Cee is continuing to focus on lines for her Fun Foto Challenge.
The topic this week is Diagonal Line(s). Please feel free to use either new or archived photos for this challenge. Use your imagination and see what you can come up with. Be creative and have fun with this challenge.
Tangled up or holding on?Testing the accuracy of the template. Its shape will be transferred to the 4×4 angled members.The angle braces keep it square, but I’m checking the diagonals, just to be sure.From this point forward, every piece will be cut on two angles.Surrounded by an aluminum fence, there are many gates.Smithfield Street bridge reflected in one of the Gateway Clipper shipsThe Superintendent’s Cottage stands to the right of the Gallup Memorial Gateway and has been the home of Cedar Hill’s superintendents since its construction in 1875.The obligatory moment where I ask Faith to stand in front of a door/gateSticky snow on the gate.Gate House – Melrose CemeteryI could tell you that the pictures is of Lady Liberty (under the lamp). The crane just got in the way.Crane – Lamp – what else do we need?Also at the construction site in Washington, DC. Work is done for the day.Each of those crane cabs has a door. I love cranes. Maybe even more than doors.Crews were working in the park, but this flag looks good
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Yeah, as though we’re really going to believe that it was a picture of Lady Liberty and the crane just got in the way. That photo of multiple cranes looks like a crane convention. The daughter in the “obligatory” pose made me chuckle. Dads and daughters! That Superintendent’s Cottage is a beauty. You do not want for lines!
Faith snags a photo of me, each time, too, and a selfie of us both. She is so much more photogenic than I am. I can’t fool you guys. If I had just posted the prompt, you probably would have guessed I’d include cranes.
You outdid yourself on the diagonal lines Dan. All your photos hit the mark, but I especially like the snow covered gate, the superintendent’s cottage, Faith posing for you with the critters, your beloved cranes and last, but definitely not least, Old Glory.
Hope you had a happy start to fall. My rake thought it had more time before I needed to put it to work! Of course I’m probably the only dinosaur around here who uses a rake. Everyone else blows them or vacuums them up.
Thanks Ginger. I love the sticky snow we sometimes get and the way it highlights everything. I do use a leaf-blower, but I also use a rake. Of course, I also leave some leaves in the bushes in case critters need some building materials for repairs during the winter.
I knew there would be photos of cranes, Dan. Every time I see one, I think of your love of/obsession with cranes. It’s not a bad thing, but please stick to doors as I think your fans would appreciate it.
Nice angle photos, Dan. The gate house in the cemetary is charming. Could be a tiny hobbit house if only it were built into the side of a hill. ;-)
I do love cranes, Mary (and they do have doors), but I’m not branching out. Doors remain the focus.
The gate house (there are two of them) always make me wonder when I look at those tall narrow slits (windows). They used to build those so archers could shoot through them. Were they expecting someone to rise up and attack?
These are good angles, Dan! I especially like the crane photo in DC. Looks like that crane is going to pick up the building! But that last photo with all those cranes–yes!!
Nicely done, Dan. I’d never make it as a builder with angles. It took 3 times the amount of chair railing and an entire weekend because I couldn’t figure out which way the angles should go around a couple of corners to join the pieces. Finally gave up and hired a handyman who did it in a couple of hours. A humbling lesson learned that day. Geometry is not my jam.
Lovely pictures, Dan. You know what comes to my mind when I see these cranes. Not always, but I sometimes see them as giant symbols of corporate dominance. Not sure how to put this in words. I’m not against development, I understand development is gonna happen because old gives way to the new. As humans we want better, so I agree with that. However, sometimes, old heritage buildings are demolished or gardens and parks and swamps are transformed into residential complexes and these cranes to me seem like giant hands saying – Hail Corporate, like thousands of hands saying Hail Hlietr bending to the will of corporates and destroying nature just because they want to make quick bucks. I hope I’m not getting too philosophical just sharing my feelings.
I, too, am sad when older buildings are torn down simply to put more floors on the same space. But the tools of construction, and the men who operate them fascinate me.
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