Eternal Bliss

Alone, At Last

Shadow Arches

Light Reveals All

R for Repose

Sepia Scenes #83: Spring Harvest

Aiming High

Moody Monday: Close

The Three Ugly Sisters

Straight Out of the Camera (SOOC) Sunday 03.28

Trianon Cafe

Monochrome Weekly 03.28

Alexandria, Egypt. 2005.

I intended to take a picture of the view of the Mediterranean outside the window when I took this shot. I found out later that the Night Shot feature was turned on in my camera, so I ended up with this photo instead. It was disappointing, but I think my fluke turned out really well regardless. :-D Here's how it looks like before I converted it to black and white:



(Click to enlarge)

Have a great week ahead!


"Shades of grey wherever I go
The more I find out the less that I know
Black and white is how it should be
But shades of grey are the colors I see.”
~Billy Joel

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Looking at the Sky 03.26

A small plane flies over The Pier in Downtown St. Petersburg.

Have a great weekend!


“May the wind under your wings bear you
where the sun sails and the moon walks”
~Gandalf, The Hobbit

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Escape

Inside the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum in St. Augustine, FL. January 31, 2010.



"Shades of grey wherever I go
The more I find out the less that I know
Black and white is how it should be
But shades of grey are the colors I see.”
~Billy Joel

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Carriage Wheels

Outside decor of The Original Bucket of Blood Saloon in historic Virginia City, Nevada. 2008.



“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,
and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
~Henry Ward Beecher

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SWF08 - Something Wicked This Way Comes

Taken at I-95 in Georgia. My cousin and I were driving to Florida when I noticed this big swirl in the clouds. I took several shots and this shot is the best one in the lot. The swirl dissipated not too long after.



“May the wind under your wings bear you
where the sun sails and the moon walks”
~Gandalf, The Hobbit

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ShutterDay #1 - At Rest

This week's ShutterDay theme: Bicycles
Taken in historic Historic Nevada City, CA.

Welcome to my first ShutterDay post!



"Ever charming, ever new, when will the landscape tire the view?
~John Dyer

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Monochrome Weekly #1 - The Beginning, Literally

 

I thought I'd start my Monochrome Weekly participation with a genuninely monochrome photograph straight out of the scanner. :mrgreen: That's me with my maternal great grandmother, who lived close to a hundred  with very few gray hairs. My mother's generation missed out on the gene, so I'm hoping I'll keep my black hair when I turn old and not-gray. :D


"Shades of grey wherever I go
The more I find out the less that I know
Black and white is how it should be
But shades of grey are the colors I see.”
~Billy Joel quotes

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Shadow Shot Sunday #1 - Kule Loklo Lamma (Sweat Lodge)

Welcome to my first Shadow Shot Sunday post!


My sister and I discovered Kule Loklo during a short visit in Santa Rosa, California. We were looking for trails to hike and ended up at Coast Miwok at Point Reyes. It was a pleasant surprise find, especially because the village was as much a part of its natural surroundings as much as its natural surroundings are a natural part of it.

"Kule Loklo" (meaning "Bear Valley") is a recreated village. It stands where no village ever was, but where one might have stood.

The pictures you see here are of the interior of a lamma or "sweat lodge".

Lamma
(Sweat Lodge)

Large sweat lodges were used by men for both spritual and physical cleansing. Women were generally not permitted to enter. Smaller family sweat lodges were used by both sexes.

"Where there is much light,
the shadow is deep”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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PhotoHunt Saturday #3 - Surprise

PhotoHunt 179 Theme: Surprise

Taken on the trailon the way to Kule Loklo (Bear Village) the  in Coast Miwok at Point Reyes, California.


“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,
and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
~Henry Ward Beecher

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