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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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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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Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy and Travel Theme: Animals
As I started to pull together photos for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge, finding those images that reflect what makes me “Happy,” I noticed a recurrent theme — the pets who have been part of our family throughout the years. So often, they were part of the happy memory, frozen in time through a snapshot. We believe…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Mine
I have to thank Nitty Gritty Dirt Man in large part for the subject of this photo and post. His recent post A Time Capsule to Call My Own (Part 2) prompted me to dig out my two boxes of “memories” up in the attic and start weeding through them. As I took a lunch…
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Travel Theme: Foliage
Where’s My Backpack? was kind enough to remind me of her weekly challenge (for those of us going through withdrawal since Friday, waiting for the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge!). Ailsa’s theme this week is “foliage” which has been wonderfully abundant here in northern Minnesota the past couple of weeks! This shot is from the Timberdoodle…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 