JOY's FAVORITE FOTOS: Submissions to 52 Frames 2016

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My response to comment in 52Frames: Grateful to Yosef Adest 52Frames CEO, all the blessed leaders, and all of us hundreds who play this photo game. I've learned so much In 52F in growing community in such talent and beauty, wisdom, humor, sensitivity and caring and and and at 52Frames by doing and viewing. And in addition been inspired to daily watch other photo 'tuts' and learn more. Just this morning on FB a friend posted 'nature' (instead of music) and gave me credit for inspiring her! 　

Love our sharing 52framers. - Joy

Joy's 52F Archives:

2013 http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2012/05/submissions-to-52-frames.html

2014 http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2012/04/submissions-to-52-frames-2014.html

2015 http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2015/01/submissions-to-52-frames-2015.html
2016 http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2009/04/submissions-to-52-frames-2016.html
and
2017 http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2016/12/submissions-to-52-frames-2017.html

My 2016 weekly theme submissions to photo group "52 Frames Photographers":
AND
theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:
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ARTIST'S CHOICE week 52

Each morning for 52 weeks a year, I try to shoot the sunrise.

The daily challenge brings me much joy.

This week dawn was mostly grey and dangerously windy.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS. Grateful to have spent the year with 52Framers.

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Windy Flag and Palms

Hospital Mirror

Hospital Elevator

Sunrise

Sunrise Winter Solstice

COMBINE TWO CHALLENGES week 51

and "The Extra Credits" (E.C.)

Santa Claus encompasses many of 2016 52F Combined Challenges:

MASHUP GENERATOR: Week 12-Chair (E.C. Studio Portrait), 50-Different Perspective (E.C. After Hours -snooping on Santa).

ALSO Week 5-Shoot from Above (from a 2nd floor chimney), 33-Stranger (I never met Santa), 45-Birds Eye view, 18-Red, 8-Complementary Colors, 19-Hands (Giving), 46-Masculinity (bearded), 50-Different Perspective (snooping on Santa), 30-Calm (no reindeer nor kids), 37-Emotion (reflective, pensive), 13-Line from a Song: "Santa Claus is Coming to Town". 1934.

HO HO HO

"Hmm, been naughty or nice?"

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Menorah, Chanukiah for Chanukah

Mall

Combines Weeks:
4-Shoot from Below (to have lights above windows), 7-Lines (of lights), 9-Patterns (of branches and windows),
22-Architecture (of ceiling),

26-5PM, 30-Calm, 35-Window, 37-Emotion (proud), 40-Unity (for Tribe), 50-Different Perspective (on floor)

I feel especially good seeing the Menorah lit in my neighborhood large mall because in 1981 I went to the Mall management and told them that I wanted a large Menorah at the mall. There were many red and green decorations for other faiths for buyers to appreciate but nothing for the Jewish faith and Chanukah was at the same season.

Through Rabbi Joshua Gordon, obm, Director of Valley Chabads, I arranged for Chabad to build the large menorah for greater community to enjoy. Rabbis come and light each night. Choirs come and sing.

A menorah still stands and that is good. Amayn.

By 1980 I also arranged for the local Veteran's Administration Medical Center to build a large menorah, the first time the VA ever had a menorah on their grounds, the then Chaplain, Rabbi Joseph Elsant, obm, wrote to me.

FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE week 50

Waiting for main street traffic and gravel to move.

Workman yelled, "Look, lady with a camera."

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

4th Day New Moon and LACMA "Urban Light" installation 2012 by Chris Burden, obm

202 restored cast-iron antique street lamps

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wilshire Blvd. LA, CA

shot on cusp on front deadline and lightened 12.4.2016

Sunrise through Pine Tree

Two tree tops together

Sunrise past Figs on tree in December

(Figs normally in summer.)

Jose in the Olive Tree

Laying in Wait for the Train

Eagle centered Perspective from top of tall Pine Tree

Sunrise

Garden of Joy

Unusual to see the whold eatern mountain range with rain clouds leaving a rainbow.

Sideways Sunrise

Garden of Joy

Sideways Sunrise

BLACK & WHITE MINIMALISM week 49

"Less is more". In photography this is "minimalism". Minimalism is about taking only the key elements of a scene, and leaving out everything else. - 52F

Leftovers

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Chopstix

The Bill

Waitress

Meal coming

Urban Light by Chris Burden

LACMA

More Lampposts 75% scroll down

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2012/05/multiples-patterns-lines.html

Urban Light by Chris Burden & Moon

LACMA

Cloudy Moon

LACMA Red Elevator

LACMA Trees

Shoe 1

Shoe 2

Ice Cubes

Horsetail

INSPIRED BY A FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHER Week 48

Robert Maplethorpe, obm "Widely known for his portraits of artists, dancers and musicians as well as capturing scenes of the New York underground and high society, Robert Maplethorpe, obm is also acclaimed for his sexualized close-ups of the anatomy of flora. This image of a white orchid floating in a saturated black background is perhaps less provocative than many of his portraits, yet offers his distinct, direct and unique perspective on a seemingly ordinary and otherwise accessible flower. This type of classically aesthetic and beautifully stylized still life was prevalent in Mapplethorpe’s oeuvre throughout the 1980s."

- SCAD Museum of Art

Mapplethorpe was born 7 months before me, and lived in the same part of Queens, NY where I lived in NY. He studied at Pratt Art Institute in Brooklyn. I also did my graduate art work in Brooklyn. I love shooting garden flowers and some floral still-lifes.

Maplethorpe died in Boston, MA in 1989 from AIDS, age 43, a few years after these flower images.

Years ago I bought museum flower greeting cards by photographer Robert Maplethorpe and have enjoyed sending them to others.

This year at the LA Getty Museum I toured the Robert Maplethorpe photographer exhibit. In prior years I have viewed his photos at LACMA/LA County Museum of Art. Mapplethorpe is particularly known for his portraits mostly of men.

Faye's Orchid ala Robert Maplethorpe

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Faye's Orchid ala Robert Maplethorpe

Shi Ningfang. Female artist Shi Ningfang presented last month, Oct. 2016, her show plays on the distortion between what we see and what really constitutes the artwork. This Chinese artist shares a very feminine perspective on the world. Shi Ningfang was born in Jilin in China in 1979 and is a graduate in Fine Arts in Beijing (Central Academy of Fine Arts). She is also an art scholar and researcher.

True to her research field (about the link between traditional Chinese art and contemporary art) Shi Ningfang focuses on paradoxes and distortions. In her art a bronze bell, supposedly a solid object, becomes squashy. In this particular way, she explores the relationship between masculine and feminine. Shi Ningfang likes to express herself through art about the world’s duality.

Shi Ningfang

Bronze Bell, Silence 2016

MD Gallery Shanghai

Mom's, obm, 1950's Chinese gong

I inherited and play as percussionist.

Grape Vine for Shabbat personalized painting commisioned by Joy while on Yangtze River, 2000.

Ansel Adams "You don't take a photograph, you make it."

Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced.

Each winter a couple decades ago I would visit Yosemite National Park with my family. Half Dome Mountain was always astonishing to witness as we entered the Park at night. A. Adams had a famous photo of Half Dome. I would visit the Ansel Adams Gallery in the Park.

Ansel Adams was born Feb. 20, 1902 in San Francisco, CA and died April 22, 1984, 82 years old, in Monterey, CA. I greatly admire Ansel Adams and I am truly inspired by this photographer.

Ansel Adams

Tree. Santa Susana Mountain

Readying for rain.

Tree. Santa Susana Mountain 2

Readying for rain.

Santa Susana Mountain

Sunrise, Garden of Joy ala Ansel Adams

BREAK THE RULES week 47

Quack

Lake Balboa

52Frames PICKS!

Photography rules in Quack I’ve broken embracing the "notion of imperfection” include: dead center duck (no 'rule of thirds' to please the eye) and not having more space in front of where duck is facing and could swim into, and shooting into the light for backlighting where the duck is overwhelmed with light so duck is silhouetted. There is no pleasant grouping of 3 odd ducks.

There is a lot of negative space.

There is no interesting foreground of background, only expanse of golden hour sunset water.

I didn’t lower nor raise my body for better perspective, only stood and shot the duck, not knowing if my horizon is level. I broke rules!

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Lake Balboa boat out of water

Intentional horizon tilt

Lake Balboa Geese

no eye contact, animals' rear end

Intentional horizon tilt

Lake Balooa

Geese in a circle

no eye contact, cut off heads

Lake Balboa

Goose on one foot dead center

Lake Balboa Sunset

Foot cut off

Lake Balboa Duck at Sunset

Intentional Horizon Tilt

Lake Balboa Plane Practice

Blur

MASCULINITY week 46

LAFD Fire Station 70. Captain Rico Gross radiates warmth and joy.

“Serving with Courage, Integrity and Pride” is written on Fire Truck.

On US Election days, as a CERT* member I love serving at Fire Station 70.

(Seven is G*d’s holiest number!)

I watch the Firefighters slide down the poles on their way to emergencies to save us.

G*d bless these brave men and their shiny red fire trucks.

*Community Emergency Response Team

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Waiting

Ready

BIRDS EYE week 45

52Frames asked that we shoot "stright down",

so to me it is not exactly a Bird's Eye, but I shot mostly straight down.

I included also views that my local birds enjoy with me each morning.

Red bean filled Bungeoppang, Korean waffle

Caught me a Bungeoppang for breakfast before a bird dove in and bit fish.

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Bungeoppang from pond to table

Ginger Tea before added turmeric, black pepper, honey and lemon.

Hachiyah and Fuyo Persimmons & Tomatoes

Mockingbird with Bird's Eye View of Sunrise

Bird's Eye to Sunrise

AN ORDINARY MOMENT week 44

Water Fountain 1

Lower End

UCLA, Santa Clarita, CA

A water fountain outside office building. In this very hot Valley of local rain drought and mandated water saving, a fountain is not so ordinary because sadly many fountains are turned off; No water, movement, no fall, no ripples, dance, refreshment, coolness, no interplay, no source of loveliness and healing --when empty and still. This man-made cement and blue mosaic tile, zoomed in distant scene reminds me of an ordinary moment. This very long water fountain, when I stopped and stood close at opposite large circular end, gave me a “moment” of respite after a difficult day. An ordinary moment to be quiet with myself along with a view of running water.

I really wanted to share the magnificent local sunrises this week that I photograph each early pre-dawn morning, but they are barely “ordinary”. They are beautiful miracles and magic of G*d’s paint palette and their radiance thrills and excites me. Instead, I share the water fountain.

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Water Fountain 2
Higher End

UCLA, Santa Clarita, CA

Ordinary - Sunrise happens every morning at dawn:

Sunrise

Garden of Joy

Sunrise

Garden of Joy

Sunrise

Garden of Joy

Sunrise

Garden of Joy

IN YOUR BAG week 43

Persimmons In My Brown Bag 1

Edith’s tree's Persimmons: ripe, not ripe and also dried and brought home in brown bag.

More delicious than contents in my purse, suitcase, backpack or drum bag I just emptied after traveling.
A drone watched me in my garden photographing me from above as I photographed the slushy fruit in bag. I ate the precious mushy hachiya persimmon off bottom of brown bag.
Enjoy Persimmon YouTube by Joy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J023-ZFfCpM

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Persimmons In My Brown Bag 2

Watermelon in my plastlic bag

Freshly Dried Persimmon Slices in my bag

Watermelon in my bag

SOUND week 42

On a technical level, sound is a vibration which goes through the air as an audible wave of pressure and displacement. On a more artistic level, sound is what we perceive it to be. It is a physical thing, but our perception of it is what makes it real to us. When you walk past a window and see people inside laughing you can't hear them, but you know they are making sounds of joy. Capture that perception and show the sounds that make your life what it is!

Listen. As you go about your day, pay attention to the sounds around you, sounds that you would otherwise ignore. Listen to the ticking of the clock, the kettle boiling for you to make coffee, the water running as you brush your teeth, or the rush of a bus driving by you. How would you capture that so that the viewer can be immediately drawn in and "hear" the sound? Capture those little details, those tiny sounds that make up your day
What is the mood of the sound you're capturing? Is it a happy sound? Try high key or HDR. Is it a melancholy sound? Try low key or black and white. - 52F

Sound Spa with Sounds of Joy ~ Crystal and Tibetan Singing Bowls

American Jewish University

http://healingsoundsofjoy.blogspot.com

Sound Spa with Sounds of Joy is a symphony of meditational vibrational healing sounds. Sounds of Joy offers harmonic, soothing, lingering sound resonance. The singing bowls' sound and vibration balance the brain's right and left hemispheres, and help center our chakras, and 4 Worlds of spirit, mind, emotion and body. Sound waves reverberate through one's body for relaxation and stillness, and create harmony within the body. Resonate higher healing emotions of gratitude and compassion. Vibrations open energy channels for flowing, allowing for access to more joy, heart, love, unity, peace, Oneness connection with soul and Source, and higher enhanced, expanded states of consciousness in our UniVerse.

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Sound Spa with Sounds of Joy ~ Crystal and Tibetan Singing Bowls

Stained glass by David and Michelle Plachte-Zuieback

American Jewish University

Enjoy my musician friends

Roberta Belson, harpist

Stefanie Valadez

Listening to Stefani for 26 years

Richard Hardy (sax)

Richard Hardy (sax) and Joey DeRusha (alto clarinet)

Gabe Steiner

Been watching Gabe ever since young blow Shofar

Larisa Stowe on harmonium and Bethany, violinist

Larisa Stowe and Friends

Benjy, Bruce (balalaika), Bethany, Richard

Bruce Berger aka Rebbe Soul's balalaika from Tommy Tedesco

American Jewish University sanctuary

Stained glass by David and Michelle Plachte-Zuieback

Elephant

Red River Hog

Vulture

What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping?

Zen Koan on power of thought

Gazelles

selfie © Joy Krauthammer

Wind in Grass

Ahhh

Zoo Hand Drying Machine

FREEZE The ACTION week 41

Rabbi Laura Owens from Academy of Jewish Religion and B'nai Horin

services at American Jewish University

UNITY week 40

Apple

Dark/black, light/white, and red/brown together equal “Unity”.
Two sort of halves equal a whole in Unity.
Enjoy a new fruit for the New Year 5777. Add honey. Shana Tova
http://joy-blessings.blogspot.com
http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2009/04/submissions-to-52-frames-2016.html

52Frames suggested: UNITY: "Use similar shapes, lines, and colors in your photo to capture a more unified look.”
"Use repetition to your advantage!”
"In photography, as in life, everything looks better when all of the pieces fit. Unity in photography means taking parts of an art piece, and putting them together into something whole. Once these pieces are put together, the final result is something that is satisfying and pleasing to the eye. This week, your challenge is not only to incorporate photographic unity, but try and capture unity as a concept as well!"

