This weeks challenge topic is one that will have you remembering some of your favourite images. Steven is this weeks guest host and he presented a beautiful opportunity to bring forward some of your absolute favourites! You can check out his ‘Best Ever’ post here! Steven reminds us of World Photography week, and sums up this weeks challenge below.
“World Photography Week runs from 12th – 26th August, with World Photography day falling on 19th August. I thought this would be a fantastic opportunity for everyone to share with the Lens-Artists contributors their ‘BEST EVER IMAGES’ ! Pictures that celebrate our love of photography.
Maybe it’s an image that you planned and worked hard to achieve and you’ve captured the perfect composition. It can be an image that’s special to you, or others, that captures a special moment or, perhaps an image that you are really proud of or won an award with.
All I’d ask is for you to submit up to five images with a sentence or two about them and the stories behind them. I enjoy reading the narrative behind any image.” Steven
This is the first image that I think will always come to mind. From the summer of 2014 I woke early, before everyone else, while the sun was just beginning to rise up into the sky behind the trees. With the geese family on the water and seagulls in the sky. I love everything about the image, the tranquility serene feeling, the birds, the colours and of course the water!
This image was also from 2014, I think some of my most treasured images will always be when our kids were young. This is my husband, brother and our two kids out in the boat in the cottage bay.
This flower was under our deck when I spotted it, it was so intriguing to me how strong and beautiful it stood, in almost darkness under the deck. From 2015. The flower and deck have been transformed. This will always be a special memory for me before our renos!
2014 when my love for macro really began to develop!
That time my parents had two dogs and we had our dog and my parents went away so we had all 3 dogs at our place for our dogs 1st birthday! You make it your goal of the weekend to get them all to sit together for a birthday shot! The yellow is ours, Becker he turned 1, Hazel is the Chocolate she was 1.5 and Tara the black she was 7.
This is one I had to include, my first ever shot of a Blue Heron. We were on our boat in the Southampton harbour when we looked over and saw him perched on the stone near a boat house, and then he took off! This is from July 2012 and truly ignited my passion for birds!
Thank you Steven for an inspirational challenge this week to review some of our past deeply loved work! I hope you have enjoyed the images I have shared. To find the other posts be sure to look for the tag Lens-Artists.
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A beautiful collection, Pamela! I can see your love of macro photography in your compositions. My favorite, however, is your opening photo, a wonderful start to a beautiful day on the water.
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Thank you John, I appreciate your comment, the first one is my all time fav, I have it printed on canvas in our bedroom and my office at work!
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Smashing pictures as always, but my favourites are the flowers. pp
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Thank you Pam! Flowers and macro are truly magical!
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Brilliant Pamela. I’m with John here. I love the macros but that opening shot is superb :)
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Thank you so much Steve, great challenge!
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Beautiful images for this challenge Pam! I can see why they are your favorites. You have to tell me how you got all three dogs to sit still for the picture!
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Thank you so much Anne, this was 14 years ago and I remmeber how proud I was after haha! Im pretty sure lots of treats were involved 🤣
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Pam, it’s hard to compete and decide what image and accompanying text is more beautiful than the previous photo. The stories are touching and very meaningful in your photo journey. Excellent work!
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Thank you so much Egidio!
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Wonderful selection!!!
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Thank you Ana!
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Wonderful images Pam!!! perfect selection, first gorgeous it’s my fav
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Thank you Ritva! I felt so lucky when I shot that first image. Its been my top fav since !
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beautiful pictures
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Thank you!
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Pamela, a beautiful collection of your favorite images. I really enjoyed the story behind each one. I love them all but my favorite is of the three Labradors! We’ve had Labs and I can only imagine how hard it was to get them all to sit still at once!
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Thank you Beth, it was my perfect opportunity to get the 3 colours too, I can’t recall how long it took but I was so very happy with the ending image!
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The pups are wonderful, what a joyful photo! Favourite too is the sunset. Beautiful collection, Pam.
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Thank you Sofia! They are so much fun, although those 3 are now all together in Heaven 💗
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Beautiful scenes, Pamela! The first and the last ones are my favorites of the set.
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Thank you!
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Looks like a painting!
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Thank you!
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Oh, that first sky…and I so admire you getting three dogs to pose together in one picture! Well done!
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Thank you Ann-Christine!
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