Shot Alive

Flickr allows people to store their pictures and for other people to see them, and also allows you to keep track of your favourite pictures taken by other people. These are some of my favourites from flickr. You can see any picture larger by clicking it to get to it in flickr and then you can explore other related pictures and have many other options also.

Although I had joined flickr for a place to store some photos, I hadn't fully appreciated the extent of what it did, and how great a community it was. Then, because I was a friend of his, Shitao's wife Gladsdotter / Shotaku contacted me in StumbleUpon to say that she was asking his friends to use Shitao's paintings as icons for his birthday the next day. I was happy to do this and it also resulted in me becoming a big time flickr user and fan. Here are a couple of Shitao's paintings.

The photo below on the left is "Bond of Union" by Josh Sommers who says "Well here it is. After many hours I have completed my homage to Escher's "Bond of Union". I found it rather challenging, much harder than my first rind piece. Please enjoy it in the largest version. The hardest part was getting my wife to pose for the shot with me. (Just kidding)."

The one on the right, "Rainbow Warrior", was my first introduction to the idea of "cutouts", or patches of a painting left in colour while the rest is reduced to gray scale. It is a well suited picture for this style.

"Pinecone Grouping" by judwal & "Lotus - Lhalbag Botanical Gardens" by sover. I like patterns in nature, and Lotus / Water Lilies have something magic about them.

"3D Star Map" (edited), by tjt195 & "What run-off does on cold days!" by rich66 who says "Took a quick road trip to the same mountain chain on the Tariffville/Bloomfield, CT border where my other ice shots were taken. The long overhang of the icicles is creating what looks like a cave on the left."

"Sunrise over Bagan" by buzia & "This is a Buddha photo".

"Whiter-Shade-of-Pale" by lost-moments who says "Harajuku became famous in the 1980s due to the large numbers of street performers and wildly dressed teens who gathered there on Sundays when Omotesando was closed to traffic. Those movements lead to the vibrant "Hokoten Band Scene"..." & "Looking Hot, by jbc16.

More of natures patterns with "Coyote Buttes North, Paria Canyon-Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona" by gakout & "Aloe polyphylla Schönland ex Pillans" by brewbooks who notes "Threats to populations of spiral aloe include overgrazing, unsustainable harvesting by plant enthusiasts and people interested in its medicinal properties, and the increasing rarity of its pollinator, the Malachite Sunbird".

"Steinmänchen" on the beach of Zakynthos, Greece by buzia & "Thoughts" by omgpinkboxers who adds "later become your actions". I used to build rock pile like this years ago, so I had a trip down memory lane from that. Also, the idea of guarding our thoughts because they later become actions is one that I only appreciated when I took up vipassana meditation.

See also:

My Favourite Pictures taken by Others (1)
My Favourite Pictures taken by Others (2)