PATH week 39

Path to Somewhere

Love Trains 1

I love riding those train tracks.

Follow the train tracks' leading lines to the Santa Susana Mountain (northern Los Angeles, California, USA). At the top of mountain is where America's worst single natural gas leak in terms of environmental impact began 11 months ago (before) October 23, 2015, lasting 4 months before the Aliso Canyon, Porter Ranch Gas Leak Blowout was plugged at the natural gas storage facility (America’s 2nd largest). Thousands of people for miles were poisoned by the carcinogens and toxins, and suffering, about 12 thousand people had to be relocated. SoCal Gas Company has refused to pay our medical bills, etc.

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Path to Somewhere

Love Trains 2

Path to Somewhere

Love Trains 3

Path to Serenity

Path to MD 1

Path to MD 2

Path to MD 3

Path to MD 4

Path to Prayer

Path to Communication and Sunset

Path to Sunset

Path to Tree Top

Path to Serenity

HANDS week 38

Drumming Hands and Shadow

Shot my friend’s hands at the REMO Music Center’s drum circle memorial for founder Remo Belli, obm. Remo’s widow graciously promised the 100 drummers present to continue the 2 decades old indoor drum circle. Everyone is welcome to the North Hollywood, CA former factory location. Now most all nights at REMO are drum circles and lessons. Grateful to Remo and his widow Ami Belli.

More REMO:

http://joys-music.blogspot.com/2012/02/remo-belli-obm.html

http://joys-music.blogspot.com/2012/02/joy-of-drumming-at-remo.html

http://joys-music.blogspot.com/2011/02/remo-photos.html

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Accupuncture Needle Placed by Hand on Leg for Sciatica Pain

Judy Knitting with Purple Needles by Hand a White Collar for Coat

Judy and her Hand Painted Stone

for my granddaughter

Hundreds of other stones are donated to Police Department for their fundraiser.

Judy's Newest Needlework by Hand

Joy Brings Ritual Stone to Place for Husband, z"l at Grave

Joy Selfie Enjoying Lily by Gravestone

Ingrid on left, Kerry Greene middle left
Remo Belli Memorial
© Joy Krauthammer 9.13.2016

Remo Belli Memorial

Ken, Remo Belli Memorial

Remo Belli Memorial

Bruce, John F, Susana, Dina N

Remo Belli Memorial

Patsy, Stephania de la Ropa, middle

Witch's Hand

Witch's Hands

Witchs' Hands

Skelton Hand

EMOTION week 37

LOVE

When I photographed my beloved 86 year old survivor friend holding with love the gift bear for my newborn grandchild, it was minutes after she told me her medical news. With wisdom she then bravely said, “I accept all that G*d gives me.”

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Visions this week that make me 'emotionally' feel very HAPPY:

Doves this morning

Garden of Joy

Naked Lady Lilies

appear once a year in my

Garden of Joy

Car License frame: Color Me Purple

Local parking lot

Letter From a Friend this week

Writing she "has to move again" is friend's sense of humor sufacing as she speaks of her grave site, her 'condominium'.

"G*d gives to me, I accept all."

With her permission, I've just called our mutual friends so we can get together.

In Remembrance

Memorial card created 9.11.2016

WABI SABI week 36

Beauty ~ Imperfection, Humility, Harmony

Ceramic Anagama Pot

by © Joy Krauthammer

During my ceramic graduate work at Brooklyn Museum School of Art, I studied with Japanese potter Toshiko Takaezu. A decade later I created with Japanese Anagama and Raku firings and immersed my soul in Wabi-Sabi. I was reborn to unlearn, and learn new ceramics. Unglazed greenware pots pick up patinas and glaze from woodash and rice hulls during 3 days in the hand-stoked Anagama kiln, fueled by trees we chopped. My Wabi Sabi story is in Week 34, August 22, 2015.

"Characteristics of the Wabi-Sabi beauty aesthetic include imperfection, asymmetry, harmony, asperity (roughness or irregularity), simplicity, austerity, humility, modesty, intimacy, and integrity of natural objects and processes.” Wikipedia

http://joys-art.blogspot.com/2009/11/isomata.html

http://joys-art.blogspot.com

2 old photos:

Inside of Anagama kiln

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

WINDOW week 35 This is my 3rd Framaversary.

Edith is pretty as a picture standing outside her window.

Model Edith was also my first submission photo for 52Frames in 2013 and at times in subsequent years.
It was awesome that Edith could stand (and smile) for that long without her sturdy cane, inches away, nor falling off the edge. She knew the photo was for the window. Next to flag was an abalone shell and ceramic mushrooms. I left them out.

Composite edit.

#184 of 478 in 52F Album

https://www.facebook.com/52frames/photos/a.1296246930400424.1073742352.180889155269546/1296259587065825/?type=3&theater

Edith was first submission photo for 52Frames in 2013.

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Edith's Sago Palms

SouthWest feeling in the North Valley

Viewing Rena's bird through his window to the world.

Viewing Rena's Macaw through his window to the world.

Viewing Rena's birds through window from inside Assisted Living.

Through car Window

Phalaenopsis at Window

Sunrise Morning Through Window

Netilat Yadaaim pitcher

Cactus Through Car Window

Seeing Through a Window of Time

Seeing Window Through a Window of Time

SILHOUETTE week 34

#32 of 439

https://www.facebook.com/52frames/photos/a.1287792751245842.1073742349.180889155269546/1287794987912285/?type=3&theater

A silhouette is when a subject is completely “blacked out” by a brighter light source behind it.

Umbrells and Palms

Garden of Joy

#32 of 439

https://www.facebook.com/52frames/photos/a.1287792751245842.1073742349.180889155269546/1287794987912285/?type=3&theater

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Full Moon Av

Garden of Joy

Full Moon Av

A reverse Shilhouette

Moon blacks out the world behind it.

PORTRAIT of a STRANGER week 33

I asked permission of all the real people I did not know-- to shoot them. I told them all that I love purple.

Happy witches also wore purple.

A little uncomfortable (out of comfort zone) I only shot one image of each.

No one said NO, and these are the only strangers I shot.

'Out of the box' as well as out of 'comfort zone' but I do like the faceless portrait the best.

I’m 3254 of 406

https://www.facebook.com/52frames/photos/a.1280041525354298.1073742347.180889155269546/1280076995350751/?type=3&theater

Annual Blood Test by Lady Phlebotomist in Purple

Shot this when I wasn't allowed to raise my arm!

Teddy Bear & Lady in Purple

Gave this lady a good excuse to cuddle.

Witch in Purple with Two Witch Friends

Medical Staff In Purple

Donna said she's in office for 32 years.

Her boss (whom I had not yet met either) is wondering, 'what is going on?'

Medical Staff

Aida says she's a Hygienist for 17 years.

Indian Vegetarian Chef

All the food was yellow. Papadum, Poori, Dal, Samosa, Saffron Rice...

Even the desserts.

NIGHT week 32

#281 of 431

https://www.facebook.com/52frames/photos/a.1272774706080980.1073742345.180889155269546/1272798156078635/?type=3&theater

Night's Darkness

Extra Credit: Astrophotography

Baruch Dayan HaEmet / Blessed is the True Judge

1 Av 5776 - August 4, 2016

Mogen Dovid candle I have lit today in the memory of beloved Irwin.

