Category Archives: Lens-Artists Photo Challenge

~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #284: Night & Day ~

Posted on January 31, 2024 by Lindy Le Coq

Sophia Alves leads our challenge this week with the theme of Night and Day. The golden hours of dawn and sundown are favorite times for photographers to capture the glory of our beautiful earth, and then there are all the … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #283: Illustrate a Favorite Quote or Poem ~

Posted on January 26, 2024 by Lindy Le Coq

A few years ago I started writing poems about the birds I encountered at the beach. In these poems my goal is to describe their behavior without personifying them. In answer to Ann-Christine’s challenge to illustrate a favorite quote or … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #282: Dramatic ~

Posted on January 17, 2024 by Lindy Le Coq

With below freezing temperatures, snow all week-end and now freezing rain in my little corner of the world (Vancouver, WA – USA), life has been full of drama! The temps are rising, so the ice will begin to melt today, … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #281: Favorite Images of 2023 ~

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Lindy Le Coq

As we open a new calendar year, Lens-Artists suggest we review our photos from 2023 and present some of our favorites. The golden hour at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, with pastel toned breakers rolling in, and two young … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 280: Last Chance ~

Posted on December 23, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

Tina, of Travels and Trifles brings back a popular challenge introduced at the end of 2022, which is to choose photographs that we have taken this year (2023) but did not included in response to the 2023 Lens-Artist challenges. My … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #279: Magical ~

Posted on December 15, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

Ann-Christine invites us to explore the concept of Magical in our photographs this week. Magical in the sense of being “beautiful or delightful in a way that seems removed from everyday life,” (New Oxford American Dictionary), also “extremely or extraordinarily … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #277: Unique ~

Posted on December 7, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

As I began looking through my archives for photos that would match Amy’s challenge this week, the weather forecast for SW Washington warned of another Atmospheric River on its way. By Monday evening the rain started and it has continued … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #277: Empty Spaces ~

Posted on November 30, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

Here we go into the wild blue yonder of Empty Spaces in photography. Patty does an exceptional job explaining what empty space adds to our photos, and provides wonderful examples on her Pilotfish blog, Empty Spaces . At sundown on … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #276: Looking Up, Looking Down ~

Posted on November 24, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

Welcome to James Brown of JazziBee blog, the Lens-Artists guest host this week. He challenges us to look at our subjects from a variety of angles, in particular; “the extremes of Looking Up, and Looking Down, to show the effects … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #275: Filling the Frame ~

Posted on November 13, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

There are many ways to fill the frame when taking photos, and Anne of Slow Shutter Speed, offers a master-class in her Lens-Artists challenge this week. In addition to getting up-close to subjects (physically or with a telephoto lens), the … Continue reading →

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