Online, someone asked for a photo with water in it, so I am responding here. Deception Falls Skagit River Everett Marina on Puget Sound Silver Lake Cumberland River, Clarksville, TN LaConner Marina Rocky beach, Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge Yakima River Gorge Lake, North Cascades Snoqualmie Falls Flowing Lake Deception Pass The Blue Pacific Ocean There …
Way back in the 1970s, a favorite phrase describing something you liked was "Cool, man!" Living in a place with abundant bodies of water, and the nickname of "Evergreen State", you'd think that cool colors would be everywhere. You would be correct! Sometimes, though, you get too much of a good thing, with vegetation run …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #313: Cool colors
I understand from Terri's Post this week, that June is Outdoors Month. The photos below were taken outdoors in places we have been. I am frustrated that my bad knee prevents me from doing much walking these days (re-injured my repaired ACL in left knee last week). In any case, I'm no athlete, and the …
This one was just too good to pass up. Hubby and I have been on two cruises, where we saw many different aspects of the Pacific Ocean. Nautical blue? Of course! These are the Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of Hawaii. I had never seen the ocean that blue before. These are from our trip …
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Woof!! That's the bark. Nah, not really! How about these? They are two different Douglas Fir trees. The one on the left was cut down, and I took the picture to show how thick its bark is. The one on the right is very much alive, growing near Deception Pass on Whidbey Island. Here's …
Continue reading CFFC: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bark and Leaves
I live in Western Washington, basically surrounded by water on every side. Silver Lake is our local watery spot. I really wish there were a walking path all the way around, but much of the lake shore is in private hands, so the path only goes around the east and north sides of the lake. …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #187: Water, Water, Everywhere
Like all of us, I thought 2021 was a very unusual, uncomfortable year. It would have been my first year of full retirement, and a fixed income. But that was derailed in July when I got a temp job that was supposed to last only one month, but stretched until the end of the year! …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #180: Favorite photos of 2021
Sometimes, you just have to see life in black and white. Most of the time, there are myriad colors all around you, so you can get jaded. I am in no way any kind of professional photographer, and these days most of the pictures I take are with my iPhone. So the pictures for this …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #156: Black and White
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