Things That Are Wet

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Things That Are Wet.  Interesting topic for me, living in drought-stricken California!  Here’s what came to mind: This was a few years ago; if you look carefully, you can see the gutters are filled with rushing water (not to mention the wind has blown some branches out of our tree). On this cold, wet day I was walking across the bridge when I looked down and saw someone had dropped some Hershey Kisses.  It made me feel just a little bit sad. 🙁 This fair-sized sturgeon lives in the giant tank at Bass Pro Shops store in Rocklin, California.  He’s definitely wet and plans on staying that way. Here are Buster and Pinkie going a little bit crazy and trying to bite the cascade of water shooting out of the sprinkler.  The game was never over until they were both completely drenched. And of course, there’s not too many things wetter than the ocean!  I took this video because I wanted to be able to revisit the Northern California coast and listen to the relaxing sound of the surf any time,  even if I was stuck at home in the hot Sacramento Valley.  The only thing missing is the smell of the salty air.

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Golden Gate: Six Aspects

Back in the mid 1980s I took this picture of San Francisco’s beautiful Golden Gate Bridge.  It’s still one of my favorites, but this week I decided to play around with a couple of different photo-editing programs and see if I could improve the shot. Original: Black and white (Aviary)   San Carmen (Aviary)   High saturation (Aviary)   Cloud effects/Daguerreotype frame (PicMonkey)   Sepia […]

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A Snail’s-Eye View, Part 2

What really helped kick off my current obsession with ground-level macro was my discovery of photographer Kim Leuenberger and her completely awesome Traveling Cars Adventures series.  I wanted to put my own spin on her idea, so I took a tiny ’55 Chevy Nomad and a mini 2001 Mini Cooper to the coast with me and played with a couple of […]

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