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5-2-13 Travel Theme: Light

In what seems to be on the verge of becoming a trend I present my second take on Ailsa’s Travel Theme just before the deadline.

The theme this week was light. Here are two views of light taken from the Saugerties Lighthouse on the Hudson. This first one was taken on the evening of January 6, 2012.

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I took this one the morning of January 7, 2012.

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As always, a few other views.

Travel Theme: Light | The Backpack Monologues

Travel Theme: Light | Its In The Picture – 365

Travel Theme: Light | Geophilia

Lights across the World | dadirridreaming

Travel Theme: Light | Chronicles of Illusions

Weekly Photo Challenge: CULTURE / Travel Theme: LIGHT | Travels and Trifles

Travel theme: Light | litterthoughts

Travel Theme: Light | Across the Bored

Travel theme: Light | Confuzzledom

Travel Theme: Light | lena de almeida

Travel Theme: Light. | Converse And A Hoodie

Travel Theme: Light | Wind Against Current


4-12-13 Travel Theme: Benches (Road To Nowhere Edition)

Maybe you wonder where you are
I don’t care
Here is where time is on our side
Take you there…take you there

We’re on a road to nowhere
We’re on a road to nowhere
We’re on a road to nowhere

Ailsa’s theme this week is Benches.  I hiked down a trail along the Hudson heading towards Hastings-On-Hudson and came into this clearing. I fell in love with this seemingly random placed bench.

Hudson - NYC

A few other views.

Travel theme: Benches | Wings to Fly

http://wtofly.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/travel-theme-benches/

http://mrscarmichael.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/travel-theme-benches/

Travel Theme: Benches | lyndamichele

Travel Theme: Benches | StandingStill

http://cinova.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/travel-theme-benches/

http://bambangpriantono.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/travel-theme-benches-bangku/

http://ididitforjohnny.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/travel-theme-benches/

Travel Theme: Benches | Wind Against Current

http://www.ceephotography.com/2013/04/12/travel-theme-benches/

Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Benches | Travel Monkey


4-8-13 Weekly Photo Challenge: Colors (#2)

All colors made me happy: even gray.
My eyes were such that literally they
Took photographs. Whenever I’d permit,
Or, with a silent shiver, order it,
Whatever in my field of vision dwelt–
An indoor scene, hickory leaves, the svelte
Stilettos of a frozen stillicide–
Was printed on my eyelids’ nether side
Where it would tarry for an hour or two,
And while this lasted all I had to do
Was close my eyes to reproduce the leaves,
Or indoor scene, or trophies of the eaves.

Nabokov

I took my first pass at this weeks Travel Theme: color here. I thought I should take another run and go in a completely different direction. If you have been reading the Quotidian Hudson for a while you know that I am a fan of graffiti and have a love of 5Pointz.

Here are a few tiny examples of the work there.

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and here are a few other views…

