Here’s my contribution to this week’s photo challenge, Abstract. Taken in downtown Salem.
The challenge:
This week, turn the concrete and familiar into something new and mysterious.
~ Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
Category: Photo Challenge
Weekly Photo Challenge: Dinnertime
I love this week’s challenge!
While on a long walk at Cannon Beach, I came upon a seagull obviously enjoying a delectable dinner.
I was curious to check out the main course…
…and was dreaming of cioppino as I left him to finish his meal.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Landscape
My contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, taken from the Fort Dalles Readiness Center overlooking the Columbia Gorge.
This week, it’s all about landscape photography. Show us your best establishing shot, out in nature or in an urban setting.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Half-Light
I glanced up from my work one day to see the golden late-afternoon sun slanting upon the neighboring downtown buildings. I put aside my work, picked up my camera, and went for a stroll:
Weekly Photo Challenge: Dance
Kelp and the sea – in flawless rhythm.
The Challenge:
There’s rhythm and motion all around us — this week, let’s capture some of it in a photo…
When I let my brain loose, allowing it to absorb what’s around me without trying to process anything in particular, what it often detects is choreography — unmistakable dance moves, often in unexpected places.
~Ben Huberman
Weekly Photo Challenge: One Love
The Challenge: I realized that the universe is constantly whispering words of love: expressions of pure joy, respect, loyalty, and sacrifice for someone other than ourselves, and instructions on letting go and focusing on what is most important in this world.
That which is beautiful calls to me. It inspires me, and it can move me to tears – or to action. It reminds me of the greater reality beyond myself. Beauty illuminates the path to love.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Harmony
Weekly Photo Challenge: State of Mind
This week, let your inner world and the outside one converge in a photo.
Viewed through a protected glade north of Cannon Beach. Looking outward, finding joy in observing the world around me, enjoying quiet solitude and thought. The inner world and the outer converge in this photo.
Photos show us the surface of things, but they often tell much deeper stories about the objects they depict — and about the people who take them.
Every photo we take says something about our emotions at the moment of taking it. So this week, share an image where you see a particularly strong connection between what we see and what you felt as you pressed that shutter button on your camera or phone.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Seasons
This is my first entry to The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s theme is Seasons.
It’s always cloudy and rainy this time of year in Oregon, but there’s often a little sunlight peaking through, the promise of a dry spell sometime. It’s enough to keep my spirits up and keep me dreaming of those warm summer days that will be here eventually.
The Daily Post – Weekly Photo Challenge
This week, let’s embrace the season: share an image that embodies the world or the weather where you live.
The word “seasons” can also describe a period or phase of your life. If this context resonates with you, share an image that expresses the seasonality of life itself or the present season of your life.
~by Jen Hooks
Camera Lucida: Garden Treasure
I don’t think it is any secret that I do not have the gardener’s gift. I don’t have the patience, nor the memory (!), to be a good caretaker of plants.
So when I designed this pattern, Topiary Fingerless Mitts, I found the solution to my problem. A garden is a thing of beauty, and this one is a joy forever. This is where the trees are never harmed by winter, drought or neglect; where the leaves are always green and the jonquils are always in bloom.
This week’s theme: Garden Treasure
- a piece of ground adjoining a house, used for growing flowers, fruit, or vegetables
- a quantity of precious metals, gems, or other valuable objects.
This week your challenge is to share what is your garden treasure…it is your beautiful and personalised box of gardening utensils…maybe your secret corner of heaven…a rare flower that makes you proud…your dirty boots and gloves…
What is your garden treasure…how does your garden reflect you?
Share this week a piece of you…maybe a little secret that you’ve kept hidden behind a beautiful evergreen pot:)