Lens-Artists Challenge #394—History Through the Lens

A sculpture of George Loveless, leader of the Tolpuddle Martyrs staring at the sky in despair.

John hosts this weeks challenge. His original challenge post can be found here – Lens-Artists Challenge #394—History Through the Lens.

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Lens-Artists Challenge #392: Framing Your Shots: Exploring the Foreground, Middle Ground, and Background

This is a view across to San Gimignano, Tuscany Italy from our accommodation. I’ve used the vineyard adjoining our property for some foreground interest. The middle ground is the view across the valley, filled with olive groves and more vineyards. The focal point is the background, wonderful San Gimignano.
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Lens-Artists Challenge #391 – Phone Photography

Tina hosts this weeks Lens-Artist Challenge and asks us to post images taken using a phone camera. Her original challenge post can be found here – Lens-Artists Challenge #391 – Phone Photography

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Lens-Artists Challenge #390: Colour in Black and White

A Flamingo. It’s strange converting this because it really is all about the colour with these wonderful birds. That said I like it in monochrome.

Egidio hosts this weeks challenge and, if I have this right, he would like us to post black and white images that contain a subject, that we know so well, we can replace the missing colour. His original challenge post is here.

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Lens-Artists Challenge #389 – Time To Relax

Dogs have no trouble relaxing most of the time. My dog is the really lazy hound in the background. The dog in the foreground is her brother, who belongs to my sister.

Anne hosts this weeks challenge which is themed on ‘Time to relax’. My personal routines for relaxing revolve around photography, walking and visiting new places. Nothing particularly special to share with you all so I thought I’d post a few images that fit the theme. You can view Annes original post here.

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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 I don’t !

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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.

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