Tag: photography

Bastet’s Pixelventures: Playing with Apps

I was excited when I read that Bastet’s Pixelventures challenge for this week was to do some creative editing on an existing picture.

I have belonged to the Pacific NW Litter Project since it began in July of 2011. I decided to use a picture I had taken at the end of our first work party. We pulled a lot of garbage out of a forested area of Seattle on that day! Continue reading “Bastet’s Pixelventures: Playing with Apps” →

FOUND!

Soon after I returned from India in January, I received a series of emails from neighbors letting me know they had been robbed.  In the 40 years I’ve lived here, I’ve had only one break-in.  That was in the 70’s and was clearly the work of a child.  l made that conclusion at the time because the thief had ignored the boombox and other things that were of value.  The only item taken was a piggy bank.  They then dropped the piggy bank as they fled down the back stairs.  Loose change was scattered everywhere. Continue reading “FOUND!” →

Bastet’s Pixelventures: One Point Perspective

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The most common form of litter in the world are cigarette butts.  It is estimated that 4.5 trillion of the butts are tossed yearly.

Many people don’t realize that cigarette filters are made of cellulose acetate tow, not cotton, and they can take decades to degrade.

Birds and animals eat these toxic items.   Investigators in a San Diego State University study  discovered that if you put fathead minnows and top smelt in a liter of water that also contains a single cigarette butt, half of the fish will die.

I decided I would answer this week’s Bastet’s Pixelventures challenge by creating a picture that shows the enormity of the cigarette butt litter problem.  I did that by placing 1,375 butts in a single line on a sidewalk near my home.

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Here is my entry for this week’s challenge!

 

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My First Fiction!

When I woke up this morning the sun was streaming through my window. Another gloriously beautiful day in Seattle! What an incredible summer we are having.

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I went outside for a walk. As I was descending the stairs that leads to Cheasty Boulevard, I noticed there was an envelope lying on the ground. Continue reading “My First Fiction!” →

1966: The Beginning of a Grand Adventure

As some of you know from A Surprise View of My Past, I was recently gifted with digital copies of slides my father had taken during my childhood. Since I left home when I was 17 years old, I had never seen most of those photos before.  The only childhood pictures I have are all  in black and white, whereas the slides my brother sent me were all in color. Since I have very few memories of my childhood, I viewed them with great interest.

When I read today’s The Daily Post Writing Challenge: Snapshot Stories the three pictures of me leaving home for college came to mind.

I had been unhappy at home for as long as I could remember. For three years, I marked off the days on a calendar; each day a day closer to the time I would leave to go to college.

Continue reading “1966: The Beginning of a Grand Adventure” →

An Early Morning Walk

I decided to do something different today.  I would take a walk, let my feet go where they wanted to go, but carry my Android in my hand.  I would take a picture whenever I felt led to do so.  In my mind was a song I wrote many years ago, but this time the words were “Good morning to you, good morning to you, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning to you.”  I sang that song throughout my half hour, six-block walk.  Here are the results of my experiment! (You can click one of the pictures to make it bigger or turn it into a slideshow.)

Written for The Daily Post Weekly Challenge: List Lesson