Themes

While Visual Realia’s photo selection may have a random feel to it, there are definitely some themes that reappear from time to time. If you find a particular theme interesting, feel free to use this list as guidance to find similar photos. (New photos in a section are listed at the end of each group.) Not all photo entries are listed, but the theme photos provided should be a good starting point.

• From the Beginning...

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• Projects

Art Tiles

MyPublisher Review

•Exhibit

June Gettysburg Exhibit Selection

• Art & Photography Discussion

Sights and Insights

Clinedinst

Stars and Stripes Forever

Towner Jones Guest Blogging

In Memoriam

Crash Taylor

30 St Mary Axe - Edited

All that Breathe are Statues

• Music

A relatively lengthy music theme was started on November 3rd. Visit the Mallets entry, and continue clicking on the “next” link at the bottom of each page to travel through the remainder of the music series. Other series start with Percussive, Art of Music and Arithmetic of Sounds. A three photograph treatment of the tenor saxophone was added in early 2008.

Also:

String Quintet No. 1, Opus 4 (1795)

Trombones: Sliding Back in Time, Honky Tonk and Tonal Obedience

Electric Guitar: Pump Up the Volume, Electric Sound, Vibration, Everything, Sounding and The Things You Want to Hear

•Abstract

Abstract Photography Gallery

Warm I, II, III, IV and V

In the Presence of Eternity

Not as it Now is Seen

The Poetry of Ice

Shades and Intonations

The Color of Rain

Elements

Questions and Answers

•Food and Cooking

A series based upon a five hour evening with the cooking masters at Sheppard Mansion begins with The Table is Set and continues by using the “Next” link at the bottom of each entry page. Other shots are also listed below.

Sheppard Mansion Slideshow (Video)

Food Photography Gallery

Beet and Smoked Salmon Salad

Pizza and Rettland Farms Egg

Blessed

Macaroni and Cheese

Simply Cheese

Trent Hendricks Pub Cheddar

Tasting Smelling Looking

Discoveries of Taste

Sweet Will Be the Flower

Terrine of Berkshire Pork

Honeycrisp Apple Salad

Love for Food

Life and Death of a Cookie

Permanent Until Eaten

Pretzel Roll

Leap Toward Immortality

Salt

Chefs

Country Ham Wrapped Rockfish

Kitchen at the Inn

Seared Yellowfin Tuna

Other food-related posts:

Ripe from the Orchard

•Adams County, Pennsylvania

A series of Adams County scenes begins here. Click on the “next” link at the bottom of each page to move to the next photograph.

A series on winter orchard scenes begins here.

•Photowalks

A series of photographs from the 2008 Georgetown photowalk begins here. Click on the “next” link at the bottom of each page to move to the next photograph.

Also...

Gettysburg 08 Photowalkers

What a Photographer Does

Capitol Complex - Harrisburg Photowalk

Codorus Scatter Photowalk

Codorus 09 Photowalkers

Photographing Codorus

Last Chance to Register

March 6th Photowalkers

New Oxford Photowalkers

Foot Traffic

New Oxford Photowalk Book Available

Lancaster Photowalk

Welcome to Lancaster

Lancaster Photowalkers

Lots of Glass

• Infrared

Waiting in the Garden

Great Falls Revisited

The Leaping Light

Crossing Bridges

Surrendered to Pleasure

The Chapel

Little Round Top - Alternate

Lifeblood of Cultures

Little Round Top

Fountain

Harps Upon the Willows

• Black and White

Just Where I Left Off

Not Just a Tropical Treat

Closed for the Season

Point of Distance

Love, Pardon and Faith

Silence of Contemplation

Stepping into the Darkness

What Lurks Behind the Tree

Acting from Necessity

Looking Back to Brighter Light

Masonic Cemetery

Years Past

Ready and Steady

Shouldered Toward the Sky

The Eisenhower Orchard

• Duotones/Tritones

War, History, Peace and Plenty

Vision of the Shepherd

The Grave is Not the Goal

A Place for Reverence

Wildasin Meeting House

Little Church

In the Glance of a Flower

Lilac-Scented Stillness

Limestone and Granite

In Oblivion

Guesthouse

Nature in Silence

Where the Fairies Climb

Winter Lake

In the Harbor

Harborplace

Final York Photowalk Details (Strand Theater)

