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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Black & White or Monochrome

Anne, our Challenge host this week, instructs, “Black and white is the result of only using black or white and ‘shades of’. The ‘shades of’ meaning grayscale… Monochrome photos contain variations of...

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Lens-Artist Photo Challenge: Shadows and Reflections in Monochrome

Patti sets up an awesome challenge this week and opens with a photo that blew my socks off! Took me a while to find a new pair of socks and venture out with my camera. Actually, it wasn’t so much the...

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Curves

“Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty.”― James Joyce “Curves are so emotional.” ― Piet Mondrian “My live is one long curve, full of turning points.” ― Pierre Trudeau The shape of a curve – elegant,...

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Lens-Artist Photo Challenge: Change

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ― James Baldwin ‘Progress’ in our nation has for too long been confused with ‘Growth’; I see the two as...

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Feet and Shoes

“All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.” ~ Hal Borland “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”~ Henry David Thoreau “And forget not that the earth...

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Black and White

It’s really been a joy to participate in the Lens-Artists Photo Challenges over time. I have “met” so many interesting bloggers and “traveled” to so many fascinating places. And I’ve learned something...

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Geometry

“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.” ― Pythagoras What is the shortest distance between two points? What is the shortest distance between...

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Nostalgic

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.” ― Amy Bloom “Memory believes before knowing remembers.” ― William Faulkner Thanks to Tina for her challenge...

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Waiting

In the animal kingdom, humans are a species with a highly developed sense of time. We know past, present, and future and often try to imagine time frames that dwarf our own life spans.  Waiting, the...

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Monochrome

For this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #70, Patti invites to explore the world of monochrome–which includes black and white and sepia, as well as different shades of one color. “…emotions come...

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Lens-Artist Photo Challenge: Candid

Ann-Christine is hosting this week’s photo challenge with the theme Candid. She invites us to share pictures of people and animals who had no idea they were being photographed. Stealth shots seem to...

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Angles

Ann-Christine challenges us to illustrate the difference angles can make on our perception of the world. I am reminded of the ancient Indian story of the blind men and the elephant, retold in the poem...

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Mid-Week Monochrome #15 – Flowers

I got inspired by Amy‘s response to Ryan Photography‘s mid-week photo challenge and converted some flower photos to monochrome. Bren Ryan’s photo is truly dramatic, which is hard to achieve with most...

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Lens-Artists Challenge: Shadows

Tina at Travels & Trifles illustrated her challenge with a beautiful opening photo of shadow that evokes spaciousness, loneliness, and the passage of time. As the Earth turns and the Sun’s light...

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Lens-Artists Challenge: Seasonal

Winter in Wisconsin can be very monochromatic. I do tend to feel SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), and remind myself to take Vitamin D and get outside on any day when the sun shines. The challenge is...

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Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Animals

I thought of a word this morning at breakfast – biophile.  I love life. All life. Everything on the Great Tree of Life. Here are just a few black and white portraits of the amazing beings on the family...

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Black & White Photo Challenge: Tracks and Train

For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. Mono(chrome) Rails and Tracks in Black (& White). 

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Photography 101: Architecture

I notice something about my architecture preferences.  I don’t have very many shots of modern, abstract, minimalist architecture.  I prefer old buildings, old styles which mirror nature in their...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Minimalist

Yucca curl You might think that desert living is minimalist living.  I mean, what’s out there?  How do you survive on nothing? (see my post “Wilderness and the Myth of Nothing” here).  Native ancestral...

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Photography 101: Bliss

“To love another person is to see the face of God.” – from Les Mis

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