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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, 21 +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, 5 +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.

2013-05-09 12:45:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

just some of my favorite quotes related to eyes.

2013-05-08 13:02:55 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Could that have been the best Google Doodle Ever?!!

2013-05-07 19:08:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-07 14:21:25 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 21 +1s)

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And then the Green-Thumbed Giant reached down and yanked the rainbow from the sky  (Or something like that.)

Shot the for the final leg of the #roygbiv   color wheel symposium put on by +Susan Porter  This the final "Rainbow" edition.  (And since I missed both blue and violet will have to stand in.)

Background:  Had been doing some craft spray-painting.  Needed some supplies at Hobby Lobby.  Saw the rainbow colored taffy...Viola' --Taken from the Hobby Lobby parking lot.

2013-05-07 04:49:15 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Not quite Mother's Day.... More like Grandma day.  This particular concept album (Songs of the Heart) is build around a road trip taken along route 66 by the songwriter's grandparents when he was a kid.  But the despite the cover, the music is pure 90s bubble-grunge.

Band: Daniel Amos, in one of there many period incarnations.

Daniel Amos - 3 - Get Into The Bus, Aloha - Songs Of The Heart (1995)

2013-05-06 19:09:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Sho Baraka
xth (10th)

Me commenting on rap, doesn't make much sense.... but this is a recent find that has made me wholly altered my sense of what rap can be.

This particular album blends gospel (themes) rap and all kinds of sonic landscapes from classical, jazz, and tribal music.   My sense is that this really is good music, whether you resonate with the themes or not.

As is, this album has created small controversy in the christian music arena, primarily because the guy gets a little too "street."   (While utterly tame by mainstream rap standards, there are different boundaries for gospel, and some folks think Sho Baraka crosses them.)

2013-05-06 18:56:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Shai Linne
False Teachers

Controversial Gospel rap.  For some folks the very idea of Gospel themed rap is kind of incongruous.  But this is kind of in a category by itself...A black student of theology who uses rap to slam a number of TV evangelists....

False Teachers by Shai Linne NEW SONG + Lyrics - Fal$e Teacher$!
The song False Teachers is stirring a lot of "in-house"  debate (in the church community) about just how and who should be targeted for criticism.  

Beyond that, some people say this just isn't very good rap.  I dunno know.
I seldom if ever listen to rap but now...  find myself listening to a whole bunch.  

2013-05-06 14:40:57 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 29 +1s)

*The Spiders are really crawling this year.

Spider Lilies... across from Walmart.  Really.

Spider Lily, or -- my name: "Gothic Bride"
Hymenocallis occidentalis or
Hymenocallis caroliniana
family: Liliaceae 

These pictures come at some cost... wet feet, as Spider lilies grow best in boggy sod.  I am up to my ankles in mucky water.  No belly shots here.
find out more. http://idarkansas.blogspot.com/2008/05/spider-lily.html

#potd  

2013-05-05 19:50:37 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

You know something is wrong with our world, when music of this quality is largely unknown....

2013-05-03 14:22:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

the surge, or 
a highly contained yellow.

I know there is more than Yellow here, but this is my entry for today's    #roygbiv  sponsored by +Susan Porter   And while I am it, I might just as well trhow this to +Tamara Pruessner and +FloralFriday .  Yea, two birds....

2013-05-03 13:24:49 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

And then the stars fell from the sky; Or..
The man who saw dots; or
self portrait in the rain with flash set on full power manual, ISO 5000.

Project 52 B&W
Week 17: Night Light
#P52BW13  +Project 52 B&W 
Curated by +Tisha Craw +Susan Porter +Lauri Novak 

Nothing like running a week behind... but I figure by next week I'll be up to speed

2013-05-02 15:56:10 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

DUMBeldorf

While looking for something Orange on my way into work.    Part of the #roygbiv  color event happening right now.  

Sometimes you just gotta use the person closest to you.

2013-05-01 23:29:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-01 18:36:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

More, from my ever expanding poetry site.... loading the book "Bones in my Soul" - backwards

2013-05-07 14:03:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Added photos to ROYGBIV 2.0.

2013-04-30 20:51:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

More from my backward loading journals... 

2013-04-30 17:52:19 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 10 +1s)

Handy graph showing the frequency of miracles throughout history:

2013-04-30 13:30:04 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Slowly building my poetry blog... backwards... the newer stuff will come later.

2013-04-30 13:15:10 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Like a badger with an afro, throwing sparklers at the pope!
BIG PRINT GIVEAWAY VOL II - Square edition 

This month last year i passed the 10,000 followers mark and gave away 10 limited edition prints of my work (29 by the time I managed to stop my girls pulling names out of a hat) This year I'm amazed to have passed the 20k mark - I will give away 20 LE prints to whoever plusses, comments, shares, grunts… a pic of their choice in the album.

The picture selection is my most viewed images this past 12 months.

Again my daughters will use their special random algorithm (Involving pieces of paper and a hat :) to decide the winners and pick out the twenty people when i'm back from Iceland in the next few weeks

The colour prints will be printed on Kodak Metallic and the black and white on Hahnemuhle Matte Fine art paper.

Thanksag... more »