Heart – Tuesday Photo Challenge – Glow

This week Frank has challenged us with the topic:

I think that the interesting part of this challenge will be your choice of direction with the theme of Glow…will you opt for the glow of an ember, a firefly, or the glowing praise that is heaped on a great performance? There are many choices, so feel free to push the boundaries and shoot for that glowing review!

We as soon as I read the prompt I knew I would have to return to last years evening strolls alongside the Nith, the golden glow of the setting sun reflected in the water, and the warm glow it brings to my heart when I think back.

‘Heart’, Glencaple, Dumfries and Galoway, 2018.

Ken

Egg – Kammie’s Oddball Challenge: November 22nd, 2019

Each week Kammie challenges us to post an oddball photo:

Odd Ball Photos are those great photos that you take which really don’t seem to fit into a common category.  We’ve all taken them and like them, because we just can’t hit delete and get rid of them.

Actually this does fit into many of my keyword categories, but well it is just and odd ball isn’t it?

‘Egg’, Wren’s egg, Dumfries and Galloway, 2018.

Ken

 

Kenmure – One word Sunday Challenge: dilapidated

This week Debbie has challenged us with the following:

Welcome to One Word Sunday, and over to all of you to join the challenge with your own dilapidated post.

A once magnificent Castle/House in Dumfries and Galloway, so sad to see it like this!, a slightly different edit of a photo I have previously used:

‘Kenmure’, Kenmure Castle, 2018.

Ken

Soft Sky – Lens Artists Photo Challenge #55 – Dreamy

This weeks challenge from the Lens-Artists was:

so this week’s challenge is  – Dreamy.

I could have sat under this sky for hours.

‘Soft Sky’, Cairn holy, Dumfries and Galloway, 2018.

Ken

Solway view – Tuesday Photo Challenge – Outdoors

Well this week Frank challenges us with the topic:

So I hope that all of you go into the Outdoors and bring a little bit of it back in your cameras!

I am actually of into the great outdoors in a moment, and then again at the end of the week, so whole new batches of photos will be taken.  But first a photo from last year.

A veiw of Cumbria across the Solway Firth from Dumfries and Galloway.

‘Solway view’, Dumfries and Galloway, 2018.

 

Ken

Acres of sky – Friday Fun: Clouds

For this weeks Friday Fun we have been asked:

Please share a few of your ‘cloud’ photos, poetry or stories?
Whether through your lens or with creative writing … go where the prompt leads!
Post a photo or get creative
… skies the limit, be sublime, fluffy or grey … please share that!

Well no food to tantalise you or make your stomach grumble this week.  I love a good cloudy sky in my photos, so here is one from last year while we were on holiday in Dumfries and Galloway, the skies were just amazing the entire time we were there!  So a 4 photo panoramic stitch for you this week.

‘Acres of sky’, Glenquicken stone circle, Dumfries and Galloway, 2018.

Ken

Sunset sounds – Lens Artists Photo Challenge #44 – Harmony

This week Tina challenges us with:

This is your opportunity to share your favorite harmonies. Give us your best yoga pose, or your favorite musician at work, or perhaps a happy couple arm in arm – whatever floats your boat (especially if it’s on a warm yellow/orange sunset or a cool blue sunrise 😊).

Well my first photo is of the band Shillelagh playing at Pentreffest Rudry, beautiful musical harmonies, dancers in harmony with the music, and a distinct harmonising palette on stage.

‘Beautiful harmonies’, Pentreffest Rudry, 2015.

And because it does ‘float my boat’, and Tina asked fo it, a ‘warm yellow/orange’ sunset, from last years trip to Dumfries and Galloway.

‘Golden Nith’, Glencaple, 2018.

Ken

Arches of power – Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bridges

For this weeks Fun Foto Challenge Cee gives us the topic of ‘Bridges’.

So I thought I would use this one from last years visit to Dumfries and Galloway.

‘Arches of power’, Kirkcudbright, 2018.

Ken

River run – Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge – Vanishing Point

This week Cee challenges us with the topic ‘Vanishing Point’.

A photo of the River Nith in Dumfries and Galloway curving away, and vanishing into the distance.

‘River run’, Glencaple, 2018.

Ken

 

Old Stone – Tuesday Photo Challenge: Worship.

Well this week Frank challenges us with the topic ‘Worship’:

The devastating fire in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was horrific in the way that it touched the heart and soul of Parisian, the French and many of us around the world. . . . . With this news, it was immediately obvious to me that the theme for this week’s challenge is to be Worship. Regardless of religion, faith or belief system, we can all worship.

I decided to go with 3 three photos from last years visit to Dumfries and Galloway.  So for my first take, a stone circle, we guess at the fact that they were for ritual purposes, and therefore worship.

‘In the round’, Torhousekie stone circle, 2018.

The second photo is of the Ruthwell cross, an Anglo-Saxon monument that was brought into the church.

‘Focus’, Ruthwell, 2018.

And finally the ruins at Dundrennan Abbey a 12th century Cistercian monastery.

‘Illumination’, Dundrennan Abbey, 2018.

Ken