  1. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour | Across the Bored
  2. Using colour. | Chronicles of Illusions
  3. Weekly Photo Challenge – Color | AMusing Pix
  4. “In The Pink Word” Press Photo Challenge – Color #wordpress #photography | Moondustwriter’s Blog
  5. Weekly Photo Challenge – Blue | Canoe Communications
  6. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Bold Conversations
  7. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | 2 Geeks @ 3 Knots
  8. Snapshot: A little color in Cozumel | mustbewanderlust
  9. Colors! | Jaajaabor
  10. Rx: Color! | A New Day
  11. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Stepping Ways
  12. Highlight on Art and Craft Shops | Shop with Intent
  13. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour | The Sacred Cave
  14. Weekly Photo Challenge :: Colour | Cheryl Andrews
  15. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Stephen Kelly Creative
  16. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | warmhotchocolate
  17. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Pa-BLAM!
  18. Weekly photo challenge: Color | The (Urban-Wildlife) Interface
  19. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: COLOR | Words We Women Write
  20. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Imperfect Happiness
  21. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour | mightwar
  22. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color « Vanessa Runs
  23. Weekly photo challenge: color | Margaret’s Miscellany
  24. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color, Venice (Burano) and Venetian Cake | Le CuGine d’America
  25. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | The Letter J, The Number 9
  26. Colour: Lakes of the REA, Bolivia | Taking to the Open Road
  27. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Something Unspoken
  28. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | A New Day Dawns
  29. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour/2 | Its In The Picture – 365
  30. weekly photo challenge: the colorful graffiti of Hongdae | Private Mixture
  31. The Season following Winter | IMAGES & WORDS
  32. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Bakwai Photo Journal
  33. weekly photo challenge: colour | It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see – Thoreau
  34. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | from the top of my mango tree
  35. Submissions Open for Photography | Nice Cuppa Tae
  36. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colors at Coogee Beach | Nourishing Chow
  37. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Untold Contemplation
  38. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | A Thoughtful Paper
  39. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour (Yellow) | Postcards from Scotland
  40. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | i play camera
  41. Claire: Vintage Slip Makeover | Making It Daily
  42. Colour blocking | justmomentarily
  43. Weekly Photo Challenge – Color « LargeSelf
  44. Enjoy the Ride | Cardinal Guzman
  45. steve | yi-ching lin photography
  46. colour | photo theme hop
  47. Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour | Ramblings of a Feisty Spirit
  48. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | The Evolution of X
  49. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Disorderly Chickadee
  50. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Fork in My Eye
  51. Bougainvillea Display | Created ~ Create.it
  52. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color Me! | it’s just abOut Me :)
  53. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color – Orange « The Neophyte Photographer
  54. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Creativity Aroused
  55. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: COLOR | Patricia Sands’ Blog
  56. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | CURLY BUG
  57. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color of Sun, Moon, and Sky | My.Vivid.Visions
  58. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color (Colors in Rajasthan) | artandkitchen
  59. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | the girl with the twitchy face
  60. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Blessings through raindrops…
  61. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Sweet as a Picture
  62. Weekly Photo Challenge: {Color} | lifebydmagdalene
  63. Weekly Photo Challenge:Colour | Kirsten H. Whyte
  64. Amaryllis Redux | Wind Against Current
  65. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | FLT85 to Las Vegas
  66. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color. | Beyond Life. Almost daily.
  67. Weekly Photo Challenge – Color | One Beautiful Thing
  68. photo chalenge: colour (or, Spring sewing projects) | Curls n Skirls
  69. Behind the Times | Views From My World
  70. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | The Panama Adventure
  71. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color II – Yellow « The Neophyte Photographer
  72. WordPress Photo Challenge: Color | The Lint In My Pocket
  73. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Mapping Chattanooga
  74. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | Pilot Fish
  75. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | The Day After
  76. Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Color | Heart’s Home
  77. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color « Behind the Willows
  78. Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | This Is Our Father’s World
  79. Weekly photo challenge ~ colour | holistic complications

4-6-13 Travel Theme: Pale

Ailsa’s theme this week is Pale

Wellfleet, Cahoon Hollow, May 6, 2009

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4-2-13 – Travel Theme: Smoke And Mirrors

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats

Too noble to neglect

Deceived me into thinking

I had something to protect

Good and bad,

I define these terms

Quite clear, no doubt somehow

Ahh, but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now

Bob Dylan

Ailsa’s Travel Theme this week is: Smoke and Mirrors. So many ways to go…especially in a city like New York.

Here are a few mirrors I found…The first is similar to one of Ailsa’s

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Smoke and Mirrors-2

This being NYC, smoke was not too difficult either…

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and then of course…

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
They livin’ it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise
Bring your alibis

Don Henley, Glenn Frey. Don Felder.

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finally some other viewpoints:

Travel Theme: Smoke and Mirrors | LoganBruin–An Unauthorized Autobiography

http://mannalexandra.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/travel-theme-smoke-and-mirrors/

Travel Theme: Smoke and Mirrors | To Mother Earth, with Love

Travel theme: Smoke and Mirrors | Figments of a DuTchess

Travel theme: Smoke and Mirrors | patriciaddrury

Travel theme: Smoke and Mirrors by Brad | writing to freedom

travel theme: smoke & mirrors | whatever a moon has always meant

http://windagainstcurrent.com/2013/03/30/travel-theme-smoke-and-mirrors/


3-24-13 (Really 3-23-13) {Travel Theme: Time #2} [Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense]

Okay…if at first, second, third, fourth, you don’t succeed – in the words of Samuel Beckett “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again, Fail again”

Actually this attempted post is filling both themes don’t you think?  It is taking a massive amount of time and here I am in yesterday’s future still trying .

