This post was written in response to the Seven Days Seven B&W Photos Challenge, to which I was challenged by GANSU of https://sugunag.com/.
The challenge is to post seven black and white photos, no people, no explanation, of everyday life for seven consecutive days.
I’m also supposed to challenge one new blogger each day, but I must admit that may be hardest part, as I must confess I never feel comfortable challenging people, but I’ll try…
This post was written in response to the Seven Days Seven B&W Photos Challenge, to which I was challenged by GANSU of https://sugunag.com/.
The challenge is to post seven black and white photos, no people, no explanation, of everyday life for seven consecutive days.
I’m also supposed to challenge one new blogger each day, but I must admit that may be hardest part, as I must confess I never feel comfortable challenging people, but I’ll try…
This post was written in response to the Seven Days Seven B&W Photos Challenge, to which I was challenged by GANSU of https://sugunag.com/.
The challenge is to post seven black and white photos, no people, no explanation, of everyday life for seven consecutive days.
I’m also supposed to challenge one new blogger each day, but I must admit that may be hardest part, as I must confess I never feel comfortable challenging people, but I’ll try…
This post was written in response to the Seven Days Seven B&W Photos Challenge, to which I was challenged by GANSU of https://sugunag.com/.
The challenge is to post seven black and white photos, no people, no explanation, of everyday life for seven consecutive days.
I’m also supposed to challenge one new blogger each day, but I must admit that may be hardest part, as I must confess I never feel comfortable challenging people, but I’ll try…
This post was written in response to the Seven Days Seven B&W Photos Challenge, to which I was challenged by GANSU of https://sugunag.com/.
The challenge is to post seven black and white photos, no people, no explanation, of everyday life for seven consecutive days.
I’m also supposed to challenge one new blogger each day, but I must admit that may be hardest part, as I must confess I never feel comfortable challenging people, but I’ll try…
This post was written in response to the Seven Days Seven B&W Photos Challenge, to which I was challenged by GANSU of https://sugunag.com/.
The challenge is to post seven black and white photos, no people, no explanation, of everyday life for seven consecutive days.
I’m also supposed to challenge one new blogger each day, but I must admit that may be hardest part, as I must confess I never feel comfortable challenging people, but I’ll try…
This post was written in response to the Seven Days Seven B&W Photos Challenge, to which I was challenged by GANSU of https://sugunag.com/.
The challenge is to post seven black and white photos, no people, no explanation, of everyday life for seven consecutive days.
I’m also supposed to challenge one new blogger each day, but I must admit that may be hardest part, as I must confess I never feel comfortable challenging people, but I’ll try…
This week I though I would pass on the challenge, due to my vacation trip that is making me not even check the blog much, but then I just found a perfect match for the theme in Italy, at the margins of lake Como…
Ciao!
This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Trees
Waiting at the Atlanta airport to board a plane to Germany…
A table, three stationary chairs and an airline wheel chair.
This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Any seating, including tables and chairs
Fire engine!
“Proudly Serving The Cities of Kenmore and Lake Forest Park”
Thanks Mr. Fireman!
This post was written in response to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things with Engines or Motors
For this challenge, I was trying to find or take pictures of items in the house or man-made landmarks that were older than 50.
Then this morning, I learned that Saguaro cacti can live for about 200 years and they grow very slowly, reaching 1-1.5 inch after 10 years.
Some of them grow branches (or arms), which typically appear when they are about 95 to 100 years of age.
That information impressed me, remembering the ones I saw on my trips to Arizona and Mexico.
So I decided that’s what I would feature here, but it turned out I couldn’t find a really good picture of them.
The best one I found is the one below, which is very low resolution and in which unfortunately I managed to cut the top of it. 😦
Still… this Saguaro cactus with all of his arms seems to be much Older than 50.
This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Older than 50
(funny fact, the first time I participated on a Cee’s B&W challenge was for a Older than 50 theme too… ;o)
The Clock at Bellevue Square.
This post was written in response to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Locks and Clocks
This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Roads of Any Kind
Black and white worked great for this picture, because the windows though which I took the picture was pretty dirty and in colors the strikes of dirt are hard to remove. For this one, I removed all color, played a bit with brightness and contrast, then applied a Nanquim filter at 70%, all using Fotor app for Windows.
For today’s challenge I choose 2 pictures.
Enjoying the end of afternoon at the pier
Waiting for the prizes after a full day of competition
This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Candid Photo
Fresh from the oven… Kirkland waterfront on a late afternoon.
This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Take a New Photo.
Today I left work a bit earlier than usual, but decided to give the nanny the opportunity to work her regulars hours. So I went for a walk in Kirkland with the intention to take a new photo for this challenge. I got a few, but this one was my favorite.
A not-completely-loaded dishwasher….
This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Kitchen and Dining Room Items
Two pictures of twos. One man-made, one nature-made.
Two glass sculptures at the Bridge of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Twin trees at Lakeside Park, Lake Chelan, WA
This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Couples, Twins, Two of Anything.
For this week’s challenges I decided to choose a picture of people and another one of a outdoor seeting.
For the people’s picture, the picture is indeed somewhat old (25 years?) but it looked already worse than a regular 25-year-old picture. I don’t know what happened at the time of the shot, but it came out with a sort of a haze, which made it look even older than it is. I also like the fact that it shows people celebrating (high school graduation, btw… ;o)
I still changes it to make sepia tones only, as in the original there was still some little color. Then I added a filter of antiquity to make it look older still (like it was my grandma, instead me me, maybe???
For the second one, I took this picture recently and I liked the remoteness of the cabin with the tent in front of it, amidst a lot of snow. I used a few effects on this one too, to give it an old picture look as well.
This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Sepia Tones Only
For this week come back to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge, I decided to pick some picture that had somewhat expressive clouds, even though the color version of them didn’t look too dramatic.
Then, while editing the images to remove the color, and adjusting contrast and brightness, I was amazed by how much more drama I could get on them. Especially on the second one.
Here are my pictures.
This post was written in response to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Weather
Creative Busyness 