Challenges

Squared Trees in California — #3

Southeastern inland: Mammoth Mountain Dead Forest … where the CO₂ gas seeped up from below to kill the trees. Posted warnings tell parents and pet owners to keep little ones away. (See https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-81/Intro/facts-sheet/GasKillingTrees.html)

“And the remaining trees of his forests will be so few that a child could write them down”

Becky’s Squares — July #TreeSquared

July 25, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots, Challenges, Landscapes, The Book | Tags: California, Dead Forest, death, Isaiah, Mammoth Mt, SquareUp, trees | Leave a comment

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Fisheye view of the lift in the sky

When you can’t ski down … pull up a seat! Summer at Northstar

Pull Up a Seat – 2021 Week 30 – July 23

July 23, 2021 | Categories: Challenges, DSLR Shots, Photography, Play | Tags: California, Pull Up a Seat, skiing, summer | 6 Comments

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Squared Trees in California — #2

Inland Northern trail near Mt. Shasta, laboring up the dusty trail, hot and sweaty. But look up, where “… over everything the glory will be a canopy.”

Becky’s Squares – July #TreeSquared

July 17, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots, Challenges, Nature, The Book | Tags: hiking, Isaiah, Mt. Shasta, SquareUp, summer | 13 Comments

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By the light of the golden sunrise

Pull up a seat on the beach at Lake Tahoe.

Pull up a Seat — Week 28 July 9

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #155 — On the water

July 12, 2021 | Categories: 1000 words, Challenges, DSLR Shots, Places | Tags: boats, dawn, escapes, Lake Tahoe, Lens-Artists Challenge, Pull Up a Seat, quiet, summer, water | 3 Comments

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Squared Trees in California

Coastal mossy madrona along the Dipsea Trail. ” … how is the wood of a vine different from that of a branch from any of the trees in the forest?” Or a blanket of moss from leaves?

Becky’s Squares July — #TreeSquared

July 5, 2021 | Categories: 1000 words, Cell shots, Challenges, Nature, The Book | Tags: Ezekiel, fog, hiking, quiet, SquareUp, trails | 16 Comments

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Found Fenced Flowers — A to Z

Azalea or rhododendron? “Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come …”

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Six Word Saturday

June 26, 2021 | Categories: 1000 words, Challenges, Cityscapes, DSLR Shots, Nature, The Book | Tags: #6WS, #SixWordSaturday, beautiful, fences, FOTD, solarized, Song of Songs | 10 Comments

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Top down, a mighty big place

Looking south from the trail …

Or looking north from the top of The Nipple, “I see skies of blue” above the Pacific Crest Trail.

Weekend Sky

It’s a Wonderful World — Lens-Artists Challenge #15

June 20, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots, Challenges, Landscapes, Places, Skyscapes | Tags: clouds, hiking, Lens-Artists Challenge, mountains, PCT, summer, Weekend Sky | Leave a comment

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Dessert … at last!

Last photo on the cell — May 2021

June 1, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots, Challenges, Events | Tags: food, natural light, The Last Photo, wedding | 5 Comments

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Texture in the Way of Life

Texture on the hiking trail

Texture of light and brick in Sacramento

CFFC — Texture

Which Way Photo Challenge

And what about the elastic texture of time? It flies smoothly when having fun, yet drags roughly when dutifully dogging work.

I’ve not had time to capture or create an image to express this taffy-pull challenge of returning to work, that necessary reality tugging time from photography. And, therein lies the rub of my existential Which Way Photo Challenge: take time to make a living or make time to take a photo.

All hail the end of the COVID-battical!