April 3, 2020 at 7:31 pm (destinations, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Albuquerque, Cornwall, England, Fowey, Fowey Festival, Fridays, London, memories, New Mexico, nostalgia
This week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge is DISTANCE.
These days, everyone’s talking about and hopefully practicing “Social Distancing”. Since it’s something we should all be doing, we thought a challenge focused on DISTANCE might be an appropriate reminder of its importance.
Self visited New Mexico over the holidays. The place still fascinates.
Cranes in a field near Albuquerque, New Mexico: Late December 2019
Self loves London’s bridges. She loves the view, she loves the bustling river traffic.
London, November 2019
Finally, self was fascinated by Cornwall, which she visited for the first time last May, to attend the Fowey Festival of the Arts (Traditionally held in May, the festival’s been postponed to late September),
Sailboat near Fowey, Cornwall: May 2019
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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April 3, 2020 at 1:55 pm (Flowers, postaday)
Tags: California, Cee Neuner, Fridays, Garden, Redwood City, seasons, spring
Self’s topic is WHITE.
There are many white flowers in her Redwood City garden, blooming now. Such as:
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March 27, 2020 at 9:08 pm (destinations, Holidays, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: blogs, Cee Neuner, New Mexico, photography
Cee Neuner: Pick a topic from this photo.
Possible topics: black and white, tree, sky, road, vanishing point, landscape, horizon, clouds, weather, country side, early morning, or come up with your own topic.
Self picked SKY.
All from her first visit to Santa Fe, New Mexico, late December 2019
Museum Hill, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 28 December 2019
On the I-25 from Santa Fe to Albuquerque, 28 December 2019
Still on the I-25, Still 28 December 2019
Check out these other takes:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 8, 2020 at 2:26 pm (destinations, fpj-photo-challenge, Holidays, Links, Places, postaday, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: England, Holidays, London, memorial, Oxford, World War I
Miriam Hurdle: “I am fascinated by the reflection photographs in the lakes, the rivers, the building windows, the sunglasses, the mirrors, and the puddles.”
Self is, too!
Here are three from her archives:
- Two snapshots of the London Eye, taken from the next bridge over, November 2019
- Lily Pond in Front of Christ Church, Oxford, UK, 11 November 2019 (Armistice Day)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 29, 2020 at 6:34 pm (destinations, Flowers, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Places, postaday, Weather)
Tags: Garden, Redwood City, Saturday
This week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge, YARD, is a great one, practically tailor-made for self. When the weather is good, self spends much time in her yard. She’s extra-inspired now, as the trellis has been painted.
This was the day the painters arrived:
And this is what her front yard looked like when the plumbers arrived (She decided to take her son’s advice and have the decades-old galvanized iron pipes replaced with copper).
Meanwhile, in the backyard, her plum tree is starting to bloom.
Spring is a gorgeous time of year in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 21, 2020 at 10:20 pm (Flowers, Links, postaday)
Tags: causes, Cee Neuner, elections, Fridays, humor, politics
What a fun prompt! Thank you much, Cee Neuner!
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February 12, 2020 at 11:39 pm (Food and Drink, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: California, elections, farmers markets, fast food, London, Manila, politics, restaurants
There’s always plenty of action around us, so your challenge is to share some of your best captures of that action with all your blogging friends.
— Tuesday Photo Challenge
Ever since self’s Nikon Coolpix stopped working, she hasn’t taken as many pictures. Taking pictures with her Android is such a bear! Nevertheless, she did manage to take some action pictures:
- Top Picture: San Mateo Farmers Market, the Yang Gang, January 2020
- Middle Picture: On the street in front of Ottolenghi in Spitalfields, East London, Nov 2019
- Bottom Picture: Jollibee Hamburger, a little past midnight, Manila, September 2019
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 6, 2020 at 4:59 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Flowers, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Surprises, Weather)
Tags: art, California, exhibits, Garden, museums, Redwood City
Self loves the idea of REST.
REST is crucial to her creativity.
Recently, she had an opportunity to see an amazing exhibit at the Bakersfield Museum of Art:
Night. Rest. Nocturnes. What a beautiful theme.
Not to mention: The paintings she saw were otherworldy, powerful in their depictions of this special and mysterious time of day.
For instance, Jessica Dunne’s, which showed a San Francisco street in fog:
Just after she drove down to Bakersfield, the Bay Area had a brief string of sunny days. Gorgeous! Self went to the backyard, for the first time in weeks, and saw an eight-foot-high bush completely covered in bright, yellow flowers. So many flowers, she could barely see the green.
What is the reason for such a ridiculous display, flowers? She never fertilizes and barely waters. This is a common euryops, which is the landscape plant of choice for new subdivisions. But she’s never seen them throw out flowers in a display so in-your-face! That’s the ony way she can think to describe it. It is so overpoweringly extra. She took this picture early in the morning:
Euryops, February 2020
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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January 24, 2020 at 2:22 am (Holidays, Links, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: Cee Neuner, parades, Redwood City, seasons, summer
YAY! It’s been too long since self has joined Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge.
Self certainly has a lot of photos of SUMMER! Which used to be her favorite time of year (Lately, she’s more and more appreciative of FALL)
Her favorite pictures of Summers past are parades. Here are a bunch from the annual Redwood City Fourth of July Parade, the oldest and largest Fourth of July Parade on the peninsula.
The pictures are all of one band in particular, the Leland Stanford, Jr. University Marching Band (fondly known as LSJUMB)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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January 20, 2020 at 8:10 pm (Books, destinations, fpj-photo-challenge, Holidays, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Albuquerque, California, memories, Menlo Park, Mondays, New Mexico, photography, websites
Leading lines carry our eyes through a photograph. They help to tell a story, to place emphasis, and to draw a connection between objects. — Tina R. Schell on the blog Travels and Trifles: Expressing Thought Through Photography
Self loved the quote from Pete Bridgewood:
- Unlike the painter who starts with a blank canvas and builds up his image by the addition of paint, as photographers we work in the other direction.
The photos below are from December 2019, during which, as usual, self did a lot of traveling.
Old Albuquerque, December 2019
On the I-25 from Santa Fe to Albuquerque, 27 December 2019
Kepler’s Books, Downtown Menlo Park, December 2019
Thanks for the interesting prompt, Lens-Artists!
Stay tuned.
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