‘Tis the season of Joy, so this Week’s Photo Challenge Topic is appropriate. Joy brought to the world:
Archive for December, 2013
Weekly Photo Challenge: Joy
Posted in photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Christmas, church, Nativity, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge: Joy on December 29, 2013| 5 Comments »
Weekly Photo Challenge: One
Posted in photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged boat, dock, photography, sea gull, Weekly Photo Challenge: One, woman on December 22, 2013| 3 Comments »
This week’s photo challenge topic is One.
There’s a lot of single items in this picture: a single girl, a single sea gull, a single rose…but you have to look carefully to see those details. I think the story is more interesting if I zero in on those items…
Perhaps she is waiting to meet someone? Or that someone has just left her…she appears to be scribbling away in a journal…documenting the meeting? The sea gull is definitely interested…Any food??
Wordless Wednesday: Frozen
Posted in Nature, photography, Wordless Wednesday, tagged frozen leaves, ice, nature, photography, Wordless Wednesday on December 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Sunday Post: Christmas Tree
Posted in photography, Sunday Post, tagged Jake Sprinter Sunday Post, photography, Sunday Post: Christmas Tree, Xmas tree on December 17, 2013| 8 Comments »
It’s great to have Jake back! And he returns with a timely topic: Christmas Tree.
I’m living in a new small space this year with no room for my usual big tree, so I have a tabletop one. With my ornament collection in storage, I didn’t know what I was going to use to decorate it. I considered decorating it completely with “found” ornaments like these:
(Read about my “found” Christmas Tree here.) But I have a birthday in December, and a thoughtful friend gave me some ornaments. So this is my Christmas Tree this year…festive enough!
You can see more examples of Christmas Trees here:
Weekly Photo Challenge: Community
Posted in photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Arlington Street Church, Boston, Boston Marathon Bombing, community, photography, prayer flags, Weekly Photo Challenge: Community on December 15, 2013| 8 Comments »
The Weekly Photo Challenge topic this week is Community. As the year winds to a close and the snow falls outside, I reflected on the past year and decided to post pictures from an important event (and remind myself of warmer weather).
After the Boston Marathon bombings in April, people tied prayer flags to the wrought iron fence of the Arlington Street Church, down the street from the finish line where the bombings occurred. I was in the city of Boston in August and took these shots. It was very moving — an impressive demonstration of a sense of community.
After the devastation of the bombing, Boston’s sense of community culminated in the Boston Red Sox winning the World Series with the slogan, “Boston Strong!”
The prayer flags were later painstakingly untied by volunteers with knitting needles. Some were saved for a memorial quilt and some were burned, so I’m glad I got to see them while they were there.
Wordless Wednesday: Anyone Need a Hand?
Posted in photography, Wordless Wednesday, tagged hand, hand sculpture, photography, wooden sculpture, Wordless Wednesday on December 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Tree Tuesday: Winter Abundance
Posted in photography, Tree Tuesday, tagged Juniper, nature, photography, Tree Tuesday on December 3, 2013| 6 Comments »
Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote: Silence
Posted in photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, writing, tagged Ese's Weekly Quote and Shoot Challenge: Silence, knowledge, library, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There be Light! on December 1, 2013| 5 Comments »
Ese’s Topic this week is Silence and The Weekly Photo Challenge Topic is Let There be Light! I’ve decided to combine them.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller