JOY's FAVORITE FOTOS: Submissions to 52 Frames 2017

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

Love our sharing 52framers. - Joy

Joy's 52F Archives:

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

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

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

My 2016 weekly theme submissions to photo group "52 Frames Photographers":
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theme runners up, alternates, seconds, outtakes, AKA left-overs:
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Ending 4 1/2 years of 52 Frames now while on Leave.

ENDINGS week 53

Last theme of year 2017.

Ending my 52Frames ‘Streak' since August 2013 to very end of 2017 on week 53.

End of Night - Sunrise

complementary colors

Ending my 52Frames ‘Streak' since August 2013 to very end of 2017 on week 53. Taking leave for awhile, but playing ghost because I LOVE 52Frames. You know that, Yosef and dear Framer friends.

"End of Night" photo from Garden of Joy means the new day at dawn must be differently disciplined for me and always Heartfelt in joy. Ending of preparation for 52F 2017 submissions.
Extra credit, Break the Rules

Breaking rule of subtle watermark. Purple signature is half lenth of image instead of 1/6th, as I prefer (along with very low opacity).

BlesSings for you in 2018 - breaking out of comfort zones, and breaking rules, Streaking, Photo Walks, Commenting, Zucchinis, and for loving sunrises that end nights and bring illuminating light and expansive JOY.

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

End of the Road

Peppertree Lane, Brandeis-Bardin

Pillow Block & Stones

End of Life, visitors leave stones at grave.

End of Waiting Empty Grave

Preparation to be Filled

Waiting Empty Grave

to be filled at end of Chapel Funeral

Waiting Empty Grave

to be filled at end of Chapel Funeral when Life has Ended.

Ending of Stirrups and GYN Pap Smears

Ending of 42 hour Fast with IV in Preparation for Procedure

Ending of preparation for colonoscopy

Dandelion seed ends in wholeness before winds blows.

Last blooming Peace Rose on bush before pruning.

End of adult coloring book coloring my 2nd page

as I finish bird in purple and on Face Time show scan to my grandchild.

JOYous JOY painted for end of year 2017

End of the gopher tunnel.

I must make it end of the road for gophers!

Palm trees ending at the top have new fronds

Genus: Mahonia (or Berberis) Specy: xmedia, oiwakensis Hayata subsp. lomariifolia Family: Berberidaceae

upright stoutly branched evergreen shrub to 6 ft tall, with large dense foliage, arching, bluish-green spiny-toothed spear-shaped pinnate leaves composed of up to 21 lance-shaped leaflets, and small, cup-shaped bright scented yellow flowers borne in upright erect, clustered racemes/spikes to 35cm long in late autumn and winter

Yellow flower endings with lots of blooms left

found near Chinese restaurant after end of two day fast

for rear end procedure.

Shot on sister's iPhone. Returned days later for more photos.

Ending of a lovely day spent with visiting Tucson friends at Brandeis-Bardin.

Listened to a lecture on Art in Israel by Jean Paul.

End of week preparing for Shabbat at retreat.

Midnight ending of day and year 2017

Caught the tail end of air show

Garden of Joy

BLACK WHITE MINIMALISM week 52
Minimalism is represented by light, lines, form, shadow, texture and negative space
almost closing out 2017

Forbidden, not allowed, Salt & Soy

Salt on manager's black reflective counter, Chi's Chinese, fave food

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

Soy & Salt & Pepper on table, Chi's Chinese

Salt on bench, Chi's Chinese

DRIVE BY week 51
Shot through passenger window

Winter Holiday Lights Reindeer Night

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

Winter Holiday Lights Reindeer Day

Winter Holiday Lights Reindeer Night

Winter Holiday Lights Night

Winter Holiday Lights Reindeer Night

Tree. Winter Holiday Lights

Winter Sunset

blue tree lights NOT Drive By, shot minutes earlier

Chabad Menorah & Rabbi Meir Rivkin NOT Drive By, shot minutes earlier

TRIPOD week 50
Fence = tripod

Sunrise

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

Sunrise

5 SENSES week 49

Chicken Soup

Before Shabbos I stopped by the Kosher butcher at other end of my Valley to buy prepared matzoh ball and chicken noodle soup. Sadly, the recipe for kneidlach changed when shop was sold. I’ve been shopping there since 1977, over 4 decades, and must remember not to buy the matzoh balls anymore. I had loved the elderly European men, especially Sol, that used to work the counters.

The hot kasha knish was still yummy (different and maybe better), and the pretzel challah was a fun new taste for me, but the kneidlach were not good. The elderly men would not have liked those at all.

