Lens-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.

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Lens-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.

A leading lines image where I’ve used the fisherman’s net, he’s repairing, to lead the viewers eyes, from left hand side in to the subject.
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Lens-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.

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Lens-Artists Challenge #343 – Seen on my Last Outing

The High Street, Stanton.

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.

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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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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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