Laundry Wheel
My neighbour’s clothes line, spotted while shooting macros of insects in the iris patch in my back yard. It is a bit like a Ferris wheel for laundry, spinning in the sky above my back yard.
Somehow it called for a photograph, even though it really is only laundry, on the line.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 100mm/f2.8 macro lens, ISO400, f-6.3, 1/800th
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burnt embers 
Yes – very well seen. But I guess your neighbours might be relieved that they hadn’t hung out their underwear on this occasion!
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I think you are right about that. But, I expect that they know about airing their laundry in public….
Still, if it had just been underwear, I might not have taken the picture, unless it very brightly coloured. There is often laundry hanging out there, and this is the first time I have been inspired to take a picture, so they are probably safe!
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I like it, anything, even laundry, can be interesting when viewed in a certain way. I happen to have some laundry-on-a-line shots myself. 🙂
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Hello Ashley – I have often liked the light and textures of laundry on my own line, and tried to shoot it. My partner is a textiles person, so there is often something interesting on the line. I just have to try harder because so far there are no keepers.
I like your “washing” and “washing line” tagged photos, especially Hole in a Door.
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Oh! Thanks for going to the trouble of checking that out, Ephem, I have in mind to go back to the hole in the door location as the construction in the background is now finished: thanks for the reminder.
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I love it! what better sign of summer?!
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Hi Ryan – a sure sign of summer, though any nice day we get our laundry out on the line, even in the winter. I grew up in Edmonton and my mother hung laundry out in the winter – it freeze dried in a couple of hours on a good cold day. I wish we had a picture of that in the family archive, but I don’t recall one.
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I love this.
Nicely seen and captured!
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Hi Lisa – I’m glad you agree, I can actually see that part of the house next door when I am sitting at my computer, so it is one of those very familiar scenes that in fact one tends not to notice. For some reason it jumped out at me that day, maybe just because of refocussing my eyes from a half hour of macro made it seem fresh somehow.
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I am pretty sure that the shirts were spying on you, in an effort to answer your neighbors’ question, “NOW what is he doing?!”
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Red shirts think that way, I am not sure about yellow ones though – to me they seem a bit dull. I suspect they follow orders, without thinking.
I was taking shots of this clothes rack thingy and the nice shadow it cast on the building a few weeks ago – so I suspect that the questions are coming from the rack, not its owners.
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