I photographed all the 5 senses plus Sense of Wonder from music to velvety purple Mexican Sage, but my own authentic ethnic background touched me the most, even if my own family, obm, wouldn’t have approved of those matzoh balls.

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

REMO gift from Remo Belli

Cutie

First Smellorama movie I ever saw was when I was a teen and at Radio City Music Hall.

Movie was with an orange being cut in China.

Sunrise Pines

Garden of Joy

Velveety Purple Mexican Sage

Garden of Joy

Super Full Moon

Sense of Awe

Super Full Moon

ACTION week 48

Windswept Italian Cypress and Palms

Action is Sun quickly rising, light ever changing, entering the horizon, framing waving Palm fronds.

Saying my sunrise prayers outside, Action was the Frond, stretching, reaching high in the powerful wind, and with Cypress tree, windswept, bending down far and over.

Action for myself was trying with difficulty to stay grounded and not blown over down the hilly slope as I stood at the edge, unprotected.

POCKET CAMERA week 47

Shot with a camera always in my pocket

Lampposts LACMA

Urban Light by Chris Burden

Urban Light is a large-scale solar-powered, cast iron, uniform grey installation by Chris Burden, obm, located at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The 2008 installation consists of 202 restored street lamps from the 1920s and 1930s. This public art sculpture is open and accessible 24/7. My fave happy place to go in LA, especially at night to see children of all ages, and brides play.

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

Lampposts LACMA

Urban Light by Chris Burden

Lampposts LACMA

Urban Light by Chris Burden

Purple Birks Selfie

from series LACMA PURPLE SELFIE ON A BENCH

LACMA

Sunrise Pines

Water Fountain LACMA

LIFE week 46

Twins

Twins run in my family. Some close ones are no longer with us...

I honor life, and the memory of souls, obm.

Week 46 is published on the birthday of my beloved soul sister, Suzanne, obm. Suzanne was the “memory keeper of our times”, of my life --as we were best friends since college in the sixties. Her death one year ago left a continuing sad void in my heart.

(Why do I buy jumbo eggs when there are usually twin yolks and I do not eat yolks? At least this week I used them!)

Extra Credit: Passion about family twins and memory, and also eggs as every day I eat egg whites.

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

Yellow flower

Yellow Canna

LOVE

Purple Hair 80 year old

Strawberry

Sunrise I

Sunrise II

Sunrise III

Sunrise IV

Sounds of Joy

DOORS week 45

Family Tree

Extra Credit: Tell a story

Doors to creating a new life together.

Opening these doors throughout every day, I enjoy seeing my family who live far away.

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

Doors into my childhood.

My Ginny Doll's dress closet over 6 decades ago.

INVERTED week 44

Pumpkin Ginger

TEXTURE week 43

Sago Palm reproductive forms / Cycas revoluta - Sago Cycad

Megasporophylls

On non-recognizable mysterious forms, I was looking for TEXTURES with surface irregularities, details, curves, patterns and drama. Although I shot (non-flowering) Sago Palm seed pods / Cycas revoluta - Sago Cycad in the morning, I then waited all day for Golden Hour to bring out the deeper warm golden color of Megasporophylls, the protective fertile female reproductive structure groupings of Cycas.

Joyously I explore nature, uncover and reveal the hidden beauty. I love the textures outside on the Megasporophylls, furry finger-like cycads, forms that conceal the inner round exposed ovules, orange/red hairy seed pods that may contain an inner embryo if pollinated. The cabbage-shaped female cone will slowly open up when receptive to pollen.

The ‘fruit' ovules are not enclosed in an ovary but lie naked on leaflike structures, a bed of thorns. The pod area surrounds upper trunk and under the new “flush” of unfurling leaves/spine/spears.

I positioned my camera INSIDE the ‘womb’ of the Sago Palm weirdness mystery to shoot the fascinating seed pods. It was like an ultrasound. It felt like opening a coat, carefully spreading its tight ‘leafy’ furry fingers and palm, and exploring the hidden inner space of golden globes, 'eggs in ovaries’.

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

Sago Palm reproductive Seed Pods / Cycas revoluta - Sago Cycad

Sago Palm Spears

new “flush” of unfurling leaves/spine/spears.

Sago Palm Spears

new “flush” of unfurling leaves/spine/spears.

new “flush” of unfurling leaves/spine/spears

barbs on petiole of the Sago Palm

New “flush” of unfurling leaves/spine/spears.

Squash

Asparagus bottoms

Cantaloupe

Pumpkin

Squash

Pine Cones

Pizza

SIGNS week 42

One of my lovely local rabbis, Ahud Sela, giving us the smile sign to celebrate Sukkot in the Sukkah by holding up a ritual Lulav and Etrog (citron) that I will shake together in six directions and bring them to my heart with each direction. These objects are symbols unique to the annual Jewish holiday Sukkot at the beginning of the new year.

