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2013-05-22 05:14:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

building my poetry archive... backwards.

2013-05-22 05:09:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

another old poem

2013-05-21 18:54:26 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 34 +1s)

When the giant squeezed the accordion it put out an ear splitting sound...

#transporttuesday  curated, by +Gene Bowker (I'm assuming)

2013-05-21 18:27:17 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

Understatement.

I think this is Trees on Tuesday day....

2013-05-20 19:16:16 (6 comments, 6 reshares, 9 +1s)

♔

2013-05-20 14:02:02 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

it rained in Wilson, Oklahoma, #chucknorris  's hometown #moodymondayphoto  +Moody Monday  +Philip Daly +Carole Buckwalter +Annelies Kroen  #mofomo  +mofomo 
+Alexander Kesselaar +Michael Sutton 

2013-05-20 14:08:39 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

All in all, I was medium pleased with this hunt's offerings.  Except the fact that I missed two themes.  This hunt happened at the busiest time in my life.  

Funny story.  One of my missed themes was "Regret" and of course, I regret that.... but a fun back story.  I did attempt a regret.  My idea... show myself drinking from a Big-Gulp Cup while stuck in traffic.   So, one day as traffic was moving slow, I pulled out my Big-Gulp  and proceed to take a picture with the my Big Cup in one hand,  and the traffic out the windshield.  Traffic was not at a complete standstill, but we were moving slow.  No mishap.  the Shot was just "so so" cause the traffic really didn't look crunched enough.   Two days later the boss calls me.  Says he must file a report for a complaint, that I was seen driving a state vehicle (I was) with a Big Cup in one hand, a large 35mm camera in the ... more »

2013-05-20 13:43:38 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

This is what happens to your #selfysunday  portraiture when you've been watching +Brooke Shaden on +creativeLIVE all week!

2013-05-20 03:24:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Tomorrow marks 24 years.   This is poem I wrote about 12 years ago...

2013-05-20 03:19:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-20 03:06:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-19 23:39:15 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-05-19 23:33:41 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-19 23:32:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-19 23:30:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-19 23:27:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-19 20:05:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-19 20:00:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Another Old Poem.  the visual helps.

2013-05-19 19:52:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

One of my favorite poems ever.

2013-05-19 01:45:19 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

My first "serious" poem    from 1991

2013-05-19 01:41:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-17 19:17:11 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)

Pinwheel

blend of flash and slow shutter speed.

For #floralfriday  curated by +Tamara Pruessner 

And if anyone can tell me again the name of this flower....

2013-05-17 17:10:41 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

Stolen from +David Blunt.

Totally worthy.

2013-05-17 16:58:36 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Just kind of a crazy snap from the work day, before a team photo in a conference room.  And that really is a glass topped table.

2013-05-17 14:21:53 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

2013-05-17 14:09:29 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 25 +1s)

Project 52 B&W  
Week 20: Framed
#52BW13  +Project 52 B&W 
Curated by +Tisha Craw +Susan Porter +Lauri Novak 

Looks like I have two makeup weeks ... but I didn't want to fall any further behind.

2013-05-16 21:11:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I've just posted a new article on my blog, "But that's just Photoshop", on the relationship between pre-visualisation and post-production. And for anyone who's interested, there's a processing challenge at the end of the article.

2013-05-16 20:37:41 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 28 +1s)

Sweet smelling storm

Oops.  I was just about to share this with #floralfriday  when I recognized... its not Friday.

2013-05-16 18:50:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

9/10 finished with the upload from my first book of poems "bones In my soul"  Here a prose reflection on Relativity.

2013-05-16 16:26:02 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

When a press event is not a press event

The ubiquity of digital cameras, phone cameras, and probably the worst, tablet cameras, gives every people the access of photographing everything around them and everything that happens around them.

I grew up in a time when taking photographs of people or of events is a luxury that not all enjoy. Film cameras are expensive. Developing films are expensive. More so printing them. Every click of the camera costs the photographer. So one must really think if that very instant is worthy of that cost. If that moment is important.

