What a great challenge Patti has set us this week. Spring makes me hopeful. Everything is renewed, life is starting again. It warms the soul and gladdens the heart. Flowers, fresh leaves, butterflies, bees, birds singing and young birds to observe. I am so grateful to mother nature for all she gives.
Many thanks to Ritva for this week’s Lens Artist Abstract challenge.
John asks us to share some images before and after editing. I tend to crop and adjust shadow of many of my images.
Here I have darkened and cropped the wood anemone.
Changing to monochrome is another edit I enjoy playing with. Here I have also darkened and cropped the image a little too.
Another monochrome edit below, no cropping this time just a bit of darkening.
Many thanks to John for this week’s challenge “Before and After“.
We were lucky earlier in the week to have a few days break in Connemara, Co Galway here in the west of Ireland. Plenty of water in motion. Our first stop was Aasleagh Falls on the Mayo/ Galway border.
Just upstream from the main falls are some smaller but more accessible waterfalls – time to get closer.
Our next stop was Kylemore abbey – situated on the edge of a Kylemore lough, with its own little white horses.
The following day we’d hope to visit Omey island which is only accessible on foot at low tide, and we had misread the tide timetable. With no boat on hand, that will be a trip for another time.
We did enjoy a lovely picnic lunch at this secluded pebble beach away from the main tourism area. I enjoyed trying to capture the little waves hitting the pebbles.
On our final day we climbed Diamond Hill (Ben Gooria) in Connemara National Park. And were blessed with amazing views. And managed to get down before these grey clouds produced their own form of water in motion.
Many thanks to Sofia for a great challenge.
An eclectic gallery of circles for this week’s Lens Artist Challenge – Circular wonders.
Many thanks to Ann-Christine for this week’s interesting challenge.
In John’s LAC challenge this week, he asks us to look at the many composition factors in photography – namely Shape, Form, Texture, and Light. This week I will focus on “textures” that I have found in nature.
Many thanks to John for providing inspiration for this week’s post.
There has been lots of frog sound coming from our garden pond this week – a sure sign of spring. We have over 150 frogs and the croaking is like a very loud cat purr. I love seeing them reappear every spring.
Some have no fear and you can get quite close – frogs are so photogenic.
It appears to get too much for some frogs – and they need time out – hanging out around the edge of the pond.
And sometimes even among the flower beds.
Many thanks to Donna for this week’s challenge – sound.
This week Anne has set us the challenge of “weather“. It is certainly something we Irish love to talk about, and considering how often it rains here – it is surprising how few photographs of rain I have! This photograph was taken on a very wet day – but I just loved how the rain made the berries glisten, capturing the drops in the background was a complete accident.
Following rain we can get rainbows.
The photograph above of course also depicts wind – something else not easy to show on a photograph and something else we get plenty of.
Of course we do get some still foggy and frost days too.
And the snowy days are just a real treat because we don’t get them too often…..
and the same can be said for hot, sunny ones!
Many thanks to Anne for this week’s challenge.
Murtagh's Meadow 