Photo Friday: COAST

Welcome back to the blog. In this post, I am displaying a photograph that I shared on Photo Friday, the weekly photo challenge website. The challenge for this week was #COAST. I assume that the challenge organizers intended this to mean coastline, as in the beach or coast on the ocean. However, I am stretching the meaning of the word coast to include the shoreline. And what do you see at the coastline? Seagulls! And there is no shortage of seagulls far inland, on the shores of Chickamauga Lake. I had to dig a little bit on this one as my photo was taken quite a few years ago at Chester Frost State Park.

 CityScape - This weeks' Photo Friday Challenge

I love Photo Friday challenges. If you go back through this blog you'll no doubt come to the conclusion that its' sole purpose was to participate in Photo Friday challenges (and you'd probably be right).

Each week Photo Friday posts a challenge word or phrase, with its associated hash tag. Challenges exist as a fun diversion for our members, a chance to creatively interpret the word and seek out photographic situations that embody your independent expression of it.

Ross's Landing - Chattanooga, Tennessee (2014)

I watched a YouTube video by Tim Childers about Ross's Landing. Tim is a retired educator living in Chattanooga, and he publishes a video every day chronicling his life. I love watching them, especially for the scenery of Chattanooga, where I lived for 18 years. Tim gives a brief history of Ross's Landing and explains where Chattanooga got its name. What surprised me is that Tim highlighted a fountain at the river that has been out of service for several years. This saddens me, but it reminded me that I have photos of a time when the fountain was working. I really hope that the city of Chattanooga restores the fountain back to working condition. I also hope that you'll check out the YouTube channels by Tim Childers. I'll leave links to them. Tim doesn't know me from Adam, but I find his videos about life, photography, and life after retirement interesting.

Life in Motion Diaries

So, without further ado, here are the pictures of the fountain at Ross's Landing from August 21, 2014.

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Studies in Light

I'm re-hashing a few slightly older photographs that I took in Chattanooga a few years. I'll post them on PHOTOFRIDAY for #LIGHT.

Photo Friday - Summer

A couple of pictures from the archives for the Photo Friday subject #SUMMER

Coolidge Park on the North Shore in Chattanooga, Tennesee

Chickamauga Lake in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Interesting streets and walkways

This is a post for PHOTO FRIDAY that I thought would be interesting. The subject this week (May 11-17) is STEET. While not really a street I think that this fits into the overall theme of the subject.

 

This is the glass pedestrian bridge that goes between the Walnut Street Bridge and the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

 



Reflection

Chattanooga riverfront, as seen from the north shore / Coolidge Park area. Posting this one to
Photo Friday.

Snow Day

Life in Tennessee came to a standstill for a few days when mother nature decided to dump 6 to 8 inches of snow on us.

MACRO: Gulf Fritillary

A project for the PHOTO FRIDAY 1/8/2015 subject "MACRO"

BLUE

BLUE BOY - PULL TOY #1

For the December 12, 2014 Photo Friday challenge BLUE

Blue Boy - Pull Toy #1, sculpture by John Petrey, Chattanooga, TN

 

 

Photo Friday: Blissful

Blissful

Warm day, cool fountain, playing with friends. It just doesn't get any better than this.

Coolidge Park, North Shore, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Bluff View Art District

Anyone who knows me knows how much I love the Tennessee Riverpark. I look forward to the weekends when I usually take a long bicycle ride from the Chickamauga Dam to either Coolidge Park or Renaissance Park. One of the highlights of the Riverpark trail is the River Gallery Sculpture Garden at the Bluff View Art District. While there are some sculptures that I think are permanent many are sometimes exchanged so that there are new works of art to view at different times of the year. Below are a few pictures that I have taken over the past few years. One of my favorites is the Walking Figure by Russell Whiting which can be found on the deck of the building which houses the Bluff View Bakery. The middle photo is of a work called Wood Muses I-IV which was only recently installed. The bottom photo is a piece called Amazon Walking which has been removed since the photo was taken.

Art Classes

Art Classes.......on Rossville Boulevard about two blocks off Main Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Another Great Day!

Today I broke out the mountain bike and took a ride on the Tennessee Riverwalk all the way from the Chicamauga Dam to Coolidge Park in Downtown Chattanooga. The weather was perfect today and Chattanooga has come alive once more. The Riverwalk was teeming with walkers, skaters, and bikers and Coolidge Park was bustling with activity today and there were a lot families taking advantage of the huge fountain there. I'm estimating my ride at about 18 or 19 miles round trip. Not too shabby for an old guy.

I stopped from time to take a few picture. I've put a couple here and more on my FlickR page.

Long Overdue

Yesterday Susan and I did something that was long, long overdue. We've lived in Chattanooga for 8 years and we had never ridden the Incline Railway up Lookout Mountain. For anyone interested, the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway (or "funicular" if you prefer the proper name) is the steepest incline railway in the world. When you first enter the cars you're actually sitting back in an inclined position. You gradually become more vertical as you ascend the track and close to the top you feel like you're hanging over the edge of a steep precipice. This was really neat although I am pretty sure that Susan kept her eyes closed for most of the trips up and down the mountain.

When we got to the top of Lookout Mountain we took a short (3 block) walk past the Giles House over to Point Park. From there you can see all of Chattanooga. There are also several Civil War monuments there and the lanscaping is beautiful.

Photo Friday: Sunrise

For the Photo Friday subject SUNRISE. I shot this on the way to work back in October at the Chicamauga Dam in Chattanooga, TN.