A One-Day Photo Challenge
One of our former blogging colleagues, Cee Neuner, would be having her 65th birthday today Sadly, she passed away in March.
Dan Antion, our other blogging triplet of a different age, and I want to honor Cee on our birthdays, November 7th, through our blogs. So, if you are someone who takes pictures, perk up your seeing ears.
We are hosting a Combined One-Day Challenge to honor Cee. We’d like you to post a FOTD (Flower of the Day) and/or CBWC (Cee’s Black & White Challenge) on your blogs and link to one or both of our blogs on Friday, November 7th.
FOTD
Cee loved the Dahlia Fields in Canby, Oregon. She was not healthy enough to go with us to see them when Terri Webster Schrandt and I visited Oregon, but my brother took me the next year. It was just as lovely as she described.
Cee taught me photography processing tips when we chatted in 2022. She used primarily the Adobe Bridge program, but Lightroom did a better job of cataloguing pictures. The skills transferred well. In the picture above, I brightened the colors a little bit. I also learned to remove things I didn’t like. I removed a chimney.
Cee told me I needed to clarify my pictures a little because I shake imperceptibly to me, so I always add a pinch of clarification and think of Cee.
This picture would not please Cee 100%, but this is where we had our differences. She did not like bugs in a flower picture. I love bugs enjoying a beautiful flower.
CBWC
The black-and-white pictures can be on any topic, but Cee particularly loved bridges, old cars, and barns, to name a few. Here are some of my favorites that she liked.
Bridge of the Gods between Oregon and Washington near Multnomah Falls over the Columbia River is a bridge we both loved. Metal sparkling like the water, the bridge provides a beautiful view for diners in the restaurant for lunch.
Cee enjoyed my post featuring my friend’s handmade soldiers tooting their own horns.
I posted a lot of black and white pictures before I learned which kind made the best black and white pictures. She recommended lots of contrast between the black and white. That’s why I love the police car. It’s better if they don’t have a super busy background, and you can blur that out, but that involves creating masks.
Masks were almost as easy as Halloween when Cee sat by my side over the phone. I haven’t practiced making masks since those days where she gave me homework to practice my processing skills. Use it or lose it, and sadly, some of my skills have slipped away.
cee had a kind heart
she lived to make a difference
giving sincere tips
to improve your photographs
simple tweeks that made them great
©Marsha Ingrao 2025
Tanka
What are some of your best memories of Cee?
Sign Cee’s One Day Memorial Scrapbook with Your Post
- 40 Thousand KM
- Change Is Hard
- Daily Musings
- Fake Flamenco
- From Pyrenees to Pennines
- GfPacificbees Deb, host of Cee’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC)
- Kamera Promenader
- No Facilities
- Pensitivity 101
- Philosophy Through Photography
- Priorhouse Blog
- Roberta Writes
- Second Wind Leisure
- Showers of Blessings
- Still Restless Jo
- The Life of Becky B. This is a post written by Chris, Cee’s wife. Those of you who loved Cee will smile, cry, or both at her lovely words and photos.
- Tish Farrell
- Thoughts of an E’Ville Woman
- Through Brazilian Eyes
- Travel with Dave
- Wandering Dawgs
- Willow Dot
- Yvensong
Take care and have a wonderful weekend.
Marsha Ingrao Always Write 
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