Month: October 2018

One Word Sunday Challenge: Blue 10/14/18

Can’t really resist this one as I live among as much blue as I can….slightly obsessively, my friends and family might tell you.

It is more than a favorite color. Blue truly affects me, inspires me, moves me to action.

I blame this on childhood.

But for today…Here’s an accidental shot I love, taken with new phone while experimenting with the close up feature. And on the right, what I wrote for a post on Altered Books, my theme being Blue.

I’ve posted on Blue so many times, I will put a short list at the bottom of this post.

Sometimes I tell myself I’m photographing birds or clouds or trees, but it was undoubtedly the Blue that got my attention in the first place.

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By the way, we lie about the rain in the Northwest, to keep the crowds from moving here for the above Blue skies.

Can you guess my favorite flower?

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I will snap a shot of anything Blue that catches my eye! (Can you guess what this is?)

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Even my aging feet in their new Blue sandals will make me grab the camera.

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But the Blue that has the most control over me…seriously, I am helpless around this…are my grandson’s eyes!!

Here are the promised “other posts”. I really do hope you enjoy them. It is just a handful of ones containing BLUE!

https://chosenperspectives.com/category/altered-books/

Earth for WPC 4/18/17

WordlessWednesday 2 5/31/17

Chosen Perspectives on Rare for WPC

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There! That should keep you busy for a while!!

I sure would love to hear what you think.

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October Photo a Day Challenge-10/15/18 Autumn Colors

I published some of these for another challenge already but I am so completely in awe of a particular representation of this theme. It’s close to my house and I look forward to seeing it each year.

I have been calling this the “Wonder Wall”. I drive by other walls like this in my travels around Seattle and Bellevue (Washington), covered with color, but nothing like this one. Most are along the freeways. Here, I park and can walk by, slowly, taking close-up shots. I really love it.

 

(These are also my first attempts at short videos so I’d appreciate it if you let me know if they work! Turn down your volume and imagine tweeting birds because unfortunately the best light is during rush-hour traffic!)

Just to give you an idea of how many photo ops there are at this wall, these I’m posting today are all different from the ones I already posted on the Lens Artist’s Challenge-Changing/Changeable.

You can see that one here:

Lens Artists Photo Challenge 10/14/18 Changing/Changeable

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October photo a day challenge

Lens Artists Photo Challenge 10/14/18 Changing/Changeable

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #15: Changing and/or Changeable

Wow, this is one of my favorite photography challenges but this week, I am in awe, and pretty much left in the dust of some true artists! Not only are these entries beautiful pictures, but the knowledge and talent to change a photo to a work of art is really apparent here.

I like the following photos, mostly taken on walks in my neighborhood, but I do not know how to “change” them.

I hope you enjoy them anyway.

What an amazing time of year in the Great Northwest!

I’ll start with what I call the Wonder Wall. I wait for it to change like this every year.

 

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And then some plants, bushes and trees on my street, none of which I can name, but love to see as they change each year.

These first 3 are what I call Autumn Berries. No idea what they actually are…

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This one looks like CANDY to me. Yum!

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And I love this yellow and green one. The leaves don’t ever fall off, just change color, and then change back in the Spring.

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Some more……..

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Always so sad to see the last apples of the year.

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Can one of the Pros please tell me why the photo I see on my computer, before transferring to my WordPress post, is sometimes so much more crisp, clear and bright???

Oh, and it changes the size also, like only posts a portion of my shot?

 

A Photo a Week: Whimsical 10/13/18

I love Nancy Merrill’s photography. If you have never visited her site, she’s quite talented.

https://www.nancymerrillphotography.org/

Of course, I adore her subject matter.

She has been sponsoring this Photo a Week challenge and I am inspired by her chosen topics. This week it is “Whimsical”.

My minds reels, but here are a few of mine I thought fit the challenge. (Of course, I may be mixing up the terms Whimsical and Smart Ass…)

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I just crack myself up sometimes….

 

 

A Photo a Week Challenge: Whimsical

Nancy Merrill’s Photo a Week Challenge 10/11/18 Unusual Clouds

A Photo a Week Challenge: Unusual Clouds

 

I wish I had had my real camera for these shots. My phone barely captured the beauty of these colors…

 

 

While I watched the following sunset, I kept expecting a BOOMING voice from the heavens, telling me to straighten up, or else!

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This is a Sun Dog that WordPress always prints too big on my page… But it was beautiful. Many cars were stopped along the I-90 freeway, clicking away.

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I thought this sky was proof there is an artist up there, painting cloud pictures every day!

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My adopted Dad, who was an Air Force fighter pilot in several wars, used to tell me about the “hole in the sky (clouds)” pilots would watch for, presumably for the quick getaway?

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This was NOT a meteor crashing or alien ship landing…at least, I don’t think it was….

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October Photo a Day Challenge–10/12/18–Start with T

October photo a day challenge

As usual, I had a hard time choosing just one photo. So I turned it into a game!

Here are several pictures representing “Start with T”. See if you can match them up with these words.

Terrifying

Turkey

Tall

Tiered

Tub

Taller

Tiny

Tacky

Tallest

Torrential

 

 

 

 

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Have fun and I’d love comments on this one!!

October Photo a Day Challenge–10/11/18 Leaves

 

 

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I loved a frosted leaf!
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trying to save one of my baby bugs…

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carried in on shoes forbidden on my white rug!

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On a walk once, I noticed these leaves above for blocks and blocks. What struck me was that both brown and green leaves were falling off, but the brown ones landed “face down”, while the green ones, with no exceptions, landed “face up.

 

 

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October photo a day challenge