POTD CHALLENGE: SHAPES

While out and about yesterday, I visited a gift shop to "see what I could see". Here is one of the compositions that I caught for "shapes". Makes me think of a too-far distant season! ML

POTD CHALLENGE: SHAPES

This image was taken inside a nearby garden/gift shop. I chose it for "shapes" because of the rectangles and because I loved the burnished metal colors. But - tah-dah! - shapes on top of those shapes!

POTD CHALLENGE: SHAPES

I didn't get out today, so I did what I haven't done for quite a while: I went to my file Living in Hungary. These were both taken from inside an ancient cathedral on Castle Hill in Budapest. Hand-held, no flash, and sooc.


Shapes within shapes:
Shapes upon shapes:

CHALLENGE: SHAPES

The obvious: playgroung rings = triangles. The not-so-obvious: our 3rd spring-like day

in a row!

POTD CHALLENGE: LOVE

One day this last week I was at the middle school where I assist the choir director. What a fun surprise for me to learn it would not be class as usual, but an all-school assembly. The school had helped sponser a youth choir from Uganda. As we know, children in Uganda do not have many reasons to hope, but these young people were all-out celebrating life with unbelievable energy. I had to hurry home to get my camera and try to capture their LOVE of LIFE! The gym was dark - no light from above or anywhere. I still don't know my camera, so this was as good as it got for me. ML

POTD CHALLENGE: LOVE

Okay, so this pic is nothing to look twice at. However, you need to know that this was taken on the edge of a frozen lake and whatever caused this indentation in the cold pebbles ended up leaving a heart-shaped depression. This then is a frozen heart-shaped hunk of ice about the size of your palm.

POTD CHALLENGE: LOVE

For almost 10 years, until recently, we lived high in the mountains where we were under snow (burying our house) from October to, sometimes as late as May. My DH never failed to bring me a bouquet of fresh tulips or daffodils every Friday. Now THAT is love! Well, here in the valley below our wonderful mountians the winter is still drab and gray, and he continues the gesture.

These tulips are special to me because they are my first subject for my new Nikon D300 camera which is not even a week old yet. I am dying to get out and about with it, but alas, our weather is too, too wet. So my DH's love bouquet goes on... as I practice.

POTD CHALLENGE: HORIZONTAL/VERTICAL

This very morning, Saturday, was the first sunny dawn we have had probably 2 weeks. Fresh snow has fallen daily in the mountains around our valley, and even locally at times. What a gorgeous dawn we had! I took these photos from our front porch, and because I did was not dressed for the ocassion, I must add that I took them quickly! Talk about "point-'n-shoot"! So here are the two angles taken just seconds apart and without changing my position.
In the seconds between shots, you can see the sun was changing positions even when I didn't.

These are SOOC and hand-held.