CB&WPC: Footwear and Feet
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is feet or shoes human and animal. Collections of shoes and other footwear
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Friendly Friday: Markets
Sandy’s Friendly Friday Photo Challenge topic this week is markets. I love outdoor markets – we have a farmers’ market near us on Sundays which runs from June to October. Most of the farmers are from Michigan or southern Illinois. Of course, the items change with the seasons. This is a local farmers’ market in […]
Read More Friendly Friday: MarketsCarol’s Cheerful Selfie Challenge #1
Carol Carlisle at Light Words has started a new challenge – posting selfies! This is how she introduced the challenge: CCSC is an opportunity to share a photograph you have taken, that you were in somewhere. Maybe even by accident, or intentional. There are all kinds of selfies, the simplest is getting in the way […]
Read More Carol’s Cheerful Selfie Challenge #1Bird Weekly: Yellow & Orange-Legged Birds
Lisa Coleman at Our Eyes Open has a photo challenge, Bird Weekly. This week’s topic is “birds with orange or yellow legs.” Around here are lots of mallard ducks. I couldn’t resist posting this one – the ducklings are so cute! Sea gulls have yellow legs (and yellow beaks too!) like this one at Mont […]
Read More Bird Weekly: Yellow & Orange-Legged BirdsA Photo a Week: Happiness Is…
Happiness is an attitude more than anything else. You can choose happiness, or not… …which is why I find happiness in many things! For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week challenge, the theme is happiness is… so here are some things that happiness is to me. Flowers… …especially the ones I grow myself. Fresh tomatoes […]
Read More A Photo a Week: Happiness Is…WWE: Duck Among Lily Pads
I took these photo on July 23, 2020 at Chicago Botanic Gardens and decided to post them for Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #39. Equipment: Sony alpha 68, 55 mm lens
Read More WWE: Duck Among Lily PadsSquare Perspective #31
It is only 8:30 pm CDT here in Chicagoland, so I’m still on time for the LAST (Boo hoo!) day of Becky’s Square Perspectives! Camouflage is nature’s way of helping animals protect themselves. Like this little frog… I couldn’t believe my luck to spy this frog on a crinkly lily pad! At first, I thought […]
Read More Square Perspective #31AOTD: Squirrels
Betty Louise Animal of the Day 7/15/20
Read More AOTD: SquirrelsCB&WPC: Macros/Close-ups
The theme of Cee’s black & white photo challenge this week is macros or close-ups.
Read More CB&WPC: Macros/Close-upsWWE: Birds on the Lake
I am forever trying to get good shots of our water bird population. Lately, I’ve gotten several good photos on “West Lake” here at our senior community, so I’m showing them off here on Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #35 challenge.
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