Ritva has given us the challenge of abstract photography.
I start with some swirls of color that are reflecting off a gold Christmas ornament.
The image below is a scene next to a pond in my senior community, created with the help of an app I have on my phone, Snapseed. It’s fun to play around with!
Chicago Botanic Gardens has a holiday light show every year. There were strings of colored lights to walk through, which were also blowing in the wind so they have this cool blurry look.
My car’s right front light from this angle looks like an eye, complete with eyeball!
Amazonian fan, taken on board a cruise ship
I got this effect by taking a photo of a glass of water distorted through a carafe of water!
We haven’t had much snow this winter, until now. Today about 6 inches fell, and they’re predicting a couple more inches tonight, with falling temps and blowing snow tomorrow.
I chose this photo, actually taken on the last day of December (a Sunday!), because it came out so clear – I was able to capture the snowflakes against the background of the intricate tangle of tree branches, still holding onto some dead leaves.
Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge #24 is “plant edibles.” Here are some early photos of what I’ve brought home from my garden. (I don’t take any more because my tomato plants are going so wild with tomatoes that I don’t bother!)
July 21: a few tomatoes and vidalia onions3 days later, July 24: two kinds of peppers, another vidalia onion, tomatoes, & chard
I am now eating a lot of salads, and I put tomatoes into everything I can! The chard is growing nicely, but I don’t pick it often because it’s a bit bitter, so I don’t want to use it as my dominant salad green. Note to self: Plant regular lettuce next year! My onions are done, unfortunately, but I’m still getting a lot of peppers, of which I planted three different varieties in the sweet category.. The bell pepper plant produces these large green ones (people say if you wait to pick them, they turn red, but that takes too long!), another pepper produces smaller peppers that are striped. These turn red and yellow rather quickly. The third variety is shown in the photo above – long and skinny, once they turn red, they look like a hot pepper! But they aren’t, and now I wait for them to turn red also.
I had hoped my son would come over today to pick tomatoes, and take home whatever he picked, but he didn’t come and now I have way too many! I will have to pick them again tomorrow and share them with the community. The residents here who have gardens leave whatever they can’t use across from the dining room, and whatever they leave is snatched up very quickly! I left some tomatoes today and will have to leave more tomorrow, along with chard!
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is to post Man-Made Items.
Humans have been creating and building things for thousands of years. Some are monumental and awe-inspiring, some are fun or functional, and some are ugly. Everywhere people go, they leave behind something, carelessly or with a purpose.
Wanderlust & Wonderment 