Opening day of Little Italy Days.
Steve photographed me with Franco Harris who was gracious to all his fans.
Franco poses with all his fans
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Little Italy Days in Bloomfield Neighborhood
Category: Photography
Guaranteed Distraction?
“What about you: what is guaranteed to distract you? What is your “Ooh, shiny!”?Weekly Photo Challenge
Garbage. Unexpected.
I’m fascinated by trash. Litter, too. Funny thing is, I find it difficult to throw things away. Here are previously featured found garbage photos. I even did a Garbology post. “the study of a community or culture by analyzing its waste.”
Here’s a sample of my photos of cat trees, toilets, chairs, aquarium, couches, champagne bottles, old televisions.
Shared Summer Harvest
Come January we’ll be longing for these tomatoes. The taste of summer.
My friend R stopped by the other evening and shared these fresh-from-the-garden tomatoes. Just picked!
Olive oil, chunky chopped onions and a couple of garlic cloves. Threw in the remaining cherry tomatoes (we’d been popping them in our mouths, unadorned)
Black beans and rice. Mmmmmmmm.
Tugboats and Barges in Daylight
Neville Island. Shot Saturday during the retirement party at a friend’s home along the Ohio River.
Maybe you saw yesterday’s night photography of the barges and tugboats. Those were taken handheld with Canon 24-70 L series lens. The reflection of the lights on the dark river at night are more dramatic but the daylight shots taken with the Canon 70-200 L series let you see the details and appreciate the size of the vessels. They move at a fast clip.
NIghtfall. The bonfire.
Neville Island Night Lights on the Ohio River
The retirement party at our friend’s home on Neville Island began in early afternoon but the barges and tugs went by into the night. Both directions!
Lots of drama to watch. Multiple freight trains on the opposite bank blew their train whistles.
See the powerful blue light the Captain was shining down river to illuminate a buoy in the middle of the river? Neville Island Bridge is in the background.
Centerpieces with tiny white lights and fishing accessories glowed like lanterns.
Here you can see the dark barges being pushed by the tug as they approach the bridge.
The bonfire kept us warm and warded off the increasing damp chill as the sun disappeared. Skipping the photo my friend took of me devouring a gooey s’more.
Happy Retirement, Sy
Doesn’t look too safe
My granddaughter Anna texted, “Doesn’t look too safe” with these three photos she took on Friday.
Seriously unsafe.
You might remember Anna’s guest blog of pick up full of mannequin legs and another of a driver brushing his teeth.
I can see her taking the photo in the side mirror reflection.
Thanks for being the guest blogger today.
Just a Glimpse – Plitvička Jezera
from the archives
Plitvička Lakes National Park Croatia
Click above link for a virtual tour.
The waterfalls and pools are everywhere you look. We took the boardwalk you see from the aerial view photo, a bus on winding roads with no guard rail through the forests and a boat ride on a glacial lake. Good photos for water and earth, but no fire.
Earth, Air, Water and Fire
Erica V. at WordPress writes about the photo challenge she created- elemental
“For this week’s challenge, explore the classical elements of earth, air, water, and fire. How do you capture something invisible like air, or the movement of water?”
Denali from the train
Rainy windshield
The wind captured by the flag in Florida
Snow and ice Highland Park Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Falls in Washington with my sister-in-law
Homer Alaska
St. George Island Sunrise
Rushing water in Alaska
Train ride to Denali
Burning Basket in Homer Alaska
Maura running across a field at the farm in Crestline, Ohio
Hard to feel the heat of the desert in a photograph- Arizona
and one of my favorite songs Fantasy by Earth Wind and Fire
Anda Chance- Colored Pencil Artist
Meet Anda Chance. Colored Pencil and Watercolor Artist.
(Click on her name to see her gallery at her website.)
My friend J and I met her at the Artisan’s Guild Gallery in downtown Gainesville, Florida.
“She has earned signature status from the Colored Pencil Society of America in colored pencil and mixed media art.”
Here she is with a piece she was bringing into the gallery on Sunday.
This airplane, Warbird, had just been a show near Washington D.C.
excerpt from her website
Warbird
This Navy plane was used by the US Navy from WWII to the end of the Vietnam War to train pilots and ground crews. When my husband join the Navy in 1970, he was in the last class of ground crew mechanics taught to maintain this engine. Today, she resides in Douglas Georgia with other retired War Birds.
This drawing was a challenge and it really pushed my skills.
“Warbird” has been accepted for the 2017 Colored Pencil International Show in Bethesda Md.
I bought notecards titled Night Riders, with these amazing bicycles on them.
