sit in my big chair that you sit in sometimes when visiting and I drink coffee with the dogs and the cat. And, I watch them interact. I thought of this funny story to describe the relationship between these two species and it went like this: Once upon a time, 2 dogs and a cat were stranded on a tiny life raft in the middle of the ocean and they were drifting waiting to come to a friendly – food filled shore. The dogs said we getting really hungry. The cat said me too, why don’t u guys jump in the ocean and direct the fish toward the raft, then I will reach in with my sharp claws and pull the fish out for us to eat. The dogs said, but that water looks awefully deep and we are scared. The cat said, don’t worry, you can swim and if you get tired, I will put my tail in the water and pull you back in the boat….. I promise The dogs said, well ok Then together they jumped into the water At that very moment, a giant shark came up and ate them in one bite!! The cat said, well finally, I have this raft to myself, she reached in to the water, pulled out a fish and sat back and ate in peace and quiet. The end. And, thats the story of the clever cat! Talk to you soon.
This blog does not give you answers, it asks you to ponder the question and come up with a good answer: Ponder this – Does a rattlesnake loose in the living room end all discussion of animal rights? Lance Morrow
