Enchanting Essex

Category: Weekly Challenge

  • Lens-Artists Challenge #399: Stuck in Place – The Angels of Kingsville

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    You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.†  The Challenge:  …let’s get stuck in one place. Ideally, you should carve out thirty minutes to an hour to do…

  • Lens-Artists Challenge #398: Choose A Colour

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    You may share one photo featuring each of the following captivating colors in their various shades: red, blue, green, purple, orange, and yellow. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.† And never is that more apparent than in the world of wildflowers. Thank you to Ritva for designing such an interesting, interpretive, and creative…

  • Lens Artist Challenge #397: Texture — Touch Comes Before Sight*

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    Lens Artist Challenge #397: Texture This week Anne is inspiring us with this challenge: How do we make our two-dimensional medium feel like three-dimensions? Texture, however, gives us the visual quality of a surface — how rough, smooth, gritty, or soft it appears in a two-dimensional image. Show us your images where texture plays an integral part.  Texture…

  • Lens-Artists Challenge # 396 – Pick a Favourite Quote and Illustrate it

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    This week you can choose one quote accompanied with a maximum of five pictures or a maximum of five quotes illustrated with one picture each. Make us “feel”your quote(s) in pictures! Annie Dillard: “Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out…

  • Lens-Artists Challenge #395 — On the Water:  Liquid Lapse of Thought*

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    Lens Artists Photo Challenge #395 – Looking back to #151 On the Water Some of my favourite creatures to photograph live in shallow water habitats — ponds, creeks and, my favourite, marshes.  Wearing my water shoes, I’m not averse to mucking about in those areas, but my entire world changed when I got my kayak.…

  • Lens-Artists Challenge #394 — Yesterday is History

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    Yesterday is History Yesterday is History,‘Tis so far away —Yesterday is Poetry —‘Tis Philosophy — Yesterday is mystery —Where it is TodayWhile we shrewdly speculateFlutter both away† ‘Though our history is a mere fledgling compared to most of the world, I’m very proud of it and, thanks to John’s brilliant challenge, so happy to share…

  • Lens-Artists Challenge #393 — Lucky Shot

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    I struggled with this challenge.  Come to think of it, I’ve written that same sentence with regards to a few of these challenges and I’ve not even been doing them all that long.  In many respects, I think mine is an appropriate reaction — it is a challenge, after all… My first photography teacher (Dad)…

  • Lens-Artists Challenge:  Foreground, Middle Ground, Background

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    First, a confession:  I am utter crap at the technical aspect of photography.  I know the basics, know my DSLR and its lenses inside-out, know what I like, but beyond that….  For me, the benefit of this challenge was an awareness of my artistic shortcomings.  I realize that in many (too many?) shots, there is…

  • Unwinding With The Critters

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    Lens Artists Challenge #389: Time to Relax But what relaxes you? What gets you away from the stresses of daily life. What’s your passion?† On any given day, I’m probably the most stressed-out person you’ll meet.  Relaxation (without stress) doesn’t typically come easily to me but answering Anne’s questions was easy.  A leisurely rural ramble through…

  • All the variety…

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    Lens-Artists Challenge #387 — Shadowed All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.† Wildflowers are one of my passions and I spend a lot of time when I’m out on the trails, shooting them.  ‘Though there’s a certain appeal in recording a wildflower meadow or…

  • Mutually Distinct Realities

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    Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.† Lens-Artists #386: The Power of Juxtaposition Trust the author to create such a cerebral challenge!  A most enjoyable challenge, though, thank you Patti! You’ll undoubtedly either smile or roll your eyes, but whenever I hear or read the…

  • Crops and Discoveries

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     Lens-artists challenge #385 – unusual crop.   First, here’s the assignment and the inspiration: What an Unusual Crop! No, I cannot do this; it’s too hard. No, it’s not. Give it a try, be bold, be creative. You can do it. Exceed yourself, like they say in the Olympics. Cropping stands as one of the…

  • Anserine Astonishment

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    Lens Artists Photo Challenge #384 – What Astonishes You? This lovely challenge was created by Beth of Wandering Dawgs: “What have you seen or experienced that has astonished you? The challenge is to include photos about things that astonish you and tell us why you are astonished.  I got the inspiration for this challenge from these…

  • Paradigms and Patterns

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    Lens-Artists Challenge #383 – Looking Back to #174 – Shapes and Designs  This challenge immediately ignited my imagination — thank you Tina!  I had a happy time today sorting through my image albums looking for some shots that might fit the bill.   Many thanks for today’s challenge to the extraordinarily talented Tina from Travels and…