Candle’s flame reflects Irwin’s neshama, and shines.

Rosh Chodesh new moon, shortly before dear Irwin’s transition from life to after-life into the dark night with little light.

White rose from Irwin’s garden.

We have loved Irwin, z"l. May his memory be for a blesSing.

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Light in the Night

Night, Poppy Closes

Rosh Chodesh New Moon

Night Selfie

CHAOS week 31

I’m # 285 of 437

https://www.facebook.com/52frames/photos/a.1266440410047743.1073742343.180889155269546/1266468093378308/?type=3&theater

Chaos composite 8 photos

I know, I know —no shooting TV screens for 52Frames. But it shouted CHAOS! This week’s US news was grim at that moment for the ‘live stream’ Democratic National Convention (DNC) and I shot it! The dishonored DNC young lady chair resigned the next day for being caught with her dishonesty.

Whatever side you are on, having the Russians hack American political mail was incredible, insane– and what truths they told! The Republican nominee encouraged the Russians to hack even more US confidential mail. The week before the wife of the Republican presidential nominee (who lied about her own academic history) had plagiarized for her own convention speech, from the current First Lady’s speech given 8 years ago. OY VEY. Chaos reigned on both parties.

And then it rained confetti with big red, white and blue balloons.

A friend plunked down a TV in the middle of my living room knowing that I did not watch TV, and decided that I needed to see who was running for president of the United States. This is the first time I’d ever watched on TV the political convention or election coverage. As a teen, in 1964 I did go to a presidential convention with a delegate.

I do not like Chaos and don’t want to see Chaos on TV or anywhere.

I had fun creating this Chaos with the photos shot from TV.

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Chaos composite 3 photos

Hot Chiles Chaos

Chaos Coming - Cat Assault

CALM week 30

Sunflower and Sun

My inner peace is inspired by a single sunflower

high in the blue sky

against the radiant sun,

and smiling at me.

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Fig Tree

Garden of Joy

Fig Tree

Garden of Joy

Figs 1

Garden of Joy

Figs 2

Garden of Joy

Figs 3

Garden of Joy

Fig 4

Garden of Joy

Floating Leaf

Sunburst

Edith's Garden 1

Squash and Tomatoes

Edith's Garden 2

Squash

Edith's Garden 3

Squash and Tomatoes in Bowl

Edith's Garden 4

Red Tomato

Sunflowers 1

Sunflowers 2

Wabi Sabi

Sunflower and Sun 4

Sunflower and Sun 5

Sunflowers Shadows

Sunflower and Shalom

Dove

Garden of Joy

TRANSPORTATION week 29

The action of transporting someone or something or the process of being transported.

Transport: to cause (someone) to feel that they are in another place or time or in feeling.

Had a great day TRANSPORTED to other spaces in spirit, heart, body and mind, with my sister Faye at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA 7.13.2016

Transported riding through the Santa Monica Mountain, riding the Getty trolley, listening to music, seeing flowers, architecture, stairs and flowing water and stones. - JOY

The Wheel

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Getty Trolley
© Joy Krauthammer

Getty Riding
© Joy Krauthammer

Transport© Joy Krauthammer

JOY YAHM Transports me in PURPLE JOY
MirYAHM transported across the YAHM in Joy in Praise of YAH in Community Joy
"B'RUCHOT HABAOT TAHAT KANFEI HA SHECHINAH"
May you be Blessed Beneath the Wings of Shechinah.
Frame and License created by © Joy Krauthammer

Tunnel to Getty
© Joy Krauthammer

Taxis and Yellow Bus
© Joy Krauthammer

Pay
© Joy Krauthammer

Near the Getty on 405
© Joy Krauthammer

Getty Trolley Tracks
© Joy Krauthammer

Getty Trolley
© Joy Krauthammer

Getty Trolley & Stroller
© Joy Krauthammer

Getty Trolley & Wheelchair
© Joy Krauthammer

Getty Trolley
Panorama
© Joy Krauthammer

Getty Trolley Inspiration
© Joy KrauthammerAdd caption

Getty Trolley
© Joy Krauthammer

Transport Me High or Low
Getty Elevator
© Joy Krauthammer

Transport Me
Faye
© Joy Krauthammer

Getty Elevator
© Joy Krauthammer

Getty Stairs
© Joy Krauthammer

Transport Me High
Getty Stairs
© Joy Krauthammer

Getty building by Richard Meier transports my spirit.
© Joy Krauthammer

Getty architecture by Richard Meier transports my spirit.
© Joy Krauthammer

'Out of the Box' Transportation

Silk Road Music Touches My Soul and transports me.

Transported listening to

Getty 'Silk Road' Music

Transported listening to

Getty 'Silk Road' Music

Transported viewing

Getty Bougainvillea

Robert Irwin tree scultpure

Soul is Transported

in presence of Getty Bougainvillea.

My Soul is Transported Viewing
Getty Flowers
© Joy Krauthammer

Getty Waterfall transports

Soul is transported at

Getty Waterfall and Purple Flowers

Getty Water, form of transportation

and my soul is transported.

Getty Water form of transportation

and my soul is transported.

Getty Water Stones transport my soul.

'Out of the Tinkerbell' Transport with Peter Pan

Tinkerbell transported my soul.

'Out of the Box/Bowl' Transportation

Purple Person

LOW KEY week 28

Low-key photography is an image that uses mostly dark tones to create a dramatic looking image. Similar to high-key, which is bright image that has more white than black, a low-key image will typically use one or two focused light sources, to selectively light a subject on an otherwise dark background.

#295 of 438

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Sago Palm Fronds not yet Unfurled

Edith's Garden

#295 of 438 52Frames album

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Feels really good to get positive Comments in 52Frames on Sago Palm Fronds:

Bridget Mayfield: crazy beautiful. So much texture and lines to lead me around. It is very abstract!

Jennifer Grossnickle: LOVE the colors and texture of this shot. Beautiful!!

Beth Shepherd Peters: Amazing.

Chris Thomas: Great shot

Leigh Burgess: Love the pop of colour and nicely lit

Zelda Marais: I love this!

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Hibiscus

Edith's Garden

Hibiscus

Edith's Garden

Hibiscus

Edith's Garden

maybe not so Low Key

Matilija White Poppy

Edith's Garden

maybe not so Low Key

Yellow Weeds and Succulent

Garden of Joy

Grapefruits

Garden of Joy

Seasons First Large Luscious Fresh Figs

Garden of Joy

Maybe not so Low Key but shot figs in bowl hoping so.

Rosh Chodesh Tamuz / New Moon

Water

Cousins' Birthdays

Low Key Selfies

WATER week 27 July 1. 2016

Water and in some places not a drop to drink due to drought and human carelessness.
OY OY OY ~ 59 Water images shot mostly in one day this week.
Good I didn't do the others I envisioned.

I’m #239 of 470. Feel free to comment.

