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Shrine to the Vanishing Photo Store (Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge 39)

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When my camera conked out in Wyoming, I stopped at Best Buy to buy a new one, then realized I needed a spare battery.  Thinking it would be cheaper on the internet, I decided to wait, but I quickly learned the battery for this very new model was not available online. Researching camera stores on Google, I discovered  that one of only two camera stores remaining in Wyoming was in Casper, which we were due to travel through on our route to Cheyenne.  When we found it, there were three members of the military being served so as I wandered the shop–basically one long counter, I found this retablo, I had to photograph it. How better to worship at the shrine of photography?

When it was finally my turn, I asked why there were so few camera stores in Wyoming and received an answer I should have guessed.  The internet and large chain stores such as Best Buys and Costco had made dedicated camera stores obsolete.  I was very grateful to have found this one. I was also pleased to find that these rechargeable batteries last at least 5 times longer than the batteries in my old camera.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/27/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2015-week-39/

Sounds of Mexico!!!Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Hearing

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http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/15/cees-fun-foto-challenge-sense-of-hearing/

Los Colores de México: Cee’s Sense of Seeing Challenge

Los Colores de México
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http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/01/cees-fun-foto-challenge-sense-of-seeing/

Habits

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This is one of my all-time favorite photos, taken at the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico City.  I’ve been waiting for the proper chance to use it for a loooooong time.  Now, finally, the perfect prompt!  I love the one young nun turning around to look behind her–the rest blithely marching along–seemingly straight into that wall!

For more habits, go here:  http://ceenphotography.com/2015/08/25/cees-fun-foto-challenge-habits/

Bright Green!!!! Cee’s fun foto Challenge 7/3/2015

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More Than 5 Items–Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge,

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The largest head is a portion of a larger sculpture that blew apart in the wood-fired kiln of my favorite pottery studio.  The tall sculpture and plate are also by the same artists.  The bowls are pre columbian, The glazed vase in back contemporary Colombian. The Frida/doe sculpture in front is a piece I bought unpainted from a Michoacan artist. I added the thorns.  Its fragile antlers and legs have been broken off so many times as Yolanda dusted them that after my last repair job,  I finally put it up too high for her to reach.IMG_1328As I pulled into the upwardly inclined cobblestone road that leads up to my house, this herd of sheep came charging across the road.  Luckily, my camera was close at hand.  They streamed onto a vacant lot and as the rest grazed, one with illusions of grandeur sought out the highest hillock to become king of his own small mount.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/07/07/cees-fun-foto-challenge-more-than-5-items-2/

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Close-ups #2

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http://ceenphotography.com/2015/04/14/cees-fun-foto-challenge-close-ups/

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Close Ups

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I was going for a painterly effect in working with this photo of my dog, Diego.  This is a different shot from the one I did a Warhol technique with a few days ago.  The canvas effect is because the photo was taken through a screen door.  Wish I could paint this well, but alas, everything was accomplished via iPhoto!
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/04/14/cees-fun-foto-challenge-close-ups/

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Churches–Jocotepec Church


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The Jocotepec, Jalisco, church is beautifully constructed of irregularly-shaped stone with smaller stones laid into the grout.  The base of each of the huge palm trees in the courtyard is surrounded by a huge metal or clay pot handcrafted by local artisans.  Although I live in the municipality of Jocotepec, my village is actually the smaller pueblo of San Juan Cosala.

 

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/04/07/cees-fun-foto-challenge-churches-or-any-religious-building-2/

Catching People Unaware

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From the hilarity of a hole in the sock of a toe to various pensive moods, I think catching people unaware is the best way to capture a mood.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/03/10/cees-fun-foto-challenge-catching-people-unaware/