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Puget Sound

High tide at sunset

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It’s been crazy hot here. But the water is cold, and wading at sunset makes you feel like the world isn’t so bad…

Puget Sound shoreline at high tide...and golden hour.
The sun setting over the Kitsap Peninsula, viewed from Vashon Island in Puget Sound.
Silhouetted of geese on waves refelcting the gold of the setting sun.

I played with using some of the effects available in the GIMP and the G’mic plug in for it (I think you can use G’mic as a plug-in for other programs as well).

The Water pixels filter is found in the Filters menu: Filters>Artistic>Water pixels
The simple noise canvas filter is in the Artistic set of filters.
This uses the "dream smoothing filter found in the Atristic set of G'mic filters.

For Jez’s Water, water everywhere and the Lens Artists Challenge: one photo two ways.

Puget Sound

A soft gray-green day

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This time of year the wood look soft with the moss and ferns providing a touch of bright green on a drippy gray day. Moss’s texture catches and reflects light, in almost the same way that glitter does. It appears brighter than anything should almost sunlit at times, even though the sun was AWOL.

For Lens Artists Photo Challenge #137: Soft.

Picture Galleries, Snapshots from a Happy Life

Winter browns

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Hey Jude for Life in Colour this month chose brown as the theme and asked “what browns can you find in the world?”. I took these photos today thinking about that theme. Brown is a funny color, I often don’t see it. I tend to see things that many people see as brown as shades of red or orange. I think these are brown?

Also this is my entry for Lens Artists: Its a small world.

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Typical November walk

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These days I don’t go anywhere exciting to hike, but I walk my dogs every day around the neighborhood. Come along with us on a November walk.

  • Setting out.
  • Hen and chicks
  • Dogwood
  • Dogwood with seasonal confusion.
  • Nasturtium leaf with raindrops.
  • Lace leaf maple.
  • Withered maple leaf
  • Sidewalk and sky.
  • Bright pink leaf
  • Looking up at the sequoia.
  • Sidewalk and sky
  • A turkey?
  • Rosehip
  • Agapanthus seed head
  • Coming home

Friendly Friday: Whilst walking and Lens Artists Challenge #123: Found in the Neighborhood.

Picture Galleries, Snapshots from a Happy Life

Words and more

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Sometimes it’s a chat…

A shared laugh….

The universal language of music…

And sometimes something more…

A quick snarl from this lioness sent the cubs obediently off. I wish my kid had been so obedient…

My dog, Ginger (the smaller one, she belonged to my grandma at the time) and my Dad’s dog Sam (now deceased) were really good friends. One visit when Ginger espied Sam she raced off and they looked like they were hugging. I managed to grab a picture of them hugging on our arrival before they ran toward me to say hi to me.

For the Lens Artists’ Challenge: Communication.

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Everyday stuff

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My daily grind. Father-in-law made the lovely coffee grinder as a decorative piece (he did amazing woodwork) when we switched to the French Press we discovered that it worked better for getting the grind consistent than the electric one we had before.
Another form of daily grind: checking on social media.
I spend more time than I should on the daily crossword puzzles.
I don’t make bread everyday but the wooden spoon, a gift from a friend in Africa, the knife set, a wedding gift (has served us for over 34 years!) the bowl and pans are things I use most days.

For Lens Artists Photo Challenge: everyday objects.