I learned a long time ago to pay attention to even the ordinary objects around me, which can become extraordinary if you photograph them the right way. Even a russet potato looks interesting, with the brightly-colored background. When Hubby and I were in Michigan last month, we had meals in a big dining-room, with many …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #169: The Ordinary
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
At the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, we found a very convenient Starbucks at which to buy a nice drink for what promised to be an unpleasant flight (due to mask requirement, which is stupid and very uncomfortable for five hours). I was very taken with the well-done, lighted wood wall decor there. Some designer did an …
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.
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
Now that you have been welcomed to Detroit... Saturday night, we went to the Big Boy restaurant just a block from our hotel, and walked both ways. On the way, we saw this sign, and I just had to laugh. You may know that hotels and restaurants everywhere are having trouble hiring enough workers to …
Continue reading Hillsdale College CCA, the Rest of the Story
We are in Michigan for a conference at Hillsdale College. This is the Detroit airport when we arrived yesterday. Seattle was a madhouse. Detroit was nearly empty. Here is the sunset from around our hotel. On to Hillsdale today.
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
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