Photography

Cellpic Sunday — Grand Ole Opry

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John Steiner, the blogger behind Journeys With Johnbo, has this prompt he calls Cellpic Sunday in which he asks us to post a photo that was taken with a cellphone, tablet, or another mobile device. He invites us to participate in this cellphone photo prompt by creating our own CellPic Sunday post and linking it back to his.

I’m at home on this Mother’s Day, suffering from a spring cold and cough, so I dug way back into my archives — back to August of 2013 — on one of our cross-country drives that my wife and I took when we were bicoastal. This trip took us through Nashville, and when one is in Nashville, even if you’re not a fan of country music, how can you visit that town without going to The Grand Ole Opry?

These three photos were taken with my iPhone 5, and I shrunk them down a little to save storage space on my media folder.

Below is the exterior of the Grand Ole Opry House.

And this is the main entrance where you walk between the two giant guitars.

I know that Carrie Underwood was one of the performers that night, but I can’t tell if she was one of the people on stage when I took this shot. The iPhone 5 didn’t have much of a zoom lens.

Judy’s Numbers Game — #20

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Judy Dykstra-Brown has come up with a weekly prompt that she calls “The Numbers Game.” This week’s number is 141. To play along, we need to go to our media/photo file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos we find under that number and include a link to our blog back to Judy’s Numbers Game blog of the week.

Here’s my collection of photos based upon “141.” All of the photos below have appeared in my blog posts. Some are photos posted by other bloggers as photo prompts. Some are screenshots or photos that I took. A few may have been generated by AI art apps, but most are photos I grabbed from free photo sources like Pixabay, Pexels, Pinterest, Unsplash, or Google photos.

Click on any photo to enlarge.

Cellpic Sunday — Bicycles

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Note: As I have done too often lately, I didn’t change the title of this post from last week’s post. When I respond to a recurring prompt, I use Jetpack’s “Duplicate” feature, remove all of the blocks from the prior week’s post, and then write the new post. But sometimes I forget to change the title. Shit like that happens when you get to be my age. Last week’s title to my Cellpic Suunday post made no sense related to this week’s photo. So having just now noticed it, I changed the title if this weeks Cellpic Sunday from “Protests” to Bicycles,” which is what the photo this week shows. I hope I havent confused anyone too badly.

John Steiner, the blogger behind Journeys With Johnbo, has this prompt he calls Cellpic Sunday in which he asks us to post a photo that was taken with a cellphone, tablet, or another mobile device. He invites us to participate in this cellphone photo prompt by creating our own CellPic Sunday post and linking it back to his.

Every October, in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park there is a three-day-long music festival known as Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. The festival features an eclectic lineup of country, soul, folk, folk-rock, and, of course, lots of banjo playing. Artists perform nonstop across six outdoor stages spanning the length of a three-day spirited weekend of fun.

I took this photo below on October 4, 2015 using my iPhone 6. At the time, we used to live three blocks north of Golden Gate Park and could easily walk to everything the park had to offer, including music festivals like Hardly Strictky Bluegrass. But not everyone could walk to the park and car parking was very limited. So a lot of San Franciscans rode their bikes.

The photo shows how the park provided hundreds of bike parking racks and, as you can see from the photo, bikes are parked there literally as far as the eye can see.

One-To-Three Photo Processing Challenge — May, 2024

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For this monthly prompt from Kate at XingfuMama, the idea is to pick a photo we want to play with and process it using three different methods.

Just FYI, all processed photos in this post were made using apps available for the iPhone at Apple’s App Store. Also, all images, including the original, were resized (shrunk) to make them quicker to load (and to take up less space in my WordPress media folder).

The photo I’m featuring this month is from July 2015 and it was taken using my iPhone 6 at a mini-park a few blocks from where we lived when we still lived in San Francisco. We used to periodically take our dog to this mini-park when we didn’t have enough time to take her to Golden Gate Park, which was only a three-block walk from our house.

What I liked about this photo is the tree that seemed to grow to the right, then suddenly did a bit of a U-turn and started growing in the other direction. So I thought I’d play with it using different image processing apps.

Original photo

Image processed using the Aquarella app

Image processed using the Prisma app

Image processed using the Ribbet app

Which image do you like best?

My Last Photo — April ‘24

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Brian, aka Bushboy, posted his monthly Last on the Card prompt, where he asks us to…

  • Post the last photo from your camera’s SD card or the last photo from your phone taken in the month of April.
  • No editing — who cares if it is out of focus, not framed as you would like, or the subject matter didn’t cooperate?
  • No explanations needed — just the photo will do.
  • Create a pingback to Brian’s post or link in the comments.
  • Use the tags “The Last Photo” and #LastOnTheCard.”

I’ve got two things to share with you today. The first is a photograph I took yesterday morning with my iPhone 15 Pro Max of our backyard. Nothing special other than me wanting to show off our backyard. The photo is looking toward the WSW and that’s our fire pit in the middle of the photo. I love our backyard.

The second item is something I’ve never posted on Brian’s Last on the Card before. The evening of the 29th I was walking around and checking out a few of the now close to a dozen and a half tarantula spider holes dotting the back end of our backyard where the ground is mostly mulch-covered when I came across a brave tarantula who seemed to be doing housekeeping around his or her spidey hole. As quietly as I could so as not to spook it, I turned on my iPhone’s video capture function, zoomed in to about 8x, and took this 21-second video. I hope you like it and it doesn’t give you nightmares.