Linda's Photo Adventures: 2010

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Always the Quiet One

Here's my Photoshop piece for the week.

A quiet mind cureth all.

Robert Burton

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Friday, December 3, 2010

Memory

In Bodega Bay, California the crab pots are stacked and ready to go.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Francis Bacon

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Imaginary Ordinary

This will be the last of my pelican photographs for a while. I'll put up more of these at a later time. I used Photoshop to give this a painterly look.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
Susan Sontag

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Monday, November 29, 2010

How We Roll

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Alan Watts

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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

I went to Bodega Bay in California and was fortunate enough to come upon this sight. My husband grew up around there and said he'd never seen such a large flock of pelicans. There were so many floating together in the water. Being a photographer, this was a very exciting find. The day was perfect and the water was calm. In the next few days I'll be posting more of these.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Wayne Dyer

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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Valley of Fire

Vineyards in the fall........ah!

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace

As I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

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Friday, November 19, 2010

Pastures Of Plenty

Just spent the last 6 days in the wine country in Sonoma County California. As we were leaving town we stopped to enjoy the breathtakingly beautiful vineyards along a wonderful country road. This is the first time I've been there when the leaves on the vines were changing. Wow, I could have spent the whole day photographing what I saw...maybe next year!

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Sidewalk Sale

I love watching talented people enjoy their craft!

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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Friday, November 5, 2010

Grey Gardens

I've always love the bougainvillea in California. Even up close they look like paper. I like the texture and shapes they create in black and white.

Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature

Gerard De Nerval

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

You Make Me Smile

What are little boys made of? Well, this one is made with a beautiful face and eyes to match. This is one of my collage experiments.

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Oh, What A Night

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!

“‘It is now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to the world.

William Shakespeare

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Graveyard Girl

I have a sneaky suspicion that I'll be seeing a lot of Lady GaGa's at my door this Halloween.

"They can't scare me if I scare them first."

Lady GaGa

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Hanging On Too Long

Pumpkin patches and little boys. Is there anything better?

A pumpkin in the hand is worth two on the bush(or vine)

Anonymous

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Monday, October 25, 2010

Keeper

I think she picked the right one but it's almost bigger than she is!

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Kahlil Gibran

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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Silhouettes

Here's a Photoshop piece for the week. I thought it might fit the Halloween theme somewhat.

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

Spalding Gray