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
This year, filled with uproar, health crises, heat emergencies, corruption, as well as new friends and places; what has kept me grounded, "my Inspiration", is knowing that I still live in the Greatest Nation on God's Green Earth. The United States of America, and its great history, has been my inspiration. Even when I get …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #160: Inspiration
In 1991, I went to Cambridge, England on a three-week summer program run by UCLA. At that time, I lived in Seattle. I knew that I was going to be meeting new people from all over the US and England, and I remembered something I had read in a magazine somewhere. It suggested that you …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #159: Postcards
Before we get going down some back-country roads, let me disagree with one of the quotes that Tina used in her post this week. Liberty is not a privilege, it is one of your God-given Rights. Let's return to those unforgettable words of the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #158: Back Country Roads. Enjoy your Liberty!
Ahhh, getaways. When you're retired, you can schedule a getaway whenever you want, since every day is a weekend. However, I just had to do this one first, as a response to Tina's photo. Hers was the outside, and mine is the inside of the Denver airport. In 2015, we went to a Hillsdale College …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #157: Getting away
One of our favorite day trips, here in Northwest Washington State is a ferry ride and drive to the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge on the Olympic Peninsula. In the afternoon on Friday, we headed down to the Edmonds Ferry Dock, to take our ferry ride to Kingston on the Kitsap Peninsula for the first leg …
Sometimes, you just have to see life in black and white. Most of the time, there are myriad colors all around you, so you can get jaded. I am in no way any kind of professional photographer, and these days most of the pictures I take are with my iPhone. So the pictures for this …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #156: Black and White
When you live in the Pacific Northwest, you can be "on the water" in moments, from most places. We have the Pacific Ocean, Puget Sound, and numerous lakes and rivers within a short drive. Silver Lake is less than five minutes from my house, and I never get tired of taking pictures of it. Its …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #155: On the Water
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