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Photos shot during the 52Frames week's theme.

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

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2015/01/submissions-to-52-frames-2015.html

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2012/04/submissions-to-52-frames-2014.html
http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2012/05/submissions-to-52-frames.html

2014:
My weekly theme submissions to photo group "52 Frames".

AND
runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs

52Frames logos by © Joy Krauthammer

ARTIST'S CHOICE week 52

LAST WEEK OF 2014 ANYTHING GOES

Bubbie Joy Loves 2 1/2 year old Wet Sand Dancer

THIS WEEK SO MANY:

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Love Purple Sunrise

Chanukah 8 Lights

Real and Art Blackberry

JOY Life Imitates LACMA Art

Paints

LACMA

Cookie Monster

Chanukah Cookie Faery

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.26.2014

"Higher" Ventura Beach

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.25.2014

Sand Castle Dancer

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.23.2014

Sand Dancer

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.23.2014

Ventura Beach with Dad

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer

Sand Dancer

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.23.2014

Sand Dancer

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.23.2014

Sand Dancer

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.23.2014

Sand Dancer

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.23.2014

Sunset Family Silhouette I

Ventura Beach

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.23.2014

Sunset Family Silhouette 2

Ventura Beach

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.23.2014

Sunset Family Silhouette 3

Ventura Beach

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.23.2014 via iPhone

Sunset Family Silhouette 4

Ventura Beach

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.23.2014 via iPhone

Sunset Family Silhouette 5

Ventura Beach

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.23.2014 via iPhone

Ventura Beach

Ventura Beach Grass

Ventura Beach

Seagull Ventura Beach

Bird, Lake Balboa

Santa Barbara

Mom and Ms.

LACMA Art Lovers

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.27.2014

Mom and Ms.

LACMA Art Lovers

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.27.2014

Palm Tree Bark

LACMA

Park Dancer

Lake Balboa

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.22.2014

The Family, Lake Balboa

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.22.2014

A Mallard

Lake Balboa

Four Mallards

Lake Balboa

Ducks

Lake Balboa

LACMA Chris Burden lampposts I

LACMA Chris Burden lampposts 2

LACMA Chris Burden lampposts 3

LACMA Chris Burden lampposts 4

LACMA Chris Burden lampposts 5

LACMA Chris Burden lampposts and Purple Hair Stranger 6

LACMA Chris Burden lampposts 7

Stairs LACMA I

Stairs LACMA 2

Red Stairs Lake Balboa

STAIRS week 51

First Try Going Down

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.19.2014

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Climb Back Up

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.19.2014

One Step to Slide Down

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.19.2014

Green Stairs

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.19.2014

Climbing Stairs My Way

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.19.2014

Drums When Not Climbing

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.19.2014

Drums or Stairs

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.19.2014

View From Front and High

View From Rear aand Beneath

Three Steps

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.19.2014

Made It To The Top!

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.19.2014

Normal Stairs Into the Pan Pacific Train

Bubbie Joy © Joy Krauthammer 12.19.2014

Brett Climbing

Purple Stairs

Hollywood Bowl While Driving onto Freeway Entrance

Hollywood Bowl Fountain Steps While Driving onto Freeway Entrance

Stairs to the Chuppah and to the Ark

Kol Sasson / Voice of Joy

Wedding Goblets on Stairs

When Stairs Are No Longer Possible

Bougainvillea Color painted by Joy to match garden.

CONTRAST week 50

Sunset ~ Day Into Night, Calm After the Storm
Roch Mountains, Fluff Water Air Sky

Santa Monica Mountains

Garden of Joy
© Joy Krauthammer 12.12.2014
http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2013/12/clouds-of-glory-2-rainbow-sunrise-sunset.html

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Sunrise ~ Night Lights Into Day Light

Verdugo and San Gabriel Mountains

Pines and Palms

Garden of Joy

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2012/05/clouds-of-glory.html

and

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2013/12/clouds-of-glory-2-rainbow-sunrise-sunset.html

CONTRAST between narrow and wide Sunrise views

Sunrise Meditation Thoughts:

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2014/11/sunrise-photography-meditation.html

Sunrise ~ Night Lights Into Day Light

Verdugo and San Gabriel Mountains

Pines and Palms

Garden of Joy

Sunrise ~ Night Lights Into Day Light

Verdugo and San Gabriel Mountains

Pines and Palms

Garden of Joy

Frame Drums, Djembe, Dumbek, Shaker

Djembe played on stand, Dumbek on lap, four Frame drums raised high

Joy's Percussion

Layne Redmond Remo Professional Frame Drums and Personally designed Miriam timbrels

Joy's 3 Layne timbrels and N'Shama Minyan Timbrels

Joy's 9 Purple Kipot wtih White

Box Hats contrast with feathered cloches and crocheted bowed kipot and embroidered kipot.

Joy's Purple Tallit

Black Fringe contrasts with White Tzitzit

I never wear black and would have cut off the Tallit fringe

but the white Tzitzit is a reminder to bring in the Light over the Darkness

Cell and Landline ~ Phone Periods and Style

Photo and No Photo

1877, 2014 (a little outdated)

Musicians: Drums, Strings, Wind

Jerusalem's Nava Tehila in LA

Conservative Shul with Renewal Prayers

Moshe, Daphne, Yoel, Jeremy

Red, White and Blue, and Green
Blow Out
© Joy Krauthammer

Moon Light & Man Made Light
Night to Day
© Joy Krauthammer
http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2013/05/moon.html

Last Lone Tomato of Season
and Last Tomato Flower Buds
© Joy Krauthammer 12.12.2014

Nature's Bird On Man's Invention
© Joy Krauthammer 12.12.2014
http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2012/05/nature.html

Dogs 4 Kinds

Sunrise ~ Night Into Day

Distant Trees and Near Trees

Garden of Joy

Sunset ~ Day Into Night

Very Tall Palm Trees and Shorter Trees

Garden of Joy

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

Sunset ~ Day Into Night

Very Tall Palm Trees and Shorter Trees

Garden of Joy

Sunset ~ Day Into Night

Natural Light Source and Man Made Source

Garden of Joy

Sunset ~ Day Into Night

Fig Tree Loses Leaves. Pine Hold Needles

Garden of Joy

Sun Sparkle on Trees Against Grey Rain Clouds

Garden of Joy

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2012/07/scapes.html

Radiant Sun Against Grey Rain Clouds

Hidden and Revealed Rays

Garden of Joy

Red, Green, Yellow, and Orange Peppers

Color Contrast

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2012/07/still-life.html

Tall Orange versus Short Green Succulents

One Family, Two Ethnicities

Decor: Railroad Ties and Lava Rock

Garden of Joy

First Time Agave Bloom
Flowered on Bottom and Striving on Top
4 feet tall so far, Against Blue Sky
Garden of Joy
© Joy Krauthammer 12.12.2014

Agave Mother and Agave Babies
Two Stages of Life
Garden of Joy
© Joy Krauthammer
12.12.2014

Water Reflection vs Being
Reality and Fun
Garden of Joy
© Joy Krauthammer 12.11.2014

Tall Pine Tree & Cut Pine Tree
Life and Death
© Joy Krauthammer 12.11.2014

Bromeliads in glazed and plain red clay pots

and succulents in glazed ceramic pots

Blooming Purple Bearded Irises & Iris Buds

Birthing ~ Maturing

After the Rain, Garden of Joy

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

Yellow Living Rose and Yellow Dead Rose

Stages of Life

Garden of Joy

Red Rose and Dead Vines

Smooth and Sharp, Moist and Dry

Garden of Joy

Lone Fig in Winter's Almost Leafless 35 year old Fig Tree

Perseverance and Giving Over

Mother Tree and Young Fig

Garden of Joy

Italian Luxory Lamborghini in Two Colors

Each $400,000.

Two Lamborghinis and a Ferarri and Joy's SUV

Joy's purple SUV has an auto plate and the others don't.

Each $400,000.

Plain and Fancy Windows

Red Barn and White Barn

CONTRAST in composition, ideas, subjects, and colors. - 52 Frames

“Contrast: the state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something in juxtaposition or close association.

There are 2 types of contrast to consider in your photograph: subject and technique.

For subject, you can juxtapose two dissimilar objects in order to make some statement about the essence of each.

For technique, consider using wildly different colors, or strong shadows and highlights to visually depict the concept of contrast.

For best results, try to match the contrast of your subject, with the contrast of your technique.

The best images always match the visual language to its message. So this week: think, breathe, see, swim, drink and discover CONTRAST."

RED week 49

"This week we chose to turn our attention to one specific colour in our images: Red. Often considered to be a very emotionally intense color, in many western societies it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love. In many Asian cultures, red is considered to be the colour of happiness. Whatever your own interpretation of the meaning of red, focusing one just this primary colour as the predominant theme for our photo this week added a fun twist to the 49th week of the year. Red is one of the primary colors, in which our trichromatic vision pieces together all the colors that we see." - 52Frames

Cranberry Relish

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Cherries

Red LadyBug and Purple Orchids

Red Bougainvillea and Blue Sky

Red Rose, Raindrops, and 7 Fallen Petals

Red Rose still on the December bush, and Green Leaves

Sort of Fiery Red Sunrise

Saying prayers as the sun rises.

Garden of Joy

Joy's Red PJ

Joy, Cheer, Dreams, Laughter

Floating Hearts

California Red 1SWEETE

Cranberry Relish sans Turkey

Cranberry Relish

These Are Some of My Favorite Things

Edith's Home Made Strawberry Jam, Lady Bug, Flashlite, Cranberry

RED ST.

Red Light on RED ST.

