Sights at a rest stop on a Texas Interstate highway.
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Monthly Archives: March 2016
Angel in the Garden
Angel in Ticka’s garden
Easter Rabbits
Ticka’s Easter rabbits
Gifts from the River: Fiction Friday
The Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
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Photo copyright Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Gifts from the River
With the rising water, Jeanne knew visiting Thelma on the other side was impossible. But Jeanne and Thelma knew what to do. At the assigned time, they signaled each other with their flashlights: Operation Recovery began. It was their self-assigned task to rescue as many items as possible, washed down from upstream.
Jeanne cleaned up her newest gift from the river, setting it with the others by the window. Thelma would be doing the same. Soon they would share their treasures with each other, making up stories about the objects. The river that sometimes separated them also brought them together.
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To read other Friday Fictioneer stories based on this photo, select the smiley blue frog.
White Rosebud
Our white Lady Banks rose bush is starting to bloom. I took the opportunity to learn more about how to use my camera. Over several sessions, I must have taken close to 100 photos of the same three or four flowers. Mostly what I learned is white flowers wash out easily.
Modes I used: aperture, manual, automatic without flash, close-up flower (which popped up the flash and really washed out the roses). Interestingly, the best results I had were in manual mode, when I intentionally underexposed the rose just a little. I didn’t think I’d ever use manual mode successfully; I have taken lots of overexposed photos in manual mode. I still have a lot to learn.
It's a long story ... 