Shot in Maller’s wonderful Sukkah (temporary hut) decorated with Sukkot ‘signs'.
© Joy Krauthammer

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

Sign of Pollination!

Dragon Fruit Flower aka Pitaya

night blooming cereus Hylocereus undatus

With bee inside/on top of female part, the stigma, top of pistil-- of the Pitaya, Dragon Fruit flower closing at about 6" wide after only one night of opening. Flower probably opened a dozen hours earlier. Male parts with pollen seen on lower right: Anthers on tips of stamen.

Observed for iNaturalist

License

Sign for Halloween

FOOD week 41

Sign of Holiday

Mogen Dovid Harvest

Persimmons, Pomegranates, Guavas

BLUE HOUR week 40

The blue hour, a not-so-distant cousin of the golden hour, is a specific time of day when the light in air is a beautiful blue.

Blue Hour 6:01 AM

https://www.facebook.com/52frames/photos/a.1848595195165592.1073742497.180889155269546/1848601048498340/?type=3&theater

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

Blue Hour 6:20 AM

ABSTRACT week 39

The best thing about abstract photography is that it gives you permission to see (and show) a different interpretation of the 'real' world. With abstracts, we take a break from trying to copy the world in front of us. Instead of trying to recapture what you see in the real world, into a perfect razor-sharp composition, you can shoot simply using your imagination and creativity.

In abstract photography, you strip away the usual expected context of a subject and capture only the essence of the subject. Look carefully at your subject and slowly remove all the ‘non-essentials'. Focus more on shapes, forms, lines, color, pattern, andtexture. This process is an excellent exercise for all types of photographers. It teaches you to pay attention to the smallest details, to be aware of colors, to look for textures and to SEE how light is an essential component of a photo. -Yosef

Sound Bath

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

Teva

Purple Sound

Peggi's Table Runner

Joy's High Holiday Tallit

B'nai Horin Name Tags

Joey Derusha's music

Ray's sound board

Pepperdine 911 Memorial

WATER week 38

Enjoy my watery

"Ripple Reflections #2 With Joy"

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

Sunset Umbrella

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

Purple Water Fountain I

Purple Water Fountain II

Purple Water Fountain III

CHOOSE A COLOR week 37

Figs from Garden of Joy

Luscious fig crop harvested from 37 year old mama tree, and shared weekly all summer with community.

Last week shared with the local Fire Station woman captain and her crew. (There were local terrible giant fires last week.)

Created and submitted my own purple figs composition instead of using all the color groupings I found in store displays and shot. Added displays as ‘alternates’ to my site.

http://joys-garden.blogspot.com/2013/02/fig-tree-collages.html

Purple Figs, Garden of Joy

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

Purple Potatoes

Purple Cauliflower

Purple Cauliflowers

Red Chiles

Sunflower Detail

Sunflower

Red Roses

Green Pear Tree

Green Dragon Fruit First on Cactus

Green Dragon Fruit Bud Closed

Green Palm Trees

Purple Nail Polish

Blue Nail Polish

Purple Bottle Tops

UNEXPLORED week 36

Traveling Inside Favorite Lavender Essence Shampoo Bottle

Thrills me to see purple bubbles inside my almost empty purple bottle, if I shake it. Shooting into the sun creates a tiny world of magenta color and weirdness for me to explore through a very narrow passageway.

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

Unexplored Temp

Unexplored

COLORING

coloring is like drumming

My first ever Adult Coloring Book page from a swirly set called "CALM" (meant to be relaxing). When viewed in B/W I thought the paper design looked like underseas life that I love. Somehow I ruined 'calm'.

I found that coloring within the lines was like making a beaded necklace, choosing what bead shapes and colors to string together, and where to leave 'white' spaces with 'spacers'..

Recently at a Lev Eisha of Los Angeles-A Joyous Community of Jewish Women women’s retreat I made a beaded necklace and I realized that beading was like drumming... where I put my colorful percussive sounds and where I leave empty spaces for silence (like knots between pearls). So now I understand that coloring is like drumming!!! :) Highly recommend them all.

hmm, WHAT DO YOU THINK?

PS. Was a bit like coloring in Shrinky Dinks as I did last week with my little granddaughter, but we baked those art works and shrunk them.

New A/C in 120* temp.

New IV in ER

New ET ER test

by Faye remote

Unexplored Prickly Pear Cactus Flower

NIGHT week 35
Week 35 begins my 52Frames 5th Framersary year as a Warrior Streaker!!

