Frivolous Photo Thread

[blueraven95]

I had a 5 hour class today, after which I did research for a paper, and then I read a zillion pages of intellectual thought about Bonnie and Clyde...all of which is conspiring to keep me away from you guys. While I have to admit I love my studies, I miss all of you wonderful people too.

So, how is everyone? Got any fun photos to share?

[Mira]

1. OK - I'm game, and I miss you, too!

[blueraven95]

3. Hi Mira!

I love the illusion of the watering can falling - and the colors are beautiful!

:hi:

[trusty elf]

14. Nice one!

[Celebration]

2. well, fun for me

If you want an example of my usual subject, here is my grandson as I was trying to teach him the yoga posture "Salute to the Sun". This is the "Downward Dog" position, or his interpretation of it, which includes a lot of jumping on his feet. See why I felt like I needed to teach him yoga? Notice the background. My hand was not shaking for this pic. He was in the middle of his own Downward Dog interpretation.

[blueraven95]

4. Hi Celebration!

Your grandson is adorable! I particularly like the idea of doing yoga in footie pajamas. It's fun juxtaposition.


:hi:

[DrDan]

9. curious about your carpet - a karabaugh?

would like to see those colors

[Celebration]

20. hmmm

Maybe I need an appraisal. It was my mom's, and my great aunt's before that. She had a fine old house. It is pretty threadbare, as in no pile on it, but looks fine--no bald spots or anything. I like the geometric shapes of the pattern.

[DrDan]

28. wouldn't hurt to have someone look at it - definitely caucasian . . .

I never minded a few threadbare spots - or tears - or holes. Just shows a bit of character. I have some with some crude repairs - but I would not touch them. It would ruin them in my opinion.

[Mira]

32. I love dat! How funny, the obviously bouncing baby.

that's a shot to treasure.

[HarveyDarkey]

5. My "still life" I didn't enter

Shrine to Uncle Jack

[blueraven95]

10. Hi HarveyDarkey!

That's a heck of a shrine!

:hi:

[Mira]

34. I'm so chuckling. It's a beautifully shot and arranged picture.

The big clear bottle is obviously an antique? I like the writing on it.

[HarveyDarkey]

39. If 1971 is an antique I guess

That's when I bought it. Would be worth thousands now if I hadn't opened it.

[Mira]

41. WOW - I spied the right thing then - it's probably still worth some bucks to

a collector.
I can't decide which of your two shots I like better, I studied them and thought: How did HE decide?
So, how did you?

For me the original decision is always really hard, and then, usually, all of a sudden I know which one and just proceed.

[HarveyDarkey]

43. Actually there was no decision involved

I didn't even think of this until the other was submitted. It's something that's been in my living room for a long while and I never even considered it as a possibility.

Here's a pristine decanter:

[Mira]

44. AWESOME - how could you not have considered it?

Too used to seeing it I bet. This still life thing has been a real eye opener for me, I wish, like I already said, we could just keep it up a while so we can all learn some new ways to look at what's around us.

[HarveyDarkey]

58. What is it they say about familiarity?

Exactly right. When you see it every day, after a while you no longer "see" it.

[JeffR]

6. Here's a little slice of ridiculous

At the Toronto Sculpture Garden. Apparently the sculptor's medium here was Cheetos:



Good to see you here!
:hi:

[blueraven95]

11. Hi JeffR!

I'm not usually into the color orange, but that's a fun use of it! I never would have thought of orange bears, personally.

:hi:

[JeffR]

18. Me neither!

Perhaps these bears have been hanging out with John Boehner...

[Xipe Totec]

7. You have me in stitches! n/t

[Xipe Totec]

8. So, what are you guys looking at?

Those Cheeto bears sure look strange up there!

[blueraven95]

12. Hi Xipe Totec!

:rofl: Thanks for the laugh!


:hi:

[JeffR]

19. LOL!

:thumbsup:

[Mira]

33. Priceless !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Xipe Totec]

36. Thanks! It's another picture from the Beijing set

I was goofing around in the 798 Art Zone




798 Art Zone, or Dashanzi Art District, is a part of Dashanzi in the Chaoyang District of Beijing that houses a thriving artist community, among 50-year old decommissioned military factory buildings of unique architectural style. It is often compared with New York's Greenwich Village or SoHo, but faces impending destruction from the forces driving Beijing's urban sprawl.

The area is often called the 798 Art District or Factory 798 although technically, Factory #798 is only one of several structures within a complex formerly known as Joint Factory 718. The buildings are located inside alleys number 2 and 4 on Jiǔxiānqiáo Lù (酒仙桥路), south of the Dàshānziqiáo flyover (大山子桥).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/798_Art_Zone

[Mira]

37. Fascinating BUT HOW do you do the Chinese writing.

I'm very fascinated with your offerings, and thanks for the explanation.

[Xipe Totec]

38. Chinese writing? Easy. I cheat

I copy and paste from the wiki.

[Mira]

42. Funny as hell. N/T

[trusty elf]

13. This one's kinda funny.

I posted it once before, but it's all I've got!

[HarveyDarkey]

15. Not just funny, it's hilarious

What were they thinking?

[blueraven95]

16. Hi trusty elf!

That is definitely a recipe for disaster. I hope those weren't your things. :)


:hi:

[trusty elf]

17. Hi blueraven95!

No, no, not my things! I saw this on the way to the airport in Madrid a while back. Too bad we couldn't linger, I would have loved seeing how they crammed that plant in there!

