I'm very fond of purple, and have clothing and jewelry I love that are purple. But I didn't think I'd have any purple living things in my photos. But I was wrong! Growing right in my own backyard, I have this little hydrangea. It's a small bush right now, but I expect it to grow …
Continue reading Terri’s Sunday Stills Challenge: Amethyst foretells Spring
My backyard changes rather dramatically with the seasons. For the past three or four years, we have had snow every winter. I have to say, I really love what the snow does with the various features in the yard. The heap in the front is our birdbath, with an ornamental grass plant, and a concrete …
Let's see, am I a Bird Feeder? The photos and video below should give the answer. Pine Siskin. Downy Woodpecker. Blurry since I took the picture through a glass door. Red-breasted Nuthatch. Various birds at the seed and suet feeders, in the snow. Red-shafted Flicker. Top: Townsend's Warbler. This is one of my very favorite …
What travel has mostly taught me is that people are people everywhere and always. And that we don't live in the only beautiful region of our country. Everywhere we have traveled has shown us that God has bestowed upon us a spectacular planet, with an infinite variety of landscapes and features. For the past two …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #184: What travel has taught me
I love this topic! I often post photos of the power of Nature, and we have lots of those elements right here in the Pacific Northwest. My very favorite subject is Snoqualmie Falls, which is just a half-hour drive from our home. We go there often, just to stand behind the chain-link fence and view …
I don't know of a more memorable event in my long life than the eruption of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii, that we saw from the deck of the cruise ship Crystal Symphony in the summer of 2018. The volcano had been erupting for a few weeks before we got there in mid-July, and we …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #183: Memorable events
Yep, right here in my back yard in the middle of suburbia, we have a sort of wildlife sanctuary, and neighborhood birds and animals visit every day. Now, we don't get much that's really exotic, though neighbors have seen a coyote, raccoons, and even a black bear. Our furry and feathered friends seem to like …
Continue reading Sunday Stills Challenge: It’s a Wild(life) world
I had to give this one some serious thought, but in the end it had to be this one. Think of a photograph as a "captured moment" in time, one that will never occur again. I think that this photo is the most unusual and fortuitous of any picture I have taken, before or since. …
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White isn't a color, it's the sum of all colors. These days, white gets the ultimate bad rap, due to the fact of the Black Lives Matter Marxists denigrating all white people, and demanding that they be crushed. But if white is the sum of all colors, shouldn't white be seen as the best? The …
Continue reading Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge: #White
This week, I'll be starting at home, to capture some interesting objects around me. The first one is an empty bottle. Now, the bottle itself is unremarkable, a simple screw-top container. It's the labels on the bottle, which describe the contents, that make it interesting. A few years ago, a coworker of my husband came …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #182: Interesting Objects
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