Posted in Arizona, Nature, photography, Sedona, Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday: Sedona (Guest Photographer)

Today’s Wordless Wednesday is brought to you by guest photographer Cliff Herman (my DH). Taken while visiting family in Sedona, Arizona. Photos edited by me.

Sedona Red Rock

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Coral Bells

Sedona Moon

Thanks for the great pictures, Cliff!

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Posted in Nature, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Pacific Northwest, Photo Challenge, photography, Salishan, Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Dance

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

Photo Challenge – Dance

 

Posted in Photo Challenge, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge

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.

Flowering Tree, Maui

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: One Love

Posted in Portland, Rose City Yarn Crawl, Wordless Wednesday, yarn

Wordless Wednesday: Rose City Yarn Crawl 2016

I love Portland!  It’s such a great city, for many reasons, and one of them is its totally artsy vibe.  Portland recently had 14 local yarn shops participating in the 2016 Rose City Yarn Crawl.  Some of my impressions:

wool  wool on shelf

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twisted indoors

so Portland
Hankins Hardware

Print is Undead

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Oui Presse Still Life

Happy Knits Window

Glaces

Posted in camera lucida, knitting, photography, posers

Camera Lucida – Still Life: Giraffe, Pears

Giraffe in progress

This week’s Camera Lucida challenge made me smile as I thought of this picture I had taken of the body of my Itty Bitty Giraffe  (pattern by Susan B. Anderson).  The combination of color and shape was so evocative of pears (which I love as a design element), that I just had to take this picture.

The challenge:

This week’s theme: ‘Hidden’

  1. kept out of sight; concealed;
  2. difficult to find, lying beyond what is obvious or avowed.

Share with the world your latest discovery…something that made you smile…something that was concealed from the naked eye…something that inspired you!

Finished giraffe:

Giraffe reading

Check out Julia’s weekly photo challenge here: Camera Lucida – Hidden.

Posted in Cannon Beach, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Photo Challenge, photography, The Coast

Weekly Photo Challenge: State of Mind

This week, let your inner world and the outside one converge in a photo.

Beach glade
Beach Glade

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: State of Mind