A Photo a Week Challenge: Lights Lights and bells and Christmas trees — no holiday is more lit up than Christmas. We have light on the tractor in the driveway, the lights on the tree, and swag light on the window…. Read More ›
Nancy Merrill
FUNNY OR AT LEAST ODD SIGNS
A Photo a Week Challenge: Funny Signs
BOKEH – SOFTENING BACKGROUNDS
A Photo a Week Challenge: Bokeh Bokeh — a wonderful word whose origin is (I believe) Japanese but might be Korean — means the softening of backgrounds in portraits and macro photography. Some lenses are designed to do it, others are… Read More ›
FOCAL POINTS
A Photo a Week Challenge: Focal Point My eyes are not good at close focusing anymore. Even with a magnifying glass, I really can’t see a lot of small text, especially the labeling on medications. I’m sure the people who design… Read More ›
GATES AND FENCES – A PHOTO A WEEK CHALLENGE!
A Photo a Week Challenge: Gates and Fences Wherever I go, I always find myself taking pictures of gates and fences. Some people are into doors, but I guess I like doors on the outside!
RUN RIVER RUN
A Photo a Week: Water Living in a watershed valley, there really is water everywhere. No ocean, but I don’t believe you can live anywhere in this valley and be more than a quarter of a mile from a river, stream,… Read More ›
RIVER REFLECTIONS
A Photo a Week Challenge: Reflection Sometimes, the reflections in the water is so sharp, it looks more “real” than the non-reflection above it. But always, because we live by rivers and ponds that are not fast flowing, reflections double the… Read More ›
UNEDITED – PHOTOGRAPHY WITHOUT PROCESSING
A Photo a Week Challenge: Unedited As it happens, I have so more unedited than edited pictures. Recently I’ve been doing less editing. If the pictures is reasonably sharp, I crop and sign it, but that’s pretty much the extent of… Read More ›
OLD STUFF IN BLACK AND WHITE
A Photo a Week Challenge: Weathered Photographers love old rusty vehicles and old weathered wood. I have an old tractor that’s a favorite piece for photography. I consider it art. Other people consider it trash. Not everyone thinks my aging tractor… Read More ›
CIRCLES ON CIRCLES
A Photo a Week Challenge: Circles on Circles Circles on circles and many circles along the way. I put everything in a circular frame, just to keep the theme going.
AN UNEXPECTED FOCUS
A Photo a Week Challenge: Unexpected Focus I didn’t have the right picture for this yesterday, but this morning, I took some pictures that are (I think) much closer to what you are looking for. My orchids put forth another (third)… Read More ›
A PHOTO A WEEK: PHOTOGRAPHS IN MOTION
MOTION – A PHOTO A WEEK FROM NANCY MERRILL For those of us who take pictures of birds, it’s no problem getting pictures of creatures in motion. The bigger problem is getting these constantly moving feathered friends to sit still…. Read More ›
CHRISTMAS AND A PHOTO A WEEK
A Photo a Week Challenge: Christmas We did a little more Christmas this year: we actually put lights up on top of the tractor. It promptly snowed and now, the lights are on and the snow atop the tractor glows. No… Read More ›
WORKING WITH ANIMALS: A PHOTO A WEEK CHALLENGE
A Photo a Week Challenge: Working with Animals I don’t think there are any photos of me and any of our dogs, probably because I’m usually taking the picture. On the other hand I have a lot of pictures of Garry… Read More ›
CITYSCAPES FROM MISSION HILL AND 60 STATE STREET IN BOSTON
A Photo a Week Challenge: Cityscape Always my favorite part of shooting in Boston was getting up high enough to get a real view of the city. I got my best view from the hill on which the New England Baptist… Read More ›
THE PATH NOT TAKEN – A PHOTO A WEEK CHALLENGE
A Photo a Week Challenge: The Road Not Taken In the winter, in the snow … or through the autumn woods. There is always an untaken path. There is never enough time to walk every path. We are inevitably forced to… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 