Sunday Stills: My Favorite Trails

I have a few favorite trails, here in beautiful Western Washington State.  The nearest, and probably least-known, is the Narbeck Wetland Trail, which is right across a major thoroughfare from the biggest building (by square footage) in Washington, an aerospace factory.  The trail winds through wetland ponds (when there's not a drought-this year was very …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #211: My Photographic “Groove”

I gave this one a lot of thought.  I'm a rank amateur, and I mostly take photos and video with my iPhone.  I looked back at what subjects I most like to photograph, and that mean the most to me.  I decided that waterfalls and fountains are among my most favorite subjects.  I believe that …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #191: 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 …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #156: Black and White

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 …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #154: One subject, two ways

This week's theme is one that I actually think of quite often.  If I see something picturesque, I normally try to capture it more than once, from two angles, or zoomed in/out.  Most things are beautiful in multiple ways.  Take the big pine tree I captured last week along the Wenatchee River.  Standing right at …

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