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Favorite Summer Pictures


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Joy Foraker

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Hi All! I've been so busy but now comes some free time for me and the camera (strictly point and shoot). Today I'm posting "Leaping cat" from my messy garden.

We all have favorite summer pictures, please share and post them here for all to enjoy.
 
Hi Joy, cool cat! nice pic too, I've got a few pics from a vacation I took a few years ago, summer that I'd like to share. This is on the Pacific Coast of Monte Rico, Guatemala at @ 5am.

Hope people like it.
 
Ricib - beautiful sunrise in an almost cloudless sky. The fence adds drama. Thanks - I enjoyed!
 
While not technically the best, I thought I'd post two of my favorites...for the memories they envoke if nothing else. These are old scans from the original photos.

The first photo is the coast of Southern California as my parents and I were returning from a fishing trip at Santa Barbara. I was around 16 at the time and don't recall what camera was used.
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This image was taken on Highway 4 out of Stockton,Ca on the drive up to the 'Gold Country' and Highway 49. I took this one using a Speed Graphic 4 x 5 sheet film camera.
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Hi Joy,

I'm glad you have some time to play again!

I rarely take photographs but actually did shoot up a card of flowers this year. I was stimulated by the fact that an Oakleaf Hydrangia which I was given four or five years ago finally blossomed. For us in California, this is a rare variety of Hydrangia. The largest leaves are about 12" or so long with a very distinctive shape and the flowers are long, rather than the 'normal' more round shape.

PS The deer positively love the plant. You've gotta fence it or spray it with an egg and water solution every four days. }:\ Bambi...BAH!!!!
 
Wow Doc - that water scene is really stunning. And I like the barn too - picturesque!

Hey Welles - How have you been? How'd you know, I love Hydrangas. That one is a prize, gorgous.

I got three pinky ones on the patio, I try to make them bloom blue color by putting using rusting iron at root. (old ways) - this year I forgot so they bloomed pinkish.

Here's one of the center of hydrangia (I see yours have fascinating centers too)
 
And another with succulents
 
Nice, Joy. I had no idea you liked hydrangeas...just happenstance!

That's a lovely pink (even though you forgot to blue it with nails. ;)

Right next to the Oakleaf Hydrangia is one of your variety. It's funny but back east, when I was a kid, we had lots of hydrangeas but they were all the puffball variety.

By the way is it hydrangia or hydrangea?
 
Welles beautiful Hydrangea! Wow I could look at that picture all day. Great detail of their unique structure. Thanks for the treat!

This plant was all over Los Angeles in the 50's - They were used as a foundation plant for all around the houses (during the days when LA had lots of wooden houses). Then they sorta went out of fashion and very few plants can been seen in the cities now.

I have a frequent visitor in my garden...a bright orange luminescent dragonfly. Yesterday I followed it for an hour trying to get a good shot. In utter failure, I settled for this (posted). BTW if you've got dragonfly photos, I'd love to see them. I think they are exquisite and another real plus they eat mosquitoes in flight! I love any insect that gets rid of those stinging pests!
 
thanks Joy, here's another from the same time... a Flight line of brown pelicans searching the shallow waters...
 
and... when at the Tikal ruins, you have to get a picture of this famous (to starwars rebel base geeks) shot. Overlooking the other temples, from Temple 4, The Grand Temple. You only have to climb a 250 tall staircase to get this shot. hehe
 
ricib said:
You only have to climb a 250 tall staircase to get this shot. hehe
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obviously you are a youngster yet. hehehe. Thanks for the ruins and birds - so efficient their flight.

I posted a picture of this summer in Thailand, I visited some ruins too. There was also a more modest staircase -- what made it so forboding was the sweltering temperature. These ruins are the old city of Siam before neighboring Burmese burned it down in the 1700's. Originally it was constructed of bricks then plastered - not made from carved stone like the Ankor Watt ruins in Cambodian and your Tikal ruins \:]


8D Summer travel album http://www.photoshopjazz.com/Travel_thailand
 
Way cool, especially since I'm going to Singapore in December, and will be making a 2 day side trip to Bangkok, Tailand.

We'll have to have a Winter thread, come then.

BTW, no, I'm afraid of heights, and I'm now 38, 39 in two weeks. I suppose that's "young", but my spirit is much younger than my age.
 
Hi Joy! I'm glad to here from ya!
I'm having an uneventful summer, but something wonderful has come into my life this summer, So I guess I'll share.
It's my niece and her newborn.
 
Wow two beautiful ladies in your life --- shucks I thought I was the only one Nitro [saywhat]

Your newborn is absolutely precious --you must be so proud-- I'd say you are enjoying a fabulous summer with this little bundle. Thanks for posting - I really enjoyed.

Ricib - I think December is their high season, yes? wow I envy your travels - I'd go back to Thailand on the next plane if I could. I recommned the Atutthya trip - It starts at 6AM as a 1/2 hour trip in a luxury A/C bus to the Old Palace & grounds(free time to walk around) then on to the Ruins for several hours. Then to the river for a fabulous gourmet lunch aboard a sleek three decker ship (The Golden Pearl) that will return you to Bangkok 5:30 to 6PM where a bus will take you back to the Hotel = all in one day so you have time. I think we have a member who lives in Singapore (Vee8). Post lots of pictures when you return. I regret not taking more - I bought a memory card that holds 600 pictures for the trip and I only took about 80. Too busy gawking around.
 
Hi all,

Just bought my first digital this weekend and made a shot of my litlle cousin who tried daddy's sunglasses.
 
Joy: You still are my favorite gal! That's My Niece and her newborn.
Stanislav: He looks Cool! :righton:
 
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Joy: You still are my favorite gal!
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So very relieved to hear! -- go back and look at my comments in the next paragraph, its about your pretty niece and her newborn. :)

Stanislav That's a fun picture! Your happy niece is loving the shades adventure. Great camera - what type did you purchase? Since you now own a nice digi we are going to expect some great and entertaining pictures from you right here on Gurus.

I mentioned earlier in the thread I was chasing a dragonfly around the back yard. Today one landed on a pile of weeds near me! I didn't get all the detail I wanted but posting anyway. ;\ This one is a new visitor, his wings were more transparent. The one I chased yesterday had more orange on his wings-- prettier but ooo so elusive. 8[
 
Great shot Joy, I've been trying to "capture" a dragonfly all month :)
I did manage to find this Damselfly while looking.

I've taken a lot of photos over the past couple of months, this is one I took of a local swimming baths near the beach with a piece of installation art. Anthony Gormly's "Another Place"

I've just put up a album/slideshow up on my site (such as it is) of some of the photographs I've taken recently near where I live, if anyone is interested in perusing further. :)
 
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