It’s been awhile since I have participated in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, but I am back in time to contribute to this week’s bridges!












It’s been awhile since I have participated in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, but I am back in time to contribute to this week’s bridges!
Alive and Trekking hosts the Which Way Photo Challenge. Here’s my contribution this week.
2020 Photo Challenge is about working on techniques to improve one’s photography. This month’s theme is patterns. Here are some of the host’s suggestions:
February:
Being Creative with Patterns
look for various types of patterns – squares, circles, triangles and so on.
Shoot from a different perspective. Look up, look down or shoot from a distance
Break the pattern, disrupt the continuity in some way
Use pattern as a background for a more substantial subject.
Patterns in Vienna:
Palace fence pattern
Candy bowls
A mistake that generated light wave patterns
Wooden floor tessellation
Three patterns in one photo (Cologne)
Screen pattern as background for moth
Patterns in nature:
Staring at the pattern of this plant’s leaves can make you dizzy!
Patterns in art (Palestine and Egypt):
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge continues with the theme of colors. This week the topic is basically one color or hue.
This photo was not shot nor edited black & white. The trees and clouds actually looked like this on a spring day in northern Wisconsin.
Turtles at The Grove visitors’ center, Mt. Prospect, IL
Chinese Reconciliation Park, Tacoma, WA
Point Defiance Park, Tacoma
Passau, Germany
Wine pressing tanks, Morwald Winery, Austria
Modern clock, Cologne, Germany
Kinderdijk, Netherlands
Cologne Cathedral, Germany
Miniature show “Whimsical Wonderland,” Elk Grove Village, IL
Flowers, Des Plaines, IL
Some animals are the color they are to blend in with their environment, such as hyraxes who hide among the rocks where they live, mongoose who inhabit giant anthills, and even a hippo with just its eyes & ears above the water. (All photos taken in Tanzania.)
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge continues with her color series – this week it is pastel colors.
Some flowers are bright, while others have muted colors. Most marigolds are bright, but these are soft yellow and white.
Dahlias come in all colors – some are bright, some are light.
Wilted orchid
Artists experiment with all kinds of color schemes. These are some pastel colors in artwork.
“Hazel” (2019) in pastels – artist is yours truly!
A recent exhibit at the Chicago Art Institute featured drawings by 17th century Dutch masters. This pair is “A Portrait of a Man” and “A Portrait of a Woman” by Jan de Bray (1650) – black & red chalk on ivory laid paper.
Edouard Manet “Vase of White Lilacs and Roses” (1883) – oil on canvas
Pastels in sculptures
Fish sculpture, Poulsbo, WA
Chinese Reconciliation Park, Tacoma, WA
Pastel buildings – Passau, Germany
Baroque stucco roof
Carved block from a church
Posted for Cee’s FOTD 11/25/19.
Go to Cee’s FOTD 11/24/19 to see many more beautiful flowers!
See more flowers at Cee’s FOTD 11/23/19.