It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Smiling faces I can see
But not for me
I sit and watch
As tears go by
My riches can’t buy everything
I want to hear the children sing
All I hear is the sound
Of rain falling on the ground
I sit and watch
As tears go by
It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Doin’ things I used to do
They think are new
I sit and watch
As tears go by
M Jagger/K Richards
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Time - Future Tense-2
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I took these shots at Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery in Wellfleet MA in 2009. It is located on the corner of Rt 6 and Cahoon Hallow Road just across from PJ’s Family Restaurant, should you ever be in the area.
Hey, this (or some variant) is where we all end up the future. We all run out of time.
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I know that many of the folks I pinged back from  Ailsa’s (Check out other views here) Travel Theme received the pings as did many from the Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense…but I am pinging again so you can see them!
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  1. The Past is Prologue | Four Deer Oak
  2. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Pictures for Froghopper
  3. 今週のお題は「未来時制」@The Daily Post | Summerfield84′s Blog
  4. Weekly Photo Challenge : Future Tense | ~Castle of Words~
  5. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | The Sacred Cave
  6. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | High Street Photo x100
  7. Ramblings of Jen : 5 Blogging Tips with My Own Decisions | Ramblings of Jen
  8. Weekly Photo Challenge – Future Tense | My thought exactly…!
  9. Transitory | Empire of Lights
  10. Weekly Photo Challenges x2 Future & Time | Canadiantravelbugs’s Blog
  11. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Postcards from Scotland
  12. Weekly Phoneography (Photo) Challenge: FUTURE TENSE | Smart n Trendy MOM
  13. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Jinan Daily Photo
  14. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Notes from Africa
  15. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Of Glass & Paper
  16. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Olivia May Photography
  17. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense (Photo Course) aka “Photographers: frame and shoot – 2nd sequel (16)” | What’s (in) the picture?
  18. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Pics from Cell Phone Blog
  19. weekly photo challenge: future tense | bob’s wife
  20. born to die | BUBONICBOON
  21. WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Future tense « Jag gör världen vackrare
  22. Defiance (Weekly Photo Challenge – Future Tense) – The numpty with a camera and a laptop
  23. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | northumbrian : light
  24. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense – New Life | Momdeavor
  25. A Kitchen Wish | Colline’s Blog
  26. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense « Life&Ink
  27. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | onesmallpot
  28. Future tense: Spring or winter?! | Melanie Ryding – Ryding2Health BLOG
  29. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: FUTURE TENSE | Francine In Retirement
  30. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | blueberriejournal
  31. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense (Balinese Offer) | artandkitchen
  32. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense … Sailor’s Delight | Eyes to Heart
  33. What’s in the Future? – A WordPress Photo Challenge! | Life in the Foothills
  34. Weekly Photo Post: Future Tense | The Evolution of X
  35. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense – Smile | The Neophyte Photographer
  36. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | En snögummas tankar om livet
  37. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense « Sasieology
  38. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Figments of a DuTchess
  39. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Basically Beyond Basic
  40. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Photo | 2013 Weekly Photo Challenge Blog
  41. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | A Hedonistic Wander
  42. Next Page: Siam, Here I Come! « Fly for Icarus
  43. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Across the Bored
  44. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | ☆ MagicAperture
  45. Weekly Photo Challenge :: Future Tense | Cheryl Andrews
  46. Looking Forward | Broken Light: A Photography Collective
  47. Weekly Photo Challenge~Future Tense | Mlissabeth’s Musings
  48. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | IsobelandCat’s Blog
  49. Just Beyond #wordpress #weeklyphotochallenge #photography #poetry | Moondustwriter’s Blog
  50. bonding again | yi-ching lin photography
  51. WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Sandra Conner … By The Book
  52. Weekly Photo Challenge – Future Ride | Canoe Communications
  53. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense (Winter) | What’s (in) the picture?
  54. Top Posts — WordPress.com
  55. Weekly Photo Challenge: Theme of the Week is Future Tense | My Daily Prompt Blog
  56. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Photography Journal Blog
  57. 3-23-13 [Travel Theme: Time #2] {Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense} | The Quotidian Hudson
  58. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future tense | Eat, travel, photograph
  59. Weekly Iphonography Challenge – Future Tense / Letsbewild – Reflections | Travels and Trifles
  60. weekly photo challenge : future tense | bodhisattvaintraining
  61. Future Tense | IMAGES & WORDS
  62. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Efrata Denny Saputra Yunus
  63. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Ruth E Hendricks Photography
  64. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense II | My DogaBlog
  65. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Lonely Travelog
  66. I’m on my way home! | East of Málaga …. and more!
  67. Weekly Photo Challenge : Future Tense | Simply Me
  68. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | rarasaur
  69. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense, Really Awully So! | Colonialist’s Blog
  70. Future tense… | jaycee68
  71. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Just James
  72. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | a hectic life
  73. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Its In The Picture – 365
  74. Japanese Ema in Tokyo Tower | Summerfield84′s English blog
  75. Carved into the Future | breathofgreenair
  76. Weekly Phoneography Challenge: Future Tense | Pilot Fish
  77. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Last Train to QVille
  78. For Oona « Beach Treasures and Treasure Beaches
  79. Garden promise | Kerry Dwyer
  80. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | Thoughts, Dreams, and Emotions…
  81. forever | yi-ching lin photography
  82. My five best wishes – Scanography | The blog formerly known as Ink.
  83. Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense | fojap

