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.
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Lens-Artists Challenge #362: Sports, Sporting Events and Fun Games
Beth (of Wandering Dawgs) has chosen Sports, Sporting Events, and Fun Games as this weeks Lens-Artist Challenge. Check out her post and photos. Here’s my take on this weeks challenge.
Continue readingLens-Artists Challenge #361- Looking Back to #20: Doors
Sofia hosts this weeks ‘looking back’ challenge and invites us to post pictures of doors and doorways. Here original Lens-Artist Challenge post can be found here. I’m going to repost a few images here that I’ve used in older door challenge posts. There’s a few new images but apologies if some of you have seen these before.
Continue readingLens-Artists Challenge #360 – Found at the Fair/ Market
Ann-Christine has set this weeks Lens-Artist Challenge and has asked us to post images related to markets. Her original challenge post can be found here.
Continue readingLens-Artists Challenge #359 – Tools of Photo Composition
This week John invites us to explore some of photography’s compositional elements – such as colour, lines and patterns. Here’s a link to John’s original post.

Lens-Artists Challenge #358 – Live and Learn
Tina hosts this week challenge (here’s a link to Tina’s original post) with this brief – ‘Show me some of the things you’ve learned about photography or any subject you choose.’ That throws me straight in to this image which I took last week….
Continue readingLens-Artists Challenge #356 – Quiet Hours
SH is the challenge host this week. He has chosen the theme – ‘Quiet Hours’ – and how we can show these hours in pictures. When I first read SH’s original challenge post I immediately thought dawn, dusk night time etc. However, I’ve since come around to looking at this in a different way, working out how I use quiet hours to benefit me, especially as a stock photographer.
Continue readingLens Artist Challenge #354: Reflections
Anne has set this weeks challenge and asks us to post images with reflections. Here’s a link to Annes original post. I’m a little short on reflection images other than bridal preparation shots (I have lots of those). I have been able to find a few though so here they are.
Continue readingLens Artists Photo Challenge #353 – Stormy
This weeks challenge is hosted by Beth aka ‘Wandering Dawgs’. From her initial post she says – ‘This week I’m challenging you to show us your stormy images. Think about stormy weather, stormy feelings, or maybe stormy situations.’ Here’s a link to her original challenge post.
Continue readingLens-Artists Challenge #352 – Mellow
Sofia has set this weeks Lens-Artist challenge and asks us to post images following a theme of mellow, calm and relaxing. Sofia’s original challenge post can be found here.

This weeks theme really is a challenge for my portfolio as conceptual photography isn’t something I’ve concentrated on in the past. The stock agency I sell with, Alamy, isn’t really that sort of place. A quick search through the Alamy database, using the word mellow, just brings back pages of images featuring branded items featuring the word mellow.
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