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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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 #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….

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Lens-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.

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