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Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern
Patterns from Union Point Park, New Bern, NC Related Article: Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern, The Daily Post at WordPress.com © WryGrass 2013
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape
Coincidentally, I was on “escape” when I received the post for the weekly photo challenge. One cloudy, drizzly morning my husband and I were walking around the marina of the hotel where we were...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: In The Background
The living playing among the dead in New Bern, NC – Christ Episcopal Church grounds. Although I’ve always thought it a bit odd that the wee ones have to cross over ancient burial plots to reach the...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says
Here are a few signs to take you back to the Colonial era… I particularly like the unicorn (?) horn and the rhinoceros silhouette, both of which are attached to private residences. Their symbolism, as...
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Dog “Post” (and Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says – 2nd Entry)
Apparently, a downtown homeowner here in my pocket of the Southeast has ongoing issues with dogs urinating on their retaining wall but it looks like they decided to defuse the situation with humor....
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting
A fleeting moment for me while I was cutting grass and realized a patch of clover looked as if it was glowing in the afternoon sun. After photographing it, I just couldn’t stand the thought of cutting...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves
I love the architectural details on many of the old buildings in downtown New Bern, NC. I felt many were appropriate for this week’s photo challenge: curves. The carvings found on the Elks Temple built...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through Your Eyes
Here’s a snippet of my world – the entry to my organic garden. When I walk through this rustic gate, I’m entering another world that provides me with daily comfort and cheap therapy – the vegetables...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Companionable
This week’s photo challenge called for sharing a picture of a companion (whether it is a person, animal, object, hobby, etc) and tell why you chose that picture. Meet my companion of 26+ years. The man...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgic
Doumar’s of Norfolk, VA opened as a drive-in in 1934. My father (a Norfolk boy born and raised) hung out there as a punk-kid and teenager. Years later, he and I enjoyed many a meal there. He usually...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour
Old tobacco barns just before a summer sunset. I previously used a couple of these pics altered to sepia tones for a post on Old Tobacco Barns. Since they fit the requirement for this week’s challenge,...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh
This week’s photo challenge asks those participating to share a photo that represents “fresh”. While my husband and I were on a recent road trip to Asheville, NC we were challenged to find a decent...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Masterpiece
This week’s photo challenge calls participants to share a photo of something they consider a “masterpiece”. I chose the tunnels along the Blue Ridge Parkway; to me they are masterpieces of engineering,...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow
“Rosso di sera, beltempo si spera”. The following sunset images remind me of my late German-Italian mother-in-law and a phrase she’d say in which the evening skies foreshadow the next day’s weather. Of...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: One Shot, Two Ways
“For this challenge, capture two images — a horizontal and a vertical version — of the same scene or subject. There are no concrete “rules” here, but a) it should be evident that both shots are of the...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree
My husband and I enjoyed a lovely walk in downtown Beaufort, NC today. It was drizzly but we didn’t care. With its wonderful shops, old homes and waterfront, Beaufort is one of our favorite jaunts. A...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus
My husband and I like to go “birding” at Fort Macon State Park. We walk the trail there that meanders through thickly overgrown trees, grasses and around a brackish pond. On good days we see Ibis,...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea
Aawww the ocean…the healing salt air and surf’s rhythm; digging up sand crabs in the swash – always releasing them afterward; watching shorebirds; parties and bonfires on the beach…I have so many happy...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV
I wasn’t feeling very “into” this week’s challenge, after having gone through my archives and not seeing anything that really captured an unusual point of view – so I really thought I’d skip it this...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside
A passenger, stuck inside a vehicle for hours… a late night stop at a gas station… still waiting to get home. iPhone 5 image processed with VSCOcam app M5 preset iPhone 5 image processed with Aviary...
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