More Water: http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2009/04/submissions-to-52-frames-2016.html

Purple Water Fountain 1

Enjoy "Ripple Reflections #2 With Joy”. Flow with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFSnnHC2_7M&spfreload=1

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Water Fountain 2

Water Fountain 3

Water Fountain 4

Water Fountain 5

Water Fountain 6

Water Fountain 7

Water Fountain 8

Water Fountain 9

Water Fountain 10

Water Fountain 11

Water drink

My birth Parsha

Fruit in Water

Sprinklers on 100* 1

Sprinklers 2

Sprinklers 3

Pink Water can 1

Edith' Garden

Water can 2

Edith' Garden

Water can 3

Edith' Garden

Water missing from LA River 1

Water in dry LA River 2

Water in dry LA River 3

Nemo Fish in Water 1

Blue Tang Fish in Water 2

Fish in Water 3

Fish in Water 4

Fish in Water 5

Fish in Water 6

Purple 1

Purple 2

Purple 3

Purple 4

Water fountain below 1

Water fountain below 2

Water fountain below 3

Water fountain below 4

Water fountain below 5

Water fountain below 6

Water fountain below 7

Water fountain below 8

Water fountain below 9

Water fountain below 10

Water fountain below 11

Water fountain below 12

Water fountain below 13

Pool 1

Pool 2

Pool 3

Pool 4

Pool 5

Pool 6

Pool 7

Pool 8

Pool 9

Pool 10

Pool 11

5:00 PM week 26

I’m #239 of 470. Feel free to comment.

More Water: http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2009/04/submissions-to-52-frames-2016.html

Serve G*d With Joy

"Ivdu Et Hashem B'Simcha" - Psalm 100:2

5pm

I also Serve at 5AM.

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Serve G*d With Joy

"Ivdu Et Hashem B'Simcha" - Psalm 100:2

The books welcome you into our garden.

These are 2 of the 10 filled and double-stacked (oy) good oak book cases in living room and family room

not counting cases lining walls of the home offices.

These two cases house some of my religion books.

5:08 AM

BOOKS week 25

#195 OF 462

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Yay, Bedtime Story Time

4th birthday on the other coast.

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Yay, Bed Time Story Time

Bubbie's first foray into Legos.

4th birthday on the other coast.

"A good book, it is said, can touch the human soul, create new worlds, allow the mind to play creatively, change perspectives within seconds." - Yosef Adest, 52Frames

...and be the best time for Bubbies and Granddaughters. - Joy

DEPTH OF FIELD week 24

#210 of 463

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Field of Orange

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Garden of Joy

Ant visits Garden of Joy

Purple Bearded Iris

Garden of Joy

Bougainvillea

Garden of Joy

Bougainvillea

Garden of Joy

Purple Mexican Sage

Garden of Joy

Purple Mexican Sage

Garden of Joy

Purple Mexican Sage

Garden of Joy

Dogwood

Maryland

Purple Flowers

Maryland

Butterflies

Maryland

Butterflies

Maryland

Butterflies

Maryland

Butterflies (Owl)

Maryland

Butterfly

Maryland

Butterflies

Maryland

Butterfly

Maryland

Happy I have some Bokeh/light flashes.

ABSTRACT week 23

POOCHIE #357 of 478

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Yda's Paprika

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Love Funky Purple

Yda's Garden

Pool

Yda's Garden

Flower

Orchid

Water

Fruit I

Fruit II

Fruit III

Joy's Hand Weaving

"Abstract photography offers an opportunity to focus on texture, color, line, and form. Abstract does not necessarily mean 'unidentifiable'. With intention, can be macro, blurred, patterns, over-exposed, reflections, or funky post processing." - Yosef, 52Frames

ARCHITECTURE week 22

#204 of 474

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Cave Monster

Outside and Inside Architecture at the Same Time

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Inner Architecture

"Architectural Photography is the art of photographing a structure's interior or exterior, or an element of a building. It can be trickier than it sounds. It's not just about the obvious shape, or lines. It's about the lines within the lines, the shapes within the shapes.

"You need not be just standing outside a building, snapping a shot. You can focus on a particular element – a door, the stairs, some tiles, windows, infrastructure – or even go more abstract finding patterns and shapes to document." - Yosef Adest, CEO 52Frames

Missed the Architectural pre-deadline by a day :(

Lake Shrine Windmill

BEDROOM week 21

#199 of 448

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Joyous Purple Silk Closet

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Joy's self-handmade Mirrored Hamsa hanging next to bed

Joy's First Watercolor Hangs in Bedroom

Can't put it out in public.

Joy's First Wood Cut still life 1969 and Framed Print of her First 1968 Ceramics

Hidden from public view in my bedroom.

http://joys-art.blogspot.com

First Lidded pot, First Slab piece, First Thrown vessels in my first Still-Life.

I had to do weird things even with my 'firsts'.

That same year and getting good, I won and used a full time year-long Max Beckmann Graduate Ceramics Scholarship to Brooklyn Museum School of Art.

My European refined Orthodox future in-laws did not appreciate the idea of a 'Khippie artist" in the family and although I was a very fine potter and was teaching adults at Cooper Square, a Manhattan art school, and ready to open my ceramics studio on the upper west side, I changed careers because of my wanting to be seen better in the eyes of my in-laws to be, and instead became an excellent New York medical social worker with a guaranteed income. I sold out.

A dozen years later following my heart and at the same time enrolled in a Non-Profit MBA program-- I had a vision and opened an art school for the City of Los Angeles, CA and was hired by Cultural Affairs to be the ceramics teacher!!! :)

At the same time I began my MBA classes I started studying drums and a few years later become a percussonist and I immediately performed with Reb Shlomo Carlebach, z"l, Babatunde Olatunji, obm, Reb David Zeller, z"l, and Debbie Friedman, z"l, and still accompany singer Cindy Paley for the last 15 years, and continue for the last 26 years to 'perform' throughout LA at spiritual venues. During my earlier years as drummer I enrolled at LA Music Academy, and for years studied with dozens of other world-music masters.

My drums are not in my bedroom.

A few of my weaving are in bedroom.

- Joy Krauthammer 5.21.2016

Desiderata

This represented my faith.

Prayer purchased in mid-1960's during college.

Still hangs over my bed, east coast to west coast.

Being lightweight it is OK over bed in case of earthquakes that have happened.

Bike in Bedroom

HIGH KEY week 20

# 212 of 529

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Image has more white than black and may be overexposed or abstract.

"High key refers to a photo that is mostly white, or light. Shadows can be present. The photo does not need to be overexposed. The photo can be achieved in camera, or in post processing. With lighting or without." Yosef CEO

"The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke." - Jerzy Kosinski

Rose

Garden of Joy

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Onions

Blue Water I A

Garden of Joy

Blue Water I B

Garden of Joy

Blue Water II

Garden of Joy

Weed

Garden of Joy

Purple

Garden of Joy

BLUE week 19

#453 of 528

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Blue Orchids

Album:

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theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Blue Orchid

detail

Blue Sky

RED week 18

In 52Frames album Red:

#399 of 540

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Remo Red Apple Fruit Shake

Selfie

REMO's red Apple Shaker is red as broken hearts.

This is one of the Remo Fruit Shakers that I play each week when I ‘perform’ as percussionist.

Remo Belli, obm, died one day before I shot this shaker at REMO's weekly drum circle. Remo Belli, visionary, philanthropist and Founder and CEO of the international drum company REMO since 1957 when he first created a synthetic drumhead.

During this drum circle we watched In Memory Of Remo, a slide show of his drum life; His legacy.

I submit this image instead of more beautiful red flowers, etc, because of personal meaning and mourning.

Remo Belli 1927 - 4.25.2016 Rest in Peace

http://joys-music.blogspot.com/2012/02/remo-belli-obm.html

http://joys-music.blogspot.com/2012/02/joy-of-drumming-at-remo.html

http://joys-music.blogspot.com/2011/02/remo-photos.html

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

ART BEAT, a Remo RMC wall filled with tambourines painted by people with challenges.

