JOY's FAVORITE FOTOS: April 2012

All photos, copyright by © Joy Krauthammer.

To use, permission needed by Joy Krauthammer.

"What day is it?," asked Pooh.

"It's today," squeaked Piglet.

"My favorite day," said Pooh.

"A great day for photos," chimed in Joy.

I'm grateful for having been a 52 Frames member in
2013

"Fifty-Two Frames is a collaboration of photographers, sharing the best of their work to a weekly theme." - Yosef
(Read Congratulations note at end.)

Below enjoy my 2013 weekly theme submissions to photo group "52 Frames"
AND runner ups, seconds, AKA left-overs

52Frames

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

THEMELESS week 52! Official 52 Frames! see watermark!

I crouched on OTHER SIDE!

Sunrise Reflection

begins a new day, and a new year this week.

A lot to say about a little photo

Sunrise Reflection is especially meaningful to me. It is a photographic challenge I anticipated. Last week I couldn't have done this shot; the fence was totally covered in vines.

In the dark before 6am, each day I wait for the sun to flash light and color on the horizon, maybe vibrant orange or intense fuchsia. (Maybe enrobed in thick grey clouds.) After painting the sky, the sun rises and shines her radiating face. If there are no magnificent colored clouds, as on this very windy day--the sky is clear, and the photo focus is elsewhere than on fascinating clouds. Today my focus is on the sun's light reflection on the other side of my garden's black wrought iron fence, although I can't see reflection from my camera viewpoint.

Standing or crouching on flat corner ground on my safe side of the fence, holding tightly with one hand onto the sturdy fence, not to be blown over the section of adjacent unfenced property edge in the powerful wind, I carefully thrust my camera through the now stripped and revealed fence to this photo's visible side. With fast disappearing glow, seconds of reflecting sun light, with one hand, I shoot the scene with finger on same hand grasping camera, although I can't see the viewfinder. Whew. Where my camera is, I can't stand on the side of fence because of immediate steep drop down to street!

For the prior couple weeks, I've been removing (with the gardener) all the mature gorgeous Hardenbergia vines spreading out from the center of perimeter of my garden. The Hardenbergia had a dozen years of dead inner vine growth, maybe 100 feet long, 6 feet high and 3 feet deep. Hmm, a metaphor for something... This was an emotional painful process to remove Hardenbergia vine, as the adorable, teensy purple wisteria-looking cluster babies were coming into blossom view. (When would it have been a better time to prune this beloved vine?) Also removed the Honeysuckle vines from fence at the far end of my hillside property. Beyond the Hardenbergia, growing down the slope, is yellow flowered Honeysuckle. The Honeysuckle vine was uncomfortable on my back, as I pushed up against it in my thin pajamas, trying to shoot sunrise, and see color and mountain vistas beyond trees that block my vision. Honeysuckle also had pushed it's unwelcome way into the Hardenbergia, and resisted removal!

At the fence's far opposite end closer to my house, is the awesome Passion Fruit vine I'd also planted, with the most amazing purple flowers and fruit. Recently, again, the Passion vine was attacked by nasty Barnacle Scale. I knew I had to take down the vine in order to save it. We saved the thick core trunks of the three separate vines, each so different and individual in it's personality, shape and color. For years, I'd lovingly woven the beginning vines through the fence bars until I had no more access. Now the vines are thick, and also curled on fence bars. For years I've spent time detaching, and attaching the vine's curly tendrils to better places to adhere (not to my adjacent roses!).

Today I can see through the fence, which for years I'd been trying to avoid, wanting to have my garden privacy.

The revealed blesSing is that I can photograph the sun's golden glow reflecting on the fence, and see the moment's image in the photo. I share Sunrise Reflection with you.

- Joy Krauthammer

The above sunrise fence photo may not be as "lovely and peaceful" as another long horizon scape,

but it was my most difficult personal photographic challenge this week!

In week 52 photos, as in week 51 photo, I've tried to use Rule of Thirds.

Sunrise Palm

1st Runner up Alternate

Unprotected in the powerful wind,
trying not to be blown over, I wait
until the palm lifts her feathery frond
to envelope and reveal the rising sun.
- Joy Krauthammer
12.2013

Sunrise Pine
2nd Runner up alternate
© Joy Krauthammer

Big pine blocks my view

40 years old hides sunrise

red glows through needles

- Joy Krauthammer

Woven Hardenbergia Vines
Hopeful potential of what can BE & FLOURISH once again.
3rd Runner up alternate
© Joy Krauthammer

OUT OF FOCUS week 51

'Out of focus' memories come more into view with yahrzeit memorial candle lit against the rising sun.

'Bokeh balls' IMO Marcel, z'l, today his 8th yahrzeit.
Seeing the wick flames tht matched the orange sunrise color pleased me.
I share the vision reflected onto and seen through my window.
© Joy Krauthammer

Palms Out of Focus and In Focus
What is that 'tree' dead center that could be mistaken for a palm in the distance?

