Random Object Photographs

[Onomea]

Was on my patio having a glass of wine with my wife yesterday evening and looked up:

 

[David LaPell]

A Fordson tractor not to far from my house, it's gone now since someone else bought the property.

The bridge from Crown Point NY to Vermont.

A dragonfly

Orb weaving spider

 

[fdw]

Brotherly love...

 

[Redbert31]

I see a fish, though, to my knowledge, I have no native American blood. My grandpa who traveled extensively thru the country in his sales days and met and spoke to many native Americans in his travels, shared a secret with me when I told him a secret of mine. I used to watch westerns in the 50's and said Grandpa, when I watch them I sleep and dream of being an Indian. I understand their lives more than the cowboys. I never remember dreams where I wasn't an Indian. He said he spoke to a native American about dreams once, and was told that if you dream about them, you were one in a previous life time...I wonder.....

You can perceive a fish of some sort in this photograph. If you shift your point of view so that the line that forms the bottom of the bird's beak and throat becomes the mouth of a fish, you'll see it.

An elder on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Reservation in northeastern South Dakota put it like this: "The Lakotah are an eagle people, so they will see a winged. We (the Dakotah) are a fish people, so we see a fish."

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[Onomea]

I hear ya Redbert, I always liked being the Indian when playing cowboys and Indians. Once, as a cub scout project, we made Indian gear. Leather fringed shirts, leggings, etc. I loved my outfit.

This was in Munich in the late ‘50s. Our cub scout master was an impressive speciman of a man, lean and mean, an army sergeant who was a mix of black and Native American. He looked ferocious in his get up, and knew cool Indian dances, woodlore and stuff.

We all wanted to be like him.

So, one day I am sitting in my treehouse, more of a tree platform I guess, in my yard, overlooking one of the streets, with my sister. We are both wearing our Indian gear get up. (How she horned in on this manly cub scout activity I have no idea. Maybe ‘cause mom was my den mother.) I am fully armed, with a coupla BB guns, assorted knives and a hatchet.

A car suddenly stops below us. A bunch of German adults starts looking at us, pointing, laughing and such. I give ‘em my best Indian stare of death.

They laugh and drive off.

They were lucky we didn’t have that cub scout master with us!

 

[bdGreen]

Cordova, Alaska
I shot this picture when I went to visit my Great Uncle's homestead.

enjoy,
bdGreen

 

[walkin jack]

My favorite fishin' hole. Caught a whole jar full that day.

 

[misswired]

A morning walk around the yard

 

[walkin jack]

A morning walk around the yard

Very nice. Here's what you would see if you took a walk around my back yard.

 

[walkin jack]

...and here's a few more.

 

[Watchdog]

Realist

An old Stereo Realist camera, photographed through a fisheye lens.

I don't know when this one was manufactured. They were in production from 1947 until 1971.

 

[Lil' LadySmith]

Just got this one this Saturday (May 26) evening as the sun was setting. There's an area with these little tiny burrowing owls that I enjoy photographing from time to time. Had never been able to get one on the sign before!

camera: Canon 5D mark ii
Lens: Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @400mm
Settings: 1/30 sec @ f/6.3; ISO 1250
Handheld

 

[walkin jack]

Just got this one this Saturday (May 26) evening as the sun was setting. There's an area with these little tiny burrowing owls that I enjoy photographing from time to time. Had never been able to get one on the sign before!

camera: Canon 5D mark ii
Lens: Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @400mm
Settings: 1/30 sec @ f/6.3; ISO 1250
Handheld

Nice shot...in photography, like so many other things in life, timing is everything. Right place at the right time gets it done.

 

[Lil' LadySmith]

Nice shot...in photography, like so many other things in life, timing is everything. Right place at the right time gets it done.

Thank you Walkin' Jack! You're right about the right place/right time. My patience has improved a lot since I started getting serious about my photography due to waiting/hoping for that right time. I just wish I hit that combo more often!

 

[Bullseye 2620]

Moon Bridge, Guilin City, Guangxi Province, China.

 

[Watchdog]

Strike the Pose

Beau learned to pose for the camera when he was just a puppy.

 

[RobertJ.]

Beau learned to pose for the camera when he was just a puppy.

I'd have given this 2 likes if it was possible!

 

[leswad]

Someone randomly left this pipe on my property:



9/10ths, right?

 

[RobertJ.]

From my recent vacation- the Las Vegas airport and a portion of the strip- from six miles high:

 

[RobertJ.]

And this was one end of the Grand Canyon: