Category: Lens-Artists Challenge
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Lens Artists Challenge #390: Black and White Tonalities
This is my response to Egidio’s challenge, #390, “Color in Black and White.” Thanks to Egidio for a great theme and challenge. If I can be permitted, I’m changing the title of Egidio’s challenge, slightly, and I want to approach this little differently. Egidio posits that the tonalities in a black and white image immediately…
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Lens-Artists Challenge #389 – Time to Relax
For this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge, Ann asks us to consider how we relax when it’s time to unwind. What is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare?– W.H.Davies For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.– Wendell Berry There is no question that…
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Lens Artists Challenge #376 – Wings
This week is Beth’s turn to challenge us, and she has chosen an interesting theme – Wings. Regarding the feature image above, Beth did say we could do “art work featuring fantasy beings like dragons and fairies” and angels. Note that the owl also has wings. The image was generated by AI; I used both…
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Lens Artists Challenge #375 – Finding the Mysterious
Welcome back to Patti, who presents this week’s challenge: Finding the Mysterious. Well, “Mysterious” is right up my alley. I love this theme and love to create images that conjure the mysterious. The feature image above and left is appropriately named, the Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, where the artist Georgia O’Keeffe made her home.…
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Lens-Artists Challenge #373: Looking Back at LAC #31: Landscapes
This week’s Lens Artists Challenger is from Egidio, who designatedf this week as Lens-Artists Challenge #373: Looking Back at LAC #31: Landscapes. It’s a great challenge but it presents some difficulties for me because I’ve already posted so many landscapes. I;m addicted to landscapes which all possess a mystical property for me. Just to be…
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Lens Artists Challenge #372 – Ephemeral
Tina (Travels and Trifles) challenges us this week to post photographs depicting ephemera. I can’t do better than the image above. When we see a spectacular sky such as this (photographed in Sydney, Australia), how long have we got to enjoy it? 10 minutes? A half-hour? An hour? No, it’s certainly gone in an hour,…
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Lens Artists Challenge #370 – Ancient
The Lens-Artists Challenge this week is by Sofia, who asks us to present images depicting “anything that has had an existence of many years. It can be ancient buildings or places, or unchangeable landscapes. It can also be traditions, whose origins are lost in time, or obsolete objects of everyday life.” This is a great…
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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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Lens Artists Challenge #365 – Longing
This week’s Lens Artists Challenge comes to us from Egidio, who sets the challenge theme: Longing. Egidio suggests a Portuguese word as a kind of synonym for “longing”: saudade. Egidio quotes Wikipedia for a definition: an emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent someone or something. It is a…
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Lens Artists Challenge #364 – Quiet Moments
Ritva’s challenge this week is “Quiet Moments.” We all need moments of quiet reflection, meditation. For me, this always means nature. As in the above featured image. (Greenwich’s Bruce Park in the Spring). What could be more tranquil than sitting under such glorious spring colors at the side of a quiet lake? Tranquility is important.…
