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2013-05-19 04:38:08 (8 comments, 10 reshares, 113 +1s)

Celebrate

This photo thrills me for two reasons: 1) it was my first real photo excursion since my surgery; and 2) +John Getchel and I met some awesome G+ers: +Amy Heiden +Joe Azure +Tressa Crozier and +Casey McCallister! I'm so glad we decided to drive up there to shoot the moon. It was a great surprise to see you all there.

#sanfrancisco   #bayarea  

2013-05-19 04:04:29 (4 comments, 5 reshares, 61 +1s)

Day(126)

Skin against skin, blood and bone
You're all by yourself but you're not alone
You wanted in now you're here
Driven by hate consumed by fear

Drowning Pool - Bodies

Just a little experiment in creative lighting. This isn't a PhotoShop trick, that is a fire cracker going off that I used to light this shot.

And before you ask, I really have no idea how or why I came up with this idea, it just popped into my head today at work...heh.

I have to thank my #lyricallyinspired   co-curator +Amanda Recker  for helping me with the song choice :-)

#plusphotoextract  

2013-05-19 03:25:54 (8 comments, 9 reshares, 77 +1s)

2013-05-19 02:17:42 (16 comments, 22 reshares, 178 +1s)

Foss á Siðu near Kirkjubæjarklaustur, South Iceland

♬♬ Helios - Halving The Compass (Rhian Sheehan Remix)
















A 3 shot bracketed RAW hdr and one RAW blended back into the hdr. If I remember correctly, I also used a Singh-Ray 3 stop ND filter.

#breakfastclub  +Breakfast Club  #mirrormonday  +Mirrors and Reflections by +Gemma Costa +Elizabeth Edwards 
#landscapephotography  +Landscape Photography & Team
#hqsplandscape  +HQSP Landscape by +Rodolfo Seide +Johnny Minor +Terrie Gray +Nicolai Neijhoft +Lani Banadera 
#10000photographers  by +Robert SKREINER 
+1212Scenery  #1212scenery   #PlusPhotoExtract  

2013-05-19 00:06:45 (13 comments, 11 reshares, 176 +1s)

Blue hour over Drammen







+Weather and Natural Forces  curated by  +Robert SKREINER #weatherandnaturalforces , +Architectural Visions  curated by  +Joel Tjintjelaar +Julia Anna Gospodarou #ArchitecturalVisions , +HQSP Non-Nature Photos  curated by  +Alison Thurston #hqspnonnaturephotos , +Available Light  curated by  +Eckbert Dollhofer #availablelightphotos , +Nightscapes  curated by  +Christopher Prins #nightscapes , +B for Blue  curated by  +Aileen Sorenson #BforBlue , 
+Breakfast Club  curated by  +Gemma Costa #BreakfastClub .

#europeanphotography by +Janusz Brakoniecki, +Jean-Louis LAURENCE, +Michael Muraz, +Susanne Ramharter, +Ela Kupiec, +Ugo Cei and +European Photo, 
#10000photographersaroundtheworld by +Robert SKREINER and +10000 PHOTOGRAPHERS, #pixelworld with thanks to +Alberto Carreras and+PixelWorld, #... more »

2013-05-18 22:54:01 (3 comments, 16 reshares, 152 +1s)

Karlskirche - Vienna

2013-05-18 22:28:48 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 113 +1s)

Yeah by Seether

Don’t go gently into the night
But keep on fighting as the light dies
A wise man knows that the dark’s right
But will keep on coming, keep on coming on

Sharing this for +HQSP Birds by +Marina Versaci and +Joe Urbz +Birds4All  by +Walter Soestbergen and +Ricky L Jones +BIRD LOVERS Worldwide by +Robert SKREINER and +Heinrich Wagner +Steve Rosenberg  #plusphotoextract  
Have a Great Night Everyone

2013-05-18 22:28:30 (21 comments, 6 reshares, 171 +1s)

"Alone in a Pool of Light" -- Alex Lapidus, Firenze

2013-05-18 22:28:12 (14 comments, 10 reshares, 193 +1s)

Shafts of Light

There are places where you visit that you know you'll never forget.  Upper Antelope Canyon near Page, Arizona is one of those special places.  The light bounces against the walls of the narrow canyon and highlight the delicate patterns and colors on the walls.  I hope you get to visit there someday!!

