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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #398 – Choose a Color

May 18, 2026Posted in Birds, Flowers, Nature, PhotographyTagged Choose a color, Lady Slipper, Lens-Artists, Nature, Photo Challenge, Sunflower, sunset, Yellow, Yellow Bird, Yellow Pond Lily47 Comments

Ritva’s challenge is to choose one color and feature up to six images where the color is the prominent hue or feature one image for each of these six colors: red, blue, green, purple, orange, and yellow.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun. – Vincent Van Gogh

I chose yellow for my color because it is my favorite color. Yellow makes me smile and brings me joy, happiness, and optimism.

I hope these yellows will brighten your day:

Last week you showed us amazing textures in response to Anne’s challenge. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge..

Many thanks to Ritva 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 #398: Choose a Color.

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Every Day is a Gift

Sunday Stills – The Impossible Brightness

November 23, 2025Posted in Nature, Photography, SunsetTagged Brightness, Cellpic Sunday, Mexican Sunflower, Photo Challenge, Sunday Stills, sunset25 Comments

For Terri’s latest Sunday Stills challenge she is asking us to show “All things bright and beautiful” during this autumn season of bright colors.

Where I live in coastal Georgia we don’t get the bright orange, red and yellow leaves on our trees. Instead, our sunrises and sunsets paint our sky a brilliant orange. The featured image was taken a few days ago when the sky was so glorious at sunset I had to stop and get out of my car to take a few photos.

I still have a few Mexican Sunflowers (Tithonia) left in the garden. They are about the only bright orange color I get in the fall. The bloom in the next image appeared to glow as the sunlight hit it this afternoon.

Many thanks to Terri for her Sunday Stills challenge The Impossible Brightness

Also shared with John’s Cellpic Sunday

Every Day is a Gift

Sunday Stills – Sunrises and Sunsets

June 24, 2025Posted in Nature, PhotographyTagged great outdoors, Photo Challenge, Sunday Stills, Sunrise, sunrise/sunset, sunset27 Comments

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.

Sunrise in Everglades National Park, Florida

Shared with Terri’s Sunday Stills challenge Sunday Stills Sunrise and Sunset in the Great Outdoors

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #341 – Personal Favorites

March 23, 2025Posted in PhotographyTagged Coastal Georgia, Delicate Arch, Haines, Lens-Artists, Pacific Ocean, Personal Favorites, Photo Challenge, Sunrise, sunset34 Comments

For this challenge Tina is challenging us to show no more than five of our all time personal favorite images representing special moments or memories.

This is a really hard challenge for me. I have thousands of pictures in my archives. Most of them remind me of a special time, place or event. The sunrise in the header image was taken in my own back yard. It reminds me of how grateful I am for the gift of another day.

One of the most memorable events from our very first long RV trip occurred in Arches National Park in Utah. We wanted to take the hike for a close up view of Delicate Arch. The hike involved walking up slick red rock and included walking along a narrow ledge before getting to the Arch. I am terrified of heights and the idea of the ledge terrified me but I managed to get all the way to the top to take this picture. This picture reminds me of how I overcame my fears to see this beautiful sight.

Henry standing underneath Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Utah

This silhouette of Henry at sunset reminds me of all the wonderful memories we have from our RV trip traveling south from Washington to California on Highway 101.

Henry watching the sunset over the Pacific Ocean in Washington

I have literally thousands of images from our 2013 RV trip to Alaska. We saw amazing landscapes and wildlife and visited many unique places. I chose this image because it brings back happy memories of our fun filled week in Haines. We took the time at the end of each day to enjoy this spectacular view from our campsite.

Watching for whales at the end of the day in Haines, Alaska

The last image reminds me to take the time to stop and enjoy a sunset when I get a chance. I call this tree the bird tree because I often see herons, egrets, wood storks, roseate spoonbills, and other birds perched on the dead limbs. The tree is located on the road to our neighborhood. I’ve driven past it many times over the years and have captured many beautiful sunsets here but this one is my all time favorite.