#WednesdayWindows : Windows & Walls

Windows open the world to us.  But there may be Walls blocking the way!

Don't let the Walls Stop You!  Go around them, climb over them, or if necessary go through them!

 

#WednesdayWindow: Bringin' Back an Oldie

One of my best windows, a Holga from the Rhyolite Jail in Death Valley, California:

CLICK HERE to view a variety of our past visits to Death Valley.

Boulders and White Water

A few posts from 2011 that never got posted

A Pinhole at the Library

In 2013 our Public Library Sponsored Pinhole Day Activities:

You can get started with a very inexpensive Holga Panorama Pinhole or a pinhole body cap.  

Lafayette Public Library photographed with a Holga Panorama Pinhole Camera.

it's Time to Think Pinhole!

April 26, 2015.  And to get you started I will Post some of our Past Pinhole Experiences:

Now you see her, and now you don't.  Long exposures create ghost figure opportunities.

Georgetown Lockdown...

Some sorry souls have decided that they have the right to steal flags.  Special targets are MIA Memorials, because many of these flags have been flown over outposts in Iraq or Afghanistan....So now  the hoisting mechanisms have to be locked down...

To Keep Our Flags Flying High!

Winter

Winter along Lake Waneka. 

This is just after a blowing snow storm and the snow is still sticking to the fence.

More than Bridges: Textures

More than Bridges: Urban Housing

Denver Bridges #4

Denver Bridges #3

Denver Bridges #2

An Alternate view of yesterday's bridge.....

Denver Bridges #1

Recently we took a walking tour of some of the Bridges in Downtown Denver..........

Coming Soon: Worldwide Pinhole Day

Are You Ready?

http://www.pinholeday.org/

B&W from Beaver Lake

Satellite Interference?

Snomageddon presents many challenges.........including Satellite TV reception.

Orchids.........

For more B and W Orchids click here.

Today we are going to the Botanical Gardens to photograph their Orchid Display.  But a year ago these beautiful flowers were sent to me by a friend that owns The Santa Barbara Orchid Estate (yes a bit of promotion). Last year I had posted some color images of the same, but I like the B&W results better......

Monsoon........

We've had much more rain than normal this summer.  Usually the SW monsoon pattern misses us, but not in 2011.  Lots of Angry Skies:

I like the moodiness of B&W.....taken from I-70 heading up to the mountains....

Watch Your Step at Mesa Arch!

We 'discovered' a new arch at Canyonlands this year.  Of course it had always been there, but we drove by in the past never giving it a thought.

But watch you step, because there is s shear drop on if you step through the Arch!

Don't Play with Matches!

A Sad find on our recent trip to Moab. But first a view of happier days for the recently restored (2008) Dewey Bridge opened in 1916:

An unsupervised child playing with matches is all it takes to destroy our history! 

 I think B&W adds to the grim scene.

(Half of Bodie, California met a similar fate in the 1930's. At that time it was a totally intact 19th Century mining (ghost)town with a few remaining residents.)