This was the week of the eclipse and Rosh Chodesh Elul

"Even in the darkness a light shines for the upright, gracious, compassionate and just." - Psalm 112:4

Hard decision to submit between the Heart Light and the alternate Light Painting.
Heart felt more emotional to me although I've never before done Light Paintings.

Back of House

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

Light Painting

South Toward Santa Monica Mountains

Arch

Fig Tree

Garden of Joy

House Back Light

House Front Light

Naked Lady Lilies

Garden of Joy

Naked Lady Lilies

Preparing for work 6:52AM

POETRY week 34
Completes 4th Framaversary year.

"Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou

"The caged bird sings

with a fearful trill

of things unknown

but longed for still"

"The free bird thinks of another breeze

and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees”

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

edit

Hard decision on which to submit:

“The Swing” by Robert Louis Stevenson

"How do you like to go up in a swing,

Up in the air so blue?

Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing

Ever a child can do!"

First birthday of my littlest Cutie Pie

Love Sunbeams I call Sunbursts

MY BACKYARD week 33

My 'inner' backyard when I visit my family on the other coast.

Daughter reads to her daughters in early morning.

This is the “beauty of everyday life."

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

Wasn't my backyard, but entry to a Maryland park, used as backyard for my grandchildren.

iNSPIRED BY A FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHER week 32
Aug 7, 2017

Robert Mapplethorpe was born a few months before me and near to where I was born and lived. He was buried in 1989 near my NY childhood home. In Los Angeles museums I love visiting exhibits of Mapplethorpe's photos. I’ve purchased his photo cards and love the sensuality of his flower images, stark, minimalist and mostly with black backgrounds. The compositions and beauty inspire me.

"When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

"I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.” - Mapplethorpe

Orchids ala Robert Mapplethorpe

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

PAIR of PEARS ala Robert Mapplethorpe

FIG in Shell ala JOY

Dragon Lady

Robert Mapplethorpe ©

MINIMALIST week 31
"Less is more" is the core thought of minimalist photography. It is a very simple but dramatic way to compose your photos and focus on one key element.

Happy Hibiscus

Love swimming with floating flowers.

Edith's pool

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

Happy Hibiscus

Edith's pool

Happy Hibiscus

Edith's pool

Happy Hibiscus

Edith's pool

Happy Hibiscus

Edith's pool

Thunbergia Grandiflora, Blue Sky Vine

French Fries & Ketchup

Salsa

Moon

LIGHT week 30

Light from my sister, obm, is now 'snuffed out'.

Light from her art remains.
Her creative skills in photography, painting, sewing and crochet needlework,

and from her letters.

I tried to bring ‘light’ to sister.

Suffering has ended.

Light of her soul has returned to the Holy One.

Candle I lit in her memory and I say Kaddish prayers.

https://www.facebook.com/52frames/photos/a.1760666067291839.1073742472.180889155269546/1760702560621523/?type=3&theater

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

Light of my ripe luscious figs that bring pleasure to many people.

Golden Hour Light on Edith's Bearded Iris

Light on White Flower, last day of Shiva on walk around block with friend Zena ending Shiva.

Tiny Hummer nest in sun lit wind art in Zena's garden during my Shiva.

Sun lit purple hand-made purple scarf from beloved friend Rena, obm,

passed over almost a month ago. Now in Shloshim.

Purple light-filled JOY blesSings fortune cookies lovingly ordered by Aviva

for my 70th birthday. I shared them at party, shul and at Rena's, z"l, memorial.

Rena loved purple and blesSings. Rena is Joy.

RULE OF ODDS week 29

The "Rule of Odds" is one of those composition guidelines that can be found in art, design, and in photography! This rule states that an odd number of subjects looks better than an even number - three, five, or seven, rather than two, four, or six. It simply make the scene appear more balanced to the eye.
Rule of Odds all shot in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Ristras. Dried New Mexico Red Chile Pepper Pods

While in New Mexico for a funeral I saw authentic cultural customs including hanging red ristras. These chiles are believed to bring good health and good luck. They are hung up to dry for later cooking and eating. Chiles are domesticated for 7,000 years. (I especially enjoyed eating Indian Fry Bread.) I happily saw groups of 3 Hot Air Balloons, triple pots of newly harvested purple lavender, groups of 3 apples and also 3 almonds on a stem, and 3 waving flags. Saw families of 3, and 3 luggages, coffins in sets of 3, and 3 casino slot machines on an Indian pueblo.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.facebook.com/52frames/photos/a.1750596491632130.1073742470.180889155269546/1750614424963670/?type=3&theater

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

Lights, LAX to ABQ

Three Triple Lights

LAX to ABQ

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque Museum

Doug Hyde??

