Burning down the House

         

   Not my house or anyones house that I know.  Aren't I terrible, just couldn't resist the shot.  It was so cold that day.  The firemen are hero's.

Sunday Song (photo) Shoot

Sunday Song, (photo) Shoot.

Next Sunday you can select one of two songs.  Or you can select both if you are ambitious.  Does anyone remember the Cowsills?  Don't ask me about them! I can simply tell you they were a family who sang together and I really loved this first song when I was a pre-teen ... errr, I meant when I was a BABY.  (you DO believe that, right?)

The songs:

The Rain, the Park and Other Things. 

Hair (which they did a single but, it's also from the soundtrack Hair)

The idea is to get or take a photograph that you think would/could represent the title of the song.  If you want EXTRA KUDOS you can read the lyrics (click on the song title) and try to get/take a photograph that you feel would depict the meaning of the song.

   Can you guess which one I chose?  Hair

Just to remind myself

  That this horrible cold winter will end and there will be flowers again.

JLand Photo Shoot

 

Thanks to all of you who played along last week.  We had our biggest turnout ever with 37 participating bloggers!  I hope you'll continue to play this week also, and that you will find this week's subject interesting. 

This week's JLand Photo Shoot will begin today (Monday) and is due on Saturday, Feb. 2, at 11 PM EST.  That's Saturday night for those of you who are getting confused!

Our subject this week is:

Old

You may interpret this any way you like.  Suggestions:  trees, people, antiques, etc.  

This week we are going to have a rule.  You can snap the photo this week, or you can pull out a photo that you have taken in the past.  But please make sure it is a photo that you have taken yourself, so you can showcase your photography.  That's the only rule.  Thanks so much!  :) 

After you've posted your entry in your journal/blog, please put the address to your entry in my Comments Section below.  If you need an explanation on how to do this, or need to know any other instructions concenerning this photo shoot, please click on the link below.

                   Below I have an old Oak tree.



             And Old clothes pins.





            And last, the old homested.  Real old homested.




   Very Old 1919 Roseville Tourist Jardiniere

 

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Dark Trees

into the shadows flitting and fleeting my fears hide
behind each tree who's shadow grows longer
with the setting sun while my fears grow
in length with creeping darkness
of evenings end.
to completely dissolve with suns slow descent into
my fearful imagination.



The End

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Dirty Snow & Posey's in the Snow

  I saw these snow drifts and yelled, stop the car, stop the car.  Like meringue  on a  lemon pie!



       In black and white, dirty snow made interesting by the recent winds and melt.



   Trying my filter in different positions.




  Another one, stop the car, stop the car.  Something about old fences.



    And then just a negative of the post because I liked it that way.








   And then Posey's in the Snow.  The filter made them a weird color so I made the color even weirder.  I decided their wonderful color should color their world, color the white snow.

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Winter Shots

  Since I was ill I didn't get to enter the next challenge but from what I have seen there are some wonderful shots out there so everyone make sure and do the rounds and see the talent. 

   However I was feeling better today and we had a heat wave so I did get out and do some shooting.  As usual I took more picture then necessary but some I really like.  I did some in black and white and messed around with some I didn't like in by looking at them a different way.  The first couple are my favorites.

      I liked the starkness of this.  The lone tracks passing by the empty swing.  Bleak



    Another from the playground.  They just look so sad not used.



  A little color makes it look more inviting and you can see the footsteps have gone right up to the swings.

 

            Now this tree I saw from up on the hill and I just loved the way the shadow looked.  I have it done 3 different ways.  I like all 3.  It was in my favorite cemetery.  First in color



  Next black and white.



   And last framed.  Anyone know of a good program on line to put frames on?



        Still in the cemetery this is one I messed with the color but I really like the effect.



The next 2 are kind of 2 different views.  Are you near sided or far sided?





     And then last one I would have maybe entered in the community photo contest if I hadn't been so sick and able to get out.  I took this shot because this reminds me of my hometown from when I was young in the winter.  Not many new houses around and gentle rolling corn fields put to bed for the winter.  I decided old fashion album edges looked best with this.  And of course black and white to date it from my younger days.