I love finding the odd ugly and even more so, seeing the odd beauty in it.
Let’s see if I’ve managed to do that here.
Just remember…to each his ODD!
Yes. Yes I do. I find it ODD that Marmite yeast spread is the highlight of the Christmas lights on Oxford Street in London. ODD-LY beautiful though, isn’t it?Which may be the reason I photographed this when I was caught totally by surprise while shopping long ago. Do you think it’s because I was in COLONIAL WLLIAMSBURG? (ba dum dum) I guess I still find it ODD-LY beautiful (if not disgusting-ly awful)
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Happy Place.”
I’m happy in a lot of different places, as most people are. Most especially, the ocean, the mountains, lakeside and a newly discovered dirt road.
What these locations hold in common for me though is simple.
They are Mother Nature’s dance halls.
Nothing makes me happier than when I can catch Mother doing a good old fashioned Boogie Down!
Please enjoy
Such is… Love in the Afternoon!Dining AloneDinner for TwoFamily’s Night OutCheck Please! Whatever their dining pleasure, it’s all part of… “The Dinner Dance”The proposalIn the SwimGetting comfy“HEY! Do. You. Mind?!” It’s Turtle Time
Cee’s Fav Foto Friday Weekly Event…not sure this is a challenge so much as a way to inspire us to keep on posting…but either way, I’d like to take her inspiration and do just that…keep on posting 🙂
Photo Challenges. Before this week, I didn’t know they existed. Since then, it’s become almost a full time job…one that doesn’t pay a cent…but I love it anyway!
I mean, if I have any photographs of photographers taking photographs it would be in my photographs of photographing London (phew)
So…on a mission, I went through my London photogr…oh nevermind. I went through my pictures and found exactly 2…TWO with people popping pictures
Okay. Well, then I thought, hell…I know that everyone everywhere on every High Street corner over there, is being photoged by someone somewhere, so I looked for the eyes in the sky rather than the lens on the land and what do you think I found?
Yup…Big Brother!
So…for this challenge, I challenge you to find the spying eyes on the Highs (streets, that is) in these chock full o’ stuff pictures
Once I found one, I couldn’t stop!! I couldn’t have kept going (there are 1200 of them, yikes) until the evereadies died, but I controlled myself
Anyway…besides giving me a whole new way to look at my Zoom with a View, I got some good practice taking them from color to black and white. I don’t have any special photo editing software, so I just play around with what’s available on my computer. Still, it’s a practice I shall endeavor to get better at, but in the meantime, please enjoy my entry and thanks for lookin’ (you will of course need to click on each photo to get full size…it may help)
Can ya see it? This one ‘blends’In the financial district…naturallyThis is the top of the Southwark Cathedral…where SHAKESPEARE is buried! Think they are spying to see if he’s writing again? Can ya see it?Absolutely need to spy on people’s comings and goings into and outta the pub. Right?The epitome of Eye in the Sky. See it? Talk about a Crow’s Nest!Captured from the top of the bus (man, what fun those buses are!)…cameras are like birds on a wire!This one isn’t shy…front and center and proud it! I figured I’d give ya an easy one
In and around Canterbury Cathedral, man made his mark: In and around rivers and oceans, man made his mark: In and around our everyday lives, man made his mark (and a good thing too!):
I’m having fun following my newest and most wonderful blogging friend – MLou’s Photography Blog – and for a bit of Tuesday fun, I’ve seen that she enjoys posting in what is called “Tuesdays of Texture” as hosted by Narami at De Monte Y Mar
I wanted to join in on this one as it gives us a chance to look at photos from a different perspective…how they feel vs how they look. I dig it!
Here are some of mine, but I tell ya, it was hard to choose becasue there are…
So Many Textures – So Little Time!
please, feel free to click on the gallery for full size images 🙂
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Boundaries.”
We must teach them to children…for their own goodWe must take care with those that we allow to cross ours…Respect them in others…for their sake as well as ours (there is a glass boundary here you can bet your life!)Some come and go with the tide…Some are foreverWhether man made…Or by design…We need them…If only to cross them
“Hey Guido” “Yeah Tony?” “Com ‘ere” “Oh, sure ting Tone”“Listen up…you see dat boid over there on da roof yeah? So, you sit right here and watch me good. Dis gonna be good” “Oh yeah sure ting Tone. I sees ‘im and I’ll watch good. Hey Tone? Watcha gonna do Tone?” “Never youz mind. Jes watch like I says. Got it?”“Hey Tone. Tone…over here Tone. I see ya on da roof. I’m watching. Jes like you said!”[JeZus, don’t he ever shadup?”][Da Boid thinks…WTF?]“Guido! Shhhhhhhh, jes watch I said. Ima gonna scare da shit outta dis boid.”‘Uh, hey. Ugly-face. You know I can hear you right? You DO know I’m still alive right? I thought all you goombas only ate dead meat. I ain’t dead. Ya freakin’ meatball.”[What a dummy. Thick necked, thick headed GOOMBA. Hahaha. Thinks he can scare me?]“Dat Tone, he’s such a funny guy!”{Tone..whistlin} {Da Boid thinking…WTF?}“Watzamatta Boid? Ya nervous?”“Whatever Man…I ain’t scared of you, I just ain’t into your goomba games.”“NO…I ain’t scared. That’s just the wind rufflin’ my feathers ya putz. But I got other stuff to do…I’m outta here. Go pick a scab or something ya thug!”“Hehe…not scared he says. Hey, Guido! D’ya see da boid no more?“Hey Guido. What I tell ya? I told ya I waz gonna scare the shit outta dat boid! See it?”“Bwaaahaaa. Ya sure did Tone, ya sure did! Bwaahaaa, scared the crap right outta dat boid!”‘See ya’z later Guido. Ima go see if ol’ scarity boid tastes as good as he lies!!! Maybe I’ll save ya some. Bwaahaaa!”‘“Hey Tone. Hey Tone, wait. Ima come too. Wait for meeeeee!”
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Change.”
CHANGE
What easier way to showcase change than with the seasons. I’ve been known to take a thousand shots of a single mountain because each shot offers something different. Whether it’s the cloud formations that waft over the top, promising changes to come, or the way the sun strikes it on a sunny day vs. the rays that struggle through to kiss the peak on a cloudier one…One of my favorite changes is the coat of brilliant color that adorns it today when, just yesterday, that coat was green and brown…
And tomorrow, it’ll be gray as ash, soon to be white as snow…The once empty horizon now filled with the winds of change in the form of wind powered turbines. All in the name of progress and, for some, the sacrifice of beauty…a change some do not like.
But…there’s more to change than the obvious. Some is predictable, some inevitable, some wanted, some not.
But it’s always coming. We all know this to be true.
Below, a slideshow with photos and thoughts on what I think about change.
I’m not afraid of it.
Much.
But like it or not…it’s coming.
So I’ll celebrate it here.
!["I see ya Tone! Hey Tone, can ya hear me? I sees ya there on da roof Tone." [JeZus, don't he ever shadup?"]](https://50-shades-of-gray-hair.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/img_3856.jpg)
![[WTF?]](https://50-shades-of-gray-hair.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/img_3830.jpg)
One of my favorite changes is the coat of brilliant color that adorns it today when, just yesterday, that coat was green and brown…
The once empty horizon now filled with the winds of change in the form of wind powered turbines. All in the name of progress and, for some, the sacrifice of beauty…a change some do not like.
50 Shades of Gray Hair 
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