Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #293: Moving Waters

I have always believed that moving water was Nature's Original Music (hmmm, should I copyright that phrase?). Before there were plants or animals on Earth, there were rivers, with the sound of rushing water competing with the sound of erupting volcanoes. If the original multi-celled organisms in the primordial seas had auditory organs, what they …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #212: Motion

So much of what we see around us is in motion, especially outdoors. If there is any wind at all, all the plants are in continuous motion. Birds on the wing are some of my favorite subjects to capture with me cameras; both my Canon point-and-shoot camera, and the excellent cameras on my iPhone 13 …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #201: Three of a Kind

In our yard, we have some Japanese Maple trees.  The one that came first, when I bought my house in June of 2000, started out small.  When we got married and my husband moved in with me in 2003, he dubbed it "Fluffy".  Here is Fluffy in three seasons. In Spring and Summer, its leaves …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #121-Focus on the Subject

It turns out that one of my favorite Subjects for picture-taking is my black cat, Kikyo. She follows me everywhere around the house, so I can take her picture in all sorts of situations. However, isn't it true that it is very tricky to photograph a black cat (see what I did there? Happy Halloween!)? …

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