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~ Lens-Artists Challenge #352: Mellow ~

Posted on June 9, 2025 by Lindy Le Coq

This week Sofia invites us to continue our break from the harshness of everyday life with the theme Mellow. In the northern hemisphere it’s late spring/early summer. It’s time to relax in soft tones and shapes, to enjoy the season’s … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Challenge #348: Serenity ~

Posted on May 14, 2025 by Lindy Le Coq

This week, Egídio asks us how we find serenity, and invites us to bring it into our photography. Serenity comes to me when my mind and body are in equilibrium, creating a state of being at peace with myself in … 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 #208: Summer Vibes ~

Posted on July 22, 2022 by Lindy Le Coq

I just arrived back home in Vancouver, WA from my annual fishing trip at Odell Lake, with my older sister Diana, and brother-in-law Les. Although the fishing was not as good as usual, the setting in the Deschutes National Forest … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #89: A River Runs Through It ~

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

My father taught me at an early age that if ever I was lost in a wilderness area, to remember the words from a song by Bob Nolan ,”…somehow it leads me home if I just follow the stream.” Creeks … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #86: Change Your Perspective ~

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

“Over the river and through the woods…”   I love the fairyland feeling of this shot, taken at ground level through flowers and across the meadow to the misty shores of Crescent Creek. We are five thousand feet above sea level, … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #62: Silhouettes ~

Posted on September 13, 2019 by Lindy Le Coq

…outline, contour, shape, form,  shadow, shadow figure, profile, skyline… Winter Sundown, Long Beach, WA Wind-farm on the north ridge of the Columbia River Gorge, near Goldendale, WA Knife-sharpener, Crescent Creek, OR Sunset Through Reeds, Long Beach, WA   I adore … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #60: Framing the Shot ~

Posted on August 29, 2019 by Lindy Le Coq

Windows offer a challenging way to frame shots. Sometimes the results are lovely, as in the photo below.  Pacific Ocean view, from a window in North Head Lighthouse, Ilwaco, WA Because many of my photos are taken in natural settings, … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 59: Angles ~ Viewpoint ~ Point Of View ~

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Lindy Le Coq

From my point of view, things (in the USA) are rather topsy turvy. That’s what I like about the angle of this photo – the only viewpoint from which I could capture the length of the huge pole with a … Continue reading →

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