In Memory Of Remo Belli

Bougainvillea

Garden of Joy

Red Canna Lily

Garden of Joy

Red Roses

Garden of Joy

Red Poinsetttia

Edith's Garden

Red Poinsetttia

Edith's Garden

Confused bush usually blooms in December!

Red Poppy

Edith's Garden

Red Cactus Flower

Red Peppers

Red Tomatoes

Red Anthuriums I

Venice

Red 'Mosaic' Anthuriums

Venice

Red Anthuriums II

Venice

Red Shirts

Lake Balboa

Red Car

Lake Balboa

Red Car

Venice

Red Lights

Venice

Red Car Light

Venice

Red Curb

Venice

Red Curb Accents

Main St. Venice

Red Door

Venice

Red Heart 4'

Venice

Red Crayons

Venice

Red Nail Polish

Venice

Red Roses I

Venice

Red Roses II

Venice

Red Roses III

Venice

Red Hat Clown

Venice

Shot through my moving car...

Red Flags

Venice

Strong Winds on Beach and Sand in my Eyes

Tree of Life

Omer Day 2 Gevurah sh b'Chesed

painting hung covering door by Sandy Pond

T. I., Venice

Red Window

T.I. Venice

Red Fruits

T. I., Venice

Red Watermelon

T. I., Venice

Red Peppers

T. I., Venice

Red Pomegranate

T. I., Venice

Betzalel Or ~ Judaic Art Guild Friends

Eva, Reb T'mimah, Alan, Sandy, Sharon, Gayle

T. I., Venice

Red Betzalel Or Art Friends

Looks like Torah design in rug.

T. I., Venice

MACRO week 17

#219 of 520

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Jade Tiny Baby Leaves

"Crassula Ovata, commonly known as jade plant, friendship tree, lucky plant, or money tree, is a green leaf succulent with small pink or white flowers. Some varieties may develop a red tinge on the edges of leaves when exposed to high levels of sunlight.” Wiki

Thirty-seven years ago I planted a small Jade cutting received from an elderly aunt, obm, and now enjoy Jade all over my garden. I have shared the flowers in other 52F challenges.

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Pink Rose

Red Rose

White Poppy

Pink Poppy

Yellow Iris and Bugs

Yellow Iris

Poppies, Iris & Roses

photos and collage © Joy Krauthammer 4.20.2016

FOOD week 16

I’m #349 of 514

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Rain on Breakfast

Joy Krauthammer 4.11.2016

This Grapefruit tree is filled with blossoms.

Recipe: Slice grapefruit in half. Top with red grenadine syrup or jam in center. Heat in toater oven or microwave until warm, and enjoy. Serve in bowl. Easy to eat with a wood-handle serrated grapefruit spoon. I learned this recipe from my father in the 1950’s.

In Nisan, upon seeing a blossoming fruit tree for first time, make a blesSing:

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/260801/jewish/The-Laws-of-the-Blessing-on-Trees.html

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Edith's Garden

Happy Birthday dear Edith

photos and collage © Joy Krauthammer

Learning and yummies with Rebbetzin Tzippy Rivkin

MAGIC HOUR week 15

#405 of 501

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Rose, Garden of Joy

Joy Krauthammer 4.5.2016

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Bougainvillea, Garden of Joy

Joy Krauthammer 4.5.2016

NEGATIVE SPACE week 14

post deadline 4.3.2016

#230 of 536

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Bikes, Lake Balboa

I appreciate the Negative Space appearing in foreground of the overlapping front wheels, and where they intersect.

46 theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Harper's Negative Space for Tooth Fairy, 3pm today. Deadline day

Red Ant Canyon

Lake Balboa

Seagull, Lake Balboa

High Flying Birds Flock, Lake Balboa

405 North, Sepulveda Pass

Getty Center on left.

Lake Balboa

Double Breasted Cormorants, Lake Balboa

Geese, Lake Balboa

Goose, Lake Balboa

Black and Whites, Bea's Bakery

Orchids, Spa

Like space around central petals and through middle petals.

Orchids, Spa

Pink Rose, Garden of Joy

With all the space around rose, it feels like rose is floating.

Red Rose, Garden of Joy

Garden of Joy Sunrise

For me, the Negative Space is the sky, separating mountains, earth and clouds.

Garden of Joy Sunset

Sky, Negative Space.

Tree, Lake Balboa

Fun to discover the Negative Space between branches on one tree.

Tree Pods, Lake Balboa

Succulent, Vista Del Mar

Lava becomes Negative Space as it surrounds the plant.

Path, Vista Del Mar

Path becomes Negative Space calling attention to design of flower garden.

Orange Flower, Vista Del Mar

Bokeh becomes Negative Space behind flower.

Tiny Red Flowers, Vista Del Mar

Green garden becomes Negative Space highlighting red flowers.

Cosmos, Vista Del Mar

Wood chips surrounding flower become Negative Space.

Garden Ladder, Vista Del Mar

Sky surrounding ladder and plant and within ladder becomes Negative Space.

Cosmos, Vista Del Mar

Over exposure of background becomes Negative Space.

Cosmos, Vista Del Mar

Over exposure of background becomes Negative Space.

Pipe, Lake Balboa

Negative Space surrounds Pipe and within Pipe.

Grill, Lake Balboa

Negative Space through grill.

Water Fountain, Lake Balboa

All color surrounding water and faucet.

Orange Fence, Lake Balboa

Pink flowers become Negative Space.

Yellow Bike Basket, Lake Balboa

Darkness behind tubing becomes Negative Space.

Red Bike Basket, Lake Balboa

Darkness behind tubing becomes Negative Space.

Fence, Lake Balboa

Sky becomes Negative Space.

Handicap Space, Pot Space, Auto Shop

Negative Space surrounds clay pots.

Selfie Reflection, Auto Shop

Negative Space found within and abaove shadow lines.

Birthday Pinata dismembered, fallen, and emptied, now has physical Negative Space

Where the candies were in Pinata are now

today (newly expanded deadline day), a NEGATIVE SPACE.

Cement ground is Negative Space.

~ ~ ~

Shot for Negative Space hours before new start time.

Waiting for Death

This is the photo I had prepared for theme before challenge begin date was changed to start later that night.

I saw the waiting 'Gravediggers' that create grave's Negative Space.

Sky is Negative Space, as is green grass under the machinery.

Visiting my future home '6 feet under', that will be Negative Space

when the Grave Diggers do their job. Now the green grass is the Negative Space.

Brandeis-Bardin

Door, Brandeis-Bardin

Mezuzah, Brandeis-Bardin

Selfie Shadow, Brandeis-Bardin

LINE FROM A SONG week 13

"Mayim mayim mayim mayim, hey, mayim b'sason"

"Ushavtem mayim b'sason mimainei hayeshua"

ושאבתם מים בששון

Nevi’im Isaiah 12:3

Water Water Water Water

Joyfully shall you draw water from the springs of salvation

Japanese Garden, Van Nuys, CA

In joy I shot the waterfall during 52Frames 2nd annual Los Angeles PhotoWalk in the Valley’s Japanese Garden on the first day of spring. Our Photo Walk was an official participant in the United Nations World Water Day celebration 3.20.2016 and we gave blesSings for global healthy water and sent them to Flint, Michigan. Last year I also led the PhotoWalk at Lake Balboa for World Water Day.

