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Lens-Artists Challenge #387—Shadowed

John hosts this weeks challenge and asks us to ‘consider how shadows shape your photos’. You can read his original challenge post here. I’ve trawled the archives and found a few of my images that hopefully fit the brief. I’ve tried to include pics that show a distinct contrast between light and shadow. Thank you…

Lens-Artists #386: The Power of Juxtaposition

Patti sets this weeks Lens-Artist Challenge – The power of juxtaposition. Her original challenge post can be found here. I’m glad Patti included a definition of juxtaposition because I had no idea what the term meant. My initial thoughts were ‘I do this a lot’ but when I went looking through my images I realised…

Lens-Artists Challenge#385 – Unusual Crop

Ritva hosts this weeks Lens-Artist Challenge and has asked us to provide image examples of unusual or extreme cropping – ‘This week, we encourage you to deliberately defy traditional framing conventions.’ Ritvas original challenge post can he found here. I was initially thrown by the challenge because I associate cropping with post image production which,…


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Lens-Artists Challenge #383 – Looking Back to #174 – Shapes and Designs

Tina hosts this weeks ‘looking back’ challenge – Shapes and Designs. You can read her original challenge post here As per Tina’s blog it didn’t take me long to find some examples when I dived into my photo archives. So, I’ve tried not to use too many examples that I’ve used for previous challenges. I’ve…

International Lego Day – 28/01/26

Yesterday, 28th January, was ‘International Lego Day’. I didn’t know, or realise, this until late in the day when I saw a related Lego post on Flickr. So, although I started writing my article yesterday I’m a day late posting as I didn’t have my Lego images available to upload. I do enjoy building with…

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #382 – Rejected

Egidio has set this weeks challenge. He asks us to find a few rejected photos. Images that didn’t make the cut for some reason and see if we could fix them using photo editing software. You can find Egidio’s original post here. The challenge theme, has once again, worked out well for me. I’m currently…