Lens-Artists Challenge #339: Life’s Changes

A Mary Berry Victoria Sponge. I’ve never been disappointed with any of her recipes.

This week our Lens Artists Challenge host is Anne. The challenge is Life Changes. A chance to highlight something that has enriched or changed your life. My choice would be ‘Baking’, which ties in nicely with my photography because, for me, the two are closely linked.

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Lens-Artists Challenge #338 – Pick a Word – Smile

Arlyn, pictured above, was working in this artisan bakery in Puerto Banus, Andalucia, Spain. We’re now contacts on Instagram and she travels a lot herself these days.

John has set the challenge this week with – “Pick a Word.” You must choose a word that fits your topic and select three or four appropriate photos to share.

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Thursday Doors – Beach Huts

Colourful beach hut doors in Shanklin, IOW.

I’ve chosen some Beach hut images for this weeks ‘Dan’s Thursday Doors’. I’m always drawn to them when we find ourselves near the beach. These were nice because they were all individually painted by the beach hut owners. We found them at Shanklin on The Isle of Wight, UK.

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Monochrome Madness – The Queen’s House, London

Fujifilm X-Pro 2, Fujifilm XF18-55mm F2.8-4 – 1/125s F8

No theme this week so here’s a conversion I tried last week and was pleased with. It was taken in The Queen’s House, Greenwich, London just over a year ago. It’s a window at the front of the house looking out towards The Old Royal Navel College and beyond that, Canary Wharf.

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Lens-Artists Challenge #337 – Bold

This week Sofia challenges us to be Bold. Her original challenge post is here. I’ve chosen to use a few pictures based on bold colours, but even bolder design.

Condor Airlines – Red stripes represents ‘Passion’.

These ‘Where’s Wally’ planes are operated by German air carrier Condor. Some of their planes are painted in these simple but striking candy-coloured bold stripes, inspired by “parasols, bath towels and beach chairs.”

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Thursday Doors – The Old Coxswain’s Cottage

This is my entry for this weeks ‘Dan’s Thursday Doors’. It’s the front door to ‘The Old Coxswain’s Cottage’ in Weymouth, Dorset, UK. Its quite an impressive door with a port hole and anchor knocker. I tried looking up some information on the building but couldn’t find very much, other than its a Grade II listed building. We spotted it whilst we were wandering around the harbour in Weymouth a couple of years ago.

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Monochrome Madness #28 – Hands

This weeks theme is from the blog Stupidity Hole and he wants us to submit pictures of HANDS. So here are a few pics from me. I’ve processed them with an old version of Silver Efex which I’ve hardly ever used. I’ll be spending some time exploring it now as I like the results I’ve been able to achieve with it.

A potter busy working in his workshop. We stumbled across him on a holiday in Italy. the guy was happy for me to take a few snaps when I asked. It was good for business, we left with some pottery.
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Thursday Doors – The Stage Door

This is quite an old pic. I took this in 2013 on a visit to the NJ Shore

This is my entry for this weeks ‘Dan’s Thursday Doors’. It’s a nondescript door that, on its own, doesn’t warrant a second look but lots of famous musicians have walked through this stage entrance.

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Monochrome Madness

Fresh sourdough bread, given to us by our neighbour (she’s a superb and generous baker). I think it works well as a BW conversion. I used the Gradient Map process for this image, outlined below.

Last weekend I submitted a few images for the weekly Lens-Artist Challenge, Colour vs Black and White. I rarely convert my images to BW as I’m mostly shooting for stock. I leave it to others to convert my images if they want a BW version. They can’t convert it the other way.

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