STOP

Seasons of Our Joy 1 and 2

Seeing Red

Seasons of Our Joy 3

Seeing Red

“___ LOOKS LIKE THIS” week 48

"This is not meant to be ‘literal’; try and convey an intangible, such as an emotion, idea, or state of being." - 52Frames

As I wait quietly for SUNRISE--

Faith, Anticipation, Patience, Meditation, Gratitude, Reverence, Surprise, Awe, Amazement, Excitement, Newness, Glory, Exhilaration, Glee, Joy, Delight, Abundance, Fulfillment, Wonderment, At OneMent, Peace, Stillness, Silence, Connection, Prayer, Ineffable Natural Beauty, and G*d, The Source of All BlesSings

LOOK LIKE THIS:

GRATITUDE "looks like this".

Waking early each morning and saying prayers as the sun rises.

Garden of Joy

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

GLEE in me viewing sunrise through fence, "looks like this".

Waking early each morning and saying prayers as the sun rises.

Garden of Joy

WONDERMENT "looks like this".

Waking early each morning and saying prayers as the sun rises.

Garden of Joy

AWE "looks like this".

Waking early each morning and saying prayers as the sun rises.

Garden of Joy

AT ONEMENT "feels like this".

Waking early each morning and saying prayers as the sun rises.

Garden of Joy

AMAZEMENT with sunrise "looks like this".

Waking early each morning and saying prayers as the sun rises.

Garden of Joy

The JOY of speaking on phone to grandchild across the country "Looks like this."

Peaceful COMPANIONSHIP, Love, and 'Neglectful Respect' "Look like this".

Edith and Woody

LOVE, Appreciation and Celebration "Look Like This"

Cousin Dori's 70th Birthday

Comfort food with seasonal fall fruit "Looks like this."

A full tummy of Gratitude after the Thanksgiving meal and before dessert, "Looks like this".

Pumpkin, Apple, and Pecan pies by Betsy.

DARING green-haired person "Looks like this".

SADNESS from a friend's vacant house "Looks like this"

when minutes ago your friend of 20 years moved far away.

Dying "Looks like this"

Garden of Joy

STRUGGLE "Looks like this".

Bursting out, breaking free "Looks like this".

What kind of animal could this be?

canna lily, Garden of Joy

REFRESHING "looks like this".

Garden of Joy

Reaching for the sky, climbing over the fence "Looks like this".

Garden of Joy

LOVE "Looks like this"

Garden of Joy

WILD, and beautiful dancing "Look like this".

Garden of Joy

DIVINE "Looks like this".

Garden of Joy

PORTRAIT week 47

Enjoy Slide show: Edith & Hachiyah Persimmon Drying with Joy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J023-ZFfCpM

and

Illustrated story:

http://myfriendedith.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-friend-edith.html

Edith and her Persimmon Harvest #1

© Joy Krauthammer 11.18.2014
(Much smaller harvest this year because strangers from the street greedily took what they wanted.)

From 52 Frames: How will you capture the essence of your subject?

Tell the subject’s story. Show us *who* they are.

Think outside the box. What will make people stop an extra second to look at yours?

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvass, reveals himself.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Edith and her Persimmon Harvest #2

Edith and her Persimmon Harvest #3

Baker, Michael & his Family's

Famous Lamb Fruit Cake

Portrait of 3 Generations

QUOTE week 46

I wake the morning. - Joy

''I will awake the dawn...’' - King David (Shulchan Aruch)

הוא מעורר השחר , שיהא

“Sheyeha Hu Meorer HaShachar”.

The verse is the first statement of the Shulchan Aruch שלחן ערוך , a quote from Lesson One, Hashkamat Haboker / Laws of Waking Up in the Morning / HaShachar.

*From my study this week (with the Breslovers) of Likutei Halachot (a Chassidic commentary on Shulchan Aruch / Code of Jewish Law) which shows the connections and deeper meanings of the Halachot/laws according to Rebbe Nachman's lessons in Likutey Moharan.

“That he should wake up the morning”. Reb Noson explains that you are waking up the morning which is literally translated as dawn / HaShachar. Dawn is an allusion to your good points which are a little bit of light in much darkness. You need to wake these up by finding them and identifying with their intrinsic value. - Breslovcampus.org

Waking Up: Likutey Halachot (Reb Nosson) illucidating from Shulchan Aruch (I will awake the dawn.)

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

I wake the morning. - Joy

''I will awake the dawn...’' - King David (Shulchan Aruch)

הוא מעורר השחר , שיהא

“Sheyeha Hu Meorer HaShachar”.

fallen red leaves

make my heart skip a beat

and my feet

skip in joy

- Joy Krauthammer

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” - Albert Camus

"It's not easy being green." - Kermit the Frog

Lake Balboa

The green frog in the pond leapt from the stone into the water.

The photographer was disappointed that her quote had no frog, so she shot a green-headed duck.

"It's not easy being green." - Kermit the Frog

Lake Balboa

"It's not easy being green." - Kermit the Frog

Lake Balboa

TREES week 45

Enjoy more Trees:

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

Palm Trees 1

Edith's Garden 11.3.2014

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Palm Trees 2

Woodley Park 11.5.2014

Palm Trees 3

Woodley Park 11.5.2014

Palm Trees 4

Woodley Park 11.5.2014

Palm Trees 5

Woodley Park 11.5.2014

Palm Trees 6

Woodley Park 11.5.2014

Palm Trees 7

Woodley Park 11.5.2014

Trees 8

Woodley Park 11.5.2014

Trees 9

Woodley Park 11.5.2014

Trees, Stream 10

Woodley Park 11.5.2014

Palm Trees 11

Edith's Garden 11.3.2014

Palm Trees 12

Edith's Garden 11.3.2014

Palm Trees 13

Edith's Garden 11.3.2014

Palm Trees 15

Van Nuys Boulevard

Palm Trees 15

Across the street 11.4.2014

Pine Trees 16

Garden of Joy 11.5.2014

Pine Trees and Palm 17

Garden of Joy 11.8.2014

Pine Trees and Palm 18

Garden of Joy 11.8.2014

Sunrise Pine Trees and Palm 19

Garden of Joy 11.6.2014

Figs grow on tree in fall at this wrong season because of climate change.

Normally figs on this tree look like this in May for last 34 years.

They will freeze... and die because the current heat can't be sustained into winter.

Garden of Joy

Figs grow in fall, wrong season because of climate change.

They will freeze... sad.

Garden of Joy

Grapefruit Tree Ripens fruit

Garden of Joy

Sunrise Moon over Pine Trees

Seen from Garden of Joy

Gum Ball Tree

Lake Balboa

Ducks Under Tree

Lake Balboa

Trees and Flying Egret

Lake Balboa

Trees and 4 Egrets

Lake Balboa

Trees and 2 Egrets, Swan and Fisherman

Lake Balboa

Tree Bark

Lake Balboa

SCARY week 44

OPENED MY EYES and AWARENESS and saw the world of scary chaos and evil, not just Halloween masks that I was shooting for this week's "52 Frames" challenge theme.
I don’t read papers, nor watch TV to see/hear horrific news, nor watch scary movies. I turn down NPR radio when there are words of evil.

Please read the thoughts I had this week while driving to photograph scary masks, and thinking about the truth of SCARY.
- Joy Krauthammer, October 31, 2014

http://joys-prose.blogspot.com/2006/11/scary-52-frames.html

Scary

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Scary Ghost 1

Scary Ghost 2

Scary Ghost 3

Scary 1

Scary 2

Scary 3 Guy works in Halloween store

Scary 4

Scary 5

Scary 6

Scary 7

Scary 8

Scary 9

Scary 10

Scary 11

Scary 12

Scary 13 Mold

Scary 14

Huge apartment builing with hundreds of units on totally busy main street

where already cars can't move in traffic.

Scary 15

Hmm, wonder how this cake creation tastes.

Scary 16

Preparing mask.

WINDOWS & DOORS week 43

Reflection of sinks, and sister with broken foot on 'knee walker' mobility vehicle.

Thank goodness for accessible bathrooms.

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

4th floor reflections on far windows, seen through windows
© Joy Krauthammer

Love playing in garden performance space, Jewish Women's Theatre

Smile is the "goal" at hospital

Pierce College Farm

Train sans windows

Cage doors

Stained Glass WINDOWS, Shma, V'Ahavta, The Tree of Life - Etz Chaim,

Valley Beth Shalom

by artists David and Michelle Plachte-Zuieback

Love playing in this chapel.

Older Doors and Windows post:

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

LANDSCAPES week 42

Misty Morning Sunrise

Garden of Joy 10.13.2014

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Misty Morning Sunrise Landscape 52 Frames

Garden of Joy 10.14.2014

Misty Morning Sunrise

Garden of Joy 10.14.2014

Mushroom Landscape

MACRO week 41

Insects

Garden of Joy

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Weed

Garden of Joy

Weed Detail

Garden of Joy

Egg from Edith's son's backyard chicken

Pam Frond

Garden of Joy

Lantana

Garden of Joy

Canna Lily

Garden of Joy

Rose

Garden of Joy

Rose

Garden of Joy

Succulent

Garden of Joy

Succulent and spider web

Garden of Joy

PAIR week 40

"This week our focus is on the concept of pairs. Evoking the number 2, but also a sense of balance, of a matching, a set, drawing on our notions of sameness, similarity and difference, this is a theme with surprisingly many possibilities." - 52 Frames.

Pair of Scissors 52 Frames

Pair of numbers

Crop, Edit, Splice

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Optical Pair on Pear

Pair of Pears as Pairs of Fruit

Pairs of Pears X3 as Pairs of Fruit

Chopstix Pairs with Pair of Food

Chopstix Pairs With Tofu and Veggies

Selfie

Pairs of legs, jeans, socks, Birkenstocks, stools

Pair of Cat Eyes

Pair of Filled Heart Halves

Pair of Tomatoes

Two Pair of Legs

Pair of Mall Doors

Double pairs of planters and double pairs of poster people

Pair of Escalators

Pair of Store Signs

Pair of Guys

Pair of Asian Lions

52 Frames, Pair of Numbers

I've paired up with 52 Frames!

