I’ve decided to continue to intersperse my photo focus with writing – short excerpts from the volumes I’ve written. Comments and feedback welcome. I think of my growing up as being “normal” … but, of course, I see now that my “normal” is not anyone else’s “normal”. To me it was normal because all my friends were growing up the same way. All of us … Continue reading Growing up Normal
Frédéric Biver offered up quite the challenge this week – bring two of your photos together in dialogue. What do they say to each other? Place together two photos that open up meanings that weren’t there when viewed alone … hmmm. Click on image below for a closer look at Underwater Symphony Continue reading More on making your photos talk …
“Today I am someone different. Today I have finally become who I really am.” ― C. JoyBell C. Click on image for more detail Some have enquired how I produced this. Below is my starting image – In Sagelight I played with the light for a more dramatic effect and changed the colour to blues. In Photoscape I did a zoom blur distort. In PS … Continue reading Emergence
I’m back again for another round of A-Z challenge but, wanting to add a personal challenge to the challenge, I am going to concentrate on signs this time – pretty signs, interesting signs, funny signs … whatever. Continue reading A-Z Challenge (again): H
I’ve said before that I think of each photo I take as a canvas with which to play, to see what I can bring out of it. Ideally I’d like my photos to speak to the viewer, to evoke a feeling or spark a memory. So I challenged myself and took some pretty mundane images and tried to get them to speak … these are my starting images. The … Continue reading Photo Editing: Making your photos speak
Following on “I Digress …”, I’m going to continue, I think, to intersperse my photo focus with writing – short excerpts from the volumes I’ve written. Comments and feedback welcome. My Little Town I often think my parents didn’t raise me … I merely drifted up. In the 1930’s the majority of people lived in the metropolitan areas or on farm lands, but the years following … Continue reading My Little Town
The weekly photo challenge is: Fray Continue reading Frayed
“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless Ailsa’s travel theme is: Horizons Continue reading Visual Quotations 64: Horizon
Villefranche de Conflent, France The word a week challenge is: Arch Continue reading Monochrome
I’m back again for another round of A-Z challenge but, wanting to add a personal challenge to the challenge, I am going to concentrate on signs this time – pretty signs, interesting signs, funny signs … whatever. Continue reading A-Z Challenge (again): G
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. – Johnny Cash Continue reading Door/1
Following on “I Digress …”, I’m going to continue, I think, to intersperse my photo focus with writing – short excerpts from the volumes I’ve written. Comments and feedback welcome. Historical threads of the 1950’s wove a textured pattern into the fabric that was the backdrop to my childhood. This backdrop was a post-war world. Many returning soldiers had only been home for two or three … Continue reading Threads
“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.” Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Continue reading Bubbles/4
My Odd Couple series, in which the couples may or may not be odd. I’ll leave that to the viewer 😉 I am also including the original photo for those that are interested in my composition and editing choices. The only thing I chose to edit this time was the saturation – totally arbitrarily You can view my Solo series here. The Weekly Photo Challenge is: Silhouette Continue reading Odd Couple/5
Time for some street shots … Continue reading Summer in the City
Following on “I Digress …”, I’m going to continue, I think, to intersperse my photo focus with writing – short excerpts from the volumes I’ve written. Comments and feedback welcome. A small group of nervous, giggling girls, we didn’t venture much past the entrance to the basement social room. It was large, and mostly empty, chairs sat around the perimeter just waiting to make wall … Continue reading Threshold
I’m back again for another round of A-Z challenge but, wanting to add a personal challenge to the challenge, I am going to concentrate on signs this time – pretty signs, interesting signs, funny signs … whatever. Tintagel, Cornwall, England Continue reading A-Z Challenge (again): F
“A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.” – Wade Boggs, professional baseball player Continue reading Bubbles/3
“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading Bubbles/2
“Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ” Jean de Boufflers Continue reading Bubbles/1
Beyond the Brush 