Lens-Artists Challenge #372 – Ephemeral

Tina has set this weeks Lens Artist Challenge and has helped by giving us the dictionary’s short and simple definition of the word ephemeral – “lasting for a very short time“. Her original challenge post can be found here. Ephemeral is not a word I was familiar with until now.

I think this Easter Lily Cactus plant, epitomises the word ‘ephemeral’. We waited five years for our cactus to flower. When it did we had this fantastic display. Sadly the flowers faded after twelve hours and a day later they had gone completely!
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Lens-Artists Challenge #371 – Street Details

I’m always drawn to these old scooters. Despite how this looks the scooter was still being used on a daily basis around the Greek island of Rhodes.

Ritva hosts this weeks challenge. You can find her original challenge post here – Lens-Artists Challenge #371 – Street Details

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Lens-Artists Challenge – #370: Ancient

It’s Sofia’s turn to host this weeks Challenge, and her theme is ‘Ancient‘. Ironically we were on holiday in Rhodes, on Saturday, when the challenge was set and I can’t think of too many other places more associated with ‘Ancient’ than Greece.

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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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