Tag Archives: Lens Artists Challenge

Looking Down at the Beach.

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The first fish looks sculpted from sand but was actually a real dead fish that had been beached, coated by sand and somewhat ossified. All first 5 photos taken in a 24 hour period on the beach in front of our beach rental in La Manzanilla. As for the apple, 2 mornings before,  I had written a poem about an apple on my blog, and searched for a photo in my photo file. Finally found one and posted it,  then came out  to the beach and discovered this apple lodged under the bottom of my beach chair. I needed a photo. Nature provided!

For Lens Artists Challenge; Taken from Above.

Planted Hopes, for Lens Artist Challenge #331, Jan 11, 2025

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In a way, plants have built the world as we know it by helping to break apart the stone and restoring life. Here are some examples from my property. Click on photos to enlarge and to read the stories of these resilient little plants.

This kalanchoe was not content to stay at home. It just keeps exploring.
I tell people not to pull this resilient little plant because I admire its pluck, but when they remove it anyway, it just grows back!
This little cactus insists on spreading its roots in my roof tiles.

 

For Lens Artists Challenge.    the prompt is resilience.

Favorite Photos of 2024 for Lens Artists Challenge #330

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Mexico
Yolanda, do you know where my driving glasses are?
Bad haircut
Houston Airport
Moon-shaped rock and frog made out of sap from a rubber tree.

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For the Lens Artists Challenge #330

For Lens Artist Challenge “This Made Me Smile!”

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Click on photos to enlarge and read captions!

Being silly in Singapore–Tiger Balm Gardens–1968
Everyone needs a friend to be silly with.
Aunt Stella being silly at a family picinic. I was imitating her!

For Lens Artist Challenge 326

for Lens Artists Challenge 435: Silence

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For Lens Artists Challenge.

“There is a Crack in Everything” for Lens Artists Challenge

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Never add water to a clay jar filled with beans!!!
A broken jar of fingernail polish
Broken thoughts
broken candle holder.
Cracks in inner walls
As months passed, the cracks widened.

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For the Lens Artists Challenge. 322

Wine Glasses, for Lens Artists Challenge 315, Sept 8, 2024

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For the Lens Artists Challenge, we are to photograph a common object.

For Lens Artists Challenge #313: Cool Colors

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Golden Dewdrop

 

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To Scale, for Lens Artists Challenge #312

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Hard to judge the size of this beast
until you have something to compare it to.

For Lens-Artists Challenge #312: A Sense of Scale

Balconies (Sort of) for Lens Artists Challenge

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This is the kissing alley in Guanajuato.. These two balconies were so close that lovers could lean across for a rendezvous. Legend says that a father killed his own daughter when he discovered she’d been meeting a young man below her in the social order from the balcony where you see the girl in this photo.

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I must say that it was almost impossible for me to find photos with balconies. It seems they are not as common in the U.S. and Mexico as they are in Europe. That said, with the exception of the first photo which depicts the most famous balconies in Guanauato, I must admit these are probably all small second floor patios rather than balconies. Best I could do. I tried!! As for the Kissing Alley photo, Forgottenman found THIS link to a poem I wrote about it years ago and on that blog is also a link to the true story of the balcony and alley. 

For Lens Artists #309, Balconies