"Okay, you caught me. It was really 4th 3rd of July"
Garner, NC - July 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Image is Everything #15: Happy New Year!
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Thematic Photographic 82: "2009 - The Year that Was" v.1.0 - Snow! Twice! With Special Guests, Helga the Amazon She-Hawk and Litle GTO
This week Thematic Photographic takes a look back at 2009 in pictures. If it was important to you, it's important to us. So show us what you saw in the year gone by.These weren't events of national or world importance, they were of photographic significance -- to me anyway.It began in mid January when a once-crippled and rehabilitated female red tailed hawk named Helga was released into the wild at the local riding stable where she was found with a badly broken wing. The Triangle Land Conservancy contacted me about using a couple of my shots form the release in their newsletter, which I thought was pretty cool. they were supposed to send me a couple of copies when it came out, but either they forgot or they didn't use the work after all. Either way I never heard any more from them and I kept forgetting to contact them about it.Yes, Virginia, it does occasionally snow in Raleigh, NC. In Inauguration years. The last time anything frozen fell out of the sky here was the day before the Second Coronation of Bush The Younger. That storm was a metaphor for that election in a way. An innocent looking inch or so of snow because of a freakish temperature pattern turned to a half-inch of sheer ice that paralyzed the entire city. It was as insidious as it was perilous because it didn't appear that it would amount to anything problematic, but before it was over there were tales of motorists spending the night in their cars on the Interstate and children spending the night at their schools because the buses couldn't navigate the snarl.Neither of the snows of 2009 held such peril for us, both of them practically melting before the echoes of "Ain't it pretty" faded. This shot was one I took at about 2:00 AM March 2, from my front porch. I wanted to be sure to document the event in case it was over by the time I got up.Once the snow had melted, the thunder started. On hand at this first of two car shows I shot in 2009 were no fewer than three pristine 1967 vintage Pontiac GTO's. (There may have been more than three, I got there late... as usual.)Update: Apparently TLC has a subscription to my feed and nobody realized I hadn't gotten copies of their May-June newsletter (with the photos of Helga) until this post surfaced in someone's reader. So there are two copies on the way now. The power of G**gle in evidence again, eh?
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55 Flash Fiction Friday #59: The Invitation
Two pairs of grey-green eyes locked. Two pulses quickened. Two pounding hearts pumped a thunderous rush of blood that muted the din of the revelry around them. "Well?" she wondered as the final seconds of the year ticked away, "Does he need an invitation?"."Happy New Year.", he smiled."Shut up and kiss me."
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Two Stops Under #12 Happy New Year
"Okay, I cheated. This is NYE 2008. Like you'd know if I hadn't told ya."
Raleigh, NC - December 2008 (Click to Embiggen)
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The World in Black & White: 12.31.2009
"Standard Fare"
Greensboro, NC - October 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
The World in Black & White: 12.30.2009
"BFF"
Greensboro, NC - Octoebr 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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Thursday Challenge #55: "Open (Week 1 of 2)"
"Free"
North Topsail Beach, NC - July 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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Window Views #30: "Night Moves"
"The Powerful Art Lobby at Campbell University Law School"
Raleigh, NC - November 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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Thematic Photographic 81: "Feet" v.7.0 - So You Think You Can Dance (Part III)
Finishing up "Feet Week" is another dancer from India Fest 2009. This performance was not too long before the one pictured yesterday, and I've featured several photos form the event since March. If' you'd like to browse through them for a recap, this link will search them out for you.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Watery Wednesday #60: Until People Get Tired of Sunrise
"I'll Never Run Out of Material"
North Topsail Beach, NC - July 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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Edifice Rex #10
"Millbrook"
Raleigh, NC - August 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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Thematic Photographic 81: "Feet" v.6.0 - So You Think You Can Dance (Part II)
More dancers will close out the week for me, this shot and one more both taken at Nuv Yug's India Fest 2009. I'm not nearly well versed enough in Indian dance or culture to tell you if this has any special significance other than for the dancers themselves. There are a great many traditional dance styles in India, and it's very possible that specific sequences are defined for specific rituals or other purposes. Whether or not this is such a dance, or simply one choreographed for this performance I couldn't say. I can say that all of the dancers performing that day were quite good, and obviously put a great deal of time into their preparations.
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The World in Black & White: 12.29.2009
"Signal Event"
Wake Forest, NC - October 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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