Cosmic Photo Challenge

Dale and K’lee’s Cosmic Photo Challenge theme of this Halloween week is Glass. Visit their sites to see their shiny contributions, and you’ll see some very glassy sights.

Here are mine.

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Fenton Glass cruet. This was my grandma’s and is the reason I have glass in the doors of my biggest kitchen cabinet.
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A bizarre look at time through a glass vase full of water.
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Inhabited Planet Art Glass by Josh Simpson (1-7/8″ Diameter)
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Down the Looking Glassy Rabbit Hole
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You can never have too many sparkles art glass

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Cosmic Photo Challenge

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That is this week’s theme for Dale and K’lee‘s Cosmic Photo Challenge. Visit both of them to see their always-amazing interpretations, and learn how to play along. They welcome your most extreme creativity from straight shots to post-processing par excellence!

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Cosmic Photo Challenge

“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” William Cullen Bryant

Dale and Klee’s Cosmic Photo Challenge — oh, how I’ve missed you! Nature is just beginning to anticipate her chance to rest and recuperate from months of riotous revels reaching up to life-giving sun. To help her celebrate, Dale decided this week’s theme is The Trees. You can see Dale’s entries there, K’lee’s entries here, and how to play along on both sites.

Living in southern California, we see little of the deciduous glory so much of the world experiences. But we do have the liquid amber (Liquidambar styraciflua), commonly called the American sweetgum.

May I present, A Bit of Autumn in San Diego.

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Cosmic Photo Challenge

K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge theme this week is Futurism. Click on the link to learn how to play along. You can see Dale’s entries there, too. K’lee’s are here.

The concept that communicates “futurism” most clearly to me is space and all the weirdness we might find out there, even though whatever we find is likely to be billions and billions of years old. So I created The Vortex:

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Cosmic Photo Challenge

This week, Dale, of Dale and K’lee’s Cosmic Photo Challenge, chose Contrast as the theme. Dale’s contribution is here. K’lee’s is here. Visit either or both to learn how to play along.

My contribution is multi-part, partly because they express different aspects of contrast, and partly because I couldn’t make up my mind.

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Cosmic Photo Challenge

K’lee selected this week’s Dale and K’lee’s Cosmic Photo Challenge theme: Five Ways to Friday. The way I understand it, “Friday” is a verb in this title. (Ugh. But that’s just one writer’s opinion.) Dale’s entry is here.

“I don’t Friday myself, and I can’t afford to make other people Friday.” Ebenezer Suegg #sorrynotsorry

NOT MY PHOTO OF ISTANBUL:
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The Sultans Topkapi Palace at sunset, Istanbul, Turkey (Photo credit: Telegraph UK)

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Cosmic Photo Challenge

Another chance to get fancy for the Cosmic Photo Challenge! This week, Dale chose Water for the theme. Stop by his site or K’lee’s to find out how to play.

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Golden Halo Round the Sun
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Stone Drops
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Puddle World

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Dale and K’lee’s Cosmic Photo Challenge is a chance to make good art. (Thank you, Neil Gaiman!) This week, K’lee chose Shadows and Silhouettes for the theme. If you click on the theme, you can learn how to play along. Join us! Leave your fields to flower, your cheese to sour — you’ve got magic to do and good art to make!

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Silhouettes at stripey-sky sunset
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Hermini Stranger’s wand
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Shadows and spiders and flies, oh my!
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Moondream silhouette

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