Tag: lens-artists
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Lens-Artists Challenge #409 – My Wannabe Best Ever Images
I scoured my MacBook for five perfect views,By Lens-Artists standards, there’s not much to choose!A laneway a skyline and a barn of stone,An eagle, a crown where a butterfly’s flown. My photography skill is a work in progress so, being perfectly honest with myself, “best-ever” is, as yet, a goal not an actuality. But I…
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The Flower Hour #43: Random August Amble
My Green In-Between Beyond my pillow and my desk,Lies something grand and picturesque!A secret lane where bees carouse,And nodding blossoms gently drowse. I snap a picture of a bee,Chat with any neighbours I see.No longer strangers passing by,We watch the busy Hoverfly. Away from chores and indoor care,We weave our stories through the air,A little…
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The Flower Hour #42: Six Steps Through the Alphabet Garden
A lens, a challenge, a creative quest,To find the blooms the alphabet blessed.Right in the middle, where letters align,Six pretty frames of botanical design. The journey began with the letters of J,Where wild Joe-Pye Weed was swaying away;Beside it, the Japanese Peony grows,With layers of silk in a stunning repose. An herbaceous perennial of the…
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The Flower Hour #41: Hardly a Planter to be Found
Welcome to the Dead Plants Society.† Full disclosure: I have two “black thumbs” — I’ve managed (usually quite rapidly) to kill the plants in any and every planter we’ve ever had. Forty-two years’ worth!!! Ergo, there weren’t many pictures to choose from but yes, Terri, I do dare! This is a scan of a photograph…
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Lens-Artists Challenge #406: The Lazy “Daze” of Summer
Summer Daze Summer is the flutter of a painted wing,Where sleepy pollinators and beetles sing.A rustle in the stalks of emerald corn,As raindrops reflect the light of early morn. Summer is feathered, marine and furry folk,Within and beneath the shade of ancient oak.Where petals proudly unfurl in vibrant hues,And painted boats go cruising Lake Erie’s…
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The Flower Hour #40: GHI — A Triple Trio Gone Wild!
Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart.* Where wildflowers bloom, so does hope.1 Thanks to Terri for another Flower Hour challenge, her weekly reminder to be sure to notice the flowers along the way (borrowing from the great Walter Hagen2). Please take a few minutes to read Terri’s lovely post and see her purely amazing…
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#405 — Adventures: Fantastic and Fascinating Finger Lakes
Personally, I think every day is an adventure.* One of my favourite aspects of the Lens-Artists’ posts are the photos you share of your travels. Living vicariously is me. Your adventures appear exciting, and enlightening and exotic and breathtaking and transformative and enjoyable — all at the same time. I love the pictures and the…
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The Flower Hour #39: Orange you glad?
Orange is the happiest color. [Frank Sinatra] Knock, knock.“Who’s there?”“Orange.”“Orange who?”“Orange you glad Terri picked this challenge?” [Sorry! Couldn’t resist. Favourite childhood joke, bar none.] Thanks to Terri for our weekly glimpse at floral beauty – quite the loveliest weekly challenge of all, IMHO. Please take a moment to view Terri’s post and admire her…
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The Flower Hour #38: DEF – initely a fun challenge!
Daisy: Becky Shasta Daisy (Leucanthemum x superbum) Echinacea: Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) Foxglove: Foxglove (Digitalis) Thanks to Terri for another enjoyable weekly floral challenge. I’ll bet there’ll be lots of Echinacea this week! Please take a moment to visit Terri’s site and enjoy the three beautiful pictures she’s featuring today: The Flower Hour #38:…
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The Flower Hour #37: Patriotic Florals
Thanks to Terri for this sweet and timely prompt. Please visit her site to see her lovely take on Patriotic Florals: The Flower Hour #37: Patriotic Florals ‘Til next time, y’all…
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #404 – Carolinian Kaleidoscope
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #404 – Subjects that begin with the letter B Thank you to Beth for this challenge: It’s my turn to host the challenge this week. Let’s have a little fun and feature subjects that begin with the letter B. What subjects can you find that start with the letter B? Please limit…
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Wildflower Wednesdays – #1 Daisies
Terri Webster Schrandt recently launched The Flower Hour photo challenge on October 7, 2025, after it was discovered that Cee Neuner closed her blog permanently. Cee Neuner was the originator of Flower of the Day (FOTD) photo challenge and posted the challenge all 7 days of the week. After our beloved friend and amazing photographer…
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The Flower Hour #32 – Dogwood Delight
The Flower Hour #32: Going to the Dog-Woods This week’s prompt makes me positively euphoric — it is one of only a very few (so far?) when I have actually had some images of Terri’s chosen flower. I’d have shared a picture of me doing my happy dance but I’d have surely frightened everyone away! Here…
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Lens-Artists Challenge #399: Stuck in Place – The Angels of Kingsville
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…
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Project 365 – #21
I’ve been encouraged to link my flower posts so, fingers crossed, here goes: Spring Festival 2026: Week #9~Buttercup Field Floral Friday – Last days in the garden using the tripod for my flowers The Flower Hour #31: Local Lilacs and Lupine ‘Til next time, y’all…
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Lens-Artists Challenge #398: Choose A Colour
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…
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The Flower Hour #30: A Wealth of Lilacs
A wealth of lilacs have I here,Their mystic whispers stir my ear.Their lovely fragrance fills my heart,As memories their blooms impart.* Lilacs are synonymous with home for me. My dad planted a row along the two sides and back of our yard to make a privacy hedge, and, this time every year, their fragrance was…
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Lens Artist Challenge #397: Texture — Touch Comes Before Sight*
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…
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Lens-Artists Challenge # 396 – Pick a Favourite Quote and Illustrate it
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…
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Lens-Artists Challenge #395 — On the Water: Liquid Lapse of Thought*
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.…
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The Flower Hour #27 – Pussytoes
Pussytoes fledgling new blossomsantennaria spreading‘tho cold spring breezes blow Thanks to Terri for another Flower Hour post that made me smile. Please take a minute to visit her site and enjoy her gorgeous images and the stories behind them, you’ll be glad you did, promise: The Flower Hour #27: Daffodils Celebrate Earth Day ‘Til next…
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Lens-Artists Challenge #394 — Yesterday is History
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…
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Lens-Artists Challenge #393 — Lucky Shot
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)…
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The Flower Hour #25: Coneflower Conviviality
This beauty is a non-native, robust, pollinator-friendly herbaceous perennial. The etymology of Echinacea is the ancient Greek word ekhinos (ἐχῖνος). The modern Greek word, achinós (αχινός) translates to sea urchin, and has become a fundamental noun in both botany and zoology, where it is used to describe plants and organisms that are thorny, spiky, prickly, barbed, or spinous.…