Every Day is a Gift!
July 4 in Independence Day in the United States. What better way to celebrate than with a patriotic collection of American Flags.
Wishing everyone a happy and safe Independence Day!
Shared with Terri’s Sunday Stills challenge Sunday Stills Show your Patriotism with Flags
Ann-Christine is our host for the first “Looking Back” topic and she explains the challenge like this: “This week we are starting to look back… each month or maybe every 6 weeks, one of us in the LAPC – team will repeat a PREVIOUSLY USED subject for the week. We will share a link to the old post, and then create a new post on the same subject. This will also give us all a chance to address challenges we may not have done before.”
Ann-Christine is asking us to look back to the topic #42 Creativity from April, 2019. I didn’t start participating in the challenges until later that year so I don’t have a previous post to look back on. You can visit Ann-Christine’s #42 post here.
Tybee Island, Georgia is home to many creative artists. In 2006 a few residents came up with the idea to display turtle statues painted by local artists around the island. In 2007 I photographed most of the turtles that were here at that time. Sometime later some of the turtles were auctioned off to raise money for sea-turtle research and preservation. For more about the project please visit Public Art on Display – Tybee Island.
I’ve always thought I didn’t have a creative bone in my body. When I was in school I was terrible in art classes. I can’t draw, I can’t paint, I can’t sculpt. I got the idea for this challenge when I saw one of the turtle statues on a morning drive around Tybee Island.
The featured image is the turtle that greets everyone at the Welcome to Tybee Island sign. I photographed it and the following image this morning.
The following gallery are some of the turtles I photographed in 2007. Each turtle was done by a different artist and each turtle is unique. These statues show the creativity of the different artists who made them. A few are still located around the island.
Last week I enjoyed all of the great responses to Anne’s challenge Reflections. The Lens-Artists team is taking a break next weekend so be sure to check back on Saturday, July 12 at noon Eastern Time when our guest host SH will be hosting the challenge. And as always, please remember that Every Day is a Gift.
Many thanks to Ann-Christine for this challenge Lens-Artists #355 – Looking Back to Creativity
For information on how to join the Len-Artists challenge please click here.
A beautiful summer day on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina.
Shared with John’s Cellpic Sunday
Also shared with Debbie’s One Word Sunday – Summer
June is Outdoors Month and this month Terri’s Sunday Stills challenges are all focused on the great outdoors. This challenge is Sunrises and Sunsets in the great outdoors.
The featured image and the next one are of recent sunsets in my neighborhood in coastal Georgia. The rest are from various places around the United States.
Shared with Terri’s Sunday Stills challenge Sunday Stills Sunrise and Sunset in the Great Outdoors
Anne’s challenge is Reflections. She shared many beautiful examples of reflections and also shared some good advice on how to capture a reflection. Thanks also go out to Leeanne Cole for sharing her tips and images.
I often find reflections in water. I’ll start with a gallery of birds reflected in water.
Mirrors are a great way to photograph reflections even if you didn’t mean to get a reflection of yourself.
Thank you to everyone who responded to my first Lens-Artists challenge. The topic was stormy and I had a lot of fun reading all the responses and seeing all of the amazing stormy weather images from around the world. Next week Ann-Christine is leading the challenge so be sure to look for her post on Saturday, June 28 at noon Eastern Time. And as always, please remember that Every Day is a Gift.
Many thanks to Anne for this challenge Lens-Artists #354 – Reflections
For information on how to join the Len-Artists challenge please click here.
Wandering Dawgs 