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Cee’s Compose Yourself Challenge: #22 Guide the Viewer and Flipping Photos
Cee’s CCY Challenge is about guiding the viewer to see your image the way you want them to.. Essay Guide the Viewer As a photographer, we have the option of guiding your viewer to see the photo as you want it to be seen. In some ways that is what composition it all about. We…
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Monochrome Madness 3-8 – Closed Theme
This week in Monochrome Madness there is a theme, and the theme for this week is ‘Closed’. Why I picked the above photograph was simply because of the look on the horse’s face.. he was looking at me as if he was trying to say he is ‘closed in’. Many thanks to Leanne Cole…
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WPC – Kensei Taiko
Jubilant is the theme for this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge.. as they played their drums in rhythm these Kensei Taiko drummers were jubilant with the applause they received from the crowd after their rendition…
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Ivory and Fuschia
One of the places we visited in San Francisco was the Conservatory of Flowers… if you ever go to San Francisco make sure you visit this place, especially if you like flowers. Anyway for my Before and After for today, I chose a photo taken at Conservatory of Flowers… don’t ask me what…
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Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge
Tongues and Tails Essay This week’s Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge (CB&W) topic is Tongues and Tails. For the ‘tongues’ part of the challenge I have to post a picture of my late dog Bo… who went to Rainbow Bridge in July 2012… still sadly missed. And for the ‘tails’ part… this is a…
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Monochrome Madness: 3-6
Honestly I can’t believe I’ve managed it twice in a row… this Google reminder is excellent… anyway here is my contribution for this weeks Monochrome Madness curated by Leanne Cole. The photograph is of the country road that runs alongside Battle Abbey in East Sussex and down towards the fields where the 1066 Battle was…
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Swanning around on my own
Today I wanted to create a soft looking feel to this photograph, which was taken at Leybourne Lakes in Snodland, Kent. It is an ideal place for the kids to run around, there is an adventure playground, and of course plenty of dogs on their daily walks, with some even swimming in the lake. My…
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Monochrome Madness – 3-5
This week I set up a reminder to enter Leanne Cole’s weekly photograph challenge of Monochrome Madness. It is a weekly theme where you can submit a monochrome photograph and Leanne will host it on her blog. My picture for this week is from Nymans in West Sussex….
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One Photo Focus – May
It is that time of month again, when we enter the monthly Photo Challenge held by Stacy Fischer of Visual Venturing… called One Photo Focus. I wanted to create a dreamy looking photograph to this wonderful house.. so I did my basic edits in Lightroom and lowered the clarity to achieve the dreamy, soft looking…
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On the trail
One of my favourite photographers has to be Serge Ramelli and just recently he has been doing tutorials of photographs he has taken at Yosemite National Park and has called them, his “On the trail of Ansel Adams” series. I can’t believe it was nearly a year ago that we were at Yosemite and after…
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Stacy Fischer – One Photo Focus – November
Doesn’t a month soon fly by… before I realised it, it was already the end of October and time to think about the November Monthly Photo Challenge set by Stacy Fischer of Visual Venturing. When I first looked at this photo, which was submitted by Helen Chen I didn’t have a clue what to do……
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Soft petals from Belmont House Gardens
Sometimes you get a photograph and you have shot it either at the wrong angle or there is just something you don’t like about it. The photograph from above came from this photograph straight out of the camera, pictured on the left below. But with a bit of cropping and a slight twist of the…