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Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective
A challenging test of perspective: post a photo which is not what it seems to be. I am offering a view of a window frame. Windows often provide our view of the world. The frame holds the window tightly (we … Continue reading
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Tagged California, E-500, Image, macro, Olympus, perspective, Photo Challenge, Photography, Postaday, San Francisco Bay Area, San Mateo County, Weekly Photo Challenge
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Wanting to Improve
Employment trends in the San Francisco Bay Area want to improve. The labor force has stabilized over the past 12 months and employment has steadily grown (with a slowing rate of growth, however). The January 2014 unemployment rate for the … Continue reading
Lost In The Fog
January home sales in the Bay Area followed the year-end December trend. We seem to be lost in the fog. Prices keep rising with a 26%+ increase on a year-over-year basis but sales volume dropped nearly 15% over the same … Continue reading
Where Have All the Sellers Gone?
It’s like blossoms in a drought… you see them, but just a lot fewer than normal. I noticed it a while ago: the corner that is normally full of poppies this time of year is barren except for a few … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Treasure
Treasure immediately invokes the image of a weathered wooden chest with cast-iron bracing full of gold and jewels guarded by a leathery pirate with cutlass at the ready. As years pass, the most important treasures are memories of loved ones … Continue reading
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Tagged D7000, Image, Nikon, Photography, Postaday, still life, Weekly Photo Challenge, Weekly Photo Challenge: Treasure
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The Wan Year End
Wan as is pallid and sickly… or so ends the Year 2013 on the employment front. Employment in the Bay Area peaked in September and the labor force reached its zenith in July. The labor force trendline is sloping downward … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Selfie
My phone/camera hates me. Every time I try to take a selfie it focuses on half my face or my ear and I end up with an out of focus blur. (Should I worry that “selfie” shows up as needing … Continue reading
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Tagged 85mm, D7000, Nikon, Postaday, self-portrait, selfie, Weekly Photo Challenge
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Object
I’m drawn to simple images. This week I was challenged to post an image with an object as the focal point. The center of interest, however, may be an object or it may be a graphic element. In this photo … Continue reading
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Tagged challenge, D7000, element, graphic element, Image, images, Nikon, object, Photo Challenge, Photography, Postaday, still life, weekly photo c
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition
A soft breeze carries you to me Behind the wall you’ve built between us Your beauty drives me on Calling to me, whispering my name Sweetly scented, you need me as I need you Nature makes us partners in the … Continue reading
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Tagged D7000, fence, hard, Image, images, juxtaposition, Nikon, Photography, Postaday, rose, soft, Weekly Photo Challenge
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Winter Sunset
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Tagged Image, images, Photography, poetry, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, sunset, winter
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