Monday, June 26, 2017

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You can always tell when a picture was taken in 2010.  My Sony NEX 5 had that little triangle as an unwanted bonus feature.  Neither I nor anyone at Sony could figure out how to get rid of it.  I took a few of the little pointy problems out of special images with Photoshop; these several years later I am glad I left most of them; they are sort of a time stamp;  by the time I got back to Paris in 2012 I had upgraded to a NEX 7, sans triangle.

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The spiral staircase of the apartment I sometimes occupy on Isle de la Cité…

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Parc Monceau

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Over by l’Arsenal de Paris and La Bastille on January 2 of some year.

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This is as close as I have ever gotten to getting the lights on La Seine captured in an image.  The real thing is the real thing; this is a pale reproduction.

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The Screen Saver served up this cropped image I shot with telephoto from the fourth floor of my apartment on Quai aux Fleurs; that apartment allowed me to be flaneur and voyeur both at once.

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There is a bird dead center of this image.

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And there is a bird in this sack. This bird is great for dinner and the leftovers, and a half baguette ordinaire, makes a great sandwich to eat by the little lake at Parc Montsourris.

Saturday, June 24, 2017

A Walk On A Sunny Day In Seattle

Every now and then I post pictures I have taken on a walk.

Usually the walk has been in Paris.

Sometimes it has been on the boardwalk at Anacortes while I am waiting for a ferry.

It has never been in Seattle.

And there is a reason for that: in my neighborhood there isn’t much worth taking pictures of; but yesterday it was different.

It was really nice, sunny, no clouds and 80 degrees.

And everything that can bloom is blooming; and all the birds that live around here were out in the bushes just begging to have their pictures taken.

I took a surprising number of images.

Here are a few of them.

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The lavender in the bed in front of the house is as beautiful as it ever gets.

But there are alarmingly few bees; this guy had the whole plant to himself.

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In front of the house a robin was still singing the Robin Morning Song; or he was early at singing the Robin Evening Song; my grandmother always called the song calling for rain.

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The Tiger Swallow Tail had the whole bush to herself.

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As I said, things are blooming.

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And some of the fruit trees are beginning to look serious about contributing to the food supply of the local birds.

It looks like an olive tree but it isn’t.

I like to take pictures of dead trees in the water.

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I saw this killdeer running around in the plantain flowers; the flowers make getting the bird focused difficult.

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This heron really did seem to be posing.

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Mount Rainier

Giverny?

I like turtles.

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And, finally, this flower seemed to sum up the beauty of the day.

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