Friend Edith and Her Coffee

9.30.2014

Ceramic Salt & Pepper Shakers, Worm Series

by Joy 1970

Pair of 52 Frames Scissors
Pair of Vision Glasses On a Pear
Pair of Vision Glasses On a Pear
Pair of Vision Glasses On a Pear
Pair of Pears on Plums
Pairs of pears and pairs x3
Pair of Chopstix 3x
Pair of Chopstix with Veggies and Tofu

Pair of Chopstix rice and asparagus
Pair of Chopstix salad,

a Pair of Blue Jeans on Pair of Legs wearing Pair of Birkenstocks and Pair of Socks resting on Pair of Apple Stools.
Pair of Boobs
Pair of Cat Eyes

Pair of Filled Heart Halves
Pair ot Old Vine Tomatoes
Pair of Work Legs
Pair of Automatic Doors
Double Pairs of Planters and Double Pairs of People
Pair of Escalators
Pair of Macy’s sigs on Pair of Mall Levles
Pair of People
Pairs of Lions
Pair of 52 F Numbers
Friend Edith and Her Coffee
Pair of Salt & Pepper Shakers, by Joy, era 1970 / shot later

FROM WHERE I STAND week 39

From Where I Stand

at the Intersection of Universal Peace Love and Joy

Chopstix Graffiti by Joy

"This project is all about sharing our perspectives on the world with one another, our unique vantage points and worldviews. No two people share exactly the same position, so “From Where I Stand” is a great opportunity to show us where you stand." - Shai, 52 Frames

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

From Where I Stand

At Universal Peace Love and Joy

Me and My Shadow

Chopstix Graffiti by Joy

From Where I Stand

Ripples are made.

COLLABORATION week 38

Apple Creatives Collaborate on Collage

"Adjust your frame of reference, if need be. Reframe your perspective. Retool your mainframe. Geer up for the last 15 frames of the year, and let's make them Freakingly Ridiculously Amazingly Monstrously Exceptional." Shai, 52 Frames

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Collaboration with 91 years young Edith, Rocky, Sumo, and their dogsitter Olga.

Visiting dog and nephew, are Terrier and Maltese.

Collaboration with 91 years young Edith, Rocky, and dogsitter Olga.

Visiting dog is Terrier and Maltese.

Collaboration with 91 years young Edith, Rocky, and dogsitter Olga.

Visiting dog is Terrier and Maltese.

Dog Collaboration: Sumo

Collaboration with partially eaten hard-boiled egg white from friend's son's backyard chicken.

FRAMED week 37

"Drawing attention to your subject through strong "framing," is an integral skill for all great photographers. This week the framers framed like there is no tomorrow, with spectacular results. Check out how each photograph tells its unique story through carefully planned and posed framing, serendipitous natural framing, or creative interpretations of the theme." 52 Frames

Framed Bike

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Framed Palm Tree Shadows

G*d is my light and my salvation. "Hashem Ori v’Yish’i" - Psalm 27:1

© Joy Krauthammer

Framed Flower Jasminoide

Garden of Joy

Framed Orange

Edith's Framed Melon

Edith's Framed Rose

Framed Flowers - Bougainvilleas

Framed Bromeliad

Garden of Joy

Framed Sago Palm

Garden of Joy

Framed Edith Sago Palm

Framed Mushrooms

Framed Raindrops

Garden of Joy

Framed Water Frame

Garden of Joy

Framed Water Frame

Garden of Joy

Framed Sunrise

Garden of Joy

Framed Full Moon

Garden of Joy

Framed Knee Walker

Framed Sunset Selfie

LOVE week 36

Painted hearts for my beloved sister on the occasion of sister badly breaking her foot.
(Yesterday post surgery, was another long LOVING day at the hospital.)

We are in Jewish month of ELUL.

"Ani L’Dodi, V’Dodi Li."

"I am for my beloved and my beloved is for me.” - Song of Songs 6:3

אני לדודי ודודי לי

"The Creator of all things fashioneth their hearts alike;

Who understands all their deeds." - Tehillim / Psalms 33:15

“Ve’ahavta L’reyacha Kamocha”

"You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” - Leviticus 19:18

LOVE

acrylic on canvas

runner ups, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:

Young mom with LOVE carrying son.

Sister with cotton cast being removed from broken foot, cared for with LOVE by sister, Joy.

B/W so trauma colors are not visible

(A core commandment of Judaism is "LOVE your neighbor as yourself" (Leviticus 19:18), sometimes called the Great Commandment. This commandment stands at the center of the central book in the Torah. The Talmudic sages Hillel and Rabbi Akiva indicated that this is the central commandment of the Torah. The commandment emboldens individuals to treat each other as equals which requires first valuing oneself in order to be able to mirror that love onto others.)

RECENT LOVES

LOVE

photos and collage © Joy Krauthammer

Daddy Loves You

photos and collage © Joy Krauthammer

GINGER week 35

Ginger: gingi hair, ginger ale, ginger snaps, ginger bread man, crystalized candy, crystalized ginger chocolate covered, root, cookies, paint color, sister, my Purim wig- a strawberry blond.

My spiritual friend for 2 dozen years, Charles Sherman, absolute GINGI.

http://www.CharlesShermanArt.com

When I programmed Timbrels of Miriam, International Women's Day conference, 3.8.1992,

University of Judaism, L.A. with many workshops, and also curated an art exhibit of 18 artists, Charles was the only male I invited.
Spiritual artist, feminist, and dear friend (and potter, as once I was). -Joy Krauthammer

Charles Sherman

Sherman Infinity Designs

http://www.CharlesShermanArt.com

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Charles Sherman

Sherman Infinity Designs

Charles Sherman

Sherman Infinity Designs

Charles Sherman

Sherman Infinity Ring

Charles Sherman

Sherman Infinity Designs

Charles Sherman

Sherman Infinity Designs

Charles Sherman

Sherman Infinity Designs

Charles Sherman

Sherman Infinity Designs

Charles Sherman

Sherman Infinity Designs

Charles Sherman

Sherman Infinity Designs

Golden Ring Shadow

Charles Sherman

Sherman Infinity Designs

Charles Sherman

Sherman Infinity Designs

Egg & I

Charles Sherman

Sherman Infinity Designs

Selfie © Joy Krauthammer

Joy with a Gingi

Charles Sherman and Joy Krauthammer

Sherman Infinity Designs

Ginger Candy for Motion Sickness on Catalina Cruise

Ginger Ale

Ginger Crystallized

Read Prop. 65 Warning

Ginger Powder

Ginger Root

Ginger Snaps

Missed the Ginger Bread Man

Dark Chocolate Covered

RECENT GINGIS

Gingi

Gingerbread House, Costco (shot later)

This is my 1st FRAMERVERSARY !!

52 consecutive weeks of 52 Frames member submissions.

I began in 2013.

SILHOUETTE week 34

Doves Family

More birds:

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

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Doves Family II

Bougainvillea

Garden

ICE week 33

Drinks, Rubber Duckies, Broken Foot and Perigee Full Moon

Aqua Fresca

5 Iced Fruit Drinks Sample

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs

View Drinks, Rubber Duckies and Broken Foot

Yellow Rubber Duckie In Ice

Sunny Side Up Rubber Duckie

Yellow Rubber Duckie In Ice

Sunny Side Up Rubber Duckie

Yellow Rubber Duckie In Ice

Sunny Side Up Rubber Duckie

Yellow Rubber Duckie Out of Ice

Yellow Rubber Duckie Fainted from Being Frozen In Ice

I killed my Rubber Duckie.

Froze my duck in ice, let duck in ice melt for photo shoot, and now my yellow rubber duckie won’t float.

Will report you to animal safety! - Andre S

Did you record the death? - Fran VR

Did you at least get an awesome photo? - Dena LB

Cruelty to animals. - Barbara LB

Aqua Fresca

3 Iced Fruit Drinks

2 Iced Fruit Drinks

5 Fruit Drinks In Ice

Fruit Juice in Ice

Green Ice

Purple Ice

Peach Fruit Drink

Nectarine Fruit Drink

Watermelon Fruit Drink

Kona Ice Truck

3 Kona Ices

Horchata or Something Else in Ice

Badly Broken Heel on Ice

Badly Broken Heel on ICE and Crutches

I.C.E. In Case of Emergency

ICE on the Perigee Super Full Moon

QUIET week 32

Peace Rainbow

8.3.2014 7:08 pm

Please G*d, bring Peace to the Middle-East.

A rainbow is a reminder of the covenant that G*d made with Noah, his descendants, and all living creatures.

Seeing a rainbow in the sky:

בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה' אֶלוֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם זוֹכֵר הַבְּרִית וְנֶאֱמָן בִּבְרִיתוֹ וְקַיָם בְּמַאֲמָרוֹ

'Holy One of blesSing, Your Presence fills creation,

You remember Your covenant with all that You created.'

"This is the sign of the covenant that I am placing between Me, you, and every living creature that is with you, for all generations: I have set My rainbow in the clouds... The rainbow will be in the clouds, and I will see it to recall the eternal convenient. " Genesis 9:11-16

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Peace Rainbow

8.3.2014 7:18 pm

Please G*d, bring Peace to the Middle-East.

Peace Rainbow

8.3.2014 7:15 pm

Peace Rainbow

8.3.2014 7:15 pm

Peace Ripples Sunset

Peace In My Heart

"As water reflects one's face, so to the heart of one to another."

כַּמַּיִם, הַפָּנִים לַפָּנִים-- כֵּן לֵב-הָאָדָם, לָאָדָם.

Bathe in the Quiet of the Moon

Full moon’s illuminated side is facing the earth.

How glorious is Your Name in all the earth, for which You bestow your majesty upon the heavens. When I behold Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou has established. Tehillim - Psalms Chapter 8:2,4 תְּהִלִּים

Perigee Super Full Moon

8.9.2014

Perigee Super Full Moon

8.9.2014

Perigee Super Full Moon

8.9.2014

Perigee Super Full Moon

8.9.2014

Perigee Super Full Moon

8.9.2014

Perigee Super Full Moon

8.9.2014

Perigee Super Full Moon

8.9.2014

Perigee Super Full Moon

8.9.2014

Perigee Super Full Moon

8.9.2014

Horsetail at Sunset

Garden of Joy 8.7.2014

A Last Fig of the Summer

Garden of Joy 8.5.2014

A Last Fig of the Summer

Garden of Joy 8.5.2014

Oranges at end of Summer

Not Quiet Enough

Mom Dove and 2 of 4 young doves, maybe 2 months old.

