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~ Wordless Wednesday ~ Reflections ~

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

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~ Lens-Artists Challenge #333: Complementary Colors ~

Egídio takes the lead this week with an invitation to have fun juxtaposing the three primary colors; Red, Blue & Yellow with their complementary colors – hues on the opposite side of the color wheel. When our senses need a … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artists Challenge #332 – Shoot From Above ~

For this week’s challenge, Ritva invites us to have some fun shooting photos from above. Often when I’m walking along the beach or on a trail, I see small entities that have little importance in the whole scheme of things, … Continue reading

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~Lens-Artists Challenge #330: Best of 2024 ~

On my previous post I featured several photographs that are among my favorite shots of 2024, for a variety of reasons. Now it’s time to winnow things down to “the best”. The word best has 33 synonyms, and of those … Continue reading

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~ Last Chance ~ Some Favorite Photos from 2024 ~

Time to ring in the new year with photos that I especially like, taken in 2024. Each photo brings up the memory of where I was and who I was with at the time. The subject is only part of … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artists Challenge #327: 5 Elements ~

Sophia leads this week with the challenge to feature the 5 Elements or Agents of Wuxing, “a fivefold conceptual scheme used in many traditional Chinese fields of study to explain a wide array of phenomena.” The Wuxing Elements are, Fire, … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artists Challenge #324: In the Details ~

Patti asks us to present three photos of a subject which bring the viewer ever closer to the details of the subject. This past week has been extremely stormy and wet here on the Long Beach, WA peninsula, so I … Continue reading

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~ Wordless Wednesday ~ Five St. Louis Citypark Sculptures ~

On your walk with life, please honor our earth, encourage dignity and share kindness. 🐾 https://citygardenstl.org/art/kai/ https://citygardenstl.org/art/laura-ford/# https://citygardenstl.org/art/aristide-maillol/. https://citygardenstl.org/art/jim-dine/# https://citygardenstl.org/art/kan-yasuda/#

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #323: Silence ~

Egídio challenges us to find qualities of silence in our photographs. Following the guidance of photographer Robert Adams, Egídio suggests that we feature five specific ways of expressing silence. Though you may have seen this photo before, it is still … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #322: There is a Crack in Everything ~

For this week’s challenge, Ritva asks us to dig deeper than the surface beauty of our photography to reveal through them “the interplay between shadow and light, ultimately capturing the essence of optimism that arises from seemingly insignificant openings in … Continue reading

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