For this week's Photo Hunt challenge of "camera," I dug through the archives for this image taken on our California trip last year. This is the window display for Arcade Camera on Avenida Del Mar in San Clemente. Anyone who takes the time to create a display like this deserves a shout out.
... parking for flying cars & jetpacks in rear.
For the Photo Hunt Season 6, week 1 subject "fun": this shot of folks enjoying Lake Havasu in Arizona. I know we certainly had fun tooling around the lake, dropping anchor & hanging out at the sandbar, and just taking in the spectacular scenery!
Having attended a "modern" church while growing up (or as my sister succinctly puts it, a church that "looked modern in 1960"), I've developed an appreciation for more traditional churches. Especially the stained glass - modern churches usually skimp on this detail.
Another shot from Camden - showing the planet Venus (top center) high over the Philly skyline.
From 2/25/07: this was my 2nd attempt at capturing this pretty pair. A month prior, the crescent Moon and Venus were much closer together, but I didn't have time to set up my tripod and all my shots were blurry.
A couple of weeks ago, St. Joseph's University hosted the Hawk Classic - a massive high-school cheerleading event. After all the junior varsity squads performed their routines, they held the Liberty Challenge. All the Varsity squads performed a "liberty" - the move shown above - at the same time, and the squad to hold it the longest won.
3/20/07 - Woohoo! This photo earned 2nd place in the Week 10 Photo Hunt challenge!
Thanks to everyone that voted for it!
From the same Philadelphia Area Photobloggers excursion that produced my Olde City Gravestone shot comes this cool wall mural. Note the reflections in some of the mirrored pieces.
This past summer I was playing with the macro setting on New Camera, trying to get a good shot of the blooms on our rosebush. For reasons I'm still not sure of, I couldn't get the exposure settings to sync-up, resulting in shots like the one above.
I dug this Old Camera shot from our 2005 Cape May trip for the week 6 Photo Hunt subject: a shadow. This was taken through one of the Cape May Lighthouse's windows, about two-thirds of the way up.
For the week #2 Photo Hunt subject "black & white," I'm being lazy and re-posting this post-processed b&w shot from our California trip.
Merry Day-after-Christmas!
To celebrate the Winter Solstice, pictures of Mr. J. Frost's handiwork on my car window.
For the Week 13 Photo Hunt challenge, a shot of our mantle decorated for Christmas.
And here are the finished kiffles!
Kifli (or Kiffles, as we've come to know them) are German cookies consisting of a pastry dough rolled around a walnut filling, then doused in confectioner's sugar. They have been a tradition in my family for generations, and we look forward to them every Christmas. [I don't have time to type up the recipe right now, but a similar one can be found here.]
For the Week 11 Photo Hunt challenge: the cotter pin that holds the left side of my lawnmower handle.
Taken during my jaunt to Kelly Drive to find a megaphone: for a few minutes, I watched this guy and his dog as they watched the world go by - by foot, bike and boat.
For this week's Photo Hunt, challenge - a leather-bound book, I dug out my well-worn copy of "Fighting Jets" from the Time-Life Epic of Flight series that I got as a gift from my aunt in my early teens.
This harried young man echoed my own sense of urgency as I tried to find a suitable photo for this week's Photo Hunt challenge: a skull cap (with bonus points for it being worn, being a yarmulka, and for varied coloration).Update – 11/28/06
(I know that snapshot gratitude has felt my pain on at least one occasion!)
As the weeks go by, it seems my goal for each challenge falls into one of the following categories
a. try to capture the subject in a smartly-composed, well-executed (dare I say artistic) manner, or
b. to hell with the art, rack up the bonus points.
I think I’ve approached this Platonic ideal a couple of times, most notably here and here. But sometimes, it’s just not in the cards and you make do with what you have.
Maybe it was the difficulty I had getting it (see my Comments for that story). Maybe it’s because I typically don’t photograph people, unless they’re doing something really interesting (like this).
I guess you guys see something in this shot that I don’t. Maybe this is art after all… ? (The jury will take a while with that one... Meanwhile, I'll still be Finding My Way...)
(And thanks for indulging me in this rant – I didn’t mean to get all “bloggy” like this.)
This shot was taken from along Kelly Drive in Philly this morning, where (luckily for me) there was a regatta in progress.
From the recent Ricketts Glen trip:
For this week's Photo Hunt, subject: a golf club (with bonus points for motion blur).
From our Hudson Valley trip - this tree had its own little spot claimed for itself on this rocky outcropping at the top of Bear Mountain.
...Both in proximity and hue:
...And every once in a while, the Photo Hunt is easy:
From this past weekend's Philadelphia Area Photobloggers trip up to Ricketts Glen, a view of the scenery north of Benton, PA.
While visiting friends in the Hudson Valley this past weekend, I spotted this tiny leaf on their back deck.
For this week's Photo Hunt, a shot of the window display from the Nirvana clothing store in Red Bank.
