I admit to being way behind on my photo challenges, but it's only because Hubby and I have been on a two-week road trip, from which we have just returned. I took so many pictures on that trip that I can do all my challenges from just the photos I took! Now, being born in …
Continue reading Sunday Stills Challenge: Is #Quartz a girl’s best friend?
I will forgive Cee for having her FOTD for my birthday be a weed (dandelion)! For my birthday flower, I chose two different colors of the tulips that make the Skagit Valley famous. These were taken last weekend on our jaunt up to Mount Vernon and LaConner. Tulips grown there come in a multitude of …
Continue reading Birthday Flowers of the Day, for April 16…Tulips
Our topic this week for Cee's Fun Foto Challenge is Wood. Knock on wood. The most important wood object around our place is this. This is my 1987 David VanZandt violin. It is as much a work of art as a musical instrument. Its top is made from close-grained Sitka Spruce, and its back is …
Another in the Elements series. If these photos aren't Fire, I don't know what is. This is Earth's Primordial Fire, the eruption of the Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii in July of 2018. This lava formed in the literal fires at the center of our planet, and the movements of the tectonic …
I'm privileged to have my birthday in April. I love being a Spring Baby, when the garden wakes up from its winter slumber, leaves and buds show up on our trees, and our chorus frogs begin singing in the holding pond across the street from our house. Last year, I planted a little Hydrangea bush …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #193: (Re-)Birthdays
These days, I live in a suburb. The closest big city is Seattle, 20 miles south of our home in Everett (where the airplanes are made). I was born and raised in Seattle in the 1950's and 1960's, and lived there from the mid-1970's until 1990. I do not recognize the Seattle of my childhood …
I have a bit of a problem with today's topic. It sounds to me a bit like "earth worship". I have always appreciated how God put us on the most beautiful planet known in the Universe. I appreciate how wonderful our planet is, and the fact that we humans are at the top of the …
Ooh, I love this week's challenge topic! Right up my alley, as I work in a factory which manufactures aircraft parts out of metals including stainless steel, aluminum, and titanium. My readers will already know that I love to photograph raw materials and metal shavings from the various machines and suppliers around the factory. So, …
I am just getting used to black and white again, trying to see my color photos that way. There are some scenes that just cry out to be black and white. Like these clouds. I took this photo through the windshield of our car on the highway. Here in the rainy Pacific Northwest, it's often …
Continue reading Sunday Stills: #Daylight in Black and White
Have you ever noticed that Nature's God abhors straight lines? Just look around you at Nature, and you will see that there are no straight lines in nature. Everything in the natural world is curved. Straight lines belong to items of human manufacture. When explorers and archaeologists are searching for signs of human habitation, from …
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