PHOTO CHALLENGE: Evanescent If you want to get philosophical about this, everything is evanescent. Life, the world, and the universe and all things in it. Nothing is forever. The flowers will fade and bubbles will pop. The rainbow will be gone even… Read More ›
THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: TRACES OF THE PAST Y3-05 The entire Blackstone River Valley is a National Historic Corridor. A lot of people don’t realize that we are “one step removed” from a national park and have a good many of the same… Read More ›
SOLITUDE | THE DAILY POST WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE Just before five in the morning. Ogunquit beach, Maine. A solitary walker on the beach as the sun rises. A seagulls wait on the shore. It’s breakfast time for birds.
PHOTO CHALLENGE | NAMES – WHAT’S IN A NAME? From Romeo and Juliet Act II. Scene II. What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not… Read More ›
PHOTO CHALLENGE: FRAME Using parts of the landscape to frame the picture has always come naturally to me. Maybe it’s all those years of television videotape — and so many John Ford movies — but I automatically look for ways… Read More ›
WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Partners
Spare. It’s when you need two tries to get all the pins down at the bowling alley. Not as good as a strike, but not bad, either. Respectable. A spare tire on the road is a must. Even though tires rarely… Read More ›
Jubilant – WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge Three pictures. This first one, from Garry. And this, from me.
Celebrating the earth, the mother of us all.
CCY PHOTO CHALLENGE: #21 LANDSCAPES and THE DAILY POST: EARTH I hesitated before I entered this challenge. I don’t remember “the rules” well. I never properly learned them. I never went to photography school or even took a course. I got a… Read More ›
WHO DO YOU ADMIRE? There are real heroes among us. They don’t wear capes and masks. Instead, they wear heavy gear and carry hoses, axes, and breathing masks. They drive big red trucks with loud sirens and in a small… Read More ›
There’s a popular rumor that Monet painted water lilies with increasingly less detail … which is to say, more abstract … because as he aged, his eyes got worse. I prefer to think he was consciously developing his art, but since he’s not around… Read More ›
