Linda's Photo Adventures: November 2010

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