This week's topic is tailor-made for me. On my computer, I have an album dedicated to photos of clouds. Here in the Pacific Northwest, the sky is as apt to be covered with gray clouds all winter, and they are never the same one minute to the next. But when Spring arrives and the gray …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #250: Skyscapes/Cloudscapes
I'm no professional photographer at all, but I do love to snap pictures with my iPhone camera everywhere I go. My most common subject is landscapes, with a preference for rolling hills, mountains, and water. Now, the last week of February, we flew down to Indian Wells, California, for a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #240: The Photo Road Most Traveled
You know, it does help to live in a place with mountains on all sides, like we do in Western Washington. To the West are the Olympic Mountains. This photo was taken years ago, from the deck of a Washington State Ferry, just shy of the Kingston Ferry dock on Puget Sound. To the East …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #222: The Mountains are Calling
Here is my tribute to America, the Greatest Country ever devised by humanity in all its recorded history. This Independence Day, each and every American should be celebrating the founding of a nation founded on a great idea, that All Men Are Created Equal, by their God, with the Unalienable Rights to Life, Liberty, and …
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Yesterday we drove through the mountains west of Colorado Springs. Here are some photos. First stop was Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Petrified tree stump Clones The original Next stop, Wilkerson Pass. The view Next stop, FairPlay. AKA South Park Fun!
I have always been an individual optimist. When I was is psychology graduate school, I read in one of my textbooks a phrase which has carried me through many trials and tribulations in life. A famous psychologist said: When things look bad, and getting worse, "The world will not come to an end if..." should …
Continue reading Lens Artists Photo challenge #122: The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow
Last month, we flew to Denver for a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar. The subject was Churchill, and how his life and accomplishments are relevant to us today. We listened to many great speakers, and met fellow Hillsdale supporters. Here is what we saw from our hotel room when we woke up the first day …
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