This is my contribution to Cee’s On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Plant Sunflowers.
A few years ago we planted some Sunflower seeds and had some growing naturally in the yard from the wild bird seed.
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This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: From an Unusual Angle.
Given that the Covid-19 restrictions mean that I am basically just following three or four routes when going for a walk I had started photographing the trees from unusual viewpoints a few weeks ago.
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Weekly Prompts: Wheels
This is my contribution to the Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Wheels.
Having been digitising my slide archives for a few months I thought about some of the colourful wheels found on old steam traction engines and farm tractors from my years living in Cheshire, England.
Yellow wheels. A traction engine at a steam rally in Cheshire.
Red wheel detail. A steam traction engine wheel at a steam fair.
Orange wheels. A competitor in the Cheshire Ploughing Match in the 1980s.
When I read the prompt for the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge: Yellow one subject came to mind immediately.
For the past few years I have been photographing a giant yellow butterfly garden ornament on my walks around the neighborhood. I briefly considered going with a small selection of photos of the decorative butterfly until remembering two more yellow objects I have photographed on my walks this month.
The butterfly taken with a telephoto lens and given a selective colour treatment.
A yellow bicycle decorating a shed.
A yellow road sign in the snow.
The butterfly taken with a wide angle lens making use of a blue sky.
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.
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Signs in the Snow
This is my contribution to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: All Sorts of Signs.
I find both these signs amusing in the winter. I gave them both a spot colour treatment for a splash of colour in the snow.
This warning sign of a 90 degree bend on a local back road is slightly deceiving. If you turn right you head towards the nearest town. Turning left takes you onto a narrow, dead end gravel road that may or may not be passable without a 4×4 due to snow drifts. Some years it also gets washed out during the spring thaw.
These No Parking signs on a utility pole must be so people don’t park on the chest high snow bank.
This is my day 29 contribution to Becky’s January Squares: Light photo challenge.
Simply a backlit Sunflower.
