Lens-artists Photo Challenge #373: Looking back to Challenge #31, Landscapes

I do remember doing that challenge, shortly after WordPress stopped sponsoring them. I understand that we have to keep our photos to only six, so I am going to try using ones that I have not used before. I'm pretty sure that landscape photos can be taken from any vantage point that's not a closeup, …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #259: Unbound

So, this week's challenge mentions once-in-a-lifetime events.  Visiting an erupting volcano is about as once-in-a-lifetime as it gets!  On our cruise to Hawaii in 2018, we were treated to an after-dark experience when the cruise ship hovered about a mile offshore the Big Island of Hawaii, and we get all the sensations of a volcano …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #213: Under the Sun

We live in a part of the world that normally is deficient in sunshine.  In fact, we in the Pacific Northwest are the home of the syndrome Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which means that in the winter with mostly-cloudy skies all the time, it can get depressing.  And the treatment?  UV light, or artificial sun. …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #162-It’s all about the Light

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 …

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