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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette
“Silhouette” is the Weekly Photo Challenge issued by WordPress this week, with the following explanation: The proper definition of a silhouette is “the outline of a body viewed as circumscribing a mass.” In photography, often we achieve that effect by putting light behind the object whose silhouette we want to capture, effectively darkening out the…
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Kat’s Weekly Reflection of Gratitude: Life Moves Pretty Fast
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.” ~ Ferris Bueller (From the movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) Many years ago as we drove along the North Shore of Oahu, we stopped at one of the empty beaches and watched the mesmerizing surf. My…
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The Wonderful, Diverse Blogosphere ~ Awards
A couple of bloggers I have enjoyed getting to know were kind enough to nominate me for blog awards. Jane, with her annual travels to India, kindly bestowed upon me the Super Sweet Blogging Award, and I am grateful to Sara (a.k.a. The Errant Tuscan!) for nominating me for the Beautiful Blogger Award. Jane and Sara…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Big
Steven Spielberg did not need to use special effects to inflate the size of Devils Tower in the film that made this National Monument famous: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. One best appreciates the significant size (not to mention geologic interest) of this eastern Wyoming icon by walking the undemanding 1.3 mile base trail surrounding the column. Particularly…
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