Tag Archives: Long Beach Peninsula

~ Lens-Artists Challenge #414: Looking back to #44 – Harmony ~

This week Anne Christine harkens back to a challenge of Tina’s; Harmony. This time Anne Christine offers a wider explanation of the concept to provide more options to illustrate the concept of Harmony. You can see her original post here. … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Challenge #413: Bridges ~

Beth of Wandering Dawgs, invites us to share our photos of bridges this week. Though I live in a community with many rivers and streams, therefore bridges, I have few photos of them. Usually I am driving over them and … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Challenge #412: Places Shaped by Water ~

John Steiner leads this week with an invitation to present images “focusing on the landscapes, structures, and stories that unfold around water features.” Since much of my recreation and leisure time centers around bodies of water, the challenge for me … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Challenge #411: What Is It? ~

Sofia urges us to have some fun this week by finding and showing photos that are puzzling and curious, leaving us to wonder, “What Is It”? She encourages us to edit images to hide obvious clues, and most of all … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Challenge #410/154: One Photo Two Ways ~

Ritva invites us to explore the different methods we use to create images, a throw-back to a challenge Tina posted on June 26, 2021. To see Ritva’s lovely images, go here. Cropping is my go to method to create a … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Challenge # 409: Best Ever Images ~

Steve Hyde is the guest host for this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge. He asks us to select 5 (five!) images we consider to be our best photographs; “pictures that celebrate our love of photography.” This is harder to do than it … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Challenge #402: Looking Back at #1 – Wonder ~

Sofia harkens back to the beginning of Lens-Artists Photo Challenges with an invitation to showcase, “moments, places, people that we treasure; the little stories behind a shot that stuff our lives with meaning and joy.” I decided to keep my … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Challenge #401: Focus! ~

Patti is back in the line-up and I am determined to participate! It’s been one of those weeks we all have; when too much is going on, and all of it is important. Fortunately I am now at Long Beach, … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Challenge #398: Choose a Color ~

Ritva revs us up this week with a challenge to focus on color. She guides us to use either a single color for all images, or a different color for each image, and limits the total shots to six. At … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Challenge #397: Texture ~

Anne invites us to feature photos “where texture plays an integral part.” Sometimes I take a photo of something that others might walk right past. When I ask myself why, one of the answers that comes back is that the … Continue reading →

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