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Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight or Weightlessness

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

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 […]

Photo Challenges

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 […]

Photo Challenges

Twinkle

The six million dollar photo that sold recently captured the perfect twinkle of light and processed it beautifully. These are my $1.00 twinkles taken with my iPhone last year at […]

Hobbies

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 […]

Hobbies

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 […]

Photo Challenges

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 […]

Hobbies

Word Press Photo Challenge: Achievement – Zoom Zoom

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

Blogging

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 […]

Photo Challenges

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 […]

Hobbies

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 […]

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 […]

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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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Three Easy Steps To Create a Business Photo from a Snapshot

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

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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, […]

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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 […]

Hobbies

Sunday Post: Perspective: Best Luau Ever

Thank you Jake for this challenge to help me share my perspective of our luau experiences. To learn how to enter your own posts about perspectives, visit Jake’s Sunday Post. […]

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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 […]

Non-profit

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 […]

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