CREATIVE ARTS GROUP 3 DAY WEEKEND
CREATIVE ARTS GROUP 3 DAY WEEKEND
A.Mac has asked me to open the weekend article, and I'm opening it a bit early because I want to watch the DNC Convention live on CTV (Canada Television Network). I'm going to make my contributions to the article B&W photography, but please post whatever work of art you want that is creative.
RED BOX RULES: AN IMPORTANT REMINDER
From time-to-time, I should remind all members of NT, etc., that when posting photos, artwork, etc., it's important, when posting, that you own, and/or legally represent the licensing, copyright, etc., of what you post, and TO PROTECT YOUR WORK, TO INCLUDE YOUR COPYRIGHT SYMBOL/INFORMATION; and/or, WHEN POSTING COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY BELONGING TO PARTIES OTHER THAN YOURSELF, TO …
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• IF/WHEN SUCH PERMISSION HAS BEEN GRANTED, TO PROPERLY AND CLEARLY ATTRIBUTE THE COPYRIGHTS TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNER(S).
VERY IMPORTANT … IN THE FUTURE, I WILL REMEMBER TO POST THIS CAVEAT REGULARLY.
Thanks, A. MAC
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First of all, an entry to a B&W photo contest but a loser since it wasn't weird enough for the judges.
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One of the spookiest photos I've ever taken.
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The engraved image of the deceased on a tombstone
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A very ornate entrance to a park
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Dragons are a pretty important thing in Chinese culture
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No, this photo was not taken in America's western country, it was in the back garden of a Chinese museum in Nanning, Guanxi Province
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This photo won me a first prize - in a contest run by the very much missed Dowser.
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Grief personified
Nice group of photos.
Thank you.
The railyard got my attention
There is a story behind that photo, charger. When I was a little kid in Hamilton, Ontario, where I was born and grew up, went to school and university before leaving for Osgoode Hall Law School and the rest of my life in Toronto, my mother continued running her hat store where she created unique women's hats, and I would spend time at her parents' home above their store on York Street. Down at the beginning of the street on the way into the city was a huge manor house of one of Hamilton's earliest settlers, now a museum called Dundurn Castle.
Past those trees behind the castle, and before the shore of Burlington (aka Hamilton) Bay there was a hillside down to the rail yard for the TH&B (Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo) RR. I used to walk down the street from my grandparents' store/home to sit on the hillside for hours watching the trains shunting. It has always been a very happy memory. While in my 30s, then living in Toronto, I drove back to Hamilton with my Canon F1 SLR, went back to that very same hillside, and took the photo you see introducing this article, as a memory of a very happy time of my young life.
Good Memories
I finished planting the shallow bog this week.
Looking good.
Morning...looks great evil..a baby croc would look great in that..just for that personal touch..
Koi (© G. Gam)
Beautiful psychedelic clouds.
I'll see your koi...
And raise you...
Oh, so you want to have a Koi Off? Well, fine... You asked for it!
Take that!
(© G. Gam)
And that!
(© G. Gam)
Morning...Koi in Australia..
Sure as heck not my photo..
Do you keep it with some water lilies in a pond in your backyard?
If it were, sure as heck it would have been your LAST one.
"Fish are friends. Not food. Fish are friends. Not food."
Morning..nah he out grew the pond so turfed him into the neighbours pool..they just don't know it yet..
A.Mac always says "Catch and release" and I always say "Catch and eat".
And of course you did it out of love...
I was quoting the sharks in Finding Nemo.
I have wondered from time to time , is catching a fish their version of an alien abduction , and if released , are they believed by the other fish ?
I enjoyed watching that movie. It's been shown here not long ago as well, but I must admit I don't remember the dialogue.
LOL. Why not? Hasn't it recently been noted that even trees communicate?
Yep... that's the sharks motto..
Catch and eat...
they do?
Im fooked .....
Q Why won't a shark attack a lawyer?
A Professional courtesy.
lol
I remember a lawyer joke told by one of my favorite local newscasters growing up, Al Turner and Jerry Sanders - it was Al Turner I believe -
It's so cold out today the lawyers had their hands in their own pockets
Thanks for my first laugh out loud of the morning.
look at that big smile! he's so misunderstood and just wants to play. grab your raft and head to the beach, the water's fine ...
Morning..nah I am right..
That photo was taken of Sharky just after he had spotted an American tourist in the water..
Always extra tasty..
Americans , full of fat and grease and taste like chicken .......unless they are overly political and then they taste like the shit they are full of .
BRAVO!!!
Morning...
Just proves our sharks are non racist, non binary, non political and all for equal opportunity..and happy to eat anyone..
I am still laughing at your comment as I try and eat my cornflakes..
well your having breakfast im getting ready to make supper , have to decide how im cutting up the meat , scotch fillet or shaved for philly cheese steak sammies . might do both . snack for later tonight .
