09-09-09 – Farktography Classic: Less is More 2

I really enjoyed this contest, even though I ended up picking from archives due to a lack of time to get out and take more photos. Here are some b-sides if you need “more less”.

Succulent flower spikes on Alcatraz island (scanned from film)

A different wildfire sunset with an odd reflection/distortion

Towering wind turbine in a 99% cloudless sky in So Cal

One of many bird in flight against the sky shots considered this week

Another bird flying, against a wildfire stained sky this time

And a pair of overexposed gulls further distorted by a moody scanner

Sunset obscured by huge rocks on the beach

I think the first bird is a female Northern Harrier. Her mate was much smaller, lighter in color and harder to photograph. I only got blurry images of him.

Sleeping, I really love Another Sunset at the Reservoir. I also like Mist and Snow that you posted in the contest thread.

I would have posted a comment on your flickr, but I apparently have reached the stage of man* where one starts to have irrational anger directed at (perfectly good) random targets and therefore refuses to process anything involved with the unfortunate entity. . For my dad, it was Firestone Tires, Dairy Queen, Budweiser and the folks at Western Auto. For me, Yahoo, Safeway, Wendy’s, & CBS. As soon as I encounter that Yahoo login, I’m done.

*this may or may not occur in all families. but when it does, it’s a doozy.

Soosh, I love your sailboat shot.

I find it strange that my chain pic is doing better than my storage-tower pic. I mean, I *like* the chain pic — playing with depth of field and taking pix of rusty things are both quirks of mine — but I rather thought the storage-tower was more “minimal”. hmmmm…. not that I’m complaining about my overall number of votes, mind.

Man, soosh, I really like that series.

Nice stuff soosh

I’d say you did some pretty good eenie-meenie-ing! 😀

Thanks… and I really like your chain entry too!

U-Man, ‘grats on the 150+ vote contest this week! Yeebus!