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 …
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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
Woof!! That's the bark. Nah, not really! How about these? They are two different Douglas Fir trees. The one on the left was cut down, and I took the picture to show how thick its bark is. The one on the right is very much alive, growing near Deception Pass on Whidbey Island. Here's …
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Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia is one of the world's most Special Places, in more ways than one. First, it is one of the most prestigious music conservatories, founded in the 19th Century and still going strong. Second, it charges its students no tuition. Third, it only accepts the very tip-top of applicants, making …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #188: A Special Place
Here's my entry into this week's Black and White Challenge on Cee Neuner's page. Both of the photos below were taken in 2018, on our July cruise to Hawaii from San Francisco. The first picture shows the ceiling of the Crystal Symphony's Asian-themed restaurant. When I am anywhere, indoors or out, I always look up …
Continue reading CBWC: Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Lines
Well, this one should be pretty easy, as I spend lots of time snuggling with my pet kitty, Kikyo, and more time photographing her. In 2020, I even did a whole post entitled "Ten Years of Kikyo". She is named after a Japanese Anime character from the series InuYasha. It's about a present-day Japanese teenager, …
I live in Western Washington, basically surrounded by water on every side. Silver Lake is our local watery spot. I really wish there were a walking path all the way around, but much of the lake shore is in private hands, so the path only goes around the east and north sides of the lake. …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #187: Water, Water, Everywhere
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