One House of that City

Lace

Hearth

The Journey Above

• Macro

Many of the photos in the Music theme above are macro shots, as are insect shots. In addition:

Secret Aims of Nature

Time is Still a Flying

Plain, Honest and Upright

In Autumn Beauty Stood

Screens of Impressions

The Welcome Dandelion

Sunshine and a Little Flower

Scents the Early Morning

The One I Sheltered

Recollection

The Flowers Owe Thanks

Exercise of Imagination

For Each Thorn

• Wildlife/Birds/Insects, Etc.

Gifts of Nature

Marching Through the Air

Variegated Fritillary

On the Edge

Voice for a New Morning

Listening to the Voice

The Bee is Not Afraid

Being Koi

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

What Joy Awaits

Taking to Flight

Nature’s Conversation

Sailing With the Wind

A Gull Between the Waves

Experience of the Butterfly

Two Tigers

Literature and Butterflies

Nature and Perfection

Stay Near Me

Eat What You Like

Perspective is Relative

Fish Before Their Eyes

Shared With the Atala

• Nature

Leaning into the Light

Awe

Great Falls

Always Together, Forever Apart

In the Light of the Moon

Implanted in the Soul

Reflection of the Truth

And it Was May

Mystery of the Dream

Simple Life

Through Laughing Leaves

Serenity

Expression of Leaning

In the Nature of Things

Breaking Through the Veil

Hear the Angel Singing

Contemplation of Beauty

To the Summer Sweet

Alive

Hieroglyphics of Angels

Location, Location, Location

Transcending Boundaries

Unanswerable Questions

Lion of the Round Top

Sweeter Days Be Born

At the End of the Farm

United States Botanic Garden

Cutleaf Japanese Maple

Hyacinthus Orientalis

Coming into Blossom

In the Mouth of the Dragon

Print Contest Reminder (Textured Lily)

Hosta Bloom

Child of the Universe

Thoughts Exchanged for Dreams

April Hath a Fickle Mind

Must Have Been the Sun

Through the Veil

Talk of the Flower

Forest Primeval

Grandeur in Tranquillity

Summer Reds

Like Wildernesses of Dreams

The Sky Was Not Bare

Ivy and Stone

Shades of Green

Tales of the Young Earth

Walking With Mother Earth

Autumn Shade

Blue Skies

Silver Light

2011 Philadelphia Flower Show

Delicate Fade

Under Their Colours

Breaking Under Foot

Sanctuary at Our Feet

Single Flower

Life Converging

Songs of the Wildflowers

• History

Six Gettysburg series begin with the links below. At the bottom of the linked photo page, click on the “next” link and continue doing so to move through each group of photographs.

Gettysburg National Cemetery

In Position

The Hampton National Historic Site is explored with a series that starts here.

A series at Harper’s Ferry begins here.

Other scenes:

Rust

Machinery

The Battle of Antietam is explored through a series starting here.

A “tour” of the Eisenhower National Historic Site (Gettysburg) begins here.

Other historical pages include:

Casting Memories

Isabella

Furnace

From Open Windows Forth We Peep

Moving in Red and Blue

Harpers Ferry Photowalk

Peace is But a Prayer

Custer and the Wolverine Brigade

Lightship 116

York Meeting House

Korean War Memorial

Photowalk Day (General Lafayette)

Looking Down from Valor

Hues Born in Heaven

Remembrance Illumination

Sequestered Ground

Asleep Beneath the Moon

To the End They Remain

Fields of Spotsylvania

Horrors of Spotsylvania

Among the Grassy Spears

Major Joseph Latimer

From the Ridge to the Village

• Religion/Spirituality

A trip to the National Shrine Grotto of Lourdes in Emmitsburg, Maryland yielded numerous photographs. At the bottom of these two linked photo pages, click on the “next” link and continue doing so to move through each group of photographs.

