Ellipsis Monday Photo Shoot #79: Numbers

"I am writing a book, I've got the page numbers done."

-Steven Wright









EMPS #79: NUMBERS
Do you see a 13 or a 3 in the above photo? Could be either I guess, but one thing is for sure, there is a NUMBER there, and doesn't that make for a great assignment? Let's all show off the NUMBERS in our lives, shall we? As always, it's completely up to you as to how you show us your NUMBERS. It could be candles on a birthday cake, or the NUMBERS on a calculator or even the NUMBERS represented for maximum capacity seating. It's all good.

Extra Credit: Show me a NUMBER that seems to occur naturally, like the one in the tree above.

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This Monday Photo Shoot entry closes next Sunday evening at 9:00 PM ET. Please submit your entry by that time by getting your photo, uploading it to your blog, journal or website, and comeback here with the direct link back to it. Please remember, the link you leave in the comment thread must be a link which goes back to an entry specific to this week's photo shoot assignment. A general link to your site won't do, and NO HYPERLINKS will be accepted. Also, please include a link to the Monday Photo Shoot assignment, so other folks can find us and play along with us.

Linking List for EMPS #78: Still-Life Featuring Food 02/22/10

NOW CLOSED!

Sherrie

Freda

Suzanne

Jama

Martha

Carolyn

Sandy

Mike

Karen

-Carly

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EMPS #78: Still Life Featuring Food

"Nothing would be more tiresome then eating and drinking, had not God also made it a pleasure as well as a necessity."

-Voltaire

EMPS #78: Still Life Featuring Food.

Here is my contribution to this week's Monday Photo Shoot assignment. What you see above is a Pink Lady apple. I got it at Whole Foods, so of course, it's organic! :) It does a body good. Now, for something a little evil...

A Red Velvet Cupcake!

From For Ellipsis

I actually posted the cupcake a couple week's ago on my Twitter page. As I said then it's free to a good home." LOL

Go ahead, take a bite!

-Carly

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Ellipsis Monday Photo Shoot #78: Still Life, Featuring Food

"It was in the 1920's, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you could not appreciate it."

-Georgia O'Keeffe








EMPS #78: STILL-LIFE FEATURING FOOD NOW CLOSED!
A STILL-LIFE is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate objects and subject matter. It's been a while since we have done a Still-Life as an assignment, so this week, let's do one featuring food. The type of food, the setting, the lighting is all completely up to you. Get creative, work some magic, show me the art of STILL-LIFE photography FEATURING FOOD. No archived photos this week! I want something brand new to see.

Extra Credit: Do a STILL-LIFE in black & white.

**PLEASE READ**
This week's photo shoot assignment closes next Sunday evening at 9:00 PM ET. Please submit your entries by that time by uploading your photo to your blog, journal or website, and then comeback here with the direct link back to it. Please remember, the link you leave me, must be a link which goes back to an entry specific to this week's photo shoot assignment. Not a general link to your site. HYPERLINKS ARE NOT ACCEPTED and will not be added to the Linking List. Also, please include a link back here to the assignment, so others can find us and play along as well.

Linking List for EMPS#77: The Cone Zone 02/15/10

NOW CLOSED!

1. Jama

2. Spiderdama

3. Suzanne

4. Sandy

5. Karen

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-Carly

Ellipsis Monday Photo Shoot #5: Still Life Photography: Fruit

"As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it."

-Sam Abell

NOW CLOSED!

EMPS #5: Still Life Photography: Fruit.
I think it will be fun to do some Still Life Photography from time to time as an EMPS, and now seems like a great time to get started! I love doing Still Life photography, because it opens all kinds of possibilities, and gives me much more creative control. I can play with lighting, and props, and get really excited about taking what I can imagine, and transforming it into art. So, let's give it a try this week using Fruit.

**You have until next Sunday evening at, 9:00 PM Eastern time, to post your photo entry, and come back here with the direct link to your post. Please remember, I need the direct link to your EMPS entry, NOT your main blog or journal address.

Linking List for EMPS #4: Welcome To Autumn (9/22/08)

Now Closed!

Karen shows us autumn in Tucson, complete with time, temperature and sunset.

Greg reached into his archives to bring us the color.

Marie shows us some pumpkins, gourds and flowers.

Connie took a walk on an autumn lane, and found some Aster in bloom, with some colorful leaves around it.

Laura posted an early autumn recipe. YUM!

Vicki and Nancy share with us the autumn sights around their new homes.

Martha found a gorgeous red and yellow flower in the first week of autumn.

Wammy photographed a beautiful old barn, framed by a tree just beginning to transition into autumn.

Kiva's Wisteria plant has an autumny yellow glow to it.

Everyone did beautifully this week. It was a lovely way to welcome autumn for 2008!

Ok, you have your assignment, now, GO BE PHOTOGRAPHERS! GET THE PICTURE! I will see you in one week with a new assignment and your Linking List for this week. :)

-Carly

New Monday Photo Shoot # 24: Plastics!

"There is so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic."

-Lily Tomlin

New Monday Photo Shoot #24: Show us something made of plastic. If it's unusual in some way, so much the better.

-Karen Funk Blocher, of the blog, Outpost Mavarin

When I read what this week's photo shoot topic was, I immediately looked around my desk for PLASTIC objects. To my dismay, I have already featured most of the items on my desk in previous entries. My blood glucose kit is almost exclusively PLASTIC, with the exception of the needle used for the lancets. But what a bummer as a photo subject. I have a PLASTIC bottle of Magic Bubbles on my desk, that could be used, but I kinda had that in mind for an upcoming update entry about Elvis. I have tons of pens, and pins, but nah... BORING! Hmmm... do I own anything PLASTIC that might be considered unusual? I probably do, but nothing was coming to my mind. With my inspiration standing in the blank position, I decided to break for lunch.

As I put the fixings for my noontime meal on a lovely PLASTIC floral tray, it hit me. An idea, not the tray. I realized that most of my Monday lunch was PLASTIC. I was eating a lovely, healthy salad, in a new PLASTIC salad/dessert dish I purchased a couple months ago. As a side dish to my lunch, I was going to have a Motts Strawberry Applesauce, which is served in a lovely PLASTIC container. LOL. Not included in the photo, but which also figured into my PLASTIC lunch were, a fork with a blue PLASTIC handle and PLASTIC bottle of Ocean Spray Cranberry juice. :) So, when you consider that I do check my blood before and after I eat, I would say that 90% of my lunchtime experience today was PLASTIC! I am not really sure if that is a good thing, or a bad thing! LOL. I do know I enjoyed the still life PLASTIC photo shoot experience. :)

"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody is plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic."

-Andy Warhol

-OndineMonet
"Plastic Still Life At Lunch"
Berkeley, California
June 8th, 2008
Afternoon