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Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge

  • 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

  • Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Light

    I have recently done a B&W challenge showcasing artificial and natural light, on the open theme week. Then this week, the theme is officially Light on Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge. So for this week, I decided to show the 3 main sources of light on my office.         Read more

  • 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 and White Photo Challenge: Small Subjects

    Here are my little entries this week. I’ve also recently fell in love with the color splash effects, so trying to add a little splash of reds and oranges here, on a PC app (have been doing it in the phone, where it’s hard to get the precision I’d like…) Hope that’s ok for this Read more