Everything in our world has texture. Even thoughts can have texture, even if they can't be seen. Just last night, I captured our soft, shiny black cat on her high perch. Her coat is as soft as mink. Then again, she has so shredded the carpet on her tree that its texture has changed from …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #226: Textures
My head is already spinning at this week's Fun Foto Challenge topic. Like this: Rides after dark and at twilight on the Santa Monica Pier. And this: Ferris wheel at the Washington State Fair. All the other rides go around in circles, too, don't they? Barrels of whisky at the Jack Daniels Distillery in Tennessee. …
Continue reading CFFC: Going around in circles, and leaning into the curves
Have you ever noticed that Nature's God abhors straight lines? Just look around you at Nature, and you will see that there are no straight lines in nature. Everything in the natural world is curved. Straight lines belong to items of human manufacture. When explorers and archaeologists are searching for signs of human habitation, from …
I like to keep my eyes open, in case I see something unusual or interesting to photograph. Of course, this is much easier, now that I have a pretty good camera ready, wherever I go (thanks iPhone!). The day I went down to Martha Lake Park, I was looking over the dock railing, back at …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #189: Odds and Ends
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
Industrial art is tools or devices that not only work well, but are beautiful in themselves. An item that is well-designed for its task often is a thing of beauty besides. My Guru, Dr. Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, teaches that anything that is the best it can be, at the task for which …
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