Hot Air Balloons

Caskets

Celtic Musicians, ABQ Sunport Airport, NM

Bus Shuttle to Car Rental

Nahalot Shalom Almond Tree

Nahalot Shalom Apple Tree

Pueblo Casino

Flowers given to me, a mourner, by Hotel compassionate staff

PORTRAIT OF A STRANGER week 28

From upper level, saw the young gal wearing torn jeans and holding cell phone in medical office building lobby. A 'Stranger' and in front of a good ‘background’ that looked from the distance like raindrops on glass.

When I descended the stairs and asked permission to shoot because I like her ‘knees', gal sadly quickly put away the red cell. Not sure if she understood English. Pretty sure that female adult with her did not. I was uncomfortable asking young gal for photo and expected a 'no' response.

https://www.facebook.com/52frames/photos/a.1740341452657634.1073742468.180889155269546/1740386089319837/?type=3&theater

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

MAGIC HOUR week 27

Golden Hour Garlic

Edith's Garden and my first garlic harvest

First time for me harvesting Garlic with gratitude from underground. Was my magic hour in joy at 94 year old friend Edith’s garden. Layers of outer peel were white, pliable and soft, not crispy dried. Great aroma. As the sun hit the horizon there was a tiny bit of sun lit light left on western-facing garden brick wall and I carried garlic bulb to that golden spot of light. Minutes later I cooked sun kissed cloves, and shared others with my sister for her birthday.

Magic Hour aka known as Golden Hour is the time period of the first and last hour of sunlight.

It is that time of day when the sun is near the horizon, painting everything in a golden glow.

https://www.facebook.com/52frames/photos/a.1730656450292801.1073742466.180889155269546/1730688700289576/?type=3&theater

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

Golden Hour Garlic

Edith's Garden, first of Harvest

Magic Golden Hour Garlic

Edith's Garden, first of Harvest

Magic Golden Hour Garlic

Edith's Garden, first of Harvest

Magic Golden Hour Garlic

collage © Joy Krauthammer 6.29.2017

Magic Golden Hour Matilija Poppt

Edith's Garden

Magic Golden Hour Shadow

Magic Golden Hour Shadow, Edith's Caty

Magic Golden Hour Pool Shadow

as sun hits horizon

Magic Hour Bougainvillea and Shadow

Magic Hour Palm Trees and less than New Moon

Edith's Garden

Red Tailed Hawk feather

Garden of Joy

Doves on Antennae Magic Hour

Garden of Joy

Doves and Bird on Antennae Magic Hour

Garden of Joy

Fruit in water is magic for me

SINGLE FOCAL POINT week 26

Bougainvillea

https://www.facebook.com/52frames/photos/a.1721405291217917.1073742463.180889155269546/1721439967881116/?type=3&theater

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

Orange

Garden of Joy

WABI SABI week 25

Raku Thrown Ceramic Vessel

by © Joy Krauthammer

Beauty in Imperfection

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

Beauty in Imperfection

THINK week 24

"Childs Point of View"

Poignant because my grandchild's grandfather, z"l, she never met, he was a Lung doc.

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

Two shelves of my library.

GEOMETRIC SHAPES week 23

Not Green

Cement grave liner

Why the photo title "Not Green"? Because in LA, graves are lined with these massive cement liners (that hold the coffins) due supposedly to possible earthquake movement. Several years ago LA cemetaries began to offer "green" graves, where neither coffins nor cement liners were necessary. The cost was massive. After a "pre-need discount" I saw only $30,000 advertised price tags for a single green grave at the first cemetary to offer space. Wonder what a "double decker" costs?

Blueberries

Rounds in a Rectangle

Round Shadows

Ring of Rounds

purple M&Ms

SHADOWS week 22

Ladder

climb ladder to heavenly fruit

in Garden of Joy

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

Cart

Oval Golden Palm Shadows

Golden Palm Shadows

Palm Shadows

Shadow

EDIT BY ANOTHER week 21

Matilija Poppy

SOOC

B/W Edit by Susan Nelson

SOOC / straight out of camera

LOOKING INTO THE FRAME week 20

Gaze direction. Draw one in deeper or make one envision what is outside the frame.

See the space that the subject is "going into”.

At Lake Balboa, LA, CA I shot 165+ geese, ducks and fisherman photos until my battery died. Most were set in the almost setting sun on the water in 1’s, or groups of 2’s, 3’s or 5’s. Fowl were swimming in all directions or looking at each other or down. Moving fast, I caught one shot of a lone male duck walking east out of the water and alongside a yellow kayak. Because I have a rare certified license to kayak on this lake, I am partial to kayaks.