I happen to experience digital photography in 2003 with a 3-megapixel digital slr. Yes you read it right, a three-megapixel camera. My digital film then was a 128mb compact flash drive. It was the most wonderful experience. I no longer have to think of the cost of each photo. I can click whenever I want and... more »

2013-05-16 05:08:12 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

something is wrong.  I like 92 percent of the changes.  I have hated the past changes.  What is wrong with me.

2013-05-16 04:12:04 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Solution that is working so far.  I go to the More column, scroll down to the bottom and go to the one column option... then I enlarge the image on my computer.   Looks more like what we used to have.

2013-05-16 04:02:21 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Observation.  At home I have a 27 inch mac.  The three column really works.  But at work, on a much smaller monitor, I go just single column.  (And in that climate I wish the images were bigger.)

2013-05-16 04:01:01 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Can somebody tell me, when using the tree column approach, why some pictures are big.  Who or what decides that certain pictures show up big.  Can we make our pictures that we post show up big?

2013-05-15 21:20:05 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Yea yea Yea..... I found out how to single column.  Now I am a happy camper.   Go to More, scroll to bottom.   Viola.  Back to something my brain can handle.   

2013-05-15 21:18:02 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Whoa.  Shock to my system.  New Layout.  But guys you goofed.  You failed to ask my opinion before you changed everything all up!  First impression.  Yes to everything EXCEPT the Double columns.  Too much information all at once.  I want Less Less Less on the page at any one time.  I have pretty much  stopped using Facebook for this very same reason.     But the colors, the lifted box, the symbols... All work very well.  So consider me split.   All I wanna know is how do I make all my posts go big like some I see.  I like the big fill the space pictures.

2013-05-15 20:29:24 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

This goes out to the main man, the man of the hour, the man who makes pistils glow....our very own.  Whats his name.  Allen...
Alan Shairo, who not only presses us beyond our selves but it s good judge of photos.  Thanks Alan for awarding this....for the Family tradition category in the +Chrysta Rae's Photography Scavenger Hunt .  and may you have a mostpotent  Birthday.     #AlanShapiroBirthdayStyle

2013-05-14 17:38:13 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Mastodon in the primitive Arkansas dawn.

Now that the reveals for the Landscape division of the +Chrysta Rae's Photography Scavenger Hunt  are underway I can share this with a larger world.  This image ties with one other (yet to be revealed) that I was most happy about from the hunt.  Landscape theme.

Taken Easter Morning near Bigalow Arkansas.

Thanks +Kimberly Tweed for spotting the Mastodon.

2013-05-13 17:32:30 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

why did I wait so long to watch this.  What a gift to the world.

2013-05-13 14:10:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

2013-05-13 14:01:55 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Rainbow



#breakfastartclub  curated by +Simply Arlie 

2013-05-12 21:20:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

And you know what if funny, this really does look like something I made many years ago.

2013-05-10 20:47:28 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

iris of the camera....

#floralfriday  curated by +Tamara Pruessner 

2013-05-10 17:40:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-10 13:58:17 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

A few of you will have read this poem before... but this time, I added pictures.

2013-05-10 13:10:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Dream Big

2013-05-10 04:02:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Could this be the second best poem about a mom - ever written in the history of the world?   My mom didn't think so.

2013-05-09 16:57:45 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

Let's Spin.   #SpinThursday  :)

This one goes out to +Sam Breach who also posted a spin picture today.  However this one comes with a tune:  The Swirling Eddies - 1 - Let's Spin! - Let's Spin! (1988)

2013-05-09 13:36:01 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I will be curious to see if this works, in that I have established convictions (I am a Christian) and do not believe that various religions can be reconciled with each other... However, I believe that we all owe each other a debt of gratitude, and that I have many things to learn from others.

2013-05-09 13:06:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

 a poem about the many shades of green.  I like it.