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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/6/2008 7:20:07 AM

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Kevin....wonderful shot. I agree with Muriel the colors and geometry of the shot is very interesting. We had a smoking section at our high school. It was inside????? Why? I don't know

Oddly enough I actually didn't start smoking until I was out of high school so I never used it.

Muriel wonderful compostion....but do tell...are the building or tearing out?

Eric really never stopped going to school this year he takes summer classes, when those are over he has a break of about a week then a grueling band camp starts. 3 weeks of 9AM to 9PM for the drum line. Another bittersweet shot. This will be his last year in marching band, as much as he loves it, his emphasis is voice...his adviser has advised him that he should be emphasizing voice (imagine that).
I will miss the marching band days.

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BTW...thanks for the thoughts on the accident. It was a long time ago. I still dream about it. It was a life changing experince for me. But it's all good. He's a healthy happy boy. That's all that matters

ETA.....thanks if you kept up with all of that....JHC I wrote a book

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/6/2008 9:11:09 AM

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Nicely composed image, Muriel. Yes, I too wonder, tearing down, or building up?

Love the color in your image, Lisa. Most striking boy you have there!! Sorry he has to give up Band, but maybe it is for the best.

OK, another image about what you see on school days.....

Dawn on a School Day.....

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/6/2008 9:23:31 AM

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Gorgeous skyscape C

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/6/2008 10:06:22 AM

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Very nice Steph, love the sky in the background.

Cool pencils Sam, what will you draw with those?

Cool overpass Kevin, it’s almost eerie seeing it deserted like that.

Nice pile o cobble stones Muriel; it looks like they are building to me.

Lisa, Awesome band photo of Eric, it looks like a celebrity publicity shot,

Awesome dawn Carolyn!

My THUD of the day ties to both Carolyn and Lisa!

My pic of the day, the Serra Cross from Presidio Park, San Diego. Even though I’m not Christian, I have always had a fondness for shooting pics of old churches and cross’s. This is a 28 foot high brick cross built from brick tiles found in the ruins of Ft. Presidio in 1913.

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/6/2008 12:08:10 PM

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Interesting Joe. I'm not highly relegious either. But that is a gorgeous cross. You shot is very well composed. I love the sky, the trees framing it and the texture of the cross itself. Fabulous...and a thud back at ya!

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/6/2008 1:55:09 PM

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Fun pretty pencils Sam!! Kevin the skywalks are fun! Duluth is a city full of skywalks seeing as it is such a cold place. It's fun to see them in other areas as well! That's quite the pile of cobblestones Muriel! My guess is that they are going to get put in, rather than they are torn out. My guess is because if they werre getting torn out there would be lots of dirt in the pile. (I think!). That's a BEAUTIFUL shot of Eric, Lisa! Over the top goregous! Carolyn, love your morning sky!!! Joe, the cross is magnificant!!!

Lisa, UMD is University of Minnesota Duluth. Home of the Bulldogs, and the lady Bulldogs hockey champs! That's the place I've been going to the wednesday market.

Well, I shot this photo of my high school clock tower from my car on a rainy day. I don't much love the shot but the sky kinda matches the gray trim. I was going to go back and shoot it with a blue sky but then I sat and pondered that the gray sky actually shows how I feel about the place. My days in this institution of learning were less than pleasant. I don't have one good memory of it...

Hell, even the clock is wrong as it was probably around 3:30 pm when I shot the photo!

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/6/2008 2:46:42 PM

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Perfect Steph....If that's how you feel about the school, thats how it should be shot. No happy sunny days there. Very nice.

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/6/2008 5:23:34 PM

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Wonderful shot of Eric, Lisa! Such a handsome boy!
Beautiful colors in your sunrise, C!
Joe, I've never seen a brick cross like this. Very interesting, and nice shot.
Steph, cool tower! I like its austerity mixed with beautiful detail...

Steph wins! They were putting them in!

Here's a shot from the other side of the pile. This was taken last summer (07) when they were redoing the entire plaza in front of the cathedral in Reims, my hometown. It is now finished (don't laugh, this is France we're talking about...

) and it is closed to cars and very nicely done.

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/6/2008 5:24:07 PM

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Muriel, great composition, foreground and background cobble stones laid out all nice an even, then

a large pile all disorganized stones in the middle !!

   Lisa, wonderful title for your image, says it all, well done !!

   Beautiful sky Carolyn, love those colors !!

   Nicely composed image Joe + !!

   So you went to " Spooky Cathedral High " Steph? !!

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/6/2008 7:52:29 PM

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It is kind of spooky isn't it Kevin! The name is Denfeld. I got kicked out more times than heinz has pickles.

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/6/2008 8:35:23 PM

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Thank you again everyone!

Really cool shots Muriel! I love both of them! Beautiful portrait Lisa! The depth of field creates a wonderful effect! Lovely Carolyn. Nice framing Joe. Great angle Steph. Love it! We had a smoking area in the back of the school outside. That was in the late 1970s.

More school supplies.....

