The various themes Becky used in #PastSquares are:
FlowersSkyCircles & SquaresRoofsIn the PinkTimeSpikyBlueLinesWords containing the word ‘light’TopPerspectivesKindaUpBrightTrees
My Choices for Today
My husband and I discussed different ways of showing perspective. Here is one looking from about that I used for one of Cee’s B & White challenges. It works well for this week’s Vanishing Point theme. I think it shows the perspective better than having the greenery distracting from the color splash.
The shot above also works for Cee’s Black and White Challenge for this week.
All of these shots, one from above and two straight on show what I think of a traditional photographic perspective.
I used some of Terri’s techniques to make this picture of the wind machines a little eerie for her Sunday Stills today. The sky looks like a painting to me. The pixelization looks like I reduced a picture that was already small, but it wasn’t. So I’m guessing that taking the picture at 70 mph through the window of the car may have caused the distortion. However, I like it.
I used this image or ones like it in a post I did about aging. This perspective shows a way of thinking. In the past, I might have thought this dandelion was ugly – a throwaway. But as I get older, my perspective about what is ugly has changed. Now, I would say that this dandelion picture is artistic at the least and beautiful at best. I copied Tina Schell’s idea about making things weird and wonderful by changing the tone to sepia to make the picture a little eerie for Terri’s Sunday Stills today.
The last three pictures will also work for John Steiner’s Cell Pic Sunday Challenge.
It’s time to go now. The month is done. Have a happy Halloween and may your Trick or Treat sacks be full of your favorite candies. 🙂
Now It’s Your Turn
Join Becky’s PastSquares challenge. Today is your LAST chance. All you have to do is square your pictures. Since I started using Bridge, it is so easy, no mess, no fuss. Thanks, Cee for getting me started and teaching me Bridge techniques.
Up Coming and Outgoing
- Tuesday – The exciting Summary of Story Chat for “Puddles” by Hugh Roberts – This deserves another read right before Halloween!
- Wednesday – #WQWWC 46 Spooky, PastSquares for Becky B.
- Thursday – Challenge Host Interview – Photos by Jez, Becky B’s Past Square – Lavendar Lady
- Friday – PPAC #20 Dinosaurs on the Streets of Mesa, AZ
- Saturday – Lens Artist Challenge A Day of My Week
- Sunday – Happy Halloween, Sunday Stills, Cell Pic Sunday
- Tuesday, November 2nd Story Chat, “Broaching the Subject” by Doug Jaquier
- November 7th – Birthday Bash for Cee Neuner and me celebrating big numbers.
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
I enjoyed your photos Marsha. So fun to see things from other’s perspectives. Those stairs are crazy. We have some stairs like that in a town we visit often and phew was I tired after climbing them.
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I’m always better going down than up!
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Adorable!
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The blue banister on the stairs is so effective in pulling your eye into the photo and down the stairs. Such a good edit.
I like the landscape, too. That effect is like time traveling. The left side of the photo looking like present day and the right side looking like something from the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. So interesting how color or the lack of color can play on our emotions.
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That is so true. In the past, we didn’t have the choice. Now by taking the pictures in color we can give them many varied looks in black and white whereas in the past the camera and the film manipulated how they came out.
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I love the variety in this set and your detailed commentary. My favourite is the sunflower, I love the moodiness of the shot, especially the sepia version 🙂
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Thank you, Sarah. Hope you are having a lovely week. 🙂
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My favorite is the split screen! 🙂 Well done, Marsha.
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You did very well to knock off all the past themes in one week, Marsha. It must have been fun finding photos to fit more than one topic.
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It was more like more than one topic fit one photo. 🙂
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You’ve done really well to combine all these challenges Marsha! I love the dandelion photo and the slider button adds something very special to the photo. Love all your squares and your commitment!
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Thank you Deb. I’m trying to get back into the swing of things.
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there’s something about windmills I find fascinating…
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As long as your not a wind machine repairman, you can enjoy them.
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I guess such a job would take a little bit of the joy out of admiring them… 🙂
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There was a guy on the news in CA a while back that lost his arm when it didn’t turn off properly. Now that’s ghoulish. God forbid. That makes me squeamish just to hear about it.
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that does sound awful…
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I know!
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You are still the queen of the combined photo challenge, Marsha (although I hit 6 today)! It helps when our themes sort of mesh together. I really love your sepia dandelion and your thoughts on what is considered beautiful. These all turned out well but my fave is probably the turquoise staircase to who-knows-where. Very cool!