I'm sharing for my great friends at +Landscape Photography  #LandscapePhotography  +Landscape Photography Show ; #PlusPhotoExtract   curated by +Jarek Klimek ; #Take2Seconds   #2shareasmile  curated by +Trever McGhee ; #Canon  +Canon Users ; 

2013-05-18 22:27:55 (11 comments, 4 reshares, 126 +1s)

Tulips XII 
Sorry, I simply couldn't resist the tulips :-).
http://www.bibra-medien.de/fotoblog/2013/05/14/tulips-xii/

2013-05-18 22:27:26 (17 comments, 15 reshares, 170 +1s)

"Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life.  And everyone deserves a little sunshine."  
~Jeffrey Glassberg

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Good Morning, Plus Peeps

Here is another shot from my Sunflower adventures yesterday.  Luckily I had the 70-300 zoom with me, as I had to shoot it from the road, so as not to trespass on the owner's massive growing field.  Trying to dodge the raindrops, I composed my frame, fired off a few test shots, then waited for just the right light when this little wonder flew straight into the middle of the flower.  I had to quickly re-focus, but its wings were still moving (and hence a little blurry).  All in all, not a bad result from a Sunday Monday drive in the rain...

2013-05-18 20:16:56 (174 comments, 69 reshares, 86 +1s)

The Weekend Share-a-thon
I'm sharing you!
Reply with a link to your best work and I'll share it!
(But READ the RULES below first)

So I went to my profile this morning and yesterday's post is just gone.
All those wonderful comments from you folks, all your plusses and shares … gone.
I'm really frustrated with this photo upload bug right now so I thought, instead of sharing my work and the liabilities involved with the current #GooglePlusUpdate , I will share your wonderful work until it's fixed.

Here are the RULES

1– Go to your best shot in the lightbox and copy the link in the address bar and put it in the comments here. if the link you've gathered ends in "posts" it will go directly to your profile stream, NOT the image and I won't be able to share your best shot. I won'tspe... more »

2013-05-17 22:50:15 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

Take a closer look at what’s new with this special edition of the  +Google+ Photos Chat Series Hangout On Air. Joining us are Google+ Photos staff members, +Matt Steiner, +Denise Ho, +Aravind Krishnaswamy, and +Brian Matiash. We’ll share a bit of our vision for Google+ Photos, along with some of our favorite Auto Enhance and Auto Awesome images. We’ll also be answering YOUR questions! So ask away in the comments section of the Event, and we’ll get to as many as we can.

And don’t forget - keep sharing your best #AutoAwesome  and #AutoEnhance  images with us. Add your favorites right here in the comments section, too! We’ll keep resharing our favorites every day.

2013-05-17 13:44:09 (81 comments, 53 reshares, 447 +1s)

OK, I'm offering up a little re-edit to try to the scary upload thing here please don't delete my album, please don't delete my album –– so far, I see no option that it is going to the album I have selected to upload to more scary stuff and I am wondering what kind of workaround I'm going to have to employ to put it in the album I want … let's see ...

clicks "Share"

EDIT: OK, that bites ... I can't even post immediately from an upload ... frack!
 


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Themes and hashtags are a valuable indexing method, which help others find relevant posts via clickable links.