Food is always a welcome topic on articles that I post.
Morning..I will be right over..
Scotch fillet is my favourite cut of meat..$40 a kilo here but don't care..if I want steak I have it..
A steak sanga always goes down well..a nice type of bun toasted, bbq sauce spread on it..then lettuce, cheese, tomato, beetroot, egg, bacon and steak..that's how we have our steak sangas and hamburgers...
None of these pickles and mayo..that is sacrilege here and you will be used as croc bait..
Not my photo but think I will have that for tonight's tea now..
Did some research , all a scotch fillet is is an american boneless rib eye
most my wild game is boned so its "scotch " now .
Morning...we have the two..rib eye steak is around $60 a kilo.
Scotch fillet is around $40 a kilo..
Woolies (Woolworths) know how to charge literally like a wounded bull..
prices around me is the cheap rib eyes can be had for as little as $5 a pound , they are somewhat questionable though , and about $20-30 a pound for some of the good stuff fresh from the butcher .
thats being dry aged and all .
But isn't the meat next to the bone the tenderest and tastiest?
I see that some people are not being particularly coy about the Koi.
No concern, it was just a ploy.
Morning... don't have anything in the way of black and white photos but only a week of winter left.. flaming ripper..
Then it is back to sun, sand and surf..yahoo...🏝️🌅🦈
Nobody said you HAD to post B&W. You're happy winter is almost over, well, as a Canadian (a famously cold country where winter could be as much as 5 months long, at least back when I was a kid) I\m looking forward to temperatures that are NOT 100 F or greater so I can turn off the air conditioning and actually step outside.
A kid who's going to grow up seeing the world through rose-coloured glasses.
What a cutie!
You just gotta pinch those cheeks. LOL
A recent thunderstorm produced a double rainbow and brought some much needed rain
Of course we were moving my son into his new apartment that day.
I don't recall ever seeing a double rainbow, although I suppose there were probably many just above Niagara Falls.
I set this display up for the Model Railroad Club at a car show. A passenger train passes a double headed coal train and a Diesel powered freight goes the other way on the high line. These trains are N Scale. We plan to break ground for our new building this fall.
WOW!!!
When I was a kid my father helped me set-up a train display and electric trains. I don't remember what guage they were or other details except they were Lionel brand.
And lots of fun!
Lionel is O Gauge. 1:48 of real trains. There is 3 rail and newer 2 rail versions. My first train when I was little was O scale Marx brand and I had fun with it. Still have it in a box, might make it to a display cabinet one day.
I used my 1978 Dodge Little Red Express Truck to haul the model train. Caused me to clean and wash it. One day it is getting to the paint shop.
I'm surprised it could fit - I'm not aware of what N scale means.
N Scale is 1:160 of real trains. Track is 9mm wide. HO is 1:87 N scale is a little too small for me, most of my stuff and the club are HO. I was given this N Sale layout and fixed it for a portable display, and because most of my HO trains are stored, somehow I now have a lot of N Scale trains.
Did you ever put pennies on the tracks to have them flattened out by a train? I did. In my memories, and never to be forgotten, is the nighttime distant echoing mournful sound of a steam train whistle from a far distance which I heard as a young kid as I slept out on the screened-in porch of my grandmother's summer cottage on the Burlington Beach strip of land separating the far western end of Lake Ontario from Burlington/Hamilton Bay, a thin strip of land along which ran a train track and the Queen Elizabeth Highway that connected Toronto to Niagara Falls.
I did. Now that is discouraged because a few times the penny has shot out.
I like hearing train whistles and one day I might hear them in my town again one day
Just to get us in the mood:
Johnny Cash - The Orange Blossom Special
One of my friends entered his Mustang and got an award. I don't remember what year it is.
One of my best friends would only drive Mustangs, called it his "mouse" (notwithstanding that a Mustang is a horse).
the picture's a little fuzzy, but I'm guessing a '66 Shelby GT 350 Fastback...
I believe you are right. He has had it a long time and is very proud of it, as he should be
I've owned 2 Mustangs. they were both squirrelly as road cars, and I really wasn't into life a quarter mile at at time. more like evasion...
You are right. I saw the owner when I went out for coffee this morning. He got it when we were in high school. He drove it on his honeymoon and is driving it to his 50th wedding anniversary this weekend. Amazing!
I had a '65 GT 289 with 302 heads, dual exhaust and top loader 4 speed. I got my license suspended twice in that car, so I just stopped pulling over for barney, when I finally realized they couldn't hang with what they were driving.
The Three Day Weekend has now come to a close as far west as Hawaii, so I am now closing this article. On behalf of A.Mac, thanks to all who commented, voted up and/or posted pictures.