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The stairway went to the beach.
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Well that could be eerie 😉
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It could be. There was a man sleeping in a hammock at the bottom of the stairs.
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🤣🤣
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I looked for the picture on WP to no avail. He’s in there somewhere.
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incredible visuals!💖💖🎃🎃
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Why thank you, Cindy!
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Yes, of course! 💖💖💖🎃
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Terrific post Marsha – thanks for mentioning my sepia treatment. It does seem to fit the pods, don’t you think?! BTW I saw the link and thought it was actually Becky commenting – sorry about that!
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No worries. I’m sure she liked it as well. 🙂
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Great images for this square theme, Marsha!
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Thanks, Amy. 🙂
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ooh love the way you have connected us all, such great squares and fascinating to compare the edits
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Isn’t the compare block so cool. I love what WordPress has done to improve over the years.
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These are great images ..squared up..
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That’s because I’m a little square myself, Anita. 🙂
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LOL!!
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Enjoyed your squares today – and I like how you end with the upcoming section (and outgoing) such a good idea and so organized – I know you have been doing that for a while – but I especially found it useful this week !
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Thanks, Ivette. I didn’t do it while I was down. Since I’m back blogging I have something to look forwards to and backwards at. Don’t you love those ending prepositions?
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Well there is a time for prepositional endings – and a time for not – hahaha
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I think I can be informal with you. If you decide to publish my comment, you have my permission to correct it. 🙂
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Well did you know that I read a while back that it is a myth that we cannot end the sentence this way…. check this out
Merriam
Webster
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/prepositions-ending-a-sentence-with
“What to Know
Ending a sentence with a preposition such as “with,” “of,” and “to,” is permissible in the English language. There are theories that the false rule originates with the early usage guides of Joshua Poole and John Dryden, who were trying to align the language with Latin, but there is no reason to suggest ending a sentence with a preposition is wrong. Nonetheless, the idea that it is a rule is still held by many.”
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So much for what I learned in grade school and junior high school In those days you double spaced after a period, too. I think that practice came from putting two fingers after your period when we learned to print in kindergarten and first grade. Can’t rely on our education to last a lifetime! 🙂
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Hi – I learned the two spaces after a period in late 80s – and omg – when I started writing long papers in 2006 -2007 – it was habit to do the two spaces – but thankfully the search and replace feature in Word helped fix the spacing – I would search for a period and two spaces then choose replace with one period and one space
Anyhow – I heard that was from shorthand days or allowed room for editing with a pen before it was so digital
I don’t do much editing now – but have helped edit many many documents in the last ten years and Marsha – it amazes me how many people still do the two spaces after a period !
And not sure if you ever used “grammaly” but they have services that offer suggestions by also teaching or telling the writer why they need to consider if something is correct
So it is more than spell check and I know a few students who kept it bookmarked and never upgraded (used the free version) for their major works
I only used it once for a manuscript – I had to have it done and was blind to typos on my own writing and didn’t have time to have someone help proof it – my husband kept suggesting grammarly before that so I tried it and it was so helpful.
I mention it because you might want to try it when you get your manuscript ready for the story chat entries.
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I do have Grammarly. I started using it about 8 years ago. That’s when I had my first edit of my novel. The editor told me about the one space rule. Since then I’ve been shocked at how many rules are outdated.
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Oh well you knew about grammarly before me ! Right on (and write on) hHa
And side note – doing a little blog reading today and saw this post and thought you might enjoy a quick skim-
https://ryanlanz.com/2021/11/01/every-novelist-loves-revising/
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I like Ryan’s posts. He started blogging about the same time I did, I think. I’ll check it out. Thanks for sharing, Yvette. 🙂
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I sometimes forget how many years you have under your belt with the blogosphere 😉
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I know. I spent four years on my self-managed blog, which I hated and wasn’t sure where I was going with blogging. When I came back a year and a half ago, I knew I just wanted it to be for fun, and it was like the fun I had at the beginning, only better because I knew what I was doing – for the most part. Not that I haven’t made changes and improvements since then, but I didn’t have to learn a new vocabulary like I did at first.
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😊
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Either way – informal for sure –
This is blog chat! Hahaha
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LOL, it sure is.
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😊
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Oh and hope you are feeling closer to 100% 🙏💚
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I am. 🙂
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