WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: Curves

The challenge for the week is curves. Tour bus above in the National Park with all the waterfalls- Plitvice National Park – Croatia-

No guard rails on this curve!

Plitvice Lakes Park in Croatia a curved walkway

I knew I had some back seat driver photos from my visit to Croatia and I was able to find a few. Fasten Your Seat Belt!

Roof Tiles in Istria

Light at the end of the curvy tunnel- Croatia Car Trip

On Brijuni – Tito’s Personal State Summer Residence

Zagreb Fountain- the water a straight line but the curve of the back caught my eye

And Back in the States Kennywood Amusement Park a few years back

Anna on the whip in Kiddieland Kennywood Amusement Park

Curved Carousel Horse

Pap puts Anna into the car on the curve at Kennywood – Is this the Turnpike?

Log Flume Ride Kennywood

Glass Paperweight

Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above

There’ve been a lot of directions in the challenges.

Up, down. Round. Forward. No inside out. Yet

this week it’s FROM ABOVE.

I stand over garbage, see a lone glove on the road-

take a shot. A single baby shoe in the gutter.

Weddings from a church balcony, the mezzanine.

Not often, though. Directly above is rare, more likely above from an angled side.

Have they done sideways? I like that movie.

Here’s my From Above Gallery, though not celestial.

Laura and James at Marjorie and Dan’s Wedding Reception. Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland.

Seventh (Andy Warhol) and Ninth Street Bridges taken from the Renaissance Hotel.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Shadows at the entrance of school

John and Angie’s Wedding

Franklin Park Conservatory Columbus OH

Anna, Baby Jack and Michael March 2007

Roberto Clemente Bridge and PNC Park from the Renaissance Hotel

Last Year’s Rose

French Fries on Carson Street

Porsche Engine

Batteries from a week in digital photo class.

Dunkin Donut apron in the school parking lot.

Black Pussywillow Branches Cast Wall Shadows

When we lived in Germany, we’d get Pussywillow with fuzzy gray shapes along the branch and hang wooden eggs and rabbit ornaments to make an Easter Tree.

Add MediaI’d never seen Black Pussywillows until Wednesday night at my friend J’s home. I was to take a photograph over to her and the evening turned into an impromptu supper. My crazy part is I went over without the picture I was to take. J followed me back to my house after we ate and got the photograph to take back to her own home but she didn’t seem to mind.

A great blog post about this unusual looking plant is here. The Latin name (Salix gracilistylus ‘Melanostachys’)

I can’t remember the name/type of ceramic vase holding the branches. (Taken with the iPhone)

St. Michael in a Sunny Window

The Weekly Challenge is My Neighborhood. But I am not in my neighborhood today.

The only available photo of my neighborhood is a snow filled park with the benches piled high with snow. I figure I’ll wait until I get back home.

I saw the sun streaming into the window over the door and the backlit St. Michael the Archangel statue along with the deep blue sky and fluffy clouds. Continue reading “St. Michael in a Sunny Window” →

Shadow Play

Outside the Natatorium at Wright State University, Dayton Ohio

Weekly Photo Challenge: Mine

This week’s photo challenge is MINE. The first photo is someone else’s MINE.

The second part of the post are MINE- my feet in the hammock on the porch, my shadow, my view from the front porch, my coffee ice cream cone, my junk drawer contents, my fancy toaster I received on my 50th- a self-portrait of stuff.

Nothing illustrates the Weekly Challenge of Mine better than the following phenomenon. In Pittsburgh when it snows, everyone reserves the parking space they shoveled. The most popular place holder? A chair! No one dare move it. Fortunately I have a driveway. Parking in the snow is serious business around the city and the chair screams MINE!!!