:hi:

[blueraven95]

21. oh good!

I'm thinking that they had a hard time with that plant, that's for sure.

[Richard D]

47. Jungle version

[blueraven95]

51. Hi Richard D

That's amazing! I can't believe those mattresses aren't falling.

:hi:

[Richard D]

54. That was after . . .

. . . they'd already unloaded about half of them!

[Mz Pip]

22. Road to Nowhere

Mz Pip

[Xipe Totec]

24. It could also be called "Land Shark" n/t

[blueraven95]

25. Hi Mz Pip!

that is beautiful!

:hi:

[Mira]

31. Intriguing. Is it water, and fog? And where is it? n/t

[Mz Pip]

40. Central Valley

of CA. The water's rice paddies and it was a foggy and still morning. Same general area that I took my winter contest entry.

[Mira]

23. One of my favorites I forgot about

[blueraven95]

26. that's cool - where is it?

inquiring minds want to know :)

[Mira]

29. In Sarasota - I was on a walk with a friend

and spotted this wall on a residential building.

I was so grateful to have my camera around my neck.
If ever we have a contest about repetitive images, this will be seriously considered.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

27. Did someone say frivolous?

:) A prototype of my experiment with paper mache

[Mira]

30. Utterly marvelous...especially the hair !

(how old were you at the time? :))

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

55. I made this about 2 months ago,

so I was 59! :) But I refuse to grow up........

[blueraven95]

35. Hi Dyedinthewoolliberal!

I love the nose :thumbsup:


:hi:

[ohheckyeah]

45. Here's a weird

Sabatier print I did in the darkroom. I call it the Spirit of the Tree.

[Mira]

46. I would love to see this larger. The title sure works well, I love the

way it uses space - great balance.

[ohheckyeah]

48. Thank you...

Oops....wrong photo. I was answering about the bread and wine photo.

I would have to hunt this down and re-scan it to get it larger.

[blueraven95]

52. Hi ohheckyeah!

I agree - I would love to see this bigger.

:hi:

[ohheckyeah]

49. The colors in that photo are beautiful! n/t

[Elfin Yeti]

50. You have to be careful in Southern California!

Lest you run into one of these guys!



Or one of these!

[blueraven95]

53. Hi Elfin Yeti!

:scared:


I like them! :)


:hi:

[DisgustipatedinCA]

56. Frivolous Photo (language warning)

I saw this hanging from a car's mirror in Golden Gate Park last summer. I loved the stereotypical June Cleaver look with the completely incongruous statement.

[blueraven95]

57. Hi DisgustipatedinCA!

that's...odd. :rofl:


:hi:

[hippywife]

59. Don't nobody mess with me or

or so help me god, I'll enter this in a photo contest. :rofl:

[blueraven95]

62. Hi hippywife!

That's a winner! It looks like my Muffins when she was little.

This is an old picture of her, but she looks about the same. I really need to upload new photos of her.




:hi:

[hippywife]

65. Pretty kitty.

Muffins is a little longer in the coat than Lena. The pic I posted was the first week we had her, which will be two years in July.

This is her majesty now, LOL.



That one's a little blurry.

This is my favorite pic of her from when she was about 6 mos. old. She looks like a little ruffian with a striped shirt on, like from the old Bowery Boys movies or Our Gang, if that makes any sense to anyone but me. I might be the only one who sees that in this pic. LOL

[blueraven95]

66. It's not just you - I see it too

Lena is beautiful.

[Mira]

60. When you see this one, I suspect you will

[blueraven95]

63. you're right, I did

:)


:hi:

[Saphire]

61. are you an inny or an outy???

if you can't figure it out, there are other hints....

[blueraven95]

64. Hi Saphire!

That's...downright odd.


You've got some interesting lighting there.


:hi:

[Mira]

67. It's ridiculous - I find frivolous every time I open up my files

[blueraven95]

70. That's a fun perspective

what lens did you use?

[Mira]

73. Just me standing there with my Sony alpha 100

3.5-5.6 18-70 Automatic setting I would think - it's in Key West BTW
that about sums up my equipment exc for a 100-300 mm lens which which I got the little cardinal.

[Tindalos]

68. Hi blueraven

Here are some lanterns to celebrate lunar new year. The lion with the big cheesy grin is my favourite.












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[blueraven95]

71. Hi Tindalos!

Happy Lunar New Year!

While I like the grinning lion, I believe I am partial to the dancing blue creature. :)


:hi:

[Celebration]

69. Oops, I meant to post this on February 14

[blueraven95]

72. Hi Celebration!

What a sweet capture! :loveya:



:hi:

[Mira]

74. Bark - sideways

It took 10 seconds to find this - what I like about this thread is that it makes me look at stuff I would gloss over because of the frivolity of it.
By the way, Blueraven, I really love the spools of thread. I no longer sew, but it makes me want to ...

[Adsos Letter]

75. Produce and its Discontents

Angst:





Aggression:




:D

[Celebration]

76. these are TOO cool n/t

[HarveyDarkey]

78. You planted it after its modeling career was over I hope

[Celebration]

77. I know what this thread desperately needs

A great blue heron with a little twist (well, it does show off the sign better this way!)

[Mira]

79. There is someone who liked this

[Sheepshank]

80. endearingly frivolous...never to be entered because of puppiness

and this one, because I loved babysitting these little guys last Summer :)

[blueraven95]

81. Hi Sheepshank!

puppy love! :-)


Those eggs look so perfect!

:hi: