Tuesday evening I was lucky enough to be in northern Michigan watching the sun set. This is a closeup of the water as the sun sank below the horizon.
I couldn’t resist showing it to you.
Tag Archives: Photography
WordPress Photo Challenge: Close Up
Do you know what this is?
WordPress suggested this week we look around the house and find things that might make interesting photos up close.
I’ll let you guess what this is.
Meanwhile, stop at a few of my favorite submissions, showing bits of people’s lives up close, here, here and here.
Don’t miss this one either.
And look around your own home. I bet you find plenty of things that are more interesting up close than they were ever originally designed to be. I look forward to seeing them all!
Wordless Wednesday
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WordPress Photo Challenge: Symbol
Symbol: a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.
In some cultures a person visiting a loved one’s grave leaves a memento, sometimes a pebble, to show they’ve been by. To symbolize their love, their loss. I shot this at our small and historical local cemetery.
You can see other representations of the idea of symbol at the original post, or visit a few of my favorites here, here and here.
What symbols do you see in your own life? Want to share with us? Just post a photo and link to the original post.
It’s an interesting concept to try to capture visually. I look forward to seeing what you find.
Cee’s flower challenge
Check out Cee’s blog where she sports a beautiful sunflower and challenges us to show everyone a flower from our own yards.
Well, you’ve seen many of the flowers in my garden, but this one is interesting.
Will be bright red soon!
It’s a crocosmia. The foliage is green spiky leaves perhaps 3 or more feet tall which remind me of gladiola leaves. The flowers open up one by one from one end of this bud to the other. This one happens to be bright red, but I’ve seen them in other shades of red and orange. They are stunning.
It’s a perennial so it comes up year after year, and each year there are more. I’m going to have to move some of these to another spot, so if anyone who lives near would like a few for a corner of their own garden let me know! (Click the small photo to see more detail.)
Pretty
WordPress Photo Challenge: Door II
Another take on the WordPress photo challenge this week. These are doors at Fort Gratiot in Detroit. It was built in the 1840s and now is in disrepair but still fascinating. And beautiful in it’s own way.
Enjoy.
WordPress Photo Challenge: Door
Family Farm Barn Door
Windows and doors…some of my favorite things to photograph. I like this photo because it’s on the family farm, and because it shows the ingenuity of farmers who use what’s available to create hardware that works.
Look around. What doors do you take for granted that carry memories and beauty to you? Share them with us. Meanwhile, you can see the entries so far at the original post. Or see a few of my favorites (so far, it’s early, this challenge lasts until next Friday) here, here and here. Please take a moment and look at these, they are special.
I’m sure there will be more I like as the week goes on, and I might find another door or two of my own to share. We’ll see.
WordPress Photo Challenge: Muse II
Muse: a spirit or source that inspires an artist.
Family farms have always inspired me. Especially those that are in wide open spaces, surrounded by the crops they grow.
Early morning light on barn.
My mom’s family has farmed for four generations. I guess that’s where I get my appreciation for the beauty that is farmland.
Amber waves of grain.
Farms are always changing, as the grain ripens, the soybeans turn yellow, the corn puts out tassels.
Corn: knee high by the 4th of July.
Slow down, don’t speed through farm country the next time you’re there, take a moment to look. It’s where your food comes from.
And it’s beautiful.
Farm for sale.
WordPress Photo Challenge: Muse
This week’s photo challenge is to show something you photograph regularly, something that inspires you to take more photos. To show us muse.
Pretty clouds…and a sheltie.
For me it’s often the sky. Prior to retirement I had a window at work on the top floor and regularly posted ‘window weather’ photos taken on my phone of the clouds, rain, and sun streaming by.
Now that I’m not working I have to go a bit further to find that wide open sky. But it’s still one of my favorite things to photograph; it changes frequently, it can be beautiful or dramatic; sometimes both. I’m always watching the sky, early morning, midday, and late into the evening. You never know what you’ll see.
Oh. Yes there’s also the sheltie-girl Katie in this shot, another muse. I have a few thousand photos of her in her many different moods. Today, as you can see, she’s a very happy girl. Because she loves to run, and because she knows I have treats.
You can see other interpretations of ‘muse’ at the original post. Or if you like, check out a few of my favorites, here, here and here.
And don’t miss this one.
What’s your photographic muse? You have time to show us, just post a photo on your blog and link to the original post. I can’t wait to see!
Katie-girl.
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