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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #289: Shape, Form, Texture and Light ~

This week John (Journeys with Johnbo) invites us to focus on some photography basics: Shape, Form, Texture, and Light. Below is a favorite shot of shapes. Although the Astoria-Megler Bridge is a three dimensional structure, the pattern of the steel … Continue reading

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

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 #235: Shadows and Reflections in Monochrome ~

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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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #229: Perfect Patterns ~

Here’s to Anne-Christine for inviting us to select photos of “perfect” patterns, with the understanding that perfect is always in the eye of the beholder! Here are some patterns in nature that I enjoy. I’ll start with another in my … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #228: Diagonals ~

A hearty thank you to Patti, who leads the challenge this week asking us to “explore diagonals as a way to add visual interest and depth to our photos, as well as a sense of action.” For this challenge I … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #209: Surreal ~

As a student of the visual arts, I always found something alluring about Surrealism; the juxtaposition of absurd images, the venture to “resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality….” André Breton My … Continue reading

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #130: It’s A Small World ~

My offerings today are close-ups captured with either my Panasonic Lumix or iPhone. Wishing everyone safe harbor, as we navigate onward. Mask-up and stay safe.🐾

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~ Wordless Wednesday ~ Midnight Rune Writer ~

Alloniscus perconvexus

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

“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 #80: Leading Lines ~

This week, Tina has challenged us to feature photos with, “leading lines [that] carry our eye through a photograph.” I’d been waiting two years for a reason to post the photo below. These cyclists were on a “Cycle Oregon” tour … Continue reading

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