Category Archives: Lens-Artists Photo Challenge

~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 244: Glowing Moments ~

Posted on April 11, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

Welcome to Siobhan Sullivan of Bend Branches, this week’s LAPC guest host, who throws the doors wide open with the theme Glowing Moments. While selecting photos, I realized that there were some images for which I had previously written haiku. … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 243: It’s Tricky! ~

Posted on April 7, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

I’m not much of a trickster when it comes to photography, however I do enjoy “thinking outside the box,” as in the shot below of a Brown Garden Snail taken at ground level. Another example, is this ‘Dune Rune’. Alloniscus … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #242: New Experiences ~

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

The first day of first grade, our teacher asked her students to raise our hands if we couldn’t see what she had written on the chalk board. I raised my hand, so she directed me to a desk closer to … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #241: Spring in My Messy Garden ~

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

My gardens consist mostly of perennial plants, trees and shrubs designed to provide food and shelter for birds, year-round. Some time ago I stopped pruning back the deadheads of Cone-flowers, and left the dry mop-heads of Hydrangea on all winter … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #240: The Road (most often) Taken ~

Posted on March 16, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

Those who follow my WordPress site know that nature landscapes are my favorite subject. Our host this week, John Steiner suggests this is “the road I’ve chosen to take most often.” A subset of nature landscapes that I love as … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #239: Finding Peace ~

Posted on March 9, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

This week’s challenge from Tina, took me into a thoughtful consideration of what elements of life bring me a sense of internal peace. Visual elements include soft pastels, puffy clouds, water ripples and sunlight. Over the thirty years I worked … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #238: Alone Time ~

Posted on March 1, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

Being alone is a happy place; I am immersed in my own world, contemplating, mulling memories, remembering dreams, creating my now, moment by moment. On your walk with life, please honor our earth, encourage dignity and share kindness. 🐾 Thank … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #237: Bringing Softness ~

Posted on February 21, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

Welcome to Bren, of Brashley Photography who is our guest host this week. She challenges us to show softness in our photos by lowering clarity and with the use of software. All the photos I feature in this post are … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #236: East Meets West ~

Posted on February 15, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

Amy leads today with a challenge that has stumped me. Although I have traveled across the USA I have few photo records of places I visited, and the only countries outside the USA I have been to are France and … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #235: Shadows and Reflections in Monochrome ~

Posted on February 7, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

Patti opens her intriguing challenge with a quote by Alfred Stieglitz, worth repeating: In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. I had never been able to put words around the sensation I … Continue reading →

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