• Urban

Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church

Photowalk on the Blogs

Nothing Else But Miracles

Handsomest Building

Inner Harbor

Save the Planet

Density in Black and White

Gettysburg College Skyline

• Rural

Following Possibilities

With Stars for a Roof

Savage & Serene

The Desolation of Reality

Eisenhower National Historic Site

Tone of Languid Nature

Country Lane

Barren Bleakness

Drifting State

Beauty Born of Beauty

Turning North or West

• People

Photography and Family

•Sports/Adventure

Play Ball

On the Mound

Warm Up

Clearing on the Grounds

Dancing To Their Own Tunes

Deluged

Flags of the President

• Holidays

Christmas that Comes So Near

• Lensbaby

Impressions and Memory

• Rephotographs

Effacing the Unnecessary

Existence in Memory

• Still Life

Recalling the Past

Revelation of the Mask

Pleasure in the Flowers

But a Little Faded Flower

• Bonsai

• Architecture

National Capitol Columns

State Museum of Pennsylvania

Old City Hall

The Past, Today and Tomorrow

Walnut Street Bridge, Harrisburg

Pointing in Silence

United States Capitol

Together Bound

Power Plant

Baltimore Aquarium I

Baltimore Aquarium II

Waterfront

Central Market House

Central Market House II

The Strand

Humble Home

History in the Street

225 East Market

First Presbyterian Church

York National Bank and Trust

Hoover Wagon

Barnett Bobb Log House

Penn Theater

Free Enterprise

National Museum of the American Indian

Facing East

Kasota Limestone

Torpedo Factory

Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington

Caverns of Memory

Highly Resolved

From Time to Eternity

Roof Tops

Hirshhorn Museum

Acting on the Soul

Saint Matthew Lutheran Church

The State Preserved

Seat of Power

Acute Angles

The Gods See Everywhere

History in the Present

Tavern by the Lock

The Show of the County

Streets and Balconies

Church of the Holy Trinity

Southern Market

Early Pennsylvania Architecture

Fisher Parish House

• Rivers, Lakes, Ponds and Water...

A series on the Susquehanna River begins on the following link:

Where Morning Lies

Scroll to the bottom of that page and click on the “next” link to move through the series.

Others:

Fog and Angles

Just a Bridge Away

Upon the Shore

A Different Kind of Traffic

Inner Harbor Panorama

Safe Harbor

Golden June

Yielding to the Path of Nature

Susquehanna River Valley Panorama

Lakeside Alone

Slip of Earth

• Geographic Composition & Points of View Projects

Jason D. Moore Photography’s site features a different theme or starting photograph each week. Check out my entries.

Beginnings

The Crooked Path

Glass, Mirror and Light

Closed for the Winter

Gettysburg National Cemetery

String Quintet No. 1, Opus 4 (1795)

•iPhone Photographs

• Odds and Ends...

Wait Until the Friends Were Gone

Calmness and Strength

For a Moment of Light

Colour of the Mind

Coffee

Impatient of All Limit

Image of the Infinite

Mighty Flame

October’s Last Call

Color, Shape and Motion

Guest Artist: Hannah Smith

•Web Site Notes

Key to Some Site Changes

Visual Realia, iPhone Style

VR Mobile as an Apple Web App

Print Contest Winners

Print Sale

Sunflower Print

Alltop Photography App

Visual Realia Prints

Serious Eats Spot

PhotowalkList Interview

Gallery

Sheppard Mansion Video

Food Photography Gallery

Abstract Photography Gallery

Third Annual Free Print Contest

Photograzing Visitors

New Home for Visual Realia

•Free Downloads

Free Print

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Andy

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