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Photo Challenge: Path
Here it is… year-end 2016. Cheri Lucas Rowlands asked us to, “Consider the journey you’ve taken this year (or where you hope to go in 2017)…” The year 2016 taught me about the fragility of human life. My blogging career … Continue reading
Photo Challenge: Anticipation
Carly Simon sang about Anticipation saying, “We can never know about days to come, but we think about them anyway.” If you were my daughter posing in front of a seawall in Pacifica, California you would have been anticipating the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anticipation, California, Coastside, Northern California, Pacifica, Photo Challenge, Photo Challenge: Anticipation
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Photo Challenge: Magic
Another Friday rolls around. This week we’ve been challenged to, “…find some magic, and charm us with it.” My question to the author of the challenge, Jen Hooks, is have you ever seen the mythical wine flower? Have a great … Continue reading
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Tagged D7000, graphics, Image, images, magic, Nikon, Photo Challenge, Photo Challenge: Magic, Photography
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Chaos
Even in the midst of chaos an island of order may appear. See Ben Huberman’s Photo Challenge: Chaos here.
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Tagged chaos, focus, Landscape, Pacifica, Photo Challenge, Photo Challenge: Chaos, seascape, Sharp Park Pier, sunset, unfocused
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Shine
The bright Sun is lighting the back yard in a vivid contrast of lightness and dark shadows. Autumn light is getting lower in the sky each day casting those long shadows that I relate to the changing seasons. This week … Continue reading
Local
Home is where the heart is, or so says Jen H. in her challenge to show “Local.” She goes on to say: “Home is what and who is local — the places and people we know by heart.” I live … Continue reading
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Tagged California, D7000, Landscape, Local, Nikon, Pacifica, Photo Challenge, Photo Challenge: Local
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Photo Challenge: H2O
Water, two parts hydrogen one part oxygen, steam, vapor, mist, rain, dew, moisture, wet. We have many names for the stuff of life. With a challenge from Lignum Draco to… “show H2O in a photograph” I had to go to … Continue reading
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Tagged California, cloud, clouds, D7000, Landscape, Nikon, Photo Challenge, Photo Challenge: H2O, Photography, water
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Mirror
The end of the week rolls around so fast it makes you reflect on what you are doing. This week Jen Hooks challenged the paparazzi to, “…show us a mirror.” Here are some reflective views from my library. I will … Continue reading
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Tagged #postaday, architecture, grandkitty, mirror, Otis, Photo Challenge, Photo Challenge: Mirror, reflection
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Frame (in Frame)
The concept of using a frame in a frame is an old one in photography. There are times it works well and then there are times that the inside frame may be superfluous. The first frame is your viewfinder (or … Continue reading
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Tagged alternative, challenge, frame, frame in frame, Image, images, Photo Challenge, Photo Challenge: Frame, Photography, Postaday, San Francisco Bay Area
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Morning
If Cheri Lucas Rowlands offered up a photo challenge to share a selfie from the morning mirror it would scare a very large percentage of the population. Yet, I remain young at heart. My morning breakfast is pretty well unchanged … Continue reading
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Tagged berries, breakfast, cereal, fruit, Image, images, morning, Photo Challenge, Photo Challenge: Morning, Photography
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