#ThirstyThursdayPics with thanks to  +GiuseppeBasile & +Mark Esguer... more »

2013-05-16 17:34:04 (15 comments, 21 reshares, 78 +1s)

New to Google+?
Google+: How to get started
Google+: Set Up Your Profile
Google+: About circles
Google+: Find people you know
Google+: Reading and responding
Google+: Sharing

Photos:
Google+ Photos: Great photos, in less time
Google+: Share photo albums


Social:
Google+ Communities: A place for whatever you're into
Google+ Events: Introducing a new way to get together
Google+: Fun with Hangouts
Bring your conversations to life with Hangouts

You can find more help here: https://support.google.com/plus/

Don't be shy, if you're confused … speak up. Click on #NewLook and read and comment on what others are saying, or say something yourself.

2013-05-16 15:38:49 (17 comments, 2 reshares, 25 +1s)

I've sent feedback on this, but I actually want help, if anyone knows the actual answer.

I am following the instructions on the "Highlights" Google+ help page here: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/3125309?p=photos_highlights&rd=1 .

I clicked on "Highlights" on an album page. There, under "Remove photos from the Highlights" text, it says to "Hide from highlights from the  dropdown menu next to Share." I've selected the photos I want to hide from highlights on the page I am working on, but no dropdown, nor the option "hide from highlights" appears, nor is available at any time, anywhere near "Share".

"Hide from highlights" is not available as an option in the regular dropdown menu on the upper right either.

(And +Brian Matiash or +Leo Deegan, if you can plus-mention someoneov... more »

2013-05-16 14:02:44 (54 comments, 4 reshares, 46 +1s)

I'm still absorbing the new changes here.
One thing to note, if you are a photographer and you've done all the "enhancing" yourself and don't want someone else deciding what your images should look like: Auto Enhance and Auto Awesome are checked ON by default. If you don't want that, go to your Settings from the dropdown at the upper left (Settings option is at the bottom) and scroll down to uncheck them.

I am currently trying to find out how to post an image to one of my albums ... reading the stream last night, I saw some folks having difficulties getting their image to post to a specific album properly and in some cases having many images auto-delete ... eek!

If you are having any difficulties, remember there is a "Send Feedback" option (from the same dropdown menu on the upper left.) I've never had a social network... more »

2013-05-15 13:02:52 (27 comments, 6 reshares, 245 +1s)

A little bacon-laced, Nutella-dipped treat for +Alan Shapiro on his birthday because he is a treat for us all year long.

Alan, I feel privileged to have met you here. This world is a better place that you are in it.

✿•*¨`•. HAPPY ♥¸¸.• BIRTHDAY ✿•*¨`•. *ALAN! .•*¨`•✿•¨*•.¸¸♥ 

#AlanShapiroBirthdayStyle

2013-05-17 22:50:57 (76 comments, 51 reshares, 377 +1s)

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The End of a Beautiful Day

Still duking it out with bronchitis here, but I can't let the day pass without wishing some lovely people a happy birthday.

Happy birthday to +Bette Kauffman,  +Dave Daniels, +Francesco Gola and +David Sheehan!
I hope you all had a beautiful day!

If you haven't added them to your circles yet, give them an add and enjoy the beauty that comes to your stream!
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#TreeTuesday with thanks to +Christina Lawrie +Shannon S. Myers +Allan Cabrera +Ralph Mendoza and +Tree Tuesday

#BreakfastClub with huge thanks to +GemmaCosta and +Breakfast Club<... more »

2013-05-13 17:06:56 (20 comments, 5 reshares, 148 +1s)

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Waterdrops on a CD for the +Macro Monday sub-theme of LIGHT 

I want to thank everyone who left comments for me yesterday; thank you for your well-wishes and your immense kindness––I do not take it for granted for a second. I've got a little ways to go yet on my mending, but mend I do, and I know you all have helped … :o)

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#MacroMonday with thanks to +Kerry Murphy, +Jennifer Eden, +Kelli Seeger Kim  and +Jake Easley

2013-05-13 08:45:10 (104 comments, 113 reshares, 715 +1s)

A Mother's Love

I'd meant to share this for #Caturday  --and my apologies to everyone for being absent for a while, if I've missed a notification or message from you––a "cold" Thursday morning turned into full-blown bronchitis and it's been nothing but fluids and sleep for me the last few days. 

