August 26, 2025 a thought for today, Those who have tongs do not burn their fingers. Albanian Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “cherries”. I don’t keep cherries on hand every day. However, I happened to have a bottle of maraschino cherries in the cupboard, my photo for the day. 

The next upload was “my choice” that is one of my series of “touch of color”.
This dandelion seems to stand out even more on a black and white background.

The last upload for yesterday was “something that begins with b...”. Perfecr, I was getting ready to make myself a grilled cheese sandwich....this bread and butter was the beginning. 

Life today. It’s been another busy morning. I had the bulletin done yesterday so that was one thing off of todays list. I got the rest of what I need for “printing day” done this morning. 

Brian texted early to see if it was ok to come and to the mowing. I told him if he could get it done early it would be fine. He was here in plenty of time. 

The first upload for today is “the last photo I took” (for the day). As I was waiting at a traffic light I saw this few and chose it for this upload. 

Today is a food pantry day. I was glad Brian could get done when he did that way I had plenty of time to get things done and ready to go. 

The weather really has taken a shift in the temperatures. It is actually chilly, cool enough for a sweat shirt. I’m not crazy about the hot temps but I’m not quite ready for summer to end yet either.

The next upload is another of the “my choice” and another of my series of “touch of color”. This red truck seemed to stand out in the parking lot. I figured I would give it a bit of a better stand out with a black and white surrounding. 

The word today is flow. Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu.  Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving.  Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. Zhuangzi.  In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree. Saint Teresa of Avila.  A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. Thomas Carlyle. Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration. Johannes Brahms. The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement. Ovid. Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. Henry David Thoreau.

The last upload today is “ice cream”. My carton of ice cream is almost empty so I used one of Sue’s

cartons for this shot. I took as taste, I may have to change my brand, it was delicious. 

Article: Since I do a lot of photography this article looked interesting. I thought I would share it for others who may find it educational too. The title is “A straight face, with a wink – the subtle humor of deadpan photography”. The first sentence explains “deadpan”. It is described as a manner of “address to an audience” and not so much the joke itself.  The author mentioned that she visited an exhibition of photography that had been organized in a relationship to humor. She related it to a paradox. She felt that photography using deadpan techniques “sheds light on just how powerful and incisive this form of humor can be”. In the telling of a story about the expressions or ideas of photography she mentions that the debate on the way to show these thoughts has been a “burden”. Like showing an “idea” in an physical “still” image is difficult. Typically photos “reproduce the world, rather than express something new”. She mentions that deadpan photos don’t need to involve people. She mentions a work of  Henry Wessel Jr. along with ten other photographers participated in an exhibit in 1975 that “trained a lens on landscapes altered by humans rather than nature alone”. Some of those images were printed in a “narrow tonal range”. They were described as “subject matter and aesthetic (that) were equivalents of deadpan’s monotone”. The author felt that “encouraged audiences to pay greater attention to their immediate surroundings”. She said that she felt his “his photographs demonstrate the wealth of information that lurks in the mundane”. I have attempted that, information in the mundane, in playing with filters and algorithms in Photoshop for the part of photography that is art rather than journalistic in nature. Personally in my photography I mainly like to show what is real, what happens in a moment of life. There is so much to capture with that in mind. On the other side of the coin, I like photography now and then as art also, showing line, shape, form, texture, color, size, and depth, not necessarily for the purposes of showing a image of the six senses. I haven’t considered it so much for humor. Humor, in my opinion, is a part of human expression and feeling in active forms not a captured moment.  Art is a matter of taste and a matter of presentation.

I think I would like Welsh rarebit again tonight. 

Joy