I invite you to envision what is outside the frame.

Mallard and Kayak on Boat Ramp

Lake Balboa, SFV, CA

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

Lake Balboa, SFV, CA

Nesting Goose on other side.

Lake Balboa, SFV, CA

Nesting Goose on other side.

Lake Balboa, SFV, CA

Boat Ramp

Lake Balboa, SFV, CA

PAPER week 19

Test taking with my crystal

Extra Credit - High Key

I used my crystal to help me graduate with my MBA.

Crystal attributes: “Focus, Amplify, Transmit, Transform, Store”

Currently I use a crystal as a pendulum, and use heart chakra crystal for healing with my singing bowl.

Crystal Story: http://sephirathaomer.blogspot.com/2015/04/accounting-victory-day-23-gevurah-sh.html

More: http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2016/12/submissions-to-52-frames-2017.html

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

Hollyhocks and Paper

Garden of Joy

ABANDONED week 18

Abandoned hand-made broken Shmura Matzoh on hand-hammered copper square Seder plate at end of Passover Seder. Seder is the ritual service and dinner for Passover holiday's first or first two nights commemorating the Exodus of Israelites from Egypt. Ritual plate was a gift decades ago from my father. My Grandma gave me a Seder plate when I was married, and my in-laws also gave me one. When I was a child I made copper hammering art.

I abandon eating Matzoh until next year when Passover comes around again in Nisan.

I think Abandonment can also be of one's standards, ethics, beliefs, rituals, truths. Old ways of being.

Abandonment of self. Abandonment can be positive or negative.

HEADSPACE week 17

Happy my Hollyhocks birthed my height from seeds I planted with enough ‘headspace' to grow.

I lay on group to be low enough to look up at new stem.

Don't fence me in! A little breathing room, please! Lost in space!
Headspace, or sometimes referred as "headroom". It's something that can create a different feel to an image. Too much or too little can make your focal point feel cramped, it can change the focus of your composition, or make your focal point seem a bit lost. What kind of headspace will you use to craft your story in this week's submission?

Headspace, in its simplest definition, is framing your composition so that there is space between your subject's head and the edge of the frame.

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

Hollyhock

Garden of Joy

Hollyhock

Garden of Joy

Lady Bug

Garden of Joy

Shirley Poppy

Edith's Garden

Orange Roses

Edith's Garden

Roses

Edith's Garden

Canna Lily

Garden of Joy

Purple Rainy Bearded Iris

Garden of Joy

Purple Rose

Garden of Joy

Roses

Garden of Joy

Roses

Garden of Joy

Yellow Gazanias

Garden of Joy

Selfie and Fountain

Selfie

Edith's 94th Birthday with Caty

Red ribbon from chocolates

Headspace between heads

Headspace

good for 'Lamp' the prior week

Gopher Headspace

Missed deadline

Selfie Nails Face Headspace

LAMP week 16

Lamp of G*d ~ One Light Source

"...through our efforts we bring true divine light into the world." - The Rebbe, Chabad

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

Lamp of G*d ~ One Light Source

"...through our efforts we bring true divine light into the world." - The Rebbe, Chabad

Lamp of G*d ~ One Light Source

Lamp After deadline

Salt Lamp after deadline

Lamp Late after deadline

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY week 15

LIFE IS GOOD, DOIN GR8

Extra Credit: Make A Statement

Needed to go grocery shopping for Passover holiday and Seder. I was in a few parking lots because not every store had what I needed and wanted, i.e. kosher l’Pesach chocolate covered matzoh. :) Never did find my annual fave-- bitter chocolate covered orange rinds.

The personalized vanity auto license I shot that Makes A Statement says "DOIN GR8" and the license frame reads, SMILE and LIFE Is GOOD with happy faces. Adjacent blue car also has a personalized love license plate. Lots of joyous Statements.

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

LIFE IS GOOD, DOIN GR8

Purple Grocery Carts

Cars in streeet and driveway

BIG PICTURE week 14

I usually shoot and post single flowers so "Big Picture" is a change for me.
I used to always do big picture and never flower close-ups.

Poppy Field

Lancaster, California

No poppies were harmed in this shooting.

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

Poppy Field

Lancaster, California

Mexican Sage

Garden of Joy

Agave filled slope with purple lupines and ice plants

Garden of Joy

Springs First Rose Bush

Garden of Joy

I usually shoot single roses so this is a Big Picture.

