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Lens-Artists Challenge #399: Stuck in a Place

Egidio sets this weeks challenge. his original challenge post is here. To quote from Egidio’s post, these are the rules for the ‘Stuck in a Place’ challenge: This was always going to be a garden challenge for me. We’ve a busy week ahead as we’re flying out to Crete midweek, so time is tight. Having…

Lens-Artists Challenge #398 – Choose A Colour

This week Ritva has set the Lens-Artist Challenge with this brief – For this week’s Lens- Artists challenge , you are to select one color (excluding black and white). Share a maximum of 6 photos where your chosen color is the prominent hue, or alternatively, you may share one photo featuring each of the following captivating colors…

Lens Artist Challenge #397: Texture

Anne has set this weeks Lens Artist Challenge. Anne has asked us to show images where texture plays an integral part. Here original challenge post can be found here: Lens Artist Challenge #397: Texture The term texture is pretty self expanatory but I did Google the meaning of the word. Google AI responded with this:…


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Travel – A week in the Peak District, Staffordshire, UK

We’re just back from a week in the Peak District. An upland area in the midlands UK, not quite ‘the north’ but very close. We based ourselves near Leek in the south west corner of the district and stayed in an Air BnB property that was a converted dairy in a rural location. We’ve made…

Lens-Artists Challenge #394—History Through the Lens

John hosts this weeks challenge. His original challenge post can be found here – Lens-Artists Challenge #394—History Through the Lens. As quite often happens with the challenges, they coincide with real life. We happened to be visiting my in-laws in Bournemouth, UK this weekend. We all enjoy a good hike so yesterday they’d planned a…

Home – A New Deck

I’ve reached a crossroads with my blog. Originally I decided to keep my articles closely tied to my photography but I’ve found myself wanting to make it a more personal, almost journal like, place for me to record parts of our life as it chunters on. So here’s the story of a home renovation project.…