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Animals, Art, Black & White, Candid Portrait, Flowers, Iowa State, Macro, Nader, Nature, Shannon, Vacation, Willy

Vacation Day 6 – Campus

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I don’t recall if I woke up in my own bed or on my own couch on Thursday morning, but I definitely slept good and solid after getting home close to midnight the previous night. I think that I was able to fall asleep rather quickly after the 3.5 hour Funyun and Grape Faygo fueled drive.

I met Shannon for lunch at Battle’s. She explained to me her current sources of stress. I explained to her the Christopher D. Bennett Apathy Method of Stress Management. Although she possesses the intellect to grasp the basic tenets of the system, I have my doubts that she will give up her stress to the brilliance of my system.

After Shannon returned to work I picked Nader up from the west Ames location of the Evil Clown Empire. Since VEISHEA we had discussed spending part of a day on the beautiful Iowa State campus taking pictures. I had one spot in mind in particular to complete a Personal Photo Project, but those pictures will have to wait until it is their turn to be revealed to the world.

However, here is quite a sizable collection of other pictures that I took on that day:


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Nader by one of his favorite trees.

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Nader next to his favorite picture.

Still Laughing - 2010

Still Laughing - 2010

Still Laughing - 2010

Still Laughing - 2010

Still Laughing - 2010

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Still Laughing - 2010

Still Laughing - 2010

Still Laughing - 2010

Still Laughing - 2010

Still Laughing - 2010

Still Laughing - 2010

Still Laughing - 2010

Still Laughing - 2010

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Still Laughing - 2010

Vacation Day 6

Still Laughing - 2010

Still Laughing - 2010

After the time on the ISU campus we hit a movie and had dinner. It was a perfectly acceptable way to conclude the month of the Lone Wolf Off. I have yet to submit the panel to the 3 judges, but I have no doubt that I won this baby with ease! I think Willy has even conceded and fully endorsed the fact that he is The Salmon!

Becky, Dawn, Flowers, Teresa, Vest, WPC - Submissions, Writing

RWPE #16 – Rule of Thirds

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Teresa is a first time contributor this week. The contributions for last week’s theme – Rule of Thirds:


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Teresa Kahler

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Christopher D. Bennett

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Becky Perkovich

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Dawn Krause


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Dawn’s Weekly Poem

Rule of Thirds

Rule of Thirds

It’s just us three
Same as always
Even with four

We talk we laugh
We cry we smile
We always share

Someday she will
Grow up and leave
Down to two-thirds

Some time with him
And he will fly
One-third alone

Two thirds always
Have one-third watch
Throughout their lives

This week’s theme is an easy one:

Feet

After all, almost everybody has at least one foot and everybody at least knows somebody with a foot.

Carla, Flowers, Macro, WPC - Alternate

The Virtue of the Bored

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I got a few late submissions for Macro that I thought that I would share. The first picture is from Justin Whitaker. Otherwise known as Julie Johnson’s boyfriend and author of the American Buddhist Perspective.


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Justin Whitaker

Carla actually sent in 4 pictures, but she sent them to the wrong email address, so I didn’t get them on time.


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Carla Stensland A

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Carla Stensland B

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Carla Stensland C

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Carla Stensland D

Here are a couple of the other pictures that I took for this theme.


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Rhubarb

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Dad’s Pocket Watch

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A M.U.S.C.L.E. Gang

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A Lone Unusual Small Creature Lurking on My Dining Room Table

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Metroplex? I think!

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The first flower of the year. The weird thing is that I don’t even remember having daffodils last year.

I should get to work on this week’s RWPE. I’ll probably lean on Photoshop quite a bit more than usual this week.

Flowers, Personal Photo Project

Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 9

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Those with astute memories might recall the flowers from RWPE – Plants and from The Digital Bouquet. They might even wonder what happened to those flowers. The project below is part of that answer.


Even Though We Love It
Even Though We Love it

Although it is happenstance that this picture ended up being released to the general public on this day, it is also apropos.

A few other pictures from the “Even Though We Love It” Photo Shoot:


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Even Though We Love It

Even Though We Love It

Even Though We Love It

I took these pictures one cold February morning. I was going to take more pictures the following morning, but one of the neighborhood rabbits (I’m guessing) had other ideas. Something ate these flowers before I got a chance to revisit them.

Black & White, Calendar, Flowers, Jen, Macro

July



The Solace of Ordinary Humanity

Although this picture is named for the following quote from the enigmatic John Ruskin:

“Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.”

But the story of this flower is actually more akin to the Tennessee Williams quote:

“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”

This daisy grew in a most unlikely place in my yard. It grew in a little patch of dirt between my driveway and my back porch. It sprouted through the fence and away from the evergreen bush that dominates that little patch of ground. Its existence was unlikely, but nature finds a way.

This picture was also Jen’s birthday present.

Calendar, Flowers, Photoshop

May

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This is the only monthly picture in the calendar that is manipulated in Photoshop in a meaningful way. I could see how somebody could think that June is a Photoshop manipulation, but in the spirit of the way that I see things, it isn’t. But we will open up that can of worms on the morrow.

Calendar, Flowers, Writing

April



Where Love Waits

This picture was taken on one of my two trips to the Iowa State Fair. Interested in other State Fair pictures? Click on the link below:

The title comes from a line in William Carlos Williams’ Poem “The Rose is Obsolete”. I suppose in retrospect that title would have been better served for a picture of a rose.

The rose is obsolete
but each petal ends in
an edge, the double facet
cementing the grooved
columns of air–The edge
cuts without cutting
meets–nothing–renews
itself in metal or porcelain–

whither? It ends–

But if it ends
the start is begun
so that to engage roses
becomes a geometry–

Sharper, neater, more cutting
figured in majolica–
the broken plate
glazed with a rose

Somewhere the sense
makes copper roses
steel roses–

The rose carried weight of love
but love is at an end–of roses

It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits

Crisp, worked to defeat
laboredness–fragile
plucked, moist, half-raised
cold, precise, touching

What

The place between the petal’s
edge and the

From the petal’s edge a line starts
that being of steel
infinitely fine, infinitely
rigid penetrates
the Milky Way
without contact–lifting
from it–neither hanging
nor pushing–

The fragility of the flower
unbruised
penetrates space