52 Photos Week 15: Spring

Question

Ready for week 15 of the 52 Photos challenge?

This week's theme:

SPRING

To participate, simply:

1. reply below, and
2. add a photo that fits the theme to this week's free-space gallery.

If you use a social network (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) please share the photo there as well, using #52photos and #wikitree. This can be a great way to involve more family members. If you use a blog, include a link to your blog post in your answer below so we can all read it.

Members who participate every week can earn challenge badges. Click here for more info. If this is your first time participating, or you don't have the participation badge, please post here

Comments

I want to get started on this challenge. I just submitted my first one.

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I submitted my photo a couple hours ago.  Do they not immediately post to this thread or do y’all have to approve first?  Just wondering if I should worry that I didn’t do it right again.  HA!

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Karen, posting your photo to the Space page and posting to this thread are two seperate actions - both of which you have to do - although you are not required to post to this thread,. There is NOTHING automatic about the process.

All the photos on this thread have been posted by the writers, just as they have been uploaded to the space page by the writers.

The Space page is the more important place to upload the photo because that is where it counts for the challenge and the badges.

I hope this makes sense.

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Hi Robynne, yes, it makes sense.  I thought, as you said, I just had to post on the space page.  Let me search the help pages today to figure out how to post a photo in a comment or answer.  Thank you!

Answer 1

Spring in Maine.  Couldn't find a vintage photo, so here's one from April of last year.

Answer 2

52 Photos Week 15 Spring

When I saw this week's challenge I immediately knew what picture I was going to share.

This is a picture that my ex-husband took. He is a skydiving photographer, and one of the best around. This picture was taken in 2012 and it is of 4 skydivers opening not their main parachutes but their reserve chutes.

This picture had to be perfectly timed. All four had to be in the exact place at the exact time. Mike had to be extremely close to them to get this picture, and they had to make sure that their chutes and or lines didn't tangle. 

Remember - they are using their reserve parachutes and if something happened - they have nothing to fall back on.

The whole purpose was to make this picture look like a flower!  A spring flower.

When he posted this picture, it received several descriptions, including: a beautiful bouquet, what a flower, a nylon flower, blooming tulips, floating flowers, bouquet of Dahlias, and many other flowers. I thought it was one of the most beautiful pictures of his I had seen.

I think I will call it "Spring is in the Air".

Comments

Yes!  Great photo!

No!  You won't ever catch me trying something like that!

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OMG I would NEVER want to do anything so dangerous.

It is bad enough that people jump out of planes with the main parachutes.

And now wanting to depend on the smaller chutes? No thanks!!

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Cheryl this is just a perfect photo the color are so clear as Robynne I would never be brave enough to do this but thank You Cheryl for sharing this wonderful photo

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Thank you SJ Baty, Robynne and Susan. I have to say that he has been skydiving for over 50 years, is a Master Skydiver, and actually has three cameras on his helmet. This was a risky jump, but all involved were professionals.

I am sure that they jumped with their regular parachutes, then cut-away to their reserves, if that would change your minds about sky-diving. 

Answer 3

I just noticed that the photo I posted for this thread is a .png.  Could that be the reason it’s not showing up?  Thanks Karen

Comments

NO Karen, It has nothing to do with the type of photo.

The process is NOT automatic.

You have to copy and paste your photo to this thread yourself.

Answer 4

My Grandmother Louisa Banks Flintoff on a lovely Spring day in 1916.

Comments

What a beautiful smile.

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Susan what a wonderful treasure of your Grandmother she look so sweet smiling thank You for sharing

Answer 5

Two Classic Beauties 

Answer 6

These pictures are from Mother's Day Weekend in 1981 which was also my college graduation weekend. This was on Friday afternoon before or after a ceremony on the campus at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse. We were gathered in front of Moon Library on the Quad. In the first picture are my mother, me, and my Aunt Lois all in basically the same pose with my grandmothers Leola Cox and Pauline Boy sitting on the bench. 

