Every Day is a Gift!
For this challenge Tina challenges us to create a post that features children or young animals.
Although I have few images of children I have plenty of images of young birds and other animals. The header image of a mother sea otter with her baby on her stomach is one of my favorites.
I’ll finish with some young girls participating in events at a Scottish Games Festival in Savannah.
Many thanks to our host Tina for her challenge Lens-Artists #298 – To Be Young Again
For this challenge Egidio asks us “do you believe you can “see” music in your photographs?”. He also asks “What music do you hear in your photos?”
Our RV travels are over now but from 2006 to 2019 the Wandering Dawgs towed our fifth wheel trailer from Georgia to most of the United States and several Canadian Provinces. We would leave home, sometimes for two to four months at a time, and return home to Georgia to rest up for our next adventure. I created play lists filled with traveling tunes according to where our wandering was taking us.
Every time we started a new journey we would play Willie Nelson’s On the Road Again. My header image is of one of the many roads we traveled in Alaska. I can’t see the next few images without thinking of a song from my travel playlists.
My last song and image have nothing to do with traveling. Henry and I recently watched the movie “Moonstruck” with the song That’s Amore sung by Dean Martin. It’s been almost a week since we watched it and I still can’t get the song out of my head.
Many thanks to our host Egidio for this fun challenge Lens-Artists #297 – Music to my Eyes
Ritva’s challenge is Abstracts. She asks us to “explore and expand to create something new”.
My attempts at taking photos of lights after dark usually don’t turn out the way I expected. My first images are examples of ones that didn’t turn out like I planned but I like them and kept them anyway. The header photo is of a friend’s Christmas yard lights. These next two are from a Christmas boat parade.
I couldn’t resist playing with some editing techniques to create abstracts. I edited the same image three different ways to create these next three abstracts.
I was having too much fun editing photos so here are two more.
Many thanks to our host Ritva for this fun challenge Lens-Artists #296 – Abstracts
In honor of Earth Day Donna asks us to “showcase anything from rocky landscapes to cobblestone streets”. I was excited when I first read her challenge because I have so many pictures of rocks I didn’t even know where to begin. It was hard but I finally chose the few I’ve included here.
The header image and the first gallery are natural rocks I’ve found during our travels. The header is of cactus flowers growing on top of Enchanted Rock near Fredericksburg, Texas.
These next magnificent natural rocks deserve a gallery of their own.
The next gallery shows some ancient man made rock structures.
This final gallery includes some rocks Henry collected during our years of Wandering Around the United States and Canada in our RV. If any of you have ever seen the 1954 movie “The Long, Long Trailer” starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz you’ll know that rock collecting while traveling in an RV might not be a good idea.
After we watched the movie, I resisted collecting rocks. Little did I know that Henry was collecting them! Luckily, he limited his collection to small rocks. The three in the big image on the left were collected during our Alaska and Canadian travels in 2013. The two smaller images on the right are the front and back of a rock Henry picked up in the cemetery near Seth Bullock’s grave.
Many thanks to our host Donna for the challenge Lens-Artists #295 – Rock Your World
John is our host for the challenge Before and After. His challenge is to “feature three or four images in your gallery that you tweaked for whatever reason as well as the original image straight out of the camera.” I almost always crop my images and sometimes do other minor editing. I experimented with a few different edits for this challenge. All of my editing is done using Adobe Photoshop Elements.
My header image is the final edited version of a favorite image from our 2013 RV trip to Alaska. We camped in a waterfront campground in Haines, Alaska for about a week. The following image is the original photo I took one rainy night from our campsite.
To achieve the after image in the header I first cropped the photo to focus on the three ships with the mountains in the background. I then adjusted the blue hue/saturation levels. I finished it off by adjusting the levels of black and white.
The following image is the original closeup of lemon blossoms.
I started out by cropping the photo to a square so the blossoms would be the focus of the image. Next, I added a white vignette effect to soften the floral image. The final image after all edits is shown below.
The next two images are of Dogwood blossoms. The first image is the original.
I began by cropping to select the blossoms in the center of the photo. I wanted to create an artistic image so I added the Colored Pencil filter and tweaked the settings to get the look I wanted in the following finished edit.
Many thanks to our host John for the challenge Lens-Artists #294 – Before and After
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