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  • Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Member Posts: 551

    I had one in a small pot on the table until one day my son told me: get this out of here, it has an ass smell! 🤣🤣🤣

  • viewfinder
    viewfinder Member Posts: 201

    Hi all!

    I've been hanging around this forum a year+ and just found this thread about photography. I've been an avid photo enthusiast for many decades and have seen many great photos in this thread! Is it okay if I jump right in a share some photos?

    These are for Yogatyme and others who have mentioned the Atlanta Botanical Gardens:

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    Chihuly glass at sunset in the Atl Botanical Gardens.
  • aussie-cat
    aussie-cat Member Posts: 5,502

    Welcome to this thread, Viewfinder! I love the photo of the gardens with pretty lights!!

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184

    Welcome Welcome viewfinder. Love your pictures


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  • Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Member Posts: 551

    Viewfinder: what a beauty! I love the lights. I could live in a place like that!

    SoCalLisa: Another amazing photo, now I'm hungry! LOL

  • viewfinder
    viewfinder Member Posts: 201

    Thank you SoCalLisa and Yndorian1. SoCalLisa, very interesting shot of pumpkins. Never saw any that have all those warts. I've read they are the latest trend.

    Here's something VERY unusual. When I first learned about the Gum Wall last year when browsing the internet, I just had to go and photograph it when I was visited my sister in Seattle in July. She's lived in Seattle more than 40 years and had never heard of it.

    "The Market Theater Gum Wall is a brick wall covered in used chewing gum located in an alleyway in Post Alley under Pike Place Market in Downtown Seattle. Much like Bubblegum Alley in San Luis Obispo, California, the Market Theater Gum Wall is a local landmark."

    "It's one of Seattle's top tourist destinations; It was named one of the top five germiest tourist attractions in 2009, second to the Blarney Stone."

    Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gum_Wall

    https://www-1.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article207070764.html

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  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    viewfinder, I posted to you several days ago and it disappeared. I did say welcome and love your photos. Love the gum wall photos too.

    Lisa, beautiful pumpkins! Everything pumpkin here now from lattes to you name it!!!

  • wren44
    wren44 Member Posts: 7,928

    Now there is pumpkin spice spam. I read a review that thought it wasn't bad at all. I don't eat meat, so won't have an opinion.

  • viewfinder
    viewfinder Member Posts: 201

    Thank you bandwoman1234 for the welcome. So glad you like the photos. I'm glad I got to photograph the Gum Wall but, to be honest, seeing it once is enough for me. Happy

  • wren44
    wren44 Member Posts: 7,928

    I live in Seattle and have never overcome the ick factor enough to go see it.

  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    Wren, I wouldn't eat spam if it had chocolate in the centerSickTired. lol

    Viewfinder, I was in a rush to get ready for church and am back home now and just realized what that gum wall was made of. YUCK I am a retired teacher and believe me, I have seen enough of that stuck on the underneath of chairs!!! It is very colorful though.

  • viewfinder
    viewfinder Member Posts: 201

    Wren44, I can understand where you're coming from.

    Interestingly enough, on the way to the Gum Wall was a long wall full of Post It notes. I didn't know know what it was until I read some news stories recently about the Hong Kong Lennon Wall. I believe they are springing up all over. I can't put an overly large image in this thread, but if you look close enough you can see the Chinese post-its mentioning Hong Kong.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennon_Wall_(Hong_Kong)

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    bandwoman1234, I was a teacher too and I certainly understand the YUCK factor...and not only gum.

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184

    One of my sons lives in Enumclaw, WA. I will have to check out the gym wall next visit


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  • aussie-cat
    aussie-cat Member Posts: 5,502

    Lisa, what a beautiful flower and great photo!

  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    Good ole post it notes. What would we do without them. I have the digital ones all over my desktop on my computer! Viewfinder, what grade did you teach?

    Lisa, gorgeous flower. Is that some type of hibiscus?

  • viewfinder
    viewfinder Member Posts: 201

    Bandwoman, I was an art teacher, k-8 and special ed. I had an art room for junior high classes but traveled to the other elementary classrooms. Back then when you became pregnant, you were asked to resign before you started showing so was a stay- at-home mom for several years.

    SoCalLisa, beautiful flower.

  • Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Member Posts: 551

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    BEST FRIENDS! Hug

  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    View.......I was a band teacher. I taught 4th and on up to college level but my last ten years I was at the elementary and junior high levels. I just got into photography five years ago as a result of my cancer so it has been such a great outlet for me. I had a very serious neck surgery in 2001 which ended my clarinet performance career besides band directing so photography has filled a much needed void.

    Yndorian, love your best friends flowersSmile.


    Nancy

  • viewfinder
    viewfinder Member Posts: 201

    Hee, the band practiced every day in the cafeteria next to the art room. Noisy but I kept the kids on track.

    My dad was a pro still photographer for the movie industry but I didn't develop an interest in photography until he retired and sold all his Nikon equipment. Typical kid. I developed and ran a digital photography website to help film camera users learn to use a digital camera, ran it for 14 years and sold it in 2017.

    I don't take photos like I used to due to some injuries. I now primarily take photos for two women's groups at my church. I also took photos of puppies for a friend who was a breeder of schnoodles and developed and maintained her website. Fun, but challenging, to photograph wiggly, frisky puppies.

  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    I could have used your website a few years ago! Glad you are still able to do some photography. I am pretty much a nature photographer and the older I get the harder it is to get around but it is like therapy for me now so much needed. I am a Nikon person as well even though I do have a Canon camera too. I was just finishing an email and decided to look at some pics to post. i will do that now.

  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    Fall has just begun here in IL and the trees are just barely turning but here are some pics from last fall.

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  • viewfinder
    viewfinder Member Posts: 201

    Wow, bandwoman, those are great! I love seeing the fall. I don't see it where I live because it goes from very hot, then turns cold. No real autumn unless I drive two 1/2 hours to the mountains.

    I lived in So FL for 30 years...there are no seasons, even the rare times it gets cold. But there are always lovely scenes to photograph like this one in a Florida preserve. Like you, I enjoy taking wildlife photos and have taken thousands in the FL scrub, preserve and at the ocean.

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  • viewfinder
    viewfinder Member Posts: 201

    Yndorian1 , Best friends. Beautiful and appropriate title for a lovely photo.

  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    Thanks View. Beautiful photo. I love taking pics of the water birds. I love that plant that looks like plumes. Beautiful.

  • viewfinder
    viewfinder Member Posts: 201

    Just for fun, thought I'd post a few more photos of birds I took when I lived in So Florida: woodstork, white heron, sandhill crane, spoonbill.

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  • Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Member Posts: 551

    viewfinder: I love that birds! The pink and white one is so cute!

  • aussie-cat
    aussie-cat Member Posts: 5,502

    Great bird photos, viewfinder!

  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    View, great photos and presentation. Which software do you use to present like this. I don't think mine has those capabilities but I wish it would. Is that pink bird a type of spoonbill. Is the red head a sandhill crane? Great shots.

    Yndorian, I like your flower you posted recently. I am not sure if I mentioned that in the post that disappeared on me. You are doing very well with your English.

    Nancy

  • viewfinder
    viewfinder Member Posts: 201

    Bandwoman,

    I created the collage using Picasa, and added the black boarder in Photoshop Elements.

    Picasa hasn't been supported by Google for some time, but it still can be download online for a Windows or Mac computer. I'm running mine on Windows 10. I made a restore point before installing it just to make sure it worked. I don't know if a Mac computer has that feature. I participate in a very active photography forum and have read many people still use Picasa.

    The program has an excellent collage maker that gives you several collage formats to choose from. It even has some quite sophisticated editing tools such a adjusting color and brightness, cropping, sharpening, etc.. You can't however, upload images online to Picasa Albums. And it doesn't do layers. When creating and saving the collage, the resulting file size is huge so I reduce the size in Photoshop Elements, though other programs can be used to reduce the size.

    I downloaded Picasa from Softonic.com

    Windows

    https://picasa.en.softonic.com

    Apple

    https://picasa-mac.en.softonic.com/mac

    If you do a search for "Picasa" you'll find many tutorials such as: https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Picasa There are also YouTube tutorials.

  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,145

    Viewfinder Those are all magnificent shots. Love that capture of the crane with dirt on his bill.

    (There is a also a "bird watchers" bird-specific photographs thread on here - those fab pics would look good on there too.

    It is at https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/84/topics/798555?page=76#idx_2264 in case of interest. )

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