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/6/2008 8:59:18 PM

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Nice ruler Sam! I can just feel it in my hands! Smoking section? wow. Hell, when I went to school we couldn't wear pants, only dresses and skirts. I had nice clothes since I worked for a dressmaker and they were all designer, we didnt use patterns to make them. One of a kind awesome clothes I had! Even the dress I made in Home Ec, that we were required to wear, got me kicked out of school. One witch gym teacher even drove me home to change! (when I wore my class project to the mandatory wearing). Ask me how long I watched her sitting in her car after I went into the house! She was sitting out there honking her horn and everything. My whole life I got all A's in gym and she gave me F's because she hated me. I mean, come one....did she really think I was going to change clothes and then go back out to her car and back to school? How stupid was she!

I wanted to take shop instead of home ec but girls couldn't take shop, and home ec was mandatory. The sewing was soooooo boring since I was already making clothes from no patterns in 10th grade and had already knitted sweaters. Anyway, I got permanently kicked out the day my principal called me into his office when I was in 11th grade and asked me if the rumor that I was pregnant was true. I was finally free of that place. I got the heebie jeebies taking that pic. I also never went back to school until this fall. 40 years later I finally get up the nerve to walk into a learning institution! Wild horses couldn't drag me near one before.

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/7/2008 12:31:21 AM

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       sam, love the color of that ruler!

       Steph, sorry you had such a bad time in high school, if it weren't for playing ice hockey, I think i would have gone nuts!

    Since this is the last day for the back to school theme, I'm posting a couple images today. In several classrooms the blackboards where still up and people left messages mostly their names and when they graduated, some where thoughtful and others... not so much. I liked these the best.

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/7/2008 7:40:26 AM

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Sam...great ruler. I love the light at the top. Nice.

Kevin that's so cool that they left messages up on the blackboards. I really like the first one. Perfect for the last day of the back to school theme (which I have so totally enjoyed).

Steph, I didn't really like high school either. I'm sorry your experinces where terrible. I think most schools have made it easier for stundents who don't fit the norm...I hope so anyway. I'm sure your dress that you made was nothing less than spectacular.

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/7/2008 5:57:03 PM

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Nice messages Kevin! Beautiful school front Lisa, you can tell it's fall too! Something about the lighting...

Anyway, my tramautic school days a lifetime ago now, I got brave enough to take a class this semester at Lake superior College in Duluth. This sculptured wall is next to the main front doors. It was very hard to shoot. Though I even got on my knees, this is the best I could do and it does not do the wall justice. Various Duluth landmarks are featured on the work, which is beautiful...

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/7/2008 6:10:13 PM

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Joe, that is a great cross. I like how you composed it.

Steph, that is a gloomy picture, no wonder you hated it! School is a trial most of the time. I was scared in school all the time, I was so intimidated by teachers I could not look sideways.......

Muriel I love that view of your construction. Amazing with that beautiful cathedral in the background.

A ruler is perfect for back to school. Cleverly composed as usual!

Kevin, I like your messages on the blackboard. A bittersweet thing to see you school torn down!

What beautiful colors in yours, Lisa. Wonderful blue!

Stephanie, what a truly amazing mural. The detail on it looks amazing. Would love to see that in the real. (Congratulations to you for getting over your fears and actually returning to school!)

Ok, final school one.......Something else you might see outside the bus window, especially if you were going to Pittsburgh City Schools!!

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/7/2008 6:24:15 PM

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Steph, Great school photo, I love the bleak sky how it is!! I can totally relate to your school days. I grew up in a small conservative town, came out as gay in sophomore year of high school, and took my boy friend to prom in senior year. Ohh,... the school did not like that! Luckily, there were a lot of “discrimination” cases around the country, so they were more afraid of stopping me that they were of letting me go! LOL…Just because they let me didn’t mean they had to be nice to me, really showed me who my allies were. Teachers I thought didn’t like me stood up for me; teachers I thought I liked turned their backs to me…. Its so hard to be different, but It’s better than being all the same! ☺

Muriel, nice shot…..Lets see, 1 year to finish a street and you say don’t laugh. In Yuma it would take 5 years!!!

Sam, Nice ruler. Any former Catholic School kids here have flashbacks? I have an old wooden ruler that I brought to work one day as our office supplies were running low. I could tell the former Catholic School people by who shuddered when they saw that old wooden ruler LOL.

Great chalkboards Kevin! Very fun!!!!!

Fun shot Lisa, I love the bright colors on the KU Jay Hawk!!

Awesome sculpture Steph! I would love to see that in person some day!!

Carolyn, love the cityscape! You get my THUD today!

Ok, I will try mine (my old version of Safari isn’t getting along with the forums right now, so I hope the pic uploads).

For the last day of “Back to School Theme Week”, I give you my favorite “After School” pastime…. (OK, so I wasn’t the “best” kid in school LOL.. Not sweet and innocent)

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/7/2008 7:54:11 PM

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Well, thank you for the Thud today, Joe!!

I love, Love, love your wine glasses. The light shining off them is amaziing and the abstract look to it all is gorgeous. What a great image.......THUD!

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/7/2008 8:25:16 PM

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Nice skyline Carolyn and wonderful shot of the glasses Joe! Funny how all school experiences differ so. I doubt that it is the intent as designed, but with human interaction heavily into play, unwarranted scenarios are bound to happen, I guess. Glad you came out unscathed for the most part

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RE: Image a Day Week #36 - 9/7/2008 8:36:14 PM

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Excellent shots C, Steph and Joe....Love all of them

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