Living in the Pacific Northwest, we have lots of shorelines within a few minutes, or hours drive. And we have lakes and rivers, which also have shorelines, along with the oceans. The shoreline closest to me is along Silver Lake. This was early in the morning on my way to work. About 50% of the …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #314: Shorelines
This is the time of year when emptiness can predominate. All the leaves have fallen off the deciduous trees, leaving their branches empty. But still beautiful. In the autumn, most beaches are empty of people, since the vacationers are gone. We were fortunate to visit Cape May, on the Jersey Shore, in October, when the …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #277: Empty Spaces
Sorry, I just couldn't resist the urge to put a couple of keyboard diagonals in the post title! Even the "number or hashtag" sign is made up of diagonals. Nature presents us with diagonals all the time. This shrub-steppe hillside in Eastern Oregon presents an obvious diagonal against the sky. For that matter, the clouds …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #228: \\\ Diagonals ///
Today, just as forecasted, we got our first snowfall of the winter. It's really early for our area, and so far the snow isn't very heavy. Of course, the first thing I did this morning was get out my trusty iPhone and go out in the backyard to get some pictures. This is the east …
And this has absolutely nothing to do with the anti-social network known as Twitter. Real birds dropped by our yard this morning. Over breakfast, these two Steller's Jays visited and had a drink from the birdbath. Next, our Red-shafted Flicker dropped in. Neither species "twitters", and both have calls that are very distinctive. I'm so …
I have managed to capture many of life's fleeting moments in my backyard, with my iPhone 13 Pro. What has more fleeting moments than most? That would be birds. Every moment is fleeting for them, and they do not concentrate on any one activity for more than a moment, because they always have to keep …
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In our yard, we have some Japanese Maple trees. The one that came first, when I bought my house in June of 2000, started out small. When we got married and my husband moved in with me in 2003, he dubbed it "Fluffy". Here is Fluffy in three seasons. In Spring and Summer, its leaves …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #201: Three of a Kind
And Cee didn't even ask me what this week's subject should be! My readers and followers will know that one of my favorite activities is taking video and still photos of all the variety of birds that visit my backyard suet and seed feeders. In all seasons, and through all kinds of weather, my trusty …
The theme this week is "you choose", so in this era of fear, loathing, pestilence, and tyranny, I choose to go through the archives and find pictures of winter wonderlands I have seen. One benefit of a blanket of snow over the world is the muffled silence it brings. Fewer vehicles are on the streets, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #178: My choice; Winter Wonderlands
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
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