Shooting the 2 Dove parents and 4 babies, they heard me through a window and fast, flew away.

Quiet on a Thursday afternnon following Torah class

From the Other Side

Quiet on a Thursday afternnon following Torah class

Silence

Memorial Plaque

APPS week 31

Recreate an 'app feel'

No Instagram: use all other available techniques -

filters, post-processing, or careful composition.

(Because I do not use phone apps, nor Instagram) for this week's challenge, I had a fun time and
Used filters in FOTOR categories and choices:

Scenes/Lanscape, classic cool summer/sparta, classic/fudge sunday, classic/lomo/ sunset, classic/Lomo Life, Vignette/blues, art/rusty, Effects/Ancient and Border-Simple /soft haze

After

Palm Tree Dates

I wanted the dates and a bit of frond in focus, and I achieved that.

Perek Shira, chapter 3: The Palm is saying,

"The righteous flourish like the palm tree, they grow like a cedar in Lebanon." Psalm 92:13

Before

Palm Tree Dates

Perek Shira, chapter 3: The Palm is saying,

"The righteous flourish like the palm tree, they grow like a cedar in Lebanon." Psalm 92:13

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Palm Tree Dates

Perek Shira, chapter 3: The Palm is saying,

"The righteous flourish like the palm tree, they grow like a cedar in Lebanon." Psalm 92:13

Palm Tree Dates

I wanted the dates and a bit of frond in focus, and I achieved that.

Perek Shira, chapter 3: The Palm is saying,

"The righteous flourish like the palm tree, they grow like a cedar in Lebanon." Psalm 92:13

Used filters in FOTOR categories and choices:

Effects/Real-Illusion, Tilt shift F2, Adjust, Highlights/shadows, Vignette, color filter, Intensity.

Detail/blur, tint, temperature, Border Simple/Mist Grey, Font/Alex Brush

Palm Tree Dates 2

Perek Shira, chapter 3: The Palm is saying,

"The righteous flourish like the palm tree, they grow like a cedar in Lebanon." Psalm 92:13

In PhotoShop my goal was to achieve similar effects to Fotor. Using a similar photo I tried.

I was not able to successfully export the edited iPhoto to PhotoShop, nor to desktop with Export with the pink colors I had chosen. Edit wouldn't work either in "Current" photo export.

Fig

Garden of Joy

Lots of little pieces of fig on leaves left from squirrel overhead.

Used filters in FOTOR categories and choices:

Fotor: Effects/Classic/Lomo/Sunset. BorderGallery/Glassover, Tilt-Shift F 5.6, Adjust, WM/Photoshop
AND

Fig

Garden of Joy

Lots of little pieces of fig on leaves left from squirrel overhead.

Fotor: Effects/Classic/Lomo/Sunset. cropped. BorderGallery/Mist Grey, Tilt-Shift F 8, Adjust, WM/Photoshop

Which FIG do you like better??

Bunny in my Garden

Colors messed up in iPhoto

Lavender Lantana

Playing in Photoshop with Digital Brushes

Please G*d, Peace

Digital Paint in Photoshop

NEGATIVE SPACE week 30

"Negative space – the space in between and around the main subject(s) in a photograph - is an important concept in minimalist photographic composition. Negative space may be used to tease the viewers’ imagination, or the component of the photograph which enhances the message of the main subject." - 52 Frames

Sky Bird and Santa Susana Mountains

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

2 Half Mushrooms

My very first try at 'burning'.

(Didn't want a blade of grass to peek through.)

2 Parial Mushrooms

3 Mushrooms

One Mushroom

Mushroom at Golden Hour

Palm Frond

Palm Frond Twine

Tomatos and GardenTools Shadows

This still life took a little effort in arranging.

Water Can and Garden Tool Shadows

This still life took a little effort in arranging.

Bird Fence

Horsetail Sky

Perek Shira, chapter 3. The Palm is saying: "The righteous flourish like the palm tree;

they grow like a cedar in Lebanon." (Psalms 92:13)

3 Palms

7 Palm Trees

Sunset

Sunset Panorama

I raced out of a friend's swimming pool to shoot these Golden hours from the front of her house.

Canning Jar Lids

Macrame'

Made this 40 years ago.

You can see I've been very inspired this week with the challenge of NEGATIVE SPACE.

From an earlier time never submitted (fashion week).

Is this Negative Space? Love PURPLE shoe.

Purple Shoe

MEN week 29

The decision to choose the photo was difficult for me because the Conductor made me happy, and yet the other solo portrait right below I think is a powerful photo, but I was not personally connected to him.

I shot more men this week and some too many hours before the theme week began. I like them, thus include them below in smaller size.

Conductor Derek Diep

Amtrak's Coast Starlight rolls through the lush green hills from Salem, Oregon, USA

to drought-dry mountains of California and the foggy coastline of the Pacific Ocean.

Conductor Diep had a happy smile and was more helpful than the Parlour Car attendants. I helped clean the smudgy windows so that I could take 800 photos while on the moving train for two days.

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Man, Salem, Oregon

Greyhound Bus and Amtrak Train Station

Man, Salem, Oregon

Greyhound Bus and Amtrak Train Station

Cantor Yosi W.

Ruach HaAretz, Oregon

T-shirt worn during time of Israel defending herself.

Mini Sidur bought in Israel, 2001 embellished with Happy Face sticker

that I put on man's prayer book in Israel when I first met him.

David, Chef, Canby Grove Center

Our last retreat lunch with delicious left-over wild caught salmon.

Ruach HaAretz, Oregon

Aryae C. (Mincha leader) singing Happy Birthday to wife Wendy

as she also plays at retreat closing ceremony.

Ruach HaAretz, Oregon

Man with very long braid down back, Mensa member

riding Amtrak train Parlour Car

Rabbi Wayne D.

Ruach HaAretz, Oregon

Saying adios until next retreat time.

Not Runner-ups:

shot a day too soon

Rabbi Wayne D.

Ruach HaAretz, Oregon

During a prayer service remembering our beloved Reb Zalman, z"l.

shot a day too soon

Rabbi Elliot G.

Ruach HaAretz, Oregon

shot a day too soon

Man

Ruach HaAretz, Oregon

shot a day too soon

5 Men Named David

Ruach HaAretz, Oregon 7.12.2014

WOMEN week 28

I submitted Women Drummers immediately to 52 Frames because being a woman drummer, I am partial to women drummers. In addition, I had concern that I may not have internet the rest of the Women week at the retreat center in the forest of trees, and that became truth, so I'm glad that I made an immediate submission with first photo. Reality is that I think I have many other fine Women photos and present them below.

Women Drummers

Kirtan at Ruach HaAretz, Canby Oregon

Basya Schechter, Paroah's Daughter, and Jessie

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Blue Hair Woman

Waiting at LAX airport

Blue Hair Woman

Waiting at LAX airport

LAX Airport Woman

Rabbis Shefa, Diane, Leah

Ruach HaAretz, Oregon

Rabbi Shefa Gold

Ruach HaAretz Morning Davenen, Oregon

Rahmaneh, Morning Prayer Facing River

Ruach HaAretz, Canby Grove, Oregon

Rahmaneh, Morning Prayer By River 2

Ruach HaAretz, Canby Grove, Oregon

Rahmaneh, Morning Prayer 3

Ruach HaAretz, Canby Grove, Oregon

Rahmaneh, Afternoon Prayer

Ruach HaAretz, Canby Grove, Oregon

Women Pray Early Morning Overlooking River

Ruach HaAretz, Oregon

Woman, Ripples in River

Ruach HaAretz, Oregon

Selfie at the River

Ruach HaAretz

Marcia B and Judith Hankin

Ruach HaAretz

Judith-Kate Friedman

Ruach HaAretz

Prepares us for Erev Shabbat

WET week 27

Catalina Island

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Parachute, Catalina Island

Kayaks, Catalina Island

Boats Harbor, Catalina Island

Catalina Island

Pool Reflections

Selfie Happy Person, Catalina Island

GOLDEN RATIO week 26

The Golden Ratio, Golden Mean, or Golden Spiral is a proportion that creates a sense of harmony and balance. Seen especially in nature, art, and in architecture, it is a ratio of approximately 1.618 to 1. In a photo, it is the "sweet spot" when the subject in a particular point appears most appealing. The Fibonacci spiral found in seashells and sunflowers, follows this ratio.

Misty Sunrise

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Red Rose

Garden of Joy

Rose

Garden of Joy

Echinacea

Fibonacci Spiral

Petunia and Bird's Nest

Garden of Joy

Figs

Garden of Joy

Fence

Garden of Joy

Lola

Edith's Garden

Movie Going Home

World From Above

Going Home

Purple Case Riding On Escalator

Going Home

Train Tracks

Going Home

Mirror Selfie

Mirror Selfie with Sister

~ ~ ~

3 Shots one week too early :(

Spirals, street art

Spirals, downtown Silver Spring, Maryland

Flying High

Fibonacci spiral

shot last summer so can't use for submission this week.

Edith's Garden

Golden Ratio

shot a day too soon for theme.

Riding The Sun ~ Summer Solstice

Celebrating 2nd Birthday

5PM week 25

Riding The Sun ~ Summer Solstice

Celebrating 2nd Birthday at 5pm

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

5pm Happy 2nd Birthday party

(Baruch Hashem, no rain this day!)

PAINTING week 24

The Scream

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

No Stopping Any Time

PAIN week 23

OUCH, Pain

and a trip to the doc.

Was hard for me to shoot photos of PAIN. Too much heart-wrenching and physical pain in our world on many levels. This is why I don't watch TV or news, and rarely go to the movies.

