More pictures from the The Girl in the Blue Skirt Beta -2012 Series:
More lily pictures on the morrow.
Personal Photo Project of the Week #132 Beta
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The Girl in the Blue Skirt Beta – 2012
Even though my lily patch didn’t take off quite like I had hoped this year (due to neglect and heat), all of these lily pictures are either my lilies or my Mom’s lilies. I didn’t go trolling for lilies any place else this year. Although I did check out my grandma’s lilies, but I missed my window of opportunity on those this year.
More pictures from the The Girl in the Blue Skirt Beta – 2012 Series:
I suppose I should have given you some warning that you would be looking at picture of Naked Ladies. I hope that didn’t offend anyone. Okay, I don’t really care if it offended anyone.
More lily pictures on the morrow.
Slice of Life Vol. 116
I just had a few negative ends to scan this week, so only 3 pictures.
I did mess up the some of the scanner settings on this collection, but that should be corrected for next week.
Day 15 – Simple – Redux
Eric agreed to write the “simple equations” that come from Lorentz’s Transformations of Relativity. Eric wrote out the equations and then we wandered around Iowa State’s campus briefly before going to get some grub.
Sometime after lunch, Eric realized that he had written one of the equations incorrectly. This tortured him.
So he went into Photoshop and corrected the error and sent me this email:
Would you allow the alteration I applied to this photo? Chances are you can’t find the change quickly (or perhaps at all). There’s an integrity to undoctored photos, but there’s also an integrity of mathematical truth, which I violated and have thus remedied.
Here is the image with the equation corrected:
I have no doubt that the initial error might have been caused by the interruption of the security guard that came up to ask us what we were doing. When we explained, he noted that “this” was the “best part of his day”.
Jamie’s Kids
Several weeks back I took a few pictures of Jamie’s kids before her family picked up and moved to Rodeoville, U.S.A.
Next week’s Wednesday randomness will involve photos from my fishing trip to Lake Augustin.
365 Day Photo Challenge: 15-21
I have to confess that I did flop a couple (nearly all) of these days around for convenience and to work around special events. This is a practice I don’t condone, but one that I won’t shy away from in the future.
The 3rd 7 days of the 365 Day Photo Challenge:
Day 15 – Simple
Day 16 – Arrow
Day 17 – Crossed
Day 18 – Food
Day 19 – Faces
Day 20 – Shopping
Day 21 – Hole
These are the themes for the next 7 days:
Day 22 – Fowl
Day 23 – At the Frame’s Edge
Day 24 – From Your Car Window
Day 25 – Pair
Day 26 – Path
Day 27 – A Group
Day 28 – Dream
I’m sure you are already speculating as to what I will do with these themes!
State Fair 2012
Now that the State Fair has all but concluded, I thought I would share the picture that was accepted into this year’s Photography Salon:
Truth Perception
Micky gets the assist credit on this photo. He is the one that plucked this lotus from Lake Augustin and placed it in my care. Then I set it on fire.
I would reveal the other 3 submissions that were rebuked, but I don’t want to hurt their feelings and I’m afraid that couldn’t take the public humiliation. My pictures have very tender souls.
For those of you wondering, I will not be doing the Pufferbilly Day Photo Contest this year. I’m either retired or semi-retired from that contest. In fact, I’m pretty sure the State Fair Photography Salon is the only photo contest I will pursue in the future.
However, my mind has been known to change every now and again.
Having other people select my entrants was kind of fun.
Personal Photo Project of the Week #131
The Audacity of Hope
My Personal Photo Project of the Week this week was to photograph the historical event of a sitting President of the United States visiting Boone. It hasn’t happened since Eisenhower.
It was a surprise bonus that I would be able to photograph my Mom in the crowd. I wasn’t sure she would be able to attend this event, despite being a big Obama supporter, because it was a standing event that required standing for several hours. However, she handled it very well. Then walked home.
I was able to get at least fairly close to Obama for the rally because rather than getting tickets and going to the event, I volunteered to work it. This was partially because I didn’t want to wait several hours in line to get tickets. Even if it meant meeting the former Mr. Reese Weatherspoon.
I also had never volunteered to work this kind of event, so there was a certain amount of intellectual curiosity that contributed as well.
I signed up to work with Amy. We originally were assigned to hand out water bottles, but since there were so many volunteers we ended up working the “door” to the pavilion. We made sure that people with Blue Tickets went into the Blue Ticket Section and people with Red Tickets went into the Red Ticket Section.
Becky also ended up working the event with us, when she wasn’t working the crowd for votes.
Here are more pictures from the The Audacity of Hope Series:
If you look closely, you can see Pastor Phil Webb in the crowd!
I know I stated last Friday that my goal was to publish lily pictures this Friday, but I changed my mind so that these pictures would at least be timely and so Russell might stop calling me Mr. Flowers. Okay, I kind of like it when Russell calls me Mr. Flowers. Almost as much as I like it when he calls me Foursquare Boy.
Next week’s Personal Photo Project might involve lilies or sunflowers or trains for that matter.
Slice of Life Vol. 115
An old farmhouse and corn in this collection.
Fiery Goat
A few weeks back I woke up and saw on Twitter that the Gigglin’ Goat was on fire.
So I threw on some clothes and went down and took a few photos.
Unfortunately I got there after the most interesting photo opportunities had passed.
Next week’s Random Wednesday will be a few portraits I took for Jamie before she left Boone for rodeoville.