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Downpour on Highway 2
We ran into some major rain when we arrived in North Dakota. It was white knuckle time for my wife who was driving. Nearly blinded by the rain an opening in the clouds suddenly showed that we were...
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Detail from Span 27 in Black & White
Here is another detail from the trestle bridge, presented in black & white.Filed under: Black & White, Bridges, Economics, Photography, Train Trestle Tagged: photography
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Span 27 Redux – Other Things You Can Do With A Trestle Bridge (or parts thereof)
They make unusual frames, particularly for nearby objects. They themselves may become artwork: They may be used as part of a piece of art work (sorry nothing is in progress at the moment but the...
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Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Loneliness (A Dog’s Eye View)
I just really enjoy your challenges and this week’s Shoot and Quote Challenge (Loneliness) is no exception. Here is my offering: Loneliness and feeling unwanted are the greatest poverty. ~ Mother...
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The Great Blue Heron and the Pea Soup Pond (Creative Ideas and a simple...
Warner Park is not the perfect photo destination. On one hand you have a beautiful bird like the Great Blue Heron in the park. On the other hand, it may be standing in or flying over water that is pea...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie (Spider Web)
On a rainy/foggy night, mist bejewels an eerie spider’s web in Cherokee Marsh and is my entry for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: EERIE.Filed under: Black & White, Cherokee Marsh, Nature, Nature...
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A WORD A WEEK CHALLENGE – Two
These two birds were at one of our bird feeders in the back yard a while back. The curious expression of the small bird on the right side of the feeder juxtaposed with the rather puzzled expression of...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit (Herf)
Clouds of cigar smoke hover over the participants of a Herf held at a local cigar bar. You won’t find a definition for “Herf” in a dictionary but many cigar aficionados know that a “Herf” is a...
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Photo Mining – Rural Railroad Crossing
As I have mentioned, I am going through some of my photos and doing some “photo mining” to rediscover forgotten images. This one is of a railroad crossing on a rural road in North Dakota.Filed under:...
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Word A Week Photo Challenge – High (Souris River Valley)
North Dakota is in the dead center of the Great Plains, which for the most part means flat, flat and more flat. However like everywhere else where water’s imperative meets an obstruction, water wins....
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A Word A Week Photograph Challenge – Shadow (Shades)
This photo is of shadows that form on the wooden slats of a window shade.Filed under: Architecture, Black & White, Creativity, Macro Photography, Photography, Photos Taken Within 100 Meters of Home...
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Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Cars (Chevy Wagon on Ice)
I spotted this long-abandoned Chevy wagon when I stopped in Petersburg, ND while driving through the state on Christmas Day two years ago. The day was bitterly cold but there was enough moisture in the...
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Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Continuous (Shore/Ocean)
There are places like this location on the Oregon coast where it is not always clear where ocean and shore begin and end. Streams flowing down from the hills along the shore cut wide paths through the...
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Post Number 366 – The War of Fog (or My first year of photo blogging)
I have had this blog for less than one year and recently I posted my 365th post so I decided to memorialize the occasion. Point-of-View.com has been pretty difficult for me. I suffer from a chronic...
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Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Back of Things (Frozen Chevy)
This old Chevy wagon was in a field in Petersburg, North Dakota. It must have pulled off the road years before we came across it after we had pulled off of Hwy 2 so I could photograph the hoarfrost...
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A Word A Week Photograph Challenge – Figure (T-Rex)
This image in this photo is of a piece of ice on my back porch. It is one of a series of photos I made of the block of ice over several days. In this image, I see the figure of a Tyrannosaurus Rex...
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color White (Clouds)
Clouds above the North Dakota Prairie are my submission for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color White. Filed under: Black & White, Landscapes, North Dakota, Photography, Places, Thunderhead,...
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Black & White Sunday: A Fleeting Moment (Blue Heron)
The moment when a bird, any bird, just takes off is here and gone in a millisecond. When a Great Blue Heron has just taken off from a branch overlooking the pond at Warner Park in Madison, Wisconsin is...
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North Dakota – Oil Drilling
North Dakota sits on top of the largest oil discovery in at least a generation. This week the North Dakota Petroleum Council is celebrating the fact that the state is now pumping one million barrels...
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North Dakota – Big Sky Cloudscapes I
When I first met the woman who eventually became my wife and learned that she came from North Dakota I asked her what were 5 great things about North Dakota. One of the things she identified was the...
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