But I had to meet the 52 Frames challenge. (Haven't missed a week.) Glad my daughter suggested on phone this set up (painless) OUCH shot after I'd both shot and consciously not shot many visible scenes.

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

OUCH, Pain, dead bandaged Magic Mouse

One fall to new mouse is all it took :(

Ms. Mockingbird (in her bush) mourning the death of her baby

following its unsuccessful flight landing.

Under a nearby tree, as I admired the pretty wing markings no longer to fly,

with care I buried the innocent little baby bird.

With sadness, I feel the mom’s pain.

Mama bird mourning her loss

She won't find baby bird because I buried her.

Pain relief is reduced by Boji stones.

Pain relief is helped by Boji stones.

Pain from damaged fingers.

Fingers' Pain relief helped by Paramedics.

Pain relief for others helped with Fireman's pole.

Pain seeing fallen grapefruits to ground are ruined.

Pain seeing darkened windows in friend's, obm, home today

couple hours after her death.

I wouldn't photograph the sad grandchildren who expressed their tears to me.

I also won't show viewers the dead baby bird.

Too much PAIN.

Hydration Pain relief is helped by water.

JOY week 22 June 2014

Joy I feel as I "Serve G*d With Joy".

“Ivdu Et Hashem B’Simcha” - Psalm 100:2

"Serve G*d With Joy"

“Ivdu Et Hashem B’Simcha” - Psalm 100:2

JOY is catching a Sunbean with which to serve G*d.

Double Joy and Light

"This week was dedicated to the photography of all things joyful.

Enjoy an album of laughter, blissful moments, exhilaration, or just the simple things that delight us. If you can look through this album without smiling, you’re not doing it right!" - Yosef, 52 Frames (Album on FaceBook)

What are your unique gifts from the work of your hands?

HAND of JOY

open our hand...

to touch others... to love others…

to inspire others... to uplift others

to reach out for what is right, and justice...

to add and increase a smile on the faces of others
to heal.
To receive.

On this Sephirat haOmer day during Kabbalistic week of Malchut
where Divine Presence is fully revealed

in Bikkur Cholim/visiting the sick

In Tiferet/compassion
I touched, gently stroked the the tissue-thin delicate skin on elderly hand

and covering soul

of my friend

on hospice

knowing

I can share my hand with hers

only for the next few days

as G*d wills it.

- Joy

Sun.
Hand reaching out to source as I serve G*d in Joy,

endless, countless ways of being in JOY.

Countless ways of seeing and sharing joy.

IN JOY with my hands: I bless, express, kiss, give, share, take, reeive, hold, touch, smooth, heal, plant, harvest, water, turn, color, roughen, throw, pot, weave, photograph, paint, drum, dance, sign, turn pages, read, click mouse, swim, dial, play ball, bake, create, write, type, wash, feel, eat, massage,

make puppet shadows, hang frames, hold bubble bottles, babies, hands, and share love notes.

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service.

I acted and behold, service was joy.” - Rabindranath Tagore

"A person reaches in three directions: Inward, to oneself. Up, to G*d. Out, to others.

The miracle of life is that in truly reaching in any one direction, one embraces all three."

– Rebbe Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev

"Our hands are the holiest part of our body because they reach the highest." - Reb Shlomo Carlebach

Coming through Malchut/Sephirah attribute of ultimate individual expression, through my hands, holy vessels, I feel the flow of Joy from the Divine, as I offer personal gifts, and they are received. BlesSings Abound.

from Omer Day 44 ~ Radiant JOY of Shechina

From where does my JOY come that I "Serve G*d With Joy"?

In my garden each morning for my prayers, I face East toward Jerusalem.

I feel the Indwelling Presence, the strength of the Holy One infuses me with the Glory of Gifts.

In the darkness, waiting for sun to rise, my heart expands in joy receiving arrival of colors aligned amongst clouds and mountains and seen through trees, of the rising sun. The swift hummingbird sits quietly observing atop the fig tree, and nearby, Ms. Mockingbird sings also on an uppermost branch, and radiance appears to our world with a starburst of transcendent brilliance. I am already full, full as Malchut and filled with joy, joy to Serve G*d With Joy. “Ivdu Et Hashem B’Simcha” - Psalm 100:2

- Joy Krauthammer

More JOY:

http://serveg-dwithjoy.blogspot.com

http://joy-shared.blogspot.com/2012/04/gates-to-gilagates-to-joy.html

http://joy-shared.blogspot.com/2013/10/wake-up-to-joy-and-encourage-joy.html

and http://joy-revealed.blogspot.com

Gates of Gila

שַׁעֲרֵי גִילָה

My name, Joy, is the ultimate description of my strongest quality. I have courage to follow my heart, and to take a stand, speak out, challenge contemporary plagues, and pursue Tzedek / justice and Emet / truth.

I do Tikkun Olam and help to fix and improve our world, to open the Gate of Gila.

My Hebrew name is Gila (greatest joy of happiness) Rena (joy of song) Tzohara (window for radiant light at the top of Noah’s ark to reveal G*dly energy). Gila Rena Tzohara translates to "Double Joy and Light / Paahmayim Gila v'Ohr." My double Joy mission is to make a Tzohar / window in my life and allow the Divine grace of CHESED with joy to illuminate every action.

A Joy Key is knowing that my name reflects my Neshamah / soul. I will reach the heavenly gates knowing (as did Reb Zusha) that I was myself: Joy in Four Worlds: Spirit, Mind, Heart and Body. My joy flows through the 6th Gate, Yesod sh b'Chesed, in a Shefa / abunDance of awe, creativity, communication, and Chesed / loving-kindness.

My joy fills in the 49th Gate in Malchut sh b'Malchut.

- Joy Krauthammer

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Aviva and daughter

Greatest JOY when I'm not with granddaughter thousands of miles away,

is when I can skype with her and her mommy, my daughter.

A very spontaneous shot, I photographed the iMac screen with my family waving to 52 Framers.

License ZGIZUNT

I am so filled with JOY when I find and photograph special themed personalized vanity license plates.

I have many hundreds of plates within fun themes.

Luckily this car was parked on street.

This same one I also have from 2009.

Car owners have JOY when they see me photographing their plates.

License DANCN love R

Seeing the license, I chased this car for a few miles

and I'm happy that through my just washed car windshield I could catch it while driving.

This goes in my ARTS license collection.

Turtles

Feel JOY seeing turtles, but not so much when they are in a tight water container

instead of a lovely pond.

They all came swimming quickly toward me.

Fish

I feel JOY watching the colorfish swim and creatures swim in a tank, although I'd rather be snorkeling with them.

For my upcoming birthday this week, a dear friend took me for a delicious early lunch at a favorite Chinese restaurant. I had joy with my friend, and my friend had joy watching the fish.

More photos from one day of feeling JOY while witnessing different scenes and objects.

I also felt joy eating a marshmallow because that was my husband's, z"l, favorite.

And JOY when I ate roasted little brussel sprouts, and JOY having Shabbat lunch with special people, joy bringing lots of fresh fruits for dessert to lunch, and especially being with a dear visiting friend, and joy in walking on a city street with jacaranda and magnolia trees, and joy in have home-made guacamole at shul kiddush, joy at receiving an Aliyah, and seeing my friend also receive one, and seeing special people at shul, and joy in being in the Workman's Circle especially because I knew that many decades ago, that Yiddish organization was important to my beloved immigrant Grandma, z"l. I had joy in seeing the Jewish themed mural on building's side, especially since I'd heard sad news about the art, and a recent anti-semitic act. I had bitter-sweet joy being able to stand with a friend while in shul she said Kaddish for her father, z"l. I felt joy in walking on a street with wide expanses of sidewalk. Joy seeing an auto license plate that I was sure belonged to a friend in the area. My joy is endless.

Peony

I felt JOY seeing the flower, petals, color, and outer petals, looking like an egg shell.

It is rare for me to see a peony, and this made me happy.

First Tomatoes on my vine

JOY I feel seeing the first big tomatoes on my vine, and they are growing.

I've only planted cherry tomatoes in the past.

Two little dogs

These dogs that I'd never before seen, barked at me when I arrived at a home,

then immediately they took their happy place on the couch, and I felt JOY in seeing them.

I'm happy seeing the purple Agapanthus/Lily of the Nile flowers outside.

Menorahs

Visiting a friend in her family's home, I felt JOY seeing these lovely Menorahs/Chanukiyot and shofar.

Maya Angelou, obm

Hearing of the death this day of Maya Angelou, I removed a JOY pendent with glass art and beads, from my large fun JOY collection so that I could photograph the light catcher.

This JOY gift from a friend, was merchandised by Maya Angelou.

The pendant makes me happy.

Card says, "Poet, author, entertainer, mother, sister, friend, role model. Maya Angelou is these things and more to people all over the world...a universal voice of hope and inspiration.

With compassion and candor, her work speaks to the heart, inspiring us to love life, to persevere through its challenges, and to share our gifts with others."

BOOKS week 21 May 2014

Could not choose only one, or old or new, or... They are my FRIENDS.

Joy's Mysticism Books and a bit of Reb Shlomo, z"l

Two of 33 shelves, double deckered, front to back

Ah, one of my photos went on display THIS WEEK

to illustrate Pirkei Avot in an exhibition of Rare Books at American Jewish University. :)

Hope to get a photo of photo in exhibit surrounded by books.

BOOKS THEME. Just remembered this OLD painting copy in my CA home, and also from when I was a child, 6 decades ago in NY. Too bad I dusted off the cobwebs to photograph. Should probably donate this to some other library...I can probably photograph cobwebs on my husband's, z"l, countless bookcases... NO ONE bought more books than my husband. (He had intended to read them when he retired, but after countless years of cancer, died at age 59.)

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

2 of 35 shelves double deckered

Jewish Women Book

Library of Joy

FORCED PERSPECTIVE week 20 May 2014

The forced perspective technique manipulates our human perception with the use of optical illusions to make objects appear larger, smaller, farther, or closer than they actually are. Relationships are created through visual trickery.

