i've been digging the met's flickr page ...

So many beautiful artworks ...

throwback thursday: star trek

I have been enjoying following bird of the galaxy's flickr feed, which highlights some great stills and behind-the-scenes images from the original Star Trek series.

Alternate-universe Spock

Who knew Kirk had rhythm?

She almost could be checking her iPhone

Tribbles!

another kind of safari . . .

. . . more photos from last week's adventure, but with some different wildlife.



I'm not sure why, but I've always been fascinated by merry-go-round animals. The bright colors, shiny surfaces, and the fact that they are part of one of my favorite childhood pastimes are all factors, I'm sure.



Most of the merry-go-rounds I went on as a child were populated strictly by ponies, so I am always doubly thrilled to see some other animals added to the mix. The Smithsonian carousel had a cool dragon that the kids always fought over, and the merry-go-round at Lion Country Safari didn't disappoint, with some appropriate exotic options for the discerning child.



Future coffee table book or at the very least, flickr set? We'll have to see how my collection expands . . .

as easy as one two three . . .

. . . not exactly.

One of our photo club assignments (actually initiated by moi) was to photograph letters, alphabet, typography—wherever it struck us. Most of my contributions to the club are results of my afternoon lunchtime walks around town, armed as always, with my iPhone. Finding letter graphics is a bit of a challenge— the "e" came from a moving bus.

But I found it fun to try and catch the abcs where I could. So far I only captured about eight letters. Miles to go . . .

stripes...

I am part of a flickr photo club, One After 909. Every month or so we have themed assignments. A few months back we were tasked to find stripes in our environment. I surprised myself with how much I enjoyed this challenge.

When I was in college, one of my teachers was Sean Scully, whose abstract paintings frequently use stripes. It was impossible not to think of Scully's work a bit while doing this challenge, but I realized that his sculptural stripes constructed out of oil piant were actually quite different from the stripes that ended up attracting me. A stripe isn't a stripe isn't a stripe . . .

grandpa's hairdo hits the web

A website is using one of my family photos to illustrate 1920s hair? In this one you can't even see his hair.

Hmmm . . .

They gave me a credit and all, but it's a little weird to see . . .

Life on the web . . .

one after 909 - October

Last month's photo assignments from our photo club One After 909 were:

1. the color orange (but nothing natural, like pumpkins)
2. fall colors

There were some great photos taken by everyone in the group. Two of my favorites that I contributed were:

It's nice to be thinking like a (visual) artist in my off-time, too. I guess you never really stop "looking," but structured looking helps.

flickr is a many splendored thing

The internet never ceases to amaze me. There is so much helpful information out there, if you do a little digging. And sometimes you don't have to dig at all - the information comes to you.

I have been uploading old family photos to flickr and tagging them or labeling them with what little I know or can remember being told by my grandmother, who died over fifteen years ago. One of our family stories is about a young man from Wisconsin, who was a drummer boy in the Civil War. I posted photos from a Civil War-era photo album to the site and one of the unlabeled photos was immediately selected for a flickr group, where two members, Civil War buffs for sure, were able in a few days to help confirm the suspicion that this photo was indeed of my great-great grandfather, William Beverige Cassels, as the stick he is holding was identified as a special baton used in the music corps. Matched with genealogical information via ancestry, and I had his discharge information and confirmation that he was in the fife and drum corps. Cool.