Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #258: Fences

Published on by Yinglan

Happy Sunday! This week, continuing with the month of guest hosts, Dawn Miller from the blog, The Morning After… is the lovely hostess for this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge with the theme Fences.

I’ll admit that I don’t take photos of fences. I recently re-organized my photos to make them searchable by keyword and when I typed, “fence”, a black and white of this photo came up. I tried to hunt down a RAW version of this photo to re-process in Lightroom but couldn’t find it. It’s probably somewhere on my old computer.

I feel my old photos are too over-processed. There are too much of everything in there (contrast, highlight, shadow, etc.), which doesn’t make the photo look real. Anyway, that’s the first photo I found in my files of a fence (partial).

I shot this photo at Gettysburg. This type of fence was found everywhere around the battleground and I do wonder if it was constructed before or after the battle.

Finally, what’s a post without a few photos of flowers?

Chained link fences are popular in my neighborhood. When I lived in the house next door, my current home’s former owner used to grow these pink flowers that would creep into my backyard. They were beautiful but the flowers were short-lived.

I didn’t know what it was nor was I a gardener back then but now, I’m guessing it’s an azalea of some kind and azaleas like acidic soil, thus I might had contributed to its death by not giving it soil acidifier the spring after moving into my current home.

These morning glory flowers have become my absolute enemy in the last few years. It’s the reason I plant super densely in my garden. This is a vining weed here. Nothing will kill – weed killer, grass killer, even vegetation killer won’t put a dent. This year, I have mostly just let them be. After all, they are green and in the middle of a dry spell, I can use some green and flowers.

19 thoughts on “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #258: Fences”

  1. Best advice I have seen for orchard morning glories (bindweed) is to cut all the vines (and put them in the trash) but leave the roots intact repeatedly. Eventually the roots will die without the nourishment from the sunshine, without the leaves. They are pretty flowers, but not worth preserving in the long run. I am in process in our back yard. I like the photographs!

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    1. These weren’t my flowers, by the way, I took them one day as I was walking in the park. I’ve been pulling mine before they flower and I think after planting some wildflowers in place of grass, I’ve gotten less weeds this year.

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  5. Yes, flowers are a wonderful addition to any photo. Even morning glories. but yes, hard to get rid of. I loved the Gettysburg photo. I wondered the same thing when we road through. My guess is they are from the era and they replace them with downed trees to add to the ambiance. Very nice Yinglan.

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    1. Thank you. As I understand it, weeds are just plants who’s growing in the wrong place but these morning glories are both in the wrong place and a garden bully but I agree, they do make a fence look better.

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