Spring – Page 3 – This is Another Story

#WeekendCoffeeShare – First Week of Spring 2022

Published on March 26, 2022March 25, 2022 by Yinglan9 Comments

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#SundayStills – #Daylight in #Monchrome

Published on March 21, 2022March 20, 2022 by Yinglan8 Comments

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CMMC: March Close Up

Published on March 4, 2022March 3, 2022 by Yinglan2 Comments

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #185: Change

Published on February 6, 2022February 5, 2022 by Yinglan10 Comments

This week, on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #185, host John from Journey with Johnbo has assigned the versatile topic of Change.

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CMMC: February Close Up

Published on February 4, 2022February 2, 2022 by Yinglan2 Comments

Close up on the new buds forming on my fruit-less quince shrub

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge

CMMC: September Autumn/Spring

Published on October 1, 2021October 1, 2021 by Yinglan2 Comments

CFFC: Green Foliage

Published on June 9, 2021June 8, 2021 by Yinglan4 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

CFFC: Flowers

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

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #147: Gardens

Published on May 9, 2021May 8, 2021 by Yinglan6 Comments

This week, for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #147, Amy challenged everyone with the theme of garden.

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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

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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CFFC: Shiny

Published on April 21, 2021April 20, 2021 by Yinglan9 Comments

I was on a field trip last Sunday on a quest to search for spring and what did I find, a bunch of kids chasing bubbles. It’s been a while since I’ve blown bubbles but I think this is so much better. Let the breeze carry the bubbles.

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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

Weekly Prompts Color Challenge: Purple

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

Weekly Prompts Color Challenge – Purple

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.

Lens-Artist Challenge

Creating a Container Garden…

Published on May 2, 2020June 16, 2023 by Yinglan11 Comments

Almost 3 years ago, I moved into my current home. There were raised beds in the backyard and the front yard was incredibly bare except for a Japanese Maple tree which my mom has threatened to cut it down many times since and I have to keep reminding her that this is my house, not hers.

2 years ago, I started creating my garden. I planted 2 cherry trees, 2 plum trees, 3 strawberry plants, and 6 dahlia bulbs hoping to stop my neighbors’ weeds from invading my yard.

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Wits End Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected Beauty

Published on May 5, 2019May 4, 2019 by Yinglan6 Comments

This remains one of my favorite macro shot of all time. I did not expect cherry blossom buds to look like this close-up.

I was not expecting a butterfly in my strawberry patch but I’m glad it landed there, just long enough for me to take my picture

Wits End Weekly Photo Challenge

A Photo a Week Challenge: Three of a Kind

Published on May 3, 2019May 2, 2019 by Yinglan5 Comments

After re-reading the challenge rule, I realized it’s a different “three of a kind” – the kind where I’m photographing an object in three different angles, not the three of the same object three of a kind. Continue reading “A Photo a Week Challenge: Three of a Kind” →