I have always been fascinated by architecture, as a demonstration of man's capacity to create structures of beauty. Cultures all over the world erect buildings that reflect their varying cultural traditions. Aside from cultural traditions, architectural details show the artistic period when the building was built. One day, I took my camera and went to …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #251: Beauty in the Buildings
This week's topic is tailor-made for me. On my computer, I have an album dedicated to photos of clouds. Here in the Pacific Northwest, the sky is as apt to be covered with gray clouds all winter, and they are never the same one minute to the next. But when Spring arrives and the gray …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #250: Skyscapes/Cloudscapes
In my travels around my city, my state, and other states, I keep my eyes open for interesting "public art". These days, you find public art in some of the strangest places! Like the transformer boxes you find outside buildings, apartment complexes, and along roads. New painted boxes are popping up daily, it seems. And …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #249: Art in Public Spaces
Thanks to my iPhone 13 Pro, I am now always ready with a camera, when a likely subject comes into view. It's fun to capture scenes that seem to just have been waiting for me to come along and capture them. I got this one at my local outlet mall. The display of old sewing …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #246: Still Life
We live in Western Washington, but one of my favorite environments has always been rural Eastern Washington. On this side of the Cascades, it's often wet and rainy, with gray cloudy skies for most of the fall and winter. Eastern Washington is much drier, with brown, rolling hills. Eastern Washington grows wheat, hops, and, increasingly, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #245: Environments
Let There Be Light. And there was light. There is a reason God created light first. Nothing lives totally without light, and photographers care most about how a subject is lighted. These two trees were lighted from below. Sometimes you just get lucky, as I was one evening when we arrived home from a short …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #244: Glowing Moments
April Fools! April 1 is the day of the year for playing pranks. Or maybe finding things in real life that just look like pranks. I got such a kick out of this "pranky" sign in front of a business in Wyoming! I can just hear it now. "Honey, I crashed the truck". "You did …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #243: It’s Tricky
I'm no professional photographer at all, but I do love to snap pictures with my iPhone camera everywhere I go. My most common subject is landscapes, with a preference for rolling hills, mountains, and water. Now, the last week of February, we flew down to Indian Wells, California, for a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #240: The Photo Road Most Traveled
For me, finding peaceful places always seems to include water. Maybe it's because I grew up surrounded by bodies of water in the Seattle area. Wherever we travel, we like to check out local lakes and rivers. And when we are on a cruise ship, my favorite activity is sitting out on our stateroom balcony, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #239: Finding Peace
I spend a lot of time alone these days, and I have no problem with that. I get up early, long before my husband, and get ready to go to work. But first, I have to satisfy the furry animal who waits outside the bedroom door, meowing for her breakfast. In the evenings, when Hubby …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #238: Alone Time
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