Documentary?

So, I posted this one over at 365project recently, and received the following comment:

not much for the title but great image , better with no title … you have some nice work in your profile … love see more people stuff , try some doc. stuff...

First off, I had posted this with the title "36 - Farm To Table".  Which is a pretty stinky title.  But I do try to avoid "untitled".   As time I've used a date code, like #43867, which is the number Excel uses for 2/6/2020.  Or truncate it to 4 digits, #3867?

BUT.  The point of this post isn't titling.  It is the comment "try some doc stuff".  Meaning (of course?) documentary photography.  Which got me thinking.  What exactly is documentary photography??

One site says "Documentary photography is a style of photography that provides a straightforward and accurate representation of people, places, objects and events, and is often used in reportage".  Another says "Documentary photographers ... are expected to capture the world or everyday life, as it exists, without stage managing or directing or editing the scene"

Based on those descriptions, I feel like I do a fair amount of documentary photograpy.  I'd probably do more if my life were less boring!!

I made a TAG over at 365project with some images I thought fit.  What say y'all?
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February 1970

Fifty years ago this month, what what happening on the music charts?

Well, during the 4 weeks of February 1970, there were 55 songs that spent time in the Top 40. Lots of great stuff.

3 songs topped the charts:

• Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin/Everybody Is A Star - Sly & The Family Stone (2 weeks)
• Venus - The Shocking Blue (1 week)
• Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel (1 week)

Making Top 40 debut, ranked based on entering position (not peak position)

• Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel #13
• Travelin' Band/Who'll Stop The Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival #18
• The Rapper - The Jaggerz #24
• Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) - The Delfonics #28
• Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Edison Lighthouse #28
• Gotta Hold On To This Feeling - Jr. Walker & The All Stars #31
• Ma Belle Amie - The Tee Set #33
• Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby) - Lulu #34
• He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother - The Hollies #35
• Do The Funky Chicken - Rufus Thomas #35
• One Tin Soldier - The Original Caste #36
• Give Me Just A Little More Time - Chairman Of The Board #37
• Never Had A Dream Come True - Stevie Wonder #37
• If I Were A Carpenter - Johnny Cash & June Carter #38
• Easy Come, Easy Go - Bobby Sherman #38
• Jennifer Tomkins - Street People #39
• Kentucky Rain - Elvis Presley #40
• It's A New Day (Part 1) & (Part 2) - James Brown #40

Lots of great songs...  

Yes, I did have the 45 of Jennifer Tompkins.  But hey, I was 9!

Snowy

From January...  Schon Park / Greenspace North. 

It's funny, I was somewhat disappointed with this one, it's not "tack sharp" towards the top.  But it was rather well received over at 365project, receiving both the Popular and Trending tags.

Green Caffeine

Some people like coffee. Some people like tea.

I prefer Mountain Dew as my caffeine delivery system. A bad habit I picked up in high school, a frightfully long time ago. I did switch to the "diet" version 10-15 years ago, so I suppose that's something...

Of course, Mountain Dew includes "Concentrated Orange Juice" as its #2 ingredient, so it must be healthy... right?

What's the buzz?

So, over the past couple of days, I've gotten a rash of spam texts.  Probably 5 or 6 of them over the past 2-3 days.*  I block the numbers as they come in, so it may be more.

All of them have been related to vague job opportunities.  The most recent (the only one I didn't immediately delete) said:

Please call me Katherine.  I may have a job opening for you.  Call me at [number]

Sorry Katherine.  You don't know me, the odds are less than 0% that you have a job opportunity that would be so awesome that I would be interested.

Over the same few days I've seen a comparable uptick in apparent spam phone calls.  I say apparent, because I don't answer random phone calls from places like "American Fork, UT", and they never leave messages.


I presume I've managed to trigger some algorithm someplace.   I'm not job hunting, and can't think of anything I might've done to make the digital world think that I would be.... 
       Unless they know something I don't??????   (cue paranoia music)



*  OK, 5 or 6 texts isn't necessarily a "rash".  Unless compared to 0 over the previous 5-6 months.

 end rant

On The Shore

Cold and windy, especially windy... Water level at Alton Slough was quite low...

Can a tree trunk be considered driftwood?  Don't know why not, since it drifted down the Mississippi river.  Or maybe the Illinois, since this spot is not far downstream of that confluence.  And a little upstream of the Mississippi river's confluence with the Missouri river.

Speaking of which, isn't confluence one of the cooler words?  It flows off the tongue...

I find it fascinating just how many big trees end up along the river shorelines around here.  This one's not actually that large...

Down For The Count

Sorry, I just popped over to my Blogger dashboard, and discovered all of the posted I had scheduled over the past week were saved as "draft"...  My bad.  I'll dribble them out over the next couple of days, try to leave space for new stuff, too...

Anyway, here's a dead tree limb, taken at Watershed Nature Center...  Lots of shades of green here....