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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #154 / #410 – One Photo Edited

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This week Ritva is looking back to Tina’s challenge #154 – One Photo Two Ways. You can view Tina’s original challenge here. Ritva asks us “to explore the different methods you use to create images.”

I don’t always do a lot of photo editing except for cropping and sometimes a few minor edits. For this challenge I have chosen three images and used different editing techniques to create the final image. In each of the examples the original photo is on the left with the final edited image on the right.

For my first example I took a photo of pink Knockout Roses. I thought the original photo was kind of blah so I cropped the photo to a square with two blooms and replaced the background with black to bring out the vibrant pick blooms.

In this next example I wanted to give this old cabin at the Fort King Georgie State Historic Site a more old fashioned look. First I cropped the photo to focus on the cabin surrounded by the ancient oak trees. I then converted the image to sepia tones.

In this final example I thought the original photo of the blue umbrellas and chairs on the beach was ok but I wanted to make it a little more fun. I tried several different effects before I decided I liked the way it looked with a colored pencil effect.

Many thanks to guest host Steve Hyde’s for hosting last week’s challenge. Your responses to his Best Ever Photo challenge were fantastic. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge.

Thank you to our host Ritva for this week’s fun challenge. If you would like to join the challenge please be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to her post Lens-Artists #410: One Photo Edited.

Be sure to check back on Saturday, August 29 at noon eastern time when Sofia will be hosting the challenge.

You can keep up with all of our challenges by subscribing to the Lens-Artists team members websites: Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, John, Sofia, Anne, Egidio, Ritva, Beth.

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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #404 – Subjects that begin with the letter B

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It’s my turn to host the challenge this week. Let’s have a little fun and feature subjects that begin with the letter B. What subjects can you find that start with the letter B?

You can choose several different subjects and share one image of each one.

Beautiful Black Swallowtail Butterfly

Bridge over a stream in the Blue Ridge Mountains

Brown Bunny

Or, you can choose images that contain more than one subject that begins with B.

Birds on a Beach
Bird on a Branch

Or, you can choose one subject and include more than one image of that subject. The subject is Boats in the following gallery.

Last week I enjoyed all of your wonderful responses to John’s challenge of Perspective, Depth and Scale. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge.

I hope you have fun finding lots of things starting with B. I can’t wait to see what you come up with. Please limit your responses to no more than 10 images for your response. Please be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to this post.

The Lens-Artists team will be taking a break for the next two weeks. Anne-Christine will be hosting the next challenge when we return on July 18.

You can keep up with all of our challenges by subscribing to the Lens-Artists team members websites: Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, John, Sofia, Anne, Egidio, Ritva, Beth.

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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #397 – Texture

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Anne’s challenge is to show images where texture plays an integral part. She tells us “Texture helps my two-dimensional examples have a three-dimensional quality.”

For me, the beach is a place of many textures. In some places the sand is soft, and others the powerful wave action of the ocean crushes the shells creating a rough texture that’s not fun to walk on in bare feet.

Broken shells on the beach

Powerful ocean waves can also create these smooth rocks

Driftwood on the beach becomes weathered by the elements creating a rough texture on the wood. Barnacles can attach themselves to the driftwood creating a crusty texture. Running your had along these sharp barnacles could easily cause you to get a cut.

Driftwood

Barnacles on driftwood

Salt air, wind, rain and the heat from the sun can cause wooden structures like piers and docks and even homes to become cracked and dried out creating a rough texture. Watch out for splinters if you rub the wood with your fingers.

Weathered wood deck on Tybee Pier

I didn’t see this rabbit at the beach but I’ll finish with the soft texture of the fur of a cottontail rabbit.

Cottontail Rabbit

Last week your responses to Ann-Christine’s Illustrated Quotes challenge were fun and inspirational. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge..

Many thanks to Anne for this week’s challenge. If you would like to join the challenge please be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to her post Lens-Artists #397: Texture.

Be sure to check back on Saturday, May 16 at noon eastern time when Ritva will be your host for the challenge.

You can receive our weekly challenges by subscribing to the Lens-Artists team members websites: Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, John, Sofia, Anne, Egidio, Ritva, Beth.