As I am a percussionist specializing in frame drums, ala biblical Miriam HaNeviah, water is spiritually important to me as "Miriam danced with the women" after the Israelites crossed the Red Sea to freedom. We also had Miriam’s Well and Miriam saved Moshe from the water.

The song line I chose is also the name of a dance, which uses the same song lyrics. The dance ‘Mayim’ was choreographed in 1937 by Else I. Dublin to music composed by Emanuel Pugashov Amiran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayim_Mayim#The_song

Mayim is water in Hebrew. Maya is water in Aramaic.

(52Frames asks us to tell the story of our image and Line from a Song.)

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

The following water photos are from:

Japanese Garden, Van Nuys, CA

Water Water Water Water

"Joyfully shall you draw water from the springs of salvation."

A CHAIR! week 12 3.20.16

#320 of 489.

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Bride Balances on Chair in the Air as Father Watches

A challenging shaky celebratory pose with model on a mostly invisible chair ("a single, simple, tangible object") following joyous garden wedding ceremony and then at end of reception being lifted even higher, March 13, 2016.

Thank you, Hannah. Mazal Tov to you and Eric. Enjoy being included in the 52Frames published CHAIR album.

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Bride & Groom Balance on Chairs in the Air as Mother Watches

Garden Wedding

Rabbi sitting in a Chair

Joy's Rocking Chair

'Don't Postpone Joy'

Serve G*d With Joy

Karen's Arbor

More CHAIRS

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2012/05/chairs.html

RULE OF THIRDS week 11 3.13.16

Golden Ratio, Golden Spiral, Fibonacci

#119 of 514

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Fibonacci Sunflower

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Succulent Fibonacci

Flowering Succulent Fibonacci

KISS week 10 3.6.2016

Caty and Edith after the Kiss

#313 of 461

http://52frames.com/challenge/kiss-2016/

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Caty and Edith and the Kiss

Purple Kiss

PATTERNS week 9

#420 of 554

Heart Tears of Felled Pine

Weeping 43 years old Pine Tree Rings

Shot other patterns (see below) but thought the tree is unusual & only at THIS moment with sap tears. Shot other angles with zoom but was very difficult because of all the big adjacent logs blocking each other and debris from 8 felled sick tall big trees on private property, and minutes before dump truck arrived early morning.

Very messy with the sticky sap that ruins clothes. I was in PJ's at edge of someone's private property.

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Felled 42 years old Pine Tree Rings

Tears

Felled 42 years old Pine Tree Rings

Weeping Trears

Felled 42 years old Pine Tree Rings

Purple Bearded Iris

Fig Tree Leaf

Palm Frond

Pine Cone Baby

Tree Trunk

Brandeis-Bardin

Cactus

Brandeis-Bardin

Yellow Cone

Fruits

Berry

Waffle

Rishemu

Clouds

Purple flower

Brandeis

Tree Trunk

Brandeis

Tomato Plant Babies

Edith's Garden

Trees

Pepper Tree Lane, Brandeis-Bardin

Conch

COMPLEMENTARY COLORS week 8

I’m #336 of 522

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Sunrise

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Have you ever wanted to photograph a couple colors of fish that just kept swimming away from you?

LINES week 7

Hammock

Love getting these 52F messages upon weekly submission:

Your photo masterpiece has been submitted!!!

Thank you for putting out new art in the world!

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Sunrise Leading Lines

Garden of Joy

Sunrise

Garden of Joy

Lines

Lagartijos and Fence

Horsetail

Garden of Joy

Horsetail

Garden of Joy

Sago Palm

Garden of Joy

Sago Palm

Garden of Joy

Beaded Star gift from Nicaragua

Selfie

Leading Lines Chatsworth Train Tracks

Lines of Pills Taken to remedy Aliso Canyon Gas Leak Toxins Sickness

Lines at Venice Canals, CA

February 13, 2016

LEVITATION week 6

Ceci n'est pas une orange

That's because it's a Cutie!

Theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Ceci n'est pas une orange

That's because it's Levitating PacMan!

Levitating Honey Bee in Succulent Jade Flowers

Non-Levitating Bee in Succulent Jade Flowers

But Bee is more focused.

SHOOT FROM ABOVE week 5

Jade

Jade in the Garden of Joy came from a cutting 38 years ago in my aunt’s garden when I moved to California.

At that time, I did not know the Jade had flowers. Flower 1/3”.

SHOOT FROM BELOW week 4

Sunrise and Gas Leak

Shooting low the sunrise reflection, and 'From Below', sadly we see floating on the water’s surface, the toxins released by the massive Aliso Canyon Gas Leak where I live. With thousands of other local people, I’m breathing in the poison for 3 months since Oct, 23, 2015.

Another week 3 ‘Greetings From’ :(

Theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Sunrise and Fig Tree

Garden of Joy

Shooting up from base of slope.

Sunrise

Garden of Joy

Sunrise

Garden of Joy

Bird Seen From Below

Garden of Joy

GREETING FROM... week 3

Sisters In Rhythm

REMO, world’s leading drum company, offers free community drum circles where anyone can have joy of making music, and learn in workshops.

I’ve been drumming at REMO in San Fernando Valley, CA since their drum circle inception 20 years ago. REMO drum circles grew from the handful of us drummers with world master teachers, to hundreds of us jamming on a hot summer's night. Last month I brought my little granddaughter and her family to drum at REMO. And they met Remo.

REMO is where I renewed my energy through drumming to continue my years of caregiving and then return to my soul after loss of spouse. This very day, as I submit to 52F, is the 10th anniversary of my husband’s, obm, death. I’ve been drumming since 1986 and as percussionist and sound healer, I serve LA's spiritual community.

Theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

http://joys-music.blogspot.com/2012/02/joy-of-drumming-at-remo.html

Remo Timbrel

Remo Drums

Remo RMC

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On the way to drum at Remo, I visited the Great Wall of LA.

The Great Wall of Los Angeles

Longest Mural In The World

The Great Wall of Los Angeles

Longest Mural In The World

The Great Wall of Los Angeles

Longest Mural In The World

Great Wall of Los Angeles

Longest Mural In The World

The Great Wall of Los Angeles mural, cultural landmark, on the San Fernando Valley flood control channel called the Tujunga Wash. The overlooked history of LA portrays not only past and contemporary times, but also a vision of the future. Painting continues since 1976 by Judy Francisco Baca and her team of over 400 people for many summers and is a work in progress. Half a mile long, 2,754 feet, and to be a mile long.

On Coldwater Canyon, North Hollywood, close to REMO Drums.

A challenge for me to shoot The Great Wall because it was illegal to park in some areas of mural and due to my fear. I was not comfortable walking alone to be standing alone close to mural so that I could raise my camera over the fence but finally I got the courage to walk alone as close as I could be to send Greetings From..

"Perhaps most overwhelming to me about the Great Wall experience has been learning of the courage of individuals in history who endured, spoke out, and overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles. It was true both of the people we painted about and of ourselves the Mural Makers.”

– Judith F. Baca

After visiting the Great Wall and before leaving to drum at Remo, I bought ethnic Thai foods.

Greeting From...

Thai Village, North Hollywood, CA

Yummies

Greetings from the Valley where I buy a coconut, drink the 'milk' and scoop out the meat.

I also bought Mee Krob and Mo Chi, Mung Bean & Coconut cakes, and Jack Fruit.

Remo Drums is in the middle of Thai Village.

Purple Hair

Where I live, I'm always happy to say hello to people with purple hair.

Greetings From...

