01/01/2022 11:47 PM
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Fun with caladiums. They shouldn't be up at the end of December, but the weather was warm. This is at night, with small colored floodlights aimed upward from under the leaves.
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01/10/2022 06:25 PM
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The flamingo started life as a welded metal flower pot holder. It was transformed with white LED lights, carefully painted coral pink or yellow. One remains white, as the flamingo's eye. The caladiums in back have little floodlights shining up through the leaves. Heathcote Botanical Gardens, Fort Pierce, December.
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02/09/2022 04:53 AM
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Another Wedge, June 3 2021. Not a great photo but the ominous color seems apropos.
Video grab. 60º water, about 60º air, this guy was skinning it. Old school: DaFins not Yucca.
This video was taken a few mnutes earlier. The yellow-tipped fins disappearing into the top of the wave are the same bodysurfer. BTW, the wave was not ridable.
The swimmer at bottom (I think a lifeguard on break) ducked under.
Recent re-edit of a fuzzy old photo from Wabasso (currently closed for beach nourishment).
Edited: 02/09/2022 at 07:11 AM by ww
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02/22/2022 02:19 PM
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Southwest at sunset
About the only charming buildings at Big State U, dorms from 1920s and after WWII. The one at the center of the photo was built with generous donations as Big State's Athletic Dorm. Once it was built, the faculty voted to not allow athletic dorms. There's never been an official one since, but I lived across the stair landing from a basketball guy and above a gymnast who made it to the Olympics.
Edited: 04/26/2022 at 11:23 PM by ww
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03/05/2022 11:01 AM
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Lego model of a new rowing and water education center for Norfolk Botanical Garden.
Annapolis, Naval Academy at the far edge of town.
Patuxent River, Maryland. East of Washington DC
Nags Head, First Colony Inn late at night. A certified Historic Building.
Edited: 11/18/2022 at 04:01 PM by ww
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04/06/2022 04:28 AM
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New toy. Yellow Hand Job with an older Taylor's Mistake. Photo taken on Balboa Island
Desert mountain stream, N side of I-15 near Whitewater in eastern California.
Newport Beach. Not a flat day, but not much for photos.
Edited: 04/06/2022 at 04:36 AM by ww
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04/08/2022 01:38 AM
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Edited: 11/18/2022 at 04:12 PM by ww
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04/21/2022 08:13 PM
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The round windows are Nagakin Capsule Tower. The idea was that the frame of the building would be permanent, but capsules, each with a round window, could be removed and replaced as needed. It was intended to be a sort of elegant crash pad for office workers who were expected to be in central Tokyo, late, but whose homes were way out in the 'burbs. It's now being demolished. .
More Newport Beach. Waterfront promenade going through backyards.
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Edited: 04/21/2022 at 08:15 PM by ww
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04/26/2022 11:21 PM
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Wabasso, May 2021. lots of Sargassum
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05/05/2022 11:33 AM
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Nice to live close to the Air Show. A cat photo was inevitable.
Edited: 05/05/2022 at 11:35 AM by ww
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08/23/2022 07:51 PM
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A couple of recent edits. First, Villa Borghese in Rome. The god Apollo turning Daphne into a bush. Of course there's also a real group of bushes whose scientific name is Daphne.
Around the corner, a plaster statue of John the Baptist by a young Jean Antoine Houdon, who had won a scholarship to a sculpture training program in Rome. He went on to become a favorite maker of portrait busts and statues, including a trip to the young US to do George Washington. The statue is in the Capitol in Richmond, with bronze copies all over.
Backyard, bromeliad 'Little Harv' flowering.
Edited: 03/16/2023 at 02:19 AM by ww
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09/11/2022 09:56 AM
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Recent re-edit of a Wedge photo. Not entirely sure I like the shiny look of the wetsuit and the face may be over-processed, too.
Here's the full image, also recently re-edited for better contrast.
This photo was shot in June 2021. Topaz has been updating its editing software ever since. This image was well focused and caught the movement effectively despite a "slow" ISO of 250. But it's fuzzy, with a lot of fine noise. So editing helps.
Here's the head in the original version (transferred from RAW to jpg format):
And an edit that seems overprocessed to me:
An edit that seems as good as I can get, except for the patch of fuzzy hair on the head. Thats a problem with the software's "face recognition." Leaving a bit of noise/grain gives the face a better look. I'm not an expert photo editor. More like an idiot with toys. Still surprised that a camera with a tiny sensor (a quarter the size of an old 35 mm film camera image/Kodachrome slide) can produce images that can readily be enlarged to 13 inch and more prints
Edited: 03/15/2023 at 03:52 PM by ww
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09/11/2022 10:47 AM
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Beach morning glory
Unidentified, Vero South Beach surfer, Jan. 3, 2018
Branden DeFilippo, South Beach, same day.
Edited: 09/11/2022 at 02:48 PM by ww
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09/17/2022 02:13 PM
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Edited: 09/17/2022 at 02:17 PM by ww
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09/25/2022 01:44 PM
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Yucca's selling "creamsicle" fins. The in-house padding isn't available in Gator blue. Nor Carolina blue. Aqua or navy. Useful sticker for a two-stringer board.
As you can tell from the checked boxes, it's pretty basic except for 2 stringers.
Cheap slick on the bottom.
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10/26/2022 11:53 PM
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A real, cheap Japanese woodcut print from somewhere in the 1800s, not a reprint (note the fold lines). It shows a traditional snow party, but with a revolutionary innovation: thanks to imported Dutch books, Japanese artists had learned European perspective and quickly enjoyed using it. This print is an excuse to play with perspective . Japanese artists got widely familiar with European-style perspective from Dutch books around 1800, well before the revolution that opened the country up and set off a wild period of commerce and creativity. This is a wonderful, and very cheap, case of tradition meeting innovation.
Edited: 04/08/2023 at 04:09 AM by ww
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10/27/2022 12:00 AM
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A bit of fun. I spotted a ghostly pattern on a sidewalk, obviously made by a pressure washer with something serving as a mask.
Here was the mask, a door mat.
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10/27/2022 12:58 AM
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At beaches, look for beach stars. They spread by underground stems toward the ocean; they're in the first row of plants onshore. Cyperus pedunculatus, found on tropical beaches worldwide. In Florida, the northern range limit was in Indian River Co., but it's been collected at Patrick in recent years.
Edited: 10/27/2022 at 01:01 AM by ww
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10/30/2022 12:22 AM
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Edited: 10/30/2022 at 12:39 AM by ww
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10/30/2022 12:28 AM
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The bodyboarding Hubbard brothers' business, Hubboards, has a new color for one of its staples: swim fin pad/tether. The tether snaps locked and free with a little plastic closure on each foot. Insert and press to lock, press both sides of the closure and pull to unlock. Fast and easy.
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11/18/2022 04:28 PM
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In Fort Pierce, the Heathcote Garden of Lights is materializing. Mostly Friday and Saturday, starting the day after Thanksgiving. The top photo is probably the best I did this season. But the parrot might need more work.
Edited: 04/08/2023 at 01:33 AM by ww
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11/18/2022 04:31 PM
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What you clean a beach with. Sea grapes weren't bothered by the Nicole salt spray. A few days later, Vero South Beach was immaculate.
It's a specialized Beach Raker company. That machine, with its sand rake, lives at South Beach Park and serves all the town's beaches.
Edited: 03/01/2023 at 01:45 AM by ww
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