But I couldn't let the day go by without wishing all the very good mom's out there a most happy Mother's Day. May it be full of love and warmth.

Now, it's back to bed for me … Have a wonderful day, everyone!



#rgwoodpost #mixedmediaartwork #digitalart #fineart #fineartpls #digitalpainting #MothersDay #SacredSunday

2013-05-10 08:15:55 (44 comments, 32 reshares, 345 +1s)

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Looky! … Macro Feathers!

I shocked you, didn't I? I bet you were so wrapped up in the fun of your job that you hadn't realized the weekend was so close. I'm like your little alarm for #TGIF … ;o7
Tomorrow is #MacroFeatherFriday … woohoo (curated by +E.E. Giorgi and +Robin Griggs Wood … Read the "How to" below!)



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How to play #MacroFeatherFriday ––
We want to encourage you to get up close and personal with feathers and try more of these shots, experimenting with the capabilities of your camera or trying out new lenses and new ideas for composition. Not that we don't like full bird shots, but there are so many bird themes available already, we want you to get as close as you can to those feathers! They can still be attached to the bird … ;o) … but move in and see just how much detailyou can get from the feathe... more »

2013-05-09 15:57:26 (87 comments, 25 reshares, 238 +1s)

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Is That Photo Real?

That's a question someone left in the comments of one of my images. I haven't answered yet. I couldn't think of the "short version". 

Let's leave off with the pithy comeback that first danced across my mind, "Do you mean, as opposed to a figment of your imagination?"

Nah … let's not go there. 

How about, "Do you mean, did I process it myself on my own computer, as opposed to letting the computer in the camera process it?" Since that's what we are talking about here. Because, you know, what comes straight out of a camera isn't any more "real" than what an artist envisions for a capture, after the fact.

Truth is tendency. Reality is relative.

While the mechanics of the filters we humans use to perceive the "reality"around us... more »

2013-05-08 15:15:18 (52 comments, 14 reshares, 211 +1s)

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Move Along; It's Just a Duck

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
~ Douglas Adams 

For those of you who were under the impression that I couldn't present a "normal" photograph … ;o7
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Themes and hashtags are a valuable indexing method, which help others find relevant posts via clickable links.

#WildlifeWednesday with thanks to +Mike Spinak & +Morkel Erasmus
#WaterbirdWednesday  with thanks to +Sherry McBriar +Margaret Tompkins +Ray Bilcliff +Gail Beerman +Carol Small and +Water Bird Wednesday#WetWednesday with thanks... more »

2013-05-08 13:29:05 (20 comments, 5 reshares, 129 +1s)

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Gene's Day
This is to wish +Gene Bowker a most happy birthday today. 

Following Gene is sure to bring you a smile! … ;o)). 



Gene curates +TransportTuesday along with +Michael Earley and +Annie Irving and I am sure he would love to see your transport or train shot to wish him a wonderful day.


#HappyBdayGene #HappyBirthdayGeneBowker
#rgwoodpost #TransportTuesday  


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2013-05-07 16:27:18 (22 comments, 10 reshares, 180 +1s)

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Arcs Upon Arcs

I think I remember this moorland, 
     The tower on the top of the tor; 
I feel in the distance 
another existence: 
     I'm sure I have been here before.

And I think you were sitting beside me, 
     In a fold in the face of the fell, 
For Time at its work'll 
go round in a circle, 
       And what is befalling, befell.

"I have been here before!" I asserted, 
     In a nook on a neck of the Nile. 
I once in a crisis 
was punished by Isis, 
     And you smiled. I remember that smile.

I had the same sense of persistence 
     On the site of the seat of the Sioux; 
I heard in the teepee 
the sound of a sleepy 
     Pleistocene grunt. It was you!

