thematic photographic 424 - green!

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"Extreme Votivation VIII"
Raleigh, NC - July 2010 (Click to embiggen)

Green it is, then. Interesting fact about green: the human eye can detect more variations of green than any other color. I don't know why that is, possibly because it falls dead-bang in the middle of the visible spectrum, but it's the reason that green is used in night vision equipment rather than black and white.

I didn't need night vision gear for this shot, though, just some cheap fireworks and a hollowed out votive candle. And something to put the whole rig on that wouldn't get wrecked by melted wax.

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thematic photographic 422 - lights on

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"Bridge Over the Haw River"
Saxapahaw, NC - October 2010 (Click to embiggen)

It's been a while, hasn't it? Seems like 10 years since I first came upon Thematic Photographic, but it hasn't. It's actually been a little more than 10 years. I came aboard for Thematic Photographic 3: Glass not knowing if I was even doing it right. Over the next couple of years that first challenge grew into something like 4 or 5 photo posts a day, and the sheer scale of it all was getting to a level that was... well, probably unhealthy. And it seemed like most of the bloggers I knew were abandoning blogging for one social media platform or another (or just giving it up in general). Throw in just general life stuff along with various equipment failures and other priorities and my posts became something like annual events. Just visiting here has become rare. Rare enough that today I got an email form the Blogger team asking if I still wanted to get email notifications of comments. That led me to stop in and look at the notification settings (which took a while to re-learn), and in the process of all this I noticed that there was a recent post to Written, Inc. One click later, I learned that Carmi was still doing Thematic Photographic, and was up to issue 422. That's pretty impressive staying power. (My last entry was TP 116: "Red", in case you were wondering). So in honor of that, I figured I must have something that fits the theme lying around, right? And a little bit of digging in the archives led me to this shot from almost 8 years ago.

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thematic photographic 116: still life - "red"

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thematic photographic 115: letters & numbers - if i have to explain, you wouldn't understand

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thematic photographic 114: reflective - bright eyes

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And a big birthday shout out to Debbie Levy, of Adventures of Motherhood fame. Happy Birthday Deb!Thematic Photographic hosted by Carmi Hosted by Written Inc.
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thematic photographic 113: transportation - heart of chrome

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thematic photographic 113: transportation - don't mess with my toot-toot (1923 Ford Model T Pickup)

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thematic photographic 112: flowers - filter effect provided by 90% humidity

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thematic photographic 110: blue - ain't no color to the blues

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thematic photographic 108: shadowy - climbing up on salisbury hill

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thematic photographic 108: shadowy - last night's storm

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thematic photographic 108: shadowy - self portrait

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thematic photographic 107: close up - the eyes have it

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thematic photographic 104: dotty - the spotted dog

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thematic photographic 99: glassy

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thematic photographic 97: spring has sprung

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Thematic Photographic 88: "What I Did On My Vacation" v.6.0 - It's Another Surf City Sunset

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"The Sun Sets on 2009"
Surf City, NC - December, 2009 (Click to embiggen)

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Photographers always speak of "chasing the light", and there have been times when I've meant that quite literally. Then there are the times when the light comes to you. As it did on the last day of 2009 along the Intracoastal Waterway in Surf City. In this case, I couldn't shoot nearly fast enough. Or at enough. It was, in a word, amazing.

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Thematic Photographic 88: "What I Did On My Vacation" v.5.0 - Because I Never Get Tired Of It

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"Who could get tired of this? Really."
North Topsail Beach, NC - July, 2009 (Click to embiggen)

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Once you've been out long enough for the temperature and humidty to stabilize so you're not wiping fog off your lens constantly, Topsail Island at sunrise is a bounty of photographic subjects. Subjects that really require no words.

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Thematic Photographic 88: "What I Did On My Vacation" v.4.0 - Not Exactly a Vacation... Or Is It?

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"Moravian College"
Bethlehem, PA - November, 2005 (Click to embiggen)

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What exactly constitutes "vacation"? Seems to me that the root word would be "vacate". As in "Get the hell outta Dodge". But vacate what? I'm gonna say vacate the workplace for more than a weekend. Yeah, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. So this qualifies. And frankly since it wasn't a business trip it should qualify anyway. This trip was my famed pilgrimage to Bethlehem in 2005. Only this Bethlehem is in Pennsylvania. Home of Moravian College, which you see here. Also home to Lehigh University and the gone but not forgotten Bethlehem Steel which has gotten lots of attention in these pages. A very photogenic little burg. You should try it sometime.

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Thematic Photographic 88: "What I Did On My Vacation" v.3.0 - Dolphin's Playground

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"Rock Festival"
Atlantic Beach, NC - July, 2008 (Click to embiggen)

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A good stretch north of Topsail Island you'll find Ft. Macon on the northern tip of Emerald Isle. The fort itself has been here since the antebellum period and remained an active military installation through the end of the Second World War. Today the swords are beat into plowshares and the former shore battery is now a state park. This system of jetties, that I'm guessing were constructed to keep the adjoining Beaufort Inlet open, provides all manner of photogrpahic opportunity. The jetties were -- if memory serves -- designed by Robert E. Lee (an engineer by training) during his tour at Ft. Macon as a young officer. Lee is also reputed to be responsible for the convection-driven "air conditioning" throughout the main body of the fort. Today, if you're very lucky and have a sharp eye open, you can sometimes see dolphins frolicking in the waters of the inlet, which is just off the left side of htis frame. I've seen them playing there, but never been quick enough to capture them in photographs.

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