Straight Out Of the Camera: Itchy Balls ...

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... that's what we called them as kids

they're a pain to clean up but these two looked very pretty to me so I took their portrait before I dug them out of the deck.



STRAIGHT OUT OF the CAMERA

Straight Out Of the Camera: Garden Walkway

Camera Critters is right below

I spent a morning at one of the local greenhouses. They were nice enough to let me wander around and take photos.

It's rare that I have a shot that I don't want to crop or sharpen or whatever - I love this just the way it is



STRAIGHT OUT OF the CAMERA

Straight Out Of the Camera

I like the way the green and blue looks on the natural wood. And I like the message.



Check out more natural beauties STRAIGHT OUT OF the CAMERA

SOOC and Shadow Shots: Outside and Inside

Camera Critters is one post down

The first photo is my contribution to STRAIGHT OUT OF the CAMERA. I didn't even crop it, it just came out exactly as I saw it - I love when that happens.

The second photo is for SHADOW SHOTS. It is the corner of the bar which is on the other side of the gated window in the first photo.




I posted a B&W version of the second shot on THE WORLD IN BLACK AND WHITE

Have a great Sunday everyone! Go Steelers!!

More from the park for SOOC and Shadow Shots

Camera Critters is right below this

A few more shots from the park I featured last week.

This top shot is STRAIGHT OUT OF the CAMERA



The tree decorated the trash can ...




I love lines and shadows so these shots made me happy. That's my big old head in the last shot.




For more SHADOW SHOTS

Have a great Sunday! I'm headed to the Motherland (Brooklyn) for a birthday party.

SOOC and Shadow Shots: Hoop Shadows

This shot is STRAIGHT OUT OF the CAMERA



These SHADOW SHOTS were all found at a local park one day this past week.

Sunday Shots: Straight Out and Shadowed

I thought I'd stay at the marina - see Camera Critters below - and share these for STRAIGHT OUT OF the CAMERA and SHADOW SHOTS

All I did to this one is crop it at the bottom to spare you any more views of bird poop than necessary.



I love the lines in these photos.

SOOC & Shadow Shots - On Sunday

that's a whole lot 'a S

I'm posting for both projects again this week

This shot comes STRAIGHT OUT OF the CAMERA



The SHADOW SHOTS are ...

Me and Siren - I'm trying to teach him to do jazz hands



and of course he's ignoring me and being regal



Siren was on top of the glass table in 'his room' and the sun was pouring in making for some interesting shadows.

Shadow Shots -and- Straight Out Of the Camera - On Sunday

I haven’t posted any photos all week! But I do have a ton of them floating around the hard drive.

I thought I’d do two photo projects this Sunday.

The first project is new to me – SOOC - Straight Out Of the Camera - hosted by Jan.

This is the very FIRST shot taken with my new camera. As you can see I watch nothing but the finest in high brow educational television programming.



For SHADOW SHOTS I have these photos I took Christmas Eve Eve as I sat in the tiny Post Office parking lot waiting for a place to put myself so that I could wait for a place to park.

Taking the camera with me is truly a stress buster. Instead of watching everyone cutting each other off and hogging the only entrance I just sat in the corner and took some photos.

These 3 shots are different perspectives of the old twisted trees that line the far end of the parking lot. They form a barrier between public and private land and are so neglected but they do provide a place for birds and squirrels and other little creatures to live and stay warm. Many of us leave food. If we pushed the PO to clean it up they would most likely tear it all down and put up some awful fence so us bird lovers just shush the others.





Finally I got close enough to the back of the building to be able to park. No one goes back there because it means you have to walk around the building and through the lot to get inside. Shocking! Walking in NJ – surely this can’t be legal! And I have to laugh at the young ones in their sports cars and the big fat asses in their SUVs all waiting for a spot right in front as I make my way, cane and big black walking boot, across the lot. I am in and out and back at my car while they sit there polluting the air with their car exhaust and crappy attitudes.




And I have photos too!

Please visit all the SOOC and SHADOW SHOTS participants. There is some great photography floating round these Internet Tubes.

Happy Sunday