Picture-A-Week 2018 - Week 52

[pierces]

Pictures taken between Monday, December 24 and Sunday, December 30.

 

Another year drifts into history. Hope you captured all the memories you wanted to.

 

I'll be publishing my Picture A Year book next week and I'll provide a link to view it if anybody's interested. I encourage you to do the same!

 

Merry Christmas! - Happy Holidays! - Happy Etc.



Rules: See above

That's it. This isn't a contest.

All photos taken this week are welcome (not just cruising).

Prizes will not be awarded. Discovering the joy of photography is the prize.

The idea is to get folks out using their cameras for more than vacations and toddler birthdays.

Post one. Post many. Up to you.

Have fun with your camera and share your fun with others!

Edited December 24, 2018 by pierces

[KYBOB]

More birds

 

 

 

 

 

[KYBOB]

 

 

[mskaufman]

A rarity when I would post something taken with my phone.  Dec 26 at Kennedy Ctr - Washington DC.

[Oakman58]

Merry Christmas to us.  I haven't seen a gallon of gasoline this low in a long time.

 

[Krazy Kruizers]

3 hours ago, Oakman58 said:

Merry Christmas to us.  I haven't seen a gallon of gasoline this low in a long time.

 

 

We will never see gasoline that low -- ours is anywhere from $2.45 to $2.69 -- depending on which gas station you go to.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Love the bird pictures.  Many of those birds are in our back yard.  Noisy blue jays -- woodpeckers.

[boeckli]

Saw these guys on a walk around the neighbourhood

 

 

[pierces]

The tail end of the year found us in Houston from Christmas Day to New Year's Day visiting family. One of the non-movie activities (movies are traditional with the Texas crowd) was a trip to NASA's Johnson Space Center. The Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules were goose-bumpy reminders of my childhood dreams and the 905 Shuttle Carrier 747 with the replica Independence mounted on it was another Bucket List photo. The real surprise was a display with the meticulously restored, full-sized Galileo shuttlecraft prop from the original Star Trek series. As a space-loving child of the ‘60s, both Space Centers and a Star Trek shuttlecraft within twelve months made it a great (if a bit nerdy) year!

 

Twofer

 

 

Dave

[ski ww]

I always enjoy the Space Center, we've been twice. Great photo op. 

[zackiedawg]

Took me a while to get enough time through all the holiday craziness to sort through the photos I took during this time.  Here are some wildlife shots taken on Dec 29th (Sat) of New Year's Weekend, around the local wetlands:

 

Black and white warbler in the pine forest:

 

Great blue heron about to land with a stick for his nest:

 

A great egret flying low past the trees at sunset:

 

A cattle egret flying close by at sunset:

 

A cormorant flying low with nest materials, at dusk in very low light (ISO 4,000):

[KYBOB]

I love the shot of the Galileo also the birds.

[pierces]

2018 is in the history books. At least it's in my history book:

 

 

 

Dave

[KYBOB]

9 hours ago, pierces said:

2018 is in the history books. At least it's in my history book:

 

 

 

Dave

Dave, where is the link to the book? Would love to see it!

[pierces]

 

 

Full-length preview link here:

 

http://www.blurb.com/books/9223573-picture-a-week-2018/7971678/14554e361b6a89b73a855d1b831e6b5e4961386f

 

Blurb is fussy with links. Let me know if it works.

 

Dave

[ski ww]

Very interesting the way you did that.

[kenevenpar]

Worked fine.  Very well done!  Thanks for sharing the final project.

[KYBOB]

Link worked, thanks for sharing! Very inspiring to set and great idea. I really like the last entry was a very fitting end to the year. Hope this year is just as good!