Lens-Artists Challenge #266 Time

Donna of Wind Kisses says, “Time: It can be wasted, saved, and can slip through our fingers. Some of us have too much, others not enough. Is it high time? The last time? Time for Fall? Taco time? And whatever you decide, I am sure you will agree there is no greater gift than time. Have fun with the endless possibilities this week.” And I hope to have the time to share.

Songs

The first thing I thought of when I heard the challenge was how many songs have “Time” in the lyrics or subject. Just driving around town listening to Sirius XM I heard the Kinks – All Day and All of the Night.

Then I thought of The Rolling Stones – Time is On My Side.

The Vogues – Five O’Clock World

You can probably guess when I was listening to “my” songs!

Clocks and their Places

Seattle’s Public Market Center
Don’t want to miss the ferry

Unusual Clocks

Clock created on a book for sale at a local craft fair
Impressed by Salvadore Dali

Clocks used in advertising

Time from many places

The modern way to check the time

And places where time slows down a bit.

And time flys

With the help of Adobe Photoshop!

And I finally can breathe. The past few weeks have not been boring. My Moxie has epilepsy. It is being treated with medication, but watching a 2-year-old Golden have a seizure is scary. A few days later 9/5 my husband of 53 years had a cat scan and we discovered he had a giant aneurysm. VERY scary. We had to wait until today (8 long days) to find out that he has lived with this for over a decade, and that all was good. The aneurysm clotted on its own a long time ago. This was an excessive wait for all of us.

All that certainly brought time into focus for us. And now I must pick up my 3 grandsons from school while their mother, my daughter, recovers from non-life-threatening surgery.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #209 Surreal

This week Tracy challenged me to present my photographs representing the surreal

When I retired from teaching I enrolled in many local community college classes here in Sacramento to improve my Adobe software knowledge and improve my digital photography. At that time Photoshop CS2 had just been released, and I had just upgraded from Photoshop 5. Class assignments helped push me out of my comfort zone. I found some examples of surrealism from my work at that time.

Colorized Sunflower
I titled this collage, ”Communication”
I used a Topaz filter to create this image.
Titled ”Time Flies” gives a nod to Salvador Dali

I visited a Salvador Dali exhibition in Monterey a couple of years back.

Fungi always seem a bit surreal to me.
Another capture in nature with a surreal feeling
A captured reflection near the Space Needle in Seattle.
Movement from a taffy-making machine
Came across this in the Gold Country many years ago.
Don’t remember where and never saw it again.

I’ll end this surreal journey with my interpretation of three words – flaming, expanding and door.

Flaming Door Expanding

I hope you enjoyed this look at my surreal photographs. Is time feeling a bit surreal for you, it is for me!