Each week sonofabeach96 challenges us with the following:
This Which Way challenge is all about capturing the roads, walks, trails, rails, steps, signs, etc. we move from one place to another on. You can walk on them, climb them, drive them, ride on them, as long as the specific way is visible. Any angle of a bridge is acceptable as are any signs.
Mysterious and tree lined.
‘Wooded way’, Castle Drogo, 2015.
Ken
This week Jenn at ‘Traveling at Wits End‘ asks:
Photograph Something Weathered
I felt this old gate fit the brief, it has been in the back of mind to re-edit this photo for some time, and I rather like the way it turned out.
‘Old Gate’, 2015.
Ken
Each week sonofabeach96 challenges us with the following:
This Which Way challenge is all about capturing the roads, walks, trails, rails, steps, signs, etc. we move from one place to another on. You can walk on them, climb them, drive them, ride on them, as long as the specific way is visible. Any angle of a bridge is acceptable as are any signs.
I think we used the gate!
‘Choices’, Ruan Minor Church, 2014.
Ken
This week we are challenged us with:
This week you have an opportunity to interpret metal, wood, water, fire, and/or earth with your favorite photos to express “…the only home we’ve ever known”. Feel free to choose one, two… or all five elements.
Ok so I had a think about how I might manage to get away with one photo for this weeks challenge, but try as I might I only managed three or four of the Chinese elements in one photo.
Oh well, so I have decided to use a photo taken at Sandymouth bay in Cornwall, I have used this location before for some posts, it is very photogenic, especially at sunset. So here is the photo and a short explanation.
‘Elements’, Sandymouth bay, 2017.
So the sun as Fire, the sea and waterfall as Water, the cliffs, pebbles and sand count as the Earth. Now this is where it gets a bit hazy! The camera used to take the photo has metal components, and I know that that pebble beach has driftwood on it, you just cannot see it in this photo. Can I get away with that?
Ken
This Friday, Something to Ponder About and The Snow Melts Somewhere have challenged us with:
This week’s theme is Chair. I’m looking forward to seeing your entries!
Well I had just been editing this for XingfuMama’s Pull up a seat challenge, so I thought I would also give it another shot with a slightly different crop and take on the editing process here.
‘Chair of plenty’, Castle Drogo, 2015.
Ken
Well this week Frank challenges us with the topic ‘Wheel’:
After a great week of Technology, I thought it would be fun to switch to some early technology that has affected humanity’s advancement over the ages; so this week, the theme is Wheel! Of course, the Wheel comes in all shapes and sizes, and it can be a noun or a verb. I think that this might give all of you some room for exploration and creative expression, to which I very much look forward!!
So let’s wheel around and have a blast with this theme!
So I ended up using different photos to those I set out to find! The following photos were taken at Finch foundry, the last working water-powered forge in England. Actually these could also have been used for the previous two weeks challenges! The first photo is of the water wheel.
‘Water power’, Finch foundry, Dartmoor, 2016.
The second photo is inside the foundry directly behind the water wheel.
‘Wheels and belts’, Finch foundry, Dartmoor, 2016.
The next photo is a small detail I noticed when editing the above photo, a small amount of water running in from the outside.
‘A small leak’, Finch foundry, Dartmoor, 2016.
And finally what do all these wheels do, well some of them drive this:
‘The big hammer’, Finch foundry, Dartmoor, 2016.
Ken
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.
This week a photo from the Eden project in Cornwall, a group of carved wooden posts which look like faces.
‘Faces’, Eden project, 2017.
Ken
