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Lens-Artists Challenge #351 – Books
Ritva has set this weeks challenge and has asked for images of any kind of books that inspire a love for reading. Ritva’s challenge post is here.

We’re on holiday in Rhodes, Greece this week so I don’t have access to my images, except for a few stored on my iPad. The best I could do, at short notice, was to pop in to a local Greek Orthodox Church, near our hotel, this morning and grab this. It certainly wouldn’t make for light reading but it is a book! Hopefully I can do better next week.
Lens Artists Challenge#350: Zooming
This week Anne’s challenge is Zooming. She describes Zooming as part of the Intentional Camera Movement family, but instead of moving the camera, you are just moving the lens back and forth. Here’s a link to her challenge post.
Continue readingLens-Artists Challenge #349-The First Thing I thought Of..
This week Tina invites us to post some humorous captions with our images. Her original challenge post is here. So without further ado here’s a few images and captions from me….
Continue readingLens-artists Challenge #347 – Break the Rules!
Ritva hosts this weeks challenge and invites us to post images that break the traditional rules of photography. Like Ritva I’ve struggled to find examples. I predominantly shoot images for stock so I’m always shooting on thirds with copy space and headings in mind. I have found a few images, shown below, and I’ve captioned them with why I think they break the rules. Here’s a link to Ritva’s challenge post.
Continue readingLast on the Card – April 2025

A new WordPress Challenge for me. Posting the last image I took in April 2025. Here’s a link to the original challenge page
We’re on holiday in Lanzarote so this hasn’t been through Photoshop. It was the last pic I took yesterday. I fell over the rocks after taking this and cut my leg and hand. The camera was ok though 🙂
All images: ©Stephen Hyde 2007-2025 – All rights reserved
Lens-Artists #346 – Cinematic

This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is presented by Sofia, and it’s Cinematic. I’m a bit rushed posting this as we’re travelling to Lanzarote later today but, having missed last weeks challenge, I didn’t want another to pass me by.
Continue readingLENS ARTISTS CHALLENGE#344: ABANDONED
The Bay of Abandoned Hotels

This week our Lens Artists Challenge host is Anne. The theme is Abandoned
The Bay of Abandoned Hotels is located at Župa Bay. Kupari, Croatia, about twenty minutes along the coast from Dubrovnik. Kupari’s Župa Bay is an old resort of five large hotels that were constructed for the former Yugoslav Peoples Army in the early 1960’s. The hotels were attacked and badly damaged during the Yugoslav Wars in the early 1990’s and then abandoned.
Continue readingLens-Artists Challenge #343 – Seen on my Last Outing

This weeks challenge is set by Ann- Christine and she challenges us to upload images from our last outing with the camera. For me that was last Tuesday when we drove to the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK for a hike.
Continue readingLens-Artists Challenge for #342 – It’s a wild life

This week Egidio challenges to It’s a wild life. I’m out of my comfort zone here as I don’t photograph much wildlife or many landscapes. I’ve search the archives and come up with a few wild bird shots and a couple of wild flowers.
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