From the window over my desk at work, I can see two big oak trees, on the perimeter of the property. They show me if it's windy out, or calm, and their leaves are turning bright shades of gold. But I was struck by how different the two trees are from each other. The tree on …
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Nature does not do anything in straight lines. No natural feature of the landscape, or living thing on Earth has straight lines. Only we humans make straight lines. A Rabbi friend of mine says that human beings are like pebbles, and not like bricks. Pebbles have rounded outlines, and protuberances everywhere. You cannot categorize pebbles-each …
I learned a long time ago to pay attention to even the ordinary objects around me, which can become extraordinary if you photograph them the right way. Even a russet potato looks interesting, with the brightly-colored background. When Hubby and I were in Michigan last month, we had meals in a big dining-room, with many …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #169: The Ordinary
Ooh, this one is going to be really fun! One of the original photos I posted on my blog, way back when, is a twisty road in Eastern Washington along the Columbia River Gorge. I have always loved the shrub-steppe terrain there. How about our kitty, curving her body to rest on our barrel chair? …
Continue reading Curvy or Arches: Cee Neuner’s Challenge for this Week!
This week's challenge, to show photos of places and things that have seen better days, could start with pictures of myself! But it won't, sorry. I will, however, start close to home. A few blocks away from my house, along the arterial street, is a house that has definitely seen better days. It's not that …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #168: Seen Better Days
I just had to do this one, for my friend Cee, who doesn't live too far from me. Circles make the world go round (see what I did there?), and trace the roughly-circular orbits of all the planets and their satellites. Did you know that the ancient Egyptians did not use the wheel? They found …
Continue reading Circles and Wheels: This week’s Photo Challenge from Cee Neuner.
Autumn is my very favorite season, especially after this year's unusually hot summer in the Pacific Northwest. You could almost say that autumn came early this year, as our trees were dropping brown leaves and dry branches on our house all summer, due to the drought that accompanied the high temperatures. In the Pacific Northwest, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #167: Colors of Autumn
I love taking photos of landscapes, since I normally notice the wide view. I don't have a wide-angle lens for my normal point-and-shoot camera, nor my iPhone, which I have been using for most photography for the past two years. I used to pooh-pooh all the people who are constantly using their phones to capture …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #165: Going Wide (with pride)
Thanks very much to Sofia, who echoes what I always tell my friends, photographers or not. I make a habit of looking up, wherever I am. Most people, when they are in a city, walk or drive along looking forward, or down at their phones (which is dangerous!). I suggest that they take their eyes …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #164: Looking Up/Down
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