2-17-13 Travel Theme: Mountains

Ailsa’s theme this week is mountains

Mountains come in many shapes and sizes both in reality and metaphorically.  Metaphorically I ran into a mountain today when I finally installed Photoshop CS6 only to discover that my computer’s graphics card can not handle it and Apple tells me that I cannot upgrade the card.  That was a mountain to conquer to get today’s images.

Reality?  The first shot is from 2009 on our way to the Newburgh to Beacon Hudson Swim looking over West Point and the Hudson…

Travels

The next three are from the hike to the Boiling Lake in Dominica

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My guide

My guide

Boiling Lake

Boiling Lake


2-6-13 Travel Theme: (The) Shadow (Knows) #2

“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”

Albert Camus

I wanted to revisit Ailsa’s travel theme this week and take it in a completely different direction then my first attempt.

These are shadows you can find around the city of New York.

Shadows - Coney-1

Lower East Side - Urban Garden

Lower East Side – Urban Garden

Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center

Side question. Any one else getting spam bombed today? Akismet has caught 38 but 14 have gotten through so far


2-4-13 Travel Theme: Shadow

It has been a very long last few days so I thought to ease into Ailsa’s theme of shadows this week with a few simple shadow self-portraits. I don’t do these very often but nothing wrong with a little celebration of self every now and again. As long as you don’t begin to think you are all that…

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It occurs to me that I should have moved the watermark…next time, I guess.

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1-19-13 Travel Theme: UP

Ailsa’s travel theme this week is up. I had hoped to go deep into the files for this one but, no such luck. I know I have prints of many places and ideas that fit the theme but I could not find them. It did make me realize though that my preference, is for me to get up as high as possible and shoot down. I can’t say why that is so but it was an interesting thing to observe.  All of the shots used for this post are from 2013.

Apropos of nothing, a lovely lagniappe of my day was the chance to have a drink with Andra Watkins, The Accidental Cootchie Mama her own bad self, and her charming and erudite husband, MTM. They are in NYC on business and were kind enough to call me and spend some time.

Up we go:

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up-2

Hudson River

Hudson River

A few other points of view

Ese’s Voice

Adventures We Seek

Artifacts and Fictions

Around The World


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