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CMMC: June Macro or Close Up

Published on June 4, 2021June 2, 2021 by Yinglan6 Comments

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge

CFFC: Flowers

Published on June 2, 2021June 1, 2021 by Yinglan4 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

CMMC: May Close Up or Macro

Published on May 7, 2021May 6, 2021 by Yinglan2 Comments

Less than one week old green bean seedling (germinated 5/3/2021), photo taken 5/6/2021

Hoping for a large strawberry harvest this year

May 2021 Carnations in my garden, still alive

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge

CFFC: Real vs. Fake

Published on May 5, 2021May 4, 2021 by Yinglan2 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Wordless Wednesday: Surprise

Published on May 5, 2021May 2, 2021 by Yinglan11 Comments

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #146: Focusing on the Details

Published on May 2, 2021May 1, 2021 by Yinglan21 Comments

This week, for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #146, Patti has challenged everyone to focus on the details.

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Lens-Artists Challenge #145: Getting to Know You

Published on April 25, 2021April 24, 2021 by Yinglan13 Comments

This week, on Lens-Artists Challenge #145, guest host Scillagrace challenged everyone with the topic of Getting to Know You.

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A Photo a Week Challenge: Open

Published on April 23, 2021April 22, 2021 by Yinglan4 Comments

There was a wind storm last week – 70 mile-per-hour gusts blowing past the protective mountain ranges. It made my Wednesday drive to work a bit treacherous yet interesting at the same time.

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Lens-Artists Challenge #143: Colorful April

Published on April 11, 2021April 10, 2021 by Yinglan14 Comments

This week for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, we are challenged to share some colorful photos to represent the spring-like April.

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Lens-Artists Challenge #142: You Pick It! – Spring 2021

Published on April 4, 2021April 3, 2021 by Yinglan16 Comments

This week for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, we are assigned the easy topic of You Pick It! and I am picking Spring 2021 for my topic.

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Wordless Wednesday: Creepin’

Published on March 31, 2021March 30, 2021 by YinglanLeave a comment

CFFC: Whole or Hole

Published on March 12, 2021March 11, 2021 by Yinglan2 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Weekly Prompts Color Challenge: Purple

Published on March 8, 2021March 7, 2021 by Yinglan3 Comments

Weekly Prompts Color Challenge – Purple

Lens-Artists Challenge #137: Soft

Published on February 28, 2021February 27, 2021 by Yinglan17 Comments

To me, the word soft can mean so many things – fluffy as in furs or feathers, delicate, and in photography, soft-focus, meaning the texture has been taken out of the photographs. This week, I hope these old photos can convey the meaning of soft.

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CFFC: Tree Bark

Published on February 24, 2021February 23, 2021 by Yinglan4 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Wordless Wednesday: Shimmering

Published on February 17, 2021February 15, 2021 by Yinglan4 Comments

CFFC: Reed, Read, or Red

Published on February 10, 2021February 9, 2021 by Yinglan13 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Lens-Artists Challenge #133: My Photography Journey

Published on January 31, 2021January 30, 2021 by Yinglan20 Comments

I think my photography journey truly began when I took and posted this photo (above) at the end of March 2015. It was this close up of the Japanese Plum Blossom taken with a simple Fuji 7.2 megapixel point-and-shoot that got me interested in photography and I haven’t stopped much since.

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Wordless Wednesday: Water Droplets

Published on January 27, 2021January 23, 2021 by Yinglan3 Comments

Lens-Artists Challenge #130: It’s a Small World

Published on January 10, 2021January 9, 2021 by Yinglan15 Comments

I love macros. They are so exotic and different and really only can be seen either with a magnifying glass, a dedicated macro lens, or in my case, a good ol’ regular camera lens with a screw-on macro filter. These filters are tricky to use sometimes as everything must be completely still and as you can see from the below photo, it only magnifies a specific area of the image while blurring the rest.

Since the pandemic began in March 2020, I had not had the opportunity to photograph with my macro lens filters as I was being driven by work and anxiety to the point I had somewhat lost my muse and inspiration to make photographs. I hope to make some in 2021 as it’s looking like spring might be coming early. Therefore, please enjoy some pre-pandemic photos. These photos were from the beautiful spring of pre-pandemic world of 2019.

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Sunshine’s Macro Monday

Published on February 4, 2020February 3, 2020 by Yinglan12 Comments

Playing with Lightroom after watching a few videos on YouTube on how to make a subject pop. This is one of my favorite macros and I think with the adjustment, I achieved my goal of making my subject pop.

Sunshine’s Macro Monday

Published on January 28, 2020January 27, 2020 by Yinglan5 Comments

This is my first time participating in this challenge, hope you will enjoy this close-up photo of some strange looking flowers I shot during my solo hike last summer. Continue reading “Sunshine’s Macro Monday” →