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
This past weekend, my husband and I took a stroll in the Narbeck Wetland Sanctuary, a little oasis of nature directly across a busy street from the huge factory where he used to work. We came upon a tree that had fallen over completely, its base and roots perpendicular to the ground. In the lower …
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 …
Cee Neuner runs a bunch of fun photo challenges. First, she runs her "Flower of the Day" (FOTD) challenge...daily! Then, weekly she has her CMMC (Cee's Midweek Madness Challenge). So, this week's CMMC challenge topic is "Rainbow Colors/more than four colors in your photo". [links are to today's challenges] Well, it just so happens that …
And Cee didn't even ask me what this week's subject should be! My readers and followers will know that one of my favorite activities is taking video and still photos of all the variety of birds that visit my backyard suet and seed feeders. In all seasons, and through all kinds of weather, my trusty …
I like to keep my eyes open, in case I see something unusual or interesting to photograph. Of course, this is much easier, now that I have a pretty good camera ready, wherever I go (thanks iPhone!). The day I went down to Martha Lake Park, I was looking over the dock railing, back at …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #189: Odds and Ends
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