The Coffee House

[limr]

Yup^^^

Gators play at 7:30, so I've got time to do other stuff during the day. I need to clean, start getting my school materials ready for classes on Tuesday, and I have GOT to start developing my damn film already! I finally got rid of the 35mm backlog and now I've been sitting on 5 rolls of 120 that need to go into the soup, and I can't figure out why I'm dallying. I think I've just been so focused on work stuff this year and it's hard to transition into my artsy side

 

[limr]

Oh, and I'm really annoyed that I can't have beer while watching football tonight, but at least I can have pizza!

 

[snowbear]

Good morning. My plans for the day are:
1 - 4. Coffee
5. Look for something related to jammin' orange
6. Pie.
7. (Open to suggestions)

 

[limr]

Yeah, I really should enter that this month. I say that every month. But this month, I suspect I know exactly why the theme is "Orange" and perhaps I should sneak in a little bit of blue into that picture

For the record, I had considered two pictures for "Space" but couldn't decide whether or not either one satisfied me.

Scraggly tree by limrodrigues, on Flickr


Reading by limrodrigues, on Flickr

I do like the first a lot, but I know folks here would be all over the "IQ" - it's an instant print and I would have rescanned to get a better digital image out of it. The print looks great but it's hard to translate that into the screen. Plus, I had already uploaded it to Flickr.

The second one is okay. Little things bug me about it, but I still like it overall. But I think I got the film scanned on the last day of August and it wasn't enough time for me to first of all decide if I wanted to enter it, and if I did, to then work on it to make it ready to go.

Anyway...

 

[snowbear]

I had a couple of ideas for last month, one to do with parking one with a mid-sized kitty and a little box, but neither cars nor kitties would cooperate.

Blue is the complement to orange.

 

[sm4him]

Good morning. My plans for the day are:
1 - 4. Coffee
5. Look for something related to jammin' orange
6. Pie.
7. (Open to suggestions)

As for #7, it seems pretty obvious to me. More Pie. With some coffee.

 

[Designer]

I like #2 for the theme. Too bad about those shore rocks on the right.

 

[snowbear]

Good morning. My plans for the day are:
1 - 4. Coffee
5. Look for something related to jammin' orange
6. Pie.
7. (Open to suggestions)

As for #7, it seems pretty obvious to me. More Pie. With some coffee.

Well, there's a cobbler here, too!

 

[sm4him]

Yeah, I really should enter that this month. I say that every month. But this month, I suspect I know exactly why the theme is "Orange" and perhaps I should sneak in a little bit of blue into that picture

For the record, I had considered two pictures for "Space" but couldn't decide whether or not either one satisfied me.

Scraggly tree by limrodrigues, on Flickr


Reading by limrodrigues, on Flickr

I do like the first a lot, but I know folks here would be all over the "IQ" - it's an instant print and I would have rescanned to get a better digital image out of it. The print looks great but it's hard to translate that into the screen. Plus, I had already uploaded it to Flickr.

The second one is okay. Little things bug me about it, but I still like it overall. But I think I got the film scanned on the last day of August and it wasn't enough time for me to first of all decide if I wanted to enter it, and if I did, to then work on it to make it ready to go.

Anyway...

The beauty of my theme choice for the month is that, while I may have chosen it for a particular reason (whatever that might be, lol)--everyone gets to interpret it however they want! AND, since I'm not even the one deciding the winner, my "slight" bias to a particular shade of orange has no impact on the contest at all.
On the other hand, I may have to post some photos with decidedly "poor" orange choices, like orange with glue.

 

[snowbear]

Yeah, I really should enter that this month. I say that every month. But this month, I suspect I know exactly why the theme is "Orange" and perhaps I should sneak in a little bit of blue into that picture

For the record, I had considered two pictures for "Space" but couldn't decide whether or not either one satisfied me.

Scraggly tree by limrodrigues, on Flickr


Reading by limrodrigues, on Flickr

I do like the first a lot, but I know folks here would be all over the "IQ" - it's an instant print and I would have rescanned to get a better digital image out of it. The print looks great but it's hard to translate that into the screen. Plus, I had already uploaded it to Flickr.

The second one is okay. Little things bug me about it, but I still like it overall. But I think I got the film scanned on the last day of August and it wasn't enough time for me to first of all decide if I wanted to enter it, and if I did, to then work on it to make it ready to go.

Anyway...

I like the second one. I know there's space between him and the edge but I really want to see him facing into the frame.

 

[snowbear]

On the other hand, I may have to post some photos with decidedly "poor" orange choices, like orange with glue.

or an orange cow - you know, the one with the big horns; same initials as your place.

 

[limr]

I like #2 for the theme. Too bad about those shore rocks on the right.

Yeah, that's one of the things that bugs me. Either no rocks or more rocks, I feel. And if I'd shifted a tiny bit more to the right, I would have gotten more rocks AND I wouldn't have cut off his bench. Can't remember if there was something I was trying to exclude from the frame. More likely I was just shooting fast before he moved or turned to look at me.

I like the second one. I know there's space between him and the edge but I really want to see him facing into the frame.

I suppose that was a "rule" that I broke, but I kind of liked that he was facing right. What I liked about this was the contrast of how pretty the view was but he had his back to it to pay attention to his book (he was reading poetry, btw. I snuck a peek ) I have him from another angle, too - from slightly behind him, showing the view that he was facing.

 

[snowbear]

More to do with moving objects - you want them to move into the frame, otherwise they look like they are going to run into a wall (the edge). Not really a "rule" but visual stability (for lack of the real term).

Your's is really fine, it just that I can't get around it.

 

[Designer]

The reader's back to the wide open space fits the theme, and implies seclusion.

 

[KenC]

Morning, hosers! Out this morning before it got too hot. This is someone's rooftop hideaway in a neighborhood called Manayunk, which is particularly steep. I took this from the middle of the Gay Street Stairway, which takes one 200 feet further from the Schuylkill River and up almost as much.