Picture This!!

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:

Welcome Welcome viewfinder. Love your pictures

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Lisa, what a beautiful flower and great photo!

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.

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 flowers.

Nancy

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.

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.

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

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

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 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. )