Photography – Page 43 – Wandering Dawgs

A Few Favorite Bridges

September 28, 2023Posted in PhotographyTagged bridges, Sunday Stills25 Comments

For this month’s Sunday Stills Challenge Terri asks us to explore bridges.

I live in an area with many creeks, rivers and large areas of salt marsh. Whenever I leave my neighborhood to go anywhere I have to cross several bridges. My header image is of the Talmadge Bridge in nearby Savannah, Georgia.

We’ve seen many bridges in our travels – highway bridges across wide rivers, walking bridges, covered bridges, and swinging bridges. The following images are of a few of my favorite bridges from around the United States.

Swinging bridge over the Santa Fe River in O’Leno State Park

Suspension Bridge over Tallulah Gorge, Georgia

Shadow of the Alaska Railroad train on the bridge over Hurricane Gulch, Alaska

Imes Covered Bridge, Madison County, Iowa

Two bridges crossing the mighty Mississippi River in Vicksburg, Mississippi

Bridge over Kentucky River at the Wild Turkey Distillery

Next up are a few favorite bridges from our travels in Ireland and Scotland.

Bridge at Eileen Donan Castle, Scottish Highlands

Ha’Penny Bridge across the River Liffey, Dublin, Ireland

Rope bridge at Carrick-a-Rede on the Causeway Coastal Route, Northern Ireland

Shared with Terri’s Sunday Stills Bridges

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #267 – Recharge

September 23, 2023Posted in Nature, Photography, WildlifeTagged Lens-Artists, Photo Challenge, Recharge, White Tail Deer14 Comments

Our guest host Egidio of Through Brazilian Eyes asks us what activities we enjoy that allow us to recharge our batteries.

A change of scenery and being in nature always helps me to recharge my batteries.

We recently returned from a short getaway to middle Georgia where I enjoyed morning walks in the woods and watching white tail deer in an open field. The cool nighttime temperature was a welcome change from our sweltering summer.

We call it the land of fallen trees because of all the downed trees in the woods.

Many thanks to our guest host Egidio for the challenge Lens-Artists Challenge #267 – Recharge

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 – Time

September 17, 2023January 22, 2024Posted in PhotographyTagged Favorite Quotes, Lens-Artists, Photo Challenge, Time17 Comments

Our challenge from Donna is Time. The older I get the faster time seems to fly by. It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating the new year 1997 in Key West, Florida.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.
Jimmy Buffett

“Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can’t look back for too long.
There’s just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can’t go wrong.”
Jimmy Buffett

Don’t put off that trip you’ve always dreamed of

Go see a favorite artist in concert if you ever have the opportunity

It’s those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes, nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.
Jimmy Buffett

Rest in peace Jimmy Buffett – 12/25/1946 – 9/1/2023.

Many thanks to our host Donna for the challenge Lens-Artists Challenge #266 – Time

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 – Black and White and Monochrome

September 9, 2023Posted in PhotographyTagged Black and White and Monochrome, Black and white photography, Everglades National Park, Lens-Artists, Monochrome photography, Monument Valley, Okefenokee Swamp, Photo Challenge19 Comments

Our challenge from Anne is for Black and White and/or Monochrome images.

Monochrome photos contain only variations of one color. Monument Valley in Utah was the filming location for many old western movies. I thought it would be fun to bring back memories of those old western movies so I chose a few images from Monument Valley and converted them to sepia tones.

Some of those movies were directed by John Ford and starred John Wayne. In the image above John Ford’s Point is in the foreground with Monument Valley in the background. The next three images reminded me of other scenes in the movies.

One of the Mittens formations in Monument Valley, Utah

John Wayne’s cabin from the movie “She wore a Yellow Ribbon”

Stage Coach at Goulding’s Trading Post, Monument Valley, Utah

Black and white images contain only the colors of back and white. I chose three images from Florida and Georgia and converted them from color to black and white to add some drama to the landscapes.