The past made a promise, beforeit 
     Began to begin to be gone. 
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2013-05-06 16:30:39 (38 comments, 9 reshares, 142 +1s)

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Little Helper

Not entirely macro, but when I was in the kitchen this morning, hunting for something to shoot for the +Macro Monday sub-theme of
K I T C H E N   O B J E C T S, this little member of my kitchen staff cried out for his #15MinutesOfFame . 
I love this little guy … I haven't the heart to tell him that the cheese under the globe is plastic, though … ;o7
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#MacroMonday with thanks to +Kerry Murphy, +Jennifer Eden, +Kelli Seeger Kim  and +Jake Easley
#DOFMonday  with thanks to +DOFMonday +Mara Acoma +Alan Gurling +Mark Hall & +Nigel Smith 
#BreakfastClub wit... more »

2013-05-05 17:23:07 (62 comments, 22 reshares, 374 +1s)

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My view from a downtown rooftop party.

I kept wanting to ask the host if I could get a business card for their sky-caterer … ;o7
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#SkySunday with thanks to +Randy Scherkenbach and +Patrick Scherkenbach
#ShadowsOnSunday with thanks to +André Roßbach +Daniel Graupner and +ShadowsOnSunday

#BreakfastClub with huge thanks to +Gemma Costa and +Breakfast Club
+10000 PHOTOGRAPHERS / #10000photographersaroundtheworld  with thanks to +Robert SKREINER
#pixelworld with thanks to +Alberto Carreras and +PixelWorld
#promotephotography with thanks to +NikolaNikolski and +Promote Photog... more »

2013-05-04 15:58:38 (46 comments, 35 reshares, 313 +1s)

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You Brighten Our Lives

I have so much admiration for +Chrysta Rae and what she has done for the photography community here at G+. Thank you for your seemingly tireless efforts to improve the lives of so many, dear Chrysta … Happy birthday, to you!

#HappyBirthdayChrystaRae
Happy¸♥¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ Birth-day ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ To ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ You ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥... .♪♫•*¨*•.¸ Happy¸♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ Birth-day ♪♫•*¨*•.¸ To ¸♥¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ You ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ ♥ Happy ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ Birth-day ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥....♪♫•*¨*•.¸ ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ Happy¸♥¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ Birth-day♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ To ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ You ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸.
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2013-05-03 16:01:17 (9 comments, 3 reshares, 37 +1s)

2013-05-03 14:20:28 (63 comments, 47 reshares, 267 +1s)

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"Sunday Snooze" a painting by Robin Griggs Wood for +First Friday Art Walk

Stumped for a Mother's Day gift? 

If Mom is an animal lover, how about a painting of her favorite pet? There is still time for me to do a few more before Mother's day, or I can create a gift certificate card for you to give her. Head on over to robingriggswood.com and click on "Paintings" in the menu at the top or the gallery icon below the banner to view the many styles I can reproduce, then all I need is an image of Mom's favorite pet for reference and to know what style she would like most. Voilá, you have a unique gift!

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#FirstFridayArtWalk with thanks to +Samantha Villenave & +Lena Levin 

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2013-05-02 22:42:58 (53 comments, 26 reshares, 253 +1s)

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Stripey
Whether you have stripes, specks, blots or polka-dots … you look just fine to me!

Tomorrow is #MacroFeatherFriday, curated by +E.E. Giorgi and +Robin Griggs Wood … We just love to see what you see! (Find the "how to" below!)

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How to play #MacroFeatherFriday ––
We want to encourage you to get up close and personal with feathers and try more of these shots, experimenting with the capabilities of your camera or trying out new lenses and new ideas for composition. Not that we don't like full bird shots, but there are so many bird themes available already, we want you to get as close as you can to those feathers! They can still be attached to the bird … ;o) … but move in and see just how much detail you can get from the feather/s––their lines, shapes, patterns and colors. It's a fun challenge, andwe'll be on the sidel... more »

2013-05-02 15:31:34 (0 comments, 6 reshares, 63 +1s)