1st Runner up Alternate

Hardenbergia raindrops
older photo
© Joy Krauthammer

SHADOWS week 50

CSUN DUCKS
I even shadowed my ducky white name! I like it!
I like the duck looking at his shadow.
I like the diagonal separating water and ground.
I like the broken curved-shaped ground that resembles a ladies' head wrapped in a hood on lower right.
I like the 3 ducks with their tushies pointed up on upper right

I love ducks! A pair used to live in my garden. I fed them challah, bagels and matzoh.

Each year the ducks would waddle closer to my door, and that pleased me.

I called the local golf course to tell them if they were missing ducks, they were "here".

I scoped out this pond to see if there were turtles for my granddaughter's pleasure, but instead I found lots of ducks.
If I am offered a meal of 'duck', I refuse.

Poppy in December

I like single bright colored flower's simplicity and fallen petal over shadow.

1st Runner up Alternate

Poppies in December

I like the whimsy of dancing shadows.

With wind blowing, it wasn't easy to get poppies inside photo frame.

2nd Runner up Alternate

Rose Bush Shadow and Selfie © Joy Krauthammer
I like seeing my camera.
I like waving to my selfie and to you.
3rd Runner up Alternate

Shadow Self-Portrait Cart © Joy Krauthammer
I like the solid shadow vs. the countless open tiny shadow cart wire shadows.
4th Runner up Alternate
Runner up Alternate

More Shadows:

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

ABSTRACT week 49

River of Light

Ceramic Vessel by Joy Krauthammer

I like the glaze diagonal.

I like the colors, shapes, texture, mystery of the glaze painting.

glaze detail © Joy Krauthammer

Cave Woman
Ceramic Vessel by Joy Krauthammer
1st Runner up Alternate

glaze detail © Joy Krauthammer

Child's Rocker

2nd Runner up Alternate

Palm Tree Bark

3rd Runner up Alternate

Maya's Unused Arrangement of Magier's Magnet Tiles

4th Runner up Alternate

5th Runner up Alternate

More Glaze Painting ABSTRACTs:

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

More Joy's Art:

http://joys-art.blogspot.com/2010/03/hi-i-loved-making-ceramic-masks.html

SHOT FROM BELOW week 48

Menorah, Local Mall

HAPPY CHANUKAH ~ CHAG SAMEACH

This menorah is not only special to me because it represents a symbol of my faith

but in addition,

3 decades ago, feeling like a Maccabee,

I facilitated the placement of a menorah for the FIRST TIME

in this location in my neighborhood mall.

I was tired of ONLY having visible red and green decorations of another faith every time

that I was in the mall during several weeks at end of year.

Where was my holiday?

Mall administration told me that I needed an organization behind me, to do what I envisioned,

so I went to one of the Boards of Directors where I was active, and of course, they backed me up.

At that time, I asked Chabad rabbis to build a large menorah for the Tribe to stand in the mall,

and they did!

Around 3 1/2 decades ago, 1979ish, I requested a menorah to be on Federal property,

and for the FIRST time at the Sepulveda Veteran's Administration Medical Center (VA)

an "equally large menorah" as I requested, was placed "adjacent to others' winter holiday large decorations"!

The VA Rabbi Joseph Elsant, z'l, wrote and thanked me for their FIRST menorah!

This menorah meant more to clergy and the veterans, than it even meant to me.

Since then I also lobbied for Jewish clergy to be on staff at a local hospital

where until then, Jewish rabbis had been excluded.

The new hospital clergy, Chabad Rabbi Eli Rivkin, proudly brought in menorahs for the hospital lobby and for patients!

I am grateful. It feels good to know I've made a difference, as have my local rabbis.

More Chanukah photos: http://templemenorah.blogspot.com/2009/06/temple-menorah.html

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Escalator Up & Down

Runner up Alternate

Mall

2nd Runner up Alternate

Mall Ceiling

3rd Runner up Alternate

Palm Trees

4th Runner up Alternate

Palm Tree

5th Runner up Alternate

SHOT FROM ABOVE week 47

"Raindrops on roses..."

"My Favorite Things," the first piece of sheet music I bought for myself as a child, to play on piano.

Yes, even Thanksgiving and Chanukah week, in S. CA, we have gorgeous ROSES.

Barnacle Scale, Ceroplastes cirripediformis
armored wax, destroying my divine Passion Fruit vine
1st Runner up Alternate
© Joy Krauthammer

Mall Escalator
2nd Runner up Alternate
© Joy Krauthammer

17 month old keeps in step with the big girls
3rd Runner up Alternate
shot too soon
© Joy Krauthammer

ONE LIGHT SOURCE week 46

From Inside a Chandelier

Persimmons & Passion Fruits shot through a Crystal

Edith & family grew the fruits.

Edith's Persimmon

on her mother's crochet tablecloth

I love the way light shows translucency of persimmon.

I love the way repeated crochet pattern looks like a persimmon.

