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Monday, February 15, 2010
The World in Black & White - 2.15.2010
"Was That Really Necessary?"
Raleigh, NC - August 2005 (Click to embiggen)
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Photographically Challenged #34: Legs
"Champion of Breakfasts"
North Topsail Beach, NC - July 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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Monday, February 01, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
TTL #18: "Pilgrim Shadow"
"Ride, Boldly Ride"
North Topsail Beach, NC - July 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Photographically Challenged #32: Table For One
"Better make it a light breakfast"
North Topsail Beach, NC - July 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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Monday, January 25, 2010
My World Tuesday #67: Dawn Patrol
"Breakfast on the Fly"
North Topsail Beach, NC - January 2010 (Click to embiggen)
Pelicans are amazing to watch. Especially when it's feeding time. Somehow, even in this light, they can spot fish that are momentarily trapped in the trough between two waves and scoop them out of the water on the fly. The birds will disappear behind the leading wave for a second or two, appearing for all the world like they've dived below the surface, then come out the other end of the trough still in full stride. As new Year's Day 2010 dawned over Topsail Island, I watched them perform this aerobatic maneuver usually in groups of two or three (though whether that's significant or not I don't know). Not being much of a bird expert I can't tell you much more than this. I can only marvel at the innate skill and coordination it must take. Not to mention the eyesight!
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Thematic Photographic 84: "White" v.2.0 - 12 0'Clock High
When winter comes to the island, most of the touristas go on home until the weather breaks. I think maybe thta's one of the things I like about this time in this place. When you've got this to look at, who needs a bunch of people hanging around?
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Thematic Photographic 83: "What I Did On My Vacation" v.4.0 - What Do Seagulls Do On Vacation?
"What, you couldn't find some pelicans to pester?"
North Topsail Beach, NC - December 2009(Click to embiggen)
Hosted by Written Inc.This guy looks like he's seen more camera lenses than Lindsay Lohan and is just about fed up with them. Which I find hilarious. I'm imagining all the talk around the tidal pool when the gulls get together to do lunch... "Yeah, the papparazzi are back. Don't they know it's off season? Sheesh!" Fortunately for me this old fellow opted not to press his tactical advantage and leave me cleaning glass for an hour. But he looks tempted doesn't he?
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Single Lens Reflex #14: "Free"
"Free Falling"
North Topsail Beach, NC - July 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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Monday, January 04, 2010
My World Tuesday #64: Topsail Island New Year's Eve, and a Birthday Shout-Out
"Surf City Here I Come"
Surf City, NC - December 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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This image and others available for sale at my RedBubble Site!Sometimes You just have to let the picture do the talking. New Year's Eve, sunset, Topsail Island... and this. That's enough.Oh, wait. I do have one other thing. That'd be a big Birthday Shout-Out to my dear friend Maureen up in Long Island whose birthday I remembered, but didn't get to celebrating in the usual Mojo-esque fashion. (Bad Mojo! No cookie!) But hopefully sending wishes on one of the more popular photomemes in Blogaritaville will make up for it. Happy Birthday, sweet lady. I hope it brings you exactly what you want. The rest of ya'll go say hi, okay?
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Sunday, January 03, 2010
One Single Impression - "Wings"
I suppose this is really two single impressions, but I hope that's okay. The prompt instantly reminded me of something I wrote several years ago. It also had a more immediate impact that inspired something a little less obvious. To most people anyway.
Wings (I)
If I be but a fool
Emboldened by passion
And like Icarus
I fly too near the sun
Then burn the wax from my wings
Dash my bones upon the rocks
Only first I beg you,
Let me see the sweetness of her gaze
Feel the tenderness of her kiss
And know that if but for a moment
She cared for me.- July 20, 2003
Wings (II)
Outside the window
Rain comes and asks who is moth
And who is the flame?- December 31, 2009
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
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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