Sunset seas – Lens Artists Photo Challenge #85: Treasure Hunt

This weeks challenge from the Lens-Artists asks:

This week we’re going on a Treasure Hunt! The challenge is to search for specific items – either from your archives or newly captured – from the list below. Extra credit items are a bit more challenging. Focus on quality over quantity and hit us with your best shot(s)!

Challenge Items: Sunrise and/or sunset, Something cold and/or hot, a bird, a dog, a funny sign, a bicycle, a seascape and/or mountain landscape, a rainbow, a church, a musical instrument, a boat, a plane, a waterfall
Extra Credit Items: An expressive portrait of one or more people, a very unusual place, knitting or sewing, a fish, an animal you don’t normally see, a bucket, a hammer, a street performer, a double rainbow, multiple challenge items in a single image. My opening image, for example, includes a sunrise, a seascape and birds in a single shot. See how easy it is?! 😀

So here is a shot from the archives, warm sunset over a cold Cornish sea, and there might even be a hint of a boat out toward the horizon.  Taken on an old 2mp Dimage Z3, but still a lovely photo at this size I feel.  Well if I get chance this week I am going to go on a hunt for some of the other treasured items, but for now . . .

‘Sunset seas’, Cornwall, 2007.

Ken

Strata – Lens Artists Photo Challenge #68 – Layers

This weeks challenge from the Lens-Artists is:

This week, we invite you to explore Layers. You can include images of buildings, landscapes, seascapes, clouds, etc.

So my choices when faced with this sort of challenge are, do I find a photograph displaying many layers, maybe accentuated by depth of field, or do I layer a couple of photos up?

So while looking for a photo or photos to use, I saw a photo of some cliffs, which in turn reminded me to go and look through some photos I had taken last year.  I think this fits the bill nicely , look at all those stratigraphic layers, only accentuated by the rolling in of the sea mist adding yet another depth layer to this shot.

‘Strata’, Nash point, 2018.

Ken

Breaking – Friday Fun: Waves

For this weeks Friday Fun we have been asked:

Please share a some of ‘wave’ photos, poetry or stories?

A favourite spot, a lucky find, a place to return to when we have time.

‘Breaking’, Sandymouth bay, 2018.

Ken

Cold and Damp – Pull up a Seat photo challenge 2019: Week 22

Each week at XingfuMama we are asked to ‘Pull up a seat‘.  It is not always cold and damp here, but it was on this particular day!

‘Cold and Damp’, Minack Theatre, 2014.

Ken

Lynmouth and Lynton, March 2019

For those of you who are not friends on Facebook, here are some photos taken earlier this year.

Lynmouth and Lynton, March 2019 [25 Photos]

Ken

#WordlessWednesday – 15/05/2019

‘Hazy seas’, Lamorna Cove, 2017.

#WordlessWednesday.

It will rain – Photo for the Month – 35: Moody

This Month for the Photo for the Month, Bren asks:

 This week’s challenge is Moody.

I may have previously mentioned that I love shots with moody skies.  So here is one taken from our favorite B&B window of the view over Carbis Bay, St. Ives, just after sunrise, before it started raining.

‘It will rain’, Carbis bay, 2018.

Ken

Down to the sea – Sunday Trees: 389

For this Sunday’s trees challenge from Becca I decided to use this, I just love the view this tree has.

‘Down to the sea’, Coleton Fishacre, 2015.

Ken

Rock and Rolling in – Tuesday Photo Challenge: Roll.

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

Of course, after a week of Rocking entries, you fully expected that we’d Roll into this week! Yes, I gave into the temptation of using Rock and Roll in consecutive weeks. As Roll can take a number of meanings, you can roll the dice to select the one you want to use. Whether a bread roll, a bed roll, or a ball rolling down the hill, I look forward to see what wonderful ideas come rolling in this week!

So following on from the second of the two rock photos I used last week, I thought I would use another photo from that set, it includes that same rock, but this time we see more of the waves ‘roll’-ing in.

‘Rock and Rolling in’, Sandymouth bay, 2017.

Ken

Dreaming of Summer – K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: Fun in the sun.

Each week, K’lee and Dale offer  prompts for us to consider as the latest challenge.  This week it was Dale:

choosing the optimistic prompt of Fun in the sun,

A photo from the archives this week, reworked for this challenge.  A summers day out on the Gower in Wales, as even though spring has just arrived I am dreaming of summer days out.

‘Dreaming of Summer’, Gower peninsula, 2014.

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. ” – Walt Whitman

Ken