Having miscalculated my squares for October I had to find a square to end the month. So I thought a bird at sunset would be an appropriate ending.
A male Mallard in silhouette at sunset in the winter is my day 31 contribution to Becky’s October Squares challenge on the theme of Kind.
A big thanks to Becky for an interesting and varied October Squares. It was bigger challenge than usual for me without an internet connection at home.
Three birds silhouetted against the rising sun on Colpoy’s Bay.
This is my day 30 contribution to Becky’s October Squares challenge on the theme of Kind. It was planned as the last square of the month and should really have been a sunset.
Unfortunately, partly due to having no internet connection at home, I miscalculated and this is now the penultimate square.
This is my contribution to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Lighting of Any Kind.
Old wood piles sticking out of Colpoy’s Bay at sunrise.
This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Threes and Threes challenge.
Three photos of threes.
Three American White Pelicans on a section of Last Mountain Lake National Wildlife Area in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Storm clouds and light beams at Loch Arkaig, Scotland. Something of a rarity for me, a scenic photo sort of following the rule of thirds.
Three birds silhouetted against the rising sun on Colpoy’s Bay, Ontario, Canada at sunrise.
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge prompt Shadows and Silhouettes.
I decided to keep it simple and go with one photo of shadows and one photo of a silhouette.
Trees and their shadows at Bickerton Hill in southern Cheshire, England.
A Eurasian Blue Tit silhouetted against the rising sun at Faddiley in southern Cheshire, England.
Tina has challenged everyone to a Treasure Hunt for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.
It all got a little confusing for me due to various issues unconnected with this blog. In the end I copied and pasted the list of treasure hunt items to a memo as a reminder.
Just to make things even more complicated I also made myself some rules. A set of four photos with two horizontal compositions and two vertical compositions. Also as wide a variety of techniques and subject matter as possible.
A frozen marsh at sunset, Little Quill Lake, Saskatchewan. This covers the sunset and the cold items of the treasure hunt. I’m assuming -40 degrees is cold enough.
A yellow bicycle in the snow. This covers bicycle and cold on the list of treasure hunt items. Actually, it’s the shadow of a tree on the shed that makes the shot for me.
Sewing a camera strap. This is for sewing in the list of bonus items.
A Blue Tit silhouetted against the rising sun. This covers the sunrise and bird items of the treasure hunt.
This is my day 28 contribution to Becky’s January Squares: Light photo challenge.
One of the earliest photos I have used for the January Squares. It dates back to the mid 1970s and was part of a slide presentation that got me a place at art school.
It shows a full moon shining through a gap in the branches of an Oak tree in Hatherton, Cheshire, England.
