CFFC: Choose Your Own Topic

This is the fifth week of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge’s Choose Your Own Topic from this photo. And this week the photo is: Cee’s suggestions: chicken, coffee, cup, black and white, ferris wheel, fake flowers, topiary, round, triangle, treats, red, green, ball, store logos, or come up with […]

CB&WPC: Wheels for Work & Play

Things with one, two or three wheels is the theme of Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week. Wheelbarrows, Poulsbo, Washington Wire bicycle & scooter, Miltenberg, Germany Bikes, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Ferris wheel, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Round

Frank at Dutch Goes the Photo’s Tuesday photo challenge this week is round. circles of ice that formed inside the holes of the mat outside our back door Sculpture at Dr. Evermore’s Forevertron (near Madison, WI) Macy’s Christmas balls Ferris Wheel at Navy Pier in Chicago

Thursday Doors on the Miracle Mile

Recently I had occasion to kill some time on the “Miracle Mile” of Michigan Ave. in Chicago. I wish I’d had my Sony camera with me, but as it was, I managed to get some decent photos using the camera on my cellphone. Most of them are more like facades than just doors. Wrigley Building […]

Quintessential Chicago

Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week challenge this week is the word quintessential. She writes: “According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, quintessential means perfectly typical or representative of a particular kind of person or thing.” Typical Chicago? Skyscrapers, Sears (Now Willis) Tower, Navy Pier, Chicago River, architecture… Chicago skyline, including Willis Tower Chicago skyline with […]

Thursday’s Special: The Blue Hour

Paula at Lost in Translation has a Thursday’s Special Photo Challenge. This week’s theme is the blue hour. I love the “blue hour” at Navy Pier in Chicago, when all the neon lights are on and the Chicago skyline is silhouetted against the darkening sky. Everything is still visible but with a blue tinge.

CB&WPC: Through a Window

Through our car window, we saw this cutie enjoying the ride on a sunny day. Through a window at Shakespeare Theatre at Navy Pier in Chicago, I took this shot of the Ferris wheel at twilight. Through a window in my house during a November thunderstorm, this leaf was plastered onto the glass. Looking through […]