Lately I seem to keep running into accidental abstracts of drips. It started in late January, when I decided to try using my first smart phone for a photo shoot of the Chinese New Year parade. On the way I … Continue reading Accidental Abstracts of Drips
Citrusy pink lemonade collage. More of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pink Lemonade Continue reading Pink Lemonade
In April a friend of mine studying photography had an assignment in her first-year course to take a magazine-type portrait of someone at work, using two types of light, available light and strobe-flash. My messy studio and I were her … Continue reading Don’t Wear White
Moving into an apartment means I no longer have a garden, but lucky me, the city has planted a shade garden just outside the back door. Shade gardens aren’t as breath-taking as ones basking in the sunshine, but if you … Continue reading Walk 50 Steps or Less and Take a Photo
Nature has a thing for pink and green in the plant world… Dieffenbachia in Puerto Vallarta with pink and green markings. Pink waterlilies in a pond at Puerto Vallarta Botanical Garden, Mexico. Soft green Bromeliad with pink thorns and markings. … Continue reading Pink and Green in the Plant World
Whether it’s weathered rust or brand new, corrugated metal has long been one of my favourite muses. Granville Island in Vancouver, Canada, and Penang in Malaysia are the best sources of this lovely material. Abstract blue and red corrugated metal … Continue reading Straight Lines in the Form of Corrugated Metal
After uprooting my newly planted herbs and flinging them on the deck, this little demon crow has been burying peanuts in my plant pots. I have put wire cages on the plants so that he can’t get at them and … Continue reading Crows and Ravens, Muses & Sketches
The Platanus genus is a small group of ancient tree species, commonly called Plane Trees or Sycamores, dating back to the Paleocene period, 66 to 56 million years ago. The bark of the Plane Tree has a distinctive pattern that … Continue reading Studies on the ‘Camouflage’ Bark of the Plane Tree
This Challenge is about linking images not only to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge but to other people who willingly put themselves to the huge amount of work in hosting challenges. First a spectacular Bird of Paradise in flower for Cee’s … Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Double Dipping
When I typed ‘window’ in my Finder I got a rather oddball collection and realized that ‘window’ comes with a variety of interpretations. Here are a few from the last couple of months, all in Vancouver as I haven’t gone … Continue reading Windows from the last few months
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