June 16, 2020

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #101 A Single Flower

“Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.”– Luther Burbank Lens-Artists Photo Challenge has a well- known guest host this week, Cee Neuner at Cee’s Photo Challenges.  For our topic this week she chose an interesting topic, “A Single Flower”.  Flowers mean so much to so many people.  They can help you feel better and happier; a gift of flowers can express love, friendship and caring.  Their beauty is unparalleled.   “A single flower is miraculous.  It may not live long, but before it withers, it blooms to its fullest and bestores nature with so much love and beauty.” – Amita I…

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written by Sylvia - Posted in Flowers, LENS-ARTISTS, Photography

June 13, 2020

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #100 The Long and Winding Road

Tina chose “The Long and Winding Road” as our photo topic this week.  I found a few of my favorites looking back through the archives.   I enjoy photographing roads or paths that meander out of sight, around the bend .  They seem to bring up questions such as where the road leads, what sights are around the bend, how old is the path, who are the people or animals using it?  Each of these roadways look so inviting that it is hard not to want to explore them.   “When the road ahead seems too long, look back to see how far you’ve come.  For even if the hill before you…

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written by Sylvia - Posted in Landscape, LENS-ARTISTS, Nature, Photography

May 25, 2020

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…

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written by Sylvia - Posted in Abstract, Digital Art, Kiawah Island SC, Landscape, LENS-ARTISTS, Nature, Photography

April 5, 2020

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…

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written by Sylvia - Posted in Flowers, Landscape, LENS-ARTISTS, Nature, Photography

March 18, 2020

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…

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written by Sylvia - Posted in Bottle Nose Dolphins, Kiawah Island SC, LENS-ARTISTS, Photography, Wildlife

March 5, 2020

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…

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written by Sylvia - Posted in Boston, Kiawah Island SC, Landscape, Photography

January 27, 2020

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #81 SEEING RED

Patti invites us to show pictures featuring the color Red.  Red colors are believed to be a symbol for many things: passion, love, rage, danger, good luck.  Even though shades of red can be in many tones, it’s rarely seen as demure.  Perhaps Taylor Swift says it best: “Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum.  On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that.  On the other end you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.”   Ladybugs are considered to be lucky charms by many cultures when they land on someone…

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written by Sylvia - Posted in LENS-ARTISTS, Nature, Photography

December 29, 2019

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #77 MY FAVORITES IN 2019

Patti suggests we show a few of our favorite photograph from 2019.  I also decided to share again a few of my favorite quotes plus my all time favorite from Ansel Adams.    “You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” – Ansel Adams   “Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” – Don McCullin  …

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written by Sylvia - Posted in LENS-ARTISTS, Nature, Photography, Wildlife

December 11, 2019

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #75 NOSTALGIC

This week Tina wants us to share a few special nostalgic moments.  Thinking back the great memories of the fun times spent with our family is right up there at the top of the list.  Our children and grandchildren are scattered in the northeastern part of the country so we do not have the opportunity to see everyone as much as we’d like.  This means getting together a few times each year is a real treat. Without fail, we always seen to congregate either in the kitchen, on the beach, or at the pool.    “Sometimes we will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.”…

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written by Sylvia - Posted in LENS-ARTISTS, Nature, Photography

November 1, 2019

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #69 SEEING DOUBLE

This week Tina suggests we feature pictures showing “two of a kind” or Seeing Double in a photo.  It can be people, animal, or things shown in sets of two. A fun topic to think about!   Two youngsters playing while the parents watch close by.  Not sure whether they are siblings or friends but it is almost like Seeing Double and they are two of a kind.  Wish I can say this was taken in the wild, instead these elephants live in the Wild Kingdom Park at Disney World in Florida.   Belgian Draft Horses enjoying each other’s company on a beautiful fall day in Maine!  This particular pair always…

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written by Sylvia - Posted in Landscape, LENS-ARTISTS, Nature, Photography