Lens-Artists Challenge #299 – Hopeful

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Patti.] "If you smile at me, I will understand'Cause that is something everybody everywhere does In the same language."---"Wooden Ships"(originally by Crosby, Stills and Nash) "It's been a (long) long (time) time (comin') comin'It's goin' to be (long) a long (time) time (gone) goneBut you knowThe darkest hourIs …

Lens-Artists Challenge #298 – To Be Young Again

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Tina.] Are you my REAL dad, Dad?! "Everyone out of the literal pool!" (Old Assembler 370 computer programming joke. 🤷‍♂️) Kansas City Royals fans, I presume. Start 'em young! Oktoberfest, Colorado style. "We're wearing sunglasses so we can remain anonymous." 😱😂 ( 😘 )

Lens-Artists Challenge #297 – Music to My Eyes

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Egidio.] Welllll. I love to put music to a theme: "I got the music in meI got the music in meI got the music in me, yeah" "Ain't got no trouble in my lifeNo foolish dream to make me cryI'm never frightened or worriedI know I'll …

Lens-Artists Challenge #296 – Abstracts Pt. 2

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Ritva.] Nature again. Can't be beat. ( 😘 )

Lens-Artists Challenge #296 – Abstracts

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Ritva.] Nay-cha'. (Nature.) Can't be beat. ( 😘 )

Lens-Artists Challenge #295 – Rock Your World

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Wind Kisses.] "One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock, rockFive, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock, rockNine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, rockWe're gonna rock around the clock tonight"--Song by Bill Haley & His Comets(Emphasis mine.) I love rocks. Silent sentinels everywhere. Soooo many rocks, so little time. …

Lens-Artists Challenge #294 – Before and After

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Johnbo.] I tend to be an originalist, attempting to capture what the eyes see. The camera doesn't always cooperate. The following comparison was taken 2 seconds apart, the left earliest, 1/60s, 1 ev, the right 1/120s, 0 ev, both at the whim of the iPhone X …

Lens-Artists Challenge #293 – Water in Motion

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Sofia.] Water in motion: https://youtu.be/h2EWVv9CIrw Per Wikipedia: Takakkaw Falls (/ˈtækəkɔː/; also spelled Takkakaw[1]) is a waterfall in Yoho National Park, near Field, British Columbia, in Canada. The falls have a total height of 373 metres (1,224 ft),[1] making them the second tallest waterfall in Canada.[3][4] The main drop of the waterfall has a height of …

Lens-Artists Challenge #292 -People Here, There & Everywhere

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Tina.] Let us start with The Costa Rica Jump, an attempt to get 20+ people to jump in the air at the same time, whilst on our first tour abroad after 'The Pandemic', July 2021: "Ah, might as well jump (jump)Might as well jumpGo ahead and …

Lens-Artists Challenge #291 -Cityscapes

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Patti.] Ooooh. So many cities, so little time. The rudimentary search for City in my iPhoto library yielded 1,784 results, most of dubious distinction. I was immediately reminded of perhaps my most favorite cityscape of all: "Start spreadin' the newsI'm leavin' todayI want to be a …

Lens-Artists Challenge #290 – Circular Wonders Pt. 3

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Leya.] I am not obsessed. Honest. The Atomium, Brussels: St. Peter's Church, Oudenbosch, Netherlands, a scaled down replica of the Vatican Basilica (about 1/4 size, still big!) : I...... must...... stop......... now............

Lens-Artists Challenge #290 – Circular Wonders Pt. 2

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Leya.] Miscellany potpourri. But is it...? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ 😉

Lens-Artists Challenge #290 – Circular Wonders

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Leya.] Hmmmm. Inscrutable, to be sure. Cerebral too, which leaves me at a disadvantage. "Will it go 'round in circles?Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky?Will it go 'round in circles?Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky?" --Billy …

Lens-Artists Challenge #289 – Tools of Photo Composition Pt. 2

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Johnbo.] Epilogue: Texture and Light. Nothing says texture like sand, IMO. Was it Roy Rogers who sang that? "Oh give me sand lots of sand under starry skies above,Don't fence me in..." Something like that, maybe. Almost everyone sang it. DON'T... YOU... DARE!!! There is a …

Lens-Artists Challenge #289 – Tools of Photo Composition

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Johnbo.] Hmmmm. Inscrutable, to be sure. Cerebral too, which leaves me at a disadvantage. Shape, Form, Texture, and Light. Seems easy enough, but is shape not form, or form not shape? In case you're studying for your MFA, the CCAD, Columbus College of Art & Design, …

Lens-Artists Challenge #288 – Window Shopping

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Ritva.] Just when you think the L-A hosts can't come up with another theme, we have WINDOW SHOPPING! Innovative choice, IMO. If you had been window shopping in my local mega-mall in 2011, you would have come across this: Voi-la. Tray' fahn-cy, one might say. May …

Lens-Artists Challenge #287 – Sounds

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Wind Kisses.] Hmmm. Sounds, visualized. I think of quiet stages, waiting for performers. ('No photography DURING the performance, but before...?) Or I think of instruments waiting to be played: Brass at the Denver Brass Christmas Show: Or, there's the TODAY show on TV, being filmed at …

Lens-Artists Challenge #286 – Weather Pt. 3

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Annegee.] Spring weather, same place, different time. Do we detect a theme? The defense rests. My work here is done.

Lens-Artists Challenge #286 – Weather Pt. 2

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Annegee.] So much weather, so little time. It took weather to make these pictures what they are. Arenal volcano, Costa Rica. It's snowing here at home today. Stay warm. (Now where did I put those fire pictures?!)

Lens-Artists Challenge #286 – Weather

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Annegee.] Weather, or not, here I go! Weather, whether, wither, withered, withers, oh my! Recent weather here at 5280' ASL, more like 5732' or so, through the window six days ago: Today, not so sunny: It's snowing here at home today. Stay warm. (Now where did …