I have not had nearly enough opportunity these days to get outside with my camera. So I thought I'd go back to the archive and find some of the photos that I'm fondest of. Here are some. For some reason, this photo of the Potholes Reservoir has been the most popular photo I have ever …
Category: Travel and Vacations
Lens-Artists Challenge #102 – A Quiet Place
In this very noisy world, where you are always surrounded by man-made sounds, it can take a long search to find a really quiet place. It also depends on how you define "quiet". Can a quiet place have people in it, or do you have to be alone to have quiet? Can you be indoors, …
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Lens-Artists Challenge #100-The long and winding road.
When I see a road, I usually wonder where it leads. On our travels in the Pacific Northwest, Hubby and I pass many freeway turnoffs with roads down which we have never traveled. On the way to Mount Vernon, there is a freeway exit marked "Starbird Road", and I have always been intrigued by the …
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #99-Old and New
As places go, the United States isn't very old, only about 250 years old. You have to travel to Europe or Asia to find really old artifacts. One of the best places to find old construction is the State of Israel. Itself, it is pretty new, having been founded in 1948. But the Covenant from …
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #98-Delicate Colors
Others have mentioned that life is fragile. This blogger begs to differ. On our Planet Earth, not only is Life not fragile, there is no niche anywhere on Earth that is not occupied by some form of Life. Living things have been found from the deepest deep-sea trenches under the oceans, to the volcanic craters …
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97 – Pastimes
One of my favorite things to do when I'm out and about is bird-watching. I have a 1960s Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide to Western Birds, and I keep a "life list" in the back, checking off the birds I have seen. I especially like traveling, and seeing birds that we don't have here on …
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Skimmers! We Have Skimmers (and Terns, and Gulls)
In October of 2012, Hubby and I went to New Jersey, where he was born, to attend his family Catholic church's 120th anniversary. On that trip, we drove out to the Jersey Shore, and spent a nice day at Cape May. It was absolutely beautiful for October; bright and sunny with temperatures in the 70s. …
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #96-Crop the Shot
I like to call it "Zoom-in-Zoom Out". Instead of taking one photo and cropping out the extraneous features, I find a subject and zoom closer in on it, to see the finer and many times more interesting features that might be missed in the wider view. I took these one day at our favorite day …
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This is Sad. And Criminal. LaConner, Washington
This afternoon, my husband and I defied the "stay-at-home" order, and drove our car up to the Skagit Valley. It was bright, sunny, and around 80 degrees out. LaConner is admittedly a "touristy" little town on the Swinomish Slough, with dozens of little local stores selling just about anything you might want. Not one store …
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What now, Ketchikan, Juneau, and Skagway?
This summer, the cruise industry is forced by the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic to cancel all cruises to Alaska. Cruises to Alaska leave from the ports on the West Coast, including San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver, BC. So those ports will miss out on the cruise ship passengers' money, but they have other sources of tourists. …
