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52-Week Photo Challenge Class Week 41 - Decay

Week 52 Photo Challenge:

Week 41, Decay

Photo by Kathleen Madden

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Kathleen says:

I went out nearly every day to take photos and kept my camera in the passenger seat of my car. I stepped out of my car at a friend's house and looked down and saw this purple leaf against the totally decayed ones. I liked the contrast in colors and stages of decay surrounding it.

Critique Group Challenge from week 41

Critique Group Challenge:

Week 41, Wide Angle

Photo by Julie Titus

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Julie says:

I haven't played with this lens attachement in years, but it's really fun! It's billed as a super macro attachment, but also has this xtra wide view when zoomed out (18mm is my widest).

I also got a brief helicopter ride this week, and thought about submitting one of those images, but this one just makes me happy for fall, and I think is a fun point of view.

Smart Phone Photo Challenges
Week 41 - Squares

Smart Phone Challenge:

Week 41, Squares

Photo by Debbie Lomas

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Debbie says:

I found this week challenging. Other than fabric quilts or cutting boards, I didn’t have much inspiration. I found the sulphur crested cockatoo this morning behind some squares. Edited in Prisma

Ricky's Challenge Photo

Smart Phone Challenge:

Week 41, Squares

Photo by Ricky Tims

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Ricky says:

I am in a small little Airbnb, looking for squares, and I found some squares in the tile floor of the bathroom. I shot the photo and then I edited the photo and distressed FX. I really wanted to do something extra so I researched double exposure apps and I found one called Image Blender. I used that and blended the same image on top of itself, rotated it 180°, shrunk it so it was smaller and then cropped off part of it so that it was square. So now I have another tool in my toolbox

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Feature Quilt - Legacy Quilt

Legacy Quilt

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There is a musical, The Quilters, that features various quilt blocks that tell the story. Our little theater in La Veta, Colorado produced their version of the musical and I had the privilege of designing the quilt. Blocks from the quilt are used at various times throughout the production, and then the full quilt is revealed at the very end. That means that each block has to be made twice - one for the scenes, and the others put into the full quilt for display at the end. I was very thankful that members of the Colorado Quilt Council assisted by making blocks for this quilt. I assembled it, and Cyndi McChesney quilted it. The quilt was raffled and the proceeds benefited the performing arts in our little town.

TRY THE JIGSAW PUZZLE

Choose your own difficulty. Click the 9-patch grid to change number of pieces. Click the circle arrow to make the puzzle pieces rotating instead of stable orientation. Also, there are tips under the "?" on the upper right of the puzzle. If you'd like a full screen version, click the button below. Have fun!

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Critique Group Challenge from week 40

Critique Group Challenge:

Week 40, Field Of Gold

Photo by John Van Walleghen

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John says:

"Upon the fields of barley
We'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we lie in fields of gold"

These are grasses along side of a field of soy beans. We do not grow barley around here, so soy beans will have to do. These grass heads were golden in the early evening golden hour sun. This field is south of Andale Kansas which is west of Wichita.

52-Week Photo Challenge Class
Week 40 - Text Overlay

Week 52 Photo Challenge:

Week 40,Mother Nature

Photo by Diana Weir

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Diana says:

After being away for 6-weeks and looking at class photo, WOW, outstanding. I have alot to catch up. My photo is blowing dune grasses, minimum edits.

Smart Phone Photo Challenges
Week 40 - Looking Up

Smart Phone Challenge:

Week 40, Looking Up

Photo by Karen Koehle

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Karen says:

Gazing skyward from beneath a basketball hoop. The net reminds me of a dream catcher.

Ricky's Challenge Photos

Smart Phone Challenge:

Week 40, Looking Up

Photo by Ricky Tims

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Ricky says:

Maybe I will call this the Paul Bunyan effect! Phone camera on the floor with a timer. This was an odd idea but I like the overall result.

Edited in Prisma app with Coloured

Critique Group Challenge:

Week 40, Field Of Gold

Photo by Ricky Tims
from the 2021 Critique Group

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Ricky says:

I went with the title as this view and golden grasses captured my heart and I spent some time basking in this morning light. This is taken just off the road coming into the ranch -in the lower elevation (7K ft). I was on my way out. While all of this burned in the fire, the grasses didn't provide enough fuel to burn these old fence posts. Greenhorn Mtn is in the distance.

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Featured Quilt - Summer In the City

Summer In the City

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In 1998, the Summer in St. Louis, MO was a scorcher. I remember working on this quilt in my basement studio and even that area was warmer that I would have liked. It was also the Summer of my mom and dad’s fiftieth wedding anniversary. The inspiration for this quilt was as antique quilt (photo in black and white) that was featured in a small book titled American Pieced Quilts by Jonathan Holstein. I had acquired the book in the mid-nineties and it was published prior to that.

I loved the fact that the image was published in black and white because it gave me only values to consider. I had no clue as to the original colors. If you look at this version you will see a golden diamond pieced into the quilt (not the inner square frame). All of the hot summer colors are inside that diamond.

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Jigsaw Puzzle

t the inner square frame). All of the hot summer colors are inside that diamond.

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