Week 47 of 2012 - Long Exposure

10 seconds dancing in the dark with holiday lights tied all over my body. Fun!

Week 46 of 2012 - Lines

Sometimes I'm just not feeling it so here's a sideways pic of the siding on my house. 

Week 45 of 2012 - Landscape

Cranbrook Lake on a sunny fall day.

Week 44 of 2012 - Cold

Cold beer in a cold mug on a Sunday afternoon.
Mmm-mm.

(The beer HAD to be opened on a Sunday afternoon for the photo opp!)

Week 43 of 2012 - Spooky

Halloween approaches.

Abstract was a winner!

Week 42 of 2012:
3-way tie for second place!

(Click above to see the other winners)

Thanks to all that voted for me.

Week 42 of 2012 - Abstract

not concrete
theoretical
nonrepresentational
conceptual
irregularly patterned
impersonal
...



but really it's just my new desk lamp

Week 41 of 2012 - Words

The word for the summer of 2012.
According to my app I rode 1,116.9 miles this season (March thru September).

Fall leaf

The leaves they are changing. Falling. 

Week 40 of 2012 - Bokeh

Bokeh: the rendition of out-of-focus points of light.

Week 39 of 2012 - Processed Image

A little over-processing (above) and original (below)

Week 38 of 2012 - Street Photography

Downtown in the D on a Sunday afternoon.

Week 37 of 2012 - What is it?

Come to find out after posting to flickr that they are called

Knocker-blockers or Clackers.

All I remember is being told not to play with them.

Week 36 of 2012 - Tilt Shift

Tilt-shift photography is a unique type of photography in which the camera and/or photo

is manipulated so that a life-sized location or subject looks like a miniature-scale model.

This is a view of a street in downtown Royal Oak. Does it look miniature?

Week 35 of 2012 - Worm's Eye View

This is the opposite of Bird's Eye View from Week #22 so I kept the theme of ME.

Week 34 of 2012 - Architecture

Downtown in Detroit - a mix of architecture.

Week 33 of 2012 - Soft

Swiffer® duster - so soft.

Week 32's bee in no motion

No motion.

Week 32 of 2012 - In Motion

Wings in motion.

Democracy

Yes, I voted!

Week 31 of 2012 - DOF

Depth

of

Field

Week 30 of 2012 - Based On A Song Or Book Title, Lyric, Quote, Idiom,Or Figure Of Speech

Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall,
Ninety-nine bottles of beer.
Take one down, pass it around,
Ninety-eight bottles of beer on the wall.

Week 29 of 2012 - Low Key

Moon flower in the backyard - or Datura.

Moon Flower pre-open

                    Moon flower preparing to open.

Week 28 of 2012 - Jagged

Coleus Henna (a "Thriller") with it's purple lined jagged leaves.

Week 27 of 2012 - Water

Ice + water + 100 degree summer day = no ice.

Week 26 of 2012 - SOOC

(SOOC = Straight Out Of the Camera. No post processing whatsoever.)

My garden gnome.

Week 25 of 2012 - Working

ALWAYS working on the roads.
This example is making it difficult to get to Trader Joe!

Week 24 of 2012 - Historic Landmark

Cranbrook house seen from the sunken garden.

Here's another view... just for the blog:

Week 23 of 2012 - High Key

Malva Sylvestris Zebrina - or the French Hollyhock.
They grow like weeds.

Bug on a primrose

Hello, I'm a bug.

Week 22 of 2012 - Bird's Eye View

A bird on my gutter took this pic.

Week 21 of 2012 - Love

Love: start of summer (Memorial Day), planting annuals, holiday weekends, America.

New Instagrams

Instagram for my Galaxy Tablet was just released last week.
Got me back into using it.
Check them out on my flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/micheric248/sets/72157626946982384/

Veggie Garden 2012

Another innocent start:

You may remember last year's quiet start:

That resulted in THIS:

aka Garden Gone Wild

Week 20 of 2012 - Diptych

Sunset Clematis. In my back yard.

Week 19 of 2012 - Contrast

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And I was thinking for awhile about the weekly theme "contrast." WHAT could I use for contrast? Hmmmmmmm.........  Then all of a sudden it came to me!

Week 18 of 2012 - Lights

In the velvet darkness
of the blackest night
burning bright
there's a guiding star
no matter what or who you are
there's a light (over at the Frankenstein place)
there's a light (burning in the fireplace)
theres a light, light, in the darkness of everybody's life
The darkness must go
down the river
of night's dreaming
Flow morphia slow
let the sun and light come streaming
into my life
into my life
there's a light (over at the Frankenstein place)
there's a light (burning in the fireplace)
theres a light, light, in the darkness of everybody's life


The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Spring cleanup - once every 6 years.

I decided to power wash stuff. Started with the fence:

Moved onto the mossy patio:

The patio lead to the sidewalk:

Week 17 of 2012 - Minimalist

Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, or the Cinnamon Fern.