RRPC2: A Variety of Varieties

For the Round Robin Photo Challenge this week, I asked to see "something that comes in a variety of shapes, sizes, and/or colors." I'm going to spread my personal response to this around a variety of social media. For Blogger, I'll just gave you examples of some of the varieties of varieties I found to photograph:

A variety of tropical fish at the Rainforest Cafe at Downtown Disney.
More on my Tumblr.

A variety of Disneyland ticket books, from the days of the "E-Ticket."
Another shot is on Facebook.

A variety of bowls in our cupboard, after a bit of a purge.
A better shot is on Twitter.

A variety of squashes. 

These organic yellow squash come in a variety of sizes and shapes, especially when I throw in an organic zucchini for contrast. These funky little squashes don't taste very good, though.

A variety of hot sauces at Daniel's Really Good Fresh Jerky in Quartzite, Arizona.

My review of this must-see shop is here. I have a photo up there too, but it doesn't fit the theme. Click on the photo above for a closeup - but actually I'm rather glad you can't read these labels, some of which are quite rude!

Now let's see what a variety of photos other Robins came up with!

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as of Saturday, June 2nd, 1:48 AM

Karen - Posted!
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http://mavarin.tumblr.com/
@mavarin

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Sweet Memories
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Carly - Posted!
Ellipsis
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Karen

Leftovers Toniight

It's been a long, busy day, what with Round Robin and giving blood and a new episode of Doctor Who. So I won't attempt anything ambitious tonight. It's just leftovers, I'm afraid. Well, sort of.


Leftover variety:
I bought this matchbook collection at an estate sale about a decade ago. It's not that fabulous, but here it is. The swizzle stick collection is much better, but inaccessible at the moment. I thought originally of using these for the variety show topic but ended up with the bags and pens instead.


Leftover cups: John culled these from our cupboard years ago, but I won't let him sell them, donate them or toss them. The Toros cups in particular were once extremely common, but they're pretty much irreplaceable now. The team hasn't existed in a decade. The larger blue cup celebrates the Diamondbacks' World Series win years ago.

Leftover dog pictures for Feline and Furball Friday (a little late as usual):

Speaking of Toros, here's Tuffy Toro, giving us a rare opportunity to examine her surgically truncated tongue. Yes, she seems to be doing great; no sign so far of the cancer returning.

Pepper hasn't quite learned yet what it means when I point a camera at her in a darkish room. Flash!

A Variety of Pens. And Bags.

I'd like to reply personally to everybody but I just haven't enough pens.
- John Lennon, The Beatles Christmas Record, 1963

It's Round Robin time again, and the topic is "Variety Show", as suggested by Nancy of Nancy Luvs Pix. The idea is to photograph "something that comes in different varieties." I didn't know what I was going to do for this one until about Thursday at work, when I suddenly realized that these oft-used tools fit the criteria:

Pens akimbo

That's a little boring, though. Let's rearrange them:

Latticework of pens

Hmm. Perhaps I should clean them up:

Pens on a tray.

Still not terribly interesting. Time to break out the photo editing effects!

"Light marker" and magic mirror" effects, x2

There's also a "dark marker" effect. Seems appropriate!

Dark markered highlighters! Kind of an oxymoron!

Oh, one more. Pointillism, solarization and negative.

Thursday in the office with pens.

And if that's not enough, I can show you these as well: assorted gift bags in a variety of patterns and colors, purchased for 50 cents each from a dollar store that's going out of business. They're rather pretty in their natural colors, which I've boosted just a little below:

Gift bags for all occasions

Aw, what the heck. Let's throw some effects over these, too!

Dark marker and solarized, I think!

Oh, that'll do. They're only pens and bags, after all, not High Art! But I've had fun getting artistic with them.


Karen

Now go see what a variety of photos the other Robins are posting this weekend!

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Nancy - POSTED!
Nancy Luvs Pix
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Karen - POSTED!
Outpost Mâvarin
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Carly - POSTED!
Ellipsis
http://ellipsissuddenlycarly.blogspot.com

Sandy
Myanderings
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Sarah - POSTED!
Charish Me
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Jill - POSTED!
Letting Crazy Take a Spin
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Chrissie
Chris-seas Corner
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Kiva - POSTED!
Eclectic Granny
http://eclecticgranny.blogspot.com

Kat
In My Dreams I Can Fly.....
http://journals.aol.com/sunflowerkat321/in-my-dreams-i-can-fly.../

TJ - POSTED!
Tj's Photo Expressions
http://tjphotoexpressions.blogspot.com/

Jennifer Robin - POSTED!
Robin's Woods
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Wammy - POSTED!
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Lisa Marie
Lisa's Chaos
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Monica - POSTED!
Family Affair Photography
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Marie - POSTED!
Photographs & Memories
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Annie
Pictures of Craziness
http://krspkrmmom.blogspot.com

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