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  • Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge – Letter B or W

    Yesterday evening I had to stop by the grocery store for some veggies. Watching them I realized I could find B and W items for this week’s challenge right there. The W’s are combined in the B items, but I must admit they may not be visible enough. Here they are…         Read more

  • Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge – Signs

    Ok, we get the priorities in this one: But what if we add this little guy here to the equation? Then anyone else just runs???   Talking about running, this one was very properly placed along the route of a half-marathon, with a sofa right behind it for the proposed nap… ;o) This post was written Read more

  • Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge – Open Topic: Light

    Natural light: Artificial light: This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Open Topic, for which I chose the topic: Light.   Read more

  • Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Patterns

    In the pre-Columbian era, Marajó island, at the mouth of the Amazon River, in Brazil was inhabited by a society named Marajoara. The pre-Columbian society may have ended, but the tradition on how to ornate artifacts still remains on the culture of the region, where natives continue to create artifact from pottery or other materials with Read more

  • Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Hallways

    Today I invite you all to my home. So you can walk on it’s hallways, climb the stairs, and look around. Nothing fancy, but  comfortable (and amazingly none of the typical mess showed up!) So here are a few pictures, split into 3 groups. Getting ready for Halloween:   Shadows up: Waiting for the rain:   Read more

  • Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Things Made From Wood

    Tomorrow is my birthday, but tomorrow there is no coming to the office, since it’s a Saturday. So today when I got at my office I found a little wrapped gift at my desk. It turns out is was a wooden owl, given to me by a friend who knows about my ‘thing’ with owls Read more

  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: (Things with) Engines or Motors

    At a certain point on one of my favourite trails, we find scattered into the vegetation the remaining parts of an old Ford truck, that was left behind when that land was  sold, and the old mill that used to run there moved somewhere else. The truck is not reallly recognizable anymore and the most Read more

  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Hands, Feet or Paws

    For the picture challenges I prefer picking only one photo, but since this week’s Black and While challenge has sort of 3 themes, I decided to post 3, one for each. Hands: Feet: Paws (actually claws ;o): This post waws written in response to the Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Hands, Feet or Paws Read more

  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Older than 50 Years

    Earlier this month, we had a long weekend with the Holiday of 4th of July, which also happened to be the last weekend of my parents’ visit. We decided then to take them to a pretty place they haven’t seen yet, and spent a few days in the Columbia River Gorge area, between Washington and Read more

  • Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Black and White

    I’m participating in the online adventure travel and photography magazine LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggers This week’s Challenge is: Black and White! These pictures were taken last week while waiting at traffic by the lake, right at sunset time… Read more