Good Hands
Cee, in her CFFC – Fun Photo Challenge post, showed some wonderful, caring hands. It seemed like such a warm, inviting topic, I just had to join in.
Here are two photos of “good hands” from my archive that fit this challenge.
My first photo shows the dedicated hands of a fisherman preparing his bait on his hook.
My second photo shows the skilled hands of a devoted cook in the process of preparing a meal.
.:. © 2023 Ludwig Keck
In the Evening
When I saw the Cosmic Photo Challenge theme “In the evening“, I said oh, shucks, my last two posts were on that topic. Well, evening photography is one of my favorites and I have tons of photos that fit. I was really surprised that in the past couple of years I had tagged only one photo “evening”.
Let me just show a collection of evening photos published right here at 2C2V.
.:. © 2023 Ludwig Keck
In Motion
For this week The Cosmic Photo Challenge has picked the theme “In Motion“. Well, I figured there would be plenty of critters and vehicles making their way across the screen in response, so maybe I should show something a bit different. The photos in this collection all have been seen here in prior posts.
Just recently we had our annual Light Up the Corners event. I was not able to go this year.
That evening race event is a lot of fun, and when the runners get in motion it is a delight of smiles and blur. Here are some of the prior races getting underway.
But I remembered one photo from some years back that I always liked but kept in the reject pile. You see it here as a heavily manipulated image. I won’t show the original. It was taken with an old camera at ISO 25600 and was way too noisy, dark, and contrasty. You can see why I like it – and can imagine the delight of those hula hoops in motion.
.:. © 2023 Ludwig Keck
Low Elevation
Dale with The Cosmic Photo Challenge has a cunning way of coming up with deceptively simple challenges that turn out to be anything but. This week it is Low elevation.
So, I start thinking that means using the tripod low to the ground. Like this?
Nah, that’s nothing exciting. Even if I did bag that four-leaf clover during pollen season.
Oh, wait. Dale says, “There you go, nice and simple, let’s see some shots taken from below the usual eye-level for a change.” Hey, don’t all photographers shoot from below eye-level?
And what did my camera see?
Can’t tell that these were “low elevation”?
How about these?
No? These?
Or these?
OK, ok, I give up. This challenge is just too much for me ….
.:. © 2023 Ludwig Keck
The Sky ‘s the Limit
Some oldies for this topic
Reaching back into my archives to see what is there under the tag of “sky”. Some that seemed appropriate for this week’s Cosmic Phot Challenge.
That helicopter photo is from my earliest days of digital photography. Back then I had not yet learned how to set the camera to assign sequential serial numbers to the shots. It is from the set marked “first light”.
.:. © 2023 Ludwig Keck
From Underneath
This week The Comic Photo Challenge has an interesting topic – “From Underneath“. I had not planned to participate as I have been busy the past few days with migrating some of my old stuff to a new hosting provider. I did stop to see what was happening and was reminded of the challenge.
Then as photos went by some seemed all too appropriate. So, I copied some out of the migration stream to share here today.
All are very old photos of mine. Hope everyone gets a chuckle out of them.
.:. © 2023 Ludwig Keck
Around the Garden
Inspired by the Cosmic Photo Challenge I decided to take a quick look at the garden. With the temperature at 90F (32 C) we don’t spend much time outside. So let’s do this in just nine minutes.
Right outside our door the over four decades old gardenia bush is still celebrating summer.
Then unto the deck with a variety of plants. The snake plant is blooming happily.
And so is the pepper plant. The blossoms are tiny, just about one centimeter across, less than half an inch. The little peppers are about twice that size.
Other red blooms attract hummingbirds, although none were around on my visit.
Let’s walk around to the green side of the house. Here the elephant ears and ferns dominate. A few pine seedlings are trying to crowd in.
Enough for this short walk. My phone is getting hot, hehe.
.:. © 2023 Ludwig Keck
Canopy of Leaves
My contribution to “The Cosmic Photo Challenge – Shadows and Silhouettes“.
.:. © 2023 Ludwig Keck
Last on Card – June 2023
Green and More
My “Last on Card” post last month was titled “Green” and from my phone. This month’s response to bushboy’s challenge is from my Nikon D800. It looks “very green” as well, but the subject is the green heron chicks in the center of the image.
A friend who has been watching, and recording, a green heron family invited me to come see and shoot. I have done so twice recently. Not being an avid birder, I don’t have the gear to do them justice. My longest lens for this camera is a 70 to 300 mm Zoom-Nikkor. The setting was at 300 mm, of course, and at f/8. The shutter speed at 1/1000 sec – birds are fast, even the little chicks move around rapidly. This shady site required an ISO setting of 14368. Such a high ISO resulted in the expected high noise on this old camera. The image here is full frame as the challenge requests.
You can see the birds a lot better in a tight crop over in my tongue-in-cheek post “Little Breeze“.
For more photos of these chicks see Preening and Green Heron Chicks.
.:. © 2023 Ludwig Keck
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