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Weekly Photo Challenge: Endurance
The Word Press Daily Post Photo Challenge states: “As we sift through fleeting status updates, toss yet another egg carton in the recycling bin, and watch as seasons change around the world, it can...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Nighttime
I gotta admit, my first reaction was something along the lines of “WTF? Who takes photos at night when there’s no LIGHT?!” But this is supposed to be a Challenge, right? (an aside….Steve mentions in...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction
Refraction is the change in direction of a wave due to a change in its transmission medium. Storm in Western Oklahoma We set off from Milwaukee, Wisconsin last Saturday on a cross-country trip to...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art
The weekly photo challenge came out on Friday morning, as usual. Only this Friday, I was setting up camp in the Dog Canyon campground in Guadalupe National Park, a wilderness park in Texas where there...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Descent
I wish I’d taken my camera up to Alcove House at Bandelier National Monument. I did not. But those ladders were thrilling! Here’s a shot from tripadvisor.com: photographer unknown The descent is...
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Photography 101: Home
I’ve found another Word Press Photography challenge! Joining my pals Jeff Sinon and Mariah of Great Follies, I am going to see if Photography 101 helps me to get better at picture taking. The first...
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Photography 101: The Natural World
I don’t believe there are any straight lines in the natural world. All is “wiggly” (as Alan Watts would say), and we’re told that the Universe is funnel-shaped, a huge graceful curve. I figure that...
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Photography 101: A Pop of Color
Not to be confused with a soda of color, say Nehi grape or orange… Here in the Midwest, ‘pop’ has another meaning. If I happened to have some, that would make a perfect combination for this theme!...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular
Straight lines are man-made, and they are all around us. If you’ve followed my blog or know me at all, I’m sure you’ve figured out by now that I see myself as a Nature Girl. I don’t do Man-Made stuff...
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Photography 101: Treasure
Treasure: what is it? I’ve worked at museums long enough to know what an artifact is. Usually, it’s an object that you find or dig up. It can tell you about the environment, what kinds of things...
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Photography 101: Edge
When I first saw Michelle’s photo of Angkor Wat, I immediately thought of this shot I took in New Mexico at the ruins of a settler’s ranch: We recently saw a glorious Korean film called “Spring,...
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Photography 101: Double
Happy Thanksgiving! I am doubly thankful for you, the blogging community. Thank you for your visits and thank you for hosting me when I visit. It’s been great fun and great learning doing this...
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Weekly Photo Challenge & Photography 101: Triumphs Converging
Yesterday was a wonderful day, a triumph of change, of many changes coming together. Thanksgiving is Steve’s favorite holiday, and what’s not to love? Fall colors, harvest time, lots of great food, a...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Twinkle
Toes. Eyes. Live humans twinkle. Is that from light cast upon them or from light within? Carl Sagan says that “we are made of star stuff”. My mother-in-law used to say that Jim was “shiny and pink”...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: New
What’s New? That’s actually a very complex question. Perhaps you’ve heard it said that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed. That means that everything is just a recombination of ancient...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed
I really like this challenge. Shadowed. Looking at my photographs and paying attention to what the shadow adds to the picture is like developing greater awareness of the Yin side of the universal...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity
Serenity. A marvelous theme. Placid water, still mind. Peacefulness, harmony. Keeping your surroundings still, small and simple. My partner, Steve, is working on a New Year’s resolution. So far,...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Express Yourself
What an invitation! “Express Yourself” – squeeze yourself into a photograph or a gallery, squirting out the essence of your personality, your style, your philosophy, your vision. This could be one...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
What a great thing to contemplate: scale. How overwhelming our lives become when our scale references are distorted! For example, how imposing our thoughts can seem on the landscape of our lives....
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Wall
Wall Associations: “All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall.” Pink Floyd (my very first impulse; it’s always a song) The wailing wall, the Berlin wall, the Great Wall of China…so many iconic...
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