Week 36 – Daily Picture Themes (2023)

The Concept

I participate in a daily photo challenge on the social media site Spoutible. Every day there is a different picture theme announced on Daily Picture Theme on Spoutible. I choose one of my own photos which most closely aligns with the theme. It can be challenging. I post the results on my Improves with Age substack newsletter.

The Benefit

It is beneficial for photographers to revisit their body of work. Hopefully the craft improves and culling and editing older photographs cuts down on the clutter. This projects gives me the motivation to get rid of duplicate photos. Sometimes I find a gem that I forgot about. When that happens I can add a keyword, give it a star rating and move it into an album. It is a continuous process.

Seven Days, Seven Photos

I post the daily theme pictures on my Substack page, so why duplicate that on this webpage? The answer is that the newsletter has a deadline and this website does not. I can devote some time to describing why I chose the photos. Seven photos a week for fifty two weeks a year. Let’s get started.

Week 36 – Sep 4, 2023 to September 10, 2023

Monday – #tool

My dad was always sharpening things with grinding wheels. I kept this thing in my basements and eventually the humidity rusted it up. It does have an interesting texture.

Tuesday – #glossy

When I encountered the theme “glossy” I immediately thought of shiny floors. This is an example of a shiny floor I saw at the Peabody Essex Museum.

Wednesday – #entertainment

I attended an 80th Birthday Party for Peggy Cournoyer in Temple, NH. I had a conversation with the church minister earlier in the evening who suggested that I wait around until 8 PM for a special event. Imagine my surprise to see how he transformed himself into Elvis Presley. He had the perfect voice for this, This photo was taken while he sang “How Great Thou Art” for his final song. His rendition was a tour-de-force,

Thursday – #hairy

Friday – #flimsy

I was hiking a trail in Temple, NH to “White Ledges”, an rocky outgrowth of white quartz. At the beginning of the trail I spotted this decrepit structure. It probably has fallen over by now.

Saturday – #twisted

Celastrus orbiculatus is a woody vine of the family Celastraceae. It is commonly called Oriental bittersweet, as well as Chinese bittersweet, Asian bittersweet, round-leaved bittersweet, and Asiatic bittersweet. It is a horrible invasive that I’ve been fighting for years. It strangles trees and anything in its way, Definitely a twisted plant.

Sunday – #shape

The Autumn Foliage Art Tour takes place in the Monadnock Region of NH. On this tour I stopped at Rooted in Clay, a pottery studio in Rindge, NH. It had a number of quirky and whimsical items of may shapes.

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