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 …

Lens-Artists Challenge #285 – Warm Colors Pt. 2

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Egidio.] Brown, red, yellow. Oh my! Look Mommy! Erosion!! Get a picture!!! Red sun on the rock sails sets. Reflect on yellow. How now down the brown canyon swoops the highway. It's snowing here at home today. Stay warm. (Now where did I put those fire …

Lens-Artists Challenge #285 – Warm Colors

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Egidio.] What are warm colors? Sunrises, warming the morning? 99.999% of my sun horizon shots are sunsets, but who can tell? Pastels can be warm, but I'm not a modifier, nor a lender be. FIRE!!! Thar' be warmth!!! (Click to enlarge.) If that isn't warm enough, …

Lens-Artists Challenge #284 –DAY & NIGHT

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Sofia.] Day & Night, or Night & Day, if you will: "Night and day, you are the oneOnly you beneath the moonUnder the sun"--Cole Porter Forever wanting to be one of the firstest, usually with the leastest, and usually with little thought aforethought, entering 'night sky' …

Lens-Artists Challenge #283 –Illustrate a Favourite Quote or Poem

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Leya.] Hopefully, a fave quote is the one in my banner: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost. Mild-mannered as I am, I don't …

Lens-Artists Challenge #282 –Dramatic

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Patti.] Film noir, monochrome, 'silhouette gentille silhouette', or... hmmm. Are mountains dramatic, or merely majestic? 🤔 Déjà vu, all over again? C'est la vie. Mon français est prolifique aujourd’hui. Thank you Google. Drama on the stage: 4 lasses leaping: Mellow-drama: Chinese New Year show: Flamenco! Very …

Lens-Artists Challenge #281 – Favorite Images of 2023

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Tina.] Favorites of 2023? Favorites of MY photos, I presume. Otherwise I would republish all of YOUR photos, because they are always superb. They are my REAL favorites. Color. I like color. Bright color. Obviously, I like rocks. And mountains. They are great friends. With all …

Lens-Artists Challenge #280 – Last Chance Pt. 2

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Tina.] "Just one more thing…” The Truman Presidential Library: Replica of Truman’s Oval Office: Thomas Hart Benton mural at the original entrance to the Truman Library: Alien being randomly encountered on Christmas Day, or perhaps a young boy with a new bike helmet, which might be …

Lens-Artists Challenge #280 – Last Chance

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Tina.] "Last danceLast chance for loveYes, it's my last chanceFor romance tonight" --Donna Summer Last chance is the last dance this year. Romance the blog. This one hasn't been posted, I just took it last night. The grand finale at the local Christmas show, Home for …

Lens-Artists Challenge #279 – Magical Pt. 2

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Leya.] With a colorful splash, Aliens have invaded Planet Urrrth: Their spaceships litter a nearby field: They've planted a tree upside down, as if an invasion wasn't enough: Alien seed pods await the body snatchers: Oh... uhhh... nevermind... ignore all that. It's just the annual Christmas …

Lens-Artists Challenge #279 – Magical

[The Lens Artists Challenge is hosted this week by Leya.] It's that time of year in the Christian Christmas world. Here are some magical nods to the holidays, including Arbor Ornamenti reminders of recent and not-so-recent visits here and there, and the chainsaw massacre of a block of ice into a wildlife sculpture: Joyeux Noel, …