Lens-Artists Challenge #164 – Look Up/Down Pt. 2

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] RE: Sofia "This week Sofia invites us to Look Up and Down." Inspired by Sofia's stained glass, here is a bit I photo'd at the old St. Louis Union Station, a veritable smorgasbord of Art Nouveau interior architecture: https://cloudup.com/cfhWyAghgvc Stay safe, stay well, watch your step!

Lens-Artists Challenge #164 – Look Up/Down

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] RE: Sofia "This week Sofia invites us to Look Up and Down." There are some great photos and ideas in her post. Following is a fast first submission. Looking up is easy for me. I am forever looking at clouds. Very recently I was sitting in my local park, looked up …

Lens-Artists Challenge #163 – Keep Walking

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] RE: Amy Let’s share our walking and/or hiking experience. "HEY! I'm WALKIN' HERE!" --Ratso Rizzo, Midnight Cowboy movie. In other words, 'TAKE A HIKE!'   Walking with dinosaurs, or following in their footsteps at least. "Oh give me a home, where the dinosaurs roamed...!" "HEY! I'm WALKIN' HERE!" (op. cit.) Stay …

Lens-Artists Challenge #162 – It’s All About The Light Pt. 2

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] RE: Tina "This week the Lens-Artists team invites you to join us in exploring the magic of light." To restate the obvious: It IS all about the LIGHT. photograph (n.) "a picture obtained by any process of photography," 1839, coined by English polymath and photography pioneer Sir John Herschel (son of …

Lens-Artists Challenge #162 – It’s All About The Light

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] RE: Tina "This week the Lens-Artists team invites you to join us in exploring the magic of light." "I see the lights, I see the party lightsThey're red and blue and greenEverybody in the crowd's thereBut you won't let me make a scene" --Claudine Clark Yesterday... [YESTERDAY!] "YesterdayAll my troubles seemed …

Lens-Artists Challenge #161 – Feet and Shoes

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] RE: Leya "Don't give me no hand me down shoesDon't give me no hand me down loveDon't give me no hand me down worldI got one already" --The Guess Who -- Randy Bachman Guitar, vocalsBurton Cummings Vocals, pianoJim Kale BassGarry Peterson Drums [Let me know if the photo gallery below appears …

Lens-Artists Challenge #160 – Your Inspiration

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] RE: PATTI - On Saturday, August 7, Patti is hosting LAPC #160 Your inspiration, which can be a place, a subject, a person, a book–just about anything that inspires you. Could abstract photos inspire, cleverly modified with Lightroom, Photoshop, Efex, or the like? Umm, no. These are iPhone shots taken while going through …

Lens-Artists Challenge #159 – POSTCARDS

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] Per ANVICA "…think of how many postcards we used in the past: to congratulate, as a souvenir of the places we visited or simply as collectibles.” I lived and worked in England from '88 to '92 (1900s, not 1800s), before email. 😱 I would sometimes make my own postcards to send …

Lens-Artists Challenge #158 – Along Back Country Roads

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] As WanderingDawgs might say: "…Country roads, take me home... ” (John Denver) My back road begins in Gateway, Colorado. According to the book Place Names in Colorado by J. Frank Dawson (pub. 1954): "GATEWAY (Mesa) Believed named for nearby Gateway Canyon which has a pillar formation of rock at its entrance. Another version is that GATEWAY is the natural entranceway to the adjoining country to the south, west and north." (p. …

Lens-Artists Challenge #157 – Getting Away Pt. 2

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] Per Rusha "…share your favorite getaways with us... ”. Here is more COSTA RICA. Ok, one more sloth shot. Can you spot it on the left? There's a closeup on the right. Our tour guide had a map. Starting in the right photo we navigated the east part of the country …

Lens-Artists Challenge #157 – Getting Away

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] Per Rusha "…share your favorite getaways with us... ”. Several days ago I returned from a trip to COSTA RICA! (Queue the music: "I'm Leaving On A Jet Plane", or better yet, "Stranded In The Jungle".) Despite taking 1,003 photos with my ZS200, plus some phone photos, I will try to …

Lens-Artists Challenge #156 – Black and White

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] Per ANGEE "…I also love black and white... ”. Many of our neighborhood junipers are unusually green this year: "The ability to see in color is not specific to humans, but many animals can only see in black and white. Colored vision is possible because of the presence of cone photoreceptors …

Lens-Artists Challenge #155 – On The Water

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] Guest host this week is Johnbo.  I will be traveling for a time. TRAVELING! "...Traveling, traveling, travelingLooking for something, what can it be..." --All I Want by Joni Mitchell Thus I apologize in advance if I am tardy or remiss in acknowledging your presences or contributions. When it comes to water, …

Lens-Artists Challenge #154 – One Photo Two Ways

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] Ever a stickler for details, here is one photo two ways: Consider, if you will, an alternate reality, a parallel universe, a science fiction theme perhaps, where the main character, for whatever reason, or perhaps no reason at all, sees the world upside down, always swimming on a sea of …

Lens-Artists Challenge #153 – It’s a Wonderful World Part Two

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] Per AMY 'This week, our photo challenge is “It’s a wonderful world”. I couldn't agree more. Flowers are blooming like gangbusters this spring. (That means a LOT). We've also had some GORGEOUS skies the last couple of days, so here is a bit more 'WONDERFUL'. "I'll light the fire while you …

Lens-Artists Challenge #153 – It’s a wonderful world

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] Per AMY 'This week, our photo challenge is “It’s a wonderful world”. Louis Armstrong ‘s What A Wonderful World came to my mind': "I see trees of greenRed roses tooI see them bloomFor me and you…" "I see skies of blueAnd clouds of whiteThe bright blessed dayThe dark sacred night…" "The …

Lens-Artists Challenge #152 – Shades and Shadows

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] Per A-C Following is the Great Sand Dunes National Park, photo taken from the Zapata Falls trailhead about eight miles away. I was facing north to take this picture. What part of the day was it? Stay safe, be well, be kind to one another.

Lens-Artists Challenge #151 – From Large to Small

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] Per Patti ...Pick a color and take several photos that feature that color.  Start with a photo of a big subject in that color (for example, a wall) and move all the way down to a small subject in that same color (for example, an earring). Summer geraniums on our patio seem to …

Lens-Artists Challenge #150 – Let’s Get Wild!

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] Per Ramblin' "I’m talking about Mother Nature untouched and untrammelled,  allowed to get on with her work without human help or hindrance." YEAH! What SHE said! What about WILD blue yonder?! "Off we go into the wild blue yonder,Climbing high into the sun;"---"The U.S. Air Force" is the official song of …

Lens-Artists Challenge #149 – Cool Colors – Blue and Green – Pt 2

[Categories: Photography, Photography 101 Forever] Per Tina "This week we are returning to the color wheel and its cooler members, which include blue (primary) green (secondary) and blue-green or blue-violet aka purple (tertiary)." One might think Hawaii is only blue and green, with everything else an accent color. I hope you will pardon the plethora. Click …