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The Devil is in the Details

“The Devil is in the Details” I sincerely hope you don’t find him in any of these pictures. The phrase coined in the 1800s as “The good God is in […]

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How Many Ways Can You Find to Look-up?

Thank you for this challenge, WordPress. I see now why I am not a world famous photographer. Ninety-nine percent of my photos are taken straight on. Some of them point […]

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Two Easy Trails You Should Check Out at the Central Coast

https://ceenphotography.com/2016/06/28/cees-fun-foto-challenge-walks-indoor-or-outdoor/ Bob Jones Trail This off the beaten path was […]

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Getting Hooked on Photo Challenges

Photo Challenges Hooked Bloggers- Content & Community Readers and writers get hooked on photo challenges. Photo challenges provide themes and an example response to prime your writing or photography pump. […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Spare

Spare… What was your first thought? Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Much of the Central Valley of California drew its population from Dust Bowl migrants in the 1930s. These Okies […]

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Shooting Spree in the Storm: Forecast for Healthy Future

It was a dark and stormy night. I crept out […]

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WordPress Photo Challenge: Landscape

“If one tries to think about history, it seems to me – it’s like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one […]

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Things that are Rough

My friend Marvin Awbrey died. I loved him dearly. He was such a close friend that I could criticize him when we disagreed, but don’t you dare unless you loved him […]

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Cold Even Hit Sunny California in February

Shivering beneath their antimacassars these baby orange trees see snow in the mountains, and coming down into the foothills. It’s sunny on this chilly morning. The picture looks deceptively warm, but it […]

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If I Could Save Time A Bottle Is As Good of Place as Any

#Hawaiitrip When you’re having a great time, what a wonderful […]

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When You’re Hot, You’re Hot

When you’re hot, you’re cool! Stretching it, warming up. You’re hot! Really hot stuff! You know? Yeah, you can feel it! But maybe you’re not hot yet, you stretch, […]

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Seven Tips for Using Photos in Your Blog in 2020

Millions of people write blogs and are using photos. Here […]

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Go Vibrant for Valentine’s Day

In the Central Valley, spring is the most vibrant time, not only visually, but the way things smell as well. Summer and fall are hazy, Winter is foggy or rainy. Red screams […]

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Photography Advice for Beginning Photo Bloggers

If you are taking a vacation you might consider taking […]

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Mannequin Madness – Would You Wear This?

I’m usually tempted to buy something new in Hawaii when […]

Health

Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight or Weightlessness

What an appropriate topic for this week’s Photo Challenge. I don’t […]

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Google Tools: Picasa

As an author or photographer do you ever get stuck in the middle of a project, and your technology stops you dead in your tracks? When my Photoshop Elements 10 […]

Health

Word Press Photo Challenge: Treat

It’s a treat to thrash Bob — hard! In only two months I’ve gotten so much better at it. When I started fighting Bob, I could barely tap him in […]

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The Blur of Travel

We looked forward to our vacation in Sedona for weeks, and we’ve already been home for two days. What happened? Sights seemed clear enough when we were there. We stopped at a […]

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Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds

Rule of thirds challenges me unless I have a 9 grid overlaying the photo or viewfinder. Since I’ve never seen a viewfinder like that, I confess that these shots became […]

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WP Photo Challenge: Yellow

Yellow seems to creep into every picture even when I don’t focus on it. I looked for a folder that might show a lot of yellow where one might not […]

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Twinkle

The six-million-dollar photo entitled “Phantom” that sold recently captured the perfect twinkle of light and processed it beautifully. These are my $1.00 twinkles taken with my iPhone in 2013 at […]

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Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge

For being such a 100% gorgeous day, Saturday, November 29th turned oddball early on. First of all I called my friend’s dad, Clarence. I know his name is Leonard. I only […]

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Black and White Challenge: Glass

I live much of my life behind glass. My 2006 Prius has over 215,000 miles, my husband’s 2004 truck has nearly 200,000 miles, and his “new” car, a 2010 Prius […]

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Angular: the Daily Post Photo Challenge

I examined 12 posts before I wrote this. I don’t usually do that, but I needed inspiration. I smiled at this favorite . You have to look past the obvious angle to see […]

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Word Press Photo Challenge: Achievement – Zoom Zoom

I achieved something today. I overcame an annoyance that, for many […]

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An Odd San Francisco Hotel Room

It is odd to make a spur of the moment decision to go to San Francisco for the night on the way home from Redding instead of Sacramento, but I […]

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WP Photo Challenge: Refracted Light

The underground gardens in Fresno gives shows off refracting to the maximum. This hand dug castle took years to create, and served it owner as a garden as well as […]

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WP Photo Challenge: Nighttime

Nighttime in St. Louis last November sparkled with Christmas lights. We were on the snow route, but someone forgot the snow. They didn’t forget the cold. Cheryl and I both […]

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WordPress Photo Challenge: Adventure

You probably heard your grandparents say, “Every day just waking up is an adventure.” It’s true. Each day is what we make it, and adventure arrives in ordinary packages. So […]

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WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Dialogue

Puppy Girl dialogued very clearly with Vince. He worked on the computer, when clearly he could have chosen to pet her tummy. So she grabs his hand and pulls. It’s […]

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WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture in Edna Valley

Vince and I discovered tons of textures in this gem […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Containers

A container holds something. A car holds people. Therefore a car is a container. Actually, the museum building is also a container. It contained mock buildings, which contained relics. Container […]

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WordPress Photo Challenge: Relic

In the rustic western town, Woodlake, California, and surrounding countryside, people often decorate with relics. It takes artistic flair to arrange relics to look more than junky. I’m still at the junky […]

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Travel Theme: Twist: Twisted Fourth of July

Setting up for an all city celebration traps workers into all kinds of twists and turns. Unfurling flags took hours. Some workers didn’t stop until they saw stars! Hope you […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Room

This is the perfect challenge to tell you about the wonderful interesting room I had in San Francisco a couple of months ago. I wanted to support these people because […]

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WordPress Photo Challenge: Letters

The Pennsylvania Railroad Museum didn’t bother to post their rules in any language but English. That may have been their downfall. Sometimes the letters aren’t right when you take a […]

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WP Photo Challenge: Reflections

These birds lined up on the log and posed for this picture so beautifully. Were they preening for the morning, admiring their own reflection? As I watched them, others pulled […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated

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

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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 […]

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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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