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Weekly Photo Challenge: Windows in Chicago

I’ve needed a place to post some of these wonderful pictures I took in Chicago. I bet they are seeing different scenery out of them than Randy and I did […]

Hobbies

Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers

Layers conjures all kinds of images for me. As a gal from the Midwest, I learned to dress in layers, but layers envelops us at even more basic levels than […]

Hobbies

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You

I love most colors. My house and clothes closet swell with many colors that reflect my love of variety and life. I love contrast. Blue might be my favorite hue […]

Photo Challenges

WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated

Saturated blue picture due to the wrong ISO setting, I believe. Very fixable in Photoshop – amazingly! 🙂

Photo Challenges

Wednesday Challenge: Focus

Focus. This week’s challenge is inspired by Matthew George’s post on focus, in which he introduced us to the basics of depth of field and aperture. He explained what an image with […]

Photo Challenges

Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow

Wednesday is two days before the WordPress challenge changes, so I’d better get busy. Nobody wants to go to the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame in Davis, California and leave the prize […]

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Three Easy Steps To Create a Business Photo from a Snapshot

We all take pictures, and many of them are good […]

Photo Challenges

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour

The morning golden hours are the hours I’d rather still be in bed. My husband sometimes gets up and snaps a picture or two. Some of my favorite pictures were […]

Hobbies

Ask Marsha: Easy Tips to Improve Photos

You all know that I took an online lesson with Leanne Cole. You can too, by the way. She gave me some composition tips as well as some Photoshop tips […]

Personal Stories

Weekly Photo Challenge – The world through your eyes

For the most part I see things through rose-colored glasses, […]

Photo Challenges

Challenge Me: Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

I had curves growing up, my knees and my elbows! Most everything else about me is straight. EXCEPT that I have astigmatisms in both eyes, and I can’t draw straight […]

Photo Challenges

Wild Weekly Photo Challenge: #32 The Beach

Visited by thousands of readers in more than 155 countries around the world, LetsBeWild.com is all about getting people outside – the great outdoors is where it’s at when it […]

Personal Stories

WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

Have you ever wanted to escape from your past? From the faults and character qualities of your family that you didn’t like or admire? We always sort of disowned my […]

Hobbies

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

I enjoy the WordPress challenges. This one, UP, was particularly fun. Up is ubiquitous. As I looked up my photos, “up” took on one meaning after another. Some of my […]

Photo Challenges

Where to Find Color for a Photo Challenge Like an Expert

Weekly Photo Challenge: Color Woodlake Botanical Gardens At the Kiwanis […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures

January – Thirty years ago student teachers HAD to be a member of a professional organization as part of their graduation requirements. Although it is no longer mandatory, social studies […]

Hobbies

Sunday Post: Christmas

Jake has done it again – a post to challenge my photographic abilities. I haven’t been too successful with night pictures or inside pictures. So here is my trial. Thanks […]

Education

Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

Delicate suggests many diverse meanings. Curiously, now and again what seems delicate may actually be quite strong, and conversely, when something appears heavy, mechanical, sturdy or awkward may have delicate […]

Hobbies

Travel Theme: Circles

Definition: A circle is the locus of all points equidistant from a central point. Ailsa of Where’s My Backpack, dreamed up a theme that made my mind go in circles trying to […]

Hobbies

Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons

A dear friend gave me wool yarn from Australia to make a warm sweater as a departure gift from Colorado Springs. It was summer, and even in Colorado we weren’t […]

Photo Challenges

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

As I reflect on my blogging experiment this first day of December, I realize that it has gone from experiment to addictive hobby. I am thankful to all of you […]

Hobbies

Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful

This week’s photo challenge by WordPress, Thankful , conjures up pictures of food, family, friends, and material objects. Beyond our immediate circle of influence and interaction, our country, and the peace, […]

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Magnified Fall in the Foothills

Happy Thanksgiving!!! It’s always good to be home, even though there are no cultural places to visit nearby, or Diners and Dives restaurants. There’s also little rain, traffic, or noise […]

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Mowing the Cotton Field

When the mountain stopped me and asked me to take a picture of it, I had no idea that right across the street something was begging me even more to […]

Photo Challenges

Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign

This post was inspired by a prompt from WP Daily Post: Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign. In this case I chose to focus on the word foreign meaning outside the United States […]

Photo Challenges

Weekly Photo Challenge: Big

This week’s WordPress challenge is BIG. When I think of big, I usually think of an object – a big car, house, horse, dog, etc. We went to a large […]

Personal Stories

Blog and Retirement Management

Books are in place. I’m open for business.“What business?” you wonder, then you advise. “Well, Marsha, now that you are retired and blogging you ought to blog about things that […]

Hobbies

Sunday Post: Favorite Spot

Thanks to Amy for leading me to Jake who has the Sunday Post Challenge. I have to think about where my favorite spot is, but I know it faces north. […]

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Practicing Photoshop

Steve Woods from Tulare County Office of Education runs a tight Photoshop ship, and he navigated us through some difficult waters. I practiced quite a bit today, with mixed success. […]

Blogging

Blog Thoughts

Most of the blogs I run across include photography. Blogging documents trips, family or friends’ gatherings, spotlights interests, conveys information, or displays creative talent. I find that I compete […]

Blogging

Central California Bird: Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)

Submitted from my archives for Bird Weekly My husband suggested […]

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Marsha Ingrao – Always Write

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Windows in Chicago

Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You

WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated

Wednesday Challenge: Focus

Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow

Three Easy Steps To Create a Business Photo from a Snapshot

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour

Ask Marsha: Easy Tips to Improve Photos

Weekly Photo Challenge – The world through your eyes

Challenge Me: Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

Wild Weekly Photo Challenge: #32 The Beach

WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

Where to Find Color for a Photo Challenge Like an Expert

Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures

Sunday Post: Christmas

Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

Travel Theme: Circles

Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful

Magnified Fall in the Foothills

Mowing the Cotton Field

Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign

Weekly Photo Challenge: Big

Blog and Retirement Management

Sunday Post: Favorite Spot

Practicing Photoshop

Blog Thoughts

Central California Bird: Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)