Lens-Artists Challenge #154 / 410 | One Photo Edited

This is the perfect rainy day activity for someone with the challenge that Ritva has brought for us this week!

Ritva shared with us, “I opted to revisit Tina for her captivating “One Photo Two Ways” challenge, which was originally posted on June 26, 2021.”

Cropping, Black and White Conversion and Editing Impression.

This can totally shift an image, and sometimes in big ways! I personally love editing a great black and white image, I used to play with my photos so much more than I have been! This past weekend I was able to get some great beach storm pictures and I was excited to shift some into black and white. I will admit, one I was surprised at how it shifted, not as good as I expected it would be!

Cropping

This beach shot I felt was perfect to show a wide angle and cropped in image of the storm clouds coming from behind the trees.

Above is wide 24mm and below is 70mm cropped in

I personally love both images, as to me they both give a different feeling. I love wide angle, it shows so much more detail, and yet the zoomed in cropped version has more focus on the chairs and canoe on the beach. Whereas the first I feel, is more a scenic shot.

Black and White

The above image in colour, and below in black and white.

I love clouds, I find them so intriguing and they bring so much character to the sky. For this one, I pushed the editing much more than I normally do.

I am honestly loving the effect on the photo above, the left side is feeling a bit too processed for me, and I also love the details that are pulling forward. A reminder to me to push my limits a bit more…

“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.” — Edward Weston

I hope you enjoyed my post, I look forward to seeing everyone elses posts for ‘One Photo’ and the various techniques Ritva reminded us of!

World Photography Day | 2026

Happy World Photography Day!

Photography is something that touches my soul, to the absolute depths. No matter the highs or lows of life, photography has been MY thing, my peace, serenity. Capturing not only those I love, but what I love, where I love, it truly is my way of documenting life, what did I do on this day, check my photos. Big moments in life, in the photos. Low moments in life, much less, but still in the photos.

Photography, being another branch off of Art, is unique to the individual. Embrace your style, your flow, your feel – allow it to be yours. Without feeling the need to explain. Such as, I love my Canon Camera’s and highly prefer shooting with the L lenses primarily.

I shot these the other day, I love the details of Macro photography! Immersing myself within nature. Feels pretty cool!

Being IN Nature for me is so healing.

This interesting flying creature paused for a while on the leaf of the Rose of Sharon and just watched me, probably wondering what my great big eye was, of the lens ;)

This weeks Lens-Artists Challenge was a good one, and aligned with this weeks World Photography Day, Best Ever Images! Please do check out this post of some of my most favourite images.

Lens-Artists Challenge #409 | Best Ever Images

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.

Lens-Artists Challenge #408 | Over the Top

I love the weekly challenges from this group, it really has given me something creative to look forward to each week even if I may not have the inspiration.

Last weekend we had a weekend away with another couple at our family cottage, it was exactly what I needed. Coming home to an unwell loved one, who had declined was quite challenging at the end of the weekend. As much as I love photography, when my world feels like its being rocked, its hard to allow myself to free my mind creatively.

Egidio began the challenge on Saturday, Over the Top – some fantastic examples of “over the top” churches, some jewelry, boats and cars!

I was puzzled at first of how to tackle this challenge and then… I saw it. This view.

Before our friends were arriving, my husband and I were traveling to the local market, Hi-Berry Farms, that is in between Port Elgin and Southampton – they have the best produce! It was warm and overcast so we decided to drive along the water for as far as we could, versus driving through town. This view reminded me of both Eastern Canada and when we were in Tobermory in June. The view from over the top of the road, looking down. With the green and pops of colour of nature, the various shades of the rocks, the water and the sky!

We stopped in at the Harbour when touring and there were a couple quite large boats there – one was 65 feet long and one 50 feet. In my current life situation, this is definitely something that would be far outside of my reality, so one may consider this over the top – or perhaps a dream?

The 50′ behind the larger boat on the right, looks tiny in comparision, its only 15 feet shorter!

The break-wall at the harbour has been a childhood favourite for me. Love the view looking over the top of the rocks and horizon, the clouds are incredible, the island in the far distance.

Just over the top of the break-wall is the horizon. Almost pointing in the direction of our family cottage too!

Over the top of the hill, were these beautiful flowers.

I love how the angle lined up that the island is over top of the bike path.

A seagull flying over the top of me!

Thank you Egidio for another fantastic challenge! If you would also like to participate be sure to use the tag Lens-Artists so we can find you!

Geese | Riverside Park Guelph

Nature is so intriguing to watch. Especially when so many various species of birds are all coexisting together. Its truly incredible to see. Geese, Seagulls, Blue Heron, Ducks… truly so beautiful!

It was fun to watch them going from the lower level to the upper level, they had a little fun on the small rapids first ;)

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