LENS-ARTISTS CHALLENGE #363: Virtual Scavenger Hunt

This week Anne has set the Lens-Artists challenge. She’s asked us to match five to ten images, scavenged from our portfolios, to a list of themes she has provided. You can find Anne’s original post here.

Here are my scavenged images:

**Something with green eyes** – Well, One green eye!

**Some cool jewellery** (my wife had this made for her by a local Artisan Jeweller. She supplied the gold which was mostly rings she no longer wanted or had inherited and didn’t fit)

**Something with water in it** (that’s Sid, an African Pygmy Hedgehog, having a bath in our bathroom sink. We’re minding him this week whilst his mum and dad are on holiday)

Thank you Anne for hosting a great challenge.

24 thoughts on “LENS-ARTISTS CHALLENGE #363: Virtual Scavenger Hunt”

Steve, great collection of scavenged items! My favorite is that one-green-eyed cat!

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Steve Hyde on August 31, 2025 at 3:34 pm said:

Thank you John 🙂

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Oh my Stephen, these are superb! I’m going with the shoelaces, the camera and the bi-colored cat eyes but honestly any one of your images could be on a favorites list!

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Steve Hyde on August 31, 2025 at 3:34 pm said:

Thank you Tina

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Wonderful finds for this challenge! My favorite is something with a camera!

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Steve Hyde on August 31, 2025 at 3:33 pm said:

Thank you Beth 🙂

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Oh my Steve, what a collection! I love your wife’s jewelry, the cat with one green eye and the little hedgehog. Actually, I loved them all!

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Steve Hyde on August 31, 2025 at 6:43 pm said:

Thank you Anne 🙂

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- Anne Sandler on August 31, 2025 at 6:59 pm said:
  
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oh my goodness…that hedgehog! A great and creative collection, Steve. I especially love the shoelaces. Lots of work put into that.

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Steve Hyde on August 31, 2025 at 6:43 pm said:

Thank you Donna. Little Sid is going home tomorrow but I think he has another bath time scheduled in for the morning 🙂

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Wonderful gallery, Steve. The plane shadow and green robot are my favorites. Oh, add to that the hedgehog. What a cutie!

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Steve Hyde on September 1, 2025 at 7:15 am said:

Thank you Egidio 🙂

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Now that I’ve started thinking of stock photography I can see it cleary in your work, Steve. You are really good at it 😀

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Steve Hyde on September 2, 2025 at 4:22 pm said:

Thank you Sofia. Most of those images were shot with stock in mind. The cup with diffused green tea is a good example. It’s sort of on trend, uncluttered and with areas left for copy space. I’m confident of that selling at some stage. It would have done better on somewhere like Adobe stock but one sell on Alamy could equal more than twenty there. this thread here on the Alamy Forum will show you whats currently selling and the prices. A lot will be linked to current news stories

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- Sofia Alves on September 3, 2025 at 8:16 am said:
  
  Thank you, Steve, for the info. I’m currently just uploading to Adobe Stock, I’m testing the waters… 😀
- Steve Hyde on September 4, 2025 at 4:33 pm said:
  
  Excellent. Good for you. Don’t get dispirited if they reject some of your submission. I used to get lots of rejections with them. I don’t get any with Alamy. Good thing with Adobe is you should get sales coming through quicker than you would with Alamy. Let me know how you get on and good luck
- Sofia Alves on September 5, 2025 at 8:15 am said:
  
  Thank you so much, Steve for your encouragement. I’m expecting a lot of rejections, so anything that gets through is a win 😀

These are all great images, Steve! An excellent collection for Anne’s challenge. But who keeps a hedgehog pet?? I guess the cat is my favorite. Also liked the shoes.

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