Category Archives: Lens-Artists Photo Challenge

~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 53: Your Choice ~

To be alive on this beautiful planet is near and dear to my heart. Being out in nature sustains me. To look upon a sight that takes my breath away, and lifts me out of my inner unrest, is pure … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #52: Serenity ~

Serenity is subtle The sensation enters my eyes, ears and nose, spreads throughout my mind and body – fills me with peace and asks nothing of me. Sometimes it comes to me in soft pastels with gently lapping water, or … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #51: Unique ~

On Long Beach, the landscape changes with the rise and fall of every tide. This ongoing tug of surf on land leaves unique impressions at each low tide. Sometimes the sand is flat with a surface residue pattern left behind. … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #50: Trees ~

Recently, during a very low tide, I explored the beach and cliffs of Beard’s Hollow. This image of the promontory above Beard’s Hollow, shows the lush forested lands that are part of Cape Disappointment State Park. The name, conferred by … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #49: Favorites ~

  To walk freely in the blessings of wildness, to see, hear and feel the Pacific Ocean’s abiding, deep rumble, to be suffused in salt-washed ocean air, and to arrive home, safe and sound, with my loved ones. Thank you Patti … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #48: Wild ~

If you follow news about the effects of climate change (global warming), you may have heard about 70 migrating Gray Whales that have died of starvation  from California to Alaska.  Around April 30, one washed up on the beach near … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #47: Elements ~

  This photo expresses the immense power man has to create tools from metal that transform the world around us.  Three iconic photos of wood in the Pacific Northwest; a wooden foot-bridge, a stack of cut logs from a harvested … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #46: Delicate ~ Butterflies ~

All week I’ve contemplated what to post for this challenge. Seeing a Gray Whale that had washed up on the beach because it was starving, had me thinking about the delicate balance of life in our ecosystem. But, those images … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #45: Street Art ~

As the centennial anniversary of Washington State approached, the industries that had supported the Long Beach peninsula – timber and fishing – were declining. In 1985 Ilwaco Port Director, Bob Peterson spearheaded an effort to “paint larger-than-life murals on the … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #44: Harmony ~

“The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.”  Ruth Bernhard   https://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/2019/05/04/lens-artists-challenge-44-harmony/         … Continue reading

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