Author: Joanne
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One Four Challenge: Autumn Scene – Variation 1
It’s time to begin a new series of images in the One Four Challenge. As a reminder, in the One Four Challenge, we select an image and then develop four new variations, or edits, in successive weeks. For those of you who are interested in what the One Four Challenge is, you can find out…
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Flower of the Week – Dahlia
I’ve posted macro photographs of dahlias before, but I’m not sure if I’ve posted this one. Dahlias are among the most dramatic, showy blooms in the garden. And Dahlia flowers exhibit such a great variety. We learn from Wikipedia… “Dahlias were known only to the Aztecs and other southern North American peoples until the Spanish conquest, after…
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Monday Monochrome – Teahouse and Tree
For this week’s Monday Monochrome, we have this tree growing right up alongside a Japanese teahouse. The teahouse has been featured here before. Here, it’s just a sliding panel door of the teahouse. The tree is remarkable not just for its size but for growing so close to the teahouse. The tree and teahouse are…
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Lens Artists #367 – Everyone Should See This
This is Joanne, from Joanne Mason Photography, and I’m honored to be your guest host this week. This is Lens Artists Challenge #367: Everyone Should See This. Often times we see something that inspires us. We think – “Oh! I wish others could see this!” It might be a place, a thing, people maybe, that…
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One Four Challenge – Wildflowers Week 4
We come to the final week of the current series in “Fun with Variations,” also known as the One Four Challenge. As a reminder, in the One Four Challenge, we select an image, then develop new edits – new interpretations of the original – over four successive weeks. (For more information about the One Four,…
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Flower of the Week – Floral Arrangement
This week, I offer this floral arrangement for your pleasure. This is a simple supermarket mixed flowers bouquet. I shot this when I was learning indoor photography with studio lighting.
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Monday Monochrome – Queen Anne’s Lace
This week’s Monday Monochrome is this image of Queen Anne’s Lace blooms. Queen Anne’s Lace is the wild ancestor of the cultivated carrot and is found in meadows, roadsides, and waste places. While considered a weed in many areas, it serves as a host plant for the Black Swallowtail butterfly and attracts beneficial insects. (Can you spot…
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One Four Challenge – Wildflowers Week 3
This is week 3 of the current series in the One Four. Visit this page for more information on how the One Four works. Also, be sure to check out Leanne Cole’s pages. This week follows from last week’s near-abstract image. This week it’s a full-on abstract. Starting with the Week 2 image, I first…
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Flower of the Week – Mountain Rose
This rose is Rosa pendulina, also known as Mountain Rose and also Alpine Rose. The rose originates in alpine regions – and so exhibits resilience in extreme conditions – but it prefers to grow in temperate sub-alpine regions and is thus found in climes all over the world. Not only does this rose attract bees…
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Monday Monochrome – Hopi Lands, Arizona
The image above (and left) depicts the part of Arizona that belongs to the Hopi Reservation. The (very straight) road in the image comes up from Winslow, Arizona, probably known by most from the Eagles song. The US government inexplicably set the Hopi reservation right in the middle of the Navajo reservation, an action that…