Cory's Thanksgiving

I was inspired by Ryan's shot of the kraut last week to try putting Thanksgiving creepiest food under the light: cranberry sauce. Sadly, I don't think it turned out anywhere near as pretty as the kraut. I'll have to try harder next time.

Ryan's "Thanksgiving"

Thanksgiving seems to be the end of the leaf season.



I was too busy celebrating Thanksgiving to photograph Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving.

/rl

David's "Thanksgiving"

The Old Fashioned Brandy Apple Pie I make once a year.

Mike's "Thanksgiving"

If you feel that maybe you have put a few pounds on over the Thanksgiving weekend.
Maybe a class in Hip Hop Pilates will help restore that waistline to where it was.

"Thanksgiving" due tomorrow.

"Film" is next week's topic.

/rl

Ti's "German"

I was on travel for the last 10 days and just got back. At least that's the story I'm sticking to. Anywhoo, here's my "German". Aidan and I were sorting all his LEGOs because he wanted to put them together again. I heart me some LEGOs so I took a picture. And here it is.

Craig's German

I guess it's up to me to do beer.

I love these guys. Metropolitan are a husband and wife brewery in Chicago, Illinois. All they do are kick-ass German beers. I love 'em so much I have all their tap handles. I love their artwork and the look of these handles. The design is easily one of my favorites of all the handles I own, and I own a bunch.

I'm sipping a Dynamo (middle handle), poured from my keg fridge, as I upload this.

Ryan's "German"

Sauerkraut, the German form of cabbage.



Jenny has been taking pictures of jewelry, so I used her backdrop. And feathers. And flowers. And she laid it out.

I uhmmm.... hit the shutter release.

/rl

Michael's "German"

I tell people that I'm Irish because of my fair skin, but I probably have a bit more of the "Hun" in me from both sides of the family as my mother is half German, and my father half Austrian.

This is a statue in the Voss Mohr Cemetery at 138th and Harrison and I have been trying to get a good picture of this statue for a while.  He faces East, and I don't get up early enough on my days off.  Today was overcast.

The statue is of a German soldier, most likely 1848-50 by the website I linked to above.  The cemetery is the combination of two family plots, much like the one my family has in Holt County.  I wasn't there this weekend!  And we don't have a big statue.

David's "German"

From a German edition Monopoly game Sonya used when teaching German. It's printed on glass and was a pain to light up.

"Cars and Beer"... err... I mean "German" due tomorrow

I guess the obvious choice for next week is "Thanksgiving."

/rl

Cory's German

I'm going on a quick camping trip to Arches National Park this weekend, so here is an early post.

I expect that there will be two major themes in this week's submissions: cars and beer. So I'll start out the car faction with the Wolfsburg Crest, which appears on the center of the Beetle's steering wheel. Wolfsburg is where all of the original Volkswagens came from, so apparently they thought it would be fun to put the city's coat of arms on the steering wheels of their cars.

Ti's "You"

It only took me 2 weeks of doing this to be late. To be fair, that's 1 week longer than I anticipated. Anyway, here's my you or your me or my me?

Mike's "You"

The brothers are rocking some nice hats there, now I wish I wore one of mine.

I decided to try an catch what I look like when I first get up in the morning and look in the mirror.  Sandra says this is what I look like after she gets done using me as a "mule" at the mall. 

She has also been chasing me around with a pair of tweezers, so I must have got the focus better than I thought.  Note to self:  Soft focus, low contrast, less shadow.

Cory's You

Yup, it's me.

Ryan's "Ryan"

I still play on Merry-go-Rounds. At night. In the cold.

I don't (think I) normally look quite this demented.



/rl

Craig's "You"

This pretty much sums me up.

Next week: "German"

"You!" due tomorrow.

Who voted for me? I didn't even post anything!

Also, I can see the bottom in the bucket-o-topics. Please help fill it up. Either add them to the list or leave a comment and I can add them.

/rl

Ryan's "Incomplete"

Final update (11/12/10) : I spoke with the Director of Campus Security this morning who confirmed I was doing nothing wrong.

Sunday night I was taking photos of a construction site on the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus. I was standing in the middle of 40th Street (non Omaha folks: it is a public city street) when a campus security guard approached and asked what I was doing. I would have thought the large camera sitting atop an even larger tripod would have been a hint, but apparently not. He demanded I delete the photos I had taken, citing a "post 9/11" policy banning photography without the Public Relations Department's stamp of approval.

The sun was going down and I had a lot of homework to finish, so I complied rather than spend the evening discussing First Amendment rights with a guy carrying handcuffs and mace. Looking back, I should have rode this one out. I should have refused to delete the photos and continued to shoot.

To summarize, my "Incomplete" photo will not be completed.

/rl

Mike's "Incomplete"

In my mind, a train without a caboose is "incomplete".  I remember in the late 80's when Union Pacific quit using them and backed them up a spur off of John J Pershing Blvd.  My son and I would go play on them.

Some were sent to the scrap yard, and some were sold to private parties.  These were converted into cabins at the Twin Rivers State Park.

Eventually the caboose and the safety crew was replaced by the robotic FRED (flashing rear end device) or EOTD (end of train device).  (wiki)  Law and union rules both had to be changed to allow this to happen.

Ti's Incomplete

Since I came in midway through this week and it was my youngest spawn's second birthday today I figured I'd use him as my entry. See, Daylan is now two and only has 6 teeth. At the rate he's adding new teeth I figure he might have all his teeth before he leaves for college.

Cory's Incomplete

I'm in San Jose for a conference this coming week, and as I wandered the area around the hotel after getting in this afternoon I came across this sight. I'm not really sure what's going on: it appears that they've covered all of the grass in a particular park with white fabric, and there are various giant blocks placed around that say mention Santa below them. My best guess is that, now that it is November, we've reached Christmas season. And we all know that Christmas is incomplete without snow, so I'm guessing they decided to pretend they had some. Alas, it was high 60s/low 70s when I walked through the area, so I'm not buying it.

Next week: "You!"

"Incomplete" should be complete by tomorrow.

We haven't done self portraits in a while. Since we have two new players, I think this week would be a good time to do it again.

In case Cory didn't explain the rules - we don't have very many. Shoot this week's topic (a self portrait) between now and next Sunday. Digital manipulation should be limited to color & contrast correction, sharpening, and other operations that can be done in a traditional (and basic) wet darkroom. If the average guy with an enlarger and a bottle of D-76 could do it on paper, you can do it digitally.

Truth be told the rules are pretty loose. I think we just want to stick with photography versus digital art.

/rl

Two New Posters

Introducing two new weekly photographers - Ti Leggett and David Gunter! Since nobody ever actually takes their pictures until Saturday afternoon anyway, they should have no problem getting in on this week's topic.