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Silent Sunday: Hollywood’s Desert

Published on November 30, 2025November 30, 2025 by Yinglan10 Comments

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Silent Sunday: Strange and Beautiful

Published on August 10, 2025August 9, 2025 by YinglanLeave a comment

Part of Silent Sunday

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #343 – Seen on my Last Outing

Published on April 6, 2025April 5, 2025 by Yinglan12 Comments

Happy Sunday! Anne-Christine from Leya is the lovely host of this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and she is asking about my last outing. Hmm…

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #342 – It’s a Wild Life

Published on March 30, 2025March 29, 2025 by Yinglan6 Comments

Happy Sunday! Egidio from Through Brazilian Eyes is playing my jam this week with the theme of “It’s a Wild Life” for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #342.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #331 – Resilience

Published on January 12, 2025January 11, 2025 by Yinglan11 Comments

Happy Sunday! This week, with the first new Lens-Artists Photo Challenge of 2025, Anne is challenging us to show resilience.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #330 – Favorite Photos of 2024

Published on January 6, 2025January 6, 2025 by Yinglan15 Comments

Happy 2025! As an annual tradition, the Lens-Artists team will have everyone post their favorite photos of the previous year. I’ve been thinking of this challenge since the final Lens-Artists challenge of 2024 and I’ll tell you, it’s been a challenge.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #329 – Last Chance

Published on December 15, 2024December 14, 2024 by Yinglan3 Comments

Happy Sunday! This week, for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #329, marks the final Lens-Artists Challenge of 2024, thus it’s the last chance to showcase any photos that didn’t make it into the photo challenges of 2024.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #328 – Winter

Published on December 8, 2024December 7, 2024 by Yinglan6 Comments

Happy Sunday! This week, for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #328, John from Journey with Johnbo reminds us that we are approaching midwinter and that winter will be staying for the next few months.

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CFFC: Weathered Wood #WordlessWednesday

Published on February 14, 2024February 13, 2024 by Yinglan2 Comments

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#SundayStills: Monthly Color Challenge #Leather and Brown

Published on November 21, 2022November 20, 2022 by Yinglan6 Comments

Leather nowadays comes in all kind of colors – red, blue, green – all it takes is a little dye. However, for this week’s #SundayStills challenge, the color focused on is leathery brown. Hope you enjoy my gallery of browns.

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#SundayStills: #Paths and #Trails to my Happy Places

Published on November 7, 2022November 6, 2022 by Yinglan13 Comments

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CFFC: Animals Unaware #WordlessWednesday

Published on November 2, 2022November 1, 2022 by Yinglan2 Comments

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#SundayStills: Nature is Sure #Mysterious

Published on October 31, 2022October 30, 2022 by Yinglan2 Comments

I agree with Terri, nature is mysterious. It can turn such thing as a tree into a fossil if it lived long enough.

Looking at the topic this week, which is mysterious, I thought about my visit to the Petrified Forest State Park in 2021. Note that this is the state park in Utah, not the national park in Arizona. Petrified Forest State Park is much smaller but it’s still an awesome place to visit.

We paid our entrance fee, parked the car, and spent a few hours exploring the park on foot, which is kind of mandatory given the petrified forest is located along a single trail.

It’s sure a mystery how these trees managed to survive this long as all around them, civilization thrived. I’d bet these trees have seen things, encountered plenty of natural events, and probably once lived with dinosaurs. It’s just amazing to think of all the things that have happened to these trees to have it survive to today. Nature is sure a wonderful mystery.