Purple Lupines

Garden of Joy

Agaves Panorama

Garden of Joy

Chatsworth Nature Preserve

Old Oak Tree 150 years

Chatsworth Nature Preserve

DETAILS week 13

Purple Lupine and Rain Drops

Garden of Joy

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

Purple Orchid

Sunflower

GRATITUDE week 12

Birthing Fig Tree

Grateful for the beauty of Mama Fig Tree. Photographs well. Awesome presence gives shade, filled with large leaves and cute babies growing and purple yummy fruit. Luscious Biblical fruit for me and my people. Birds sit and eat. Squirrels, too and large June bugs. I share fruit everywhere, and every Tu B’Shvat I give away hundreds of scions, baby fig trees. People plant them and have their own fruit growing to nourish and please them. People send me photos.

"She who guards the fig tree eats the fruit." - Proverbs 27:1 נֹצֵר תְּאֵנָה, יֹאכַל פִּרְיָהּ
"In that day...everyone will invite her friend in fellowship under his vine and under her fig tree." - Zechariah 3:10

HIGH KEY week 11

Berries on Blue

and lots of White

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

PATTERNS week 10

Bee Line

Aoniums, Garden of Joy

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

Berries 1

Berries 2

Succulents

Pink Tree Pattern Windows

Mateo Street, Downtown LA

Pink Tree, Brick Patterns

Mateo Street, Downtown LA

Ice Plant

NEGATIVE SPACE week 9
2.26.2017

Conch Shell

Conch Shell, not only a beautiful large ocean sea snail shell used as body and grave adornment, and money, but used by Indians (American, South American, Central American, and Mexican, Caribean), Hawaiians (Pu), Tibetans, Buddhist, Hindu (Shankha), and musicians for auspicious ritual and ceremonial calling and gathering of all powers, ancestors, spirit and community in temples and homes. Conch sound also is believed to drive away evil spirits. Used by sound healers and also percussionists.

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

Bird 1

Bird 2

Mockingbird baby

Hummingbird 1

Hummingbird 2

Pine Trees

Purple Lupine

Garden of Joy

Conch Shell

Red Rose in Rain

Garden of Joy

Yellow Aonium Flowers

Garden of Joy

New Rose Leaves in Rain

Garden of Joy

Wood Iris in Rain

Garden of Joy

Garden Mushroom in Rain

Garden of Joy

Dandylion Weed

Garden of Joy

Hummingbird after Rain

Garden of Joy

Chair After Rain

Sunset Tree Bird

Sunrise Fig Tree

Sunrise Palms and Moon

Sunset Fig Tree and Clouds

Yuval Ron 2.25.17

Global Currents, CSUN

RELIGION week 8

Women's Head Coverings ~ Kipot, Hats

Joy Poem on Tichel Tying

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2011/04/tichel-tying.html

52Frames Caption: Wearing a head covering (kipa or hat) in a Jewish public place of prayer/ synagogue is personal spiritual choice for me, not law; a respectful ritual to have my head covered under G*d, and for tzniut/ modest dress minchag/ custom. No longer married, I don’t choose to wear tichels/scarves or snoods/loose covering which I did wear visiting Israel so I wouldn’t be a ‘female object of unwanted attention’. Only on Purim I wear a sheitel/wig.

Purple kipas I commission are hand-created and another velvet favorite cap is from Nepal. I use pretty rhinestone butterfly clips to steady kipa in both my Chasidic/Orthodox and Jewish Renewal communities.

When first married, I wore large heavy fancy hats to shul, the Chabad minchag for women congregants at that time.

PS A link to clarify:

http://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/336035/jewish/The-Meaning-of-Hair-Covering.htm

Kipas are also called skull caps. Shuls are synagogues/temples. Style choices come from community customs/ minchag. A decade ago I wrote a poem about Tichels/scarves.

I find it interesting that artists usually 'paint' men wearing black hats but don't paint the women. We spiritual women are much more colorful with fun textures. I'm happy here to help 'paint' in photo the women, although my head coverings don't fully cover the hair as is religiously traditional.

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

License 2BLEAVE

I have a collection of many hundreds of spiritual License plates.

TORAH kept handy

Book cases filled with Religion are in next room.

G*d revealed in nature is highly religious for me.

Succulents in the Rain

Jade Succulents in the Rain

Succulents in the Rain

Lagartijas Succulents in the Rain

Purple Weed

Yellow Rose, last of the Season

Red Rose in the Rain

Sunrise this week.

Every morning I say my prayers outside as the sun prepares to rise at dawn.

MY OTHER HOBBY week 7
Constant 'Hobby' is photography.

