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Category Archives: Photo Challenge
A Photo a Week Challenge: LAUGHTER
Nancy Merril’s photo challenge this week is LAUGHTER. With all the heartache and loneliness that 2020 has brought, it is certainly a good time to stop and remember moments punctuated with hearty laughter. It warms the soul. Here is a … Continue reading
A Photo A Week Challenge: Cityscape
This week Nancy Merill challenges us to share a photo with the subject cityscape. I am pleased to share this view of Seattle, taken several years ago when my Arranger and I made a tour of gardens in the US … Continue reading
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Tagged postaday, Seattle
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A Photo a Week Challenge: MASKS
This week’s challenge from Nancy Merrill Photography is timely and appropriate, given the continuing need to wear masks and socially distance ourselves for mutual safety. One (hopefully) sees masks everywhere we go. That is so important to keep us old … Continue reading
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Tagged beach debris, photo a week, postaday
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A Photo a Week Challenge: October
Another great topic from Nancy Merrill Photography in her weekly photo challenge: OCTOBER. I have felt that October was the best month to recognize transitions…at least in my part of North Carolina. We can have quite warm temperatures followed by … Continue reading
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Tagged photo a week, postaday
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A Photo a Week Challenge: HATS
Nancy Merrill Photography has again give us a great challenge this week: HATS. Looking back through my archives, I found this picture of my two oldest grandchildren getting ready for tennis lessons. The hats were the crowning addition. Twelve years … Continue reading
A Photo a Week Challenge: Vacation Memories
This week’s challenge from Nancy Merrill Photography is VACATION MEMORIES. A four-day visit to Niagara on the Lake in Canada was delightful. Good friends, great theater, fun wine tastings, superb food, beautiful gardens, and of course a visit to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Niagara Falls, photo a week, postaday
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A Photo a Week Challenge: NOSTALGIC
Nancy Merrill Photography challenges us each week to share a photo that expresses the theme of the week. This time it is NOSTALGIC. When the grandkids were small, we had them wait (patiently?) on the steps while an adult made … Continue reading
A Photo a Week Challenge: Happiness
This week’s photo challenge from Nancy Merrill Photography is HAPPINESS. I can’t think of much that gives me more happiness than remembering my grandson catching his first fish. It made him a fisherman for life. Why not drop over to … Continue reading
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A Photo a Week Challenge: Insects
The topic of this week’s challenge from Nancy Merrill Photography is INSECTS. I looked back in my “critters” files and found these beauties: An ant wearing white socks on its forelegs A June bug waiting to get in my screened … Continue reading
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Tagged ants, insects, june bug, postaday
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A Photo a Week Challenge: Threes and Threes
This week Nancy Merrill’s photo challenge is about composition: “Threes and Threes.” We are to display the main subject, not in the center, but placed off to about one third. I was pleased to have found these three items in … Continue reading
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Tagged bird eggs, postaday
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