Happy Sunday! Donna from Wind Kisses is the lovely hostess for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and she has chosen a difficult topic for this week’s challenge – Messages.
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CMMC: January Alphabet – Begins with the Letter A
#SundayStills: The Pros and Cons of #Silence
Living in today’s society, I find it very hard to experience silence.
Continue reading “#SundayStills: The Pros and Cons of #Silence”Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #233: A One Lens Walk
Happy Sunday! Anne from Slow Shutter Speed is the lovely hostess for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and she has chosen a fun topic – One Lens Walk.
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CMMC: January Amber Color
#SundayStills: Taking the #Plunge in Overcoming Fear
Over the weekend, I took a big leap in the first step to overcome my newly-developed fear of claustrophobia.
Continue reading “#SundayStills: Taking the #Plunge in Overcoming Fear”Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #231: Favorite Images of 2022
Happy 2023! John from Journey with Johnbo is leading off 2023’s first Lens-Artist Photo Challenge, reflecting on our favorite photos from 2022.
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I thought about linking this week’s SundayStills with the post I published on December 30 but then I suddenly there was an entire portion I completely forgot happened in 2022 – the garden.
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CMMC: December Alphabet – V or W at the Beginning



Caption (from top to bottom):
- Vintage Car
- Wheel and Sunrise
- City view
CFFC: Holiday Colors #WordlessWednesday
CFFC: Salt White Color #WordlessWednesday
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #230: Last Chance
For the final Lens-Artists Photo Challenge of 2022, Tina from Travels and Trifles is asking us to share the photos from 2022 that did not make it onto any of the Lens-Artists Challenges, an honorable-mention-sort-of-thing.
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CFFC: Pear Green Colors #WordlessWednesday
#SundayStills: Monthly Color Challenge: #Cobalt Blue
I woke up yesterday morning to a strange sky. The front of my house was bathed in sunshine while the back of my house was this very dark blue sky.
Correction: it wasn’t the sky that was this dark blue, it was the clouds.
We had a storm warning, you see. We’re supposed to get around 5-6 inches of snow between Sunday night and Tuesday morning. We shall see about that.
I ran back up to my room, grabbed the camera, changed to the 18-400 mm lens and rushed back down. It was less than a minute, tops but the sky was no longer this dark intense purplish blue. Instead, it was a lighter, still darker shade of blue. Still, I panned the camera around looking for a composition and found one with my neighbor’s aspen trees. The sun was shining on the white branches at that moment.
I actually had to look it up how dark is the color cobalt blue. The color reminded me of the times when I would use a CPL (Circular Polarizer Lens) filter on my camera and all the skies in the picture would be an unnatural shade of blue. Cobalt blue was that color.
I no longer use any filter on my camera, except maybe a ND (neutral-density) filter when I shoot long-exposures. The screwing on and off the filter is quite bothersome in my opinion as it not only takes time but each time when I tried to take the lens filter off, my anxious mind would begin playing out the worst scenarios.
So I’d say, “screw it,” I don’t need filters.
This was one of my favorite photos taken in Niagara Falls, by the way. I have been practicing my sun-star photography when I can. I read somewhere about sun-star photography can tell how many (blades?) is in a lens.
I remember that morning, just walking along the path, checking every few seconds to minutes, hoping the sun would just rise above the clouds, even just for a few seconds because I wanted to photograph the full sun, not just half of the sun with a cloud beneath.
At last, the sun had risen above the clouds. I set the camera to the lowest f-stop and clicked. I wanted to click another one but by the time I checked the photo and tried to focus again, a cloud has once again covered the bottom half of the sun. I was glad I got one though.
CMMC: December Close Up – 2022 Favorites
As we are approaching the end of yet another year, I thought it would be fitting to share some of my 2022 favorite close-ups. Please enjoy.
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#SundayStills: Home #Town
CMMC: November 5th Week: Truck or Tree
CFFC: Caramel Color #WordlessWednesday
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #227: Home Sweet Home
Tina from Travels and Trifles is hosting this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and the prompt is “Home Sweet Home” and here’s the specifics for this prompt:
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #227: Home Sweet Home”If a foreigner were to spend a week or a month traveling your home country with you, where would you take them? What sights would you tell them to be sure to see?
-Tina