Ryan's (late) "Pink"

Sorry for the late post. I was climbing at Palisades State Park in South Dakota. A few years back a glacier pushed through the area exposing the Sioux Quartzite under the plains. Sioux Quartzite ranges from pinkish to red.

Mark also ranges from pink to red. Mostly red, it seems.


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Mike's "Pink"

The black top on Highway 20 that runs through Orchard, NE is actually a "pinkish" color.
I do not know the history of this building. It is currently the Corner Bar, and if closed on a Saturday afternoon, then Orchard is nearing a ghost town status!

Cory's Pink

To the east of Albuquerque lie the Sandia Mountains, and this is the highest in the group - Sandia Peak. It doesn't look too pink in this picture, but the story is that the mountains got their name by the pink color they turn when the sunset hits them. "Sandia", of course, is the Spanish word for "watermelon".

And that means that Sandia National Laboratory, which is also in Albuquerque, could be called Watermelon National Laboratory.

Next Week...

Next week's topic: Framed.

"Pink" due NOW!

Ryan's "Color Wheel"

I was pretty lost on this one, so Jenny made me a color wheel:



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Mike's "Color Wheel"

We took a trip to Concordia, Kansas this weekend to meet Sandra's son with some gear he needed.
I have a thing for water towers.  I snapped this then later realized that it was about as close as I was going to get to a "color wheel".

The picture I originally took was of this Rexal Drug.  I was going to explain how the blue and orange colors on the sign are done in complementary colors which are colors that are opposite each other on an artist color wheel.  Don't get me started on color wheels.  They vary from art, to print, to photography.  Retro marketers loved to use the high contrast of  complementary colors in their logo work.

Next week: "Pink"

"Color wheel" due tomorrow.

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Cory's Color Wheel

Maddy has a colorful little pinwheel, and it gets really windy up here. Combine those and what do you get? A color wheel!

Craig's High Contrast

Pixels R Cool. CRTs can be fun.

Ryan's "Low Contrast"

Rather like Mike, I thought of black & white film, wet darkrooms, ortho film, and D-19 developer. I decided to go for the "low" side, though.

Fugs is pretty low contrast to begin with. Put him on a gray sweater and convert to black and white for even less contrast:




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Mike's "High Contrast"

When I was in college, there were no digital cameras, and all I could afford in a dark room was black and white.
Some of you have seen the digital manipulations where I play with in color these days with Photoshop, but back then I used to get what was called a "hard" contrast paper from Agfa and try to produce such high contrast photos that you could almost photocopy some of them.  I didn't push the contrast as hard as the old days, but I though just using black and white would be nostalgic enough.

Cory's High (and Low) Contrast

According to the interwebs, wind is caused by contrasts in temperature. The higher the contrast, the stronger the wind blows, and the more easy it is to get a kite flying. This weekend was Los Alamos's yearly kite festival, and we took Maddy down to see if we could get her flying. Unfortunately, the temperature contrast was too low and she had to stay firmly planted on the ground.

The low contrast was worse for the guy with the long string of kites seen above - when the wind died down, he had to pick them all up one by one.

Next week: "Color Wheel"

"High (or low) Contrast" due tomorrow.

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Q's fork in the road

I attached my camera to the fork of my bike and road down the hill . . .

Mike's "Fork in the Road"

If you look really close at Ryan's picture, you will see me down the street taking this one.
Because Military angles across town, it makes many forks.  This one at Maple & Military Ave.

Ryan's "Through the Fence"

Err... I mean "Fork in the Road."

On the right is Louis Lounge, about which my Dad once warned me "if you drop your wallet in the bathroom, leave it."

The fork is Maple Street on the left and Northwest Radial / Military Ave / Blair High Road / Highway 133. I guess it can also be considered part of Saddle Creek.

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Cory's Fork in the Road

It's a fork. In the road.

Craig's Fork in the Road

If we look at the Robert Frost Poem "The Road Not Taken," we see the fork in the road as symbolizing a decision.

At some point in this artist's life, he came to a fork in his road. The decision that he made at that fork led to this, which stands outside the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. And it creeps me out every time I pass it.

Next week: "High (or low) contrast"

"Fork in the road" due tomorrow.

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Q's formal

Craig's Formal

The VW New Beetle is formally considered to be a passenger vehicle. However, it can be convinced to carry cargo. As long as said cargo, in this case three toilets, can be convinced to be passengers.

Also, I'm formally late.

Ryan's "Formal"

Dovglas Covnty Covrthovse, a formal looking bvilding where formal charges are often resolued.

(Abovt what year was the "U" iuented? And is it proper to swap the "v" and the "u" in an entire sentence? Or do yov swap the "u" and the "v"? I'm so confvused! It's all uery conuolvted!

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Mike's "Formal"

The second name on this sign, is Ryan.  Ryan is who formally invited me to join this photography contest.  I don't know who Jerry is.
Though it does not say it on this sign, Jerry Ryan also sells men's "formal" wear.  On the opposite corner; Men's Warehouse.  Your going to like how they make you feel!

Cory's Formal

Let's say you had a trailer home, but you wanted to turn it into a bit more formal of a house. What would you do? Perhaps you would just build more house beneath it?

Next week: "Fork in the Road"

"Formal" due tomorrow.

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