Lens-Artists Challenge #368—Looking Back to Lens-Artists Challenge # 106: Autumn

Autumn is this weeks Lens-Artists ‘Looking Back’ Challenge, set by John. John’s original challenge post is here.

Clustered Bonnet Fungi. A cluster of sulphur tuft mushrooms growing in a damp wet tree hollow.

I don’t have that many Autumn tree or colour images that I could use in this post but what I do have is plenty of Autumn fungi shots so I’ve decided to concentrate on those for my challenge post.

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Lens Artists #367 – Everyone Should See This

Joanne is this weeks host. Her challenge post is here. I’ve decided to concentrate my article on a place I think is special and that’s Washington DC, USA. In truth I could have featured any number of places but Washington is somewhere special for us.

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Travel – Rethymno, Crete, Greece

The lighthouse at the entrance to the historic Venetian harbour, Rethymon

This was our first visit to Crete. We chose to stay in Rethymno as we like basing ourselves within walking distance of larger towns that we can explore on foot. We booked a package deal through TUI for a half board stay at the Aquila Porto Rethymnon Hotel and flew into Chania airport from Birmingham, UK.

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Photography – Microsoft Co Pilot, Creating Cartoons

It’s funny, how looking around WordPress blogs can take you off in a totally different direction to the one you initially started out on. This happened to me yesterday when I began some holiday research for Rethymno, Crete, Greece.

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Photography – Photoshop Actions

Following this weeks Lens-Artist Challenge on WP I was scrolling through some of the challenge posts. One of these was from /ˈsnæp.ʃɒt/. On Keith’s blog (it’s well worth spending some time there) I found a reference to taking pictures with a Game Boy console using a Game Boy Camera.

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