The last photo I took in November.
Last of November
Category Archives: Snapshots from a Happy Life
Suddenly, I awoke
If I were a magic being I would follow the moon trail. I wonder where it would take me?
The two images are the same photo processed in slightly different ways. I couldn’t decide which one to use…Which do you think is better?
For Travel with intent’s One Word Sunday: Night and The Blog of Hammas Rais’s Weekend Sky.
Upon reflection
Postcards from a different time
A time when we could be out and about.
I tried out some of the suggestions in Sandy’s post. This is using the media plus text block.
King Penguins
Volunteer Point
Falkland Islands
These are from messing about in Canva:
Happy memories to all.
For the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge: Postcards from the Past.
Just for fun
For Cee’s Mid-week Madness Challenge. A couple of fences and a little girl visiting the dahlias at Bellevue Botanical Garden. All from a while back.
Light and dark
Some photos from the past couple of weeks that have a strong contrast between light and dark.
A high contrast sunset. 
Seed head of Lily of the Nile (agapanthus) 
November sky-high structure 
November sky-soft 
Asters with raindrops. 
Close-up of aster with raindrops. 
The intimate tangle of branches really stand out when the color is removed.
While the contrast between light and dark is fundamental to black and white, I also find myself drawn to contrast in sharpness of detail and texture. You can see that in several of the photos above.
This week Hey Jude for Photo Challenge #46 asked for black and white focusing on contrast.
Drama on high
These were taken in the order they are above, as I walked the dogs yesterday.
For Hammad Rais’s Weekend Sky.
Continue reading Drama on high
The rain has come
Fall glory
The past few days have been glorious. The lower angle of the sun makes the fall foliage glow. The blue skies compliment the golden to red palette of fall leaves. We took a long walk today, it is already clouding up and the next few days will be rainy, if the forecasts are correct.
I also want to share this great quote that I found yesterday:
For Sunday Stills: a celebration of leaves.
If you haven’t already:
Natural textures-in black and white
Every so often I take a picture because the pattern of the light catches my attention. While these are not exactly regular patterns they do have regularity to them.
Clouds 
Grass 
Ripples and shadows 
Clematis seedheads 
Raindrops on a fallen leaf 
Bark
For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Patterns in nature.
and Heyjude’s 2020 Photo Challenge #44: Black and White with the instruction: Look for patterns.