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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #396 – Pick a Favorite Quote and Illustrate it

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This week Ann-Christine’s challenge is Pick a Favorite Quote and Illustrate it. We can choose one quote accompanied with a maximum of five pictures or a maximum of five quotes illustrated with one picture each. She asks us to “Make us ”feel”your quote(s) in pictures!”

My first quote is one of my favorite sayings. I have a plaque on my kitchen wall to remind me of it’s message every day. Seeing the sunrise is a beautiful gift to start a new day.

“Yesterday is History

Tomorrow a Mystery

Today is a Gift

That’s why we call it the Present”

— Anonymous

The next quote reminds me to live life to the fullest. One of my greatest adventures was flying in a small plane over mountains and glaciers in Alaska and seeing Mt. Denali from the air. I’m not a fan of flying in small planes!

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing” — Helen Keller

Almost twenty years ago volunteers on Tybee Island planted Oak Trees to help celebrate the 120th anniversary of Tybee Island. Today the trees are thriving and getting taller every year.

“What does he plant who plants a tree?
   He plants, in sap and leaf and wood,
In love of home and loyalty
   And far-cast thought of civic good—
   His blessings on the neighborhood,
      Who in the hollow of His hand
      Holds all the growth of all our land—
A nation’s growth from sea to sea
Stirs in his heart who plants a tree.”

— “The Heart of the Tree” by Henry Cuyler Bunner

The final two quotes and images need no explanation.

“If there is a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached” — Jimmy Buffett

“Some old fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat” — Laura Ingals Wilder

It was my pleasure to host last week’s challenge. Your responses took us all around the world with fantastic images On the Water. You wowed us with all types of water from puddles to mighty oceans, peaceful landscapes and thundering waterfalls. The variety of animals, people, and plants on the water were great. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge..

Many thanks to Ann-Christine for this fun challenge Lens-Artists Challenge #396: Pick a Favorite Quotes and Illustrate It.

Be sure to check back on Saturday, May 9 at noon eastern time when Anne will be hosting the challenge.

You can receive our weekly challenges by subscribing to the Lens-Artists team members websites: Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, John, Sofia, Anne, Egidio, Ritva, Beth.

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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #395 – Looking back to #155 On the Water

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This week we are looking back to John’s challenge #155: On the Water from July 3, 2021. In his challenge he said “the theme On the Water encompasses whatever manner of water floats your boat (or doesn’t)”. You can see John’s original post here.

For this challenge, I look forward to seeing your interpretation of “On the Water”. The water can be rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds, oceans, puddles, swimming pools or water parks. Think about scenic views of water, people having fun on the water, watercraft on the water, macros of water drops, or animals, birds, and plants floating on the water.

When I responded to John’s original challenge I featured images of boats on the water. You can see my response to his challenge here.

In this first gallery are images of people having fun on the water floating in a salt water creek and floating down the lazy river at a water park in Florida.

The next gallery features a floating alligator surrounded by water lilies and two ducks on the water.

A float plane in Alaska, a boat selling hamburgers, and a dragon boat are all watercraft you don’t see every day.

The last gallery features a pilot boat as seen from the deck of a cruise ship, and a fleet of U.S. Coast Guard Ships in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

I’ll finish with a peaceful, deserted white sand beach, my favorite kind of place on the water.

Ft. Pickens National Seashore, Florida

Your challenge this week is to show anything on the water. You can choose to show watercraft, things floating, closeups of water, scenic water landscapes, or anything else you can think of. I hope you will join us for this week’s challenge. I can’t wait to see your responses. Be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to this post.

Last week your responses to John’s “History Through the Lens” challenge were wonderful. I enjoyed all of the images and learned a lot from your posts. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge..

Be sure to check back on Saturday, May 2 at noon eastern time when Ann-Christine will be hosting the challenge.

You can receive our weekly challenges by subscribing to the Lens-Artists team members websites: Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, John, Sofia, Anne, Egidio, Ritva, Beth.

For information on how to join the Lens-Artists challenge please click here.

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