Sky Painting or Deleting Contrail with White Out

A Selfie

"Visual Trickery and Controlled Perspective."

runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Grapefruit Harvest

Garden of Joy

Full Moon Energy

With Vivian

Vivian's Gift To Our World

"It looks like crystal ball. It looks like I am going to give it to somebody as a present. But who deserves the crystal ball?! A poor person, a kind person, a hard working person, a fierce leader?" - Vivian

Seize the Full Moon Moment

a Selfie

Joy plays with the full moon. A OK.

A Selfie. What animal is this?

G*d and WoMan

Full Moon and Vivian

Ouch, too hot to hold.

Vachag tries to grab full moon.

Red Roses in Blue Vase

MORNING week 19

Good Morning

Wake up with a lot of Joy

MOVIE SCENE week 18

Driving Miss Daisy

DRIVING MISS DAISY, a comedy-drama about prejudice and 25 years friendship that crosses faith and color lines. Pulitzer Prize winning 1987 play by Alfred Uhry adapted for Academy award-winning movie, 1989, in English and Hebrew.

A favorite because I had interviewed playwright for a magazine article. The Atlanta, Georgia character in real life is buried near my beloved Grandma, z’l.

FOCUS week 17

Where to Focus Love and Passion?

Sometimes (like Mama Bear) blinded by one's own life.

Sometimes need glasses to focus.

BABY BEAR is focusing on what’s important, holding a SHIN button that stands for G*D, and quiet, shh,

Other visible buttons I've collected include:

FEAR NO ART © Andre Miropolsky--MAKE MY DAY--WOMAN OF POWER--LOVE CAREFULLY--I AM LOVED--THE ARTS IN LIFE--LA JEWISH ARTS FESTIVAL--LA WALK FESTIVAL--CAL ARTS, ETC.

Aviva suggested idea to use my glasses

YES, I chose the Bear as FOCUS photo over my interestingly focused Sago Palms.

Idealism over 'perfection'.

Shot 4 years ago

Preparing for this week's theme FOCUS.

AND runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

I shot about 100 Sago Palm interestingly focused photos that need NO editing.

Sago Palm

Garden of Joy

Sago Palm

Garden of Joy

Sago Palm

Garden of Joy

Sago Palm

Garden of Joy

Sago Palm

Garden of Joy

Focus on Repairing the Cracks

Focus on pleasures in life with family

ABSTRACT week 16

Lunar Eclipse 4.15.2014

Red Moon

Watched Lunar Eclipse for an hour, as Earth's shadow moved across the moon.

AND runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Waving HI to the golden moon

Lunar Eclipse 4.15.2014

Abstract of Red Moon from Earth's shadow.

detail

Abstract Building Lines

Edith's Rose

FURNITURE week 15

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

Stools

Feel like I'm at the Cheers bar when I sit at the Apple store.

Joy shooting Apple stools by Stephanie Smith

For upcoming '52 Frames' Ted Talk by Yosef Adest.

YOSEF'S TED TALK (interim week 20)

That's ME photographing stools on floor of Apple store.

Photo by Stephanie Smith shown LIVE on TED TALK in ISRAEL, Ben Gurion Univ.

by Yosef Adest, speaker, CEO, 52 Frames.

Mother's Day, May 11, 2014

FUN!!!

AND runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

(Ans. Looking down on Apple stool)

Bird Nest Was My Pillow Stuffing

This is more like, "What Is It"?

My Ginny dolls and their furniture from over 60 years ago.

Partially survived my daughter 30 years ago.

Will go to daughter's daughter.

(I did not believe in Barbies!)

Where are the other table legs?

BODY PART week 14

Tongue Tastes Black Bean Tea

AND runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Selfie

Edith's Hands

Loves to nibble in my garden

Tatoo

Chumash Indian storyteller,

Chatworth Lake Preservation

Snake

INANIMATE week 13

Charge Energy to Serve G*d with Joy

AND runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Peanut Butter sans Jelly

Inanimate without mate

Ready to Roll

Vacuums not plugged are INANIMATE

BALANCE week 12

Sounds of Joy 'Balance' the Chakras

Joy's spiritual perucussion

are a balance in sounds and variety.

Balance of natural and man-made materials.

Brandeis-Bardin

Compare to Week 11:

HOME Alone With 'Drummer Joy'

AND runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Balance holds many elements; dissimilar or uniform elements.

I evaluate informal balance, symmetrical, asymmetrical balance, radial, or counter balance.

Elements include: shapes, sizes, patterns, textures, colors, contrast, space, darkness, light, quantity, lines orientation, weight, shape's visual interest, and manipulation for tension.

For 3D art, visualize an Alexander Calder mobile, balanced in space.

Joy Selfie Balanced in Her Cymbal

Reflecting Stained glass and Ner Tamid

Purple Travel Closet Balances Joy of My Soul

(bought purple embroidered coat and dress in Morocco)

Purple ribbon-embellished tallit to wear, balances as garment for my soul

For my Chochmah Simchat 60th birthday I had ribbon layers added, and name beaded on bag.

Prayer Garments Balance the Soul

During spiritual retreat Closing Ceremony, created photo collage this week from friends' talleisim. Some friends made their own, as I have done. Ahh, lots of purple.

Collage created for Lev Eisha's website cover to balance my other published photos on site.

"A Place for Spiritual Growth"

"Weave sacred vestments out of Glory and Splendor." - Exodus 28:2

Balance time of my joy with books --with rest of life...

How many 'Joys' do you see on my shelves?

Cows, Brandeis-Bardin Farm

Mother, daughter balance mom's filled teats.

Their look 'balances' my singing to them.

Horses, Brandeis-Bardin Farm

Balance of a lot of mane, and barely little mane, and dark and light.

Peacock Balances on Top of Wall

Brandeis-Bardin Farm

Pretty Sun-lit Poppies Balance My Soul

Fuzzy pods are unopened. Smooth are finished.

Yellow Balances Purple Dutch Iris

Daffodils in Balance

Still-Life

Bought the hand-blown glass vase decades ago in NY art exhibit.

Light dainty flowers balance heavy vase.

Pomegranates Balance on Tree

Tree of Life, detail, Stained Glass, Lopaty Chapel, Valley Beth Shalom

by David and Michelle Plachte-Zuieback

Lev Eisha Women

Balance Within Friendship

Lev Eisha Women register at Wagner Weekend

Joyoous Spiritual retreat weekend balances out the week.

Singing Pete Seeger Songs with Cindy Paley and Lev Eisha

Balances the Soul

and the Legacy of Pete Seeger who recently died.

Sound Man Balances Purim Shpiel Music Madness

Two Languages Balance Sides of Car

Pepper Trees Balance Sides of Lane

AJU's Brandeis-Bardin

Moon Rise Over Fig Tree

Night Balances the Day

Garden of Joy

The Moon is saying in Perek Shira:

"G*d made the moon for the festivals, the sun knows the time of its coming."

- Psalms 104:19

I appreciate question raised today by photographer in 52 Frames about personal "vulnerability". I share that truly I feel vulnerable with many personal shots. It's a challenge for me to publicly release photo or not, especially with life where I am involved, or others are visible. I think of myself, who will question and judge my activities, beliefs-- socially, politically, religiously, ethically, etc. I censor myself. Think I'm safe with garden flowers.

In my theme photo this week, I am vulnerable. Can you tell which photo?

HOME week 11

HOME Alone With 'Drummer Joy'

http://joys-music.blogspot.com

HOME Alone With 'Drummer Joy'. Packing my percussion for Purim Shpiel and Lev Eisha. (Chag Sameach.) Crystal singing bowl and rainstick for pre-Megillah meditation. Giant Djembe drum ‘hidden’ in Guatemalan bag. Small percussion (frame drums/timbrels, ethnic shakers, tingshas, mallets) packed in purple suitcases. Three music stands for drum, angelic majestic chimes (for Queen Esther), cymbal, and Woman gong (for King Ahasuerus). Giant jingle tambourine from Morocco to accompany Queen Vashti, and dumbek for Mordechai. Purple hat for hearing Megillah, and grogger for Haman {{boo}} Then back HOME afer Purim to unpack my instruments, and put away, until next week’s gigs.

HIDDEN week 10

Fish Hidden

(or Finding Nemo)

HIDDEN THOUGHTS

Thinking about "HIDDEN", realities came to mind. Personal plagues, in community, and in the world include corruption, oppression, abuse, pain (physical or emotional), PTSD, perversion, prejudice, poverty, hunger, homelessness, loneliness, grief, and loss. Hidden are feelings by women, and men when others harm us.
Passions may be hidden yet exposed by photos, by voice, by expression.
Hidden is our personal relationship to the Holy One. No one can understand or touch our Oneness, or separateness. Hidden are the Lamed Vovniks. Hidden can be Tzadaka, the highest Mitzvah/virtue. Hidden can be the donor and/or the receiver.
Hopefully the good consequences from our actions can be revealed. Is your inner truth "hidden" or revealed? What are you hiding? What masks do you wear? What do you reveal and how?
This month is Purim. We learn of G*d's hiddenness and revelation, and reversals.

AND runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Hidden Tzadakah

"Tzedek Tzedek Tirdof", Justice, justice, you shall pursue. - Deuteronomy 16:20

WHERE IS IT HIDDEN?

Inside each container is a treasure. A blesSing or _?

Hidden Bunny

or Bunny thinks he's hidden

from the coyotes and hawks and... me?

(See WEEK 21)

Treasures In Hidden Books Behind Other Books

Colored stickers help to keep treasures on pages from being hidden.

Maybe someone can make bookshelves like food pantry shelves that roll out!

All the Hidden Wisdom in these Books

Hidden Wisdom Revealed

Purple Lupine Flower Seeds Hidden

for Next Season in Pods

Closed Rose Bud Hidden beneath Rose

Potential of Fragrant Beautiful Rose is Hidden until in Bloom

Full Rose is Hidden Within Tight Double Delight Rose Bud

My Passion for Bougainvillea Flower Color is Hidden

G*d's beauty and light are revealed.