Pop Artist Moully

Pop artist Rabbi Yitzchok Moully visits Chabad of Northridge, CA from east coast.
Hobby: activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure.
My "Other Hobby" as an artist is a Mitzvah/good deed: help artists market themselves.
I help PR, set up exhibit and photograph.
My passions include photography, drumming, sound healing, gardening, collecting JOY words and objects, flying purple female angels, train pins, purple clothes, wearing message t-shirts, visiting ducks, kayaking.
Creating Kabbalah classes, writing, learning, creating personalized Bikur Cholim/get well greeting cards for others’ pleasure. Leading Nature PhotoWalks and revealing G*d.

http://joys-joyousjoy.blogspot.com/2008/12/collections-of-joy.html

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

Pop Artist Moully

My "Other Hobby" as an artist is a Mitzvah/good deed: help artists market themselves.

Joy's Djembe

After photography, my biggest hobby, which isn't a hobby because I am professional.

Joy's Djembe

After photography, my biggest hobby, which isn't a hobby because I am professional.

Faith based hobby is:

Ritual Participation.

Having Havdalah

Faith based hobby is:

Ritual Participation.

Having Kiddush

Grapes in Tu B'Shvat Seder 2.11.2017

Faith based hobby is:

Ritual Participation.

Having Tu B'Shvat Seder

COMPLEMENTARY COLORS week 6

Sunrise

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

Happy Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year Candy

Red and Green Lilies

Fog on Wilshire with Green and Red

FALLING week 5

Beloved friend Judy passed over and I was with her during that holy time on January 28,

during this week's theme and I have "FALLING" TEARS but no photo.

Bedroom at Arles by Roy Lichtenstein in LA

Reimagining Vincent van Gogh

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

Faye's Falling Hat

Falling Water

Lake Balboa

Falling Blood Pressure

Falling Sideways Elevator

Ducks Falling Out of Line

Lake Balboa

Falling Water Over Reclamation Stream

Lake Balboa

Falling Water Over Reclamation Stream

Lake Balboa

Falling Water Over Reclamation Stream

Lake Balboa

Fallen Narcissus Flowers

Garden of Joy

Falling In Love with Fragrance of Stargazer Lily

Falling Day and Sun at Sunset

Fallen Tree after I sadly watched it Falling

Falling Slinky

Leading Lines to Assistant Dr. Tom

Falling Slinky

HINT narrow steps are needed orthewise 2 dozen shots are taken with failure.

Falling Slinky

LEADING LINES week 4

Love Fruit

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

Brandeis-Bardin

A once dry river bed

Brandeis-Bardin

A once dry river bed

Brandeis-Bardin

A once dry river bed

Pepper Tree Lane, Brandeis-Bardin

My Fortune

Almost Chinese New Year

LACMA

Urban Light by Chris Burden

LACMA

Joy Purple Selfie

LACMA

"Death of a Clown"

Liz Craft 2010

LACMA

"CARROT" by John Baldesarri

LA EXUBERANCE

LACMA

LA EXUBERANCE

LACMA

LA EXUBERANCE

LACMA

ROCK

LA EXUBERANCE

LACMA

SUNRISE

Garden of Joy

FALLEN TREE

BLACK AND WHITE week 3
1.15.2017

Black Crow

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

Tree Shin

Tree

clouds

Rays

Clouds

Geese

Shadow

Railroad Logs

RULE OF THIRDS week 2

Jade

Rainy Garden of Joy

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

Jade

Rainy Garden of Joy

Jade

Rainy Garden of Joy

Aonium succulent

Rainy Garden of Joy

Aonium succulent

Rainy Garden of Joy

Aonium succulent

Rainy Garden of Joy

Aonium succulent

Rainy Garden of Joy

Aonium succulent

Rainy Garden of Joy

Aonium succulent

Rainy Garden of Joy

Rose

Garden of Joy

Rose

Garden of Joy

Rose

Garden of Joy

Rainy Purple Iris

Garden of Joy

Potato Vine

Sunrise

Garden of Joy

Sunrise

Garden of Joy

SELF PORTRAIT week 1 2017

After photography, my biggest hobby, which isn't a hobby because I am professional.

digitally altered

The air is clear as is my shadow on house wall because there are 40MPH winds. Roses bloom and shine in winter morning’s early light. Every early morning, along with chanting prayers, I shoot the dawn and colors of G*d’s sky palette.

Challenge due date, January 1, is important to me because it is the last day of Chanukah, the 8-day celebration commemorating Jewish faith and rededication of the Holy Temple. The metal menorah: I had bought it in July 1974 from an antiques shop in the Georgia countryside while I was traveling to visit my beloved grandma, obm, before moving from New York to California to be married. The menorah reminds me of one I grew up with and that my sister inherited.

May Chanukah lights be bright for us all in the new year, and brighten our ‘shadow' selves.

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