The second picture are my in-laws Rudy and Jinny Holmberg. This was the weekend both families met and I think it went fairly well.

Comments

thank you for sharing those wonderful photos taken from mother’s day 1881

Answer 7

Grandma Ranck (Ruth Lenore Violet Herling) was born in October and in this photo she looks about 6 to 9 months old - that would make this a Spring photo.  Considering that they lived in Minnesota, I'm sure of it!

I just finished a long edit of her profile and I think that it is pretty thorough.  Since, my Mother has sent me a lot of photos and new info so, in time, I'll be editing her profile further.

Comments

SJ your grandmother are absolutely adorable

Answer 8

Here's my mom and me in Washington, DC, around 1965.

Answer 9

This is me and my sister.  This was in March 1990, Westminster, California.  I was getting ready to move me and my kids to Oklahoma. I was going through a divorce and my parents offered to help me with my kids so I could return to college.  Best Parents Ever!   I seem lost in my own little world or from the look on my face, my ornery little boy was getting ready to do something.  HA HA. We had taken my little ones and our brothers kiddos to the park to enjoy running and playing somewhere larger than the backyard.

Comments

Well done on figuring how to copy and paste a photo to the G2G thread!!

So glad you finally worked it out.

Nice spring photo too.

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Thank you. Last two days I’ve been reading everything on posting photos!  Thought I was going to go crazy!  Haha

Answer 10

When we were kids, we always got new dresses and hats for Easter - and white gloves. This is my Mom and Dad, brother Jerry, (all deceased), me and my two sisters. 

Comments

I think I could improve the colors and sharpness on this photo for you, if you want.  A little editing in post, as they say, should help it out.

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I would LOVE that, Rob Neff! Please do, I would appreciate it so much!!! Thank you for offering!
Sheri

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Here you are (I like doing this), I think the colors are close to natural:

(Click here for Full size image)

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omg!!! Thank you!!! What a difference!!! I am sooo surprised!!! Love, love, LOVE!!! Really, really appreciated, Rob!
Sheri

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Pictures that have a uniform haziness are good candidates for cleaning up.  I can't create detail where it doesn't exist, but I can enhance what is there.

Answer 11

Pinus palustris, otherwise known as the longleaf pine.

Hereʹs to the land of the long leaf pine,
The summer land where the sun doth shine,
Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great,
Hereʹs to ʺDown Home,ʺ the Old North State!
 — § 149–2. “A Toast” to North Carolina.

Answer 12

Here is a photo of my mother and my grandfather. The back of the photo is dated May 30, 1926. My mother is now 95, so she was 2 years old in this photo. It may have been taken at my grandfather's half sister's farm in New York.

Answer 13

My daughter and father at my college graduation in 1991

Answer 14

This photo of my sisters and me was takenm 22 Apr 1962.  Hard to believe I  found it while looking for a SPRING photo exactly 57 years later?

Answer 15

My favorite fishing spot taken 12 April 2013. 

Answer 16

This my Grandmother my mom's mom Myra Belle Leonard and her husband's brother LeRoy Leonard. LeRoy Leonard profile is https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leonard-8014 and Myra Belle Leonard's profile is https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leonard-5581. This was taken during her senior year in High School in Mobile, Alabama. She had a crush on LeRoy during this time. What is strange LeRoy and my grandfather and Myra were first cousin and had the same surname LEONARD.

Answer 17

Every Spring time we fly to the States for the Sun and Fun airshow were we volunteer, keeping the public entertained and safe. It is amazing how folk do not pay attention causing us to spring into action to prevent them from harm.

Love it but just wish folk would pay attention to their surrounding...

Answer 18

Vegetables in Spring. Arthur Pountney at work in his garden in Ravenswood, Queensland.

Answer 19

There was a town called Neptune, Saskatchewan, Canada, southwest of Weyburn. It was my mother's hometown. During spring runoff, the melt water would sometimes almost touch the bottom of the railway bridge, as in this photo. My mother was born in 1926, so I'm guessing that this was taken, with her older sister, about 1940.