My Passion for Dark Chocolate Raisins is Hidden With Uneaten Visible Delight.

Rotten Telephone Wire Once Hidden and Now Revealed in Outside recessed Box

thus no house phones work this week.

Mint Plant Root is Hidden for Joy until Pulled from Ground

Photographer is Hidden but Partial Shadow of Camera Remains

Agave Babies are Hidden Behind and Under Mama Agave

and need transplanting

ON YOUR PLATE week 9

What's For Dinner? What's My Blood Pressure?

Spanakopita choice is On My Plate.

DIDN'T include PLATES from cars in this challenge, but here's some:

http://joys-prose.blogspot.com/2006/11/writing-vanity-auto-license-plates.html

ACTION week 8

Debut of Flying Purple Hippie Angel Bear

Togther We both went spinning to get 'panning' effect.

AND runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Debut of Flying Purple Hippie Angel Bear

Backstage Debut of Purple Hippie Angel Bear

REFLECTING week 7

more Reflecting http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2012/11/shadows.html

Reflecting... on the Golden Years

AND runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Spa Reflecting... Lagaritos 7AM

Windows Reflecting... 10 AM Palm Trees

Hummingbird Reflecting... on Morning's Sunrise 7AM

Black Wrought Iron Fence Reflecting Sunrise

with Joy Selfie

SENSES week 6

Morning Begins With 52 Frames, and All My SENSES

(As I eat, taste, smell, see, touch) I listen to my multigrain hot cereal decorated with cranberries,
and also to the birds singing.)

Cloth was my mother's, z'l, over 50 years ago (or a gift from my sister), so the feeling senses of emotion and memory are also activited.

Really pleased that this photo is the week's 52 Frames group cover photo on FaceBook.

AND runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Ownership of new Toyota Corolla ECO+

With sister and her key in hand, a Sense of new vision, smell, touch, and sound.

A taste and Sense of security, joy, pleasure, success, achievement, adventure, and environmental ‘green’ pride.
And a Sense of civic responsibility by giving away old car to American Cancer Society.

Sunrise Valley Clouds

with a Sense of gratitude for a bit of desparately needed rain.

Beer factory smoke.

Sunrise and Hawk

My SENSES are in awe with the sunrise; Love the few seconds of momentary thin radiance visible above cloud. Hawk on high pine tree.

I breathe in the cool air, and listen to the singing birds.

"The Heavens speak of G*d's Glory, and the skies tell of The Holy One's handiwork." Psalm19:2

Outside Your Comfort Zone week 5

Gopher Trap

"Outside your comfort zone" is the photo I shot this week of the drug dealer's car.

I've decided not to submit the car photo to 52 Frames and instead sent it to police.

Outside my comfort zone, today I emptied my first gopher trap catch!
To save you the gore, here is the emptied and cleaned trap back in the hole, and not the bloody catch.

After 36 years suffering with gopher damage to my garden, I finally 'bit the bullet'

and bought traps because nothing else (smoke bombs, poison, water) works.
I added long rope to underground trap in tunnel, so I could keep track of the catch.

AND runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Street Gutters

Clean street gutters I shot, so that I could then turn, point and shoot my camera

at the 'drug dealer's' car. Was not in my "comfort zone."

Took several years of letter writing, but finally this week got the City to clean the totally filled gutters.

Constant parade of drug dealers in costly cars this week, day and night, in front of my house.

Going on for years...

GREETINGS FROM week 4

Greetings from the far NW San Fernando Valley, California, my home--

AND runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Greetings from The Cowboy Palace Saloon

NW San Fernando Valley, California

Challenge walking into a bar, and taking photos of strangers, dancers, cowboy, and bartender.

Lots of cowboy hats, boots, jeans, line-dancing, drinks, western photos, and gals.

This area really is where the movies were made.

Many of Hollywood's famous had their ranches here. i.e Roy Rodgers, etc.

I could see, smell and hear the horse ranch down the street from me.

Greetings from the North San Fernando Valley

Mountains that surround SF Valley include

Verdugo, San Gabriel, Santa Susana and Santa Monica Mountains

Greetings from North San Fernando Valley

Land of lit up palm trees

Greetings from the Big Orange State and North San Fernando Valley

Vestiges of former citrus groves are still seen in residential yards and commercially-farmed citrus groves. Orange crops harvested here since at least the Roaring '20's.

Greetings from North San Fernando Valley

GREETINGS from the 114 Himalayan Deodar Cedar trees, historical Cultural Landmark

that were planted in 1932.

The North Valley, White Oak Avenue Deodar trees were used as a BACK-DROP in the renowned FLYING BICYCLES scene in the 1982 film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". Rest of film was filmed up the road.

10 years I paid rent on White Oak down the block at daughter's day school.

Greetings from San Fernando Valley

toilets in street

Black and White week 3

It's Black and White! It's KOSHER or it isn't Kosher.

What vessel in your life do you need to spiritually purify?

I put my camera through the outdoor fence and photographed the Keilim Mikvah.

All my kitchen utensils-- cooking, serving and eating, I placed in a mikveh (spiritual purication bath)

when I got married, 40 years ago.

(As I write this, it is the 8th yahrzeit of my husband, z'l.)

In B/W, trying to be more aware of surface texture, lines, shadow, and reflection.

White plastic vs. marble, and Black and White sign.

It is Black and White how this mikveh was created; with funds from shul donors.

It's Black and White, that most probably, only Orthodox Jews would know about Keilim Mikvah.

I even put my purple SUV personalized license plate in a mikveh. :) ☺

AND runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

It's Black and White, sign clearly says "NO STOPPING ANY TIME".

On a main street I stopped my car under the Black and White signs, got out, and photographed.

What's more difficult and courageous for a photographer?

"Stopping" illegally for a B/W photo, making illegal U-turns for a photo, or asking a stranger to pose?

Black Woman wearing White hat and White shirt, with White dog, Jaida.

I stopped my car and asked the stranger walking her dog if I could photograph her and dog,

and explained B/W was my project. To get the white clothing closer to dog I asked them to sit.

White lady took this shot.

Hummingbird on Fig Tree

On this morning of Jan. 17th, it is the 20th anniversary of the deadly Northridge Earthquake.

Today there is a terrible wild fire taking homes, 1,700 acres, and the sunrise color is strangely red from the fire.

Today is my husband's, z'l, yahrzeit, Jan. 17, 17 Tevet. He died 8 years ago.

It is a morning filled with 'darkness'.

I heard a Hummingbird and looked up to the top of the Fig tree,

this week of Tu B'Shvat, birthday of the trees,

and saw the tiny bird sitting on a barren branch, and it made me smile.

Another Hummingbird joined the first for a fleeting moment.

There was light.

Not left-overs, but B/W sixties shots I again shot.

Black and White is clearly what I was shooting back in the 'sixties.

In an old album of mine, from when I did my own darkroom developing and printing, I culled these photos and photographed them for this project. (Notice irregular paper cuts.)

Photo of college friend before she divorced 1st husband; Photo of banjo playing cousin, Paul, who was in movie, Alice's Restaurant.

Jamaica High School and Goose Pond before HS was recently closed.

My '67 Chevy under the hood insides when I was learning how to do my own auto tune-ups!

Couple park pics, somewhere.

Black and White strip of film, maybe 1973.

Friend Barbara AKA Shiny, with her baby in her European parents' NY home.

I photographed the B/W strip, and for a surprise today, sent to Shiny.

Friends from the 1960's.

Black and White poem

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2008/02/black-and-white.html

In the Beginning week 2

Freedom... In the Beginning

"Miriam the prophetess, sister of Aharon, took the timbrel in her hand

and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and dances."

- Exodus 15:20 Shabbat Shira, Torah Parshat Beshalach

© Joy Krauthammer

Liberation of the Jewish People and their birth as a Nation.
In exaltation of the Holy One, I raised my hand high (in this self-portrait as percussionist)
to catch the freedom and joy of the early morning's sunrise
reflecting the jingles' shadows on my timbrel, always ready to 'serve G*d in joy'.
Praise Miriam HaNeviah for trusting in G*d, miracles, and a new beginning for the Israelites.

AND runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Shabbat Shira

Parshat Beshalach

Exodus 15:20

Self-Portrait week 1

Self-Portait of artist in artist environment. Red Poles

Joys of LACMA, LA County Museum of Art membership.

AND runner ups, alternates, seconds, AKA left-overs:

Self-Portait of artist in artist environment.

pink 'geometric light projections' by James Turrell

Joys of LACMA, LA County Museum of Art membership.

Self-Portait of artist in artist environment.

Riding Huge Red Elevator

Joys of LACMA, LA County Museum of Art membership.

Self-Portait of artist in artist environment.

Happy Socks & Purple Birks visit photo show

Joys of LACMA, LA County Museum of Art membership.

Self-Portait of artist in artist environment.

Happy Socks (holiday gift from sister)

from Joy's Purple on Museum Bench series.

Joys of LACMA, LA County Museum of Art membership.

(Museum staff laughed as they walked by because they heard me say outloud to my sox, "Smile".)

Self-Portait of artist in artist environment.

Happy Socks & Purple Birks

from Joy's Purple on Museum Bench series.

Joys of LACMA, LA County Museum of Art membership.

Self-Portait of artist in artist environment.

Happy Hand

"Palm Garden" by Robert Irwin

Joys of LACMA, LA County Museum of Art membership.

Self-Portait of artist in artist environment.

"Urban Light" by Chris Burden

Joys of LACMA, LA County Museum of Art membership.

Self-Portait of artist in artist environment.

Toni Smith's "Smoke", & Ceiling

Joys of LACMA, LA County Museum of Art membership.

Self-Portait of artist in artist environment.

Toni Smith's Smoke, & Stairs

Joys of LACMA, LA County Museum of Art membership.

Self-Portait of artist in artist environment.

