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
In our technological world, we beat back the darkness with copious artificial light, enabling us humans to utilize 24 of the 24 daily hours we are given. In fact, there are groups who mourn the zillions of lumens of artificial light that our civilizations pour into the sky. Personally, I prefer to celebrate the fact …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #166: Artificial Light
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
When I go for a walk in a scenic location (or even just around my neighborhood), I try to pay attention to my surroundings. I live six blocks away from my local Costco store, so if I just want to pick up a prescription, I walk there and back. [let me put in a pitch …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #163: Keep Walking
Well, it would be, wouldn't it? It's pretty hard to make photographs in complete darkness! Except that, in the film-camera era, all photographs were "made" in complete darkness! When my first husband and I were looking at the house we eventually bought, he was convinced we should buy it, by the little basement room …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #162-It’s all about the Light
No way could I miss this little ditty, composed many years ago by one of my favorite cartoonists. Speaking of tiny feet, we should all remember a line from a Robert Frost poem: The Fog comes in on little cat feet. All four little cat feet, visible at once. That kitty is pretty relaxed, isn't …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #161: Feet and Shoes
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