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August 2 was National Watermelon Day. If you missed it, don't worry. Watermelons will be great for a while longer! How do you eat yours? Plain? With salt? Salt and pepper? |
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Featured Quilt: Hurricane
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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!
Photos Of The Week
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2021 Critique Group
Smart Phone Group: Wee Willie Winkie Click to view larger image. Sandy says: "Up stairs and down stairs in his night-gown" (which, I think, is nightgown + nightcap). 'Willie was just here.' This is two images combined in PS: the nightcap and lantern taken on outside stairs (and straightened in LR) and the moon/sky/trees image taken later in the day.
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2021 52 Week Challenge Group
Challenge: The Story Click to view larger image. Schon says: Many edits in LR and PS |
2021 Smart Phone Group
Challenge: Signs Click to view larger image. Judy says: Having had conversations with string players about the best type of vehicle to own to support their music, when I saw this star in the spotlight, I was sure I knew what it meant. But then, I thought, this van may just as easily belong to an angler with a taste for a certain type of fish. |
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Ricky's Challenge Photos:
Challenge: Signs Click to view larger image. Ricky says: I've had this little guy for years - sitting on the front steps of my building in La Veta. This week, when I saw him, I realised he would be good for this topic and also it was time to bring him home to brighten my garden. I stewed on a lot of various sign messages and almost went with... "Who Cut the Cheese?" You can thank me later. Smile.
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Challenge: Wee Willie Winkie Click to view larger image. Ricky says: "The dog's spread out on the floor." No apologies here for using my iPhone. There is magical light that comes from the sidelights of my front door. I was heading to the kitchen to make breakfast, iPhone in hand, and the light with the bits of rainbow and their calm demeanor would have been gone if I had not had that camera handy. I had to play sly to make sure they wouldn't get up and come to me - so I feel it was a score. I like the strong oblique line and tried to get a point of view that was dramatic - again, without them moving. This is Barley... and Rosie. Rosie has been under the weather with a severe stomach situation that I hope is on the mend. These two, plus Cordelia, have been my salvation and provided my companionship during the lockdown and since.
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Featured Quilt: Mirkwood II
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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!
Photos of the Week
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2021 Smart Phone Group
Smart Phone Group: Upside Down Click to view larger image. Deb says: This may not be what you think it is…or maybe it is! Another treasure found in our recent clean out. My son’s old tuba mouthpiece turned upside down with a few added balloon flowers from the garden makes this week’s photo challenge easier than I first thought it would be. Edits made in iPhone plus BeCasso filter. |
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2021 52 Week Challenge Group
Challenge: Footwear Click to view larger image. Jim says: These shoes have great soul in their soles. The texture accented with the chartreuse lines was set off by the red triangles. Editing was simple in Lightroom; whites and blacks and a crop. Then I boosted the red to make a focal point of interest. As I was shooting this I was struck by the thought that the only way anyone would see these intricate patterns is if I fall down. |
2021 Critique Group
Challenge: Selective Color Click to view larger image. Rodney says: Cooling off in the shower after a polo match. |
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Ricky's Challenge Photos:
Challenge: Upside Down Click to view larger image. Ricky says: The wildflowers have been glorious and these came inside for a beautiful bouquet. As they began fading I decided to hang them upside down to dry. For this shot I put them on the antique Egyptian market door leading to my studio. Edited in Prisma app with Dallas |
Challenge: Selective Color Click to view larger image. Ricky says: Since 2019 I have attempted to grow things on the mountain. Last summer I discovered that Califorina poppies are very happy here so I sowed more seeds this Spring. They are bountiful and make me very happy. I took this into photoshop first, to do the selective color and to add a dreamscape layer of blur (it's minimal), then in LR I made additional basic adjustments.
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