Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Second Tour: A Winter's Tale

...and so the Magical Mystery Tour Photographers set out again - after a beautiful lunch...to explore an east side neighborhood in Athens, Ga on January 14, a very cold grey winter's day.

HERE ARE ELIZABETH'S PHOTOS, taken with a Nikon D5100:

E1     They peered into their copper (not crystal!) ball....


                                              E2  Reflections on a cold pond........



                           E3    .........we found diamonds on a fallen leaf!




E4  Love the abstraction of winter's black and white...I've made several quilts based on this idea...take a look at my other blog.



E5    Shoal Creek

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AND NOW FOR PAT'S PHOTOGRAPHS......

Here are five of the photos I (Pat)  took on the second Magical Mystery Tour, again using my trusty Nikon D5100. This time we were not chauffered by Jeff; we walked around Elizabeth's neighborhood, with Elizabeth as our guide.


P 1   Reflections in a Golden Eye
 This copper globe in Elizabeth's yard set the tone for us as we set out on on foot to explore the neighborhood.


P 2    Shoal Creek
First we walked down to this creek behind the Barton's home. This view shows a sandbar on the middle and a fungus-covered log in the foreground. The creek is not always this shallow; in fact, it flooded last year.


P 3     Remnants of Autumn 
Most of the colors around us were winter shades of brown and gray, but here and there were reminders of fall.



 P 4   A Neighborhood Pond
Then Elizabeth, Jeff, and I walked down a road to the neighborhood pond in the picture. In the distance you can see Jeff and Elizabeth taking photos. Alexis remained behind finding great photo ops we had missed--in puddles in rocks.

P 5   Sweet gum balls
Returning to Eizabeth's house I saw these sweet gum balls in the driveway--such a common sight and yet I liked this picture.


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AND HERE'S JEFF!


J 1  A Japanese Maple leaf thinking of Medusa


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J2 - Diamonds, per Elizabeth, or does the dew on a web?



 J3   Reflections



J4    Well reflections,  if you will pardon my grammar




J5   Symmetry

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and ALEXIS....is to come....
SUSPENSE BUILDS.... 
And here she is!

A1 Dreams on texture


A2 My take on diamonds on web

A3 As foretold by Pat, puddle on rock. I couldn't see the lake for the puddles.

A4  Blossoms

from E:  this is an early witch hazel, smells wonderful!

A5 Net on fence