Category Archives: travel

~ Wordless Wednesday ~ Views of Palouse Farmland from Kamiak Butte ~

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

On your walk with life, please honor our earth, encourage dignity and share kindness. 🐾

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #255: Telling a Story ~ Palouse Scenic Byway ~

Posted on June 30, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

This week Patti Moed, invites us to tell a story with a maximum of five photos. Recently I had a leisurely road trip from Spokane to Pullman WA, driving the network of old highways now called the Palouse Scenic Byway. … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #253: Fragments ~

Posted on June 14, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

Welcome to Brian of bushboy, this weeks Lens-Artists challenge guest-host. He introduces the subject by noting that there has been “a bit of fragmentation happening around the world, a disconnect.” I agree. Yet, bushboy reminds us that “we always have … Continue reading →

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~ Wordless Wednesday ~ Cape Disappointment Light House from Waikiki Beach ~

Posted on June 7, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

On your walk with life, please honor our earth, encourage dignity and share kindness. 🐾

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #250: Skyscapes or Cloudscapes ~

Posted on May 23, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

Amy, of The World Is a Book, invites us to showcase our photos of Skyscapes and Cloudscapes this week. Living in the Pacific Northwest USA, clouds are a common feature in the sky. Some clouds become an impenetrable gray backdrop, … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 249: Art in the Park (and other places) ~

Posted on May 19, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

John Steiner, invites us to feature photos of Art in all its various forms. I’m starting with an architecture shot of *Château de Chenonceau, which my husband and I visited in 1994 when we were taken on a country-wide tour … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 246: Still Life (Talking)* ~

Posted on April 27, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

Patti challenges us to focus on still life images this week. In addition to traditional composed arrangements of inanimate objects, she encourages us to use a variety of sources including “found” still life scenes. Oh, Patti, this will be fun! … 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 #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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