ROUGH SAILING

Totally fitting rendition!

Thank you. I know the boat is not very obvious, especially in thumbnail, and thought about taking the photo without shadow, but I like the light that is produced in the area of the boat, so I left it alone--doomed to obscurity (photo and boat).

As soon as I quit laughing I'll think of something profound to say.......well maybe not.

Is it that damn tea again?

"I set sail in my dingy

My head all a ringy,

I must confess it was the tea

So I stepped ashore to pee

And someone pulled the plug

And now my dingy has gone blingy on the shore."

Incongrous. You've got an eye for the bizarre and the absurd which (twisted as I am) I find fascinating. Nice choice of angle and, as an aside, I like the beautiful colors in the shadows, too.

Jack and Susan, thanks. Susan, if this is typical for you, you better start writing more poetry to accompany your pics. You're a hoot, girl. Nothing better than good words with a good picture.

And Jack, yes, we both have a proclivity for the odd little snippet of life. Personally, I'm just as content doing these as I would be at Half Dome in Yosemite. At least doing this crap I've never had to elbow aside an old fart and say, "Excuse me, Ansel, I was here first."

I too love the shadows and the colors that they hold, but I'm even more intrigued by the growth in the fields that surround the gully. Perhaps did you take some interesting photos of these sticks that are pretending to be bushes or short trees?

PS, I'm guessing that Susan has been hitting the peppermint schnapps again...

How bad is this situation with Susan? Do we need to do an intervention yet? Can you imagine what she might be spouting with some good Scotch in the hatch? Didn't Elizabeth Barrett Browning do Scotch? Oh, the exigencies of knowledge are so compelling....

 

Thanks, as always, for the comments. Those sticks are orchards. Both sides of the road. Probably plums or peaches. They prune the trees by bringing in huge sawblade thingies they drive along at the top of the trees and chop them off at the practical height for harvesting on ladders. Then they prune away the right amount of limbs to make them most productive and easy to harvest by the farmworkers. The canal, obvously for watering.

 

Take care and get posting.

Blah, blah, blah, blah...............ooops I just spilled my drink.

my uncle Noah was looking for his boat...and there it is. Dave, I ain't a water engineer, heck I ain't an engineer, but that ditch cannot be for watering the orchards, 'cause Lake Flaccid is not the only place where they cannot get the water up. And I can't imagine all the squirrels running with little buckets across the roads, watering the trees... Nice shot. I like how the boat is just on the edge of the shade and from there on is the sunlit part - it's quite bright, yet it's not overblown: nice contrast. Also, the background is pretty much balanced L/R sides and nicely disappears in the distance. It's kinda monotonous so it doesn't distract from the main subject - the boat, yet it still holds some interest. Cheers, Micheal

David, PLEASE DO try to get some photos of those little squirrels with their buckets in hand! OOOOOO, they'll be so cute... I can hardly wait. It will look like a scene from The Sorcerer's Apprentice in Fantasia!

Alright you guys place your hands on your head and with one foot in front of the other walk down that long yellow line......

I missed the little varmints the last time out, but the next time....

Maybe people will now believe that global warming is real....Isn't that the Kern River.......? juan

No. You should know that the Kings River runs by Kinsburg. We do have a river nearby that was completely wiped out by irrigation. The San Joaquin used to run up to the Delta, and had salmon and everything, but the farmers decided that peaches were more important than coexisting with nature, so they got it all. Well, at least that one can't be blamed on the Los Angeles folks.

Always good for uncovering the unusual. I too like the almost impressionistic colors and shadows leading me into this photo. Ahoy David?

Thanks for having a looksee.

It's not Venice. Just a rural Tulare County irrigation canal.

I keep scrolling up to crop out the telephone poles. I guess what I am saying is I would prefer to see a version that crops out from the poles on back or where the green ends. Nice photo anyway and of course it makes you wonder about the boat without a sea...

Thank you. You may be right about that crop. I don't know. I may try a reshoot and take a little more time to do it different ways. It was just kind of a grab shot.

Just the water missing. Absurd situation.

There will be water in the summer, but where will that boat go?

David. Well it was a heck of a good "grab shot"! Let me know if you do a reshoot and post it. I would like to see it. It looks so much like a painting.

Thanks. This was my first instinct, and it may be the best. When I find something I want to shoot, too often I just run and gun (or should that be gun and run?) Then later, I find myself wondering if I could have done it better. I am not patient. So, now I'm thinking maybe a different angle, maybe closer to the boat.....

 

Fortunately this is located just a couple of miles from where I live, so I can go back quite easily. I do think that the time to do it is before the leaves come out. I like the stark look of all the trees without foliage. And definitly without water in the canal.