Golden Strings

"Penetrable" by Jesus Rafael Soto

Joys of LACMA, LA County Museum of Art membership.

Self-Portait of artist in artist environment.

Drinking Fountain Quenches Thirst in dry LA.

Not allowed to bring water bottles into museum.

Joys of LACMA, LA County Museum of Art membership.

Self-Portait of artist in artist environment.

Fountain

Joys of LACMA, LA County Museum of Art membership.

In Alexander Calder exhibit, photos weren't allowed.

From inside the Calder exhibit, I could see The Boulder, and went out to see it.

"Levitated Mass" aka The Boulder

oy vey

Joys of LACMA, LA County Museum of Art membership.

"Levitated Mass by artist Michael Heizer is composed of a 456 foot-long slot constructed on LACMA's campus,

over which is placed a 340-ton granite megalith." - LACMA

No wonder my membership fees were increased! :(

Self-Portait of artist in nature's environment. Santa Susana Pass

New Years Day 2014 Hike!

At times (with camera only in purse), a very rocky and uphill path where westerns were filmed.

CA State Historical Park

Gopher Hotel Suite Demolition by Self-Portrait Artist!

(What direction underground is that gopher tunnel headed?

Take off the roof!! Fill in the rooms!! Flood it!!)

Gopher Hotel evidence! to be destroyed!

No smiling Joy here!

Self-Portait of artist in artist's personal environment.

"Self-Portrait is a lost art"

Found link to study on 52 Frames

"Photographers" contaminating the Internet with selfies

can learn a thing or two from Man Ray and Frida Kahlo". - Salon.com

Writings on my wall are affirmations that helped me survive during years

I was a Caregiver Angel Warrior.

These are also my Self-Portrait.

(An artist friend, Moriyah, z'l/obm, had affirmations on her wall while she was burdened with cancer,

and learning from her, I felt I had permission to spiritually support myself this way.)

~ ~ ~

The ONLY other time I'd held out a camera for a 'selfie', was with a friend and her new mezuzah on door post, and my NEW expensive camera landed on her marble floor.

SELF PORTRAIT

an artist of joy

My self-portraits are of me, Joy, in joy, appreciating the environment filled with form, color, companions, art, nature, inspiration, man's genius, music, more. My senses are alert, my spirit and energy activated.

Lingering for many moments many times in same experiences, notably at my favorite museum LACMA, and capturing the moment, one of many moments, portrays part of my identity; An artist and appreciator, in an art space.

For last few decades I drive into LA to LACMA flashing my membership card and enjoy the same contemporary installations over and over again. I can still feel one outdoor mural installation (no longer alive) where I stood within the scene.

I'm grateful to enjoy with my sister, an art historian.
With all the Self-Portraits above, she can see why I kept her waiting at each exhibit.

~ ~ ~

More fun Self-Portraits scattered in:
http://joys-fun-fotos.blogspot.com
~ ~ ~

52 Frames by Joy Krauthammer

Jan. 10, 2014

WHY DID YOU JOIN THIS PROJECT? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO GET OUT OF IT?

If you can take a moment and really explain THE WHY. I want you to really sell me on it. For example: To instill creativity in my life because I’m busy and I miss it, etc.. or I’d like to see something through and be consistent because I usually quit things, etc.. Your response here will not be shared with ANYONE ELSE, except yourself, at a later date ;)

- Yosef Adest

My 19th week since week 35 in 2013.

Asked to join immediately when I got excited seeing the photos and themes of 52 Frames. (Never was in a photo group except for classes decades ago.) My other art has been exhibited in groups. I'm not in any art classes at this time thus support is nominal. (I used to teach ceramics.) Thought the challenge of weekly themes would be good for me. Much of my previous work is in themes of my choosing.

I thought that I would receive critiques by 52 framers, of my photos, but that has not happened, maybe because my work isn't on the higher level as others. I appreciate getting LIKES (and they feel good) but I don't learn from LIKES. I try to give comments to many others about why I like their photos, but stay away from the technical side.

A goal for me is to share the passion of photography with other photographers who are in this community; To enjoy their eye and artistry. To become a better photographer with my little point and shoot that I use most days for recording pleasure and beauty. Can't carry a larger SLR any more. I try to view many of the photo learning LINKS sent our way, but I can't keep up, especially now that there are over 80 new people sending info. I try to open the sites of as many 52 framers as time allows. I am inspired by others' great creativity, imagination and skill. Most of my personal community may be tired of responding to my photos.

Regularly I have always gone to museums exhibiting photos.

I hadn't expected to share compassion, and joy with others, but I do while responding to their comments, and vice versa.

BlesSings, JOY

What I realize I left out of my response is important. 52 Frames is based in the Holy Land. What truly appealed to me is that many of the members are Jewish, and illustrating Jewish life through their photos is what I discovered during the time I joined, at the High Holidays. I want to be part of a Jewish artistic group. My whole history in art has been involved with Jewish art.

http://joys-art.blogspot.com/2009/12/52-frames.html

20 comments:

Shelley FJanuary 6, 2014 at 11:08 AM
Hi Joy-
I love "red poles" ! You are beautiful!!! "Happy Sox and Birks" makes me smile!
Great start to the 52 weeks (week 1). !!!
X Shelley
FayeJanuary 17, 2014 at 11:50 PM
(Hummingbird on Fig Tree)
Amazing Joy! Such a blessing to see.
Faye
AmyFebruary 10, 2014 at 8:41 AM
(Senses)
This is very cool, indeed!
I love the fluorescent yellow placemat against the cranberries!
Your senses are very unique.
Amy
EdithFebruary 10, 2014 at 8:42 AM
(Senses week 6)
CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Edith
Barbara KFebruary 10, 2014 at 8:43 AM
(Senses week 6)
what a WELL-EARNED accomplishment.!!
kol haKavod!!!!
here's to a WONDERFUL week!!
barbara
Les Goldschmidt - 52 FramesFebruary 19, 2014 at 8:47 PM
(Reflecting - Golden Years)
Nice how the incandescent bulbs cast a golden glow over the residents, while your WB is set to natural light in the foreground.
I also think that the anonymity adds to your theme.
This way, I think many of us project the faces of loved ones who have been in a similar situation.
Lisa Steinhardt - 52 FramesFebruary 19, 2014 at 8:47 PM
(Reflecting - Golden Years)
This shot evokes some really powerful emotions in me.
FayeFebruary 22, 2014 at 7:06 PM
(Backstage Bear, week 8)
WILDLY Mysterious. I quite like the graininess.
Amy HMarch 2, 2014 at 1:26 PM
(On Your Plate - Week 9)
I do love the way you did the plate of spanikopitas!!!!
It looks as though it is coming out of the bag…intentionally, I'm sure.
Your textures are great!
And your temperature contrasts are great, too, with the hot spanikopitas and the frozen chicken!
Jeanette SMarch 24, 2014 at 7:05 AM
(Talleisim collage for Lev Eisha)
Dear Joy,
That is a beautiful photo and I love what they did with it. Bravo!!!
Love,
Jeanette
Shira S.May 26, 2014 at 10:10 AM
Books week 21
Love Books. Mysticism ..topic is my favorite and your choice of books & arrangement of them is very inviting..
Great composition and the hanging shofar makes it quite intriguing.
Like the way you incorporated your name adds another spiritual element.
Love, Shira
Rabbi Nadya GrossJune 1, 2014 at 9:13 AM
(Books - Week 22)
Dear Joy,
Thank you for sharing this with us. I know that you don't need incentives or reminders to do good deeds. Your chesed is your signature. And to know that you have dedicated your kindness and sparkle this week to Karyn's aliyat Neshama is just so special.
You are a blessing.
Merle RAugust 27, 2014 at 4:55 PM
Ginger - Week 35
HI Joy,
I just took a quick peek at your 52 Frames; and not all of it. My are you amazing!!
Your pics are delicious, curious, fun, inspiring, and joyful to boot!
Hugs to you, Merle :)
FayeAugust 27, 2014 at 4:57 PM
Ginger - Week 35
Lots of fun, Joy.
Love, Faye
HeshaAugust 27, 2014 at 4:59 PM
Ginger - Week 35
wow oh wow. i just went through and viewed all your art, i mean pictures !
you have such an artist's eyes and you look so happy and pretty.
you have lived such a full full life, i’m VERY proud of you and the woman you have become joyalah.
hesh
Amy HSeptember 14, 2014 at 8:04 PM
(Framed - Week 37)
What an amazing amount of work here!
There are so many that I really do like.
The frame under water is a mind-trip! The mushrooms are quite interesting. The drips of water off the leaf are lush. The palm shadows on the wall is quite a catch.
There are so many good ones in this bunch…and you still have time to chat with me!!!!!
HOW DO YOU DO SO MUCH?!!!!
FayeSeptember 14, 2014 at 8:05 PM
(Framed - Week 37)
Very cute set, Joy! Much fun.
Love, Faye
FayeSeptember 14, 2014 at 8:13 PM
Feb. 3, 2014
My Joy
Stupendous sets!
You utterly amaze my eyes
--except your joyful appreciation of our world,
I've long known.
Faye.
Faye MeltonNovember 29, 2014 at 6:49 PM
Devotion looks like all of your sunrise and other nature shots, Joy. Intense Adoration
I reap the rewards of your devotion by seeing the moments you've caught.
Gloria OrensteinDecember 13, 2014 at 6:57 AM
(Contrast - week 50)
Dear Joy,
The photos are so fabulous! The skies ---it’s like the cosmos is gifting you with these special skies that love you---and look at your vision l! Wow. I think your art-photos are really spectacular--they are just perfect--and a testimony to a life that honors family and nature and everything from the smallest to the largest in creation. You are extraordinary. I would comment on the different groups of photos, but there were so many that I can't remember them and have to see this again and again. They are so vibrant and often funny too. I enjoyed it so much, but the blazing skies are unforgettable. You are living in the Garden of Eden.
Lots of love and admiration. Shabbat Shalom.
Love, Gloria

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