Lens Artists Challenge #406 | Summer Dayze

We have been in a heat wave in Southwestern Ontario for weeks now, this week we finally had a bit of a reprieve, cool in the mornings and evenings, hot during the day, much like fall! However the heat was back yesterday with 35 C! Anne introduces this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge with Summer Daze! SheContinue reading “Lens Artists Challenge #406 | Summer Dayze”

Testing the RF 24-70 f2.8L Lens: My Experience

The long weekend, after out on a walk with my dog, I returned to my vehicle and sadly upon opening the door my bag shifted when I was removing my 180mm macro lens and the lenses fell to the rocks. My 50L was repairable – thankfully, its a beauty lens! Its honestly one I don’tContinue reading “Testing the RF 24-70 f2.8L Lens: My Experience”

Lens-Artists Challenge #401 | Focus

The challenge theme this week is focus, an awesome challenge with new growth in Spring, early summer that has graced us with its presence lately. I have felt stifled in my enthusiasm to get out with my camera, when honestly its exactly what I needed. I shared yesterday on my blog that we recently gotContinue reading “Lens-Artists Challenge #401 | Focus”

Lens-Artists Challenge #400 | The Rule of Three

Tina introduces this weeks topic and its a play on 3. “This week our challenge is a bit of a twist on a well-known concept in photography. We often discuss the “rule of thirds” which divides an image visually into 9 equal segments – using two vertical and two horizontal lines. The rule of threesContinue reading “Lens-Artists Challenge #400 | The Rule of Three”

Lens-Artists Challenge #392 | Framing Your Shots

Fantastic timing of this theme for the week. Patti has announced this weeks Lens-Artists Challenge of Framing Your Shots… “I invite you to join us and share up to 3 photos that use this technique from your archives or from a photo walk. Be sure to identify the foreground, middle ground, background and the subjectContinue reading “Lens-Artists Challenge #392 | Framing Your Shots”

Lens Artists Challenge #389 | Time to Relax

Anne poses a great theme for this week, Time to Relax! Anne shared with us that its been months since she has been able to get out to ‘relax’ with her camera and capture some incredible photos at botanical gardens, after a fall. I can relate, although not a senior, I fell twice last yearContinue reading “Lens Artists Challenge #389 | Time to Relax”

Lens-Artists Challenge#385 | Unusual Crop

This week Ritva encourages us to think outside of the normal photography constraints and push the cropping limits. In Ritva’s post, she provides many beautiful examples, one that pulled me in is the in camera crop. It is ‘easier’ to crop in post processing. This morning I woke and looked outside, in the bright morningContinue reading “Lens-Artists Challenge#385 | Unusual Crop”

Lens-Artists Challenge #382 | Rejected

Ah Egidio you present us with an interesting theme this week for the Lens-Artists Challenge with the word “Rejected”! Be sure to check out his inspirational post HERE. Given that I am into the emotional side of essential oils, I looked up the word Rejected – its an interesting word in life and in photography,Continue reading “Lens-Artists Challenge #382 | Rejected”

Lens-Artists Challenge #380 | Around the Corner

This week Anne begins the challenge has us on photo journey, around the corner. “Have you ever gone out on a photo outing and not seen anything that would have your camera saying, “Pick me up and help me take this picture.” I have a theory that there is always something to photograph. It mayContinue reading “Lens-Artists Challenge #380 | Around the Corner”

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #376 | Wings

This week Beth led us in the challenge with the theme Wings! Please check out her beautiful examples of wings HERE on her blog, Wandering Dawgs. This summer a butterfly landed on our nephews exersaucer, with him in it and hung out for a few minutes. Long enough for me to get my camera outContinue reading “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #376 | Wings”