This week Amy asked us to show pictures featuring our interpretation of “Old and New”. Am sure you would enjoy seeing Amy’s post which shows a mix of history, architecture and modern building. She suggests we can explore fashion, collections, treasures….I decided to feature a hundred year old children’s book plus an advertisement featuring Mr Peanut, ninety years ago. “Old books exert a strange fascination for me – their smell, their feel, their history. Wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.” – Lauren Willig This series of pictures below are from a Mother Goose Book dated 1921. My mother passed this down to me…
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #98 DELICATE COLORS
This week’s challenge from Ann-Christine gives us a chance to explore Delicate Colors; beautiful, soft shades of color blending into each other. Being surrounded by these lovely colors can be soothing and relaxing in spite of the hectic world we live in now. 🙃 Delicate Colors are all around us, waiting to be discovered when outside and one with nature. Ann-Christine shows beautiful examples of delicate colors she found in her garden and neighboring forest. “There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.” – Edouard Manet Each of these pictures show a different color palette that only mother-nature can create…
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #94 ALL WET
Tina selected “All Wet” as our topic this week. “All wet” would be ducks splashing in the water, dolphins spraying water as they strand feed or pelicans diving for fish in the ocean. Another example of All Wet is our cocker spaniels getting a bath, which isn’t a pretty sight. Be sure to see Tina’s post this week (Travels and Trifles), she has featured beautiful pictures of grizzly bears catching salmon in Alaska! After searching through achieved photos, I decided to show pictures of our trip to Burano, Italy (near Venice). Even though there was a soaking rain throughout the day, no one seemed to mind. I enjoyed seeing…
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #93 MORNING
This week Ann-Christine selected Morning for our weekly challenge. She is asking us to share a few things we do when starting off our day. Generally, I am an early morning person and find myself heading to the beach first thing, even before a morning cup of coffee! Am not sure what draws me there, probably the tranquility and sound of waves crashing on the shore, the salty smell in the air and nature’s beautiful colors gently painting the sky and ocean. Since no two mornings look the same, I am also curious as to what might have transpired overnight. Maybe there will be deer tracks in the sand next…
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #92 GOING BACK TO ST KITTS
This week our guest host, John Steiner, asked us to think if we have visited a favorite place more than once and if so, how did you approach the second trip photographically? Or, if you’ve only been somewhere once, what would you do differently the second time around? His lovely post is available here for you to enjoy. When thinking about our challenge, the Island of St. Kitts immediately came to mind; we have been there twice and want to return again. On our second trip we had a tour guide a couple of days and he told us about the Island’s history and took us to many sites. …
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #91 SIMPLICITY
Patti suggests we think about Simplicity this week so I decided to feature a few flower and landscape shots to illustrate how beautiful and elegant things are when they are not lost in the detail. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” – Leonardo da Vinci “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “Simplicity is the glory of expression.” – Walt Whitman “There is beauty in simplicity” – unknown “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy” – Isaac Newton “Our life is frittered…
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #89 A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
This week Amy suggested using the title from the book, “A River Runs Through it” by Norman Maclean as our photo challenge. What is so important about a river? It is a source of life for all of nature and also man plus it symbolizes the power of nature and fertility. I live close to the Kiawah River which runs between Kiawah Island and Johns Island and the mainland area surrounding Charleston, SC. The river is in a constant flux of change as well as the wildlife that depends on it for survival. The images below offer a glimpse into some of the life by the river. This river is…
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #88 CHAOS
Ann-Christine chose Chaos as the word challenge this week. Choas in some form seems to be most everywhere. On Kiawah Island, there is a pod of Bottlenose Dolphins who learned to feed in a chaotic manner called strand feeding. This taught behavior is only seen in a few parts of the in the world. You can see from the pictures below how chaotic strand feeding is! The first part of the feeding routine looks more organized. Working together, they locate a school of fish and begin herding them towards the shore as shown below. Once the fish are boxed in with no escape route, the dolphins attack by herding them…
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #86 SAME SUBJECT, DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
This week Patti wants us to feature pictures taken from different perspectives, or angles, of a subject instead of standing in front of it and taking the shot at eye level. Perhaps spending a little extra time exploring the subject from different angles. Get down low and look up or move up high and check out the view looking down, or maybe move laterally to include or exclude other items near the subject, especially to see if the light changes in an interesting way. The Trinity Church in Boston, Massachusetts, is located in Copley Square in Back Bay. This first picture shows the Church at street level. The second image…
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #85 PHOTO TREASURE HUNT
This week Tina decided to send us on a treasure hunt! To make it interesting she selected specific items to include in our photographs. Challenge Items: Sunrise and/or sunset, Something cold and/or hot, a bird, a dog, a funny sign, a bicycle, a seascape and/or mountain landscape, a rainbow, a church, a musical instrument, a boat, a plane, a waterfall. Extra Credit Items: An expressive portrait of one or more people, a very unusual place, knitting or sewing, a fish, an animal you don’t normally see, a bucket, a hammer, a street performer, a double rainbow. Be sure to check out Tina’s blog, Travels and Trifles, to see how she…