W/Alphabe-Thursday

 Windmill at a local farm

W is for WINDMILL

This is actually a windpump, a type of windmill used for pumping water as the blades spin in the wind.

In one hour, a 4.8-metre diametre windpump is capable of pumping more than 6050 litres of water from a depth of approximately 30 metres when the wind is blowing between 25 and 30 kilometres per hour.

Did you get that? Well the important to thing to know is they can pump a lot of water!

 Cropped

 Inverted

Angled strokes

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U/Alphabe-Thursday

Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Oshawa

U is for UKRAINIAN.

In March, I posted some photos of a Ukrainian Catholic Church here   A block or so south there's another Ukrainian church - The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of St. John the Baptist.

 Front doors

On each door you can see a traditional Orthodox three bar cross.

 Side window

Some light shining through the window revealed orange and blue and a little green glass.

 Side window cropped

 Side window cropped and cross-hatched

Side window inverted

Inverting the colours revealed that blue glass may have been chosen because it's the complementary colour to the orange brick.

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Two Bubbles

 Bubbles in blue

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
~ Dr. Seuss

 Rainbow Bubbles

 Cropped

Cross-hatched

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Irrigation System Geometrics

1.  Irrigation system in a farmer's field

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
~ Marcel Proust

 2. Smudge Stick version

 3. Paint Daubs version

4. Inverted version

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Firehouse Rafters

 Mount Albert firehouse rebuild

Some of you may remember that in February 2014 the Mount Albert Firehouse burned down. It's in the process of being rebuilt. This photo was taken last fall.

I am intrigued by the angles and shapes the boards make as they cross each other. And I also like the shadows.

 Black and white version

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

~Jean Piaget

 Another version (sorry, I cannot remember what I did)

A closeup, very closeup

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Tractor Very Closeup

 Grate on a tractor sitting in a farm parking lot - original photo

Old and Oxidized just like the previous post...but I played with filters on this one.

 Turned, cropped, cutout

 Turned, cropped, cutout, inverted

Turned, cropped, cutout, colored pencil

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Pallets

Pallets stacked outdoors outside a vegetable packing company, Holland Marsh

I cropped the original photo (see the third photo) and added a filter.

Cropped and rotated, no filter

 The original photo

Cropped, rotated, filter added

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Whitby Harbour Wall

 Vertical View of the wall entering the harbour

Never be so focused on what you are looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
~ Ann Patchett

I took the photo because I was interested in the vertical lines, the ice just above the water and the reflection. It was a lovely sunny day.

 Horizontal view, contrast increased

I was surprised to see how the brown became redder when the colour contrast was increased. Lots of rust!

Cropped, tilted and filter added

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Church Windows

 Original photo, cropped a bit tight, I agree (a light above the windows was annoying!) - Anglican Church, Whitby

To enjoy reflections from around the world, visit James at Weekend Reflections HERE

"The world is but a canvas to our imaginations."
~ Henry David Thoreau

At first I was drawn in by the reflection of the old commercial building across the street reflecting in the windows - how they were almost mirror images of each other. Then I suddenly realized, HEY! Neat shapes!!

Cropped, drybrush, poster edges

 Black and white

Inverted colour

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Fire Escape

 The original photo

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
~ Pablo Picasso

B&W version

 Cropped and turned

 cropped

 Cropped, split toning, poster edges

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FYI City Daily Photo bloggers:  The  February 1st theme - If you had to leave forever the city from where you usually post, what would you miss most? 

Light at Jackson's Point

 Bottom of light at Jackson's Point

"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."
 ~ Dorothy Lange

Threshhold

Split toning, cropped

Crosshatched

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Rusty Wheel

 Original photo - seed planter or potato setter

"Creativity is imagination and imagination is for everyone."
~ Paul Arden

Split toning

Cropped, rotated, split toning, pixellated

Cropped, rotated, glowing edges

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