These are my favorite macro images. A close up of Scribby's eye, a decorative cabbage with snow, and winter berries. I tried several options with my camera, and these shots were taken with the manual mode. I'll post more on fotothing (fotothing.com/cporyanda) as soon as I can fix my computer.... : )
These pictures are part two of my Shadows & Light. I have a prism in my window, and the afternoon light makes for a wonderful display of color. The shadows within the rainbow are created from a gate across the doorway.
The name “Gay City” derives from a now-extinct mill town that once occupied the site. Today only some tumbling stone foundations, several grass-filled cellar holes and a few silent tombstones suggest its former existence.
Gay City was first settled in 1796 by a religious sect led by Elijah Andrus and later by Rev. Henry P. Sumner. The Gays soon comprised the majority of the 25 or more families who then lived in the community. The residents kept strictly to themselves, existing as distinctly separate from the neighboring communities. They built a sawmill along the Black Ledge River and erected homes from the lumber.
Gay City’s fate changed with the successes and failures of several commercial enterprises. A woolen mill on the site 1/4 mile below the present pond was a successful business until extreme pressures caused by the various blockades during the War of 1812 brought its closing. Once revived, the mill burned to the ground in 1830, beginning the town’s decline with the exodus of many people to urban factory jobs. Rev. Sumner’s son built a paper mill which again revived the town somewhat until the Civil War, when many of the town’s younger men were killed in battle. Soon after, the mill burned down, triggering the final demise of Gay City and nature’s reclaiming of the land.
According to legend, alcohol was the principal factor contributing to Gay City’s next upheaval. Some say that it was part of the group’s religious practice and others claim that it was an inducement to attend the compulsory twice-a-week services, but whatever the reason, all male members of the community were served hard liquor when they attended the frequent meetings for worship. Rum may have improved attendance figures, and it may even have encouraged spirited participation in the religious services, but legend has it that the booze did very little for the peace and tranquility of the religious gatherings. As the drunken brawls and blasphemous language of the male parishioners contributed more and more to the general civic unrest, a number of the first families of the colony packed up and left Gay City, resettling in the Hockanum River region of East Hartford and Glastonbury, and along the banks of the Connecticut River to the south. By 1804, the colony had reached a turning point.
There is talk about the park being haunted. While it's an interesting notion to entertain, I've never experienced any unnatural activities any time I've been there.
in the background, you almost think think the picture is fake.
home. Lots of cloudy days but I grabbed this when the sun came out and set rather quickly.
I took this photo through a window of an art gallery. The photo was much lighter before using Picasa to deepen the actual figure of the woman. You can see so much more of the photo now that I used the shading in Pacasa. I love it!
I took this photo when a group of guys were doing a shot at a bar. The flash makes the foam on the shot really stand out while the rest of the photo seems shadow.
Hello everyone, I found this assignment was a little more difficult than past projects. I ran around house taking macro photos of many things. I found that I was not getting the detail I was looking for and that my flash was going off with every picture. I guess I need to work on learning my camera settings better to enable the macro without flash. Along with this weeks pictures, I am adding a few macro pictures that I took last summer to my Fotothing account. Hope you like them.
All week the sun was in hiding, but i was able to get outside before it went behind the clouds again. The bench i took in front of the neighbors house. I really liked the way it was just there in the open with the sun shining on it. The second picture is of the water fountain in my front yard. I loved the way the sun lit up the water.
For this week it was a little tricky. The first picture is from my back yard. As for the second picture its from my walk in West Hartford, its two mushrooms, on a thin tree. It was kind of hard since its almost winter and just about everyhint is almost dead. But I hope you all enjoy.
I'm finding that there are certain consistencies in the type of headstone styles for certain areas. For example, there are things I found in East Haven that I didn't see today in Madison. There were things in Branford & Guilford Centers that I only saw there (like the large elevated flat stones) and now things in Madison I haven't seen elsewhere. In Madison, there seems to be a trend with stones topped with a lamb for children. There also seems to be more monuments to people and/or war battles. Again, I've gone for the sepia tones with the exception of one monument. The color of the sky against it was just too perfect to only show it in sepia! More images are at www.fotothing.com/jackiejanosko!
comfortable with it...I have to learn the functions and mainly how to use the focus. These are two photos I have taken with my new camera. I hope you like them.
I've only posted a few of my pictures for this week on Fotothing (mainly because my dog only sat still for me to get 3 shots), but I'll post more as I get shoot them. These are my favorites so far. I really like the close up of her face, and how only half of it is lit.