Twilight at Sunrise in the Blue Hour

Garden of Joy

San Gabriel Mountains Seen in The Valley

Living in a valley, I have the blesSings to see 360* of mountains:

Santa Susana, Santa Monica, San Gabrial and the Verdugo Mountains.

BLACK and WHITE week 2

BIRD

The bird was my inspiration with the clouds for the needed rain after years of LA drought.

Dirt slid down the eroding hillside creating loss, muddy messes and havoc.

Hah, I realize that Week #2's bird is probably also last week's visiting bird and used on Week 1 Self Portrait.

Maybe I'll shoot birds every week!

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Mockingbird

Clouds

Moon Sliver

Telephone Wires

while driving

SELF PORTRAIT week 1

My Essence of Joy

I recorded these scenes as I spontaneously discovered and embraced them.

Self Portrait is crafted in order to communicate one's essence.

JOY

Thirty-seven years ago I planted a small Jade cutting received from an elderly aunt, obm, and now enjoy Jade all over my garden. I have shared the flowers in other 52F challenges.

I smile as I play behind white feathers strung at entrance to a trendy store in The Grove

that visiting tourists desired to visit this holiday season.

"Shoot yourself doing something crazy in public. Capture your essence, the way you feel."

My essence is spiritual, joyous, creative, sentimental, and connected in kindness, love and truth.

My essence includes loving (meeting) a good challenge, fun or serious. My essence pursues justice (Tzedek, Tzedek, Tirdof) and that includes being aware of Loshan Hara/wrongful slanderous speech.

My spiritual soul loves wearing garments of purple.

The tiny bird in composite, shot this week at the grave of my husband, z"l, on his 10th yahrzeit, was pointed out to me by my granddaughter.

(Since the 1970's I've loved the elegant doves in Spanish artist Alvar's paintings. His art celebrates the joy of life.)

I always enjoy finding feathers (a long full white swan feather in local Lake Balboa), but I feel pain if feathers are from victims of violence.

I attach purple feathers to my kipot/head coverings.

I think of feathers and I think of the only possession my beloved Grandma Ethel, z”l, brought with her to America from Russia on arduous ship rides over 100 years ago– her feather pillow– that she gave to me. There is a destroyed feather pillow in Fiddler on the Roof.

Grandma taught me to be careful with words. "If a feather pillow is busted, one can’t retrieve the feathers blown away, as one can not retrieve ill spoken words. If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all," said Grandma Ethel. She died in Atlanta, Georgia in 1988, age 88. I hold her in my heart. Grandma Ethel said that the Klu Klux Klan threatened to “tar and feather” her because of her kindness to the black folk, including Rev. Martin Luther King, obm.

So happy that friends have commented on Essence of JOY:

Amy Harris

This photo displays your creativity, your sweet face, your smile, your colors, and you seem happy with those feathers. I think you really feel this one. what you love…and I think you loved playing with those feathers!

Beth Shepherd Peters

Joy full of joy!

Cindy Jo Bennett Csomo

Great shot Joy, I love how you are there with the feathers all around you, so cute, a wonderful idea. smile emoticon smile emoticon

Rachel Traurig

LOVE IT!!

Talia Oha

I LOVE THIS! Awesome photo! I feel like this really captures you!

Florrie Laker

Great!

Rina Hadar

very joyful photo!

Renee Mark Dvir

Whimsical and fun, love the splash of color

Leah Chossid

I like the joy shining through in your eyes and smile. Your colors also express joy. Is your Hebrew name Simcha? How did you put this together? I think it's very creative, and you need talent to do it, but for me, I think your beaming smile would have done the job as well. Looking forward to seeing more of your work in the year to come!

Theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Self Portrait

Vanity Mirrors

I smile as I see a mirror on a store's vanity table that reminds me of my hinged, 3 sided heavy mirror that had belonged to my mother, z”l,
since 1950ish, on the other coast.

What parts of my mother do I clearly see in myself?

As a photographer, I discovered similar interests and they surprised me.

(The green color on agave succulent leaves.)

Fun to see and connect with a piece of furniture reminding me of my multi-talented artist mother, who died at age 49, 1969.
Awkward to photograph self for portrait in store but also fun.

Hippie Sox

Feeling joyous in my 30 year old tie dyed socks.

I smile at the corals I found decades ago stranded on sand. I love the ocean.

My own ceramic vessels surround them.

My drummer Joy soul is clearly part hippie, peace, love and artist joy making.

Being silly playing with light when a reflection from rattan blinds appears on my body.

Essence of Joy

Can't resist the love of a stray kitty, never before seen.

Comments on Week 1 Self Portrait My Essence of Joy

Beth Shepherd Peters Joy full of joy!

Cindy Jo Bennett Csomo Great shot Joy, I love how you are there with the feathers all around you, so cute, a wonderful idea. smile emoticon smile emoticon

Rachel Traurig LOVE IT!!

Talia Oha I LOVE THIS! Awesome photo! I feel like this really captures you!

Florrie Laker Great!

Rina Hadar very joyful photo!

Renee Mark Dvir Whimsical and fun, love the splash of color

Leah Chossid I like the joy shining through in your eyes and smile. Your colors also express joy. Is your Hebrew name Simcha? How did you put this together? I think it's very creative, and you need talent to do it, but for me, I think your beaming smile would have done the job as well. Looking forward to seeing more of your work in the year to come!

Amy Harris This photo displays your creativity, your sweet face, your smile, your colors, and you seem happy with those feathers. I think you really feel this one.

what you love…and I think you loved playing with those feathers!

Lawrence Feinberg The socks are cool…but represent only a part of you…not all…but maybe. They are hippie and fun! The colors are joyous.

I think the mirror of the three of you is very pensive…perhaps it does not quite reflect the fun part of you…but surely it reflects your depth.

_________The peek-a-boo aspect works well, as does the angle of your face, and the repetition of shapes on the feathers is nice.

"Creativity lies in this space of vulnerability.

In order to achieve full creative self-expression, one must surrender themselves to this vulnerable process.

Let yourself go.

Create a photo that truly exemplifies your essence. Don't go for safe. Don't shoot your "good side",

or make sure your hair is perfect. Shoot super close up.

*Shoot yourself doing something crazy in public. Capture your essence, the way you feel, not the way you feel you should be seen.

#THISISNOTASELFIE!!

In fact, this is the opposite of a selfie. A selfie is a relatively thoughtless shot, solely meant to boost one's ego.

A Self Portrait should be crafted, in order to communicate one's essence.

What's your essence?" - Yosef Adest, CEO 52Frames

JOY's FAVORITE FOTOS

About Me

Submissions to 52 Frames 2016

ARTIST'S CHOICE week 52

COMBINE TWO CHALLENGES week 51

and "The Extra Credits" (E.C.)

FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE week 50

BLACK & WHITE MINIMALISM week 49

"Less is more". In photography this is "minimalism". Minimalism is about taking only the key elements of a scene, and leaving out everything else. - 52F

INSPIRED BY A FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHER Week 48

BREAK THE RULES week 47

MASCULINITY week 46

BIRDS EYE week 45

AN ORDINARY MOMENT week 44

IN YOUR BAG week 43

SOUND week 42

FREEZE The ACTION week 41

UNITY week 40

PATH week 39

theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

HANDS week 38

EMOTION week 37

WABI SABI week 36

WINDOW week 35 This is my 3rd Framaversary.

SILHOUETTE week 34

PORTRAIT of a STRANGER week 33

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