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Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate
The first thought I had about this Weekly Photo Challenge word was of Simon Schama in “The Power of Art” DVD describing Bernini’s sculpture “Ecstasy of St. Teresa”. The delicate touch of an angel, the...
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Reckoning Love
“What’s in a love letter, anyway?” he asked. I was in a mood. A little pouty and weepy, my inner 4-year-old whining, “I just don’t feel special!” God, why does this keep happening every month? It’s...
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Turkey Trot
A Thursday shot…luckily for this bird, today’s not the last Thursday in November, American Thanksgiving.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the Details
This week’s photo challenge is hosted by a nature photographer. His shot of an icy falls reminds me of some that I took at Wehr Nature Center…and for that reason, I want to go in a different...
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Wordless Wednesday: Waiting for Aldo
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Wednesday Words: for Steve
Your fragile skin is smooth and taut, a drum head. Shadows surround your bones. Your waning flesh a cry for mercy. You dream a hermit’s life of walking at a slower pace unburdened. * Steve became a...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Between
The Weekly Photo Challenge prompt invites us to interpret the theme “Between”. This response is dedicated to my oldest, Susan. When she was a little girl in Kindergarten, she memorized a poem by A....
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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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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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: 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-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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