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For Comment - Saint Augustine Florida Marina at Sunrise.

 

Foto Friends - In the beginning

 

For Comment:  Happy Valentine's Day!  

According to the herons at this rookery, here are 'Rules to Love by'. ;-)

1. Dance as though no one is watching

2. Love as if you've never been hurt

3. Vibrant conversation keeps a relationship thriving

4. “You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear” Oscar Wilde

5. Bring a stick home to show you want to build a nest together

Our meeting challenge images

 

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Here are selected photos from earlier this week.  They seem to "fit together" but beyond that, there is as yet no project I have in mind for them.  

I'm interested in any feedback. Including "if only you had....." - These are just a representative handful from >150 shots - The church windows alone had me shooting like crazy (imagine, choir practice was happening inside, and so the MUSIC alone was beautiful)

For Comment: two drafts from my Succulence in the Desert project

 

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 In the spirit of exploring further one of our topics from last year - "art beyond the walls" - I took a fascinating bookbinding class at the Tennessee State Museum at the end of January. The instructor was a gifted, renown, local bookbinder - Mary Louise Sullivan from crowinghensbindery https://www.crowinghensbindery.com/.  She overestimated how much a class could accomplish in a day. Our workshop was scheduled to go from 9am-4pm, but even though we got the museum's approval to stick around until 5pm, we were only able to do 90% of the binding.

Nevertheless, it was super fun and inspirational.  And luckily I was able to find a book on the subject, so perhaps I'll manage to finish my first book someday.

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And an example of a simple book we could have made.....

(the small yellow notebook)

Our books were to have pockets and a pencil holder, as well as a clasp

......you can also see the edges of the six signatures we bound into the book

You can see here the gorgeous endpapers.

Here's the book I actually can recommend, which might help me complete the project.

For Comment - Moonshadows

 I'm a little blown away with these two images, not because they are great art, but because of the detail I am getting with my new phone.  I traded in my old 8+ iphone for the new 14 pro max in January.  The camera is amazing.

Last night, around midnight, I was going to bed and looked out the window as I was closing the drapes.  We had a full moon (the snow moon) and I was caught by the shadow of the large tree in my front yard.  For the heck of it, I put my phone to the window and shot the picture you see below.  I was amazed by the detail (check out the stars behind the trees).... particularly since the window wasn't all that pristine.

Then I went back to the bonus room and took the shot below shooting toward the barn.  A little better detail through a cleaner window.  Again.... notice you can see the stars here too.

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For Comment--February Meeting:

RAINY DAY AT THE BEACH

As one who really enjoys the beach, I find there are lots and lots of photos to be taken of "non-typical" beach scenes. This was one of those times. Rain clouds had descended on Cape San Blas and driven everyone indoors. So I was left to "explore"  what I could see from the balcony of our rental house. I had to look for colors, shapes, mood, textures, etc.

 

For Comment - Still have power!

 It got a little dicey early on when it was coming down as freezing rain, but then it changed to sleet and no longer sticking to tree limbs.