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Staying Afloat in a Sea of Fools
While not the largest state by landmass, with nearly 40 million residents, California is the most populous state in the United States. In 2013, California’s share of total US agricultural exports...
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Sit Still and Watch the World Move Around You
Sometimes you have to embrace the antithesis to reach the goal. Want motion? Here’s what happens when you sit still in one place over a period of time. Filed under: Photo Challenges Tagged: 2812...
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The Intricacy of Play
“It’s just a game.” No it’s not, at least not to some people and certainly not to those who love strategy. The intricate nature of games like Xiangqi are to the mind what free weights are to...
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Buck the Force
We’re a bizarre lot. For many thousands of years, we mostly followed our fauna cousins and let nature decide the course for us to follow. Then somewhere along the line, we started to figure out how to...
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Everything’s Ruined
There’s a certain subset of tourism that if you stop to think about its purpose, is fascinating. Millions of people pay lots of money taking time out of their lives to go visit places that are more or...
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Out of the Way
Sundown had long passed and I wasn’t in a particularly good mood. I’d just come from an event that I wasn’t interested in going to in the first place. You know the kind, a social event where everybody...
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Stricken Impression
In places where profound thoughts hide deep beneath the surface, covered in layers of the mundane. A simple and brief gesture snared at a glance can leave a vivid and long-lasting impression that this...
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Turned Off
I consider myself a lucky man if for any other reason than the fact that I’ve got family that live in a seasonal tourist town. They live in a little seaside village on the little strip of North Sea...
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The Imperfect Genius of Color
Is it possible to associate the sudden, mystical, and seeming flawless display of a rainbow to William Blake’s suggestion of crooked roads of genius? Maybe I’m crazy, but in my opinion, the answer to...
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Get Back to Where You Once Belonged
There are several theme’s I feel permanently attached to. Looking at the images here, you might think seeing the world in grayscale is one. You wouldn’t be wrong. Pay a little closer attention and you...
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Door to Door
Door to … door to … door …Filed under: Photo Challenges Tagged: 2812 photography, color, Doors, Facades, iphone, Pete Rosos, photography, The Daily Post, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wordpress
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Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other
In math, one half is one half. Add one half to another and you’ve got a whole. On paper it’s simple, unwavering, and absolute. You always get the same result. Except the world doesn’t exist strictly...
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Sea of Green
Because the term monochromatic is too often associated with b/w photography. Here’s the term applied to the color green.Filed under: Photo Challenges Tagged: Bathed in color, color, FujiFilm X-T1,...
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Boxed In
Ever get the feeling like you’re constantly getting boxed into one type of grid or another? Seems like no matter how you try, You can’t avoid it. Seems like the nature of things. Does that mean you...
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15 Seconds of Change
Sadly, our basic perception is linear, and once change over time slows to a certain point, we can only truly see it when comparing our recollection of a thing to its current state. Oh how weird the...
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Out of Bounds?
Love it, hate it, or shrug your shoulders in indifference to it, street photography is a thing, an amorphous thing that has rules just as subjective as any other art form that has progressed over...
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Woodshed
An abandoned North Sea beach in the heart of winter at dusk, curled under a thick blanket with a good piece of fiction, a Chinaski dive bar with a whiskey on the rocks and someone willing to plumb the...
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Careful Now
Given the season, I felt like offering up this visual public service announcement. Be careful out there folks!Filed under: Photo Challenges Tagged: 2812 photography, Be Careful, color, Fingers,...
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Treat It Like It’s Sweet
Alarm clocks, toast the bread, something with the frypan, put on some clothes, droopy eyes and excuses why not, what’s the world doing, shuffle along, get there on time, phone calls about needing the...
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Ramshackle Decoration
I live in a town where the current median sales price for a single family home is $905,500. Compare that with the national median sales price of $223,500 and you’d be hard pressed to imagine anything...
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What Comes with Victory
Victories found in striving to keep one’s self healthy can occasionally lead to that dreaded agony of de feet!Filed under: Photo Challenges Tagged: Agony, color, feet, Health, Humor, Pete Rosos,...
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What Comes (and Goes) in Threes
Sometimes you just feel like a third wheel and you know it’s time to go.Filed under: Photo Challenges Tagged: 2812 photography, A Day At The Beach, Arms and Legs, Black and White, Pete Rosos,...
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Here’s Looking at You
Can you see it, the smile that lights up a room, the worries, woes, and struggles weaving their way through her salt-and-pepper hair, her eyes whose lids bear a burden but whose irides keep the lids...
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Skeptical Optimism
Being a parent, more than anything else, is a constant reminder of just how paradoxical the world is. From the moment your child is born, you will receive multiple daily reminders of the...
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And It’s Time
“Well she said she’d stick around Until the bandages came off But these mamas boys just don’t know when to quit And Matilda asks the sailors are those dreams Or are those prayers?’ So just close your...
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