Runner up alternate, not submitted

Edith's Persimmons and Passion Fruit with Window

2nd Runner up alternate, not submitted

FASHION week 45

FASHION

Mine is the Twiggy shot at the fancy shoe store portal with fun mirrors. The model's fashion is Birkenstocks, Arizona style, still after all these decades, and also with current fashion of angel wings sweater (which was a gift). Model couldn't care less about fashion, as her daughter attests. After shooting dozens of shoes, model settled for the self-portrait in a fun mirror. :)

Joy's Shoe Palace

Mirrored Portal Montage

1st Runner up alternate, not used for submission

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com

Shoe Palace Mirrored Portal

While creating the 8 photos, photo montage from my vision for '52 Frames' FASHION theme week,

I got stuck and postponed (gave up temporarily) project. Pages program crashed 16 X during process.

Was fun to transform the local fashion Palace.

The fancy sandals and colorful sneakers are from a few different shoe stores.

I put them neatly back on shelves when finished photographing.

Waiting for the alternating light on left side window to change to purple for 2 seconds

I would quickly try to catch the purple and I did.

Runner up alternate, not used for submission

JOY's FASHION PURPLE PASSION

2nd Runner up alternate, not used for submission

Fashion LIGHTS

Have a few favorites here especially the 'Tiffany'.

3nd Runner up alternate, not used for submission

SKY week 44

Rainbow Double

New Moon almost

Runner up alternate, not used for submission

FAMOUS QUOTE week 43

Woods and Slide

Slide and Woods

Runner up alternate, not used for submission

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep."
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost 1922

My interpretation of the photo's metaphoric imagery for poem's last symbolic stanza is that "woods"/ageing/death/Makom arrive, and connotations can be inviting. But as a grandma, personally I have sooo much to 'be' in the present and 'do' in future with my one year old granddaughter. With a smile, SLIDE into miles of Life with camera in hand!

- Baby Boomer Bubbie, Joy Krauthammer

CITYSCAPES week 42

Enjoy CITYSCAPES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrRqJ0w4WXs

I traveled to visit my grandbaby in rainy Maryland from sunny California, and I shot CITYSCAPES with whatever was in front of me. As a member of 52 Frames photo group, this was our week's theme. Turned several photos into a short slide show. 1:34

Likes and Comments are always appreciated.

Sunset Blvd. Closed

US Gov't. Closed

Landing in LA

Runner up alternate

Dinos in Maryland

Runner up alternate

LANDSCAPES week 41

Sunrise looking East

from my garden landscape

Sunrise looking East

from my garden landscape

Runner up alternate

SMELL week 40

Clean or Dirty

Black 'n White

Smell
Runner up alternate 1/2

Smell
Runner up alternate 2/2

GREEN week 39

Agave

Green Bug On Green Apple
Runner up Alternate

First GREEN photos I shot last week (and did NOT submit) were of a green insect on a green apple tree blossom, and then on another branch, I shot green apples!

Then, next day I drove past a LARGE green sculpture of Kermit the Frog on the roof of Jim Henson's LA studio.

MECHANICAL week 38

Phone insides

WHAT IS IT? week 37

Combed Cat fur hair for birds' nests

Bon Bon Tail and Paws

Runner up alternate

SHOOT FROM THE HIP week 36

Roberta, harpist, and listeners

Faye harvesting grapefruit

Runner up alternatS

MUSIC week 35

My FIRS submission as member of 52 Frames - 2013

Edith on Shofar

Joy's Garage Band

Runner up alternate

More music:

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

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copied from 52 FRAMES WEEKLY SUBMISSION FORM

"YOU DID IT!!!! Congratulations on completing 2013′s 52 Frames!!

"You have elevated your year. You have elevated the world, actually, by bringing to light your new creations each week. You have inspired the masses and impressed crowds far and wide, right down to their perfect, creative core. But more importantly than any of that, you have accomplished a personal goal. A goal which was not easy, was not without hardship, but a goal worth fighting for, worth every sweat and frown and click of the shutter and click of the mouse. Worth the hours thinking, shooting, sorting, editing, and posting. Because you have proven to yourself that your creations are important. That creativity should take up just as much space as obligation, for it is in this space that we can bask in our true selves, and momentarily peak into the creative beyond. Beyond the chatter of daily decision and external influences. Beyond the blinding city lights and cacophonous externalities that swirl around us every moment. Beyond all that, that is distraction, and into perfection. Perfection of witnessing a perfect moment in time, and capturing it for others to partake in this wonderful paradigm. A space where we can all join in, and take a moment; silence the internal chaos, and just observe the beauty and perfection that surrounds us.

"A goal worth fighting for, indeed.

"Congratulations. The only thing left to do now is get ready for [2014] week #1. Because ya got a whole new glorious year ahead of you. Creativity awaits… :) "

- Yosef Adest

Dec. 28, 2013 Joy's last 2013 submission SUNRISE Reflection on Fence

12.28.2013 Glad for this note above from Yosef, lead photographer and 52 Frames project co-creator, because I, Joy, had been deciding this week that too much time was spent on this 52 Frames project and my others (chores) were neglected. Indecision was hard for me, on which single weekly photo to submit.

For this last one, "Themeless", I even redid the project (which no one else knew), and waited again yesterday from "the other side of the fence", for the sun to rise. The similar 2nd shoot, was best. This 2nd is more minimal. SUBMITTED!

I'm actually crying as I reread the Congratulations main paragraph. I'll continue 52F in 2014.

- Joy

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