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Photo Hunt Results

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As I had mentioned a few weeks ago my friend Karma over at Karma’s When I Feel Like It Blog is having a photo hunt. For this particular hunt we needed to choose a word and then find images of objects around the house to represent each letter in the word. We can choose to let you know our word and see how well our objects spell out the word or just present the images and let our readers figure out the word. I’ll go one step further and present the letter images in no particular order and let you unscramble them into my word.  Hopefully I wasn’t too obvious…

Nuts

Eggs

Scale & Slippers

Dough

Ice

Yellow Yarn

**EDIT**

I realize now that images can be interpreted in different ways depending on a person’s point of view. Each of these images shouts to me what it is but I created them. A few people have mentioned to me that even though they knew the word I was going for the images didn’t match up with the letters. The two biggest culprits are the third and sixth images. I see what other people see now. lol Check out the comments below for a hint on both of those images.

Signs, signs, everywhere there’s signs…

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My apologies to Five Man Electrical Band as I was singing this song while getting these images ready for this post. Although, I am more familiar with the live version recorded by Tesla and that is how I was attempting to sing (don’t ask!). Anyway, as you might have guessed by now the theme this week was Signs.

I had a few ideas to go capture big signs like fast food signs along commercial roads in town or unique signs for some local businesses. What I decided to do was find some small interesting signs while out doing my normal exploring. Once you start looking for signs, you will be amazed at how many are actually scattered across the landscape. My big problem now is turning that portion of my brain off so I don’t see them while I’m out looking for landscape images. lol

This first image is another view of the bridge in the Holland Patent village park. I posted a side view late last week but the ‘No Snowmobiles’ sign caught my eye as I was trying to compose the image. At first I didn’t understand why because I know the bridge could support the weight, then I realized the skis and treads would chew up the wood. Makes sense now…

No Snowmobiles Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 1/320s, 38mm, f/8, ISO 200

No Snowmobiles
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 1/320s, 38mm, f/8, ISO 200

The next two images are from a walk I took on Saturday at Delta Lake State Park. What I liked about both of these images is the situational irony (is that even a thing?). The first image proclaims the trail ends here but obviously the snowmobiles continued on. The second image is warning that the beach is closed and swimming is prohibited. I can see why!

Stop, Trail Ends Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 1/500s, 32mm, f/11, ISO 200

Stop, Trail Ends
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 1/500s, 32mm, f/11, ISO 200

Beach Closed Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 1/400s, 38mm, f/16, ISO 200

Beach Closed
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 1/400s, 38mm, f/16, ISO 200