Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #324: In The Details

This week's topic is right up my alley. To start with, my favorite styles of architecture are Art Nouveau and Art Deco, both from the early to mid-20th Century. Both styles involve decorated buildings, with all sorts of frilly details, very unlike more-modern buildings which have no decoration at all (and are quite boring to …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #274: Asymmetry

Asymmetry is pretty simple for me to find.  I just step out the back sliding door, and I find my two small Japanese Maple trees.  Both are studies in Asymmetry.  The one that I planted first, just after I bought my house in the summer of 2000, is named "Fluffy" (by my husband).  It was …

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Sunday Stills: #Daylight in Black and White

I am just getting used to black and white again, trying to see my color photos that way.  There are some scenes that just cry out to be black and white.  Like these clouds.  I took this photo through the windshield of our car on the highway. Here in the rainy Pacific Northwest, it's often …

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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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