



A few of my favorite pictures from the 4th of July parade yesterday.




A few of my favorite pictures from the 4th of July parade yesterday.
Happy Sunday! This week, Beth from Wandering Dawgs leads Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #404 with a fun topic – subject begins with the letter B. I hope you enjoy my gallery of all things B.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #404 – Subject Begins with the Letter B” →Happy Sunday! This week, it’s John’s turn to host Lens-Artists Challenge and for challenge #403, he’s decided to focus on another set of tools for photo composition – Perspective, Depth, and Scale.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #403 – Perspective, Depth, and Scale” →Happy Sunday! This week, for Lens-Artists Challenge #402, Sofia is revisiting the topic of Wonder, which was posed by Patti on the first-ever Lens-Artists Challenge back in 2018. I wish I was a participant of that, unfortunately, I was not. Anyway, I hope you enjoy my photos and stories for this week’s challenge.
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Happy Sunday! This week, for Lens-Artists Challenge #401, Patti is looking back at Lens-Artists Challenge #121, which focuses on the composition of the photo. I must admit I struggled a little bit with this one but I tried my best and hope you’ll enjoy.
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Happy Sunday! This week, host Egidio has offered up an exercise for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The exercise/challenge to for us to linger in place for a short time and take as many pictures as possible.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #399 – Stuck in Place” →Happy Saturday!
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As I traverse up to Seattle from Los Angeles on an Amtrak train with no Wi-fi, I want to share some photos I took two days ago from the sky as I flew from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. There was not a cloud in sight (until I got to LA) and I got these awesome views along the way. Hope you enjoy.
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Happy Sunday! This week, Beth from Wandering Dawgs is the lovely hostess for Lens-Artists Challenge #395 and we are looking back! We are looking back to Lens-Artists Challenge #151 from July 2021, which was hosted by John and the topic was On the Water. It was intriguing to see what I wrote the last time and I hope you enjoy my new interpretation.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #395 – Looking back to On the Water” →Continue reading “CFFC: View from a Bridge” →
Happy Sunday! This week, John is hosting the 394th Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, challenging everyone to see history through the camera lens.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #394 – History through the Lens” →Continue reading “CFFC: View from a Plane or Airport” →
Happy Sunday! This week, Sofia is the host for the 393rd Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and she has me pondering about when was the last time I had a photograph taken pure in the moment and purely by luck.
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Happy Sunday! This week, Patti leads the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and she’s really making me think and analyze to find the perfect images to represent this week’s topic – Exploring the Foreground, Mid-ground, and Background.
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Happy Sunday! Tina from Travels and Trifles posed an interesting topic for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, which is phone photography.
Continue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #391 – Phone Photography” →