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I was standing in the drinks line during intermission at the Knoxville Opera (Romeo and Juliette, Tennessee Theatre, downstairs bar.) I turned around and saw this, snapped it with my iPhone. I asked the guy in front of me, he said that the man had fallen and spilled his red wine. Since they appeared unhurt I didn't interrupt them.
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I think this is the best of the lot. Actually, I totally love this image: it's what happens when the family is trying to get organized and the photographer is shooting away anyway, hee. I just love the way there's a lot of truth and unguardedness going on here. The bride is my daughter's best friend.
Here's the set of my favorites from the year. It's not a huge set - I just didn't take a lot of pictures this year, something I need to get back to in 2013.
Due to a broken camera, I didn't take a lot of pictures this year but plan to change that now that I have a new one. So only one picture on my flickr account I really liked.
Gaspode, as a father of a little girl I especially like the image of the little girl in the desert. (Your daughter I guess)
Doohickie does some much appreciated anthropological reporting by showing pictures of unspoiled authentic indigenious US american fixed gear riders. So exotic!
Workerant has an eery Kubrick like picture. That pool of what seems to be blood frightens me.
Bwife relevates the inadequacy of pixels by going beyond pictures to the unconstrained possibilities of sheer white. Both surpassing and negating the common pictureness.
For me the urge to take pictures is for 95% trying to virtually prolong the little time I have with my daughter by trying to capture her expressions, capture moments I had with her.
So your best photo of 2012 to me means: pictures that resonate particularly with my paternal heart.
So this may have more than a touch of "let me tell you about my precious kid".
Please indulge me.
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This reminds me of a jugendstil female figure with the undulating hair. Also the straight underside of the eyes gives a certain impression of mischief and self awareness.
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In the Netherlands it's one of the archetypal roles of the father to teach a child to ride a bike. Everybody here remembers starting to ride a bike while his or her father was running along. And most guys end up running beside a little-child-on-a-bike of their own.
So I feel a sense of fatherly approval when I see her on the perfect training bike: a velocipède.
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I find being the parent of a child of the other sex/gender an intriguing mixture of the familiar and the 'other': on the one hand I relate to the universal human glee of showing off, on the other hand I'm surprised by what I guess is the expression of girlishness: the need to wear dresses, the fascination with the colour pink, the drive to do ballet...
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They say that little babies tend to widen their eyes when they see their parents. And that parents unwittingly respond to the resulting large round eyes by feeling protective. For me this picture captures that effect; "ach m'n lieve meis, kom 's hier".
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I was taking a picture of her mother with an orange cowboy hat I had given on the occasion of Koninginnnedag. The perfect token of Dutchness and Americanness combined. My daughter had to barge in because any attention between her parents she feels the need to be included in.
I guess we all remember that feeling as a child.
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This is how she reacts when I say she's a "boefje". My american ex and the american au pair started using the expression boofyah as well. Literally it means 'little crook', but I guess the english expression 'little scoundrel' is closer. What struck me is that even though she doesn't hear a lot of Dutch she understood the intent of my saying "boefje!" perfectly: the parental approval of a childs assertiveness as shown by mild mischief.
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She does ballet and wanted to show her father something. I like how she strikes an elegant ballerina pose. On top of her skippy ball while her princess dress is scrounged up by her boisterous playing.
Also seeing her upturned nose I can't help but imagine what she'll be like as a haughty teenage girl.
It's funny... I thought about posting a pic or two of my wife (or both of us together), but didn't want to post things that are personal to me, but would mean nothing to others (if that makes sense). However, your daughter is a perfect model, jouke, and I'm glad you didn't follow the same guideline. Lovely.
Hi bwife, no, I can't see your pictures. It seems you made and image tag (img) but the url points to the page on flickr, not to the photo on flickr.
So f.i. I found a reference to the following flickr page hidden in the source code of this page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/41773755@N05/8323158496/in/set-72157632373767885
When I select "share>html/bbcode" on that page and include the fragment of html text here on metachat I get: ≡ Click to see image ≡
Which is visible.
I can't make this work. Unless you turn images off and click my links one at a time. I tried the instructions in our wiki and get an error message II can't decipher.
Hm... bearwife. It looks like the URL in your IMG tag is the photo's page on Flickr - instead of the 'static' Flickr URL needed for the photo to show up. If you click the 'share' button above each photo on Flickr, and then click 'grab the HTML/BBCode', you'll see some code to copy and paste here. Add the additional / since their code is still wonky and you should be all set.
How fine and shiny you all are.
Meanwhile, I cannot think of the last time I took a picture with the intent on actually taking a good picture. It's always a document, a reference, source material, obligatory photo task, blah-- I only use my crappy old phone and purposely take what are conventionally bad photos. God, maybe I should really look at them for the first time in ages.
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Okay, I pick this one because it comes with a story:
The girl with the pink hair use to hang out in the smoking shelter at the same time I did and we would talk and hang out on a regular basis. One day her twin is just sitting there, not saying anything to anyone and looking a bit anxious. I had no idea she had a twin and at first I think, "Wait, is it her? It can't be her," eventually moving to, "wow, that is definitely her. She just up and dyed her hair and she's not talking to anyone. I guess she has been reconsidering her thinking about a lot of stuff lately and been kind of down, but this is pretty drastic." So for a day I am waiting to see other people who usually hang out if they know what happened and if she is okay, when, thankfully, she and her twin are there together, and basically I cannot stop laughing, because I'm all, "Girl, I thought you had a breakdown, and you must have been wondering why this woman was looking at you funny."
And for the life of me I cannot remember their names.
OK I have not posted photos for over a year, and I just tried again, and remembered my frustration of not getting ANYTHING to work. I am apparently not smart enough to be here anymore.
2. Above the photo, on the right, there should be a button that says Share. Click it to reveal a drop down menu.
3. The 3rd option down should be Grab the HTML/BB Code.
4. Click that. You should see some code.
5. Under the code box are two options. Make sure that the size is correct (I use the 2nd medium option) and that the button next to HTML code and not BB Code is selected.
6. Copy the code.
7. Paste it into the comment area of Metachat.
8. The code will look like this except with pointy brackets "" instead of "(" and ")".
(a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flisspix/8342998520/" title="zen on sax by mygothlaundry, on Flickr")(img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8504/8342998520_2f8dd2fe90_z.jpg" width="427" height="640" alt="zen on sax") (/a).
9. Change the code in one place by inserting a space and a backslash before the penultimate >. In the above example, alt="zen on sax"> becomes alt="zen on sax" />
Thanks MGL. It previews, now let's see if it posts.
This is a place on the Oregon Coast trail through the Coast Range. Apparently the trail goes though what used to be a cabin, hence the 9x9 tile on an old slab. ≡ Click to see image ≡
Ha danf. As a child I used to be very intrigued by these traces of former generations.
The best one ever was when me and some guys from elementary school heard from someones dad that there was a small hill from where the Brits fired artillery shells towards the SS who were ensconced in a country estate. We went to the hill and started going through the bushes. In no time we found these large brass cases.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
