This week's challenge allows us amateur photographers without all that fancy indoor lighting setup to shine. Literally! Living in a place surrounded by bodies of water lends itself to taking pictures of sunlight glinting off the water. I have always liked the sparkles generated by the Sun on moving water. It almost makes the water …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #138: Natural Light
I just found this story in my new go-to news source, The Epoch Times. It seems that, back in 2017, a British man with a metal-detector was fooling around on a local Northamptonshire golf course, when he unearthed a tiny figurine, made of gold. Wow! He did some extensive research, and found out that the …
Aaahhhhh... Soft. Brings to mind something my hero used to call himself...just a lovable little fuzzball. Well, it just so happens that I am owned by a lovable little Fuzzball. Her name is Kikyo, and her fur is the softest. When she is in the same room, I just can't help but pick her up …
So..... In a month characterized by a nationwide Snow Storm, that left Streets Slippery with Snow and ice, where do we begin? How about with a triple-S photo: Song Sparrow in the Snow, taken just last week. And how about his Snow-buddy, our Squirrel? From a prior year, a Snowy Street, right in front of …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 136: Subjects starting with the Letter “S”
Yippee! Snow!! Here in the Pacific Northwest, we have been hearing for a couple of weeks that snow was in the forecast. They kept pushing the date back, however, which is pretty normal around here. Last night, around midnight, it did start to snow, and we awoke this morning to see the white stuff falling …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #135: A glimpse into my (snowy) world!
This week, Canada has contributed to the ruination of the Alaska cruise industry. Numerous cruise lines, including Princess, Celebrity, Disney, Norwegian, Holland-America, Crystal, and Seabourn, cruise to Alaska from ports on the US West Coast, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle. Canada has now prohibited any cruise line from cruising in their waters, or …
Continue reading Canada single-handedly destroys the Alaska cruise industry
I guess I'd have to say I've always been a lazy photographer. When I was married to my first husband, who was an excellent photographer, besides being an engineer; I had an SLR film camera (this was back in the olden days before digital photography), but I had trouble mastering all its ins and outs, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #133: My photography journey
My photography doesn't often include people. I do mostly landscapes and nature. This post will consist of photos from one day, yesterday, and one destination. My husband and I went out shopping for a handgun for me, to be kept mostly at home for self-defense. I am a 71-year-old woman, and there are just the …
Since I consider 2020 to have been the worst year in my 71-year life, let's get the bad stuff out of the way first. In 2020, we underwent the worst government-imposed denial of individual liberty in living memory, when our state governments locked down entire states, preventing millions of citizens from earning their livings, and …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #129: Favorite images of 2020
Better known around here as the Washington State Ferry System, which connects the Puget Sound mainland cities of Seattle, Edmonds, Tacoma, and Mukilteo with the numerous islands in the Sound, and the Kitsap Peninsula, and even Canada. Thousands of island residents commute via ferry daily, either walking on or driving their cars. And every year …
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