Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bikes and Motorcycles

This week Cee has asked us to share our photos of bikes and motorcycles. Here we go…

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Rental bikes. London, UK.

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Pink Vespa! Santa Monica, CA.

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Speeding motorcycles in wild traffic of Naples, Italy.

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Bike and motorcycle parking. Florence, Italy.

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Ghost biker. Naples, Italy.

365/Day 56

Shooting From the Hip —

Today I went back to my favorite spot on the Third Street Promenade, in Santa Monica, for some street photography. People are very aware of cameras these days, especially in Los Angeles, so it isn’t easy to go unnoticed. Most times, even shooting from the hip, people notice they are being photographed. So far, nobody has made a stink about it, so I keep on shooting…

365/Day 54

Strength and Longevity This Rosewood tree (or Tipuana Tipu) is about seventy-five years old, according to tree experts. It’s in our backyard and today it got a thorough trimming in preparation for the spring and summer months. Come May and June, it will be full of tiny yellow flowers that make a real mess when they fall. By July they’ll be gone, and we’ll get to enjoy the tree’s wonderful shade during the hot days of summer. Without the excess branches we can see its massive trunk dwarfing everything around it, including our house…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds

This week’s photo challenge asks us to share photos using the Rule of Thirds. Well, I’ll drink to that! 😉

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Brazilian soccer fan holds a very large cup of beer during a World Cup match.

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The vines had just begun to bloom in the Chianti region of Italy. Soon they’d become delicious wine.