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  • Seven Days Seven B&W Photos Challenge – Day 7

      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 Read more

  • Seven Days Seven B&W Photos Challenge – Day 6

      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 Read more

  • Seven Days Seven B&W Photos Challenge – Day 5

      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 Read more

  • Seven Days Seven B&W Photos Challenge – Day 4

    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 Read more

  • Seven Days Seven B&W Photos Challenge – Day 3

    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 Read more

  • Seven Days Seven B&W Photos Challenge – Day 2

      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 Read more

  • Seven Days Seven B&W Photos Challenge – Day 1

    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 Read more

  • Photo: Cee’s B&W Challenge – Trees

    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 Read more

  • Photo: Cee’s B&W Challenge – Seating

    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   Read more

  • Photo: Cee’s B&W Challenge – Engine

    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   Read more

  • Photo: Cee’s B&W Challenge – Older than 50

    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 Read more

  • Photo: Cee’s B&W Challenge – Clocks

    The Clock at Bellevue Square.     This post was written in response to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Locks and Clocks   Read more

  • Photo: Cee’s B&W Challenge: Roads

    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, Read more

  • Photo: Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge – Candid Photo

    For today’s challenge I choose 2 pictures. This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Candid Photo Read more

  • Photo: Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge – Take a New 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 Read more

  • Photo: Cee’s B&W Challenge – Kitchen Items

    A not-completely-loaded dishwasher….   This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Kitchen and Dining Room Items   Read more

  • Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Squiggly lines

    This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Squiggly Lines   Read more

  • Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Two of Anything

    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.   Read more

  • Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Sepia Tones Only

    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 Read more

  • Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Weather

    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 Read more