Random Pictures taken using your Phone..Let's see yours

I know I pulled some photos off my Flickr account to share here but don’t think I did. I may inadvertently be proving my qualifications for posting on these forums if I already did so.

Ten or so years ago at our local dog park on the San Francisco bay. It was a moist day which I suspect made these huge bubbles even more amazing.

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The information on the last photo says it was taken on an iPhone 4s. I guess …
 
These two photos have always surprised me with what they do with the light on the plants. I still like them.

In this one the succulents in the foreground are stunning but the plants just above and behind them have a ghostly quality I really like.

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This one shows the texture of the leaves and flowers of a cloud forest plant whose popular name is Giant Groundsel. Lots of plants we know as little things become giants in high altitude tropical forests. I especially like the reflection of a flower in the wet sheen on that one leaf.

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Mr Robin on the garden fence...

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This I took about 20 minutes ago...

The picture on the right is one I made myself.. from start to finish, including the framing... it's approx 28'' x 20 inches

The picture on the left is slightly larger.. cost me an arm and half a leg to buy ready made... and was delivered late this afternoon.

If I may blow my own trumpet for a second, I think my picture on the right look every bit as good as the ready made one on the left.. . The only discernable difference between the 2 is that my Frame is lightweight..faux fake Chrome.. with a plywood back... the Balenciaga.. also has a Faux chrome frame but has a solid wood rear.. which make it very heavy to lift, and will be a challenge to hang..

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hollydolly said:
This I took about 20 minutes ago...

The picture on the right is one I made myself.. from start to finish, including the framing... it's approx 28'' x 20 inches

The picture on the left is slightly larger.. cost me an arm and half a leg to buy ready made... and was delivered late this afternoon.

If I may blow my own trumpet for a second, I think my picture on the right look every bit as good as the ready made one on the left.. . The only discernable difference between the 2 is that my Frame is lightweight..faux fake Chrome.. with a plywood back... the Balenciaga.. also has a Faux chrome frame but has a solid wood rear.. which make it very heavy to lift, and will be a challenge to hang..

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They are both beautiful @hollydolly
 
CinnamonSugar said:
They are both beautiful @hollydolly
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Thank you CS.🤗.. I've got a 3rd frame , and I'm looking for inspiration as to what picture to put in it.. They are Large frames, so not every picture lend itself well to being enlarged ..and of course I want it to be B&W.. once I find something and frame it, I'll put the 3 up on the same wall... at least that's my plan..
 
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Love the Albert Hall... O/H has worked there many times
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I've been thair many times. I think I need an excuse to go back again.

The photo is when I took my niece / goddughter there when she was 10. She had never been on a plane before, so decided to fly with her from Manchester to Heathrow. Spent 3 days in London, the Royal Albert Hall being on the evening of the last day. Then we came back on a Pendolino Tiltling Train. The whole thing was quite an adventure for her.
 
Machu Picchu. I took the bear along on the trip just so I could take a photo of him. The only thing was, everyone else there seemed to want to take a photo of him too.

You should have seen the amount of marmalade sandwiches I had to smuggle through customs to keep him happy during the trip!

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MarkD said:
Hope you didn’t get stuck there. Was it during recent political events?
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No these photos were taken on my phone 15 years ago. Although we did almost get stuck there. Our last day in Peru was on the 15th August 2007. We flew from Cusco to Lima with the intention of flying out of Lima 6 hours later. We killed time by taking a taxi to an affluent area called Miraflores & had a meal there. In Miraflores we got caught in a 8.0 magnitude earthquake. Up until then my idea of an earthquake was something that lasted for about 10 seconds. This one lasted two & half minutes. At the time those two & half minutes seemed like an eternity. And then followed by several aftershocks.
 
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I live on one of the most active faults going but have never been through such a big and long earthquake as that! Incredible. I don’t imagine you were thrilled to experience it at the time but that is one heck of a tale to tell you have there now.

I was in Oakland for the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 at 6.9 lasted only 8-15 seconds which still seemed freakishly long compared to most. I was in a car on a raised off ramp waiting for a light and at first thought the engine was racing. Then I noticed the street light poles whipping around like fly fishing poles and knew.

Luckily my wife was out of town so I had to get off the freeway early to pick up my stepson from choir practice. Otherwise I’d have been on the lower part of the Cypress Structure.

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