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On The Road – 🐾BillinGlendaleCA – Inauguration Day

by WaterGirl|  January 20, 20215:00 am| 26 Comments

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🐾BillinGlendaleCA

Thirty years ago my wife became a US citizen, I promised that afterwards we would see her new nation’s capitol city.  A few months later we flew to Washington and spent 5 days there.  We saw the Capitol, the White House (including the tour), the Archives, and many other sites.  It was my 4th trip to DC and we even hit a few places that I’d not seen (the Zoo).

With today’s Inaugural, I thought I’d revisit some of the photos.  These were all shot with Canon Sure Shot Ace on 35mm film and scanned with a 35mm film/slide scanner.  All photo were reprocessed from the RAW scanned image with either Topaz Labs DeNoise AI or Sharpen AI to reduce noise and sharpen the photos.

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Washington, DC

Madame, with the east front of the Capitol behind her.

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On The Road – Mike in Oly – Texture & Pattern in Nature: Water

by WaterGirl|  January 19, 202110:00 pm| 15 Comments

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Mike in Oly

In my wanderings about western Washington and other nearby areas I am always taking photos of the things I find. One of my favorites types of photos to create are what I call texturals, for lack of a better term. They are often macros, but not always. They highlight color, texture and/or pattern over scenery or narrative. I find them fascinating and beautiful. I hope you will to. Tonight’s theme is Water.

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Olympia, WA

Moving water, light and forest work together to create an every-changing kaleidoscope of color and pattern.

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On The Road – ChasM – Beginning at the Beginning – Rustic Canyon 1980

by WaterGirl|  January 19, 20215:00 am| 22 Comments

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ChasM

Hiya! I’ve been a clicker of these pages since, as Tim F recently put it, the proprietor was a disgruntled warblogger emerging from the dark shadows of the right. I don’t comment or make myself known much, but we rescued our little one-eyed Sanders in NYC thru this Shabeen (Calendar: July), and I read and love y’all, so here we go.

In 1980 I signed up for high-school photography class, borrowed $200 from an aunt (my first loan! a lesson in capitalism!), and purchased my first big-boy camera: a Canon AE-1 kit with a 50mm lens. It was between that and a Pentax that had a nifty leaf shutter, but felt too small for my hands. This turned out to be ironic in the bad way as the ergonomics of that fucking thing haunted me for 20 years until I got a Nikon. You see, it was an aperture priority camera and they put the aperture ring on the top right in exactly the place I rest my forefinger when I’m carrying the camera (I don’t like neckstraps, and in the days before hand straps, I would wrap a thin leather strap tightly around my hand so that I could use a loose grip as I carry at my side). There is no more heart-sinking feeling as a photographer than pushing the shutter expecting f4.5 and the corresponding quick tick-tick of 125th of a second and hearing instead “Click” … … … “Click” meaning you just lost the shot because you accidentally set the f-stop to 22 while advancing the last frame because the designers felt it important to locate that dial and the optimum finger-leverage spot in exactly the same place. One can page thru my pre-2000 contact sheets and see the dark and overexposed images and go, “yep, I remember that shot I didn’t get. Fuck that camera.”

Anywho. These are photos from the first roll that I have the negatives and thus scans of, my fifth roll overall. The first four rolls were used in class assignments, and all I have from them are some bad, faded prints that I turned in for grades.

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Rustic Canyon is a magical garden for children. There are countless hidden routes and secret places that only the those who grow up there know. The creek which runs thru the center was the thoroughfare of fantasies for the kids of the canyon. These shots were taken in the uppermost parts of Rustic, north of the Sunset Tunnel, past the last houses of the horse-and-stable crowd, above the twisty rock section and the formidable waterfall that was no obstacle to the children of the canyon because they had been shown the way by the older ones.  Now, these places are overrun with joggers and hikers from the nearby homes and beyond, but back then, only the scouts visiting Camp Josepho and us, the explorer kids from the lower canyon, treaded thru these forgotten places.

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On The Road – Mike in Oly – Texture & Pattern in Nature: Flora

by WaterGirl|  January 18, 202110:00 pm| 29 Comments

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Mike in Oly

In my wanderings about western Washington and other nearby areas I am always taking photos of the things I find. One of my favorites types of photos to create are what I call texturals, for lack of a better term. They are often macros, but not always. They highlight color, texture and/or pattern over scenery or narrative. I find them fascinating and beautiful. I hope you will too. I’ll start the series off with Flora, showcasing some of the beauty of patterns in growing things.

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Olympia, WA

Mature trees in the PNW often host their own ecosystems on their bark. This is an alder carpeted with an assortment lichens. (Yes, not technically a flora, but close enough).

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On The Road – Albatrossity – Winter in Flyover Country 1

by WaterGirl|  January 18, 20215:00 am| 22 Comments

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Albatrossity

Winter in Flyover Country can be tough birding in some years, or maybe it just seems tougher as I get older. Nevertheless there are always things to see, and birds to photograph and celebrate. So this is the next installment in an irregular series of On The Road posts, showcasing some of the sights that keep me sane here in year 2 of the pandemic, and year eleventy billion of the reign of 45. I write this at the end of the week of the attempted coup, and dog knows what it will be like when you read this in a few weeks. Stay well, and go see some birds if you can!

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Near Manhattan KSDecember 31, 2020

Ice can be treacherous and deadly, but when the sun comes out after an ice storm it can also be jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Barbed wire, ice, and refracted sky on a crisp clear day on the edge of the Great Plains.

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On The Road – Steve from Mendocino – Paris 10/10

by WaterGirl|  January 15, 202110:00 pm| 25 Comments

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On the Road: Week of January 18  (5 am)
Albatrossity – Winter in Flyover Country #1
ChasM – Beginning at the Beginning – Rustic Canyon 1980
🐾BillinGlendaleCA – Inauguration Day
Steve from Mendocino – Rorschach
Lapassionara – Paris, Paris

On the Road: After Dark: Week of January 18  (10 pm)
Looks like we will be treated to an interesting series next week, with Mike in Oly.

🌺  And now, back to Steve from Mendocino, thank you for taking us back to Paris!

Steve from Mendocino

So long and thanks for all the fish!

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Once again, I have a photo of a building I can’t identify.  It was taken 45 years ago at a time that I relied on Anne-Marie to know the wheres and whats relating to my pictures.  I’m pretty sure I took this on my way to lunch with a friend who worked in the financial district, but I have no idea what that building is.

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On The Road – SkyBluePink – Skies of Blues & Pinks

by WaterGirl|  January 15, 20215:00 am| 20 Comments

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SkyBluePink

From the daily walks….

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