This week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Bokeh, is run by Sofia Alves of PHOTOGRAPHIAS. To quote Sofia: The term Bokeh was first used to distinguish normal motion blur from the blur obtained when things are out of focus. It literally means … Continue reading Bokeh, Dancing Circles of Light
Abstract diptych of corrugated metal siding from Granville Island & fissured tree bark captured during my COVID winter when there was nothing else to take photos of. In my https://elizabatz.wordpress.com/2021/09/14/diptychs-of-natural-unnatural-2/ post I asked for feedback on which photos to turn … Continue reading Diptych: Corrugated Metal / Fissured Tree Bark
An oddball selection of outside art pieces I’ve noticed in the last two months on my photo walks in Vancouver… In a small Coal Harbour park someone added fresh flowers to this bronze statue of an old woman sitting on … Continue reading August & September 2021: Public Art in Vancouver
I used to love my 35mm wide angle lens – to me it seemed much closer to what I actually saw than the 50mm. Sunset at Long Beach on Vancouver Island (1974); scanned from slide. Then I discovered these wonderful … Continue reading Going Wide With Panoramas
Still playing with photo apps but it appears that some of my favourites are not being supported any longer, and others are expected to stop soon. White water lily in Holland run through the photo app Distressed FX. Ireland with the … Continue reading White Flowers in Photo Apps 2
Lately I have been playing around with some watery reflection images. Wavery forest reflection in a dark pool in the Pacific Spirit Park in Vancouver, Canada. For this challenge I decided to apply the Sumi-e brush stroke filter in Photoshop … Continue reading Different Versions of Watery Reflections
Even now in the 2020s the camera isn’t nearly as good at seeing things as your eye. On the left is how this building in Copenhagen looked to my eye, and on the right is how I saw the sky. … Continue reading Ways of Transforming the Sky in a Photo
Each season turns a new leaf in the book of the year. Spring. Summer. Fall. Winter. Christmas. More of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trees & Leaves. Continue reading Seasons Expressed in Leaves
January: Hellebore, although the first ones out are mostly greenish white with red-purple dots. Spring brings out an array of purple flowers! February: Crocus. March: In Wales these purple Rhododendrons are invasive, although they create a spectacular drifts of colour. The … Continue reading Purple Flowers Throughout the Year
A few blocks away from me is a Greenway converted from a disused rail corridor. There are community gardens all along the initial section, and this November I have been watching all the plants slowly fade into fall. This dying … Continue reading Found in the Neighbourhood: Sunflower Fading into Fall
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