Here is the texture photo I was originally looking for as my contribution to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture. It is a photo of the inside of the cover of our old gas grill and comes complete with plenty of texture:).
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture (Grill Cover)
Posted: August 8, 2014 in Creativity, Photo Mining, Photography, Photos Taken Within 100 Meters of HomeTags: texture, weekly photo challenge
Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture (Dry Grass)
Posted: August 8, 2014 in Black & White, Photo Mining, Photography, Photos Taken Within 100 Meters of HomeTags: texture, weekly photo challenge
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is Texture. I immediately thought of a couple of my photos, but when I started looking through my Lightroom Catalog I ran into this photo of dried grass, which shows quite a bit of texture.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Water (A Story in Many Pictures)
Posted: May 28, 2014 in Bald Eagle, Birds, Cannon Beach, Cherokee Marsh, Creativity, Door County, Ice, Inspiration, Landscapes, Macro Photography, Maple Bluff, Nature, Nature Photography, Oregon, Pacific Coast, Photo Mining, Photography, Photos Taken Within 100 Meters of Home, Places, Science, Snow, Thunderhead, Warner Park, Weather, Winter, Wisconsin, Wisconsin RiverTags: Bald Eagles, Canadian Geese, Cherokee Marsh, clouds, Columbia River, Columbia River Gorge, downpour, ice, Ice Sculpture, immature bald eagles, Lake Michigan, Monterey, mountains, Pacific Ocean, ponds, puddles, rainstorm, rainstorms, Sandhill Cranes, self-portrait, snow, snow-capped mountains, sunsets, Thunderstorms., water, water drops, waterfalls, Wetlands, Wildlife, Wildlife Photography
What a wonderful challenge idea Cee.
Here is my story of water – from droplet to ocean and back again. I hope you enjoy the rather lengthy journey.
The first stop is two drops of water that are held by bits of moss.
While much of this water will sink back into the earth to replenish aquifers or run off to do duty elsewhere, some will evaporate. Evaporated these two water drops band together with millions of billions of others to form clouds that can be jaw-droppingly beautiful.
However, those same water drops can become nightmarishly dangerous if you are driving on a rural highway in the blinding rain.
Of course these water drop can also fall in the form of snow …
or may become ice and form gigantic glaciers or the most delicate of structures.
The gathering of water is among the most common sights on earth given that more than 70% of the earth’s surface is covered by water.
Water readily forms puddles …
and ponds.
Left to its own devices it will gather into cleansing wetlands.
Water is the great way station and play station for a myriad of wildlife from Canadian Geese
to bald eagles (here an immature bald eagle)
to Sandhill cranes.
When the drops of water do not sink into the ground, they gather together first into streams …
that lead to great lakes like Lake Michigan
and mighty rivers like the Columbia River
… all inexorably making their way to the oceans.
Here we see two surfers in the Pacific near Cannon Beach in Oregon,
while the view of the Pacific in Monterey is much more peaceful.
It is in the oceans that the water, heated by the sun, drives the climate. Eventually that water freshened by evaporation raises itself again and ultimately gathers itself into the weather systems we watch for and when the rain falls we see in it our own renewal.
Photo Mining – Holiday Berries
Posted: December 4, 2013 in Flowers, Maple Bluff, Nature, Nature Photography, Photo Mining, Photography, Photos Taken Within 100 Meters of HomeTags: Madison Wisconsin, Maple Bluff, Nature Photography, photography, Photos Taken Within 100 Meters of Our House
It is a rainy, foggy and generally rather miserable day here in Maple Bluff. I am continuing my photo mining expedition and thought I’d share this photo that I took around Labor Day (early September in the U.S.) in 2011 and then forgot about. It seemed appropriate for the holidays.
Photo Mining – Father-in-law’s Lily
Posted: December 1, 2013 in Flowers, Macro Photography, Nature, Nature Photography, Photo Mining, PhotographyTags: Flowers, Lilies, macro photography, Photo Mining